Dodge City
- APPROVED
- Year:
- 1939
- 104 min
- 276 Views
There's the 23rd marker, sir.
Twenty-three miles in
one hour and 14 minutes.
Gentlemen, that is moving.
set a record on the first run.
But I doubt if we can maintain
this speed on our regular schedule.
Why not? If this train can
do it, the rest of them can.
Providing Col. Dodge's new
town is worth speeding to reach.
Worth it? You wait and see.
Now it's just the end of the
line, but in a few years...
it'll give your railroad more
business than any town west of Chicago.
I hope you're right, Colonel. You've
stuck to that argument for five years.
Why shouldn't I?
I've raised that town from two
hog pens and a buffalo waller.
How big is it now, Colonel?
Well, at the last census, gentlemen,
they had three buffalo wallers.
Look, there goes the
stagecoach from Wichita.
We'll be carrying the mail from now on.
Listen to that snorting
teapot. She's already winded.
By Jove, we'll run her into the ground.
Better put your whip to them.
- Willie?
- Yes, sir, boss?
You go up and tell our engineer...
if that stagecoach beats us to
the end of the line, he's fired.
Yes, sir. And if this
train go any faster...
I'm gonna get off and walk...
'cause I don't like
this zest of the Lord.
By George, he's making a
good showing, you know it.
- We'll get him.
- We'd better get up some speed here.
- There he goes.
- We've got him.
Gentlemen, that's a symbol
of America's future: progress.
Iron men and iron horses.
You can't beat them.
Lucky devils. Nothing
to do, but eat and sleep.
That's right, hardhead.
The only difference between
you and them is a pair of horns.
Hush.
Say, Wade, let's cut
out a couple of them.
No. We've killed our last buffalo, boys.
The railroad's finished
and so is our contract.
Besides, we've a little
appointment to keep, you know.
Come on.
Here comes our meal ticket
for the last six months.
So that's what a steam engine
looks like:
a coffeepot on wheels.Come on, let's pay our
respects to the Colonel.
- Hello, Colonel. How are you?
- Fine, son. See you soon.
We'll be there.
By golly, Dodge, you
know everybody in Kansas.
Not quite. Those boys
have been working for us...
hunting buffalo to feed
our construction gang.
Hatton. I met him during the war.
He fought for the rebels
in Jeb Stuart's cavalry.
Been everywhere, done
everything. Sort of a rover.
Well, it takes all sorts
of men to build a railroad.
No, sir. Just a couple of us Irishmen.
On your toes, men!
Watch those hides they don't slip.
Keep on your toes.
You drivers keep close together.
Ready to start whenever you say, Jeff.
All right, let's move fast!
- Which one of you men is Jeff Surrett?
- I am. Why?
I'm John Barlow, Commissioner
of Indian Affairs, from Kansas.
- You're under arrest. All three of you.
- For what?
buffalo and selling their hides.
land, just the same as he did.
He has a government permit to kill
buffalo for the railroad workers.
- You got any such permit?
- No.
- Is this some of your business, Hatton?
- I made it my business.
As soon as I found out you were
shooting buffalo on Indian territory...
stealing the hides, and
letting the meat rot in the sun.
When any Indians protested, you
shot them down in cold blood.
This has been going on all winter.
It took you till now
to catch up with us?
We didn't want to. We just watched
you and counted the animals you killed.
You're lying. You'd have made them
stop us before, if you'd known.
Why? It seemed a better idea to let
you and your pals work your head off...
packing and curing those
So that's why you waited so long?
The Indians might just as well get
the hides in good salable condition.
All right, Hatton.
But I hope you stick around
Kansas for a long time...
because we're gonna collect for
every one of those hides in full.
Right. If you're ever
around our way, look us up.
All right, boys.
- Congratulations, Colonel.
- Thanks, Rusty.
Wade, you've been a great
help in building this railroad.
Now the real work begins.
We've got to make it pay.
That's up to you.
No, it isn't. I've got other work to
do. We're looking further westward.
I want you to take charge
here, help build up this town.
- Organize trade for our road.
- No, thanks, sir.
We're on our way back to Texas. We'll
drive cattle up to meet your railroad.
If we keep hanging around here, these
two galoots are gonna get civilized.
We better leave here before old fog
head starts eating with a knife and fork.
A knife, anyway.
You couldn't keep Wade here, Colonel.
He's the most moving-on
man you ever saw.
First off, he was in the
English Army over in India.
Then he got mixed up in some kind of
a hooray revolution down in Cuba way.
Then he started punching cattle in Texas.
That was before he enlisted in the war.
So he's either the greatest
traveler ever lived...
or else he is the biggest liar.
And now, it gives me great
pleasure to introduce to you...
the man who made this
progress possible: Col. Dodge.
Ladies and gentlemen...
history has been written...
and we take justifiable pride...
in bringing this railroad to the
terminal furthest west in this country.
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