1 00:01:46,273 --> 00:01:50,026 The story that I want to tell you cannot be found in a book. 2 00:01:50,319 --> 00:01:54,614 They say the history of the west was written from the saddle of a horse, 3 00:01:54,698 --> 00:01:57,784 but it's never been told from the heart of one... 4 00:01:57,868 --> 00:01:59,660 Not till now. 5 00:02:01,330 --> 00:02:02,955 I was born here 6 00:02:03,040 --> 00:02:06,584 in this place that would come to be called the old west 7 00:02:06,668 --> 00:02:09,504 but to my kind, the land was ageless. 8 00:02:09,713 --> 00:02:11,923 It had no beginning and no end, 9 00:02:12,007 --> 00:02:15,009 no boundary between earth and sky. 10 00:02:16,053 --> 00:02:18,513 Like the wind in the buffalo grass 11 00:02:18,597 --> 00:02:20,556 we belonged here. 12 00:02:20,724 --> 00:02:22,975 We would always belong here. 13 00:02:25,521 --> 00:02:28,564 They say the mustang is the spirit of the west. 14 00:02:28,649 --> 00:02:31,192 Whether that west was won or lost in the end 15 00:02:31,276 --> 00:02:33,861 you'll have to decide for yourself 16 00:02:34,404 --> 00:02:37,365 but the story I want to tell you is true. 17 00:02:37,449 --> 00:02:40,910 I was there, and I remember. 18 00:02:41,745 --> 00:02:45,414 I remember the sun and the sky and the wind calling my name 19 00:02:45,499 --> 00:02:48,292 in a time when wild horses ran free. 20 00:07:32,744 --> 00:07:35,287 And so I grew from colt to stallion 21 00:07:35,372 --> 00:07:38,666 as wild and reckless as thunder over the land 22 00:07:38,750 --> 00:07:42,044 racing with the eagle, soaring with the wind. 23 00:07:42,129 --> 00:07:43,420 Flying? 24 00:07:43,505 --> 00:07:46,423 There were times I believed I could. 25 00:08:16,997 --> 00:08:21,000 Like my father before me I became leader of the Cimarron herd 26 00:08:21,084 --> 00:08:24,044 and with that honor came responsibility. 27 00:12:06,476 --> 00:12:09,353 Something new came upon the land one night, 28 00:12:09,562 --> 00:12:12,439 something that would change my life forever, 29 00:12:12,524 --> 00:12:16,193 and so, my journey began. 30 00:13:13,209 --> 00:13:16,587 A wiser horse might have turned and run 31 00:13:16,671 --> 00:13:19,631 but I wanted to know what strange creatures were here. 32 00:13:51,664 --> 00:13:53,123 What the... 33 00:13:54,083 --> 00:13:55,459 Son of a... 34 00:13:56,419 --> 00:13:57,794 Look. 35 00:13:59,714 --> 00:14:01,465 Man, look at that stallion! 36 00:14:01,549 --> 00:14:02,549 It's beautiful! 37 00:14:23,029 --> 00:14:24,613 Sadie Mae. 38 00:14:32,539 --> 00:14:34,039 Get him, boys! 39 00:14:34,123 --> 00:14:35,457 Easy, boy! 40 00:14:37,752 --> 00:14:39,586 C'mon, boys! Let's go! 41 00:14:39,671 --> 00:14:41,129 C'mon, boys! 42 00:14:59,190 --> 00:15:01,024 Where did he go? I don't see him. 43 00:15:01,109 --> 00:15:02,693 We'll find him! 44 00:15:11,869 --> 00:15:13,036 What the... 45 00:15:47,363 --> 00:15:48,614 Faster! 46 00:16:03,880 --> 00:16:05,172 What? 47 00:16:07,508 --> 00:16:08,800 Get him! 48 00:16:09,218 --> 00:16:10,802 Come on! 49 00:16:11,054 --> 00:16:12,054 Get him! 50 00:16:19,395 --> 00:16:21,146 Come on, come on, come on! 51 00:16:29,364 --> 00:16:31,657 - We got him now! - You betcha! 52 00:16:39,540 --> 00:16:40,832 Look out! 53 00:17:04,357 --> 00:17:06,733 Thought you got away, didn't you, mustang? 54 00:17:09,946 --> 00:17:11,071 Over here! 55 00:17:11,155 --> 00:17:12,531 Get back here! You crazy? 56 00:17:12,615 --> 00:17:13,657 Get back from him! 57 00:17:13,741 --> 00:17:15,200 Take him! Take him, Joe! 58 00:17:15,284 --> 00:17:16,660 Get the horse! 59 00:17:18,955 --> 00:17:20,497 He's ours now. 60 00:17:25,420 --> 00:17:26,962 Hold him! 61 00:17:27,046 --> 00:17:28,463 Watch him! 62 00:17:29,215 --> 00:17:31,049 Watch the lines! Watch the lines! 63 00:17:31,134 --> 00:17:32,217 Come on! 64 00:17:32,301 --> 00:17:34,177 He can do all the kicking he wants now. 65 00:17:34,262 --> 00:17:36,221 It won't do no good. 66 00:18:00,705 --> 00:18:02,497 Careful... Careful... 67 00:18:07,378 --> 00:18:11,423 I was scared, and I didn't know what was going to happen to me 68 00:18:11,507 --> 00:18:14,259 but at least my mother and the herd were safe. 69 00:18:18,055 --> 00:18:20,182 - Come on! - Let's go! 70 00:18:20,767 --> 00:18:22,392 Yo... Come on... 71 00:19:53,609 --> 00:19:55,110 Open the gate! 72 00:20:42,491 --> 00:20:44,492 What seems to be the problem, gentlemen? 73 00:20:44,577 --> 00:20:46,328 We got us a crazy one here, sir. 74 00:20:46,412 --> 00:20:47,537 Pure mustang, Colonel. 75 00:20:47,622 --> 00:20:48,997 Really? 76 00:20:52,710 --> 00:20:55,420 The army has dealt with wild horses before. 77 00:20:55,838 --> 00:20:57,505 This one will be no different. 78 00:21:00,301 --> 00:21:01,593 Come on, mustang. 79 00:21:01,677 --> 00:21:05,889 I remember the first time I saw a rattler curled up in my path. 80 00:21:07,391 --> 00:21:09,476 - Induct this animal, Sergeant. - Yes, sir! 81 00:21:09,560 --> 00:21:11,269 This one didn't look like a rattler 82 00:21:11,354 --> 00:21:14,314 but I was still thinking, snake. 83 00:21:14,398 --> 00:21:15,440 Take up that slack. 84 00:21:15,524 --> 00:21:17,525 Grab him! Grab him! 85 00:21:19,695 --> 00:21:20,737 Come on, horse! 86 00:21:20,821 --> 00:21:23,073 Okay, Murphy, he's all yours. 87 00:21:24,283 --> 00:21:25,533 He's a wild one. 88 00:21:27,036 --> 00:21:29,579 We'll see how wild he is when I'm done with him. 89 00:21:33,960 --> 00:21:34,960 See that? 90 00:21:37,380 --> 00:21:39,255 You want to fight, do you? 91 00:21:49,976 --> 00:21:51,017 Right. 92 00:22:15,751 --> 00:22:17,794 Make sure that's good and tight. 93 00:22:23,926 --> 00:22:26,136 - Murphy, look out! - Watch out! 94 00:22:27,471 --> 00:22:29,139 He's a wild one. 95 00:22:35,104 --> 00:22:37,188 You all right, Murph? 96 00:22:47,450 --> 00:22:48,616 You... 97 00:23:03,549 --> 00:23:05,341 Murph, you okay? 98 00:23:08,387 --> 00:23:13,224 Corporal, round up some volunteers to take this animal to the stables. 99 00:23:13,309 --> 00:23:15,018 Not the stables. 100 00:23:15,311 --> 00:23:16,311 Sir? 101 00:23:16,395 --> 00:23:17,812 The corral. 102 00:23:18,147 --> 00:23:20,315 It's time to break that horse. 103 00:23:29,116 --> 00:23:31,076 Make sure it's good and tight. 104 00:24:06,153 --> 00:24:08,822 Okay, my turn! 105 00:24:23,546 --> 00:24:24,921 Lousy heap of horse flesh! 106 00:24:27,883 --> 00:24:29,384 Come on! Run out of there! 107 00:24:50,489 --> 00:24:51,698 We got a rider! 108 00:25:21,812 --> 00:25:23,521 - Sergeant! - Yes, sir. 109 00:25:23,606 --> 00:25:25,648 Tie this horse to the post. 110 00:25:25,941 --> 00:25:27,609 No food or water. 111 00:25:27,818 --> 00:25:29,694 - Three days. - Yes, sir. 112 00:26:25,876 --> 00:26:29,003 My heart galloped through the skies that night, 113 00:26:29,505 --> 00:26:32,924 back to my herd, where I belonged 114 00:26:34,176 --> 00:26:38,429 and I wondered if they missed me as much as I missed them. 115 00:27:06,041 --> 00:27:08,501 Get some water over to the stable. 116 00:27:11,088 --> 00:27:12,338 Yes, sir. 117 00:27:32,067 --> 00:27:34,068 We caught a hostile! 118 00:27:40,117 --> 00:27:42,076 Bring him back this way! 119 00:27:47,666 --> 00:27:49,500 What do we have here? 120 00:27:50,419 --> 00:27:53,254 We caught him by the supply wagons, sir. 121 00:27:55,299 --> 00:27:56,966 A Lakota. 122 00:27:57,384 --> 00:27:59,177 Not as tall as the Cheyenne, 123 00:27:59,261 --> 00:28:01,471 not as fine-featured as the Crow. 124 00:28:01,555 --> 00:28:03,848 Take him away, gentlemen. Show him our best. 125 00:28:03,932 --> 00:28:05,850 Corporal, take him to the stockades. 126 00:28:05,934 --> 00:28:08,770 Not the stockades... The post. 127 00:28:09,104 --> 00:28:10,646 No food or water. 128 00:28:16,820 --> 00:28:17,945 Come on! 129 00:28:20,074 --> 00:28:21,824 What are you looking at, boy? 130 00:28:23,452 --> 00:28:26,954 He was called Little Creek and he seemed different from the rest. 131 00:28:42,721 --> 00:28:44,389 Hey... 132 00:29:22,344 --> 00:29:26,889 There was just no end to the strange ways of the two-leggeds. 133 00:29:41,822 --> 00:29:44,073 C Company! Ten-hut! 134 00:29:44,950 --> 00:29:46,701 With the Colonel's permission, Sir. 135 00:29:46,785 --> 00:29:49,871 Incoming patrol reports hostiles headed north. 136 00:29:50,080 --> 00:29:52,582 The railroad has expressed concern, sir. 137 00:29:52,666 --> 00:29:54,959 They've requested additional patrols. 138 00:29:55,043 --> 00:29:57,712 - How long has it been, sergeant? - Sir? 139 00:29:57,796 --> 00:29:59,881 The mustang, how long has it been tied? 140 00:30:00,883 --> 00:30:02,800 Three days, sir. 141 00:30:02,885 --> 00:30:06,095 Good. Fetch my crop and spurs. 142 00:30:25,073 --> 00:30:27,241 You can break easy or you can break hard, mustang! 143 00:30:28,619 --> 00:30:31,412 No! Back up! Back up! Back up! 144 00:30:35,375 --> 00:30:40,713 Come on! 145 00:30:42,966 --> 00:30:44,717 Come on... Come on... 146 00:30:45,552 --> 00:30:47,094 Come on, mustang! 147 00:31:28,136 --> 00:31:31,639 You see, gentlemen, any horse can be broken. 148 00:31:34,643 --> 00:31:36,602 Move along, mustang. 149 00:31:39,815 --> 00:31:41,440 There are those in Washington 150 00:31:41,525 --> 00:31:44,151 who believe the west will never be settled, 151 00:31:45,070 --> 00:31:49,407 the Northern Pacific Railroad will never breach Nebraska, 152 00:31:52,327 --> 00:31:54,078 a hostile Lakota 153 00:31:54,997 --> 00:31:57,456 will never submit to providence... 154 00:31:59,459 --> 00:32:02,587 And it is that manner of small thinking 155 00:32:02,671 --> 00:32:05,798 that would say this horse could never be broken. 156 00:32:06,508 --> 00:32:09,885 Discipline, time and patience, 157 00:32:11,054 --> 00:32:13,389 are the three great levelers. 158 00:32:18,312 --> 00:32:21,188 Sometimes a horse has gotta do what a horse has gotta do. 159 00:32:21,398 --> 00:32:22,398 Mustang? 160 00:32:22,482 --> 00:32:24,525 And this was one of those times. 161 00:32:45,881 --> 00:32:46,881 No! 162 00:32:52,763 --> 00:32:54,513 You all right, sir? 163 00:33:01,730 --> 00:33:03,397 Get off me! 164 00:33:28,590 --> 00:33:31,425 Soldier, secure that horse! 165 00:34:37,993 --> 00:34:43,122 I wasn't sure what happened back there and I wasn't about to stop and ask. 166 00:34:43,206 --> 00:34:46,292 All I knew was that I was headed home. 167 00:35:10,901 --> 00:35:12,485 I couldn't believe it. 168 00:35:12,569 --> 00:35:16,906 One moment I was free, and the next, more ropes. 169 00:35:49,898 --> 00:35:51,857 Steady. Steady. 170 00:35:52,818 --> 00:35:54,485 I'm not going to hurt you. 171 00:35:57,197 --> 00:35:58,531 Nice and easy. 172 00:36:06,039 --> 00:36:07,581 There you go. 173 00:36:08,124 --> 00:36:10,584 That feels better now, doesn't it? 174 00:37:27,370 --> 00:37:28,704 Hey, hey! 175 00:37:50,060 --> 00:37:51,644 I couldn't understand it. 176 00:37:52,020 --> 00:37:55,773 She treated this scrawny two-legged like one of our kind 177 00:37:55,857 --> 00:37:59,526 prancing around him like a love-struck yearling. 178 00:37:59,778 --> 00:38:01,195 It was downright unnatural. 179 00:38:09,371 --> 00:38:13,332 Great mustang, today I will ride you. 180 00:38:16,252 --> 00:38:18,087 This ought to be good. 181 00:38:42,654 --> 00:38:44,154 Mares! 182 00:38:49,828 --> 00:38:54,248 Okay, Rain, let's see if you can teach this mustang some manners. 183 00:40:09,991 --> 00:40:15,829 Okay, I admit it, she was charming in a stubborn, irritating kind of way. 184 00:40:16,331 --> 00:40:19,166 So, I let her show me her world. 185 00:41:13,054 --> 00:41:14,555 Horsey! 186 00:41:41,207 --> 00:41:42,791 Bye-bye, horsey. 187 00:43:42,161 --> 00:43:47,040 For the first time in my life, I felt my heart torn two ways. 188 00:43:53,589 --> 00:43:54,631 Hey, hey... 189 00:43:55,883 --> 00:43:57,884 No! Give it back! Come on! 190 00:43:58,469 --> 00:44:00,929 Mustang, no! Mustang! 191 00:44:01,973 --> 00:44:03,598 Come on. 192 00:44:52,440 --> 00:44:56,234 I had to hand it to that boy, he just wouldn't give up. 193 00:45:45,785 --> 00:45:48,412 I'm never going to ride you, am I? 194 00:45:49,956 --> 00:45:51,915 And no one ever should. 195 00:46:18,109 --> 00:46:19,860 You can go. 196 00:46:24,907 --> 00:46:26,575 It's okay. Go. 197 00:46:33,249 --> 00:46:35,208 Go on, get out of here! 198 00:46:36,502 --> 00:46:38,003 Go home. 199 00:47:43,402 --> 00:47:47,322 I knew this was hard for her and that she was scared, 200 00:47:47,406 --> 00:47:48,615 but more than anything, 201 00:47:49,283 --> 00:47:52,994 I wanted to share my homeland with her. 202 00:51:46,520 --> 00:51:50,023 I lay beside her that night, hoping, 203 00:51:50,733 --> 00:51:54,027 praying that somehow she would be okay. 204 00:51:57,740 --> 00:52:00,450 There's a couple of horses over there. 205 00:52:25,518 --> 00:52:28,520 Leave the mare. She's not going to make it. 206 00:52:43,577 --> 00:52:45,119 Come on. 207 00:52:45,746 --> 00:52:46,746 Come on! 208 00:53:01,053 --> 00:53:02,345 Rain. 209 00:53:05,474 --> 00:53:06,975 Easy, girl. 210 00:53:07,268 --> 00:53:08,601 Easy. 211 00:53:10,062 --> 00:53:11,604 It'll be okay. 212 00:53:16,694 --> 00:53:18,152 Come on. 213 00:53:25,828 --> 00:53:27,704 You saved my life. 214 00:53:29,957 --> 00:53:31,416 Two more men on that brace! 215 00:53:31,500 --> 00:53:33,293 Collins! Evans! 216 00:53:33,878 --> 00:53:35,420 Bring it down! 217 00:53:36,839 --> 00:53:38,298 Let's go! 218 00:53:38,799 --> 00:53:41,342 Jackson, grab ahold of that end! 219 00:53:42,928 --> 00:53:43,970 Got it! 220 00:53:46,140 --> 00:53:47,181 This one's loaded. 221 00:53:56,775 --> 00:54:00,486 I'm not gonna hurt you. Come on. It's gonna be okay. 222 00:57:23,315 --> 00:57:25,942 Come on. Come on now. It'll be all right. 223 00:57:26,026 --> 00:57:29,028 Come on. That's it. That's it. 224 00:57:46,004 --> 00:57:47,171 Let's go! 225 00:57:47,256 --> 00:57:48,840 Come on! 226 00:57:52,803 --> 00:57:55,513 I didn't know why we were brought here. 227 00:57:55,597 --> 00:57:56,973 What I did know 228 00:57:57,057 --> 00:58:00,810 was we had to find a way to escape and get back home. 229 00:58:01,353 --> 00:58:02,395 Clear! 230 00:58:07,234 --> 00:58:09,861 - No good! We hit bedrock! - That's it. 231 00:58:09,945 --> 00:58:11,779 We're hauling the steamer over the mountain. 232 00:58:11,864 --> 00:58:12,989 That's crazy. 233 00:58:13,073 --> 00:58:15,449 We got six days to connect with Utah. 234 00:58:15,534 --> 00:58:17,577 We move out at dawn. 235 00:58:48,442 --> 00:58:50,026 Ready to go! 236 00:58:51,236 --> 00:58:58,367 Move it out! 237 00:59:20,682 --> 00:59:22,642 Get back in line! 238 00:59:39,076 --> 00:59:40,618 We're almost at the top! 239 00:59:40,702 --> 00:59:42,578 Slow down up front! 240 01:00:01,682 --> 01:00:04,350 That was the moment I understood. 241 01:00:04,434 --> 01:00:07,520 They were headed to my homeland, and I had to stop them. 242 01:00:12,025 --> 01:00:13,276 Get back! 243 01:00:13,360 --> 01:00:14,860 Come on! Get back in line! 244 01:00:14,945 --> 01:00:16,237 It's starting to slip! 245 01:00:16,655 --> 01:00:20,241 Pick up the slack! 246 01:00:23,704 --> 01:00:25,204 Hold it! 247 01:00:32,879 --> 01:00:34,463 Get the mules up here! 248 01:00:44,599 --> 01:00:45,891 Secure it on the left! 249 01:00:47,561 --> 01:00:49,103 Good work, boys! 250 01:00:56,320 --> 01:00:57,528 Hey! 251 01:01:01,074 --> 01:01:02,074 Easy... 252 01:01:06,830 --> 01:01:07,913 Get him. Get him. 253 01:01:36,109 --> 01:01:37,985 Hurry! Bring the poles! 254 01:01:39,905 --> 01:01:41,113 Hurry! 255 01:01:43,075 --> 01:01:45,117 - Hold him there! - Go! 256 01:01:53,460 --> 01:01:56,087 They're breaking! I can't hold it! 257 01:01:56,171 --> 01:01:57,296 Over here! 258 01:01:57,923 --> 01:01:59,131 Get out of the way! 259 01:02:31,998 --> 01:02:32,998 Holy... 260 01:04:47,467 --> 01:04:51,011 I don't know where he came from or how he got there 261 01:04:51,096 --> 01:04:53,639 but I sure was happy to see him. 262 01:05:35,432 --> 01:05:37,433 I knew I would find you. 263 01:05:49,863 --> 01:05:51,071 Halt! 264 01:05:58,538 --> 01:06:00,497 I don't believe it. 265 01:06:01,791 --> 01:06:04,585 Go, go, go, go! Run! Run! 266 01:06:07,088 --> 01:06:08,547 Come on, come on! 267 01:07:10,276 --> 01:07:11,443 Yeah! 268 01:07:27,210 --> 01:07:29,461 That's it! Come on! Come on! 269 01:07:43,226 --> 01:07:44,560 Get off! 270 01:08:10,170 --> 01:08:11,503 We got them now! 271 01:08:12,839 --> 01:08:14,214 Where did he go? 272 01:08:15,258 --> 01:08:17,259 There they are! Up there! 273 01:08:42,160 --> 01:08:43,410 No. 274 01:08:46,539 --> 01:08:48,040 Yes. 275 01:12:35,768 --> 01:12:38,228 You will always be in my heart. 276 01:12:53,494 --> 01:12:59,207 Take care of her, Spirit-who-could-not-be-broken. 277 01:13:19,312 --> 01:13:21,646 I will miss you, my friend. 278 01:13:39,248 --> 01:13:41,374 I had been waiting so long to run free 279 01:13:42,460 --> 01:13:46,171 but that good-bye was harder than I ever imagined. 280 01:13:47,006 --> 01:13:48,673 I'll never forget that boy 281 01:13:50,051 --> 01:13:52,177 and how we won back our freedom together.