A Good Day To Die
THE KID LEARNS FROM A SIOUX WARRIOR THAT THINGS AREN'T ALWAYS WHAT THEY SEEM TO BE...
On a run, Kid finds a Pony Express waystation burned down and the couple who runs it tortured and killed. He also finds a dying rider who tells him that the men who burned the station got the pouch. The rider also utters the word "snakeman." The Kid also finds a Hunkpapa warrior in the "scene of the crime." Thinking he might be one of the men who killed the Pony Express employees, Kid captures the Indian and tries to take him to Sweetwater for the law to deal with. The warrior, who is half-white and named Curly, speaks good English because his mother "taught him many tongues." He tells Kid no Hunkpapa attacked the station because there are "too many arrows."
On
the way to Sweetwater, Kid and his Indian captive are attacked and captured
by a Shoshoni hunting party. Luckily, Curly's former betrothed is now with
the Shoshonis and she frees them. While at the Shoshoni camp, Curly notices
the smell of tobacco.
Meanwhile, Cody, Jimmy and Lou, who hear about Sioux trouble, find the Shaughnessy's -- the couple who ran the station -- and the dead rider. Lou finds a piece of Kid's clothing in the scene. Back in the station, Teaspoon and the riders talk about the peace treaty with the Sioux which is endangered by the attack on the waystation.
Kid takes Curly to Sweetwater and Sam puts him in jail with a promise for a fair trial. Kid also tells Sam that about the Shoshonis' planned attack on Fort Laramie. Kid returns to the station and but goes out soon afterward with Buck to see if the Indian rider can figure out who actually attacked the Shaughnessy's. Buck tells Kid that the attackers are White and that they wanted it to look like the Indian did it.
Walker,
the Indian agent, arrives in Sam's office to check on Curly. He says all
the right words but at the end of his conversation with Curly, he lights
up a tobacco and Curly recognizes the smell. In a Sweetwater saloon, a
big, burly trapper begins to rouse the crowd with his fiery speeches against
Indians. Lou notices the tattoo of a snake on the trapper's arm and tells
Jimmy she thinks he is snakeman. They follow the trapper who leads them
to a cottage but they are caught by the Indian agent Walker. He tells them
they are stirring up trouble for the Indians to get their land. Walker
then orders the trapper to make sure Curly hangs.
But Kid and Buck free Curly before the mob could get to him. Jimmy and Lou escape to tell the riders that Walker is planning to exchange rifles for fur with the Shoshoni's. the guns will be used by the Indians to attack Fort Laramie. The riders ride out to Walker's camp to stop the trade. They engage in gunfight with Walker's men. They defeat them (of course!) and they find the missing pouch in the Indian agents camp. Curly gives Kid a bracelet and calls him brother. Buck later tells Kid Curly is the brother of the great chief and medicine man Sitting Bull.
TRIVIA: Former Melrose Place star Rob Estes played Curly. Rob is Ty Miller's fraternity brother. It was reported that during Rob's wedding to Josie Bisset, Ty was one of the ushers and that everybody shaved their heads!
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