Daddy's Girl
BUCK WINS A RACE BUT LOSES HIS HEART TO A BANKER'S BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTER...
Teaspoon, Emma and the riders arrive in town for the Founder's Day celebration. As they pass by the make-shift stage, a lovely, elegantly dressed woman catches Buck's attention. A long way from town, a man named James Crowley is working on his mine when three men arrive to inform him that the bank is foreclosing on his land. He tries to draw on the men but the leader shoots him first. Crowley's wife hears the wound of the gunshot and races to his side.
Back
in town, Tompkins -- as chairman of this year's celebrations -- welcomes
the town to the race and picnic. He announces that the prize for the winner
of the race, aside from the trophy, is a $20 gold piece donated by the
new owner of the cattlemen's bank, Jack T. Devlin. "To make the post
sweeter," says Tompkins, the prize will be presented by Jack's daughter,
Kathleen -- the woman who caught Buck's eye. Apparently, she traveled all
the way from Paris to be with her father.
All the boys -- and Lou -- join the race, of course, but they encounter all sorts of obstacles and Buck emerges the winner. He accepts the prize from Kathleen, who, to her father's consternation, gives the Indian rider a kiss on both cheeks. Kathleen's father warns her not embarrass him "like that" again and "with an Indian no less."
But Kathleen proves to have a mind of her own and goes out of her way to meet and talk to Buck. She tells the rider how much she enjoyed his riding and how she wished she could ride that well. Buck offers to teach her and she accepts, adding that she'll pack a lunch for them so they could make a day out of it.
The celebration is interrupted, however, when James Crowley's wife arrives in town and sees the three men who killed her husband. She points them out to the Marshall and tells her story. After the lady is taken to the Marshall's office, Jack Devlin talks to his henchman Rance, the guy who killed James Crowley. Rance defends his actions saying Crowley went for his gun. Jack tells Rance his stupid mistakes will be his undoing.
Later, Rance approaches Buck and on the pretext of congratulating him, draws him away from the others. When they were alone, Rance warns Buck to stay away from Kathleen Devlin.
Buck, of course, doesn't listen and keeps his date with Kathleen. He doesn't teach her, though, for she turns out to be an expert rider and an equestrian champion even. She apologized for lying, telling Buck she just wanted to see him again. They eat their lunch and Kathleen tells him that she has never met anyone like him before. She called him "exotic." She seems genuinely fascinated with him and when he admired her necklace, she gives it to him as a gift. Buck and Kathleen meet with four Indians who try to "buy" Kathleen, but Buck asks for four horses which the Indian could not afford. He later tells her that she is easily worth five, may be even six ponies.
During one of his runs, Buck is ambushed by Rance and his men. They tie him up, beat him and let a horse drag Buck across the muddy river. After that ordeal, Buck is further humiliated when they coat him with tar and feathers.
Meanwhile, Teaspoon and the riders help out Crowley's widow mine for gold. They find chunks with some glint in them and Teaspoon takes the items to the U.S. Assay Office to have them checked. Crowley's hunch was right, the mine has gold.
Upon
returning to the station, Teaspoon finds Buck cleaning himself inside the
barn. The stationmaster warns the rider about seeking revenge but he sees
that Buck intends to follow his heart. Teaspoon confronts Devlin, telling
him not to do anything like that again. Devlin -- who had nothing to do
with Buck's ambush -- turns to Rance Morgan and orders him to stop his
"hooliganism", accusing Morgan of "behaving like a complete
ass" since Kathleen's return from Paris.
Buck goes after the men who hog-tied and humiliated him. He catches one and buries him in the ground with only his head exposed. Then Buck released some poisonous spiders around the man's head. The second man's fate was no better, Buck stripped him of his clothes and tied him upside down over a pit of poisonous snakes.
Emma arrives at Crolwey's place and tells James' wife about the gold find in the mine. But instead of being happy, the woman sneaks into Jack Devlin's place and tries to kill him. Rance kills her, thinking she was Buck. Devlin tries to force his daughter to marry Rance. During the father and daughter confrontation, it comes out that Kathleen deliberately goes out with men her father could never accept -- for example, Buck who is an Indian and there is a man in St. Louis who is an actor. Devlin tells his stubborn daughter that he doesn't want his grandchildren to suffer on account of her "deviousness."
OOOPS Watch out for the scene where Tompkins is welcoming the people of Sweetwater to the Founder's Day celebration. At the bottom of the screen, you can see Emma rubbing Sam Cain's back. Then as Tompkins says "It's going to be a real good time," the camera cuts to a shot of Emma surrounded by people and Sam is just starting to approach her.
TRIVIA The actress who plays Kathleen here is Deborah Adair, Josh Brolin's ex-wife (well, they were married back then). Gregg Rainwater reportedly said tha he felt uncomfortabe kissing his friend's wife athat he kept expecting Josh to deck him or something.
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