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00:00From the archives of the United States Cavalry, the true stories of Colonel Randall McKenzie
00:13and the cavalrymen he led. McKenzie's Raiders. His secret orders from the President of the
00:19United States. Clean up the Southwest. Make it a fit place for Americans to live. Wipe
00:25out the renegades, outlaws, and murderers. If necessary, cross the Rio Grande. Knowing
00:30capture means hanging by the enemy. Discovery, court-martialed by the United States Army.
00:53Early summer of 1873, Texas country south and east of Fort Clark, rimming the lowlands
00:59of the Rio Grande. Country terrorized by Manitou and the renegade Chiricahua under his command.
01:24For four months, Manitou had been tracked by Colonel Randall McKenzie and members of
01:28the 4th Cavalry. Each time, the Indian renegade had escaped to continue plundering and killing.
01:37With a handful of pick raiders, McKenzie sought the renegade Manitou in a land which knew
01:42only the law of violence.
02:12Cut him loose, Sergeant.
02:42You murdered the scouts to let me know he's put a price on my head.
03:10$500, dead or alive.
03:12Manitou?
03:22Yeah, it's Manitou, all right.
03:26What the Colonel's got now is a private war for himself.
03:28Just him and Manitou.
03:30I'm betting Manitou ain't very far.
03:40Been in this territory a long time, Lieutenant.
03:42The things about it, I'll never know for sure.
03:44But there's one thing I do know for sure.
03:46Where you find sorrow, Manitou's been there.
03:48We'll get him.
03:50But how long will it take, sir?
03:52The Colonel's had a $500 reward posted on Manitou for the last six months now.
03:54Nobody's given him to us, and we've never found him.
03:56Now he's laughing at us.
03:58Putting fun at us.
04:00He's got a gun.
04:02He's got a gun.
04:04He's got a gun.
04:06He's got a gun.
04:09He's laughing at us.
04:11Putting $500 of his own on the Colonel's head.
04:13Have the men mount up, Sergeant.
04:15Back to the fort, sir?
04:17No. To Manitou.
04:25Prepare to mount!
04:27Mount!
04:39Mount!
04:57Lieutenant?
05:03Pretty good terrain if Manitou were waiting to ambush us, wouldn't you say?
05:05Like a textbook.
05:08Lieutenant, let's assume we're about to be ambushed.
05:10I'd say that was a pretty good assumption, sir.
05:12Ronnie, let's reverse it.
05:14Yes, sir.
05:16Take half the troop and circle through that wash so they won't be seen.
05:18When we ride into the ambush area,
05:20have them attack from the flank.
05:22Maybe a waste of ammunition, and then again, it may not be.
05:24Let's find out.
05:26Right, sir.
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07:50How do you feel, son?
07:57At ease, at ease, at ease.
07:59Something to write home about, sir.
08:01Before, nothing much to write except walking guard, spitting and polishing.
08:06You right-handed, trooper?
08:08Yes, sir.
08:10Well, somebody's got to write home about what happened today, don't they?
08:13I'll tell you what.
08:15When we get back to the fort, you tell me what to write.
08:17Yes, sir.
08:21Sergeant.
08:23We looked at all the dead, Colonel. Manitou is not among them.
08:26Some tracks by the Rio Bravo. Could be made off during the skirmish.
08:34Manitou.
08:35I'd say so.
08:38Get my horse. I'm going after him.
08:40Alone?
08:42Get the troops back to the fort. There isn't one of them that doesn't need medical attention.
08:45May I speak off the record, Colonel?
08:48Very well.
08:49Manitou will lead you further away from the fort.
08:51And?
08:53You'll never make it back alive.
08:56That could be, Lieutenant.
08:58But what would you do in my place?
09:01All right. Get the troops back to the fort.
09:04Yes, sir.
09:07Sergeant, that young trooper.
09:09Mitchell, sir.
09:10I promised to write a letter for him when we get back to the fort.
09:12You do it, will you?
09:13Yes, sir.
09:17Prepared to lay down his life to fulfill his secret orders to clean up the southwest,
09:22McKenzie moved out alone into Chiricahua country in relentless pursuit of the enemy Manitou.
09:46Come on.
10:16Come on.
10:46Come on.
11:16Come on.
11:46Come on.
12:16Come on.
12:46Come on.
13:16Come on.
13:46Come on.
14:17Come on.
14:20Come on.
14:45I'm going to take you back.
14:50Come on.
15:09Forty-three miles southeast of Fort Clark, deep in Chiricahua country,
15:14two men, Colonel Randall McKenzie and the renegade Chiricahua Manitou,
15:19each bore deep hatred for the other.
15:22Each knew that one must soon destroy the other.
15:45Water.
15:46Drink.
15:55I waited.
15:57I fed you water to learn a thing.
16:01Why did you save my life?
16:03You were helpless.
16:05Would have been murder to kill you then.
16:07Yet you would take me back to your fort and execute me.
16:11Yes.
16:12I've seen your executions, McKenzie.
16:16The man is propped up.
16:19Ceremony.
16:21Rag is put over his eyes.
16:24Drums, prayers.
16:26Soldiers marching.
16:30And the man is slaughtered.
16:33This is what you had in mind for me?
16:35Yes.
16:36I have the answer that was a riddle to me.
16:39Now I leave you here to die.
17:10Your own reasoning.
17:12I would be less a man than you if I were to leave you here.
17:16Nor would I murder a helpless man.
17:25The bullet must come out.
17:35Bite in here.
17:37Bite in here.
17:39Hard.
18:07Hard.
18:26How long?
18:27No matter.
18:28Try to stand, McKenzie.
18:31Now we shall rise together.
18:35To your execution.
18:37To my people in the ceremony of death we have.
18:41You see, I saved your life for the same reason you saved mine.
18:46We would not execute a dying man no more than you would.
18:49Go.
19:01Then your death shall be here and now.
19:18It's more than that.
19:20There's a price on both our heads.
19:22They take your body into the fort, get the bounty.
19:24I prefer they took your body to the Cherokee.
19:27We need each other.
19:30For the present.
19:33We must go before they come up.
19:35There's one path.
19:36Follow me.
19:37June 2nd, 1873.
19:40Five scavengers rode out of the hills to collect a human bounty.
19:44Reward money for McKenzie or Manitou.
19:48Payable upon death.
19:51We must go before they come up.
19:53There's one path.
19:55Follow me.
19:56June 2nd, 1873.
19:58Five scavengers rode out of the hills to collect a human bounty.
20:02Reward money for McKenzie or Manitou.
20:05Payable upon death.
20:20We must go before they come up.
20:51June 2nd, 1873.
20:53Five scavengers rode out of the hills to collect a human bounty.
20:57Reward money for McKenzie or Manitou.
21:00Payable upon death.
21:02Reward money for McKenzie or Manitou.
21:07We'll drive the horses that way.
21:09Then we'll go up there.
21:10That won't fool them.
21:11They'll know we're up there.
21:12I want them to.
21:13Come on.
21:20Let's go.
21:50Let's go.
22:20Let's go.
22:50Let's go.
23:20Let's go.
23:51Let's go.
24:12Dawn, June 3rd, 1873.
24:15Colonel Randall McKenzie returned to Fort Clark,
24:18carrying with him the dead body of the Chiricahua renegade, Manitou.
24:25But still it remained a land of the violent,
24:28and no one knew when or where they would rise up to plunder and destroy.
24:32But when they did, standing against them, a man,
24:36Colonel McKenzie, ready to strike back with all the power at his command.
24:48McKenzie's Raiders
24:58McKenzie's Raiders did ride again and again,
25:01carrying out the secret orders of the President of the United States.
25:05Do whatever necessary to clean up the Southwest.
25:08Make it a decent place for people to live.
25:11Ride with McKenzie's Raiders as they relive the blazing pages of history in the making.
25:18McKenzie's Raiders
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