(xxx) The Railroad (pre-cut, not final version)

far enough, Mr. Williams. Miss Sager. Mrs. Sager. Mrs. Sager. Would you please put that rifle down? I came here without any guns, without any means of force whatsoever. You come here with force. Now, Mrs. Sager. Come here to force me out of my house off my land.

Mrs. Sager, please. Nobody shoves me off of my land, Mr. Williams. Nobody. This land is mine. It's free and clear every inch of me. I have no doubt it. My husband staked this land twenty-five years ago. He homesteaded it and raised cattle on it every year till he died. Every year till he died he raised cattle on this land. I have every respect for

you. And nobody takes me off this land, Mr. Williams. You are your filthy railroad or anybody else. My husband left me this land and he said, Libby, this is your land and you keep it. I said hard. I swear by everything decent. Nobody will ever take this land away from me. A solemn and holy oath, Mr. Williams. To a dying man.

Mrs. Sager, now, listen to me for just a minute. Well, know what you're going to say. Just a minute. One minute, Mrs. Sager. Set it a hundred times if you said it once. Please, Mrs. Sager, just one minute.

Go on, go on, talk then, talk and get it over with one minute. One minute. That's right. I represent the railroad. I know that. And we have reserved from the United States government a right of way of land across the United States for our railroad, Transcontinental Railroad, Mrs. Sager, Transcontinental.

The United States government. United States government, I heard you. What do you want to do? Scare me or something? Transcontinental, it's progress, Mrs. Sager. can't hold back the time. That's what you always say. You can't hold back. Your land, Mrs. Sager, is directly in the right of way. Now we're willing, more than willing, we're happy to