Wild Times1980

[Hugh, Doc and Caleb are spinning yarns for Bob Halburton, a writer of western dime novels]

Hugh Cardiff:
Bob, I recall the time that me and Caleb here was carryin' dispatches for an...

Doc Bogardus:
That was, ah, Phil Sheridan, I recall.

Hugh Cardiff:
Yeah, General Phil Sheridan. We was crossin' through some hostile Indian country and we got jumped by a band of forty Cheyenne.

Caleb Rice:
And thirty Arapaho and two Ute.

Hugh Cardiff:
And old Caleb here, he took care of thirteen of them Cheyenne with those two pistols you see hanging right there in that belt. And understand, Bob, he only fired twelve shots - now one of 'em went through two of those Indians and killed 'em both.

Caleb Rice:
It had probably gone on and killed another one, except there weren't any more left. We had killed them all by that time.