With Pierce dead, Jackson gets his ranch back, and starts mining. He helps the local tribe become independent, by using them as miners.
The kid and his girlfriend travel to a nearby town, to start over, but his proclivity for drink causes him to fall down a well, and drown. She packs up again, and moves in with Jackson, first as household help, but later becomes his wife.
Lomax meets someone faster than him, in a poker game. doesn't last a year after the big heist.
The Chinese girls become household help for Mrs Jackson. They spoke english after all.
The big Indian is the foreman on the ranch.
He starts a school for the Indian kids.
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MAGolding (1240)
7 years ago
Do you think that Pierce stole Jackson's ranch and then left it to Jackson in his will?
When Jackson wen to prison, he couldn't pay taxes on his ranch and the sherriff seized it and sold it in a sherriff's sale. Pierce made the highest bid since he knew that there was gold. Thus Pierce was the legal owner of the ranch. The ranch/mine passed to his legal heir(s), mentioned in his will or else to his natural heirs if he died intestate. Jackson's small amount of stolen gold was not enough to buy back his ranch with a gold mine on it.
Anyway, Jackson was suspected of robbery and murder and he and Lomax were killed in a gunfight with the posse chasing Jackson.
The kid got drunk and was swindled out of most of his money. He sobered up and killed the swindler, and was hung for murder. His girlfriend hadn't married him in time and didn't get his money, but was able to get by with her share.
The Kiowa band was suspected of involvement in the robbery and tracked by the army who attacked them several times. The Kiowas raided lonely ranches and travelers. Before the war ended many people were killed, including women and children.
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