User blog:Nan the cowdog/"McLintock!"/PnF Cross-over

Cain Rangle McJohnson has a saddlebag full of trouble. The owner of the largest ranch in the Texas, which also includes a mine and a lumber mill that he built up himself, should be a happy, fulfilled man, but he isn't. His wife, Candace, walked out on him three years ago without a word of explanation and has been living back east and running in very fancy circles. He's getting older, a fact of which he's constantly reminded as friends around him decline in health. He's being challenged by their sons, eager to make their mark on the territory, and by the homesteaders who are pouring in with the support of the government, hoping to farm on land that's just barely adequate for cattle to graze on; he's got government officials underfoot, including an inept Indian agent (Need a Character for this) and a corrupt land agent (Need Character); the thick-headed, longwinded territorial governor, the honorable Ryan Peterson, and the government back east are trying to push the Indians -- whose chiefs are some of Cain's oldest enemies and his best and most honored friends -- by shipping them off to a reservation, where they'll be cared for like old women; and to top it all off, Candace is coming back to secure a divorce and take custody of their 17-year-old daughter, Amanda, who's been at school back east But, likes everything to do with the West unlike her mother, who hates the west. All of that -- plus the presence of a young hired hand, Jacob who's interested romantically in Cain's daughter -- is the setup for a sprawling comedy Western with serious overtones, part battle-of-the-sexes and part political tract.

So thats my new cross over. Thanks for letting me borrow Ryan, Tpffan ! f you have never heard of this movie heres the |link]