es them to pay the prostitutes’ business manager several horses, for the loss of income that he will suffer since Delilah will no longer be able to charge much money for sex. The prostitutes working with her become so offended and angry by this situation that they soon offer a $1,000 bounty (reward) to the first people that will kill the cowboys who had cut up Delilah’s face. Will hears of this news from the Schofield kid, who had come to ask if he would help him kill the cowboys in exchange for a part of the reward money. Reluctantly, Will agrees, and soon Will’s old friend Ned also joins them. The three of them travel to Northern Wyoming in hopes of finding the cowboys and collecting the money, but soon things start to go wrong in this very violent part of the American West. An Important Note on the Language Used in the Movie: Although this film is a good look at life in the last years of the Western frontier, the language that is used should be learned with caution. This is because while there is a lot of useful vocabulary here, the dialog is filled with old and ungrammatical English that should be understood but avoided when speaking. Among the most common examples found throughout the movie are the following: -Double (and triple!) negatives: "She didn’t know no better." -The constant use of ain’t: "You ain’t going to whip them?" -Bad verb conjugation: "We was tired." -The use of them between verb and noun: "Get them horses in the barn." Some Words and Expressions that You May not Know A horrible cowboy attacks Delilah, but Little Bill sees only a crime against property. She was a comely young woman and not without prospects. "Comely" is attractive or pleasant, but it’s rarely used. "Prospects" are possibilities, and in this case, refers to potential husbands. A man of notoriously vicious and intemperate disposition. "Notoriously" means widely known in a very negative way. "Vicious" is a useful adjective meaning extremely cruel or dangerous. If a person has an "intemperate disposition," they have a violent temper. Smallpox. A well known disease that has been largely eliminated from the world. Billiards. A game played on a cloth covered table with shiny balls and long sticks which are used to push the balls into pockets on the side of the table. I’ll brand you like a damn steer! "To brand" a cow is to burn letters or numbers into its skin with a hot iron. "Damn" is a common and vulgar filler word that expresses anger or other similar emotions. A "steer" is a male cow or ox. Hold that bitch still! Hold her or I’ll cut her tits off. "Bitch" is a very crude word for a mean or unpleasant female. "Tits" is a vulgar slang word for female breasts. Get off of her, cowboy. A famous word referring to men in the 19th century who drove cattle (cows) across the prairies and fie
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