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While tracking escaped convicts in the remote mountains of Montana, BountyHunter Lewis Gates (Berenger) discovers evidence of a HiddenElfVillage of Cheyenne warriors known as the Dog Soldiers, who have been in hiding for 128 years. Intrigued, he seeks them out, aided by anthropologist Lilian Sloan (Hershey).

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While tracking three escaped convicts in the remote mountains of Montana, BountyHunter Lewis Gates (Berenger) discovers evidence of a HiddenElfVillage of Cheyenne warriors known as the Dog Soldiers, who have been in hiding for 128 years. Intrigued, he seeks them out, aided by anthropologist Lilian Sloan (Hershey).

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A NewOldWest film starring Creator/TomBerenger, Creator/BarbaraHershey, and Creator/KurtwoodSmith. BountyHunter Lewis Gates (Berenger) discovers evidence of a HiddenElfVillage of Cheyenne warriors known as the Dog Soldiers, who have been in hiding for 128 years. Intrigued, he seeks them out, aided by anthropologist Lilian Sloan (Hershey).

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A 1995 NewOldWest film written and directed by Tab Murphy, starring Creator/TomBerenger, Creator/BarbaraHershey, and Creator/KurtwoodSmith. Creator/KurtwoodSmith.

While tracking escaped convicts in the remote mountains of Montana,
BountyHunter Lewis Gates (Berenger) discovers evidence of a HiddenElfVillage of Cheyenne warriors known as the Dog Soldiers, who have been in hiding for 128 years. Intrigued, he seeks them out, aided by anthropologist Lilian Sloan (Hershey).
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* HiddenElfVillage: The Dog Soldiers have been living in the unexplored Montana wilderness for 128 years since they fled the Sand Creek Massacre, and have had no contact with the modern world beyond a few violent encounters with intruders.

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* HiddenElfVillage: The Dog Soldiers have been living in the unexplored Montana wilderness for 128 years since they fled the Sand Creek Massacre, and have had no contact with the modern world beyond a few violent encounters with intruders. Doubles as TheRemnant.



* TheRemnant: The Cheyenne Dog Soldiers have been living in the unexplored Montana wilderness for 128 years since they fled the Sand Creek Massacre, and have had no contact with the modern world beyond a few violent encounters with intruders.

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* TheRemnant: The Cheyenne Dog Soldiers have been living RunForTheBorder: Ruthlessly mocked when three men escape from jail and head in the unexplored Montana wilderness direction of the border. Even before running into a HiddenElfVillage of Native Americans who don't care for 128 years since they fled being shot at, it's obvious that the Sand Creek Massacre, trio lack the physical prowess and have had no contact with outdoor experience to make it even a fraction of the modern world beyond journey.
--> '''Deputy''':What do you figure they'll do?
--> '''Sheriff Deegan''': Keep running, make for the border, [[TropicalEpilogue buy
a few violent encounters with intruders.little condo on a lake somewhere and live happily ever after.]] There's only one thing standing in their way...4,000 square miles of the roughest country God ever put on a map. There's not a road, not a town... hell, there's places out there that haven't even seen a footprint.

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* SurvivorGuilt: Gates is filled with guilt and self-loathing over his failure to save his wife from drowning, to the point where he's started drinking heavily.

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* SleepsInTheNude: Lilian invites Lewis to sleep on her couch if he doesn't feel like driving home, although she warns him that she often walks around her house naked in the morning. It's unclear whether she was being truthful or just messing with Lewis.
* SurvivorGuilt: Gates Lewis is filled with guilt and self-loathing over his failure to save his wife from drowning, to the point where he's started drinking heavily.

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* ScarilyCompetentTracker: Gates is a gifted tracker. Although he mostly works as a hunting guide, occasionally he is employed as a bounty hunter to track down escaped criminals.

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* ScarilyCompetentTracker: Gates is a gifted tracker. Although he mostly works as a hunting guide, occasionally he is employed as a bounty hunter to track down and recapture escaped criminals.



* SceneryPorn: The majority of the movie takes place amidst stunning mountain scenery that looks like it has never seen the effects of the Industrial Age.

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* SceneryPorn: The majority of the movie takes place amidst stunning mountain scenery (although the film is set in Montana, it was filmed in the Canadian Rockies) that looks like it has never seen the effects of the Industrial Age.Age.
* SurvivorGuilt: Gates is filled with guilt and self-loathing over his failure to save his wife from drowning, to the point where he's started drinking heavily.
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* ScarilyCompetentTracker: Gates is a gifted tracker. Although he mostly works as a hunting guide, occasionally he is employed as a bounty hunter to track down escaped criminals.
-->'''Deegan:''' Drunk or sober, you're still the best tracker in the state.
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* TheRemnant: The Cheyenne Dog Soldiers have been living in the unexplored Montana wilderness for 128 years since they fled the Sand Creek Massacre, and have had no contact with the modern world beyond a few violent encounters with intruders.
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A NewOldWest film starring Creator/TomBerenger, Creator/BarbaraHershey, and Creator/KurtwoodSmith. BountyHunter Lewis Gates (Berenger) discovers evidence of a HiddenElfVillage of Cheyenne warriors known as the Dog Soldiers, who have been in hiding for 128 years. Intrigued, he seeks them out, aided by anthropologist Lilian Sloan (Hershey).

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* TheAlcoholic: Lewis has been a heavy drinker since his wife died and is introduced passed out on a bar table. This character trait largely disappears as the film progresses.
* BigBadWannabe: Sears, the leader of the convicts, is a dangerous and ruthless fugitive who has a stash of hidden loot that the police are desperate to recover. He's killed during an encounter with the Dog Soldiers less than 1/4th of the way into the film.
* BornInTheWrongCentury: Twentieth-century BountyHunter Lewis comments that he was born a century too late and that his anthropologist associate Lilian was born a century too early.
* BountyHunter: Grizzled cowboy Lewis Gates is an experienced tracker who hunts down criminals through the wilderness. However, he has mainly been a hunting guide since the death of his wife. At the beginning, he has to be blackmailed over his chronic leash law violations before he'll take a job chasing escaped prisoners.
* {{Determinator}}: Lewis is determined to find out the story behind the missing fugitives despite having no real incentive to do so, going to great efforts to recruit Lilian and then search the mountains. The narrator describes him as "just no good at giving up."
* HiddenElfVillage: The Dog Soldiers have been living in the unexplored Montana wilderness for 128 years since they fled the Sand Creek Massacre, and have had no contact with the modern world beyond a few violent encounters with intruders.
* MyFistForgivesYou: After making peace with the Dog Soldiers, Lewis still punches the warrior who (non-lethally) shot his dog.
* NewOldWest: The film is set in 1995 but features a HiddenElfVillage of Native Americans, a BountyHunter, and the Montana wilderness. The narrator even calls it a modern-day Western.
* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Sheriff Deegan is Lewis's father-in-law and hates Lewis for failing to save his daughter from drowning, striving to make Lewis miserable.
* SceneryPorn: The majority of the movie takes place amidst stunning mountain scenery that looks like it has never seen the effects of the Industrial Age.
* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: Lewis says this word for word after Lilian tries to appease their Dog Soldier captors by saying Lewis will fight any of them hand-to-hand.

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