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==Plot==
{{Long plot|date=February 2022}}
In 1925 [[Montana]], wealthy ranch-owning brothers Phil and George Burbank meet widow and inn owner Rose Gordon during a cattle drive. The kind-hearted George is quickly taken with Rose, while the volatile Phil, much influenced by his late mentor Bronco Henry, mocks Rose's son Peter for his [[lisp]] and effeminate manner.
Upon seeing his brother spending increasingly more time with Rose, Phil writes to his mother to tell her of the relationship, thinking that she may be able to stop it
By the time that Peter comes to stay at the ranch for the summer break, Rose has become an alcoholic. Phil and his men taunt Peter, and he sequesters himself in his room, dissecting animals and studying diseases. In a secluded clearing, Phil masturbates with Bronco Henry's scarf. Peter enters the clearing and finds a stash of magazines with Bronco Henry's name on them depicting nude men. He observes Phil bathing in a pond with the handkerchief around his neck; Phil notices him and chases him off.
To torment Rose further, Phil begins to show decency to Peter, offering to plait him a [[lasso]] from [[rawhide (material)|rawhide]] and teach him how to ride a horse. Peter heads out on his own one day and finds a dead cow,
Rose's alcoholism worsens after she starts seeing how much time her son spends with the vicious Phil. Upon learning about Phil's policy of burning the hides that he does not need for himself, Rose defiantly gives the hides to local [[Indigenous peoples of the Americas|Native American]] traders who thank her with a pair of gloves. She then collapses from her rapid alcohol consumption, and George tends to her, throwing out a bottle of [[American whiskey|Bourbon]] that he had found in the sheets.
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Phil is despondent over not having any of the hides needed to finish Peter's lasso, and he attempts to lash out at Rose before being stopped by his brother George. Peter calms Phil down by offering him the hide that he had cut from the dead cattle, but Peter fails to mention that the animal was already deceased when Peter encountered it. Phil is touched by Peter's gesture and promises him that they'll have a much better relationship moving forward. The pair spend the night in the barn finishing the rope, Phil's open wound and the hide mixing together in the solution used to soften the hide.
Phil tells Peter how Bronco Henry saved his life by lying body-to-body with him in a [[Cowboy bedroll|bedroll]] during freezing weather. Phil
At the funeral, the doctor tells George that Phil most likely died from anthrax; this puzzles George, as Phil was always careful to avoid diseased cattle. Peter, who skipped Phil's funeral, opens a [[Book of Common Prayer]] to a passage on burial rites and then reads [[Psalm 22]]:20: "Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog." Later he puts his finished lasso under his bed with gloved hands. As Peter walks down the hall, he stops at a window and watches George and a now-sober Rose return home and embrace. He turns away and smiles.
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