Another cheap Hollywood ending to please tissue clutching female audience. A true sanguine finale, like Shakespear's King Lear it mocked, would have had all the lead characters dead at the end by the hands of justice for being the murderous, but lovable, bunch of godless serial criminals they are -- except for the key protagonist they slavishly loved. King John Dunton would remain alive so that he would the suffer the loss of everyone he loved as penalty for his worshiping of Yellowstone and his ego above all else, above the gods. That, Sheridan, is an honest tragic work of art. What next, a spin off of Romeo and Juliet to satisfy a contract? Call it Dancing With Wolfs II, white autocrat pays reparations to Native Americans.