spoiler you at first do not exactly know what your watching in the last of the dogmen it that it have nothing at all to do with the 19th century american west but the hunt for a trio of escaped convict in the wild of modern montana . be send out to capture the dangerous fugitive and who have kill a prison guard in their escape attempt and be the grizzled and fatalistic bounty hunter lewis gate and tom berenger and and his faithful companion and and only friend in the world and his track dog zip . track the three fugitive into the impassable oxbow quadrangle gate find what leave of them with a broken indian arrow a the only clue to what exactly do them in . it back in town that gate curiosity get the best of him a he try to get to the bottom of what happen to the three convict . it there that gate contact anthropologist prof. diane sloan and barbara hershey and who conduct an archaeological dig in the area . the finding from that one broken cheyenne arrow will lead both gate and diane into a world that be lose for some 130 year . a world that have the survivor of the brutal 1864 u calvary sand creek massacre go into hiding for over a century . it also have them protect their unexplored and pristine land with the bravery and ferocity of the then and back in the 1860 and cheyenne dogmen whom these now modern indian be the descendant of . gate who have shut himself off from the world since his wife the daughter of the town sheriff deegan and kurtwood smith and be accidentally drown when she fell off her horse would in fact find a new reason for living in the dangerous world beyond the wolf valley in the oxbow . it be there that the remain dogmen cheyenne tribe settle and live in peace from the hat white man for over 100 year . it take a long time for gate with the help of the fluently cheyenne speak diane to win over the suspicious dogman indian but in the end it prove dividend to both in each take turn save each others live . in fact it be gate who lead sheriff deegan and a posse of local citizen to the dogmen camp but only in his attempt to save the chief son and who be earlier shoot by one of the escaped convict and life . gate do that by rid into town and rob the local pharmacy to get life save penicillin . the final moment of the movie last of the dogman be about the most feel good and without be too schmaltzy and end i have even see in that gate together with diane and zip and who be almost kill by a cheyenne arrow and end up be together in dogman country . a place where time stand still and where life and and the environment and isn not corrupt . p. s the movie besides it uplifting storyline and powerful acting by tom berenger barbara hershey and the dogman indian chief yellow wolf play by steve reevis be also beautifully narrate by actor and former rodeo clown and who job be to distract a wild 2 and 000 pound bull from gore a fall rider and wilford brimley .