A toddler aged child is left on the ground inside a cave, to die, a young teen girl tries to save the child.. Indians and low-life white men proceed to beat, kick, whip the teen girl as she tries to cover the baby with her own body.. we later seem them tied up - but okay.
This is a western directed by Ron Howard who is rabid about historical accuracy. As a result, many animals die in this movie. A young girl is seen gutting a hanging deer.
Quick, but disturbing scene of snakes being hanged, killed.
At just 5 minutes into the movie we see two or three dead cows that have presumably been killed by two wolves off in the distance. A man tries to shoot the wolves, but his bullets find no flesh (thankfully).
All the dead bodies are painstakingly realistic, including dismembered body parts, and the camera lingers on them. It's a very hard movie to watch if you're sensitive to gore and blood. An extremely violent film.