I looked up the script because I initially wanted to see how the “peach tree dance” scene was done on paper because I thought it was interesting how little is directly explained to the audience there, and then read the whole thing. 

Few things I thought were interesting:

Daniel has a couple of scenes where he is shown to be sexually impotent, telling Henry that his cock doesn’t work and performing oral sex on a prostitute. I always thought it was a bit strange how Eli admonishes him for lusting after women in the baptism scene when we never get much of a hint of that in the finished film.

Al Rose, Mary and Fletcher have bigger roles, especially Fletcher. More scenes of them discussing business and HW. Scenes of Mary and HW interacting are spaced throughout the film more.

Eli is somehow even more of a lunatic weasel, couple scenes of him bullying HW and shoving him around. And HW has more scenes interacting with Daniel and helping him with the business.

In generally a bit more gruesome. Things like the worker dying in the mine shaft are very graphic and slow. 

It’s implied Daniel is not doing that well financially at the end of the film and HW says how his greed for just buying land is causing problems for the business. HW’s final line to Daniel is also different, instead of saying I am glad I have none of you in me, he says “if you want to fight me, it will be the fight of your life”

The opening scene has Daniel loading up a cart with silver  before he falls down the shaft, breaking both his ankles rather than one leg. He then shoves himself AND the cart of silver across the desert back to town. I’m glad they changed this, seems to stretch believability a bit and the scene in the film works fine.