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0:02[Music]
0:16[Music]
0:25[Music]
0:28way
0:32[Music]
0:38[Music]
0:50[Music]
0:59am
1:03[Music]
1:24[Music]
1:28oh
1:48funka made us what we are a buffalo
1:53Nation so long as the Buffalo ran our
1:57nation was
1:58strong
2:02from tranka we took our food our
2:05clothing our
2:06shelter and the whites came and brought
2:09strange new things with them they traded
2:12with our enemies The Crow and other
2:15tribes we traded little with the whites
2:19this caused anger among some of
2:23[Music]
2:28us
2:58foree
3:05foree
3:10fore
3:28fore
3:58foree
4:18[Music]
4:28fore
4:31[Music]
4:42[Music]
4:49I had passed many joyous years among
4:51thunderhart woman's people but with the
4:53start of my own family I felt a strong
4:55yearning to return to the place of my
4:56birth so that our daughter Margaret like
4:59shine would know something of her
5:00father's
5:02[Music]
5:13[Music]
5:28world
5:44just who might you
5:48be this is the wheeler house is it
5:54not we don't know any
5:57Indians are you cousin Rachel daughter
6:00of Benjamin AB wheer I'm Naomi Rachel's
6:03younger
6:04sister oh God I thought she still a
6:08child I'm Jacob your father's my uncle
6:11we're cousins this is my
6:15family well I'll
6:18be we heard from Nathan a letter he's in
6:23Texas he's married to a
6:28Mexican
6:31well Texas is getting settled now things
6:33to folks like Nathan be proud of Nathan
6:36mother he helped whip San Anna I just
6:38wish you'd come back home even if it's
6:41just a visit would it be proper if my
6:44wife were to take his seat for
6:46now oh yes yes of course and L Shin's
6:51beside
6:58you
7:10what's
7:13that this is a very special gift for my
7:22bride Lord you have blessed us this day
7:25with the return of my son Jacob thank
7:27you Lord and perhaps some today you will
7:29guide our other Lost Child Nathan to us
7:32so that he could be at this table with
7:34us we can all break bread as a family
7:37once again amen amen
7:41amen uh here you are walking
7:45toan tanti wi translates a thunder heart
7:50woman so what is it you intend to do
7:53Jacob what we always done what we all do
7:56be a whe right that is if you'll allow
7:59me father of course I'll allow you
8:02business isn't as it was bank failures
8:05and all people B for services nowadays
8:08but we'll get by don'tk here until uh
8:11things turn for the better your squa
8:14feel the same I don't call her my squa
8:16she's my wife my woman my Ms ain't
8:20nothing dirty about it I lived with her
8:22people hunted Buffalo with them I
8:25learned to honor their
8:27ways they made me one of their s
8:30own I hope you'll do the same for her
8:33we'll do our
8:34best it take
8:39[Music]
8:43time it's a
8:46[Music]
8:49boy she didn't cry out not a bit how's
8:53that
8:54possible Indians aren't human they don't
8:56feel pain like we do they're heathens
9:04[Music]
9:12I will name
9:13him after
9:16grandfather
9:19[Music]
9:26Abraham and his Indian name will be high
9:28wolf
9:30[Music]
9:33hey
9:35[Music]
9:43Lea one thing I can't get out of my head
9:45of those California oranges this
9:48big bright and shiny grow everywhere boy
9:52I miss him then why'd you come home oh
9:55Mexicans push us out people pushing back
9:58just it's like Texas California's Like a
10:00Virgin looking for a husband it's going
10:03to draw folks no matter what them D here
10:05do could be a positive thing for a man
10:07be a part of it all help settle the
10:09country look at brother Nathan he's
10:11stuck it out in Texas you know he's got
10:12a farm raising his family he didn't come
10:15back home pale tucked between his
10:22legs you know I came close to losing my
10:24scalp a number of times hadn't been for
10:27Mr Jedi Smith man named Fletcher you the
10:30one that came here that day wanted his
10:31rifle Cocker place that's him stood
10:33right over there he's dead now talked
10:36about gold and
10:38Fortune I remember now he's gone so much
10:42for dreams of Glory well that kind of
10:45life it always carries a price nothing
10:47comes easy but Mr Smith is not dead he's
10:49out there blazing Trails making a name
10:51for himself plenty of Glory going around
10:53out there and he deserves most of it
10:56greatest man I ever
10:58met
11:04[Applause]
11:05[Music]
11:23anywhere
11:25[Music]
11:27there
11:29[Music]
11:37ter hards P got to many them already got
11:43something we can
11:46use any of those you're willing to
11:51barter there a lot of Lonely Boys
11:53heading
11:54west there's no preachers or high fluent
11:57women to tell a man's pleasure you're
12:00right
12:01understand of course you
12:09[Music]
12:11[Applause]
12:16[Music]
12:27do
12:44Jacob Jacob look here Jacob what's in
12:46the
12:51newspaper Pathfinders needed to escort
12:53parties West from Independence Missouri
12:55through to
12:57California following past trailblazed by
13:00the recently deceased Mr jened
13:06Smith running low on water Mr Smith went
13:08ahead of the Wagon train to find a
13:10watering hole or a spring he was leading
13:12a party on the cut off to Santa Fe in
13:15part of the country's commanda territory
13:17he knew
13:18that he cut sign with the best of them
13:20he he knew a man alone ain't got a
13:27chance
13:30well he's a godfear
13:32man he's a modest
13:36man saved my life up in cave in new
13:40tones Mojave had surrounded us things
13:43were at their bleakest and it looked
13:44like the sun would wash our bones
13:48and kept us going and he kept me
13:52believing now he's dead you wanted me to
13:55stay our
13:56West said if I didn't
13:59I never know that man I could have
14:02been man God want me to
14:06be wheelon gone
14:11stale I don't know maybe it's the Dare
14:13of it
14:15all besides I don't like how they treat
14:18you or young Margaret like CH it's not
14:21like
14:23family they will grow accustomed to
14:27us
14:30man expects more from
14:31family I won back
14:33[Music]
14:36rest it will be hard for the
14:43[Music]
14:46children we go slow easy
14:50stages this is your home Virginia's your
14:53people man don't make history by
14:55sleeping in the same bunk he was born in
14:57history I'm taking your brother with you
14:59took Nathan last time we haven't seen
15:02hide or he of him him because I wish
15:04to I had a chance before and I didn't go
15:07I won't make the same mistake twice
15:09don't expect to come back in good times
15:11and get a piece of the family business
15:13that goes to them that works it it's
15:17understood I just wanted to hold the
15:20baby a little while longer that's what
15:22comes of mar and Indians longing for the
15:25Wilds let's go
15:27Jethro
15:36[Music]
15:46thank you
15:48[Music]
15:55[Music]
15:57mother
15:59ja wait for me
16:02wait who's that
16:06R come to say goodbye I'm going with you
16:14oh there's nothing for us here nothing
16:17for any of us and we can help with the
16:19children well who's we Naomi fiance went
16:22and married someone else she once
16:24disappeared from the face of the Earth
16:26we figure that's where you're going is
16:28that Leah coming with her she wants to
16:30disappear
16:35too try as I might my impetuous cousins
16:38could not be made to
16:40reconsider I wrote to Mom P to explain
16:42things but knew I left them B I hope
16:46that I would prove equal to the
16:47responsibility I had
16:50[Music]
16:57undertaken
17:11for
17:27spee
17:32they CH
17:41witho alah
17:57follow
18:06[Music]
18:13not you
18:14[Music]
18:20[Music]
18:27f
18:30[Music]
18:51[Music]
18:56Yello eight muskets for four four
19:03points
19:05eight ma walk on for four shunka
19:12[Music]
19:27walk
19:30[Applause]
19:31[Music]
19:39[Applause]
19:42[Music]
19:54our journey from Virginia to
19:55Independence took 3 years like most
19:58other folks in the Restless Young
20:00America we stopped and settled for a
20:02while worked then pushed on again houses
20:05were built then abandoned before the
20:07trees came into Berry Fields were
20:09planted then left for others to reap the
20:12Harvest on the way we had another child
20:15a boy Jacob Junior toes into the deep
20:18blue clear waters of the Pacific
20:22Ocean Welcome Friends is it the Golden
20:25Coast you seek the shangra of the West
20:30California you ever been there no no
20:34can't say as I have well I've been I've
20:36seen and what's your
20:38assessment by comparison everything else
20:40is a dung he well but we're in agreement
20:44sir welcome we can use a man who's been
20:46down that trail we have close to the
20:48makings of a train here don't want too
20:50big a company we wish to travel light
20:53and
20:54fast safe yes sir that's it exactly sign
20:58up contracts there list your members
21:01your intentions equipment skills you
21:04accept free men of
21:06color where are you from Sir
21:09Illinois they love us as a race there
21:11but hate us as
21:14people we're heading west for
21:20acceptance join
21:22us you joining this train
21:26Mister thinking on it
21:29there's a lot of rules and regulations
21:30here Mister the hoxy the name even Hoy
21:34I'm providing wagons horses cattle
21:37stores and doing that I figured to
21:40Captain this train not the pilot mind
21:43you not our
21:45guide with a man in charge somebody's
21:48got to be might as well be the fellow
21:50who can provide for all a wagon train is
21:52like a passenger ship the lonely Prairie
21:55ocean always a captain on the ship we
21:57need rules standards organization young
22:01man everyone needs a
22:04task death ear got a memb
22:06council to report the captain $10 tax
22:09per
22:10person moral Clause as the saying goes
22:14when alien peoples meet first they fight
22:17and then they fornicate we need to
22:19preserve our dignity our civilized ways
22:21can't let savagery infect us we intend
22:24to sit out the range depart come spring
22:27that way we beat Wom in the
22:30sieras well come see me if you have
22:33questions at Colonel Nolan's hotel in
22:37Tavern what about Missouri we're in
22:40Missouri the land is
22:42Rich there are plenty of people
22:46Farms
22:48settlements why not stay
22:53here it's swamp country malaria
22:56pestilence don't want it don't need it
22:59no fever in
23:01California I heard for one fell talking
23:04said folks routinely live 150 200 years
23:07in California climate so good F
23:11all nobody can live that long one o cot
23:14they said was 250 years old and he Plum
23:17had enough decided he wanted to die what
23:20they do feed him Mexican
23:22food there's an argument to be made for
23:24Oregon I mean at least they speak
23:26English true well who's going to talk
23:29Spaniard when we get to California what
23:31you Jacob those Dons are educated they
23:34speak
23:35English California or
23:39bust didn't tell me you were a Cooper
23:43Smith we're obliged to the Proprietors
23:45for letting us use a shop making another
23:47wagon for the journey or wheel R that's
23:49my brother Jethro oh next to pilots and
23:51Indian Fighters there few things as
23:53crucial to the success of a train as a
23:55skilled wheel right
23:58you hadn't come by Nolan we intend to
24:01leave in a matter of
24:03days how many wagons 18 I've hired a
24:07pilot named Josiah Bell he ran with
24:10Fitzpatrick trapping beaver fighting
24:12Indians he's been everywhere he's got
24:14two Scouts with him including the others
24:17we have 22 armed men oh yeah horses are
24:21ox horses and
24:24mules think those Wheels can handle the
24:26trail
24:29I expect so iron tires 2 and 12 in
24:32bolted well that's a substantial wagon
24:35con of Stoger we call it well seasoned
24:37wood falling tongues well stilled
24:40skaines what about extra axles can't do
24:42without them tires Buckle wag and tongue
24:45snap front axles fail lower half of the
24:48wagon Mr hoxy that's where all your
24:49problems are the running gear we call it
24:52we can sure use folks like you on this
24:54journey I've got a part-time Cooper
24:57Smith and
24:58half ass Wing
25:00right but no wheel right well we sure
25:04would love to come only we don't have
25:08$80 I loan you won't be indebted either
25:12then
25:18what well you pay for the extra axles
25:22Spokes and tongs and heavy
25:24equipment me and Jeth R's labor for the
25:26journey come about $80 I reckon don't
25:30you figure je
25:31thr right about 80
25:34brother yes
25:43sir and so the wheeler party rolled out
25:46of Independence heading West Northwest
25:48on hoy's
25:50train wagon master hawky was a regular
25:53Napoleon of the PLS wanted everybody to
25:55call him Captain even though he'd never
25:57been near near a uniform his hired pilot
25:59was a Frontiersman by the name of Josiah
26:02Bell and there were two Scouts Meeks and
26:05skate Bon
26:08it's I'd seen their kind before rough
26:11Hune boys Char Bacons come West not for
26:14adventure or riches or exploration but
26:16for women and
26:18whiskey God only knows what they were
26:20running
26:21[Music]
26:26from with us was Hobs a German preacher
26:29who claimed also to be a doctor he led
26:32us in prayer when we departed
26:33Independence asking the Lord's guidance
26:36and protection from disease accidents
26:39Beast of prey and wild heathens when he
26:41said the last he was staring straight at
26:43Thunderheart woman she didn't pay him no
26:50[Music]
26:56m
27:04[Music]
27:09warm up the wagon tight as possible warm
27:13them up you hear tight
27:26up
27:38O come up
27:56here
28:02my God Rachel how many do you think
28:04there
28:05are you can I'll tell you
28:11that they're
28:16beautiful I can feel their
28:24breath our first sighing of a buffalo
28:26herd was a me able moment for all I'd
28:29seen it before but I was still in awe
28:32sheer dumbstruck
28:51awe why'd you have to do
28:54that it's meat ma'am you got something
28:58against me what' we bring cattle for
29:00then killing them saves cattle for the
29:03journey believe it or not man there'll
29:05be spots where game is scarce even
29:10buffler what's that
29:15walls mountain men wolves and buzzards
29:18regular jamby of like-minded
29:26idiots
29:27why aren you pretty
29:29ladies go on collect chips for us
29:37chips Buffalo chips were Prairie fuel
29:40oil of the Plains fuel for the campfire
29:42Mana from the Bison fast and plenty but
29:46somebody had to gather
29:48them here put them in
29:53here what's your name Mary Jones from
29:59Illinois how many of these they expect
30:01us to collect greasy looking pigs had as
30:04many as we
30:05could we'll show
30:14[Music]
30:21him the
30:24circle circle them up my friend
30:44the
30:48[Music]
30:51to through the world is
30:55never with
31:00[Music]
31:18the Wolves
31:20today it was bad
31:22sign and these people you have chosen to
31:26lead us they are bad
31:29sign we should go back tomorrow these
31:32people don't believe in magic or sign do
31:36you I can't get these people to turn
31:38back now you know
31:39that you will not try no I
31:48won't the Sentinels awaken the train at
31:514:00 by 500 a.m. the animals were
31:54rounded up for the morning
31:56Trek
31:59breakfast was from 6:00 to 7:00 and at
32:01700 precisely the signal was given to
32:05advance teams were rotated daily so that
32:09the wagons in the Vanguard one day would
32:11be in the extreme rear the next work
32:13their way up the column day by day being
32:16in the tail of the column was always
32:17worst due to the dust kicked up by the
32:20wagons Captain hawy wanted things
32:22organized for the welfare of all the
32:25overlanders he'd say
32:28wherever you were bound there was one
32:30Golden Rule for the
32:31Pioneers follow the
32:33[Music]
32:49[Music]
32:56river
33:00[Music]
33:07right here pick it up pick it
33:12up take it keep
33:25that's keep coming there keep on the
33:31Ango let the whole rope pull you death
33:33on the angle on the angle I know you
33:37told me a dozen times
33:43he's stay on the BL creature watch your
33:55Cur
33:57[Music]
34:03somebody help help help F my
34:11[Music]
34:25now
34:34Le stay with the wagon she can't swim
34:39neither can
34:55you whereit where is
34:58she I see
35:12her you were to cross at the angle with
35:15everybody else to wait for the hold
35:16ropes but no you wouldn't listen those
35:19are grounds to cut you off preacher and
35:21leave you here damn it Captain hay
35:24that's enough now leave it
35:55no
36:09careful
36:10[Music]
36:12careful God in his greatness in his
36:16mysterious
36:17workings has taken this child from us we
36:20weep for her and her family and we know
36:25that God weeps with us though we know
36:28not
36:29why we thank thee God for thy blessings
36:33and pray that you will protect this
36:36child show us thy
36:41will let thy mercy rest on
36:45[Music]
36:47us amen
36:48[Music]
36:55amen
36:58[Music]
37:08I've had enough of this Wagon Train
37:09business I want to go back Jacob me too
37:12back to Missouri you hear we're all sick
37:14of it the women anyway take us
37:17[Music]
37:25back
37:27[Music]
37:56this right
37:59Rachel I just wanted to say
38:01how how sorry I am about your sister
38:04thank you
38:07Mr you can call me James or Jim even
38:16Jim I hope it's not the case that you're
38:18planning on going back Miss Rachel cuz I
38:20sure do enjoy the sight of you here on
38:22this
38:23train your
38:25presence please with me my
38:30presentence theide of
38:34me I'd give anything to feel like a
38:36woman
38:39again clean hair smooth
38:43skin wear my sunay bed maybe going on a
38:47picnic that's as much Prairie as I'd
38:49ever want to see again and then right
38:52back
38:53home a place that doesn't weave and roll
38:55to the s like something
38:59fixed and
39:02permanent a place to
39:04[Applause]
39:08rest look rest in
39:11now the lucky
39:25one
39:33[Music]
39:52are
39:54coming you better take shelter in that
39:57cover up
39:58ahead trees are getting scarce Captain
40:00we got to grab the ones we got can we
40:02not obtain a few more miles of least
40:04last thing you want in the wide open's a
40:07storm he's right Captain Hoy follow me
40:11take
40:25cover
40:33[Music]
40:35don't let him
40:38[Music]
40:41run
40:44my all
40:50right iang do it don't let it
40:55go
41:23but J we we got to get out of the way
41:28baby hurry Jacob get him out of
41:35there get underneath everybody
41:39underneath no no I'm not going
41:45you me kill me please not H me with the
41:50back here leave me
41:53Fe I want to die
42:08got her G
42:20thanks c will stop my
42:23boy ran right
42:25over
42:39bring them on through
42:51boy more hey
42:55up
43:09all our corn and meal
43:14ruin much well dump
43:18it
43:22everybody we are ready
43:25now
43:42you didn't want to die last night did
43:43you miss nail
43:45me I don't know skatee you're the one
43:48came riding after me I guess you thought
43:52so I'm glad you
43:55didn't woman like you's got too much
43:57life ahead of
43:58her good
44:12life get in the
44:16wagon I won't leave my baby
44:25behind want to stay with
44:28him please let me stay with
44:32him why' you bring us
44:34here what kind of life is
44:37this better in ourselves is that what
44:40this is I can't a [ __ ] just know his
44:48place I can't a minute just
44:52know we will come back and bu
44:56sit it plays
45:00flowers when how I can have find this
45:04place I can find it for you
45:08ma'am anytime you want I'll bring you
45:10back here you can visit your
45:14boy would you
45:17really
45:22[Music]
45:24anytime
45:30[Music]
45:48[Music]
46:24oh
46:28you dance with me Miss
46:31Rachel
46:33[Music]
46:38now let's just walk for a
46:44[Music]
46:46bit it's nice moon tonight isn't
46:50it nice
46:53enough i' heard so much about the West I
46:55couldn't wait to give it a
46:56[Music]
47:01gander would you ever consider getting
47:02married
47:04someday yeah someday
47:07imagine wouldn't
47:10you that's why I
47:13asked what do you
47:14[Music]
47:18mean would you marry
47:23me now
47:27well not right this
47:28minute maybe in a couple days when time
47:32permits I know you don't know much about
47:35me we'll have opportunity for that when
47:38we get to California I intend to
47:40farm I'll build you a proper
47:44house heard the grass is so good you
47:46don't need to put up
47:53Hay all right then
47:55[Music]
47:58I'll marry
47:59you that one easier than I
48:15thought come
48:18now get out
48:24way
48:28[Music]
48:54on
49:00[Music]
49:24and now
49:26with the power granted by the great
49:28Creator himself I hereby pronounce you
49:33men and
49:34[Music]
49:39wife excellent well
49:42done who's next you have a ring yes sir
49:46I do very
49:49well I need your Christian name
49:52skate Alfred Bertram Guthrie Jr
49:58folks got married people died babies
50:01were born gentle it was The Wheel of
50:04Life something about the PLS made people
50:06cling to one another and leave the grief
50:08behind hell grief was a luxury none of
50:11us could forward we had to move on toil
50:14and drive plot and push just keep moving
50:18and when a wedding happened we'd all
50:20celebrate shivery we called
50:24it
50:33[Music]
50:37W
50:41[Music]
50:46Dr
50:54you
51:01[Music]
51:15[Music]
51:24now
51:54for
52:11H what you
52:24can
52:32[Music]
52:37steady
52:42down he up on your side Mr
52:54Harper
52:59Rael look
53:09out Rachel just lie still now just Li
53:16still
53:17now stop Can't You See That She's an
53:21Agony it's a compound
53:24fracture I can dress it as best as I can
53:27if it's
53:32[Music]
53:43[Music]
53:54bad
53:55[Music]
54:02do you
54:03[Music]
54:06preacher she can't sleep
54:08Jacob she says there's something
54:10crawling in there crawling
54:18with Rachel Jacob and the preacher are
54:24here
54:31[Music]
54:34just not
54:36back try and get some
54:46rest Gina said
54:50in what about surgery you mean amputate
54:54well you're a doctor it's what you've
54:55been claiming she be saved I don't
54:57believe so spread too far you've got to
54:59try there's no point to needless agon if
55:02she suffered long enough so just let her
55:04die she's my wife she's my cousin
55:06shouldn't we leave this to
55:08her it's her leg her
55:19body
55:21yeah loud them it's not much but it's a
55:24lot I've got you better take it going to
55:27be all right
55:30Rachel we're going to fix you
55:37up about down
55:43hard all right
55:51[Music]
55:54then
55:59[Music]
56:13[Music]
56:17took an hour and a half for him to hack
56:19through the
56:20bone but by that point Rachel had
56:23died
56:27[Music]
56:40[Music]
56:40[Applause]
56:45[Music]
56:53MO
56:55[Music]
57:16seeking answers as wise men do dogstar
57:20traveled to basappa the heart of all
57:23things a place where men prayed for
57:29Visions there he found his brother loved
57:33by the Buffalo and was overjoyed to see
57:37[Music]
57:53him
58:04fore
58:16speee
58:23fore
58:26[Music]
58:34[Music]
58:46[Music]
58:53for
58:58now
59:01noxy hold the wagon hold them up stay
59:04with
59:09[Music]
59:13them that's the collar If Ever I seen
59:18it
59:21creature [ __ ] bowel
59:23trouble
59:26why didn't you say
59:27anything I was hoping it the
59:33[Music]
59:34pass you tell him
59:37preacher as a dread
59:39call as far as his host is concerned all
59:41bets are
59:44off you better call a counil
59:47captain our thoughts and
59:50prayers our Wick Mr Jones and his
59:53daughter Cola was the most feared
59:56disease on the trail folks not knowing
59:58what brought it on bad air bad water
1:00:01fever it killed
1:00:03indiscriminately the only response at
1:00:05the time was
1:00:06quarantine our rear guard will remain
1:00:16behind we will await your return with
1:00:20open arms the wagons that had no contact
1:00:22with a dead woman would leave while the
1:00:24remainder would stay behind for a spell
1:00:26before going their own way we wish you
1:00:29could
1:00:33help and God
1:00:38speed to the
1:00:45wagons Naomi who' been up front with her
1:00:48new husband B us farewell and no one
1:00:51blamed
1:00:53her
1:01:04we were left to fin for ourselves and
1:01:06wait to see who among us might be the
1:01:08next to become
1:01:14[Music]
1:01:23infected
1:01:37what are you
1:01:38doing you're separating from us say to
1:01:41him it's all I know how to do your
1:01:43family's here you are the reason we are
1:01:45here why we came she right let me
1:01:51be if I get sick you'll be better off
1:01:53without me but you're not sick he is I
1:01:56don't know if I am soon enough with
1:01:58caller if it don't get you in the first
1:01:59day chances are you recover what if you
1:02:02do not what do we do blow your water
1:02:05before you drink it go in without me
1:02:07catch up with the others they will not
1:02:08take us back and go on your own find
1:02:10your own people is that why you brought
1:02:12me out here to find my own
1:02:15people what about your children what do
1:02:17you want from me woman I want my
1:02:23husband
1:02:31name me be
1:02:32Jacob go to the
1:02:36others well I lost
1:02:39Rachel I lost
1:02:41Leah I ain't losing no
1:02:43more should have never let him come
1:02:46should have left him back in Virginia he
1:02:48didn't exactly give you a
1:02:53choice
1:02:55I've always been envious of you
1:03:00br you always had that
1:03:03spark that sense of
1:03:08adventure I always wished I could be
1:03:10like
1:03:12that like
1:03:16you you are like me
1:03:20jeffro it's the nicest thing you could
1:03:22say to me
1:03:26we're going to be living in the west
1:03:27together going to have Farms beside one
1:03:29another you're going to be raising a
1:03:31family next to
1:03:40mine
1:03:44Jacob
1:03:50jacobob how is
1:03:53he better
1:03:56honest can you stand
1:04:00up all
1:04:07right what about everybody else good we
1:04:10have been boiling our water catch up
1:04:12with the others then the way I figure it
1:04:14they're about a day ahead I'll go ahead
1:04:16alone get him to slow up then come back
1:04:19for
1:04:23you
1:04:36[Music]
1:04:53now
1:05:00[Music]
1:05:10[Music]
1:05:14I fought him hard didn't you escap did
1:05:17you kill more your share of
1:05:19[Music]
1:05:23them
1:05:27was it because they took
1:05:29[Music]
1:05:40[Music]
1:05:53Naomi
1:05:55come on Jacob come
1:06:01[Applause]
1:06:05on did you find them I wiped
1:06:09out now they want
1:06:11us they're shy and I don't understand
1:06:13why the disease chera they're killing us
1:06:17it will not spread to
1:06:18them are they going to come or what
1:06:20maybe just want to frighten us a bit
1:06:22with each circle they come closer
1:06:36[Music]
1:06:45get out get
1:06:53out
1:06:59[Music]
1:07:17Jacob
1:07:22put
1:07:39[Music]
1:07:47are you sick with
1:07:49fever no how are you called na
1:07:56wheeler Guthrie Mrs skate Guthrie who's
1:07:59my
1:08:00husband your warriors killed
1:08:04him he too has lost a loved one
1:08:17come you will now be called Five
1:08:22Horses thank you kind
1:08:36L what is
1:08:38that special oils make prairie fire burn
1:08:43all
1:08:51night you might have be married tonight
1:08:53is that
1:09:20it little diddle C fiddle cow jumped
1:09:24over the moon Little Miss Muffet sat on
1:09:26tough it you away on came spider sat
1:09:30down beside her and frighten Miss Muffet
1:09:33away Miss Muffet sat on her T eating her
1:09:35curs away Along long came spider sat
1:09:38down beside her and frighten Miss Muffet
1:09:49away eatting his pumpkin pie put in his
1:09:53thumb pulled out a plum and said g what
1:09:54a good boy am
1:09:57I oh King Cole was a mar old soul a mar
1:10:00old soul was he called for his pipe he
1:10:02called for his bowl he called for his
1:10:03Fiddler
1:10:07three he believes your Channel evil
1:10:10spirits with these
1:10:13Rhymes more like keeping evil spirits
1:10:17away old mother hubard went to her
1:10:20cupboard to fetch her poor dog a bone
1:10:22but when she got there the cupboard was
1:10:23Bare so her poor dog had
1:10:42none stop the wagon oh oh leave me here
1:10:45leave me here we will
1:10:47not please I the wagon I can't take it
1:10:51pain I I got to get out Camp here until
1:10:55you're well no
1:10:57no win's coming you got to get past the
1:11:00mountains take the children and go with
1:11:02jro I'll find it Lord Almighty how could
1:11:04you ask me to do a thing like that huh
1:11:07just abandon you here the Tail's going
1:11:08to kill me quicker than if you leave me
1:11:10behind at least here I can rest I can
1:11:12heal up on my own
1:11:14terms please just leave me
1:11:19[Music]
1:11:22here
1:11:24thank
1:11:25you for finding
1:11:28me for saving
1:11:30me and for loving
1:11:33me loving you is easy it always has been
1:11:37I'll see you again I
1:11:39[Music]
1:11:42know
1:11:45jakeob young Margaret lunch shines you
1:11:48mind your
1:11:51mother never forget who you are are and
1:11:54one part
1:11:56Lakota one part
1:12:00Virginia Abraham
1:12:02holf remember who you are
1:12:05always and remind your brother
1:12:15[Applause]
1:12:22Jacob
1:12:29thought
1:12:31[Applause]
1:12:40[Music]
1:12:42you I doubted I would make it I thought
1:12:46of Grandfather two arrows and Grandma
1:12:48the good path how they had accepted
1:12:50death as they had accepted life
1:12:54now it was my
1:12:55[Music]
1:13:22turn
1:13:27[Music]
1:13:31hey hey y hey hey hey he hey
1:13:49[Music]
1:13:52hey
1:14:01[Music]
1:14:03I
1:14:09understand
1:14:10F
1:14:12yes
1:14:16he he away but now we way away I'm sorry
1:14:21about your child
1:14:31[Music]
1:14:58[Music]
1:15:06[Music]
1:15:17a gift from waking Tonka no other way to
1:15:20explain my wife's brother coming upon me
1:15:23like like he
1:15:24did for 3 days he and his band cared for
1:15:27me and I shared the story of my family's
1:15:29departure and my mission to find
1:15:37them it hurt to trade a rifle for a
1:15:40horse but I knew I could never catch up
1:15:42to my family on foot winter was in the
1:15:45air and if I could not cross the sieras
1:15:48they would be lost to me until
1:15:51spring best laid plan hands people call
1:15:56them well winter did come early 20ft
1:15:59snow drifts Clos the
1:16:03[Music]
1:16:18pass it's too beautiful to be
1:16:22real
1:16:26is it
1:16:27Mama beyond that as far as the eye can
1:16:32see this
1:16:35California just as your father said
1:16:38would daddy ever see
1:16:40[Music]
1:16:52it
1:17:11[Music]
1:17:17fore
1:17:21e hi
1:17:24[Applause]
1:17:31though who
1:17:32got
1:17:36dsia not and
1:17:52and
1:18:09no
1:18:14here twinkle
1:18:16twinkle
1:18:18star how I wonder what you are
1:18:24up
1:18:25above world so
1:18:28high like a
1:18:30[Music]
1:18:40diamond Nature's unforgiving tempests
1:18:42and my own wounds conspir to defeat my
1:18:45purpose and so I became a creature of
1:18:47the Wilderness not a soul to answer
1:18:50to I trapped I hunted
1:18:53I
1:18:59[Music]
1:19:06[Applause]
1:19:06[Music]
1:19:21survived no
1:19:35the mountains claimed my company for two
1:19:38seasons and
1:19:40eventually they claimed my
1:19:44[Music]
1:19:50mind the eyes of my children h haunted
1:19:53me haunted me because I knew their
1:19:55little eyes still held hope that they
1:19:57would see me
1:19:59again sometimes I lost control when I
1:20:01remembered their faces and all the life
1:20:04I wanted to live with them those little
1:20:06eyes would always be looking down the
1:20:08road for
1:20:09[Music]
1:20:17[Music]
1:20:21me
1:20:26[Music]
1:20:29H went to her cover to a poor
1:20:33dog but when she got there the cupboard
1:20:37was there so her poor dog had
1:20:43[Music]
1:20:48none
1:20:50no
1:20:51noost
1:20:53[Music]
1:20:55it's
1:20:58[Music]
1:21:10[Music]
1:21:19PIV after that awful second winter I
1:21:23traded pelts for goods and animals and
1:21:25headed to California to find my
1:21:27family I inquired after them in every
1:21:30Mission every Farmhouse every town every
1:21:32stranger along the road I lived for the
1:21:35moment when I could redeem The Hope in
1:21:36the eyes of my
1:21:38children but it seemed California had
1:21:40just swallowed them
1:21:45up war broke out between my country and
1:21:49Mexico while looking for my family I got
1:21:51caught up in a struggle between between
1:21:52the Californios and Mexico
1:21:55City I fell in with Captain John Fremont
1:21:57and his bare flagged
1:21:59volunteers we saw no action to brag
1:22:02about as the hot war was on the Texas
1:22:05border when it was over America had
1:22:08acquired Texas California and the
1:22:11Southwest but I lost
1:22:20everything get him I'm captain Freemont
1:22:23these are my volunteers we'd be much
1:22:25obliged if you'd allow us to fill our
1:22:29[Music]
1:22:41canteen this
1:22:44[Music]
1:22:51mount
1:23:00welcome I'm the lady's
1:23:03husband you the hero of montere don't
1:23:05call me that
1:23:08[Music]
1:23:21Jacob
1:23:30fruit
1:23:31[Music]
1:23:33Mister pick me a good
1:23:47one say boy yes
1:23:50sir it's the best damn Apple I ever had
1:23:54you picked me a real winner so I want to
1:23:56give you a gift to show you my
1:23:58appreciation gift yeah put that
1:24:01down it's a magic necklace and the magic
1:24:04is
1:24:06stronger if you tell no one about
1:24:09it tell no one that's
1:24:14right
1:24:15[Music]
1:24:18thanks thank you for your kindness sir
1:24:21welcome
1:24:23[Applause]
1:24:27I saw a family a happy
1:24:30family I saw the home I dreamed of for
1:24:32all of us a peaceful place with sun and
1:24:35rain for
1:24:36crops I saw a couple who cared for each
1:24:39other and looked after their
1:24:41children what more could a man want for
1:24:43his
1:24:44family so I took my heartbreak to the
1:24:47mountains only they could understand the
1:24:51immensity
1:24:53[Music]
1:25:03Jacob yes
1:25:07Mama where did you get this one of the
1:25:10men gave it to
1:25:12me which one what did he look like
1:25:15describe him to me he was
1:25:19tall like Uncle Jetro
1:25:24[Music]
1:25:25what did he say he liked my
1:25:30Apple what's wrong
1:25:34mama don't you like
1:25:37it
1:25:39yes it is
1:25:42precious keep
1:25:43[Music]
1:25:51it
1:25:54white hide hunters came with their long
1:25:56guns and killed the Buffalo leaving
1:25:58carcasses to rot across the endless
1:26:01prairies without its flesh and spirit to
1:26:04sustain them the people of the Buffalo
1:26:07Nation began to lose their
1:26:12way what do you want for these
1:26:17Mo you are pistols Co pistols
1:26:25for all by law I'm not allowed to sell
1:26:29them to Indians can't help you there
1:26:35but whiskey mini
1:26:48[Music]
1:26:51walk
1:27:06whiskey Pine each how about
1:27:12[Music]
1:27:21that
1:27:29[Music]
1:27:41did you see him no and how do you know
1:27:45it was him could have been
1:27:48anybody who else could it
1:27:50be who else but Jacob would bother so
1:27:54he's alive he knows were
1:27:57here and wishes to leave us
1:28:01alone I asked myself why a thousand
1:28:04times does Jethro
1:28:06know he saw it on the boy it eats him
1:28:12inside I should have buried it kept it
1:28:14from
1:28:14[Music]
1:28:18him what are you going to
1:28:21do I have to find him he's my
1:28:26[Music]
1:28:33[Music]
1:28:44[Music]
1:28:51father
1:28:59[Music]
1:29:11[Music]
1:29:14oh he
1:29:17[Music]
1:29:20still
1:29:45fore keep away you
1:29:48[Music]
1:29:50know
1:29:56[Applause]
1:30:01[Music]
1:30:02[Applause]
1:30:03[Music]
1:30:07next weekend in all

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