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Yo, what's up?

Bringing Brian out to Red Rocks to finish his drawing. Then I can start the

model for my school project.

Colleen's taking geology this term. Perhaps she can give me some pointers.

When times her train due in from Denver? Three o 'clock.

We'll be back by then, won't we, Tully? Yep.

Sweetheart's dance, Saturday night.

Ain't no other place on earth like this, I bet.

The place I've ever seen.

Sully?

Can I ask you something?

Sure.

Say you wanted to ask somebody.

To a dance.

Somebody?

Yeah.

You mean like a girl?

Right. A girl.

What would you say to her?

I'd say, um, I'd like to take you to the dance.

Well, what if you don't want to let on you're really asking her?

Why not?

Why not?

Well, maybe she... I mean, maybe you... Well,

there could be a lot of reasons.

Like she might say no?

That could be one reason.

That's just the risk you gotta take, son.

What did you say to Ma when you asked her?

I said, Michaela, would you do me the great honor of going to the dance with

Who told you to say it like that?

Your Ma.

It's a hawk.

Dolly!

You all right?

It's fine.

It's just protecting his mate is all.

She looks like she can fly.

We leave her here.

Mountain lion's bound to get her.

Easy, girl.

Easy.

Hope she's going to be all right.

Why don't you keep her company?

I'll go take care of my arm.

Sure.

Can I help you?

I'm looking for a man named Byron Sully.

I'm Sully.

Who are you?

Wellen Smith, sir.

I'm glad to find you.

Came all the way from Washington, D .C. to offer you a job.

Whoa.

Thank you,

Matthew. I had a really good time. Good.

Can you join me for supper tonight?

Oh, I'd love to, but I got a lot of work to do on those dresses.

For the dance.

All right.

See you.

Now that I've gotten used to you, I suppose you'll up and leave me.

Leave? Ain't that just like a woman?

You start to depend on them and they go and get married.

Who's getting married?

Well, I saw the way you and him were... I just started my new business. I am not

ready to get married yet.

Well, if that's the only problem, I'm sure we can work something out. You

come to work every other day or half days.

Thank you.

But I don't want to work half days.

I want to be here all day.

Every day this business is all I ever dreamed about really

Oh, thank you.

Claude Danson?

I was wondering if I could talk to you about something.

Oh, my name is Dorothy.

I'm... Michaela's friend, I know.

Goodness, it's hard to know where to start.

Fact is, I was up most of the night trying to find the right way to say

You know that I wrote a book about Colorado Springs?

Yes.

Well, I wrote my publisher about another book, and he said he'd publish it.

I want to write that book about you.

So many people are scared.

And misinformed, but I want to show them that not all Indians are bad.

That's not what I meant to say at all.

What I meant to say is... I know you're different

from what most people think Indians are like.

And I want them to see you the way I do.

I am honored that you wished to read a book about me.

But I cannot allow it.

Why? Why?

The reasons are not important. They are to me.

My people are scattered and dying.

I cannot see how any good will come from giving the white man more knowledge

about them.

Then a hawk attacked him. A hawk?

We came across a wounded hawk, and while we were trying to rescue her from

mountain lions, her mage started attacking Sully. Mountain lions?

It wasn't as bad as it sounds. I'm relieved to hear that.

Are you going to have Sarah to the sweetheart stand?

I was going to, but... Well, I haven't seen her around.

Brian!

Oh, we were just talking about you.

You were?

Oh!

Oh, how silly of you. I completely forgot... something, and... I'll be

back.

A lot of people going to sweetheart dance, I hear.

You reckon you'll be going?

Well, speaking of that, I was wondering... I

was thinking that if you weren't doing anything else... Yes?

If you could come over sometime and see my geology project.

Anything else you want to ask me?

Colleen's train.

I gotta go. Bye.

Sir Gardner here three years to convince me this is a good idea.

Took me another two to convince Congress to even listen to him.

But next week, President Grant is going to sign Senate Article number 392.

Let's see.

Here it is.

An act to set aside a certain tract of land as a great national park.

National park?

It's just a dressed -up way of saying protected land.

Tell them how you did it, Artie.

Well, I pulled a deal, I reckon, on them boys up there, and I think I convinced

them senators that this land is flat -out uninhabitable, not fitting proper

farming, all in all, completely useless.

We're calling it Yellowstone National Park.

What do you think?

I like it.

Well, now that the selling part is over, we need someone out in Yellowstone to

map out the boundaries.

to prepare reports of the natural wonders and protect the buffalo.

You got buffalo?

I figure we got around 200 head of them out there running on the land.

As far as I know, it's the last bunch left in this whole U .S. continent.

Animals will be safe out there if we can get rid of them poachers. They want to

round them up and shoot them and skin them.

President Grant, you met him once, I believe.

Yes, sir. He's convinced that you're the man who'll fight to keep this land

protected.

So what do you say, Mr. Sully?

Can we tell the president you're accepting our offer?

When do you need to know about it?

We need you in Wyoming by the end of the week.

She doesn't seem to have any broken bones.

Why isn't she moving?

She may have bruised her chest.

When I press there even gently, she becomes very agitated.

She won't be able to move until the pain subsides.

How long will that be?

I think a day or two at the most.

I hope she can find her way back to her nest.

We'll make sure she gets back.

Oh, we'll have to.

Hawks mate for life.

They'd be lost without one another.

Here you go, Katie.

Open wide.

Oh, good, Katie.

Mam at school, I miss you so much.

I miss all of you.

You could quit school and come home.

Brian.

Sometimes I wish I could.

But I love school, too.

I'm pleased to hear you say that, Colleen.

There's something about going away that...

Makes you feel funny when you come back.

What do you mean, funny?

You don't even notice that you're missing home, but... Get off that train

See the place you know.

People who know you.

Everything is right where you left it.

Makes you feel happy, but... Kind of sad at the same time.

It's because your roots are here.

And you want to grow and branch out.

You also need to know that your feet are still firmly planted in home soil.

Never thought about people having roots.

I believe people need roots as much as trees do.

Do you think people need roots, Tilly?

I never did much thinking about it before.

This is my favorite part of the day.

This seems very quiet, doesn't it?

Do you have something on your mind?

I've been thinking about the first time the train came to town.

You were so opposed to it.

You said you'd have to leave Colorado Springs if the train came here.

And I... I bet you wouldn't.

It seems so simple.

What made you think about that?

I, uh... Just crossed my mind.

I

wonder

when Andrew's coming back from Boston.

He is back.

He is?

He usually has coffee at Grace's before coming into the clinic.

Oh.

You could let him know that we're here.

If you really want me to.

Colleen.

Your mother said that you were coming home to sweetheart's dance.

Well, I didn't come home just for the dance.

Oh. Not that I don't want to go.

Of course I want to go. I just mean there are other reasons.

Colleen.

Becky.

Hi.

Sorry I couldn't make it to the train station yesterday.

I was just kind of busy.

But I was going to come see you.

Well, after...

A while. I was going to come see you at the clinic.

Well, that'll be fine.

I'll see you in about a half an hour.

All right.

Well, you're welcome to join us for a cup of coffee, if you like.

Well, I... I had already invited Becky to have breakfast with me.

Oh.

Yes, yes, of course. I'm sorry. I didn't realize.

But... You could join us.

No, thank you.

Ma's waiting for me at the clinic.

I just came by to let Andrew know she's here.

She's here.

Good.

Well, I'll see you later, then, at the clinic.

First time I ever asked a girl to go to a dance.

Yeah.

What'd you say to her?

Nothing. Nothing?

Oh, I practiced and rehearsed a lot of stuff.

But by the time I got up the courage to ask her, it was too late.

She'd already agreed to go with somebody else.

So what'd you do?

I asked her sister.

Sarah!

Shopping twice in the same day?

My mom forgot something.

Oh.

Soap.

Oh.

Yeah, well, as luck would have it, I just got a new shipment of soap in.

Different kind of soap. I think your mom will like it a lot better than the

stuff I usually sell her.

Why don't you two just stay here and talk a while while I go and search for

Soap.

He who hesitates... What?

Philly, how do you know when it's the right time to ask someone to marry you?

There just ain't any doubt.

You just know.

Are you and Emma making plans?

We've been thinking about it for a long time.

Sometimes I feel real good about it.

And other times?

I feel bad that I don't feel real good about it.

I don't feel about her the way I did about Inger.

So what do you want to do?

I want to do what's right.

Then you tell her how you feel.

I know you're afraid to tell her because you don't want to upset her, hurt her

feelings, but... You see, the problem is, you'll hurt her a lot more if you're

not honest with her.

You're only fooling yourself if you think you're protecting her.

It reminds me.

I had to go talk to your ma about something.

Wyoming?

That's so far away.

Well, we'd have to give up everything that we've worked so hard for.

This beautiful house and all our friends are here.

Matthew and Colleen, we couldn't take them with us.

We need time to think this through carefully before we make any decisions

we'll later regret.

They have to know by the end of the week.

I need more time than that. Why didn't you talk to me about this last night?

Because I knew you'd want me to turn it down.

Well, then why are we discussing it now?

Because I don't want to turn it down.

Well, you expect me to say yes just like that? No, not just like that, Michaela.

I've given this a lot of thought.

I'm just asking you to do the same.

It seemed crowded here in Colorado Springs.

I mean, compared to Denver, it must be very quiet.

Compared to how it was when I first met you, has the town changed very much?

In some ways, it hasn't changed at all.

But in other ways, the train, the bank, the new hotel going up, it's like

Katie.

You're around her all the time, so you don't really see how much she's changed.

But anyone coming back after being away can't help but notice it.

Matthew, I had no idea you were going to be stopping by, but do you want

something to eat?

No, no, I just stopped by to spend some time with Colleen.

I'm sorry, Mark, I forgot to tell you.

What's going on here?

if Ma's gonna like being kidnapped.

You know, Sally, he wouldn't have done it unless he had his reason.

He said it was important and that she would understand.

I sure hope he was right.

I just can't believe that you dragged me out here into the woods in the middle

of the night.

He needs me.

Kids are with her. They know where we are.

Besides, I thought we could use a little time together.

And if there's an emergency at the clinic?

Andrew said he'd stay there until we get back.

At least you could have done what I asked.

Don't you think something would have come up?

That we'd be from going?

Thank you.

Excuse me, Cloud Danson, but I've been thinking about what you said about the

book.

Legally, I could write it without your permission, but I'm not going to do

But somebody will.

May I sit down?

will be written about the Indians, and they'll be full of mistakes.

And those people who'll be writing those books, most of them won't know any

Indians.

If you could help me,

not help, talk to me, teach me, then I got a chance at getting it right.

There is no right or wrong in this.

No matter what is put down on paper, it turns out badly for many people.

When I'm finished, I'll give you the book.

If you don't like what I've written, I'll burn it.

No one else will ever read it.

You'll give me what you've written?

Yes.

And if I say no, you'll throw it in the fire.

Like this.

Yes.

I will.

What does this Yellowstone National Park look like?

I've been told there's over 3 ,000 square miles of forest surrounded by

mountains.

We've got canyon walls over 100 feet high.

We've got geysers that spout water higher than trees.

Sounds extraordinary.

Yeah, it does.

How many other people will be going?

Well...

You, me, Brian, Katie, a couple hundred buffalo.

Where's the nearest town?

Bozeman, Montana. It's about 80 miles away.

Well, if anything ever happened to the children, we'd never get help in time.

We're lucky we got a doctor in the family.

Kayla, I didn't want to talk to you about this to upset you.

I know how important Colorado Springs is to you and your practice and your

friends. And everything that reminds me of us.

Of you and how we first met.

The thing I keep thinking about is... What if nobody stands up for the land?

What's going to happen to it?

What are we going to leave our grandchildren and their grandchildren?

The way I figure it is.

Everybody's got a right to share in that, too.

Don't. Best we don't.

I don't know how I'm going to feel, giving up everything for the second

Honestly, I can't even imagine it.

But when the train first came to Colorado Springs, you said you'd have to

Because it was important to me, and it did.

Now this is important to you, though.

Children, perhaps we should let them know about the fact that the

dead.

This dance tells of a hunting port.

The hunter searches for prey.

He has on a porcupine headdress, ribbon, and an otter tail extending down his

back.

He calls to the prey.

This is how my people tell stories.

With words, yes, but also with dancing.

How many dances are there?

As many as are needed.

There are dances of healing, of peace.

There are dances of mourning, of harvest, and the sun dance for food.

And the victory dance after battle.

Oh, oh, that sounds like a good one for the book.

This dance is only performed at night, with the light of the full moon.

Well, there's a full moon Saturday. I could come back then.

The white man would not like this victory dance.

Most white men didn't like the waltz either at first, but that didn't stop

from learning it.

The waltz?

The waltz.

It...

It

goes like this.

Um, one, two, three.

One, two, three.

One, two, three. One, two, three.

One, two. Of course.

We don't do this alone. Men and women dance together.

One, two, three.

One, two, three.

One, two, three.

One, two, three. No,

no, no. They dance as far as the man faces the woman.

One, two, three. One, two, three.

The arms, they connect. And the feet go...

One, two, three. One, two, three. One, that's it. Two, three. One,

two, three. One, two, three.

One, two, three. One, two, three. One, two, three.

Hey.

Hey.

I hope you don't mind me coming out.

Something came up that I wanted to talk to you about.

No.

I've been wanting to talk to you, too.

Remember Gilda St. Clair?

The singer?

You could forget her.

She wrote me.

She offered me a job.

Traveling with her, making dresses and such.

The thing is...

About getting married.

That's what I was wanting to talk to you about.

Matthew, I want to take the job.

You do?

I think you should.

You do?

I can't tell you all you've done for me.

When I decided to leave Hanks, and nobody would accept me as anything

from what they thought I was, you would... Emma.

I don't look at it as helping you.

You know I wasn't doing so good.

I wouldn't have died at all.

You let me be sad.

She said, I liked being around you and the more time I spent with you, the

better I felt.

Me too.

I guess you don't have to be married to be friends.

Well, Katie, what do you say?

What do we leave behind?

Oh, I'd like to take everything, too.

We can't.

Well, do you remember anything, Katie?

I'm afraid you won't.

Well, I'll just have to tell you everything about it.

When you're old enough to understand.

I'll remember everything for you.

Brian?

You like the Red Rocks project?

Yeah.

Very much.

I'm going to walk to school.

I don't want to take a chance at this getting broken.

Good thinking.

Ready?

Yep.

That's what I need to do before we go to town.

Hi, Becky.

Hey, Colleen.

You want to eat breakfast with me?

Sure.

So, how are things at college?

Good.

I'll be going back after the dance.

How are things here?

Good.

So, has anyone asked you to the dance yet?

No.

You?

I don't think I'll be going.

It's no fun going by yourself.

Well, you don't have to go by yourself.

Well, I'm sick of going with my brothers.

Do you remember when we used to go together?

Yeah, of course I do.

I remember the year that we started dancing, and you were wearing a pink

and I was wearing a blue dress.

The cops will say you'll go to the dance with me, because there's nobody else

I'd ever want to take.

I'd love to.

I've been walking behind you ever since Snow Creek.

You're too busy asking me to dance that you haven't even noticed me.

Did you say... I'd love to.

Is that the geology project you were going to show me?

Yeah.

We was on a hill, looking at this formation, when we found the hawk.

She couldn't fly, and if we'd have left her there, she would have been eaten by

mountain lions.

Oh, my goodness.

Lots of exciting things happen at the Red Rock.

You know, they're placed like this on Earth.

Something Brian said to me got me to thinking.

I'm going to fight.

It ought to be for this land.

It's where we became a family.

It's where Katie was born.

It's where our roots are.

You're turning down the yellowstone job?

I figure Congress can make this a national park, too.

It's going to take a lot of work on my part, but I'm sure I can convince them.

There is one thing I have to ask you.

Michaela, would you do me the honor of going to dance with me?

to be ladies' choice.

Ladies' choice.

Yellowstone National Park was established in 1872.

One hundred years later, the Colorado Red Rock formations were finally

designated a national landmark under the protection of the National Park

Service.