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Would you please see if that telegram's arrived yet?

What do you think you're doing with Chinese allowed?

No understanding, Chinese boy?

I don't let you in here.

Get out.

He don't understand English.

I bet he understands this.

That you're stinking, dog -eating, carcass. Out of my sight before I shoot

I hope you don't, sir, because Mr.

Tate would then be forced to shoot you.

His father saved my life.

I'd take it personally if it did him any harm.

By the way, his name's Peter.

Are you with the railroad?

I'm a surveyor for the Kansas Pacific.

Name's Jackson Tate. Lauren Bray. This is my friend Jake. Mayor Slicker. What

brings you here?

Doing surveying work.

Railroad's looking for a route to El Paso.

You mean the railroad might come through here?

It's either here or Soda Springs.

May I look?

No, you can't.

It's where we're going to live.

Oh, Sully, it's beautiful.

This is what I was planning on building for our

new house.

You like it? I love it.

Sully, do I get my own room? Everybody gets their own room.

Except for you.

Yeah. Too bad you got to go off with Ingrid and miss out on all this.

If I start now, I should be done by spring when we get married.

Well, where's Grandma and your sisters going to sleep when they come for the

wedding? Don't you worry. There'll be room enough for everybody.

And by then, they may be able to ride the train all the way from Boston to

What makes you say that?

Jake tells me there's going to be a contest between our town and Soda

see who gets the railroad.

A real train?

With engines and everything?

Well, first, there's going to be a town meeting, so everyone can have their say

as to how the town council votes.

But if the council approves it, and if the railroad chooses us... We could see

steam engine popping into town by next spring.

Thanks, Mom. Clear the trash.

Clear the trash. Hey, you clear the trash. Come here.

Matthew,

would you get the picnic basket?

Sully?

Better hope they pick Soda Springs.

What do you mean?

It's a beautiful piece of land, but don't get your heart set on living here.

The railroad comes to Colorado Springs.

We're moving.

I think Brian's gone train crazy.

Call Jesse!

He's back.

I hope. I hope. I'm so glad you're back from your vision quest.

My soul has made peace with my son's death.

You're beginning to think we wouldn't see you again. So much has happened

you've been gone.

You're to be married.

How do you know?

Spirits told me.

I guess the spirits were wrong when they said we'd be apart.

They said something would separate you.

They did not say for how long.

Did the spirits tell you they were ever coming?

Yes. That is why I have returned.

I am worried for my people.

I heard the dog soldiers promised to stop it.

I hope the spirits say you can stay for supper. We're having fried chicken.

I'm sure they would want it.

I've never seen so many people going to church, especially on a Saturday.

They're having a meeting about the train.

Aren't you with them railroad men?

That's right.

Hey, do you make these things?

Yes, sir.

Boy, that engine, huh?

This locomotive looks like she's built for highballing.

What's that?

Going fast.

You know, with the throttle wide open and the wind so hard on your face that

there's tears in your eyes and you can't catch a breath.

Nothing like it.

And then when you really want to cut her loose, send a signal to the engineer

just by waving your lantern like that.

You ever been on a train?

Yes, sir.

All the way to Boston and back.

Boston?

Did you know that the train might be coming here?

That's what my ma says.

Who might that be?

She's a doctor.

Dr. Quinn.

A lady doctor?

Yes, sir.

But she's real smart.

Does your ma like trains?

Sure. Don't everybody?

Trains make a lot of smoke and a lot of noise.

When I lived in St. Louis, they woke me up every night.

So we won't let them run at night.

We don't have a say in that, Lauren.

Or in who buys the tickets.

Saints and sinners ride the same train.

We don't know what kind of folks the railroad's going to bring here.

Enough talk. Let's vote. Me first.

I say anybody stands in the way, this train's going to get run over.

I think we should spend the money we got in the treasury to do whatever we can

to bring this railroad here.

I vote yes, Lauren.

I'm a businessman.

I like to make money.

Railroad comes to town, I'm going to make a lot of money.

And so is everyone in this room. We're all going to get rich.

This town's never going to get a chance to grow unless we have the railroad.

So let the contest begin, and may the best town win.

That's two for it. For us.

Well, at first I was for it, but...

Things are pretty nice here the way they are.

I want to have kids someday. And I want them to grow up in a small town like I

did.

So I'm voting no.

No? No!

Stop it! Stop it! Jake!

Quiet. Quiet, all of you.

Never heard such avarice and greed here before.

There has been a change here, a change I don't like. I am voting no.

All right, that's too for it and too against it.

Looks like it's up to you.

If the train comes here, I could do my job better.

I could save more lives. I could save your lives.

Your children's lives.

that we could work together to find compromises.

That we could overcome the difficulties that change and progress may bring into

our lives.

And therefore, I'm voting yes.

Hallelujah!

This meeting's adjourned.

I expect us to go on through our lives agreeing about everything, but I think

agree that we want the best life for our children.

I do agree.

That's why I think we should be moving on.

I want the children to see the reason why I came west.

Well, they will.

Things won't change overnight.

Every mile of track that they lay is going to kill something.

The buffalo and the antelope and the elk, they won't cross those rails.

So once winter comes, they're going to starve to death.

With nothing to hunt, the Cheyenne are going to starve right along with them.

Ten years from now, there's going to be fences everywhere.

I don't want to be here to see it.

We can't move now. We have roots here.

The children have friends, and I've worked very hard to build this practice.

The railroad comes.

It's going to bring other doctors. What are you going to do about that?

I'll still have patients.

Why don't we go someplace else, someplace where they don't have a

you'd be needed?

I know how you feel about this.

Right now I'm needed here, and so are you.

We don't have to decide anything yet.

We don't even know if the railroad is coming here.

We don't have a library, do we, Mom? No, we don't.

Why don't you put some more gold on there? It's a bank, you know.

Do you really expect to get away with this charade? What charade?

We don't have a library or a lawyer in this town. Not yet, but I'm donating

of my books.

My cousin's a lawyer, and he's thinking about moving here. You're purposely

misrepresenting the facts.

Oh, yeah, well, so does Springs. It's got plenty of facts going for it.

Those top hats from the railroad are going to be here this week. We've got to

something to convince them. But we don't have to lie about it. We're not lying.

We're selling.

Well, at least tell the truth.

What might that be?

Well, it's a lovely place to visit.

We have excellent air, and it's very rejuvenating.

Colorado's got plenty of good air. I mean, enough.

Well, we have beautiful scenery and many natural wonders, like our hot springs.

People ain't going to come someplace just to take a bath.

In Europe, they do. They build whole towns around springs, devoted to making

people feel more healthy.

Say, Sully, he got better after you took him over them springs, didn't he?

Well, yes, but it wasn't just the water.

Yeah, but it helped, didn't it?

Yes.

I'd say it was a miracle.

He's walking again at all?

Well, I can't disagree.

I've got your things ready inside.

Hey, Mr. Ray. As long as you're making up things.

How about an ice cream parlor?

Who cares about ice cream?

They had a big one in Boston.

Called it a... Confectionary.

What else they got in Boston?

You know, the kinds of things that fancy people might go for.

Well... Really?

We took Ma to the opera.

And one day we went to a place full of old stuff called a... a museum.

Think we might have room for one of them museums.

Yeah.

Right next to the library.

Nothing but a mud pit.

We can't ask them to top out the water like pigs.

What are we gonna do? I got a plan.

What plan?

We'll fix it up.

Use your imagination.

Trust me, it's gonna look great.

If you say so.

Hey, you think we ought to tell Dr. Mike about our plan? No!

What she doesn't know won't hurt us.

I'm sorry, I was... I was...

We'll

be paving the streets in a month or so. Yeah, don't want them fancy ladies

getting their dresses all muddy.

We're just waiting until we finish putting in the new sewer system.

we are a very up -to -date town around here. Why, we already have indoor

plumbing. They don't got that in Soda Springs.

He'd like to visit the facility.

Oh, well, I'm afraid they're out of order at the moment.

I see you have a bank.

It's closed.

It's a bank holiday.

A holiday?

What holiday?

A holiday on account of you fellas are here.

This here is our library. And we have a very fine collection of books, if I say

so myself.

I imagine the librarian must be out till lunch about now. We'd better come back

later.

Lily Latour.

She's incredible.

Things like a canary.

Too bad she lost her voice. She's got a cold.

I believe she's over there soaking right now in our hot springs.

Well, I'm sure she'll be cured by tomorrow on account of the healing

those waters.

Yes, sir. People come from all over to get cured of what ails them.

Ain't that right, Dr. Quince? Well, it is a healthy environment in which to

convalesce. Why, the blind have been known to see and the lame to walk.

after soaking in our town's miracle water.

Well, this is certainly something I'd like to see.

So would I.

Our hot spring is a regular fountain of youth.

And now Dr.

Quinn would like to say a few words.

The minerals in the water do seem to relieve soreness in the muscles.

Why, even a short dip is re -energizing and revitalizing.

Makes you feel better, too.

Hundreds of people are going to want to come here. Why, your railroad's going to

be mighty busy.

Why, even this mud can work miracles.

Isn't that right, Dr. Quinn?

Here, here, you've got to try some of this.

Well, um, it does seem to...

Draw out poisons from the skin.

The Indians have used it with great success.

Indians? You've got Indians around here?

Don't worry about them. They're friendly Indians.

In fact, they had Thanksgiving with us. Yeah, we get along great with them.

Indians!

It's safe now. They're gone.

So are we.

He's right.

They were only trying to frighten us. They succeeded quite well. Good day, Dr.

Quinn. Please, give us another chance.

Despite what you've seen today, there are good, honest people here, and

more important than buildings and science. Did you taste our mineral

We're going to put it in bottles and fill it. There is a miracle in every

If that was the case, we would be building here tomorrow.

Oh, it is. Trust us.

I'd prefer a professional opinion.

Dr. Quinn.

Do you as a physician believe these waters are capable of curing disease,

restoring health, and performing miracles?

No.

Morning, everyone.

Could have been a good morning if it wasn't for you.

Now, Lauren. Don't now, Lauren, me.

You feel just the way I do. You said so last night.

Is that true, Dorothy?

Michaela, we had our hearts set on this railroad, and you knew it. She don't

care. She never cared about what the town wanted. That's not true. I simply

didn't want to misrepresent the town's attributes.

What do you want?

Some kind of trophy?

I don't want to be treated like a traitor.

She ruins things for everybody.

Then comes Walton over here expecting to be treated like a queen.

All I'm trying to say is that we can't promise things that we can't deliver.

That's your high -minded ideals talking.

No, that's good business.

What if people came here under false pretenses, believing that we have a bank

and a library, an opera house, and miracle cures?

Well, they'd find out soon enough that it wasn't true, and they'd be terribly

disappointed.

The word would spread that Art Pound was a fraud and no one would ever want to

come here again.

But at least by that time, we would have had the railroad.

Dr. Mike, we're glad to see you.

You brought medicine?

I brought more than that nowadays.

I brought news about the railroad.

It's not coming.

I suppose you know anything about why.

I told you the dog soldiers were going to try to stop it.

Glad it happened?

No, I'm not glad it happened.

I want to see people get hurt.

But it doesn't bother me it sent those railroad men packing.

I'm not glad it happened.

I wanted the railroad and everything that it would bring.

What would it bring besides trouble?

More medical supplies for me.

And faster than I can get them now.

more patients for me to help and Perhaps even a hospital.

Yeah plenty of people here to help Cheyenne wouldn't be welcome in that

They would if it were mine

I

need

a tea dr. Quinn

She's not here. She went to the reservation.

When do you expect her to return?

She may not be back for a while.

Oh, please. It's an emergency.

Peter's ill. He's got a terrible fever.

Bring him in.

I'll go find your mom.

All right.

Take me upstairs.

You are a doctor, too?

No.

I'm just... I'm just calling.

Colleen is a pretty name.

What was your name before?

Before what?

It's always been Colleen.

In China, we receive a name at birth, then another when we come of age, and

a new name every time we have a change in our life.

Really?

It is believed a man should change his name as he grows, just like a shirt.

And how did you get the name Peter?

When my father died.

We were laying rails through a town called Petersburg.

Mr. Tate and I buried him there.

But the next day, we moved to another town.

So I took the name Peter to carry my father with me.

Do you ever want to go back to China?

China I've been.

I've walked upon.

I dream of going places I have not.

I'm doing that too.

What are you doing? I'm carrying you across the threshold.

This will be our living room.

Fireplace right over here.

This will be the kitchen.

Put a stove over there.

Staircase up to the four bedrooms.

We'll have Brian's room.

It'll be Colleen's room.

It'll be a little bedroom right here.

This will be our room.

In the little room over there.

Who's that for?

It's for whoever might come along.

I thought about it a few times.

I thought about it a thousand times.

I wondered if you had.

Sure I have.

What would you like, a boy or a girl?

I think I would like a little girl.

Only if she has your eyes.

Perhaps.

But you realize that if she does, she'll probably have my stubbornness.

Well, Tate stopped me on the road. He said Peter was ill.

He's got a fever, one that he's had before, ever since he visited New

There's a lot of swamps around there, aren't there, Mr. Tate? Yeah, there are.

What's the nature of the fever?

It seems to be a three -stage fever, with high temperatures, then cold

and the sweats.

I remember from my reading that malaria is a three -stage fever that comes from

the swamps.

That's correct.

Come look.

It matches the picture in the book.

That's right.

It seems to be Palmele spores in his saliva.

There's a school of thought that says that the spores are responsible for the

disease.

You may be on to something, Colleen.

Go see a patient.

Would you turn on your right side for me, please?

Take a deep breath.

His spleen's enlarged.

I think what we're looking at here is a case of malaria.

The book says he needs 10 grams of sulfate of quinine every two hours.

We have some in the cabinet.

I'll get it.

Colleen, congratulations.

You just made your first diagnosis.

I thought you'd gone on to Soda Springs.

We did.

But they have a doctor there.

We went to him. And what did he say?

He said he doesn't treat Chinamen.

Sully?

Matthew?

Been waiting for you.

What's going on?

There's something I want to give you.

What is it?

This.

It's a homestead?

Yeah. It's yours if you want it.

Sully, I, uh... I don't know what to say.

Say yes.

Well, I'm, uh... building my own.

Yeah, but, Matthew, it's far from being done.

Yeah, that's true.

Sully, that's... that's real Matthew.

Wow.

I know what you're going through. I know things ain't moving fast enough for

you, and you're young.

You want to start your life with Ingrid. I know. That's not it.

Well, then what?

I don't know.

You're building your new house, and everybody's got a room except for me.

What? It's just like...

I don't know, I feel funny.

I know that this is the way it's supposed to be.

You all are moving on, and... I'm moving on.

Just that we're not gonna... We're not gonna be together anymore.

I'm gonna miss you.

Your fever's broken.

You're going to be all right.

Fever's broken.

Wonderful nerves.

The medicine I gave him.

It doesn't cure the disease, but it does lessen the chance of a relapse.

I'm going to give you some salt sequinia to take with you, just in case.

That's quite a young lady you've got there, Dr. Quinn.

She is exceptional.

It's easy to see why.

Well, I can't take all the credit. I've only been with her for the last two

years. Oh?

She's the daughter of my friend, Charlotte Cooper.

When Charlotte was dying, she asked me to raise her children.

To be quite honest, I knew nothing about being a parent.

Neither did I when I took Peter when his father died.

But you learn fast.

You certainly do.

Children.

They are the future, Dr. Quinn.

That's something I have learned.

I may want to rethink my decision about the railroad.

I thought that was up to the committee.

Well, I'm the chief surveyor, and the committee generally acts on my

recommendation. I see.

You may think I base my decision on only one factor.

Is the town beneficial for the railroad?

But there's another factor that I give equal weight.

Is the railroad beneficial for the town?

Dr. Quinn, let me ask you.

Do you believe the railroad should come?

Yes, I do.

Yeah, straight from the headquarters of the Kansas Pacific.

It says right here, the new Denver and Rio Grande Railroad will head south at

Denver and continue down through Colorado Springs all the way to El Paso,

We talked to that Jackson fella. He said it was all your doing.

I don't know what you said to him, Michaela, but it must have been some

smooth talking.

She always was good at talking.

Three cheers for Dr.

Mike.

singing, too.

I'm so excited.

Mom's a hero.

Oh, Brian, I don't think so.

No, I do.

Railroad's coming all because of you. Everybody says so.

Mr. Bray says this is the best news ever in our town.

It wouldn't go that far, Brian.

Railroad's not good for everybody.

Sully, do you have to spoil his excitement?

I just think he should know what this really means before he gets all fired up

about it.

Railroad means something different to him than it does to you.

That's the whole point.

Nobody cares what the railroad means to me, not here.

Well, why don't you think of the children for once?

The children we have and the ones you say you want to have?

I don't want to raise my children in a place like this.

So we're supposed to move where?

Someplace where there is no railroad?

Starters. Well, what happens when it comes there, too?

Do we just keep moving while the railroad chases us? No, we stay here and

stop it.

We've got to defend our way of life.

You can't defend yourself against progress.

You sound like a politician.

What is it you want me to say?

I want you to care about what I think.

Respect the way I want to raise this family if I'm going to be part of it.

Stop it.

Stop fighting. I hate to kill you.

I don't care if it comes to town. Just stop fighting, please.

It's all right, Ryan.

You don't have to make him feel that way.

Sorry, Brian.

Didn't mean to upset you. Then you shouldn't go yelling at each other like

We were having a conversation.

You were yelling.

We were just talking about the train. We don't care about the stupid train.

Not if it means you're not getting married.

Because we're not getting married.

You sound like you don't even like each other anymore.

Well, people can have arguments and still like one another.

So you're still getting married?

Of course we are.

Even if the train comes?

That's right.

Because we're a family.

And we're going to stay a family no matter what happens.

The time you ever told me you loved me was on a train.

Do you still?

I'll always love you.

We're still getting married.

You weren't just saying that for the children's sake.

Next spring.

It's like we planned.

Sully, the truth is the train's coming.

You can't stop it, and I couldn't have stopped it either.

The world's changing, and all we can do is... is make sure it changes the way we

want it to.

It's easier said than done.

Not easy at all.

When has that mattered to you?

I've seen you fight for what you believe.

I'm good at fixing things when I can see what's wrong, but the thing that's

coming is so big.

I don't know where to start.

You'll find a way.

But I promise you, if the day ever comes that I see you heartbreaking and you

can't take it any longer,

I'm sorry we fought for our other children.

I have, too.

But the important thing is that they know that we can be angry with each

and still love each other.

Good morning, Brian.

Hey, Kelly.

Where's everybody?

Mom and Kaleem went to town to do some work at the clinic.

Matthew's gonna take me down later for the big railroad party.

You coming?

No, Brian.

But, uh... I carved you something.

So you can practice being an engineer.

I don't know if I really want to be an engineer, Sully.

I was just playing.

She said you wanted to travel on the railroad and go off to different places.

I just want you to know that that's all right with me.

Sure, I want to go off to different places.

That's the good thing about the train.

It doesn't just go places.

It comes back, too.

No matter where I go, I'll always come home to you.

Colleen. Peter.

I have a gift for you.

What is it?

It's China.

I brought it with me when I came over on the boat.

Oh, I can't take it. You must.

I want for you to have this little piece of my homeland.

Until you can go there and walk upon it yourself.

Go in.

Mom, Mom, look what Sally gave me.

When the ceremony's over, I'd love to interview you for the newspaper, if I

They must oblige.

Everybody else can come to the saloon afterwards.

Drinks on the house.

Are we ready to begin?

Almost.

Horace, Myra, so happy you came.

I told Horace he wouldn't want to miss out on telling his kids that he was here

when they drove the spike at Colorado Springs.

You have the truth.

You too, River.

I suppose if the train's coming, the Lord would want me here to bless it.

We just finished.

All right, folks.

Gather round.

As mayor of this town, I'd just like to say how proud I am to announce the

coming of the new North -South Railway, the Denver and Rio Grande.

All of us who live here know what a great town this is, and pretty soon

everybody's going to know.

With the money that this railway brings, we're going to build schools and new

businesses, hotels and a hospital.

It's all coming.

It's all got to start somewhere.

And folks, it's going to start right here, with the first rail and the first

spike. Robert E.

This here silver spike was made special by Robert E. just for today.

He engraved it, too.

The road of progress we build today... The road of progress we build today...

Will carry us into tomorrow.

Will carry us into tomorrow.

The folks from the railway tell me that it's fitting for the first bike to be

driven by the town's most distinguished citizens.

I believe the town is yours.

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