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THE OLD RANGER:
And now,Death Valley Days.
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♪♪ [ trumpet ]
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Howdy, folks.
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I'’m the Old Ranger,
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and I have another
interesting true story for you
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about the historic
Death Valley country.
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High above the Yuba River
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on the west slope
of the Sierras
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stands the famous
old mining camp
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of Camptonville,
born in the Gold Rush.
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There are only
a couple hundred folks
living there today,
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but among them are descendents
of the early pioneers.
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So to Camptonville I went
to get this story for you.
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A story I call...
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The first thing you see
as you enter the town
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is this monument
with an inscription
which begins...
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"On this spot in 1878..."
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Yes, here'’s
where it happened.
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The discovery that added
more to the wealth of the world
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than all the gold
of California.
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On up the main street I went
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and found the man
I was looking for.
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Here he is.
William Groves
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of Camptonville,
California.
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In case you'’re wondering what
this object is in front of him,
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it'’s the head
of an old sewing machine.
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What make is it, Bill?
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Grover and Baker.
Boston 1849.
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OLD RANGER:
It came around the horn
during Gold Rush days
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and ended up
in Camptonville
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in the home
of Mrs. Margaret Groves,
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this man'’s grandmother.
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She was then a bride?
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Yes, she and my grandfather
came West
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from Ohio in 1850.
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Well, tell us
something about them.
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Well, he was a teamster.
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There was a lot of hauling
in and out of Camptonville
in those days.
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My grandmother
ran a boarding house
for the teamsters.
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Besides raising a family
of five children.
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Here'’s a picture
of the Groves family.
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BILL:
That'’s right. My father,
Frank, was the middle one.
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Now, this sewing machine
that'’s come down
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through three generations.
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What'’s so important
about it?
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Look, Old Ranger.
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I'’m no storyteller.
That'’s your job.
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[ laughs ]
All right.
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OLD RANGER:
Well, we roll back
to the year of 1877.
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This is how Camptonville
looked at that time.
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Below the town
are the diggings,
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where hydraulic monitors
sluiced the gold
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from the hillside.
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Above the town
is a reservoir
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which supplies
the town with water
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and small boys,
like Frank Groves,
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with an excuse to take
a roundabout way
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home from school.
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There. See, smarty?
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You almost fell in.But I didn'’t.
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If you had,
you'’d have been
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sucked into that pipe
and drowned.
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But I wasn'’t.
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I can do anything
you can do.
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Yeah?
Yeah!
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Bet you can'’t climb
to the top of that tree.
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GIRL:
Neither can you.
FRANK:
Oh, no?
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See that white rag
near the top?
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I tied it there.
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When you get up there
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you can see
all over this town.
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Past the mills and clear
down to the dig ins.
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Well, ain'’t you
gonna do it?
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I haven'’t got time today.
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'’Fraidy cat.
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Anyhow, it'’s getting late
and I'’ve gotta go home.
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I dare you.
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All right,
I'’ll do it.
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Well? Go on.
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I'’ll help you
get started.
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Scared, ain'’t ya?
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You'’ll never make it.
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♪ Rock-a-bye baby
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♪ On the treetop
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[ screams ]
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Hey, come on down.
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I can'’t.
I'’ll fall.
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You hang on,
I'’ll go fetch a ladder.
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GIRL:
Hurry up!
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[ crying ]
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FRANK:
Mr. Pelton!
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Mr. Pelton!
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Let me have
your ladder.Yeah, what for?
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Hattie Meek
is up a tree.
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Grab the back end.
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HATTIE:
Help! Help!
Someone help!
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Hurry up!
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We'’ll get you,
Hattie!
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MR. PELTON:
Hang on!
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I'’m getting awful tired,
hurry up!
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That'’s a boy.
Up we go.
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MR. PELTON:
Hang on, Hattie.
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I'’m coming.
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All right, Hattie.
Now you do what I tell you.
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Now, here. You put
this foot down here.
Come on.
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You'’re doing fine.
That'’s it. Good.
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Now, there'’s a branch.
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Now, the next one.
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That'’s the girl.
Now we'’re goin'.
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Now the next one.
Come on.
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Come on, Hattie.
Now the next one.
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There you go, Hattie.
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Everything'’s all right now.
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She'’s dead.No, she just fainted.
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Here, I'’ll carry her
home, huh?
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She lives right
next door to us.
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All right, here we go.
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I was awful scared.
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[ Hattie crying ]
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Mercy, what happened
to you, Hattie?
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Your dress
is all torn.
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I got stuck in a tree
about a mile high.
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[ sobbing ]
It was awful.
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It was all my fault.
I dared her.
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Oh, Frank.
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She'’s none the worse
for it, ma'’am.
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'’Cept for her clothes.
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Mr. Pelton
brought a ladder.
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Well, you let me take
her dress, Mrs. Meek.
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I'’ll mend it.I can do it.
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No, I feel responsible.
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Oh, I tore
my petticoat, too.
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Oh, and my--Never mind, Hattie.
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You'’ve enough mending
of your own, Mrs. Groves.
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But I do have
a sewing machine.
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You put extra work
on me yesterday.
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Now you can make
up for it.
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Aw, gee.
I promised Mr. Pelton
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I'’d come down to his shop.
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I want you to fill
both the wood boxes.
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After that, you can
set the mousetraps.
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HATTIE:
Yoo-hoo, Frank!
Come on out and play!
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Hey, that'’s Hattie.
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Have I gotta work
all day Saturday?
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Everyone else in this
family has chores.
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Not Liddy.Lydia'’s only a baby.
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Frank, will you please
get a move on?
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After I finish, then can
I go down to Mr. Pelton'’s?
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What for?
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Just to watch him work.
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Seems to be a habit of yours.
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Watching other folks work.
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I'’m getting the kindling
right away.
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Whatchya doin'’?
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Well, I'’m trying
to figure something out here.
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A water wheel?Yep, that'’s a water wheel.
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Nothing new, is it?
No.
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They'’ve had water wheels
for, oh, for 4000 years.
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Since the days
of Pharaoh.
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And you know the ones
we'’re using in the mills
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of Camptonville today
are no great improvement
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over those
primitive wheels?
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They'’re slow,
they'’re clumsy.
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Only get a fraction
of the power
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out of water
that they should.
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You know something?Mmm?
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I'’m gonna be a millwright
too when I grow up.
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Well, that'’s good.
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You make up your mind,
and you stick to it.
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Like you.
Me?
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I'’ve tried my hand
at everything.
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Came out here
to California
in '’49 from Ohio.
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Ohio? So did Ma and Pa.
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Dug for gold all
up and down the riverbeds.
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With no luck.
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Then I turned to fishing
for a living on the Sacramento.
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There wasn'’t much
future in that.
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Then I came up here
to Camptonville,
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thinking I might
have another try at mining.
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But by that time,
they'’d started
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the big hydraulic operations.
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And a fellow with no capital
didn'’t have a chance.
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You must'’ve been
getting pretty old.
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36.
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Yep, 36 and nothing
to show for it.
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That'’s when
I became a millwright.
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You have a lot
to show for that.
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Well, I helped build most
of the big staff mills
around here.
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And the schoolhouse.
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You didn'’t build that.
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And you stop wishing
it had burned down.
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How'’d you know?[ chuckles ]
All boys do.
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Well, I guess
I'’ll close up shop
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and call her
a day, eh?
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So early?Well, it'’s after 6.
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Suppertime for you,
isn'’t it?
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I suppose.You suppose?
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Boy, I understand your mom
is one of the best cooks
in Camptonville.
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Yeah, she cooks,
all right.
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Well, you should see
what they sling at us
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down at the miner'’s
hash house. Mmm.
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Hey, Mr. Pelton,
why don'’t you
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come and board
at our house?
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Oh, now, I wasn'’t hinting.
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No, honest. My mother
feeds all the teamsters.
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One more person
wouldn'’t matter.
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You know, that sounds mighty
tempting to an old bachelor.
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Eat in a real home, eh?
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You wouldn'’t have to sit
by either of my sisters.
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You could sit
next to me.[ chuckles ]
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I'’ll tell you what.
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You ask your mom,
and if she says yes,
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it'’ll suit me fine.
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Oh, boy!
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OLD RANGER:
And, so, Lester Pelton
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became a member
of the Groves'’ family.
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Time rolls on.
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Six months. A year.
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'’Till we come to another
Saturday morning in 1878.
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How did it go, dear?
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Oh, this isn'’t
straight at all.
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The first thing to learn
is to keep
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your feet moving steadily
on the pedal.
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Don'’t jerk.
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Hello, Mr. Pelton.
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What'’s this?
Sewing bee?
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Not me.[ chuckles ]
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Hattie'’s having a lesson
on the sewing machine.
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Don'’t look at it.
It'’s all crooked.
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She finds it hard
to work the treadle.
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I should think
she might
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with those
short little legs.
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Runt.Never mind.
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My own legs ache sometimes
after a long stint.
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But then I think,
what if I had
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to do it all by hand,
the way women used to?
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I'’m glad I'm a man.
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MR. PELTON:
Well, men sew too, you know?
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They do?
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Yes, sir.
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It was a man
who invented this machine.
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Was a tailor
who sewed for a living.
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Nyah!
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Ow!No, you don'’t.
You just stop it.
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Wait. You just wait.
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Oh, no! Frank!
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00:14:00,404 --> 00:14:02,711
[ whining ]
You ruined my hair.
248
00:14:02,754 --> 00:14:04,452
[ sobbing ]
249
00:14:06,236 --> 00:14:09,457
Didn'’t Hattie
hear the bell?Here she comes now.
250
00:14:11,938 --> 00:14:13,853
MARGARET:
Well, come and sit down,
Hattie.
251
00:14:15,898 --> 00:14:16,943
Excuse me.
252
00:14:22,774 --> 00:14:25,865
What makes you walk
so funny?Nothing.
253
00:14:25,908 --> 00:14:28,345
Sideways like a crab.
[ laughs ]
254
00:14:28,389 --> 00:14:29,999
Ow! Stop kicking.
255
00:14:30,043 --> 00:14:31,392
Frank, behave yourself.
256
00:14:31,435 --> 00:14:34,177
Hey, lookee!
257
00:14:34,221 --> 00:14:37,050
Ink. How did it happen?
258
00:14:37,093 --> 00:14:40,314
I guess it just
dropped in the ink well.
259
00:14:40,357 --> 00:14:41,750
Both of '’em?
260
00:14:41,793 --> 00:14:44,361
It was Frank,
I saw him.
261
00:14:44,405 --> 00:14:45,362
MARGARET:
Frank!
262
00:14:45,406 --> 00:14:47,147
He did it deliberately.
263
00:14:47,190 --> 00:14:48,800
Tattletale.
264
00:14:54,023 --> 00:14:57,722
She has ink spots
in back of her dress.
265
00:14:57,766 --> 00:15:00,421
Let me see.
Turn around.
266
00:15:03,946 --> 00:15:06,949
[ sighs ]
Hattie, your nice merino.
267
00:15:08,472 --> 00:15:11,345
Frank Groves, how could
you be so naughty?
268
00:15:11,388 --> 00:15:12,781
It'’ll wash out.
269
00:15:12,824 --> 00:15:14,348
It will not.
270
00:15:14,391 --> 00:15:17,742
The dress will have
to have a whole new back put in.
271
00:15:17,786 --> 00:15:20,310
And that'’s a big,
fussy job.
272
00:15:20,354 --> 00:15:22,747
I'’m sorry.
273
00:15:22,791 --> 00:15:24,924
MARGARET:
If your father was home,
you'’d get a good licking.
274
00:15:24,967 --> 00:15:28,188
I ought to give you
one, myself.
275
00:15:28,231 --> 00:15:31,408
[ cries ]
But I'’m...I'm just
too worn out.
276
00:15:33,236 --> 00:15:35,804
My mother could fix
the dress, Mrs. Groves.
277
00:15:35,847 --> 00:15:40,330
A dress my son ruined?
I wouldn'’t dream of it.
278
00:15:40,374 --> 00:15:42,854
I'’ll do it myself.
Tonight.
279
00:15:57,913 --> 00:15:58,827
[ exhales ]
280
00:16:05,225 --> 00:16:05,965
[ sighs ]
281
00:16:10,186 --> 00:16:11,100
[ sighs ]
282
00:16:22,372 --> 00:16:24,853
[ door opens, closes ]
283
00:16:38,171 --> 00:16:39,302
Mrs. Groves?
284
00:16:42,349 --> 00:16:43,785
Mrs. Groves?
285
00:16:48,920 --> 00:16:51,880
Oh, my goodness.
I must'’ve fallen asleep.
286
00:16:51,923 --> 00:16:53,708
[ chuckles ]
It'’s after midnight.
287
00:16:53,751 --> 00:16:56,885
I just came in, I was down
at the shop tinkering.
288
00:16:56,928 --> 00:16:59,018
Say, you better put up
your work and get to bed.
289
00:16:59,061 --> 00:17:00,671
[ sighs ]
I can'’t do that.
290
00:17:00,715 --> 00:17:02,108
I'’ve got to finish
this dress.
291
00:17:03,935 --> 00:17:05,894
MR. PELTON:
Oh, not tonight.
292
00:17:05,937 --> 00:17:07,374
Hattie'’s mother
is coming home tomorrow.
293
00:17:07,417 --> 00:17:09,854
I don'’t want her to find
the dress in this state.
294
00:17:13,858 --> 00:17:15,773
You'’re worn out,
Mrs. Groves.
295
00:17:15,817 --> 00:17:17,123
I'’m all right.
296
00:17:19,212 --> 00:17:21,170
MR. PELTON:
I wish I could help you.
297
00:17:21,214 --> 00:17:22,737
Don'’t you worry about me.
298
00:17:27,394 --> 00:17:29,961
There must be some way
to make it easier.
299
00:17:33,748 --> 00:17:35,315
OLD RANGER:
We pick up the course
of our story
300
00:17:35,358 --> 00:17:37,056
a few weeks later.
301
00:17:37,099 --> 00:17:39,188
Weeks, during which
Lester Pelton has done
302
00:17:39,232 --> 00:17:42,670
a lot of mysterious
tinkering in his shop.
303
00:17:42,713 --> 00:17:46,761
And we jump to a day
in the Summer of 1879.
304
00:17:52,419 --> 00:17:53,855
All right, now.
Frank, hand me that wrench.
305
00:17:56,075 --> 00:17:58,164
It'’s a good thing Ma's
in the kitchen making
currant jelly.
306
00:17:58,207 --> 00:18:00,166
She'’d be out here
and see it.
307
00:18:00,209 --> 00:18:01,732
That'’s why I picked
this morning.
308
00:18:01,776 --> 00:18:03,169
[ grunts ]Mrs. Meek is coming over,
309
00:18:03,212 --> 00:18:04,866
and we'’ll get it
all rigged up.
310
00:18:04,909 --> 00:18:06,172
Whoa, you told her?
311
00:18:06,215 --> 00:18:08,174
I just said we had
a surprise for Ma.
312
00:18:08,217 --> 00:18:09,740
Oh.I didn'’t say what.
313
00:18:09,784 --> 00:18:11,655
Gee, where'’s
the wheel?
314
00:18:11,699 --> 00:18:13,309
It'’s hidden around
the corner of the house.
315
00:18:13,353 --> 00:18:14,267
I'’ll go get it.
316
00:18:24,190 --> 00:18:25,887
What if it don'’t work?
317
00:18:25,930 --> 00:18:28,281
Oh, it'’ll work.
No "what if" about it.
318
00:18:28,324 --> 00:18:29,978
Sure a lot
of trouble you went to.
319
00:18:30,021 --> 00:18:31,719
You know, nothing'’s
too much trouble, Frank,
320
00:18:31,762 --> 00:18:34,156
if it makes things
easier for womenfolk.
321
00:18:34,200 --> 00:18:35,288
Don'’t you forget it.
322
00:18:35,331 --> 00:18:37,159
What about the menfolk?
323
00:18:37,203 --> 00:18:38,856
Yep, them too.
324
00:18:38,900 --> 00:18:42,338
MARGARET:
Frank! Oh, Frank!
325
00:18:42,382 --> 00:18:44,297
It'’s all set.I'’m out here, Ma.
326
00:18:44,340 --> 00:18:45,472
On the porch.
327
00:18:47,952 --> 00:18:49,258
I need some more sugar
for my jelly.
328
00:18:49,302 --> 00:18:50,868
Will you go dow...
329
00:18:50,912 --> 00:18:52,043
...my machine.
330
00:18:52,087 --> 00:18:53,349
What'’s it doing out here?
331
00:18:53,393 --> 00:18:55,177
It'’d be too wet
in the house.
332
00:18:55,221 --> 00:18:57,136
Wet? What'’ve you
done to it?
333
00:18:58,746 --> 00:19:00,922
What is all this
contraption?
334
00:19:00,965 --> 00:19:02,924
Well, this is something
I rigged up so you can sew
335
00:19:02,967 --> 00:19:04,665
without working
that treadle.
336
00:19:04,708 --> 00:19:05,970
It'’ll work
all by itself.
337
00:19:06,014 --> 00:19:07,929
Well, with the help
of water.
338
00:19:07,972 --> 00:19:11,150
Now, look. See there'’s
a wheel inside here.
339
00:19:11,193 --> 00:19:15,066
I put a case around it to keep
it from splashing, you see?
340
00:19:15,110 --> 00:19:18,635
Now, the water comes in
through this small nozzle.
341
00:19:18,679 --> 00:19:21,116
Goes in through-- Well,
let me show you.
342
00:19:21,160 --> 00:19:23,031
It'’s easier than trying
to explain.
343
00:19:23,074 --> 00:19:24,989
Okay, now you-- You sit
down right here.
344
00:19:37,263 --> 00:19:39,221
Isn'’t this wonderful?
345
00:19:39,265 --> 00:19:42,355
All I'’m doing is just
guiding the needle.
346
00:19:42,398 --> 00:19:43,704
Can hardly believe it.
347
00:19:47,098 --> 00:19:49,666
FRANK:
Yep, her feet ain'’t even
touching the treadle.
348
00:19:49,710 --> 00:19:51,668
Get away from my skirt,
Frank.
349
00:19:51,712 --> 00:19:53,714
I wish I could try it.
350
00:19:53,757 --> 00:19:55,106
Think of the boon it'’ll be
351
00:19:55,150 --> 00:19:57,283
when you'’re working
on men'’s heavy clothes.
352
00:20:02,375 --> 00:20:04,420
Mr. Pelton,
you'’re a genius.
353
00:20:04,464 --> 00:20:06,335
How'’d you ever think
up such a thing?
354
00:20:06,379 --> 00:20:09,251
He'’s been tinkering for ages
down in his shop.
355
00:20:09,295 --> 00:20:11,645
Water power'’s been
an obsession with me
356
00:20:11,688 --> 00:20:14,735
ever since I came to California
and worked around these rivers.
357
00:20:14,778 --> 00:20:17,041
MARGARET:
This wheel is just perfect.
358
00:20:17,085 --> 00:20:20,044
No. No, it could
be improved.
359
00:20:20,088 --> 00:20:21,785
I don'’t see how.
360
00:20:21,829 --> 00:20:23,961
Well, you see,
there'’s still a lot of power
361
00:20:24,005 --> 00:20:25,833
in this little stream
of water we'’re not using.
362
00:20:25,876 --> 00:20:27,878
We'’re getting
all we need.
363
00:20:27,922 --> 00:20:29,837
Well, for a little
machine like this, yes.
364
00:20:29,880 --> 00:20:31,882
But, now what about
the big machinery
365
00:20:31,926 --> 00:20:32,970
in our mines
and our mills?
366
00:20:34,668 --> 00:20:37,192
You think of all that
potential power locked up.
367
00:20:37,236 --> 00:20:39,412
Going to waste.
368
00:20:39,455 --> 00:20:41,196
I'’m no engineer,
369
00:20:41,240 --> 00:20:42,806
but I'’m gonna
keep on experimenting
370
00:20:42,850 --> 00:20:45,722
until I'’ve found the answer--
371
00:20:45,766 --> 00:20:48,290
a wheel that gets
the utmost out of water.
372
00:22:59,726 --> 00:23:03,382
Why, by George,
I have got it.
373
00:23:03,425 --> 00:23:04,383
I'’ve got it!
374
00:23:09,431 --> 00:23:12,042
This partition
does the trick.
375
00:23:12,086 --> 00:23:14,175
Now, the water splits
as it hits the cups
376
00:23:14,218 --> 00:23:16,960
and you get a force
from two streams instead of one.
377
00:23:21,748 --> 00:23:23,837
It'’s the secret
I'’ve been looking for.
378
00:23:25,926 --> 00:23:29,059
OLD RANGER:
Events moved fast
after that for Lester Pelton.
379
00:23:29,103 --> 00:23:31,845
Working feverishly
in his shop,
380
00:23:31,888 --> 00:23:36,023
he produces
his first model of a so-called
"splitter wheel."
381
00:23:36,066 --> 00:23:39,069
From there to bigger
and better models.
382
00:23:39,113 --> 00:23:40,810
Turned out in
a nearby foundry.
383
00:23:43,117 --> 00:23:47,861
1880. Pelton receives
a patent on his invention.
384
00:23:47,904 --> 00:23:51,038
1883. Competitive tests
385
00:23:51,081 --> 00:23:54,041
at the great
Idaho-Maryland Mine.
386
00:23:54,084 --> 00:23:57,044
The Pelton Wheel wins
hands down.
387
00:23:58,741 --> 00:24:02,223
Orders come in
from other mines, from mills.
388
00:24:02,266 --> 00:24:06,706
They all want Pelton Wheels
to operate their machinery.
389
00:24:06,749 --> 00:24:10,057
And then, something
nobody has ever dreamed of--
390
00:24:10,100 --> 00:24:13,016
the Pelton Wheel is hitched
up to a dynamo.
391
00:24:13,060 --> 00:24:17,064
Hydroelectric power
is on it'’s way.
392
00:24:17,107 --> 00:24:19,893
Today, the world over
in hydroelectric plants,
393
00:24:19,936 --> 00:24:22,722
huge Pelton wheels
convert rushing water
394
00:24:22,765 --> 00:24:25,725
into heat and light
and power.
395
00:24:25,768 --> 00:24:28,031
Each wheel,
with it'’s divided cups
396
00:24:28,075 --> 00:24:30,425
a monument
to the obscured tinkerer
397
00:24:30,469 --> 00:24:32,862
whose invention
revolutionized industry
398
00:24:32,906 --> 00:24:35,952
and brought incalculable
benefits to every one of us.
399
00:24:37,867 --> 00:24:39,390
So there'’s
the true story
400
00:24:39,434 --> 00:24:42,002
of the invention
of the Pelton water wheel
401
00:24:42,045 --> 00:24:43,307
and the part
your grandmother'’s
402
00:24:43,351 --> 00:24:46,049
sewing machine played
in it, Bill.
403
00:24:46,093 --> 00:24:49,357
It'’s wonderful that
your family has preserved
404
00:24:49,400 --> 00:24:50,967
such a valuable memento.
405
00:24:51,011 --> 00:24:53,230
And thank you
so much, Bill,
406
00:24:53,274 --> 00:24:55,145
for coming on
our Death Valley Daysshow
407
00:24:55,189 --> 00:24:57,887
to help us tell the story
of the wheel of fortune.
408
00:24:57,931 --> 00:24:59,759
Thank you, Old Ranger,
for having me.
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