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They call me Mad Jack.

And if there's anybody in these mountains that knows the real story of

Adams, that'd be me.

So I'm putting it down and writing just the way it happened in hopes of setting

the record straight.

Now, my friend Adams was accused of a crime he didn't commit.

So he escaped into the mountains, leaving behind the only life that he

knew.

Now that wilderness out there ain't no place for a greenhorn, and his chances

surviving were mighty slim.

There was no time at all, for he was beaten down, ragged, and nearly stopped.

Long about then, he come upon a grizzly bear cub, all alone and helpless.

Adams knew that little critter couldn't survive without his help, so he started

right down that cliff, risking his own life to save it.

Now that cub took to Adams right off.

And that was when he discovered he had a special kind of way with animals.

They just come right up to him like he was a natural part of the wilderness.

But that bear cub, he was extra special.

As he grew, he became the best friend Adams ever had. And together, they

a legend.

There's a time we'll call our own. Living free in harmony and majesty.

Take me home.

Take me home.

Take me home.

Take me home.

One thing about living in the

mountains. You can't always rightly judge the people you meet by just the

they look.

That's something I always liked about Adams. He took everybody as he could.

Figured they was good till they did something to prove them wrong.

Some of the people he met, though, it weren't so much a matter of was they

or bad.

They were just sort of different.

Like that fella he run into one day up the other side of the gorge.

Now, there was a man you could have read a whole book about.

Watch that knife, Ben.

It's sharp.

How you doing this morning, huh?

How's my boy?

Yeah.

Yeah, good, good scratches.

Back up, Ben.

Easy now. Easy.

Don't want to go breaking my fool neck now.

I already lost my horse.

I don't know where I am.

Just got to keep in mind, I'm in luck.

I'm in luck like I've never been before.

Not in my whole life.

My mother!

Where am I Just

rest easy you took quite a spill

Well,

how's the world look to you those Are the finest quality yard goods that money

can buy, ma 'am.

Well, you ain't selling yard goods now.

You're getting over a case of too much water at once in the head you ain't

like.

What?

Was I singing?

Way's back.

I don't know what.

Where is this place?

Well, I reckon we're about 40 miles west of nowhere, give or take a yard or two.

Where were you headed?

I don't remember.

You remember your name?

Yeah. It's, uh... It's, uh... Easy.

It's, uh... Will Boker. My name's... Will... Boker.

Where's my bag?

I don't rightly know.

Reckon it's a couple miles downstream by now.

What?

No use looking for it now, Will.

At least not in them clothes.

We'll look for it come morning if you still got the mind.

Hey, listen.

If there's a joke, why don't you let me in on it?

No, no. It's the story of my life.

What was in that bag?

All my worldly possessions.

What am I gonna do now?

I had it.

I had it right in my hands.

Hold on now.

I don't even live here.

No, go away.

He ain't going to hurt you, Will.

Huh?

Say hi to Will Boker, Ben.

Reach in that pouch here, Will.

Would you like one, Ben?

Well, give it to him.

Yeah, give it to him.

I've never seen anything like that before.

You never heard of a man having a grizzly for a friend?

I can see you haven't been around civilization lately, have you?

No, no.

Okay, come on, Ben.

Out and drive.

Sit. Help yourself.

Why didn't you sit down? You got better manners than Ben, anyhow.

There you go, little fella.

I don't seem to be a lot easier to get along with than folks most of the time.

You really like living all alone?

Out here?

I couldn't ask for anything better.

I got friends who stop by from time to time, but mostly I like to keep it the

way nature made it.

Where are you headed?

Well, as a matter of fact, I was chased out of the last town I was in.

Folks didn't take to the medicine I was peddling.

Claimed it was mostly water, which it was.

And then my horse ran away.

You're a drummer.

Well, I guess you could say I thought I was.

At least I got as far in that as I did in anything else.

You, sir.

are looking at one of the world's wonders sitting right here. You know

I'll never forget my first job.

I worked on a riverboat in Mississippi.

You know what I did?

Fell overboard.

Day before payday.

That's the truth. Never did collect.

And then, oh gosh, I taught myself a song and dance act.

Joined up with a road company, you know.

The manager ran off with all the funds.

And then I was... Oh, I was a magician with a medicine show.

Magician? Yeah. The only thing I could make disappear was the audience.

See a trick?

Yeah. Watch.

That's good.

That's good.

And if this little fella ever wants something to eat, all he has to do is

behind his ear.

How'd you do that?

Oh, here's another one.

Okay, same thing.

See? Yeah.

Which hand?

Right there.

How about you, sir?

Care to make a guess?

Huh? That one?

Well, that's two more customers you made today. Maybe we'll find others.

Where are you headed?

Well, somebody told me that wagon trains pass by here on the other side of that

mountain. Figured I'd tie in one of them. It's possible, but it's mountain

country. We've had a lot of rock slides up there lately.

Think your best bet would be to backtrack and cross the ridge on the

Well, I guess you ought to know, but see, if I don't have my bag, I don't

anything to sell.

Well, I reckon we just ought to find your bag.

You really think there's a chance?

Well, we don't know if we don't try.

With my luck, if we do find it, it'll probably be empty.

How does a body survive out here?

Well, mostly off the land.

Watching the birds and the critters. Watching what they eat. Some of it's

good, too.

I wouldn't last a week.

Sure you would.

I was greener than you when I first came out here.

I learned.

Smells off the wind.

Like that doe.

Oh, she's a beautiful animal.

I couldn't see her at first, but I knew something was different.

You can tell she was here.

Snag caught a piece of her fur.

Ah.

Here's her tracks.

There's something else here, too.

What, a wolf?

No, that's a coyote.

Fox would be even smaller.

I guess you had no choice but to learn all that, huh?

I'm a blood brother and a coma taught me.

Why'd you say I had no choice?

Oh, did I say that?

I don't know.

You knew I was Grizzly Adams this morning when you saw me with that bear.

you hide it?

Scared, I guess.

Well, I didn't do nothing wrong.

I wouldn't hurt no living thing.

Do you believe that?

Yes.

You're a funny fellow, Will.

Tell me, what are you hiding from?

Who, me?

Nothing.

Go find your bag.

Trail's cold, Marshal.

It's had two days on us.

What do you make of that?

You'll never learn how to read science.

He unsaddled here, spent the night here, and his horse wandered off.

He's trying to settle right over them trees.

You gonna find the bag, too?

He'll hold on to that like it was his mama.

He's afoot now. He won't get far.

Not that pilgrim.

Come on.

We'll have him and that bag both for supper.

You look out in the middle, Ben.

I'm going to check along the bank.

Water's likely to ruin everything that's in your bag.

Oh, no, no. It's mostly just bottles.

And what isn't is wrapped in oil paper.

Anybody think we'll find it?

We're bound to.

Snags seem to catch everything that come downriver. I'm going to cross over here

and take a look on the other side.

You'll let me know if you find it.

Do you see anything yet?

Hey. Hey.

Looky there. We got company.

Now, that critter might belong to somebody.

Maybe he don't.

I don't see nobody around to say no.

You just wait right here.

Don't give me no argument.

Well, now.

Ain't you a buke?

Out here all alone?

Don't nobody want you?

Well, you just come with old Jack and... Easy now.

Bring a dollar or two, we get you to town.

That's a good fella.

Yeah.

You just come with old Jack and he'll find you a new home.

Yes, sir.

Oh, now, you just hold still.

This ain't gonna hurt.

I'll just find you a new home.

Yes, sir.

That's good.

Oh, now.

That's good. No, you're supposed to go back here.

Now, easy now.

Now, you come with me.

All right, here we go.

Now, come on.

This horse is a good gift horse.

If you don't look him in the mouth. Now, come on.

Come on, now.

It's all right. We're just bringing a friend.

It's a new file now. That's good.

Did you do anything wrong, number

seven?

How about you, old time? Are you guilty?

Everybody knows I'm pure as a driven snow.

Howdy, Marshal.

You keeping well?

The stream takes a bend up here. I'm going to cut back across.

Now, what do you want, Joshua?

I see. You want me to carry you, don't you?

Okay. Here we go.

Yes,

you're welcome, you little rascal.

Now, just hold on tight.

I won't drop you. Don't worry.

See, you got yourself a new friend.

You got a story as to how come?

That's Poker's horse for sure, Marshal.

I'm listening hard, Jack.

Well, as a matter of fact, I just come across him grazing back yonder, and no

one was there to say he was hidden.

So you just took him for your... I was gonna turn him over to you the minute I

got to town, and that's the truth.

Well, I'll save you that trouble. I'll just take him now.

Sam?

Now, what's the rest of the story?

Where's Volker?

Volker?

I never heard of that fella.

Maybe you've seen him.

Middle in height, middle in weight.

Looks like he lost his last friend.

I've seen a lot of fellas like that.

The city fella.

Fancy clothes.

Fancy dressers.

Say, I did see him.

Did he have a carpet bag with him?

I'll ask the questions.

As a matter of fact, he did have a carpet bag.

And it was moving real fast, like somebody was chasing him.

Where was the last time you see him, and which way was he headed?

Well, let's see.

I reckon it was about an hour, hour and a half, two hours maybe, back down the

trail there.

And when he saw me, he ducked and ran. I imagine he's about, oh, halfway up that

ridge by now.

I hope you find him, Marshal.

You and me have got some traveling to do.

I think Adams would be interested to know there's a posse nosing around his

mountain. Come on.

There it is.

Give it to me, Ben.

That's a good bear.

Ben.

Ben. Give it to me, Ben.

That's a good bear.

Oh, you found it.

That's a good boy. Give it to him, Ben.

Come on, give it to him. It ain't yours.

Give it to him.

That's all your worldly possessions?

No.

Look.

It's legal, Adams. I swear it.

It's legal.

This was given to me by the bank to take to another branch. That's right. The

banker said that they were having so much trouble with stage holdups that

wanted to see if there was another way to move money.

Now, that's the truth, Adams. I swear it.

Where are you going?

To the cabin. What for?

To think about it.

Oh, I said to think about it.

what's true and what ain't and what to do about it.

I already told you the truth.

Oh, all right, all right.

Maybe I lied to you some, but if I told you the truth, you'd never believe it.

Adams,

will you stop and listen just for a minute?

All right.

All right, I was on my horse and I was headed out of town.

I didn't know where I was going to go or what I was going to do.

I hadn't made... 30 cents and my sample bag was still full.

I'm going to get to it.

I was right in front of the bank.

All of a sudden, the doors banged open.

And these three men came running out. They had masks on and they were carrying

sacks. I tell you, it scared me out of my wits.

And then this one man, he stumbled.

And the bag flew out of his arms. It hit me in the chest and I grabbed it. I

didn't know what to do with it.

Now, that's what happened.

Uh... I told you you wouldn't believe me.

All right, then what?

Well, then the marshal, he came running out of his office. He'd heard all the

shooting. And the first thing he saw was me sitting there with a sack of money

in my lap.

And by that time, the three men, they'd gotten on their horses, and they were

whipping them, and they were heading out of town.

But the marshal, he shot at me.

Now, that's the truth, Adams. He thought I was one of them.

Well, he missed me, but my horse spooked, and it took off so fast, I

hardly hang on.

It was dark, and I couldn't see very well, and I could hear the marshal

hollering behind me, and I could hear the horses coming after me. So I cut off

into the woods, and I hid there until I heard him go on down the road and pass

me. And then I took a look at what was in the bag.

I didn't know there was that much money in the whole world.

And me, with a string of hard luck so long, had stretched clear back to the

ocean.

You don't believe me All

right,

all right, I lied to you but I told you the truth too

I showed you some of my magic. That part was true.

And the other part about being a song and dance man, that was true, too.

It really was.

Wait a minute. I'll show you.

I've never met anybody like you in my whole life, Will.

I thank you.

And my partner thanks you. I believe you.

You do?

I do.

Trouble is, I don't think anybody else in the whole world would.

Except if you did the same act.

Then you'd have to take Ben along with you, and I don't think they'd stay

long enough to listen.

What are you going to do, Will?

This money's got to be took back.

And you've got to do it.

I mean, you're the one that took it in the first place, accident or no.

You can't do that. They'd never believe me.

Well, you've got to make them. I mean, somehow, you've got to make them.

Would you give yourself up?

The man that knows I'm innocent's dead.

And I can't give back what they said I took.

Adams, I never had my hands on this much money in my whole life. And I didn't

steal it. It was more like it just fell from heaven.

Heaven didn't have nothing to do with it.

And you ain't gonna have a chance to spin it out here anyways.

No, no, I can't. I wouldn't have the nerve.

up here looking for a fella named Boker.

Now, I figured they might settle for you, so make yourself scarce and lay

Boker?

He's in my cabin.

That figures.

I tell you, you just hold up your finger and trouble sticks to it.

Now, I don't care anything about Boker, but I sent the marshal off on a wild

goose chase, but he's too smart to stay gone for long.

Now, he's bound to be back.

So you just make yourself scarce and lay low. I'll tell you when he's gone.

Well, where are you headed? I told you to lay low. I gotta go warn Boker.

So what's he to you?

I swear, if there's a fool thing to do, he'll do it. Seems like I spent half my

life keeping him out of trouble. Come on, we got our work cut out for us.

Will?

Will? Where are you?

The money's gone.

Sit down.

This leg ain't too good.

You all right?

My leg.

My leg.

It

ain't

broken.

You most likely got a bad sprain.

Here, you lean on me. Let me help you stand.

Put your arm around me.

We've got to get back to the brush where that posse seat is.

Are they that close?

If you sneezed hard enough, you'd spray on them.

Then you're in danger, too.

I'll figure that out myself.

Well, he sure couldn't have crossed here, Marshal. He did.

Somehow, he didn't drown.

We can't, that's for sure.

Well, then we'll go upstream where we can.

It'll take a little while, but let's go.

Easy. Watch your leg.

No point in your getting caught.

No sense in either of us getting caught.

Are you still willing to try what I said?

What? Go back to town?

Like this?

I don't see no other way.

There's something about you, Will.

I took to you.

The animals took to you.

Yeah, well, I don't take to me.

Look what I just did.

Why don't you try doing something you'd be proud of?

I just know when I gotta do something, I try it.

You start doing things right, sometimes things just start going right.

I'm gonna need your help.

All the way.

Well, you got it.

What about the posse?

Well, stay in a brush.

We'll cut over this mountain, we'll pick up the road back to town.

I reckon Jack's around.

You ready?

Yeah. Alright.

All right? Yeah, yeah. Watch it.

Come on, Ben.

You got a long way to go.

Wait up a second.

You all right?

Yeah.

Come here, number seven.

There's somebody down there. I got to take a look.

Now, you just stay here and be quiet.

Don't worry, number seven.

I'll be back for you.

He's just curious.

It don't last.

Come on.

You can't run and hide forever and keep chasing after dreams.

And a man can't be a man if all he's got is schemes.

And you can't keep on running when you know that you were wrong.

Because you can never live life free knowing what you've done.

The road back home is mighty long, but that's the one I'll travel on.

And when I finally reach the end, I'll know that my best friend...

is the man that I've become.

Ready for town.

I'm going to go on ahead. You guys stay with the trail, and if you lose it, or

yourselves, don't worry. I won't.

Come on, Will.

We're almost there. Just a little further. Hang on.

Adams while you can aim to

Marshal

I got something for you

Go on in, Will.

Tell me what you have to.

If I can believe you came back, I can believe anything.

Hello, the cabin!

You stay here, Ben.

Let me see who it is.

Jack Remember this fella you helped a while back that you didn't know. Well, I

want you to meet a real good friend of mine. This is Jack I'm much obliged to

you Howdy Look at you You gave up drumming. Yep. Got me

a real job now. Remember what you said about when you do things, right?

Things start happening right for you

Yep, sure did.

And the marshal believed you, even without Ben's help?

There was a while there when I didn't think he would.

He just kind of sat there with his mouth open and staring at me.

And then he shook his head, asked me to tell him again. I did.

And then he said, it was just too unbelievable to be a lie.

And then he said he could always use another honest man.

And he gave me a job.

Gentlemen, I am a deputy.

Deputy?

Now you just back out of here. You're not taking Adams no place.

Well, I wasn't planning to.

He's a friend of mine, Jack.

That star don't make no difference.

A deputy's a deputy. Now get!

Would you shoot Ben just because he's a grizzly?

I just, uh, I just came out here to tell you what you've done for me and to

thank you.

I, uh, guess I did act a little hasty.

Sorry. Thank you.

Hey, Adam, now that I'm a lawman, maybe I can help you.

You know, prove you're innocent. Get you back where you belong.

No, I appreciate that, but I couldn't leave the valley.

Animals out here, they kind of took to me as if I was kin.

Well, I know I'm innocent and...

It's enough that you and Jack believe me.

Well, I'll stop by from time to time.

Well, it's your pleasure, me well. Take care.

You too, huh?

Thanks again, Jack.

I'll see you.

So long, Ben.

We are staying here forever in the beauty of

this place all alone.

We keep on hoping.

Maybe there's a world where we don't have to run. Maybe

there's a time we'll call our own.