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The story of Grizzly Adams is big and powerful and beautiful.

They call me Mad Jack.

And me and my burl number seven been traipsing these slopes and valleys for a

long spell. So I know the story from the beginning. 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

of surviving were mighty slim.

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

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

Now, 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 growed, he became the best friend Adams ever had. And together, they

became a legend.

These are the mountains that have been my home for many years.

A special breed of men, which folks rightly call mountain men, live in these

high places.

I'm proud to be one of them because, well, we know how to live with the

mountains and the trees and with the critters of the wilderness.

Sometimes a stranger comes to the mountains and that can raise problems

animals and mountain men alike.

And somehow my friend James Adams...

The greenhorn that he was could figure out how to handle these problems, no

matter what size or shape they come in.

Thank you, Ben.

I sure need this wood to keep warm this winter.

It makes things a lot easier if I had me a nice thick fur coat like nature gave

you.

The coma.

So tiny.

You come to help me chop wood for the winter?

Bye, Doc.

So tiny -ish.

So you're preparing to become a brave, Totani.

Though the wilderness test is a great moment in your life, you couldn't have a

finer teacher than the coma.

Good luck, Totani.

The day being so peaceful and all, there

was no way any of us could know that not too many miles away, things was about

to happen to...

Change all that.

I guess you could say it all started when, well, when number seven insisted

on behaving like the stubborn burro that he was. Hey, nabbit, number seven, the

whole idea of being a pack burro is to move things from here to over there.

Now, we spent enough time here. Let's get it over there. Now, come on.

Now, Seven, I know that frisky little family is cute and all.

But if there's any visiting to be done, it's going to be me.

Now, the way the Almighty had this thing figured out is that the human being,

that's me, has a bigger brain. So it's supposed to tell the animal, that's you,

what to do.

Now, come on.

All right.

You just come when you're ready to come. I've never seen such a cantankerous

animal.

Uh -oh.

Seven?

Seven.

There's a feller down there with a rifle.

Could be a bounty hunter.

Now, why don't you and me just kind of mosey down there and see what he's up

huh?

Huh. Well, I'll be dead and gone.

Gone?

Now, number seven, this is a whole other matter.

We gotta get down to that cabin and warn Adams. Now, you'll move for Adams,

won't you?

Come on, then.

Hey, Adams!

There's trouble on the mountain. I just ran into another bounty hunter and he's

got to be gunning for you. Where'd you see him? Up on Pine Ridge.

Well, how do you know it's a bounty hunter?

Well, because I seen him. And I seen the way he handled that gun.

Now, I'm telling you, this is another professional.

Where is he now?

Well, I don't know. I lost track of him. But you can bet he's out there

somewhere. So you just get up into them hills and lay low for a while.

You know, I think you got bounty hunters on the brain.

Could be just a hunter out here.

Maybe even a trapper.

Somebody new to the area that's just lost and maybe needs a little help.

I've got all my wood stacked.

All the chores are done.

There's no reason why I can't go up there and check in on this stranger.

Now, wait just a minute.

You're going to go out and look for a bounty hunter?

Yeah. Well, you can't do that the minute you show your head out there. He's

going to take it out. Don't argue with me. I'm going out there. No stopping.

sir.

Well, all right. Number seven and me is going to go along and show you the way.

Now, when we find him, you let me do all the talking and all the... Got a deal.

All right.

Come on, Ben.

Meanwhile, Nekoma and Tatani were deep in the woods.

Nekoma was mighty pleased the way Tatani built the lean -to with his own guns.

Afterwards, Tatani went to work and fixed himself a fish trap.

Only thing was, Tatani, being young, had to learn that doing things fast ain't

as important as doing them good.

So Nokoma said, this is not secure enough. A strong wind would blow it

I forgot to light the supporting poles, Tatani said.

Do you think there are fish in my trap yet?

If there are, the others will eat them.

My trap has broken loose.

The current is strong.

I will tie it tighter next time.

Well, now, let's see. He was standing right about in here somewhere.

Now, you better call him back.

With that bounty hunter wandering around these woods with a rifle, he's liable

to get himself hurt.

Dan usually knows where he's going.

I got a feeling he's just going off to visit some of his old animal friends.

Somehow Adam's feelings about Ben was right.

Ben had come across a black bear and being a polite sort, he said howdy to it

and bear talked.

And that bear just howdyed right back at him.

Yep.

That's the bounty hunter, all right.

Now, if we all stay real quiet, we can surprise him.

Right back at number seven.

That's the fella you saw?

Well, you ain't no feller. You're a female lady.

Howdy.

Not too often we get a lady traipsing around these parts. Probably not.

Are you alone? Is there someone with you?

Yes, I'm alone. I'm not traipsing. I'm tracking animals.

Are you tracking or hunting?

Well, I'd hardly be hunting without a gun. But you've got a gun. Excuse me.

I'd like to introduce myself.

My name's James Adams.

This is my good friend Jack.

Mad Jack, they call him.

Well, it seems I found a gentleman in the wilderness.

I'm Mrs. Kate Larson.

It's nice to meet you, ma 'am. Our cabin's just on the other side of the

We'd be more than happy to have you come over and have some coffee and food with

us if you'd like. Oh, well, that's very kind of you.

However, I have ample provisions and I do have things to take care of out here.

Well, it's none of my business, but these mountains can be a little unkind

people who don't know them. He's right, lady.

These mountains just ain't natural for a woman. I've been in the wilderness

since the day I was born.

My father was an army officer, and he was stationed at wilderness outposts

Fort Laramie to Fort Union.

My late husband, Major Larson, was a cavalry scout.

He took me on trips through mountains that were just as wild as these.

Now, if you gentlemen have no objections, I'll be about my business.

What might that be?

I don't think her business is any of our concern, Jack. Well, what about the

animals? Miss Larson did say she wasn't trapping.

So I think we can take the lady's word for it.

Thank you, Mr. Adams.

I think you're wrong about her, Jack. If that female was a bounty hunter,

we'd know how to handle her.

But as it is, we don't even know why she's up here.

Well, that's her business.

Well, I'm telling you something, Adams.

A woman in the wilderness...

Means trouble. Now, you just mark my word, she's going to mess something up.

Then I'll have to straighten it all out like I do with you and Nicole and even

Ben. Well, then we don't have nothing to worry about.

Now, you don't think she's got a gun.

Well, I know she has, and let me tell you this.

A woman with a gun is as unpredictable as a sow grizzly with two cubs.

Big as that forest was, it was suddenly getting mighty small, leastways for Ben.

He was still sniffing around, looking for other newcomers, and it weren't long

before he found one.

Only this newcomer hadn't come with any friendly purpose in mind.

He was only saying hello.

But the way that woman was acting, it looked like goodbye for Ben.

Did you hear that, Jack?

Yeah.

That's Ben.

I wonder if he ran into... Come on.

Bear, this is your lucky day.

I'm not looking for a grizzly. I'm looking for a black bear.

Go on about your business now like a good old boy. I've got nothing against

You're only friendly.

Or maybe you're sick.

Ben?

Ben, can you hear me?

Where are you?

Mrs. Larson, are you all right?

Yes, I'm just fine, thanks. I'm just puzzled by this grizzly here.

And who's Ben?

Well, this grizzly's Ben, named after Benjamin Franklin.

Oh, I didn't recognize him without his glasses.

Well, his eyes aren't as good as a hawk, but he's got the keenest nose in these

mountains.

I've never seen a man and a grizzly bear so friendly before.

Everybody's friendly up here, including the animals.

What's wrong?

Oh, nothing, Jack. Mrs. Larson and Ben are just getting acquainted.

Since we don't call Ben, Mr. Franklin, how about not calling me, Mrs. Larson?

I'm Kate.

Nice to meet you, Kate. How do you do? Ben, can you say hi to Kate?

Hello, Ben.

Mr. Jack, may I call you Jack?

Hello, I'm Kate.

Howdy, Miss Kate.

Howdy, Jack.

Where does Ben live?

Well, Ben lives most of the time with me up the cabin.

Adams, you are the most unusual individual I've ever met.

I've never heard of a grizzly living with a human being before. How did you

him? Well, I didn't tame Ben.

Ben and I have been friends for a long time.

Well, do you have other animal friends?

Oh, sure.

We got, uh, there's Joshua the raccoon, and there's Mary Lou and Daniel.

Uh, they skunks.

Skunks? Yeah, but they're, well, they're real friendly skunks. Got a hawk, too.

A hawk?

Big, beautiful red tail.

Oh, I'd love to meet them.

If your offer for food is still open, I... I'll do the cooking.

I'll accept.

All right, I'll get my horse and... And we'll be off.

Adam.

Now that there is a contrary woman.

First she says she won't have anything to do with our vittles, and now she says

she'll cook them for us.

Now, I tell you, a woman like that, it means nothing but trouble.

I'll bet you that's what she's going to fix for our vittles.

So your friend Adams knows all about bears.

Well, that's just about perfect.

I need a man like that to help me find that black bear.

And he's going to do just exactly that.

All right, Adams. We're ready.

I figured that woman would give us lessons in trouble.

Meanwhile... The coma was given lessons, too.

This time, Tacoma, the otters will not have our dinner.

I saw smoke.

It's burning.

Tatani had started a fire, all right. Only now it had spread to the leaves.

Tacoma knew he had to work fast and furious to beat out that fire before

flames spread to the forest.

With Tatani helping, he managed to get the job done, but not a minute too soon.

You built your fire too close to the lean -to.

The sparks might have set it on fire.

You should remember that fire is one of the most dangerous things in the

wilderness.

We all have to be careful.

I'm afraid I was thinking only of the fish.

The fish are still in the stream.

But now you have to build a new lean -to.

Okay, without a doubt.

The best blueberry pie I've ever eaten in my life. What do you think, Jack?

Well, it weren't bad.

It weren't bad?

Well, you breezed through that pie like you was as hungry as a winter wolf.

Where'd you learn how to cook like that?

Well, my mother passed away when I was very young.

And my father raised me at the frontier ports where he was stationed.

You know what army rations are like.

Mostly salt pork, beef jerky, hardtack.

So, out of self -preservation, I learned how to cook using the herbs, wild

fruits, and berries.

Oh, um...

I baked some wild raspberry tarts.

Would you like one?

One? How many did you bake?

Oh, well, I baked a dozen. Is that enough for you? Oh, I wasn't thinking of

myself. I was thinking of the animals.

Oh. Well, how generous of you to think of the animals first.

Don't you think so, Adams?

Oh, yes, ma 'am. Yes, ma 'am. Why, there's no one more devoted to critters

old Jack.

Well, you should see the way he looks after number seven.

It's almost become like a mountain legend.

Well, here you go, Ben.

That should satisfy your sweet tooth.

Here you go.

Don't be too generous with them. That isn't good for his digestion.

Oh. Thank you.

Could I just take a couple for number seven? We wouldn't want them to get

out like that. A heart attack, you know. Oh, here you are, Jack.

Thank you.

I'll just go give these to number seven.

Uh -huh.

Would you like one?

Oh, no, thanks. I'm full.

Look what I got for you.

Well,

I got some for you, too.

They are good.

Kate, there's something that's been puzzling me.

How come your pa's not traveling with you?

My father died in an accident a few months ago.

I'm sorry to hear that.

You lost your ma and your pa and your husband. That's quite a burden for you

be carrying. Is there anything I can do?

Well, thank you.

There may be.

You see, I'm gathering information on a book I'm writing about animals in the

wilderness. As a matter of fact, I've been following this beautiful black

But I lost track of her near where we first met.

There's a lot of bears in these mountains, Kate.

You think you could recognize that black bear again?

Yes.

I'll show you how.

This is the paw print of the bear.

I found the original print in some hardened mud.

And I made this...

Cast out of plaster of Paris.

Well, that was a real good idea.

It's a black bear, sure enough.

Look at here.

There's a tear right across the middle of the pad.

Mm -hmm. I don't think this bear's going to be too hard to follow. We didn't

know it at the time, but that black bear poking around the woods looking for

honeycombs was in for a heap of trouble from that stranger lady.

Just after dawn the next morning, while we was all still asleep, Kate left the

cabin. She was a -walking on cat's feet, you might say, because for what she was

intended to do, she didn't need no company, least of all ours. And she made

she didn't have any.

She had managed to slip past us, even though all of us, especially me, is...

Very light sleeper.

Kate was looking for that black bear.

And maybe some of those little animals she'd seen sensed it, because as soon as

they'd seen her, they'd turn tail and run. Something's scaring these animals.

Let's go and see it.

When she got to where she had last seen that bear, she...

Found some tracks. A paw print of a bear. Bear tracks.

And she didn't waste no time comparing those paw prints to the plaster cast she

had showed Adams.

No doubt about it.

Kate Larson had picked up the trail.

Well, it's the same bear, all right.

The paw prints match up perfectly.

All right, Bear.

Enjoy whatever time you have left, because this is the last day you walk

Earth.

Are you going to wash up?

No. I washed up last night before supper.

That ought to do me for a month.

Where's the female lady?

She still inside or sleeping?

No. She and the horse are both gone.

They could be upstream taking a bath.

Take a bath?

What for would she want to do that? You know, she could be out checking in on

that bear.

I ought to go up and see if I can help her.

Ben, you want to come along?

Why would anybody want to be looking at a bear this time of morning?

Yeah.

It is kind of early, ain't it?

Well, one thing that army life did for Kate was to teach her to get up and get

started early.

Army life.

Did I ever tell you about the time I was scouting for the U .S. of A. cavalry?

They sent in this young feller for me to shape up.

Little bitty feller he was.

Always on the move. Jumping around quick as a cat.

I said to him, what's your name, son?

He looked at me and he says, Christopher.

Christopher Carson, he says.

I says, well, you can't be a scout for the U .S. of A. army and have a name

Christopher. I says, you're always jumping around like... kitten and

I'm going to call you Kit.

Kit Carson, I call him.

After a good night's sleep, Nekoma and Tatani was all ready to start the day

with a good meal of fish.

Look, Nekoma, my trap's been pulled from the stream.

The wolves have had our breakfast, Nekoma.

You shouldn't have left it in the water. What else could I have done?

You could have hung it in a tree.

Remember that.

It's a hard lesson to learn, but a valuable one.

We'll need something to eat.

Go find some choke cherries and you can make ash cakes.

Because that black bear had crossed the stream, Kate lost the track.

Will? But he's still young.

Whoa.

Morning, Kate.

Oh, well, good morning, Mr. Adams.

And how are you, Ben Franklin?

Sure is a beautiful day for flying kites.

Yes, it is.

How come you left without asking us to help you track?

Oh, well, you were all sleeping so soundly this morning, especially Mr.

that I just didn't have the heart to disturb any of you.

Besides, I wanted to see how my bear starts out its day.

It entered the stream here and vanished.

Well, maybe Ben and I can help you pick up her trail.

Well, what if Ben spooks my bear?

Well, I think Ben's keen sense of smell will help us find that bear.

We'll just have old Ben stay downwind so he don't get a sniff of him.

Isn't that right, Ben?

Did you hear that, Kate?

Hear how Ben kept his voice down?

Now, if you're out here to learn about bears, Van's here to help you. All

if you say so, Mr. Adams.

Now, Josh, just because that female Kate baked all them raspberry tarts and hid

them around doesn't mean that she's got them in her bedroom.

She already had one plate full, which she didn't give me none of.

Look what you did. Got it all messed up.

Gotta get it straightened around her. She'll think I was into her.

Personal belongings.

Colonel J .E.

Bridgestone.

U .S. Army.

Old Jeff Bridgestone. So that's who her daddy was.

I gotta tell Adams about this.

While Adams and Ben was helping Kate look for that black bear, Adams was also

teaching Kate some of the facts of life in the forest.

Seeing two skunks looking like they was about to attack a wolf puzzled Kate

some.

Adams, has there ever been a time when a skunk would attack a wolf?

Well, sure.

To protect his home.

But that wolf over there?

Well, he's as friendly as Ben or Josh.

Well, despite what you say, someday someone's going to write a book on why

so -called peaceful animals still have the natural instinct to fight.

Just like soldiers.

Kate, there's certain things you have to learn about animals.

They'll fight to protect their homes and their territory.

It makes good sense to them.

Oh, come now, Adams. You're just romanticizing, saying that animals

rationally. They're just what they are, dumb beasts, the way the Almighty

intended them to be.

Oh.

No offense to you Ben you're an exception a remarkable exception As a

fact, I bet there's not another bear in the forest like you

Adams

wasn't the only one having trouble doling out lessons

Tatani was so intent on finding them chokeberries to redeem himself for

that fire, he didn't watch where he was going or where he'd been.

It was just a matter of time before he realized he was lost.

He'd come to know something else, how big that forest was and how easy it is

lose your way if you don't pay close attention.

Since Tatani was gone a lot longer than he should have been, Nikoma knew

something was wrong, so...

He went out to find him.

Titani had forgotten all about marking his trails, so all he did was wander

around in circles.

Knowing he was lost, he was getting more scared with every step he took.

Being an expert tracker, Nikoma picked up Titani's trail.

It was easy to follow since, like Titani, it was a going around in

Titani had just about given up hope of ever finding the coma when, all of a

sudden, there he was.

There wasn't a happier face in the forest.

The coma. I lost my way.

I know.

Let's see how you could have found it.

In what direction did you leave the camp?

North. When you can't see the sun, nature leaves signs to help you from

lost. The bark always grows thicker on the south side of the tree.

If you see an anthill, look for an entrance.

You, too, always face the south.

I should have marked my trail. Then I could have found my way back.

That's Nokoma, a cougar cub.

Do you think it needs help?

No, its mother won't be far away.

See?

There she comes to care for her young now.

My brother Adams will tell you that animals are like people.

And the mother cougar feels the same way about her young as your mother feels

about you.

The wilderness is strange, and yet...

In many ways, it is not strange at all.

That is true, Titani.

You still have much to learn.

But in time, you will come to know the wilderness as well as I do.

Titani had learned a lot of valuable lessons from the coma.

But in another part of the forest, Kate Larson still had to learn the biggest

lesson of her life.

Kate, there's your bear.

Oh, well, it sure looks like the one I'm after.

And, um,

Adam, thank you for taking me this far, but I think Ben is spooking my bear, and

I think it's important that I observe it in its natural habitat without any

disturbing elements.

Well, you could be right, Kate.

Well, I'll tell you what.

That wolf we saw back there, she just had a litter of pups.

Her den's not too far from here.

Ben and I will go pay her a visit, and if you need anything, just give us a

holler and we'll catch up with you.

Well, thank you. That's very kind of you.

Come on, Ben.

All right, there.

My father was old and careless.

But I'm ready for you.

And now there's no one here to save you.

Look how big you're getting.

Yes. I'm not going to be able to hold you much longer.

Where's your mama?

She out with your brothers and sisters?

Huh? Are you going to tell her I came by to see her?

Adams!

Adams! Up this way, Jack.

I got to talk to you.

What are you running for? There ain't no raspberry tarts up here.

I know that, but the female what baked him is here.

Well, what's wrong?

I don't know.

I got something important to tell you. What?

Well, I got a feeling that something terrible is going to happen if we don't

something about it.

You go play.

Now, Jack, just slow down.

Take a nice deep breath, and let's start from the beginning.

All right.

There I was, tidying up the cabin.

Tidying up the cabin? Well, not exactly. You see, what happened, Joshua got into

her goods and he was looking for some more of them raspberry tarts and he tore

it all up. Well, that don't sound so terrible.

Now, wait a minute. I was straightening it all up because I didn't want her to

think it was me.

And I was rolling up this army blanket and there was a name tag in it. And you

know what it said?

It said Colonel J .E.

Bridgestone.

Well, that's her papa.

You remember the story that was going around the settlement about the fellow

that come up here into the woods and got himself killed?

Well, I knew it weren't no accident.

Now, you told me that the colonel had come up here and fired on that bear and

missed, and the bear had got him before he could reload.

That's it, exactly. Now, wait a second.

Kate's ma is dead, and her husband died, and now her pa is dead.

Well, probably the only way she could get rid of that grief churning around

inside of her was to come up here and...

Try and kill that bear that kills her pa.

She's got to be half out of her head with revenge.

We got to get going. Come on.

My father never had a son to avenge his death.

But I'm just as good as any man with a gun.

Come on, bear, charge me. Come on, you killer, charge me like you did my

He was slow and he missed, but I won't.

I don't want to shoot you in the back. It's got to be face to face. Don't you

understand?

So you are a coward.

Like I said before, a woman with a gun is trouble.

You're moving fast, but you're not going to lose me this time.

But this one meant business.

And somehow all the critters knew it and scattered before her path like

tumbleweeds in a tornado.

I swear to you, Bear, wherever you go, I'll find you.

You notice how the critters are running for cover?

She's probably got that gun loaded and they're scaring the daylights out of

them. She's not too far behind that bear, but at least we're gaining on her.

I can guess where that old bear's headed, Jack.

Right for his den.

I'm going to take a shortcut.

Jake was running after that bear for all she was worth.

And like Adam's fingered, The bear was heading for its den, all right, with

and her gun not far behind.

Come on, bear.

Make a move.

I'm your judge, jury, and executioner, and I find you guilty of murder in the

first degree with no recommendation for mercy.

Come on, bear.

I'm going to give you one last sporting chance.

Come on, rush me now.

Then it's either you or me.

Come on, bear.

Don't shoot!

Stand right there, Adams.

I don't want to hurt you. It's this bear I'm after.

What'd this bear ever do to you?

It killed my father.

I'm here to use this on the bear, not on a human being, so don't force me. This

is Kate.

Jack.

Just because I'm a woman doesn't mean I don't know how to handle this gun.

My father taught me how to shoot when I was ten years old.

Adams, I like Ben.

I don't want to hurt him or any of you. Ben, stay right where you are.

Now, Kate, you said something to me one time that humans act in rational ways.

They use their brain.

Well, let me reason this thing out with you before you do something you're going

to regret.

It's gone past the talking stage.

Well, you haven't. Not yet.

Kate, I want you to ask yourself something.

This is a peaceable bear.

There had to be some reason for him to attack your father.

Something we don't know about, maybe.

Or maybe something you know and you're hiding from us. I'm not trying to hide

anything. I heard about your father down at the settlement.

Now, word is he shot at a bear and missed.

That's enough to make any bear charge.

No, Jack.

I think it's more than that.

Kate being a rational woman, maybe she can help us figure this thing out.

We'll learn the truth.

Or maybe she's afraid.

I'm not afraid of anything.

Now, I know about Army colonels.

I've scouted for hundreds of them.

I know how they hunt.

They like to pull down a bear and nail its hide to the wall or make a rug out

it.

Now, that ain't my idea of a hero.

My father wasn't like that.

He was a brave and courageous man. You ask anyone.

I'm not asking anyone, Kate.

I'm asking you.

Why was your pa hunting this bear?

Because he loved to hunt.

I won't stand here and listen to you two civilians ruin the reputation of a dead

soldier.

He was a fine man.

He was a fine man and officer.

Maybe your dad wasn't a hero just this one time in his life.

See that bear cub?

That bear is a female.

That's right. She is a female.

And she's a mother.

Did you know that?

No. Not until now.

Any man that calls himself a sporting hunter wouldn't shoot a female critter.

My father wouldn't do that. He didn't know.

Are you sure?

You didn't know him. He wasn't that sort of man.

Could it be that that black bear, the mother, was just trying to protect her

cub, and your father threatened him, used that cub as bait to trap the bear?

He wouldn't. He wouldn't. Kate, I know you love your father, but killing this

bear is not going to bring him back. It's only going to leave this cub an

orphan. Is that what revenge is all about?

I don't want revenge.

I want justice. What kind of justice, Kate?

Isn't it possible that on that hunting trip, your father made one mistake?

And that's what cost him his life.

No.

I don't know. I know you think your father was a great man, and you wanted

to die a hero. He was a great man.

Sure he was, Kate.

But isn't it true that he was so intent on proving his skill as a hunter, and he

wanted to bring that bearskin back so bad to show off that he used this little

cub to bait its mother?

No! Is that the truth, Kate?

Is that the truth?

Kate, tell me.

Isn't it true?

All right.

When my father's guide brought his body down, he told me what happened.

You're right.

He did use the cover's bait.

And the guide didn't stop him?

He wouldn't listen. My father wouldn't listen to him.

When he was out in the wilderness and hunting, he just became a different man.

And it cost him his life.

I'm sorry, Kate.

All that bear was trying to do was just to protect its cub.

Just like a human parent would have done.

Just like your father would have done if you were in danger.

And that's just the way it is.

Thanks to Adams, that bear family was saved from harm now, and Kate was saved

too.

save from the hate that had been eating her up for so long.

You all back, Kate?

All ready to go.

Jack's given me enough supplies to get me all the way to the Atlantic Ocean.

Kate,

what are you going to be doing now?

Well, before when I told you I was going to be writing about animals, I was just

pretending.

But I've learned so much here from you that I'm going to be serious about it.

Well, just what sort of stories are you going to be writing about?

Like animal stories?

Nope, no fiction.

I'm going to write the truth.

My father had friends on newspapers in Washington.

Maybe they'll print my articles so people can come to, well, understand the

wilderness. Well, that sounds good to me.

Folks need to know all they can about animals.

I hope the men in Congress will read my articles.

Maybe I can persuade them to take a good look at the wilderness the way you see

it. And maybe they'll preserve it as a place where people can come to enjoy the

animals, not hunt them.

Well, if you can do that, Kate, I'll thank you right kindly.

I know the animals will, too.

Bye, Jack.

Bye.

Bye, Ben.

Thank you, Adam. Bye, Kate, and good luck.

Come on, boy, let's get going.

Totani, we're all very proud of you.

Soon you're going to become a brave.

I've carved this buffalo for you so you remember your days of testing.

It's for you, Totani.

And when you want to complete your education about the wilderness, you come

old Mad Jack.

And I'll teach you the mountain man ways. Why, I've crossed icy glaciers.

crossed... Totani and Nokoma have to go. Now that Totani's passed his test, he's

earned the right to be president of the tribal council meetings.

So Nokoma's going to take him.

Good luck, Totani.

Totani?

Diwagalik. Diwagalik.

I got something for you.

I think it's just a bunch of paper.

Let's open it up and see.

You didn't peek, did you?

No.

Look at that.

It's a wilderness story by Kate Larson.

Well, now, ain't that just like a greenhorn?

Spends two minutes in the wilderness and goes home and writes a whole book about

it.

She wants me to read her manuscript and help her make some corrections.

Wait, wait, look at that.

Dedicated to my friend James Adams, who taught me respect for all creatures of

the wilderness.

And listen to this, Ben.

And to my friend Ben, the kindest and gentlest of them all.

Isn't that nice?

That seems that Kate learned something, too.

Love can overcome hate and help you respect all living things.

Isn't that right, Ben?

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