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♪ [ trumpet ]
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There was a time
when women were
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as scarce in the Dakotas
as plug hats and good whiskey.
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In an era of hardship
and violence,
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there was good reason
to leave the ladies behind,
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but as the men
fenced their homesteads
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and built their houses of sod,
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they began to long
for the sight and sound
of a woman,
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for someone to take the edge
off the hard life
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and the loneliness
of the plains.
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But what could induce a woman
to come to the cruel Dakotas,
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blazing under the summer sun,
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stormed swept in winter?
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We'll find out now
in a story we call...
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[ wagon approaching ]
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[ thick Swedish accent ]
Whoa, Stor.
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Whoa, boy.
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Good day, Mr. Mudd.
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Howdy, Gustav.
You meeting the stage?
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Yeah. Do you have
the thing I ordered?
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The mattress and that
new-fangled hay-burning stove?
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Come in Tuesday last.
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Good, good.
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Uh... who are you meeting?
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I'm, uh, meeting a lady.
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A lady?
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Ja.
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[ laughs ]
You bought yourself a bride,
huh, Gustav?
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A bride. Ja.
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But I did not buy her.
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We know each other
already in Sweden.
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You mean she came all the way
from Sweden to marry you?
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Ja,sure.
It was agreed before I left.
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Well, Gustav,
that's been, uh...
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Seven years.
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It was seven years ago
I come here to homestead.
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Hey, boys, give us a hand
with that stove, will ya?
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You ain't seen her
in all that time?
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No, but we
write each other.
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Be careful with it, boys.
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It's brand new.
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That's it.
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What took her so
long to get here?
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Well, there was
no money before.
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Everything I could save
went to this day.
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[ laughs ]
Thank you.
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A lady.
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Here in Landscape.
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A pretty little gal.
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She is pretty now,
ain't she, Gustav?
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She used to be.
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Well, that don't
matter none.
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Ain't enough of them
you can be choosy.
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Getting here
is hard enough, but...
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getting them to stay,
that's another thing.
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Uh, Britta will stay.
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Yeah. I remember my woman.
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She come from the east
to marry a rancher
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over in Stone Creek.
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He was scalped
by the Indians
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before she got here, so...
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I took her instead.
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I did not know
you were married.
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Yeah, we had us a soddy
over on a quarter section
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about 20 miles from here.
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It was 10 months before
she saw another woman.
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Then we got word this Swede
had settled on a claim nearby
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and brought his bride with him.
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Maggie walked over six miles
just to see her,
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and when the two of them
looked at each other,
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they plum busted down
and cried.
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That's how hungry
they was for a female voice.
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Funny part of it was,
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that Swedish woman
couldn't speak any English,
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and Maggie didn't know Swede.
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Where is your wife now?
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I don't know.
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She left when
the grasshoppers come.
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She said she didn't mind
the cold and the heat,
and hauling water.
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When them insects ate up
her lace curtains,
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that was just too much.
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[ horses approaching ]
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Why, here comes the stage.
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Yeah.
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Well, I hope you have
better luck than I did, Gustav.
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Britta will be happy here.
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She is not a woman
to fuss about little things,
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like curtains.
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Hey, Ed.
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Britta.
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Gustav.
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Oh, it has been
a long time.
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Ja.
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There is much
I have to tell you.
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Yes, Gustav.
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About--
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About the farm.
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It's a good farm.
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Yes, yes.
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Britta.
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[ thud ][ both gasp ]
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MAN:
Yeah, yeah.
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[ thud ]
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Oh, my trousseau.
Please be careful!
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What is it?
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It's my trousseau.
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All my beautiful things
for our new house.
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Tablecloths, bedspreads.
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Please, Gustav,
tell them to be careful.
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Ja, ja.
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Easy, boys.
Easy.
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Thank you.
Thank you.
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MUDD:
It's very heavy,
hey, Gustav?
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Ja, ja.
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Thank you.
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Oh, Mr. Mudd,
this is Britta.
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Britta, Mr. Mudd.
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How do you do?
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It's a pleasure, ma'am.
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You know the town of Landscape
don't see too many fine ladies.
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Last one through was
with a traveling carnival.
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Cowpokes came from miles around
just to take a look at her.
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They was a little
disappointed, though.
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Lady had a beard.
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[ Mudd laughs ]
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[ clears throat ]
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Oh, I better go and see
if that stage driver
needs a drink.
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Ja, ja.
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You take good care
of her, now, Gustav.
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We want her to stay.
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GUSTAV:
She will stay.
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I picked you some flowers.
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They're in here
somewhere.
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Prairie flowers.Oh.
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They don't be so good
very long in the heat.
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Oh, well, yes,
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but it was very kind
of you, anyway.
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Ja.We go now.
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We must hurry.
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The preacher is waiting.
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The preacher is waiting?
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Ja,sure,
so we can be married.
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But I just got here.
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That is why you are here,
to marry me.
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Gustav, it has
been seven years.
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I thought we had time
to get acquainted.
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It is a long way
to the farm.
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It will be two weeks before
I come back to town.
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We get married now.
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We get acquainted later.
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[ spurs horse ]
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And now, Britta,
do you take Gustav
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to be your lawful,
wedded husband,
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to love and to cherish,
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to honor and obey,
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in sickness and in health,
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till death do you part?
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I do.
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I now pronounce you
man and wife.
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Well, Gustav,
kiss the bride.
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Oh, ja.
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I'll ride out to see you
in a week or two.
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I'll hope you'll
like it here.
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I'll tell you something.
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The men,
they open up a country.
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Clear it, fence it,
plow it, plant it,
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but it takes the women
to gentle it down
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and make it respectable.
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The Dakotas won't
amount to anything
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until the ladies come.
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Goodbye.Goodbye.
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Goodbye.
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[ spurs horse ]
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May the lord go with you.
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Gustav? Ja?
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We are going
the wrong way.
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Why do you say that?
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Well, there's
nothing out there.
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Nothing?
Out there is home.
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Home?
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I'm glad you're here,
Britta.
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Are you, Gustav?
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Ja.
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It is no good for a man
to live alone on the prairie,
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no one to talk to,
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no one to make the soap
or milk the cows.
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Now that you're here,
I will have time to make
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the fences strong.
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Gustav? Ja?
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Have I changed?
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You are more beautiful
than I remember.
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But you are pale.
The sun will change that.
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And you are skinny.
Too skinny.
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The axle is broke.
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I cannot fix it.
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We do not have the tools.
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What do we do now?
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We ride Stor.
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I come back in the morning,
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make the wagon
as good as new.
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Oh, Gustav,
I'm so tired.
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Uh--
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My friends, the Browns,
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they live just a few miles
down the road.
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Maybe I leave you
with them for tonight.
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[ Britta groans ]
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Dan?
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Gustav and Britta
are coming.
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Why, Gustav never told us
she was so lovely.
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No lovelier
than my bride.
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Such nonsense.
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Whoa, Stor.
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Thank you.
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Mary, Dan,
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this is my wife.
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Howdy, Ms. Olenson.How do you do?
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Britta, it's so good
to see another woman out here.
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I hope you like to listen,
because I've stored up
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half a year of female talk?
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Your wagon break down,
Gustav?
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Ja.About four miles back.
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Well, let's go fix it.
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No, it is late,
and Britta's tired.
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Can you give her a place
to sleep for tonight?
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I come back in the morning
and fix the wagon.
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She's welcome to stay.
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And you, too, Gustav.
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No, I must get on.
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I have the livestock to water
and the cows to milk.
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Good night, Britta.
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Tomorrow I take you home.
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Goodnight, Gustav.
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[ spurs horse ]
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You'll sleep here.
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It's not very fancy.
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Next year we hope to save
enough for a real floor.
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Still it's better
than when I came.
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There wasn't
even a bedstead.
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All Dan needed to make
of his bed was a hole.
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Where will you sleep?
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We'll put a tent
down by the stove.
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Oh, no. I couldn't do that.
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Nonsense.
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You need the privacy.
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A place to catch up
on your thoughts.
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Things have happened
awfully fast for you, I know.
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I don't think I could
ever get used to it.
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Of course you can.
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No.
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All the way from Sweden,
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on the boat, on the train,
in the stage.
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I could only think that,
"soon, I will be with Gustav,
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"and he will make me forget
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all my fears
and my homesickness,"
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but he's a stranger.
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It takes time to bridge
seven years of waiting.
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Wait a little.
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If you love him,
it will be.
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Now, close your eyes,
Britta.
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Do not open them
until I tell you.
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[ chuckles ]
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Whoa, Stor.
Whoa, boy.
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Now.
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There it is, Britta.
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You see, our home.
266
00:13:36,119 --> 00:13:36,946
Well, what you think?
267
00:13:38,469 --> 00:13:40,297
But it's made of dirt!
268
00:13:40,341 --> 00:13:43,039
Yeah, sure, it is soddy,
269
00:13:43,083 --> 00:13:45,085
but it is better than most.
270
00:13:45,128 --> 00:13:46,477
There are not many hills
in this country
271
00:13:46,521 --> 00:13:49,219
to surround a house
with strong walls.
272
00:13:49,263 --> 00:13:51,656
Come, I show you.
273
00:14:05,366 --> 00:14:08,369
On the hottest day,
it is cool in here,
274
00:14:08,412 --> 00:14:11,024
and in the winter,
when the wind cuts
like a knife,
275
00:14:11,067 --> 00:14:13,200
you will be snug.
276
00:14:13,243 --> 00:14:15,550
Oh, see the windows?
277
00:14:16,943 --> 00:14:17,944
Feel.
278
00:14:17,987 --> 00:14:19,380
Feel.
279
00:14:19,423 --> 00:14:20,424
That is real glass.
280
00:14:20,468 --> 00:14:21,425
[sighs wearily]
281
00:14:21,469 --> 00:14:23,688
It is a surprise
for you.
282
00:14:27,518 --> 00:14:29,869
[ screams ]
283
00:14:31,653 --> 00:14:34,917
[ sobs ]Little Britta.
284
00:14:34,961 --> 00:14:35,918
Little Britta.
285
00:14:35,962 --> 00:14:38,399
I won't live
in a mud house,
286
00:14:38,442 --> 00:14:40,096
and I won't live
in a house where
287
00:14:40,140 --> 00:14:43,056
animals lie
in the living room.
288
00:14:44,492 --> 00:14:47,538
I build a fence
to keep the animals
away from the house.
289
00:14:48,583 --> 00:14:51,934
This is not a house.
It's a cave.
290
00:14:51,978 --> 00:14:53,588
And I will not
live in it!
291
00:14:53,631 --> 00:14:55,982
[ sobs ]Britta...
292
00:14:58,941 --> 00:15:00,943
My trousseau.
293
00:15:00,987 --> 00:15:04,120
Oh, there's not a place
in all the county
294
00:15:04,164 --> 00:15:07,254
for my beautiful
trousseau.
295
00:15:07,297 --> 00:15:08,995
Britta, I warn you.
296
00:15:09,038 --> 00:15:10,692
This is no way
for a wife to behave.
297
00:15:10,735 --> 00:15:13,869
Then I will
not be your wife.
298
00:15:13,913 --> 00:15:16,916
I'm sorry
I ever left Sweden,
299
00:15:16,959 --> 00:15:20,832
and I'm sorry I waited
for you for seven years.
300
00:15:21,877 --> 00:15:23,487
Very well, then.
301
00:15:23,531 --> 00:15:25,011
It is settled.
302
00:15:25,054 --> 00:15:26,751
You do not have to stay.
303
00:15:42,593 --> 00:15:44,117
Dan.
304
00:15:56,042 --> 00:15:57,608
Whoa, Stor.
305
00:15:59,306 --> 00:16:00,960
What's this?
306
00:16:01,003 --> 00:16:02,613
I've come to say goodbye.
307
00:16:18,455 --> 00:16:20,980
A quarrel so soon, Gustav?
308
00:16:21,023 --> 00:16:23,069
Britta do not wish to stay.
309
00:16:24,592 --> 00:16:26,550
Well, I can't say
as I blame her.
310
00:16:27,725 --> 00:16:28,813
Still, it's a shame,
her, uh,
311
00:16:28,857 --> 00:16:31,077
coming all the way
out here and all.
312
00:16:31,120 --> 00:16:33,035
Guess there ain't nothing
you can do about it.
313
00:16:33,079 --> 00:16:34,036
No.
314
00:16:34,080 --> 00:16:35,429
They say, sometimes,
315
00:16:35,472 --> 00:16:36,952
you time 'em up
for a few days,
316
00:16:36,996 --> 00:16:37,997
they change their mind.
317
00:16:39,085 --> 00:16:40,956
That is for the rancher.
318
00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:43,306
I do not want a wife
I can only keep with a rope.
319
00:16:43,350 --> 00:16:46,048
Give her a little time, Gustav.
320
00:16:46,092 --> 00:16:47,223
Maybe she'll
change her mind.
321
00:16:47,267 --> 00:16:49,051
Maybe she will,
322
00:16:49,095 --> 00:16:50,226
but then I change mine.
323
00:16:50,270 --> 00:16:53,142
I never should have
brought her here.
324
00:16:53,186 --> 00:16:55,014
I thought she was different.
325
00:16:55,057 --> 00:16:57,059
I thought she was strong.
I thought--
326
00:16:57,103 --> 00:16:58,408
I thought she would like it.
327
00:16:58,452 --> 00:17:01,890
You had seven years
to adjust to this country.
328
00:17:01,933 --> 00:17:05,111
You expected her
to do it in two days?
329
00:17:05,154 --> 00:17:07,896
I expected her to share
the life I have had here.
330
00:17:07,939 --> 00:17:09,941
I thought she would
be happy, like--
331
00:17:09,985 --> 00:17:11,073
like anything.
332
00:17:11,117 --> 00:17:13,510
Talk to her, Gustav.
333
00:17:13,554 --> 00:17:14,990
It's no good.
334
00:17:31,006 --> 00:17:32,399
Don't leave him,
Britta.
335
00:17:36,098 --> 00:17:39,101
He's not the Gustav
I remember.
336
00:17:39,145 --> 00:17:42,974
He used to be
so gentle and tender.
337
00:17:43,018 --> 00:17:45,934
Not once had he made me feel
that he wants me here,
338
00:17:45,977 --> 00:17:49,546
except to mend and wash
his dirty shirts.
339
00:17:49,590 --> 00:17:52,071
Well, it's hard
for him to say it,
340
00:17:52,114 --> 00:17:53,202
but he loves you.
341
00:17:53,246 --> 00:17:55,813
You wouldn't understand
what it means
342
00:17:55,857 --> 00:17:58,816
to come to a new country
and marry a man
343
00:17:58,860 --> 00:18:00,557
who's a stranger to you.
344
00:18:00,601 --> 00:18:02,994
You mean, Gustav
never told you?
345
00:18:03,038 --> 00:18:06,172
Tell me what?
346
00:18:06,215 --> 00:18:10,480
Why, child,
I was a mail-order bride.
347
00:18:10,524 --> 00:18:14,049
Dan sent for me,
sight unseen,
348
00:18:14,093 --> 00:18:18,053
and I came because
it was the only way
I could get a man.
349
00:18:18,097 --> 00:18:21,274
Oh, Mary.
I'm so sorry, I didn't know.
350
00:18:24,581 --> 00:18:27,106
Back home, I was
a regular wallflower.
351
00:18:29,978 --> 00:18:33,024
There wasn't a man
who ever looked at me twice.
352
00:18:34,113 --> 00:18:37,072
I lived with my father
until I was 30, and...
353
00:18:37,116 --> 00:18:39,335
when he died, I was
suddenly very alone.
354
00:18:40,989 --> 00:18:42,904
I read in the papers
how scarce
355
00:18:42,947 --> 00:18:45,994
unmarried women
were out here.
356
00:18:46,037 --> 00:18:48,214
The saying went that
farmers and ranchers
357
00:18:48,257 --> 00:18:50,955
would marry anything
that got off the stage.
358
00:18:50,999 --> 00:18:53,219
Some of them even
advertised for wives.
359
00:18:54,568 --> 00:18:57,440
After a few more
lonely years,
360
00:18:57,484 --> 00:19:00,965
I began reading
those notices seriously.
361
00:19:01,009 --> 00:19:03,185
Then, one day
I picked up my pen
362
00:19:03,229 --> 00:19:05,883
and wrote an answer.
363
00:19:05,927 --> 00:19:07,146
That's how I met Dan.
364
00:19:08,234 --> 00:19:09,539
We never laid eyes
on each other
365
00:19:09,583 --> 00:19:10,888
until the day
we were married.
366
00:19:10,932 --> 00:19:14,414
And you did not
have any doubts?
367
00:19:14,457 --> 00:19:16,938
Of course I did.
368
00:19:16,981 --> 00:19:18,853
When Dan sent me
the railroad ticket,
369
00:19:18,896 --> 00:19:20,768
I almost didn't come.
370
00:19:20,811 --> 00:19:23,162
I'd heard of other girls who'd
turn the tickets in for money.
371
00:19:25,294 --> 00:19:28,079
But his letters had
a loneliness to match mine.
372
00:19:29,951 --> 00:19:31,082
You have been happy?
373
00:19:32,171 --> 00:19:35,130
Oh, yes.
374
00:19:35,174 --> 00:19:36,175
When I stepped off the train,
375
00:19:36,218 --> 00:19:38,699
I felt so exposed,
376
00:19:38,742 --> 00:19:41,136
so unready,
377
00:19:41,180 --> 00:19:43,617
and there he was.
378
00:19:43,660 --> 00:19:46,097
The wonder of it was not
that I loved him so easily...
379
00:19:48,187 --> 00:19:49,840
but he loved me.
380
00:19:50,798 --> 00:19:51,929
Mary,
381
00:19:51,973 --> 00:19:55,368
we could have
been friends.
382
00:19:55,411 --> 00:19:57,979
Are you sure
you want to leave?
383
00:19:58,022 --> 00:20:00,199
[ door opens ]
384
00:20:03,985 --> 00:20:07,162
Gustav says you better hurry,
or you'll miss the stage.
385
00:20:37,932 --> 00:20:39,150
Whoop, Stor.
386
00:20:58,561 --> 00:20:59,823
Whoa, Stor.[ commotion in saloon ]
387
00:20:59,867 --> 00:21:00,868
Well, now.
388
00:21:00,911 --> 00:21:02,739
If it ain't the newly-weds.
389
00:21:02,783 --> 00:21:04,785
Back so soon, huh?
390
00:21:04,828 --> 00:21:07,875
You ain't letting her
get away, are you Gustav?
391
00:21:07,918 --> 00:21:10,791
Britta do not
like it here.
392
00:21:10,834 --> 00:21:13,141
Doggone it, Gustav,
393
00:21:13,184 --> 00:21:15,099
I don't know how you could
look out across the prairie
394
00:21:15,143 --> 00:21:18,407
and not be reminded
of those big, brown eyes.
395
00:21:18,451 --> 00:21:21,149
Mr. Mudd, the stage
not leave yet?
396
00:21:22,150 --> 00:21:24,283
It's, uh...
397
00:21:24,326 --> 00:21:25,849
due any time now.
398
00:21:25,893 --> 00:21:27,242
Good.
399
00:21:27,286 --> 00:21:29,853
Bringing us
a whole load of gals.
400
00:21:29,897 --> 00:21:31,942
Boys are inside
celebrating already.
401
00:22:04,192 --> 00:22:07,195
You want me
to write to you, Gustav?
402
00:22:07,238 --> 00:22:09,502
Just to let me know
you arrived safe.
403
00:22:10,720 --> 00:22:11,939
All right.
404
00:22:11,982 --> 00:22:13,723
[ stage approaching ]
405
00:22:13,767 --> 00:22:17,074
That will be the stage.
406
00:22:17,118 --> 00:22:18,075
Ja.
407
00:22:18,119 --> 00:22:20,556
You better leave now.
408
00:22:20,600 --> 00:22:22,253
I'll be all right.
409
00:22:22,297 --> 00:22:23,516
Are you sure?
410
00:22:23,559 --> 00:22:25,039
Yes.
411
00:22:26,562 --> 00:22:28,825
Well.
412
00:22:28,869 --> 00:22:30,784
Goodbye.
413
00:22:30,827 --> 00:22:32,176
Goodbye.
414
00:22:35,136 --> 00:22:36,311
[ horses approaching ]
415
00:22:36,355 --> 00:22:37,530
[ men whooping ]
416
00:22:41,447 --> 00:22:44,145
Hey, here comes the girls!
417
00:22:44,188 --> 00:22:47,931
[ men clamoring ]
418
00:22:47,975 --> 00:22:49,455
Whoopee!
419
00:22:49,498 --> 00:22:53,372
[ all cheering ]
420
00:22:53,415 --> 00:22:55,722
MAN:
Well, howdy there. Hey!
421
00:23:01,641 --> 00:23:03,686
This one's mine.
422
00:23:09,388 --> 00:23:10,389
Get your hands
off my wife.
423
00:23:10,432 --> 00:23:11,999
Ah!
424
00:23:23,097 --> 00:23:25,578
Britta?Yes, Gustav?
425
00:23:25,621 --> 00:23:29,408
You are going to learn
to live in a soddy.Yes, Gustav.
426
00:23:29,451 --> 00:23:32,454
You will get used to
the snakes, and the heat,
and the prairie.
427
00:23:32,498 --> 00:23:33,934
Yes, Gustav.
428
00:23:33,977 --> 00:23:35,762
And when the time comes,
429
00:23:35,805 --> 00:23:39,679
you will give me sons
to help with the planting
and the harvest.
430
00:23:39,722 --> 00:23:41,420
Yes, Gustav.
431
00:23:52,953 --> 00:23:55,999
Britta, it's time to go home.
432
00:24:08,098 --> 00:24:10,318
The men who homesteaded
the Dakotas couldn't offer
433
00:24:10,361 --> 00:24:12,320
their women much more
than a sod house
434
00:24:12,363 --> 00:24:15,279
with a dirt floor and a window
overlooking the prairie,
435
00:24:15,323 --> 00:24:16,803
but that didn't
seem to matter.
436
00:24:16,846 --> 00:24:18,805
Wherever Britta
and women like her
437
00:24:18,848 --> 00:24:21,155
found the love of a good man,
438
00:24:21,198 --> 00:24:22,678
there they stayed.
439
00:24:22,722 --> 00:24:24,463
There was home.
440
00:24:24,506 --> 00:24:26,900
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of our Western heritage.
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