1 00:01:16,577 --> 00:01:19,544 March 10th, 1867. 2 00:01:21,382 --> 00:01:24,182 The events of this day have been extraordinary, 3 00:01:24,218 --> 00:01:26,551 indeed almost frightening. 4 00:01:28,422 --> 00:01:32,290 I had expected to live out the rest of my days here in Indiana. 5 00:01:32,326 --> 00:01:34,225 Here where I was born... 6 00:01:34,261 --> 00:01:37,862 - -Was married and gave birth to my two children. 7 00:01:37,898 --> 00:01:40,231 Within a week, I will never again 8 00:01:40,267 --> 00:01:42,967 be able to call Huntingburg my home. 9 00:01:43,003 --> 00:01:45,970 It seemed like any other day 10 00:01:46,006 --> 00:01:47,772 most of the day through 11 00:01:47,808 --> 00:01:50,441 until late this afternoon. 12 00:01:50,478 --> 00:01:53,144 Jeremy was at school, 13 00:01:53,180 --> 00:01:54,445 as was Sarah. 14 00:01:54,482 --> 00:01:56,781 And then our lives were overturned. 15 00:02:00,721 --> 00:02:02,854 Strange are the ways of men. 16 00:02:02,890 --> 00:02:07,024 John and I have been man and wife for some 13 years now. 17 00:02:07,061 --> 00:02:09,160 Yet in matters of importance, 18 00:02:09,196 --> 00:02:12,697 he consults me no more than he does the children. 19 00:02:12,733 --> 00:02:15,066 And today, once again, 20 00:02:15,102 --> 00:02:19,070 he made this incomprehensible decision 21 00:02:19,106 --> 00:02:20,905 no differently. 22 00:02:20,941 --> 00:02:23,040 He hadn't a thought for my wishes. 23 00:02:32,786 --> 00:02:36,120 I'd intended to tell John tonight of my condition, 24 00:02:36,157 --> 00:02:40,458 my mind being fixed on this happiest of circumstances. 25 00:02:40,494 --> 00:02:43,227 I was pulling from the basket the things saved 26 00:02:43,264 --> 00:02:45,096 as Sarah outgrew them. 27 00:02:52,306 --> 00:02:55,239 Whoa! Sarah! Ho! 28 00:02:57,044 --> 00:02:59,310 Jeremy! Come over here! 29 00:02:59,346 --> 00:03:01,012 Maggie? 30 00:03:03,317 --> 00:03:05,950 Maggie, we're going to Nebraska! 31 00:03:05,986 --> 00:03:08,286 - Where's Nebraska? - There's a man in town 32 00:03:08,322 --> 00:03:11,455 from the union pacific railroad. He's selling land 33 00:03:11,492 --> 00:03:14,425 for homesteading. Good land, the finest. 34 00:03:14,461 --> 00:03:16,761 No need to clear it and rich for the planting. 35 00:03:16,797 --> 00:03:19,897 - Where's Nebraska? - And I bought it. 36 00:03:19,934 --> 00:03:23,501 The whole 80 acres permitted... that's only $4 an acre! 37 00:03:24,605 --> 00:03:26,437 Where is Nebraska? 38 00:03:26,473 --> 00:03:29,574 My geography book says it's in the middle of the great American desert. 39 00:03:29,610 --> 00:03:32,143 Nonsense. It's out west... 40 00:03:32,179 --> 00:03:33,311 On the prairie. 41 00:03:33,347 --> 00:03:35,513 Out west where the Indians are? 42 00:03:35,549 --> 00:03:37,682 Uh-huh! 43 00:03:37,718 --> 00:03:39,850 And I've made plans, Maggie. 44 00:03:39,887 --> 00:03:44,488 We'll take the train. They've laid track to grand island 45 00:03:44,525 --> 00:03:46,791 and we can outfit a wagon for settlement there. 46 00:03:46,827 --> 00:03:48,426 Our land stretches from here 47 00:03:48,462 --> 00:03:50,561 to here to here to here! 48 00:03:50,598 --> 00:03:53,364 John, are you serious? 49 00:03:53,400 --> 00:03:55,800 But of course! 50 00:03:55,836 --> 00:03:59,737 But Mr. Colfax promised to make the store over to you. 51 00:03:59,773 --> 00:04:02,139 You can't mean to give that up? 52 00:04:02,176 --> 00:04:04,875 Mr. Colfax gives hints, not promises. 53 00:04:06,580 --> 00:04:08,779 John, you... you haven't handled a plow 54 00:04:08,816 --> 00:04:10,982 since you were a boy on your father's farm. 55 00:04:11,018 --> 00:04:13,618 Don't you worry about that, Maggie. 56 00:04:13,654 --> 00:04:15,586 What about the children's schooling? 57 00:04:15,623 --> 00:04:17,021 There will be. 58 00:04:17,057 --> 00:04:20,458 The railroad's building whole new towns for settlers. 59 00:04:20,494 --> 00:04:24,595 But what of all our things? The furniture? 60 00:04:24,632 --> 00:04:26,297 Well, we'll sell it, of course. 61 00:04:26,333 --> 00:04:28,299 It's our money in the bank for everything we need. 62 00:04:28,335 --> 00:04:32,436 But this is our home. I don't want to go anyplace else! 63 00:04:40,481 --> 00:04:42,113 Maggie. 64 00:04:49,757 --> 00:04:51,255 Maggie. 65 00:04:54,228 --> 00:04:56,827 Why don't you grow up and see things as they are? 66 00:04:59,033 --> 00:05:02,133 I'm a clerk in a drugstore... 67 00:05:03,671 --> 00:05:06,404 Living in a house I don't own. 68 00:05:06,440 --> 00:05:08,639 This is my chance. 69 00:05:10,344 --> 00:05:13,611 A man must have land. It's his only surety. 70 00:05:15,316 --> 00:05:18,949 And I'll never have enough money to buy land here in Indiana. 71 00:05:18,986 --> 00:05:22,086 Land of our own, Maggie. 72 00:05:22,122 --> 00:05:24,922 We'll turn it into an Eden 73 00:05:24,958 --> 00:05:26,791 for all of us. 74 00:05:30,297 --> 00:05:32,229 I'd best be going. 75 00:05:32,266 --> 00:05:34,432 We'll leave in a week. 76 00:05:34,468 --> 00:05:37,068 The children can miss the school year. 77 00:05:37,104 --> 00:05:40,404 No more school, no more school! I've gotta go tell Bennie! 78 00:05:40,441 --> 00:05:43,974 I'll want to get a crop in. So the sooner we leave, the better. 79 00:05:49,750 --> 00:05:52,717 We won't be here for the maypole dance. 80 00:05:52,753 --> 00:05:56,320 But Clarissa and I have worked out our steps and everything. 81 00:05:56,357 --> 00:05:59,323 Seems to me if somebody's gonna do something for somebody else, 82 00:05:59,360 --> 00:06:02,393 they ought to ask 'em first. 83 00:06:02,429 --> 00:06:04,862 Now I won't get my new dress! 84 00:06:08,469 --> 00:06:12,503 Maggie's voice: John will be much angered that I didn't tell him of the baby. 85 00:06:12,539 --> 00:06:15,639 But I can't tell him now. 86 00:06:15,676 --> 00:06:19,610 But am I so childish not to want to go off into the wilderness? 87 00:06:21,682 --> 00:06:23,814 Why? Why must we go? 88 00:06:23,851 --> 00:06:26,650 How am I to ride in a wagon over rough roads 89 00:06:26,687 --> 00:06:28,619 carrying our child? 90 00:06:31,492 --> 00:06:33,824 A thought has just occurred: 91 00:06:33,861 --> 00:06:36,927 What if there are no roads, rough or otherwise, 92 00:06:36,964 --> 00:06:38,462 in Nebraska? 93 00:06:49,309 --> 00:06:51,308 March 27th. 94 00:06:51,345 --> 00:06:55,146 Is it barely one week since we left home? 95 00:06:55,182 --> 00:06:57,782 The trip seems endless. 96 00:06:57,818 --> 00:07:00,951 The ride is uncomfortable and dirty. 97 00:07:00,988 --> 00:07:05,456 Oh, I ought not to complain. All of us seem to be thriving, 98 00:07:05,492 --> 00:07:08,325 even my secret companion. 99 00:07:08,362 --> 00:07:11,262 We have changed trains often. 100 00:07:11,298 --> 00:07:13,798 And of course, I've brought too much with us. 101 00:07:13,834 --> 00:07:16,267 John would be angry with me were it not for the fact 102 00:07:16,303 --> 00:07:18,469 that so much else delights him. 103 00:07:18,505 --> 00:07:21,472 Privacy has been unattainable. 104 00:07:21,508 --> 00:07:26,477 We share intimacy with the most peculiar fellow passengers. 105 00:07:26,513 --> 00:07:28,979 Jeremy, what are you scratching at? 106 00:07:29,016 --> 00:07:31,348 Come here, let me see. 107 00:07:31,385 --> 00:07:34,485 Mama, not in front of everybody. 108 00:07:35,722 --> 00:07:37,688 Ah! 109 00:07:39,593 --> 00:07:42,960 Oh, John, it's dreadful. Jeremy was harboring a louse. 110 00:07:42,996 --> 00:07:45,041 Maggie, did you see the buffalo out there just before dark? 111 00:07:45,065 --> 00:07:47,198 To the left. Hundreds of them. 112 00:07:47,234 --> 00:07:48,666 Oh, Maggie. 113 00:07:48,702 --> 00:07:51,869 Maggie, it's all so fine. 114 00:08:03,484 --> 00:08:05,483 Maggie's voice: April 2nd. 115 00:08:05,519 --> 00:08:07,651 We have two days on the trail now. 116 00:08:07,688 --> 00:08:11,021 The railroad reached the end of the line in mid-Nebraska 117 00:08:11,058 --> 00:08:15,159 and there we joined captain Symington's wagon train. 118 00:08:15,195 --> 00:08:18,729 John has equipped us with everything for our new life. 119 00:08:18,765 --> 00:08:21,065 We even have a cow. 120 00:08:21,101 --> 00:08:24,368 The children have named her Jupiter. 121 00:08:24,404 --> 00:08:28,439 John meet ever challenge with pleasure, 122 00:08:28,475 --> 00:08:31,275 but too often, I fail at my new tasks. 123 00:08:31,311 --> 00:08:35,412 Oh, how I do long for the sight of a tree. 124 00:08:36,650 --> 00:08:38,949 John? 125 00:08:40,754 --> 00:08:42,253 Gopher hole. 126 00:08:42,289 --> 00:08:44,588 Take the reins for a while. I want to stretch my legs. 127 00:08:44,625 --> 00:08:46,757 - What, me, drive? - You gotta learn sometime. 128 00:08:46,793 --> 00:08:48,559 Oh, John, no. 129 00:08:53,934 --> 00:08:56,033 - Oh. - Come on. 130 00:09:05,212 --> 00:09:08,913 Know what? I have a surprise for you. 131 00:09:08,949 --> 00:09:10,881 Do you know what I packed around the China? 132 00:09:10,918 --> 00:09:13,384 That special blue dimity for your dress. 133 00:09:13,420 --> 00:09:15,719 - Oh, mama, really? - Mmm. 134 00:09:15,756 --> 00:09:18,389 But papa said to pack only important things. 135 00:09:18,425 --> 00:09:20,524 Well, your new dress is. 136 00:09:20,561 --> 00:09:22,626 Anyway, I bet I packed away a lot of things 137 00:09:22,663 --> 00:09:24,895 that your papa doesn't think are important. 138 00:09:40,314 --> 00:09:43,614 Maggie's voice: One can get used to things. 139 00:09:50,557 --> 00:09:55,392 Every morning while Jeremy and John cajole the oxen to their yoke, 140 00:09:55,429 --> 00:09:57,728 it is I who hitch them up. 141 00:10:00,467 --> 00:10:03,300 But fueling a cook fire with buffalo chips 142 00:10:03,337 --> 00:10:05,603 is one thing I'll never get used to. 143 00:10:07,107 --> 00:10:09,840 It does seem an unpalatable method of cooking food. 144 00:10:16,350 --> 00:10:18,415 The buffalo are everywhere 145 00:10:18,452 --> 00:10:20,951 so we are rarely without meat 146 00:10:20,988 --> 00:10:22,419 or fuel either. 147 00:10:22,456 --> 00:10:24,288 So numerous are the herds, 148 00:10:24,324 --> 00:10:26,290 the man have hardly to leave the trail 149 00:10:26,326 --> 00:10:27,758 in order to shoot. 150 00:10:27,794 --> 00:10:30,794 And even I have come to relish its taste. 151 00:10:52,052 --> 00:10:55,386 Did I ever really have a clean wash-set of my own 152 00:10:55,422 --> 00:10:57,354 with a pump close by? 153 00:10:57,391 --> 00:10:59,523 It seems like a dream, 154 00:10:59,559 --> 00:11:02,192 as does so much of our old life. 155 00:11:10,270 --> 00:11:12,536 April 21st. 156 00:11:12,572 --> 00:11:15,572 Tomorrow we shall leave the wagon train. 157 00:11:15,609 --> 00:11:18,175 After 21 days on the trail, 158 00:11:18,211 --> 00:11:20,077 we go our own way. 159 00:11:20,113 --> 00:11:24,248 I find I rue less and less this great adventure, 160 00:11:24,284 --> 00:11:25,783 as John calls it, 161 00:11:25,819 --> 00:11:28,252 for as never before he is turning to me 162 00:11:28,288 --> 00:11:31,388 in the sharing of it. 163 00:11:31,425 --> 00:11:33,924 It is Jeremy's dearest wish 164 00:11:33,960 --> 00:11:36,894 that we will reach our own land on his birthday. 165 00:11:36,930 --> 00:11:39,196 Maggie. 166 00:11:39,232 --> 00:11:41,365 Be done with it. 167 00:11:41,401 --> 00:11:43,400 In a minute, John. 168 00:12:14,634 --> 00:12:16,567 Maggie's voice: April 23rd. 169 00:12:16,603 --> 00:12:19,737 Yesterday morning as the wagon train continued westward 170 00:12:19,773 --> 00:12:22,773 to Oregon, we turned southwest 171 00:12:22,809 --> 00:12:25,909 through this vast, empty land ocean. 172 00:12:25,946 --> 00:12:29,379 All the bouncing and shaking I and my precious burden 173 00:12:29,416 --> 00:12:31,782 have undergone these past weeks 174 00:12:31,818 --> 00:12:34,151 seems to have done neither of us harm. 175 00:12:34,187 --> 00:12:38,956 John calculates we should now be in reach of our own land. 176 00:12:38,992 --> 00:12:42,659 Oh, how good it will be to end this journey, 177 00:12:42,696 --> 00:12:45,596 to be in the land of our promise. 178 00:12:47,033 --> 00:12:48,732 Mama? 179 00:12:48,769 --> 00:12:50,667 Will people already be there? 180 00:12:50,704 --> 00:12:53,837 Oh, Sarah, you've asked me that over and over again. 181 00:12:53,874 --> 00:12:57,207 You know what your papa says. The railroad's gonna build a town 182 00:12:57,244 --> 00:12:59,510 - and a school... - that isn't why I’m asking this time. 183 00:12:59,546 --> 00:13:03,080 That awful hat, mama... do you have to wear it today? 184 00:13:03,116 --> 00:13:05,582 Sarah, it's your father's army hat. 185 00:13:05,619 --> 00:13:09,520 Anyway, haven't you noticed 186 00:13:09,556 --> 00:13:12,256 the look on the faces of the women 187 00:13:12,292 --> 00:13:14,725 at the homesteads we've passed? 188 00:13:14,761 --> 00:13:18,028 They're all weathered and hard. 189 00:13:18,064 --> 00:13:22,266 Am I gonna look like that, Sarah, in one year or two? 190 00:13:22,302 --> 00:13:24,368 - Ooph! - John: We're here! 191 00:13:25,772 --> 00:13:27,638 We're here! 192 00:13:41,288 --> 00:13:43,787 Well, you have your wish. We're here. 193 00:13:46,626 --> 00:13:48,425 Haaa! 194 00:13:51,164 --> 00:13:53,463 Haaay! 195 00:14:16,890 --> 00:14:20,190 All: Hi! Hello there! 196 00:14:29,669 --> 00:14:33,537 - Man: The welcome party... - your hat. 197 00:14:33,573 --> 00:14:35,218 - How do? - How do? My name is John sergeant. 198 00:14:35,242 --> 00:14:37,507 - This the Seymour settlement? - It would seem likely. 199 00:14:37,544 --> 00:14:40,811 Us four brothers, we're all Seymour from back in Iowa. 200 00:14:40,847 --> 00:14:43,647 - Nice to see you. - I'm so glad to see you! 201 00:14:43,683 --> 00:14:45,682 - I'm Mrs. Seymour. - I'm Maggie sergeant. 202 00:14:45,719 --> 00:14:47,330 - And these are my three daughters. - Hello. 203 00:14:47,354 --> 00:14:50,988 - This is my son Jeremy. - Welcome to you, John. 204 00:14:51,024 --> 00:14:53,123 We don't get many folks passing through here. 205 00:14:53,159 --> 00:14:55,125 The women do need for some new gossip. 206 00:14:55,161 --> 00:14:58,128 - It's my birthday. - Isn't that a fine thing? 207 00:14:58,164 --> 00:15:00,864 - It surely is. - You'll be staying the night. 208 00:15:00,901 --> 00:15:02,900 - We'll make the room. - That's very kind of you. 209 00:15:02,936 --> 00:15:07,437 - We hope to spend the night on our own place. - Where would that be? 210 00:15:07,474 --> 00:15:10,040 Well, it's supposed to be east of that ground spring over there. 211 00:15:10,076 --> 00:15:13,810 Man: Those fields are all cultivated! 212 00:15:13,847 --> 00:15:16,413 Well, I don't see how it could be east. 213 00:15:16,449 --> 00:15:19,416 So it says on the map anyway. 214 00:15:22,122 --> 00:15:25,122 The union pacific supplied me with this map 215 00:15:25,158 --> 00:15:27,257 when I bought the 80 acres. 216 00:15:29,229 --> 00:15:30,994 John. 217 00:15:40,073 --> 00:15:42,072 Sarah? 218 00:15:42,108 --> 00:15:44,374 The deed is in the trunk. Go get it. 219 00:15:46,012 --> 00:15:49,780 Looks to me like you've been had by that railroad, mister. 220 00:15:49,816 --> 00:15:54,318 There ain't no land for sale around here. 221 00:15:54,354 --> 00:15:56,720 Never has been and never will be. 222 00:15:56,756 --> 00:16:00,157 Me and my brothers, we got plans for this land. 223 00:16:00,193 --> 00:16:03,593 I paid the railroad and I've got the deed to show for it. 224 00:16:03,630 --> 00:16:05,028 Sarah. 225 00:16:06,299 --> 00:16:08,332 Maggie, 226 00:16:08,368 --> 00:16:10,434 get on the wagon. Take the children with you. 227 00:16:10,470 --> 00:16:12,302 Keep them there. 228 00:16:12,339 --> 00:16:14,271 Here it is. 229 00:16:16,009 --> 00:16:18,308 My deed. 230 00:16:18,345 --> 00:16:20,644 We can pace the land out if you like. 231 00:16:20,680 --> 00:16:23,313 - It's all marked down. - Claim jumpers. 232 00:16:23,350 --> 00:16:25,315 You ain't jumping no claim here, mister. 233 00:16:25,352 --> 00:16:27,951 We've been proving up on this land for seven years. 234 00:16:27,988 --> 00:16:31,421 John, maybe we were cheated by the railroad? 235 00:16:31,458 --> 00:16:34,324 If you have a rightful deed, show it to us. 236 00:16:34,361 --> 00:16:36,626 I told you. I told you, Jordan: 237 00:16:36,663 --> 00:16:38,628 Go to Julesburg and file on... 238 00:16:38,665 --> 00:16:41,531 - hush up, Trudy! - You've never registered your claim? 239 00:16:41,568 --> 00:16:44,334 - Can't you never shut up, woman? - Ain't no matter! 240 00:16:44,371 --> 00:16:47,471 Our claim is the seven years of back-breaking, 241 00:16:47,507 --> 00:16:49,673 sodbusing toil we put in here. 242 00:16:49,709 --> 00:16:51,721 I put all my money into this land... all my savings. 243 00:16:51,745 --> 00:16:53,477 Why, you're nothing but... 244 00:16:53,513 --> 00:16:58,515 west of you, in Wyoming, there's homestead land aplenty. 245 00:16:58,551 --> 00:17:01,284 Now you best sign that deed over to us. 246 00:17:01,321 --> 00:17:05,389 No, this is my land. And I'm claiming it. 247 00:17:05,425 --> 00:17:08,392 He'd change his mind if we dunk him in the hole. 248 00:17:09,763 --> 00:17:12,863 John, for the love of heaven, do what they ask. 249 00:17:12,899 --> 00:17:14,865 We don't want no trouble, mister... 250 00:17:14,901 --> 00:17:16,233 no more than you do. 251 00:17:16,269 --> 00:17:18,702 No. 252 00:17:18,772 --> 00:17:22,072 John! John! 253 00:17:22,108 --> 00:17:23,473 - Papa! - Ahhh! 254 00:17:23,510 --> 00:17:25,809 Papa! Papa! 255 00:17:25,845 --> 00:17:28,178 Maggie: Please leave him be! 256 00:17:28,214 --> 00:17:31,782 We'll go! Leave him be! We'll go! 257 00:17:31,818 --> 00:17:33,650 No, please, don't! 258 00:17:36,456 --> 00:17:38,955 You'd best promise to sign, Mr. Sergeant. 259 00:17:41,261 --> 00:17:43,627 No. No! 260 00:17:48,234 --> 00:17:51,501 Please, John! No no! 261 00:17:51,538 --> 00:17:53,537 Please, John! Let go! 262 00:17:53,573 --> 00:17:57,374 Like Henry says, you will! 263 00:17:57,410 --> 00:17:59,376 And better now than later. 264 00:17:59,412 --> 00:18:01,945 No! 265 00:18:01,981 --> 00:18:03,380 Let go! 266 00:18:03,416 --> 00:18:06,750 No, John! Ahh! 267 00:18:09,889 --> 00:18:11,388 Ahhhh! 268 00:18:19,432 --> 00:18:20,464 No! 269 00:18:21,501 --> 00:18:23,333 - Mama. - My baby. 270 00:18:23,369 --> 00:18:26,369 - You all right? - Oh, my baby. 271 00:18:28,141 --> 00:18:32,142 William! William! I done a terrible thing. 272 00:18:32,178 --> 00:18:35,445 The woman back there, she's aborting a baby. 273 00:18:35,482 --> 00:18:37,514 And I done it! 274 00:18:37,550 --> 00:18:39,616 Man: What are you trying to do, Henry? 275 00:18:41,821 --> 00:18:43,453 We don't need a corpse. 276 00:18:46,726 --> 00:18:49,192 I didn't know, mister. 277 00:18:49,229 --> 00:18:52,262 We... none of us. We didn't know. 278 00:18:52,298 --> 00:18:54,698 Are you ready to sign the quit-claim? 279 00:18:58,705 --> 00:19:00,337 Oh my god. 280 00:19:01,508 --> 00:19:03,573 Yes, anything you want. 281 00:19:05,979 --> 00:19:07,777 Now let me go. 282 00:19:41,681 --> 00:19:43,513 How are you feeling? 283 00:19:46,119 --> 00:19:47,684 I feel fine, John. 284 00:19:47,754 --> 00:19:49,653 Truly. 285 00:19:56,062 --> 00:19:58,862 I... I keep thinking how 286 00:19:58,898 --> 00:20:02,032 fearful I was of Indians. 287 00:20:04,370 --> 00:20:06,503 Look at our own kind. 288 00:20:09,242 --> 00:20:12,008 Thank you for bringing me away so quickly, John. 289 00:20:12,045 --> 00:20:15,178 Oh, that dreadful place. 290 00:20:23,089 --> 00:20:25,388 We must talk, Maggie, 291 00:20:25,425 --> 00:20:27,224 decide what to do. 292 00:20:28,861 --> 00:20:31,161 I want to know how you feel about it. 293 00:20:33,800 --> 00:20:36,600 We could go back to the rail head, 294 00:20:36,636 --> 00:20:40,103 make a complaint against those people. 295 00:20:40,139 --> 00:20:44,040 But that could be 296 00:20:44,077 --> 00:20:46,076 a long affair. 297 00:20:47,747 --> 00:20:51,047 I did sign that quit-claim. 298 00:20:55,588 --> 00:20:59,923 We could move on west. 299 00:21:02,528 --> 00:21:04,794 There's land... a homestead... in Wyoming. 300 00:21:05,999 --> 00:21:08,431 Not as good land as here, but... 301 00:21:10,336 --> 00:21:13,236 There's more of it. 302 00:21:20,346 --> 00:21:21,578 Well? 303 00:21:21,614 --> 00:21:25,715 We could go home, John. 304 00:21:36,629 --> 00:21:39,296 If... 305 00:21:39,332 --> 00:21:41,765 That's what you want. 306 00:21:50,443 --> 00:21:52,542 If I hadn't been so stubborn. 307 00:21:52,578 --> 00:21:55,312 You didn't know, John. 308 00:21:55,348 --> 00:21:57,480 Could have been your life. 309 00:21:57,517 --> 00:21:59,482 Sarah's. Jeremy's. 310 00:22:07,160 --> 00:22:10,660 The land... 311 00:22:10,697 --> 00:22:13,330 the land belonged to me. 312 00:22:17,537 --> 00:22:21,004 It's overburdened me with pride. 313 00:22:30,817 --> 00:22:33,283 We must go to Wyoming, of course. 314 00:22:38,124 --> 00:22:40,590 A quarter section... 315 00:22:40,626 --> 00:22:43,093 that's 160 acres, John. 316 00:22:43,129 --> 00:22:45,729 Can you farm that much land? 317 00:22:49,235 --> 00:22:51,568 Maybe not this year. 318 00:22:53,306 --> 00:22:55,705 But you just watch me. 319 00:23:02,548 --> 00:23:04,481 I'll go check the stock. 320 00:23:05,685 --> 00:23:07,817 Then I'll come back to bed. 321 00:23:47,026 --> 00:23:48,725 Maggie's voice: April 29th. 322 00:23:48,761 --> 00:23:52,328 The sun sets before us again and again, 323 00:23:52,365 --> 00:23:54,764 but we have yet to reach Wyoming. 324 00:23:54,801 --> 00:23:58,601 I do feel stronger with each day that passes 325 00:23:58,638 --> 00:24:03,239 and I try not to think of what we left behind in the prairie, 326 00:24:03,276 --> 00:24:05,442 though it is hard. 327 00:24:06,846 --> 00:24:09,979 John set some stones to Mark the place for me. 328 00:24:10,016 --> 00:24:12,482 I want never to return there. 329 00:24:31,504 --> 00:24:34,237 Whoa. 330 00:24:34,273 --> 00:24:37,273 I'll inquire in here. 331 00:24:38,678 --> 00:24:41,110 John, please take care. 332 00:24:41,147 --> 00:24:43,780 If anyone seems not to welcome us, 333 00:24:43,816 --> 00:24:45,315 it's best to go on. 334 00:24:49,155 --> 00:24:50,487 Sarah: Papa? 335 00:24:50,523 --> 00:24:52,655 Buy me some pink ribbon, papa? 336 00:24:52,692 --> 00:24:55,124 Oh, Sarah, papa's worried about money now. 337 00:24:58,164 --> 00:25:00,430 What do you want pink ribbon for anyway? 338 00:25:00,466 --> 00:25:02,966 I wanted to tie a bow on it. 339 00:25:03,002 --> 00:25:05,268 A ribbon for you, mama... for your hat. 340 00:25:05,304 --> 00:25:08,471 Oh, it's beautiful. Put it on. 341 00:25:08,508 --> 00:25:11,074 They're king of wilted now. I picked them this morning. 342 00:25:11,110 --> 00:25:12,609 I picked some too. 343 00:25:12,645 --> 00:25:14,577 And you I haven't forgotten, Jeremy. 344 00:25:14,614 --> 00:25:16,446 I owe you a birthday cake. 345 00:25:16,482 --> 00:25:18,915 There, how do I look? 346 00:25:18,951 --> 00:25:20,583 It helps, I guess. 347 00:25:20,620 --> 00:25:24,187 You need your hat. Put this on. 348 00:25:24,223 --> 00:25:26,656 Maggie. 349 00:25:26,692 --> 00:25:29,125 There's a man inside named Wormser. 350 00:25:29,161 --> 00:25:31,461 He says there's a quarter section above his place. 351 00:25:31,497 --> 00:25:34,831 Maggie, he wants us to settle there. 352 00:25:38,104 --> 00:25:41,571 Mrs. Sergeant. How do? 353 00:25:41,607 --> 00:25:44,086 I was telling your husband, this acreage just to the north of me, 354 00:25:44,110 --> 00:25:45,675 it's pretty good land... 355 00:25:45,711 --> 00:25:49,379 most as good as mine. Same creek running through and all. 356 00:25:49,415 --> 00:25:51,214 Fox branch, I mean. 357 00:25:51,250 --> 00:25:53,449 If the mister would like to have a look at it, 358 00:25:53,486 --> 00:25:55,885 I'll ride along and show you the way. 359 00:26:16,042 --> 00:26:19,676 My, oh, my, ain't slim hall gonna be pleased? 360 00:26:19,712 --> 00:26:22,645 We been looking for folks to settle that parcel 361 00:26:22,682 --> 00:26:25,181 so's we could share in the harvest work. 362 00:26:25,217 --> 00:26:28,518 Man, it don't seem right, your walking and me sitting up here. 363 00:26:28,554 --> 00:26:32,288 Oh, no no, Mr. Wormser. I like the exercise. 364 00:26:32,325 --> 00:26:36,059 My missus will sure be happy to have a new neighbor, ma'am. 365 00:26:36,095 --> 00:26:39,429 Mrs. Hall... they live down below us like I said before... 366 00:26:39,465 --> 00:26:40,964 she's a fine woman. 367 00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:43,900 But them nine kids of her keep her pretty much at home. 368 00:26:47,540 --> 00:26:49,839 That be Robert Douglas. 369 00:26:49,875 --> 00:26:51,975 He runs cattle hereabouts. 370 00:26:52,011 --> 00:26:54,143 Good man for a rancher. 371 00:26:55,681 --> 00:26:57,580 How do, Douglas? 372 00:27:04,357 --> 00:27:06,856 - How do, Douglas? - Good day to you. 373 00:27:06,892 --> 00:27:09,659 This here fine family are the sergeants... 374 00:27:09,695 --> 00:27:14,097 Mrs. Sergeant, Mr. Sergeant, this here is Mr. Robert Douglas. 375 00:27:17,136 --> 00:27:20,570 They're gonna homestead the quarter section just to the north of me. 376 00:27:20,606 --> 00:27:23,740 Mr. Sergeant's a sodbuster, like me. 377 00:27:23,776 --> 00:27:26,142 The rain's pretty sparse around here, Mr. Sergeant. 378 00:27:26,178 --> 00:27:28,378 The elevation's above 5,000 feet. 379 00:27:28,414 --> 00:27:30,446 You might do better farming back in Nebraska. 380 00:27:38,024 --> 00:27:40,123 We're here to stay, Mr. Douglas. 381 00:27:47,867 --> 00:27:49,832 Good luck to you, then. 382 00:28:07,987 --> 00:28:10,620 Now don't you pay him no never mind, John. 383 00:28:10,656 --> 00:28:14,590 Them cattlemen, see, they want to hog all this fine growing land 384 00:28:14,627 --> 00:28:16,726 for themselves. 385 00:28:16,762 --> 00:28:18,561 I guess I'll ride for a while. 386 00:28:23,602 --> 00:28:25,768 Now get! 387 00:28:36,882 --> 00:28:38,715 Wormser: We're almost there now. 388 00:28:38,751 --> 00:28:41,751 - If you pull up, I'll leave you. - All right. 389 00:28:41,787 --> 00:28:44,120 Ho! 390 00:28:44,156 --> 00:28:48,424 A man ought to have some peace and quiet when spying out his land. 391 00:28:48,461 --> 00:28:50,560 And like the missus always says, 392 00:28:50,596 --> 00:28:52,295 I talk too much. 393 00:28:52,331 --> 00:28:55,465 You'll see fox branch right over that rise. 394 00:28:55,501 --> 00:28:58,701 I'd plant my wheat right out over that way if I was you. 395 00:28:58,738 --> 00:29:00,603 See what I mean? 396 00:29:00,639 --> 00:29:02,718 - Thank you, Mr. Wormser. - You're welcome, Mr. Sergeant. 397 00:29:02,742 --> 00:29:04,107 Ma'am. 398 00:29:08,881 --> 00:29:11,147 Well, 399 00:29:11,183 --> 00:29:13,182 what are we waiting for? 400 00:29:13,219 --> 00:29:14,917 Hyah! 401 00:29:46,685 --> 00:29:48,651 Whoa! 402 00:29:50,356 --> 00:29:51,854 Look. 403 00:30:13,212 --> 00:30:15,211 Maggie: Trees! 404 00:30:17,082 --> 00:30:19,382 Oh! 405 00:30:19,418 --> 00:30:21,951 Jeremy! He'll turn an ankle. 406 00:30:21,987 --> 00:30:24,487 Oh, let them be, John. 407 00:30:36,869 --> 00:30:39,302 Those trees will make fine timber for a house, 408 00:30:39,338 --> 00:30:40,803 don't you think, Maggie? 409 00:30:42,608 --> 00:30:45,675 We'll have us a sod house and be content with it, John sergeant. 410 00:30:45,711 --> 00:30:48,845 The trees will stand and be shade for you, I swear. 411 00:31:04,463 --> 00:31:06,262 Maggie's voice: May 4th. 412 00:31:06,298 --> 00:31:08,130 Our first day here. 413 00:31:08,167 --> 00:31:10,800 John was so impatient to begin, 414 00:31:10,836 --> 00:31:14,237 he left the unloading and went to his field to begin breaking sod. 415 00:31:19,578 --> 00:31:20,843 Come on! 416 00:31:22,982 --> 00:31:25,915 Come on, come on. 417 00:31:26,952 --> 00:31:29,218 Come on! 418 00:31:31,624 --> 00:31:34,724 Come on, come on. Go on! 419 00:31:54,980 --> 00:31:56,979 Maggie? 420 00:31:57,016 --> 00:31:59,048 You'll have to drive the team. 421 00:31:59,084 --> 00:32:02,418 I'll need both hands to force the plow. 422 00:32:02,454 --> 00:32:05,121 What do you want with Jupiter? 423 00:32:05,157 --> 00:32:06,989 The team can't do it alone. 424 00:32:07,026 --> 00:32:09,425 They can't move the plow through the sod. 425 00:32:09,461 --> 00:32:11,427 Without a horse, I have to use a cow. 426 00:32:11,463 --> 00:32:13,963 John, she'll go dry. 427 00:32:13,999 --> 00:32:15,798 Then she'll go dry! 428 00:32:23,375 --> 00:32:25,007 Here. 429 00:32:25,044 --> 00:32:27,677 Drive her when I say "go.' 430 00:32:33,786 --> 00:32:36,085 Take them. I bet he could use this. 431 00:32:36,121 --> 00:32:37,853 All right. 432 00:32:37,890 --> 00:32:40,456 All together now, let's go! 433 00:32:40,492 --> 00:32:43,592 Ho! Ha ha ha! 434 00:32:43,629 --> 00:32:47,563 Go! Hey! Ho ho! 435 00:32:54,807 --> 00:32:56,973 All right, fall back! 436 00:32:57,009 --> 00:32:59,308 Whoa! All right. 437 00:33:10,556 --> 00:33:12,722 Jeremy: We unloaded almost everything. 438 00:33:12,758 --> 00:33:14,824 Sarah: Except the stove. It's too heavy. 439 00:33:16,095 --> 00:33:17,860 When are we gonna eat? 440 00:33:17,896 --> 00:33:21,330 John, it is almost noon. 441 00:33:23,335 --> 00:33:25,501 Yeah. 442 00:33:25,537 --> 00:33:28,771 We're gonna plow... 443 00:33:28,807 --> 00:33:30,840 About a half an acre a day. 444 00:33:30,876 --> 00:33:33,042 Almost as good as my pa used to do. 445 00:33:33,078 --> 00:33:36,278 And it won't be nearly as hard next year. 446 00:33:36,315 --> 00:33:38,914 Oh, it's hotter on than off. 447 00:33:40,753 --> 00:33:43,052 Sarah, after you eat, 448 00:33:43,088 --> 00:33:44,920 you're gonna drive the team. 449 00:33:44,957 --> 00:33:47,123 - You too, Jeremy. - Oh, John. 450 00:33:47,159 --> 00:33:49,592 If you can do it, they can. 451 00:33:49,628 --> 00:33:53,763 Here, tie it on poor old Jupiter. 452 00:33:53,799 --> 00:33:56,065 Maybe it'll make her cool. 453 00:33:57,469 --> 00:33:59,835 Unhitch the team, you two. 454 00:33:59,872 --> 00:34:02,605 Turn them out in the grass. 455 00:34:07,379 --> 00:34:09,311 Maggie's voice: The day has been a long one 456 00:34:09,348 --> 00:34:11,614 with settling in and field work too. 457 00:34:11,650 --> 00:34:14,817 But John would not rest after supper. 458 00:34:14,853 --> 00:34:18,487 He took the spade and the empty wagon back to the field 459 00:34:18,524 --> 00:34:20,790 and he began cutting and loading the bricks 460 00:34:20,826 --> 00:34:23,159 of turned-up sod for our house. 461 00:34:27,866 --> 00:34:30,199 May 9th. 462 00:34:30,235 --> 00:34:32,368 John never stops. 463 00:34:32,404 --> 00:34:35,371 He spent several nights leveling the floor 464 00:34:35,407 --> 00:34:37,840 and tonight he started laying the walls. 465 00:34:37,876 --> 00:34:41,010 I have never known a man to work so hard. 466 00:34:47,653 --> 00:34:49,952 It must be after midnight, John. 467 00:34:49,988 --> 00:34:51,954 Please stop. Please. 468 00:34:51,990 --> 00:34:55,391 I thought you were in bed. 469 00:34:55,427 --> 00:34:58,160 I was. 470 00:35:07,906 --> 00:35:12,007 Why must you push yourself so? 471 00:35:17,316 --> 00:35:20,249 When we're together, you're too tired. 472 00:35:20,285 --> 00:35:22,952 We scarcely exchange a word anymore 473 00:35:22,988 --> 00:35:24,887 and then you're gone again. 474 00:35:26,091 --> 00:35:28,090 Go to bed, Maggie. 475 00:35:30,896 --> 00:35:34,230 I must file claim on this place, 476 00:35:34,266 --> 00:35:35,664 soon as I can. 477 00:35:35,701 --> 00:35:38,667 We mustn't lose this place too. 478 00:35:38,704 --> 00:35:41,337 And I won't leave until you're under a roof. 479 00:35:43,909 --> 00:35:46,208 Maggie! 480 00:35:46,245 --> 00:35:48,177 Let me be. 481 00:35:54,987 --> 00:35:56,719 Maggie's voice: May 12th. 482 00:35:56,755 --> 00:35:58,754 We had our first company today. 483 00:35:58,790 --> 00:36:00,890 Mr. and Mrs. Wormser came calling. 484 00:36:00,926 --> 00:36:03,759 While he went to the plow to see John, 485 00:36:03,795 --> 00:36:05,928 Philippa and I visited. 486 00:36:05,964 --> 00:36:09,064 She is just beginning to show with child. 487 00:36:11,003 --> 00:36:13,435 Oh, my, it is such lovely China. 488 00:36:13,472 --> 00:36:14,970 Thank you. 489 00:36:22,080 --> 00:36:24,580 However did you dare to bring it with you? 490 00:36:24,616 --> 00:36:27,349 Well, I just flat refused to leave it behind. 491 00:36:27,386 --> 00:36:30,052 John thought me a dunce. 492 00:36:30,088 --> 00:36:32,054 Only one broke on the way. 493 00:36:32,090 --> 00:36:35,558 Come on, Philippa! It's almost milking time! 494 00:36:41,466 --> 00:36:42,865 Philippa? 495 00:36:46,138 --> 00:36:49,438 Don't do anything foolish. 496 00:36:49,474 --> 00:36:52,441 Don't forget yourself and do anything foolish. 497 00:36:52,477 --> 00:36:54,944 The baby matters too much. 498 00:36:57,115 --> 00:36:59,682 I'll be over sometime soon. We'll talk some more. 499 00:37:04,022 --> 00:37:06,055 Maggie's voice: May 18th. 500 00:37:06,091 --> 00:37:09,825 We have plowed and sown and harrowed in these two short weeks 501 00:37:09,861 --> 00:37:13,295 and John, almost alone, has built our house. 502 00:37:13,332 --> 00:37:15,631 But today, Mr. Wormser and Mr. Hall 503 00:37:15,667 --> 00:37:17,800 are here to help put the roof in. 504 00:37:17,836 --> 00:37:22,338 And then tomorrow, John is bound for Cheyenne to file our claim. 505 00:37:22,374 --> 00:37:25,140 Though he spares us all he can, 506 00:37:25,177 --> 00:37:27,977 he will not spare himself. 507 00:37:29,615 --> 00:37:31,847 I am an ingrate to resent it. 508 00:37:31,883 --> 00:37:34,350 My hope is that when he returns 509 00:37:34,386 --> 00:37:36,552 there'll be more time for us. 510 00:37:36,588 --> 00:37:39,054 He is truly the best of men. 511 00:37:45,564 --> 00:37:48,264 - Mr. Hall, Mr. Wormser. - Ma'am. 512 00:37:48,300 --> 00:37:50,566 I'm just about to ice Jeremy's birthday cake. 513 00:37:50,602 --> 00:37:52,434 It's a little overdue, 514 00:37:52,471 --> 00:37:54,837 but would you gentlemen stay and share it with us, please? 515 00:37:54,873 --> 00:37:58,440 It would make a lovely party for Jeremy if you could. 516 00:37:58,477 --> 00:38:00,909 They'll be back from fishing anytime now. 517 00:38:00,946 --> 00:38:02,778 Angel cake, I hope. 518 00:38:02,814 --> 00:38:05,247 Nothing I like better than angel-food cake. 519 00:38:22,868 --> 00:38:25,167 I put in some antelope, John. 520 00:38:25,203 --> 00:38:26,635 And some bread too. 521 00:38:26,672 --> 00:38:28,837 Good. Remember if it rains, you and the children 522 00:38:28,874 --> 00:38:30,806 will have to cultivate. 523 00:38:30,842 --> 00:38:35,311 Otherwise, the water will go right back up in the sky again. 524 00:38:51,997 --> 00:38:53,262 John? 525 00:38:53,298 --> 00:38:55,097 You get yourself a good meal in Cheyenne. 526 00:38:55,133 --> 00:38:56,965 Yes yes yes. 527 00:39:10,415 --> 00:39:12,815 We'll miss you. 528 00:39:35,340 --> 00:39:36,939 Maggie? 529 00:39:47,319 --> 00:39:49,251 My little Maggie. 530 00:39:51,089 --> 00:39:53,689 So often I've said, "grow up, Maggie." 531 00:39:55,427 --> 00:39:57,459 And all along... 532 00:39:57,496 --> 00:39:59,962 all along you already had. 533 00:40:35,100 --> 00:40:37,766 I'll be about six days. 534 00:40:37,803 --> 00:40:39,768 You'll be fine. 535 00:41:00,926 --> 00:41:04,359 Won't papa be surprised when he gets back? 536 00:41:04,396 --> 00:41:07,196 Lettuce, beans, potatoes 537 00:41:07,232 --> 00:41:09,364 and beets. 538 00:41:09,401 --> 00:41:12,701 Look how they're coming to life already. 539 00:41:14,339 --> 00:41:16,638 Oh, please rain. 540 00:41:16,675 --> 00:41:20,709 Oh, well, if it doesn't, we'll just have to water and water. 541 00:41:36,895 --> 00:41:38,360 It's gonna rain! 542 00:41:38,396 --> 00:41:40,696 Get everything inside, children, quickly! 543 00:41:45,937 --> 00:41:47,903 Quickly! Inside, children. Come on. 544 00:41:47,939 --> 00:41:50,005 Hurry up. 545 00:41:54,145 --> 00:41:55,911 Rain! 546 00:42:07,459 --> 00:42:09,558 Mama, the roof is leaking! 547 00:42:09,594 --> 00:42:12,227 Oh! Get the pots, quick. 548 00:43:14,426 --> 00:43:17,726 Go get Joe Wormser and his wife. 549 00:43:34,079 --> 00:43:37,813 Mama, it's the man we met on the way here. 550 00:43:46,658 --> 00:43:48,457 Mrs. Sergeant. 551 00:43:48,493 --> 00:43:50,325 Mr. Douglas, isn't it? 552 00:43:50,362 --> 00:43:53,795 I think you'd better send the children inside. 553 00:43:57,736 --> 00:43:59,935 Go in the house, children. 554 00:43:59,971 --> 00:44:02,771 Is something wrong, Mr. Douglas? 555 00:44:18,923 --> 00:44:21,990 We were down in one of the arroyos looking for some cattle 556 00:44:22,027 --> 00:44:24,359 that strayed during the rain. 557 00:44:24,396 --> 00:44:27,829 We found him at the bottom of a washout. 558 00:44:27,866 --> 00:44:29,331 No. 559 00:44:29,367 --> 00:44:31,667 He must have gotten caught in a flash flood. 560 00:44:31,703 --> 00:44:35,704 No. You're wrong. It can't be. It's not John. 561 00:44:37,876 --> 00:44:40,642 It's not John. It can't be. 562 00:44:52,157 --> 00:44:54,489 Oh, John. 563 00:44:58,897 --> 00:45:01,063 Oh, John. 564 00:45:02,267 --> 00:45:04,232 Oh, no. 565 00:45:04,269 --> 00:45:06,702 Oh, John. 566 00:45:23,154 --> 00:45:26,088 Maggie's voice: May 26th. 567 00:45:27,859 --> 00:45:29,858 Today more than ever 568 00:45:29,894 --> 00:45:32,027 I feel myself an alien here. 569 00:45:33,732 --> 00:45:36,231 Everyone meant to be kind. 570 00:45:36,267 --> 00:45:39,367 But it did hurt me that there was no minister 571 00:45:39,404 --> 00:45:41,336 to speak for John. 572 00:45:53,084 --> 00:45:56,718 Can there be a lonelier place in this world? 573 00:46:47,505 --> 00:46:49,337 Mr. Wormser? 574 00:46:55,980 --> 00:46:58,446 John must have served in the war. 575 00:46:58,483 --> 00:47:00,448 Did he, Mrs. Sergeant? 576 00:47:03,388 --> 00:47:07,823 They've taken those years off the five needed to prove up. 577 00:47:07,859 --> 00:47:11,493 This place'll be yours free and clear 578 00:47:11,529 --> 00:47:13,328 in a year and a half. 579 00:47:13,364 --> 00:47:17,866 You think we're going to stay here without my husband? 580 00:47:17,902 --> 00:47:20,168 No, we're going home. 581 00:47:32,417 --> 00:47:33,715 This was all? 582 00:47:40,525 --> 00:47:43,525 John never said we'd gone through it all. 583 00:47:45,964 --> 00:47:48,763 Uh, how will we... 584 00:47:50,501 --> 00:47:52,868 we need money to join a wagon train, 585 00:47:54,038 --> 00:47:56,805 to pay for railroad tickets. 586 00:47:56,841 --> 00:47:58,807 He left us the house, mama. 587 00:47:58,843 --> 00:48:00,542 And... and the wheat. 588 00:48:00,578 --> 00:48:02,677 And land, mama. 589 00:48:07,886 --> 00:48:10,185 Mr. Hall? 590 00:48:10,221 --> 00:48:12,654 You wouldn't want to buy my milking cow, would you? 591 00:48:16,160 --> 00:48:19,527 Mr. Wormser, I'll sell you my wheat right now. 592 00:48:19,564 --> 00:48:21,730 All of it. 593 00:48:26,638 --> 00:48:28,937 Mrs. Sergeant? 594 00:48:33,611 --> 00:48:36,745 None of us got any money to spend this time of year. 595 00:48:38,216 --> 00:48:40,649 We're all living on the promise of Autumn: 596 00:48:40,685 --> 00:48:43,151 The harvest or fat cattle. 597 00:48:51,195 --> 00:48:53,261 Don't cry, mama. Please. 598 00:48:53,298 --> 00:48:55,297 We'll be fine. 599 00:48:55,333 --> 00:48:57,299 You'll see, we'll be fine. 600 00:49:04,943 --> 00:49:07,876 Maggie's voice: I cannot sleep. I am too frightened. 601 00:49:07,912 --> 00:49:12,347 I never did understand why we had to come. 602 00:49:12,383 --> 00:49:15,283 And now, 603 00:49:15,320 --> 00:49:18,553 without John, to stay seems a hopeless plight... 604 00:49:19,624 --> 00:49:22,457 two children and a woman alone. 605 00:49:22,493 --> 00:49:24,626 I want to go home. 606 00:49:26,364 --> 00:49:28,129 Oh, John. 607 00:49:29,567 --> 00:49:31,399 John. 608 00:49:31,436 --> 00:49:33,034 Papa! Papa papa! 609 00:49:33,071 --> 00:49:34,669 Papa! Where's papa? 610 00:49:34,706 --> 00:49:36,838 - Shh, Jeremy. - No, papa! 611 00:49:36,874 --> 00:49:38,673 - Please, shh. - Papa! 612 00:49:38,710 --> 00:49:40,809 Come on, baby. 613 00:49:42,246 --> 00:49:44,879 Go to sleep. It's all right. Go to sleep. 614 00:50:03,968 --> 00:50:06,935 Mama, would it be proper to ask Mr. Wormser 615 00:50:06,971 --> 00:50:09,637 next time he shoots game to get some for us? 616 00:50:09,674 --> 00:50:11,940 He has enough trouble looking after his own, Sarah, 617 00:50:11,976 --> 00:50:13,341 let alone us. 618 00:50:13,378 --> 00:50:14,943 Yes, ma'am. 619 00:50:14,979 --> 00:50:16,978 Here, that's fine. 620 00:50:21,986 --> 00:50:23,818 Jeremy, there were lots of times 621 00:50:23,855 --> 00:50:26,121 you watched papa load his firearm, weren't there? 622 00:50:26,157 --> 00:50:27,822 Yes, ma'am. 623 00:50:27,859 --> 00:50:30,792 Well, maybe together you and I could 624 00:50:30,828 --> 00:50:32,627 figure out how to do it. 625 00:50:32,663 --> 00:50:34,696 One thing he did say though... 626 00:50:34,732 --> 00:50:36,698 if you put in too much powder, it blows up. 627 00:50:40,304 --> 00:50:42,971 I guess we're still using a little too much, mama. 628 00:51:18,910 --> 00:51:21,242 Why don't you try a little closer? 629 00:51:35,093 --> 00:51:37,358 - You hit it, you hit it! - Whoo-hoo! 630 00:51:37,395 --> 00:51:40,895 Tomorrow, Jeremy, you and I are gonna get us some meat for supper. 631 00:51:47,338 --> 00:51:49,838 Look what I found in the creek. 632 00:51:49,874 --> 00:51:52,307 There are lots and lots of them in the dirt up there. 633 00:51:52,343 --> 00:51:53,842 - There are? - Did you get anything? 634 00:51:53,878 --> 00:51:56,344 - No. - Didn't you even see anything? 635 00:51:56,380 --> 00:51:58,947 Well, I saw chuckers, antelopes, rabbits. 636 00:51:58,983 --> 00:52:01,282 I couldn't get close enough to hit any. 637 00:52:01,319 --> 00:52:03,785 Look, aren't they funny? 638 00:52:05,756 --> 00:52:07,755 They're fossils, Sarah. 639 00:52:07,792 --> 00:52:09,557 Did you catch us some fish for supper? 640 00:52:09,594 --> 00:52:12,727 But they weigh like stone. Did they all have names, mama? 641 00:52:12,763 --> 00:52:14,596 I don't know. 642 00:52:14,632 --> 00:52:17,565 Can I make a collection? Can I? 643 00:52:17,602 --> 00:52:19,534 - Sarah. - To take back to show Clarissa. 644 00:52:19,570 --> 00:52:21,369 Didn't you even try to catch some fish? 645 00:52:23,608 --> 00:52:25,240 I forgot. 646 00:52:25,276 --> 00:52:27,242 Anyway, who likes fish? 647 00:52:27,278 --> 00:52:30,011 Oh, Sarah. 648 00:52:30,047 --> 00:52:33,047 I'm sorry, mama. 649 00:52:36,220 --> 00:52:38,219 Jeremy: Mama! Mama! 650 00:52:38,256 --> 00:52:40,321 Jeremy, for heaven's sake, what is it? 651 00:52:40,358 --> 00:52:42,023 Come quick! 652 00:52:45,463 --> 00:52:47,629 Oh, no, the wheat! 653 00:52:50,301 --> 00:52:52,066 Shoo her out of the wheat! 654 00:52:52,103 --> 00:52:55,069 The wheat! Oh, shoo her out in the field. 655 00:52:55,106 --> 00:52:56,404 All: Shoo! Shoo! 656 00:52:56,440 --> 00:52:59,707 - Shoo shoo! - Shoo shoo! 657 00:53:03,581 --> 00:53:06,114 Shoo! Get out! 658 00:53:06,150 --> 00:53:08,683 Shoo! Shoo! 659 00:53:12,723 --> 00:53:14,155 Get out of the way, children. 660 00:53:15,560 --> 00:53:17,392 Don't miss this time, mama. 661 00:53:22,433 --> 00:53:24,332 - Shoo shoo! - Go! 662 00:53:24,368 --> 00:53:27,202 Shoo! 663 00:53:50,228 --> 00:53:52,360 That's our cow you shot. 664 00:53:52,396 --> 00:53:57,065 Your cow was ruining my crop. 665 00:53:57,101 --> 00:54:00,401 That's apt to happen when you farm open range. 666 00:54:00,438 --> 00:54:03,071 Come on, drag him out, Jake. 667 00:54:05,076 --> 00:54:07,609 How're you getting along, Mrs. Sergeant? 668 00:54:07,645 --> 00:54:10,144 Well enough, thank you. 669 00:54:10,181 --> 00:54:14,349 It's a pretty tough life for a woman without a man. 670 00:54:16,420 --> 00:54:20,221 It's a hard life, Mr. Douglas, with or without a man. 671 00:54:22,493 --> 00:54:24,058 Good day to you. 672 00:54:30,868 --> 00:54:34,569 Of all the patronizing people. 673 00:54:34,605 --> 00:54:37,572 Did you see him work that rope? 674 00:54:37,608 --> 00:54:40,808 I suppose we're going to have to have fish for supper again. 675 00:54:40,845 --> 00:54:42,377 There isn't any fish. 676 00:54:44,248 --> 00:54:46,281 There isn't any fish. 677 00:54:53,824 --> 00:54:56,791 Sarah, put your stones down and eat your supper. 678 00:54:56,827 --> 00:54:59,360 They're fossils. That's what you said. 679 00:55:00,665 --> 00:55:02,697 Right in my molasses. 680 00:55:02,733 --> 00:55:05,233 Papa said he was gonna put up muslin for a ceiling. 681 00:55:05,269 --> 00:55:06,934 Why don't we use the tent? 682 00:55:06,971 --> 00:55:09,437 Because we need the canvas for the wagon 683 00:55:09,473 --> 00:55:11,406 - to go home in. - Well, 684 00:55:11,442 --> 00:55:15,043 I don't see why we have to go back to Indiana anyway. 685 00:55:15,079 --> 00:55:17,645 I want to stay here and be a cowboy. 686 00:55:17,682 --> 00:55:19,647 I don't want to go back either especially. 687 00:55:19,684 --> 00:55:23,584 Well, what about all your friends? Clarissa? 688 00:55:23,621 --> 00:55:25,320 Clarissa's dumb. 689 00:55:25,356 --> 00:55:28,690 Sarah sergeant. 690 00:55:28,726 --> 00:55:30,158 She is, mama. 691 00:55:30,194 --> 00:55:32,026 What does she know about fossils? 692 00:55:32,063 --> 00:55:35,563 I bet she doesn't even know how to milk a cow. 693 00:55:37,702 --> 00:55:40,968 Mama, how much money is the wheat gonna bring? 694 00:55:41,005 --> 00:55:43,504 I mean, well, after we get back to Indiana, 695 00:55:43,541 --> 00:55:45,673 how're we gonna live? 696 00:55:48,846 --> 00:55:51,179 With your grandparents, of course. 697 00:55:56,587 --> 00:55:59,087 I'll work out somewhere, I suppose. 698 00:55:59,123 --> 00:56:01,989 - For somebody else? - Doing what, mama? 699 00:56:06,530 --> 00:56:09,797 Nana's always telling me to wipe my shoes outside, 700 00:56:09,834 --> 00:56:11,966 even if I'm not wearing any. 701 00:56:12,002 --> 00:56:14,369 Look, we're going back to Indiana 702 00:56:14,405 --> 00:56:16,704 just as soon as the wheat is harvested and sold. 703 00:56:16,741 --> 00:56:19,173 We're going back to family, friends and your schooling. 704 00:56:19,210 --> 00:56:21,576 I don't want to hear any more about it. 705 00:56:21,612 --> 00:56:23,578 Sarah, shut up! You'll scare him. 706 00:56:23,614 --> 00:56:25,680 For heaven's sake, Sarah. 707 00:56:25,716 --> 00:56:27,815 Hush! Jeremy, get rid of that thing. 708 00:56:27,852 --> 00:56:31,018 It's only Pompey, mama. He wouldn't hurt anything. 709 00:56:31,055 --> 00:56:32,787 And he keeps down the mice. 710 00:56:32,823 --> 00:56:34,088 Jeremy, don't you dare. 711 00:56:34,125 --> 00:56:36,524 Jeremy, get rid of it. 712 00:56:38,129 --> 00:56:39,494 Jeremy, get it out of here. 713 00:56:43,267 --> 00:56:45,233 From Mr. Douglas. 714 00:56:45,269 --> 00:56:48,703 We don't want any charity from Mr. Douglas. 715 00:56:48,739 --> 00:56:51,372 He says it's for any damage done. 716 00:56:51,409 --> 00:56:54,242 Wait! Wait! 717 00:56:54,278 --> 00:56:56,244 Mama, look. 718 00:57:03,287 --> 00:57:05,553 Meat on the table. 719 00:57:07,825 --> 00:57:09,924 Some of the time. 720 00:57:23,841 --> 00:57:26,441 Maggie's voice: June 17th. 721 00:57:26,477 --> 00:57:29,844 The garden has an endless thirst. 722 00:57:29,880 --> 00:57:34,482 Thank heaven wheat is hardier or we'd empty fox branch dry. 723 00:57:35,953 --> 00:57:38,619 But I am glad to be tired at night 724 00:57:38,656 --> 00:57:41,255 and to fall quickly asleep. 725 00:57:47,364 --> 00:57:49,130 July 9th. 726 00:57:49,166 --> 00:57:51,332 Today I shot a rabbit. 727 00:57:51,368 --> 00:57:54,302 Oh, I felt so triumphant... 728 00:57:54,338 --> 00:57:58,139 Until Mr. Douglas rode up. 729 00:57:58,175 --> 00:58:02,610 He of course had shot a large, fat antelope. 730 00:58:13,924 --> 00:58:17,825 You're looking very well, Mrs. Sergeant. 731 00:58:20,564 --> 00:58:22,196 You're kind, sir. 732 00:58:24,835 --> 00:58:26,300 Hey, Mrs. Sergeant? 733 00:58:28,272 --> 00:58:30,471 If you put your foot in here, 734 00:58:30,508 --> 00:58:32,640 I'll help you up and give you a ride home. 735 00:59:13,651 --> 00:59:17,118 Maggie's voice: So it was that Mr. Douglas brought me home. 736 00:59:30,668 --> 00:59:33,568 Tonight when the children were asleep 737 00:59:33,604 --> 00:59:37,071 I thought of the other homestead women, 738 00:59:37,107 --> 00:59:41,108 silent and dull of eye... 739 00:59:42,580 --> 00:59:44,712 But they luckier than I. 740 00:59:44,748 --> 00:59:47,381 At least they had their men. 741 00:59:51,255 --> 00:59:54,055 What matter if in Indiana or here? 742 00:59:54,091 --> 00:59:57,058 I am alone and lonely. 743 01:00:06,637 --> 01:00:08,936 Looking at myself, 744 01:00:08,973 --> 01:00:12,306 I wonder how Mr. Douglas sees me. 745 01:00:16,513 --> 01:00:20,081 I think perhaps if we were not going back to Indiana, 746 01:00:20,117 --> 01:00:23,517 I would make myself a new bonnet. 747 01:00:31,128 --> 01:00:32,827 July 30th. 748 01:00:32,863 --> 01:00:35,463 Only two more weeks till harvest. 749 01:00:35,499 --> 01:00:39,767 The wheat is tall and golden straight. 750 01:00:39,803 --> 01:00:41,969 It's glorious. 751 01:00:46,443 --> 01:00:48,776 August 14th. 752 01:00:48,812 --> 01:00:51,078 Tomorrow harvesting begins. 753 01:00:51,115 --> 01:00:54,281 We shall start at hall's farm, thence to Wormser's, 754 01:00:54,318 --> 01:00:56,617 thence here, for we planted last. 755 01:00:56,654 --> 01:00:59,654 Immediately after threshing, we will leave for Indiana. 756 01:00:59,690 --> 01:01:01,622 Jeremy: Mama! Mama! 757 01:01:07,431 --> 01:01:09,530 What is it, Jeremy? 758 01:01:09,566 --> 01:01:11,532 Come see! 759 01:01:16,006 --> 01:01:18,472 Look! 760 01:01:18,509 --> 01:01:20,908 Oh my god. 761 01:01:36,126 --> 01:01:37,992 Hey, Mr. Douglas here yet? 762 01:01:38,028 --> 01:01:40,428 He sent down for slim and his boys too. 763 01:01:40,464 --> 01:01:43,764 Hyah! Whoa! 764 01:01:47,337 --> 01:01:49,737 Douglas figures we can make a stand here. 765 01:01:49,773 --> 01:01:51,272 Save the house, maybe. 766 01:01:51,308 --> 01:01:52,840 Make a stand? What for? 767 01:01:52,876 --> 01:01:56,410 That's a rip-roarin' death-bringer. 768 01:01:56,447 --> 01:01:58,879 A prairie fire, Mrs. Sergeant. 769 01:01:58,916 --> 01:02:01,382 And like usual, the wind's blowing right this way. 770 01:02:01,418 --> 01:02:03,384 Now get aboard! 771 01:02:03,420 --> 01:02:05,386 Douglas wants to form up down at your house. 772 01:02:05,422 --> 01:02:07,288 Hang on 'cause we gonna go. 773 01:02:07,324 --> 01:02:11,158 Okay, Jeremy. Let's go, Jack. Hyah! Hang on tight. 774 01:02:54,238 --> 01:02:56,904 Whoa! Whoa! 775 01:02:56,940 --> 01:02:59,573 - Ahh! - What about the team? 776 01:02:59,610 --> 01:03:01,108 - Let 'em free. - And Jupiter? 777 01:03:01,145 --> 01:03:04,111 They'll run ahead of the fire. Don't you worry. 778 01:03:04,148 --> 01:03:06,113 It's moving fast but with the wind's help, 779 01:03:06,150 --> 01:03:08,015 we've kept it from getting any wider. 780 01:03:08,051 --> 01:03:09,996 Looks like it's gonna top on that Ridge back there 781 01:03:10,020 --> 01:03:12,232 so that's where we'll cut the brake and start the backfire. 782 01:03:12,256 --> 01:03:14,388 - Backfire? Why? - That way, Mrs. Sergeant, 783 01:03:14,424 --> 01:03:16,323 we may be able to save some of your field. 784 01:03:16,360 --> 01:03:17,458 No! 785 01:03:17,494 --> 01:03:18,993 That's John's wheat. 786 01:03:19,029 --> 01:03:20,828 If you want to save range down valley, 787 01:03:20,864 --> 01:03:23,397 you burn off range above here, but not our wheat. 788 01:03:23,433 --> 01:03:26,033 Mrs. Sergeant, I don't need the range down valley. 789 01:03:26,069 --> 01:03:29,069 I can drive my herd over the divide and winter on the crow. 790 01:03:29,106 --> 01:03:31,151 It's the only way, Mrs. Sergeant. This whole valley could go. 791 01:03:31,175 --> 01:03:33,107 If this were your homestead, Mr. Hall, 792 01:03:33,143 --> 01:03:35,309 would you be so eager then? 793 01:03:35,345 --> 01:03:36,811 Ma'am, try and understand... 794 01:03:36,847 --> 01:03:38,979 for god's sake, Wormser, we're wasting time. 795 01:03:39,016 --> 01:03:41,649 - Go find a plow. - Fellas, get some flails. 796 01:03:41,685 --> 01:03:43,918 - Get some blankets, some sheets... - no! 797 01:03:43,954 --> 01:03:46,821 Ma'am, Douglas has the truth of it. 798 01:03:46,857 --> 01:03:48,789 He doesn't need that range. 799 01:03:48,826 --> 01:03:51,425 But we need his help and yours 800 01:03:51,461 --> 01:03:53,027 or we're all lost. 801 01:04:14,251 --> 01:04:17,084 Man: Hyah! Hyah! 802 01:04:17,120 --> 01:04:20,054 All right, get that team round again. That's all the time we got. 803 01:04:23,360 --> 01:04:25,793 Oh, Sarah, darling, not your blue dimity. 804 01:04:25,829 --> 01:04:27,628 If it's needed. 805 01:04:37,107 --> 01:04:39,540 Man: I need some more blankets too! 806 01:04:41,812 --> 01:04:43,944 Fire's coming hell-bent, Mr. Douglas. 807 01:04:43,981 --> 01:04:45,946 All right, ride the line. Make sure it's clean. 808 01:04:45,983 --> 01:04:47,781 Let's start spreading the coal oil. 809 01:04:47,818 --> 01:04:50,084 Come on, grab a bucket! Grab that coal oil. 810 01:04:50,120 --> 01:04:51,652 Let's go. 811 01:04:56,627 --> 01:04:59,660 Grab a bucket! Let's bring that coal oil. Come on, grab a bucket! 812 01:05:01,665 --> 01:05:03,764 - Here, I'll take that. - I'll take it. 813 01:05:16,613 --> 01:05:18,913 Sarah, get your brother, get out of the way. 814 01:05:22,486 --> 01:05:26,553 All right, stand back. Let's get back there! 815 01:05:27,724 --> 01:05:30,224 Stand back! 816 01:05:30,260 --> 01:05:32,760 You all ready? You ready? 817 01:05:32,796 --> 01:05:34,361 Ready here. 818 01:05:34,398 --> 01:05:36,230 Let's light 'em! 819 01:06:17,407 --> 01:06:19,206 Man: Is the firebreak holding? 820 01:06:19,242 --> 01:06:21,408 Man I need help over here. 821 01:06:21,445 --> 01:06:23,544 Go over there near the firebreak! 822 01:06:27,050 --> 01:06:29,550 Over here! In the firebreak! 823 01:07:01,284 --> 01:07:03,083 Man: Behind you! 824 01:07:03,120 --> 01:07:04,752 The wind's taking it! 825 01:07:07,224 --> 01:07:08,856 We need more men! 826 01:07:08,892 --> 01:07:11,058 Over here. Quickly. 827 01:07:24,775 --> 01:07:26,607 Let's get those fires out! 828 01:07:26,643 --> 01:07:28,609 If it spreads, we're ruined! 829 01:08:18,829 --> 01:08:20,461 It's working. 830 01:08:21,898 --> 01:08:23,197 It's working. 831 01:08:43,887 --> 01:08:46,220 Man: Watch those embers. 832 01:08:46,256 --> 01:08:48,355 Man Beat 'em out. 833 01:08:48,391 --> 01:08:50,023 Beat 'em out! 834 01:09:08,111 --> 01:09:11,545 Looks like you're gonna have a good crop in spite of it, Mrs. Sergeant. 835 01:09:42,712 --> 01:09:44,711 Oh, that'll do it. 836 01:09:52,689 --> 01:09:55,489 This'll be about the same as what we brought with us from Nebraska. 837 01:09:55,525 --> 01:09:58,025 "Good seed wheat," papa would call it. 838 01:09:58,061 --> 01:10:01,995 Mama, I could help sow it next year. I'll be big enough. 839 01:10:03,400 --> 01:10:05,499 Papa would be proud of us, I think. 840 01:10:11,508 --> 01:10:13,307 Let's go to town. 841 01:10:25,989 --> 01:10:27,788 Mrs. Sergeant? 842 01:10:27,824 --> 01:10:30,324 Good day, Mr. Douglas. 843 01:10:31,761 --> 01:10:34,261 Just wanted to say goodbye and good luck. 844 01:10:34,297 --> 01:10:37,297 Well, thank you for the good luck, 845 01:10:37,334 --> 01:10:38,899 but no need to say goodbye, 846 01:10:38,935 --> 01:10:41,101 unless you're going away. 847 01:10:41,137 --> 01:10:43,203 - Mama, mama! - Mr. Douglas, Mr. Douglas, 848 01:10:43,240 --> 01:10:45,105 we're staying! We're staying in Wyoming! 849 01:10:45,141 --> 01:10:48,075 And mama bought us some smoked pork and bacon and butter and fresh eggs! 850 01:10:48,111 --> 01:10:49,943 Come on, you two, in the wagon. 851 01:10:53,483 --> 01:10:56,650 I don't suppose you'd like to put that money into cattle? 852 01:10:56,686 --> 01:10:58,685 Run your stock with mine; You'd be welcome. 853 01:10:58,722 --> 01:11:00,287 We'd go shares at the market. 854 01:11:00,323 --> 01:11:03,090 Then we'd be ranchers and I'd get to be a cowboy. 855 01:11:03,126 --> 01:11:06,360 Jeremy, your papa saw his land in wheat. 856 01:11:08,632 --> 01:11:10,731 You'll get to be a cowboy anyway. 857 01:11:10,767 --> 01:11:13,100 It's inevitable. 858 01:11:13,136 --> 01:11:17,738 I see my land in wheat too, Mr. Douglas. 859 01:11:17,774 --> 01:11:20,040 I thank you. 860 01:11:20,076 --> 01:11:23,010 What happens if there's a drought next year maybe? 861 01:11:23,046 --> 01:11:25,312 I don't believe in borrowing, Mr. Douglas. 862 01:11:25,348 --> 01:11:27,047 Not money nor trouble. 863 01:11:27,083 --> 01:11:29,716 Yes, ma'am. 864 01:11:31,154 --> 01:11:32,486 Mr. Douglas? 865 01:11:38,695 --> 01:11:41,261 They say there'll be rails for fencing 866 01:11:41,298 --> 01:11:43,563 when the union pacific goes through. 867 01:11:43,600 --> 01:11:47,868 Well, till then, you best keep a sharp eye on your stock. 868 01:11:47,904 --> 01:11:49,936 Either that 869 01:11:49,973 --> 01:11:53,907 or you're welcome to come share a roast of beef with us some evening. 870 01:12:14,431 --> 01:12:17,731 Maggie's voice: August 21st, 1867. 871 01:12:17,767 --> 01:12:21,368 Today once again our lives have been overturned, 872 01:12:21,404 --> 01:12:22,903 this time by me. 873 01:12:22,939 --> 01:12:25,405 I have made an amazing decision. 874 01:12:25,442 --> 01:12:27,407 My head is full of plans: 875 01:12:27,444 --> 01:12:30,077 Whitewash for the inside of the house; 876 01:12:30,113 --> 01:12:32,746 our cow must be freshened to give us milk again; 877 01:12:32,782 --> 01:12:35,882 and soon I will talk to Philippa and Mrs. Hall 878 01:12:35,919 --> 01:12:38,218 about writing east for a teacher. 879 01:12:38,254 --> 01:12:40,420 Big pines must have a school. 880 01:12:40,457 --> 01:12:42,489 And a church too. 881 01:12:56,106 --> 01:12:59,072 John dreamt of the promise in this land. 882 01:12:59,109 --> 01:13:02,409 Now that promise is ours 883 01:13:02,445 --> 01:13:05,912 for I know myself an alien here no more. 884 01:13:08,151 --> 01:13:11,084 Tomorrow... all our tomorrows... 885 01:13:11,121 --> 01:13:13,286 will be busy days.