1 00:00:01,390 --> 00:00:06,070 The story of Grizzly Adams is big and powerful and beautiful. 2 00:00:06,530 --> 00:00:08,410 They call me Mad Jack. 3 00:00:08,730 --> 00:00:13,550 And me and my burl number seven been traipsing these slopes and valleys for a 4 00:00:13,550 --> 00:00:18,890 long spell. So I know the story from the beginning. My friend Adams was accused 5 00:00:18,890 --> 00:00:21,030 of a crime he didn't commit. 6 00:00:21,350 --> 00:00:27,830 So he escaped into the mountains, leaving behind the only life that he 7 00:00:27,830 --> 00:00:28,830 knew. 8 00:00:32,650 --> 00:00:37,430 Now, that wilderness out there ain't no place for a greenhorn, and his chances 9 00:00:37,430 --> 00:00:39,650 of surviving were mighty slim. 10 00:00:39,890 --> 00:00:44,690 There was no time at all, for he was beaten down, ragged, and nearly starved. 11 00:00:46,770 --> 00:00:53,150 Long about then, he come upon a grizzly bear cub, all alone and helpless. 12 00:00:53,670 --> 00:00:57,970 Now, Adams knew that little critter couldn't survive without his help, so he 13 00:00:57,970 --> 00:01:01,370 started right down that cliff, risking his own life. 14 00:01:01,900 --> 00:01:02,900 To save it. 15 00:01:04,140 --> 00:01:07,200 Now that cub took to Adams right off. 16 00:01:07,600 --> 00:01:12,300 And that was when he discovered he had a special kind of way with animals. 17 00:01:13,240 --> 00:01:17,260 They just come right up to him like he was a natural part of the wilderness. 18 00:01:17,680 --> 00:01:20,580 But that bear cub, he was extra special. 19 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:26,320 As he grew, he became the best friend Adams ever had. And together, they 20 00:01:26,320 --> 00:01:27,320 a legend. 21 00:02:01,040 --> 00:02:02,920 like to call these my mountains. 22 00:02:03,340 --> 00:02:08,699 But if the truth be told, I guess they rightly belong to the trees and the 23 00:02:08,699 --> 00:02:11,400 streams and the animals who was here first. 24 00:02:12,440 --> 00:02:17,680 Yep, there was a time when this place, like the rest of the world, was a garden 25 00:02:17,680 --> 00:02:18,599 of Eden. 26 00:02:18,600 --> 00:02:25,440 Then along came men, all sorts of men, some that didn't think the animals had a 27 00:02:25,440 --> 00:02:28,680 right to live free and easy the way it was intended. 28 00:02:29,960 --> 00:02:35,000 But there was other men who cared a heap about the animals, like my friend James 29 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:40,980 Adams. He just naturally figured if things ain't right with the animals, 30 00:02:40,980 --> 00:02:43,960 owed it to nature to do what he could to set things straight. 31 00:02:44,320 --> 00:02:49,280 But I recall there was one time when setting things straight came mighty 32 00:03:12,360 --> 00:03:14,000 Now, what do you plan on doing with that wood, Ben? 33 00:03:14,700 --> 00:03:15,700 You gonna help me? 34 00:03:22,040 --> 00:03:23,040 Well, 35 00:03:23,280 --> 00:03:24,280 I'll be. 36 00:03:25,080 --> 00:03:26,460 I've seen everything now. 37 00:03:31,420 --> 00:03:35,700 But, Ben, you remember this is your idea, not mine. 38 00:03:53,330 --> 00:03:58,730 everything. A fine, upstanding grizzly bear turned into a woodchopper. 39 00:03:59,190 --> 00:04:02,290 I didn't ask him to do that, Jack. He did this on his own. 40 00:04:03,610 --> 00:04:06,010 You see that, number seven? 41 00:04:06,650 --> 00:04:10,610 The next thing you know, that green hornet is going to have poor old Ben in 42 00:04:10,610 --> 00:04:13,330 harness and making him into a plow horse. 43 00:04:13,810 --> 00:04:16,769 Now, you know better than that. I can't make nothing out of Ben. 44 00:04:17,029 --> 00:04:18,990 He's going to do darn well what he pleases. 45 00:04:32,170 --> 00:04:33,170 We got company. 46 00:04:35,070 --> 00:04:39,550 You found this up by Summit Ridge? 47 00:04:41,610 --> 00:04:42,830 You think there's more of them? 48 00:04:43,150 --> 00:04:45,630 You can bet your cross -cut saw they is. 49 00:04:45,930 --> 00:04:47,410 Well, how do you know there's more? 50 00:04:48,310 --> 00:04:50,430 Because I know the man that made this. 51 00:04:51,370 --> 00:04:53,110 A fellow named Trapper Tom. 52 00:04:53,830 --> 00:04:56,810 And he don't do nothing unless he does it in big way. 53 00:04:57,310 --> 00:04:58,310 Look at that. 54 00:04:58,630 --> 00:05:00,890 There ain't nobody makes them any slicker. 55 00:05:02,220 --> 00:05:04,980 Well, I guess you and I ought to get up to Summer Ridge and bust up as many of 56 00:05:04,980 --> 00:05:06,000 these things as we can find. 57 00:05:06,860 --> 00:05:08,300 You mean as I can find? 58 00:05:09,040 --> 00:05:12,580 Now, you remember Trapper Tom. I've told you hundreds of stories about him. I 59 00:05:12,580 --> 00:05:14,580 know all the stories about Trapper Tom. 60 00:05:14,980 --> 00:05:18,840 Well, then you know there's only one man in these mountains that can outsmart 61 00:05:18,840 --> 00:05:20,080 him, and you're looking at him. 62 00:05:20,900 --> 00:05:24,080 Besides, I've got to protect you in the coma. 63 00:05:25,260 --> 00:05:26,480 From what? These traps? 64 00:05:27,480 --> 00:05:29,780 This here is only a come on. 65 00:05:30,440 --> 00:05:34,600 You can bet your bottom dollar that wherever he found this, it's just 66 00:05:34,600 --> 00:05:35,600 with traps. 67 00:05:35,920 --> 00:05:40,020 Biggins. And each one more terrible and clever than the next one. 68 00:05:40,920 --> 00:05:43,240 And he makes bear traps, too. 69 00:05:44,320 --> 00:05:46,420 Because that used to be his specialty. 70 00:05:48,780 --> 00:05:51,980 You know, I think it'd be a lot easier on all of us if we just let him go along 71 00:05:51,980 --> 00:05:52,980 with us. 72 00:05:56,260 --> 00:05:57,260 No, sir. 73 00:05:58,410 --> 00:06:02,010 There ain't no way that mean old number seven is going to let you and the coma 74 00:06:02,010 --> 00:06:05,030 traipse around these mountains with Trapper Tom afoot. 75 00:06:05,970 --> 00:06:06,970 Wait, are you coming? 76 00:06:12,430 --> 00:06:16,690 Ben had heard so many stories about Trapper Tom, he wasn't about to be left 77 00:06:16,690 --> 00:06:17,690 behind. 78 00:06:21,170 --> 00:06:24,650 Did I ever tell you about the time I first come to these mountains? That was 79 00:06:24,650 --> 00:06:25,750 long before you, number seven. 80 00:06:29,160 --> 00:06:32,840 The old Trapper Tom and me were the last two contestants in a blanket shootout 81 00:06:32,840 --> 00:06:33,840 up on Flat Mason. 82 00:06:36,620 --> 00:06:38,700 What's the matter, Ben? You heard that story of four? 83 00:06:41,440 --> 00:06:44,900 That bear's gonna get himself in trouble going off by himself like that. 84 00:06:45,100 --> 00:06:46,280 Like I've been telling you, Jack. 85 00:06:46,560 --> 00:06:49,660 Ben can take care of himself, and he does what he pleases. 86 00:06:50,200 --> 00:06:51,200 Well, 87 00:06:51,460 --> 00:06:54,220 he didn't listen to one word I told him about Trapper Tom. 88 00:06:54,460 --> 00:06:55,460 I tell you, Tom's dangerous. 89 00:07:04,080 --> 00:07:05,480 Now, what's the matter with you? 90 00:07:06,560 --> 00:07:11,100 Now, are you going to come or are you afraid I'm going to tell them about all 91 00:07:11,100 --> 00:07:13,160 the good burrows I had before I found you? 92 00:07:16,480 --> 00:07:19,000 All right. Just come at your own pace. 93 00:07:46,060 --> 00:07:48,180 to be the work of Tramper Tom. 94 00:07:49,580 --> 00:07:53,340 Well, don't just stand there looking stupid. 95 00:07:57,060 --> 00:08:00,380 Cut me out of here. 96 00:08:03,160 --> 00:08:04,840 We'll get you out right quick, Jack. 97 00:08:12,780 --> 00:08:14,760 Ben hadn't left for no reason. 98 00:08:15,230 --> 00:08:18,630 That nose of his smelled an animal being somewhere it shouldn't be. 99 00:08:18,850 --> 00:08:20,230 In big trouble. 100 00:08:20,650 --> 00:08:24,690 And the trouble was a pit trap made by Trapper Tom. 101 00:08:25,110 --> 00:08:27,810 And the animal in it was a mountain lion. 102 00:08:28,130 --> 00:08:29,210 Hurt real bad. 103 00:08:29,870 --> 00:08:34,789 All Ben could do was tell her to rest easy while Steve went for help. Are you 104 00:08:34,789 --> 00:08:35,789 all right? 105 00:08:36,710 --> 00:08:39,370 Yeah, I think I'm all right. Just get me out of here. 106 00:08:40,110 --> 00:08:41,110 Give a chase. 107 00:08:44,329 --> 00:08:45,590 Why'd I step in it? 108 00:08:46,690 --> 00:08:48,830 I'll tell you why I stepped in it. 109 00:08:49,790 --> 00:08:56,030 It's to show you, Greenhorn, what could happen if you're not watching every 110 00:08:56,030 --> 00:08:57,030 minute. 111 00:08:59,110 --> 00:09:02,650 Well, you know, if I hadn't have stepped in that, one of you might have stepped 112 00:09:02,650 --> 00:09:04,690 in it and got hurt real bad. 113 00:09:05,250 --> 00:09:08,250 Oh, that Tom, he's a sly devil. 114 00:09:10,190 --> 00:09:15,670 Meanwhile... Ben was a -running about as fast as a bear can run, looking for us. 115 00:09:18,490 --> 00:09:20,570 This man looks like he's been here for over a year. 116 00:09:21,890 --> 00:09:23,610 All right, Ben, I'll come with you. 117 00:09:29,590 --> 00:09:31,830 A lot of help you were, number seven. 118 00:09:32,770 --> 00:09:34,950 Why didn't you tell me that thing was there? 119 00:09:35,630 --> 00:09:36,630 Let's catch up. 120 00:09:38,330 --> 00:09:41,290 Ben brung Adams and Nekoma direct to that pit. 121 00:09:49,850 --> 00:09:52,430 It's a mountain lion, Nekoma. It looks like it's hurt really bad. 122 00:09:53,230 --> 00:09:54,630 You better come down with me. 123 00:10:14,920 --> 00:10:16,380 You took quite a fall, didn't you? 124 00:10:17,500 --> 00:10:20,040 Looks like she hit her head on these rocks. 125 00:10:20,700 --> 00:10:21,940 Lucky she's alive at all. 126 00:10:24,820 --> 00:10:27,260 I told you you should let me walk in front. 127 00:10:27,540 --> 00:10:32,600 You got... Holy Toledo. 128 00:10:33,920 --> 00:10:34,920 Is she hurt bad? 129 00:10:35,740 --> 00:10:37,300 Yeah, she's hurt awful bad, Jack. 130 00:10:38,040 --> 00:10:40,460 We're gonna have to make a travel voice and get her out of here and get her back 131 00:10:40,460 --> 00:10:41,460 to the cabin. 132 00:11:00,750 --> 00:11:01,750 You're with friends now, girl. 133 00:11:02,710 --> 00:11:03,710 We're going to help you. 134 00:11:04,290 --> 00:11:05,390 You're going to be all right. 135 00:11:06,890 --> 00:11:08,210 I know you hurt bad. 136 00:11:09,290 --> 00:11:10,830 But I don't want you to give up. 137 00:11:11,790 --> 00:11:12,970 You hang on, you hear? 138 00:11:20,770 --> 00:11:22,450 Jack, throw me down your canteen. 139 00:11:48,300 --> 00:11:50,900 That's okay. That's just Jack and the coma with the Travois. 140 00:11:52,280 --> 00:11:53,740 And we're going to take you with us. 141 00:11:54,420 --> 00:11:57,920 We're going to put you on this Travois and take you back to the cabin. 142 00:11:58,500 --> 00:11:59,680 But you've got to help us. 143 00:12:00,280 --> 00:12:02,520 You've got to want to live, so you hang on, okay? 144 00:12:06,460 --> 00:12:07,460 All of us. 145 00:12:07,960 --> 00:12:12,640 Even Ben knowed that Cougar was hurt about as bad as it were possible to be 146 00:12:12,640 --> 00:12:16,680 hurt. It was going to take all the love and skill that Adams had. 147 00:12:17,260 --> 00:12:20,620 Plus maybe a lot of luck to Odin to save her life. 148 00:12:25,160 --> 00:12:31,160 Adams figured she had a fighting chance if we could get her back to the cabin. 149 00:12:47,080 --> 00:12:48,640 I think we got to her just in time. 150 00:12:49,720 --> 00:12:52,060 All we can do for now is just keep her nice and quiet. 151 00:12:53,260 --> 00:12:54,640 Hope she gets her strength back. 152 00:12:55,900 --> 00:12:57,420 Try and get a little food into her. 153 00:12:58,800 --> 00:13:01,340 Now, I think she was trapped in that pit for about two or three days. 154 00:13:05,500 --> 00:13:06,500 Ben, 155 00:13:07,860 --> 00:13:09,820 if it weren't for you, she wouldn't be alive right now. 156 00:13:14,540 --> 00:13:15,540 I'll be. 157 00:13:18,490 --> 00:13:20,910 What? She's a recent mom. 158 00:13:22,970 --> 00:13:25,130 She is? 159 00:13:26,870 --> 00:13:30,710 But there weren't no cub back there where we found her. 160 00:13:32,430 --> 00:13:33,590 I know it, Jack. 161 00:13:34,750 --> 00:13:37,530 That means that there's a little lost mountain lion cub out there in the 162 00:13:37,530 --> 00:13:38,530 wilderness. 163 00:13:39,010 --> 00:13:40,970 Alone and lost and frightened. 164 00:13:42,270 --> 00:13:47,410 That poor cub was calling out for its mama and wondering where she was. 165 00:14:00,940 --> 00:14:01,940 Good morning, Ben. 166 00:14:05,620 --> 00:14:06,620 How's she doing? 167 00:14:07,420 --> 00:14:09,760 I can't get any food in her. 168 00:14:10,860 --> 00:14:12,180 But she's still hanging on. 169 00:14:13,120 --> 00:14:15,860 You know, it's like she hasn't decided whether she wants to live or not. 170 00:14:17,960 --> 00:14:19,820 You're thinking about that cub, ain't you? 171 00:14:21,680 --> 00:14:22,680 Yeah. 172 00:14:23,060 --> 00:14:25,780 I think if we could find that cub, it'd give her a reason to live. 173 00:14:30,830 --> 00:14:32,970 Now, just a minute. You're not going anywhere. 174 00:14:34,250 --> 00:14:35,710 Not without me, you ain't. 175 00:14:36,630 --> 00:14:42,670 Now, we'll start it to pit, and we'll track that cub, and we'll find it. 176 00:14:44,270 --> 00:14:46,230 That is, if it's still alive. 177 00:14:47,450 --> 00:14:54,430 I think that that cub will have a lot better chance if all three of us look 178 00:14:54,430 --> 00:14:56,150 it. Now, just a minute. 179 00:14:56,990 --> 00:14:58,110 You've been up all night. 180 00:14:59,120 --> 00:15:02,260 Besides, somebody should stay here and look after her. 181 00:15:04,920 --> 00:15:06,520 I've done all I can do for her, Jack. 182 00:15:07,540 --> 00:15:09,540 All I can do is just leave her some food and water. 183 00:15:10,460 --> 00:15:12,280 What she really needs is that cub of hers. 184 00:15:31,850 --> 00:15:32,850 You're right, Nekoma. 185 00:15:33,330 --> 00:15:34,450 The cub was here. 186 00:15:35,370 --> 00:15:38,910 Those horse prints and the man's footprints are fresh. 187 00:15:39,530 --> 00:15:41,390 I'd say they aren't more than an hour or two old. 188 00:15:42,190 --> 00:15:43,470 Look at those heel marks. 189 00:15:46,310 --> 00:15:49,770 There's only one man I know wears a boot like that. That's Trapper Tom. 190 00:15:50,910 --> 00:15:55,170 Yes, sir. Tom's afoot in these mountains, and that means trouble for 191 00:15:55,430 --> 00:15:56,430 All right. 192 00:15:56,510 --> 00:15:58,990 We got good reason to believe that Trapper Tom was here. 193 00:15:59,370 --> 00:16:01,130 But how do we know he found that cub? 194 00:16:12,810 --> 00:16:14,090 You're right, Nicoma, this is fresh. 195 00:16:15,050 --> 00:16:17,090 This trap had to be set sometime this morning. 196 00:16:17,970 --> 00:16:19,110 Well, this is one trap. 197 00:16:19,550 --> 00:16:22,270 It ain't gonna keep a poor cub on the wall. 198 00:16:26,810 --> 00:16:30,170 Adams, there's something bothering me. 199 00:16:31,290 --> 00:16:32,290 What's that, Jack? 200 00:16:33,290 --> 00:16:38,390 Now, if Tom didn't catch that cub and it doesn't look like he did, is it dead or 201 00:16:38,390 --> 00:16:39,390 alive? 202 00:16:43,020 --> 00:16:44,440 Well, how about if we split up? 203 00:16:44,700 --> 00:16:45,960 If you take the summit ridge? 204 00:16:46,620 --> 00:16:48,880 Ben, I want you to take the high country, you hear? 205 00:16:52,520 --> 00:16:55,120 Nakoma, you go check all the water holes. 206 00:16:56,840 --> 00:16:59,460 I'm going to go back to the cabin, Jack. I got an idea I want to try. 207 00:16:59,780 --> 00:17:00,780 What kind of an idea? 208 00:17:01,740 --> 00:17:02,900 We know the cub was here. 209 00:17:03,600 --> 00:17:06,000 I'm going to take some of this dirt. Maybe she can pick up its scent. 210 00:17:08,560 --> 00:17:11,700 Well, that's pretty long odds. That scent's cold. 211 00:17:12,939 --> 00:17:13,939 Yeah, I know, Jack. 212 00:17:14,599 --> 00:17:16,619 That animal's got a real keen sense of smell. 213 00:17:17,540 --> 00:17:21,760 If that cougar could just pick up her cub's scent, that might make all the 214 00:17:21,760 --> 00:17:22,760 difference in the world. 215 00:17:23,020 --> 00:17:25,859 Well, at least why is it give her something to hang on to until we can 216 00:17:25,859 --> 00:17:27,579 cub? I'm going back to the cabin. 217 00:17:32,100 --> 00:17:35,740 Meanwhile, by some miracle, that cub were still alive. 218 00:17:36,640 --> 00:17:39,860 But it wasn't Nicoma, Meen, or Ben who'd seen it first. 219 00:17:40,520 --> 00:17:42,060 It were a pair of coyotes. 220 00:17:42,730 --> 00:17:45,350 If ever a cub needed its mama, it was then. 221 00:17:45,790 --> 00:17:48,390 But that cub had an instinct for survival. 222 00:17:49,130 --> 00:17:54,530 And he scampered off hoping somebody or something would come along and kind of 223 00:17:54,530 --> 00:17:55,650 even things up a bit. 224 00:17:56,110 --> 00:18:01,510 Well, about that time, old Ben had picked up its scent. And it sure 225 00:18:01,510 --> 00:18:02,730 have come at a better time. 226 00:18:11,550 --> 00:18:15,610 Ben scared them coyotes away, but when he looked for the cub, it had skittered 227 00:18:15,610 --> 00:18:16,469 away too. 228 00:18:16,470 --> 00:18:20,770 So Ben put his nose to work again and tried to pick up the little one's trail. 229 00:18:32,290 --> 00:18:33,290 Well, 230 00:18:37,470 --> 00:18:38,470 would you look at that. 231 00:18:39,490 --> 00:18:40,490 A bear trap. 232 00:18:42,960 --> 00:18:45,680 Unless I miss my guess, that's a worker trapper, Tom. 233 00:18:47,240 --> 00:18:48,240 Yes, sir. 234 00:18:52,580 --> 00:18:58,060 Uh -huh. 235 00:19:00,240 --> 00:19:01,560 See there, number seven? 236 00:19:02,840 --> 00:19:04,760 He's got it baited with honeycomb. 237 00:19:07,660 --> 00:19:10,840 Some poor old unsuspecting bear comes along here. 238 00:19:11,470 --> 00:19:15,010 Goes inside, thinking he's going to satisfy his sweet tooth. 239 00:19:15,370 --> 00:19:18,130 And the minute he touches that honeycomb, wham! 240 00:19:18,830 --> 00:19:21,310 That meat falls down and he's locked in. 241 00:19:22,190 --> 00:19:24,670 That cage is made out of solid logs. 242 00:19:24,990 --> 00:19:26,750 It's worse than the jail cell. 243 00:19:27,070 --> 00:19:29,230 Here, I'll show you. 244 00:19:57,610 --> 00:19:58,610 Now, don't be scared. 245 00:20:14,510 --> 00:20:15,510 Well, 246 00:20:16,690 --> 00:20:18,090 you see that, number seven? 247 00:20:19,330 --> 00:20:21,750 Looks like old Tom's lost his touch. 248 00:20:23,530 --> 00:20:25,770 He made this here trap out of green logs. 249 00:20:26,660 --> 00:20:30,440 Now they're so dried out and shrunk up that the door won't even close. 250 00:20:32,480 --> 00:20:38,380 Well, I tell them down to Rendezvous how I out -foxed old Trapper Tom. 251 00:20:41,880 --> 00:20:42,880 Well, 252 00:20:47,480 --> 00:20:49,900 had some left over, did he? 253 00:21:02,190 --> 00:21:08,930 So that old codger made himself a double -wheelie spare trap, 254 00:21:09,210 --> 00:21:10,210 huh? 255 00:21:12,010 --> 00:21:16,870 How about all the dirty, cantankerous things for a man to do? 256 00:21:44,200 --> 00:21:45,600 Butting one of Tom's bear traps. 257 00:21:47,860 --> 00:21:49,320 I gotta get out of here. 258 00:21:50,120 --> 00:21:52,360 Can't let anybody find out about this. 259 00:21:54,700 --> 00:21:58,040 I'll be the laughing stock of all the high country. 260 00:22:06,720 --> 00:22:07,860 I'm sorry, girl. 261 00:22:08,540 --> 00:22:10,160 We haven't found your cub yet. 262 00:22:11,080 --> 00:22:12,820 Are Ben and Jack in a coma? 263 00:22:13,400 --> 00:22:14,760 They're still looking for her. 264 00:22:16,220 --> 00:22:17,800 I brought some of this dirt back. 265 00:22:18,360 --> 00:22:21,540 I want you to take a good smell of it and see if you can pick up your cup's 266 00:22:21,540 --> 00:22:22,540 scent. 267 00:22:23,480 --> 00:22:24,480 Good. 268 00:22:24,740 --> 00:22:26,500 You recognize the scent, don't you? 269 00:22:28,760 --> 00:22:29,760 Meanwhile, 270 00:22:30,160 --> 00:22:32,400 I was recognizing something, too. 271 00:22:33,440 --> 00:22:36,900 I was in real trouble, and I know who to thank for it. 272 00:22:46,410 --> 00:22:48,250 get out, you're going to have to answer me personal. 273 00:22:50,710 --> 00:22:53,210 That is, if I get out. 274 00:23:05,030 --> 00:23:06,030 Shota. 275 00:23:07,770 --> 00:23:08,910 She's a little better to come. 276 00:23:09,730 --> 00:23:12,410 But if we don't find that cover of hers, I don't think she's going to make it. 277 00:23:16,560 --> 00:23:17,660 I don't know where they are. 278 00:23:18,060 --> 00:23:20,440 I'm not worried about Ben. He can take care of himself. 279 00:23:21,320 --> 00:23:25,520 And anybody that's been around the mountains as long as Jack has, he knows 280 00:23:25,520 --> 00:23:26,520 to stay out of trouble. 281 00:23:27,800 --> 00:23:28,800 Number seven. 282 00:23:31,700 --> 00:23:32,700 Number seven. 283 00:23:33,640 --> 00:23:34,980 How would you like to... 284 00:23:46,410 --> 00:23:50,910 Number seven, how would you like to do old Mad Jack a favor, huh? 285 00:23:51,390 --> 00:23:57,270 Now, you remember all those many kindnesses I did for you, all that good 286 00:23:57,270 --> 00:23:58,290 and nice care? 287 00:23:59,050 --> 00:24:02,630 Now, how would you like to repay old Mad Jack for that, huh? 288 00:24:03,870 --> 00:24:10,830 Now, if you'd like to show old Mad Jack that there's no hard feelings, 289 00:24:10,990 --> 00:24:14,590 you just move right over here, huh? 290 00:24:15,690 --> 00:24:20,130 And let old Mad Jack get into that pack and get his hands onto that hatchet. 291 00:24:20,650 --> 00:24:23,210 Then he could chop his way out of here. 292 00:24:23,710 --> 00:24:24,950 What do you say to that? 293 00:24:25,230 --> 00:24:26,230 You do it? 294 00:24:27,410 --> 00:24:28,410 Seven. 295 00:24:29,010 --> 00:24:30,010 Seven! 296 00:24:36,190 --> 00:24:42,950 Now that cougar cub 297 00:24:42,950 --> 00:24:45,010 didn't stay out of trouble very long. 298 00:24:45,660 --> 00:24:48,160 Because coyotes ain't noted for giving up. 299 00:24:49,680 --> 00:24:53,760 They had found that cub again, and this time they was determined to do something 300 00:24:53,760 --> 00:24:54,760 about it. 301 00:24:57,500 --> 00:25:03,120 It sure looked like it was all over for that little fella when once more old Ben 302 00:25:03,120 --> 00:25:05,420 came by just in the nick of time. 303 00:25:17,290 --> 00:25:18,290 Poor Ben. 304 00:25:18,390 --> 00:25:22,090 He had found the little cub and he knew the little fella should be with his 305 00:25:22,090 --> 00:25:23,090 alien mom. 306 00:25:23,490 --> 00:25:28,770 He could leave the cub and go get Adams, but not with those coyotes out there. 307 00:25:29,390 --> 00:25:34,730 All Ben could do was stay where he was, standing guard and hoping that things 308 00:25:34,730 --> 00:25:36,070 would be better in the morning. 309 00:25:52,669 --> 00:25:55,030 What are you doing here? Get on out of here. 310 00:25:56,590 --> 00:25:58,750 Ain't you never seen a fella in a cage before? 311 00:26:00,730 --> 00:26:04,430 Do you want to know who I am? I'll tell you who I am. I'm a mountain man. My 312 00:26:04,430 --> 00:26:06,910 name is Mad Jack, and I'm a friend to all critters. 313 00:26:07,750 --> 00:26:10,850 Like my friend Adams and his blood brother Nicomar. 314 00:26:15,510 --> 00:26:18,670 And there ain't no call to make faces at me. It ain't neighboring. 315 00:26:21,270 --> 00:26:22,270 See? 316 00:26:23,760 --> 00:26:27,380 One of you couldn't drag that knife over here for me, could you? 317 00:26:30,780 --> 00:26:31,880 I didn't think so. 318 00:26:36,320 --> 00:26:39,240 Oh, thank you, Hawk. 319 00:26:42,360 --> 00:26:46,780 It ain't that I'm hungry or nothing, but this old stomach of mine has got kind 320 00:26:46,780 --> 00:26:47,860 of used to eating regular. 321 00:26:48,960 --> 00:26:51,580 And I finished the last of the honey this morning. 322 00:26:53,400 --> 00:26:59,760 Or, say, Hawk, let's not say anything to Adams about this, hmm? 323 00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:05,380 I wouldn't want him to think that old Mad Jack couldn't get out of a bear trap 324 00:27:05,380 --> 00:27:06,380 by himself. 325 00:27:10,260 --> 00:27:14,780 That cougar cub was still alive in the morning because Ben stayed there all 326 00:27:14,780 --> 00:27:15,800 night protecting it. 327 00:27:16,080 --> 00:27:20,780 So when the cub up and moseyed along, Ben knew it were looking for his mama. 328 00:27:21,360 --> 00:27:23,580 There was only one thing Ben could do. 329 00:27:24,160 --> 00:27:27,740 Follow it best he could and see that the cub stayed out of trouble. 330 00:27:29,020 --> 00:27:34,120 Ben kept bellering now and again, hoping one of his human friends might hear it. 331 00:27:38,500 --> 00:27:39,500 Hi, fellas. 332 00:27:39,760 --> 00:27:42,080 You haven't seen a little mountain lion cub around, have you? 333 00:27:44,280 --> 00:27:46,360 Well, for that matter, how about a big old grizzly? 334 00:27:48,860 --> 00:27:50,120 Well, I suppose not. 335 00:27:52,910 --> 00:27:54,810 I hope Nekoma's having better luck than I am. 336 00:28:05,850 --> 00:28:09,590 Lucky for me, it was Nekoma who number seven come across first. 337 00:28:25,960 --> 00:28:26,960 Number seven. 338 00:28:27,260 --> 00:28:29,500 I knew you'd come back. Where are you? 339 00:28:37,040 --> 00:28:37,440 What 340 00:28:37,440 --> 00:28:44,880 am 341 00:28:44,880 --> 00:28:49,800 I doing in here? I'll tell you what I'm doing in here. I just got here a while 342 00:28:49,800 --> 00:28:53,780 ago and there was some honeycombs in here. And I'm looking for some more of 343 00:28:53,780 --> 00:28:58,040 them. I don't want no innocent bear coming along, wandering in here and 344 00:28:58,040 --> 00:29:00,700 caught. Because he'd never be able to get out. 345 00:29:03,320 --> 00:29:04,820 Well, there's something there. 346 00:29:23,870 --> 00:29:26,650 It appears I sprained my wrist a little bit here. 347 00:29:27,130 --> 00:29:31,110 Would you open the door for me? I don't think I can make it. 348 00:29:48,450 --> 00:29:49,450 Thanks, 349 00:29:50,250 --> 00:29:50,989 number seven. 350 00:29:50,990 --> 00:29:52,670 I know you'd be coming back. 351 00:30:00,560 --> 00:30:02,520 No, Nokuma, I want to do this myself. 352 00:30:04,500 --> 00:30:05,500 This is Kavala. 353 00:30:06,560 --> 00:30:07,560 Oh, my wrist? 354 00:30:07,860 --> 00:30:12,600 Well, once it got out here in the fresh mountain there, it cured up just like 355 00:30:12,600 --> 00:30:13,600 that. 356 00:30:15,700 --> 00:30:20,900 This mountain men, we don't hurt for very long. 357 00:30:29,390 --> 00:30:30,450 All right, Nokoma, let's go. 358 00:30:32,170 --> 00:30:33,170 Wait a minute. 359 00:30:33,990 --> 00:30:38,650 You better let me lead the way, because I don't want you falling in any traps or 360 00:30:38,650 --> 00:30:41,990 snares. You got to keep a sharp eye out to avoid them. 361 00:30:45,830 --> 00:30:48,850 Ben was happy to see the little cub taking some water. 362 00:30:49,090 --> 00:30:54,030 He was mighty thirsty himself, but calling out for human help come first. 363 00:30:59,980 --> 00:31:00,980 Is that you, Ben? 364 00:31:02,460 --> 00:31:03,460 Sounds like you. 365 00:31:03,700 --> 00:31:05,060 Keep talking. I'm coming. 366 00:31:10,340 --> 00:31:10,820 Am 367 00:31:10,820 --> 00:31:19,600 I 368 00:31:19,600 --> 00:31:20,940 glad to see you. 369 00:31:21,900 --> 00:31:26,860 I know somebody that's going to be real happy to see you. 370 00:31:27,640 --> 00:31:29,320 You did real fine, Ben. 371 00:31:29,610 --> 00:31:30,610 Real fine. 372 00:31:31,170 --> 00:31:34,230 Let's get you home, little cub of your mama. She's been fretting something 373 00:31:34,230 --> 00:31:38,050 fierce. But when she sees you, she's going to perk up like a little cub 374 00:31:39,050 --> 00:31:40,510 You did real good, Ben. 375 00:31:41,650 --> 00:31:42,650 Come on, Ben. 376 00:31:55,270 --> 00:31:56,270 No. 377 00:31:56,890 --> 00:31:57,890 Where's your mama? 378 00:32:05,260 --> 00:32:06,840 Well, you found it. 379 00:32:08,260 --> 00:32:10,820 Poor little critter. You've been through a lot, ain't you? 380 00:32:11,180 --> 00:32:12,760 Yeah, but now his ma ain't here. 381 00:32:12,960 --> 00:32:16,000 We know. She's gone when we got back here. We've been out looking for her. 382 00:32:16,480 --> 00:32:17,480 I know. 383 00:32:17,720 --> 00:32:19,080 He's got the scent of his ma. 384 00:32:19,540 --> 00:32:21,780 And now your ma's out there looking for you somewhere. 385 00:32:22,280 --> 00:32:23,940 Adams, you know about these things. 386 00:32:24,180 --> 00:32:26,440 The condition she was in, what chance she got? 387 00:32:27,080 --> 00:32:28,580 Her chances aren't good, Jack. 388 00:32:29,460 --> 00:32:30,520 Not good at all. 389 00:32:37,360 --> 00:32:40,240 Almost as if that cub knew what Adams was saying. 390 00:32:50,820 --> 00:32:55,140 Did you hear that? 391 00:32:55,500 --> 00:32:57,380 The coma's picked up your mama's trail. 392 00:32:58,260 --> 00:32:59,260 Let's get going. 393 00:33:01,120 --> 00:33:03,380 Don't look like she's moving too good, does it, Jack? 394 00:33:03,920 --> 00:33:04,980 No, she's not. 395 00:33:06,410 --> 00:33:08,870 I just hope we can reach her before we... Jack. 396 00:33:10,590 --> 00:33:12,230 Don't you mind me, little fella. 397 00:33:13,610 --> 00:33:14,950 We're gonna find your mama. 398 00:33:15,810 --> 00:33:16,830 Ain't that right, Ben? 399 00:33:19,350 --> 00:33:26,190 That mama cougar was a gainin' on 400 00:33:26,190 --> 00:33:27,190 Trapper Tom. 401 00:33:27,650 --> 00:33:30,350 Drawn to him by the scent of her cub on his shirt. 402 00:33:38,440 --> 00:33:39,960 Now she was attracting Tom. 403 00:33:40,900 --> 00:33:42,880 The hunter had become the hunted. 404 00:33:47,140 --> 00:33:53,980 When Tom saw all 405 00:33:53,980 --> 00:33:58,580 those critters moving along, he didn't connect it with a dangerous cougar being 406 00:33:58,580 --> 00:33:59,580 in the neighborhood. 407 00:33:59,640 --> 00:34:05,220 He figured he was just lucky to find so many small animals in the area just 408 00:34:05,220 --> 00:34:06,540 waiting to be caught. 409 00:34:12,810 --> 00:34:17,730 But for Trapper Tom Johnson, that day was just business as usual. 410 00:34:51,679 --> 00:34:55,040 Those horse prints and shoe prints, those belong to Trapper Tom and his 411 00:34:55,699 --> 00:34:57,680 That mountain lion's following right behind him. 412 00:34:58,420 --> 00:34:59,860 Suppose she could be tracking him? 413 00:35:00,460 --> 00:35:03,780 I mean, why would she be tracking him when she's looking for her cub? 414 00:35:04,680 --> 00:35:05,780 I don't know, Jack. 415 00:35:07,240 --> 00:35:11,700 You suppose it's possible that Tom could have picked this cougar cub up and got 416 00:35:11,700 --> 00:35:13,920 the cub sent on himself and that's why he's following him? 417 00:35:14,780 --> 00:35:15,780 Could be. 418 00:35:17,040 --> 00:35:19,220 Jack, does Tom carry a rifle? 419 00:35:20,460 --> 00:35:21,500 You bet he does. 420 00:35:21,900 --> 00:35:24,120 And he's a crack shot, too. At least he was. 421 00:35:24,480 --> 00:35:28,840 Well, he's the second best shot in these mountains until he become the second 422 00:35:28,840 --> 00:35:29,840 best trapper. 423 00:35:31,060 --> 00:35:34,960 Well, as weak as that cougar is, if he wounds it, we're going to have to move 424 00:35:34,960 --> 00:35:35,960 fast. 425 00:35:36,460 --> 00:35:40,040 This little guy just might be an orphan by nightfall. Let's get going. 426 00:35:40,300 --> 00:35:41,300 Come on, Ben. 427 00:35:46,160 --> 00:35:47,160 Let's hurry, Pevin. 428 00:35:56,780 --> 00:35:57,499 Easy, girl. 429 00:35:57,500 --> 00:36:00,180 Easy. Nothing here to bother you? 430 00:36:00,900 --> 00:36:01,900 That's better. 431 00:36:02,740 --> 00:36:03,740 Come on. 432 00:36:09,900 --> 00:36:15,960 I see what's spooking you. 433 00:37:17,100 --> 00:37:18,058 What are you doing? 434 00:37:18,060 --> 00:37:19,620 That's a full -grown cougar. 435 00:37:21,040 --> 00:37:22,040 Easy, girl. 436 00:37:22,260 --> 00:37:23,260 I got you covered. 437 00:38:00,650 --> 00:38:02,450 Let's get him up against this tree. 438 00:38:02,970 --> 00:38:03,970 Easy. 439 00:38:05,630 --> 00:38:08,670 You hurt, Tom? 440 00:38:09,210 --> 00:38:10,810 I sure sprained my ankle. 441 00:38:11,050 --> 00:38:12,029 Sad man. 442 00:38:12,030 --> 00:38:13,130 I think I'm all right. 443 00:38:13,350 --> 00:38:14,510 Thanks to your friends here. 444 00:38:15,890 --> 00:38:20,270 Well, this here is the greenhorn I was telling you about. 445 00:38:20,670 --> 00:38:24,550 And this is Nicoma, my friend. And that over there is Ben. 446 00:38:25,110 --> 00:38:26,870 He lets us be friends to him. 447 00:38:28,910 --> 00:38:30,390 I've heard a lot about you, Tom. 448 00:38:30,610 --> 00:38:33,550 I'm sorry about your ankle. You sure come at the right time. 449 00:38:33,950 --> 00:38:35,710 Let me see about putting a splint on it. 450 00:38:36,190 --> 00:38:37,390 That hurt? Yes. 451 00:38:38,310 --> 00:38:39,430 You did sprain it. 452 00:38:40,850 --> 00:38:46,410 Tom, I told you a long time ago this mountain's off limits to trappers. 453 00:38:46,950 --> 00:38:51,410 I ain't trapping big animals for pelts. I'm just taking little ones and selling 454 00:38:51,410 --> 00:38:52,410 them live to the zoo. 455 00:38:52,930 --> 00:38:54,430 Hold on. This might hurt a touch. 456 00:38:54,670 --> 00:38:55,670 Go ahead. 457 00:38:57,150 --> 00:38:58,150 Tell me, Tom. 458 00:38:58,700 --> 00:39:02,580 These little animals that you catch, what does the zoo do with them? 459 00:39:03,080 --> 00:39:04,460 Do they put them in cages? 460 00:39:04,960 --> 00:39:05,960 Yeah. 461 00:39:06,680 --> 00:39:09,840 You suppose that you could be taking these little critters away from their 462 00:39:09,840 --> 00:39:11,820 families? You ever think about that? 463 00:39:13,120 --> 00:39:15,120 And all these traps of yours around here. 464 00:39:16,400 --> 00:39:19,240 Animals been getting hurt in them, like that mountain lion. 465 00:39:20,360 --> 00:39:22,800 Well, ain't anything I can do about that. 466 00:39:24,180 --> 00:39:25,300 Life's hard anyway. 467 00:39:25,880 --> 00:39:26,880 Right, Jack? 468 00:39:27,240 --> 00:39:28,240 Well, sure it is. 469 00:39:28,760 --> 00:39:32,040 But you got no business making it harder for them little critters. 470 00:39:33,460 --> 00:39:35,420 You know why that mountain lion was after you? 471 00:39:35,740 --> 00:39:36,740 Well, sure. 472 00:39:36,820 --> 00:39:40,420 Yesterday when I almost caught that little cub, I got his scent on me. 473 00:39:41,700 --> 00:39:44,840 Well, even half dead, that mountain lion drug herself across these mountains 474 00:39:44,840 --> 00:39:46,340 trying to find that little cub of hers. 475 00:39:49,260 --> 00:39:52,460 So what you want me to do is just turn all my little animals loose? 476 00:39:53,620 --> 00:39:54,620 Yeah. 477 00:39:54,940 --> 00:39:55,940 That's fair, ain't it? 478 00:39:59,460 --> 00:40:02,460 Well, considering you saved my life, I guess I owe you. 479 00:40:03,220 --> 00:40:04,320 You owe those animals. 480 00:40:05,320 --> 00:40:06,800 Let them live with their families. 481 00:40:07,200 --> 00:40:08,200 Their families? 482 00:40:08,520 --> 00:40:11,940 Why, you know, if we used to turn them animals loose right here, they'd never 483 00:40:11,940 --> 00:40:12,980 get back to where they come from. 484 00:40:13,700 --> 00:40:15,440 Well, I'm not asking you to turn them loose. 485 00:40:16,620 --> 00:40:18,040 Just tell us where you caught them. 486 00:40:18,600 --> 00:40:22,920 And with Jack and Nicoma and myself, we'll get them back to their families. 487 00:40:24,560 --> 00:40:25,620 I'm sorry, Ben. 488 00:40:26,220 --> 00:40:28,280 With number seven and Ben leading the way, 489 00:40:30,120 --> 00:40:32,860 That way none of us will get caught in one of them ugly bear traps. 490 00:40:37,960 --> 00:40:38,960 Think he can stand? 491 00:40:39,160 --> 00:40:40,160 Of course he can. 492 00:40:40,700 --> 00:40:42,360 Mountain men, they're made to art. 493 00:40:42,580 --> 00:40:43,580 See there? 494 00:40:53,720 --> 00:40:55,260 How's that ankle of yours feeling, Tom? 495 00:40:55,820 --> 00:40:56,820 Oh, fine. 496 00:40:57,060 --> 00:40:59,200 Thanks to you, I'm no longer a trapper. 497 00:40:59,690 --> 00:41:03,090 You just about got me half convinced I gotta stop taking little critters away 498 00:41:03,090 --> 00:41:04,069 from their families. 499 00:41:04,070 --> 00:41:09,890 Well, Tom, you could trade those old nags of yours off and get yourself a 500 00:41:09,890 --> 00:41:10,890 and do like me. 501 00:41:12,290 --> 00:41:17,190 And spend the rest of my life trading beads or just soon plant corn. 502 00:41:18,090 --> 00:41:21,430 No, I gotta stay out in the open with the animals. 503 00:41:21,990 --> 00:41:26,590 But since I already quit trapping for pelts, now I'm gonna stop taking them 504 00:41:26,590 --> 00:41:27,590 for the zoos. 505 00:41:27,880 --> 00:41:29,140 I just don't know what I'm going to do. 506 00:41:31,480 --> 00:41:37,460 Tom, my home here, well, it's kind of become a place for sick and lost 507 00:41:38,700 --> 00:41:42,400 And when they wander off from their old kind, well, I take them in. 508 00:41:43,640 --> 00:41:45,940 But that still leaves them orphans to these here mountains. 509 00:41:48,100 --> 00:41:52,140 And I was thinking that, well, maybe you could take a few of these little 510 00:41:52,140 --> 00:41:53,540 critters down to the city with you. 511 00:41:54,280 --> 00:41:58,160 Hey. That makes it a whole lot easier than me having to go out trapping them. 512 00:41:58,400 --> 00:41:59,940 Yeah, I like that idea. 513 00:42:00,560 --> 00:42:02,760 New homes for your homeless critters. 514 00:42:03,520 --> 00:42:07,340 But are you sure you'd be willing to turn these little orphans over to me? 515 00:42:08,640 --> 00:42:10,260 Well, it's going to be on one condition. 516 00:42:11,840 --> 00:42:14,460 And you promise me that you don't put them in any cages. 517 00:42:16,140 --> 00:42:18,440 And that you let them live in the open like nature intended. 518 00:42:19,300 --> 00:42:20,300 Promise? 519 00:42:23,460 --> 00:42:24,580 That's a good idea. 520 00:42:25,260 --> 00:42:29,060 And knowing old Tom's way with animals, he'd have them so those kids could pet 521 00:42:29,060 --> 00:42:30,060 them. 522 00:42:31,160 --> 00:42:33,780 And the ones I feel the sorriest for is the children. 523 00:42:34,480 --> 00:42:40,180 But once they get a chance to see some of these little critters up close, I'll 524 00:42:40,180 --> 00:42:43,340 bet they'd get curious enough to come up and give these old mountains a visit or 525 00:42:43,340 --> 00:42:45,680 two. I'm not so sure I like that. 526 00:42:46,720 --> 00:42:50,940 I don't know if I want a lot of greenhorns traipsing around the 527 00:42:50,940 --> 00:42:51,940 here. 528 00:42:55,680 --> 00:42:58,580 Well, I guess he was here first, Ben. 529 00:43:00,000 --> 00:43:02,400 Is it all right if I call them our mountains? 530 00:43:10,880 --> 00:43:16,680 Hey, Adam. 531 00:43:18,140 --> 00:43:19,140 Hello, Tom. 532 00:43:19,820 --> 00:43:20,820 Good to see you. 533 00:43:21,140 --> 00:43:22,660 How are you? Just fine. 534 00:43:23,370 --> 00:43:25,870 What's all this stuff? You take up trading like Jack suggested? 535 00:43:26,330 --> 00:43:30,090 Oh, no, all that stuff for you from the money I got from that new zoo down in 536 00:43:30,090 --> 00:43:33,970 St. Louis. I figured you didn't have any use for greenbacks, so I brought you 537 00:43:33,970 --> 00:43:40,750 some flour and sugar and all kinds of things, but mainly a new steel axe to 538 00:43:40,750 --> 00:43:42,090 with them stumps you got around here. 539 00:43:42,630 --> 00:43:43,750 Woo -wee! 540 00:43:44,170 --> 00:43:46,650 Boy, that was mighty kind of you, Tom. Thanks a lot. 541 00:43:46,910 --> 00:43:48,930 Oh, it's me ought to be thanking you. 542 00:43:49,250 --> 00:43:52,530 You know, going out there setting traps is getting to be mighty hard work. 543 00:43:53,670 --> 00:43:54,730 Hey, tell me. 544 00:43:55,050 --> 00:43:57,510 How'd them kids down at the city take those little critters? 545 00:43:57,850 --> 00:44:01,170 Oh, you should have seen them little boys and girls fussing over them little 546 00:44:01,170 --> 00:44:02,170 baby animals. 547 00:44:02,330 --> 00:44:06,150 Petting them and talking to them just like they was tame puppies and kittens. 548 00:44:06,610 --> 00:44:10,510 You know, not putting them into cages was the best idea I ever had. 549 00:44:11,830 --> 00:44:13,290 Or we ever had. 550 00:44:14,010 --> 00:44:17,390 Anyway, after a night's rest, I'll be ready to take on another load of your 551 00:44:17,390 --> 00:44:18,390 little strays. 552 00:44:22,060 --> 00:44:23,180 Hey, how about that, fellas? 553 00:44:23,520 --> 00:44:27,160 You want to come down to the big city and see a big city zoo? 554 00:44:30,160 --> 00:44:33,900 Oh, now you don't need to get scared like that. I was only joshing. 555 00:44:38,820 --> 00:44:42,500 Anyway, if I was of a mind to take you, Ben wouldn't let me. 556 00:44:42,720 --> 00:44:43,720 Would you, Ben? 557 00:44:46,700 --> 00:44:51,160 Now, Ben likes to have his own little animal zoo, don't you, Ben? 558 00:44:51,930 --> 00:44:53,070 I reckon he does, Tom. 559 00:45:22,829 --> 00:45:29,430 pain maybe there's a world where we don't have to run 560 00:45:29,430 --> 00:45:33,050 maybe there's a time