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 00:00:08,710 --> 00:00:13,550 And me and my burro 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 00:00:21,310 --> 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 --> 00:00:37,450 Now, that wilderness out there ain't no place for a greenhorn, and his chances 9 00:00:37,450 --> 00:00:39,650 of surviving were mighty slim. 10 00:00:39,890 --> 00:00:44,710 There was no time at all, for he was beaten down, ragged, and nearly starved. 11 00:00:46,730 --> 00:00:53,150 Long about then, he come upon a grizzly bear cub, all alone and helpless. 12 00:00:53,630 --> 00:00:57,970 Now, Adams knew that little critter couldn't survive without his help, so he 13 00:00:57,970 --> 00:01:01,390 started right down that cliff, risking his own life. 14 00:01:01,900 --> 00:01:02,900 To save it. 15 00:01:04,120 --> 00:01:07,180 Now that cub took to Adams right off. 16 00:01:07,600 --> 00:01:12,320 And that was when he discovered he had a special kind of way with animals. 17 00:01:13,220 --> 00:01:17,260 They just come right up to him like he was a natural part of the wilderness. 18 00:01:17,640 --> 00:01:20,580 But that bear cub, he was extra special. 19 00:01:20,980 --> 00:01:25,960 As he growed, he became the best friend Adams ever had. And together, they 20 00:01:25,960 --> 00:01:26,960 became a legend. 21 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:09,340 When Mother Nature planned the wilderness, she was thoughtful enough to 22 00:02:09,340 --> 00:02:14,460 mountain men about as perfect a place for living as a person could want on 23 00:02:14,460 --> 00:02:15,399 green earth. 24 00:02:15,400 --> 00:02:20,600 When you wake up every morning breathing in that fresh air, your whole being is 25 00:02:20,600 --> 00:02:24,860 so charged up you feel like you want to climb a mountain or something. 26 00:02:25,880 --> 00:02:31,840 Now, nature takes care of the animals, but once in a while, things can get out 27 00:02:31,840 --> 00:02:33,800 of kilter for the critters of the forest. 28 00:02:34,380 --> 00:02:39,260 When that happens, well, my friend Adams lends a helping hand to Mother Nature, 29 00:02:39,360 --> 00:02:44,700 trying to set things right. Now, Ben can be helpful, too, in his own way. Like 30 00:02:44,700 --> 00:02:49,720 Adams, he has a deep liking for every living thing in the wilderness, whether 31 00:02:49,720 --> 00:02:56,120 be a tree or a bird or an animal that just ain't feeling up to snuff. 32 00:02:57,240 --> 00:02:59,900 Adams, he's got a way with critters. 33 00:03:00,220 --> 00:03:04,740 Like no one I ever seen. He cares about what goes on in the forest, particularly 34 00:03:04,740 --> 00:03:07,820 when things don't seem to be going just right. 35 00:03:21,080 --> 00:03:22,520 Easy now, little fella. 36 00:03:23,440 --> 00:03:24,640 Come on, Ben, let's go. 37 00:03:35,080 --> 00:03:36,080 You just rest easy. 38 00:03:36,440 --> 00:03:37,600 We'll find out what's ailing. 39 00:03:43,560 --> 00:03:44,640 It's okay, little guy. 40 00:03:45,300 --> 00:03:46,820 It's okay. You're going to be just fine. 41 00:03:51,400 --> 00:03:55,380 Give this guy a little minute and go out there and take ourself a look -see. 42 00:03:57,320 --> 00:03:59,480 This isn't going to taste real good, but you've got to drink it. 43 00:04:14,060 --> 00:04:19,220 Now, me, I'm like Adams in a way, but instead of having a helpful friend like 44 00:04:19,220 --> 00:04:24,120 old Ben, the Almighty somehow or other arranged for me to have the most ornery, 45 00:04:24,120 --> 00:04:27,260 contrary animal that ever existed. 46 00:04:28,060 --> 00:04:30,100 There you go. Come on. 47 00:04:31,220 --> 00:04:32,220 Come on. 48 00:04:33,460 --> 00:04:34,460 Where? 49 00:04:35,520 --> 00:04:36,520 Servant. 50 00:04:37,240 --> 00:04:38,240 Servant, are you? 51 00:04:40,300 --> 00:04:44,370 Now, big nabbit, your belly ached all the way. up here asking for a drink of 52 00:04:44,370 --> 00:04:49,070 water and I bring you to the freshest dream in all of these mountains and you 53 00:04:49,070 --> 00:04:50,470 won't touch nary a drop. 54 00:04:52,450 --> 00:04:56,970 Do you know what I think? 55 00:04:58,670 --> 00:05:02,070 I think it's time for a number eight. That's what I think. 56 00:05:07,490 --> 00:05:11,010 Now, don't talk like that. 57 00:05:14,260 --> 00:05:17,840 You know, sometimes I say things I don't mean. 58 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:21,480 I don't even remember I said most of them. 59 00:05:25,180 --> 00:05:26,540 Now, what can that be? 60 00:05:29,880 --> 00:05:35,740 Hey there, little fella. 61 00:05:39,520 --> 00:05:40,560 You ailing? 62 00:05:41,700 --> 00:05:42,700 Huh? 63 00:05:50,090 --> 00:05:51,090 Have a look at you. 64 00:05:52,550 --> 00:05:54,590 You're not feeling too good, are you? 65 00:06:00,770 --> 00:06:03,070 You're ailing. 66 00:06:04,950 --> 00:06:11,110 Well, I've got a friend that's going to fix you up real good. 67 00:06:12,310 --> 00:06:13,670 We'll just get you over there. 68 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:21,919 Howdy, Jack. 69 00:06:21,920 --> 00:06:23,780 Adams. I see you brought a friend with you. 70 00:06:24,260 --> 00:06:27,720 Well, he's more like a pig. 71 00:06:28,340 --> 00:06:29,920 I think he's ailing. 72 00:06:31,080 --> 00:06:33,020 One of them little critters from up there at Beaver Falls? 73 00:06:33,260 --> 00:06:34,260 Up by that burnout? 74 00:06:34,740 --> 00:06:35,960 No, couldn't be from there. 75 00:06:36,220 --> 00:06:38,900 I was up there about a week ago and they was all skedaddle. 76 00:06:39,880 --> 00:06:41,820 We know they're all going to want to go back up there. 77 00:06:42,700 --> 00:06:45,320 We're going to have to go up there and replant that area before the rains come. 78 00:06:45,540 --> 00:06:46,920 We're going to have mudslides all over. 79 00:06:48,540 --> 00:06:49,820 Where did you find this little guy? 80 00:06:50,460 --> 00:06:51,500 Up at Hoodow Creek? 81 00:06:52,480 --> 00:06:54,640 You know, there's something mighty strange going on here, Jack. 82 00:06:55,320 --> 00:06:57,400 I've been doing nothing but treating animals all morning. 83 00:06:58,500 --> 00:07:01,960 Probably what happened is the ashes floated down here and got all over the 84 00:07:01,960 --> 00:07:03,580 bushes and the grass. 85 00:07:04,040 --> 00:07:05,040 That's what made them sick. 86 00:07:05,520 --> 00:07:08,360 Nah, their instinct would tell them better than that. I don't think they'd 87 00:07:08,360 --> 00:07:09,860 eating any food with ashes on them, would you? 88 00:07:10,560 --> 00:07:14,520 Well, then maybe they were so hungry when they got out of the big burn that 89 00:07:14,520 --> 00:07:17,880 ate too much and got the bellyache. You know, that happens to me once in a 90 00:07:17,880 --> 00:07:19,040 while, and I'm made to aren't. 91 00:07:19,600 --> 00:07:21,640 You haven't had any trouble with Seven, have you? 92 00:07:22,360 --> 00:07:25,340 Well, just the usual. 93 00:07:27,440 --> 00:07:29,620 Now, you stay out of there. That's medicine. 94 00:07:29,960 --> 00:07:30,980 That'll make you sick. 95 00:07:31,600 --> 00:07:36,520 On the way up here, old number Seven was just dying 96 00:07:36,520 --> 00:07:39,280 at first. 97 00:07:39,660 --> 00:07:43,760 You know that? And I went two miles out of my way just to get him a drink. 98 00:07:43,980 --> 00:07:48,740 And when we got up there, he wouldn't touch nary a drop. Now, that just shows 99 00:07:48,740 --> 00:07:52,430 you how... A cantankerous and ornery critter like that can be. 100 00:07:54,290 --> 00:07:55,570 What creek did you say? 101 00:07:57,070 --> 00:07:58,230 Hoodow, like I told you. 102 00:07:59,130 --> 00:08:01,050 Was there anything strange going on there? 103 00:08:01,710 --> 00:08:02,710 Well, no. 104 00:08:02,810 --> 00:08:06,970 When you got a stubborn burrow like this and you're pushing him up hills all day 105 00:08:06,970 --> 00:08:09,230 long, you don't see much except in his heels. 106 00:08:18,860 --> 00:08:19,860 he's a goat. 107 00:08:20,200 --> 00:08:23,000 Oh, he's probably going down to the lake on the other side of the slope. 108 00:08:23,560 --> 00:08:26,620 A whole swarm of bees moved in last week when he was down there visiting. 109 00:08:27,740 --> 00:08:28,940 Ben, you be careful. 110 00:08:29,340 --> 00:08:32,480 If them bees are building the new hive, it's going to be mean. 111 00:08:33,320 --> 00:08:36,080 Ben, why don't you stay away from Hoodow Creek? 112 00:08:38,179 --> 00:08:40,240 There's a lot of strange things going on down there. 113 00:08:47,310 --> 00:08:48,710 You seem to be doing a lot better. 114 00:08:49,530 --> 00:08:51,590 At least whatever you ate, you didn't eat too much of it. 115 00:08:52,590 --> 00:08:54,630 How about we put you on the ground and see how you're doing? 116 00:08:56,950 --> 00:08:58,130 Think you can stay on the log? 117 00:09:00,430 --> 00:09:01,430 There you go. 118 00:09:02,290 --> 00:09:03,310 He's doing a lot better. 119 00:09:05,310 --> 00:09:06,310 Be careful. 120 00:09:06,510 --> 00:09:09,170 You know, Jack, I think we ought to take some medicine and go up and see what we 121 00:09:09,170 --> 00:09:10,270 can do for the rest of those animals. 122 00:09:11,210 --> 00:09:15,990 Well, number seven and me was figuring on just sort of... 123 00:09:16,330 --> 00:09:17,330 Sit in the spell. 124 00:09:17,510 --> 00:09:21,950 You know, Adams, a couple of animals get the bellyache and you think there's a 125 00:09:21,950 --> 00:09:23,370 whole epidemic going on. 126 00:09:24,310 --> 00:09:25,790 A little walk wouldn't hurt. 127 00:09:27,250 --> 00:09:28,750 Well, all right. 128 00:09:28,990 --> 00:09:29,969 Want some help? 129 00:09:29,970 --> 00:09:31,430 No, I can get up. 130 00:09:31,830 --> 00:09:33,150 Come on, number seven. 131 00:09:34,250 --> 00:09:36,890 Gotta go stop the big epidemic. 132 00:09:48,550 --> 00:09:53,430 Just as Adam said suspected, Ben was out looking for honey, but his luck was 133 00:09:53,430 --> 00:09:54,309 sure bad. 134 00:09:54,310 --> 00:09:58,930 That day when he reached the beehive, he found out that another sweet -toothed 135 00:09:58,930 --> 00:10:00,250 critter had beat him to it. 136 00:10:00,890 --> 00:10:05,770 Still, Ben weren't too disturbed since it was a real pretty day to be out for a 137 00:10:05,770 --> 00:10:11,190 walk. So he decided to mosey on and visit some of his old friends in the 138 00:10:11,190 --> 00:10:12,630 on the other side of the slope. 139 00:10:17,960 --> 00:10:19,840 Ben liked having feathered friends, too. 140 00:10:20,280 --> 00:10:23,880 Especially owls, because they were such wise old birds. 141 00:10:25,760 --> 00:10:31,020 Since he was so near the creek, Ben thought it might be a nice idea to say 142 00:10:31,020 --> 00:10:35,920 to a new family of geese who had flown down from the north a few weeks ago. 143 00:10:36,780 --> 00:10:41,920 But those geese, they had nowhere known what a friendly bear Ben really was. 144 00:10:42,260 --> 00:10:46,900 So even though Ben put his best paw forward, so to speak. 145 00:10:47,280 --> 00:10:52,520 They just swam off about as fast as they could without even saying goodbye. 146 00:11:08,760 --> 00:11:11,640 They swam off without something else, too. 147 00:11:12,260 --> 00:11:13,260 An egg. 148 00:11:13,960 --> 00:11:19,280 An egg containing a gosling who was just about ready to come into this world. 149 00:11:20,160 --> 00:11:24,860 Ben had himself a problem. He couldn't go after the family because that would 150 00:11:24,860 --> 00:11:26,400 mean leaving the gosling behind. 151 00:11:27,720 --> 00:11:28,860 Poor Ben. 152 00:11:29,320 --> 00:11:34,400 That baby goose was about to be born and it had nobody around to help. No 153 00:11:34,400 --> 00:11:35,900 family, no friends. 154 00:11:36,520 --> 00:11:38,320 Nobody except Nicole. 155 00:11:52,400 --> 00:11:54,980 I still say you're making mountains out of molehills. 156 00:11:55,400 --> 00:11:57,280 Now look at there at them critters. 157 00:12:00,160 --> 00:12:02,080 The animals are all right up here. 158 00:12:03,220 --> 00:12:05,680 Things might be nice and quiet out here in the meadow, Jack. 159 00:12:06,300 --> 00:12:09,100 But I've been up in these mountains long enough to know when I smell trouble, 160 00:12:09,200 --> 00:12:10,200 and that's the truth. 161 00:12:11,020 --> 00:12:12,020 Adams. 162 00:12:12,420 --> 00:12:13,800 Adams. Jack. 163 00:12:21,300 --> 00:12:22,760 Dead fish up at Hoodow Creek. 164 00:12:23,740 --> 00:12:25,280 Isn't that where you found that sick raccoon? 165 00:12:26,140 --> 00:12:27,620 Well, it was somewhere near there. 166 00:12:29,000 --> 00:12:30,860 You know, there could be something wrong with that water. 167 00:12:32,080 --> 00:12:34,180 Nah, I think it's indigestion, Adams. 168 00:12:34,920 --> 00:12:36,880 Fish just don't dive indigestion, Jack. 169 00:12:37,460 --> 00:12:39,220 Nicole, we ought to go up and take a look at that creek. 170 00:12:39,680 --> 00:12:41,320 Doesn't that stream run right through your village? 171 00:12:43,740 --> 00:12:46,360 We best go see if we can find any of the sick animals. Let's go. 172 00:12:48,220 --> 00:12:49,220 Adams? 173 00:12:49,550 --> 00:12:52,690 Jack, something's poisoning that stream. We gotta find out what it is. We gotta 174 00:12:52,690 --> 00:12:53,690 work fast. 175 00:13:00,930 --> 00:13:06,270 Now, while we was a -headin' up Hoodow Creek, there was two strangers up there 176 00:13:06,270 --> 00:13:07,189 in the hills. 177 00:13:07,190 --> 00:13:11,830 One was an old rendezvous friend of mine by the name of Hard Luck Harry. 178 00:13:12,370 --> 00:13:13,510 Poor old Harry. 179 00:13:14,080 --> 00:13:18,660 Nature sure shortchanged him. Not only did he have the worst luck of any 180 00:13:18,660 --> 00:13:22,740 mountain prospector, he also had the shortest supply of brains. 181 00:13:23,560 --> 00:13:30,000 But once in a while, like now, Harry found someone more gullible and greedy 182 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:30,899 he was. 183 00:13:30,900 --> 00:13:35,680 Someone that would grub -stake him. This year it was a greenhorn from St. 184 00:13:35,880 --> 00:13:38,760 Louis by the name of Elijah Bowman. 185 00:13:39,840 --> 00:13:41,040 Any luck, Harry? 186 00:13:42,340 --> 00:13:43,340 Not yet. 187 00:13:44,300 --> 00:13:45,360 But I never give up. 188 00:13:48,060 --> 00:13:50,040 Well, I'm ready to call it quits. 189 00:13:50,820 --> 00:13:54,360 Two months in these mountains and not a single nugget worth even two cents. 190 00:13:55,340 --> 00:13:57,160 It takes time, Elijah. 191 00:13:57,540 --> 00:14:01,160 When we strike it rich, folks are going to call you the Silver King. 192 00:14:01,380 --> 00:14:03,520 I found a silver rainbow. 193 00:14:04,600 --> 00:14:06,200 You really believe that, Harry? 194 00:14:09,200 --> 00:14:10,200 Sure do. 195 00:14:10,940 --> 00:14:11,980 Look. Lookie here. 196 00:14:13,100 --> 00:14:14,760 This could be a silver nugget. 197 00:14:20,260 --> 00:14:21,260 See there? 198 00:14:21,340 --> 00:14:27,020 Well, none of the other ore samples panned out. This quicksilver test showed 199 00:14:27,020 --> 00:14:28,020 them worthless. 200 00:14:28,280 --> 00:14:29,280 See there? 201 00:14:29,300 --> 00:14:30,300 Nothing. 202 00:14:32,380 --> 00:14:34,060 Like this whole trip. 203 00:14:35,980 --> 00:14:36,980 Quicksilver test. 204 00:14:37,200 --> 00:14:38,800 Does that really work? 205 00:14:39,420 --> 00:14:41,080 Well, down in St. Louis... 206 00:14:41,390 --> 00:14:42,610 I met a fella from California. 207 00:14:44,170 --> 00:14:47,890 Said they used it there with gold. No reason it shouldn't work with silver. 208 00:14:48,810 --> 00:14:52,770 All I know is old -fashioned panning. You either find it or you don't. 209 00:14:53,250 --> 00:14:55,650 No fancy chemicals don't help you, Annie. 210 00:14:55,870 --> 00:14:59,010 Well, I'm gambling everything on these new ways. 211 00:14:59,530 --> 00:15:02,850 That's why I sold my barber shop and spent every last cent on all this 212 00:15:02,850 --> 00:15:04,910 equipment. Every last cent? 213 00:15:05,170 --> 00:15:06,170 Everything. 214 00:15:06,250 --> 00:15:08,610 I just kept my barber shears and my tooth pliers. 215 00:15:10,090 --> 00:15:11,310 Need any teeth pulled? 216 00:15:12,290 --> 00:15:13,810 No, thanks. 217 00:15:14,430 --> 00:15:17,070 But I got an old mountain friend named Mad Jack. 218 00:15:17,330 --> 00:15:19,810 He's always saying he needs his molars yanked. 219 00:15:20,750 --> 00:15:24,550 Well, if we meet, I'm his man. 220 00:15:31,790 --> 00:15:38,330 This water doesn't smell right to me. 221 00:15:39,190 --> 00:15:40,190 Yeah. 222 00:15:41,330 --> 00:15:42,610 It's just dirty. 223 00:15:43,610 --> 00:15:45,250 You've seen dirty water before. 224 00:15:45,810 --> 00:15:47,950 Probably from the runoff after the fire. 225 00:15:48,890 --> 00:15:49,890 No. 226 00:15:50,470 --> 00:15:51,710 Doesn't taste right either. 227 00:15:53,410 --> 00:15:54,710 What do you think, Nicoma? 228 00:15:57,750 --> 00:15:59,530 Well, he was here just a minute ago. 229 00:16:12,280 --> 00:16:14,320 Same sickness as a raccoon, you think? 230 00:16:15,600 --> 00:16:17,760 Cole, go up and see if you can find any other sick animals. 231 00:16:19,100 --> 00:16:20,820 Try to carry that choke cherry medicine. 232 00:16:22,720 --> 00:16:24,900 We're going to get you feeling better in no time, little guy. 233 00:16:25,720 --> 00:16:26,980 Got to get a little of this in you. 234 00:16:29,200 --> 00:16:30,200 There you go. 235 00:16:32,120 --> 00:16:35,460 Do you still think there's nothing wrong with this water now? 236 00:16:36,580 --> 00:16:39,920 Well, this still doesn't prove it's water sickness. 237 00:16:42,030 --> 00:16:44,870 Well, I'm thinking it is. At least so we find out different. 238 00:16:45,110 --> 00:16:46,390 Wonder how Ben's doing. 239 00:16:47,170 --> 00:16:49,750 Ben wasn't doing much better than we was. 240 00:16:50,390 --> 00:16:55,830 Luckily, he was on the other side of the slope, miles away, so his problem had 241 00:16:55,830 --> 00:16:57,290 nothing to do with water. 242 00:16:59,270 --> 00:17:05,109 His problem was this brand new little gosling about to see the light of day. 243 00:17:05,650 --> 00:17:10,910 Now, when little ones are born, there's usually a mama around to say, howdy. 244 00:17:11,420 --> 00:17:14,520 as the critter gets its first peek at the world outside. 245 00:17:15,339 --> 00:17:18,380 Poor Ben, he sure was in a powerful fix. 246 00:17:18,680 --> 00:17:23,880 There being no Ma or Pa Goose in sight, he figured it was his bounden duty to 247 00:17:23,880 --> 00:17:27,819 watch over that young gosling until its real family showed up. 248 00:17:28,660 --> 00:17:31,440 That baby was in sore need of protection. 249 00:17:47,790 --> 00:17:51,430 Now that dove was probably wondering what Ben was going to do next. 250 00:17:51,950 --> 00:17:54,090 As a matter of fact, so was Ben. 251 00:17:54,410 --> 00:17:58,890 Now that little gosling, with its first breath on this earth, knew what it 252 00:17:58,890 --> 00:18:00,090 wanted. Its mama. 253 00:18:02,090 --> 00:18:05,750 All it saw was this big black furry thing. 254 00:18:06,450 --> 00:18:11,970 Not knowing any different, the little feller just figured, well, Ben was his 255 00:18:11,970 --> 00:18:12,970 mama. 256 00:18:14,730 --> 00:18:19,650 Realizing that this gosling was... Taking him for its mama, Ben got moving 257 00:18:19,650 --> 00:18:21,550 find the real mother goose fast. 258 00:18:22,150 --> 00:18:29,070 But that newborn gosling, it just hung right in there. He weren't going to 259 00:18:29,070 --> 00:18:30,070 let mama get away. 260 00:18:31,370 --> 00:18:33,890 It was downright embarrassing for Ben. 261 00:18:34,530 --> 00:18:36,750 What would the other critters think of him? 262 00:18:39,730 --> 00:18:40,870 Just my luck. 263 00:18:41,510 --> 00:18:44,810 Hurt my shoulder when we might have been getting close to the vein. 264 00:18:46,879 --> 00:18:48,320 Well, I'll take over. 265 00:18:49,540 --> 00:18:50,540 No, no, no. 266 00:18:50,980 --> 00:18:53,560 You just might chop off a toe or a foot. 267 00:18:54,180 --> 00:18:58,080 Harry, if we can't dig, then we gotta blast. 268 00:18:59,220 --> 00:19:03,420 Elijah, blasting's mighty dangerous. That's the job for hard rock miners, not 269 00:19:03,420 --> 00:19:07,680 greenhorns. It's just like setting off firecrackers on the Fourth of July. 270 00:19:08,080 --> 00:19:13,100 You take the fuse, attach it to the explosive powder, you light the fuse... 271 00:19:13,560 --> 00:19:14,980 And hide behind a boulder. 272 00:19:15,500 --> 00:19:18,320 You gonna put the whole keg in? Why not? 273 00:19:18,960 --> 00:19:23,200 Harry, I got a feeling this is gonna work out big for both of us. 274 00:19:25,840 --> 00:19:26,840 Harry. 275 00:19:27,480 --> 00:19:30,400 Harry, we're blasting ourselves a silver rainbow. 276 00:19:37,360 --> 00:19:39,780 I'm gonna get these horses in a safe place. 277 00:19:42,030 --> 00:19:46,370 Harry didn't know much about blasting out rock, but he knew enough to know it 278 00:19:46,370 --> 00:19:48,710 was dangerous for man and beast. 279 00:19:48,950 --> 00:19:52,530 So he made sure the horses would be safe no matter what happened. 280 00:19:52,850 --> 00:19:58,170 Now, Harry didn't rightly agree with what Elijah was fixing to do, and he was 281 00:19:58,170 --> 00:20:03,170 mite scared to boot, but he didn't try to stop Elijah because, well, he felt 282 00:20:03,170 --> 00:20:05,230 responsible for them being out there. 283 00:20:06,250 --> 00:20:12,270 Anyway, when Elijah lit that fuse, It was too late to do anything but take 284 00:20:12,270 --> 00:20:13,270 cover. 285 00:20:18,130 --> 00:20:20,350 Jack, we've got to work our way up to the top of that bluff. 286 00:20:20,570 --> 00:20:22,370 But, boy, there's no water up there. 287 00:20:22,970 --> 00:20:25,550 That is a small stream that runs along the top of the ridge. 288 00:20:26,030 --> 00:20:27,550 It goes down to Hoodow Creek. 289 00:20:28,190 --> 00:20:31,190 Then it levels off over on that plateau and starts back down the hill. 290 00:20:32,050 --> 00:20:35,610 Adam, all this talk about poison water, it's befogging your brain. 291 00:20:36,160 --> 00:20:39,240 Now, I've been around that country for years, and there ain't no water up 292 00:20:39,380 --> 00:20:42,080 Well, Ben and I caught some fish up there, and I remember those boulders. 293 00:20:43,560 --> 00:20:47,560 We didn't know it, but there was more than boulders up there. There was a 294 00:20:47,660 --> 00:20:50,360 and it was burning itself down mighty fast. 295 00:20:52,700 --> 00:20:53,700 Well, all right. 296 00:20:53,900 --> 00:20:55,020 I'll come along with you. 297 00:20:55,840 --> 00:20:57,480 It's not going to be easy going, you know that. 298 00:20:57,900 --> 00:21:00,920 We're going to have to work our way up around that bluff and hike up through 299 00:21:00,920 --> 00:21:03,200 those rocks. Now, if you want to stay behind, you can. 300 00:21:03,400 --> 00:21:04,400 Stay behind? 301 00:21:04,899 --> 00:21:09,020 I'm not only not going to stay behind, I'm going out ahead of you so you and 302 00:21:09,020 --> 00:21:10,420 coma don't get in any trouble. 303 00:21:11,120 --> 00:21:13,700 Come on, Seven, we've got to climb this cliff here. 304 00:21:44,040 --> 00:21:50,060 Coming down Jack 305 00:21:50,060 --> 00:21:52,440 you 306 00:21:52,440 --> 00:22:01,180 all 307 00:22:01,180 --> 00:22:04,080 right Of course, I'm all right. 308 00:22:04,540 --> 00:22:06,080 Where's seven? 309 00:22:06,760 --> 00:22:09,040 He's over there. He's just fine 310 00:22:12,270 --> 00:22:15,810 The whole mountain could fall on me, and I'd still be all right. You're a 311 00:22:15,810 --> 00:22:16,810 mountain man. 312 00:22:17,130 --> 00:22:21,370 Hurricanes, earthquakes, mountain slides, nothing bothers you. When you're 313 00:22:21,370 --> 00:22:23,630 of art, fire only makes you stronger. 314 00:22:23,890 --> 00:22:26,530 Give me your hand. I'll help you up. Boy, I wish I knew who was doing this 315 00:22:26,530 --> 00:22:29,870 blasting. So do I. I'd sure like to get my hands on it. 316 00:22:30,170 --> 00:22:33,610 You know, this blasting could have something to do with spoiling the water. 317 00:22:33,810 --> 00:22:37,590 What would blasting have to do with spoiling the water? Besides, there ain't 318 00:22:37,590 --> 00:22:38,569 water up there. 319 00:22:38,570 --> 00:22:39,469 All right. 320 00:22:39,470 --> 00:22:41,630 If you then feel that way about it, then you stay here. 321 00:22:42,090 --> 00:22:43,130 I'm not going to stay here. 322 00:22:43,450 --> 00:22:46,410 I want to get my hands on whoever's doing that blast. 323 00:22:49,450 --> 00:22:50,450 Where's my hand? 324 00:22:50,690 --> 00:22:51,690 Thank you. 325 00:22:56,650 --> 00:22:57,650 Lookie here. 326 00:22:59,910 --> 00:23:00,910 You all right? 327 00:23:02,270 --> 00:23:03,270 Yeah. 328 00:23:03,750 --> 00:23:06,270 That was something, wasn't it? 329 00:23:07,530 --> 00:23:10,130 Oh, come on, you old bag of bones. 330 00:23:10,800 --> 00:23:11,800 Get up this cliff. 331 00:23:14,600 --> 00:23:16,580 Harry! Harry, we're stuck in rich! 332 00:23:21,700 --> 00:23:22,700 Well? 333 00:23:26,720 --> 00:23:29,400 They don't call me Hard Luck Harry for nothing. 334 00:23:30,420 --> 00:23:32,740 Plenty of rock and dirt, but no pay dirt. 335 00:23:40,750 --> 00:23:43,250 I still got one small keg of explosive powder left. 336 00:23:43,530 --> 00:23:45,590 Is there any other site that might have silver? 337 00:23:46,350 --> 00:23:50,970 Well, yeah, not too far from here I seen a bluish outcropping. Could be worth a 338 00:23:50,970 --> 00:23:52,070 blast or two. Right. 339 00:23:52,790 --> 00:23:54,610 Let's get to it. Come on, Harry. 340 00:23:54,950 --> 00:23:55,950 Come on. 341 00:23:59,830 --> 00:24:04,870 Now, while we faced the problem of going up the hill to find the blaster, Ben 342 00:24:04,870 --> 00:24:07,230 was still looking for the family of the gossip. 343 00:24:08,110 --> 00:24:11,150 The critters of the forest just couldn't believe their eyes. 344 00:24:18,830 --> 00:24:23,370 The Joshin bird calls didn't make Ben feel any better. 345 00:24:28,570 --> 00:24:35,290 But Ben was never one to shirk a responsibility. He just 346 00:24:35,290 --> 00:24:38,070 ignored the Joshin and... Kept a -searching. 347 00:24:38,450 --> 00:24:43,390 The baby gosling kept sticking close to Ben like a teeny little shadow. 348 00:24:49,490 --> 00:24:54,050 Could it have been this friendly otter had seen a wandering goose family? 349 00:24:55,210 --> 00:24:59,090 Nope. Ben's luck was as bad as hard luck Harry. 350 00:25:08,720 --> 00:25:13,660 When the gosling suddenly disappeared, Ben started worrying like a mother bear 351 00:25:13,660 --> 00:25:14,960 over a missing cub. 352 00:25:15,240 --> 00:25:19,780 A newborn gosling simply shouldn't be wandering around alone. 353 00:25:21,020 --> 00:25:27,120 And our old gosling had little chance of surviving on its own. It needed a mama, 354 00:25:27,260 --> 00:25:30,920 any mama, even an adopted grizzly. 355 00:25:41,230 --> 00:25:44,590 Come on, you lop -eared excuse for a mountain goat. 356 00:25:45,870 --> 00:25:47,410 We're almost to the top. 357 00:25:54,690 --> 00:25:57,670 This is where it must have happened, the coma. 358 00:26:02,030 --> 00:26:03,070 Jack, over here. 359 00:26:08,030 --> 00:26:09,210 What's the matter? Are you tired? 360 00:26:09,810 --> 00:26:10,810 Tired? 361 00:26:12,080 --> 00:26:12,959 Me tired? 362 00:26:12,960 --> 00:26:13,960 Not a bit. 363 00:26:14,280 --> 00:26:16,120 It's number seven here. 364 00:26:16,420 --> 00:26:17,339 Look at him. 365 00:26:17,340 --> 00:26:20,220 He's just trying to make me look bad. He's the one that's tired. 366 00:26:24,120 --> 00:26:30,700 Somebody sure is wasting a lot of gunpowder. 367 00:26:31,200 --> 00:26:32,200 Yeah, I know. 368 00:26:32,760 --> 00:26:35,100 But it's not close enough to stream to hurt the animals. 369 00:26:35,760 --> 00:26:36,760 What stream? 370 00:26:37,040 --> 00:26:38,040 Adam. 371 00:26:53,960 --> 00:26:54,960 Look at that. 372 00:26:55,760 --> 00:27:00,400 That there explosion shook this underground stream right up to the top. 373 00:27:01,760 --> 00:27:05,940 Reminds me when I was still a greenhorn in the high country away north here. We 374 00:27:05,940 --> 00:27:09,380 had an earthquake, and after that earthquake, there was rivers and streams 375 00:27:09,380 --> 00:27:14,560 everywhere. And big gushes of steam coming out of the ground and blowing up 376 00:27:14,560 --> 00:27:16,060 the air, mud and sulfur. 377 00:27:17,040 --> 00:27:18,360 Hey, Adams, that's it. 378 00:27:19,560 --> 00:27:20,560 It's the sulfur. 379 00:27:21,500 --> 00:27:23,340 Nicole, what is this black stuff? Do you know? 380 00:27:28,030 --> 00:27:29,030 Some beer. 381 00:27:29,450 --> 00:27:32,410 Well, it's sulfur in there. That's what's making the critter sick. 382 00:27:32,830 --> 00:27:33,870 No, it's not sulfur. 383 00:27:35,170 --> 00:27:37,950 Something else in here, but we got to find out how it got here. 384 00:27:38,710 --> 00:27:41,630 Well, if it ain't sulfur, I can't help you now. 385 00:27:43,090 --> 00:27:44,850 The men that were here, they know what it is. 386 00:27:45,890 --> 00:27:47,230 There was two of them on horses. 387 00:27:48,410 --> 00:27:50,790 Looks like they went off that way. It won't be too hard to track them. 388 00:27:51,150 --> 00:27:52,150 Come on. 389 00:28:04,110 --> 00:28:07,470 It looked for a while there like we was all chasing shadows. 390 00:28:07,910 --> 00:28:12,830 Harry and Elijah was a -digging for silver that weren't there, and Adams and 391 00:28:12,830 --> 00:28:17,490 Nicoma and me was a -trying to find what poisoned the water, and, well, Ben's 392 00:28:17,490 --> 00:28:20,130 still out there searching for that baby gosling. 393 00:28:20,670 --> 00:28:24,350 Maybe the little fella was playing its first game of hide -and -seek. 394 00:28:24,810 --> 00:28:27,130 If so, it was a -winning. 395 00:28:28,030 --> 00:28:31,210 But in the game of life, it was another story. 396 00:28:32,140 --> 00:28:37,480 A gosling wandering alone and lost in the forest had the proverbial two 397 00:28:37,480 --> 00:28:38,480 of surviving. 398 00:28:38,820 --> 00:28:40,960 Slim and none. 399 00:29:00,430 --> 00:29:02,330 needed help and he needed it real bad. 400 00:29:02,810 --> 00:29:05,430 So he started making the rounds of the neighborhood. 401 00:29:06,650 --> 00:29:11,750 His only hope now seemed to be that some creature somewhere somehow had seen the 402 00:29:11,750 --> 00:29:12,750 gossip. 403 00:29:16,310 --> 00:29:16,910 If 404 00:29:16,910 --> 00:29:28,010 there 405 00:29:28,010 --> 00:29:32,980 was some palaver, It might have been Ben asking, Hey, you two fellas seen a 406 00:29:32,980 --> 00:29:35,020 little gosling about yay high? 407 00:29:36,620 --> 00:29:40,340 And the owl's answering, Sorry, Ben, we can't help you. 408 00:29:41,900 --> 00:29:43,380 We would if we could. 409 00:29:44,340 --> 00:29:49,480 And Ben grumbling, Well, if the little fella comes by, give a hoot. 410 00:29:50,060 --> 00:29:51,100 Or a holler. 411 00:29:55,340 --> 00:29:59,140 What's a grown bear like you would do in looking for a tiny gosling? 412 00:30:04,900 --> 00:30:08,960 Number seven, this is the last time I let you... 413 00:31:23,240 --> 00:31:25,080 This time I'm going to make myself scarce. 414 00:31:26,280 --> 00:31:28,780 That last blast liked to blow my head off. 415 00:31:29,160 --> 00:31:31,060 Using too much powder, Elijah. 416 00:31:32,380 --> 00:31:33,420 Nobody was hurt. 417 00:31:33,940 --> 00:31:35,080 Ain't no fault of yours. 418 00:31:35,340 --> 00:31:37,760 The last thing I want to do is cause any harm. 419 00:31:38,500 --> 00:31:42,020 Be sure the horses and any other animals are out of the way. 420 00:31:42,820 --> 00:31:46,780 Don't worry about the critters. That other blast probably scared every one of 421 00:31:46,780 --> 00:31:47,920 them back into the next valley. 422 00:31:49,320 --> 00:31:50,680 You all right, Elijah? 423 00:31:51,160 --> 00:31:53,160 I'm doing just fine. It's fine, Harry. 424 00:31:56,320 --> 00:32:00,680 Ben was over in the next valley, still searching. 425 00:32:01,220 --> 00:32:06,080 But the only thing on his mind was a little ball of feathers probably crying 426 00:32:06,080 --> 00:32:07,080 his mom. 427 00:32:07,180 --> 00:32:10,400 No, he hadn't seen it and he wasn't about to look. 428 00:32:13,680 --> 00:32:16,920 His hopes took a rise when he heard a noise in the brush. 429 00:32:17,500 --> 00:32:21,020 But them hopes sunk right down to his paws when he... 430 00:32:21,550 --> 00:32:23,530 Saw that it wasn't a little gossip. 431 00:32:41,730 --> 00:32:42,730 Yes, 432 00:32:45,370 --> 00:32:49,330 sir. It's getting to be downright discouraging. 433 00:32:51,280 --> 00:32:54,600 They came this way, Nokoma, and not too long ago, either. Their trail should be 434 00:32:54,600 --> 00:32:55,600 easy to follow. 435 00:33:07,060 --> 00:33:09,600 Looks like they're headed up towards that ridge. 436 00:33:14,180 --> 00:33:15,740 Fresh tracks going along here. 437 00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:20,380 Now, come on, you nuts, meek, lop -eared... 438 00:33:20,680 --> 00:33:27,240 Pebble brain, bag of bones, just... Why don't you go back and help Jack? He's 439 00:33:27,240 --> 00:33:28,240 having troubles number seven. 440 00:33:28,400 --> 00:33:29,400 I'm going to go on up ahead. 441 00:33:36,500 --> 00:33:41,840 Now that there fuse Elijah was about to set off was attached to so much 442 00:33:41,840 --> 00:33:42,940 gunpowder that... 443 00:33:43,290 --> 00:33:48,390 Anything or anybody in the vicinity would be blown clear to kingdom come. 444 00:33:48,650 --> 00:33:51,970 And that anyone in the vicinity was Adams. 445 00:33:52,290 --> 00:33:57,250 Running up that hill with no way of knowing the charge was set to go off any 446 00:33:57,250 --> 00:33:58,250 second. 447 00:33:58,550 --> 00:34:03,250 When Adams seen that burning fuse, there was only one thing he could do. 448 00:34:25,290 --> 00:34:26,290 Did you hear anything? 449 00:34:27,969 --> 00:34:28,969 What'd you say? 450 00:34:29,650 --> 00:34:30,969 It didn't go off. 451 00:34:32,710 --> 00:34:34,190 Why don't you go out and look? 452 00:34:35,090 --> 00:34:36,510 And get myself killed? 453 00:34:37,469 --> 00:34:38,469 You won't. 454 00:34:39,050 --> 00:34:40,290 Unless it goes off. 455 00:34:45,530 --> 00:34:46,770 Let's give it another minute. 456 00:34:57,550 --> 00:35:00,690 You fellas know what you're doing. Mining, sir. And you better get down 457 00:35:00,690 --> 00:35:01,690 right away before the blast. 458 00:35:02,450 --> 00:35:03,490 I've cut the fuse. 459 00:35:11,050 --> 00:35:15,990 Hard luck, Harry. 460 00:35:17,170 --> 00:35:21,910 You cross -brained polecat. What you trying to do? Blow down the whole 461 00:35:25,130 --> 00:35:29,970 Howdy, Jack. Don't you howdy me. You like to bury me, and that's just what 462 00:35:29,970 --> 00:35:30,970 going to do to you. 463 00:35:31,090 --> 00:35:32,890 Now, just toe the mark. Simmer down. 464 00:35:33,350 --> 00:35:37,250 Just get back at them. Toe the mark. Don't get yourself all riled up, would 465 00:35:37,370 --> 00:35:39,570 You going to let them get away with what they've been doing? 466 00:35:40,010 --> 00:35:41,950 I believe it's all my fault, gentlemen. 467 00:35:42,410 --> 00:35:43,410 Who are you? 468 00:35:43,870 --> 00:35:45,330 Elijah Bowman, sir. 469 00:35:45,530 --> 00:35:47,050 I'm here prospecting for silver. 470 00:35:47,810 --> 00:35:48,810 Silver? Yeah. 471 00:35:49,130 --> 00:35:51,710 Silver? Why, there's no silver up here. 472 00:35:52,400 --> 00:35:57,540 Who told you they were silver in these mountains? 473 00:35:59,220 --> 00:36:02,960 Well, you're up to your old tricks, are you? 474 00:36:03,460 --> 00:36:08,580 Getting some dumb greenhorn to grub -stake you so as you can... Who says 475 00:36:08,580 --> 00:36:12,340 ain't no silver up here? Next thing you tell is there ain't no gold in 476 00:36:12,340 --> 00:36:15,020 California. I'll tell you what I'll do. 477 00:36:16,060 --> 00:36:20,660 Every ounce of silver you find in these mountains, I'll eat. 478 00:36:30,730 --> 00:36:31,930 Harry's luck got worse. 479 00:36:32,610 --> 00:36:34,170 Ben's was a -getting better. 480 00:36:34,390 --> 00:36:39,310 His powerful, educated nose had finally caught a long -lost scent. 481 00:36:55,810 --> 00:36:59,770 Now that baby gosling's wanderings had brought him across Ben's path. 482 00:37:00,760 --> 00:37:06,060 And it's a toss -up which one was the most relieved, Ben or that baby that 483 00:37:06,060 --> 00:37:07,860 thought it had found its mama again. 484 00:37:16,900 --> 00:37:23,640 But happy as he was, as Ben sat himself down, he knowed his problem was far from 485 00:37:23,640 --> 00:37:28,900 over. If he couldn't find that gosling's rightful folks and return the little 486 00:37:28,900 --> 00:37:33,900 one to him, well, sir, Ben figured he would become Ma and Pa to that gosling 487 00:37:33,900 --> 00:37:35,100 the rest of his life. 488 00:38:01,450 --> 00:38:06,970 Since giving up weren't Ben's nature, he reckoned he'd take one more last look 489 00:38:06,970 --> 00:38:07,970 -see. 490 00:38:10,170 --> 00:38:15,710 When it come right down to it, it was nature herself who lent a helping hand. 491 00:38:15,990 --> 00:38:20,450 Yes, sir. Mother Nature, which had placed Ben in this predicament in the 492 00:38:20,450 --> 00:38:25,530 place, told that gosling he was heading for his true mama and papa at last. 493 00:38:35,690 --> 00:38:40,730 Now, when Ben saw that, Ben was the happiest critter in all these here 494 00:38:40,730 --> 00:38:45,230 mountains. Well, maybe not happier than that goose I left. 495 00:38:48,550 --> 00:38:53,210 Hard luck. 496 00:38:53,750 --> 00:38:57,570 As dumb as you are, you should have been smart enough to not let him use that 497 00:38:57,570 --> 00:38:58,570 much powder. 498 00:38:58,650 --> 00:39:01,370 Why, you... And you. 499 00:39:01,900 --> 00:39:06,240 You could have started a forest fire to burn down all the timber in these here 500 00:39:06,240 --> 00:39:10,120 mountains and left a barren spot bigger than the one over at Beaver Falls. 501 00:39:10,380 --> 00:39:14,300 Why, you could have... Adams! 502 00:39:16,480 --> 00:39:19,140 Do you have any idea what happens after a forest fire up here? 503 00:39:19,700 --> 00:39:22,440 No. Well, all the animals lose their homes. 504 00:39:23,080 --> 00:39:26,340 When the rains come, we have floods and mudslides. 505 00:39:26,600 --> 00:39:28,300 It takes years for it to grow back. 506 00:39:28,560 --> 00:39:29,560 I understand. 507 00:39:29,920 --> 00:39:31,600 But believe me, I'm really sorry. 508 00:39:33,380 --> 00:39:36,960 Is there anything I can do to make amends for almost burying you, sir? 509 00:39:37,640 --> 00:39:38,680 What do you have in mind? 510 00:39:39,020 --> 00:39:41,000 Well, I happen to be a barber by trade. 511 00:39:41,360 --> 00:39:44,000 Oh, no, no. Us mountain men, we never get haircuts. 512 00:39:45,360 --> 00:39:46,920 He also pulls teeth. 513 00:39:47,520 --> 00:39:51,220 I was telling me that your molars were troubling you. I'd be glad to remove 514 00:39:51,220 --> 00:39:54,340 them. Get your finger out of my mouth. 515 00:39:55,640 --> 00:39:57,660 How'd you plan to get them out anyway? 516 00:39:59,930 --> 00:40:00,908 Blast him out? 517 00:40:00,910 --> 00:40:02,670 No, I got my tooth yanker here. 518 00:40:04,690 --> 00:40:07,990 Well, uh, no, no, my molars is all right. 519 00:40:08,590 --> 00:40:12,690 It's just that my jaw's a little loose after that explosion. 520 00:40:13,210 --> 00:40:16,510 Jack, your jaw's been loose ever since the first day I knowed you. 521 00:40:16,990 --> 00:40:19,570 Mr. Bowman, have you been doing any blasting down at the stream? 522 00:40:19,950 --> 00:40:20,970 No. Why? 523 00:40:22,090 --> 00:40:25,030 Well, there's been some slick on the stream down below, and it's been 524 00:40:25,030 --> 00:40:27,570 the water and poisoning the animals. Couldn't be my doing. 525 00:40:28,040 --> 00:40:29,880 Only used the stream to wash the equipment. 526 00:40:30,600 --> 00:40:32,820 Don't you notice any slicks coming off of your pants? 527 00:40:33,120 --> 00:40:34,380 No, just cleaned it with sand. 528 00:40:35,560 --> 00:40:36,560 Cleaned it? 529 00:40:37,400 --> 00:40:39,120 Well, rock and dirt cleaned with water. 530 00:40:39,420 --> 00:40:42,220 Yes. I used quicksilver to separate the ore. 531 00:40:43,160 --> 00:40:46,600 Quicksilver? That's mercury. Didn't any of it get in the water? That's how I got 532 00:40:46,600 --> 00:40:48,860 rid of it. I cleaned the pan in the sand. 533 00:40:50,800 --> 00:40:51,860 That's deadly poison. 534 00:40:52,580 --> 00:40:56,040 Poison? I didn't know that. Otherwise, I wouldn't have used it. 535 00:40:56,410 --> 00:40:58,830 The mercury's heavy and it flows to the bottom where the fish are. 536 00:40:59,190 --> 00:41:00,670 The fish eat that and they get sick. 537 00:41:01,390 --> 00:41:03,290 The other animals eat the fish and they get sick. 538 00:41:04,190 --> 00:41:05,910 Now you've got Nokoma's tribe in trouble. 539 00:41:06,110 --> 00:41:07,870 That stream goes right through their fishing village. 540 00:41:09,130 --> 00:41:12,150 Nokoma, why don't you go down to your tribe and get as many braids as you can. 541 00:41:12,690 --> 00:41:14,930 We're going to have to dam up this stream and collect the rocks. 542 00:41:15,730 --> 00:41:19,630 What are you going to do with the rocks? 543 00:41:20,310 --> 00:41:22,210 We're going to have to bury them in a safe place, Harry. 544 00:41:22,730 --> 00:41:25,850 Believe me, Mr. Adams, I had no idea that what I was doing would hurt anyone. 545 00:41:29,049 --> 00:41:31,710 You know, you're like a lot of other folks that come up here and do harm to 546 00:41:31,710 --> 00:41:32,710 forest and don't mean it. 547 00:41:33,250 --> 00:41:34,730 Well, is there anything we can do to help? 548 00:41:35,650 --> 00:41:36,730 Yeah, there is if you'd like. 549 00:41:37,430 --> 00:41:40,450 We had a fire up at Beaver Falls, and I was going to try and reseed that area 550 00:41:40,450 --> 00:41:43,210 before the rains came, but now we've got this mercury problem. 551 00:41:43,590 --> 00:41:45,370 Well, Harry and I used to hard work. 552 00:41:45,810 --> 00:41:47,370 We insist on making amends. 553 00:41:48,130 --> 00:41:49,049 We do? 554 00:41:49,050 --> 00:41:51,870 Well, if you really want to help, you can take over that job of replanting 555 00:41:51,870 --> 00:41:52,828 burnt -out area. 556 00:41:52,830 --> 00:41:54,730 We'll do it, and I speak for Harry, too. 557 00:41:55,390 --> 00:41:57,510 Mr. Adams, where do we get those seedlings? 558 00:41:57,950 --> 00:42:00,850 Well, that won't be hard to find. The seedlings grow around the base of the 559 00:42:00,850 --> 00:42:03,730 trees. I'll have Jack take you up there and show you where they are, and he'll 560 00:42:03,730 --> 00:42:07,170 take you over to the burnout area and show you how to do it. Mr. Adams, we'll 561 00:42:07,170 --> 00:42:09,150 show you that we're as good as our word. 562 00:42:09,950 --> 00:42:15,110 All right, look. 563 00:42:15,690 --> 00:42:19,130 It's mighty nice of you to volunteer for all that work. 564 00:42:19,430 --> 00:42:23,740 It shouldn't take you more than two or three months to... Get all that hillside 565 00:42:23,740 --> 00:42:26,140 planted. Keep your arms out of trouble. 566 00:42:28,280 --> 00:42:30,300 Yeah. Come on, Harry. 567 00:42:30,600 --> 00:42:31,600 Let's do it. 568 00:42:37,340 --> 00:42:42,180 On the way back to the cabin, Ben ran into something that might have caused 569 00:42:42,180 --> 00:42:45,760 trouble. It was a nest of unhatched eggs. 570 00:42:51,440 --> 00:42:55,040 But he'd had enough of motherhood to last him a lifetime. 571 00:42:55,680 --> 00:42:58,620 He could hardly wait to get back to where he belonged. 572 00:42:59,300 --> 00:43:03,520 Where a bear could be a bear, not a mother goose. 573 00:43:17,140 --> 00:43:19,080 Hi, Edmund. Hi, Jack. 574 00:43:20,350 --> 00:43:21,350 Where you been? 575 00:43:21,570 --> 00:43:23,430 I just come down from Beaver Falls. 576 00:43:24,770 --> 00:43:26,630 Did you see Harry and Elijah up there? 577 00:43:26,890 --> 00:43:27,890 Nope. 578 00:43:28,150 --> 00:43:32,450 Word's out about a big silver strike up north, and they was the first two to 579 00:43:32,450 --> 00:43:33,450 leave. 580 00:43:33,790 --> 00:43:34,790 But you know something? 581 00:43:35,370 --> 00:43:38,350 They did everything they said they was going to do before they left. 582 00:43:39,090 --> 00:43:42,390 Planted that whole burn in Aspen and Pine. 583 00:43:42,910 --> 00:43:44,590 You know, I'm really glad to hear that. 584 00:43:44,990 --> 00:43:46,430 Because they're nice enough fellas. 585 00:43:46,630 --> 00:43:47,930 You know, they didn't mean no harm. 586 00:43:49,960 --> 00:43:51,240 I never thought they'd do it. 587 00:43:54,000 --> 00:43:55,380 How's the streams around here? 588 00:43:57,020 --> 00:43:58,840 They're looking beautiful again, Jack. 589 00:43:59,300 --> 00:44:02,600 Water's nice and fresh and clean and clear. Just jumping with trout. 590 00:44:03,320 --> 00:44:08,200 Oh, Elijah told me to give you this. 591 00:44:11,000 --> 00:44:12,000 James Adams. 592 00:44:12,820 --> 00:44:13,860 Let's see what it is. 593 00:44:14,700 --> 00:44:16,020 It's a newspaper clipping. 594 00:44:16,300 --> 00:44:17,300 What does it say? 595 00:44:17,480 --> 00:44:19,260 It says here that Elijah... 596 00:44:19,550 --> 00:44:24,250 and Harry are new kinds of heroes by helping nature and setting things right 597 00:44:24,250 --> 00:44:24,968 the wilderness. 598 00:44:24,970 --> 00:44:26,210 Yeah. That's nice. 599 00:44:26,490 --> 00:44:27,730 Well, go on. 600 00:44:30,050 --> 00:44:31,250 Well, that's all there is. 601 00:44:32,850 --> 00:44:33,850 Well, 602 00:44:34,330 --> 00:44:35,530 it didn't say anything about me. 603 00:44:36,490 --> 00:44:40,130 Well, after all, I was the one that took them up there and showed them how to do 604 00:44:40,130 --> 00:44:41,130 it and everything. 605 00:44:42,530 --> 00:44:46,110 Well, the important thing is that it got done, not who gets the credit for it. 606 00:44:46,430 --> 00:44:49,390 It's going to help the people know about the wilderness and how to protect it. 607 00:45:01,990 --> 00:45:04,910 What's the matter with Ben? 608 00:45:07,110 --> 00:45:08,110 I don't know, Jack. 609 00:45:08,810 --> 00:45:11,410 Every time he sees a goose, he runs off and hides. 610 00:45:18,030 --> 00:45:23,430 Deep inside the forest is a door into another land. 611 00:45:23,770 --> 00:45:27,410 Here is our life and home. 612 00:45:28,330 --> 00:45:35,270 We are staying here forever in the beauty of 613 00:45:35,270 --> 00:45:40,690 this place. All alone, we keep on hoping.