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What is it, alkali? This stuff's going to arsenic.

Well, if you'll end up like a friend here.

Well, we'll get plenty of water when we get to Imopaleos.

You want to quit? When I'm ready to quit, you got to know it!

Candy, where are you?

I may not be sure about this water, but I'm sure of Diane without it.

She'll come back for you.

Time to dust me, the earth beneath my feet.

Time to dust me, as I ride through the burning heat.

With the help of God and this mountain man, and the hand of my eldest son,

My little boy, my mother-in-law.

With the help of God and this mountain man, and the hand of my eldest son,

My little boy and my little girl, will grow up in the father's land.

And in the eyes of a woman, meant for me, I have a dream where the sun goes down.

The Willamette Valley's calling me, 'cause I'm Oregon Bound.

Oregon Bound, yes, I'm Oregon Bound.

Pull the horse.

What?

Something's wrong with this water.

Yeah, I can see the whiteness.

Is it alkaline?

Yeah.

Worse than that, we could deal with alkaline.

What?

Stuff's going to arsenic.

Not if all that stuff you wind up like a friend here.

You sure?

Look around you.

Get a thing growing for 50 feet.

Get a bug or anything stirring that stuff.

Got a wagon train full of people three days away with milk cows and kids, and Lord knows what?

Well, as well as you do what we got coming.

Well, now how could a whole you know to overturn the poison?

State back east.

Out here rocks and turn to dust and get water to bed in the season.

Well, that's all there is to it.

Let's get moving one other.

Horses won't make it back to the train.

Just tell 'em.

What's that you're doing?

It's yours called a cairn.

It'll tell 'em.

Tell 'em what?

They won't know what that means.

Can you write?

Well, I can't either.

We got to find some other water.

A couple of seasons ago, there's a spring up there in them foothills.

A couple of seasons ago.

If I was out here on my own, it'd be plain bad luck.

But now that I got a bunch of sodbusters leaning on me, all of a sudden I'm a snake and don't know my business.

Don't want you feeling that way.

This is Lord's forsaken land.

You got a whopper, huh?

You don't win like that out here.

You open up and listen to what the country's trying to tell you, and you better listen and listen good.

You're gonna go under.

I don't listen to nothing what's trying to kill me and my own.

Come on, Luther.

Come on.

Got him!

Couldn't very well miss from three feet.

And the bird on the ground.

There's food for the pot.

What's left of the poor thing?

Now, why do them horses, are you, Miss Devlin?

They've got some ults, Mr. Webster.

No offense, ma'am.

But I've already got some folks to play some water at.

Look what I've got.

He just set up on it.

Well, we'll cook that when we stop for supper.

Good help to it.

Mostly fuckshot.

Hey, you don't got to eat none.

The poor thing was taking a nap.

He didn't have a chance to stop at you two.

It's way too hot to fight about anything.

Too hot for man to be, that's the truth.

Miss Devlin, the reason I come.

I decided we got a rash in what water we got left.

I was afraid we'd come to that.

Too low to take any chances.

Well, we'll get plenty of water when we get to them up high.

Halfway through the water hole.

Amy?

Yeah, that's right, honey.

But that's another two days away.

And this here sun's rendering the teams to hide in bones.

Well, you're the captain, Mr. Webster.

Well, that ain't much different than being a train engineer.

You keep rolling, keep the livestock healthy,

and train on time.

Now, Hayes and Reynolds be along a bit.

Take all the water up to the lead wagon.

That way, everybody gets their fair share.

Ten minutes we roll.

Don't fret.

Cole Webster's in the engine cab.

He won't let nobody down.

Oh, folks up.

My bird.

Oh, good boy.

Alert.

You should give that poor thing a decent burial

and forget about hunting.

Hope you know what you're doing.

You mean you ain't having fun?

Well, look here.

Wouldn't you know it?

Wouldn't you know what?

Don't tell me you can read that stuff.

It says there's a river here.

River where?

Here.

It's in a river. It's a mountain.

It was a river here when they wrote it.

When was that?

I don't know.

You mean you brought me up here to read me

about a prehistoric river?

I could read it from down there.

What are you doing there?

I'm leaving.

Go ahead, read it.

Go up to the telltale about a buffalo hunt.

A what?

Buffalo hunt.

It says you're mauling it better.

You're getting into war in me, Andrew.

Is he?

It should be all right, Ellie.

Once we reach water, she'll be just fine.

Everybody, we roll in three minutes.

Hey, Paul.

Hey, smile on the button, Ellie. Good timing.

Couldn't help but hear you coming all the way up the line.

How you doing, I'm new.

All right, Mr. Webster.

Appreciate the good job you're doing.

Look around for my family while I'm

performing my new duties and all.

Well, it's always a pleasure to help you, sir.

Little romances don't hurt none either, does it, son?

Oh.

Oh, that was just fun, Ellie.

Coe, Coe, is that you?

Coe, the Lord has gone from this land.

He and his angels have turned away from us.

How can we follow him if he's gone from this land?

How?

Now, go on, Liz. Go on out of the sun. Go on.

Come on.

Come on.

Go back high down.

Oh, he's turned away from the Paris land.

We can not survive, we know.

It should be all right, Mr. Webster.

She's always better at night when it's cool.

We had a good house in St. Louis.

It goes to the Union Station.

Good life.

I hear the tracks.

Mrs. Webster didn't want to come out here.

It was me.

I want to chop a new life from the wilderness.

All right, three minutes, we roll.

All right, everybody!

Three minutes!

All right!

Look at this.

No animal signs, nothing.

No trails, no droppings.

Well, I made up my mind.

Ain't no water here.

You hear me?

Ain't nothing here.

It's here.

Look, listen.

I came along a tail end of this country.

Even then, it's better than I could ever hope for.

She's pure then.

She was pure then.

Sick of hearing about that.

It's getting old.

Always making remarks about bad men like me coming from the east

and ruining the land.

You said it, I didn't.

Now, listen.

These horses are going about as far as they're going to go.

So what we're going to do is get on and ride them.

Ride them.

And we're going to find water.

Sounds just like a sodbuster talking.

Ride your horse to death.

How you going to get back to you precious people?

We've got time to walk back.

We just about walked this far already.

We're going to keep on walking because we're going to save these horses.

What about trying to save some people?

Sometimes I wonder if it's worth it.

All they do is come out here and tear her up.

I'll tear her up.

See this and see that.

You talk about a hellhole like this like it was a person.

Tear her up.

Look, it's just earth and rock.

Now, you see, earth and rock now, see, but that's what you don't understand.

Fellas like me come in and we divert water.

And then we fence it and plow it and seed it.

And then we got ourselves a farm.

I don't know why I keep sticking my neck out for you people.

Ever since as a boy, run to the west, I've been trying to get rid of you farmers.

You took the job.

Yeah.

Right now, it's beginning to rub me raw.

You want to quit?

When I'm ready to quit, you got to know it.

You got to know it.

The light's broken.

Oh, I know.

No fixing it, that's for sure.

I reckon I'll bring in Gopher.

Now, I don't feel right about that.

You don't saddlepony at all?

Well, I won't be needing him for a while, sir, and it appears you do.

Andrew, you got a good man in you.

Papa, come on, let's just be with us.

I don't know that, child.

You've been a good one, but now he's suffering.

I'll be all right.

We'll go look after Mama.

Hey, Mr. Left, if you make it any easier on you, I'll be glad to take care of it.

Now, I'll best do it myself.

Mama!

Mama's gone!

I want the preservatives to set up.

Oh, pay the ice man.

Oh, down to the levee dip to get the fish for coal before his train comes in.

Oh, Lord, oh, Lord.

What? What those?

Please, darling, come on.

You can't be whining on you by yourself. Come on, Liz.

You've got to get myself down to the levee.

I've got shopping to do, and the church meeting to the house.

Please, please.

What's all this about leaving St. Louis?

What's all this about leaving our house?

What's all this talk, Mr. Webster?

Come here, now. Come on back to the wagon with us, please.

Oh, he came alive before I feel torn.

You're not carried, really.

He'll punish us if we leave Missouri cold.

Cold.

We've got to move. We lost an hour here.

Maybe we should hold up right here.

Is that rain?

Dust oil.

If we move through that, it'll chew us up.

Maybe we can outrun it.

We've got to try.

We just can't sit here and get hit.

Where's your wife, Cole?

She needs water like the rest of us.

Livestock and humans alike.

We've got to move, Orlo.

Think you can handle it with this boy?

I think so, sir.

Stay as close as you can with a wagon in front of you,

and you'll do fine.

It sure is fierce-looking.

Paul, it's coming right in the middle of that.

Ain't no storm made that work, Paul.

Looks or need it.

All right, let's keep rolling.

Keep moving.

Get up, Pete. Get up.

Yeah!

Get up. Come on.

Come on.

The Lord's gone from this land.

We can leave no hope without you, Farmer.

No hope without you here, Farmer.

We've got to stop.

No!

Move and I've got you!

The water!

Keep your lead, animals.

See a wagon ahead of you.

Hurry it out, folks.

Hurry!

We've got to stop, Paul.

You can't free the trail.

Go as slow as need be there, Mr. Hayes,

but we ain't stopping.

We're putting this storm behind us.

How long's this gonna last?

She feels like it.

Gotta get to the water.

Ain't you learned nothing yet?

You can't push this country.

Besides, the train will be holed up, too.

Even them farmers ain't dumb enough to try to move in this.

We don't give back time to worry about it.

We left the sign.

Jenny!

Jenny!

Oh, let me go.

Let me go.

Jenny!

Jenny!

All right, Jenny.

Jenny!

It's gonna be all right, honey.

Everything's gonna be all right.

Oh, Jenny, thanks.

You still on the right track?

Not far.

Whew.

Begin to think we wouldn't make it.

Last talk, more do.

Folks, hang on now.

We'll be swimming in clear, cold water.

Can't come too soon, Cole.

Hey, Roy, play us a tune.

That fill of yours ain't filled with sand.

What do you want to hear?

Play something we can dance to.

Yeah, come on, Roy.

Is that all?

It's all we can spare.

You know the little.

Well, there ain't nothing to dance about.

Not enough water to make coffee.

We got everything to do.

Jenny's alive.

We're all alive after that dust storm.

And we got fresh water from here.

And we've all gone near to being right on schedule.

According to my watch.

A hard job about schedule.

Come on, show me your heels.

What's that?

What's that?

You know what's happened?

No water.

Well, the trainload of sodbusters has been here ahead of us.

They've let their livestock get in here and trample us water.

Hell couldn't find it.

Well, we'll dig down to wetness.

If we dig deep enough.

No, no.

What's a tank like this that's been stopped up?

It turns underground.

Who's the god knows where?

Stupid sodbusters.

Ain't no good complaining about it.

Who done it?

The thing is, what are we going to do?

Well, here's a man who's going to whoop this country.

You asking me?

I'd spit if I could muster it.

Yeah, I'm asking you.

And I'm asking damn polite since we've got one foot in a grave.

Well, come on.

Scout.

What are we going to do?

Well, I guess we'll sit down here

and start whittling out our grave markers

unless we can find some water and find it pretty quick.

Now, wait a minute.

I need a rest.

Nightfall.

Rest, wait.

Let's go.

You're going to fall on your cracker face.

I sat with you.

And I waited in that dust storm.

And we got whipped.

My pa and me back in '42 in the Depression.

We sat and we waited.

And the crops died.

And we got whipped.

Then my pa died.

And I buried him.

And I moved west.

And I met the nicest little girl.

And I buried her.

And I got whipped.

I ain't burying no more of mine.

I ain't burying no more of mine.

I ain't burying no more of mine.

I ain't burying no more of mine.

I ain't burying no more of mine.

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I ain't burying no more of mine.

I ain't burying no more of mine.

Ellie,

you better watch him.

What you waiting on, boy?

Christmas dinner?

Liz, she's looking more and more like you.

Same,

lighter than air look.

It's different.

What is it?

It's the way I dreamed it would be.

What do you mean?

Walking with...

What, a man?

A boy.

A man.

I mean, there's so much happening all around.

There's so many things going wrong.

And in my dream,

I never saw anything but myself.

A man.

I'm sorry.

No.

It was just like in the dream.

It was better.

Where'd he...

Oh, say things I never would say.

I'm scared.

I ain't no maid to be scared.

But we all go into Oregon,

and as soon as we get there,

and I help Powell get his face in shape,

I'm gonna be looking for some land in my own,

bill my own house,

and I was thinking that maybe...

You're still scared.

Ellie, we could all die.

We could die out here.

I ain't nobody gonna die now.

We're gonna be just talking to each other

and seeing each other for miles and miles and days and days.

Maybe if you held me a little while, it might help.

Well?

It helped.

I ain't never gonna let nothing happen to you, I promise.

I almost feel we're gonna make it now.

I don't know the cactus.

The anyway of things.

Maybe we should be moving.

Put it down.

Pa!

What's wrong?

Pa's in trouble out there.

It was Pa.

It was just a dream, Rachel.

He's out there, he couldn't find us,

and I kept on calling to him, and he couldn't hear me,

and I couldn't get closer.

It was just a dream, going back to sleep.

What are you looking at?

I see a dove.

At least they fly the water on us, don't they?

Better put your hopes on something different,

and the dove's on the wind.

That way. Go north.

You gonna fall down again?

And it's going crazy.

Dove's on the wind.

So, you know, we're trying to drink sand.

Game trails.

Me.

I found it.

Gotta be water.

We got one more stab at it.

If we don't find it, we're gonna be wolf meat.

What are you gonna do?

Sit down and wait again.

You haven't lost your head.

We're dancing around all night.

Wouldn't be enough trouble to begin with.

Don't you talk down your mountain nose at me.

I've lived off the land.

I've hunted, and I've fished.

In the state of Illinois, I stand here looking for them.

Honey, the only thing you ever hunted was cows.

The only fishing you ever did was out of a pig trough.

You don't know nothing, you dumb farmer.

You push me over the edge.

Get up!

We've made it down.

That wagon train won't get to that poison water.

See ya the whole day.

See how she is.

See how she is this country now, you see?

All right, all right, I see, I see.

When your father's gonna be proud of us,

full day ahead of schedule.

We'll get that water home out of our boys.

Don't you think Paul would have met up with us before now, Mr. Webster?

Well, that father just told him to wait for Cole Webster

to bring him to the express.

You know, him and his schedules.

I think Paul should have met up with us before now, Will.

I really do.

Rachel, it was only a dream.

Get up there!

Big Cat's been working his poo.

Tracks all over the place.

What are you doing?

We're moving.

Well, the train won't be there late tomorrow.

Can't take a chance on that.

Ain't you learned nothing yet?

You don't move in this country till you're ready,

and we ain't ready.

I'm ready.

You got water.

Wow!

Hey, Luther?

Huh?

What does that say?

That being ready?

I'm ready.

Where you going, farmer?

Going back to the wagons.

Get some end of all water.

Get some help for you.

Yeah.

I can't get a horse.

I just spooked him.

We only got one horse.

Come on.

Easy now, not too much.

That's it.

Here's.

Come on.

Here's as dumb as ever.

Yeah?

I'm here.

You gotta...

You gotta leave me.

You gotta go back to the train.

Warning, mothers.

Where'd he get that poise of water?

I ain't leaving you, Luther.

Huh?

Well, now look at him.

You care, don't you?

You care about them people?

Pulling a big old gun on me.

You care about them, so I'd bust attention.

Come on, boo.

How does it blame furnace out there?

Talk about it, Andrew.

I'm trying not to think of anything but ice lemonade

and mountain water.

I ain't nothing but torture.

Keep talking like that, you're gonna drive yourself crazy.

Oh, I found some wild barley out on the trail.

Give a little bit to the horses.

Reckons how they love me, too, now.

Everyone said I loved you.

Well, no, you didn't.

See, I got this gift.

What gift?

The second sight.

Mind me, I'm all for truth.

See, all I gotta do is look at a person,

and I can tell exactly what they're thinking.

What am I thinking?

Well, that ain't hard.

That Andrew Thorpey is a natural-born liar.

What am I thinking right now?

What?

I wasn't thinking anything like that.

Well, I can't be right all the time, can I?

But just as long as we're in the mood,

I thought we might as well.

Ow!

Can I bite you?

I gotta stay free.

He's a farmer.

Easy, Loose.

He's a stupid farmer.

A stupid farmer.

Yeah, stupid farmers.

Boys, hey, you gotta work on the stuff.

Drag our young kids with us.

Keep 'em coming.

Hey, now we're gonna stop.

Hold back!

Hold back!

Hold back!

Hold back!

Now, your captain of the break was gonna wait here for us.

Where are they?

They're off hunting or something.

The water doesn't look so good.

Looks like a pure alkali sink to me.

It sure is alkali, but it'll boil pure,

like we done back in the Barrens.

Now, you just keep the stockin' all away until it's drinkable.

What do you expect?

A blue lake with mermaids?

It's water, ain't it?

Just don't look right.

Ain't nothin' livin' in it.

Ain't nothin' growin' around it.

It'll be drinkable when we boil it down.

But just don't look right, Mr. Webster.

I may not be sure about this water,

but I'm sure of dyin' without it.

I reckon I see the truth in that.

That horse, sir, look, is my pal's horse.

Let's have the torch all right.

Why don't you look after him?

I tell you, they'll organize a search party and go pick 'em up.

All right, the rest of you, keep that water boiling!

Louisa?

Is he awake?

No.

Louisa?

No.

I'm sorry.

I'm lost.

Where the hell are we?

Lost.

Must have been that dust storm.

The land, she's changed on me.

She's put rocks where they used to be flats,

and she's put flats where they used to be rocks.

What are you laughing at?

He said, he's talking.

He's talking about the land.

He said she.

Yeah, he said she.

He's talking about the land.

Andy!

Andy, did you find Paul?

Yeah, partner, we gotta go out and look again.

There ain't no place else yet to look, boy.

Covered files in every direction.

You don't come back.

Won't he?

Sure he will, honey.

Paul would want us to be endowed the mouth.

I think so.

Too far.

Must have come too far in the night.

She traces all the same on the land.

It makes no difference who you are.

I got a traitor who respects you while you lie.

You're losing her.

She died on me.

I ain't dead yet.

I hear you.

How them cook fires covered?

Getting water boiled off yet, coolant?

Please.

I think it's time to pray.

When you've done all you can, everything,

that it might be a good idea to speak to the Lord.

The Lord is my shepherd.

I shall love the Lord.

He made it me to lie down in green pastures.

He leadeth me as high as still was.

He restoreth my soul.

He leadeth me in man's righteousness.

For his name's sake.

Listen, what is it?

Easy, Luther, it ain't nothing.

Listen, dammit.

Listen, I hear voices. I hear people praying.

Just hang on, Luther.

You're gonna be all right. I'm here with you.

I know you're here with me.

But I hear voices praying.

Can't you hear them?

Listen.

If you'd shut up and listen, you'd hear them.

Listen.

All right, all right.

Luther, there's voices.

There's voices praying. It's a train.

Luther, it's a wagon train.

Nearer my God to me.

Nearer to me.

Nearer my God to me.

Nearer my God to me.

Nearer my God to me.

Nearer my God to me.

He's here, Paul and Luther.

Paul.

Hey, Paul. Hey, Paul.

Heaven, I bought a hole right where you said it was.

We're boiling the alkali out of it right now.

Well, don't let nobody touch a drop.

It's arsenic.

But we got us water, fresh and pure, up in them hills.

Yeah, if you can find it.

Well, if I get lost, I can just ask her again.

Her?

Oh, Mr. Sprague and me got a friend.

Lovely lady if you treat her right.

I was wrong, Cole.

The Lord is here.

More fierce, but he's here.

We'll make it, Liz. We'll make it.

I know. I know.

All right, we're moving out.

All right, let's get up in the wagon.

We've got a nice puddle right over here.

Let's go. Let's puddle. Let's puddle.

They just keep coming.

Dragging their wives and their young'uns with them.

And they never stop.

Just keep coming.

With the help of God in this mountain man,

I have a dream where the sun goes down.

Though a land of valleys is calling me,

'cause my origins bow.