1 00:01:55,156 --> 00:01:57,616 Why are you bouncing on the bed in the middle of the night? 2 00:01:57,784 --> 00:02:00,744 Got to go talk to pa. 3 00:02:00,912 --> 00:02:03,997 Why are you putting your stockings in your shoes? 4 00:02:04,165 --> 00:02:05,415 Because I want to. 5 00:02:05,583 --> 00:02:09,086 Besides, I always do it, anyway. 6 00:02:09,254 --> 00:02:10,504 You do not. 7 00:02:10,672 --> 00:02:12,965 Yes, I do. 8 00:02:13,133 --> 00:02:14,508 If I put my stockings on 9 00:02:14,676 --> 00:02:16,301 and then put my feet in the shoes, 10 00:02:16,469 --> 00:02:22,391 it would be the same thing as putting my stockings in the shoes. 11 00:02:22,559 --> 00:02:25,769 There. How do I look? 12 00:02:25,937 --> 00:02:28,105 Same as when we went to bed... 13 00:02:28,273 --> 00:02:31,233 Except for that dumb-looking nightcap. 14 00:02:31,401 --> 00:02:33,152 You don't know anything. 15 00:02:33,319 --> 00:02:34,945 I'm taller. 16 00:02:35,738 --> 00:02:37,281 Go to sleep. 17 00:02:37,448 --> 00:02:39,408 I was asleep. 18 00:02:53,131 --> 00:02:54,381 Pa? 19 00:02:54,549 --> 00:02:57,301 Hey, half-pint, what on earth are you doing up this late? 20 00:02:57,468 --> 00:02:59,303 I wanted to tell you something. 21 00:02:59,470 --> 00:03:01,096 Well, it better be darn important. 22 00:03:01,264 --> 00:03:03,140 Oh, it is. 23 00:03:03,308 --> 00:03:05,058 I'm getting bigger, pa... 24 00:03:05,226 --> 00:03:07,519 More than a whole inch bigger. 25 00:03:07,687 --> 00:03:09,479 From the looks of you, you're doing most of your growing 26 00:03:09,647 --> 00:03:11,315 on top of your head. 27 00:03:11,482 --> 00:03:12,649 We can talk about it tomorrow morning. 28 00:03:12,817 --> 00:03:14,818 Why don't you get some sleep? 29 00:03:14,986 --> 00:03:16,695 But you're going hunting tomorrow morning. 30 00:03:16,863 --> 00:03:18,155 I was afraid I might miss you. 31 00:03:18,323 --> 00:03:19,698 You don't have to worry about that. 32 00:03:19,866 --> 00:03:21,617 Edwards is taking a freighting run tomorrow. 33 00:03:21,784 --> 00:03:25,370 He's going to drop me off at Morgan creek. I'll walk in from there. 34 00:03:25,538 --> 00:03:26,663 Now, come on, give me a kiss good night. 35 00:03:26,831 --> 00:03:29,458 I want you to get some sleep. 36 00:03:31,044 --> 00:03:32,502 You like hunting, don't you, pa? 37 00:03:32,670 --> 00:03:34,755 Well, it's kind of a good excuse to get to the mountains. 38 00:03:34,923 --> 00:03:37,424 But the important thing is we need the meat. 39 00:03:37,592 --> 00:03:40,052 You said that I could go when I got bigger. 40 00:03:40,220 --> 00:03:42,679 Well, you can. 41 00:03:42,847 --> 00:03:44,181 Maybe next time. 42 00:03:44,349 --> 00:03:46,391 That's what you said last time. 43 00:03:46,559 --> 00:03:49,019 Well, what I meant was, when you get older, not bigger. 44 00:03:49,187 --> 00:03:53,941 Well, I am older... And more than a whole inch bigger. 45 00:03:54,108 --> 00:03:56,693 Oh... 46 00:03:56,861 --> 00:04:00,113 That's what this is all about, huh? 47 00:04:00,281 --> 00:04:03,492 I'm all caught up on my chores, and my schoolwork, too. 48 00:04:03,660 --> 00:04:06,536 Half-pint, you know how your ma feels about girls going hunting. 49 00:04:06,704 --> 00:04:10,123 In your ma's book, a girl has a lot more important things to do. 50 00:04:10,291 --> 00:04:12,334 Well, what about in your book? 51 00:04:12,502 --> 00:04:15,254 In my book, you're putting me on the spot. 52 00:04:15,421 --> 00:04:18,048 That's because I want to go. 53 00:04:19,842 --> 00:04:21,760 All right. I'll ask your ma. 54 00:04:21,928 --> 00:04:24,137 - Thanks. - But off to bed now! 55 00:04:24,305 --> 00:04:25,931 - Okay. - Okay, go! 56 00:04:44,033 --> 00:04:45,033 Are you all finished? 57 00:04:45,201 --> 00:04:47,577 Yep, all finished. I'm ready to go. 58 00:04:47,745 --> 00:04:50,289 Great. You get some sleep now. 59 00:04:50,456 --> 00:04:52,666 Yeah. 60 00:04:52,834 --> 00:04:54,918 Oh, you know, I almost forgot to tell you. 61 00:04:55,086 --> 00:04:56,878 Half-pint is a whole inch taller. 62 00:04:57,046 --> 00:04:58,088 Mm-hmm. 63 00:04:58,256 --> 00:05:00,882 Hard to believe the way that girl is growing. 64 00:05:01,050 --> 00:05:02,926 Uh-huh. 65 00:05:03,094 --> 00:05:05,595 I mean, you practically see her growing every day. 66 00:05:05,763 --> 00:05:10,934 Mm-hmm. I'll let her hems down tomorrow. 67 00:05:11,102 --> 00:05:14,187 Why don't you let her go hunting tomorrow? 68 00:05:14,355 --> 00:05:15,564 What? 69 00:05:15,732 --> 00:05:17,566 Why don't you just let her go hunting tomorrow? 70 00:05:17,734 --> 00:05:18,942 And she knows her way around the woods. 71 00:05:19,110 --> 00:05:20,777 She can be a big help to me in the camp. 72 00:05:20,945 --> 00:05:22,237 I don't want her going hunting. 73 00:05:22,405 --> 00:05:24,781 Why not? 74 00:05:24,949 --> 00:05:27,993 She's tomboy enough as it is, Charles, without encouraging her. 75 00:05:28,161 --> 00:05:29,411 That's just the point. 76 00:05:29,579 --> 00:05:31,163 She's going to be a woman the rest of her life. 77 00:05:31,331 --> 00:05:32,748 Why don't we let her be a tomboy a little bit longer? 78 00:05:32,915 --> 00:05:34,541 You mark my words, one of these days, 79 00:05:34,709 --> 00:05:36,752 she's going to walk in that door, she'll be a full-grown woman, 80 00:05:36,919 --> 00:05:39,671 you're going to say "where's that little girl I used to have?" 81 00:05:39,839 --> 00:05:43,300 That's not the point. She's a girl, not a boy. 82 00:05:43,468 --> 00:05:44,968 I don't want her there. It's not proper. 83 00:05:45,136 --> 00:05:46,720 Oh, Caroline, I promised her, 84 00:05:46,888 --> 00:05:48,305 and then she kept asking me, and I promised... 85 00:05:48,473 --> 00:05:51,475 Laura: Pa, did you ask her? 86 00:05:51,642 --> 00:05:53,769 What did she say? 87 00:05:56,522 --> 00:05:58,732 Well, it's your decision. 88 00:05:58,900 --> 00:06:00,567 You tell her. 89 00:06:22,507 --> 00:06:24,049 Edwards: You know what you're doing. 90 00:06:24,217 --> 00:06:26,343 Risky thing, taking a woman along on a hunting trip. 91 00:06:26,511 --> 00:06:28,303 Half-pint's hardly a full-grown woman yet. 92 00:06:28,471 --> 00:06:29,721 That don't make no difference. 93 00:06:29,889 --> 00:06:32,516 Female's a female... Big, little, or in-between. 94 00:06:32,683 --> 00:06:33,892 Bad luck. 95 00:06:34,060 --> 00:06:35,352 All bad luck, are they, huh? 96 00:06:35,520 --> 00:06:38,480 Well, I guess there's an exception now and again. 97 00:06:38,648 --> 00:06:40,357 I knew this Indian one. Cheyenne. 98 00:06:40,525 --> 00:06:42,442 He used to take his squaw along on hunt trips with him. 99 00:06:42,610 --> 00:06:44,027 The fact is he wouldn't go without her. 100 00:06:44,195 --> 00:06:45,362 Was a real good hunter, huh? 101 00:06:45,530 --> 00:06:46,988 Oh, Skinner. 102 00:06:47,156 --> 00:06:48,907 That squaw could skin out and dress 103 00:06:49,075 --> 00:06:51,201 4 or 5 buffalos between lunch and supper. 104 00:06:51,369 --> 00:06:52,911 You think I can put half-pint to skinning? 105 00:06:53,079 --> 00:06:56,039 Don't know why not. She's little, but she's strong. 106 00:06:56,207 --> 00:06:58,500 What do you think of that, half-pint? 107 00:06:58,668 --> 00:06:59,709 Yuck! 108 00:07:26,654 --> 00:07:27,821 That'll do it. 109 00:07:27,989 --> 00:07:29,906 Get moving, you two. I got a load to move. 110 00:07:30,074 --> 00:07:31,658 We're much obliged for the ride. 111 00:07:31,826 --> 00:07:33,285 - Sunday, noon, huh? - That's right. 112 00:07:33,453 --> 00:07:35,287 If we're not here right away, don't worry about us. 113 00:07:35,455 --> 00:07:36,913 Oh, well, I'll just figure Laura here 114 00:07:37,081 --> 00:07:39,040 ain't as quick with that skinning as she ought to be. 115 00:07:39,208 --> 00:07:40,542 What do you think of that, half-pint? 116 00:07:40,710 --> 00:07:41,751 - Yuck! - Yuck! 117 00:07:41,919 --> 00:07:43,420 Here. Let me give you a hand with that. 118 00:07:43,588 --> 00:07:45,589 Here you go. Slip your arm right through there. 119 00:07:45,756 --> 00:07:47,424 Oops! The flap's open back here. 120 00:07:47,592 --> 00:07:50,135 Better tie that down. 121 00:07:50,303 --> 00:07:52,220 There. How's that feel? 122 00:07:52,388 --> 00:07:54,097 It feels heavier than I expected it to be. 123 00:07:54,265 --> 00:07:57,767 Well, it's always like that the first day... help you downhill. 124 00:07:57,935 --> 00:08:00,187 There you go. 125 00:08:00,354 --> 00:08:01,771 Happy hunting. 126 00:08:01,939 --> 00:08:03,064 Thanks, Mr. Edwards. 127 00:08:03,232 --> 00:08:05,525 All right, off you go. 128 00:08:06,986 --> 00:08:08,445 Charles: We'll see you sunday! 129 00:08:08,613 --> 00:08:09,946 Bye! 130 00:08:18,539 --> 00:08:19,581 Coming? 131 00:08:19,749 --> 00:08:21,708 I'm trying to, pa. 132 00:08:28,591 --> 00:08:29,591 Ha ha ha! 133 00:08:29,759 --> 00:08:31,426 Old Dan Tucker was an fine old man 134 00:08:31,594 --> 00:08:33,428 washed his face in a fryin' pan 135 00:08:33,596 --> 00:08:36,389 combed his hair with a wagon wheel... 136 00:08:48,277 --> 00:08:50,862 Charles: Come on, half-pint! 137 00:08:51,030 --> 00:08:52,572 Coming! 138 00:08:58,788 --> 00:08:59,955 We'll do most of our climbing today... 139 00:09:00,122 --> 00:09:01,998 All the way up to the top of the Ridge. 140 00:09:02,166 --> 00:09:03,667 Can you handle that all right? 141 00:09:03,834 --> 00:09:06,294 - Yes, sir! - Good. 142 00:09:10,216 --> 00:09:12,217 You sure you're not too tired? 143 00:09:12,385 --> 00:09:13,927 No, sir. 144 00:09:14,095 --> 00:09:17,389 I'm not the least bit tired at all. 145 00:09:19,058 --> 00:09:20,725 Whoa! Ouch! 146 00:09:22,019 --> 00:09:23,603 What's the matter? 147 00:09:23,771 --> 00:09:25,564 I don't know. 148 00:09:25,731 --> 00:09:28,024 There's something hard in my pack. 149 00:09:28,192 --> 00:09:30,402 There can't be nothing hard in there. 150 00:09:30,570 --> 00:09:34,239 All I packed was an extra change of clothes! 151 00:09:41,872 --> 00:09:43,456 Mr. Edwards! 152 00:09:47,920 --> 00:09:49,004 Come on! 153 00:09:49,171 --> 00:09:50,589 Hyah! Let's go. 154 00:10:20,578 --> 00:10:23,455 Well, this ought to be nice and hot. 155 00:10:27,084 --> 00:10:29,085 Here you go. 156 00:10:30,588 --> 00:10:32,255 Thanks, pa. 157 00:10:32,423 --> 00:10:34,174 It sure smells good. 158 00:10:34,342 --> 00:10:36,843 Everything seems to smell better and taste better 159 00:10:37,011 --> 00:10:39,512 when you're out in the woods like this. 160 00:10:39,680 --> 00:10:42,432 It sure does. I love it. 161 00:10:42,600 --> 00:10:43,892 Having a good time? 162 00:10:44,060 --> 00:10:46,061 Best time I ever had. 163 00:10:46,228 --> 00:10:47,937 I was a little worried about you today. 164 00:10:48,105 --> 00:10:51,274 We did a lot of traveling. I was afraid for a while you wouldn't make it. 165 00:10:51,442 --> 00:10:52,776 Well, sure, I would. 166 00:10:52,943 --> 00:10:55,445 I could walk all the way to China if I had to. 167 00:10:55,613 --> 00:10:58,740 I'm afraid you'd lose me on a trip like that. 168 00:10:58,908 --> 00:11:01,076 Well, I wouldn't go without you. 169 00:11:01,243 --> 00:11:03,536 I love being with you, pa. 170 00:11:03,704 --> 00:11:05,705 Well, we spend a lot of time together, don't we? 171 00:11:05,873 --> 00:11:07,540 Well, sure, we do. 172 00:11:07,708 --> 00:11:10,710 But... well, this is different. 173 00:11:10,878 --> 00:11:13,254 It's just you and me. 174 00:11:13,422 --> 00:11:15,799 It's not like at home. 175 00:11:15,966 --> 00:11:18,677 Promise not to laugh if I tell you something? 176 00:11:18,844 --> 00:11:20,512 As long as it's not one of your cherry tree jokes. 177 00:11:20,680 --> 00:11:21,721 It's not. 178 00:11:21,889 --> 00:11:24,057 All right, then I promise. 179 00:11:24,225 --> 00:11:26,226 Well... 180 00:11:26,394 --> 00:11:28,436 When I was little, 181 00:11:28,604 --> 00:11:32,190 I used to think that I'd marry you someday. 182 00:11:33,943 --> 00:11:36,528 I know it sounds silly, 183 00:11:36,696 --> 00:11:38,488 but you think of silly things sometimes 184 00:11:38,656 --> 00:11:39,698 when you are little. 185 00:11:39,865 --> 00:11:42,701 Yeah. I guess we all did. 186 00:11:42,868 --> 00:11:44,744 Well, then I got to thinking 187 00:11:44,912 --> 00:11:47,497 that I could grow up to be a boy. 188 00:11:47,665 --> 00:11:49,499 That way, we could hunt and plow, 189 00:11:49,667 --> 00:11:52,419 and be together almost all the time. 190 00:11:52,586 --> 00:11:54,671 But now that I'm grown up, 191 00:11:54,839 --> 00:11:57,424 I think that's silly. 192 00:11:57,591 --> 00:11:58,508 Well... 193 00:11:58,676 --> 00:12:01,678 But being out here, just you and me... 194 00:12:01,846 --> 00:12:03,847 It's kind of like both those things. 195 00:12:04,014 --> 00:12:05,724 You know what I mean? 196 00:12:05,891 --> 00:12:07,517 I think so. 197 00:12:07,685 --> 00:12:10,478 I can remember I used to think silly things when I was little. 198 00:12:10,646 --> 00:12:15,650 I'll tell you, I was sure my pa was the strongest man in the world, 199 00:12:15,818 --> 00:12:17,444 and I knew my ma was the most beautiful. 200 00:12:17,611 --> 00:12:19,362 I mean, she was beautiful like the queens 201 00:12:19,530 --> 00:12:22,907 of those countries in Europe and stuff. 202 00:12:23,075 --> 00:12:26,202 You get a little bit older, you look at things different. 203 00:12:26,370 --> 00:12:29,956 I can remember the first time in the big woods when... 204 00:12:30,124 --> 00:12:31,833 When I saw your ma. 205 00:12:32,001 --> 00:12:35,378 Hmm! Now, you talk about pretty. 206 00:12:35,546 --> 00:12:38,006 She was the prettiest thing I ever... 207 00:13:47,368 --> 00:13:48,910 Charles: Good morning! 208 00:13:49,078 --> 00:13:50,370 Well, howdy. 209 00:13:50,538 --> 00:13:52,997 Charles Ingalls. This is my daughter Laura. 210 00:13:53,165 --> 00:13:54,374 Howdy, miss. We haven't had 211 00:13:54,542 --> 00:13:55,625 a lady up here in a long time. 212 00:13:55,793 --> 00:13:57,210 I'm Ben Shelby. What are you up to? 213 00:13:57,378 --> 00:13:59,462 Nice to meet you. We're doing a little deer hunting. 214 00:13:59,630 --> 00:14:01,714 Laura here is going to do the skinning for me. 215 00:14:01,882 --> 00:14:03,383 Well, I could use her myself. 216 00:14:03,551 --> 00:14:06,094 I got about 20 miles of trap line to run. 217 00:14:06,262 --> 00:14:07,720 Uh, set a spell? 218 00:14:07,888 --> 00:14:09,973 Man: Hey, is that glover out there? 219 00:14:10,140 --> 00:14:12,642 Nope. We got company. 220 00:14:12,810 --> 00:14:14,310 Where is that glover? 221 00:14:14,478 --> 00:14:17,730 We've had his dang meat smoked for him for two weeks. 222 00:14:17,898 --> 00:14:19,482 He's only a few days late. 223 00:14:19,650 --> 00:14:22,652 Well, it seems longer when I can't have no sugar in my coffee. 224 00:14:22,820 --> 00:14:24,988 He'll be along. Come on out and meet the company. 225 00:14:25,155 --> 00:14:28,449 Ain't presentable, but if you need anything, I'm here. 226 00:14:28,617 --> 00:14:29,617 Thank you. 227 00:14:29,785 --> 00:14:31,327 Anything except sweet coffee. 228 00:14:31,495 --> 00:14:34,163 Can't give you that without no sugar. 229 00:14:35,666 --> 00:14:37,750 Sure does get cantankerous over a little sugar. 230 00:14:37,918 --> 00:14:39,836 I wish I could offer you some, but we didn't pack any in. 231 00:14:40,004 --> 00:14:41,296 Oh, glover will be here soon enough. 232 00:14:41,463 --> 00:14:42,547 He's the only trader in these parts, 233 00:14:42,715 --> 00:14:44,132 so we don't have much choice. 234 00:14:44,300 --> 00:14:46,050 But we got some good smoked meat if you want to sit a spell. 235 00:14:46,218 --> 00:14:48,553 I'd like to, but I think we'd better move on and set up camp. 236 00:14:48,721 --> 00:14:50,680 - Well, good hunting to you. - Thank you. 237 00:14:50,848 --> 00:14:51,890 We'll see you. 238 00:14:52,057 --> 00:14:54,100 Laura: Good-bye. - Good-bye. 239 00:14:57,021 --> 00:14:59,856 If we get a deer, we'll come back and show it to you! 240 00:15:00,024 --> 00:15:01,733 All right! 241 00:15:13,120 --> 00:15:14,287 Well, I think I'm all set. 242 00:15:14,455 --> 00:15:17,999 I'll head out as soon as I get a bite to eat. 243 00:15:18,167 --> 00:15:20,627 Heat you a big slice, if you like. 244 00:15:20,794 --> 00:15:22,295 Don't want none. 245 00:15:22,463 --> 00:15:24,088 You haven't had a bite to eat all day. 246 00:15:24,256 --> 00:15:26,049 I said, I don't want none! 247 00:15:26,216 --> 00:15:28,593 Suit yourself. 248 00:15:28,761 --> 00:15:30,386 You ought to wait for glover. 249 00:15:30,554 --> 00:15:33,431 Now, you drive a harder bargain than I do, pa. 250 00:15:36,018 --> 00:15:40,313 You sure that meat's smoked proper long? That fire... 251 00:15:40,481 --> 00:15:42,899 Pa, you said yourself the meat's more than ready. 252 00:15:43,067 --> 00:15:45,151 Why don't you just come out with it? 253 00:15:45,319 --> 00:15:46,444 Nothing to come out with. 254 00:15:46,612 --> 00:15:48,696 Come on. We go through this every time. 255 00:15:48,864 --> 00:15:50,740 All right! 256 00:15:50,908 --> 00:15:53,284 I don't like it here alone. 257 00:15:53,452 --> 00:15:54,452 Then come with me. 258 00:15:54,620 --> 00:15:56,829 We go through that every time, too. 259 00:15:56,997 --> 00:15:58,414 Try it just one time, at least. 260 00:15:58,582 --> 00:15:59,499 No! 261 00:15:59,667 --> 00:16:01,501 Look, we'll just head up cedar creek. 262 00:16:01,669 --> 00:16:04,045 If you don't like it, we'll come right back... a day or two at the most. 263 00:16:04,213 --> 00:16:07,465 I told you, no! Now, how many times do I tell you? 264 00:16:07,633 --> 00:16:11,469 You going to spend the rest of your life in here? 265 00:16:11,637 --> 00:16:13,471 That won't be long. 266 00:16:13,639 --> 00:16:17,433 Oh, what's the use of talking? I ain't even hungry. 267 00:16:17,601 --> 00:16:20,770 I think I'll just head straight out. 268 00:16:20,938 --> 00:16:24,107 Father: How long are you going to be? 269 00:16:24,274 --> 00:16:25,525 Well, if I head up cedar creek 270 00:16:25,693 --> 00:16:28,987 and north fork, about a week. 271 00:16:29,154 --> 00:16:32,490 Maybe you just run to cedar creek, huh? 272 00:16:33,993 --> 00:16:35,576 Maybe. 273 00:16:51,719 --> 00:16:55,096 Laura: How can a body find his way around places 274 00:16:55,264 --> 00:16:56,472 without a trail to follow? 275 00:16:56,640 --> 00:16:58,641 Well, you get to remembering a piece of country, 276 00:16:58,809 --> 00:16:59,726 like a woman remembers a recipe. 277 00:16:59,893 --> 00:17:01,269 There are little things you see, 278 00:17:01,437 --> 00:17:04,397 like that funny little bent-over pine we just passed. 279 00:17:04,565 --> 00:17:06,399 There's another thing you can remember. 280 00:17:06,567 --> 00:17:08,818 See the twin trunks on that pine? 281 00:17:08,986 --> 00:17:11,279 We call that a schoolmarm tree. 282 00:17:11,447 --> 00:17:12,655 That's funny. 283 00:17:12,823 --> 00:17:14,532 Sure doesn't look like miss beadle. 284 00:17:14,700 --> 00:17:17,035 I think she'd be happy to hear you say that. 285 00:17:18,245 --> 00:17:19,787 Laura: Sure make it sound easy. 286 00:17:19,955 --> 00:17:20,997 Well, it is easy. 287 00:17:21,165 --> 00:17:22,373 Just keep it all wound up in your head, 288 00:17:22,541 --> 00:17:24,834 and then, when you start back, you unroll it. 289 00:17:25,002 --> 00:17:26,169 Maybe you can unroll it, 290 00:17:26,336 --> 00:17:28,504 but in my head, it's all tangled up. 291 00:17:28,672 --> 00:17:30,423 You just stay with me, then. 292 00:17:30,591 --> 00:17:33,634 Another hour, we'll be at the creek. We can make camp. 293 00:17:43,604 --> 00:17:45,104 How you doing, half-pint? 294 00:17:45,272 --> 00:17:48,524 I'll get this fire started in a minute, pa. 295 00:17:48,692 --> 00:17:50,526 Soon as I get these pans wiped down, I'll be able to... 296 00:17:53,697 --> 00:17:55,198 What was that? 297 00:17:57,576 --> 00:17:59,410 I don't know for sure... 298 00:18:01,914 --> 00:18:04,874 But we just might be getting lucky early. 299 00:18:05,042 --> 00:18:07,376 You mean, a big buck? 300 00:18:07,544 --> 00:18:09,170 Just could be. 301 00:18:09,338 --> 00:18:13,257 Whatever it is, it's upwind of us and downstream. 302 00:18:13,425 --> 00:18:15,218 Should I go with you, pa? 303 00:18:15,385 --> 00:18:18,846 Why don't you stay here and just keep on with what you're doing? 304 00:18:19,014 --> 00:18:20,932 It won't be long. 305 00:18:23,852 --> 00:18:25,228 Good luck! 306 00:18:25,395 --> 00:18:27,355 Thanks. 307 00:19:17,531 --> 00:19:18,531 Laura: Any luck? 308 00:19:18,699 --> 00:19:21,117 Nope, afraid not. It was a Doe. 309 00:19:21,285 --> 00:19:22,535 Pretty as a picture, though. 310 00:19:22,703 --> 00:19:23,870 Why don't you lay out those bedrolls? 311 00:19:24,037 --> 00:19:25,746 I'll fix you something to eat. 312 00:19:25,914 --> 00:19:27,707 Well, there's some biscuits, some bacon... 313 00:19:27,875 --> 00:19:30,793 Some of your ma's homemade preserves. How does that sound? 314 00:19:30,961 --> 00:19:32,253 I can make flapjacks. 315 00:19:32,421 --> 00:19:35,756 I'll let you do that tomorrow morning. 316 00:19:35,924 --> 00:19:38,509 When are you going to go hunting for a big buck, pa? 317 00:19:38,677 --> 00:19:41,846 Well, we'll eat first, then we'll hunt out the rest of the day. 318 00:19:42,014 --> 00:19:45,016 If we don't have any luck, we'll start out first thing in the morning. 319 00:19:45,184 --> 00:19:48,227 We? You mean, I can go? 320 00:19:49,479 --> 00:19:51,981 Well, sure. What did you think? 321 00:19:52,149 --> 00:19:54,984 Well, I was just thinking about what Mr. Edwards said. 322 00:19:55,152 --> 00:19:57,862 Half-pint, Mr. Edwards was just joshing you. 323 00:19:58,030 --> 00:20:00,198 You mean I'm not really bad luck? 324 00:20:01,533 --> 00:20:04,368 I think you're the best luck I ever had. 325 00:20:04,536 --> 00:20:07,622 We're sure to get a big buck, pa. 326 00:20:10,417 --> 00:20:11,751 Pa! 327 00:20:16,506 --> 00:20:18,090 Oh, pa... 328 00:20:18,258 --> 00:20:20,176 What did I do? 329 00:20:20,344 --> 00:20:22,637 You didn't do anything. 330 00:20:22,804 --> 00:20:24,931 It was my fault, I left... 331 00:20:25,098 --> 00:20:27,099 I left the gun loaded. 332 00:20:27,267 --> 00:20:29,185 You didn't do anything. 333 00:20:29,353 --> 00:20:32,396 Pa, it's all my fault. 334 00:20:32,564 --> 00:20:34,106 It wasn't your fault. 335 00:20:34,274 --> 00:20:37,860 You get that through your head. I left the gun loaded. 336 00:20:38,028 --> 00:20:39,862 I want you to listen to me. 337 00:20:41,531 --> 00:20:44,659 I want you to go find that horse... 338 00:20:44,826 --> 00:20:46,535 And bring him back. 339 00:20:48,038 --> 00:20:49,372 You got to get me to the trapper's cabin. 340 00:20:49,539 --> 00:20:53,751 Then I'll... I'll be all right. 341 00:20:53,919 --> 00:20:55,920 Now, you go get him, you hear? 342 00:20:56,088 --> 00:20:57,672 Pa... 343 00:20:57,839 --> 00:21:00,549 You go get him now, please! 344 00:21:00,717 --> 00:21:02,093 Go now! 345 00:21:07,557 --> 00:21:10,184 Dear god, don't let her see me die. 346 00:21:13,105 --> 00:21:15,523 Don't let her see me die. 347 00:21:40,507 --> 00:21:41,674 Easy. 348 00:21:41,842 --> 00:21:43,759 It's all right. 349 00:21:43,927 --> 00:21:46,053 I'm not going to hurt you. 350 00:21:46,221 --> 00:21:48,306 Easy. 351 00:21:48,473 --> 00:21:50,850 It's okay. 352 00:21:51,018 --> 00:21:52,184 It's all right. 353 00:22:01,528 --> 00:22:03,446 Stop! Stop! 354 00:22:03,613 --> 00:22:05,114 Stop, please! 355 00:22:05,282 --> 00:22:06,532 Please stop! 356 00:22:06,700 --> 00:22:07,742 Stop! 357 00:22:07,909 --> 00:22:10,036 Nobody's going to hurt you! 358 00:22:10,203 --> 00:22:11,871 Stop! 359 00:22:18,962 --> 00:22:20,546 Easy. 360 00:22:21,882 --> 00:22:23,883 Don't worry. 361 00:22:24,051 --> 00:22:26,635 I'm not going to hurt you. 362 00:22:26,803 --> 00:22:28,262 It's okay. 363 00:22:32,601 --> 00:22:34,769 Come on. It's okay. 364 00:23:05,342 --> 00:23:07,676 Pa... 365 00:23:07,844 --> 00:23:09,720 I got him. 366 00:23:12,849 --> 00:23:14,517 That's my girl. 367 00:23:16,728 --> 00:23:18,938 That's my good girl. 368 00:23:20,273 --> 00:23:22,441 Everything's going to be all right. 369 00:23:22,609 --> 00:23:25,861 Don't you worry about that. 370 00:23:26,029 --> 00:23:28,614 You just get me back to the cabin... 371 00:23:28,782 --> 00:23:31,200 And I'll be all right. 372 00:23:31,368 --> 00:23:33,619 Can you get on the horse? 373 00:23:35,414 --> 00:23:38,707 You get me on, all right? 374 00:23:38,875 --> 00:23:41,168 Just give me your hand. 375 00:25:03,251 --> 00:25:04,668 Pa! 376 00:25:09,799 --> 00:25:11,634 The horse... 377 00:25:11,801 --> 00:25:12,885 Get the horse! 378 00:25:41,623 --> 00:25:43,457 He's dead, pa. 379 00:25:44,459 --> 00:25:46,669 Lean on me. I'll help you. 380 00:25:46,836 --> 00:25:49,004 Half-pint... 381 00:25:49,172 --> 00:25:50,923 It's no use, you can't... 382 00:25:51,091 --> 00:25:54,260 You can't get me up there. You're not big enough. 383 00:25:54,427 --> 00:25:56,637 You'll have to go back to the cabin yourself... 384 00:25:56,805 --> 00:25:57,846 Fetch me some help. 385 00:25:58,014 --> 00:25:59,723 I can't find my way back by myself. 386 00:25:59,891 --> 00:26:03,018 Yes, you can. You can do it. It's not far now. 387 00:26:03,186 --> 00:26:05,980 Pa, you know how mixed-up I am. 388 00:26:06,147 --> 00:26:07,606 I can't even remember which way we came. 389 00:26:07,774 --> 00:26:10,025 Half-pint, you listen to me. Now, you can do it. 390 00:26:10,193 --> 00:26:13,362 Remember the things you saw on the way. 391 00:26:13,530 --> 00:26:15,573 Remember, like that... 392 00:26:15,740 --> 00:26:17,866 Like the schoolmarm tree. 393 00:26:18,034 --> 00:26:19,451 You can do it. 394 00:26:19,619 --> 00:26:20,578 Pa... 395 00:26:20,745 --> 00:26:23,163 Half-pint, you listen to me. 396 00:26:23,331 --> 00:26:26,208 Sometimes, it takes something like this in our lives 397 00:26:26,376 --> 00:26:29,169 to show us what we're made of. 398 00:26:30,547 --> 00:26:32,131 Go on. 399 00:27:31,941 --> 00:27:33,817 The schoolmarm tree. 400 00:28:05,183 --> 00:28:06,308 Mr. Shelby! 401 00:28:06,476 --> 00:28:07,476 Who is it? 402 00:28:07,644 --> 00:28:09,978 Mr. Shelby, my pa's been hurt. 403 00:28:10,146 --> 00:28:11,146 Bad? 404 00:28:11,314 --> 00:28:12,356 Real bad. 405 00:28:12,524 --> 00:28:14,525 He's bleeding. He can't move. 406 00:28:14,693 --> 00:28:22,116 How did it happen? 407 00:28:22,283 --> 00:28:25,327 I knocked the gun over. 408 00:28:25,495 --> 00:28:27,329 We got to go fetch him. 409 00:28:27,497 --> 00:28:32,292 Oh, honey... I don't know what I can do for you. 410 00:28:32,460 --> 00:28:35,170 Ben's off on his trap line. 411 00:28:37,340 --> 00:28:40,134 I know my way around the cabin here, 412 00:28:40,301 --> 00:28:41,927 but that's about as far as I can go. 413 00:28:42,095 --> 00:28:45,264 There ain't nothing I can do. 414 00:28:45,432 --> 00:28:46,724 We just got to sit here and wait for Ben. 415 00:28:46,891 --> 00:28:48,600 He'll be back tomorrow, maybe. 416 00:28:48,768 --> 00:28:50,352 We can't wait till tomorrow. 417 00:28:50,520 --> 00:28:52,563 My pa's bleeding out there. You've got to help! 418 00:28:52,731 --> 00:28:56,191 I can't go out there! I can't see a lick! 419 00:28:56,359 --> 00:28:57,609 You got to! 420 00:28:57,777 --> 00:29:01,530 I haven't been 100 foot from this cabin in 5 years. 421 00:29:01,698 --> 00:29:02,865 I'll show you! 422 00:29:03,032 --> 00:29:06,452 Well, I can't... I can't walk in the dark! 423 00:29:06,619 --> 00:29:10,622 I can go to the smokehouse or out to the hitchpost or the outhouse. 424 00:29:10,790 --> 00:29:13,375 That's it. That's the whole world. 425 00:29:13,543 --> 00:29:16,128 My pa is bleeding to death! 426 00:29:16,296 --> 00:29:17,963 You got to help now! 427 00:29:18,131 --> 00:29:20,299 That's all there is about it! 428 00:29:20,467 --> 00:29:21,592 Just hold my hand. 429 00:29:21,760 --> 00:29:23,510 Now... oh, oh, oh! 430 00:29:25,263 --> 00:29:26,555 Now, wait. Hold on, now. 431 00:29:26,723 --> 00:29:29,224 Hold on a minute. Let me get my stick. 432 00:29:29,392 --> 00:29:30,726 Hang on tight, now. 433 00:29:30,894 --> 00:29:33,061 Don't let go! Don't let go! 434 00:29:55,001 --> 00:29:56,585 It's right down this hill. 435 00:29:56,753 --> 00:29:59,171 Not too fast, honey. Not too fast. 436 00:30:00,799 --> 00:30:05,093 Hold on tight! 437 00:30:09,933 --> 00:30:11,183 Pa? 438 00:30:11,351 --> 00:30:13,435 Hey, half-pint. 439 00:30:13,603 --> 00:30:15,437 Are you all right, pa? 440 00:30:15,605 --> 00:30:18,941 I'm still alive, I expect. 441 00:30:19,108 --> 00:30:20,317 I brought Mr. Shelby. 442 00:30:20,485 --> 00:30:22,653 He's going to help me get you back. 443 00:30:25,156 --> 00:30:26,949 I ain't got much to offer, 444 00:30:27,116 --> 00:30:28,700 but I'm all there is. 445 00:30:31,913 --> 00:30:33,872 You think you could get me back? 446 00:30:34,040 --> 00:30:36,875 Well, betwixt the two of us. 447 00:30:37,043 --> 00:30:40,003 Just... catch hold. Anywheres will do. 448 00:31:22,046 --> 00:31:24,298 That's good. 449 00:31:25,675 --> 00:31:27,718 I'm going to be all right. 450 00:31:29,012 --> 00:31:30,470 Just keep that thought in your head. 451 00:31:30,638 --> 00:31:33,432 I'm going to be fine. 452 00:31:33,600 --> 00:31:37,269 Ben will fetch the doctor as soon as he comes back. 453 00:31:37,437 --> 00:31:38,979 When will that be? 454 00:31:39,147 --> 00:31:42,649 In the morning, I hope. 455 00:31:42,817 --> 00:31:44,359 What do you mean, "hope"? 456 00:31:44,527 --> 00:31:47,529 Well, it's a hard one to figure. 457 00:31:47,697 --> 00:31:48,989 Now and then, he'll take a notion 458 00:31:49,157 --> 00:31:51,033 to run both lines at once, 459 00:31:51,200 --> 00:31:54,411 to cedar creek and north fork. 460 00:31:54,579 --> 00:31:56,413 He said he'd be back. 461 00:31:56,581 --> 00:31:59,958 He mostly does one at a time. 462 00:32:00,126 --> 00:32:02,252 If he does north fork, too, I don't know... 463 00:32:02,420 --> 00:32:05,047 Maybe 2 or 3 days. 464 00:32:05,214 --> 00:32:07,257 I'll fetch more water. 465 00:32:14,474 --> 00:32:16,934 He'll be here in the morning. 466 00:32:17,101 --> 00:32:18,810 You just rest. 467 00:32:23,650 --> 00:32:30,697 He'll be here. 468 00:32:53,096 --> 00:32:55,263 Well, brown, I might as well head back. 469 00:32:55,431 --> 00:32:59,977 Ain't going to find more than 3 or 4 skins up in north folk, anyway. 470 00:33:04,148 --> 00:33:06,650 Appears we got some company. 471 00:33:55,033 --> 00:33:57,242 For god's sake! Where are you? 472 00:33:59,162 --> 00:34:00,871 Hey, glover! 473 00:34:01,039 --> 00:34:03,582 Benji boy, what are you doing out here? 474 00:34:03,750 --> 00:34:05,834 Well, I could ask you the same. We've been expecting you. 475 00:34:06,002 --> 00:34:09,546 Oh, I got so sick and tired of making the same round. 476 00:34:09,714 --> 00:34:12,674 Month after month. I just decided to take it backwards. 477 00:34:12,842 --> 00:34:13,842 So I did. 478 00:34:14,010 --> 00:34:15,844 This comes from tater Johnson's place. 479 00:34:16,012 --> 00:34:18,263 Well, it looks like you did right well. 480 00:34:18,431 --> 00:34:19,556 Not bad. 481 00:34:19,724 --> 00:34:21,600 Oh, hey, I just caught me a mess. 482 00:34:21,768 --> 00:34:22,976 Why don't you set and eat? 483 00:34:23,144 --> 00:34:24,519 I don't mind if I do. 484 00:34:24,687 --> 00:34:28,356 As you can see, I was getting ready to eat pretty hearty. 485 00:34:28,524 --> 00:34:31,026 Going by Harlan sands' place tomorrow. 486 00:34:31,194 --> 00:34:35,697 And the smell of that man just chokes off my appetite for a week. 487 00:34:35,865 --> 00:34:37,491 And if he ever falls in that creek of his, 488 00:34:37,658 --> 00:34:40,077 he's going to kill off every fish from here to the Mississippi. 489 00:34:41,537 --> 00:34:44,247 Well, you could go by our place first, you know. 490 00:34:44,415 --> 00:34:46,416 That's not a bad idea. I'll just do that. 491 00:34:46,584 --> 00:34:49,336 Just circle around the other way. 492 00:34:49,504 --> 00:34:51,046 I'd appreciate it, too. 493 00:34:51,214 --> 00:34:53,090 I was going to head back, but if you'd stop by, 494 00:34:53,257 --> 00:34:55,550 I can keep going to north fork and get it all done. 495 00:34:55,718 --> 00:34:57,886 I'll just do that. Glad to. 496 00:34:58,054 --> 00:35:02,140 Thanks. You know how pa gets when I'm gone. 497 00:35:02,308 --> 00:35:05,060 Make it easier for him. Give him some company. 498 00:35:05,228 --> 00:35:06,895 And give me an extra day or two 499 00:35:07,063 --> 00:35:10,023 before I have to smell Harlan sands. 500 00:35:10,191 --> 00:35:13,610 Well, I think we're ready to eat. 501 00:37:06,098 --> 00:37:08,266 No sign of him yet. 502 00:37:26,953 --> 00:37:29,079 The bleeding's stopped. 503 00:37:31,916 --> 00:37:33,708 Where's half-pint? 504 00:37:34,919 --> 00:37:36,586 I'm here, pa. 505 00:37:40,383 --> 00:37:41,716 No sign of Ben yet? 506 00:37:41,884 --> 00:37:43,218 Not yet. 507 00:37:51,060 --> 00:37:52,769 I'm thirsty. 508 00:37:54,814 --> 00:37:56,147 Thirsty... 509 00:37:57,275 --> 00:37:59,859 Give him some of this. 510 00:38:00,027 --> 00:38:01,820 What is it? 511 00:38:01,988 --> 00:38:04,072 Whiskey. 512 00:38:04,240 --> 00:38:06,741 My pa doesn't take spirits. 513 00:38:06,909 --> 00:38:09,786 He's got the pain of the devil in him, child. 514 00:38:09,954 --> 00:38:12,455 He'll be forgiven. 515 00:38:12,623 --> 00:38:14,624 It will ease the pain. 516 00:38:27,138 --> 00:38:29,889 I got to go back to the road, pa... 517 00:38:30,057 --> 00:38:32,183 To Mr. Edwards. 518 00:38:32,351 --> 00:38:34,519 I've got to get you some help. 519 00:38:36,063 --> 00:38:37,856 Half-pint, you'll... 520 00:38:38,024 --> 00:38:40,442 You'll never find your way back. 521 00:38:40,609 --> 00:38:42,193 I can do it, pa. 522 00:38:43,738 --> 00:38:45,113 I can do it. 523 00:38:48,326 --> 00:38:50,368 All right. Give me your hand. 524 00:38:54,498 --> 00:38:56,916 You remember what I'm telling you. 525 00:38:57,084 --> 00:38:58,168 You keep it in your head, 526 00:38:58,336 --> 00:39:00,211 just like I tell you. 527 00:39:03,632 --> 00:39:07,427 Here's where we are now... up on the rise. 528 00:39:07,595 --> 00:39:11,723 South of us are all the ridges. 529 00:39:11,891 --> 00:39:14,225 A bunch of canyons running through them... 530 00:39:14,393 --> 00:39:15,935 In all directions. 531 00:39:17,938 --> 00:39:21,316 First there's bear... 532 00:39:21,484 --> 00:39:23,818 Then avalanche... 533 00:39:23,986 --> 00:39:25,403 Then Morgan. 534 00:39:25,571 --> 00:39:27,739 Morgan's the one you want. 535 00:39:27,907 --> 00:39:29,949 You follow the water... 536 00:39:30,117 --> 00:39:33,995 Get you all the way down to the road head. 537 00:39:34,163 --> 00:39:37,123 You start at the creek just below the cabin... 538 00:39:37,291 --> 00:39:39,167 Cedar creek. 539 00:39:39,335 --> 00:39:41,169 Take it all the way down to the fork. 540 00:39:41,337 --> 00:39:44,005 No. No, not to the fork. 541 00:39:44,173 --> 00:39:45,799 You'd miss the saddle. 542 00:39:45,966 --> 00:39:49,469 You got to swing up over the saddle at monmar rock. 543 00:39:51,347 --> 00:39:52,430 My head's not clear. 544 00:39:52,598 --> 00:39:55,183 I was sure it was the fork. 545 00:39:55,351 --> 00:39:58,978 But you'll be taken off to the west. You got to go south. 546 00:39:59,146 --> 00:40:00,980 It will make you turn east at monmar rock. 547 00:40:01,148 --> 00:40:05,360 Why, up over the saddle, then down into the Meadow. 548 00:40:08,531 --> 00:40:11,324 You remember it all that clear? 549 00:40:11,492 --> 00:40:13,076 Yeah. It's in my head. 550 00:40:13,244 --> 00:40:18,206 I can't see nothing, but it's in my head. 551 00:40:18,374 --> 00:40:19,666 But it's the best way. 552 00:40:19,834 --> 00:40:21,876 Ben will be here, or glover. 553 00:40:22,044 --> 00:40:23,962 He's overdue... should have been here a week ago. 554 00:40:24,130 --> 00:40:26,047 But they're not here. 555 00:40:26,215 --> 00:40:27,590 I've got to go. 556 00:40:30,803 --> 00:40:32,595 You could go with her. 557 00:40:35,224 --> 00:40:38,726 You could use her eyes. 558 00:40:38,894 --> 00:40:41,479 No. No. 559 00:40:41,647 --> 00:40:42,689 Lord almighty... 560 00:40:42,857 --> 00:40:45,316 I can't tell you how to get out. 561 00:40:45,484 --> 00:40:47,569 I couldn't travel that country myself. 562 00:40:47,736 --> 00:40:49,404 No way in the world. 563 00:40:49,572 --> 00:40:51,489 Uh, oh... 564 00:40:51,657 --> 00:40:55,201 No, you'll have to wait for Ben. 565 00:40:55,369 --> 00:40:57,954 I... I couldn't get through them mountains. 566 00:40:58,122 --> 00:41:00,415 Not in a million years. 567 00:41:24,773 --> 00:41:29,068 Of all the times you got to do it, you pick now. 568 00:41:29,236 --> 00:41:32,322 You ain't done both lines together since last spring! 569 00:41:32,490 --> 00:41:33,865 The man's going to die in there, Ben, 570 00:41:34,033 --> 00:41:37,118 because you took that crazy notion to go to north fork! 571 00:41:37,286 --> 00:41:40,163 4, maybe 5 skins is all you'll get... 572 00:41:40,331 --> 00:41:42,290 All you ever get over in north fork. 573 00:41:42,458 --> 00:41:44,959 5 skins for a man's life. 574 00:41:45,127 --> 00:41:47,086 Then you done it to spite me... 575 00:41:47,254 --> 00:41:49,297 Because I wouldn't go. 576 00:41:49,465 --> 00:41:50,632 I got to get up and go. 577 00:41:50,799 --> 00:41:53,218 Can't live the rest of my life around this cabin, 578 00:41:53,385 --> 00:41:56,554 always pestering you to fetch the water up from the creek. 579 00:41:56,722 --> 00:41:57,805 I can hear you now. 580 00:41:57,973 --> 00:42:02,101 "You're blind, pa, but you ain't dead." 581 00:42:02,269 --> 00:42:04,521 We got to go together. 582 00:42:05,814 --> 00:42:08,316 You don't know what lies out there... 583 00:42:08,484 --> 00:42:11,486 Between here and that road head. 584 00:42:11,654 --> 00:42:14,739 These here are ornery mountains, girl. 585 00:42:14,907 --> 00:42:16,491 I know... 586 00:42:16,659 --> 00:42:18,159 But we got to. 587 00:42:18,327 --> 00:42:20,495 There's twists and turns and ups and downs, 588 00:42:20,663 --> 00:42:23,581 and cliffs and hollers, and slides and creeks, 589 00:42:23,749 --> 00:42:25,959 and... well, every kind of country god ever made 590 00:42:26,126 --> 00:42:27,752 is betwixt here and the road head. 591 00:42:27,920 --> 00:42:30,213 I'm afeard, child! 592 00:42:41,016 --> 00:42:43,268 Then we will be afraid together. 593 00:43:07,376 --> 00:43:09,502 We're leaving now. 594 00:43:10,588 --> 00:43:14,966 Edwards will be... There about noon... 595 00:43:15,134 --> 00:43:17,176 Same place he left us. 596 00:43:20,347 --> 00:43:22,724 Don't you worry about me. 597 00:43:22,891 --> 00:43:25,393 We'll be fine. 598 00:43:25,561 --> 00:43:27,979 I'll be here when you get back... 599 00:43:28,147 --> 00:43:29,856 Fat and sassy. 600 00:43:40,284 --> 00:43:41,909 You go on now. 601 00:43:44,872 --> 00:43:46,831 Go on. You got a long way to go. 602 00:44:03,140 --> 00:44:04,932 We'll make it, pa. 603 00:45:06,620 --> 00:45:08,663 What do you see, girl? 604 00:45:08,831 --> 00:45:10,623 Kind of an open place 605 00:45:10,791 --> 00:45:13,126 with some big round rocks in the water. 606 00:45:13,293 --> 00:45:15,628 A little fir tree at the foot? 607 00:45:17,172 --> 00:45:19,257 I can't see it. 608 00:45:19,425 --> 00:45:23,344 Are you sure there ain't no little fir tree? 609 00:45:23,512 --> 00:45:24,846 No, sir. 610 00:45:25,013 --> 00:45:27,473 There's got to be a tree right at the foot of the rock. 611 00:45:27,641 --> 00:45:30,017 It sticks up like a feather in a hat band. 612 00:45:30,185 --> 00:45:32,854 Now, look sharp, girl. 613 00:45:33,021 --> 00:45:35,523 There's no tree there, Mr. Shelby. 614 00:45:38,026 --> 00:45:39,652 Maybe a flood took it away. 615 00:45:42,698 --> 00:45:44,449 And maybe I don't remember right. 616 00:45:47,453 --> 00:45:48,828 Which way now? 617 00:45:51,415 --> 00:45:53,791 Let's start up. Lead the way. 618 00:46:53,894 --> 00:46:56,270 Well, we should be near the top. 619 00:46:56,438 --> 00:46:59,440 Can you make out the Ridge just above us there? 620 00:47:02,361 --> 00:47:04,612 Shelby: Rocks along the spine, 621 00:47:04,780 --> 00:47:07,406 Morgan creek on the other side. 622 00:47:08,867 --> 00:47:11,035 It's all trees. 623 00:47:11,203 --> 00:47:13,329 No rocks? 624 00:47:13,497 --> 00:47:16,332 Like the roached mane of a horse? 625 00:47:16,500 --> 00:47:17,583 I can't see. 626 00:47:17,751 --> 00:47:19,836 Look sharp, girl! 627 00:47:20,003 --> 00:47:22,505 Mr. Shelby... 628 00:47:22,673 --> 00:47:24,757 We're in a forest. 629 00:47:24,925 --> 00:47:26,425 I can't see anything. 630 00:47:28,720 --> 00:47:31,138 A forest? 631 00:47:31,306 --> 00:47:32,723 Big trees. 632 00:47:35,602 --> 00:47:36,644 How big? 633 00:47:36,812 --> 00:47:38,855 There's a fallen one right over here. 634 00:47:54,204 --> 00:47:55,746 All this big? 635 00:47:57,916 --> 00:48:00,543 Seems like it. 636 00:48:00,711 --> 00:48:01,711 Are we lost? 637 00:48:01,879 --> 00:48:05,256 Maybe. I was crazy to try this. 638 00:48:05,424 --> 00:48:08,009 Maybe I'm all mixed up... Don't remember right. 639 00:48:08,176 --> 00:48:09,093 We got to keep going. 640 00:48:09,261 --> 00:48:10,803 It's 10 years since I saw it. 641 00:48:10,971 --> 00:48:13,306 The country can change a lot in 10 years. Now, we better go back. 642 00:48:13,473 --> 00:48:15,725 No! What was it like when you were here 10 years ago? 643 00:48:15,893 --> 00:48:16,809 Well, I don't know. I don't know. 644 00:48:16,977 --> 00:48:18,352 Was the forest here? 645 00:48:18,520 --> 00:48:20,855 I don't know! We got to go back. Give me your hand, now. 646 00:48:21,023 --> 00:48:22,023 - We got to go back. - No! 647 00:48:22,190 --> 00:48:23,357 Give me your hand. Give me your hand. 648 00:48:23,525 --> 00:48:25,192 I can't make it to the road without you, 649 00:48:25,360 --> 00:48:28,362 and you can't make it back without me, and I'm not going back! 650 00:48:28,530 --> 00:48:32,742 No, no... No, no, give me... give me your hand. 651 00:48:32,910 --> 00:48:34,952 Wait. Wait, now. 652 00:48:35,120 --> 00:48:36,162 Aah! 653 00:48:36,330 --> 00:48:38,873 Wait for me, now. 654 00:48:39,041 --> 00:48:41,167 Wait! 655 00:48:41,335 --> 00:48:44,587 Child! Child, please! 656 00:48:45,756 --> 00:48:47,548 Please don't do this to me, child. 657 00:48:47,716 --> 00:48:50,176 Child, give me your hand, now. 658 00:48:50,344 --> 00:48:53,512 Don't do this. Don't you do this to me! 659 00:48:55,641 --> 00:48:56,974 Child! 660 00:48:58,727 --> 00:49:00,186 Child? 661 00:49:02,731 --> 00:49:04,065 Child! 662 00:49:06,693 --> 00:49:08,903 I'm sorry, Mr. Shelby... 663 00:49:09,071 --> 00:49:11,113 But that's my pa up there. 664 00:49:11,281 --> 00:49:13,074 But, child... 665 00:49:13,241 --> 00:49:15,576 I don't know if I'm going right. 666 00:49:22,250 --> 00:49:25,211 We'll know when we reach the top. 667 00:49:25,379 --> 00:49:29,298 Give me your hand. 668 00:50:51,339 --> 00:50:52,757 Some water... 669 00:51:19,117 --> 00:51:20,451 Water... 670 00:51:22,370 --> 00:51:23,704 Half-pint... 671 00:51:26,833 --> 00:51:28,167 Water... 672 00:51:30,879 --> 00:51:32,713 Water. 673 00:53:37,714 --> 00:53:39,381 We're almost to the top. 674 00:53:47,098 --> 00:53:48,474 Careful, now. 675 00:53:54,439 --> 00:53:56,190 We're at the top. 676 00:54:08,370 --> 00:54:09,703 Mr. Shelby... 677 00:54:09,871 --> 00:54:12,456 Mr. Shelby, I can see a creek down below! 678 00:54:12,624 --> 00:54:14,500 - Right below us? - Yeah! 679 00:54:14,668 --> 00:54:16,710 A creek? Morgan's creek! 680 00:54:16,878 --> 00:54:19,004 Whee! Glory be! 681 00:54:19,172 --> 00:54:22,883 We're not lost! 682 00:54:23,051 --> 00:54:24,343 Be careful, Mr. Shelby! 683 00:54:24,511 --> 00:54:27,429 Whoo! Whee! Whoopee! 684 00:54:28,848 --> 00:54:30,891 Mr. Shelby! 685 00:54:31,059 --> 00:54:34,061 Mr. Shelby! Mr. Shelby, are you all right? 686 00:54:34,229 --> 00:54:35,688 Of course I'm all right! 687 00:54:35,855 --> 00:54:38,607 I know where I am, and I ain't scared a bit! 688 00:54:38,775 --> 00:54:40,401 Get my stick and come on! 689 00:54:50,036 --> 00:54:52,579 To Morgan's creek! Whee! 690 00:55:21,318 --> 00:55:22,443 Sam! 691 00:55:22,610 --> 00:55:25,029 Come on out here! I got sugar for you! 692 00:55:25,196 --> 00:55:26,822 You're such a funny old coot. 693 00:55:26,990 --> 00:55:32,870 I'm surprised you still got a sweet tooth left in your head. Ha ha! 694 00:55:33,038 --> 00:55:34,538 Sam? 695 00:55:38,460 --> 00:55:41,545 Sam, you in the outhouse? 696 00:55:41,713 --> 00:55:44,381 Come on in here before you fall through. 697 00:55:55,810 --> 00:55:57,728 Oh, lord have mercy. 698 00:56:03,651 --> 00:56:06,111 Come on, belle. We got to find Ben. 699 00:57:13,721 --> 00:57:15,472 We're down to Morgan's creek. 700 00:57:15,640 --> 00:57:16,765 Which way now? 701 00:57:16,933 --> 00:57:20,060 West. Just follow the creek to the road head. 702 00:57:27,819 --> 00:57:30,237 Hold it. Hold it. 703 00:57:30,405 --> 00:57:31,989 What is it? 704 00:57:32,157 --> 00:57:34,575 I don't hear nothing. 705 00:57:34,742 --> 00:57:37,995 What are you supposed to hear? 706 00:57:38,163 --> 00:57:39,580 The creek. 707 00:57:39,747 --> 00:57:41,790 Which way is that creek running? 708 00:57:43,418 --> 00:57:45,252 It's hard to tell. 709 00:57:45,420 --> 00:57:47,588 It ain't really running. 710 00:57:49,507 --> 00:57:50,591 What's wrong? 711 00:57:50,758 --> 00:57:52,926 I don't know. 712 00:57:53,094 --> 00:57:55,304 Don't sound right. 713 00:57:56,431 --> 00:57:59,016 Take me down to the water. 714 00:58:25,502 --> 00:58:26,543 What is it? 715 00:58:26,711 --> 00:58:29,129 Well, it ain't Morgan. 716 00:58:29,297 --> 00:58:30,297 Are you sure? 717 00:58:30,465 --> 00:58:31,632 I wish you'd quit asking me that. 718 00:58:31,799 --> 00:58:33,091 I ain't sure about nothing right now, 719 00:58:33,259 --> 00:58:36,803 except this water ain't moving. 720 00:58:36,971 --> 00:58:39,056 Honey, we ain't in Morgan. 721 00:58:39,224 --> 00:58:40,891 We're in McGee. 722 00:58:41,059 --> 00:58:43,977 We're heading west, not south. 723 00:58:44,145 --> 00:58:47,231 Must be over the next Ridge. 724 00:58:47,398 --> 00:58:48,857 But you were sure. 725 00:58:49,025 --> 00:58:50,776 But I was wrong! 726 00:59:29,691 --> 00:59:31,149 Child... 727 00:59:33,361 --> 00:59:34,736 Child? 728 00:59:38,366 --> 00:59:40,534 Now, you listen to me, child! 729 00:59:40,702 --> 00:59:42,077 I can't go back with you, 730 00:59:42,245 --> 00:59:44,705 and you can't find the road head without me, 731 00:59:44,872 --> 00:59:46,331 and I ain't going back! 732 00:59:53,214 --> 00:59:54,881 Give me your hand. 733 00:59:57,135 --> 00:59:58,677 Give me your hand! 734 01:00:52,523 --> 01:00:54,107 What do you see? 735 01:00:54,275 --> 01:00:55,901 No creek. Just a Meadow. 736 01:00:56,069 --> 01:00:57,944 We're still lost. 737 01:00:58,112 --> 01:00:59,821 A Meadow, huh? 738 01:01:02,033 --> 01:01:04,117 Dad burn it... 739 01:01:04,285 --> 01:01:05,452 A Meadow! 740 01:01:05,620 --> 01:01:08,330 There was a Meadow in Morgan canyon. 741 01:01:08,498 --> 01:01:09,831 Are you sure? 742 01:01:09,999 --> 01:01:12,125 I told you, I ain't sure of nothing, 743 01:01:12,293 --> 01:01:14,169 but there's only one way to find out. 744 01:01:58,172 --> 01:02:01,049 Yes, sir, this here's Morgan's canyon. 745 01:02:01,217 --> 01:02:02,259 I'd bet my socks on it. 746 01:02:02,427 --> 01:02:03,635 Don't say it if you don't mean it. 747 01:02:03,803 --> 01:02:05,679 I ain't just saying it. 748 01:02:05,847 --> 01:02:08,807 Your nose kind of remembers sometimes 749 01:02:08,975 --> 01:02:10,267 when your mind don't. 750 01:02:10,435 --> 01:02:12,811 I ain't smelled Morgan's canyon in, 751 01:02:12,979 --> 01:02:14,730 I bet you, 10 year, 752 01:02:14,897 --> 01:02:16,815 but there's something familiar about this. 753 01:02:16,983 --> 01:02:18,358 It just has to be it. 754 01:02:18,526 --> 01:02:20,736 Let me tell you something, honey. 755 01:02:20,903 --> 01:02:22,362 If this ain't Morgan's, 756 01:02:22,530 --> 01:02:25,365 we're going to climb the next Ridge and the next Ridge, 757 01:02:25,533 --> 01:02:27,534 and the Ridge after that. 758 01:02:27,702 --> 01:02:29,202 We ain't a-gonna quit, are we? 759 01:02:29,370 --> 01:02:30,912 No, we won't. We're going to keep on 760 01:02:31,080 --> 01:02:32,247 climbing ridges till we find it... 761 01:02:32,415 --> 01:02:34,458 Keep on, even if we have to walk all night. 762 01:02:34,625 --> 01:02:38,253 Well... that's a little more like it. 763 01:02:38,421 --> 01:02:41,298 We're going to keep on walking till we find it. 764 01:02:41,466 --> 01:02:43,175 We're going to keep on... 765 01:02:46,053 --> 01:02:48,889 What is it? 766 01:02:49,056 --> 01:02:51,391 Laura: Mr. Edwards! 767 01:02:57,940 --> 01:03:05,906 Mr. Edwards! 768 01:03:12,371 --> 01:03:15,165 Laura... what is it? What's wrong? 769 01:03:16,542 --> 01:03:17,918 Where's your pa? 770 01:03:19,253 --> 01:03:21,713 He's been... Shot. 771 01:03:21,881 --> 01:03:24,174 He's hurt bad. 772 01:03:24,342 --> 01:03:25,759 We need a doctor. 773 01:03:25,927 --> 01:03:28,845 All right. All right. I'll get him. I'll get him now. 774 01:03:29,013 --> 01:03:31,515 You wait right here, all right? 775 01:03:31,682 --> 01:03:33,266 You all right? 776 01:03:33,434 --> 01:03:35,519 All right. 777 01:03:35,686 --> 01:03:37,354 We need horses, too. 778 01:03:37,522 --> 01:03:39,940 All right, I'll get them. Now, you stay right there! 779 01:04:00,753 --> 01:04:02,712 Pa, I brought... 780 01:04:05,633 --> 01:04:08,969 He's gone! He's bleeding again! 781 01:04:09,136 --> 01:04:11,263 Maybe your boy came back, took him somewhere to get him help. 782 01:04:11,430 --> 01:04:12,806 No, Ben wouldn't have put him on a horse. 783 01:04:12,974 --> 01:04:16,184 Besides, there's nowheres he could've took him. 784 01:04:16,352 --> 01:04:18,144 He's drinking water. 785 01:04:18,312 --> 01:04:20,647 Ground's still wet here. He needed water. 786 01:04:20,815 --> 01:04:23,024 I've got a water barrel right outside. 787 01:04:23,192 --> 01:04:25,652 Sick as he was, who knows? Could have wandered off. 788 01:04:25,820 --> 01:04:27,737 Spread out. Head for the creek. 789 01:05:15,870 --> 01:05:18,038 Over here! I found him! 790 01:05:42,063 --> 01:05:45,148 He can't feel it. Thank heaven for that. 791 01:05:47,193 --> 01:05:50,320 Here. Hold that light right over here. 792 01:05:50,488 --> 01:05:52,948 I got to tie up the rest of those bleeders. 793 01:06:04,085 --> 01:06:08,922 He has to be all right. He has to be. 794 01:06:09,090 --> 01:06:11,800 That doctor knows what he's doing. 795 01:06:17,264 --> 01:06:21,184 If only I hadn't asked pa if I could go on the hunting trip. 796 01:06:21,352 --> 01:06:23,603 It's all my fault. 797 01:06:23,771 --> 01:06:26,272 That's not so. 798 01:06:26,440 --> 01:06:29,943 Things are meant to be. 799 01:06:30,111 --> 01:06:32,904 Mr. Edwards was right. 800 01:06:33,072 --> 01:06:35,448 I was bad luck. 801 01:06:35,616 --> 01:06:37,325 Now, you listen. 802 01:06:39,453 --> 01:06:41,162 If that would have happened and you weren't along, 803 01:06:41,330 --> 01:06:46,710 why, your pa wouldn't have no doctor tending him now. 804 01:06:46,877 --> 01:06:48,545 It wouldn't have happened. 805 01:06:50,381 --> 01:06:51,923 It wouldn't. 806 01:07:42,433 --> 01:07:45,060 Well... 807 01:07:45,227 --> 01:07:49,022 Bet you can't guess who it is talking. 808 01:07:49,190 --> 01:07:51,357 Been a long time, lord, ain't it? 809 01:07:51,525 --> 01:07:53,526 A long time. 810 01:07:53,694 --> 01:07:56,404 Well, I guess I just got tired 811 01:07:56,572 --> 01:07:59,699 of asking you for the same thing. 812 01:07:59,867 --> 01:08:03,328 Of course, I guess you must have got tired 813 01:08:03,496 --> 01:08:05,914 having me ask for it, too. 814 01:08:07,541 --> 01:08:11,586 Well, I got a surprise for you, lord. 815 01:08:11,754 --> 01:08:17,050 I ain't asking to see this world of yours this time. 816 01:08:17,218 --> 01:08:20,178 You see, I... 817 01:08:20,346 --> 01:08:23,181 I got a little friend who needs your help 818 01:08:23,349 --> 01:08:26,559 more than me... A lot more. 819 01:08:26,727 --> 01:08:32,107 Now, it ain't her pa dying that's worrying me. 820 01:08:32,274 --> 01:08:36,069 Heck, we all got to die sometime, but... 821 01:08:36,237 --> 01:08:38,863 But not this way, lord. 822 01:08:39,031 --> 01:08:43,076 Not this way, and not so that she blame herself. 823 01:08:44,453 --> 01:08:48,623 That kind of guilt is a far sight worse than dying. 824 01:08:50,918 --> 01:08:54,129 I know that I got no right to be asking. 825 01:08:54,296 --> 01:08:56,256 I know that. 826 01:08:56,423 --> 01:09:00,343 I've been thinking some bad things about you. 827 01:09:00,511 --> 01:09:02,846 You probably know that. 828 01:09:03,013 --> 01:09:06,474 But I did get off my butt and try today. 829 01:09:06,642 --> 01:09:08,560 I tried. 830 01:09:09,603 --> 01:09:11,729 Hope that's worth something. 831 01:09:14,150 --> 01:09:17,694 Well, I expect you'll let me know soon enough. 832 01:10:26,847 --> 01:10:28,014 Wake that child up... 833 01:10:28,182 --> 01:10:30,308 If she wants to talk to her pa. 834 01:10:35,689 --> 01:10:37,690 Half-pint... 835 01:10:37,858 --> 01:10:40,068 Half-pint, your pa's okay. 836 01:10:45,074 --> 01:10:46,199 Pa... 837 01:10:46,367 --> 01:10:48,034 Oh, pa! 838 01:10:49,536 --> 01:10:50,912 Half-pint. 839 01:10:52,873 --> 01:10:54,374 Hey... 840 01:10:56,043 --> 01:10:58,044 I'm kind of hungry. 841 01:11:04,385 --> 01:11:05,885 Ben: Pa! 842 01:11:12,559 --> 01:11:15,228 Pa! Thank god you're all right! 843 01:11:15,396 --> 01:11:17,146 Oh, pa... 844 01:11:17,314 --> 01:11:18,898 Of course I'm all right, boy. 845 01:11:19,066 --> 01:11:21,067 I'm blind, but I ain't dead! 846 01:11:30,452 --> 01:11:32,287 Laura, voice-over: The doctor stayed with pa for 5 days, 847 01:11:32,454 --> 01:11:36,374 until the fever was gone and we could start for home. 848 01:11:44,508 --> 01:11:46,134 That's good. 849 01:11:48,095 --> 01:11:50,096 Thanks for everything. 850 01:11:50,264 --> 01:11:52,390 It were my pleasure. 851 01:12:01,567 --> 01:12:05,194 I'll never forget you for the rest of my life. 852 01:12:07,948 --> 01:12:10,116 I'll never forget you, neither. 853 01:12:33,724 --> 01:12:35,224 Take care, now! 854 01:12:45,027 --> 01:12:47,403 Well, no use standing around. 855 01:12:47,571 --> 01:12:49,238 If you and me is going to run trap lines, 856 01:12:49,406 --> 01:12:52,200 we'd best get going. 857 01:12:52,368 --> 01:12:53,618 Start packing up. 858 01:12:53,786 --> 01:12:55,787 I'll get us some water.