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They called me mad Jack, and if there's anybody in these mountains that knows the real story of James Adams, that'd be me.

So I'm putting it down in writing just the way it happened in hopes of setting the record straight.

And my friend Adams was accused of a crime he didn't commit.

So he escaped into the mountains, leaving behind the only life that he ever knew.

Now that wilderness out there ain't no place for a green horn.

And his chances of surviving were mighty slim, where no time at all for he was beaten down, bragged, nearly stubborn.

Well, about then he come upon a grizzly bear cub all alone and helpless.

Adams knew that little critter couldn't survive without his help, so he started right down that cliff, risking his own life to save him.

Now that cub took the Adams right off.

That was when he discovered he had a special kind of way with animals.

They'd just come right up to him like he was a natural part of the wilderness.

But that bear cub, he was extra special.

As he growled he became the best friend Adams ever had, and together they became a legend.

There's a world where we don't have to run anywhere. There's a time where Carl are all living free and harmony and majesty.

Take me home, take me home, take me home, take me home, take me home.

One thing about living in the mountains, you can't always rightly judge the people you meet by just the way they look.

That's something I always liked about Adams. He took everybody as equal.

Figured they was good till they did something to prove them wrong.

Some of the people he met though, it weren't so much a matter of was they good or bad.

They were just sort of different.

Like that fella he run into one day up there the side of the gorge.

Now there was a man you could have read a whole book about.

What's that knife been? It's sharp.

How you doing this morning? How's the boy?

Yeah.

Good, good scratches.

Oh, no.

That's my money on the bobtail.

That's my money on the bank.

Back up in.

Easy now. Easy.

Don't want to go breaking my fool neck now.

I already lost my horse. I don't know where I am.

Just gotta keep in mind. I'm in luck.

Like I've never been before. Not in my whole life.

Oh.

What?

What?

Oh, look.

Come on, brother.

Yes.

Oh.

Hey.

Help.

Help.

Help.

Help.

Help.

Help.

Help.

Help.

Where am I?

Just rest easy. You took quite a spill.

Well, how's the world look to you?

Those are the finest quality yard goods that money can buy them, have.

Well, you ain't selling yard goods now.

You're getting over a case of too much water at once, and the head you ain't gonna like.

Was I singing?

Way's back. I don't know what.

Where is this place?

Well, I reckon we're about 40 miles west of nowhere, give or take a yard or two.

Where were you headed?

Well, remember.

Remember your name?

Yeah. It's, uh, it's, uh, it's easy.

Oh.

So, Will Boca, my name's Will Boca.

Where's my bag?

I don't rightly know.

I reckon it's a couple miles downstream by now.

What?

No, you're slipping for it now, Will. At least not in them clothes.

We'll look for it till morning if you still got the mind.

Hey, listen. If there's a joke, aren't you, let me in on it?

No, no, I just, it's the story of my life. What was in that bag?

All my worldly possessions.

Oh, come on.

Oh.

Oh.

What am I gonna do now? I had it. I had it right in my hand.

Oh, no.

Oh, no.

He ain't gonna hurt you, Will.

Say hi to Will Boca, Ben.

Reaching that pouch, here, Will.

Will off from what?

Would you like one, Ben?

We'll give it to him.

Give it to him.

I never seen anything like that before.

You never heard of a man having a grizzly for a friend?

I can see you haven't been around civilization lately, have you?

No, no.

Okay, come on, Ben. I'll try.

Sit. Help yourself.

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I got better manners than Ben anyhow.

Hey girl, little pal.

I don't seem to be a lot easier to get along with than folks most of the time.

You really like living all alone?

Out here?

And I couldn't answer anything better.

I got friends to stop by from time to time, but...

I don't want to say I like to keep the way nature means it.

Where are you headed?

Well, as a matter of fact, I was chased out of the last town I was in.

Folks didn't take to the medicine I was peddling.

I claimed it was mostly water, which it was.

And then my horse ran away and...

You're a drummer.

I guess you could say I thought I was.

At least I got as far in that as I did anything else.

You sir are looking at one of the world's wonders sitting right here.

I'll never forget my first job.

I worked on a riverboat, Mississippi.

You know what it did?

I fell overboard.

Day before payday.

That's a truth. Never did collect.

And then... Oh gosh, I...

I taught myself a song in Dance Act.

Joined up with a road company, you know?

The manager ran off with all the funds.

And then I was...

Oh, I was a magician with a medicine show.

Magicians?

Yeah, the only thing I can make disappear was the audience.

See you trick?

Yeah.

Watch.

That's good.

That's good.

And if this little fella ever wants something to eat,

all he has to do is reach behind his ear.

How'd you do that?

Well, it's a dollar one.

Okay, same thing.

See?

Yeah.

Which hand?

Right there.

How about you, sir?

You got a big guess?

Huh? That one?

Well, that's two more customers you made today.

Maybe we'll find others.

Where are you headed?

Well, somebody told me that wagon trains pass by here

on the other side of that mountain.

Figured I'd tie in one of them.

It's possible, but...

That's not my country.

We've had a lot of rock slides up there lately.

I think your best probably to backtrack and cross ridges on the other side.

I guess you ought to know, but see, if I don't have my bag,

I don't have anything to sell.

Well, I'm right in which you sort of find your bag.

You really think there's a chance?

Well, we don't know if we don't try.

With my luck, we do find it. It'll probably be empty.

How does a body survive on you?

Mostly off the land.

Watching the birds and the critters.

Watching what they eat.

It's almost pretty good, too.

I would last week.

Sure you would.

I was green and new when I first came out here.

I learned.

You learned a look?

I learned a lot.

I learned a lot.

I learned a lot.

You learned a look and a listen?

It smells off the wind.

Like that, though.

Oh, she's a beautiful animal.

I couldn't see her at first, but I knew something was different.

You can see how she was here.

Snag cut a piece of a fur.

Oh.

Here's her tracks.

There's something else here, too.

What?

A wolf?

No, that's a coyote.

Fox will be even smaller.

Hmm.

I guess you had no choice but to learn all that, huh?

Some of the blood brother in the coma taught me.

Why'd you say I had no choice?

Order.

Did I say that?

I don't know.

You knew Oz grizzly Adams this morning when he saw me that bear.

Why'd you hide it?

Scared, I guess.

Well, I didn't do nothing wrong.

I wouldn't hurt no living thing.

Do you believe that?

Yes.

You're a funny fellow, Will.

Tell me, what are you hiding from?

Who, me?

Nothing.

Let's go find your bag.

I'm afraid of cold, Marshall.

It had two days on it.

What do you make of that?

You'll never learn how to read science.

The unsaddle here, spent the night here.

His horse wandered off.

He's trying to settle right over them trees.

You're gonna find the bag, too?

He'll hold on to that like it was his mother.

He's afoot now, you won't get par.

Not that pilgrim.

Come on, will I have him and that bag both for supper?

You look out the middle, Ben.

I'm gonna check along the bank.

Water's likely to ruin everything that's in your bag.

Oh, no, no, it's mostly just bottles.

What is it, this wrapped in oil paper?

What do you think we'll find it?

We're bound to.

Snag seemed to catch everything to come down river.

I'm gonna cross over here and take a look on the other side.

You'll love me now if you find it.

You see anything yet?

Hey, look out there, we got company.

Now, that critter might belong to somebody.

Maybe he don't.

I don't see nobody around to say no.

You just wait right here.

Don't give me no argument.

Well, now, ain't you a beaut?

Out here all alone?

Nobody wants you?

Well, you just come with old Jack and easy now.

We might bring a dollar or two.

We get you to town?

That's a good seller.

Yeah, you just come with old Jack and you find you a new home.

Yes, sir.

Oh, now, you just hold still.

This ain't gonna hurt, whoa.

I'll just find you a new home.

Yes, sir.

That's good.

Oh, now, that's good.

No, you're supposed to go back here.

Not easy now.

Now, you come with me.

All right, here we go.

Now, come on.

Oh, Jack, help us now.

This horse is a good gift horse.

If you don't look him in the mouth.

Now, come on.

Oh, come on.

Now, come on.

It's all right.

We're just bringing a friend.

You'll find out that's good.

Keep the truck.

Did you do anything wrong, number seven?

How about you, old timer, you guilty?

Everybody knows I'm here as a driven snow.

Adi, Marsha, you keeping well?

Well, the stream takes the bend up here.

I'm just gonna cut back across.

Now, what do you want, Joshua?

I think you want me to carry you, don't you?

Okay.

Here we go.

Yes, you want me to do a wrap.

Oh, just hold on tight.

I won't drop you, don't worry.

See, you got yourself a new friend.

You got a story after how come?

That's Boca's horse for sure, Marshall.

I'm listening hard, Jack.

Well, as a matter of fact, I just come across him grazing back yonder.

And no one was there to say he was isn't.

So, you just took him for you.

I was gonna turn him over to you the minute I got to town, and that's the truth.

Well, I'll save you that trouble. I'll just take him now, Sam.

Now, what's the rest of the story?

Where's Boca?

Boca?

I never heard of that, fella.

Maybe you've seen him.

Middle and high, middle and way.

Looked like he lost his last friend.

I've seen a lot of fellas like that.

The city fella.

Fancy clothes.

Fancy dresser.

See, I did see him.

Did he have a carpet bag with him?

I'll ask the questions.

As a matter of fact, he did have a carpet bag.

And moving real fast like somebody was chasing me.

Where's the last time you see him and what's way with the head?

Well, let's see.

I reckon he was about an hour, hour and a half, two hours maybe back down the trail there.

And when he saw me, he ducked and ran.

I imagine he's about, oh, have we up that bridge by now?

I hope you find him, Marshall.

You and me have got some traveling to do.

I think Adam's at the entrance.

No, there's a posse.

Nose and round his mouth.

Come on.

There it is.

No, Ben.

Do you want to get him?

No, Ben.

Do you want to get him?

No, Ben.

Do you leave that alone?

Yes.

Yes.

Do you leave that alone?

Yes.

Just a good mover band.

Give it to me.

Yes, that's a good mover band.

Yes, Ben.

Give it to me, Ben.

That's a good bear.

Yes, Ben.

Give it to me, Ben.

That's a good bear.

Oh, you found it.

That's a good boy.

Give it to him, Ben.

Come on.

Give it to him.

It ain't yours.

Give it to him.

That's all your worldly possessions?

No.

Look, it's legal, Adams.

That's where it is.

It's legal.

This was given to me by the bank to take to another branch.

That's right. The banker said that they were having so much trouble with stagehold.

Upset they wanted to see if there was another way to move money.

Now that's the truth, Adams. I swear it.

Where are you going?

To the cabin.

What for?

Think about it.

Oh, sir.

Think about it.

What's true and what ain't and what to do about it?

I already told you the truth.

Oh, all right. All right.

Maybe I lied to you some, but if I told you the truth, you'd never believe it.

No, it's Adams.

Will you stop and listen just for a minute?

All right. All right.

I was on my horse and I was headed out of town.

I didn't know where I was going to go or what I was going to do.

I hadn't made 30 cents and my sample bag was still full.

That was... I'm going to get to it.

I was right in front of the bank.

All of a sudden the doors banged open and these three men came running out.

They had masks on and they were carrying sacks.

I tell you, it scared me out of my wits.

And then this one man, he stumbled and the bag flew out of his arms.

It hit me in the chest and I grabbed it. I didn't know what to do with it.

Now that's what happened.

I told you you wouldn't believe me.

All right. Then what?

Well, then the Marshall, he came running out of his office.

He'd heard all the shooting.

And the first thing he saw was me sitting there with a sack of money in my lap.

And by that time the three men they'd gotten on their horses and they were whipping them

and they were heading out of town.

But the Marshall, he shouted me.

Now that's the truth, Adams. He thought I was one of them.

Well, he missed me, but my horse spooked and it took off so fast I could hardly hang on.

It was dark and I couldn't see very well and I could hear the Marshall hollering behind me

and I could hear the horses coming after me.

So I cut off into the woods and I hid there until I heard him go on down the road and passed me.

And then I took a look at what was in the bag.

I didn't know there was that much money in the whole world.

And me with a string of hard luck so long it stretched clear back to the ocean.

You don't believe me.

I'm sorry.

All right, all right, I lied to you.

But I told you the truth too.

I showed you some of my magic. That part was true.

And the other part about being a song and dance man, that was true too.

It really was.

Wait a minute, I'll show you.

I've never met anybody like you in my whole life.

I thank you.

And my partner, thank you.

I believe you.

You do?

I do.

Trouble is I don't think anybody else in the whole world would.

Except if you did the same act.

Then you have to take Ben long with you and I don't think they'd stay around long enough to listen.

What are you going to do, Will?

This money's got to be took back and you've got to do it.

I mean, you're the one that took it in the first place, accident or no.

Can't do that, they never believed me.

Well, you've got to make them.

I mean, somehow you've got to make them.

Would you give yourself up?

The man that knows I'm in since dead.

And I can't give back what they said I took.

Adam, I never had my hands on this much money in my whole life.

And I didn't steal it.

It was more like it just fell from heaven.

Heaven didn't have nothing to do with it.

And you ain't going to have a chance to spin it out here anyways.

No, no, I can't.

I wouldn't have the nerve.

Oh, Adam!

Adam!

Adam!

Adam!

There's a posse up here looking for a fellow named Boker.

Now, I figured they might settle for you, so make yourself scarce and lay low.

Well, where are you headed? I told you to lay low.

I got to go warn Boker.

So, what's he do?

I swear.

If there's a posse, I'll tell you.

I'm not going to do it.

I'm not going to do it.

I'm not going to do it.

I'm not going to do it.

I'm not going to do it.

I'm not going to do it.

I'm not going to do it.

I swear. If there's a whole thing to do, he'll do it.

Seems like I spend half my life keeping him out of trouble.

Come on, we got our work cut out for it.

Oh, oh, oh.

Yeah?

Well, where are you? The money's gone.

Well, come back.

Well, well.

Well, it ain't going to do you no good to run away.

You just run it for yourself.

Oh, oh.

Oh.

Oh.

Oh.

Oh.

Oh.

Oh.

Oh.

Oh.

Oh.

Oh.

Oh, oh.

Oh, oh.

Oh.

Oh.

Oh.

Oh.

Oh.

You most likely got a bad spray.

OK, you lean on me. Let me help you stand.

Put your arm around me.

Oh, oh.

Oh.

Oh.

Oh.

Oh.

Oh.

Oh.

Oh.

Oh.

Oh.

Oh.

Oh.

Oh.

Oh.

Oh.

Oh, OK.

Oh, no, no.

No, no.

Oh, no, no.

Oh, no.

I can't.

Oh, no, no.

No, no.

Oh.

I want to turn left.

No, no, no.

Oh.

I, I can't.

Easy.

Watch your leg.

You better leave me, Adam.

No point in your getting caught.

Now, since neither of us getting caught.

Now, you still want to try what I said.

All right.

Go back to town like this.

I don't see no other way.

I don't see no other way.

I don't see no other way.

I don't see no other way.

Something about you will.

I took to you.

The animals took to you.

You know, well, I don't take to me.

Look what I just did.

Why don't you try doing something to be proud of?

I just know when I got to do something, I try it.

You start doing things right.

Sometimes things just start going right.

I'm going to need your help.

All the way.

Well, you got it.

What about the posse?

Well, stay in a brush.

We'll cut over this mountain.

We'll pick up the road back to town.

I reckon Jackson around.

You ready?

Yeah.

All right.

Let me help you.

All right.

Go on, Dan.

We've got a long way to go.

All right.

Go on.

Go on, Dan.

You got a long way to go.

Wait up a second.

You all right?

Yeah.

Come here, number seven.

There's somebody down there.

I got to take a look.

Now you just stay here and be quiet.

Don't worry, number seven.

I'll be back for you.

Oh, yeah.

Beep.

Beep.

Beep.

Beep.

Beep.

Beep.

Will he give us away?

He's just curious.

It don't last.

Come on.

Beep.

You can't run a night forever and keep chasing after dreams.

And a man can be a man if all he's got is skiing.

And you can't keep on running when you know that you're wrong.

Because you can't ever live life free knowing what you've done.

The road back home is mighty long, but that's the one I'll travel on.

And when I finally reach the end, I'll know that my best friend is a man that I've become.

Oh, again.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah.

Do you want a rest?

No.

Hey, Eddie, pretend.

Hey, I'm going to go on ahead.

You guys are staying with the trail and if you lose it, or yourself, don't worry.

I won't.

Come on, Will.

We're almost there.

Just a little further.

Hang on.

Oh.

Get away, Adams, while you can.

I ain't to.

Marshall?

I got something for you.

Good morning, Will.

Tell me what you have to.

If I can believe you came back, I can believe anything.

I can believe you came back.

Hello, the cabin.

You stay here, Ben.

Let me see what it is.

Adams, it's me, Will Volker.

Well, Adams, I'm just thinking about you.

Hello, Ben.

I know, Dan's in my room.

Jack, remember this fellow you helped a while back that you didn't know?

Will, I want you to meet a real good friend of mine.

This is Jack.

How much blood to you?

Howdy.

Look at you.

You gave up, Drummond?

Yep.

Got me a real job now.

Remember what you said about when you do things right?

Things started happening right for you.

Yep.

Sure did.

And the Marshall believed you, even without Ben's help.

That was a while there when I didn't think he would.

He just kind of sat there with his mouth open and staring at me.

And then he shook his head, asked me to tell him again.

I did.

And then he said it was just too unbelievable to be alive.

And then he said he could always use another honest man and he give me a job.

Gentlemen, I am a deputy.

Deputy.

Now you just back out of here.

You're not taking Adams' no place.

Well, I wasn't planning to.

He's a friend of mine, Jack.

That's starting to make no difference.

The deputy's a deputy, now get.

Would you shoot Ben?

Just because he's a grizzly?

No.

I just came out here to tell you what you've done for me and thank you.

I guess I did that for a little hasty.

Sorry.

Thank you.

Hey, Adams.

Now that I'm a lawman, maybe I can help you.

You know, prove your innocence. Get your back where you belong.

Nah, I appreciate that, man. I couldn't leave the valley.

Animals out here, they kind of took to me as if I was cannon.

Now I know I'm innocent and it's enough that you and Jack believe me.

Well, I'll stop by from time to time.

Well, that's your pleasure, you will. Take care.

You too, huh? Thanks again, Jack.

I'll see you.

So long, Ben.

Good.

Deep inside the forest is adoring to another land.

The water here is our life and home.

We are staying

here forever in the beauty of this place, although

we keep on hoping

maybe there's a world where we don't have to run.

Maybe there's a time we'll call our own

living free and call and be in majesty.

Take me home.

Take me home.