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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 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.

The wilderness sure does have a beauty to it. Not just the kind you see, but the kind you can hear too.

If you listen, there's lots of sounds. The natural sounds are maker intended us to hear. Like the spring wind kind of sliding across the top of the pine.

And the water tumbling down to the valley.

There's a sound, but a tired body to sleep faster than you can say good night.

Of course, all the critters on the ground and in the air want to be heard too. Even those that don't have much of a voice.

Never one of makes a sound of one sort or another.

When you put all them sounds together, it's sort of like music. Nature's music you might say. Play it on nature's instruments. A pure delight.

Except one of them instruments tried to drive me plum crepe.

No mind your manners now, Ben, you've had your flapjacks. You also had half a mind.

I must be touching in the head, cooking flapjacks for a grizzly bear. When I should have been traveling.

We're kind of hoping you'd stay more than a couple days. Well, I might have.

Except you seem to prefer the company of a golden noise making hot instead of me.

Since you won't run him off, I got no choice but to do.

Yeah, the family of his own soon. Why don't you just have a little respect?

Yeah. Let him respect my ears. Go on, get out of here.

At least wait until I'm gone.

No, that river's pretty high for rafting. It'd be a lot safer if you forwarded it.

Well, there's fours, ten miles upstream and a day out of my way.

Them falls are less than a mile downstream.

Yeah, well, it might be a little dangerous for a green horn to forward the river this time of year. But I ain't no green horn.

Not like some folks I know.

Decide. I got my prayer bag. And the crow-mettersman would give it to me, guaranteed it to ward off all sorts of evil spirits.

And keep them away. And everything else by the smell of it.

I don't mind it a bit. It's good medicine.

Come on, number seven. Well, we'll be seeing you at it. Bye, Jack.

You'd be careful now.

Jack's cooking outside sure makes a mess, don't it?

Them flapjacks are worth throwing at me.

Now, what are you looking for? I suppose you're hungry, ain't you?

Well, here. Try some of these flapjacks. They're the best thing for you.

Would you like a little syrup on them? Make them nice and sweet.

Well, suit yourself. Slow down there. I got plenty more.

That river sounds louder than it has been.

Warm breathers must be melting a lot of snow.

Would you look at that. My ears didn't lie to me.

Well, it is a little higher than I expected.

The fact it'd be too much trouble for a couple of old mountain men like you and me, huh?

Oh, now it just stepped nice and easy.

Boy, you can't, can't, good.

Summer, come on!

I swear, you're the most stubborn crater I've ever known.

I'll tell you what we're going to do.

I'm going to put a harness hitch. If you're lying,

then you and me are going to get aboard.

And I'm going to jerk it loose and close across to the other side,

and we're going to be on our way.

And no argument. One way or another.

Now, I told you to plan, so let's go.

Come on.

Come on.

Come on.

I swear, you tried to push into the tank.

You can't do it.

Come on.

Come on.

Hey, have a good foot, Scott. Go ahead, you have.

Hey, you out here.

It's been three days building this trap.

Now I got to kill it, Clark.

Wait until I get my hands on you, never accept it.

Hey, hey, hey!

Hey, baby, hey!

Hey, baby, hey, hey!

Hey, baby, hey, hey!

Hey, baby, hey!

Hey, baby, hey, hey!

Hey, baby, hey!

Hey, baby, hey, hey, hey!

Hey, hey, baby!

Hey, hey, hey!

Hey, hey, hey!

Jack?

Jack!

Hey, Seven.

Where's Jack?

Come on, Ben. We gotta find him.

Jack! Jack!

Jack!

Jack!

Jack!

Oh, no. I hope he didn't go in the falls.

Jack!

Jack! Can you hear me?

Jack! Jack! Jack!

Jack! Jack!

What's that, Ben? Let me see it.

Oh, that's Jack. That's his prayer sack. He'd never give it up if he's alive, Ben.

Come on, Ben.

There you go.

Number seven, you just take it easy.

Ben, I don't know what we're gonna do. We just gotta find Jack. I know he's out there somewhere.

I just don't know where to look.

Number seven couldn't have been in the river too long.

These things are more damp than wet.

I sure wish old Jack was coming back to get him.

They'll dry out in no time.

But weren't your fault. He was going anyway.

He just needed some excuse when you were handy.

Guess that was just old Jack's way.

Ben, get out of that stuff. You know that ain't yours.

I'm not gonna get out of that.

I'm not gonna get out of that.

I'm not gonna get out of that.

Ben, get out of that stuff. You know that ain't yours.

What are you in tune now?

Jack's diary.

I'm not gonna get out of that.

Overslapped today, son almost up before me.

Could be I'm getting mighty old.

Full moon, watch to come up over the top of the ridge.

Ain't real sure who makes it come up over the ridge,

but whoever it is, she's got a hand and everything.

Read like poetry, doesn't it, Ben?

Almost forgot about the first time old Jack and me ever met.

You were just a cub.

Too young to remember.

Had my taster all set for turkey supper.

So I didn't mind having to hunt most of the day for one.

I was just laying my sight seen on the big tom

and I could already taste it.

Hey, hey there.

What in tarnation?

That turkey was beautiful. You weren't gonna shoot it, were ya?

Oh, I was gonna make him surrender.

Of course I was gonna shoot him.

But turkey was my supper, you darn fool.

Well, don't worry, I'd share my jerky with you. I got plenty.

Jerky? I've got jerky. I've been eating jerky for six weeks.

I'm sick of jerky.

Get that barber away from number six.

Get away from him, Ben.

Yeah.

Well, you got green horn written all over you.

You better get back to the city, son. You're not equipped to exist out here.

Don't you worry about me. I got a rifle, pack, axe.

I got all I need.

And for your information, the one with the long handle there with the iron on the top,

that's the axe. But I doubt if you've got enough sense to use it.

Well, see, inside you made it out here.

I'm sure I ain't gonna have no trouble.

Dead right.

You know, Ben, you never thought I'd make it.

I bet you were sure surprised the next time we met.

Well, the seasons came and went. And I laid all number six to rest.

Got me number seven.

And I'd forgotten all about that green horn.

One day I was tracking the wolf what had been rating my traps.

There's another track.

I miss my guess. Old Mr. Wolf's up there and then Bush has taken himself a snooze.

All right, even though I think we got him number seven.

None too soon.

Storm's coming.

Critters are taking shelter.

Storm gets here. We'll lose him for sure then.

You just stay put.

I felt like a bling downable myself crawling through the weed sneaky guy.

This is all I need.

A ruined mind me. Some self-riskly could eat meat for supper.

I'm going to get a drink.

I'm going to get a drink.

Number seven. You dumb critter.

Stay back. This grizzly will make raw right out of you.

Don't you bother this burrow, you quitter and grizzly?

Ben!

Quit scaring those folks.

Stay back. That's a grizzly.

He's a friend. It's safe to come down.

I never know that grizzly to be friends with something could eat.

You've got to be local.

Well, would you look here.

It's the green horn.

I would have thought the vultures ate him a long time ago.

Isn't that right? Number seven.

Number seven. You used to call him number six, didn't you?

Well, we're number six. This and here's number seven.

If he keeps acting on me, he's going to be a number eight.

As a matter of fact, I thought your bear was going to take care of that for me.

That's since I heard that shot. I figured it was going to be the other way around.

Well, I figured that you and your furry friend here have been trespassing on my territory all the time you've been here.

Now, you don't mind if I have a look at that deed, do you?

Well, I don't need one. I was here first, and I ain't going to let a bunch of green horns crowd me out.

Well, I can understand how you feel, which is no need for you to worry.

As far as I know, you and me are the only ones out here.

That's too many.

And as soon as this storm blows over, you and your furry friend there are going to get.

Well, I reckon that's going to take quite a spell. There ain't a cloud in the sky.

You know, I'm surprised you've survived out here as long as you have, not being able to read the sign.

When you see the critter scurrying for cover, not a cloud in the sky, that means the storm's coming from the south, on the other side of the mountains there.

And when they come from over there, they wash half of everything away and what's left, it blows away.

Well, you could be right.

Well, that's mighty nice of you.

I can shelter you and your burrow up my camp if you'd like.

Well, I don't know.

What do you think?

Oh, all right.

Come on, Ben.

You know, you just take up with anybody.

If there's one thing I can't stand, it's a green horn who act like he knows what he's doing.

And that atom's acting so dang comfortable in the mountains it made me at you.

Of course, I knew it was only a matter of time before he did something dumb.

Now, just because we're accepting your hospitality, I don't want you to think of that.

Hold up a minute.

Here, at that blamed mane V. Wolf.

Rob my traps again.

You must be no lobo.

He's too old to hunt.

He had to start robbing to stay alive.

Not no more.

You killed him, huh? Good.

No, I just feed him real regular.

You feed, uh...

Well, at least why he won't be robbing my traps no more.

He didn't rob that one either.

I sprung it, along with the others.

Come on, number seven. See if you can keep up with me.

Do you mean to tell me that you sprang all my traps?

Ones I could find.

You'll be taking them out of here anyways.

Now why for would I be doing a thing like that?

Because the animals got a right to live, just like people.

If you ain't got no right going around killing them.

They ain't gonna let no harm come to them.

You might not like it, but that's just the way it is.

You just hold real still.

Hey, now, just hold on there.

That's lobo.

He's just hungry.

Not sure long he ain't.

One, lobo!

Ha!

I met what I said.

You're a guest, but this is my camp.

You know me right.

Mighty fine camp, it is, too.

You got yourself a...

A nice fire pit here.

Yes, sir.

I've come here to line it with all them rocks.

Helps keep the heat in.

Keeps from soaking into the ground.

And Indians showed me.

Indians.

You don't say.

I guess that Indian showed you everything he needed to know, huh?

Most things.

Some things I figured out myself.

Like building that lean tube.

You built this lean tube?

You figured it out all by yourself?

Yeah?

Right up to building underneath that outcropping.

Helps keep the wind off of it.

Should come in real handy when that storm comes in.

Hmm.

I guess you figured out about everything.

Ha!

Exceptin' how to build a lean tube.

Ha!

Sure!

I ain't a man of violence, Mr. But you got me mighty close to it.

You best pull up your traps and leave now.

You're forgetting one thing.

This here is my territory.

Now you're getting smart, Greenheart.

Just keep on goin'.

Ha! The idea of anybody, especially a crazy Greenhorn,

trying to run me out of my own territory, never crossed my mind.

So what Adams up and did next?

Took me by surprise.

The only thing that belongs to you is your life.

Like any other living thing.

But you come in here thinking you can take and destroy whatever you will please.

Whether it be a man's shelter, the life of an animal that never did you no harm.

Well, I ain't gonna let you.

These animals save my life more than once.

You're going!

And you ain't never trapin' here again.

You hear me?

Hey!

Now they have traps.

They cost me $14 gold.

Then blast it.

Now I don't want to hurt you so I'm warning you.

I once swept me five lumberjacks.

And I happened to have my arm broken at the time.

So that should give you some idea of what I could do to one Greenhorn.

If I was a mind.

I stepped in a chuck hole.

There ain't no chuck hole.

You would know a chuck hole if you were standing here.

Got you!

You're right!

You're right!

Two of you, I'm dead knowing.

My paracac!

You tore off the paracac!

That's your fault. You started this fight.

When do you throw my traps in the water?

You ruined my shelter.

What's something that old shelter compared to my paracac? Get off!

Here, let me help you out.

Just put it on.

And paracac's important?

We got a horrible stink to it.

Wouldn't have any power if it didn't smell like that.

That paracac was given to me by a pro-medicine man personal.

I saved a chief's wife and his little baby.

This is having trouble, Bert.

There. Get out of here.

I'm sorry.

You don't ask me, I'm not going to do my rules.

What are your rules?

I've got no rules.

What do you do?

Follow another chuck hole.

I get my breath back.

I'm going to show you how mean I really am.

A lot of the care you do with me.

You still ain't strapping here.

When I'm through with you, I'm going to reset everyone of my traps.

Well, would you look in there?

Stop! Stop! You're dumb green-heart!

You let me go!

It's my trap!

Oh, no, Kevin.

Oh, baby.

Oh, you're all good, man.

Easy now, number seven. Easy there, boy.

Just lift your leg up. That's a boy.

Easy.

Oh, no.

Oh, baby.

Oh, baby.

Oh, baby.

Oh, baby.

That's a boy. Easy.

I'm going to pull this thing off.

There you go.

Oh, number seven.

I'll be right back.

All the places.

Put down your clumsy feet.

Why'd you have to put them down in one of my traps?

I know I've called you worthless, but...

I... I...

Didn't want you to break your leg.

But that's what I need.

I know I've counted on you for a lot of things, number seven.

And it's on me and this can't think where she's at.

You never let me down. Now I know you're counting on me.

I guess...

I guess I can't look you down.

I, uh...

I wish I could get the green horn to...

do this for me.

But... I don't want the last thing you see to be the face of a stranger.

I want you to have the comfort of knowing I'm right here with you.

I've got everything.

And this you are who's going to do the trick.

Now you just hold still.

This will be over in a minute.

Wait! Hold it right there, green horn.

I don't want nobody watching.

Now we want to be by ourselves.

So you just get.

You can't shoot him.

Hold your high-falutin' talk about being good to animals.

Now you want to let old numbers go?

Now you want to let old numbers go?

So you can keep them alive.

It's got a broken link.

No, it ain't.

It's going to be all right.

Are you sure?

Well, if you're just taking a look, you'd have seen that.

You'd be as good as new in a couple of weeks.

A couple of weeks?

I can't wait around here.

A couple of weeks?

You mean, Henry, Ken, Hankress,

come to see that.

You never did watch where you was putting your feet.

Them traps from mighty well-head weren't his fault.

Of course they were as well-head.

What?

You're trying to tell me this.

My fault?

Well, if them traps weren't there, this wouldn't have happened.

But it did.

Now the most important thing to do is to fix this leg and stop the pain.

Or...

Or nobody's fault.

It's storms.

Going up fast.

This tree looks like it.

Make the beginnings of a good lead, too.

I got to get to fixing this leg.

It's going to stiffen and go lame.

What he's expecting you to build no lead to?

You got turpentine and cider vinegar in your supplies.

Well, I got some for trading in my pack there.

What do you want it for?

Well, turpentine and vinegar mixed together with an egg

make a real fine liniment.

It helps prevent lameness.

The roots in this yore I picked to make a paste

and heal this leg as good as new.

Is that right?

Did your Indian friend teach you that, Greenhorn?

No, sir.

But Pa did.

But I was just a little Greenhorn.

You better get to fixing that shelter.

We're going to get mighty wet.

You just tend to what you're doing.

Nobody going to get wet.

That storm was a building up to a real snorter.

And every critter in the woods got ready for it.

Including us.

While I was putting up the lead too,

I watched Adams working out number seven.

I don't rightly know why, but I started to trust the dumb Greenhorn.

It was like he really knowed what he was doing.

Really cared.

Then the sky started dumping rain like I ain't never seen it rain in these mountains before.

A regular fog, ground and log, opened flood.

And it sure didn't make it no easy task getting that lead to built in the supplies I picked up.

But I finally got her done and it wasn't done too soon.

You should do a good job of building.

I don't want you going back.

Thunder started cranking like cannons and a lightning was brighten up to blind.

Where's Ben?

Ben?

That crazy grizzly bear is, took his hand and he will sit in the rain.

Now I done some crazy things in my time too, but at least I know when they come in and out and storm.

That bear has gotten about as much intelligence as you were in.

And that's about half the sense of hole number seven here.

Of course I got to admit that water did look like a micro-fresher.

Or a bear, that is.

That storm just kept to coming for hours.

It seemed like a day.

We waited it out of the water running off the mountain,

cutting its way through dirt and rock.

That's the way things get moved around in nature.

That's the way the water keeps big things getting.

That boulder hit my shoulder.

I knew that it happened.

Only a green horn had built its shelter underneath over hanging boulders.

Out of Ben in there if you hadn't erected.

You know, you saved my life.

Not on purpose.

Come on, we gotta stop that for burning.

The trail will put it out.

We're going to get sand here.

We gotta take care of this now.

That's how it's been holding in there for weeks.

That's when everything goes right out.

Flour that can burn down the whole plant.

That's good enough.

I'm going to get myself back where it's dry.

Hey!

Come here, little fella.

You're getting soaked right through.

Come on and share our shoulder with us.

Now hold on.

There ain't room in here for me.

Two ladies already in.

We need just the help of raccoon.

We could make it home before the storm.

Giggard, do you know harm?

All right.

Couldn't do me no harm.

Couldn't do me no good neither.

Between them going through my supplies, sharing my food with the green horn and his critters and worrying about number seven.

Well, I didn't get no rest at all.

Only though I had to boot up with rain and critters for 40 days and nights.

But just four days and nights was plenty for me.

Yeah.

Yeah.

When a storm finally wears itself out, the whole world takes on a new look.

It gets quiet like and the sun just seems to jump right out at you.

Nothing like a good rain to make everything clean again, huh, Ben?

Yeah.

You feeling better this morning?

About time you come around, you lazy thing. That's good.

You're mighty lucky I stayed with you. You know that?

I'm not sure.

And if that, for a dramatic storm, happened to come up, I'd have just gone off from left here.

Sure you would, Jack.

Sure.

Let's have a look at that leg there number seven.

This leg feeling real fine.

You know the week before you're spitting off the leaves, though.

Well, there ain't nothing wrong with your leg, so you can just leave any time.

I was kind of hoping you and me could be friends, Jack.

Well, sure we could be friends.

Just as soon as you get all your stuff together and get on out of here.

And I don't mean temporary, neither.

All right, I'll leave.

Save my life and I got to respect that.

But providing you won't trap here no more.

That'll be easy.

I decided not to trap this valley no more before I got here.

Not worth it any more.

I just come up here so I could collect my traps and sell them.

You know something?

You're just an ordinary old man.

But you got as big as these mountains.

Ouch.

Blast and coffee pot has been out to here here since I found it.

And paint this dead blasted bear with you.

He ain't nobody's bear but his own.

He comes and goes as he pleases.

I'll just get my things and leave.

Here's somebody to keep you company if he can stand your on-reness.

You're going to mix up another batch of that medicine for number seven and four eagle?

You can do it.

Well, where'd you put in that again?

Turpentine, cider vinegar, quail egg, and while your root for the swelling.

How much to eat?

I'll mix it for you.

No, no, no. I can do it.

I have a cup of cider vinegar, same amount of turpentine.

Make sure you grind that your root up real good.

Where are you heading?

I don't know.

Five miles?

Maybe ten miles home.

That won't be far enough.

All right, then, beyond the next range. The furthest mountain.

Even that won't be far enough.

What are you doing, taking claim to the whole United States?

I'll tell you what we better do.

I better let you stay right here.

That way, I'll know where you're at all times and I can go around you.

I won't have to be running into you by accident all the time.

Hey, that's my stuff. Get out of there.

What are you doing in there?

Now, you stay out of my power.

Just get out of here, you dagg.

Ma'am, barbec.

Anyways, I let him stay.

Don't write and know why, but it just kind of seemed like the right thing to do to get out of here.

Things to do at the time.

Besides, I just know I could never learn how to mix up that linomat of his.

What are you trying to do? Kill me?

You were supposed to fall the other way.

What are you cutting a tree down for anyway?

Well, I figured as long as you were going to let me stay, I'd build myself a cabin.

A cabin?

Yeah.

I ain't going to live in a lane to all my life.

It's going to build it right up there on that hill.

Well, you couldn't build yourself a bird cage with a log that size.

Give me that ass.

And I'll show you where to build a cabin.

I should learn a long time ago that you never leave what you work hard to get for some thief to find.

Now, if you just find yourself some nice, straight logs for the bottom set,

and I get some smaller trees to stack for walls, you'll have yourself a decent cabin.

What in tarnation?

You see that, Adam?

Yeah, I see it.

There goes our supper.

Ha ha ha!

Adam's cabin started to grow, and so did number seven's appetite.

He was working out.

Even old Lobo got to coming around again, looking for anything tasty.

It occurred to me he was eating a lot for an old fella.

Tonight, Adam's learned me about how to make medicine from things growing all around.

The Indian kind of medicine.

Here, Jack. It secured that heartburn.

So would a decent meal instead of all that salt meat.

Just drink it.

Oh! It's terrible.

I've tasted a lot of miserable tastes in my day, but they was all honey and nutter compared to this stuff.

How did it work?

It didn't like to kill me. My mouth feels like a piece of petrified stinkweed.

I mean to take away your heartburn.

It's gone.

Pain's gone.

The week came and went.

Number seven healed real nice.

But he appeared to know very to leave, and I didn't either.

In the short time I knowed him, I come to like that green horn.

You know, he was easy to be with.

Even though what he knew about cabin building wouldn't fit in a nanny.

Hey! What's what you doing?

I guess it's not everything.

You're more than welcome to stay, Jack.

You know my home's your home.

By the time as it took, I could have built my home.

Well, no one asked you to stay.

I had to.

Can you imagine what that cabin would have looked like if I hadn't have been here?

Well, would you look you there?

Olobo's got a friend.

No wonder he needed so much food.

Olobo, he ain't as old as he looks.

You know you could stay on.

No, I couldn't do that.

Been dawdling too long.

Now that I'm... not trapped anymore.

I gotta get some great and done before.

Summer slips away.

Now, I'll be looking forward to seeing you again.

Well, I doubt if I'll get this way anymore.

I'm sure a blind student.

Hang on to your hair, son.

Come on now.

Well, I learned Adams how to build a proper cabin and he learnt me how to make rivets.

The best thing I learned from that green horn was something he didn't even know he was teaching me.

He was teaching me that all critters gotta be what they'd be, including people.

And all anybody can do is try and get along.

You know number seven?

Even though he never trapped again, I really didn't change him.

But I like to think I brought out the best in him.

I'm sure gonna miss that crazy old man.

I hear you number seven.

I know you're up here somewhere.

Just where do I get my hands on you?

Jack!

Jack!

Up here!

There you are.

You!

No good!

Letting foot in 10 pankers.

Letting try to close the up to me.

We thought you was dead.

Dead?

Well, I just took a little spill over the waterfalls and that diagnosed river like they carried me to the Pacific Ocean before I could get out of it.

A little spill.

Well, when Ben found your prayer sack?

My prayer sack.

Where is it? Over by the fire.

You know, if I hadn't been wearing that, I'd been in real trouble.

My diary.

You, uh, haven't been looking through my diary, have you?

Well, I thought you was dead.

And I'm sorry if you saw it, me, but I ain't sorry for reading it.

No, I don't want to talk about it anymore.

Anything in here for flapjacks?

Oh, there it is.

You know, I never knew you could write so pretty.

Don't believe everything you read, especially when I write.

Hush up.

Jack needs his rest.

Oh, leave me.

He's just a hawk.

You know, we've been together quite a while, Jack.

So?

So I just found out that I never really knew you.

We've been friends for years.

And I just feel like I'm getting annoyed for the very first time.

I'm James Adams.

Well, how'd he do?

I'm mad, Jack.

I'm mad, Jack.

Deep inside the forest is adoring to another land.

Here is our life and home.

We are staying.

If forever in the beauty of this place alone, we keep on hoping.

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

Maybe there's a time where all our own living free and all in the majesty.

Take me home.

Take me home.

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