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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.

When winter comes to the mountains it can be the prettiest thing you ever seen.

Or it can be a downright bitter cold experience that you'd just as soon forget.

For some critters it's pretty hard times.

And the youngs who never seen snow before just don't know what to make up.

Other critters find out that white stuff makes it kind of hard to catch food.

I mean after all if you can't see it, how you gonna catch it?

As I snowy blanket rocks lay both of the stars around.

We'll build a castle to the sky, the wind will sing a lullaby.

Go to the diamond bar seat, and wake up with a dream.

That's habit number seven, try to keep up. I personally know 120 year old turtle that's faster than you are.

Well, imagine Adams is wondering what happened to us.

Adams and the coma, band, all hankering to hear me spin a yarn or two.

Well, they like it even if you don't.

Fire going into fireplace, me getting the chill out of these old bones, mind.

Sure hope Adams put in a good supply of cannon. I don't want to have to cut it myself.

Band, you're sitting right while I'm gonna fall on this tree.

You better get around to the other side here. Well, come on.

Well, don't act like you know better me where this tree's gonna fall.

If you don't come around to this side you're gonna be smashed flat on a rug.

I mean it, get your nose out of there.

Well, at least give me the credit of knowing how to chop down a tree.

Well, next time I'll listen to you.

Well, you don't have to rub it in.

I can't understand what's keeping Jack in the coma. He ain't like him to be this late.

We'll give him a little bit longer.

Well, the coma was having his own problems getting to Adams' place.

Snowing the mountains sometimes can be blowed belly high to a tall horse.

I know you love it out here, Bambut. This ain't no place to be.

Now, the store blown in like this. Look at those clocks banging into one another.

Come on inside. My light is the fire.

Come on in here, Ben.

Here's a little help getting ready for the feast.

Let me shut that door.

Can't heat up the whole mountain.

But I was keeping Jack in the coma. It shouldn't be this late.

Just keep up with me.

Dang you, number seven.

You've got all the worst features in my other six burls all rolled into one.

Having you for a companion is worse than being married.

All the pain and misery without the redeeming graces of a home-cooked meal once in a while and a pretty face.

Rest in spell.

Here we go. Not much further.

Look at the size of these sweet potatoes, Ben.

Jack's favorite. He's going to love having these.

They're going to add a lot of spice and flavor to that stew.

You know, Ben, I think this is going to be the best holiday we've ever had.

It's a good idea, Jack, had to celebrate every year this time.

You know, we've got a lot to be thankful for, Ben. We've got a good life.

Go ahead, Ben.

Oh, hello, Ben.

It's good to see you. You're late.

Well, contrary to the weather, number seven, being so stubborn, I'm lucky to be here at all.

Oh, Ben, let's see what we've got here.

Oh, Ben, you know what this is? This here's flour.

And with that secret recipe of mine, old mad Jack's going to make you one of the most mouthwater and delicious pies you ever had.

So I says to this feller, I've been walking these mountains, man and boy, for nigh on to, well, for quite a while,

and I ain't never seen no butler that could climb a tree.

However, there was a time down in the Oklahoma Territory when all the ranchers was wondering what was spoken to hers.

I wonder what happened in Tacoma.

I don't know.

Maybe he forgot this is our annual celebration today.

You know better than that. The coma don't forget. There ain't like him to ever be late.

I'm sure as you get here before that next storm hits.

Me too. I need them, Hick. We nuts to top off my pie.

And he's going to bring the berries, Ben. Yes, sir.

You want a little piece of dough?

Not now, number seven, I'm busy.

I ain't selling it.

No.

You're calling George, Jack.

No.

It's the lead.

That can all wait now, just ease.

I don't want God.

Please.

Get out of the way. She's trying to tell us.

Tell me.

No, no, wait.

Woman.

Tell me.

Now, wait a minute.

My toe walk.

Easy, Jack.

That can't go to me, Jack.

Now, you just touch up. I know what I'm doing.

Daku, Daku.

You don't know this dialect. Can I do?

Tell me.

I'll tell you more.

Her name isn't a touch one.

Mijuki, tell me.

Uh-huh.

Ayotaka.

Bahasaba.

Ayy, no, no.

My toe walk.

Oh, yes, Nithya.

They're riding in the hills.

Chukaka.

Ayy, Ayot.

Talisa, Ayy, Ayot.

The horses and the granddaughter.

They both ran away.

Something scared them.

Hemiya.

Ina-kenea.

De.

Nakoma.

Tokyaya.

She came here to get Nakoma to help her.

Mohawk.

Mohawk?

Who?

Oh, who's Mohawk?

I thought he was dead.

He's a...

He's a...

Well, according to the Indian legends, he's a spirit.

A monster ghost, they call him, that haunts this reach.

My opinion is that he's just the biggest,

called, earned, grizzly bear to ever walk on the face of this earth.

That's just a legend.

You don't believe that, do you?

Of course I believe it.

I tell you, I've seen these tracks.

They're 18 inches long.

Sure they were.

Hi, Adams.

This is no tall tail.

I'm telling you.

He's real.

He's as real as you or me.

What's more, he's mean.

I mean, he's worse than mean.

He's evil.

I think I know Toletha.

She's a little girl, only around 10 years old.

She's been out all night.

Toletha.

Toletha.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

The devil's own time trying to find her before that storm sets you up.

That isn't the devil himself, hasn't found her first.

You coming, Ben?

Now hold on, Adams.

You can't, yes, you're coming.

Well, sure I am, but just listen a minute.

Well, on second thought, you stay here and take care of an attach one.

Wait for Nakoma.

Adams.

Take this.

I won't need it.

I have Ben with me.

I just want to reach Toletha in time.

I know you got away with critters, but mollocks, no ordinary critter.

Now take it.

Maybe I got away with ghosts, too.

Come on, Ben.

Mmm.

Come green, more.

Now to a withered old mountain man like me, the winner can be a mighty rough time, but to a little girl, it can be a downright fearsome thing.

Right fearsome thing.

He's aren't any ghost bear prince, Ben.

This looks like one of Jack's stories with a little meat to it.

Mmm.

Those prints are an attach one's horse.

Look, Ben, those are Toletha's pony prince.

That bear is just sitting up yonder waiting for him.

And Danny came on him.

Toletha!

Toletha!

That bear was chasing that pony.

I'm afraid Toletha was on him.

Come on, Ben.

Here you go.

Now you just get some of old Jack's bean soup in the end.

You'll be frisking around here in no time.

Here you go.

See there you're getting the color back into your cheeks already.

Here, you can do this.

Come on.

It's round.

Want me to blow it for you?

Say, did I ever tell you about the time I was down in Oklahoma territory?

I'll tell you something.

These ranchers...

I was all wondering what it was.

That was a spook in their galaxy.

Now, a lot of them thought it was a big animal like a panther that lived up in the trees and bellards smoked when it...

But I didn't figure that.

I figured that probably had to be something else.

So you know what I did?

I went out on the other side of the herd and I set up a watch.

And I waited out there.

I was out there...

Oh, six that hours.

And along about midnight I heard this cater water.

I looked.

I waited.

After a while up there in that tree.

I was watching the clouds cleared away from the moon.

There.

Now, Coma, to leave the dogish knee.

Moloch.

Moloch?

Yeah, yeah.

But Adam's gone out to get the little girl.

They'll be back pretty soon.

Don't you worry none about it.

Theresa!

Theresa!

Theresa!

Theresa!

You don't never think about how really big the wilderness is until you get out in it looking for something.

That young girl was nowhere near Adam's, but of course he didn't know that.

Most critters could sense a storm of common and they was already headed for cover.

They'd know better than to get caught out in the Northern Earth with no protection against the bitter cold.

Why, the wind could get to whipping so as it felt like knives cut in your skin.

Adam's trail that young girl's pony right up to the edge of the cliff.

But there weren't no sign that either one of them had gone over.

Then he'd seen them giant bear tracks again, still clear and fresh in the snow, so he followed after him, not really knowing what he'd find.

About that time the storm come up, and there ain't no judging amount in blizzard.

It'll throw wind and cold and lightning and thunder at you all at the same time.

Felicia!

Felicia!

Well, let me tell you, then people down in the Oklahoma Territory ain't gonna forget old Matt Jack, for example.

You know something?

Those are...

Look, look.

Why don't you just sit down and have a little something to tide you over to, Adam's and the girl get back.

You walking back and forth there wearing a trench in the floor ain't gonna get him back any sooner.

So just sit down here.

Here you go.

This will do you until Adam's gets back and we can get it sent birds.

Look, the kind of bad over here.

Them clouds are rolling heavy.

Well, I'm not worried, and I'm just getting the kinks out.

Felicia!

Felicia!

You say this out, Vellac?

A wallabique.

No use telling you how dumb it is to go out there in that weather, is there?

We want this out.

Come on, a week.

Adam's will be back with the girl if you just wait a while.

Hold up a minute, Tacoma, I'll go with you.

I ain't quite.

Baja Leopoe.

Walk after the old lady, he says.

Why couldn't he have good sense like me?

You just stopped.

The Moloch's tracks just stopped.

They don't go anywhere, Ben.

Like he just disappeared.

I'm sure there's got to be an explanation for it.

I know there's an explanation for it.

There's just got to be, huh, Ben?

Yeah.

Well, we ain't got time to be worrying about this.

Them clouds are getting black and meaner by the minute.

We're going to split up here, all right?

I want you to go off that way, but I'm going to go straight ahead.

I'll be all right without you.

You be careful too.

If you find anything, you come back double quick, you hear?

The tracks just don't stop.

Not like that.

And giant bears just don't disappear.

Well, maybe he's halfway to St. Louis by now.

What Adams didn't realize was how close St. Louis was at that very moment.

The coma was making his way through that deep snow trying to pick up Adams' trade.

Weren't that easy since the blizzard had laid down a whole new blanket of white?

Adams' meantime was searching hard to find any sign of the little Indian girl to leave him.

Not having a whole other look, but that giant bear mowlock, he was a natural-born tracker.

Felicia?

Ben!

I thought I saw something.

I sure feel a lot better to leave this back in the cabin.

Listen in the bills, old stories of Jacks again.

The coma saw something moving in the woods.

He figured it might be mowlock.

About that time I'd have been headed off in the other direction, but not the coma.

His curiosity seemed to overcome his good sense.

There was Tileepa's poem.

There was scratches and claw marks on his flanks.

The pony had managed to get away from that bear.

The coma just hoped the little girl had been able to escape too.

There was nothing to show whether she had or hadn't.

The kid, the vehicle.

The only thing the coma could do was to just keep on looking.

Sooner or later he knew he'd have to cross trails with either Adams or Tileepa or mowlock.

Felicia!

Felicia!

Felicia!

Felicia!

Felicia!

Felicia!

Tileepa could hear Adams calling to her, but she just didn't have the strength to answer.

It was getting harder for the coma to find any trail signs in the snow.

That mountain storm was the worst of its kind.

Lightning and Thunder mixed the snow always is.

The coma weren't dead, but he sure felt like it.

That horse of his led out across the hills and just kept on and gone, leaving him afoot.

I bet about that time the coma was wishing he would stay back at the cabin with me.

Ben? Did you find something?

What is it?

Good Ben, good.

This is Tileepa's leg.

She had to pass through here.

Come on.

Felicia!

Felicia!

See anything, Ben?

Felicia!

Felicia!

No, Ben?

Good, me, good.

She's just about frozen, Ben.

We've got to build a fire for her. Get some heat back into her. Get her blood moving again.

Mmm.

It's sure he helped if these twigs were dry, Ben.

Ben? I want you to go to the cabin and get Jack.

Get Jack in number seven and tell him we need some help. Tell him to get back here.

Here we go.

I told you you get some old mad Jack stew in your innards. You'd be feeling fine in no time.

We are number seven. A little more for you.

I ever told you the story about when I was down in the Oklahoma Territory.

Oh.

I told you that story, huh?

Well, now don't you be giving me none of your sass. You know, you could be waiting out there in that storm.

Mmm.

I seem to be letting up a bit.

You suppose you'd be all right, uh, here by yourself for a little while.

Oh. Go on now.

It ain't like Adams and the coma to be gone this long.

So I went out after that green horn. Only. I took my rifle with me. I may be crazy, but I sure ain't stupid.

I can just get her warm.

Come on. Please. Please.

Oh, come here.

Ben? What are you doing over there?

I told you to go get Jack!

Adams had himself a pack of trouble.

And the coma, he wasn't being much help either. Although, not for the lack of trying.

But without a horse and on foot, there wasn't a whole lot he could do.

Now me being a seasoned mountain man and all I was doing just fine.

Well, I did have some problems.

Now, I don't think Ben quite understood how serious the situation really was.

Of course, even I couldn't pass up a good back scratching on a rough tree.

And when you got friends around and plenty of snow to drop in, well, I guess I couldn't blame it.

I'm not sure if I can tell you that.

That bear won't come in here as long as we got that fire going.

That's gotta be the biggest grizzly I've ever seen.

I sure hope Ben understands what I'll say to him.

He's gotta find Jack in the coma before we run out dry can.

The coma was falling along the river looking for tracks, hoping to find his horse.

Now, it ain't like the coma to be jumpy out in the wilds, but when he heard another sound from back in the brush, he grabbed his knife.

Sure that Moolock was a comin' for him. Well, it was a bear, all right.

But it was one he knew. It was Ben.

You got your cabin.

Mmm.

That's Moolock.

It better make your first shot good because there ain't gonna be two.

That was a Nicoma's horse.

Well, it looks like I'm a one-man search party. First to Lisa.

Greenhorn's probably got himself lost.

It looks like Nicoma could use some help.

Oh, backtrack his horse.

Yeah!

Jack!

Jack!

Oh, man!

He's still in one piece of some storm to get caught in.

Come on, Irima.

What you doing here, Ben?

You seen Adam?

To Lisa? Oh, I ain't seen her. Let's hope she's with Adam somewhere and hold up.

And let the storm drove Moolock on him.

Looks like Ben came from that way. I'll backtrack him and find Adam's.

I better get on it while the tracks are still there.

Now, you just stay here and rest. I can travel faster without you.

Now, backtrack. Here, I'll wait a minute.

Sometimes I think you've been around Adam's too long. You're getting to be as stubborn as he is.

Now, backtrack.

That wet killing don't give up much of a chance.

Come on, let's go to a little bit. He's again. Okay.

It's okay. Fire's still going on. He ain't partial to him.

It's all right. He's going to get fed up and go away.

Don't worry. When he does, I'm going to take you up and I'm going to carry you home.

And I'm going to get you some nice hot food. Okay? It's okay.

Come on, fire, please.

Come on, shut up.

Come on, shut up.

Now.

Help!

Time for help!

Jack, we're up here. Up here, Jack.

Up here, Jack. Up on that ridge somewhere.

We started up the side of that cliff and I had an uneasy feeling that we was getting into something more than we expected.

It's hard enough to climb up a sheer face of rock when there ain't no snow, but when there is,

you've got to be a mountain goat. Ever into the way was like trying to climb up an icicle,

slipping backwards more than you're going for.

When the coma started to fall, I reached back to help him.

My first mistake was handing him the wrong end of the gun. It would have gone off. I'd have been finished.

My second mistake was letting go of the other end.

Ah!

Here, take my hand.

And to grab onto something. Take it slow. See it? You got it.

I see, Adam. Don't move a muscle. Stay right where you are. It's good to see you, Jack.

But it brings you this way. I enjoy sloshing around through a blizzard, climbing a mile high cliff and then discovering the biggest monster I've ever seen in my life.

Especially on the day we're supposed to be having our celebration.

Don't you call this a celebration? So that's Talitha.

I wish it might have frozen. She's been out here a long time. It might be a bit scared too, I reckon.

I wish I hadn't lost my rifle.

It's only one thing to do, Jack. I got to lead him out of here. Then you can get to Talitha.

You're welcome, Adam. I ain't loco. He'll follow me. He's been following me most of the day.

Don't cry it.

Jack, please yell, Adam. Will you?

ases.

I'm just looking at myself.

Run out of it!

Go!

Go!

Move, Jack!

Get to it!

Go!

Go, help Adam!

Come on, Talena, I got you.

Go!

Go!

Go!

Go!

Go!

Go away!

Go!

Go!

Go!

Go!

Go!

Adam's!

Get off of that ledge!

Say, what a hole do in that two-ton.

Let's make it up!

When Molok and Adam went over that ledge,

I know they were the folk, the goners for sure.

But as usual, the green horn, Adam,

was latched onto another piece of good luck

and a sizable chunk of rock.

It's all good, huh, Talena?

Oh!

You got to do it!

It's too bad about Molok.

I wish he could have gotten away with it.

Not that happy.

Yeah?

Hee!

That canyon is so deep that Molok is still going.

Be careful, you don't fall in there, Adam.

Well, that's the entertainment part of our year in celebration.

Now let's go home and eat.

Ha!

Ha! Ha! Ha!

You want to know something, Adam?

This barisant right here is smarter than you are.

Did you hear that, Ben?

You're smarter than me.

That's how I praise come from a man that knows.

Well, he wouldn't have gone out after Molok with no rifle.

I told you I wasn't looking for Molok.

I wasn't looking for Talita.

I hope you learned your lesson.

That was just plum foolish.

You could have saved yourself about the trouble.

If you had just taken a rifle.

Well, I ain't got no oil feelings towards that bear.

Something had to make them off of me.

He used to sack this natural way.

Well, that would have been a lot of comfort

while he's chewing you up like a piece of jerky.

I tell you, it's a miracle.

Just a pure D miracle that he went over that ledge like he did.

Well, in the long run, nature's always got away even in things out.

Well, there was some justice in the way it turned out could be, right?

Talita, could I have just a smidgen more?

Talita, that there is a dab.

A smidgen is about two of them.

That doesn't.

Thank you.

You've been the Greenhorn all night.

I suppose you think this is a big storm we just had.

That's the biggest I've ever seen.

That was a baby.

A club.

I told you I saw the granddaddy of old storms.

Why, one time, me and my partner old, uh...

This ain't one of your long stories, is it?

Well, that's gone for a spell.

But it's interesting, though.

Well, sir, there we was running the whole lived long.

Well, dang you, Ben.

Well, you just said he was smart.

Well, yes, smart.

You don't have no manners.

Listen, I got stories that last us all winter long.

I was afraid of that.

No, these are like the time I wrestled a tornado.

You know that?

Now, let's see, where was I?

Oh, so for the whole lived long day,

me and Sam kept running south with that tornado,

nipping right at our heels and freezing everything inside instantly.

Why?

It even froze birds.

Mm.

Mm.

Mm.

Mm.

Mm.

Mm.

Deep inside the forest is adoring to another land.

Here is our life, man.

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.

We'll call the New Majesty.

Take me home.

Take me home.

Take me home.