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The story of Grizzly Adams is big, powerful, beautiful.

They called me magic.

And me and my burrow number seven been traips in these slopes and valleys for a long spell.

So I know the story from the beginning.

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.

Or at no time at all for he was beaten down, bragged, nearly star-heart.

Well, how 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 it.

Now that cub took to Adams right off.

And 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 grody became the best friend Adams ever had and together they became a legend.

There's a world where we don't have to run away.

There's a time for our own living free and all the imagination.

Take me home.

Take me home.

Now I reckon everybody feels there's nothing higher in the sky or freer and a bird on the wheat.

But there are time when it appears to me a mighty pine is as high as the sky and a mountain man is as free as an eagle floating with the wind.

Now being free don't mean we'd got duties and responsibilities to our friends and neighbors.

Grizzly Adams for one lives up to his every day.

Get this plane off your foot and see how you walk on it.

You gotta go easy on it down for a little while.

There you go.

All the critters rely on Adams and he never lets him down.

In the wilderness that's the only kind of a friend to have.

Show that you've got.

Jack, it was stock coldock.

I was expecting Jack sometime today.

There's some bad weather down below but that's never slowed him up much as I can remember.

Show the weight of a heek.

That's a fact, Nacoma.

Rainer Snows never kept old Jack from making a trip.

That's as Lumbago's acting up on him.

Well that ghoul of Shikka's Jack.

Isn't it, Nacoma? You know there's not a family or prospector up in these mountains.

Don't depend on Jack for their food and mail.

He sure does a lot of good for us.

You know we ought to do something for him.

Good day, Bata.

Yes, sir.

Give him a bath.

That's not far from when I was thinking.

I was thinking maybe we could build them one of your Indian sweat lines.

Yes, sir.

Comme Sheila. You know we ought to build it over here close to the stream.

Maybe we could even get it down before he gets here and surprise him.

That's a boy, man.

Bring it over here.

Well that'll fit real good, Ben.

It looks just fine, Nacoma.

Jack's sure gonna be pleased.

Oh, Ben, I need to just keep the heat in.

That's part of the sweat lodge.

That's a good boy.

You know Nacoma?

There's not a general or a soul up in these mountains in old Jack.

Oh, damn it.

Remember, seven? You'd lop here.

No good, no toad excuse for a burrow.

We're here. So just relax.

Good, good morning, Ben.

Shut up, Nacoma.

Adam.

Jack.

Where's he going?

Oh, he's probably just going off for his early morning berries.

What's that?

It's for you.

Adam's, I told you a hundred times us mountain men,

we just sleep out under the stars.

And who needs a fire this time of year?

Well, it's not sleeping.

Nacoma and I build it. We worked hard on it.

It's a sweat lodge.

Look.

Ooh.

A sweat lodge.

Why for would I need a sweat lodge?

Well, it's for your miseries.

That's what it's for.

Every time you come up here, after every trip,

that's all we hear. Complaining, complaining.

Isn't that right, Nacoma?

Ah.

Go, Doc.

Key stuff.

Key stuff.

Key stuff.

Well, it appears to me that Nacoma needs it worse than me.

Jack, the steam from this is going to make you feel real good.

Make you feel as limber as a spring willow.

Put the stones in, Nacoma.

You know, Jack, any of his venues and sweat lodges for hundreds of years.

Purefies the body.

Takes away all sickness.

Well, I know that.

I've been in the sweat lodges of some of the greatest cheese tricks

here in Canada.

Well, then, you know, after you work up a good sweat,

you go jump in that cold stream.

Hopping the...

Oh, no, no, sweat's good for you.

And I like to keep all mine.

Yeah, I know.

Well, I'll go down and get the water and you take off your clothes.

Take off my clothes?

In front of...

Dannel and Mary Lou and...

Everybody?

I'll ask them to close their eyes.

I'll be right back.

Oh, oh, oh.

Hey, you.

Close off.

Hey, you and Dannel?

A little down the way.

There you go, Jack.

I'll do this, but I ain't jumping in no creek.

How long is it?

Easy to school.

Oh, Emma.

What do you say?

And the calmer says, if you chant like an Indian medicine man,

it'll help drive the evil spirits out of you.

Make a new man out of you.

There ain't nothing wrong with the old one.

Looks like number seven knows better.

We didn't know it at the time, of course, but while we was a fussing with that sweat lodge,

less than a mile away a man was near starving to death.

His name was Isaac, and he was a runaway slave, and them chains around his hands made it near impossible for him to do much about improving his condition.

Now, fishing with your bare hands is a learned skill, and trying to fish with bare hands that are all bound up ain't possible at all,

as poor Isaac was finding out.

But giving up wasn't in his nature, so he kept moving along, looking, and hoping.

Now, when Isaac seen them bare cubs making a strike, he figured he needed that fish a lot more than they did.

It weren't but a few seconds before Mama Bear come down to say who was scaring her youngness,

and she did a little scaring on her own.

Isaac was beginning to find out that the wilderness could be a strange and fearful place,

particularly when you don't know the ways of animals, and you don't know what to eat.

Jack, you had enough?

Are you all right?

Who is that?

I was with old stone calf up in the decoders.

You took 20 years off of my life.

You're ready for that dip in the stream now?

Nick, come on, I'll show you how I won the arm wrestling contest at Ronda just 20 years ago.

Come on, Nick, come on.

I'm going to take it easy on you.

Ready? I'll say go. Ready?

Go!

Good, yeah. I'll give you.

Good, yeah. Good, good, good.

Well, my hand was slippery from sweat and my elbow.

We wouldn't have all been having ourselves such a fine old time if we had known what was happening not too far away.

Isaac's introduction to the wilderness was growing more grim by the minute.

It seemed that no matter where he turned, there was something to scare him off like them wolves.

Not knowing the ways of animals. He figured he'd give them wolves a wide berth.

And who should he come upon but Ben?

Isaac didn't know Ben was just saying about him.

Isaac was beginning to feel he was running away from one kind of slavery into another.

You know something? While I was in there, I figured out a better way to do it.

Better? Yeah, yeah. Now instead of lighting the far out here and heating up the rocks, why don't you build a fire inside and heat him up in there and you wouldn't have to carry him back and forth?

What do you mean it burned? The coma's right, Jack. The firewood burned down the lodge.

Not the way I do it.

What is it, Ben? You got something on your mind?

It's your lodge, Jack. You do whatever you want with it. Ben's found something.

Burned down.

Isaac had never tasted watercress before, but hungry as he was, it were like a feast.

Now when Ben brought Adams to the stream, the last thing Adams expected to see was a human being in shackles.

By the very sight of a near broke Adams heart. He wanted to help that stranger, but to Isaac the sight of man and bear could only mean danger.

And so he took off.

Hey, wait! He's afraid of us, Ben. We've got to show him more friends.

Tired and terrified, Isaac made his way up that mountain, figured he was once again running for his life.

Whoever you are, you don't have to run from us. We're friends!

Isaac had no real intention of hurting Adams or Ben. He was just hoping to slow down the pursuit a little, you might say.

Come on, Ben. Let's go.

Come on, brother.

To Isaac, the one thing more important than his hunger or his fear was his freedom.

And even if he heard Adams, there was no way for Isaac to know that Adams and Ben was only offered to help.

All Isaac knew was the instinct of a runaway slave, to keep hidden, to stay free.

When Isaac stopped for a drink, he was as near to total collapse as his soul could be.

But the sound and the sight of that wolver ring drove him on.

He stumbled along as best he could, but what little strength he had left finally gave out.

And the following took left him unconscious.

You see, I fellas? We are going to hurt you. I know we're in your territory.

We have a friend here that needs help.

I sure appreciate it if you let Ben and I do what we've got to do.

Thank you.

You all right, Mr?

Mr.

I'm not going to hurt you. My name is James Adams.

I've got a cabin just on the other side of this hill. This here is Ben.

He's the one that brought me here. He knew he needed help.

What's your name?

Name's Isaac. Can I help you?

No.

I've got plenty of food at the cabin.

It's not too far from here if you've got a mind to be eaten.

Is that all he told you? His name?

Let's give him a little time, Jack.

He's good, but you're not.

Oh, he's good.

Oh, he's good.

Oh, look.

I know you know you're not.

I'm not.

Oh, look.

I'm not.

Oh, look.

Oh, look.

Oh, look.

Oh, look.

Oh, look.

Oh, look.

Oh, look.

Oh, look.

Oh, look.

I know you've never seen a man in chains before in the coma.

And it is a terrible thing.

So, be a hoo-hoo, das, sibal.

I don't know why his skin's black.

Why is our skin the color it is?

A jashol, dai dahi, dalok.

People bring him from their own lands across the sea against their will.

Why'd he come up here?

He came up here to hide and get himself together, Jack.

And we're going to help him.

I don't think you're crazy, Adams.

His owner probably has bounty hunters out looking for him.

What if they just settled for you?

We're just going to take that chance.

Isaac, I want to use this axe on these chains you got.

You, Lobb, are you getting a heap of trouble?

You take these chains off me.

Well, I appreciate the warning.

You just wrap the chain over the top of the log.

Keep it intact.

I might have some trouble getting those cuffs off your wrist.

Prine.

I could cut you.

It's my blood.

Prine.

The coma?

Isaac, put your wrist up here on the log.

You got to pry these open.

Easy.

Hang on.

You got it.

It's coming.

Hang on.

Oh.

Hang on, Isaac.

Hang on.

Oh, man.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mr.

Man, anybody ever notice you've done this for me?

I want to thank you.

Isaac, this is a free territory up here.

Now, ours are just a little bit different.

Yeah, but the law of my own is his gun.

I declare sometimes I think Adams doesn't know enough to protect his own hide.

Well, let's get the lodge finished so I can prove it'll work.

Isaac, how long you been on the run?

Oh, eight or nine days, I guess.

All together.

Well, how do you know that your owners are still trailing you?

I've seen him.

I was hiding in a loft way back there, so I'm going into the farmhouse.

You know, that's been over a week ago.

I could have lost him by now.

Thinking I did.

Hey, Mr. John, here, young man.

You don't give up too easy.

His father bought me when I was about seven to eight years old.

Mr. John was born that same year.

Guess he's about 25 or so.

So daddy promised to let me and my wife go when he died.

But then after he died, Mr. John claimed that he's out of his head when he made that statement.

So he didn't let us go.

When I went and told my wife it broke her heart, she died.

So after I buried her, I took off running.

Even with the chains only, Mr. John put on me.

You now really appreciate what you've done for me.

Taking off the chains and everything.

Sure would like to sell things between us.

Now I'd be glad to do any kind of work around here you got for me.

There's no need for that, Isaac.

You're my guest.

Where you headed?

Don't know and don't really care.

As long as I'm free.

I ain't gonna have no man tell me what I can and can't do no more.

Well being free is just the first part of it.

Now you gotta learn how to survive out here.

I can teach you how to survive.

You were having a hard time when I first met you weren't you?

Yeah, I reckon you're right.

Hey Adam!

Yeah Jack.

I'll clean this here up right here.

Thank you guys.

We're ready to light the fire.

Good.

What'd you find out?

Well he figures his owners follow him as far as his settlement and then he lost him.

Well let's hope that he did because if he didn't you could be in a heap of trouble.

That owner here might get some help.

That help might know about you.

I'm not worried about that Jack.

I'm just trying to figure out how we can keep Isaac here from leaving.

No he's not as ready for freedom as much as he thinks he is.

I'd like to help him.

She lit?

Yeah.

All right.

Chewed out in Thomasons.

I'm going to show you how a mountain man makes a sweat lodge without a sweat.

Now Nicole would get ready for a good sweat when them rocks get hot in there.

She's got her beast team in the boat.

Jack I think you might be overdoing it.

That's awful hot.

The largest ketchup on fire.

The coma see if you can beat it all against the water.

Stand back and you're going to toss this water on it.

Now just a minute.

Will your beard was smoking Jack?

You two might laugh now.

But when I get this thing out I'm starting over again. Don't you think I'm lit?

Now while Nicole and me was fixing up that sweat lodge.

Adams and Ben took Isaac for a walk in the woods.

Adams began to teach Isaac about the wilderness and the different animals who lived there.

Now I knew Adams was right and wanting to help Isaac.

But something was a happenin not too far away that I was a feared of from the beginning.

Don't that beat all?

I've never seen no man play with no wolf before.

I've known him since he was a puffy guy. He's about a year and a half old now.

When he's full grown he'll have a pack of his own.

He'll raise him just as good as his mom raised him.

It's like Ben's got something to show us.

Come on son.

Ben.

Isaac, Ben's invited us to join him in some of his berries.

Yes, all right.

He's a good eater.

He sure are.

When I first run through here I must have been so tired and hungry I must have run right past him.

Isaac, why don't you stay with us for a while?

You must have forgot I'm on the run.

I was like you when I first came out here.

That's all the more reason you need a friend. I was runnin'.

Law claimed I killed a man and put a bounty on my head.

For all I know is still lookin' for me.

You stickin' your neck out for me?

Now I need me nothin' to you.

I think you do, Isaac. I think you're a friend.

That's what I needed when I came out here.

Wasn't for Nakoma and Jack and the animals?

I never made it.

Well, I sure appreciate the offer.

But I ain't plan on staying around here much longer.

Well, wherever you go it's gonna be wilderness, you know that, don't you?

Yes, sir. Cause I'll be free.

Isaac being free just means that you have a choice.

A choice of work. Where you work and who you work with.

That's what freedom means. A choice.

Yeah, I guess being a slave or free.

Gonna take orders from somebody.

I sure would like to have a choice.

I know what you mean, Isaac.

Go!

Hi, Hawk.

Hawk, I'd like you to meet a friend of ours.

Say hi to Isaac.

Isaac.

Alright, go on, Hawk.

Nobody will ever be as free as Hawk is, Isaac.

Well, we best get back to the cabin and see other dune on that sweat lodge.

Now, this time, I'm stacking the wood inside.

The only reason it burned down the last time was because you stacked the wood too high.

Yeesh, come on. I use the same one.

What do you mean, heating the stones inside won't work?

Well, too, work, and I'll prove it to you as soon as Adam's get back. Here, hold this.

Hold it, Isaac.

Got water's dangerous. It's got gyps in it.

Water seeps up through the ground. Can blind you.

Never drink any water. Smells like that.

Yeah.

I guess bins, smart in some things that I am.

Now, the point I'm trying to make is that if at first you don't succeed, well, then try again.

Now, this sweat lodge will work this time. I guarantee you.

If it don't, I'll push a peanut right up the mountains with my nose. What do you think of that?

Well, it won't catch on fire if you didn't light the wood.

To prove my point, you know what I'm going to do?

I'm going to light that fire and get in there and stay in there. Now, you walk.

Well, I ain't afraid of nothing. Close the flap.

Well, now that I know where to find him, I figured I'd go pick out some berries, maybe even make a pie.

That's a good idea, Isaac.

Don't he know that wood won't burn for long without no air?

He's going to find out all he's going to do is smoke.

To ask for sure. Then you go, Isaac.

Today, are we good?

Huh

Huh

Be clear alone, I'm all right.

golden

Oh, hi you!

b Chauvin

Those bushes?

While I got these in the wrong place

It was been I've winded this berries for a while

That's one time your nose can't help you, huh?

Right.

Hmm.

That's how I got freed of them dogs. They sit on me.

Uh-huh.

A fool that knows this.

Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

Howdy, Isaac.

appche f

Hey, Zack! Come back here!

The combulants go. Check, take the high slope.

No.

We can't run them, Moby. So now we got to hide.

Let's try up there. Let's go. Come on.

Now, when he started up that hill, Ben took the lead, because when he come to know and word to hide, no one knew better than old Ben.

And for sure, he didn't want Isaac doubling back.

When Adam's and the coma reached the Barry Bush and seen the bucket, they began to look for signs of Isaac.

But they wasn't the only ones interested in where Isaac had been or where he was at going.

He, you can hear it.

Isaac, you're right, Nacoma. Isaac put this bucket down and ran.

Maybe you got away from whoever's chasing him on that horse. Let's go.

Looks like you found a good place here, Ben.

If we can't see out that means he can't see in. So we'll just lay low right here.

But it don't feel like it's broken, but it sure does hurt.

Ben, come back, Ben.

Oh, no, don't do that. Come back. Come back over here, Ben. Come on.

Ben wasn't going to make himself a decoy, but then he figured Isaac might need him.

Branson had seen him and tethering his horse, he started up that hill taking along the only thing he'd figured on needing. His right.

I ain't mad at you, Ben, but over there you can be seen.

Yeah, I see it, Nacoma.

Sure wish I could get back to the cabin, Ben, but I don't think I can make it.

Plus we get Mr. Adams in trouble.

Easy there.

Isaac, it's a job. Easy, won't. Oh, yeah.

Easy, won't. Oh, yeah.

Hey, you're right, Nacoma. He's on Isaac's trail.

He's got his rifle with him.

How do you all week?

All right, so you go up around that way, but you'll be careful. I'm going to go up this way.

Hey, Adams!

There were no sign of him that direction.

Who's horse is this?

Is he bounty hunter?

I think it's Isaac's owner's jacket.

Is he alone? It seems that way.

Hey, he wants a showdown, huh? Well, I'm primed and ready.

All right, I'm going to circle up around this way. He's staying here in case he comes back for the horse. Easy number seven.

Well, now Nacoma was the best tracker in the forest, and he had picked up for the horse.

But with the head start he had, Ranson was getting mighty close to where Isaac and Bad was a hide.

Adams was moving as fast as he could up the other side, and Nacoma was doing his best that he could.

But they were still a long way behind Ranson. Maybe too long.

Into the line, Isaac. Into the line.

You won't take me back, Mr. John. It's going to have to be feet up.

I have to set an example for the others, Isaac. Whatever way.

We're on the American race.

That poison water was starting to take its toll on Ranson.

I don't know.

Hey, yourself, Isaac. I'll give you freedom in ten years.

Seemed like I heard that somewhere before. Thank your daddy said it before he died. Yeah.

Yes, when he died he's going to set us off. You sure fixed that, didn't you?

Something wrong.

Isaac, you don't move, Isaac. I don't want to hurt you.

I can't see. Isaac? Isaac? I can't see, Isaac! I can't see! Isaac!

Danger, Isaac!

Danger!

Isaac!

No!

No!

I'm back!

I'm back! I'm back!

No! I'm back!

I'm back!

I got...

No!

You gotta get a foot home, Mr. Dad!

I can't!

I can't do it!

You got a drag!

Aah!

Oh, Dad!

Can I hang on to him?

I can't!

I can't! I can!

Adams!

The cover!

Grab my leg!

Whoa!

Whoa, Isaac!

Whoa!

That's it!

Come on!

You're all right, Mr.!

It's all right!

I'm dead, man.

Isaac!

Isaac, help me!

Isaac, can't see.

Help me.

Look at me, Mr.

Look at me.

You drank bad water, Nicoma?

It's Leo.

Well, she woke.

All right.

We're gonna take him back to the cabin, Isaac.

Nicoma's gonna make some medicine for him.

He'll be all right.

Ed!

Ed!

It's gonna take my more peppermint!

Would you fetch it?

You got the service, Barry's ready, Jack?

It's pulling off inside.

I'll send the coma in with the peppermint tea.

Give me your arm, man.

He's special.

I got you.

That's it.

This is stuff right here.

Oh.

Oh.

Step up.

Think you'll be all right?

We'll soon find out, Isaac.

Hey, we'll let him know as soon as you can, won't you?

So I can get a hair start?

Isaac, how are you gonna make that?

I don't know.

I can do a little carpet, then.

I just don't know nothing about numbers and reading.

Why don't you stay here with me?

I'll teach you.

Jack could get your job with the settlement, I promise.

No.

Hey, Mr. John, he ain't gonna leave here without me.

I don't know.

I'm gonna check on him.

Who's that?

It's Adam, Ransom.

Come in to take off your bandages.

I can see.

I'm gonna be all right.

I figured you'd be all right.

I wanna thank you.

Don't thank me, Ransom.

Isaac's the one that saved your life.

How much has Tardee gone on me?

He's still here.

I figured you owe him something.

He's still here?

He wouldn't leave until he found out that you're all right.

You know, if you wanted to run, he'd have done it when you were hanging over that cliff.

But he didn't.

I know what kind of man Isaac is.

What kind of man are you, Ransom?

I wanna talk to him.

He's outside.

Come back with me, Isaac.

I'll give you freedom.

Nelson, I got to find a new life for myself.

I got friends who wanna help me.

Isaac, you're a free man.

Thank you, sir.

I'm gonna get back home.

Got a lot of work to catch up on.

I'm gonna get back home.

Bye, Isaac.

Good morning, Ben.

Good morning.

Good morning.

Why did you feel like a ship with this morning?

These old bones never felt better in my life.

I know why you're saying that. It's because of what you did to that sweat lodge.

He didn't change it.

I didn't touch it. Good.

Oh, Isaac says to say howdy. How's Isaac doing?

Oh, oh, oh, Ken Thompson. He says he's making the best carpenters a friend of his ever had.

And guess what?

I give up what?

He's calling himself Isaac Adams.

Isaac Adams. That's right. And he asked me to ask you if it would be all right.

Well, the next time you see Isaac, you tell him that I'm right proud he's using my name.

Isaac Adams.

Oh, I can't wait to check it.

Isaac, does she bother coop?

I'm proud Isaac doing it, Coma.

You know, before he left, he was telling me a lot about himself.

Hard felt being free.

He had a lot of people.

Oh, yeah, I'm afraid there still are a lot of men in their slaves in Coma.

But does that lawyer fella?

Up Illinois way.

Call a neighbor and have like him.

I say he's quite a man.

He said someday there won't be any more slaves every camp.

You know, I believe him.

Said we all got to work together and help one another.

Make it so.

Adams, a Coma.

He's ready.

Yes, sir, he bothered.

I told you she'd work better this way.

Well, she's all ready to try.

Ha ha ha.

You all right?

Ha ha ha.

Look at that.

Just done to a turn.

Yes, sir.

Anytime you want to know how to build a smokehouse, you'd just come and get old magic

because he's a mess smokehouse builder in all these mountains.

Ain't that right, man?

Take one of these.

Deep inside the forest is adoring to another land.

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.

There's a time we'll call our own living free and all we need is to stay.

Take me home.

Take me home.