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How did...

Halby?

Oh...

Halby?

Halby?

Halby?

Halby?

Halby?

Halby?

Halby?

Now, Paul?

Not yet.

That's my boy, Jeb.

He's got a real funny bone.

Jeb?

Luke?

Luke?

Herb?

Herb?

I'm Simon.

Simon Gertie.

What do you got in the bundle?

I...

Boy, you stick a lot of their fall.

I ask a question, I don't get a fast answer.

Why, it makes them right man.

I noticed.

Midland good first, Paul.

We've seen a lot of the trappers heading towards Boomsburg.

Why?

Well, we thought it'd be quicker and safer.

We packed all our pelts up to sail them all to one trip.

Ain't that grand?

Makes me feel warm all over.

Folks, we're gonna together, helping each other out.

Just like the good book.

Now, Paul?

Mm-hmm, now.

Daniel Boone was a man, guess a big man.

With an eye like an eagle and as tall as a mountain was feet away.

Daniel Boone was a man, guess a big man.

Can't be fun for America to make all Americans free.

From the coonskin cat on the top of old hand to the heel of his craw-eye shoe.

The rip-and-est, rawr-and-est, fight-and-est plant the frontier ever knew.

What a boon what a doer what a dream come true.

What a scream what a doer what a dream come true.

Where was he?

I can tell him, I can tell him all of them.

Tell him one at a time.

I'll kill him.

I'll kill him one at a time. I'm gonna kill him, Daniel.

I've heard of all kinds of ways to bait a bear trap, you had with this.

Well, just don't stand there, grin and die, don't cut me down.

Not so loud, you might scare off the game.

Daniel!

I got to admit it's a good idea though.

Why waste powder when you even scare a bear to death?

Daniel!

Only one thing.

How'd you manage to string yourself up?

It weren't meant for the girdies. They're heading for Boonsboro.

Why didn't you say so?

Say so, what do you think I've been trying to do?

You wacky, you know I've been overgrown, over sighted.

Rock headed, pan-fried, polka.

Some shit.

Alright, make him bark.

Gee you Peter.

Good day, everyone, help me!

Make sure you help yourself.

Please jump into the blue van.

I should bring you theRAF friendly for you.

... Sarah live in the waterrait...

No need to crowd and shove.

Only got two hands, can't do more than two or three things in time.

Uh, two, four, six, eight, ten, twelve, prime pelts, and seven, seven more.

Make him arc, eighteen pelts.

Nineteen.

Nineteen pelts for a pound of sailing trade goods.

They start with some of that.

What is it?

My newest batch.

Called hurricane.

Spins you around some.

Tails you middle of the mite.

Never know where you're gonna land.

They attacked you!

They beat you!

Crap about the ball!

You might have nice pile of pelts you got there.

Yeah.

Be proud to help you out.

Just to be neighborly.

I hate to see a man do all that work himself.

Hey, man, brother, get to heaven.

People helping each other.

They in a prettier sight.

They're going to make you feel good just all over.

Sure does.

I reckon I do over and help them out a bit myself.

Thank you, Mark.

Good morning, neighbor.

Got me some training first.

I ain't your neighbor, and I got eyes.

Understand you're packing these first to sail them.

Nope. Not me.

Dattleboom.

Be pulling out any time now.

Ain't got too much time to waste, have we?

Neighbor, my first, remember?

All right, all right.

Think I had hands poking out of my ears.

One, two, three, four, five.

Like you just said, call the prime.

Prime and ready.

Now, neighbor, why would Dickory and why don't you just pour me out of spot of that wet?

Nothing thirstier than told in furs.

And neighbor, smile when you pour.

It's good for business.

Might as well tilt these on outside.

Oh, gents, at any time yet.

Mark, are you sure?

I am now.

It's talking.

I hear you.

You know, you might try a little red pepper in this back, neighbor.

It gives you a little teeth.

Now, if you don't mind, I'll just take my furs the way they are, and you just keep that smile.

Remember, little red pepper in the next batch.

All right, Simon Gertie.

Shame on you.

And in broad daylight, too.

Yeah, a gents-only little joke.

Dan, he's got a pistol.

No!

Hey!

Look!

It stands there.

I'm a barrel of black powder, and I just got hit on.

And they'll shoot at me, too!

Hey, Dad.

Why, they picked up mine.

Thank you, Mr. Dan.

Come on, please.

Yeah!

Yeah!

Well, it was a good idea.

There it is.

It ain't done yet.

Nobody laughs at Simon Gertie.

Nobody!

You asked my dad?

Ask her what?

About me going with you.

Oh, what happened?

You going to, ain't you?

Well, I said I would, and I will.

The real mother's worry a lot.

Even if there's understanding of his back.

Not many like her.

I don't know.

I don't know.

I don't know.

I don't know.

I don't know.

I don't know.

I don't know.

I don't know.

Not many like her.

I guess she's the only one in all of Kentucky.

But, uh, your mother can be a little touchy sometimes.

I'm trying to figure a way of going about it.

Go about what?

You know, you move quieter in most Indians.

Go about what?

Well, you just come with me.

And move them up there and talk about that.

Privacy.

You know, I've been thinking about all the time you've been spending teaching the kids.

Read and write and arithmetic.

And, uh, I've decided to give you a hand.

So you go gallivat and off to Salem?

Well, you know I have to take those first.

In Salem, we've talked that out.

Besides, it's an easy trip.

So?

Well, so there's things a boy that's got to know besides what he learns in books.

Well, book learning's important, but I won't keep a boy from getting trapped on by buffalo or falling in the river or getting lost two miles from home.

Daniel Boone.

Well, now let me finish.

There's, there's things a boy's got to know if he's going to live in Kentucky.

Things like reading trail sign or how to build a fire that won't smoke or find his way across strange country.

No!

He's too young.

Well, now you knew what I was going to ask for, I asked it, didn't you?

Well, when all he's talked about is going with you, I'd have to be stoned deaf not to know.

Why not let him go?

After what happened today right here in Boonsboro, those men trying to steal the furs?

Well, Becky, an old bear loses his teeth, he didn't going to hurt anyone.

And without guns, the girdies are somewhat short on teeth.

Still, if anything happened Israel on the trail, I'd never forgive myself.

Well, things can happen here as well as on the trail.

Snake bite, bear in a corn patch,

a wandering brave looking for trouble.

Me would know what to do, would he?

I guess you're right. He does need that kind of learning.

You! Thanks, Ma! Thanks!

But you will be careful in doing exactly what your father says.

Sure, Ma, now I gotta get myself ready.

I'll have to get anything ready. I did it for you. You're packed down by the landing.

Thanks, Ma!

Hannibal, you do like Ma says here?

What about me?

Like you said, this is just a short little trip.

I'm sorry, my dad.

I'm sorry, my dad.

I'm sorry, my dad.

I'm sorry, my dad.

Bye, Ma!

Bye, now.

Bye, ma.

Good trip, now.

Bye, Dad. You'll see ya, Dad.

Bye, Dad.

Good day.

Thank you.

Get home, Steve.

Bye, Dannell.

A short little walk or not. Almost anything can happen.

Indians, wild animals, a storm.

Rapids, landslides, lightning, maybe a broken lake.

Nothing Dannell can handle.

I know.

But it wouldn't hurt if we made sure, would it?

Oh.

Oh.

Well, there they go.

Only beautiful furs.

And that's with no guns.

Cherokee got guns.

Even with guns, we couldn't catch them.

We ain't got no cuddles or no horses.

Cherokee got horses.

But, well, get started.

Don't keep me waiting here long.

You got the first start.

You ain't back here by then.

We'll be back.

First start.

Mother, come on let me cheer.

The danger.

Better stay.

I know how to mark your child, find my way home,

but I could be into it points the way you came,

or pile rocks, or scratchy tree.

But how do you know which way to go in the night?

How do you know which way's west?

That's where the sun goes down,

but how do you know which way to go in the dark?

Look up.

Daytime, all you got is the sun up there.

And that time you got more stars than a man can count.

Israel stars move around.

That is all of them but one, the north star.

And the big dipper is always there to help you find it.

There, you see it?

Yep, got a hump and a hand on him to pull a bit.

Well, the dipper moves in a big circle,

but always the two stars on the endpoint of the bright one,

the north star, the one that never moves.

That's north.

Home is west of here.

How would you find west?

Find north and then turn?

That's right.

When the north stars on your right hand, you're facing west.

That's not hard.

Not if you don't forget.

You better snuggle under those blankets.

Water even.

Awe, I'd.

You lose.

Awe.

A paddling all day.

Stand guard all night.

What for a Donald who is friendly country?

Only friendly country I know is six feet deep.

And four feet wide.

And four feet wide.

Next eating rigor, that's the first thing I learned.

You never learned, Gertie.

Mm-hmm, that's right. They're out there.

Luke, Hiram, and Jam.

And they've got rifles, Cherokee rifles.

No one knew Gertie.

He might be telling a little fib.

And look like a fib.

You drop them rifles so the next one just might hit your boy.

You remove, Gertie.

My last one, Boone.

I always finish first.

All right, pick up the gun this time up and we'll get.

Here's a run.

Okay.

Okay.

Okay.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Oh.

Whatever that nothing went off to.

Never mind him.

Never mind them.

We got what we come for.

Come on.

No one's starting my right hand.

That's West.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

Your star, right hand.

Mm-hmm.

Where's your father?

The Gertie's coming.

Gertie?

You better tell me about it on the way.

Paul was fighting.

He told me to run.

He's not hurting.

You're all right, Paul?

Yeah.

All right.

Now, where you came from or why.

I'm sure you're a welcome sight.

Well, uh, I'm not.

I'm glad it's not.

I'm glad it's not.

Oh, I'm glad I'm here.

I'm glad I'm here.

I'm glad it's not.

All right.

I'm glad you're here.

I'm glad you're here.

You are right, Paul.

Yeah.

All right.

Now, where you came from or why?

You're sure I'm welcome, Syne.

Mom's let me go to find us.

Call that woman's intuition.

She just had the idea you might need a little help

somewhere along the way.

Somewhere.

First day out.

First time I ever thought I'd mention good luck.

Beautiful.

Good thing you found us.

Only been a matter of time.

Knowing the goodies, you're lucky there

was anything left to find.

Busted canoe and this.

What are we going to do?

We could go back for supplies and help.

If we do that, the girdies will be so far

through the Carmel and Gap we'll never catch them.

We don't have much choice, busted canoe.

No provisions.

We just have to do the best we can.

The anvil.

That's one rifle against the girdies.

Yeah?

Go cut some birch bark.

Well, we're going to need a lot of it.

Pick Zach and who?

Come on, boy.

You can give me some help.

They didn't bother to cover their trail.

Oh, horses moving fast.

They had to move fast.

They stole the horses and rifles from the Cherokee.

The river.

The saddle trail follows the river to the head

of the white water rapids.

And then the mountains are over there and the trail goes around.

Way around.

And it veers due east.

So if we're going to catch them, we're going to have to shoot the rapids

before they very east.

We?

Why not?

You've gone this far.

I might almost thank you for the invitation if we get through the rapids alive.

I've never been this far down river before, Nal.

What's it like below here?

Spoons of milk pond.

I'd rather not be myself.

I'd rather not be myself.

I'd rather not be myself.

I'd rather not be myself.

I'd rather not be myself.

I'd rather not be myself.

Spoons of milk pond.

Spoons of milk pond.

Spoons of milk pond, Haudenos.

Oh, we're gonna...

Now we'll have a fire ready to light when your papier mingle come back with something

cooked.

You know, I've been holding out on you.

A piece of jerky fell off and since an artist is counted right into my leg and it's my

been kind of saving us for the right time in the right place.

I think this is it.

Go ahead.

Come on, go ahead. It won't bite.

Thanks, Chad.

I thought we was going to both come down those rapids.

Well, I wasn't so happy about it myself.

I don't mind water when it just lies there, but one it wants to fight.

That I don't like.

Were you scared?

I might have been if my eyes had been open.

You closed your eyes?

I'm halfway down. I sure did.

You see, I figured if your papies into the canoe got through all right, then my end of the canoe couldn't help make it.

I wonder what's taken parmingle so long?

If there'd been any trouble, we'd have heard shooting.

I had him. About under the ears, stone cold.

This fool, rifle shot high.

Don't tell me. Tell Paul.

And you tell him loud, because he don't hear too clearly on an empty belly.

Now, it was a rifle harm you saw.

It just plain shot high. There ain't nothing nobody can do about that.

Not even Paul.

Harm?

You gonna tell him?

He'd be closer and they'd be dressing us out for their cook fire.

This is as close as we're going to get.

We cut them. The odds are still the same. Four rifles to one.

We won't fight them with rifles.

Is that what I think it is?

A cheap scrape, Cherokee.

Probably ambushed in a hunting party.

They must have buried them when they died.

Don't they bury their dead with their war paint?

Now, Daniel.

Daniel, to touch a cheap scrape is suicide.

So, fighting four rifles with one.

What do you think, boy? You look like a ghost?

Nope. Just like a painted mingle.

It's not the paint that I mind so much is, really. It's where it came from.

That's just calling problems.

We go to Cherokee style.

Dead Cherokee style, Daniel.

And that's exactly what we'll be if my people find out about these graves.

This doesn't work.

We won't have to worry about the Cherokee.

Here, you had the timey tight. This has to look good.

Paul, do we have to get the furs back?

Well, Israel with furs aren't so important. It's what they'll buy.

Gunpowder and shot.

A lot of other things that people at Boonsboro have been needing for a long time.

You wouldn't want to let them down, would you?

What can you do against four rifles with your hands tied?

Son, remember the time your mama came down with a fever and we had to tend them?

In a sense, our hands were tied then too.

And we were up against something a lot worse than four rifles, weren't we?

Well, we licked that fever, Israel. And we did it alone.

Just by using what the good Lord gave us.

That's all we're going to do now. Use what the good Lord gave us.

You understand?

Now, you just sit here and wait for us. And if anything does happen.

I know, the big dipper.

Let's go.

After you fetch in more firewood.

Paul, I want...

What?

I do everything around here.

Lazy. That's what Jeb is.

Dirt lazy.

You're going to stand for his watch.

Over there among them trees ought to be a good spot.

Paul, get.

You dig me out another strip of that jerky.

Mind you don't drop in the dirt here.

You can't get in the dirt here.

You can't get in the dirt here.

You can't get in the dirt here.

You can't get in the dirt here.

You can't get in the dirt here.

You can't get in the dirt here.

You can't get in the dirt here.

You can't get in the dirt here.

You can't get in the dirt here.

No!

Paul!

Paul!

I see him. I see him.

I see him.

A ghost. A dead engine.

A ghost.

Paul, I've seen it.

You've seen your own shatter.

There's something out there.

Something a long time there.

I see there. I told you.

A ghost.

But maybe we better get out of here.

A ghost.

A ghost.

What is it?

Death chain. It can't be nothing else.

Luke, you can have a look.

Me? We'll keep you covered.

I've been found yet.

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.

Ho, ho, ho!

reeze viewpoint point.

What was that, Paul?

Luke?

Luke, you boy.

Luke, it's your pa. You answer me.

Simon? Luke?

It's Daniel Boone. Hold your fire.

I'm sorry.

Well, boys, there's your ghost.

What's left of him?

Daniel, you must have some greased snakes somewhere in your family tree. How did you get loose?

It's a Cherokee War Party.

Hey, God, Dad.

I was next, but I got loose. Didn't do much good.

I'm sorry about Luke.

Luke?

I saw him jump him.

Wasn't anything I could do.

He probably got him stripped down for steaming right now.

Steaming?

You hear that? The holy ones, the meekos, and the bonepeckers.

Now, hold on, they always steam their prisoners.

Parboiled them. That way it's easier to get at the bones.

That's what they did to poor Yad.

Tied him to a stake in pile red hot stones all around him.

There's a few hours of that, and the bonepeckers.

You fellas about the only guns in this part of the country.

I'd like to back you up. Die fighting anyway.

Now, down.

You fellas better get out and they're moving in.

Dad or Boone, if you think I'm going to believe any of this...

Oh? Luke!

Oh, it's Luke's hand.

There's one coming loose. I'm still using axe.

Do not figure out what's going on here. I like you find just the way you are.

Don't make sense. The Cherokee are friendly.

What have they got against us?

Don't take much to set them off. Some food stole horses and guns.

That's what started.

That's not the worst of it.

If there's somebody who's been looting those graves over yonder,

that's why the bonepeckers are here.

Put new bones in those holes.

New bones?

Or a grave robin is something they can't abide.

Seems like that's just about the worst crime there is.

Those spirits are free and they can't rest peacefully anywhere.

Robbing graves, and I told you to hunt.

Oh, I didn't rob them.

Don't lie to me.

I told you we ought not to let Jeb go out by himself.

But don't make any difference who did it now.

The Cherokees are after all of us.

How many Cherokees?

About 50, I reckon.

Fifty Cherokees and bonepeckers.

Ghosts? Bigger than I.

Well, that's just where I was.

Tell them you're sorry about the graves.

Get my horse or two. You do it.

Me? You talk for us.

Give him a horse or two.

I don't know.

Well, if you don't,

it ain't going to be the Cherokee.

What finishes you off?

Either way, I guess I haven't got much choice.

Bigger than I thought.

Well, either way, I guess I haven't got much choice.

Hey, Mingo.

White brother.

Not so loud.

A privilege of the brotherhood of ghosts.

I think we made believers of the boys.

But tell you had to keep an eye on Simon.

He may still need a little convincing.

Two horses ain't enough.

Well, what do they want?

They want all the horses and guns.

If them red devils think that Simon Gertie's going to let them steal him naked...

They're probably right.

Well, they want all the rifle stacked over there on those furs.

They want all the horses and guns.

If them red devils think that Simon Gertie's going to let them steal him naked...

They're probably right.

They want all the rifle stacked over there on those furs.

And then they'll start walking up the trail.

Bone pickers.

Alright, jab, you furs, and then hire them.

He drops that arm.

We're all bait for bone pickers.

Oh, drop your hat.

Gentlemen, your courtesy is exceeded only by your generosity.

He ain't no ghost.

That's right, Gertie.

If I learned something, I knew it was a trick.

Shall I kill him now, Daniel?

Why, when they scare themselves to death...

The loon?

You start walking and don't trip over any bone pickers.

Ghost.

Well, we did it, Pa.

Yeah? You're in it.

My battle.

I am...

What?

I don't know.

Oh, you look mighty pretty.

How was the trick?

Fine, fine.

What, didn't you have any trouble?

Trouble?

Oh, we didn't have any trouble.

Trouble?

No, I can't recall any.

How about you, Mingle?

No speak white man, Tom.

Only nice about the big dipper.

And how do you but the good lord gave us?

I don't think any of you were telling the truth.

Well, why don't we go up the cabin and maybe have something to eat?

Oh, I'm sorry.

Daniel Foon was a man.

He's a big man.

Grib and I like an eagle and as tall as a mountain was me.

From the coo skin cap on the top of old den to the heel of his straw by shoe.

The rip and his floor and his fight and his mat, the frontier ever knew.

Daniel Foon was a man.

He's a big man.

And he fought for America to make all American streets.

What a boom, what a doer, what a dream come true.

What a boom, what a doer, what a dream come true, what a dream.