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A linum lewisii. Beautiful specimen.

Exquisite flower, isn't it? Yeah, beautiful.

These mountains must be teeming with species of all kinds

and colors and shapes. I'm sure.

Look, David, this is as far as we go.

What? This is an uncharted wilderness.

And there's a tribe of savage Umpqua somewhere up ahead.

But I hired you to take me to...

you hired us to guide you up here and to get you back.

We go much farther, I can't vouch on getting any of us back.

But I've come such a long way to find that pine tree.

And I mean to do it.

You go it alone, you're liable to end up in a pine box.

I'll have to take that chance.

All right. It's your skin.

Colby, you can't just leave him out here to shift for himself.

We can't drag him back by force.

Jefferson, give him another pack of grub, will you?

Yeah, but Colby...

your ship leaves in a month.

If you can make it back in time.

I'll be there.

Come, Pudge.

We've got mountains to climb.

Fool flower picker.

Let's go.

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Howdy, folks. I'm the Old Ranger.

There were many different kinds of pioneers in the west.

One of them was a young scientist from England,

who braved the unexplored wilderness

and the threat of fierce Oregon Indians.

Now, to the savages, he was indeed a strange man.

A man who gathered grass.

And so they called him...

Josh.

If Colby sent you back to get me, I'm not going back.

Colby didn't send me.

He didn't?

I mean, you and that little dog?

You can't be trusted out here.

This is dangerous country.

Well, thank you, Josh.

Don't thank me now. We ain't out of here yet.

Josh.

Why did you come back to help me?

You didn't have to.

You know, I don't know.

Sometimes I get kind of a loony spell.

You know, once I sat up all night nursing a sick coyote.

Next morning, he jumped up, yawned, bit me, and ran off.

No doubt, I'll be regretting this one, too.

One thing I'll promise you, Josh.

I won't bite you.

Well, let's get to footing.

Those mountains ain't gonna come to us.

Come, Pudge.

Well now, what have you been up to?

I found this strange little bud floating down the stream.

I don't think I've ever seen this species before.

You better get those feet of yours dried off

before you get took with a chill.

Amazing.

What a wondrous world of flora and fauna this is.

Huh?

Well, uh, I guess it's pretty near eating time.

One moment, please.

Now, what's so all -fired important about those mountain flowers?

You come out here to this savage land,

where you don't even fit. Why?

Actually, it's a little difficult to explain.

I suppose you think i'm some kind of a loony.

Yeah, it had occurred to me.

Well, ever since I was a boy,

I've loved flowers.

All kinds and any kind.

You see, Josh,

grass, trees, flowers,

they're all important to the world.

They were the first forms of life on this planet.

And even before god made Adam and Eve,

he made the garden of Eden.

He thought it was important.

There's so much we don't know about seeds.

What they are, where they come from.

Like that tree, waiting out there.

Waiting for us to find it,

and to tell the world about it.

Ever since I saw this cone that a trapper brought into the settlement, Josh.

I knew it came from a tree that man had never seen before.

And I had to find it.

Now, you see? I told you. You went and caught yourself a cold.

Now, you go put those tender feet of yours alongside that fire

until they warm up a bit.

You sure caught yourself a wizzer there.

Oh, just a little head cold.

Eah, sure, just a little head cold.

They make ya' weak.

You shouldn't be haulin' yourself up those steep slopes today.

You ought to rest for a day. No.

We haven't got the time, not even a day.

I'll be all right.

Little of this effervescent salt, perk me right up.

Quite a bit of magnificent scenery, isn't it?

Yeah.

You know, Davey, I was just wondering

about the garden of Eden.

Where do you suppose it was?

Could have been right here, Josh.

The garden of Eden

could have been right here.

You know, I got that funny old gnawing in my belly again.

Always get that feeling when there's Indians around.

Like some fellows get an ache in their big toe when it's gonna rain?

Well, I get this gnawing when there's Indians sneaking around.

Davey!

You all right?

I think so.

You sure you didn't break no bones?

I guess I must have slipped.

You stay right there. I'll be right down.

Of all the mule-headed, scatterbrained dudes I ever got mixed up with,

I've never seen nothing like...

I, er, slipped.

Pudgy, quiet.

Told you that old belly of mine's never wrong.

These are chinook.

Are they dangerous?

If they get a notion to get their hackles up, they are.

Smoke. Give him tobacco.

Chinooks are too lazy to raise their own.

Chinook want dog.

Oh, our Indian friend's got a sweet tooth for pudgy.

Sweet tooth? You mean he wants to eat...

don't raise your voice.

Now, we smoke.

Talk.

We talk.

Now's the time for us to show him we're big medicine.

Somehow.

Light up.

Big medicine.

Well, that does it.

You're learning fast, Davey.

We go now. Wait.

For what?

You know tree where cone come from?

Tree near water of Umpqua.

That's what I was afraid of. You better forget it, Davey.

Beside, we'd need a boat to get along that river.

Would you show us the way?

We'll give you more tobacco.

Chinook no go near Umpqua.

Well, do you have a boat you might lend us?

A canoe? Canoe?

More tobacco?

Yes.

Canoe near rock like bear.

Come on, Josh, let's find that canoe.

Now, hold it, Davey.

We don't want no truck with any Umpquas.

You heard what them Chinooks said. They don't even want to go near them.

Said a rock like bear.

Must have meant it looks like a bear.

In that direction. Now, hold on, Davey. Don't go out...

Look out for that snag.

That's as far as we're going.

We're going home.

No. I've come this far,

and I'm going to find that tree.

Oh, you'll find that tree, all right.

Don't you worry about that. If you don't get killed fallin

Off a mountain. or get drowned. You'll find that tree, all right.

And you'll be spread-eagle on it if the Umpquas catch up with ya

go ahead, get yourself killed. But not me.

I ain't crazy like you are.

Go ahead, walk right back to the Umpquas, for all I care.

You're the... a crazy posy picker.

That's all.

No more.

One of the first things you've got to do is learn to keep your powder dry.

You're gonna help me find my tree.

I'm here, ain't I?

Give me more trouble than that sick coyote I was taking care of.

Hm. Tobacco.

Wonderful aroma. Oh, these Indians really know how to grow good tobacco.

Best there is. Why not?

They invented it.

Right good chawing kind.

I think we'd better get a move on before the Indians

Come on back.

Quiet, hound. dog's gonna get us all killed yet.

What do we do now?

He's an Umpqua. I can tell by those red slashes on his cheeks.

Oh, you just walk gentle and let him make the first move.

Quiet, Pudgy.

You don't want to end up roasted over a fire, do ya?

He seems friendly enough.

He's about as friendly as a ruptured rattler.

Don't even sneeze.

Well, our Injun friend's inviting us to a little shooting match.

He's just feeling us out. He sees our guns.

Hm, good.

Good. Good.

Thought you'd like that.

Tobacco.

Thank you. Thank you.

These seeds.

They're from the pine we're looking for.

Where did you get these?

Where tree?

From. Three, four days. Mountains.

Josh. We're almost there.

Come on.

More tobacco?

Davey.

It just ain't no use.

We've been climbing all over these mountains.

I ain't had no feeling in my feet for the last two days.

It's here someplace.

It just has to be.

Hey, you.

What kind of a dog are you, can't find a tree?

Especially one as special as this one's supposed to be.

Let's keep looking.

You know, never in my whole, miserable life

did I ever hear tell of two full-grown men

traipsing through a forest full of snakes and cougar and injuns

looking for a tree!

Back in civilization, they got lots of trees.

But no, I gotta get tangled up... Josh.

Look at it.

We found it.

You mean that's what we've been looking for all this time?

It certainly is.

You got any fool idea we're gonna chop this tree down

and lug it all the way out of here... there's a lot more cones

around here. Fresh ones. Later.

Right now, I just want to look at her.

Well now, there. That's the first good idea

you've had since we ever came out on this trip.

What in heaven's name are they doing?

If they're gonna kill us, why don't they get on with it?

Not them.

First they gotta make themselves pretty.

Then they gotta chew a little loco weed

and get their blood all heated up.

If we could only get free.

The sun is starting to go down.

It's gotta get dark before they start cooking us.

The sun. Hm?

Can you reach this magnifying glass?

Maybe we could burn these thongs off.

There.

Hurry, Josh. The sun's getting weaker.

Okay, now for you.

Watch it, watch it. He's coming this way.

When the sun is no more, you die.

No die.

Him god.

Big medicine.

Now, make a big fuss about getting free.

And then do some big medicine with that fancy glass of yours.

That's the only chance we got.

We no believe him god. You lie.

You drink boiling water?

I go free my friend.

We better start footing it out of here

before these Indians start thinking about your big medicine.

They ain't all fools.

We go now.

Come, pudge.

Davey, we'd better get a move on before those umpquas figure out

you're not as heavenly as they thought.

I wish I had the time.

I'd climb this tree and examine every inch of it.

After what you've been through, they ought to name it after you.

Well now, I'd be honored.

Well, I guess we better get a-footing it, huh?

Few of history's scientists have received a more towering tribute

to their achievements than this young botanist.

But in recognition of his contribution to the science of botany,

England did honor David Douglas

by naming the tree the Douglas fir.