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[ RINGING ]
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[ STEAM HISSING ]
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[ WHISTLE BLOWS ]
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I SEE OVER MY OWN CONTINENT
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THE PACIFIC RAILROAD SURMOUNTING EVERY BARRIER.
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I SEE CONTINUAL TRAINS OF CARS WINDING ALONG THE PLATTE,
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CARRYING FREIGHT AND PASSENGERS.
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I HEAR THE LOCOMOTIVES RUSHING AND ROARING,
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AND THE SHRILL STEAM WHISTLE.
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I HEAR THE ECHOES REVERBERATE
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THROUGH THE GRANDEST SCENERY IN THE WORLD.
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LO SOUL, SEEST THOU NOT GOD'S PURPOSE FROM THE FIRST?
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THE EARTH TO BE SPANNED, CONNECTED BY NETWORKS.
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THE LANDS TO BE WELDED TOGETHER --
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WALT WHITMAN.
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[ NATIVE AMERICAN CHANTING ]
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[ EAGLE CRIES ]
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[ DRUM BEATS,
CHANTING CONTINUES ]
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[ MORE VOICES ADDED
TO CHANTING ]
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Narrator: IT HAD TAKEN
THE BLOODSHED AND SACRIFICE
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OF THE CIVIL WAR TO REUNITE
THE NATION, NORTH AND SOUTH.
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BUT WHEN THE WAR WAS OVER,
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AMERICANS SET OUT
WITH EQUAL DETERMINATION
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TO UNITE THE NATION,
EAST AND WEST.
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TO DO IT, THEY WOULD
BUILD A RAILROAD.
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ITS COMPLETION WOULD BE
ONE OF THE GREATEST
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TECHNOLOGICAL ACHIEVEMENTS
OF THE AGE --
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SIGNALLING AT LAST,
AS NOTHING ELSE EVER HAD,
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THAT THE UNITED STATES WAS
NOT ONLY A CONTINENTAL NATION,
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BUT ON ITS WAY TO BECOMING
A WORLD POWER.
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AND WHEN THE RAILROAD WAS
FINALLY BUILT,
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THE PACE OF CHANGE WOULD SHIFT
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FROM THE STEADY GAIT
OF A TEAM OF OXEN
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TO THE POWERFUL SURGE
OF A STEAM LOCOMOTIVE.
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THE WEST WOULD BE TRANSFORMED.
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OVERNIGHT, THE RAILROAD WOULD
TURN BARREN SPOTS OF EARTH
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INTO RAUCOUS BOOM TOWNS --
NORTH PLATTE AND JULESBURG,
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ABILENE, BEAR RIVER, WICHITA
AND DODGE.
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THE RAILROAD WOULD ALLOW
CIVIL WAR VETERANS,
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POOR FARMERS FROM THE EAST AND
LANDLESS PEASANTS FROM EUROPE
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TO HAVE A FARM THEY COULD
CALL THEIR OWN.
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THERE THEY PLANTED
FOREIGN STRAINS OF WHEAT
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IN RICH, MATTED PRAIRIE SOIL
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THAT HAD NEVER KNOWN ANYTHING
BUT GRASS.
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RAILROADS WOULD CARRY
HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS
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OF WESTERN LONGHORNS
TO EASTERN MARKETS,
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AND TURN THE DUSTY,
SADDLE-SORE MEN WHO HERDED THEM
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INTO THE IDOLS
OF EVERY EASTERN SCHOOLBOY.
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[ HORSE NEIGHS ]
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AND RAILROADS WOULD BRING
ONTO THE GREAT PLAINS
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THE BUFFALO HUNTERS --
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WHO WOULD DRIVE A MAGNIFICENT
ANIMAL THAT SYMBOLIZED THE WEST
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TO THE BRINK OF EXTINCTION,
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AND WITH IT A WAY OF LIFE
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WITH ROOTS REACHING BACK
BEFORE RECORDED HISTORY.
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THE RAILROAD WOULD DO
ALL OF THAT,
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BUT FIRST,
SOMEONE WOULD HAVE TO BUILD IT.
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[ DOG BARKS ]
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THE GREAT PACIFIC RAILWAY IS COMMENCED.
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IMMIGRATION WILL SOON POUR INTO THESE VALLEYS,
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TEN MILLION EMIGRANTS WILL SETTLE IN THIS GOLDEN LAND
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IN TWENTY YEARS.
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THIS IS THE GRANDEST ENTERPRISE UNDER GOD --
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GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN.
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Narrator: RAILROADS HAD ALREADY
TRANSFORMED LIFE IN THE EAST,
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BUT AT THE END OF THE CIVIL WAR,
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THEY STILL STOPPED
AT THE MISSOURI RIVER.
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FOR A QUARTER OF A CENTURY,
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MEN HAD DREAMED OF BUILDING
A LINE FROM COAST TO COAST.
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NOW THEY WOULD ATTEMPT IT --
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1,775 MILES OF TRACK
FROM OMAHA TO SACRAMENTO.
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IT WOULD HAVE TO BE
CUT THROUGH MOUNTAINS
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HIGHER THAN ANY RAILROAD BUILDER
HAD EVER FACED,
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SPAN DESERTS WHERE THERE WAS
NO WATER ANYWHERE,
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AND CROSS TREELESS PRAIRIES
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WHERE ANXIOUS
AND DEFIANT INDIANS
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WOULD RESIST THEIR PASSAGE.
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THEY KNEW FROM THE START
THAT IF IT COULD BE COMPLETED,
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AMERICANS WOULD HAVE
ACCOMPLISHED SOMETHING
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NO OTHER PEOPLE HAD EVER
EVEN ATTEMPTED.
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IN THE RIPENESS OF TIME
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THE HOPE OF HUMANITY IS REALIZED.
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THIS CONTINENTAL RAILWAY WILL BIND THE TWO SEABOARDS
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TO THIS ONE CONTINENTAL UNION, LIKE EARS TO THE HUMAN HEAD,
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TO PLANT THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE UNION SO BROAD AND DEEP
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THAT NO POSSIBLE FORCE OR STRATAGEM
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CAN SHAKE ITS PERMANENCE --
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WILLIAM GILPIN.
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Narrator: THE WEST COULDN'T
BE SETTLED WITHOUT RAILROADS,
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AND A RAILROAD ACROSS THE WEST
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COULDN'T BE BUILT
WITHOUT THE GOVERNMENT.
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THE DISTANCES WERE TOO GREAT,
THE COSTS TOO STAGGERING,
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THE RISKS TOO HIGH
FOR ANY GROUP OF BUSINESSMEN.
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IT WAS ONLY THROUGH
THE GOVERNMENT'S HELP
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{\an8}THAT ANYTHING OF THIS GARGANTUAN
SIZE COULD BE ACCOMPLISHED,
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MUCH AS LANDING ON THE MOON.
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IT WAS NOT RUGGED INDIVIDUALISTS
WHO BUILT THE RAILROAD,
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IT WAS RUGGED CORPORATIONS
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WHO FORMED AND FINANCED
THEMSELVES AS ENTITIES.
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IT WAS THE RUGGED
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
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THAT CAME UP WITH THE FEDERAL
LOANS AND THE LAND GRANTS
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THAT ENABLED IT TO BE BUILT.
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AMID ALL THE ROMANCE
OF THE BUILDING OF THE RAILROAD,
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WE TEND TO FORGET THAT IT WAS
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ONE OF THE MAJOR INDUSTRIAL
ENTERPRISES OF ITS AGE.
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Narrator: IN 1862,
CONGRESS GAVE CHARTERS
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TO TWO COMPANIES TO BUILD IT.
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THE CENTRAL PACIFIC WAS TO PUSH
EASTWARD FROM SACRAMENTO
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OVER THE SIERRA NEVADA
MOUNTAINS.
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THE UNION PACIFIC WAS TO START
FROM THE MISSOURI,
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CROSS THE GREAT PLAINS
AND CUT THROUGH THE ROCKIES.
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BOTH COMPANIES WERE TO RECEIVE
VAST LOANS FROM THE TREASURY
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AS THEY WENT ALONG --
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$16,000 PER MILE OF LEVEL TRACK,
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$32,000 IN THE PLATEAUS,
AND $48,000 IN THE MOUNTAINS.
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LOBBYISTS GOT THE RATES DOUBLED
WITHIN A YEAR.
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LELAND STANFORD,
GOVERNOR OF CALIFORNIA
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AND PRESIDENT OF THE
CENTRAL PACIFIC RAILROAD,
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PERSUADED A MALLEABLE GEOLOGIST,
PROFESSOR JOSIAH WHITNEY,
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TO DECLARE THE GENTLY SLOPING
SACRAMENTO VALLEY
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A MOUNTAINOUS REGION,
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SO THAT THE CENTRAL PACIFIC
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COULD COLLECT
THE HIGHEST POSSIBLE RATE
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FOR LAYING TRACK ACROSS IT.
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A GRATEFUL CALIFORNIA
LEGISLATURE LATER NAMED
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ITS HIGHEST PEAK "MOUNT WHITNEY"
IN THE PROFESSOR'S HONOR.
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CONGRESS ALSO PROMISED
EACH COMPANY
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6,400 ACRES OF FEDERAL LAND
FOR EVERY MILE OF TRACK IT LAID.
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Man: THE RAILROADS GOT
THE RIGHT OF WAY
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AND ALONG THE RIGHT OF WAY
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MILES AND MILES OF WHAT WAS THEN
THE GOVERNMENT'S LAND.
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{\an8}WHEN YOU ADDED IT ALL TOGETHER
IT WAS A GIFT OF ROUGHLY
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{\an8}THE SIZE OF CALIFORNIA
PLUS MOST OF MONTANA.
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IT WAS INCREDIBLE.
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Narrator: THE UNION PACIFIC
AND CENTRAL PACIFIC
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WERE SOON LOCKED IN A RACE
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TO SEE WHO COULD
LAY THE MOST TRACK --
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AND THEREFORE GET THE MOST
LAND AND MONEY.
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SOMEWHERE IN THE WEST --
NO ONE KNEW EXACTLY WHERE --
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THE TWO LINES
WERE SUPPOSED TO MEET.
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IT IS A GRAND ANVIL CHORUS
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THAT THESE STURDY SLEDGES ARE PLAYING ACROSS THE PLAINS.
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IT IS IN TRIPLE TIME, THREE STROKES TO A SPIKE.
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TWENTY-ONE MILLION TIMES ARE THEY TO COME DOWN
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WITH THEIR SHARP PUNCTUATION
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BEFORE THE GREAT WORK OF MODERN AMERICA IS COMPLETE --
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DR. WILLIAM A. BELL.
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Narrator: IN NEBRASKA,
SOME 10,000 MEN WERE AT WORK
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ON THE UNION PACIFIC
HEADING WEST.
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MOST WERE IMMIGRANTS
FROM IRELAND,
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BUT THERE WERE ALSO
MEXICANS AND GERMANS,
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ENGLISHMEN, EX-SOLDIERS
AND FORMER SLAVES --
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AN ARMY OF WORKMEN
MOVING ACROSS THE PLAINS
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WITH MILITARY PRECISION.
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THERE WAS NO TIME FOR REST.
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A 20-CAR WORK TRAIN HOUSED AND
FED THE MEN WHO ROSE AT DAWN.
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A SUPPLY TRAIN CARRIED
EVERYTHING NEEDED THAT DAY --
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RAILS, TIES, SPIKES, RODS --
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ALL OF WHICH HAD TO BE LOADED
ONTO FLATCARS
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AND RUN UP TO THE RAILHEAD
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WHERE THE "IRON MEN"
WERE ALREADY WAITING.
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EACH RAIL WEIGHED 700 POUNDS.
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IT TOOK FIVE MEN
TO LIFT IT INTO PLACE.
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TWO OR THREE MILES A DAY.
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EVERY DAY.
SIX DAYS A WEEK.
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WEEK IN AND WEEK OUT.
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AS THE UNION PACIFIC CREWS
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WORKED THEIR WAY WESTWARD
ACROSS THE PRAIRIE,
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HUNDREDS OF PROSTITUTES, PIMPS,
GAMBLERS, SALOONKEEPERS,
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GUNMEN FOLLOWED RIGHT BEHIND --
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"A CARNIVOROUS HORDE,"
ONE MAN RECALLED,
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"HUNGRIER THAN THE NATIVE
GRASSHOPPERS,"
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AND EAGER TO DEVOUR
THE MEN'S WEEKLY PAY.
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JULESBURG, AUGUST 23, 1867 --
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GAMBLING WAS CARRIED ON EXTENSIVELY,
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AND THE SALOONS WERE FULL.
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MOSTLY EVERY ONE SEEMED BENT ON DEBAUCHERY AND DISSIPATION.
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THERE APPEARS TO BE PLENTY OF MONEY HERE,
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AND PLENTY OF FOOLS TO SQUANDER IT.
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I VERILY BELIEVE THAT THERE ARE MEN HERE WHO WOULD
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MURDER A FELLOW CREATURE FOR FIVE DOLLARS --
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HENRY MORTON STANLEY.
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Narrator: THE SUCCESSION OF BASE
CAMPS THE UNION PACIFIC BUILT,
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ROUGHLY 70 MILES APART,
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ALL HAD DIFFERENT NAMES --
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ELK HORN, FREMONT, OGLALLA,
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LARAMIE, GREEN RIVER,
AND CHEYENNE.
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Watkins: SAY YOU'RE IN WYOMING,
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SAY YOU'RE AT CITADEL ROCK
ON THE GREEN RIVER IN WYOMING
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AND YOU'RE LOOKING INTO THE
DISTANCE AND THERE'S NOTHING,
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AND BEHIND YOU THERE IS TRACK
GOING ALL THE WAY TO OMAHA.
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THE DONKEY ENGINES COMING IN
AND GETTING OUT,
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HAULING IN MATERIALS,
THE CLATTER AND THE BUSTLE
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AND THE WORK AROUND YOU
AT ALL TIMES,
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THE CLANGING OF THE
SLEDGEHAMMERS ON THE RAILS
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ECHOING IN THE WILDERNESS
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THAT HAD NEVER KNOWN
ANYTHING LIKE THIS, EVER.
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THE SOUNDS OF THE LOCOMOTIVES
BELCHING SMOKE
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INTO A PREVIOUSLY PRISTINE SKY.
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THERE HAD NEVER BEEN A SOUND
LIKE THIS EVER BEFORE.
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[ NATIVE AMERICAN CHANTING ]
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EVERYTHING THE KIOWAS HAD CAME FROM THE BUFFALO.
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THEIR TEPEES WERE MADE OF BUFFALO HIDES,
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SO WERE THEIR CLOTHES AND MOCASSINS.
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THEY ATE BUFFALO MEAT.
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THEIR CONTAINERS WERE MADE OF HIDE,
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OR OF BLADDERS OR STOMACHS.
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MOST OF ALL, THE BUFFALO WAS PART OF THE KIOWA RELIGION.
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THE BUFFALO WERE THE LIFE OF THE KIOWAS --
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OLD LADY HORSE.
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Narrator: OF ALL THE WEST'S
NATURAL WONDERS,
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NONE SURPASSED THE HUGE HERDS
OF BUFFALO
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THAT BLANKETED THE PLAINS --
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PERHAPS ONCE AS MANY
AS 30 MILLION OF THEM.
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THEY HAD FRIGHTENED CORONADO'S
HORSES BY THEIR SMELL,
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AND ASTONISHED LEWIS AND CLARK
BY THEIR SHEER NUMBERS.
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ONE WAGON TRAIN OF PIONEERS
WAS BLOCKED FOR HOURS
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BY A HERD THREE MILES WIDE
AND TEN MILES LONG.
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BUT FOR THE NATIVE PEOPLES
OF THE PLAINS,
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THEY REPRESENTED
EXISTENCE ITSELF.
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Man: THE BUFFALO, WHICH WAS
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THE ANIMAL REPRESENTATION
OF THE SUN,
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WAS THE SACRIFICIAL VICTIM
OF THE SUN DANCE.
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THE SUN DANCE WAS
A GREAT CELEBRATION,
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A GREAT SOCIAL OCCASION,
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AND THE SUN DANCERS WERE
EXPRESSING THEIR SPIRIT
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IN ORDER TO GAIN CERTAIN POWER.
228
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THEY WANTED TO BE
VICTORIOUS IN WAR.
229
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THEY WANTED TO GIVE THANKS
FOR SOMETHING GOOD
230
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THAT HAD COME TO THEM.
231
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{\an8}A BUFFALO BULL IS SACRIFICED,
AND ITS HEAD IS IMPALED
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{\an8}IN THE SUN DANCE LODGE
OR NEAR IT.
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00:16:13,268 --> 00:16:15,419
AND IT'S PART OF THE RITUAL --
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00:16:15,444 --> 00:16:19,802
YOU CAN'T HAVE A SUN DANCE
WITHOUT THE BUFFALO.
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Narrator: BY THE LATE 1860s,
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THEIR NUMBERS HAD
ALREADY DECLINED ---
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REDUCED BY DISEASE,
COMPETITION FROM HORSE HERDS,
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AND BY THE BUFFALO ROBE TRADE
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THAT ENCOURAGED
SOME INDIAN BANDS
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TO KILL MORE THAN THEY NEEDED.
241
00:16:39,256 --> 00:16:41,967
AND NOW THE UNION PACIFIC
HIRED MEN TO HUNT BUFFALO
242
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TO FEED THE HUNGRY
RAILROAD CREWS
243
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AS THEY BUILT THEIR IRON ROAD
ACROSS INDIAN LANDS.
244
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WE SAW THE FIRST TRAIN OF CARS
245
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THAT ANY OF US HAD SEEN.
246
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WE LOOKED AT IT FROM A HIGH RIDGE.
247
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FAR OFF IT WAS VERY SMALL,
248
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BUT IT KEPT COMING AND GROWING LARGER ALL THE TIME,
249
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PUFFING OUT SMOKE AND STEAM.
250
00:17:08,314 --> 00:17:10,772
AND AS IT CAME ON, WE SAID TO EACH OTHER THAT IT
251
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LOOKED LIKE A WHITE MAN'S PIPE WHEN HE WAS SMOKING --
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PORCUPINE.
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[ NATIVE AMERICAN CHANTING ]
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Narrator: THE CHEYENNE
AND ARAPAHO AND LAKOTA
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RESENTED THE RAILROAD'S
INTRUSION.
256
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THEY DE-RAILED TRAINS,
RANSACKED FREIGHT CARS,
257
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FIRED ON SURVEYING CREWS.
258
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THE UNION PACIFIC
FELL BEHIND SCHEDULE.
259
00:17:45,958 --> 00:17:48,459
ON JUNE 26, 1867,
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AN ARMY DETAIL WAS OVERTAKEN
BY A WAR PARTY.
261
00:17:54,642 --> 00:17:57,545
ONE OF THOSE KILLED WAS
FREDERICK WYLLYAMS
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WHO HAD COME ALL THE WAY FROM
ENGLAND IN SEARCH OF ADVENTURE.
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00:18:02,503 --> 00:18:05,655
ANOTHER ENGLISHMAN,
AN AMATEUR ETHNOLOGIST,
264
00:18:05,680 --> 00:18:08,264
PHOTOGRAPHED
HIS COUNTRYMAN'S CORPSE.
265
00:18:11,447 --> 00:18:14,678
THE MUSCLES OF THE RIGHT ARM, HACKED TO THE BONE,
266
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SPEAK OF THE CHEYENNES, OR "CUT ARMS."
267
00:18:17,756 --> 00:18:21,365
THE NOSE SLIT DENOTED THE "SMELLER TRIBE," OR ARAPAHO,
268
00:18:21,390 --> 00:18:23,897
AND THE THROAT CUT BEARS WITNESS
269
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THAT THE SIOUX WERE ALSO PRESENT.
270
00:18:29,684 --> 00:18:32,436
IT WAS EVIDENT, FROM THE NUMBER OF DIFFERENT DEVICES,
271
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THAT WARRIORS FROM SEVERAL TRIBES
272
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HAD EACH PURPOSELY LEFT ONE IN THE DEAD MAN'S BODY --
273
00:18:39,171 --> 00:18:41,071
DR. WILLIAM A. BELL.
274
00:18:43,889 --> 00:18:47,217
Narrator: FINALLY, 5,000 TROOPS
WERE SENT WEST
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TO PROVIDE THE RAILROAD WORKERS
WITH PROTECTION.
276
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THE CREWS WENT BACK TO WORK.
277
00:19:00,659 --> 00:19:03,030
[ GUNSHOT ]
278
00:19:09,268 --> 00:19:11,803
WHILE THE UNION PACIFIC
MOVED WEST AGAIN
279
00:19:11,828 --> 00:19:13,535
ACROSS THE GREAT PLAINS,
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00:19:13,560 --> 00:19:17,537
IN CALIFORNIA THE CENTRAL
PACIFIC, AFTER A FAST START,
281
00:19:17,562 --> 00:19:20,182
HAD GOTTEN STUCK
IN THE SIERRA NEVADAS.
282
00:19:22,903 --> 00:19:25,358
THE MOUNTAINS SEEMED
IMPENETRABLE,
283
00:19:26,710 --> 00:19:28,418
AND TO MAKE MATTERS WORSE,
284
00:19:28,443 --> 00:19:31,748
CHARLES CROCKER, WHOSE JOB
IT WAS TO BREAK THROUGH THEM,
285
00:19:31,773 --> 00:19:34,373
COULD NOT SEEM TO HOLD ON
TO HIS WORKERS.
286
00:19:35,909 --> 00:19:38,569
THREE OUT OF FIVE STUCK WITH HIM
JUST LONG ENOUGH
287
00:19:38,594 --> 00:19:41,405
TO GET A FREE RIDE
TO THE RAILHEAD,
288
00:19:41,430 --> 00:19:44,561
THEN SET OUT ON THEIR OWN
FOR THE NEVADA GOLD FIELDS.
289
00:19:45,965 --> 00:19:50,381
HIS PLANS CALLED
FOR A WORK FORCE OF 5,000.
290
00:19:50,406 --> 00:19:53,006
HE HAD FEWER THAN 600.
291
00:19:55,824 --> 00:19:59,647
DESPERATE, HE SUGGESTED TO HIS
SUPERINTENDENT OF CONSTRUCTION,
292
00:19:59,672 --> 00:20:02,722
JAMES STROBRIDGE,
THAT HE TRY THE CHINESE
293
00:20:02,747 --> 00:20:04,194
WHO WERE EKING OUT A LIVING
294
00:20:04,219 --> 00:20:08,225
WORKING THE GOLD AND SILVER
TAILINGS ABANDONED BY OTHERS.
295
00:20:09,234 --> 00:20:11,234
STROBRIDGE WAS AGAINST IT --
296
00:20:11,259 --> 00:20:14,850
HE THOUGHT THE CHINESE
WERE TOO SMALL, TOO FRAIL.
297
00:20:14,875 --> 00:20:18,022
THEY HAD NO EXPERIENCE
BUILDING RAILROADS.
298
00:20:18,593 --> 00:20:22,475
CROCKER TOLD STROBRIDGE
TO GIVE THE CHINESE A CHANCE.
299
00:20:22,860 --> 00:20:26,787
"AFTER ALL," HE SAID, "THEY HAD
BUILT THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA."
300
00:20:31,502 --> 00:20:35,765
THE FIRST CHINESE BEGAN TURNING
UP IN EARLY 1865,
301
00:20:35,790 --> 00:20:37,410
EAGER TO WORK.
302
00:20:38,395 --> 00:20:41,139
THEY WERE ALREADY ORGANIZED
INTO WORK GANGS,
303
00:20:41,164 --> 00:20:43,287
EACH WITH ITS OWN HEADMAN.
304
00:20:44,576 --> 00:20:47,553
Man: CROCKER EXPECTED THAT THESE
FELLOWS WOULD COME UP THERE
305
00:20:47,578 --> 00:20:51,725
IN ONES AND TWOS
LIKE THE OTHER NATIONALITIES,
306
00:20:51,750 --> 00:20:54,608
AND HE FOUND THAT THE CHINESE
SORT OF MARCHED UP THERE
307
00:20:54,633 --> 00:20:57,649
{\an8}AS ONE GROUP
AND ALL HE HAD TO DO
308
00:20:57,674 --> 00:21:04,169
{\an8}WAS TO DEAL WITH
THE FOREMAN OF THAT GROUP.
309
00:21:04,194 --> 00:21:06,655
OF COURSE, HE WOULD BE
THE CLAN LEADER.
310
00:21:08,168 --> 00:21:11,912
Narrator: BEFORE LONG,
11,000 CHINESE WERE AT WORK
311
00:21:11,937 --> 00:21:14,233
ON THE CENTRAL PACIFIC,
312
00:21:14,258 --> 00:21:18,968
AND CROCKER WAS ADVERTISING
FOR MORE IN CHINA.
313
00:21:19,103 --> 00:21:20,453
[ EXPLOSION ]
314
00:21:21,633 --> 00:21:25,616
BUT HARD WORK ALONE WAS NO MATCH
FOR THE SIERRA NEVADAS.
315
00:21:26,838 --> 00:21:29,564
STROBRIDGE WORRIED
THAT HIS CENTRAL PACIFIC
316
00:21:29,589 --> 00:21:31,259
WAS FALLING EVEN FURTHER BEHIND
317
00:21:31,284 --> 00:21:33,470
IN THEIR RACE
WITH THE UNION PACIFIC,
318
00:21:35,192 --> 00:21:38,205
AND SOON ARMED THE CHINESE
WITH BLACK POWDER
319
00:21:38,230 --> 00:21:40,500
TO BLAST THEIR WAY THROUGH.
320
00:21:40,525 --> 00:21:43,400
[ EXPLOSION ]
321
00:21:45,031 --> 00:21:49,275
IT TOOK 500 KEGS OF IT A DAY,
WEEK AFTER WEEK,
322
00:21:49,300 --> 00:21:52,603
TO CARVE CUTS
THROUGH THE FOOTHILLS.
323
00:21:57,201 --> 00:22:01,147
AND THEN THEY CAME UP AGAINST
A FACE THEY CALLED CAPE HORN --
324
00:22:01,172 --> 00:22:03,955
SOLID ROCK,
NEARLY STRAIGHT UP AND DOWN,
325
00:22:05,269 --> 00:22:07,839
2,000 FEET ABOVE A RAGING RIVER.
326
00:22:08,955 --> 00:22:10,431
THERE WERE NO FOOTHOLDS,
327
00:22:10,456 --> 00:22:13,540
BUT THE CHINESE WERE TOLD
TO MAKE A LEDGE IN THE CLIFF
328
00:22:13,565 --> 00:22:15,540
WIDE ENOUGH FOR A TRAIN.
329
00:22:17,476 --> 00:22:19,408
Woman: MY GRANDFATHER
WAS ONE OF THE PEOPLE
330
00:22:19,433 --> 00:22:24,431
THAT THEY PUT IN THE BASKETS
BECAUSE HE WAS SMALL AND LIGHT,
331
00:22:25,360 --> 00:22:27,146
AND WHAT THEY DID WAS --
332
00:22:27,171 --> 00:22:29,775
THEY WOULD BE LOWERED
OVER CLIFFS
333
00:22:29,800 --> 00:22:31,767
AND THEY WOULD DRILL HOLES,
334
00:22:31,792 --> 00:22:34,676
AND THEN THEY'D SET
THE DYNAMITE IN THEM.
335
00:22:34,701 --> 00:22:36,830
AND THEN THEY'D LIGHT
THE DYNAMITE,
336
00:22:36,855 --> 00:22:41,586
AND THEN THEY'D PULL THEM UP
BY THESE, UH, BY THE BASKETS.
337
00:22:41,611 --> 00:22:43,040
AND THEN THEY HAD TO GET
OUT OF THERE
338
00:22:43,065 --> 00:22:45,369
BEFORE THE DYNAMITE EXPLODED.
339
00:22:45,394 --> 00:22:47,740
[ EXPLOSION ]
340
00:22:50,282 --> 00:22:52,263
Man: HUGE MASSES OF ROCK AND DEBRIS
341
00:22:52,288 --> 00:22:55,078
WERE RENT AND HEAVED UP IN THE COMMOTION.
342
00:22:56,447 --> 00:22:58,506
THEN CAME THE THUNDERS OF THE EXPLOSION
343
00:22:58,531 --> 00:22:59,873
LIKE A LIGHTNING STROKE,
344
00:23:01,654 --> 00:23:04,021
REVERBERATING ALONG THE HILLS AND CANYONS,
345
00:23:04,046 --> 00:23:07,537
AS IF THE WHOLE ARTILLERY OF HEAVEN WAS IN PLAY.
346
00:23:07,562 --> 00:23:09,302
[ EXPLOSION ]
347
00:23:10,161 --> 00:23:11,690
Narrator:
BEFORE THE CENTRAL PACIFIC
348
00:23:11,715 --> 00:23:13,323
COULD GET THROUGH THE SIERRAS,
349
00:23:13,348 --> 00:23:16,619
THE CREWS HAD TO GOUGE OUT
15 TUNNELS.
350
00:23:17,604 --> 00:23:19,174
[ EXPLOSION ]
351
00:23:19,199 --> 00:23:21,589
THEY WORKED IN SHIFTS
AROUND THE CLOCK,
352
00:23:22,100 --> 00:23:25,200
BUT AVERAGED
JUST EIGHT INCHES A DAY,
353
00:23:27,082 --> 00:23:30,604
AND THEY HAD TO KEEP AT IT
IN EVERY KIND OF WEATHER.
354
00:23:31,892 --> 00:23:37,987
SNOW STORMS, 44 IN NUMBER, VARIED IN LENGTH
355
00:23:38,012 --> 00:23:42,412
FROM A SHORT SNOW SQUALL TO A TWO-WEEK GALE.
356
00:23:43,490 --> 00:23:45,533
THE HEAVIEST STORM OF THE WINTER,
357
00:23:45,558 --> 00:23:48,438
BEGAN FEBRUARY 18th, AT 2 P.M.,
358
00:23:48,463 --> 00:23:54,244
AND SNOWED STEADILY UNTIL 10 P.M. OF THE 22nd,
359
00:23:54,269 --> 00:23:57,987
DURING WHICH TIME SIX FEET FELL --
360
00:23:58,784 --> 00:24:01,284
JOHN R. GILLS.
361
00:24:09,768 --> 00:24:13,713
Man: CHARLES CROCKER HAD
TO PUNCH THE LINE
362
00:24:13,738 --> 00:24:17,221
THROUGH THE SIERRAS THAT WINTER,
THE WINTER OF '66,
363
00:24:18,742 --> 00:24:22,385
AND THE CHINESE THEN HAD
TO BUILD THE RAILROAD,
364
00:24:22,410 --> 00:24:24,628
LAY THE TRACKS.
365
00:24:24,653 --> 00:24:27,479
SO THEY BUILT THESE TUNNELS
UNDER THE SNOW
366
00:24:27,504 --> 00:24:30,033
{\an8}TO KEEP ADVANCING THE LINE.
367
00:24:30,058 --> 00:24:32,890
{\an8}AND SOMETIMES THERE WOULD BE
SNOW SLIDES
368
00:24:32,915 --> 00:24:36,174
AND ENTIRE CREWS OF CHINESE
WOULD BE TRAPPED
369
00:24:36,199 --> 00:24:38,487
UNDER TONS OF SNOW,
370
00:24:39,046 --> 00:24:41,002
AND THEIR BODIES WOULD BE
LEFT THERE
371
00:24:41,027 --> 00:24:43,729
AND FOUND THE FOLLOWING SPRING.
372
00:24:45,430 --> 00:24:47,526
SOMETIMES THE BODIES WERE FOUND
373
00:24:47,551 --> 00:24:52,377
WITH THE PICKS AND THE SHOVELS
STILL IN THEIR HANDS.
374
00:24:56,557 --> 00:24:59,002
Narrator: NO ONE KEPT
A PRECISE COUNT,
375
00:24:59,027 --> 00:25:02,948
BUT MORE THAN 1,200 CHINESE
DIED DIGGING AND BLASTING
376
00:25:02,973 --> 00:25:05,940
FOR CHARLES CROCKER
AND THE CENTRAL PACIFIC.
377
00:25:07,531 --> 00:25:09,135
Chen: WHEN SOMEBODY DIED,
378
00:25:09,160 --> 00:25:11,057
YOU JUST DIDN'T DIG
A GRAVE FOR HIM
379
00:25:11,082 --> 00:25:13,239
AND PUT HIM DOWN IN THE GRAVE.
380
00:25:13,264 --> 00:25:15,401
YOU WENT TO A LOT OF TROUBLE
381
00:25:15,426 --> 00:25:19,432
TO GET HIS REMAINS BACK
TO THE VILLAGE THAT HE CAME FROM
382
00:25:20,291 --> 00:25:23,381
BECAUSE A CHINESE DOESN'T WANT
TO BE BURIED ANYWHERE.
383
00:25:23,406 --> 00:25:26,427
HE WANTS TO BE BURIED
WHERE HIS ANCESTORS WERE BURIED
384
00:25:26,452 --> 00:25:28,510
BECAUSE HE WANTS
TO STICK TOGETHER.
385
00:25:32,381 --> 00:25:35,067
Narrator: FINALLY, IN 1868,
386
00:25:35,092 --> 00:25:39,463
AFTER THREE LONG YEARS OF
BACK-BREAKING, DANGEROUS LABOR,
387
00:25:39,488 --> 00:25:42,253
THE CENTRAL PACIFIC CREWS
DID WHAT FEW HAD BELIEVED
388
00:25:42,278 --> 00:25:44,375
ANYONE COULD DO --
389
00:25:44,400 --> 00:25:46,914
THEY BROKE OUT
OF THE HIGH SIERRAS.
390
00:25:50,486 --> 00:25:53,672
Man: JOHN CHINAMAN, WITH HIS PATIENT TOIL,
391
00:25:53,697 --> 00:25:57,890
DIRECTED BY AMERICAN ENERGYAND BACKED BY AMERICAN CAPITAL,
392
00:25:57,915 --> 00:26:00,687
HAS BROKEN DOWN THE GREAT BARRIER AT LAST,
393
00:26:02,328 --> 00:26:05,953
AND OPENED OVER IT THE GREATEST HIGHWAY YET CREATED
394
00:26:05,978 --> 00:26:08,133
FOR THE MARCH OF COMMERCE AND CIVILIZATION
395
00:26:08,158 --> 00:26:09,088
AROUND THE GLOBE --
396
00:26:10,376 --> 00:26:12,523
"THE TERRITORIAL ENTERPRISE."
397
00:26:13,217 --> 00:26:15,648
Narrator: THE HARDEST PART
WAS BEHIND THEM.
398
00:26:16,150 --> 00:26:19,390
THE CENTRAL PACIFIC
WAS BACK IN THE RACE.
399
00:26:25,530 --> 00:26:29,750
[ NATIVE AMERICAN CHANTING ]
400
00:26:29,775 --> 00:26:33,008
Old Lady Horse: WE HIDATSAS BELIEVE THAT "ONLY MAN"
401
00:26:33,033 --> 00:26:37,950
AND "FIRST CREATOR" SPLIT UP THE JOB OF CREATION.
402
00:26:37,975 --> 00:26:41,726
THEY MADE THE RIVER AND THE PLAINS AND THE BADLANDS.
403
00:26:45,804 --> 00:26:50,390
TO POPULATE THEM, "FIRST CREATOR" MADE THE BUFFALO.
404
00:26:50,415 --> 00:26:53,461
BUT "ONLY MAN" CREATED A WHITE MAN
405
00:26:53,486 --> 00:26:56,836
AND THE SPOTTED COWS THE WHITE MAN RAISED.
406
00:26:58,792 --> 00:27:03,297
WHEN "FIRST CREATOR" SAW WHAT "ONLY MAN" HAD DONE
407
00:27:03,322 --> 00:27:06,492
HE SAID, "YOU ARE FOOLISH TO MAKE THESE THINGS.
408
00:27:06,517 --> 00:27:09,844
"THE WHITE MEN ARE A QUEER KIND OF MEN,
409
00:27:09,869 --> 00:27:12,609
AND THEY WILL ALWAYS BE GREEDY."
410
00:27:13,338 --> 00:27:16,367
"THAT IS SO," SAID ONLY MAN,
411
00:27:16,392 --> 00:27:19,142
AND SO HE OPENED A HOLE IN THE EARTH
412
00:27:19,167 --> 00:27:23,781
AND SENT ALL THE SPOTTED COWS DOWN UNDERGROUND.
413
00:27:30,208 --> 00:27:34,568
"BUT WHEN THE BUFFALO ARE ALL GONE," HE SAID,
414
00:27:34,593 --> 00:27:37,594
"THE SPOTTED COWS WILL COME AGAIN
415
00:27:37,619 --> 00:27:41,219
AND COVER THIS EARTH AS THE BUFFALOES DID."
416
00:27:46,558 --> 00:27:50,348
[ CATTLE MOOING ]
417
00:28:02,060 --> 00:28:05,929
ABOVE ALL THINGS, THE PLAINSMAN HAD TO HAVE A SENSE,
418
00:28:05,954 --> 00:28:08,014
AN INSTINCT FOR DIRECTION.
419
00:28:09,560 --> 00:28:11,992
FEW MEN HAVE THIS INSTINCT.
420
00:28:12,432 --> 00:28:14,234
YET IN THE FEW, IT IS TO BE TRUSTED
421
00:28:14,259 --> 00:28:18,898
AS ABSOLUTELY AS THE HOMING INSTINCT OF A WILD GOOSE.
422
00:28:20,494 --> 00:28:23,062
I NEVER HAD A COMPASS IN MY LIFE.
423
00:28:23,087 --> 00:28:24,726
I WAS NEVER LOST --
424
00:28:26,316 --> 00:28:28,078
CHARLES GOODNIGHT.
425
00:28:31,265 --> 00:28:35,000
Narrator: CHARLES GOODNIGHT
WAS USED TO TOUGH TIMES.
426
00:28:35,720 --> 00:28:38,493
A DIRT FARMER'S SON,
HE HAD RIDDEN BAREBACK
427
00:28:38,518 --> 00:28:43,140
ALL THE WAY FROM ILLINOIS
TO TEXAS AT THE AGE OF NINE,
428
00:28:43,165 --> 00:28:46,445
AND HAD BEEN WORKING FULL TIME
TO SUPPORT HIS WIDOWED MOTHER
429
00:28:46,470 --> 00:28:47,770
SINCE HE WAS 11.
430
00:28:49,819 --> 00:28:53,242
AT 19, HE AND HIS BROTHER
WENT INTO THE CATTLE BUSINESS.
431
00:28:54,195 --> 00:28:56,711
STILL TOO POOR
TO BUY THEIR OWN HERD,
432
00:28:56,736 --> 00:28:59,226
THEY AGREED TO WATCH OVER
SOMEONE ELSE'S --
433
00:28:59,251 --> 00:29:01,551
RECEIVING EVERY FOURTH CALF
AS PAY.
434
00:29:04,346 --> 00:29:07,625
GOODNIGHT HAD MANAGED TO COLLECT
180 HEAD OF HIS OWN
435
00:29:07,650 --> 00:29:10,350
BY THE TIME THE CIVIL WAR
BROKE OUT,
436
00:29:11,082 --> 00:29:14,226
BUT HE LEFT HIS CATTLE
TO JOIN THE TEXAS RANGERS
437
00:29:14,251 --> 00:29:15,859
AND FIGHT FOR THE CONFEDERACY.
438
00:29:17,070 --> 00:29:19,969
WHEN HE RETURNED TO HIS RANCH
AT THE END OF THE WAR,
439
00:29:19,994 --> 00:29:22,476
HE FOUND THE CATTLE BUSINESS
IN RUINS.
440
00:29:23,781 --> 00:29:26,594
TEXAS HERDS
HAD MULTIPLIED WILDLY --
441
00:29:26,619 --> 00:29:29,765
FROM THREE-AND-A-HALF MILLION
TO SIX MILLION --
442
00:29:29,790 --> 00:29:34,060
SO MANY THAT BEEF PRICES
FELL TO NEARLY NOTHING.
443
00:29:37,471 --> 00:29:40,469
Goodnight: IT LOOKED LIKE EVERYTHING
WORTH LIVING FOR WAS GONE.
444
00:29:41,530 --> 00:29:44,008
THE ENTIRE COUNTRY WAS DEPRESSED.
445
00:29:44,330 --> 00:29:45,930
THERE WAS NO HOPE.
446
00:29:50,242 --> 00:29:52,492
Narrator: THE ONLY WAY
TO SURVIVE AS A CATTLEMAN,
447
00:29:52,517 --> 00:29:53,883
GOODNIGHT DECIDED,
448
00:29:53,908 --> 00:29:57,000
WAS TO TAKE HIS HERDS NORTH
TO BETTER MARKETS --
449
00:29:58,469 --> 00:30:02,078
THE INDIAN RESERVATIONS,
COLORADO MINING CAMPS,
450
00:30:02,103 --> 00:30:04,547
AND THE UNION PACIFIC
RAILROAD CREWS
451
00:30:04,572 --> 00:30:07,442
NOW WORKING THEIR WAY
ACROSS WYOMING.
452
00:30:09,304 --> 00:30:12,617
TO REACH THEM, HE AND
HIS PARTNER OLIVER LOVING,
453
00:30:12,642 --> 00:30:15,874
WITH 18 COWBOYS
AND 2,000 CATTLE,
454
00:30:15,899 --> 00:30:19,119
BLAZED A NEW TRAIL IN 1866.
455
00:30:22,250 --> 00:30:24,672
AND WHENHE LONG DRIVE
WAS DONE,
456
00:30:24,697 --> 00:30:27,890
THE PARTNERS CLEARED $24,000,
457
00:30:28,567 --> 00:30:31,258
MORE THAN THEY HAD
EVER DREAMED OF GETTING.
458
00:30:33,730 --> 00:30:36,936
THEY HURRIED BACK TO TEXAS
TO BUY MORE CATTLE,
459
00:30:36,961 --> 00:30:38,469
THEN HEADED RIGHT BACK UP
460
00:30:38,494 --> 00:30:41,414
THE NEWLY NAMED
GOODNIGHT-LOVING TRAIL,
461
00:30:41,439 --> 00:30:46,139
BEFORE ANYONE ELSE
COULD BEAT THEM TO IT.
462
00:30:48,664 --> 00:30:51,094
Goodnight: LOVING WAS A MAN OF RELIGIOUS INSTINCTS
463
00:30:51,119 --> 00:30:53,989
AND ONE OF THE COOLEST AND BRAVEST MEN I HAVE EVER KNOWN,
464
00:30:54,837 --> 00:30:57,037
BUT DEVOID OF CAUTION.
465
00:30:58,383 --> 00:30:59,820
Narrator: LOVING PUSHED ON AHEAD
466
00:30:59,845 --> 00:31:04,039
TO GET IN THE PARTNERS' BID
FOR NEW GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS.
467
00:31:05,347 --> 00:31:08,750
BUT COMANCHES CAUGHT HIM
ON THE OPEN PLAIN,
468
00:31:08,775 --> 00:31:12,804
SHOT HIM IN THE WRIST AND SIDE,
AND CHASED HIM TO A RIVERBANK,
469
00:31:13,413 --> 00:31:15,929
WHERE HE HELD THEM OFF
FOR SEVERAL DAYS
470
00:31:15,954 --> 00:31:19,328
BEFORE HE CRAWLED TO SAFETY
IN THE NIGHT.
471
00:31:20,618 --> 00:31:22,719
HE WAS PICKED UP
BY A PASSING WAGON
472
00:31:22,744 --> 00:31:27,364
AND TAKEN TO AN ARMY HOSPITAL,
BUT IT WAS TOO LATE TO SAVE HIM.
473
00:31:30,538 --> 00:31:32,060
THE NIGHT LOVING DIED,
474
00:31:32,085 --> 00:31:35,015
HE CALLED HIS PARTNER
TO HIS SIDE.
475
00:31:35,916 --> 00:31:38,281
Goodnight: HIS MIND TURNED BACK TO TEXAS,
476
00:31:38,306 --> 00:31:41,452
AND AT LAST HE SAID, "I REGRET TO HAVE TO BE
477
00:31:41,477 --> 00:31:43,539
LAID AWAY IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY."
478
00:31:44,828 --> 00:31:47,765
I ASSURED HIM THAT HE NEED HAVE NO FEARS --
479
00:31:48,648 --> 00:31:50,734
THAT I WOULD SEE THAT HIS REMAINS WERE LAID
480
00:31:50,759 --> 00:31:52,851
IN THE CEMETERY AT HOME.
481
00:31:53,756 --> 00:31:55,992
HE FELT THIS WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE,
482
00:31:56,017 --> 00:31:58,422
BUT I TOLD HIM IT WOULD BE DONE.
483
00:32:03,359 --> 00:32:04,851
Narrator:
GOODNIGHT ORDERED HIS MEN
484
00:32:04,876 --> 00:32:08,312
TO FASHION A TIN CASKET
OUT OF FLATTENED CANS.
485
00:32:09,379 --> 00:32:12,203
THEY PUT LOVING'S
WOODEN COFFIN INSIDE,
486
00:32:12,228 --> 00:32:15,023
COVERED IT WITH CHARCOAL,
SEALED THE TOP,
487
00:32:15,048 --> 00:32:16,922
AND PLACED IT IN A WAGON.
488
00:32:18,328 --> 00:32:20,383
FLANKED BY A COWBOY ESCORT,
489
00:32:20,408 --> 00:32:24,281
GOODNIGHT STARTED BACK SOUTH
FOR TEXAS.
490
00:32:27,265 --> 00:32:31,242
WORD OF THEIR PROFITS HAD SPREAD
THROUGHOUT CATTLE COUNTRY,
491
00:32:31,267 --> 00:32:34,820
AND OTHER OUTFITS
WERE ALREADY STREAMING NORTH --
492
00:32:35,523 --> 00:32:37,633
HEADED NOW
FOR THE NEAREST RAILHEADS
493
00:32:37,658 --> 00:32:40,578
FROM WHICH THEY COULD SHIP
THEIR STEERS EAST.
494
00:32:40,603 --> 00:32:43,359
A NEW INDUSTRY HAD BEEN BORN.
495
00:32:45,241 --> 00:32:49,265
BUT IN FEBRUARY OF 1868,
CHARLES GOODNIGHT,
496
00:32:49,290 --> 00:32:51,664
THE MAN WHO HAD HELPED
START IT ALL,
497
00:32:51,689 --> 00:32:54,062
WAS HEADED
IN THE OTHER DIRECTION.
498
00:32:57,102 --> 00:33:00,304
KEEPING HIS PROMISE
TO HIS DEAD PARTNER,
499
00:33:00,329 --> 00:33:04,329
HE WAS TAKING
OLIVER LOVING HOME.
500
00:33:15,779 --> 00:33:17,339
[ WHISTLE BLOWS ]
501
00:33:19,761 --> 00:33:23,429
RAILWAYS, MULTIPLIED AND SPANNING THE CONTINENT,
502
00:33:23,454 --> 00:33:26,109
ARE ESSENTIAL DOMESTIC INSTITUTIONS --
503
00:33:27,119 --> 00:33:29,945
MORE POWERFUL AND MORE PERMANENT THAN LAW,
504
00:33:29,970 --> 00:33:33,220
OR POPULAR CONSENT, OR POLITICAL CONSTITUTIONS,
505
00:33:34,056 --> 00:33:36,609
TO THOROUGHLY COMPLETE THE GRAND SYSTEM
506
00:33:36,634 --> 00:33:40,014
WHICH FRATERNIZES US INTO ONE PEOPLE --
507
00:33:41,501 --> 00:33:43,062
WILLIAM GILPIN.
508
00:33:45,855 --> 00:33:48,312
Narrator: BY THE SPRING OF 1869,
509
00:33:48,337 --> 00:33:50,859
THE COMPETITION BETWEEN
THE CENTRAL PACIFIC
510
00:33:50,884 --> 00:33:54,719
AND THE UNION PACIFIC
WAS CONVERGING ON NORTHERN UTAH.
511
00:33:56,202 --> 00:34:00,687
RIVAL ARMIES OF RAILROAD MEN
VIED TO COVER THE MOST GROUND
512
00:34:00,712 --> 00:34:03,528
AND EARN THE MOST MONEY
FOR THEIR EMPLOYERS
513
00:34:03,553 --> 00:34:07,484
BEFORE THE TWO LINES
FINALLY MET.
514
00:34:07,509 --> 00:34:09,672
THEY TRIED TO OUTDO ONE ANOTHER,
515
00:34:09,697 --> 00:34:14,120
FIRST LAYING FIVE MILES OF TRACK
IN A SINGLE DAY --
516
00:34:14,145 --> 00:34:18,383
THEN SIX, THEN SEVEN,
AND THEN TEN MILES --
517
00:34:18,408 --> 00:34:22,608
A PACE OF RAILROAD-BUILDING SUCH
AS THE WORLD HAD NEVER SEEN.
518
00:34:26,299 --> 00:34:30,062
NO FIXED RENDEZVOUS POINT
HAD EVER BEEN ESTABLISHED.
519
00:34:30,689 --> 00:34:32,773
GRADING CREWS
FOR THE TWO COMPANIES,
520
00:34:32,798 --> 00:34:35,219
WORKING FAR AHEAD
OF THE TRACK LAYERS,
521
00:34:35,244 --> 00:34:37,640
PASSED EACH OTHER
IN OPPOSITE DIRECTIONS
522
00:34:37,665 --> 00:34:40,305
AND PUSHED ON
FOR HUNDREDS OF MILES --
523
00:34:41,319 --> 00:34:44,187
SOMETIMES WORKING SO CLOSE
TO ONE ANOTHER
524
00:34:44,212 --> 00:34:47,140
THAT EXPLOSIONS SET OFF
BY ONE WORK GANG
525
00:34:47,165 --> 00:34:50,289
SPATTERED ITS RIVALS WITH DIRT.
526
00:34:53,504 --> 00:34:55,992
FINALLY, THE GOVERNMENT
INTERVENED
527
00:34:56,017 --> 00:35:00,672
AND PICKED PROMONTORY SUMMIT,
56 MILES WEST OF OGDEN,
528
00:35:00,697 --> 00:35:03,687
AS THE PLACE WHERE
THE TWO LINES WOULD MEET.
529
00:35:06,109 --> 00:35:10,773
THE RACE ACROSS THE WEST
WAS COMING TO A CLOSE AT LAST.
530
00:35:12,313 --> 00:35:17,320
ON MAY 10, 1869,
EVERYTHING WAS READY.
531
00:35:19,195 --> 00:35:22,390
A TELEGRAPHER STOOD BY
TO SIGNAL TO BOTH COASTS
532
00:35:22,415 --> 00:35:26,914
AND ALL POINTS IN BETWEEN
THE DRIVING OF THE FINAL SPIKE.
533
00:35:27,993 --> 00:35:29,914
[ MORSE CODE ]
534
00:35:29,939 --> 00:35:32,234
Telegrapher: TO EVERYBODY, KEEP QUIET.
535
00:35:32,259 --> 00:35:35,070
WHEN THE LAST SPIKE IS DRIVEN AT PROMONTORY POINT,
536
00:35:35,095 --> 00:35:36,367
WE WILL SAY "DONE!"
537
00:35:37,367 --> 00:35:38,437
DON'T BREAK THE CIRCUIT,
538
00:35:38,462 --> 00:35:41,453
BUT WATCH FOR THE SIGNALS OF THE BLOWS OF THE HAMMER.
539
00:35:42,605 --> 00:35:46,672
Man: WE UNDERSTAND. ALL ARE READY IN THE EAST.
540
00:35:47,732 --> 00:35:51,350
Narrator: FOUR SPIKES --
TWO GOLD, ONE SILVER
541
00:35:51,375 --> 00:35:54,672
AND THE FOURTH A BLEND
OF GOLD, SILVER AND IRON --
542
00:35:54,697 --> 00:35:58,148
WERE TO BE TAPPED GENTLY
INTO POSITION WITH A SILVER MAUL
543
00:35:58,173 --> 00:35:59,793
TO MARK THE OCCASION.
544
00:36:00,908 --> 00:36:02,554
AND THEN A FINAL SPIKE --
545
00:36:02,579 --> 00:36:06,078
AN ORDINARY ONE BUT WIRED
TO THE TELEGRAPHER'S KEY --
546
00:36:06,103 --> 00:36:09,031
WAS TO BE HAMMERED
INTO THE GROUND.
547
00:36:09,497 --> 00:36:11,195
Telegrapher: ALMOST READY.
548
00:36:11,446 --> 00:36:12,446
Preacher: OH, FATHER...
549
00:36:12,489 --> 00:36:14,937
HATS OFF -- PRAYER IS BEING OFFERED.
550
00:36:14,962 --> 00:36:18,992
Preacher: WE DESIRE TO ACKNOWLEDGE THY HANDIWORK...
551
00:36:19,017 --> 00:36:22,291
Telegrapher: THE SPIKE WILL SOON BE DRIVEN.
552
00:36:22,316 --> 00:36:24,742
Preacher: ...THAT MIGHTY ENTERPRISE MAY BE UNTO US
553
00:36:24,767 --> 00:36:27,023
AS THE ATLANTIC OF THY STRENGTH,
554
00:36:27,048 --> 00:36:29,476
AND THE PACIFIC OF THY LOVE,
555
00:36:29,501 --> 00:36:32,469
THROUGH JESUS THE REDEEMER, AMEN.
556
00:36:33,452 --> 00:36:35,423
Telegrapher: WE HAVE GOT DONE PRAYING.
557
00:36:35,448 --> 00:36:38,638
THE SPIKE IS ABOUT TO BE PRESENTED.
558
00:36:38,663 --> 00:36:42,367
Narrator: THE FINAL SPIKE
WAS SLID INTO PLACE.
559
00:36:42,867 --> 00:36:45,242
LELAND STANFORD
OF THE CENTRAL PACIFIC
560
00:36:45,267 --> 00:36:48,523
WAS TO HAVE THE HONOR
OF DRIVING IT HOME.
561
00:36:49,730 --> 00:36:51,765
Telegrapher: THE SIGNAL WILL BE THREE DOTS
562
00:36:51,790 --> 00:36:54,383
FOR THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE BLOWS.
563
00:36:54,408 --> 00:36:57,883
Narrator: STANFORD SWUNG
THE HAMMER HIGH ABOVE HIS HEAD,
564
00:36:57,908 --> 00:37:00,633
BROUGHT IT DOWN -- AND MISSED.
565
00:37:00,658 --> 00:37:03,531
THE TELEGRAPHER
CLOSED THE CIRCUIT, ANYWAY.
566
00:37:03,556 --> 00:37:04,906
[ THREE DOTS ]
Telegrapher: DONE!
567
00:37:04,931 --> 00:37:08,531
[ CHEERING ]
568
00:37:08,556 --> 00:37:10,867
Narrator: IN WASHINGTON,
A GREAT CHEER WENT UP
569
00:37:10,892 --> 00:37:14,048
FROM THE BIG CROWD IN FRONT
OF THE TELEGRAPH OFFICE,
570
00:37:14,073 --> 00:37:18,103
AND AN ILLUMINATED BALL DROPPED
FROM THE DOME OF THE CAPITOL.
571
00:37:19,627 --> 00:37:22,062
AT INDEPENDENCE HALL
IN PHILADELPHIA,
572
00:37:22,087 --> 00:37:23,758
THE LIBERTY BELL WAS RUNG --
573
00:37:23,783 --> 00:37:26,765
GINGERLY, SO THAT ITS CRACK
WOULD NOT WORSEN.
574
00:37:27,428 --> 00:37:28,961
AND IN SAN FRANCISCO,
575
00:37:28,986 --> 00:37:32,418
A HUGE BANNER WAS UNFURLED
THAT PROCLAIMED --
576
00:37:32,443 --> 00:37:35,687
"CALIFORNIA ANNEXES
THE UNITED STATES."
577
00:37:38,498 --> 00:37:42,648
THE VAST DISTANCES OF THE WEST
HAD AT LAST BEEN CONQUERED.
578
00:37:43,726 --> 00:37:46,226
A JOURNEY THAT HAD ONCE
TAKEN MONTHS
579
00:37:46,251 --> 00:37:49,406
COULD NOW BE ACCOMPLISHED
IN A MATTER OF DAYS.
580
00:37:53,369 --> 00:37:56,320
Watkins: ONCE THE RAILS
WERE JOINED AT PROMONTORY,
581
00:37:56,345 --> 00:38:01,916
I THINK YOU CAN SAY THAT WE
BEGAN FOR THE FIRST TIME, TRULY,
582
00:38:01,941 --> 00:38:05,031
TO THINK OF OURSELVES
AS A CONTINENTAL NATION.
583
00:38:05,056 --> 00:38:11,531
IT WAS A KIND OF A REACH
OF THE NATIONAL CONSCIOUSNESS
584
00:38:11,556 --> 00:38:15,898
INTO A PLACE THAT HAD ONCE
ONLY BEEN OCCUPIED BY DREAMS,
585
00:38:15,923 --> 00:38:20,473
{\an8}AND MYTHS AND IMAGINATION,
AND HERE WAS
586
00:38:20,498 --> 00:38:23,734
{\an8}THE GREAT TECHNOLOGICAL MARVEL
OF ITS TIME,
587
00:38:24,712 --> 00:38:26,945
CRASHING THROUGH
THOSE MYTHIC BARRIERS
588
00:38:26,970 --> 00:38:29,304
AND GOING INTO
A VERY REAL PLACE.
589
00:38:35,180 --> 00:38:38,297
Momaday: THAT MOMENT,
AT PROMONTORY POINT
590
00:38:38,322 --> 00:38:40,586
IS A MOMENT OF TREMENDOUS
SIGNIFICANCE,
591
00:38:40,611 --> 00:38:43,508
BECAUSE ON EITHER SIDE
OF THAT MOMENT
592
00:38:43,533 --> 00:38:47,047
WERE VASTLY DIFFERENT WORLDS,
RADICALLY DIFFERENT WORLDS.
593
00:38:48,282 --> 00:38:52,219
IT FORETOLD THE WHOLE STORY
OF TECHNOLOGY --
594
00:38:52,781 --> 00:38:55,081
THE COMING OF THE MACHINE --
595
00:38:55,588 --> 00:38:59,523
AND WHAT COULD BE MORE SYMBOLIC
OF THAT NEW AGE
596
00:38:59,548 --> 00:39:01,352
THAN THE COMPLETION
OF THE RAILROAD
597
00:39:01,377 --> 00:39:03,777
AND THE DRIVING
OF THE GOLDEN SPIKE.
598
00:39:06,381 --> 00:39:09,901
NOTHING WOULD EVER BE THE SAME
IN THE WEST.
599
00:39:19,182 --> 00:39:23,633
♪ OUR CAMP IS UNITED
WE ALL LABOR HARD ♪
600
00:39:23,658 --> 00:39:28,133
♪ AND IF WE ARE FAITHFUL
WE'LL GAIN OUR REWARD ♪
601
00:39:28,158 --> 00:39:32,296
♪ OUR LEADER IS WISE
AND A GREAT LEADER, TOO ♪
602
00:39:32,321 --> 00:39:36,953
♪ AND ALL THINGS HE TELLS US
WE'RE RIGHT GLAD TO DO ♪
603
00:39:36,978 --> 00:39:41,648
♪ HURRAY, HURRAH,
THE RAILROAD'S BEGUN ♪
604
00:39:41,673 --> 00:39:43,773
♪ THREE CHEERS
FOR OUR CONTRACTOR ♪
605
00:39:43,798 --> 00:39:46,016
♪ HIS NAME'S BRIGHAM YOUNG ♪
606
00:39:46,041 --> 00:39:50,742
♪ HURRAY, HURRAH,
WE'RE LIGHTHEARTED AND GAY ♪
607
00:39:50,767 --> 00:39:55,664
♪ JUST THE RIGHT KIND OF BOYS
TO BUILD A RAILWAY ♪♪
608
00:39:57,577 --> 00:40:00,415
Narrator: BRIGHAM YOUNG HAD
BROUGHT HIS MORMON PEOPLE WEST
609
00:40:00,440 --> 00:40:04,063
IN SEARCH OF SANCTUARY FROM
THE REST OF THE UNITED STATES,
610
00:40:04,846 --> 00:40:07,212
BUT THE NEW
TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD
611
00:40:07,237 --> 00:40:09,377
NOW RAN RIGHT THROUGH UTAH.
612
00:40:11,315 --> 00:40:14,032
AND IT BEGAN BRINGING THOUSANDS
OF NEW SETTLERS
613
00:40:14,057 --> 00:40:16,491
INTO YOUNG'S KINGDOM --
614
00:40:16,516 --> 00:40:19,313
NON-BELIEVERS WHO THREATENED
HIS AUTHORITY
615
00:40:19,338 --> 00:40:23,759
AND DEPLORED THE MORMON PRACTICE
OF PLURAL MARRIAGE -- POLYGAMY.
616
00:40:25,439 --> 00:40:27,243
Watkins: THE MORMONS MUST HAVE
VIEWED THE COMPLETION
617
00:40:27,268 --> 00:40:30,813
OF THE TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD
WITH AN INCREDIBLE AMBIGUITY.
618
00:40:32,022 --> 00:40:35,048
ON THE ONE HAND, THEY WERE
A VERY COMMERCIAL PEOPLE.
619
00:40:35,073 --> 00:40:38,372
THEY UNDERSTOOD PRECISELY
HOW IMPORTANT THE RAILROAD
620
00:40:38,397 --> 00:40:42,306
WAS GOING TO BE TO THE GROWTH OF
BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY IN UTAH.
621
00:40:42,864 --> 00:40:46,688
ON THE OTHER HAND, BEING ABLE
TO SUSTAIN THEIR WAY OF LIFE
622
00:40:46,713 --> 00:40:51,313
DEPENDED ALMOST ABSOLUTELY ON
A POWERFUL DEGREE OF ISOLATION.
623
00:40:52,130 --> 00:40:53,915
THE RAILROAD DESTROYED THAT,
624
00:40:53,940 --> 00:40:55,790
THE RAILROAD
OPENED UP THE GATES.
625
00:40:55,815 --> 00:40:57,571
THE RAILROAD LET THE WORLD IN --
626
00:40:57,596 --> 00:41:00,079
AND SOMETIMES
LET THE MORMONS OUT --
627
00:41:00,104 --> 00:41:03,286
AND IT HAD TO HAVE BEEN
A TERRIBLE BLOW
628
00:41:03,311 --> 00:41:08,095
TO THE BASE OF THE SOCIETY'S
CONFIDENCE IN ITSELF.
629
00:41:08,120 --> 00:41:10,004
[ GAVEL BANGING ]
630
00:41:10,029 --> 00:41:13,681
Narrator: IN 1870,
SOME 5,000 MORMON WOMEN
631
00:41:13,706 --> 00:41:17,173
HELD AN "INDIGNATION MEETING"
IN THE SALT LAKE TABERNACLE.
632
00:41:18,202 --> 00:41:20,727
THEY WERE PROTESTING
AGAINST THOSE NON-BELIEVERS
633
00:41:20,752 --> 00:41:23,742
WHO HAD DARED CRITICIZE
PLURAL MARRIAGE.
634
00:41:25,019 --> 00:41:29,517
THE WORLD SAYS POLYGAMY MAKES WOMEN INFERIOR TO MEN --
635
00:41:29,542 --> 00:41:31,542
WE THINK DIFFERENTLY.
636
00:41:32,243 --> 00:41:34,352
POLYGAMY GIVES WOMEN MORE TIME
637
00:41:34,377 --> 00:41:37,032
FOR THOUGHT, FOR MENTAL CULTURE,
638
00:41:37,057 --> 00:41:41,017
MORE FREEDOM OF ACTION, A BROADER FIELD OF LABOR,
639
00:41:41,042 --> 00:41:43,618
AND LEADS WOMEN MORE DIRECTLY TO GOD
640
00:41:43,643 --> 00:41:45,843
THE FOUNTAIN OF ALL TRUTH --
641
00:41:46,451 --> 00:41:48,281
EMMELINE WELLS.
642
00:41:50,696 --> 00:41:53,071
Narrator: ONE OF THE KEYNOTE
SPEAKERS AT THE RALLY
643
00:41:53,096 --> 00:41:57,220
WAS A DETERMINED, HARD-WORKING
WOMAN NAMED EMMELINE WELLS.
644
00:41:58,345 --> 00:41:59,673
BORN IN MASSACHUSETTS
645
00:41:59,698 --> 00:42:02,392
AND GRADUATED
FROM A SELECT GIRLS' SCHOOL,
646
00:42:02,417 --> 00:42:06,532
WELLS HAD CONVERTED TO MORMONISM
AND MOVED TO NAUVOO, ILLINOIS
647
00:42:07,444 --> 00:42:09,446
WHERE SHE LOST HER FIRST CHILD
648
00:42:09,471 --> 00:42:11,727
AND WAS ABANDONED
BY HER HUSBAND --
649
00:42:11,752 --> 00:42:14,092
ALL BEFORE THE AGE OF SIXTEEN.
650
00:42:15,130 --> 00:42:17,403
A SECOND HUSBAND DIED.
651
00:42:17,428 --> 00:42:21,056
THEN SHE BECAME THE SEVENTH WIFE
OF DANIEL WELLS,
652
00:42:21,081 --> 00:42:22,829
THE MAYOR OF SALT LAKE CITY.
653
00:42:23,840 --> 00:42:26,719
NOW, SHE LIVED
IN HER OWN SMALL HOUSE,
654
00:42:26,744 --> 00:42:29,313
AND HELPED TO SUPPORT HERSELF
AND HER FAMILY
655
00:42:29,338 --> 00:42:31,408
WHEN WELLSFINANCES SUFFERED.
656
00:42:32,705 --> 00:42:35,415
"I HAVE NO STRONG ARM
TO LEAN UPON,
657
00:42:35,440 --> 00:42:37,970
NO PROTECTION OR COMFORT
IN MY HUSBAND,"
658
00:42:37,995 --> 00:42:40,267
SHE WROTE PRIVATELY
IN HER DIARY.
659
00:42:41,215 --> 00:42:45,517
AND YET, HER COMMITMENT TO
PLURAL MARRIAGE WAS UNSHAKEABLE.
660
00:42:48,295 --> 00:42:50,720
Woman: I ACTUALLY THINK
THAT SOME OF THE GREAT FEMINISTS
661
00:42:50,745 --> 00:42:52,852
WERE WOMEN IN POLYGAMY.
662
00:42:52,877 --> 00:42:55,470
MY GREAT-GREAT-GRANDMOTHER
IS AMONG THEM.
663
00:42:55,495 --> 00:42:59,433
{\an8}IF THERE WAS A WOMAN
WHO EXCELLED IN TEACHING,
664
00:42:59,458 --> 00:43:00,501
{\an8}SHE HAD HER OWN LIFE.
665
00:43:00,526 --> 00:43:03,790
{\an8}IF THERE WAS ANOTHER WOMAN WHO
EXCELLED IN COOKING OR FARMING,
666
00:43:03,815 --> 00:43:04,895
SHE HAD HER LIFE.
667
00:43:04,920 --> 00:43:07,540
AND EVERYONE HAD
KIND OF THEIR OWN FOCUS.
668
00:43:08,200 --> 00:43:10,196
THERE WAS A TREMENDOUS SENSE
OF SISTERHOOD.
669
00:43:10,221 --> 00:43:12,610
AND IN MANY WAYS
THE MEN WERE IMMATERIAL.
670
00:43:15,563 --> 00:43:17,290
Narrator:
THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES,
671
00:43:17,315 --> 00:43:20,087
WOMEN WERE DENIED
THE RIGHT TO VOTE,
672
00:43:20,112 --> 00:43:22,454
AND WELLS,
AS THE OUTSPOKEN EDITOR
673
00:43:22,479 --> 00:43:25,173
OF A POPULAR MORMON NEWSPAPER
FOR WOMEN,
674
00:43:25,198 --> 00:43:26,931
WANTED TO CHANGE THAT.
675
00:43:28,190 --> 00:43:31,790
Wells: "THE WOMAN'S EXPONENT," VOLUME 1, NUMBER 1.
676
00:43:32,985 --> 00:43:35,954
MILLIONS OF INTELLIGENT WOMEN ARE DEPRIVED OF THE VOTE
677
00:43:35,979 --> 00:43:39,088
SIMPLY BECAUSE NATURE QUALIFIED THEM TO BECOME MOTHERS
678
00:43:39,113 --> 00:43:41,033
AND NOT FATHERS OF MEN.
679
00:43:42,243 --> 00:43:44,707
THEY MAY OWN PROPERTY, PAY TAXES,
680
00:43:44,732 --> 00:43:47,149
ASSIST IN SUPPORTING THE GOVERNMENT,
681
00:43:47,174 --> 00:43:49,993
REND THEIR HEARTSTRINGS IN GIVING FOR ITS AID
682
00:43:50,018 --> 00:43:52,313
THE CHILDREN OF THEIR AFFECTIONS,
683
00:43:52,338 --> 00:43:54,345
BUT THEY ARE DENIED ALL RIGHT TO SAY
684
00:43:54,370 --> 00:43:56,602
WHO SHALL DISBURSE THOSE TAXES,
685
00:43:56,627 --> 00:43:58,751
HOW THAT GOVERNMENT SHALL BE CONDUCTED,
686
00:43:58,776 --> 00:44:02,326
OR WHO SHALL DECIDE ON A QUESTION OF PEACE OR WAR
687
00:44:03,541 --> 00:44:04,743
WHICH MAY INVOLVE THE LIVES
688
00:44:04,768 --> 00:44:08,501
OF THEIR SONS, BROTHERS, FATHERS AND HUSBANDS.
689
00:44:12,329 --> 00:44:14,688
Narrator: IN HER PUSH
FOR THE VOTE IN UTAH,
690
00:44:14,713 --> 00:44:17,360
WELLS FOUND
A MOST UNLIKELY ALLY --
691
00:44:17,385 --> 00:44:20,915
THE MORMON PATRIARCH HIMSELF,
BRIGHAM YOUNG.
692
00:44:21,525 --> 00:44:23,571
HE WAS CERTAIN
THAT ADDING MORMON WOMEN
693
00:44:23,596 --> 00:44:27,899
TO THE VOTERS' ROLLS WOULD ONLY
STRENGTHEN HIS HOLD ON UTAH.
694
00:44:30,837 --> 00:44:35,124
ON FEBRUARY 12, 1870,
WITH YOUNG'S BACKING,
695
00:44:35,149 --> 00:44:39,759
THE UTAH TERRITORIAL LEGISLATURE
GRANTED WOMEN THE RIGHT TO VOTE.
696
00:44:41,077 --> 00:44:44,797
TWO DAYS LATER,
THEY EXERCISED IT.
697
00:44:44,822 --> 00:44:46,876
YOUNG'S NIECE VOTED FIRST,
698
00:44:46,901 --> 00:44:49,157
FOLLOWED BY ONE
OF HIS DAUGHTERS.
699
00:44:50,909 --> 00:44:53,727
EVENTUALLY, EMMELINE WELLS
JOINED THE LEADERSHIP
700
00:44:53,752 --> 00:44:56,017
OF THE NATIONAL
SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT,
701
00:44:56,042 --> 00:44:58,751
DETERMINED TO WIN
FOR ALL AMERICAN WOMEN
702
00:44:58,776 --> 00:45:01,076
THE RIGHT NOW ENJOYED IN UTAH.
703
00:45:02,008 --> 00:45:04,899
BUT SHE NEVER STOPPED
LOBBYING FOR ANOTHER CAUSE,
704
00:45:04,924 --> 00:45:06,894
JUST AS PRECIOUS TO HER --
705
00:45:07,641 --> 00:45:10,767
THE RIGHT TO REMAIN
A PLURAL WIFE.
706
00:45:17,088 --> 00:45:20,624
ALL HONOR AND REVERENCE TO GOOD MEN,
707
00:45:20,652 --> 00:45:22,223
BUT THEY AND THEIR ATTENTIONS
708
00:45:22,248 --> 00:45:25,931
ARE NOT THE ONLY SOURCE OF HAPPINESS ON THE EARTH
709
00:45:25,956 --> 00:45:28,751
AND NEED NOT FILL UP EVERY THOUGHT OF WOMAN.
710
00:45:30,256 --> 00:45:32,456
AND WHEN MEN SEE THAT WOMEN CAN EXIST
711
00:45:32,481 --> 00:45:34,860
WITHOUT THEIR BEING CONSTANTLY AT HAND,
712
00:45:35,692 --> 00:45:37,548
IT WILL PERHAPS TAKE A LITTLE OF THE CONCEIT
713
00:45:37,573 --> 00:45:39,149
OUT OF SOME OF THEM --
714
00:45:41,535 --> 00:45:45,015
EMMELINE WELLS.
715
00:45:53,297 --> 00:45:54,220
Narrator: FOLLOWING THE LEAD
716
00:45:54,245 --> 00:45:56,965
OF THE UNION PACIFIC
AND CENTRAL PACIFIC,
717
00:45:57,593 --> 00:46:02,079
OTHER RAIL LINES SOON SPREAD
THROUGHOUT THE WEST --
718
00:46:02,104 --> 00:46:04,595
THE KANSAS PACIFIC,
NORTHERN PACIFIC,
719
00:46:04,620 --> 00:46:06,020
AND DENVER PACIFIC,
720
00:46:06,045 --> 00:46:09,470
THE TEXAS AND PACIFIC,
THE DENVER AND RIO GRANDE,
721
00:46:09,495 --> 00:46:12,142
THE ATCHISON, TOPEKA
AND SANTA FE.
722
00:46:14,888 --> 00:46:18,095
AND AS THE RAILROADS MOVED
ONTO THE GREAT PLAINS,
723
00:46:18,120 --> 00:46:21,196
THEY BROUGHT WITH THEM PEOPLE
WHO HAD NEVER SEEN THE WEST,
724
00:46:21,221 --> 00:46:24,801
OR ITS MOST MAGNIFICENT ANIMAL,
THE BUFFALO.
725
00:46:26,005 --> 00:46:28,915
AT FIRST, THEY SHOT THE BUFFALO
FOR SPORT --
726
00:46:28,940 --> 00:46:30,720
BANGING AWAY AT THE HUGE HERDS
727
00:46:30,745 --> 00:46:33,605
FROM THE WINDOWS
OF PASSENGER CARS.
728
00:46:34,506 --> 00:46:36,923
ONE CHURCH GROUP
FROM LAWRENCE, KANSAS,
729
00:46:36,948 --> 00:46:39,243
ORGANIZED A TWO-DAY
HUNTING EXCURSION
730
00:46:39,268 --> 00:46:41,438
TO RAISE MONEY
FOR THE CONGREGATION --
731
00:46:42,359 --> 00:46:44,532
300 PEOPLE SIGNED UP.
732
00:46:49,227 --> 00:46:52,296
WHEN THE WHITE MEN WANTED TO BUILD RAILROADS,
733
00:46:52,321 --> 00:46:55,329
OR WHEN THEY WANTED TO FARM OR RAISE CATTLE,
734
00:46:55,354 --> 00:46:58,673
THE BUFFALO STILL PROTECTED THE KIOWAS.
735
00:47:00,579 --> 00:47:04,110
THEY TORE UP THE RAILROAD TRACKS AND THE GARDENS.
736
00:47:04,135 --> 00:47:07,173
THEY CHASED THE CATTLE OFF THE RANGES.
737
00:47:08,137 --> 00:47:10,149
THE BUFFALO LOVED THEIR PEOPLE
738
00:47:10,174 --> 00:47:13,001
AS MUCH AS THE KIOWAS LOVED THEM.
739
00:47:14,868 --> 00:47:16,892
THEN THE WHITE MEN HIRED HUNTERS
740
00:47:16,917 --> 00:47:20,212
TO DO NOTHING BUT KILL THE BUFFALO --
741
00:47:22,962 --> 00:47:24,328
OLD LADY HORSE.
742
00:47:24,378 --> 00:47:28,983
[ NATIVE AMERICAN CHANTING,
DRUM BEATING ]
743
00:47:29,008 --> 00:47:30,488
[ GUNSHOT ]
744
00:47:30,937 --> 00:47:33,637
THE BUFFALO DIDN'T BELONG TO ANYBODY.
745
00:47:33,662 --> 00:47:37,312
IF YOU COULD KILL THEM, WHAT THEY BROUGHT WAS YOURS.
746
00:47:37,570 --> 00:47:40,329
THEY WERE WALKING GOLD PIECES --
747
00:47:40,725 --> 00:47:42,751
FRANK H. MAYER.
748
00:47:45,274 --> 00:47:47,196
Narrator: FRANK MAYER WAS
HANGING AROUND
749
00:47:47,221 --> 00:47:50,423
DODGE CITY, KANSAS,
IN THE HEART OF BUFFALO COUNTRY,
750
00:47:50,448 --> 00:47:52,962
LOOKING FOR WORK,
WHEN HE MET TWO HUNTERS
751
00:47:52,987 --> 00:47:55,757
WHO OFFERED TO SHOW HIM
THEIR BRAND-NEW TRADE.
752
00:47:57,595 --> 00:47:59,563
"I WAS YOUNG.
I NEEDED ADVENTURE,"
753
00:47:59,588 --> 00:48:02,743
HE REMEMBERED, "HERE WAS IT."
754
00:48:04,675 --> 00:48:08,772
THE NEW RAIL LINES MEANT THAT
BUFFALO ROBES AND BUFFALO MEAT
755
00:48:08,797 --> 00:48:10,829
COULD BE TAKEN
TO EASTERN MARKETS
756
00:48:10,854 --> 00:48:13,431
IN GREATER NUMBERS,
AT LOWER COSTS.
757
00:48:14,869 --> 00:48:17,563
AND MANUFACTURERS
HAD PERFECTED TECHNIQUES
758
00:48:17,588 --> 00:48:21,274
FOR TURNING STIFF BUFFALO HIDES
INTO SOFT LEATHER --
759
00:48:22,237 --> 00:48:26,176
IDEAL FOR SHOES, CUSHIONS,
CARRIAGE TOPS,
760
00:48:26,201 --> 00:48:30,220
AND THE BELTS THAT TURNED
MACHINERY IN EASTERN FACTORIES.
761
00:48:31,601 --> 00:48:34,493
FRANK MAYER WAS DETERMINED
TO BE AMONG THE FIRST
762
00:48:34,518 --> 00:48:36,602
TO PROFIT FROM THE BUFFALO BOOM.
763
00:48:37,863 --> 00:48:41,673
HE SANK EVERYTHING HE OWNED
INTO A HUNTING OUTFIT --
764
00:48:41,698 --> 00:48:45,407
WAGONS, MULES, CAMP EQUIPMENT,
AND FIREARMS.
765
00:48:46,923 --> 00:48:50,579
THEN HE HEADED OUT
ONTO THE PLAINS.
766
00:48:54,915 --> 00:48:57,390
WHEN I WENT INTO THE BUSINESS, I SAT DOWN AND FIGURED
767
00:48:57,415 --> 00:49:00,626
THAT I WAS INDEED ONE OF FORTUNE'S CHILDREN.
768
00:49:00,651 --> 00:49:04,243
JUST THINK -- THERE WERE 20 MILLION BUFFALO,
769
00:49:04,268 --> 00:49:08,267
EACH WORTH AT LEAST $3 -- $60 MILLION.
770
00:49:09,098 --> 00:49:13,368
AT THE VERY OUTSIDE, CARTRIDGES COST 25 CENTS EACH,
771
00:49:13,829 --> 00:49:15,634
SO EVERY TIME I FIRED ONE,
772
00:49:15,659 --> 00:49:19,063
I GOT MY INVESTMENT BACK 12 TIMES OVER.
773
00:49:20,532 --> 00:49:22,892
I COULD KILL A HUNDRED A DAY.
774
00:49:22,917 --> 00:49:28,352
THAT WOULD BE $6,000 A MONTH -- OR THREE TIMES WHAT WAS PAID,
775
00:49:28,377 --> 00:49:31,927
IT SEEMS TO ME, THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
776
00:49:33,108 --> 00:49:35,298
WAS I NOT LUCKY THAT I DISCOVERED
777
00:49:35,323 --> 00:49:38,470
THIS QUICK AND EASY WAY TO FORTUNE?
778
00:49:38,495 --> 00:49:40,365
I THOUGHT I WAS --
779
00:49:41,036 --> 00:49:42,836
FRANK H. MAYER.
780
00:49:42,861 --> 00:49:44,790
[ GUNSHOT ]
781
00:49:44,815 --> 00:49:45,560
[ GUNSHOT ]
782
00:49:45,585 --> 00:49:47,035
[ GUNSHOT ]
783
00:49:58,446 --> 00:50:01,195
Man: WE HAD A MOTLEY ARRAY OF NEIGHBORS.
784
00:50:01,220 --> 00:50:04,648
ON ONE SIDE A GERMAN,WHO COULD SCARCE SPEAK ENGLISH,
785
00:50:04,673 --> 00:50:06,058
MARRIED TO A BOHEMIAN,
786
00:50:06,083 --> 00:50:09,306
WHO COULD SPEAK LITTLE ENGLISH AND NO GERMAN.
787
00:50:09,646 --> 00:50:12,517
ON ANOTHER SIDE, A FAMILY OF SWEDES
788
00:50:12,542 --> 00:50:14,438
FRESH FROM THE OLD COUNTRY.
789
00:50:14,463 --> 00:50:18,759
ON AN ADJOINING FARM, A SCOTSMAN WITH A MISSOURI WIFE.
790
00:50:18,784 --> 00:50:20,821
NEARBY A FAMILY FROM IOWA.
791
00:50:20,846 --> 00:50:23,126
ANOTHER FAMILY FROM ILLINOIS.
792
00:50:23,151 --> 00:50:27,885
SOME OLD, SOME YOUNG, SOMEILLITERATE, SOME WELL-EDUCATED.
793
00:50:27,910 --> 00:50:31,479
YET, ALL ENGAGED IN THE SAME ENTERPRISE.
794
00:50:34,522 --> 00:50:36,192
Narrator: AS MORE AND MORE
RAILROADS
795
00:50:36,217 --> 00:50:37,989
EXPANDED INTO THE WEST,
796
00:50:38,014 --> 00:50:41,311
AN INTENSE COMPETITION
BETWEEN THEM BEGAN.
797
00:50:42,522 --> 00:50:45,014
SETTLERS WERE SOUGHT WHO WOULD
PROVIDE BUSINESS
798
00:50:45,039 --> 00:50:46,772
FOR THEIR FREIGHT TRAINS,
799
00:50:46,797 --> 00:50:49,365
AND BUY THE LAND THE RAILROADS
HAD BEEN GIVEN
800
00:50:49,390 --> 00:50:51,190
AS GOVERNMENT SUBSIDIES.
801
00:50:52,779 --> 00:50:55,170
"YOU CAN LAY TRACK
TO THE GARDEN OF EDEN,"
802
00:50:55,195 --> 00:50:57,272
SAID THE HEAD
OF THE NORTHERN PACIFIC,
803
00:50:57,297 --> 00:51:01,662
"BUT WHAT GOOD IS IT IF THE ONLY
INHABITANTS ARE ADAM AND EVE?"
804
00:51:03,310 --> 00:51:06,303
WESTERN STATES ALSO
CONTENDED WITH ONE ANOTHER
805
00:51:06,328 --> 00:51:07,998
FOR NEW RESIDENTS.
806
00:51:08,457 --> 00:51:12,811
THE HOMESTEAD ACT PROMISED
160 ACRES OF PUBLIC LAND
807
00:51:12,836 --> 00:51:16,670
TO ANY PERSON WHO FILED A CLAIM,
PAID A $10 FEE,
808
00:51:16,695 --> 00:51:20,209
AND AGREED TO WORK THE PROPERTY
FOR FIVE YEARS.
809
00:51:21,362 --> 00:51:26,670
IN THE 1870s, KANSAS GREW BY
MORE THAN HALF A MILLION PEOPLE.
810
00:51:26,695 --> 00:51:31,065
NEBRASKA'S POPULATION
QUADRUPLED.
811
00:51:31,171 --> 00:51:33,076
200 SCOTTISH FAMILIES
812
00:51:33,101 --> 00:51:36,221
SETTLED ON THE
KANSAS-NEBRASKA BORDER.
813
00:51:36,656 --> 00:51:41,459
THE HEBREW IMMIGRANT AID SOCIETY
LURED JEWS FROM EASTERN EUROPE
814
00:51:41,484 --> 00:51:45,224
TO OREGON, COLORADO, KANSAS,
THE DAKOTAS.
815
00:51:46,768 --> 00:51:50,967
GERMAN-RUSSIAN MENNONITES,
SWEDISH, DUTCH, FRENCH,
816
00:51:50,992 --> 00:51:54,100
BOHEMIAN, IRISH,
AND NORWEGIAN FAMILIES
817
00:51:54,125 --> 00:51:57,715
WERE SOON SCATTERED
ACROSS THE PLAINS.
818
00:52:03,107 --> 00:52:05,147
Man: IN THE VILLAGES OF EUROPE
YOU MIGHT BE
819
00:52:05,172 --> 00:52:08,350
ONLY A FEW STEPS AWAY
FROM YOUR NEIGHBORS,
820
00:52:08,375 --> 00:52:10,139
CERTAINLY
WITHIN HEARING DISTANCE.
821
00:52:10,164 --> 00:52:12,248
YOU COULD HEAR THE VILLAGE'S
CHURCH BELLS RINGING
822
00:52:12,273 --> 00:52:13,446
ON A SUNDAY MORNING.
823
00:52:14,115 --> 00:52:15,998
SUDDENLY, HERE THEY WERE
ISOLATED
824
00:52:16,023 --> 00:52:18,884
{\an8}MANY MILES FROM NEIGHBORS
AND FROM VILLAGES
825
00:52:18,909 --> 00:52:22,349
{\an8}WITH LONG PERIODS OF TIME
BETWEEN ANY KIND OF INTERACTION.
826
00:52:23,357 --> 00:52:25,365
THEY HAD "WIND SICKNESS,"
THEY CALLED IT,
827
00:52:25,390 --> 00:52:28,264
FROM THE CONSTANT BLOWING
OF THE WIND.
828
00:52:28,289 --> 00:52:30,342
THEY PLANTED TREES
AROUND THEIR HOUSES
829
00:52:30,367 --> 00:52:32,506
NOT SIMPLY FOR THE SHADE
OR FOR THE BEAUTY,
830
00:52:32,531 --> 00:52:36,301
BUT TO PROTECT THEM FROM THE
IMMENSITY OF THE LANDSCAPE.
831
00:52:40,321 --> 00:52:41,725
Narrator: THEY STARTED TOWNS
832
00:52:41,750 --> 00:52:44,364
LIKE LINDSBORG AND
HOFFNUNGSTHAL,
833
00:52:44,389 --> 00:52:47,379
NEW ALEXANDERWOHL
AND DANNEBROG --
834
00:52:47,404 --> 00:52:52,174
SOME WITH THE SAME STREET PLANS
AS THEIR OLD VILLAGES IN EUROPE.
835
00:52:53,096 --> 00:52:55,326
AND THEY PLANTED WHEAT
THEY HAD BROUGHT ALONG
836
00:52:55,351 --> 00:52:57,201
FROM AS FAR AWAY AS RUSSIA.
837
00:52:58,462 --> 00:53:02,132
IT FLOURISHED AS NO OTHER
DOMESTIC CROP EVER HAD BEFORE
838
00:53:02,157 --> 00:53:03,917
ON THE SEMI-ARID PLAINS,
839
00:53:04,414 --> 00:53:07,154
AND WOULD ONE DAY HELP MAKE
THE UNITED STATES
840
00:53:07,179 --> 00:53:10,899
THE AGRICULTURAL WONDER
OF THE WORLD.
841
00:53:13,592 --> 00:53:14,923
Welsch: THE MEN HAD FARMED,
842
00:53:14,948 --> 00:53:17,217
IN MANY CASES,
MOST OF THEIR LIVES.
843
00:53:17,242 --> 00:53:19,654
THEY HAD TO STRUGGLE
AGAINST ROOTS AND ROCKS
844
00:53:19,679 --> 00:53:22,358
AND ALL THESE THINGS
THAT MADE FARMING DIFFICULT.
845
00:53:23,640 --> 00:53:26,594
THEY LOOKED AROUND THEM HERE,
AND THERE WERE THOUSANDS,
846
00:53:26,619 --> 00:53:29,760
TENS OF THOUSANDS,
HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF ACRES
847
00:53:29,785 --> 00:53:31,753
WITHOUT A ROOT OR A ROCK.
848
00:53:31,778 --> 00:53:33,225
THEY COULD PUT THEIR PLOW
IN THE GROUND
849
00:53:33,250 --> 00:53:35,863
AND GO MILES AND MILES
STRAIGHT AHEAD
850
00:53:35,888 --> 00:53:37,708
WITHOUT WORRYING ABOUT A HILL.
851
00:53:39,248 --> 00:53:43,473
THIS WAS GRASS, GROUND, EARTH
THAT HAD NEVER BEEN TURNED
852
00:53:43,498 --> 00:53:46,978
IN ALL OF HISTORY EXCEPT
MAYBE BY A BUFFALO'S HORN.
853
00:53:48,678 --> 00:53:51,387
THEY SAID THE FIRST TIME
A PLOW WENT THROUGH THAT GROUND,
854
00:53:51,412 --> 00:53:53,983
IT SOUNDED LIKE THE OPENING
OF A GIANT ZIPPER
855
00:53:54,008 --> 00:53:57,623
FROM THE GRASS ROOTS TEARING
AS THE PLOW WENT THROUGH IT.
856
00:53:59,217 --> 00:54:02,701
TO THEM, THIS WAS
A DREAM COME TRUE.
857
00:54:16,040 --> 00:54:20,873
Woman: WE SELDOM STOP TO THINK
HOW DESPERATELY LONELY IT WAS.
858
00:54:21,848 --> 00:54:24,693
ONE OF THE TALES I LIKE THE BEST
859
00:54:24,718 --> 00:54:28,045
WAS ABOUT A WOMAN
WHO LIVED OUT WEST TEXAS.
860
00:54:28,070 --> 00:54:31,529
SHE SELDOM SAW ANYBODY
UP IN THE PANHANDLE.
861
00:54:32,105 --> 00:54:36,121
{\an8}A COWBOY CAME THROUGH ONE TIME
AND BROUGHT HER A SACK
862
00:54:36,146 --> 00:54:39,113
{\an8}THAT HAD THREE CHICKENS IN IT.
863
00:54:39,138 --> 00:54:42,529
AND SHE COULD NOT BRING HERSELF
TO KILL THOSE CHICKENS.
864
00:54:42,554 --> 00:54:46,295
SHE SAID, "YOU WILL NEVER KNOW
WHAT GOOD COMPANY THEY WERE."
865
00:54:48,067 --> 00:54:51,592
THERE WAS SOME CORE
OF THAT WOMAN
866
00:54:51,617 --> 00:54:54,867
THAT EMBRACED THIS RAW COUNTRY,
867
00:54:55,479 --> 00:54:58,329
BUT YOU SEE IT WAS HER LOT.
868
00:54:59,186 --> 00:55:02,529
HER HUSBAND GOES OFF
TO ROUND UP THE CATTLE,
869
00:55:02,554 --> 00:55:06,756
ON WHATEVER ADVENTURE
THAT HE MIGHT HAVE BEEN ON
870
00:55:06,781 --> 00:55:12,040
AND IT WAS HER LOT
TO KEEP THE HOMESTEAD,
871
00:55:12,065 --> 00:55:16,825
TO RUN THE RANCH,
TO CARE FOR HIS FAMILY.
872
00:55:17,200 --> 00:55:21,170
AND SO I THINK OF THAT WOMAN
OFTEN WITH THOSE THREE CHICKENS.
873
00:55:22,151 --> 00:55:25,051
AND I BET THEY WERE
GOOD COMPANY.
874
00:55:28,522 --> 00:55:31,742
SURELY THE HAND OF PROVIDENCE MUST BE IN THIS,
875
00:55:31,767 --> 00:55:33,514
AS IT SEEMS THIS "DESERT" --
876
00:55:33,539 --> 00:55:35,779
AS IT HAS BEEN TERMED SO LONG --
877
00:55:35,804 --> 00:55:39,344
HAS BEEN SPECIALLY RESERVED FOR THE POOR OF OUR LAND
878
00:55:39,881 --> 00:55:43,350
WHERE THEY CAN FIND A HOME FOR THEMSELVES AND FAMILIES.
879
00:55:43,375 --> 00:55:44,647
AND WHERE THEY CAN ENJOY
880
00:55:44,672 --> 00:55:47,279
THE COMPANIONSHIP OF THEIR LOVED ONES,
881
00:55:47,304 --> 00:55:50,279
UNDISTURBED BY THOSE THAT HAVE HERETOFORE HELD THEM
882
00:55:50,304 --> 00:55:52,904
UNDER THE MOST EXCLUSIVE CONTROL --
883
00:55:54,228 --> 00:55:57,076
URIAH OBLINGER.
884
00:55:58,981 --> 00:56:01,355
Narrator: IN THE SUMMER OF 1872,
885
00:56:01,380 --> 00:56:04,865
A UNION VETERAN NAMED
URIAH WESLEY OBLINGER
886
00:56:04,890 --> 00:56:07,840
LEFT HIS RENTED FARM
IN ONWARD, INDIANA,
887
00:56:07,865 --> 00:56:10,772
AND SET OUT WITH HIS BROTHER
AND TWO BROTHERS-IN-LAW
888
00:56:10,797 --> 00:56:13,487
FOR NEBRASKA,
TO CLAIM THE HOMESTEAD
889
00:56:13,512 --> 00:56:16,490
TO WHICH HIS MILITARY SERVICE
ENTITLED HIM.
890
00:56:17,898 --> 00:56:20,654
HIS WIFE, MATTIE,
AND INFANT DAUGHTER, ELLA,
891
00:56:20,679 --> 00:56:23,037
WERE TO WAIT AT HOME
UNTIL HE SENT FOR THEM.
892
00:56:26,404 --> 00:56:31,942
Oblinger: OCTOBER 6, 1872 DEAR WIFE AND BABY --
893
00:56:31,967 --> 00:56:35,715
WELL I SUPPOSE THE FIRST QUESTION YOU WOULD ASK ME NOW
894
00:56:35,740 --> 00:56:37,983
WOULD BE, "HOW DO YOU LIKE NEBRASKA?"
895
00:56:39,295 --> 00:56:42,436
WIFE, YOU CAN SEE JUST AS FAR AS YOU PLEASE HERE,
896
00:56:42,461 --> 00:56:46,193
AND ALMOST EVERY FOOT IN SIGHT CAN BE PLOWED.
897
00:56:47,459 --> 00:56:49,889
THE LONGER I STAY HERE, THE BETTER I LIKE IT.
898
00:56:50,697 --> 00:56:52,412
THERE ARE MOSTLY YOUNG FAMILIES,
899
00:56:52,437 --> 00:56:55,107
JUST STARTING IN LIFE THE SAME AS WE ARE,
900
00:56:56,217 --> 00:56:59,233
AND I FIND THEM VERY GENEROUS, INDEED.
901
00:56:59,258 --> 00:57:02,508
WE WILL ALL BE POOR HERE TOGETHER.
902
00:57:03,283 --> 00:57:06,803
I AM HUNTING A HOME FOR US WHERE WE CAN ENJOY OURSELVES
903
00:57:06,828 --> 00:57:09,764
WITHOUT BEING BOTHERED DOING AS OTHER PEOPLE SAY.
904
00:57:11,146 --> 00:57:13,912
I CAN GET ALONG WELL ENOUGH THROUGH THE WEEK,
905
00:57:13,937 --> 00:57:18,303
BUT WHEN SUNDAY COMES, I FEEL A LITTLE LONESOME WITHOUT YOU.
906
00:57:18,708 --> 00:57:22,090
GIVE BABY A KISS -- YES, TWO OF THEM --
907
00:57:22,115 --> 00:57:25,685
AND TAKE ONE YOURSELF.
908
00:57:25,710 --> 00:57:29,410
[ TRAIN WHISTLE BLOWS ]
909
00:57:29,435 --> 00:57:31,959
Narrator: AFTER MORE THAN A YEAR
OF SEPARATION,
910
00:57:31,984 --> 00:57:34,704
URIAH OBLINGER'S
LONG WAIT ENDED.
911
00:57:36,179 --> 00:57:38,623
HIS WIFE MATTIE
AND DAUGHTER ELLA,
912
00:57:38,648 --> 00:57:42,006
ALONG WITH A CRATE CONTAINING
ALL THEIR WORLDLY GOODS
913
00:57:42,031 --> 00:57:44,326
AND ANOTHER
FILLED WITH LIVE CHICKENS,
914
00:57:44,351 --> 00:57:47,421
FINALLY ARRIVED
ABOARD THE MORNING TRAIN.
915
00:57:48,415 --> 00:57:50,811
URIAH TOOK THEM
TO THEIR NEW HOME,
916
00:57:50,836 --> 00:57:53,631
BUILT FROM PRAIRIE SOD
WITH HIS OWN HANDS,
917
00:57:53,656 --> 00:57:55,647
TO BEGIN THEIR NEW LIFE.
918
00:58:00,791 --> 00:58:02,764
DEAR MOTHER AND FATHER --
919
00:58:02,789 --> 00:58:06,347
AT HOME IN OUR HOUSE AND A SOD AT THAT!
920
00:58:06,372 --> 00:58:08,279
WE MOVED IN LAST WEDNESDAY -- URIAH'S BIRTHDAY.
921
00:58:08,304 --> 00:58:13,843
IT IS NOT QUITE SO CONVENIENT AS A NICE FRAME,
922
00:58:13,868 --> 00:58:18,068
BUT I WOULD AS SOON LIVE IN IT AS THE CABINS I HAVE LIVED IN.
923
00:58:18,093 --> 00:58:19,881
I RIPPED OUR WAGON SHEET IN TWO,
924
00:58:19,906 --> 00:58:23,045
HAVE IT AROUND THE SIDES AND HAVE SEVERAL PAPERS UP.
925
00:58:23,070 --> 00:58:24,800
IT LOOKS REAL SWELL.
926
00:58:25,746 --> 00:58:29,576
THE ONLY OBJECTION I HAVE IS THAT WE HAVE NO FLOOR YET --
927
00:58:30,778 --> 00:58:32,388
MATTIE OBLINGER.
928
00:58:33,326 --> 00:58:36,920
Uriah: WHAT A PLEASUREIT IS TO WORK ON ONE'S OWN FARM
929
00:58:36,945 --> 00:58:41,061
FOR YOU CAN FEEL THAT IT'SYOURS AND NOT FOR SOMEONE ELSE.
930
00:58:41,903 --> 00:58:44,733
I WOULD RATHER LIVE AS WE DO THAN HAVE TO RENT
931
00:58:44,758 --> 00:58:47,608
AND HAVE SOMEONE BOSSING US AND TELLING US WHEN TO MOVE...
932
00:58:47,633 --> 00:58:49,842
Mattie: WE HAVE JUST COME IN FROM THE TRUCK PATCH
933
00:58:49,867 --> 00:58:52,193
AND FOUND THE GOPHERS HAD ABOUT CLEANED THE PEAS
934
00:58:52,218 --> 00:58:53,731
OFF ALL THE VINES,
935
00:58:53,756 --> 00:58:56,530
BUT OUR SQUASH VINES ARE FULL OF BLOOM.
936
00:58:56,555 --> 00:58:58,023
WE BROUGHT IN BEETS JUST NOW
937
00:58:58,048 --> 00:59:00,398
THAT MEASURED ONE FOOT IN CIRCUMFERENCE
938
00:59:00,423 --> 00:59:01,647
AND POTATOES ALMOST AS LARGE AS A GOOSE EGG...
939
00:59:01,672 --> 00:59:04,483
Ella: DEAR GRANDPA -- I HAVE LEARNED MY LETTERS
940
00:59:04,508 --> 00:59:09,304
AND CAN SPELL "AX" AND "CAT" AND "DOG" AND "GIRL."
941
00:59:09,329 --> 00:59:13,154
I BOTHER MA AND PA CONSIDERABLE TO GET THEM TO LEARN ME.
942
00:59:13,179 --> 00:59:16,076
I AM LEARNING "TWINKLE, TWINKLE, LITTLE STAR."
943
00:59:16,101 --> 00:59:18,621
LOTS OF LOVE AND KISSES -- ELLA.
944
00:59:19,915 --> 00:59:21,568
Mattie: URIAH IS REPAIRING THE MINUTES
945
00:59:21,593 --> 00:59:23,752
OF THE LAST LITERARY SOCIETY
946
00:59:23,777 --> 00:59:26,139
WHICH WAS HELD LAST SATURDAY NIGHT.
947
00:59:26,164 --> 00:59:28,936
THEY HAVE SOME BIG TIMES DEBATING.
948
00:59:28,961 --> 00:59:32,011
I GO ONCE IN A WHILE TO HEAR THEM SPOUT.
949
00:59:32,549 --> 00:59:35,263
WE HAD RATHER A NICE TIME OVER THE HOLIDAYS.
950
00:59:35,288 --> 00:59:37,256
WE HAD A CHRISTMAS TREE AT THE SCHOOLHOUSE...
951
00:59:37,281 --> 00:59:40,068
Ella: WE ALL WENT TO ACHRISTMAS TREE ON CHRISTMAS EVE
952
00:59:40,093 --> 00:59:44,170
AND EACH OF US GIRLS GOT A NEW RED DRESS, AND A DOLL,
953
00:59:44,195 --> 00:59:47,248
AND A STRING WITH CANDY AND RAISINS ON IT.
954
00:59:47,273 --> 00:59:49,533
FROM YOUR GRANDCHILD -- ELLA.
955
00:59:51,151 --> 00:59:52,772
Mattie: I SUPPOSE YOU WOULD LIKE TO KNOW
956
00:59:52,797 --> 00:59:55,313
IF WE HAVE BEEN GRASSHOPPERED AGAIN.
957
00:59:55,338 --> 00:59:57,717
THEY WERE HERE SEVERAL DAYS PRETTY THICK
958
00:59:57,742 --> 01:00:00,644
AND INJURED THE CORN CONSIDERABLE.
959
01:00:00,669 --> 01:00:02,897
NEBRASKA WOULD HAVE HAD A SPLENDID CROP
960
01:00:02,922 --> 01:00:05,381
IF THE GRASSHOPPERS HAD STAYED AWAY A WHILE --
961
01:00:06,194 --> 01:00:10,764
MATTIE OBLINGER.
962
01:00:12,218 --> 01:00:14,358
Narrator: THE OBLINGERS HAD
TWO MORE DAUGHTERS,
963
01:00:14,383 --> 01:00:16,460
STELLA AND MAGGIE,
964
01:00:16,485 --> 01:00:18,631
BUT AFTER SIX YEARS
ON THE PRAIRIE,
965
01:00:18,656 --> 01:00:20,990
THINGS HAD NOT GOTTEN EASIER.
966
01:00:21,662 --> 01:00:25,756
AND BY 1879,
MATTIE WAS PREGNANT AGAIN.
967
01:00:28,653 --> 01:00:32,647
SHE WAS CONFINED TUESDAY EVENING ABOUT 4:00,
968
01:00:33,497 --> 01:00:36,733
AND ABOUT 8:00 SHE TOOK A FIT VERY SUDDEN
969
01:00:36,758 --> 01:00:40,238
AND NEVER SPOKE AFTER THE FIRST ONE.
970
01:00:41,434 --> 01:00:45,006
THE DOCTORS WERE COMPELLEDTO PERFORM A SURGICAL OPERATION
971
01:00:45,031 --> 01:00:47,741
BY RELIEVING HER OF THE CHILD.
972
01:00:49,959 --> 01:00:52,139
THE LORD CALLED FOR SISTER MATTIE
973
01:00:52,164 --> 01:00:55,034
THIS EVENING AT 4:15.
974
01:00:55,059 --> 01:00:59,272
AND SHE IS NOW RESTING WITH THE ANGELS IN HEAVEN.
975
01:01:01,107 --> 01:01:05,029
THE CHILD IS ALSO DEAD AND WILL BE BURIED WITH HER
976
01:01:05,054 --> 01:01:06,824
SOME TIME SUNDAY.
977
01:01:07,834 --> 01:01:11,826
URIAH SAID HE COULD NOT STAND TO WRITE NOW.
978
01:01:12,803 --> 01:01:15,647
I DON'T KNOW WHAT HE WILL DO YET.
979
01:01:15,672 --> 01:01:18,459
IT'S LEFT HIM AND HIS THREE LITTLE GIRLS
980
01:01:18,484 --> 01:01:22,584
IN A SAD CONDITION -- WITHOUT A MOTHER --
981
01:01:22,663 --> 01:01:26,693
GILES S. THOMAS.
982
01:01:28,062 --> 01:01:30,381
Uriah:
DEAR FATHER AND MOTHER --
983
01:01:30,406 --> 01:01:33,131
I TRY TO BEAR THE TROUBLE CHEERFULLY,
984
01:01:33,156 --> 01:01:36,897
THOUGH THE TASK IS HARD AT TIMES.
985
01:01:36,922 --> 01:01:40,154
I HARDLY KNOW HOW TO MANAGE.
986
01:01:45,343 --> 01:01:48,928
Narrator: URIAH EVENTUALLY TOOK
THE TRAIN BACK EAST TO MINNESOTA
987
01:01:48,953 --> 01:01:50,483
AND REMARRIED,
988
01:01:51,503 --> 01:01:53,889
BUT HE NEVER GAVE UP HIS DREAM.
989
01:01:55,250 --> 01:01:58,412
HE RETURNED TO THE PLAINS
TO START OVER --
990
01:01:58,437 --> 01:02:02,733
NEBRASKA, THEN KANSAS,
THEN NEBRASKA AGAIN.
991
01:02:04,623 --> 01:02:07,889
HE SPENT THE LAST FEW MONTHS
OF HIS LIFE BEING CARED FOR
992
01:02:07,914 --> 01:02:12,715
BY HIS DAUGHTER, ELLA --
THE SAME GIRL, NOW GROWN,
993
01:02:12,740 --> 01:02:16,303
HE HAD ONCE BEEN SO ANXIOUS
TO BRING OUT TO NEBRASKA,
994
01:02:16,328 --> 01:02:18,668
WITH HER MOTHER.
995
01:02:22,621 --> 01:02:27,051
[ COWS MOOING ]
996
01:02:28,816 --> 01:02:30,990
HERE WAS ALL THESE CHEAP LONG-HORNED STEERS
997
01:02:31,015 --> 01:02:32,745
OVERRUNNING TEXAS.
998
01:02:33,317 --> 01:02:34,717
AND HERE WAS THE REST OF THE COUNTRY
999
01:02:34,742 --> 01:02:36,397
CRYING OUT FOR BEEF --
1000
01:02:36,422 --> 01:02:39,012
AND NO RAILROADS TO GET THEM OUT.
1001
01:02:39,274 --> 01:02:41,154
SO THEY TRAILED THEM OUT,
1002
01:02:41,179 --> 01:02:43,975
ACROSS HUNDREDS OF MILES OF WILD COUNTRY --
1003
01:02:44,772 --> 01:02:46,652
TEDDY "BLUE" ABBOTT.
1004
01:02:48,682 --> 01:02:51,052
Narrator: FROM THE SOUTHERNMOST
TIP OF TEXAS,
1005
01:02:51,077 --> 01:02:53,669
CATTLE TRAILS POINTED NORTH --
1006
01:02:53,694 --> 01:02:58,564
THE SHAWNEE, THE CHISHOLM, THE
WESTERN, THE GOODNIGHT-LOVING.
1007
01:02:59,070 --> 01:03:01,192
THEY ALL LED TO RAILHEADS,
1008
01:03:01,217 --> 01:03:03,629
WHERE THE CATTLE WERE LOADED
INTO FREIGHT CARS
1009
01:03:03,654 --> 01:03:06,054
BOUND FOR EASTERN MARKETS.
1010
01:03:06,986 --> 01:03:08,756
IN LESS THAN TWO DECADES,
1011
01:03:08,781 --> 01:03:12,584
SIX MILLION STEERS AND COWS
WERE HERDED NORTH.
1012
01:03:12,609 --> 01:03:14,879
"SO MANY,"
ONE TRAIL DRIVER SAID,
1013
01:03:14,904 --> 01:03:19,004
"THAT IN PLACES THE DUST
WAS KNEE-DEEP TO THE CATTLE."
1014
01:03:20,463 --> 01:03:22,715
THE MEN WHO BROUGHT THEM
TO THE RAILROADS
1015
01:03:22,740 --> 01:03:25,990
WERE GIVEN A NEW NAME --
COWBOYS.
1016
01:03:27,159 --> 01:03:31,314
THEY WERE A MIXED GROUP --
FORMER CONFEDERATE CAVALRY MEN
1017
01:03:31,339 --> 01:03:35,168
AND IMMIGRANTS WHO HAD ONLY
RECENTLY LEARNED TO RIDE.
1018
01:03:35,193 --> 01:03:39,207
THERE WERE INDIAN COWBOYS
AND AFRICAN-AMERICANS,
1019
01:03:39,232 --> 01:03:41,918
AND MEXICAN VAQUEROS,
WHOSE ANCESTORS
1020
01:03:41,943 --> 01:03:45,598
HAD INTRODUCED CATTLE
TO THE WEST CENTURIES EARLIER.
1021
01:03:47,525 --> 01:03:49,723
"A COWBOY,"
ONE WESTERNER OBSERVED,
1022
01:03:49,748 --> 01:03:51,817
"IS JUST A PLAIN BOWLEGGED HUMAN
1023
01:03:51,842 --> 01:03:55,852
WHO SMELLED VERY HORSY
AT TIMES."
1024
01:03:59,089 --> 01:04:00,973
IN PERSON, THE COWBOYS WERE MOSTLY
1025
01:04:00,998 --> 01:04:04,535
MEDIUM-SIZED MEN, QUICK AND WIRY,
1026
01:04:04,560 --> 01:04:07,420
AND AS A RULE, VERY GOOD-NATURED.
1027
01:04:07,445 --> 01:04:10,614
IN FACT, IT DID NOT PAY TO BE ANYTHING ELSE.
1028
01:04:10,639 --> 01:04:14,309
IN CHARACTER, THEIR LIKE NEVER WAS OR WILL BE AGAIN --
1029
01:04:15,040 --> 01:04:16,332
TEDDY "BLUE" ABBOTT.
1030
01:04:18,614 --> 01:04:22,168
Narrator: EDWARD C. ABBOTT
WAS BORN IN CRANWICH, ENGLAND,
1031
01:04:22,193 --> 01:04:25,598
AND BROUGHT TO THE WEST
BY HIS PARENTS AS A BOY.
1032
01:04:26,863 --> 01:04:29,903
HOPING THE OPEN AIR WOULD
IMPROVE HIS FRAIL HEALTH,
1033
01:04:29,928 --> 01:04:32,723
HIS FATHER LET HIM HELP DRIVE
A HERD OF CATTLE
1034
01:04:32,748 --> 01:04:36,858
FROM TEXAS TO NEBRASKA
WHEN HE WAS JUST 10 YEARS OLD.
1035
01:04:38,137 --> 01:04:40,153
"THE EXPERIENCE,"
ABBOTT SAID LATER,
1036
01:04:40,178 --> 01:04:42,497
"MADE A COWBOY OUT OF ME.
1037
01:04:42,522 --> 01:04:45,489
NOTHING COULD HAVE CHANGED ME
AFTER THAT."
1038
01:04:46,873 --> 01:04:49,028
Abbott: MY FAMILY AND I WENT SEPARATE WAYS,
1039
01:04:49,053 --> 01:04:51,803
AND THEY STAYED SEPARATE FOREVER AFTER.
1040
01:04:52,949 --> 01:04:54,974
MY FATHER WAS ALL FOR FARMING,
1041
01:04:54,999 --> 01:04:58,278
AND ALL MY BROTHERS TURNED OUT FARMERS EXCEPT ONE,
1042
01:04:58,303 --> 01:05:00,707
AND HE ENDED UP THE WORST OF THE LOT --
1043
01:05:00,732 --> 01:05:03,793
A SHEEPMAN, AND A REPUBLICAN.
1044
01:05:06,059 --> 01:05:10,182
Narrator: THE COWBOYS'
AVERAGE AGE WAS 24.
1045
01:05:10,207 --> 01:05:13,809
THEY WERE PAID SO BADLY
AND WORKED SO HARD
1046
01:05:13,834 --> 01:05:16,895
THAT TWO-THIRDS OF THEM
MADE ONLY ONE TRAIL DRIVE
1047
01:05:16,920 --> 01:05:19,590
BEFORE FINDING
SOMETHING BETTER TO DO.
1048
01:05:20,599 --> 01:05:23,754
THEY OWNED THEIR SADDLE,
BUT NOT THE HORSE THEY RODE --
1049
01:05:23,779 --> 01:05:26,589
AND THEY RODE IT DAY AND NIGHT.
1050
01:05:28,455 --> 01:05:31,001
FOR A MAN TO BE STOVE UP AT 30
1051
01:05:31,026 --> 01:05:34,055
MAY SOUND STRANGE TO SOME PEOPLE,
1052
01:05:34,080 --> 01:05:37,075
BUT MANY A COWBOY HAS BEEN SO BUNGED UP
1053
01:05:37,100 --> 01:05:40,801
THAT HE'S HAD TO QUIT RIDING THAT EARLY IN LIFE.
1054
01:05:40,826 --> 01:05:45,504
MY ADVICE TO ANY YOUNG MAN OR BOY IS TO STAY AT HOME
1055
01:05:45,529 --> 01:05:49,707
AND NOT BE A RAMBLER,AS IT WON'T BUY YOU ANYTHING --
1056
01:05:50,046 --> 01:05:52,446
JAMES EMMIT McCAULEY.
1057
01:05:53,230 --> 01:05:55,647
[ THUNDER CRASHES ]
1058
01:05:55,672 --> 01:05:58,801
Abbott: IF A STORM COMEAND THE CATTLE STARTED RUNNING,
1059
01:05:58,826 --> 01:06:01,777
YOU'D HEAR THAT LOW RUMBLING NOISE ALONG THE GROUND.
1060
01:06:01,802 --> 01:06:04,582
THEN YOU'D JUMP FOR YOUR HORSE AND GET OUT THERE IN THE LEAD,
1061
01:06:04,607 --> 01:06:06,293
TRYING TO HEAD THEM AND GET THEM INTO A MILL
1062
01:06:06,318 --> 01:06:08,788
BEFORE THEY SCATTERED TO HELL AND GONE.
1063
01:06:10,173 --> 01:06:12,548
IT WAS RIDING AT A DEAD RUN IN THE DARK,
1064
01:06:12,573 --> 01:06:15,196
WITH CUT BANKS AND PRAIRIE DOG HOLES ALL AROUND YOU,
1065
01:06:15,221 --> 01:06:16,555
NOT KNOWING IF THE NEXT JUMP
1066
01:06:16,580 --> 01:06:19,010
WOULD LAND YOU IN A SHALLOW GRAVE.
1067
01:06:21,758 --> 01:06:27,180
♪ I RIDE AN OLD PAINT
AND I LEAD AN OLD DAN ♪
1068
01:06:27,205 --> 01:06:32,383
♪ I'M GOIN' TO MONTANA
TO THROW THE HOOLIHAN ♪
1069
01:06:33,188 --> 01:06:35,482
Abbott: THE SINGING WAS SUPPOSED TO SOOTHE THE CATTLE,
1070
01:06:35,507 --> 01:06:37,007
AND IT DID.
1071
01:06:37,475 --> 01:06:39,075
THE TWO MEN ON GUARD WOULD CIRCLE AROUND
1072
01:06:39,100 --> 01:06:41,587
WITH THEIR HORSES ON A WALK, IF IT WAS A CLEAR NIGHT
1073
01:06:41,612 --> 01:06:43,734
AND THE CATTLE WAS BEDDED DOWN AND QUIET,
1074
01:06:43,759 --> 01:06:45,462
AND ONE MAN WOULD SING A VERSE OF A SONG,
1075
01:06:45,487 --> 01:06:47,071
AND HIS PARTNER ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE HERD
1076
01:06:47,096 --> 01:06:48,546
WOULD SING ANOTHER VERSE.
1077
01:06:48,571 --> 01:06:50,741
AND YOU'D GO THROUGH A WHOLE SONG THAT WAY.
1078
01:06:52,923 --> 01:06:55,899
I HAD A CRACKERJACK OF A PARTNER IN '79.
1079
01:06:55,924 --> 01:06:57,243
I'D SING AND HE'D ANSWER,
1080
01:06:57,268 --> 01:07:00,102
AND WE'D KEEP IT UP LIKE THAT FOR TWO HOURS.
1081
01:07:00,127 --> 01:07:02,777
BUT HE WAS KILLED BY LIGHTNING.
1082
01:07:04,198 --> 01:07:07,227
Narrator: AFTER UP TO FOUR
STRAIGHT MONTHS IN THE SADDLE,
1083
01:07:07,252 --> 01:07:09,902
OFTEN IN THE SAME CLOTHES
EVERY DAY,
1084
01:07:09,927 --> 01:07:12,532
EATING EVERY MEAL
AT THE CHUCK WAGON,
1085
01:07:12,557 --> 01:07:15,110
DRINKING NOTHING
BUT COFFEE AND WATER,
1086
01:07:15,135 --> 01:07:17,885
THE COWBOY'S JOB
WAS FINALLY DONE --
1087
01:07:17,910 --> 01:07:21,950
HE WAS PAID FOR HIS WORK,
AND TURNED LOOSE IN TOWN.
1088
01:07:23,180 --> 01:07:25,795
♪ NOW COME ALONG BOYS
AND LISTEN TO MY TALE ♪
1089
01:07:25,820 --> 01:07:27,118
♪ AND I'LL TELL YOU
OF MY TROUBLES ♪
1090
01:07:27,143 --> 01:07:28,429
♪ ON THE CHISHOLM TRAIL ♪
1091
01:07:28,454 --> 01:07:30,974
♪ COME-A TI-YI-YIPPY
YIPPY-YI YIPPY-YAY ♪
1092
01:07:30,999 --> 01:07:33,545
♪ COME-A TI-YI-YIPPY
YIPPY-YAY ♪
1093
01:07:33,570 --> 01:07:36,420
♪ I STARTED UP THE TRAIL
OCTOBER 23rd ♪
1094
01:07:36,445 --> 01:07:38,712
♪ LEFT OLD TEXAS
WITH A TWO-MULE HERD ♪
1095
01:07:38,737 --> 01:07:41,256
♪ COME-A TI-YI-YIPPY
YIPPY-YI YIPPY-YAY ♪
1096
01:07:41,281 --> 01:07:43,844
♪ COME-A TI-YI-YIPPY
YIPPY-YAY ♪♪
1097
01:07:49,433 --> 01:07:50,103
[ FLASHBULB POPS ]
1098
01:07:51,892 --> 01:07:56,255
[ FLASHBULB POPS ]
1099
01:07:56,280 --> 01:07:57,454
Abbott:
I BOUGHT SOME NEW CLOTHES
1100
01:07:57,479 --> 01:07:58,868
AND GOT MY PICTURE TAKEN.
1101
01:07:58,893 --> 01:08:01,657
I HAD A NEW, WHITE STETSON HAT THAT I PAID $10 FOR
1102
01:08:01,682 --> 01:08:06,592
AND NEW PANTS THAT COST $12 AND A GOOD SHIRT AND FANCY BOOTS.
1103
01:08:06,617 --> 01:08:08,860
LORD, I WAS PROUD OF THOSE CLOTHES!
1104
01:08:10,033 --> 01:08:11,407
WHEN MY SISTER SAW ME, SHE SAID,
1105
01:08:11,432 --> 01:08:13,383
"TAKE YOUR PANTS OUT OF YOUR BOOTS AND PUT YOUR COAT ON.
1106
01:08:13,408 --> 01:08:15,098
YOU LOOK LIKE AN OUTLAW."
1107
01:08:15,846 --> 01:08:17,266
I TOLD HER TO GO TO HELL,
1108
01:08:18,069 --> 01:08:20,313
AND I NEVER DID LIKE HER AFTER THAT.
1109
01:08:23,868 --> 01:08:26,141
Narrator:
COWBOYS WERE BIG SPENDERS,
1110
01:08:27,157 --> 01:08:29,110
BUT WHILE BUSINESSES PROFITED,
1111
01:08:29,135 --> 01:08:31,594
ALL THE COW TOWNS
SOON BECAME WILDER
1112
01:08:31,619 --> 01:08:33,915
THAN THEIR
PERMANENT RESIDENTS LIKED.
1113
01:08:35,106 --> 01:08:36,984
Man: "ABILENE CHRONICLE."
1114
01:08:37,009 --> 01:08:40,252
THE MARSHAL HAS POSTED UP PRINTED NOTICES,
1115
01:08:40,277 --> 01:08:42,383
INFORMING ALL PERSONS THAT THE ORDINANCE
1116
01:08:42,408 --> 01:08:46,219
AGAINST CARRYING FIREARMS OR OTHER WEAPONS IN ABILENE
1117
01:08:46,244 --> 01:08:49,507
WILL BE ENFORCED. THAT'S RIGHT.
1118
01:08:49,532 --> 01:08:51,751
THERE'S NO BRAVERY IN CARRYING REVOLVERS
1119
01:08:51,776 --> 01:08:53,776
IN A CIVILIZED COMMUNITY.
1120
01:08:55,930 --> 01:08:58,610
Narrator: GUN-CONTROL ORDINANCES
WERE COMMON.
1121
01:08:58,635 --> 01:09:02,594
COWBOYS WHO INSISTED ON CARRYING
THEIR SIX-SHOOTERS IN TOWN
1122
01:09:02,619 --> 01:09:05,569
RISKED FINES AND IMPRISONMENT.
1123
01:09:06,545 --> 01:09:08,889
TO MAKE SURE THE LAWS
WERE OBEYED,
1124
01:09:08,914 --> 01:09:12,891
SOME COW TOWNS RESORTED
TO HIRING NOTORIOUS GUNMEN --
1125
01:09:12,916 --> 01:09:16,438
WYATT EARP, BAT MASTERSON,
AND WILD BILL HICKOK --
1126
01:09:16,463 --> 01:09:18,053
TO KEEP THE PEACE.
1127
01:09:19,802 --> 01:09:23,360
Man: MORALLY, AS A CLASS, COWBOYS ARE FOULMOUTHED,
1128
01:09:23,385 --> 01:09:27,555
BLASPHEMOUS, DRUNKEN, LECHEROUS, UTTERLY CORRUPT.
1129
01:09:28,571 --> 01:09:31,188
USUALLY HARMLESS ON THE PLAINS WHEN SOBER,
1130
01:09:31,213 --> 01:09:33,110
THEY ARE DREADED IN THE TOWNS,
1131
01:09:33,135 --> 01:09:36,243
FOR THEN LIQUOR HAS AN ASCENDANCY OVER THEM --
1132
01:09:36,902 --> 01:09:38,938
"CHEYENNE DAILY LEADER."
1133
01:09:40,315 --> 01:09:42,157
Narrator:
ONE BY ONE, THE COW TOWNS
1134
01:09:42,182 --> 01:09:45,633
WOULD DECLARE THEMSELVES
OFF-LIMITS TO THE TEXAS HERDS
1135
01:09:45,658 --> 01:09:48,186
AND THE COWBOYS WHO CAME
WITH THEM.
1136
01:09:48,211 --> 01:09:49,121
[ GUNSHOT ]
1137
01:09:49,769 --> 01:09:51,841
Abbott: THEN I WENT HOME.
1138
01:09:51,866 --> 01:09:54,881
AFTER I GOT HOME MY FATHER SAID TO ME ONE NIGHT,
1139
01:09:54,906 --> 01:09:58,680
"YOU CAN TAKE OLD MORGAN AND PLOW THE WEST RIDGE TOMORROW."
1140
01:09:58,705 --> 01:10:01,290
LIKE HELL I'D PLOW THE WEST RIDGE.
1141
01:10:01,876 --> 01:10:06,146
AND WHEN MY FATHER WOKE UP NEXT MORNING, TEDDY WAS GONE.
1142
01:10:16,884 --> 01:10:19,376
I CROSS THE LARAMIE PLAINS.
1143
01:10:20,542 --> 01:10:24,393
I SEE IN GLIMPSES AFAR OR TOWERING IMMEDIATELY ABOVE ME
1144
01:10:24,418 --> 01:10:27,454
THE GREAT MOUNTAINS.
1145
01:10:27,479 --> 01:10:31,290
I SEE THE WIND RIVER AND THE WASATCH MOUNTAINS.
1146
01:10:31,315 --> 01:10:35,750
I SEE THE MONUMENT MOUNTAIN AND THE EAGLE'S NEST.
1147
01:10:35,775 --> 01:10:40,417
I PASS THE PROMONTORY. I ASCEND THE NEVADAS.
1148
01:10:40,442 --> 01:10:43,305
I SEE THE CLEAR WATERS OF LAKE TAHOE.
1149
01:10:44,103 --> 01:10:47,263
I SEE FORESTS OF MAJESTIC PINES.
1150
01:10:48,055 --> 01:10:50,055
MARCHING THROUGH THESE AND AFTER ALL
1151
01:10:50,080 --> 01:10:52,580
IN DUPLICATE SLENDER LINES,
1152
01:10:53,917 --> 01:10:57,673
BRIDGING THE THREE OR FOUR THOUSAND MILES OF LAND TRAVEL,
1153
01:10:57,698 --> 01:11:01,338
TYING THE EASTERN TO THE WESTERN SEA,
1154
01:11:01,363 --> 01:11:05,001
THE ROAD BETWEEN EUROPE AND ASIA --
1155
01:11:06,263 --> 01:11:08,485
WALT WHITMAN.
1156
01:11:12,282 --> 01:11:14,235
Narrator: FROM THE TIME
OF COLUMBUS,
1157
01:11:14,260 --> 01:11:17,298
EXPLORERS HAD SEARCHED IN VAIN
FOR A PASSAGE
1158
01:11:17,323 --> 01:11:20,883
THAT WOULD CONNECT THE ATLANTIC
WITH THE PACIFIC.
1159
01:11:22,664 --> 01:11:26,898
THE CENTURIES-OLD DREAM
HAD FINALLY COME TRUE.
1160
01:11:26,923 --> 01:11:31,735
NO SUCH PASSAGE EXISTED,
SO THE AMERICANS HAD BUILT ONE.
1161
01:11:33,071 --> 01:11:37,493
[ TRAIN ENGINE PUFFING ]
1162
01:11:38,883 --> 01:11:42,633
Watkins: IF YOU WERE LOOKING
FOR THE DEFINITIVE SYMBOL
1163
01:11:42,658 --> 01:11:47,924
OF THE CONFLICT BETWEEN
THE CULTURES THAT HAD EXISTED
1164
01:11:47,949 --> 01:11:51,938
IN THE AMERICAN WEST
FOR AT LEAST 10,000 YEARS,
1165
01:11:51,963 --> 01:11:53,477
AND MAYBE LONGER,
1166
01:11:54,566 --> 01:11:57,568
AND THE CULTURE
THAT WAS JUST A-BUILDING
1167
01:11:57,593 --> 01:11:59,708
EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER,
1168
01:11:59,733 --> 01:12:02,934
THIS CULTURE OF TECHNOLOGY,
OF COMMERCE,
1169
01:12:02,959 --> 01:12:06,269
OF GRASPING AFTER TOMORROW
BEFORE IT ARRIVES,
1170
01:12:07,649 --> 01:12:11,579
YOU COULDN'T COME UP
WITH TWO MORE POWERFUL SYMBOLS
1171
01:12:11,604 --> 01:12:14,391
THAN THE RAILROAD
AND THE BUFFALO,
1172
01:12:14,416 --> 01:12:18,251
BECAUSE WHEN THE RAILROAD
MET THE BUFFALO,
1173
01:12:18,276 --> 01:12:21,496
THE IRON AGE MET THE STONE AGE.
1174
01:12:23,214 --> 01:12:27,602
THE MACHINE ARRIVED
IN THE GARDEN,
1175
01:12:27,627 --> 01:12:30,485
AND THE WEST
WAS CHANGED FOREVER.
1176
01:12:43,931 --> 01:12:46,352
Momaday: THERE WAS A MAN
WHO KILLED A BUFFALO BULL
1177
01:12:46,377 --> 01:12:49,977
TO NO PURPOSE, ONLY HE WANTED
ITS BLOOD ON HIS HANDS.
1178
01:12:51,071 --> 01:12:55,015
IT WAS A GREAT, OLD NOBLE BEAST,
1179
01:12:55,040 --> 01:12:58,274
AND IT WAS A LONG TIME
BLOWING ITS LIFE AWAY.
1180
01:13:00,594 --> 01:13:02,251
ON THE EDGE OF THE NIGHT,
1181
01:13:02,276 --> 01:13:04,040
THE PEOPLE
GATHERED THEMSELVES UP
1182
01:13:04,065 --> 01:13:06,465
IN THEIR GRIEF AND SHAME.
1183
01:13:08,450 --> 01:13:09,751
AWAY IN THE WEST,
1184
01:13:09,776 --> 01:13:13,173
THEY COULD SEE THE HUMP
AND SPINE OF THE HUGE BEAST
1185
01:13:13,198 --> 01:13:16,751
WHICH LAY DYING
ALONG THE EDGE OF THE WORLD.
1186
01:13:18,223 --> 01:13:21,469
THEY COULD SEE ITS BRIGHT BLOOD
RUN INTO THE SKY
1187
01:13:21,494 --> 01:13:25,840
WHERE IT DRIED, DARKENING,
AND WAS AT LAST FLECKED
1188
01:13:25,865 --> 01:13:28,227
WITH FLAKES OF LIGHT.
1189
01:13:31,484 --> 01:13:34,032
[ GUNSHOT ]
1190
01:13:34,693 --> 01:13:35,938
THE THING WE HAD TO HAVE,
1191
01:13:35,963 --> 01:13:40,845
WE BUSINESSMEN WITH RIFLES, WAS ONE SHOT KILLS.
1192
01:13:40,870 --> 01:13:42,219
WE BASED OUR SUCCESS
1193
01:13:42,244 --> 01:13:45,524
ON THE OVERWHELMING STUPIDITY OF THE BUFFALO,
1194
01:13:45,549 --> 01:13:49,587
UNQUESTIONABLY THE STUPIDEST GAME ANIMAL IN THE WORLD.
1195
01:13:49,612 --> 01:13:53,423
IF YOU WOUNDED THE LEADER, THE REST OF HER HERD,
1196
01:13:53,448 --> 01:13:55,743
WHETHER IT WAS THREE OR THIRTY,
1197
01:13:55,768 --> 01:13:58,821
WOULD GATHER AROUND HER AND STUPIDLY MILL.
1198
01:13:58,983 --> 01:14:01,055
[ GUNSHOT ]
1199
01:14:01,080 --> 01:14:05,493
ALL YOU HAD TO DO WAS PICK THEM OFF ONE BY ONE.
1200
01:14:05,518 --> 01:14:10,376
I ONCE TOOK 269 HIDES WITH 300 CARTRIDGES.
1201
01:14:11,390 --> 01:14:12,650
[ GUNSHOT ]
1202
01:14:12,675 --> 01:14:14,186
ADVENTUROUS?
1203
01:14:14,211 --> 01:14:17,813
NO MORE THAN SHOOTINGA BEEF CRITTER IN THE BARNYARD.
1204
01:14:17,838 --> 01:14:21,415
IT WAS A HARVEST. WE WERE THE HARVESTERS --
1205
01:14:22,709 --> 01:14:24,188
FRANK H. MAYER.
1206
01:14:24,213 --> 01:14:28,462
[ GUNSHOTS ]
1207
01:14:36,391 --> 01:14:38,757
Narrator: FRANK MAYER
AND THOUSANDS OF OTHER
1208
01:14:38,782 --> 01:14:41,673
BUFFALO HUNTERS
SWARMED ONTO THE PLAINS.
1209
01:14:42,508 --> 01:14:44,876
SOME STOPPED SHOOTING
JUST LONG ENOUGH
1210
01:14:44,901 --> 01:14:47,415
TO COOL THEIR OVER-HEATED
RIFLE BARRELS
1211
01:14:47,440 --> 01:14:49,370
WITH CANTEENS OF WATER.
1212
01:14:49,805 --> 01:14:51,391
WHEN THE WATER RAN OUT,
1213
01:14:51,416 --> 01:14:55,576
THEY URINATED DOWN THE BARREL
AND KEPT SHOOTING.
1214
01:14:57,454 --> 01:15:00,821
UP AND DOWN THE PLAINS THOSE MEN RANGED.
1215
01:15:01,508 --> 01:15:05,399
BEHIND THEM CAME THE SKINNERS WITH THEIR WAGONS.
1216
01:15:06,167 --> 01:15:09,380
THEY PILED THE HIDES AND BONES INTO THE WAGONS
1217
01:15:09,405 --> 01:15:11,055
UNTIL THEY WERE FULL,
1218
01:15:11,080 --> 01:15:14,904
AND THEN TOOK THEIR LOADS TO THE NEW RAILROAD STATIONS
1219
01:15:14,929 --> 01:15:17,189
TO BE SHIPPED EAST TO MARKET.
1220
01:15:18,689 --> 01:15:23,641
SOMETIMES THERE WOULD BE APILE OF BONES AS HIGH AS A MAN,
1221
01:15:23,666 --> 01:15:27,657
STRETCHING A MILE ALONG THE RAILROAD TRACK --
1222
01:15:28,580 --> 01:15:30,352
OLD LADY HORSE.
1223
01:15:32,493 --> 01:15:35,462
Narrator: THIRTY-TWO MILLION
POUNDS OF BUFFALO BONES
1224
01:15:35,487 --> 01:15:38,813
MADE THEIR WAY FROM THE PLAINS
TO EASTERN FACTORIES,
1225
01:15:38,838 --> 01:15:41,930
WHERE THEY WERE GROUND
INTO FERTILIZER.
1226
01:15:43,299 --> 01:15:48,352
BUFFALO HORNS WERE TURNED INTO
BUTTONS, COMBS, KNIFE HANDLES.
1227
01:15:49,144 --> 01:15:51,344
HOOVES BECAME GLUE.
1228
01:15:54,204 --> 01:15:57,819
ALL ACROSS WESTERN KANSAS,
THE SLAUGHTER WENT ON --
1229
01:15:57,844 --> 01:16:01,321
PERHAPS AS MANY
AS THREE MILLION BUFFALO KILLED
1230
01:16:01,346 --> 01:16:04,618
IN THE TWO YEARS SINCE
THE COMING OF THE RAILROAD.
1231
01:16:07,680 --> 01:16:11,257
WHERE THERE WERE MYRIADS OF BUFFALO THE YEAR BEFORE
1232
01:16:11,282 --> 01:16:13,782
THERE WERE NOW MYRIADS OF CARCASSES.
1233
01:16:14,698 --> 01:16:17,809
THE AIR WAS FOUL WITH A SICKENING STENCH,
1234
01:16:17,834 --> 01:16:19,269
AND THE VAST PLAIN,
1235
01:16:19,294 --> 01:16:23,762
WHICH ONLY A SHORT TWELVEMONTHBEFORE TEEMED WITH ANIMAL LIFE,
1236
01:16:25,060 --> 01:16:28,660
WAS A DEAD, SOLITARY, PUTRID DESERT --
1237
01:16:29,434 --> 01:16:33,434
COL. RICHARD IRVING DODGE.
1238
01:16:36,677 --> 01:16:38,441
Narrator: MANY AMERICANS
GREW ALARMED
1239
01:16:38,466 --> 01:16:40,160
AT THE EXTENT OF THE SLAUGHTER.
1240
01:16:41,035 --> 01:16:43,472
IN THE SPRING OF 1874,
1241
01:16:43,497 --> 01:16:47,160
CONGRESS PASSED A LAW
TO PROTECT THE BUFFALO,
1242
01:16:47,185 --> 01:16:50,824
BUT PRESIDENT ULYSSES S. GRANT
REFUSED TO SIGN IT,
1243
01:16:50,849 --> 01:16:53,089
AND THE KILLING CONTINUED.
1244
01:16:54,232 --> 01:16:57,285
HUNTERS HAD ALREADY
MOVED SOUTH OF KANSAS,
1245
01:16:57,310 --> 01:17:01,559
ONTO HUNTING GROUNDS RESERVED
BY TREATY FOR THE INDIANS.
1246
01:17:02,149 --> 01:17:04,535
THE GOVERNMENT DID NOTHING
TO STOP THEM,
1247
01:17:04,560 --> 01:17:08,490
AND EVEN PROVIDED THE HUNTERS
WITH FREE AMMUNITION.
1248
01:17:09,173 --> 01:17:13,254
[ NATIVE AMERICAN CHANTING,
DRUM BEATING ]
1249
01:17:13,279 --> 01:17:15,215
YOU WHITE PEOPLE MAKE A BIG TALK,
1250
01:17:15,240 --> 01:17:16,840
AND SOMETIMES WAR,
1251
01:17:17,742 --> 01:17:20,082
IF AN INDIAN KILLS A WHITE MAN'S OX
1252
01:17:20,107 --> 01:17:23,709
TO KEEP HIS WIFE AND CHILDREN FROM STARVING.
1253
01:17:23,734 --> 01:17:26,449
WHAT DO YOU THINK MY PEOPLE OUGHT TO SAY AND DO
1254
01:17:26,474 --> 01:17:30,121
WHEN THEY THEMSELVES SEE THEIR BUFFALO KILLED BY YOUR RACE
1255
01:17:30,146 --> 01:17:31,973
WHEN YOU ARE NOT HUNGRY?
1256
01:17:32,657 --> 01:17:33,987
LITTLE ROBE.
1257
01:17:36,643 --> 01:17:39,629
Mayer: THE INDIANS SENSED THAT WE WERE
1258
01:17:39,654 --> 01:17:41,871
TAKING AWAY THEIR BIRTHRIGHT,
1259
01:17:41,896 --> 01:17:45,276
AND THAT WITH EVERY BOOM OF A BUFFALO RIFLE
1260
01:17:45,301 --> 01:17:48,715
THEIR TENURE ON THEIR HOMELAND BECAME WEAKENED
1261
01:17:48,740 --> 01:17:49,730
AND THAT EVENTUALLY
1262
01:17:49,755 --> 01:17:53,665
THEY WOULD HAVE NO HOMELAND AND NO BUFFALO.
1263
01:17:54,901 --> 01:17:57,113
SO THEY DID WHAT YOU AND I WOULD DO
1264
01:17:57,138 --> 01:18:00,910
IF OUR EXISTENCE WERE JEOPARDIZED...
1265
01:18:00,935 --> 01:18:01,935
THEY FOUGHT.
1266
01:18:05,449 --> 01:18:07,707
Narrator: IN THE SUMMER OF 1874,
1267
01:18:07,732 --> 01:18:11,738
THE KIOWAS, COMANCHES,
ARAPAHOS AND SOUTHERN CHEYENNE
1268
01:18:11,763 --> 01:18:14,613
ROSE UP AND DROVE OUT
THE HUNTERS --
1269
01:18:14,638 --> 01:18:18,068
AND ANY OTHER WHITES
THEY CAME ACROSS.
1270
01:18:18,997 --> 01:18:22,512
GENERAL PHILIP SHERIDAN
ORDERED A MASSIVE CAMPAIGN,
1271
01:18:22,537 --> 01:18:25,012
DEPLOYING FIVE COLUMNS OF TROOPS
1272
01:18:25,037 --> 01:18:27,004
TO PURSUE THE INDIANS
RELENTLESSLY
1273
01:18:27,029 --> 01:18:29,289
DURING THE SUMMER AND FALL,
1274
01:18:30,275 --> 01:18:34,574
DEPRIVING THEM OF REST,
OR THE OPPORTUNITY TO HUNT.
1275
01:18:43,673 --> 01:18:45,066
BY THE NEXT SPRING,
1276
01:18:45,091 --> 01:18:49,379
VIRTUALLY ALL OF THE RESISTING
BANDS ON THE SOUTHERN PLAINS --
1277
01:18:49,404 --> 01:18:51,301
DESPERATE NOW FOR FOOD --
1278
01:18:51,326 --> 01:18:54,582
HAD BEEN DRIVEN BACK
ONTO THE RESERVATIONS.
1279
01:18:55,679 --> 01:18:58,355
THE BUFFALO HUNTERS
WENT RIGHT BACK TO WORK.
1280
01:18:58,380 --> 01:19:01,380
[ GUNSHOTS ]
1281
01:19:05,983 --> 01:19:09,059
WITHIN A YEAR,
THE HERD ON THE SOUTHERN PLAINS
1282
01:19:09,084 --> 01:19:11,284
HAD VIRTUALLY DISAPPEARED.
1283
01:19:14,644 --> 01:19:17,348
ONE BY ONE, WE PUT UP OUR BUFFALO RIFLES,
1284
01:19:17,373 --> 01:19:19,713
AND LEFT THE RANGES.
1285
01:19:19,738 --> 01:19:22,902
AND THERE SETTLED OVER THEM A VAST QUIET.
1286
01:19:22,927 --> 01:19:25,367
THE BUFFALO WAS GONE.
1287
01:19:28,730 --> 01:19:33,074
MAYBE WE SERVED OUR PURPOSEIN HELPING ABOLISH THE BUFFALO.
1288
01:19:33,495 --> 01:19:36,184
MAYBE IT WAS OUR RUTHLESS HARVESTING OF HIM
1289
01:19:36,209 --> 01:19:38,855
WHICH TELESCOPED THE CONTROL OF THE INDIAN
1290
01:19:38,880 --> 01:19:40,850
BY A DECADE OR MAYBE MORE,
1291
01:19:42,253 --> 01:19:45,103
OR MAYBE I AM JUST RATIONALIZING.
1292
01:19:45,424 --> 01:19:49,051
MAYBE WE WERE JUST A GREEDY LOT WHO WANTED TO GET OURS,
1293
01:19:49,076 --> 01:19:53,160
AND TO HELL WITH POSTERITY, THE BUFFALO, OR ANYONE ELSE,
1294
01:19:53,461 --> 01:19:58,684
JUST SO WE KEPT OUR SCALPS ON AND OUR MONEY POUCHES FILLED.
1295
01:19:58,709 --> 01:20:02,074
I THINK MAYBE THAT IS THE WAY IT WAS --
1296
01:20:02,629 --> 01:20:05,139
FRANK H. MAYER.
1297
01:20:13,121 --> 01:20:15,730
Momaday: IT WOULD BE HARD
TO IMAGINE
1298
01:20:15,755 --> 01:20:20,566
ANYTHING MORE DEEPLY HURTFUL
1299
01:20:20,591 --> 01:20:25,223
THAN THE LOSS OF SOMETHING
INEFFABLY SACRED.
1300
01:20:27,574 --> 01:20:29,840
ONE CAN ONLY GUESS AND IMAGINE.
1301
01:20:29,865 --> 01:20:33,934
WE CAN'T, WE CAN'T KNOW WHAT
THAT IS NOW.
1302
01:20:33,959 --> 01:20:38,984
BUT CERTAINLY A CONFUSION,
FIRST OF ALL, I SUPPOSE.
1303
01:20:39,009 --> 01:20:40,941
"WHY IS THIS HAPPENING?
1304
01:20:40,966 --> 01:20:44,086
"WHY ARE YOU KILLING
THE BUFFALO?
1305
01:20:44,111 --> 01:20:45,418
"WE DO THAT, OF COURSE,
1306
01:20:45,443 --> 01:20:47,738
"BUT WE DO IT
IN ORDER TO SURVIVE,
1307
01:20:47,763 --> 01:20:50,433
AND WE DO IT
IN A SACRED MANNER."
1308
01:20:50,458 --> 01:20:53,051
BUT THIS WHOLESALE SLAUGHTER
MUST HAVE BEEN,
1309
01:20:53,076 --> 01:20:54,809
FIRST, CONFUSING
1310
01:20:54,834 --> 01:21:00,118
AND THEN, YOU KNOW,
A DEVASTATION --
1311
01:21:00,143 --> 01:21:06,113
A WOUND IN THE HEART
THAT WE CANNOT CONCEIVE OF NOW.
1312
01:21:10,832 --> 01:21:14,385
Old Lady Horse: THE BUFFALO SAW THAT THEIR DAY WAS OVER.
1313
01:21:14,410 --> 01:21:17,971
THEY COULD PROTECT THEIR PEOPLE NO LONGER.
1314
01:21:17,996 --> 01:21:20,809
SADLY, THE LAST REMNANT OF THE GREAT HERD
1315
01:21:20,834 --> 01:21:24,598
GATHERED IN COUNCIL,AND DECIDED WHAT THEY WOULD DO.
1316
01:21:27,434 --> 01:21:30,441
ONE YOUNG WOMAN GOT UP VERY EARLY
1317
01:21:30,466 --> 01:21:33,519
AND PEERING THROUGH THE HAZE,
1318
01:21:33,544 --> 01:21:39,223
SHE SAW THE LAST BUFFALO HERD APPEAR LIKE IN A SPIRIT DREAM.
1319
01:21:43,051 --> 01:21:47,010
STRAIGHT TO MOUNT SCOTT THE LEADER OF THE HERD WALKED.
1320
01:21:47,035 --> 01:21:49,941
BEHIND HIM CAME THE COWS AND THEIR CALVES,
1321
01:21:49,966 --> 01:21:53,144
AND THE FEW YOUNG MALES WHO HAD SURVIVED.
1322
01:21:55,691 --> 01:21:56,898
AS THE WOMAN WATCHED,
1323
01:21:56,923 --> 01:21:59,762
THE FACE OF THE MOUNTAIN OPENED.
1324
01:22:00,855 --> 01:22:04,973
INSIDE MOUNT SCOTT THE WORLD WAS GREEN AND FRESH,
1325
01:22:04,998 --> 01:22:08,590
AS IT HAD BEEN WHEN SHE WAS A SMALL GIRL.
1326
01:22:08,615 --> 01:22:12,613
THE RIVERS RAN CLEAR, NOT RED.
1327
01:22:12,638 --> 01:22:16,988
INTO THIS WORLD OF BEAUTY THE BUFFALO WALKED,
1328
01:22:17,013 --> 01:22:19,965
NEVER TO BE SEEN AGAIN.
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