1 00:00:12,580 --> 00:00:16,217 ( Instrumental music playing ) 2 00:01:18,579 --> 00:01:21,549 Woman narrating: March 10th, 1867. 3 00:01:23,384 --> 00:01:26,187 The events of this day have been extraordinary, 4 00:01:26,220 --> 00:01:28,556 indeed almost frightening. 5 00:01:30,424 --> 00:01:34,295 I had expected to live out the rest of my days here in Indiana. 6 00:01:34,328 --> 00:01:36,230 - Here where I was born-- - ( Bell tolling ) 7 00:01:36,264 --> 00:01:39,867 --Was married and gave birth to my two children. 8 00:01:39,900 --> 00:01:42,236 Within a week, I will never again 9 00:01:42,270 --> 00:01:44,972 be able to call huntingburg my home. 10 00:01:45,005 --> 00:01:47,975 It seemed like any other day 11 00:01:48,008 --> 00:01:49,777 most of the day through 12 00:01:49,810 --> 00:01:52,446 until late this afternoon. 13 00:01:52,480 --> 00:01:55,149 Jeremy was at school, 14 00:01:55,183 --> 00:01:56,450 as was Sarah. 15 00:01:56,484 --> 00:01:58,786 And then our lives were overturned. 16 00:02:02,723 --> 00:02:04,858 Strange are the ways of men. 17 00:02:04,892 --> 00:02:09,029 John and I have been man and wife for some 13 years now. 18 00:02:09,062 --> 00:02:11,165 Yet in matters of importance, 19 00:02:11,199 --> 00:02:14,702 he consults me no more than he does the children. 20 00:02:14,735 --> 00:02:17,070 And today, once again, 21 00:02:17,104 --> 00:02:21,074 he made this incomprehensible decision 22 00:02:21,108 --> 00:02:22,910 no differently. 23 00:02:22,943 --> 00:02:25,045 He hadn't a thought for my wishes. 24 00:02:29,450 --> 00:02:31,419 ( Laughing ) 25 00:02:34,788 --> 00:02:38,125 I'd intended to tell John tonight of my condition, 26 00:02:38,158 --> 00:02:42,463 my mind being fixed on this happiest of circumstances. 27 00:02:42,496 --> 00:02:45,233 I was pulling from the basket the things saved 28 00:02:45,266 --> 00:02:47,100 as Sarah outgrew them. 29 00:02:49,237 --> 00:02:51,171 ( Dog barking ) 30 00:02:54,308 --> 00:02:57,245 Whoa! Sarah! Ho! 31 00:02:59,046 --> 00:03:01,315 Jeremy! Come over here! 32 00:03:01,349 --> 00:03:03,016 Maggie? 33 00:03:05,319 --> 00:03:07,955 Maggie, we're going to Nebraska! 34 00:03:07,988 --> 00:03:10,291 - Where's Nebraska? - There's a man in town 35 00:03:10,324 --> 00:03:13,461 from the union pacific railroad. He's selling land 36 00:03:13,494 --> 00:03:16,430 for homesteading. Good land, the finest. 37 00:03:16,464 --> 00:03:18,766 No need to clear it and rich for the planting. 38 00:03:18,799 --> 00:03:21,902 - Where's Nebraska? - And I bought it. 39 00:03:21,935 --> 00:03:25,506 The whole 80 acres permitted-- that's only $4 an acre! 40 00:03:26,607 --> 00:03:28,442 Where is Nebraska? 41 00:03:28,476 --> 00:03:31,579 My geography book says it's in the middle of the great American desert. 42 00:03:31,612 --> 00:03:34,147 Nonsense. It's out west... 43 00:03:34,181 --> 00:03:35,316 On the prairie. 44 00:03:35,349 --> 00:03:37,518 Out west where the Indians are? 45 00:03:37,551 --> 00:03:39,687 Uh-huh! ( Laughs ) 46 00:03:39,720 --> 00:03:41,855 And I've made plans, Maggie. 47 00:03:41,889 --> 00:03:46,494 We'll take the train. They've laid track to grand island 48 00:03:46,527 --> 00:03:48,796 and we can outfit a wagon for settlement there. 49 00:03:48,829 --> 00:03:50,431 Our land stretches from here 50 00:03:50,464 --> 00:03:52,566 to here to here to here! 51 00:03:52,600 --> 00:03:55,369 John, are you serious? 52 00:03:55,403 --> 00:03:57,805 But of course! 53 00:03:57,838 --> 00:04:01,742 But Mr. Colfax promised to make the store over to you. 54 00:04:01,775 --> 00:04:04,144 You can't mean to give that up? 55 00:04:04,177 --> 00:04:06,880 Mr. Colfax gives hints, not promises. 56 00:04:08,582 --> 00:04:10,784 John, you-- you haven't handled a plow 57 00:04:10,818 --> 00:04:12,986 since you were a boy on your father's farm. 58 00:04:13,020 --> 00:04:15,623 Don't you worry about that, Maggie. 59 00:04:15,656 --> 00:04:17,591 What about the children's schooling? 60 00:04:17,625 --> 00:04:19,026 There will be. 61 00:04:19,059 --> 00:04:22,463 The railroad's building whole new towns for settlers. 62 00:04:22,496 --> 00:04:26,600 But what of all our things? The furniture? 63 00:04:26,634 --> 00:04:28,302 Well, we'll sell it, of course. 64 00:04:28,336 --> 00:04:30,304 It's our money in the bank for everything we need. 65 00:04:30,338 --> 00:04:34,442 But this is our home. I don't want to go anyplace else! 66 00:04:42,483 --> 00:04:44,117 Maggie. 67 00:04:51,759 --> 00:04:53,260 Maggie. 68 00:04:56,229 --> 00:04:58,832 Why don't you grow up and see things as they are? 69 00:05:01,034 --> 00:05:04,137 I'm a clerk in a drugstore... 70 00:05:05,673 --> 00:05:08,409 Living in a house I don't own. 71 00:05:08,442 --> 00:05:10,644 This is my chance. 72 00:05:12,346 --> 00:05:15,616 A man must have land. It's his only surety. 73 00:05:17,317 --> 00:05:20,954 And I'll never have enough money to buy land here in Indiana. 74 00:05:20,988 --> 00:05:24,091 Land of our own, Maggie. 75 00:05:24,124 --> 00:05:26,927 We'll turn it into an Eden 76 00:05:26,960 --> 00:05:28,796 for all of US. 77 00:05:32,299 --> 00:05:34,234 I'd best be going. 78 00:05:34,267 --> 00:05:36,437 We'll leave in a week. 79 00:05:36,470 --> 00:05:39,072 The children can miss the school year. 80 00:05:39,106 --> 00:05:42,410 No more school, no more school! I've gotta go tell bennie! 81 00:05:42,443 --> 00:05:45,979 I'll want to get a crop in. So the sooner we leave, the better. 82 00:05:51,752 --> 00:05:54,722 We won't be here for the maypole dance. 83 00:05:54,755 --> 00:05:58,325 But Clarissa and I have worked out our steps and everything. 84 00:05:58,358 --> 00:06:01,328 Seems to me if somebody's gonna do something for somebody else, 85 00:06:01,361 --> 00:06:04,398 they ought to ask 'em first. 86 00:06:04,432 --> 00:06:06,867 Now I won't get my new dress! 87 00:06:10,471 --> 00:06:14,508 Maggie's voice: John will be much angered that I didn't tell him of the baby. 88 00:06:14,542 --> 00:06:17,645 But I can't tell him now. 89 00:06:17,678 --> 00:06:21,615 But am I so childish not to want to go off into the wilderness? 90 00:06:23,684 --> 00:06:25,819 Why? Why must we go? 91 00:06:25,853 --> 00:06:28,656 How am I to ride in a wagon over rough roads 92 00:06:28,689 --> 00:06:30,624 carrying our child? 93 00:06:33,494 --> 00:06:35,829 A thought has just occurred: 94 00:06:35,863 --> 00:06:38,932 What if there are no roads, rough or otherwise, 95 00:06:38,966 --> 00:06:40,468 in Nebraska? 96 00:06:40,501 --> 00:06:42,970 ( Whistle blowing ) 97 00:06:51,311 --> 00:06:53,313 March 27th. 98 00:06:53,346 --> 00:06:57,150 Is it barely one week since we left home? 99 00:06:57,184 --> 00:06:59,787 The trip seems endless. 100 00:06:59,820 --> 00:07:02,956 The ride is uncomfortable and dirty. 101 00:07:02,990 --> 00:07:07,461 Oh, I ought not to complain. All of US seem to be thriving, 102 00:07:07,495 --> 00:07:10,330 even my secret companion. 103 00:07:10,363 --> 00:07:13,266 We have changed trains often. 104 00:07:13,300 --> 00:07:15,803 And of course, I've brought too much with US. 105 00:07:15,836 --> 00:07:18,271 John would be angry with me were it not for the fact 106 00:07:18,305 --> 00:07:20,474 that so much else delights him. 107 00:07:20,508 --> 00:07:23,477 Privacy has been unattainable. 108 00:07:23,511 --> 00:07:28,482 We share intimacy with the most peculiar fellow passengers. 109 00:07:28,516 --> 00:07:30,984 Jeremy, what are you scratching at? 110 00:07:31,018 --> 00:07:33,353 Come here, let me see. 111 00:07:33,386 --> 00:07:36,490 Mama, not in front of everybody. 112 00:07:37,725 --> 00:07:39,693 Ah! 113 00:07:41,595 --> 00:07:44,965 Oh, John, it's dreadful. Jeremy was harboring a louse. 114 00:07:44,998 --> 00:07:47,034 Maggie, did you see the buffalo out there just before dark? 115 00:07:47,067 --> 00:07:49,202 To the left. Hundreds of them. 116 00:07:49,236 --> 00:07:50,671 Oh, Maggie. 117 00:07:50,704 --> 00:07:53,874 Maggie, it's all so fine. 118 00:07:53,907 --> 00:07:56,810 ( Whistle blows ) 119 00:08:03,951 --> 00:08:05,452 ( Horse neighs ) 120 00:08:05,485 --> 00:08:07,487 Maggie's voice: April 2nd. 121 00:08:07,521 --> 00:08:09,657 We have two days on the trail now. 122 00:08:09,690 --> 00:08:13,026 The railroad reached the end of the line in mid-Nebraska 123 00:08:13,060 --> 00:08:17,164 and there we joined captain symington's wagon train. 124 00:08:17,197 --> 00:08:20,734 John has equipped US with everything for our new life. 125 00:08:20,768 --> 00:08:23,070 We even have a cow. 126 00:08:23,103 --> 00:08:26,373 The children have named her Jupiter. 127 00:08:26,406 --> 00:08:30,443 John meet ever challenge with pleasure, 128 00:08:30,477 --> 00:08:33,280 but too often, I fail at my new tasks. 129 00:08:33,313 --> 00:08:37,417 Oh, how I do long for the sight of a tree. 130 00:08:38,652 --> 00:08:40,954 John? 131 00:08:42,756 --> 00:08:44,257 Gopher hole. 132 00:08:44,291 --> 00:08:46,594 Take the reins for a while. I want to stretch my legs. 133 00:08:46,627 --> 00:08:48,762 - What, me, drive? - You gotta learn sometime. 134 00:08:48,796 --> 00:08:50,564 Oh, John, no. 135 00:08:54,602 --> 00:08:55,903 ( Dog barks ) 136 00:08:55,936 --> 00:08:58,038 - Oh. - Come on. 137 00:08:58,071 --> 00:08:59,907 ( Cow moos ) 138 00:09:07,214 --> 00:09:10,918 Know what? I have a surprise for you. 139 00:09:10,951 --> 00:09:12,886 Do you know what I packed around the China? 140 00:09:12,920 --> 00:09:15,388 That special blue dimity for your dress. 141 00:09:15,422 --> 00:09:17,725 - Oh, mama, really? - Mmm. 142 00:09:17,758 --> 00:09:20,393 But papa said to pack only important things. 143 00:09:20,427 --> 00:09:22,529 Well, your new dress is. 144 00:09:22,562 --> 00:09:24,632 Anyway, I bet I packed away a lot of things 145 00:09:24,665 --> 00:09:26,900 that your papa doesn't think are important. 146 00:09:42,315 --> 00:09:45,619 Maggie's voice: One can get used to things. 147 00:09:48,088 --> 00:09:50,223 ( Mooing ) 148 00:09:52,559 --> 00:09:57,397 Every morning while Jeremy and John cajole the oxen to their yoke, 149 00:09:57,430 --> 00:09:59,733 it is I who hitch them up. 150 00:10:02,469 --> 00:10:05,305 But fueling a cook fire with buffalo chips 151 00:10:05,338 --> 00:10:07,607 is one thing I'll never get used to. 152 00:10:09,109 --> 00:10:11,845 It does seem an unpalatable method of cooking food. 153 00:10:18,351 --> 00:10:20,420 The buffalo are everywhere 154 00:10:20,453 --> 00:10:22,956 so we are rarely without meat 155 00:10:22,990 --> 00:10:24,424 or fuel either. 156 00:10:24,457 --> 00:10:26,293 So numerous are the herds, 157 00:10:26,326 --> 00:10:28,295 the man have hardly to leave the trail 158 00:10:28,328 --> 00:10:29,763 in order to shoot. 159 00:10:29,797 --> 00:10:32,800 And even I have come to relish its taste. 160 00:10:45,245 --> 00:10:46,914 ( Firing ) 161 00:10:54,054 --> 00:10:57,390 Did I ever really have a clean wash-set of my own 162 00:10:57,424 --> 00:10:59,359 with a pump close by? 163 00:10:59,392 --> 00:11:01,528 It seems like a dream, 164 00:11:01,561 --> 00:11:04,197 as does so much of our old life. 165 00:11:12,272 --> 00:11:14,541 April 21st. 166 00:11:14,574 --> 00:11:17,577 Tomorrow we shall leave the wagon train. 167 00:11:17,610 --> 00:11:20,180 After 21 days on the trail, 168 00:11:20,213 --> 00:11:22,082 we go our own way. 169 00:11:22,115 --> 00:11:26,253 I find I rue less and less this great adventure, 170 00:11:26,286 --> 00:11:27,788 as John calls it, 171 00:11:27,821 --> 00:11:30,257 for as never before he is turning to me 172 00:11:30,290 --> 00:11:33,393 in the sharing of it. 173 00:11:33,426 --> 00:11:35,929 It is Jeremy's dearest wish 174 00:11:35,963 --> 00:11:38,899 that we will reach our own land on his birthday. 175 00:11:38,932 --> 00:11:41,201 Maggie. 176 00:11:41,234 --> 00:11:43,370 Be done with it. 177 00:11:43,403 --> 00:11:45,405 In a minute, John. 178 00:12:16,636 --> 00:12:18,571 Maggie's voice: April 23rd. 179 00:12:18,605 --> 00:12:21,741 Yesterday morning as the wagon train continued westward 180 00:12:21,775 --> 00:12:24,778 to Oregon, we turned southwest 181 00:12:24,812 --> 00:12:27,915 through this vast, empty land ocean. 182 00:12:27,948 --> 00:12:31,384 All the bouncing and shaking I and my precious burden 183 00:12:31,418 --> 00:12:33,787 have undergone these past weeks 184 00:12:33,821 --> 00:12:36,156 seems to have done neither of US harm. 185 00:12:36,189 --> 00:12:40,961 John calculates we should now be in reach of our own land. 186 00:12:40,994 --> 00:12:44,664 Oh, how good it will be to end this journey, 187 00:12:44,697 --> 00:12:47,600 to be in the land of our promise. 188 00:12:49,036 --> 00:12:50,737 Mama? 189 00:12:50,770 --> 00:12:52,672 Will people already be there? 190 00:12:52,705 --> 00:12:55,843 Oh, Sarah, you've asked me that over and over again. 191 00:12:55,876 --> 00:12:59,212 You know what your papa says. The railroad's gonna build a town 192 00:12:59,246 --> 00:13:01,514 - and a school-- - that isn't why i'm asking this time. 193 00:13:01,548 --> 00:13:05,085 That awful hat, mama-- do you have to wear it today? 194 00:13:05,118 --> 00:13:07,587 Sarah, it's your father's army hat. 195 00:13:07,620 --> 00:13:11,524 Anyway, haven't you noticed 196 00:13:11,558 --> 00:13:14,261 the look on the faces of the women 197 00:13:14,294 --> 00:13:16,729 at the homesteads we've passed? 198 00:13:16,763 --> 00:13:20,033 They're all weathered and hard. 199 00:13:20,067 --> 00:13:24,271 Am I gonna look like that, Sarah, in one year or two? 200 00:13:24,304 --> 00:13:26,373 - Ooph! - John: We're here! 201 00:13:27,774 --> 00:13:29,642 We're here! 202 00:13:43,290 --> 00:13:45,792 Well, you have your wish. We're here. 203 00:13:48,628 --> 00:13:50,430 Haaa! 204 00:13:53,166 --> 00:13:55,468 Haaay! 205 00:14:14,922 --> 00:14:17,224 ( All calling out ) 206 00:14:18,892 --> 00:14:22,195 All: Hi! Hello there! 207 00:14:31,671 --> 00:14:35,542 - Man: The welcome party-- - your hat. 208 00:14:35,575 --> 00:14:37,210 - How do? - How do? My name is John sergeant. 209 00:14:37,244 --> 00:14:39,512 - This the Seymour settlement? - It would seem likely. 210 00:14:39,546 --> 00:14:42,815 US four brothers, we're all seymours from back in Iowa. 211 00:14:42,849 --> 00:14:45,652 - Nice to see you. - I'm so glad to see you! 212 00:14:45,685 --> 00:14:47,687 - I'm Mrs. Seymour. - I'm Maggie sergeant. 213 00:14:47,720 --> 00:14:49,322 - And these are my three daughters. - Hello. 214 00:14:49,356 --> 00:14:52,993 - This is my son Jeremy. - Welcome to you, John. 215 00:14:53,026 --> 00:14:55,128 We don't get many folks passing through here. 216 00:14:55,162 --> 00:14:57,130 The women do need for some new gossip. 217 00:14:57,164 --> 00:15:00,133 - It's my birthday. - Isn't that a fine thing? 218 00:15:00,167 --> 00:15:02,869 - It surely is. - You'll be staying the night. 219 00:15:02,902 --> 00:15:04,904 - We'll make the room. - That's very kind of you. 220 00:15:04,938 --> 00:15:09,442 - We hope to spend the night on our own place. - Where would that be? 221 00:15:09,476 --> 00:15:12,045 Well, it's supposed to be east of that ground spring over there. 222 00:15:12,079 --> 00:15:15,815 Man: Those fields are all cultivated! 223 00:15:15,848 --> 00:15:18,418 Well, I don't see how it could be east. 224 00:15:18,451 --> 00:15:21,421 So it says on the map anyway. 225 00:15:21,454 --> 00:15:24,091 ( Unfolding map ) 226 00:15:24,124 --> 00:15:27,127 The union pacific supplied me with this map 227 00:15:27,160 --> 00:15:29,262 when I bought the 80 acres. 228 00:15:31,231 --> 00:15:33,000 John. 229 00:15:42,075 --> 00:15:44,077 Sarah? 230 00:15:44,111 --> 00:15:46,379 The deed is in the trunk. Go get it. 231 00:15:48,015 --> 00:15:51,784 Looks to me like you've been had by that railroad, mister. 232 00:15:51,818 --> 00:15:56,323 There ain't no land for sale around here. 233 00:15:56,356 --> 00:15:58,725 Never has been and never will be. 234 00:15:58,758 --> 00:16:02,162 Me and my brothers, we got plans for this land. 235 00:16:02,195 --> 00:16:05,598 I paid the railroad and I've got the deed to show for it. 236 00:16:05,632 --> 00:16:07,034 Sarah. 237 00:16:08,301 --> 00:16:10,337 Maggie, 238 00:16:10,370 --> 00:16:12,439 get on the wagon. Take the children with you. 239 00:16:12,472 --> 00:16:14,307 Keep them there. 240 00:16:14,341 --> 00:16:16,276 Here it is. 241 00:16:18,011 --> 00:16:20,313 My deed. 242 00:16:20,347 --> 00:16:22,649 We can pace the land out if you like. 243 00:16:22,682 --> 00:16:25,318 - It's all marked down. - Claim jumpers. 244 00:16:25,352 --> 00:16:27,320 You ain't jumping no claim here, mister. 245 00:16:27,354 --> 00:16:29,956 We've been proving up on this land for seven years. 246 00:16:29,989 --> 00:16:33,426 John, maybe we were cheated by the railroad? 247 00:16:33,460 --> 00:16:36,329 If you have a rightful deed, show it to US. 248 00:16:36,363 --> 00:16:38,631 I told you. I told you, Jordan: 249 00:16:38,665 --> 00:16:40,633 Go to julesburg and file on-- 250 00:16:40,667 --> 00:16:43,536 - hush up, Trudy! - You've never registered your claim? 251 00:16:43,570 --> 00:16:46,339 - Can't you never shut up, woman? - Ain't no matter! 252 00:16:46,373 --> 00:16:49,476 Our claim is the seven years of back-breaking, 253 00:16:49,509 --> 00:16:51,678 sodbusing toil we put in here. 254 00:16:51,711 --> 00:16:53,713 I put all my money into this land-- all my savings. 255 00:16:53,746 --> 00:16:55,482 Why, you're nothing but-- 256 00:16:55,515 --> 00:17:00,520 west of you, in Wyoming, there's homestead land aplenty. 257 00:17:00,553 --> 00:17:03,290 Now you best sign that deed over to US. 258 00:17:03,323 --> 00:17:07,394 No, this is my land. And I'm claiming it. 259 00:17:07,427 --> 00:17:10,397 He'd change his mind if we dunk him in the hole. 260 00:17:11,764 --> 00:17:14,867 John, for the love of heaven, do what they ask. 261 00:17:14,901 --> 00:17:16,869 We don't want no trouble, mister-- 262 00:17:16,903 --> 00:17:18,238 no more than you do. 263 00:17:18,271 --> 00:17:20,707 No. 264 00:17:20,773 --> 00:17:24,077 John! John! 265 00:17:24,111 --> 00:17:25,478 - Papa! - Ahhh! 266 00:17:25,512 --> 00:17:27,814 Papa! Papa! 267 00:17:27,847 --> 00:17:30,183 Maggie: Please leave him be! 268 00:17:30,217 --> 00:17:33,786 We'll go! Leave him be! We'll go! 269 00:17:33,820 --> 00:17:35,655 No, please, don't! 270 00:17:38,458 --> 00:17:40,960 You'd best promise to sign, Mr. Sergeant. 271 00:17:43,263 --> 00:17:45,632 No. No! 272 00:17:50,237 --> 00:17:53,506 Please, John! No no! 273 00:17:53,540 --> 00:17:55,542 Please, John! Let go! 274 00:17:55,575 --> 00:17:59,379 Like Henry says, you will! 275 00:17:59,412 --> 00:18:01,381 And better now than later. 276 00:18:01,414 --> 00:18:03,950 No! 277 00:18:03,983 --> 00:18:05,385 Let go! 278 00:18:05,418 --> 00:18:08,755 No, John! Ahh! 279 00:18:11,891 --> 00:18:13,393 Ahhhh! 280 00:18:21,434 --> 00:18:22,469 No! 281 00:18:23,503 --> 00:18:25,338 - Mama. - My baby. 282 00:18:25,372 --> 00:18:28,375 - You all right? - Oh, my baby. 283 00:18:30,143 --> 00:18:34,147 William! William! I done a terrible thing. 284 00:18:34,181 --> 00:18:37,450 The woman back there, she's aborting a baby. 285 00:18:37,484 --> 00:18:39,519 And I done it! 286 00:18:39,552 --> 00:18:41,621 Man: What are you trying to do, Henry? 287 00:18:43,823 --> 00:18:45,458 We don't need a corpse. 288 00:18:48,728 --> 00:18:51,198 I didn't know, mister. 289 00:18:51,231 --> 00:18:54,267 We-- none of US. We didn't know. 290 00:18:54,301 --> 00:18:56,703 Are you ready to sign the quit-claim? 291 00:19:00,707 --> 00:19:02,342 Oh my god. 292 00:19:03,510 --> 00:19:05,578 Yes, anything you want. 293 00:19:07,980 --> 00:19:09,782 Now let me go. 294 00:19:43,683 --> 00:19:45,518 How are you feeling? 295 00:19:48,120 --> 00:19:49,689 I feel fine, John. 296 00:19:49,756 --> 00:19:51,658 Truly. 297 00:19:58,064 --> 00:20:00,867 I-- I keep thinking how 298 00:20:00,900 --> 00:20:04,036 fearful I was of Indians. 299 00:20:06,373 --> 00:20:08,508 Look at our own kind. 300 00:20:11,244 --> 00:20:14,013 Thank you for bringing me away so quickly, John. 301 00:20:14,046 --> 00:20:17,183 Oh, that dreadful place. 302 00:20:25,091 --> 00:20:27,394 We must talk, Maggie, 303 00:20:27,427 --> 00:20:29,228 decide what to do. 304 00:20:30,863 --> 00:20:33,165 I want to know how you feel about it. 305 00:20:35,802 --> 00:20:38,605 We could go back to the rail head, 306 00:20:38,638 --> 00:20:42,108 make a complaint against those people. 307 00:20:42,141 --> 00:20:46,045 But that could be 308 00:20:46,078 --> 00:20:48,080 a long affair. 309 00:20:49,749 --> 00:20:53,052 I did sign that quit-claim. 310 00:20:57,590 --> 00:21:01,928 We could move on west. 311 00:21:04,531 --> 00:21:06,799 There's land-- a homestead-- in Wyoming. 312 00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:10,437 Not as good land as here, but... 313 00:21:12,339 --> 00:21:15,241 There's more of it. 314 00:21:22,349 --> 00:21:23,583 Well? 315 00:21:23,616 --> 00:21:27,720 We could go home, John. 316 00:21:38,631 --> 00:21:41,300 If... 317 00:21:41,334 --> 00:21:43,770 That's what you want. 318 00:21:52,445 --> 00:21:54,547 If I hadn't been so stubborn. 319 00:21:54,581 --> 00:21:57,316 You didn't know, John. 320 00:21:57,350 --> 00:21:59,486 Could have been your life. 321 00:21:59,519 --> 00:22:01,488 Sarah's. Jeremy's. 322 00:22:09,161 --> 00:22:12,665 The land-- 323 00:22:12,699 --> 00:22:15,334 the land belonged to me. 324 00:22:19,539 --> 00:22:23,009 It's overburdened me with pride. 325 00:22:32,819 --> 00:22:35,287 We must go to Wyoming, of course. 326 00:22:40,126 --> 00:22:42,595 A quarter section-- 327 00:22:42,629 --> 00:22:45,097 that's 160 acres, John. 328 00:22:45,131 --> 00:22:47,734 Can you farm that much land? 329 00:22:51,237 --> 00:22:53,573 Maybe not this year. 330 00:22:55,307 --> 00:22:57,710 But you just watch me. 331 00:23:04,551 --> 00:23:06,486 I'll go check the stock. 332 00:23:07,687 --> 00:23:09,822 Then I'll come back to bed. 333 00:23:49,028 --> 00:23:50,730 Maggie's voice: April 29th. 334 00:23:50,763 --> 00:23:54,333 The sun sets before US again and again, 335 00:23:54,366 --> 00:23:56,769 but we have yet to reach Wyoming. 336 00:23:56,803 --> 00:24:00,607 I do feel stronger with each day that passes 337 00:24:00,640 --> 00:24:05,244 and I try not to think of what we left behind in the prairie, 338 00:24:05,277 --> 00:24:07,446 though it is hard. 339 00:24:08,848 --> 00:24:11,984 John set some stones to Mark the place for me. 340 00:24:12,018 --> 00:24:14,487 I want never to return there. 341 00:24:33,506 --> 00:24:36,242 Whoa. 342 00:24:36,275 --> 00:24:39,278 I'll inquire in here. 343 00:24:40,680 --> 00:24:43,115 John, please take care. 344 00:24:43,149 --> 00:24:45,785 If anyone seems not to welcome US, 345 00:24:45,818 --> 00:24:47,319 it's best to go on. 346 00:24:51,157 --> 00:24:52,491 Sarah: Papa? 347 00:24:52,525 --> 00:24:54,661 Buy me some pink ribbon, papa? 348 00:24:54,694 --> 00:24:57,129 Oh, Sarah, papa's worried about money now. 349 00:25:00,166 --> 00:25:02,434 What do you want pink ribbon for anyway? 350 00:25:02,468 --> 00:25:04,971 I wanted to tie a bow on it. 351 00:25:05,004 --> 00:25:07,273 A ribbon for you, mama-- for your hat. 352 00:25:07,306 --> 00:25:10,476 Oh, it's beautiful. Put it on. 353 00:25:10,509 --> 00:25:13,079 They're king of wilted now. I picked them this morning. 354 00:25:13,112 --> 00:25:14,614 I picked some too. 355 00:25:14,647 --> 00:25:16,583 And you I haven't forgotten, Jeremy. 356 00:25:16,616 --> 00:25:18,450 I owe you a birthday cake. 357 00:25:18,484 --> 00:25:20,920 There, how do I look? 358 00:25:20,953 --> 00:25:22,589 It helps, I guess. 359 00:25:22,622 --> 00:25:26,192 You need your hat. Put this on. 360 00:25:26,225 --> 00:25:28,661 Maggie. 361 00:25:28,695 --> 00:25:31,130 There's a man inside named wormser. 362 00:25:31,163 --> 00:25:33,465 He says there's a quarter section above his place. 363 00:25:33,499 --> 00:25:36,836 Maggie, he wants US to settle there. 364 00:25:40,106 --> 00:25:43,576 Mrs. Sergeant. How do? 365 00:25:43,610 --> 00:25:46,078 I was telling your husband, this acreage just to the north of me, 366 00:25:46,112 --> 00:25:47,680 it's pretty good land-- 367 00:25:47,714 --> 00:25:51,383 most as good as mine. Same creek running through and all. 368 00:25:51,417 --> 00:25:53,219 Fox branch, I mean. 369 00:25:53,252 --> 00:25:55,454 If the mister would like to have a look at it, 370 00:25:55,487 --> 00:25:57,890 I'll ride along and show you the way. 371 00:26:18,044 --> 00:26:21,681 My, oh, my, ain't slim hall gonna be pleased? 372 00:26:21,714 --> 00:26:24,651 We been looking for folks to settle that parcel 373 00:26:24,684 --> 00:26:27,186 so's we could share in the harvest work. 374 00:26:27,219 --> 00:26:30,522 Man, it don't seem right, your walking and me sitting up here. 375 00:26:30,556 --> 00:26:34,293 Oh, no no, Mr. Wormser. I like the exercise. 376 00:26:34,326 --> 00:26:38,064 My missus will sure be happy to have a new neighbor, ma'am. 377 00:26:38,097 --> 00:26:41,433 Mrs. Hall-- they live down below US like I said before-- 378 00:26:41,467 --> 00:26:42,969 she's a fine woman. 379 00:26:43,002 --> 00:26:45,905 But them nine kids of her keep her pretty much at home. 380 00:26:49,541 --> 00:26:51,844 That be Robert Douglas. 381 00:26:51,878 --> 00:26:53,980 He runs cattle hereabouts. 382 00:26:54,013 --> 00:26:56,148 Good man for a rancher. 383 00:26:57,684 --> 00:26:59,585 How do, Douglas? 384 00:27:06,358 --> 00:27:08,861 - How do, Douglas? - Good day to you. 385 00:27:08,895 --> 00:27:11,664 This here fine family are the sergeants-- 386 00:27:11,698 --> 00:27:16,102 Mrs. Sergeant, Mr. Sergeant, this here is Mr. Robert Douglas. 387 00:27:19,138 --> 00:27:22,574 They're gonna homestead the quarter section just to the north of me. 388 00:27:22,608 --> 00:27:25,745 Mr. Sergeant's a sodbuster, like me. 389 00:27:25,778 --> 00:27:28,147 The rain's pretty sparse around here, Mr. Sergeant. 390 00:27:28,180 --> 00:27:30,382 The elevation's above 5,000 feet. 391 00:27:30,416 --> 00:27:32,451 You might do better farming back in Nebraska. 392 00:27:40,026 --> 00:27:42,128 We're here to stay, Mr. Douglas. 393 00:27:49,869 --> 00:27:51,838 Good luck to you, then. 394 00:28:09,989 --> 00:28:12,624 Now don't you pay him no nevermind, John. 395 00:28:12,658 --> 00:28:16,595 Them cattlemen, see, they want to hog all this fine growing land 396 00:28:16,628 --> 00:28:18,731 for themselves. 397 00:28:18,765 --> 00:28:20,566 I guess I'll ride for a while. 398 00:28:25,604 --> 00:28:27,774 Now get! 399 00:28:38,885 --> 00:28:40,719 Wormser: We're almost there now. 400 00:28:40,753 --> 00:28:43,756 - If you pull up, I'll leave you. - All right. 401 00:28:43,790 --> 00:28:46,125 Ho! 402 00:28:46,158 --> 00:28:50,429 A man ought to have some peace and quiet when spying out his land. 403 00:28:50,462 --> 00:28:52,564 And like the missus always says, 404 00:28:52,598 --> 00:28:54,300 I talk too much. 405 00:28:54,333 --> 00:28:57,469 You'll see fox branch right over that rise. 406 00:28:57,503 --> 00:29:00,706 I'd plant my wheat right out over that way if I was you. 407 00:29:00,739 --> 00:29:02,608 See what I mean? 408 00:29:02,641 --> 00:29:04,710 - Thank you, Mr. Wormser. - You're welcome, Mr. Sergeant. 409 00:29:04,743 --> 00:29:06,112 Ma'am. 410 00:29:10,883 --> 00:29:13,152 Well, 411 00:29:13,185 --> 00:29:15,187 what are we waiting for? 412 00:29:15,221 --> 00:29:16,923 Hyah! 413 00:29:48,687 --> 00:29:50,656 Whoa! 414 00:29:52,358 --> 00:29:53,860 Look. 415 00:30:15,214 --> 00:30:17,216 Maggie: Trees! 416 00:30:19,085 --> 00:30:21,387 Oh! 417 00:30:21,420 --> 00:30:23,956 Jeremy! He'll turn an ankle. 418 00:30:23,990 --> 00:30:26,492 Oh, let them be, John. 419 00:30:38,871 --> 00:30:41,307 Those trees will make fine timber for a house, 420 00:30:41,340 --> 00:30:42,808 don't you think, Maggie? 421 00:30:42,841 --> 00:30:44,576 ( Laughing ) 422 00:30:44,610 --> 00:30:47,679 We'll have US a sod house and be content with it, John sergeant. 423 00:30:47,713 --> 00:30:50,849 The trees will stand and be shade for you, I swear. 424 00:31:06,465 --> 00:31:08,267 Maggie's voice: May 4th. 425 00:31:08,300 --> 00:31:10,136 Our first day here. 426 00:31:10,169 --> 00:31:12,804 John was so impatient to begin, 427 00:31:12,838 --> 00:31:16,242 he left the unloading and went to his field to begin breaking sod. 428 00:31:20,279 --> 00:31:21,547 ( Cow bellowing ) 429 00:31:21,580 --> 00:31:22,848 Come on! 430 00:31:24,984 --> 00:31:27,920 - ( Bellowing ) - Come on, come on. 431 00:31:28,955 --> 00:31:31,223 Come on! 432 00:31:33,625 --> 00:31:36,728 Come on, come on. Go on! 433 00:31:47,406 --> 00:31:49,375 ( Jupiter moos ) 434 00:31:56,983 --> 00:31:58,985 Maggie? 435 00:31:59,018 --> 00:32:01,053 You'll have to drive the team. 436 00:32:01,087 --> 00:32:04,423 I'll need both hands to force the plow. 437 00:32:04,456 --> 00:32:07,126 - ( Jupiter moos ) - What do you want with Jupiter? 438 00:32:07,159 --> 00:32:08,995 The team can't do it alone. 439 00:32:09,028 --> 00:32:11,430 They can't move the plow through the sod. 440 00:32:11,463 --> 00:32:13,432 Without a horse, I have to use a cow. 441 00:32:13,465 --> 00:32:15,968 John, she'll go dry. 442 00:32:16,002 --> 00:32:17,803 Then she'll go dry! 443 00:32:25,377 --> 00:32:27,013 Here. 444 00:32:27,046 --> 00:32:29,681 Drive her when I say "go.' 445 00:32:35,787 --> 00:32:38,090 Take them. I bet he could use this. 446 00:32:38,124 --> 00:32:39,858 All right. 447 00:32:39,891 --> 00:32:42,461 All together now, let's go! 448 00:32:42,494 --> 00:32:45,597 Ho! Ha ha ha! 449 00:32:45,631 --> 00:32:49,568 Go! Hey! Ho ho! 450 00:32:51,737 --> 00:32:54,706 ( Cows bellow ) 451 00:32:56,808 --> 00:32:58,977 All right, fall back! 452 00:32:59,011 --> 00:33:01,313 Whoa! All right. 453 00:33:05,417 --> 00:33:07,419 ( Jeremy moans ) 454 00:33:12,558 --> 00:33:14,726 Jeremy: We unloaded almost everything. 455 00:33:14,760 --> 00:33:16,828 Sarah: Except the stove. It's too heavy. 456 00:33:18,097 --> 00:33:19,865 When are we gonna eat? 457 00:33:19,898 --> 00:33:23,335 John, it is almost noon. 458 00:33:25,337 --> 00:33:27,506 Yeah. 459 00:33:27,539 --> 00:33:30,776 We're gonna plow... 460 00:33:30,809 --> 00:33:32,844 About a half an acre a day. 461 00:33:32,878 --> 00:33:35,047 Almost as good as my pa used to do. 462 00:33:35,081 --> 00:33:38,284 And it won't be nearly as hard next year. 463 00:33:38,317 --> 00:33:40,919 Oh, it's hotter on than off. 464 00:33:42,754 --> 00:33:45,057 Sarah, after you eat, 465 00:33:45,091 --> 00:33:46,925 you're gonna drive the team. 466 00:33:46,958 --> 00:33:49,128 - You too, Jeremy. - Oh, John. 467 00:33:49,161 --> 00:33:51,597 If you can do it, they can. 468 00:33:51,630 --> 00:33:55,767 Here, tie it on poor old Jupiter. 469 00:33:55,801 --> 00:33:58,070 Maybe it'll make her cool. 470 00:33:59,471 --> 00:34:01,840 Unhitch the team, you two. 471 00:34:01,873 --> 00:34:04,610 Turn them out in the grass. 472 00:34:09,381 --> 00:34:11,317 Maggie's voice: The day has been a long one 473 00:34:11,350 --> 00:34:13,619 with settling in and field work too. 474 00:34:13,652 --> 00:34:16,822 But John would not rest after supper. 475 00:34:16,855 --> 00:34:20,492 He took the spade and the empty wagon back to the field 476 00:34:20,526 --> 00:34:22,794 and he began cutting and loading the bricks 477 00:34:22,828 --> 00:34:25,164 of turned-up sod for our house. 478 00:34:29,868 --> 00:34:32,204 May 9th. 479 00:34:32,238 --> 00:34:34,373 John never stops. 480 00:34:34,406 --> 00:34:37,376 He spent several nights leveling the floor 481 00:34:37,409 --> 00:34:39,845 and tonight he started laying the walls. 482 00:34:39,878 --> 00:34:43,014 I have never known a man to work so hard. 483 00:34:49,655 --> 00:34:51,957 It must be after midnight, John. 484 00:34:51,990 --> 00:34:53,959 Please stop. Please. 485 00:34:53,992 --> 00:34:57,396 I thought you were in bed. 486 00:34:57,429 --> 00:35:00,166 I was. 487 00:35:09,908 --> 00:35:14,012 Why must you push yourself so? 488 00:35:19,318 --> 00:35:22,254 When we're together, you're too tired. 489 00:35:22,288 --> 00:35:24,956 We scarcely exchange a word anymore 490 00:35:24,990 --> 00:35:26,892 and then you're gone again. 491 00:35:28,093 --> 00:35:30,095 Go to bed, Maggie. 492 00:35:32,898 --> 00:35:36,235 I must file claim on this place, 493 00:35:36,268 --> 00:35:37,669 soon as I can. 494 00:35:37,703 --> 00:35:40,672 We mustn't lose this place too. 495 00:35:40,706 --> 00:35:43,342 And I won't leave until you're under a roof. 496 00:35:45,911 --> 00:35:48,214 Maggie! 497 00:35:48,247 --> 00:35:50,182 Let me be. 498 00:35:56,988 --> 00:35:58,724 Maggie's voice: May 12th. 499 00:35:58,757 --> 00:36:00,759 We had our first company today. 500 00:36:00,792 --> 00:36:02,894 Mr. and Mrs. Wormser came calling. 501 00:36:02,928 --> 00:36:05,764 While he went to the plow to see John, 502 00:36:05,797 --> 00:36:07,933 Philippa and I visited. 503 00:36:07,966 --> 00:36:11,069 She is just beginning to show with child. 504 00:36:13,004 --> 00:36:15,441 Oh, my, it is such lovely China. 505 00:36:15,474 --> 00:36:16,975 Thank you. 506 00:36:24,082 --> 00:36:26,585 However did you dare to bring it with you? 507 00:36:26,618 --> 00:36:29,355 Well, I just flat refused to leave it behind. 508 00:36:29,388 --> 00:36:32,057 John thought me a dunce. 509 00:36:32,090 --> 00:36:34,059 Only one broke on the way. 510 00:36:34,092 --> 00:36:37,563 Come on, Philippa! It's almost milking time! 511 00:36:43,469 --> 00:36:44,870 Philippa? 512 00:36:48,139 --> 00:36:51,443 Don't do anything foolish. 513 00:36:51,477 --> 00:36:54,446 Don't forget yourself and do anything foolish. 514 00:36:54,480 --> 00:36:56,948 The baby matters too much. 515 00:36:59,117 --> 00:37:01,687 I'll be over sometime soon. We'll talk some more. 516 00:37:06,024 --> 00:37:08,059 Maggie's voice: May 18th. 517 00:37:08,093 --> 00:37:11,830 We have plowed and sown and harrowed in these two short weeks 518 00:37:11,863 --> 00:37:15,301 and John, almost alone, has built our house. 519 00:37:15,334 --> 00:37:17,636 But today, Mr. Wormser and Mr. Hall 520 00:37:17,669 --> 00:37:19,805 are here to help put the roof in. 521 00:37:19,838 --> 00:37:24,343 And then tomorrow, John is bound for Cheyenne to file our claim. 522 00:37:24,376 --> 00:37:27,145 Though he spares US all he can, 523 00:37:27,178 --> 00:37:29,981 he will not spare himself. 524 00:37:31,617 --> 00:37:33,852 I am an ingrate to resent it. 525 00:37:33,885 --> 00:37:36,355 My hope is that when he returns 526 00:37:36,388 --> 00:37:38,557 there'll be more time for US. 527 00:37:38,590 --> 00:37:41,059 He is truly the best of men. 528 00:37:47,566 --> 00:37:50,268 - Mr. Hall, Mr. Wormser. - Ma'am. 529 00:37:50,302 --> 00:37:52,571 I'm just about to ice Jeremy's birthday cake. 530 00:37:52,604 --> 00:37:54,440 It's a little overdue, 531 00:37:54,473 --> 00:37:56,842 but would you gentlemen stay and share it with US, please? 532 00:37:56,875 --> 00:38:00,446 It would make a lovely party for Jeremy if you could. 533 00:38:00,479 --> 00:38:02,914 They'll be back from fishing anytime now. 534 00:38:02,948 --> 00:38:04,783 Angel cake, I hope. 535 00:38:04,816 --> 00:38:07,252 Nothing I like better than angel-food cake. 536 00:38:19,831 --> 00:38:21,800 ( Jupiter moos ) 537 00:38:24,870 --> 00:38:27,172 I put in some antelope, John. 538 00:38:27,205 --> 00:38:28,640 And some bread too. 539 00:38:28,674 --> 00:38:30,842 Good. Remember if it rains, you and the children 540 00:38:30,876 --> 00:38:32,811 will have to cultivate. 541 00:38:32,844 --> 00:38:37,315 Otherwise, the water will go right back up in the sky again. 542 00:38:53,999 --> 00:38:55,266 John? 543 00:38:55,300 --> 00:38:57,102 You get yourself a good meal in Cheyenne. 544 00:38:57,135 --> 00:38:58,970 Yes yes yes. 545 00:39:12,418 --> 00:39:14,820 We'll miss you. 546 00:39:37,342 --> 00:39:38,944 Maggie? 547 00:39:49,320 --> 00:39:51,256 My little Maggie. 548 00:39:53,091 --> 00:39:55,694 So often I've said, "grow up, Maggie." 549 00:39:57,429 --> 00:39:59,465 And all along-- 550 00:39:59,498 --> 00:40:01,967 all along you already had. 551 00:40:37,102 --> 00:40:39,771 I'll be about six days. 552 00:40:39,805 --> 00:40:41,773 You'll be fine. 553 00:41:02,928 --> 00:41:06,364 Won't papa be surprised when he gets back? 554 00:41:06,397 --> 00:41:09,200 Lettuce, beans, potatoes 555 00:41:09,234 --> 00:41:11,369 and beets. 556 00:41:11,402 --> 00:41:14,706 Look how they're coming to life already. 557 00:41:16,341 --> 00:41:18,644 Oh, please rain. 558 00:41:18,677 --> 00:41:22,714 Oh, well, if it doesn't, we'll just have to water and water. 559 00:41:22,748 --> 00:41:24,683 ( Thunder rumbles ) 560 00:41:38,897 --> 00:41:40,365 It's gonna rain! 561 00:41:40,398 --> 00:41:42,701 Get everything inside, children, quickly! 562 00:41:47,939 --> 00:41:49,908 Quickly! Inside, children. Come on. 563 00:41:49,941 --> 00:41:52,010 Hurry up. 564 00:41:56,147 --> 00:41:57,916 Rain! 565 00:42:09,460 --> 00:42:11,563 Mama, the roof is leaking! 566 00:42:11,597 --> 00:42:14,232 Oh! Get the pots, quick. 567 00:43:16,427 --> 00:43:19,731 Go get Joe wormser and his wife. 568 00:43:36,081 --> 00:43:39,818 Mama, it's the man we met on the way here. 569 00:43:48,660 --> 00:43:50,461 Mrs. Sergeant. 570 00:43:50,495 --> 00:43:52,330 Mr. Douglas, isn't it? 571 00:43:52,363 --> 00:43:55,801 I think you'd better send the children inside. 572 00:43:59,738 --> 00:44:01,940 Go in the house, children. 573 00:44:01,973 --> 00:44:04,776 Is something wrong, Mr. Douglas? 574 00:44:20,926 --> 00:44:23,995 We were down in one of the arroyos looking for some cattle 575 00:44:24,029 --> 00:44:26,364 that strayed during the rain. 576 00:44:26,397 --> 00:44:29,835 We found him at the bottom of a washout. 577 00:44:29,868 --> 00:44:31,336 No. 578 00:44:31,369 --> 00:44:33,671 He must have gotten caught in a flash flood. 579 00:44:33,705 --> 00:44:37,709 No. You're wrong. It can't be. It's not John. 580 00:44:39,878 --> 00:44:42,647 It's not John. It can't be. 581 00:44:54,159 --> 00:44:56,494 Oh, John. 582 00:45:00,899 --> 00:45:03,068 Oh, John. 583 00:45:04,269 --> 00:45:06,237 Oh, no. 584 00:45:06,271 --> 00:45:08,706 Oh, John. 585 00:45:25,156 --> 00:45:28,093 Maggie's voice: May 26th. 586 00:45:29,861 --> 00:45:31,863 Today more than ever 587 00:45:31,897 --> 00:45:34,032 I feel myself an alien here. 588 00:45:35,733 --> 00:45:38,236 Everyone meant to be kind. 589 00:45:38,269 --> 00:45:41,372 But it did hurt me that there was no minister 590 00:45:41,406 --> 00:45:43,341 to speak for John. 591 00:45:55,086 --> 00:45:58,723 Can there be a lonelier place in this world? 592 00:46:49,507 --> 00:46:51,342 Mr. Wormser? 593 00:46:57,983 --> 00:47:00,451 John must have served in the war. 594 00:47:00,485 --> 00:47:02,453 Did he, Mrs. Sergeant? 595 00:47:05,390 --> 00:47:09,827 They've taken those years off the five needed to prove up. 596 00:47:09,861 --> 00:47:13,498 This place'll be yours free and clear 597 00:47:13,531 --> 00:47:15,333 in a year and a half. 598 00:47:15,366 --> 00:47:19,871 You think we're going to stay here without my husband? 599 00:47:19,905 --> 00:47:22,173 No, we're going home. 600 00:47:34,419 --> 00:47:35,720 This was all? 601 00:47:42,527 --> 00:47:45,530 John never said we'd gone through it all. 602 00:47:47,966 --> 00:47:50,768 Uh, how will we-- 603 00:47:52,503 --> 00:47:54,872 we need money to join a wagon train, 604 00:47:56,041 --> 00:47:58,809 to pay for railroad tickets. 605 00:47:58,843 --> 00:48:00,811 He left US the house, mama. 606 00:48:00,845 --> 00:48:02,547 And-- and the wheat. 607 00:48:02,580 --> 00:48:04,682 And land, mama. 608 00:48:09,887 --> 00:48:12,190 Mr. Hall? 609 00:48:12,223 --> 00:48:14,659 You wouldn't want to buy my milking cow, would you? 610 00:48:18,163 --> 00:48:21,532 Mr. Wormser, I'll sell you my wheat right now. 611 00:48:21,566 --> 00:48:23,734 All of it. 612 00:48:28,639 --> 00:48:30,942 Mrs. Sergeant? 613 00:48:35,613 --> 00:48:38,749 None of US got any money to spend this time of year. 614 00:48:40,218 --> 00:48:42,653 We're all living on the promise of Autumn: 615 00:48:42,687 --> 00:48:45,156 The harvest or fat cattle. 616 00:48:53,198 --> 00:48:55,266 Don't cry, mama. Please. 617 00:48:55,300 --> 00:48:57,302 We'll be fine. 618 00:48:57,335 --> 00:48:59,304 You'll see, we'll be fine. 619 00:49:06,944 --> 00:49:09,880 Maggie's voice: I cannot sleep. I am too frightened. 620 00:49:09,914 --> 00:49:14,352 I never did understand why we had to come. 621 00:49:14,385 --> 00:49:17,288 And now, 622 00:49:17,322 --> 00:49:20,558 without John, to stay seems a hopeless plight-- 623 00:49:21,626 --> 00:49:24,462 two children and a woman alone. 624 00:49:24,495 --> 00:49:26,631 I want to go home. 625 00:49:28,366 --> 00:49:30,135 Oh, John. 626 00:49:31,569 --> 00:49:33,404 John. 627 00:49:33,438 --> 00:49:35,040 Papa! Papa papa! 628 00:49:35,073 --> 00:49:36,674 Papa! Where's papa? 629 00:49:36,707 --> 00:49:38,843 - Shh, Jeremy. - No, papa! 630 00:49:38,876 --> 00:49:40,678 - Please, shh. - Papa! 631 00:49:40,711 --> 00:49:42,813 Come on, baby. 632 00:49:44,249 --> 00:49:46,884 Go to sleep. It's all right. Go to sleep. 633 00:49:55,093 --> 00:49:57,228 ( Wind howling ) 634 00:50:05,970 --> 00:50:08,939 Mama, would it be proper to ask Mr. Wormser 635 00:50:08,973 --> 00:50:11,642 next time he shoots game to get some for US? 636 00:50:11,676 --> 00:50:13,944 He has enough trouble looking after his own, Sarah, 637 00:50:13,978 --> 00:50:15,346 let alone US. 638 00:50:15,380 --> 00:50:16,947 Yes, ma'am. 639 00:50:16,981 --> 00:50:18,983 Here, that's fine. 640 00:50:23,988 --> 00:50:25,823 Jeremy, there were lots of times 641 00:50:25,856 --> 00:50:28,126 you watched papa load his firearm, weren't there? 642 00:50:28,159 --> 00:50:29,827 Yes, ma'am. 643 00:50:29,860 --> 00:50:32,797 Well, maybe together you and I could 644 00:50:32,830 --> 00:50:34,632 figure out how to do it. 645 00:50:34,665 --> 00:50:36,701 One thing he did say though-- 646 00:50:36,734 --> 00:50:38,703 if you put in too much powder, it blows up. 647 00:50:38,736 --> 00:50:40,871 ( Fires ) 648 00:50:42,307 --> 00:50:44,975 I guess we're still using a little too much, mama. 649 00:51:20,911 --> 00:51:23,248 Why don't you try a little closer? 650 00:51:37,094 --> 00:51:39,364 - You hit it, you hit it! - Whoo-hoo! 651 00:51:39,397 --> 00:51:42,900 Tomorrow, Jeremy, you and I are gonna get US some meat for supper. 652 00:51:49,340 --> 00:51:51,842 Look what I found in the creek. 653 00:51:51,876 --> 00:51:54,312 There are lots and lots of them in the dirt up there. 654 00:51:54,345 --> 00:51:55,846 - There are? - Did you get anything? 655 00:51:55,880 --> 00:51:58,349 - No. - Didn't you even see anything? 656 00:51:58,383 --> 00:52:00,951 Well, I saw chuckers, antelopes, rabbits. 657 00:52:00,985 --> 00:52:03,288 I couldn't get close enough to hit any. 658 00:52:03,321 --> 00:52:05,790 Look, aren't they funny? 659 00:52:07,758 --> 00:52:09,760 They're fossils, Sarah. 660 00:52:09,794 --> 00:52:11,562 Did you catch US some fish for supper? 661 00:52:11,596 --> 00:52:14,732 But they weigh like stone. Did they all have names, mama? 662 00:52:14,765 --> 00:52:16,601 I don't know. 663 00:52:16,634 --> 00:52:19,570 Can I make a collection? Can I? 664 00:52:19,604 --> 00:52:21,539 - Sarah. - To take back to show Clarissa. 665 00:52:21,572 --> 00:52:23,374 Didn't you even try to catch some fish? 666 00:52:25,610 --> 00:52:27,245 I forgot. 667 00:52:27,278 --> 00:52:29,247 Anyway, who likes fish? 668 00:52:29,280 --> 00:52:32,016 Oh, Sarah. 669 00:52:32,049 --> 00:52:35,052 I'm sorry, mama. 670 00:52:38,223 --> 00:52:40,225 Jeremy: Mama! Mama! 671 00:52:40,258 --> 00:52:42,327 Jeremy, for heaven's sake, what is it? 672 00:52:42,360 --> 00:52:44,028 Come quick! 673 00:52:47,465 --> 00:52:49,634 - ( Cow moos ) - Oh, no, the wheat! 674 00:52:52,303 --> 00:52:54,071 Shoo her out of the wheat! 675 00:52:54,104 --> 00:52:57,074 The wheat! Oh, shoo her out in the field. 676 00:52:57,107 --> 00:52:58,409 All: Shoo! Shoo! 677 00:52:58,443 --> 00:53:01,712 - Shoo shoo! - Shoo shoo! 678 00:53:01,746 --> 00:53:05,550 ( All shooing ) 679 00:53:05,583 --> 00:53:08,118 Shoo! Get out! 680 00:53:08,152 --> 00:53:10,688 Shoo! Shoo! 681 00:53:14,725 --> 00:53:16,160 Get out of the way, children. 682 00:53:17,562 --> 00:53:19,397 Don't miss this time, mama. 683 00:53:19,430 --> 00:53:21,566 ( Cow moos ) 684 00:53:24,435 --> 00:53:26,337 - Shoo shoo! - Go! 685 00:53:26,371 --> 00:53:29,206 Shoo! ( Screaming ) 686 00:53:43,788 --> 00:53:45,456 ( Hoofbeats approach ) 687 00:53:52,229 --> 00:53:54,365 That's our cow you shot. 688 00:53:54,399 --> 00:53:59,069 Your cow was ruining my crop. 689 00:53:59,103 --> 00:54:02,407 That's apt to happen when you farm open range. 690 00:54:02,440 --> 00:54:05,075 Come on, drag him out, Jake. 691 00:54:07,077 --> 00:54:09,614 How're you getting along, Mrs. Sergeant? 692 00:54:09,647 --> 00:54:12,149 Well enough, thank you. 693 00:54:12,182 --> 00:54:16,354 It's a pretty tough life for a woman without a man. 694 00:54:18,423 --> 00:54:22,226 It's a hard life, Mr. Douglas, with or without a man. 695 00:54:24,495 --> 00:54:26,063 Good day to you. 696 00:54:32,870 --> 00:54:36,574 Of all the patronizing people. 697 00:54:36,607 --> 00:54:39,577 Did you see him work that rope? 698 00:54:39,610 --> 00:54:42,813 I suppose we're going to have to have fish for supper again. 699 00:54:42,847 --> 00:54:44,382 There isn't any fish. 700 00:54:46,250 --> 00:54:48,285 There isn't any fish. 701 00:54:55,826 --> 00:54:58,796 Sarah, put your stones down and eat your supper. 702 00:54:58,829 --> 00:55:01,366 They're fossils. That's what you said. 703 00:55:02,667 --> 00:55:04,702 Right in my molasses. 704 00:55:04,735 --> 00:55:07,237 Papa said he was gonna put up muslin for a ceiling. 705 00:55:07,271 --> 00:55:08,939 Why don't we use the tent? 706 00:55:08,973 --> 00:55:11,442 Because we need the canvas for the wagon 707 00:55:11,476 --> 00:55:13,411 - to go home in. - Well, 708 00:55:13,444 --> 00:55:17,047 I don't see why we have to go back to Indiana anyway. 709 00:55:17,081 --> 00:55:19,650 I want to stay here and be a cowboy. 710 00:55:19,684 --> 00:55:21,652 I don't want to go back either especially. 711 00:55:21,686 --> 00:55:25,590 Well, what about all your friends? Clarissa? 712 00:55:25,623 --> 00:55:27,324 Clarissa's dumb. 713 00:55:27,358 --> 00:55:30,695 Sarah sergeant. 714 00:55:30,728 --> 00:55:32,162 She is, mama. 715 00:55:32,196 --> 00:55:34,031 What does she know about fossils? 716 00:55:34,064 --> 00:55:37,568 I bet she doesn't even know how to milk a cow. 717 00:55:39,704 --> 00:55:42,973 Mama, how much money is the wheat gonna bring? 718 00:55:43,007 --> 00:55:45,510 I mean, well, after we get back to Indiana, 719 00:55:45,543 --> 00:55:47,678 how're we gonna live? 720 00:55:50,848 --> 00:55:53,183 With your grandparents, of course. 721 00:55:58,589 --> 00:56:01,091 I'll work out somewhere, I suppose. 722 00:56:01,125 --> 00:56:03,994 - For somebody else? - Doing what, mama? 723 00:56:08,533 --> 00:56:11,802 Nana's always telling me to wipe my shoes outside, 724 00:56:11,836 --> 00:56:13,971 even if I'm not wearing any. 725 00:56:14,004 --> 00:56:16,373 Look, we're going back to Indiana 726 00:56:16,407 --> 00:56:18,709 just as soon as the wheat is harvested and sold. 727 00:56:18,743 --> 00:56:21,178 We're going back to family, friends and your schooling. 728 00:56:21,211 --> 00:56:23,581 - I don't want to hear any more about it. - ( Screams ) 729 00:56:23,614 --> 00:56:25,583 Sarah, shut up! You'll scare him. 730 00:56:25,616 --> 00:56:27,685 - ( Sarah screams ) - For heaven's sake, Sarah. 731 00:56:27,718 --> 00:56:29,820 Hush! Jeremy, get rid of that thing. 732 00:56:29,854 --> 00:56:33,023 It's only pompey, mama. He wouldn't hurt anything. 733 00:56:33,057 --> 00:56:34,792 And he keeps down the mice. 734 00:56:34,825 --> 00:56:36,093 Jeremy, don't you dare. 735 00:56:36,126 --> 00:56:38,529 Jeremy, get rid of it. 736 00:56:38,563 --> 00:56:40,097 - ( Hoofbeats approach ) - ( Man calls out ) 737 00:56:40,130 --> 00:56:41,499 Jeremy, get it out of here. 738 00:56:45,269 --> 00:56:47,237 From Mr. Douglas. 739 00:56:47,271 --> 00:56:50,708 We don't want any charity from Mr. Douglas. 740 00:56:50,741 --> 00:56:53,377 He says it's for any damage done. 741 00:56:53,410 --> 00:56:56,246 Wait! Wait! 742 00:56:56,280 --> 00:56:58,248 Mama, look. 743 00:57:05,289 --> 00:57:07,558 Meat on the table. 744 00:57:09,827 --> 00:57:11,929 Some of the time. 745 00:57:25,843 --> 00:57:28,445 Maggie's voice: June 17th. 746 00:57:28,479 --> 00:57:31,849 The garden has an endless thirst. 747 00:57:31,882 --> 00:57:36,487 Thank heaven wheat is hardier or we'd empty fox branch dry. 748 00:57:37,955 --> 00:57:40,625 But I am glad to be tired at night 749 00:57:40,658 --> 00:57:43,260 and to fall quickly asleep. 750 00:57:49,366 --> 00:57:51,135 July 9th. 751 00:57:51,168 --> 00:57:53,337 Today I shot a rabbit. 752 00:57:53,370 --> 00:57:56,306 Oh, I felt so triumphant... 753 00:57:56,340 --> 00:58:00,144 Until Mr. Douglas rode up. 754 00:58:00,177 --> 00:58:04,615 He of course had shot a large, fat antelope. 755 00:58:04,649 --> 00:58:06,150 ( Horse neighing ) 756 00:58:15,926 --> 00:58:19,830 You're looking very well, Mrs. Sergeant. 757 00:58:22,567 --> 00:58:24,201 You're kind, sir. 758 00:58:26,837 --> 00:58:28,305 Hey, Mrs. Sergeant? 759 00:58:30,274 --> 00:58:32,476 If you put your foot in here, 760 00:58:32,509 --> 00:58:34,645 I'll help you up and give you a ride home. 761 00:59:15,653 --> 00:59:19,123 Maggie's voice: So it was that Mr. Douglas brought me home. 762 00:59:32,670 --> 00:59:35,572 Tonight when the children were asleep 763 00:59:35,606 --> 00:59:39,076 I thought of the other homestead women, 764 00:59:39,109 --> 00:59:43,113 silent and dull of eye... 765 00:59:44,581 --> 00:59:46,717 But they luckier than I. 766 00:59:46,751 --> 00:59:49,386 At least they had their men. 767 00:59:53,257 --> 00:59:56,060 What matter if in Indiana or here? 768 00:59:56,093 --> 00:59:59,063 I am alone and lonely. 769 01:00:08,639 --> 01:00:10,941 Looking at myself, 770 01:00:10,975 --> 01:00:14,311 I wonder how Mr. Douglas sees me. 771 01:00:18,515 --> 01:00:22,086 I think perhaps if we were not going back to Indiana, 772 01:00:22,119 --> 01:00:25,522 I would make myself a new bonnet. 773 01:00:33,130 --> 01:00:34,832 July 30th. 774 01:00:34,865 --> 01:00:37,467 Only two more weeks till harvest. 775 01:00:37,501 --> 01:00:41,772 The wheat is tall and golden straight. 776 01:00:41,806 --> 01:00:43,974 It's glorious. 777 01:00:48,445 --> 01:00:50,781 August 14th. 778 01:00:50,815 --> 01:00:53,083 Tomorrow harvesting begins. 779 01:00:53,117 --> 01:00:56,286 We shall start at hall's farm, thence to wormser's, 780 01:00:56,320 --> 01:00:58,622 thence here, for we planted last. 781 01:00:58,655 --> 01:01:01,658 Immediately after threshing, we will leave for Indiana. 782 01:01:01,692 --> 01:01:03,627 Jeremy: Mama! Mama! 783 01:01:09,433 --> 01:01:11,535 What is it, Jeremy? 784 01:01:11,568 --> 01:01:13,537 Come see! 785 01:01:18,008 --> 01:01:20,477 Look! 786 01:01:20,510 --> 01:01:22,913 Oh my god. 787 01:01:38,128 --> 01:01:39,997 Hey, Mr. Douglas here yet? 788 01:01:40,030 --> 01:01:42,432 He sent down for slim and his boys too. 789 01:01:42,466 --> 01:01:45,770 Hyah! Whoa! 790 01:01:49,339 --> 01:01:51,742 Douglas figures we can make a stand here. 791 01:01:51,776 --> 01:01:53,277 Save the house, maybe. 792 01:01:53,310 --> 01:01:54,845 Make a stand? What for? 793 01:01:54,879 --> 01:01:58,415 That's a rip-roarin' death-bringer. 794 01:01:58,448 --> 01:02:00,885 A prairie fire, Mrs. Sergeant. 795 01:02:00,918 --> 01:02:03,387 And like usual, the wind's blowing right this way. 796 01:02:03,420 --> 01:02:05,389 Now get aboard! 797 01:02:05,422 --> 01:02:07,391 Douglas wants to form up down at your house. 798 01:02:07,424 --> 01:02:09,293 Hang on 'cause we gonna go. 799 01:02:09,326 --> 01:02:13,163 Okay, Jeremy. Let's go, Jack. Hyah! Hang on tight. 800 01:02:56,240 --> 01:02:58,909 Whoa! Whoa! 801 01:02:58,943 --> 01:03:01,578 - Ahh! - What about the team? 802 01:03:01,611 --> 01:03:03,113 - Let 'em free. - And Jupiter? 803 01:03:03,147 --> 01:03:06,116 They'll run ahead of the fire. Don't you worry. 804 01:03:06,150 --> 01:03:08,118 It's moving fast but with the wind's help, 805 01:03:08,152 --> 01:03:10,020 we've kept it from getting any wider. 806 01:03:10,054 --> 01:03:11,989 Looks like it's gonna top on that Ridge back there 807 01:03:12,022 --> 01:03:14,224 so that's where we'll cut the brake and start the backfire. 808 01:03:14,258 --> 01:03:16,393 - Backfire? Why? - That way, Mrs. Sergeant, 809 01:03:16,426 --> 01:03:18,328 we may be able to save some of your field. 810 01:03:18,362 --> 01:03:19,463 No! 811 01:03:19,496 --> 01:03:20,998 That's John's wheat. 812 01:03:21,031 --> 01:03:22,833 If you want to save range down valley, 813 01:03:22,867 --> 01:03:25,402 you burn off range above here, but not our wheat. 814 01:03:25,435 --> 01:03:28,038 Mrs. Sergeant, I don't need the range down valley. 815 01:03:28,072 --> 01:03:31,075 I can drive my herd over the divide and winter on the crow. 816 01:03:31,108 --> 01:03:33,143 It's the only way, Mrs. Sergeant. This whole valley could go. 817 01:03:33,177 --> 01:03:35,112 If this were your homestead, Mr. Hall, 818 01:03:35,145 --> 01:03:37,314 would you be so eager then? 819 01:03:37,347 --> 01:03:38,815 Ma'am, try and understand-- 820 01:03:38,849 --> 01:03:40,985 for god's sake, wormser, we're wasting time. 821 01:03:41,018 --> 01:03:43,653 - Go find a plow. - Fellas, get some flails. 822 01:03:43,687 --> 01:03:45,923 - Get some blankets, some sheets-- - no! 823 01:03:45,956 --> 01:03:48,825 Ma'am, Douglas has the truth of it. 824 01:03:48,859 --> 01:03:50,794 He doesn't need that range. 825 01:03:50,827 --> 01:03:53,430 But we need his help and yours 826 01:03:53,463 --> 01:03:55,032 or we're all lost. 827 01:04:00,604 --> 01:04:02,406 ( Men calling out ) 828 01:04:02,439 --> 01:04:04,008 ( Horses neighing ) 829 01:04:16,253 --> 01:04:19,089 Man: Hyah! Hyah! 830 01:04:19,123 --> 01:04:22,059 All right, get that team round again. That's all the time we got. 831 01:04:25,362 --> 01:04:27,797 Oh, Sarah, darling, not your blue dimity. 832 01:04:27,831 --> 01:04:29,633 If it's needed. 833 01:04:39,109 --> 01:04:41,545 Man: I need some more blankets too! 834 01:04:43,813 --> 01:04:45,950 Fire's coming hell-bent, Mr. Douglas. 835 01:04:45,983 --> 01:04:47,952 All right, ride the line. Make sure it's clean. 836 01:04:47,985 --> 01:04:49,786 Let's start spreading the coal oil. 837 01:04:49,819 --> 01:04:52,089 Come on, grab a bucket! Grab that coal oil. 838 01:04:52,122 --> 01:04:53,657 Let's go. 839 01:04:58,628 --> 01:05:01,665 Grab a bucket! Let's bring that coal oil. Come on, grab a bucket! 840 01:05:03,667 --> 01:05:05,769 - Here, I'll take that. - I'll take it. 841 01:05:18,615 --> 01:05:20,917 Sarah, get your brother, get out of the way. 842 01:05:24,488 --> 01:05:28,558 All right, stand back. Let's get back there! 843 01:05:29,726 --> 01:05:32,229 Stand back! 844 01:05:32,262 --> 01:05:34,764 You all ready? You ready? 845 01:05:34,798 --> 01:05:36,366 Ready here. 846 01:05:36,400 --> 01:05:38,235 Let's light 'em! 847 01:06:19,409 --> 01:06:21,211 Man: Is the firebreak holding? 848 01:06:21,245 --> 01:06:23,413 Man I need help over here. 849 01:06:23,447 --> 01:06:25,549 Go over there near the firebreak! 850 01:06:29,053 --> 01:06:31,555 Over here! In the firebreak! 851 01:07:03,287 --> 01:07:05,089 Man: Behind you! 852 01:07:05,122 --> 01:07:06,756 The wind's taking it! 853 01:07:09,226 --> 01:07:10,860 We need more men! 854 01:07:10,894 --> 01:07:13,063 Over here. Quickly. 855 01:07:26,776 --> 01:07:28,612 Let's get those fires out! 856 01:07:28,645 --> 01:07:30,614 If it spreads, we're ruined! 857 01:08:20,830 --> 01:08:22,466 It's working. 858 01:08:23,900 --> 01:08:25,202 It's working. 859 01:08:45,889 --> 01:08:48,225 Man: Watch those embers. 860 01:08:48,258 --> 01:08:50,360 Man Beat 'em out. 861 01:08:50,394 --> 01:08:52,028 Beat 'em out! 862 01:09:10,113 --> 01:09:13,550 Looks like you're gonna have a good crop in spite of it, Mrs. Sergeant. 863 01:09:44,714 --> 01:09:46,716 Oh, that'll do it. 864 01:09:54,691 --> 01:09:57,494 This'll be about the same as what we brought with US from Nebraska. 865 01:09:57,527 --> 01:10:00,029 "Good seed wheat," papa would call it. 866 01:10:00,063 --> 01:10:04,000 Mama, I could help sow it next year. I'll be big enough. 867 01:10:05,402 --> 01:10:07,504 Papa would be proud of US, I think. 868 01:10:13,510 --> 01:10:15,312 Let's go to town. 869 01:10:27,991 --> 01:10:29,793 Mrs. Sergeant? 870 01:10:29,826 --> 01:10:32,329 Good day, Mr. Douglas. 871 01:10:33,763 --> 01:10:36,266 Just wanted to say goodbye and good luck. 872 01:10:36,300 --> 01:10:39,303 Well, thank you for the good luck, 873 01:10:39,336 --> 01:10:40,904 but no need to say goodbye, 874 01:10:40,937 --> 01:10:43,106 unless you're going away. 875 01:10:43,139 --> 01:10:45,208 - Mama, mama! - Mr. Douglas, Mr. Douglas, 876 01:10:45,241 --> 01:10:47,110 we're staying! We're staying in Wyoming! 877 01:10:47,143 --> 01:10:50,079 And mama bought US some smoked pork and bacon and butter and fresh eggs! 878 01:10:50,113 --> 01:10:51,948 Come on, you two, in the wagon. 879 01:10:55,485 --> 01:10:58,655 I don't suppose you'd like to put that money into cattle? 880 01:10:58,688 --> 01:11:00,690 Run your stock with mine; You'd be welcome. 881 01:11:00,724 --> 01:11:02,292 We'd go shares at the market. 882 01:11:02,326 --> 01:11:05,094 Then we'd be ranchers and I'd get to be a cowboy. 883 01:11:05,128 --> 01:11:08,365 Jeremy, your papa saw his land in wheat. 884 01:11:08,398 --> 01:11:10,600 ( Horse neighs ) 885 01:11:10,634 --> 01:11:12,736 You'll get to be a cowboy anyway. 886 01:11:12,769 --> 01:11:15,104 It's inevitable. 887 01:11:15,138 --> 01:11:19,743 I see my land in wheat too, Mr. Douglas. 888 01:11:19,776 --> 01:11:22,045 I thank you. 889 01:11:22,078 --> 01:11:25,014 What happens if there's a drought next year maybe? 890 01:11:25,048 --> 01:11:27,317 I don't believe in borrowing, Mr. Douglas. 891 01:11:27,351 --> 01:11:29,052 Not money nor trouble. 892 01:11:29,085 --> 01:11:31,721 Yes, ma'am. 893 01:11:33,156 --> 01:11:34,491 Mr. Douglas? 894 01:11:40,697 --> 01:11:43,266 They say there'll be rails for fencing 895 01:11:43,299 --> 01:11:45,569 when the union pacific goes through. 896 01:11:45,602 --> 01:11:49,873 Well, till then, you best keep a sharp eye on your stock. 897 01:11:49,906 --> 01:11:51,941 Either that 898 01:11:51,975 --> 01:11:55,912 or you're welcome to come share a roast of beef with US some evening. 899 01:12:16,433 --> 01:12:19,736 Maggie's voice: August 21st, 1867. 900 01:12:19,769 --> 01:12:23,373 Today once again our lives have been overturned, 901 01:12:23,407 --> 01:12:24,908 this time by me. 902 01:12:24,941 --> 01:12:27,411 I have made an amazing decision. 903 01:12:27,444 --> 01:12:29,413 My head is full of plans: 904 01:12:29,446 --> 01:12:32,081 Whitewash for the inside of the house; 905 01:12:32,115 --> 01:12:34,751 our cow must be freshened to give US milk again; 906 01:12:34,784 --> 01:12:37,887 and soon I will talk to Philippa and Mrs. Hall 907 01:12:37,921 --> 01:12:40,223 about writing east for a teacher. 908 01:12:40,256 --> 01:12:42,426 Big pines must have a school. 909 01:12:42,459 --> 01:12:44,494 And a church too. 910 01:12:58,107 --> 01:13:01,077 John dreamt of the promise in this land. 911 01:13:01,110 --> 01:13:04,414 Now that promise is ours 912 01:13:04,448 --> 01:13:07,917 for I know myself an alien here no more. 913 01:13:10,153 --> 01:13:13,089 Tomorrow-- all our tomorrows-- 914 01:13:13,122 --> 01:13:15,291 will be busy days.