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[wind blowing] >> it sure come up below, major. major adams: i have seen worse in kan w >> cold enough for you, major? major adams: sweating my life away, pop. tie that canvas down as best you can. if you can't tie it down good enough, nail some strips into it. cleve: how many wagons blown away? major adams: i stopped counting. cleve: if we were heading the other way we would sure be

cleve: if i wasn't blowing against it, this whole train would d moving backwards. major adams: i will see that you get a medal for it later. cleve: oh, there is snow in it. major adams: it is too early to snow in this country, mr. full stop -- mister. >> how are they? major adams: same as you, bellyachin'. >> how f up do you think mccullough is? major adams: i don't know. >> whenever he is he is knee-deep in snow. major adams: it is too early to snow in this country. >> you can't tell me. major adams: i am telling you it is too early to snow in this country. you better not say anything different and get them panicked. i will stick your head in the fit snow drift we come to. >> what did i say? >> too much. major adams: i am not too worried. mccullough macaw will find us -- mccullough will find is a way

>> i can't stop the wiwi. that is for sure. major adams: build a high fire in a high wind. why don't you dig it ieper, then it will fafa in. >> most people digging like this would think that ground was frozen. that is people that aren't smart like me. major adams: charlie, i wonder how i keke forgetting have really smart you are. >> i would like to know that myself. major adams: in case you break the point off of that, i suggest you something harder and more pointed, like your hea >> now what did i say? >> too much. >> still sweating, major? major adams: yeah, pop, i was just about to appeal my coat off. it is so cold, why don't you go over there tthe fire? >> did i say anything about being cold? major adams: i don't reckon you did.

major adams: thanks, pop. thanks. >> major. you ever spend much time in texas? major adams: yeah, some. cleve: you must know what a norther is right? major adams: and every other place besides texas it i ijust a wind, a big wind. cleve: a freezing wind out of the north. it comes down from canada. it turns everything to ice and snow. major adams: i guess yav cleve: no. major adams: well, i have, and so is flint mccullough. we know that some of the passes down south are just as clear. mccullough is going to pick the right ones for us. cleve: well, i guess everybody is glad to hear you say that, major. major adams: i have seen these winds spring of 100 times and died down for the night was out. >> might be we were remembering

might be that stock in ourur minds. major adams: let me tell you something, mr. for stopthis is -- this is far ahead of where that other one was. we are not lost. as far as i know, everybody on this train is in his right mind. if i was you, i would get my belly full and keep warm. if you have a thing about wagon trains that came this way, think abouthe ones that got through. the snow cloud sure is the devil. >> there was no mistaking them. what would you give to see mccullough come running under them? majojoadams: a lot more than i got, i will tell you that. if he doesn't come in by tomorrow, i will send you an charlie out looking for him.

major adams: he is never lost. i figured he is snowbound. he has to be.

>> this is the first real wind break we have come across. >> if we were on mccullough's trail, he probably felt the same. >ren't you sure? >> no, aren't you? >> no, but i would feel better if you was. >> wait a minute, charlie. >> what is it? >> it is blood. >> blood? it sure looks like a blood. >> looks like they drug it off that way. it was bleeding when they drug it away. [wind blowing] >> looks like this is it.

u >> i am through thinking for a while. i want to find out a few things. [door slamam annie: you are trespassing. you got no right. what are you, as dumb as you look? can't you hear good? >> we are looking for a man. annie: well, i ain't. >> tell her about >> we were following some tracks from the clearing. they lead here. annie: what if they do? >> tell them up -- tell her about the blood. annie: what ails him? >> nothing. i am as fit as a fiddle. >> there was blood all along the tracks. we figured maybe our friend was hurt. annie: i d't know nothing about your friend. i don't mean to stand out here all day with you. that blood you saw was deer blood. >> maybe if you have some men

annie: i have more than you can handle, and they are not far away. >> we would be much obliged if you would tell us where they are. annie: they are yonder, in that box canyon be on the clearing. >> how far? annie: about a mile, even. if your friend came nosing up here, they might've got him. >> got him? anane: you fool, men. you don't even know where you are. i ought to let you find out. >> what kind of menfolk you got? this here is shoshone coununy. those canyons is a shoshone camp. now get. >> there is a whwhe wagon train depending on us. annie: your with a wagon train? >> yes, our friend is a scout. anane: where is it heading? >> west, to california. annie: west. always heading west. >> are you sure you haven't seen flint?

>> we have a long riri ahead of us. we would appreciate it if we could warm ourselves by your fire. annie: i don't have no fire. [gunshot] annie: i ain't got no fifi at all. now get.

annie: go one, keep looking. get used to it after a wild. -- while. it makes me feel real bad d see a man helpless like this, real bad. flint: where? annie: i feel i owe it to you. you are so nice to me.e. you gave me everything you own. you got in this world. or did i steal it from you? i wonder if i could have done a thing like that. flint: you brought me here? annie: i brought you. don't think i wasn't able. we have strength men don't even know about. it is something she learns.

that ain't n npain. well, i got no whiskey. i could tap you on the head. that is the best i could do. flint: you could have left me there. annie: you aren't any good to me dead. you might be worth something to me a live, even half a ave. you might be worth something to the shoshones. flint: shoshone? annie: hold steano ? annie: i ain't going to state hitched up on this mountainside, how tell you -- i will tell you.

flint: thanks to you. annie: i told you. you're no good to me dead. i had a lot to bear lately. i don't want you dying on me. flint: i will do what i can. annie: put some of this on you, it might break up the fever. flint: i don't think i can eat.

come on. made with a little bit you had will do you some good. flint: who are you? annie: a lady who has some reading up to do. flint: what is your name? annie: annie griffith, annie griffifi. mrs., i am a married lady. flint: what part of the sosoh

annie: there is so much going on here. i haven'n'been able to do much reading up. what do you know about the south? flint: the way it sounds, mostly. annie: the way it sounds. you are too plain, a aie. no one wants a plane woman -- plain woman, at least for a wife was about west, marrying is easy -- too easy. the marriage is hard. flint: did you lose your husband? annie: i am not looking for him. when you lose something, you try to find it. ? annie: if i was going to look for something, i would look for those babies. three of them, three years, all of them dead.

annie: sorry? i did the burying alone. every time, alone. the last one was just a little while ago. flint: how long have you been alone? annie: y y mean this time? well, when the trails open to last spring, he was off. after the first year, he was onlylyere when he wanted. this time, when he comes back ii want the here to meet him. that is why i stole from you. i am going home. it pleasures me that a man is paying for it. flint: you had better come back before the winter sets in good. annie: he always does. that is his way.

flint: what is he like? annie: he is a big man. he has red hair. slightly redder than yours. he has eyes that can jab you with a look. they can cut you through. it is not as easy to look at since i cut him, right down the face. ? flint: did you love him? annie: well, that first year, part of it. when we were new to each other. that was a long time ago. there was a lot to remember since then. i think i have the fever, taking

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cleve: i want to find out how your wife and kids were doing. >> the mrs. isn't want to complain.

i don't have any responsibility towards anybody but i se -- myself. >> the major says we best get plenty of firewood. cleve: he sure once is to keep busy, doesn't he? he doesn't want us to take time to noticic >> notice? cleve: hawks, wooster, gone for two days. >> where? cleve: i d d't know that, but they are gone. major would pr mccullough. all i can say is, they are moving somewhere. we ain't. we are stuck. >> you are not saying anything i haven't been thinking night and day. cleve: i am not a man with wife and kid. worrying himself, all i say is that we have to be moving. >> we can't moving to a storm,

cleve: we can move away from it. it makes sense, doesn't it? we can't move ahead. if we sit here, we freeze, or worse. seems like that is all the major has been offering us. >> are you offering better, cleve? cleve: i am going back. i said that we know what is behind us. we have been there. major adams: hey, pop. >> no good to me now, it is empty. major adams: how is the fire in their?

i am fixing to lay on some fresh logs. you should be in here with me. it is as smooth as silk. major adams: later, pop. [laughs] major adams: oh, i see it. you don'have to hide it. what about flint? >> we didn't find him. major adams: you better start talking. >> tell them about the crazy female. flint would be better off with the shoshones. major adams: what the devil are you talking about? did you get snow blili up there? >> i could, there was enough snow. >> there is a woman up there, all right. about a mile from there there is a shoshone camp. we figured the tracks might be flint's.

>> she was a little bit of a thing with a shotgun. major adams: did you know anything about flint? >> she said not. she didn't want us around. >> if we had left we would'vee been in the snow this very moment. major adams: that is just a great. i have a whole wagon load of people that could freeze to death or starve to death. i have two smart young boys like you working for me that can't even handle a woman with a shotgun. >> you ner saw a woman like her. major adams: you want much good to me now, are you? >> is the train and that bad of shape? major adams: they are not gogo. if this wind doesn't quite soon it will snow on a soon. >> i don't think anybody saw us when we rode in. that is why we holed up here. major adams: i am worried about that flint, around in shoshone country. >> he might still be up there with that woman. if he is, the good lord be with

major adams: if she is living that close to the shoshone, you can bet she is living close to with their permission. we better tell them to lay in some firewood. come on. i have been in storms like this before. i know what they are like. nobody going to tell me that we ought to sit here and let it cover us over. nobody will ever find us again. sense to move out and head of a storm. you men with wives and children, you think about that now. you listen to me. we are not smart if we don't act smart. major adams: what do you call acting smart? cleve: move it, major. moving is smarter than being here. major adams: there is no way we can move this train now. cleve: yes there is. major adams: you better tell me about it.

we know what is back there. we know the water, and the trails, forts. major adams: you know the weathe r? cleve: it has to be better than here. major adams: you're just guessing, i don't call that thinking. you know what the weather was when we came through, but not what it is now. cleve: you don't want to talk about what is ahead. major adams: i told you, snow. cleve: i keep forgetting, we lost our scout, haven't we? he is the only one that knows for sure. major adams: i have been through these passes more times than i can count. cleve: flint mccullough, he is the only one that knows what we are in for. he is lost, isn't that a fact? major adams: i would like to bet you he is and lost. cleve: is he dead?

cleve: he doesn't know. it seems to me there is a lot of things the major doesn't know. we are obliged to do what he says. major adams: as long as i am wagon master, you are obliged. if i have to get tough, i will. cleve: you are talking mighty rough to people you should accommodate. i thought of you as a reasonable man. you said something just now were thinking about. you said -- as long as a wagon master. major adams: you thinking of taking over? cleve: did i say that? major adams: i could tie you up for starting a mutiny like this. cleve: i have no papers, major. nobody will follow me. i can lead this train anytime i want to. anyone who follows me, it will be their business. major adams: all right, i will ask you one thing, that is to use your heads.

nobody told you it was going to be easy. i want you to remember all of the reasons that you had for going west. then figure out for yourselves whether it is worthwhile to throw all of those reasons after we have gotten two thirds of the way to the coast. if it is humanly possible to get you to california, i will get the job done. i will guarantee you that. all you men, you better gather firewood. gather all of it that you can,

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annie: you don't have the strength, and no sense to know it. flint: that was a shoshone war party. annie: is that a fact? flint: soldiers, best fighters in the tribe. annie: they are friends of mine. they brought me these. flint: how did you get friendly

annie: they say i am good medicine. he knows what he is talking about. he is the medicine man. he brings me things that i need when he can. flint: you must have done him an awful big favor. annie: that first winter i found his son in one of the traps. it seems like every young one i meet with is in some kind of misery. i freed him, nursed him, and saved they have always been grateful. flint: you didn't tell him i was here -- did they ask? annie: sure, they asked. flint: you could have turned me over to them. annie: if they know -- they don't know just where you are. flint: you could tell them. annie: anytime they come up with some gold, or something that i can spend. then i will tell them where you are right quick.

flint: i has to. yesterday, maybe two or three days ago, he tried to bushwhack me in the path. he threatened to kill me for my horse. it was either him, or me. annie: he was coming back. like all the other times, he was coming back. you killed the only living thing that was still mine. now i am nursing you back to health. that is sort of funny. flint: i am sorry. annie: are you always going to be sorry about everything? do you hear that? it might be a long winter. i told you, i don't aim to stay

maybe i will tell the shoshone about you sooner than i thought. ? [wind blowing] >> i am the one that told them what they were in for. at the first sun up, i am heading back. the smart ones will follow. >> the major did not bring this storm. [horse whinnies] >> you better get back in the wagon. it is warmer in their. major adams: i was going out to check on the stock. >> they are doing fine. major adams: somehow, i always feel sorry for animals, more than i do for people. they always feel it.

>> seems like a man can take care of himself, somehow. major adams: yeah. ? flint: annie?

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to make out all right. unless you stealing off again, he said you will be able to travel in a little while. it is his medicine that saved you. flint: why did you go to him? annie: to get you safe passage to the wagon train. flint: why, annie? are you worried about me? annie: nothing of the sort. i couldn't let the shoshone get you after all of my medicine, co flint: you are pretty. all you have to do is set your mind to it. annie: he said the spirit devils would be talking and you for a little while. i declare you're just out of your head. flint: you might as well get used to the fact. you are pretty. if you ever get out of here -- some proper gentleman will tell you.

sleep. the supper is nearly ready. flint: you are pretty. ? annie: if another living thing had died on me, i would have given in. major adams: get your stuff loaded up. we're going to roll. good luck, you're going to need it. get your teams, boys.

charlie, having you got your team hitched up yet? let's go. get ready to roll, folks. well i'll be. flint: major? major adams: howdy. flint: sorry a held you up, major. i ran into a little trouble. ready to go on without you. flint: i see. annie, this is the major. major, this is any griffith -- annie griffith. flint: any means to be very happy if she could travel. major adams: where are you headed? flint: she is headed to the south again by way of the sierras. major adams: are you her interpreter? flint: you might say that. major adams: you listen to me.

we have trouble enough as it is without some strange female complicating things. annie: art you ashamed getting all right about in front of a lady? i have a mind not to point out that trail i was told about. flint: annie has guaranteed a safe passage through the shoshone country. i figured maybe you would be obliged if she could ride in your wagon. major adams: mine? flint: yes, major. thank you very much, major. show you the major's wagon. ? annie: seems like you have your strength the back. flint: i don't know. i might need special care anytime now. >> flint mccullough, the major has been worried sick about you. flint: he didn't have to. i had very good medicine. oh, charlie? this is mrs. griffith. >> how do you do? does the major know you are

annie: quit bellowing in my year. flint: thanks a lot. annie: you better but that hat back on, you might catch cold. ? flint: the shoshone say she is good medicine. major adams: what is the matter with you? did she bite you? flint: i will tell you all about it someday. major ad come on, let's get rolling. get that team hitched up. come on, move, will you? ready to roll, charlie? >> major? i changed my mind, i am going with you. major adams: now you are finally talking some sense. go to the end of the line.

>> ? roll along, wagon train rolling over mountains where there ain't no pass, praying to the lord we stay together

wagon trail, roll along picking up a passenger in every town wonder if he is ever going to shoot you down looking for a girl, need not be pretty if she will ride on the wagon trail. gotta keep them on the line time to go and follow the sun all along wagon trail never had a cabin only have a wagon sitting on a board, eye on the weather praying to the lord please stay together

elisha [music] [music] >> it will be all morning. >> it's as if he has gone to sleep. >> he's dead. i remember a winter once when i was boy. a great many perished.