03x02 - The Greenhorn Story

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This is Saint Louis.

To many people,
it's a gateway to the west.

They crowd in here by train,
by wagon, by steamboat.

They are here to embark
on the adventure of their lives.

They are in search of the future.

The golden future of the Golden West.

Tall or short?

Their fatness.

But the first few weeks they're with us.

They all have one thing in common.

They're all greenhorns.

There's always one that stands out
from all the rest.

One whose face you know, you'll remember.

No matter how many you forget.

And shred em.

Sign here.

I always give them
lists of exactly what they need.

I try to impress on them the importance

of keeping their loads
to an absolute minimum.

They all say just about the same thing.

Oh, this is. This is wonderful.

Everything is listed.

Oh, come on. We've got lots to do.

Thank you, Major Adams. Thank you.

Open your doors.

St Louis.

Here comes
Samuel T Evans to buy out the town.

Oh, I beg you.

Excuse me, Major. Good morning. Sir.

Good morning, Mr. Evans. Well, you're up
quite early, aren't you?

So are you.

Yes. Well, I guess I was a little nervous,
you know, I was getting ready to go.

And all the provisions I have to get
and everything just couldn't sleep.

You know, we're going into my country.

Oh, is that a fire? Yes. Yes, indeed.

You know,

when we cross over the Rockies, we're
going into mountains that are getting.

You know, the west.

Know it?

I've been writing about it for years.

How long since you've been out?

Oh, I've never been there.
This is my first trip.

You've been writing up
and you've ever been out there.

Well, I never could save up the money
before until now.

And when I've been able to go.

Now, if it wasn't for an m deciding
to sell our house to go into partnership

with me.
And you're settling out with that?

Oh, Major, what we plan on doing is to
publish a weekly newspaper in Sacramento.

We're taking the printing press right
along with us.

My grandfather took the printing

press out of Pennsylvania by covered wagon
when that was just a wild country.

Now, at the moment,
I plan on taking it to a new frontier.

You know,

a printing press is a pretty heavy thing
to haul in a wagon that this is heavy.

I better have a look at it for you.

Oh, no, Major, we don't have to take up
your time to do that.

I called in some experts at home
and they told me what to do with it.

Other experts that have never been west.

Well, I discussed it
thoroughly with the experts.

Oh, I guess
I'm taking up a lot of your time.

You have a lot to do.

See you later, Major. Yes, Mr..

Mr. Evans.

You'd better take a good look at that
list of provisions I gave you.

And by only the absolute minimum.

Can I help you, sir?

Well, yes, you certainly can.

Bill, turn.

Yeah. Get up, you two.

I told you you had to help me.

Police Greenhorn today. Bill, get up.
He's mad at heart.

I can't do it all myself.

Are you to take one st now?
Take the next one.

And don't you let him buy a single thing
That's not on my list.

You understand that?

Now hurry up.

Yes, sir. Bill,

this isn't on the Major's list.

The Major's list,
if I may say so, is terribly limited.

Now, this is the ideal outfit
for sh**ting Buffalo

or sh**ting or

knocking him dead.

This, of course, is a little more dressy.

Just the thing
for those casual card games.

With the boys. And there you are.

A concealed pocket for that
ace up your sleeve.

Well,
I wasn't planning on living dangerously.

Would you mind removing your hat?

I had no trouble.

A la a poncho.

Wait a minute. Where did I go?

Just in case you happened to run in
to a rainstorm on the way home.

Say, this is a punch? Yes.

A Spanish poncho
to protect you from the elements.

Well,

what have you got for everyday use?

Yes, it's.

This is more of what I had in mind.

Yes, it's you.

I feel it. It's really you.

Now, now, would you mind telling me,
please, and tell the truth?

Do I really look Western?

Oh, yes, sir.

Very western.

Not too Western, if I may say so, sir.

Just Western Enough.

And I look so new

here, sir.

Why not have a stogie?

Compliments of the house
named after the famous Conestoga wagons.

Thank you. I don't care for one. Right.

Well, then,
if we'll just leave these things

right here for the time being,
the things that you've chosen,

and we'll go back
and see about your groceries.

Fine. Fine. All right, sir.

All right, well, I'm going to wait till.

You figure it's one of ours. Jolly.

He's bound to be the way I like that.

Don't take a chance.
I find a whole new street.

Yeah. It's
too late to do anything for him.

Hey, you reckon
that's one of our down look one?

There might be.

I should say.

Now, I'll have £300 of flour, please.

Are you a married man, Mr. Evans?

No, I'm not. I've taken the pledge. Mm.

Then the £300 of flour is just for you
yourself?

No, it happens to be for my aunt
and myself.

Anything you say.

After all, there's nothing to be gained
by dwelling on Jasper.

Jasper?

Jasper Middleton died of starvation.

Just the other side
of the Missouri border.

He did.

Did this Jasper

go up west with Major Adams?

No. He went out west with £300 of flour.

Oh, well, that's case.

You better give me £500.



All right. 600.

Oh, I hate to go against the major,

but I do outfit people for these trips
all the time.

Well,
why don't you tell me what I'll need?

You couldn't
put yourself in better, has Mr. Evans?

I'll fix you up real good.

I just put that right out of the wagon

by that. Oh, thank you.

Are you sure?

I have everything.

Well, you got everything I can think of.
Thank you.

Thanks for your help.

Good luck, sir.

Thank you.

I like your outfit.

So I see.

How do you like yours?

I don't know. Sir.

I know what you mean. You're going west?

No, I'm going east.

Well, it takes all kind.

Would you get a load of that green?

It's all dressed up, and it's pretty new.

Clothes.

Would you gentlemen mind letting me
pass, please?

Better let him go before he
starts bawling.

Now, you shouldn't have done that.

Oh, I'm. So

much better.

Go give him.

A hand ride.

I thought

that was great, wasn't it?

I hope I didn't spoil your fun.

No, not at all.

The more the merrier.

Hey, got some dirt on my new suit, too.

What in tarnation
do you think you're doing?

You trying to buy out the whole town?

Well, Major, there's no place
along the way to borrow a cup of sugar.

You think you can get all this stuff
and a printing press in a wagon?

Don't worry about a major
and m as a whizz on packing.

Listen,
young fella, going west is not a picnic.

It's a serious business.

I doubt if you can get all that stuff
in a wagon and have a team.

Little. You worry too much, Major.

Well, we don't want to let time
get away from us.

Thanks for helping me.

Where do you think you're going now?

To go get my wagon. Unless.

And by just one wagon, will you? Not six.

Not ten. Just one.

Yeah, just one.
That's. That's plenty for anyone.

Greenhorns.

I make my wheels. Horse.

Hey, George. What?

Look at that, huh?

That prevents the weight of the wagon

from coming down and breaking the hounds
when you hit a bad place on the road.

This thing here and.

Now, we'll proceed to the brake assembly.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Well, Mr. Harrison,
I've got an awful lot to do.

Harrison, are you busy? No, he's not.

Yes, I know he's not.

Come back.

Oh, you don't have to come back This up.

I'll go back.

And I'll go to explain the brake assembly.

Then we take a look at the rocket frame.

Well, hello. Hello.

I'm sorry I interrupted
your tour of the wagon bottom, Mr.

Harrison. Oh, that's quite all right.

This way.

Doesn't make any difference
about the bottom up.

I'm going to buy it anyway.

I defy you to find a needle
bottom anywhere.

I agree.

I'll.

I'll take it.

No, you're not.

You're not taking orders.

You fully understand why you're taking me.

But you sold me, Mr.

Harrison.

Young man, I'm not even half true.

I really must run a papa
just wanted to know if it was all right.

If we could load our wagon this afternoon.

I informed your papa. My.

Are you going up west to miss?

I informed your papa myself

that my lecture on proper
loading procedure is tonight at seven.

I'll tell Papa. Mr. Harrison.

Tell me,
where do you plan on settling out west?

We're going to Sacramento.

Sacramento?

What do you know?

That's where we're going to, young man.

Are you interested in this wagon?

Goodbye.

Wait a minute.

What's your name?

Six course that covers.

Oh, Where are.

Goodness gracious, Legs.

What is all that?

The wagon.

Jack Here.

Our bucket.

A lantern. That's matches.

Oh, Sam, why didn't you leave this at
our campsite with the rest of our things.

In my home?



I'll take this over later.

Too tired now?

Sure, Sam, I am you.

What am.

I? I met a lovely young lady today, Sam.

And am.

Aren't you ever going to give up
being a matchmaker? Yeah.

Of course.

When you get married.

No, thanks.

Oh, it's matter what you looking at?

I'm just looking at your clothes.

You look so different. Different.

Good, different, bad, different.

Oh, simply splendid.

And you brought a knife and a g*n?

You mean you got a wagon for us
too, today?

And I had a fight.

No one knew.

You're so tired.

Oh, while I'll be all right,

I'm just a little tired.

Later on, After a while,

I'll take you over
and I'll show you our wagon.

That's a good looking wagon.

Go west, young man.

Oh, Who would ever think

it would be this complicated?

Oh, this is our ratchet frame.

Isn't it beautiful?

Here's your bill of sale. Oh, okay.

Put in those straps.
We talked about to hold the press.

It's a lovely wagon, Mr.
Harrison. Hey, don't. Do.

Mr. Harrison.

When I was in here
the other day, there was a young woman.

A young woman.

So many young women come in here.

We were under the wagon, remember?

I'm always under a wagon.

What kind of shoes did she have on?

I don't know what kind of shoes
she had on. She was about

so tall, and she said she was going out
west.

Remember?

I just wanted to ask you something.

It wasn't important.

Was she pretty thin?

Oh, and it wasn't anything like that.

Forget it.

Come on.

Pikes Peak or Bust?

Excuse me.

Is that one of ours?

Samuel Evans, Philadelphia P.A..

Yeah, that's one of ours.
All right. It's funny.

I get so you can tell.

He's one of those fellows
that knows all the wrong answers.

Kind of like a blow.

The major asked me to tell you
to make sure

that all of our wagons
are loaded on the riverboat by noon.

After Saint Joy.

Watch your step telling me the Indians
are mighty dangerous out there.

I'm not afraid of the Indians.

I'm afraid of Samuel T
Evans of Philadelphia, PA.

And you bet you put him on a horse
and put a g*n in his hands.

He's the most dangerous man on the trail.

He's only a greenhorn on.

That set in a nutshell.

And he's only a grain figure. Let's be.

Now. He's on his way.

His wagon is on deck. His heart is high.

And if his eyes suddenly get misty
for a moment

at the sight of things that are dear
and familiar that he may never see again,

he won't admit it.

The river from Saint Louis to Saint
Joe is a bridge

from the past to the future

once he gets off that boat.

Samuel T Evans, expert on the West,
is up against reality.

We've set up our camp
and we get right down to business.

There They meet our scout,
Trent McCullough, for the first time,

and they start to learn a little
about what's ahead of them.

And here at Fort Laramie,

you'll see more deer
than you ever seen before in your life.

This is the land of the Sioux Indian

seven Council fire,
sometimes from seven tribes.

Right now we're at peace with us. So.

And for us, that's good.

Then come the Rockies.

And after the Rockies, you drop down
to the burning silence of Nevada

and then onto the Sierras
and into California.

Hey, that's right.

Now the.

It's.

Not an easy journey,

but it's an exciting one.

The country's wild,
and I think that you'll like it that way.

They state

any questions,

as the major told each of you
when you signed on, this company

will be run on the same principles
as I was a town government

at the end of the first two weeks on
the trail, we'll have an election

elect a mayor and an assistant

treasurer, a secretary and a judge.

They more or less run the train.

But first things first.

Tomorrow you'll be able to buy your horses
from the Indian traders.

Now, they're not going to be broken up
to take care of that by yourselves.

And all I can say is

good luck to each of you.

You need any help, Mr.

Evans?

No, thank you.

We've got a perfect understanding.

They don't like me and I don't like them.

Well,
that doesn't sound like an understanding.

That sounds more like an impasse.

Well, they're going to have to be broke

into harness
and they're going to be broken.

And I expect to come out victorious.

Though you change your mind,
you just give a holler.

I'll be down the line.

You know,

I expect to fight it out right here
at this impasse if it takes all summer.

And good luck.

Oh, my

gosh.

Oh, wow. Wow.

Unhappy

thrown out by

your three depot.

Oh, wow. Wow.

I had to.

Oh, well, now,

how are,

uh. Uh.

Oh. Wow.

Wow, wow.

Oh, wow.

Oh, wow.

Wow. Yeah,

the whole still are all still there.

Hey, Mr.

Evans, what are you fixing to do,
Put those horses in a circus?

Well,

Evans,

what are you doing?

Hooking up a chariot or a wagon?

Why do you hate me.

When you get through something?

Say, I'm already a snake oil.

And I'm stuck.

I never realized the human body
had 200 bones

until the day
when I cracked every one of them.

Did you pick any names
for the horses, Sam?

Yeah, I sure did.

But none a lady can use.

We're only going to use four of
those horses instead of six.

Where'd you come from?

My name's
Jody. Punishment? I'm a nuisance.

Well, hello there, Jody Pumphrey.

Who says you're a nuisance?

Everyone.

How come you're sitting
in that type of water?

Well,
if you must know, I took six horses today,

and I tried to teach them
who was the horse and who was the master.

You lost, didn't you?

No, I.

I won.

But I had to pay quite a price.

My father says your green horse.

Yeah.

I'm afraid your father's right.

I am a greenhorn.

My horse pulled me halfway
across the state of Missouri today.

He was bit him.

Bit him?

Did you say a bit?

Sure.

He's sitting in a bucket of water, too.

Oh. Oh.

That's a terrible place to get bit.

Hi, Jody.

I was just laughing because I realize
now I'm not all alone.

You see,
I realize there's more greenhorns than me.

My father says everyone on the train
to greenhorn.

But Major Adams.

Well, he's right.

We're all greenhorns.

None of us know what to do.

Is that. Good?

Oh, it's. It's very good

fact.

It's very comforting.

Yes. You know, after
I get through this bath, Jody,

I'm going to put my body to bed
for a nice long rest.

Jody.

Jody Pomfret.

Here I am. Melanie.

That's my sister.

She's old, but she's not.

You better come up, mister.

You could drown down there.

Now. His troubles won't seem so desperate.

Oh, will hers?

They found each other and all the world
is turning toward spring.

You have a lovely daughter, Mr.

Perfectly. Thank you.

You have a very charming nephew.

Is taste in
clothes is certainly excellent.

Where do they get all that energy?

I don't know.

Sometimes I hate young people.

You know, Sam

could have had his pick
of any girl in town.

Oh, Melanie had to do it with snapper
fingers.

They do make a nice couple.

Is he sober, industrious, God.

Fearing and thrifty?

Oh, yes.

Sam comes from one of the best
families in Pennsylvania

is Melanie, a good housekeeper?

All the best. Sam deserves the best.

Now, wait a minute.

I haven't made up my mind
to accept your Neville.

You haven't been asked.

They just got together, and we're already

having our first quarrel.

Thank you, sir.

I said, Mr.

Neighbor.

I said, Maybe I am making a mistake here.

Maybe I am in line to be city editor, but,

well,
I want to publish a newspaper of my own.

I said, Mr.

Mcgeever, my grandfather did it,
and I want to do it too.

Not on a daily like this, but a weekly.

I said, Yes, sir.

I want to publish the news
and bring a view of the news.

The people who really need a newspaper.

Mr. Mcgeever just looked at me.

He's gotcha.

I guess I'm talking your ear off.

Oh, no, please go on.

I am so interested. Fan

you are.

And I feel honored

that you should want to tell me.

Melanie,

I got to go feed the horses.

Oh, Sam, It's too early

to feed the horses.

Sam, It's very late.

And Melanie says I'm about the best dancer
she ever danced with.

Major Adams says
we have to be clearing at daybreak.

Melanie says that going out west
to publish a weekly is about the most

romantic thing she's ever heard of.

Sam, you have to get some sleep.

Melanie says that she knew that
we were going to meet again all along.

Oh, Sam, you won't know what
you're doing in the morning.

Adam, It's.

It's awfully.

I got to get some sleep.

I don't know what I'm doing
in the morning. Oh,

how The first morning it was right.

The second wife left.

Third, right, the fourth left.

And so on down the line,
I start out as, Oh, you ever going

to make two separate circles
until you meet?

When you come together,
you will have made one big circle.

Is that clear enough to you now?

When you move forward,

you come up alongside the wagon

in front of you
and until your tongue is overlapping,

the hind wheels of the wagon
in front of you.

Is that clear?

Yes, sir. That's. That's clear, sir.

Yes, sir.

That's tired.

One small pumpkin
you are wagon number one.

Which way do you go?

I'm goes to the right, sir.

Is your name perfect? No, sir. My.

My name is Evans.

It's hard enough to get through
the Pomfret without outside interference.

It's impossible with it out. Perfect.

Thanks anyhow, Sam.

What's that? Perfect.

I was just thinking, Sam,
if you two don't cut out this nonsense

and settle down, I'm going to put you
at opposite ends of the train.

Perfect.

I am Wagga

Wagga, number one, and I go, Right.

I'm wagon
number two and I go to the right pub.

It goes right.

You go left, I'm on wagon number left
and I go,

I mean I'm wagon number two and,
and I go left sir.

All right now let's try it again.

How you move forward when I yell to you

and when I give you this signal,
you start to circle up now.

Perfect. Right. Evans left.

All right.

Come on,

I'll drive.

That's right.

Wagon number two when I turn left.

Wagon number two, and I turn left.

Jennings Right.

That's right.

Right.

I must be going.

The wrong way. Yes.

Look at that.

Where does he think he's going now?

Oh, I don't know.

Go see if you can leave him back
where he belongs. Well, you.

Go. No, no, not that way.

That way

you know.

For sure has to know a lot to get out
west.

Tony. Yeah.

Wait a minute. Wait.

You're getting further away
from the wagon.

Turn. Sam.

If anything ever goes
wrong in these parts, worry real trouble.

Yeah, it is kind of frightening.

Gosh, I feel stupid.

We should have paid attention, all Mr.

Ratchet.

Yeah, I guess we'll have to ask
Major Adams how to fix this wagon.

Tung, I'd rather go home.

Are you afraid of the Major? Yes, I am.

He sees through
to my essential inferiority.

Well, I distinctly remember Mr.

Harrison saying something
about the double trick of the wheel team.

Don't you trea, though?

I don't remember anything like that.

I wonder if Melanie had.

Remember Melanie?

Yes. Melanie's a bright girl.

Don't you agree, Sam?

Sure. She's bright. All right.

Pretty too. Wouldn't you say?

She's one of the prettiest.

You know, I'll bet
she's had about 100 proposals by now.

That many?

Oh, easily

Speaking strictly
from an unprejudiced point of view,

a girl like Melanie doesn't
come along every.

Day, does she?

You know, No, sir.

A girl like Melanie only comes along once
in a lifetime.

Really?

If that's the way you feel, Sam.

Hey. Hey, Jodie.

What you doing here,

huh? You don't know how.

To put the doll on the wagon, do you?

Oh, go bother someone else, Jodie.

Pompous, busy.

It's going to ring.

Major
Adam says it's going to start at 4:00.

Oh, if that's the case, we better have
somebody tell us what to do here.

With his wagging tongue.

If I could only remember about that
double three.

Double chairs
connected by the double tree here

to the town and is connected

to the house by the queen pin

and the hounds are connected
by the front axle buzzer.

The what.

Kingpin.

About that
said that said can go to your wonderful.

I snoop.

Papa's clever little. Boy.

I want to paint.

Well, if this works, Pop,
I'll give you a whole nickel.

I'll give you more than that, Sam.

Well, are you back out there?
Come on, let's get to work.

Come on, back up, Jodie

Grant's got it.

Even better.

Get your reindeer on.

Say, that's a real good job.

You mean for greenhorns?

Well, I mean, it's a good job for anybody.

I couldn't have done a better job myself.

You know, the major
is going to be a real proud of you, too.

You really think so? Well, I know so.

That's the most wonderful thing
anyone's ever said to me.

You know it.

You're going to be all right.
So are you, Evans.

Gosh, I never expected

to hear anything like that Coming from
you are the major after the other day.

Well, you know, the majors barks
a lot worse than his bite.

You've got a lot to learn.

We're going to see that. You learn it.

You know, I'm beginning to understand
these wagons here know what they're about.

Know the intricate, delicate parts
of these wagons.

And I'm beginning to understand why
Cousin Harrison took pride in his ragged

frame and his Osage orange wood.

Well, here she comes.

Five after four.

Major Didn't miss it by much, did he?

How do you feel?

I feel like a ball. Those.

Oh, there's no use fretting.

You always catch a cold when it rains.

Melanie said she stopped by to see you.

Melanie.

Oh, she should come in here to feel

you. Why? Why?

Because I got a cold
and I feel like a ball nose.

Oh, Sam, don't you know that
a man is never more appealing to a woman

than when he leaves taking care of him.

By look,
appealing to his after his mother?

No, Melanie.

Is he asleep

in bed with a cold?

Do I need some hot milk
with lots of pepper in it?

The best thing in the world.

That was very thoughtful of you, dear.

I guess you'll have to heat it up again
when he wakes.

Oh, I will.

And thank you very much.

You can come up now.

You ought to know how I feel.

Well, never having been a man, I'm not at
all sure that I should or that I do.

I, you
know, expect me to drink that stuff.

Do you want.

After Melanie went to all that trouble
to make this lovely hot milk with pepper

before. You?

I don't want it now.

It's good for you. And if I thought of it,
I would have made some of it for.

You know what?

Now I.

Am here.

I don't.

The idea is to drink it while it's hot.

And I just don't want

hear them. What?

What's wrong with me? Just a cold.

I mean, outside of the obvious.

I mean, you know, like the other night,
I spent most evening with Melanie,

you know, and I talked to her about

the Irish potato famine of 1823.

Oh, if you want to talk about it,
why shouldn't you?

The night before that,

I talked about the grasshopper plague
in the Great Plains in the Boer w*r.

I was
more of a bore than the bourgeois one.

Well, sometimes the things you don't say
shame through the things you do.

But I used to be able to say. What was I?

Bye by.

I pass the butter.

Here's your hat.

Good evening. Don't have to ask it of her.

Well, Melanie's a girl.

Well, no other girls before I talk to them
like they were people.

Maybe she's the girl, Sam.

Even if she is,
I don't have to be inarticulate.

Maybe you do.

But here I am, a grown man
acting like a 17 year old lovesick calf.

What's she got to think of me?

Why don't you ask? Afraid to.

What if she doesn't feel about me?

Like I feel about her?

And I always thought you had all the
self-confidence in the world.

Frontier
life has taken the starch out of me.

I'm not the bad. I used to be ad lib

side.

I got a cold by those.

I knocked. But I guess you didn't hear me.

Oh, hi, Mr. Lynch. I don't out with him.

Well, I'm just trying to give him
some hotting up with Pep.

And I don't want you ever try hot whiskey.

What better would you sit down, Charlie?

Sam needs a little it out.

Be good. Hi, Sam.

How's the cold?

All the cold is thriving,
but I'm failing rapidly.

Well, I hope you'll.
Be able to drive in the morning.

We're pushing off that tomorrow.

That's right.

Well,
now you get back to bed and cover up.

You hear me? Right,
Gordon? Spilling all over me.

Get back in. Bed.

Oh, and, Sam,
don't forget wagon number two to the left.

I will forget.

How could I forget those cars.
On the trail?

Okay, partner. Good night.

Oh, I'm getting real fond of that boy.

I met him 20 years ago. Hi h*.

Well, we're planning
to shove off in the morning, huh?

Yeah.

Dan, at last.

Or really heading west? Yeah.

You're about to embark
on the great adventure of my life.

I got a call on my nose.

Well, California, here I come,

I. I didn't want that much pepper.

I don't want that.

Now, a glass
tea has really started to rest.

Just ahead,
Melanie arrives toward the same horizon,

same future, and his heart quickens
each time he thinks of it.

He's not so green as he was two weeks ago.

Not yet a season does.

He'll be two weeks from now.

The trail
teaches us lessons hard and fast.

Now every disaster is common to all of us.

The trail is harsh

and it's cruel
no matter how well you know,

The unexpected
always waits to strike it out.

Somewhere.

Midway between Saint John, Fort
Kearney comes to greenhorn Marcus moment,

the moment when he must face
the consequences of his own

stubbornness.

Oh, these horses won't go.

And they're not going to go.

You throw out about half that stuff
you got in that wagon.

Oh, it out.

I'm sorry, Sonny, but these horses
cannot pull that heavy a load any further.

They're tired.

Well,
how much of the stuff shall I throw out?

Well, I would start by throwing out
that confounded printing press of yours.

The printing press.

But you told me I could take it
if I could find the right wagon.

I also gave you a very specific list
of provisions to buy,

and you more than doubled
up on every single item.

Well,

can I take the press with me
if I throw away most of the provisions?

Oh, I don't know.

Well, I've tried everything except
what was on that list that I gave you.

And we'll see.

All right.

I like very much.

Okay.

Sam Evans isn't the only one.

The trail will be littered for miles
or things that have to be discarded.

And the train that comes through tomorrow
and the next day.

And all that at the park park.

I'm sorry, Sam.

So my man, may

you live and learn.

At least we've got Grandpa's
printing press left.

And we'll get it to California to.

But we will now.

But there is always a challenge

to come over
the next hill around the next day.

Always some new trial,
some new unexpected adversity.

And Amazon supper.

Ready, Sam?

Melanesia. Huh?

Sam? Sam, wait.

Let me tell you.

Earlier in the day she died

with Sam.

Where's the wagon? Here's a comfort wagon.

We had to move it
out of the line without. Why?

Well, imagine I had a talk,

and we decided that
since you and I become friends,

it might be easier
for you to hear this from me.

But I don't know how to soften
this for you.

I think it's happened.
You just have to face it.

What's happened? Melanie's sick.

I know Melanie's sick and told me
she was sick.

But how sick can she be?
She's pretty sick.

Oh, she.

She wasn't sick
when you were explaining to us

about Ford Carnie, she was perfectly old.

Sam, you know how Cora is.

One minute a person is perfectly
all right.

In the next minute that desperately ill

cholera.

That's the way it looks.

Cholera,

cholera.

And the person that usually gets it



I know all about cholera.

Believe me, I wrote an article on it.

Sam, the wagon has to be taken
out of the line.

Why does it have to be taken?

I've seen a car on a wagon train
before I can wipe.

I'd have to train it 24 hours.

I know, but can't get.

The manager is responsible
for the lives of 200 people.

Now what else can he do.

What?

Couldn't he just die?

I guess there's nothing else he can do.

Are you sure it's cold?

No, but we've got to have
a healthy respect for the symptoms.

You're not going to leave her alone
out here to die, are you? No,

no. I'm going to stay
here until we find out what's happened.

If in a day or two Melanie's
able to travel,

we'll catch up with the train
in Fort Kearney.

If not,

I'm going to stay to Flint.

My life is in that wagon.

Melanie,

I've tried so hard to tell you.

I just couldn't find the words.

I've known you all my life, Melanie.

You're the first girl

I ever took to a party.

First girl I ever kissed.

And you'll be my last.

I never knew Melanie

that I could feel like this.

I thought I knew all the answers.

All my answers.

And then.

And you appeared

smiling. It.

You looked into my eyes.

I thought about a home.

Melanie,

you are my home.

If anything ever happens to you,

I don't want to live.

Don't leave me.

Please don't leave me.

But each

you know I am.

There's a saying among frontier people
that,

well, they say there's God out yonder.

Maybe that's a strange way to say it, but

if you spent most of your life

in the wilderness like I have you,

you know what they mean?

And you know why they say it.

And why they have to believe it.

Was God out beyond.

Oh, I hope so.

I hope

sometimes from the hand of the Almighty.

A miracle

when.

You have that. Melanie.

Oh, you forgot your mother's cookbook.

I'm only going to the next wagon.

Bride should never go to her husband
without her mother's cookbook.

Humphrey, I thought I'd ride up with you.

Give the newlyweds a chance to be alone.

I'm glad to have you.

Where's Jody?

Oh, he'll be along soon as we get rolling.

Let's be gone, Mrs.

Evans.

Mrs. Evans.

I can't even believe it.

Even when I hear it.

Next stop, Fort Kearney.

I can't believe it's been two weeks
since we left Saint Joe.

And it's only been six weeks
since we left.

They looked.

I feel a hundred years older.

Well, thanks for the compliment, Mr.

Evans.

Well, you did account
for a few of these gray hairs.

Come on, get up from there
before the Major starts yelling at us.

You're giving me orders like we've been
married two years instead of two days.

Well, you love it, don't you?

I love. Oh.

How are you feeling, Mr.

Evans?

Like a brand new fallen away to.

A brand new world.

I'm sorry, Major.

I gave you so much trouble.

No more than any other son.

All of my job, that's all.

Well, I was Mr.

Evans this morning.

Does he still think going
west is just scaling those mountains

and conquering the desert?

Now he's pretty well aware of the facts
of life, but this time I knew it.

Jacob up. All right.

You know, I've liked that little fella
since the first time I laid eyes on him.

You liked him all, major.

Even the words know it all to come along.

Well, Johnny,
I had learned the hard way myself.

But every year when we get a new batch
of old Samuel t Evans, it

just makes me realize
how much of a greenhorn

I still am.

Oh, come on, Bill.

Look. Oh.

Oh, my boy.

See what I tell you?

You ready, Johnny?

Oh, strong.

You were wonderful.

I wasn't nothing.

After all, I had to help a greenhorn.

Oh, all right.