:10:00
And in the way Americans have
of acting out their dreams, it came to be.
:10:05
The Erie Canal left the Hudson
above Albany...
:10:08
... and carried clear across
to the Great Lakes.
:10:12
People who yearned for virgin land
and the new life...
:10:15
... now had a highway to take them.
And they moved along.
:10:19
Pride of Utica now loading.
:10:22
All aboard for the Pride of Utica.
:10:26
The Ramsey family, Peter Smith...
:10:30
...the Skoga family...
:10:32
...all eight of 'em.
:10:34
All aboard for the Pride of Utica.
:10:40
Is the laddie's health
the reason you're heading west?
:10:43
Partly.
:10:44
Only partly.
Mostly our trouble East was rocks.
:10:47
I had me a farm where some years
I'd raise 100 bushels of rocks a year.
:10:50
Zebulon, you hadn't oughta lie
to the man like that.
:10:53
Wife, I'm a God-fearing soul,
and I tell the truth as I see it.
:10:57
I never used a plow.
I'd blast out the furrows with gunpowder.
:11:00
Then one mornin'...
:11:01
...I hauled the bucket up
out of the well and...
:11:03
...so help me, the bucket was full of rocks.
:11:06
Rocks.
:11:07
I just stood there right still
trying not to blaspheme...
:11:10
...and said to myself:
"You've got a son that's ailin'.
:11:13
"You've got a 20-year-old daughter
who won't take a husband. "
:11:15
There she sits, moonin' as usual.
:11:17
Pa.
:11:18
"You've got another daughter,
just don't seem quite right in the head. "
:11:21
Lilith.
:11:24
Yes, Pa?
:11:27
I remind you, sir.
:11:29
I'm still standing there
holding a bucket full of rocks...
:11:33
...and staring into a bleak old age.
:11:36
So I made me a vow
right then and there. I said:
:11:38
"If I can find a man with $500
who likes rocks...
:11:43
"... then there's gonna be another fool
ownin' this farm. "
:11:46
Well, sir, the Lord provided such a man...
:11:49
...and here I am.
:11:51
He ain't told you one word of truth,
Mr. Harvey.
:11:53
We had the best farm in the township.
:11:55
Yeah, Rockville Township it was.
Stone County.
:11:57
Oh, it was not.
:11:59
It was his itchin' foot that brought us here.