:08:00
Arkansas toothpick ain't
for cuttin' your steak.
:08:07
So where are you headed, sir?
:08:09
St. Louis to meet up
with Mr. Jedediah Smith.
:08:13
The Jedediah Smith?
:08:14
God made only one of him
for all of us to look up to.
:08:17
Who's that?
:08:19
Mr. Smith opened up the
deep west for trappers.
:08:22
Lookin' for a few good
mountain men to explore
:08:25
the beaver populations
around the great salt lake.
:08:28
How much can a man make off a beaver?
:08:30
They keep buyin' beaver hats in London and
Paris, upwards to 4,000 or 5,000 a year.
:08:38
It's time for you to get
back to work now, all of ya.
:08:41
5,000.
:08:47
Oh, now, Margaret, that
is a fine-looking goose.
:08:50
Do you believe that beaver story?
:08:52
Sunday dinner was another form
of labor with my father and Nick...
:08:56
my mother Margaret...
:08:57
say grace first.
:08:58
My brothers Ezra, Nathan, and Jethro.
:09:01
For what we are about to receive...
:09:02
Grandfather Abraham presided over
the ritual with grandmother Hannah.
:09:06
The wheelers pounded iron 6 days a week,
but on the seventh, we pounded each other.
:09:11
President Adams is saying
to europe, "keep out.
:09:14
It's all ours.
:09:15
It needs another Jefferson to take it all.
:09:17
But isn't the west just one vast desert?
:09:20
That's a common untruth, Mama.
:09:22
West is all kinds of terrain.
:09:24
It's a veritable garden of eden.
:09:25
Yes.
:09:26
Jacob's just returned from
the west wing of the house.
:09:29
Jacob, in fact, has yet to discover
the western side of the barn.
:09:34
As with all rituals,
nothing ever much changed.
:09:38
Until that sunday, when
I looked around the table
:09:40
and said my silent good-bye
to each and every wheeler.
:09:49
[Speaking lakota language]
:09:57
Old indian: Heyoka, the clown, tried to lift
:09:59
their spirits after
growling bear's dark vision.