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Donner Summit, Sierra Nevadas 7000
feet above sea level February, 1867
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We're never gonna break out of that rock.
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We've been trying for a year.
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Fan gway say
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move mountain, but
mountain don't want to move.
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That's white man's logic.
:52:39
Don't try to understand it.
:52:41
You'll go crazy trying.
:52:47
You have people back where
you come from, chow ping?
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Have wife in home village.
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One day, I finish here.
:52:55
Say to her, "you come now. "
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Give her silk dress.
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We going to live in tai fau.
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Tai fau?
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San francisco, right?
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You learn chinese real good.
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I've been studying your phrase books.
:53:11
Learned how to write a
little of your alphabet.
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You have village?
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Americans don't belong to any one place.
:53:27
Just when we get settled, we up and
get restless for something different.
:53:30
I rode the pony express till it played out.
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Never as free as when I
was on the back of a horse.
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Nothing steady after that.
:53:44
Why you stay now?
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Never been part of something like this.
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Something permanent.
:53:51
Think maybe I'll see it
through, just this once.
:53:57
Maybe I'm just a crazy
indian like they all say.