This late in the year, a week was a long time to hole up, but it was little enough time to get the train ready. Wed need every minute of those seven days and the seven nights ahead of us. Sent mccullough up ahead to see if he could find a pass that would let us make up some time, and i assignedjob to e, woman and child in the train. Didnt i tell you it couldnt get worse. d changa. Everythings going fine. The majors being downright coop stopping the wagon train for repairs. Thatll give us the time to do mfortable. You know me. I dont like to be rushed. Time . What do you want time for . This is like taking candy from a baby. Were gonna take ey from that wagon daintytyike. I i ly hope that man werent lyin there was more than 1,000 cash in garners wagon. A thousand dollars in good, hard yankee cash. Itll do a lot of things to my body and my soul. You know, that garner boy has it real nice. Pretty little wife. Ldnt miss the money. chuckles le wife. Dont you go getting any ideas about that gal. You just concentrate on the money. Ive seen a more pretty little girl. mutters here i am, sending little kids out to cut firewood, and there sifullgrown men doing nothing. Well, they wouldntnte. Theyre not the type. Havent you two got jobs to do . re not looking for none neither. Listen, i told the both of you wheed up for this outfit that youd have the same responsibility to this train as anybody else. Well, u see, ted garning us, e figure its only right to do what he tells us to. Ted garners not running this train, i am. Listen, let me tell you a couple of things, mister. Oh, now, major, i didnt knore so shorthanded. Y, ill give you my word that burke herell do anything you want him to do. You go find Darryl Simpson oh, he will, will he . Sure will. And get up in them hills and cut some firewood. Seems to me youre mighgh generous with your partners services, but im in no mood for jokes tonight. Im m nna walkay from. When i look back, i want to see you over there at that pumping. Yes, sir, major. Im glad to volunteeppy to be. What are you trying to do, get us kicked out of here he way he gives orders. Anybodys think he was the only one whoin the army. He didnt desert. If you were aiming to pump th youre going the wrong way. I knay im going. Im just gonna wander t t t the garner wagon and chthe little new bride. I need a little ininiration befoto work. Ill come with if theres any money around, ill smell it. Thths the only inspiration i want. Uhuh. Get em straightened out . Oh, i dont know. Just seems like a doggone shame, pair oids lili them saddling with two birds like those. Well, they needed a driver real quick. You know, and thats another thing. The very next morning, after garners regular driver those two showed up looking for the job. If that sounds like i spicioususind, clears throat oh you startled me. Sorry. Im sure sorry, mrs. Garner. Uh, is your husband around . Hes helping mr. Clegg. Oh. Uhhuh. Mm. That coffee i smell . Would you like a cup . I sure would. I sure would. Imagine the major will mind if i rest a spell. Oh, you men have been working so hard, im sure hmind. Ound that a man can do just so much work. Hey. Ghty fine coffee, miss. Missus. This is mighty fine coffee for a young bride, missus. chuckles you know, that husband of yours is a lucky and two wagon loads of enough merchandise to make him ucky. Hes brave, too, to risk everything on a trip like this. We hadnt thought of it as a risk. No. No, you wouldnt, at your age. cause you got your w full ahead of you. Everythings all fine. You know, when i was his age. Ff a real leader amongst men for such a young chap. Hmm . . Oh, no, no. Theres nothing much to wonder about. I came west when i was about your husbands age. I was in the first go i made a little, lost a lot. And then pretty soon i wasnt so young there were a lot like me. I wasnt alone. My father was in the first gold rush. He was killed out here. Oh, now, thats too bad. Peaceful. All you needs a rage. course, uh,t hurte if youve got some silver in your sock. chuckles yes, sir, mr. Garners gonna do all right. Pretty wifif money in his sock. Even if he hasnt hell still do all right. Well, thanks for the coffee. Hanging around you for . He just needed a rest, so i gav a cup of coffee. I wishldnt encourage him. Youre too trusting. I like him. I i ink hes nice. Men are always nice to girls when they want something. U admit men find me alluring . Now, what do you know about men . Ised by a doting mothehe and an old maid aunt. I think i know about yoyo i guess you do. Maam, lik fold it over here and then fold it towards one ananher. Hows it look back there, bill . Well, not so good. That mccaskell wagon r. All the spokes in every wheel are loose. They are, huh . Juem in the creek. Thats all we can do. You think we can mama it out in a week . Weve got to. A few days this time of year makes a diff between lili and death to this whole outfit once we get up in that high country. Keep em going, will you . Right. Whitey. You couldve got yourself killed shut up. Were getting out what are you talking about . You heard me. I were getting ot of here right now. Have you gone loco . You walk out on a deal like this . I somethings come up. And dont forget, im still githe orders. Well do all right. Ill think of something. Well, i like this one. I dont want anything else. Theres a whol of dough stashed in that there wagon. Where will we find another stake like that . Fs youre either taut or youre tight. Well talk about this in the morningng good night. Hey, thats a real old bible you got there. Its been in my familya long ti. You know, you told me your father was killed in the first gold rush. Howd he die . Look tired, major. Dont you think you ought to leep . Your concern for h, mr. Wooster, is really touching. I wasnt thinking about your health, but i know how gu get. grumbles malloy, you know gol darn well were fightin time. Why dont you stick to your job, will ya . Yes, sir. Gol darn it. That fellow bothering you . It was the strangest thing. I was reading , and he cam and stae questions about it. Itsld one. And then all of a sudden he started asking me questions about my father, what i knem and where he was killed. George clampett, huh . That was my father. Oh . He was a pretty famous man in california. He was head of the vigilantes and town marshal. T you told me that you never knew your father. No, he left for the gold fields a short time before i was born. He never did, huh . No, he was shot by a drunk. Thats all we know from the letter we got. I only hope that the man that killed him got what he deserved. Excuse me. Bill, how about that clegg wagon . Its got a split tongue and it could usome ash saplings spare double tdown by the creek. Breakfast, get bill dye to work on them. That broken leg of his wont keep him from using a draw all right. Hey, bill, does t george clampett mean anything to you . Hmmmm. No. Major, we had a roy clampett outfit with. Oh, that was roy crawford, head i guess it was. Man gold gold what in the blue bla gold come on. Gold gold what the devils the matter with you, man . Down there its gold whitey burke found gold give me a shovel. Hey, thats my shovel get back ill split your skull, you. Gold what do you want to do, start a stampede . Looks like he alreadyjor. You couldnt keep your big mouth shut, could you . I didnt think thats the trouble where ncerned nobody thinks hold it tim, what are you doing . Theres gold, honey were rich, soon as we find it. Back to your wagons clamoring listen to me, you numbskulls id like to have me some of that yellow stuff. Why dont you go on down there with em . Stay there till the snow gets up to that turkey neck of yours . Hey, hawks, do you a man could haul a load of that gravel to sacramento and wash it out tting by the fire . S he couldnt. Not a dadblasted bit of work done on those wagon th. The only man in camp is bill dye. G. How you gonna get em back to work . How the devil do i know . Im tired of yelling at them, th. Let em cool off, and we can talk some sensem. Would have to be a man like burke, wouldnt it . All the decent, deserving people in this train, no way. Logot a dollar a drink, boys a dollar a drink i just opened up a saloon ha, ha, ha hey. That ones on the house. N, radford, arent you gonna stake a claim . No, you and ill win. Whoohoo ted . Ted later, but ted im gonna dig you up a goldplated coach white horses. What do you think, darryl . How about a little blackjack . If you only had some dancing girls. Come on, darryl, old boy. laughing just like old times, aint it, whitey . Hey, whitey, remember rush creek tha ey . I saved your life that time. It wasnt the e either. Whitey, let me see it again, will ya . Huh . Come on. Let me see it. Oh, look at it look at it sniffs you know its got a smell to it. Just look at that liquor and women and frisco and all the food a man can eat anything for gold. Wouldnt you, malloy . Still think we oug pull . Ut . What are you talking about . We got gold you ive got , dont you . Oh, whitey were partners. Always have been. Its share and share alike. , besides, whitey, we can make a claim for twoth me. Aw, wling. Ill cut you in. Thats a good boy, whitey. Now, go and stake your own claim. Whats he think hes doing . What are you up to, malloy . Thats my claim youre staking out. I dont see any stakes around here that aint mine. Ive bing here for a half hour. Youre 15, 20 feet into my claim. Listen. Montgomery, you is claim, or ill kill you legally. I was here first. The law doesn who was here first. The law wants to know who staked out f malloy, youre a crook. Get off my claim. Oh, oh, natalie, mrs. Garner, please. I didnt know it was you, please. I wouldntd at you. I just had to make the mark. Please, natalie. t know. What kind of injun sign she got on you . Shes none of your business, burke. Shes a goodlooking girl, but shes not your type. Shut up, burke. When we get all that gold, youll be able to buy them by the dozen. Or maybe theres something else. No, thats right. I just like her looks. Then ioing you a favor when i get rid of her husband. You cant do that i mean, look. I mean, look, whitey, we dont need the thousand dollars. course not. Just like we dont need those wagons of his anymore either. Well sit here all winter anavel. Garner aint important anymore. O pick it up. And im gonna make quite sure we get the chance. . . If youre on medicare, remember, the time to choose your Medicare Coverage begins october 15th and ends december 7th. So call unitedhealthcare to enroll. 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M stay down there in those rocks for a couple of nights. When tcold enough and blistered enough on their hands yeah, and you wont be able to pry some of em loose. Then well leave em stay here, by golly. We go on to california. And those that stay, theyll never make it through the winter. course th theyll freeze or theyll starve or. Whats w the gol darn fools will start fighting among themselves and killing ea off. And ill have to remember the rest of i left em here. Hey, whats this . You quitting mining . No, im gonna leave that up to ted. E way hes digging away, i know hes gonna be hungry as a bear, so i came over to fix him supper. Thats good. Ted st knows hes gonna find gold. He just wants things for me, major. Thats all it is. Ou know what he said to me . D six white horses. voice quavering s what h. Now, now. Here, here. Everythings gonbe. sobbing ike he didnt even see me, like he didnt want me around. You know, a mans first sight of gold is sort of like snow blindness, i guess. And then he told me to leave him alone. Mr. Malloy came at me like an animal. He was screaming at me. Dont you worry about that. Youre a much more precious nugget than hell ever find around here, and im sure he knows that. Im sorry, major adams. Here. Dont you worry. Im going down tand tal. You wont tell him that i cried. Find anything, boy . No, but i will. How do you figure to get water up here . What do i need water for . You ever hearluice box or a rocker . Youre never gonna get enough gold out of here to amount to anything without water. Let me worry about that. Your wife says your suppers ready. You ngue; we got ears. I got a wagon train full of people thatna be in bad trouble if i dont get em across them mountains bye the snow flies. Well, then, why dont you just go on . Whats gonna be in it for us . Ind of thought that maybe. Helping prevent another donner party might be enough reward for you. Not for me, it wont. Listen, i know enough about mining gold to know that theres no gold here ou the bottom of that dry stream bed. Those folks up there are just wasting their time, and you know it as well as i do. Thats their privilege. Theres only room enough here for two claims, you already got them staked out. We. Nobodys trying to take them away from you. You got your markers down here. Go on in to sacramento and file on them and come back next spring and work em. Maybe if i you and burke to leave, the rest of these folks will leave with us. Maybe we dont want em to leave. Maybe we got sort of fond of their company. Maybe youve gotten of. Fond of their too. If all these people stay here with you, itll just be cle if any of you get out alive. Ill make it. You wouldnt as around. Have got an awful lot of friends around here you see, we know alning gold, and these good folks are counting on us to teach them how. You want to try and take on the whole wagon train yourself, major . Maybe. Maybe i might. Hes got all the answers,t . Yeah, except h get his wandering sheep back in the wagon train. How many do yothi . Oh, four or five wagons, when you come rightit. F them are walking out already. With four or five wagons, we can make it the winter fine. If we had the right wagon. And if it was just me eatin them supplies. Well have to pick and choose. Take old darryl. There aint enough supplies hes no good. Naw. Radfords a gambler. Hell take a chance. Clegg, maybe. I was of ted garner. Oh, forget about him. Why worry about a thousand en youre sitting on a gulch full of gold . I was thinking of them two wagons. A whole grocery store. For the last time, the plans we had for garner are through im getting tired oflling me who found the gold . You want to me . It aint worth fighting about. Sure. It aint worth fighting about. Ah, at least were better off than we were yesterday. Six more of them came back last night. Yeah, the sorriest six in the whole gol darned train. What we need is men like montgomery g and radford. Men that can do something. Id have just bet my life that clegg would be with us. Ah, that one. scoffs all hested in is showing his wife how much money he can make for her. He stands a good chance getting himself killed out thing for gold. Yeah, he sure does. But you know, bill, kids these days, they dont seem to hat deaths anywheres near em. Hmm. Guess i was that way once too. Well, you keep these people working the best you can. Come on, charlie. Good morning, mrs. Garner. E you . Fixing a little grub for the groom . If he insists on staying down there, i suppose he has to be fed. Hell be riding on to californee in full of nuggets. When, mr. Burke . Mm, takes time. You cant pick gold off trees, you know. Maybe a month or so. Mr. Malloy doesnt think itll be that easy. La he said that teds claim wasnt much. Thered be some gold there, but not near enough. Malloy doesnt know mining like i do. Ive seen a lot worse claims than your husbands make a fortune. Malloys a funny guy. Do you know about mr. Malloy . Oh, just about everythinge is . Well, i kind of that he might know something about my father. What was your fathers name . George clampett. George cl. Ii couldnt say. Did you want me to help you with that . No, i can manage, thank you. Lampett. . Look at them greenhorns. Digging in more gold than theyll ever find. Thats rough. Well, well up again after we. Listen to me. Listen to me hey, take a look at this ha, ha take a look at that lets see. Oh, big as a housesog there wasnt much gold take a look at that ha, ha now, you listen to me oure gonna say, major. Save your breath. If you knew what i say, youd be back there working on your outfght th. I took a calculated risk holing up here for over a week. I know that theresountry up in those mountains ahead, and i know how quickly those passes can fill up. You people all know what kind of shapeear , and you know what its gonna take to fix it so we can go on. Who wants to go on . Anybod with any sense. Anybody does that knows the difference between a calculated risk and plain suicide i guess you people dont know whatmountains are like in the wintertime. Well, i do ive wintered out here before. Anyone who makes his mind up to it can stick it out. I think burkes right. We stick together, well make out. Youll make out, all right. Just like the donner party. Eat after youve eaten your and your harness whats a little cold weather to a field full of gold . L still be there next spring. And those that want to come and dig it up are gonna have to move your cold bones out of the way before they can dig w, let me tell you something, and im gonna tell you for the last time. Im taking these wagons on to california, it doesnt make any difference t if you want to come along, nows the time to come and get ts fixed. Asking us to walk away from a fortune its not like maybe theres gold here. There is gold here. Weve all found it. Itll still be there next spring. Dont you understand . Ive got no ax to grind. I didnt even stake a claim. I just hate to see people like you and any of you that want along up your minds right now let em go. Itll leave that much more for the rest of us. Burke heres got the prime claim. Youve gotta work fast. Theres enough gold around here for everybody. You stick around, and well show you how to dig it out. You make it sound easy. Why shouldnt he . Hes got them, him and malloy. Most of its mine, by rights. Now and then everybody gets highcarded. Maybe, but everybody minds a stacked deck. Thats all right. Theres no hard feelings. You go on and work on your outfit. Well, im glad to see you folks made up your minds. Ted garners staying. Yeah, i figured he would. I wont let him. Hes got to leave. You aint gonna do a thing to stop him. If i have him out of here at gunpoint, hes leaving. Hes not. Yes, he is. You wont stop me. Whatll you suppose young garners bride will do to george clampett . You didnt think id find out, did you . Well, i have found out, and what that means it gives me the whip end. From now on, youll take orderse, or else me and that girl will havettle tal. Ook, whitey you offer garner whatever wha it is you have to leave, and ill offer him gold to stay, there is gold here. Look at it. Eight, 10, 20 dollars worth, maybe. You dug for this . Ll get better. Burkell teach me. Just give me a a month . You dont major adams. I want you to go on with train. Itll only be for a month or so. And i have got a lifetime together. Just g month to get all the gold i can. You know, what major adams says makes good sense. If i were you two,go with. Whu go on, then . Me . I got no wife. Listen, you asked your wife for one month. Ont be out of here in a month. We have to dig a well. We have toume for wat. Itll be spring before we can wash gr even if we work day and night before the grounds frozen. Boy, what can you ggold thats more important than what youve got right now. Save your breath. I just want to tell yis is it, malloy . Or are you just an old man who missed his chance . Now, you listen to me, ted. You think once you got it, you got everything. Well, youre wrong. Gold beginning. Its the end. Gold is. Its something d you you asked for one just one little month. And then maybe just one more try one vein runs out, so maybe theres another one just a little furthe a manll give up his wife, everything. And so you try to double it with cards, youre talking about yourself, arent you . Myself and thousands of others. Dont let that happepepepen. Youve guch to lose. You knew my father, didnt you . I knew georg. Where . Tell me about him. Whered you meet him . That was when he first came west. I read the letters heo mother. He had a good name in platte junction. He and ambitious. A lot like you, ted. He was always talking about his wife, how he was gonna send for her. He w if he hadnt been killed. Yeah, sure, he wouldve. But thlot of wouldve. Ive seen that gold get inside a man, rot their souls until theres nothing left. It could happen to you. But dont let it kill you. You do that, boy. You think about it. What you gote, . Its raw gold. Lets dig her. It goes on. Hey, i thought i to keep off my claim. Your claim . Its my claim, malloy. Its my claim. Its all marked nice and legal. Protect it. Every man here saw him try to. Heedy. Theres no call to jump claims. Every mans claim is rich enough. Adams if a couple of you knot heads are not too busy. Come over and give me a hand with this fellow beeeds to death. I want to get him back to his wagon. Malloy, if fellow dies, im gonna see you for it. You sey sure of that. Ive never been so sure of anything in my life. Youre never gonna live to see a jury, just consider yourself lucky, mister. You havent seen mrs. Garner today, have you . She went on down to the strike. She what . Dad blast it. Are you try again, . Im not gonna ride away and leaveo kids here with people like ma burke, ill guarantee you that. Certainly im gonna try again. Sure, burke and me can teach you all you need to kt mining gold. Now, look. You bring your wagons. The four of us will share and share alike. Cuttin old darryl out the way we did. Why . Whatd he have to offer . Nothing. What do you care . Youre getting your sht you . Yeah, im getting mine. Fine. Its a deal. Radford, how about you . Oh, i take the hand thats dealt me and i play it out. Thats the way to talk. Shake. All right. Lets get at it, huh . Were do. Maybnt get as many supplies as we wanted, but we all right. And as soon as we get r radford and clegg, we open up their wagon, find out what we got. Now, if we ration careful right from the start. With garners two wagons, well right. Garners going. Is he . I had a talk with him. He mustveanged his mind. Burke, i. Thats right. We want it legal too. Ike malloy said appreciated your giving us a job when we needed it. He said that if we were gonna bring in a fu partner into our good gravel, hed re you than anyone. I said what . Ok so upset. Im a pretty good cook. Ted promised that hed build us a cabin. Youre leaving. Youre getting out of here, the both of you. Mallsten, ya cut us out of our deal malloy you wont have any share if youre dead. Now, will you get her out of here, garner . Mr. Malloy, what are you about . What are you saying . You gotta go cant you understand me . I talked to you and talked to you before. Dont you understand . Drop it, burke whats the matter with you . Whats this all about . Major, youve got to take that. I thought you wanted them to stay. Shut up, malloy yop, burke go ahead, malloy. cause hush up, malloy because if she stays here, well kill em gunshot why . Why . Ge clampett. Youre the girls father . Yeah. Ma ever let her know. She thinks he was a fine man. She believed in him. That belief. Thats the only. Thats the only thing i can give her. chiseling just wdevil do you think youre doing here . This is gonna be hard for you to believe, major, but believe it or not, im looking for my watch. You lost your watch last year at salt lake city. So i did. Yes, you did go on, get out of here adams narrating i suppose someday people on other wagon trains will stumble onto this gold field again, ng these graves will wonder, r knowing unless theyre told the story of hunter malloy. No one will ever know for sure because a was given to a dying man. A father that she never knew. As we westward, we will face the prf today. With gods help, l meet those . Rg . . Wagon train . . Rollin on the prairie where there aint no grass . . Rollin over mountains e aint no pass . . Sittin on a board eye in the weather . . Prayin to the lord we Stay Together . . On the wagon train . . Roll along . . Pickin up a passenger in every town . . Wonderin if hes gonna shoot you down . . Lookin for a pal aint it a pity . . . Lookin for a gal neednt be pretty . . If shell . On the wagon train . . Wagon, ho . Ta keep them on the run . . Time to go . . And follow the sun . . Roll along . . Wagon train . . Never had a cabin near a general s only had a wagon and a. 44 . . Sittin on a board eye in the weather . . Prayin to the lord we Stay Together . . Sid . [music] what if i want to married aen army george i already told you, i agree with your father. The army officer. I can see there is no point in arguing with you two. Preparing a wedding . N you . Youve got a lot to learn about me. Ill be riding into salem in a month. Goodbye, darling. Weve been through a lot together. As soon as her mother died, i dont know, its not an easy thing to raise a daughter. Youve done a firstrate job