First Cow

00:38:37,142 --> 00:38:41,680 It's coming, but we got here early this time. 241 00:38:45,382 --> 00:38:52,456 Maybe this time, we can be ready for it. 242 00:38:53,758 --> 00:38:56,895 We can take it on our own terms. 243 00:39:12,878 --> 00:39:16,715 It's not much to look at, I know. 244 00:39:47,679 --> 00:39:51,149 Here's to... something. 245 00:40:08,633 --> 00:40:11,603 You make yourself easy. I'll get a fire going. 246 00:43:03,942 --> 00:43:05,977 Looks better already. 247 00:43:08,379 --> 00:43:10,715 Relax. Sit. Sit. 248 00:43:45,817 --> 00:43:48,253 Where are you from, Cookie? 249 00:43:51,189 --> 00:43:52,867 Maryland. 250 00:43:52,891 --> 00:43:58,105 - Hm, never been. - Hmm... 251 00:43:58,129 --> 00:43:59,974 It's fine. 252 00:43:59,998 --> 00:44:02,076 I don't remember it much. 253 00:44:02,100 --> 00:44:04,068 Not fine enough to stay, huh? 254 00:44:09,941 --> 00:44:12,621 My mother died when I was born, 255 00:44:12,645 --> 00:44:15,524 and then my father died. 256 00:44:15,548 --> 00:44:18,092 I had to move on to find work. 257 00:44:18,116 --> 00:44:21,753 Well... I never stopped moving. 258 00:44:49,314 --> 00:44:51,959 I had an idea once. Furs are one thing, 259 00:44:51,983 --> 00:44:54,028 but there's a precious oil in the beavers, too. 260 00:44:54,052 --> 00:44:55,930 That's worth something in China. 261 00:44:55,954 --> 00:44:58,633 They use it for medicine over there. 262 00:44:58,657 --> 00:45:01,902 If a man could take a batch of that precious beaver oil 263 00:45:01,926 --> 00:45:05,964 on a ship to Canton, he could make his fortune. 264 00:45:08,800 --> 00:45:10,335 Why don't you? 265 00:45:13,471 --> 00:45:16,083 Eh, oil is in the glands. 266 00:45:16,107 --> 00:45:18,553 Glands never make it back to the fort, 267 00:45:18,577 --> 00:45:22,156 just rot away in the woods. 268 00:45:22,180 --> 00:45:26,827 Anyway, I don't have contacts in Canton. 269 00:45:26,851 --> 00:45:28,062 I'm from the north. 270 00:45:28,086 --> 00:45:30,130 They hate a Northerner there. 271 00:45:30,154 --> 00:45:32,924 Worse than a white man to them. 272 00:45:37,929 --> 00:45:41,097 What I'd really like is a farm. 273 00:45:45,203 --> 00:45:50,751 Land south of here is wide-open. 274 00:45:50,775 --> 00:45:52,877 The world wants filberts. 275 00:45:58,449 --> 00:45:59,917 Or walnuts. 276 00:46:04,489 --> 00:46:06,224 Or almonds. 277 00:46:12,797 --> 00:46:18,946 Something you can pick up and send, 278 00:46:18,970 --> 00:46:21,882 but you can't just grow a tree. 279 00:46:21,906 --> 00:46:23,441 It takes time. 280 00:46:32,283 --> 00:46:36,163 It's the getting started that's the puzzle. 281 00:46:36,187 --> 00:46:39,634 No way for a poor man to start. 282 00:46:39,658 --> 00:46:42,836 You need capital, 283 00:46:42,860 --> 00:46:44,872 or you need some kind of miracle. 284 00:46:44,896 --> 00:46:46,797 You need leverage. 285 00:46:51,002 --> 00:46:53,004 Or a crime. 286 00:46:59,477 --> 00:47:06,493 I'd like to open a hotel someday, 287 00:47:06,517 --> 00:47:10,931 a place for travelers. 288 00:47:10,955 --> 00:47:12,490 Or a bakery. 289 00:47:20,031 --> 00:47:21,999 That's nice. 290 00:47:27,872 --> 00:47:33,020 A hotel and a bakery, 291 00:47:33,044 --> 00:47:36,223 with wild-huckleberry pies. 292 00:47:36,247 --> 00:47:39,761 You could do that here. 293 00:47:39,785 --> 00:47:42,954 Someplace warmer. 294 00:48:03,274 --> 00:48:06,521 It has holes in it, 295 00:48:06,545 --> 00:48:10,224 and it looks like the face of a man. 296 00:48:10,248 --> 00:48:13,227 It's just one black rock. 297 00:48:13,251 --> 00:48:16,063 That's a weather stone. 298 00:48:16,087 --> 00:48:19,534 It makes rain, they say. 299 00:48:19,558 --> 00:48:23,203 They say it was a powerful spirit once 300 00:48:23,227 --> 00:48:26,775 and got turned into stone. 301 00:48:26,799 --> 00:48:30,401 If anyone sits on it, it rains. 302 00:48:33,271 --> 00:48:35,517 You really believe in that? 303 00:48:35,541 --> 00:48:38,009 Uh... eh. 304 00:48:41,245 --> 00:48:44,449 I believe different things in different places. 305 00:50:21,880 --> 00:50:24,859 Saw a cow today. 306 00:50:24,883 --> 00:50:28,897 Hm. 307 00:50:28,921 --> 00:50:34,602 It wasn't far from Chief Factor's house. 308 00:50:34,626 --> 00:50:37,796 - In a meadow. - Hm. 309 00:50:45,037 --> 00:50:51,184 - I'd like some of that milk. - I-I'm not a milk drinker. 310 00:50:51,208 --> 00:50:55,155 It doesn't agree with me. 311 00:50:55,179 --> 00:50:59,226 I wouldn't drink it. 312 00:50:59,250 --> 00:51:06,266 I'd use it for cookies. 313 00:51:06,290 --> 00:51:10,404 Or scones. 314 00:51:10,428 --> 00:51:12,664 Nothing better than buttermilk biscuits. 315 00:51:17,468 --> 00:51:22,406 I'm tired of this flour-and-water bread. 316 00