Meek's Cutoff

And what does that mean? [Meek Chuckles] 277 00:34:31,611 --> 00:34:34,488 Jimmy, go help your mother. 278 00:34:35,573 --> 00:34:37,574 [Meek] Well, frankly, I'm amazed. 279 00:34:37,658 --> 00:34:40,660 Mrs. Tetherow saw this redskin and lived to tell the tale. 280 00:34:40,745 --> 00:34:45,123 I mean, you rarely see hide nor hair of a hostile... 281 00:34:45,208 --> 00:34:48,001 till he justjumps you and cuts your throat. 282 00:34:48,086 --> 00:34:50,045 They can disappear in their own shadow. 283 00:34:50,129 --> 00:34:54,925 They can hide under a wolf skin so quiet, you step on 'em before you know it. 284 00:34:55,009 --> 00:35:00,847 And where one redskin is, there's a dozen more just lurkin' nearby. 285 00:35:00,932 --> 00:35:03,266 And they're all armed by now. 286 00:35:04,936 --> 00:35:06,686 [Laughing] And sometimes... 287 00:35:06,771 --> 00:35:10,565 I mean, sometimes they wait till they're fired on, but most of ten they don't. 288 00:35:10,650 --> 00:35:12,692 When they come on a woman, 289 00:35:14,529 --> 00:35:15,904 they kill her. 290 00:35:15,988 --> 00:35:19,825 I mean, they'd never dream of sparin' a woman. 291 00:35:21,285 --> 00:35:24,037 So I'm guessin' it's Cayuse. 292 00:35:24,122 --> 00:35:25,622 On a horse this far north. 293 00:35:25,706 --> 00:35:30,127 I mean, they roam all over the basin here, all the way down to Mexico. 294 00:35:30,211 --> 00:35:33,588 They pick up slaves from the Klamaths. They sell' em at Celilo. 295 00:35:33,673 --> 00:35:36,258 We'll find out presently, I reckon. 296 00:35:36,342 --> 00:35:38,051 [Solomon] No fires tonight. 297 00:35:39,679 --> 00:35:41,638 [Meek] And double watch. 298 00:35:41,722 --> 00:35:43,640 [Thomas] Dandy. [William] Mercy. 299 00:35:43,724 --> 00:35:45,642 [Meek] Hell's full of Indians, my friends. 300 00:35:45,726 --> 00:35:47,727 You were lucky tonight, ma'am. 301 00:35:49,897 --> 00:35:51,898 Don't want a blanket. 302 00:35:54,610 --> 00:35:56,611 Don't make it worse. 303 00:35:58,406 --> 00:36:00,490 Cold is the least of my troubles. 304 00:36:00,575 --> 00:36:02,325 Hmm. 305 00:36:02,410 --> 00:36:06,121 It's only a few days north to the Columbia by my reckoning. 306 00:36:06,205 --> 00:36:07,789 I been keepin' notes. 307 00:36:07,874 --> 00:36:11,459 What if we don't find water soon? We will. 308 00:36:11,544 --> 00:36:13,420 Your optimism. 309 00:36:19,510 --> 00:36:21,303 I'm sorry. 310 00:36:28,936 --> 00:36:31,521 Is he ignorant, 311 00:36:31,606 --> 00:36:34,524 or is he just plain evil? 312 00:36:34,609 --> 00:36:37,152 That's my quandary. It's impossible to know. 313 00:36:37,236 --> 00:36:39,529 We can't know. 314 00:36:39,614 --> 00:36:41,948 That's very comforting, Mr. Tetherow. 315 00:36:50,958 --> 00:36:52,876 Well, 316 00:36:52,960 --> 00:36:54,419 we made our decision. 317 00:36:54,503 --> 00:36:57,422 This is all gonna be a bad dream soon. 318 00:36:57,506 --> 00:36:59,674 It's gonna be a story to tell. 319 00:37:03,429 --> 00:37:06,890 I don't blame him for not knowing. 320 00:37:06,974 --> 00:37:09,434 I blame him for saying he did. 321 00:37:10,895 --> 00:37:12,479 That fool. 322 00:37:14,899 --> 00:37:17,776 [Footsteps Outside] 323 00:37:17,860 --> 00:37:19,527 [William] Solomon? 324 00:37:59,860 --> 00:38:01,695 Dry breakfast? No. 325 00:38:03,906 --> 00:38:05,907 Might as well eat the dust. 326 00:38:07,118 --> 00:38:08,660 Ladies. 327 00:38:08,744 --> 00:38:10,287 Fine morning. 328 00:38:10,371 --> 00:38:12,622 I'd like to know how. 329 00:38:12,707 --> 00:38:17,627 Well, not too hot. Plus smooth ground. Could be a piece worse. 330 00:38:17,712 --> 00:38:20,714 It's not today that's weighing on me. 331 00:38:23,801 --> 00:38:27,304 We'll follow the land downhill. 332 00:38:27,388 --> 00:38:31,891 The water's more likely in the lower places. [Solomon] That's fine. 333 00:38:33,561 --> 00:38:36,313 [Wagon Wheels Squeaking] 334 00:38:36,397 --> 00:38:38,606 [William] Heed. Stay with us. 335 00:38:55,666 --> 00:38:57,417 Broken axle. 336 00:39:15,603 --> 00:39:18,271 I'm gonna bring this wheel off. All right. 337 00:39:30,951 --> 00:39:33,411 [Grunts, Sighs] 338 00:39:36,248 --> 00:39:37,874 [Chuckles] 339 00:39:37,958 --> 00:39:40,543 Are those our mountains, Mr. Meek? 340 00:39:40,628 --> 00:39:43,171 Oh, no. No, no. 341 00:39:43,255 --> 00:39:45,548 We'll know our mountains, Jimmy. 342 00:39:45,633 --> 00:39:48,134 Hell's full of mountains. Those aren't them. 343 00:39:48,219 --> 00:39:50,387 [Jimmy] What are they? 344 00:39:50,471 --> 00:39:52,389 [Meek] Well, they... 345 00:39:52,473 --> 00:39:54,724 They're nameless, I suppose. 346 00:39:57,103 --> 00:40:00,021 We'll call 'em Jimmy's Mountains. What do you say to that? 347 00:40:00,106 --> 00:40:01,981 I suppose so. Mm-hmm. 348 00:40:03,150 --> 00:40:04,984 Jimmy's Mountains. 349 00:40:06,320 --> 00:40:08,154 We get to the Willamette Valley, 350 00:40:08,239 --> 00:40:10,573 I'll tel