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00:00There's a time we'll call our own, living free in harmony and majesty.

00:09Take me home, take me home, take me home, take me home, take me home.

00:23A mighty fine thing about the wilderness, it don't belong to no one in particular.

00:29All that space you see between here and yonder is just as wild and free as the day God built it.

00:35In a place as untamed as this, you're likely to meet up with all kinds of critters running loose.

00:41Some got fur, some got feathers, some got hooves and some got claws.

00:47Some got four legs and once in a great while, if you're looking real close, you might even see one with two legs.

00:58On this here day, it was young Robbie Cartman skedaddling up the valley toward Grizzly Adams' place.

01:08Robbie lived over the other side of the ridge with his father, and he had some crazy notion that he wanted to grow up to be a mountain man.

01:17Adam's promised that boy that he would teach him all about surviving in the wilds, and the two of them had become the best of friends.

01:26Ben, what are you up to now?

01:49Ben, why don't you let no chose out?

02:00You know, you're worse than an old mother hen.

02:03Oh, come on, little fella. We can't leave you behind.

02:08Come on.

02:12You're going to have to excuse Ben.

02:14He's just fretting that you're going to get yourself hurt with us all.

02:17Yeah, I reckon he figured you weren't so likely to get yourself in trouble locked up in the cabin.

02:22You just don't remember what it's like being a frisky little cow.

02:24Mr. Adams.

02:38Mr. Adams!

02:39Mr. Adams!

02:41Hi, Robbie!

02:43Hi, Ben.

02:44Morning.

02:46Morning, Robbie.

02:47Morning, Mr. Adams.

02:48Where's your pa?

02:49Pa had to go to town for some supplies.

02:51Since it's such a long trip, he said I could come and stay with Ben and you.

02:55You're telling me you hiked all the way here from your cabin by yourself?

02:58No, sir.

02:59Pa brought me as far as the ridge.

03:01We saw your smoke, so he said I could come the rest of the way all by myself.

03:07But I could have made it the whole way by myself.

03:10I'm getting to be a real mountain man.

03:11Well, so you are.

03:18Why'd you get that cub?

03:20Oh, he's a straight.

03:21He came up on the door a few days back.

03:24I guess he smelled that fish cooking and thought he was going to make himself a new home.

03:28Are you going to keep him?

03:29Well, it wouldn't be right not to try and find his mom.

03:33She's probably worried sick about him.

03:34Where is he?

03:35We were just setting off to find him.

03:37Can I come too?

03:38No, I guess we couldn't very well leave you behind now, can we?

03:41No, sir.

03:42Well, come on.

03:43We'll fix you a pack.

03:44We've got a long way to go.

03:46Gee, thank you, guys.

03:48Yeah.

03:49Yeah.

03:50Yeah.

03:51Come on, Nochus.

03:56Come on.

04:00Let's go.

04:01Hurry up, Nochus.

04:03Don't you want to find your mother?

04:04She's probably right around here somewhere.

04:10Hey.

04:11Mr. Adam, Mr. Adam, where do we look first?

04:18We'll let Ben figure that out.

04:20I'm sure he's got a few ideas where to find it.

04:22Come on, Mr. Adam, where's he going?

04:23Well, I reckon he just caught ten or something.

04:34Probably a honey tree.

04:35He'll be back all covered with honey and at least a couple dozen bee stings on his nose.

04:39Oh, Mr. Adams, Mr. Adams, you reckon we'll ever find that little cub's maw?

04:46Well, it ain't going to be easy.

04:47This is mighty big territory.

04:49Sure is.

04:50Mr. Adams.

04:53Mr. Adams, look.

04:56What is it?

05:00Smoke signal.

05:02You reckon it's trouble?

05:03No.

05:05That's just my brother saying howdy.

05:07Your brother?

05:08He never told me he had a brother.

05:10Why does he stay here so much?

05:12Well, I expect that's just his way.

05:14Tell you what we'll do.

05:15You go get some wood.

05:16We'll light a fire and we'll say howdy back to him.

05:19All right.

05:19Get some nice, dry branches.

05:34What's his name?

05:35Oh, you know Nakoma.

05:38Nakoma?

05:40Nakoma's your brother?

05:44Well, he's like one.

05:47He's my blood brother.

05:48Blood brother?

05:50What's that mean, Mr. Adams?

05:52Well, that means like we're two living things that feel as one.

05:58We aren't actually brothers of the flesh, but brothers in spirit.

06:03Well, it was pretty clear that Robbie didn't quite understand what Adams was trying to say.

06:09I guess I'm going to have to start from the beginning.

06:18When I first came to the wilderness, I was as green as spring grass.

06:24Ah, come on, Mr. Adams.

06:26Not you.

06:27It's true.

06:28I didn't know the first thing about surviving in the wild.

06:31And if it hadn't have been for Ben and the other animals and Nakoma, I don't think I'd be here talking with you today.

06:37When I saw that big old trout swimming lazy in the water, I figured my supper was a singe.

06:50Just watching that trout swim away told me how little I knew about providing for myself.

06:56And for the first time, I realized that I could die out here and nobody'd even know or care.

07:03Boy, I would have been scared.

07:05Well, I was scared and feeling mighty alone.

07:11Most of the time, I didn't know what to expect.

07:14Seemed peaceful enough out in the wilderness.

07:17The danger was always on my mind.

07:20Then I got kind of a surprise.

07:25Hey, little fella.

07:27Like a biscuit?

07:30Well, it was the darndest thing I ever saw.

07:32And that doe just came walking up to me like she'd known me all her life.

07:37Well, all of a sudden, I realized that the wilderness was full of living things and I wasn't alone at all.

07:45Everywhere I went, I started noticing just how many friends I really did have out there.

07:50There were furry critters and there were some that most men would have shied away from.

08:04Well, I seemed to get along with all of them.

08:06Well, we just kind of shared the forest.

08:08I didn't understand that myself.

08:13It was though those animals knew I was a friend and meant them no harm.

08:17And I started feeling like I was part of the wilderness.

08:19Then one day, I came upon a bear cub and it got himself into a real face.

08:29The cub was mighty weak and hungry.

08:31And I didn't get to him none too soon.

08:33I started nursing him back to health with a diet of sweet water and honeycomb.

08:39That cub had a boring instinct for surviving.

08:43No, cub.

08:45Those berries are no good.

08:46Unless I ate them, they'll make you sick.

08:51All right.

08:52Don't say I didn't try and warn you.

08:55But he seemed to know what he was doing.

08:57And after all, he'd been out in the wilds longer than me.

09:00And that's how I learned the difference between saskatoons and corn lilies.

09:19Well, I decided to call that cub Ben.

09:22After Benjamin Franklin.

09:24The smartest man I ever heard tell of.

09:26Seemed fitting since that cub was the smartest bear I ever met.

09:29By following that bear around, I learned about all sorts of food.

09:35There was wild duck, pea vine, Indian turnips, onions.

09:40I found out that a human could eat almost anything a bear does.

09:43Well, I knew that cub couldn't go chasing after me all through the mountains.

09:50So I decided to build a little camp.

09:52Figured we'd stay put for a while, at least until I could figure out what to do next.

09:58While I was busy building my lean-to, Ben was out getting acquainted with the neighbors.

10:02But I think Ben's curiosity started getting him in over his head.

10:07Well, I decided to keep a leash on him so he wouldn't go running off and getting into trouble.

10:12Ben's antisocial behavior started getting him in over his head.

10:25Ben's antisocial behavior started getting him in over his head.

10:27Ben's antisocial behavior started getting him in over his head.

10:28Ben's antisocial behavior started getting him in over his head.

10:29Ben's antisocial behavior started getting him in over his head.

10:30Ben's antisocial behavior started getting him in over his head.

10:31Ben's antisocial behavior started getting him in over his head.

10:32Ben's antisocial behavior started getting him in over his head.

10:33Ben's antisocial behavior started getting him in over his head.

10:34Ben's antisocial behavior started getting him in over his head.

10:35Ben's antisocial behavior started getting him in over his head.

10:36Ben's antisocial behavior started getting him in over his head.

10:37Ben's antisocial behavior started getting him in over his head.

10:38Ben's antisocial behavior started getting him in over his head.

10:39Ben, you got every critter in this neck of the woods running for cover every time they see you.

11:04I want you to make friends with them.

11:06This here is Martha Washington.

11:09I want you to say howdy.

11:11Well, say howdy.

11:16Look how nervous you got her.

11:20All right, Miss Washington.

11:22Here you go.

11:27Now, that's more like it.

11:32By this time, Ben and me was getting to be like family to each other.

11:36He come to depend on me, and I can't deny I enjoyed his company.

11:42So we just settle down to make a nice, peaceful life for ourselves.

11:46It's so quiet out in the wilderness.

12:00Comes a time you start hearing every sound there is.

12:03Well, I knew I heard something of them, Miss Ross.

12:11But I didn't have any idea what it could be.

12:14I figured whatever it was, as long as it didn't bother me, I wouldn't bother it.

12:19I was going to be like somebody.

12:20But if I can see.

12:23I don't know.

12:25I don't know.

12:25You guys have a little upset.

12:26But I don't know.

12:28I don't know.

12:28I'll be right.

12:29I'm like, it's like a wedding.

12:29I don't know.

12:31I don't know.

12:31We'll be right there.

12:33I'll be right there.

13:33He had taken a long, hard fall.

13:54And to tell you the truth, I didn't expect to find him still breathing.

13:57The Indian's leg was broken.

14:21And I knew I had to set the bone back in place, but I couldn't do it there.

14:25I had to get him back to my camp.

14:28I built a trevois to carry the Indian.

14:32Being unconscious, the rough traveling didn't seem to bother him.

14:35Well, that night, I set his leg in a spleen.

14:39He seemed to be breathing more regularly.

14:41Didn't seem to be getting any worse.

14:43Well, I felt so helpless.

15:01I didn't know what else to do for the Indian.

15:03I didn't know if he was going to live or die.

15:06All I could do is try and make him comfortable and wait till his fever broke.

15:10Well, I'm not.

15:21I don't know.

15:30I'm your friend friend I'm trying to help you a simmer down

15:59That was crazy that I hurt that leg of yours really bad

16:09All that struggling of his has knocked him out again

16:13So I had to pull him back into the lean-to

16:23I don't mind telling you

16:25From then on I slept with one eye open

16:27Of course he slept with both eyes closed

16:30Morning

16:49It's hard packed

16:56We'll go on and have some

16:59I'll put it down here

17:04He needs to change mine

17:06You broke it

17:22I think I got it set good though

17:25I had to take your knife last night

17:28You were out of your head

17:29And I thought you might hurt somebody

17:31Mainly me

17:33I'll give it back to you though

17:35When you're well enough to leave

17:36You better eat that

17:38It don't taste like much

17:41It'll fill you up

17:42Shoot yourself

17:55Even though my words didn't have no meaning to him

17:58I felt that he understood that he could trust me

18:01So I just went about my life in the forest

18:03I might have meant to him

18:06Hi there little fella

18:09You been having a busy day?

18:11Now let's just sit down and spell

18:23Here you go

18:29You want some of this?

18:32Don't be greedy

18:33Well I reckon I was about the first white man that Indian had ever seen

18:41And I must have looked like a mighty peculiar sight

18:43A man running through the wilds with the bear cub tagging along

18:47Talking to animals like he was humans

18:49If he could have

18:50He'd have got up and ran as far from me as he could get

18:53But that leg of his wasn't about to take him nowhere

18:56Let's see how that leg's doing

19:03The Indian mended slowly

19:07And I knew it was going to take more than hardtack and water

19:10To get him on his feet again

19:11So I set out to see if I could catch him a fish

19:14Trying to grab one of them slickly fellas

19:21They're like

19:21They're trying to latch on to lightning

19:23Well this is something I hadn't counted on

19:31If I could sweet talk that cat out of his supper

19:34It would do that Indian a lot more good than me maybe catching a fish

19:38Morning cat

19:39I see you got yourself some fresh food

19:42Suppose I could talk you out of some of it

19:46It's not for me mind you

19:52It's for a sick friend

19:55Don't get me wrong

20:00I know you're a family man

20:02You got youngs to feed

20:04But if I could just have half

20:06I wouldn't ask you if I didn't need it

20:11Thanks

20:18And I'll pay you back sometime I promise

20:22Ben

20:26Supper's ready

20:27Here

20:42You can use this

20:44It's good for you

20:45You know what the good book says

20:48It says

20:50Pride goes before destruction

20:51And a haughty spirit before a fall

20:53Do you know what that means

20:55It means you're going to die if you ain't willing to take help from them

20:58They're willing to give it

20:59Now take this food and eat it

21:00Yeah

21:03You know I think I missed my calling

21:09I should have been a preacher

21:11Ben

21:13When the storm starts kicking up out in the wilderness

21:30You can expect it's going to be a real hong dinger

21:33Let's get home, Ben

21:44Let's get home, Ben

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