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In this Western drama, Adam Cartwright is wounded by Shoshone Indians while protecting a white woman they mistakenly believe is a mountain spirit. The woman subsequently nurses Adam back to health.
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00:21Haddon?
00:27Those pig stickers mean what I think they mean?
00:30Yeah, Indian for barbed wire.
00:33Why?
00:34Oh, graves.
00:36Indians here about believe their ancestors are buried yonder.
00:40They call it the mountain of the dead.
00:43Sort of a sacred burial ground?
00:45Yeah, I guess you might say that.
00:48Even the Indians won't go much past here.
00:51Hey, wait a minute.
00:52We're not going in there, are we?
00:54Of course we're going in there.
00:56Burial ground or no burial ground.
00:59That's the best fur trap in country west of the Missouri.
01:01Burial ground or no harbor.
01:56No.
01:59the white trappers passed the lancers they set foot on the mountain they were punished
02:06we are not here to take scalps but to find the spirit of white buffalo woman
02:19daco you are my son but i ask that you go beyond the place of the forbidden stone
02:25to seek the spirit
02:33if my brother is to go beyond the forbidden stone i will go with him my father
02:40you know that you go to your death we know father
02:53by these tokens of my medicine the spirit woman will know you my sons you must not fail
03:02our lives are pledged father
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07:56Listen to me!
07:59You must hear my words!
08:02Come down!
08:17Spiritwoman!
08:18Spiritwoman!
08:37I carry the medicine of the Shoshone and the power of our shaman, my father Chata.
08:44Look, our people die in their lodges.
08:49We have need of your medicine.
08:51I am sorry that you people are sick, but there is nothing I can do for them.
08:55I have already vouched my life.
08:58My people wait.
08:59I am sorry.
09:00I promise to bring you back.
09:07You are flesh.
09:11You are as I, as other people, even as a young squaw of our tribe.
09:17Please, you must not do that.
09:20You must not touch me.
09:24I touch you.
09:27And I live.
09:28My father would not believe that...
09:30I don't care about you, father.
09:32Let me be.
09:34I will take you to my father.
09:36He must see that you are nothing but a white squaw.
09:39That you cannot help the Shoshone.
09:41That your very presence here on this mountain of our dead is a shame and a desecration.
09:46Get away from me.
09:47I don't care about your superstitions.
09:49Stand up for me.
09:49I know what would happen in your village.
09:52You would kill me.
09:54Squaw.
09:55I would kill you here and now.
09:58Put it down.
10:02I said put it down.
10:25I will kill you.
10:32Oh, you're so cool.
10:32Might work out.
10:33But I priest.
10:34No...
10:36No!
10:44No!
10:44No!
11:08Who are you?
11:13Help me.
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17:27Alverson, born 1810, Bergen, Norway. Married to Elizabeth Carr, Bridgeport, Connecticut, 1838.
17:43Daughter Ruth, born August 3rd, 1840. Wife died 1846.
18:03July 14th. We left St. Joe this morning. The soldiers said it was too late in the season to start,
18:11but Daddy laughed at them.
18:13He is not afraid, for at home in Norway he was used to hard winters and heavy snow in the
18:19mountains.
18:20October 8th. Our axle is broken, and Daddy left yesterday in the morning and hasn't come back yet.
18:28It is cold, and we can hear the howling of the war.
18:35That blade would not have missed in the launch of a bannock.
18:39And in the home of...
18:43Ruth Halverson?
18:45You've heard my name?
18:50A white buffalo woman is a myth.
18:54But Ruth Halverson is, or was, real.
19:16Remember this.
19:18You are here because you helped me.
19:20Stay until you can travel.
19:22But keep away from me, or I'll forget I owe you anything.
19:31In other words, welcome.
19:36Aside from your many other accomplishments, I see you also run a trapline.
19:40I trade the pelts for supplies.
19:43Well, now, I'm a fair hand with hides.
19:46Could I help?
19:54Until I can travel, you're going to have to put up with me.
19:59Now, there's no reason why we can't try to understand each other.
20:05How?
20:07We could start with Ruth Halverson.
20:11Ruth Halverson was a child.
20:14What happened after your father left the wagon?
20:16I never saw him again.
20:18In the spring, a bannock hunting party found me.
20:21They took me to their village.
20:24I stayed there as one of them.
20:28Until the hunters came.
20:31White hunters.
20:33They wanted our furs.
20:34And when we refused, they attacked us.
20:42All the braves, the women, the children, they killed.
20:55I found my way here, to the mountain of the dead.
21:04Shoshone saw me, told his people he had seen white buffalo woman raised from the grave.
21:13To them, I'm a great spirit woman.
21:24Until today, they've left me in peace here.
21:27In my own world.
21:29To live my own life.
21:32Ruth, the only real life for you
21:35is with your own people.
21:38Since the bannocks died,
21:39I have no people.
22:00Shaman!
22:09Where are my sons?
22:11We waited at the place of the forbidden stone.
22:15There is no sign of Daco or Dolka.
22:23They would have returned by now, if they could.
22:26My sons have failed.
22:30But perhaps where a son fails,
22:33a father can succeed.
22:38I will go to the mountain of the dead.
22:41We shall go with you, Shaman.
23:10I call this the mountain of the dead.
23:33What do you want?
23:35Uh, uh, nothing, uh, it doesn't matter.
23:41Wait!
23:45Is something wrong with you?
23:48No, there's, uh, nothing wrong with me.
23:50That's just it.
23:52Then what is it you want?
23:54Well, I, uh...
23:56There was a razor with your Bible.
23:59I, uh...
24:00Well, it can wait.
24:03Why do you want a razor?
24:05Well, for shaving.
24:08Uh, well, uh, you can't remember it.
24:11It's, uh, it's a little difficult to describe.
24:13You see, most men, uh...
24:15I know.
24:16I remember watching my father.
24:19I'll get it for you.
24:20Uh, no, no, no, no.
24:21It can wait.
24:23There is something the matter.
24:25What is it?
24:33Um, my education, uh, just interfered with my thinking for a minute.
24:40Uh, but it's all right.
25:05Oh, oh Adam's horse just came in Adam's horse
25:22No marks on
25:31Horse seems to be all right. Yeah. Nobody's ridden him for a while either. Yeah
25:38Fool boy probably got down for water. Come on pie. You know better than that. Oh, I think we'll go
25:45after
25:47Joe you get some food ready. Right, Pop. Horse, settle up the horses. Better bring a spare
26:08My father had a big strap to make his razor sharp
26:18Does it hurt?
26:22Little has to be done though. Otherwise a beard be done here
26:27Some men let the beards grow but others shave them off
26:34Ouch
26:38I think you would be better off with your beard down to here
26:43You know, I think maybe you're right
26:48You're very nice when you smile
26:57You've done enough I can finish
27:00It looks much better
27:03Naturally it takes a real engineer
27:10Anytime
27:15Any time
27:18Sit down
27:30Building a roof with one leg
27:33Man has earned his keep
27:35Not with a wound like this
27:38Do you know what your name means?
27:41My name?
27:42Ruth
27:44Means
27:46Compassion
27:48Pity
27:52Until now I never believed it
27:59You will be able to leave
28:01Very soon
28:03Why are you afraid of me?
28:04I fear no man
28:09Ruth
28:13You forgot this
28:14Hmm
28:22C
28:23Yeah
28:23Mm
28:30No
28:38Thank you
28:43No
28:48No, Casca, no.
28:52Do you too wish to be struck down by the medicine of the white buffalo woman as my son was?
29:03Her powers are greater than all the medicine of the Shoshone.
29:10That is why she must go back with us.
29:14Only she can save our people from the great sickness.
29:20Tiawah, Casca, find her camp, then return to me.
29:34And a certain man of Bethlehem, Judah, went to sojourn in the country of Moab.
29:40He, and his wife, and his two sons.
29:44You read very well.
29:46The Old Testament book of Ruth.
29:49Like you, she, uh, she had gone into a strange land.
29:55And the name of the man was?
29:57Eli Melech.
29:59And the name of his wife, Naomi.
30:03Entreat me not to leave thee.
30:06Or to return from following after thee.
30:10A long time ago, my father used to read it to me.
30:15That part of my life died with him.
30:19Finish the quotation.
30:22For whither thou goest, I will go.
30:25And where thou lodgest, I will lodge.
30:28And thy people shall be my people.
30:32And thy God, my God.
30:36Ruth.
30:39Come back with me.
30:41Back?
30:42Where?
30:43Where you belong.
30:45Leave, white buffalo woman, where she belongs.
30:48With the graves of the past.
30:52I found peace here.
30:55The people who are buried here have found peace.
30:57What you found is a hiding place.
31:00What can your world offer me that I don't have right here?
31:03People of your own kind.
31:06I know nothing but evil of my father's people.
31:10Look, Ruth.
31:11You say this is your home, where you belong.
31:14It can't be.
31:15Why can't it be?
31:16Because you're alone.
31:18I have a stubborn father and two hard-headed brothers.
31:22To me, they're home.
31:24No matter where they live.
31:27I have no one.
31:31On this mountain, you're a legend.
31:33And a legend leads a lonely life.
31:37In the world out there, you wouldn't be alone.
31:43Music, books, sound of laughter.
31:49All you have to do is come back and let me do the rest.
31:58Ruth, come back with me.
31:59No, no, let me be.
32:01Ruth, Ruth, you can't keep on running.
32:03Whatever you're hiding from must be faced, and now.
32:06I can't.
32:08Please let me go.
32:09Tell me, Ruth.
32:09Tell me now what really happened.
32:14Two of those men caught me.
32:18I fell, and they were there laughing.
32:25They grabbed me, and one of them, one of them hit me.
32:33I got my hand on a knife.
32:36His face.
32:38He screamed.
32:40And I broke away and ran.
32:44And ran.
32:48And now you can forget it.
33:14And now you can forget it.
33:34Chato, shaman of the Shoshone, brings you tribute.
33:43I accept your tribute, Chato, but not your presence here with your warriors.
33:50Only the spirit of the great white buffalo woman can conquer the sickness that has come to our lodges.
33:58My heart cries for you people, but the white buffalo woman must stay here with the ashes of the past.
34:07The ashes of the past are the lies of a white man.
34:16To the spirit, woman, Chato, all men are brothers.
34:20It is for me to judge who is welcome on the mountain of the dead.
34:25You have my answer.
34:28Take your warriors.
34:46You must go.
34:49Not without you.
34:52But, Adam, don't you understand?
34:53They'll kill you.
34:55I won't go without you.
34:59Then we'll find a way, Pastor Shoshone, together.
35:07Wait here and watch.
35:10When the white man is alone, take him alive.
35:15She will hear my words or watch him die.
35:22Dear Lord, accept these souls into heaven.
35:27May they rest in peace forever and ever.
35:30Amen.
35:44From the signs, Adam got this far.
35:49But he didn't meet the same fate these two trappers did.
35:52Where do you think he'd go from here?
35:55Must have gone into the mountain.
35:58Adam would know better than that.
36:01Well, maybe he had no choice.
36:04Well, we're not going to find him standing around here.
36:34THE END
36:47You weren't asleep at all.
36:49Didn't you ever hear of the spider and the fly?
37:00Now I know why they gave me my name.
37:05My folks must have known that I belonged in the Garden of Eden.
37:11I wonder if they knew about me.
37:15And they shall show me.
37:19Ruth, we'll leave tonight.
37:24I want you to have something.
37:25I want you to have something.
37:30When a man is betrothed to a woman,
37:35he gives her a ring.
37:39And as long as she wears that ring,
37:42they belong to each other.
37:48Adam, I will be your wife.
37:51I love you very much.
38:03Love.
38:08Honor.
38:09And obey.
38:12I kind of like that last word.
38:14That last word, Mr. Cartwright,
38:15we'll talk about when I get back.
38:22Adam.
38:27It's a beautiful ring.
38:38It's a beautiful ring.
38:42I love you.
38:43I love you.
38:51I love you.
39:01It's a lovely ring.
39:02I love you.
39:03I love you.
39:20Fogato!
39:58Oh, my God.
40:16Adam!
40:35Adam!
41:05Adam!
41:11Adam!
41:13Adam!
41:15Adam!
41:17Adam!
41:26Adam!
41:32Joe!
41:34Adam!
41:47Ah.
41:51We must have missed something.
41:56There's only one thing to do.
41:58We'll go back to where we buried those trappers.
42:02We'll start all over again.
42:05We'll turn over every rock if we have to.
42:20Shall I bring the spirit woman now?
42:22No, Koska.
42:24A spirit woman must come to us willingly.
42:28She won't come here.
42:30She will.
42:32For you.
42:33It won't work.
42:35Make it the wrong bait.
42:41She is here.
42:48Ruth, get out of here!
43:12You dare violate a sacred lodge, a white buffalo woman?
43:17You would not hear my words.
43:20And this one?
43:21Did the Shoshoni make war with the wounded?
43:25My people must have the medicine of the spirit woman, or they will die.
43:31And a white man?
43:33He will die.
43:34Unless you go with us.
43:37Release him.
43:38Or you will die now.
43:40By the hand of white buffalo woman.
43:46Then destroy us now.
43:49We will not go without you.
43:54My people need you.
43:58Ruth, don't!
44:04Stop!
44:08Spare his life.
44:10And you shall have the medicine of white buffalo woman.
44:17Cut him loose.
44:26You can't.
44:27I won't let you do it, baby!
44:31Ruth!
44:31Ruth!
44:32No!
44:32Don't!
44:33Run!
44:33Get out of here!
44:34Ruth!
44:34Run!
44:35Go!
44:36Run!
44:38Go!
44:38Run!
44:39Run!
44:40Run!
44:42Run!
44:46Run!
44:52Run!
44:59Run!
45:03I am ready, Shaman.
45:06When we are beyond the mountain of the dead, take him to the camp of the spirit woman.
45:12He will find his way back to his people.
45:32i'm ready shaman we must hurry spirit woman already too many of our people lie dead
45:39even your sons even my sons we will do all we can for the shoshone who still live
45:55pa horse
46:09let's get him over
46:10easy easy
46:18uh-huh ruth easy boy that going adam looks like you tangled with a grizzly
46:26and got beat shoshone took ruth who girl that saved my life she lives here
46:36yeah yeah fever she's not imaginary she's real
46:47name is ruth halverson there's a bible in the hut
46:56how come the shoshone took her adam they thought she was a spirit
47:03reincarnation of one of their gods
47:08i'm going after it i gotta find her you try to stop me i'll walk all over you both of
47:12you
47:12pop
47:14found a bible
47:16i'm writing in the front
47:18olaf halverson
47:21daughter ruth born 1840
47:26there's something inside marking a page
47:36i gave her this ring
47:43i wanted to marry her
47:46if she left
47:47this
47:48ring
47:49behind
47:52then she must have gone of her own free will
47:54she did it to save my life that's why i've got to go after her
47:57if you do that
47:58you sign her death warrant for sure
48:02she
48:02she's a girl she's not a spirit woman
48:05that's true
48:06but
48:07the shoshone belief she is
48:09if you destroy that belief in her
48:12you destroy her
48:14you destroy them too
48:16that's right adam
48:18if they believe in her that strongly then
48:20maybe she'll be able to be of some help to them
48:23you gotta
48:24let her go for now adam
48:29maybe someday
48:35come on let's get some food
48:50come on let's get some food
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