00:23Hello again. Peabody and Sherman here. Today we are going to visit Rocky.
00:27And his friends? Mountains. Specifically an elevated summit of the Rocky Mountains, 14,134 feet high.
00:35What date shall I set the Wayback Machine for, Mr. Peabody?
00:38The year 186, Sherman. The year the noted soldier and explorer, General Zebulon Pike, discovered Pike's Peak.
00:44The Wayback took us to the base of the Rockies where Pike's expedition was encamped. We arrived at a highly
00:49dramatic moment.
00:50You heard me climb down off those rocks or I'll start shooting.
00:54Look, General. We came with you to help discover Pike's Peak. The only thing we discovered so far is that
01:01you were a coward.
01:02Right. We've been here six months and you ain't climbed the Rockies yet.
01:06Don't get uppity with me. I said I'll climb and I'll climb.
01:11Yeah, but when?
01:12I'll climb... tomorrow.
01:14Senator Pike went into his tent and we followed. Inside we saw the General talking to a table.
01:20All right, you Pike's Peak, you. Now you hold still and I'm gonna climb you. I gotta make it. I
01:28did. I did it!
01:30You all right, General?
01:32Oh, yeah.
01:33You suffer from acrophobia, don't you? Fear of heights.
01:37You bet I do. I get a nosebleed just wearing high-heeled boots.
01:42Then how will you ever climb Pike's Peak?
01:45I don't know, boy. I don't know. Right now there isn't anything that would get me up that mountain.
01:50We put the General to bed. A four-poster affair with no legs.
01:54You've gotta help him, Mr. Peabody. According to history books, Pike climbed Pike's Peak.
01:58He'll climb, Sherman. He'll climb. The following day, General Pike emerged from his tent to find his expedition engaged in
02:05a baseball game.
02:07What's going on here?
02:09It's the big game, General, and I'm afraid your team is going to lose.
02:12Why'd you say that?
02:13We don't have an outfielder.
02:14I bet the General could play the outfield, couldn't you, General?
02:16You bet I can.
02:18Good. Here's your glove. Take your position up there.
02:21That's the outfield?
02:23It's a tough league. Anxious to play and without the slightest realization that he was climbing,
02:28General Pike took his position approximately 100 feet up the mountain.
02:33Let me know when it's my turn at bat.
02:36A highly irregular game then took place, one in which the opposing teams kept moving the playing field in a
02:41heavenly direction.
02:42By the third inning, home plate was where the outfield had been.
02:45You can't play your position behind home plate, General. You'll have to move back.
02:49Back?
02:50Up.
02:50Mr. Peabody, we just lost second base.
02:53What happened to it?
02:54The last time I saw it, it was falling towards Denver.
02:56That's the way the base bounces, Sherman.
02:59The game continued and so did the playing field.
03:01We kept inching our way up the towering cliffs.
03:03Unfortunately, at the halfway point, the game was called on account of darkness.
03:07You know something?
03:07I've done an awful lot of moving around in that outfield and I haven't caught one ball.
03:12You'll have better luck tomorrow, General.
03:14You mean the game isn't over?
03:15Our side hasn't even been up to bat.
03:18Thanks to the darkness, General Pike had no idea that he was 7,000 feet in the air.
03:23We slept well.
03:24That is all but Sherman.
03:25Energetic boy that he is, he tossed and turned all night.
03:29Much to the concern of the General.
03:30That boy's keeping me awake.
03:32I better sleep somewhere else.
03:34So saying, he and his blanket migrated to the brink of a yawning chasm.
03:38Man's gotta get a good night's sleep if he wants to play heads up ball.
03:42And wouldn't you know that dawn would break just then?
03:45Yep, ain't nothing like a good heavens.
03:48What am I doing up here?
03:50Oh!
03:51Being a light sleeper, I awoke just in time to rush over and grab him before he toppled over the
03:56edge.
03:56You tricked me!
03:58This was all a scheme to get me to climb Pike's Peak.
04:00There was no other way.
04:02Well, you got me halfway up.
04:03Now what are you gonna do?
04:05I'm too scared to go any further.
04:07Well, it took but a moment to solve that problem.
04:09And four hours later, Zebul and Pike had scaled Pike's Peak.
04:12How did you do it, Mr. Peabody?
04:14How did you get him to climb?
04:15He never knew he was climbing, Sherman.
04:17Take a close look at those glasses he's wearing.
04:19Somebody painted a picture on the lens.
04:21Not somebody.
04:23Peabody.
04:24It's a picture of Death Valley, which is situated 280 feet below sea level.
04:29I get it.
04:30No matter where he looks, he thinks he's in Death Valley.
04:33Water!
04:34Water!
04:35Get the General some water, Sherman.
04:36Oh, and while you're at it, buy some food for us from the men.
04:40Buy some food?
04:41Won't they share some with us?
04:42The General and his men are notorious for being stingy.
04:45Come to think of it, that's how the word was coined.
04:48What word, Mr. Peabody?
04:51Pikers!
04:52Pikers!
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