Across the Wide Missouri Page #2

Synopsis: In the 1830's beaver trapper Flint Mitchell and other white men hunt and trap in the then unnamed territories of Montana and Idaho. Flint marries a Blackfoot woman as a way to gain entrance into her people's rich lands, but finds she means more to him than a ticket to good beaver habitat.
 
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1951
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to her own people

- What you say! Black Is a Foot!

- What I tell you.

- But listen ...

- No way.

Wait a minute, Wait a minute.

I beg you pardon,i was explaining to him She is not Black foot,

she can not be, she is the old looking glass daughter.

No,no,no looking glass steal her from the

as black foot when she was a little girl.

- It's that simple.

- you sure that?

Her grandfather is Bear Ghost,

black foot medicine cheif.

He all the time wants to get his granddaughter back

he ask Recain to come down and buy her.

Ghost Bear "? and he's the big medicine man

of the Blackfeet tribe.

And this Iron

he's just a young war chief.

And Ghost Bear is the big man

in that beaver country .

Go and Tell Dick to get everything out

we got to trade.

Flint you can't do that.

You can not just go and buy the girl.

Why can't i?

There's one thing for Recain

take her back to her own people.

But looking glass won't trade her to you

No,he will expect you to marries her.

I would've except to my seft

She can't do to me any harm.

and she might do me lot of goog.

Tell looking glass

Looking glass's hut is on the ground.

He loves his black foot daughter

he would be very sad without her.

- How much more is that going to cost?

-you make him steepy bribe.,

She's a sun and moon to him.

Well tell him that my heart is on the ground

Because i can not give him the sun

and the moon to take the place of his black foot daughter.

But as much as Recain his offered

I've offered more.

But trade is a trade.

His heart is bleeding.

Recain is his friend

The mountain is his friend,

he can not give his daughter to both.

Well make up his mind between this thing.

It is not like the chief of the Nez Perce that will have

to sun go down on thinking what the matter is this.

Recain says that if looking glass

will returns his daughter to our black foot grandfather,

he Recain will try to make peace between the

Blackfeet and Nez peirce good thing for both

Well tell looking glass if Recain

is a man of his word. he must do what he says .

Looking glass think that peace

is very good thing,

but he's an old man and very poor and he

have many greedy relatives.

Go get it.

Tell him King George's captain brought this

warrior's medicine, all the way from the land of his fathers

Its very old and very strong

It is not affraid of arrows

and it is good against relatives.

He will speak to his daughtr.

He can not give it to you

unless she say yes.

If she says that she will marry to you,

then they may ready.

When you enter,

she will be a there as your wife.

He will send for his daughter

and let her choose.

You're both to go

and wait for word

flies in the butter milk two by two,

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Talbot Jennings

Talbot Jennings (August 24, 1894 – May 30, 1985) was an American playwright and screenwriter. He was nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Writing and Screenplay, for Mutiny on the Bounty in 1935 and Anna and the King of Siam in 1946. more…

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