How the West Was Won Page #2

'That was for luck,, he said the first time.

'That was for love. Deep, divine love"

he said the second.

And the third time, 'That was a prayer,

a plea for love undying."'

Isn't that beautiful?

I reckon. If anybody ever talks like that.

Well, it's the sentiments, not the talk.

There ain't no sense to you, Eve.

You wanna to be a farm wife,

but you don't wanna marry a farmer.

Neither do you.

Of course not.

I don't wanna have

nothing to do with farms.

I want silk dresses and fine carriages

and a man to smell good.

What I want's back East, not West.

But I'll get there yet. You watch.

You don't know what you want yet.

It's the man that counts,

not where he lives.

- Ready, now?

Ready.

Daddy, Daddy, something coming upriver.

Hostile Indians, I suspect.

- Could it be river pirates, Zebulon?

- Don't know.

They say no honest man

travels this river at night.

I can only see one man, Pa.

I hear that's a favorite pirate trick.

They hide in the bottom of the boat...

...till they're ready to jump you.

- Get my gun, Colin.

- All right, Pa.

Just come in slow and easy, stranger.

And keep your hands

where we can see them.

Name's Linus Rawlings.

I'm hungrier than sin

and real peaceful like.

- What have you got in the craft?

- Beaver pelts.

I said beaver pelts.

I never had a chance to see a beaver pelt,

Mr. Rawlings.

Well, in that case, ma'am,

I'll show you one.

There you are.

That's real soft.

It's a fine pelt, ma'am.

Now, my apologies, sir.

- We was afeared you might be a pirate.

- I ain't no pirate.

Come on, let's have supper

and get acquainted.

No, no, no. That's yours.

Keep that, ma'am.

Well, you sure set your cap in a hurry.

Is he the backwoodsman

you've been waiting for?

More than likely he's got

a wife and six kids waiting for him.

Thank you, ma'am, that was right tasty.

You've only had four plates.

I was beginning to think you didn't like it.

Well, it don't pay to eat too much

on an empty stomach, ma'am.

How come you're to be traveling

so late at night?

Well, I'm kind of anxious

to get to Pittsburgh.

I ain't seen a city for a long time.

I aim to whoop it up a little.

Well, now, we've never seen

a mountain man before.

Tell me, them Rocky Mountains

as high as they say?

Well, now, I just don't rightly know.

I never climbed one. I've...

Uh...

Well, you know,

that just ain't exactly true.

Jim Bridger and me...

...we started up one of them little-bitty

Rocky Mountain foothills, you know.

And then, one day, we see this fella...

...and he has a great big pair

of white wings...

...and a harp in his hand.

And I said to Jim...

...I said, "Jim, I don't like the way

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