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Ma and Pa,
they wanted a farm in the West...
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...and this is as far as they got.
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Seems to me this is where the Lord
wanted the farm to be.
:45:10
But your brother, Sam, he's bad hurt,
and winter's comin'...
:45:13
There's no sense talkin' about it.
I'm gonna do it.
:45:15
Eve, you just ain't makin' much sense.
:45:19
Half the people that come West
don't make much sense, I reckon.
:45:27
All right.
:45:29
All right.
:45:33
By golly, you're a strong-minded woman.
:45:38
I reckon I seen that varmint
for the last time.
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The westward course was no smoother
than that of true love.
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Not only the hard hand of nature
was against it, but the impediment of war.
:46:35
Trouble over land smoldered
along the Mexican border.
:46:39
Not all Americans were for war, including
Congressman Abe Lincoln of Illinois.
:46:43
But a war did break out...
:46:45
... and in the end vast new territories
came into the Union...
:46:48
... along with their rich Spanish names:
:46:50
Rio Grande, Santa Fe, Albuquerque,
El Paso...
:46:54
... and most glittering of all, California...
:46:57
... named after a mythical island of pearls
and gold in a 15th century novel.