 In the spring of your life, in the spring of your life You kiss all the girls, but you don't take a wife You're tall as a mountain and swift as a stream And tatered as waiting, if gold is your dream In the summer of life there's so much to be done But always the search for a place in the sun A time when a woman is life to a man If love doesn't hold him, then nothing else can It is all or never we will leave Of chances gone by and the hurt on the grieve It gnaws at your innards for gone is your prime And all you have left is a handful of time It is winter as seen by the snow of your hair And dwindling moments that someone can share Unless you come back and admit you are lost How brief the December, how better the frost You have four seasons, four seasons To make your dreams come true A man's lifetime has four seasons That's all God gives to you You just can't imagine what it was like When we got the news back home that gold was discovered in California Folks near went crazy They just picked up their belongings and headed west Thousands of them, young and old Like boat, wagon train, riding, walking Any way they could get to where the gold was It wasn't easy like they said in the posters There were rivers to cross, mountains to climb and indies Some didn't make it, but most did because They all had the same dream, gold I'd like to tell you about a friend of mine, Tracy Powell Him and me came out from Missouri when the rust was just beginning We was young then in our 20s and we both had the fever I'll have to be more of a town though No eating places or nothing, not even any streets But we made it just like you said, 2,000 miles Want that gold, you can keep it boy Just get to the diggins If you want them nuggets in your hand, it's all right with me Only worth a couple of cents Can't take much out in one day You'll find that out I guess I didn't see where I was going, Mr The only around here sees where they're going Especially the first couple of days You all right, Tracy? Yep, that's it A river of gold Sure, lots of folks down here Tell me how long you figure it's going to take before you get rich Two weeks, maybe? Three? Well, don't you do no digging, Mr? No, I'm just sitting here Much easier that way You keep a sitting there and all you'll end up with is calluses Maybe so, maybe so Just look at them down there Breaking their back just for feed Just like them ants there Thousands of them All of them doing the same thing Crawling up the hill and down the hill then up again Can't never get anywhere that way Don't you worry none, Mr We've been a long time coming, we aim to make it What makes you think you're so different? Because we ain't no ants Come on, Bert, we've got some digging to do You fellas need any equipment Or your dust chains should coin Just remember the name's Haver Willis Haver Six more of these gold dominoes left, my friends Absolutely sure fire All you gotta do is walk along Watch the little needle point And there you are, wow A mother loathe Now I know what you're thinking, my friends You're thinking that this fella's the dog going smart Why don't he go out and find his own gold? Well, I will But I got something Just think of it, my friends No more scratching and digging for gold This little gold domino find gold for you It not only finds gold But it cures rubricate Yes, sir, my friends After you find a million dollars in gold You ain't got no more rubricate Ah, I tell you what I'm going to do I'm not asking two hundred I'm not asking a hundred and fifty I'm not asking a thousand and fifty Hey, take it easy, man Took us all day to pan that dust Took me all day to cook this grub Look, Tracy, most of the whole day's work just to eat once Howdy, Mr. Haver Hey, you know what? A couple of men working down from us just a bit Took out eighty dollars today I seen it You know what? Instead of using pans, they got a box-like thing They rock back and forth Not bad, huh? Just like the poster says back home Go west, reach down and pick it up I'm sure glad you and I joined up, Tracy Eighty dollars The way I figure you and me could do that easy And that sure beats working back in Missouri There's some doing better than that What do you aim to do? Eighty dollars a day ain't nothing There's ways a man can get real rich, Bert How? That's what I'm aiming to find out Howdy, Mr. Haver Me and my partners Wondering if you had one of them boxes You rock back and forth We figure we can do better if we have one of them Be the kid Your tent, Mr. Yeah What's your name, boy? Paul, Tracy Paul Tracy here ain't like the rest of them He's gonna hit it, big Ain't that right, boy? How'd you do today? We took about eighty dollars You see that, Sam? Not many around here could do that the first day Come on, Haver, I gotta catch up on my drinking Your gold, Mr. Man must be a powerful man to take that much gold Excuse me for asking, but you get that gold out of the river? You better get out of here, boy, before I get your nose caught Some place where it had not a B I ain't aiming to get you mad, Mr. Just asking civil question You don't have to answer it Except, uh, I know you didn't get that gold out of the river He knows you didn't get the gold out of the river You aren't a good judge of human character, Sam Wilkins here a little moody when he ain't had a drink Paul didn't mean nothing, did you, boy? He was just eager Eager like a thin coyote You know, I don't see it do no harm telling us where you work in the gold Who knows, Sam? Paul here might make just the partner that you've been looking for I didn't mean to ride you I respect a man's got sense enough to make our bed in the rest of us How about me buying you a drink, Mr. Wilkins, and you and me can talk That's a good idea, boy Bar is the best place to work for a couple of fellas getting over each other You care to join us, Mr. Haver? I'll be along I still got some arithmetic to do You know, I was wrong about you, Mr. Haver You keep setting you're gonna get rich Maybe I was wrong about you, too You better get out there before Sam drinks the bar dry I'm gonna get me a drink Fella had all that gold named Wilkins, Sam Wilkins You never seen so much gold, I tell you You don't drink? Maybe it's time I started I got business to talk for both of us Well, count me out Fella was showing me that rocker Well, he says Wilkins is no good and everybody knows that So we'll just stay away from him, Tracy We'll be all right once we get that box built And end up like a restaurant around here? I'll tell you, I've seen that money More money than I ever seen in my life before I'm gonna get some of it Well, last fella went out with Wilkins got himself killed Now, you ain't that kind I've known you since we was kids We ain't kids no more Oh, I still say you ain't that kind Maybe not But one thing's for sure I didn't come all this way to break my back just to fill my belly You in or out? Out Trace Watch your step I'm a-fixin' to Crawling up your back I can't think of a better way of killing them Tracy went to look for the gold He didn't know then what the hills were going to mean to him A lot of gold Want a cigar? Gracias Got a match? Look at those fools down by the river Scratchin' for a little dust You just keep your eye on a Mexican He'll show you where you can get real hunks of gold Right in these hills I wasn't figurein' on no claim-juppin' What's the matter? You want to come out of here with some gold, didn't ya? You can't have a weak stomach and get rich If you don't like it, boy, you can get out of here right now Let's go to work And now you're catchin' on I'm arrestin' except on Sundays Because some of us are scared of the Lord And the others have at least one day to do some real drinkin' Well, Tracy began to find out what Some men'll do to get rich quick I don't think Tracy was bad, even though he went along Sometimes gold will do strange things to a man Buy a drink Oh, thanks, Tracy How about you, Mr. Aver? After all, I got you to thank Hadn't been for you, never would've met Sam Never would've met Sam Never would've had all those little sacks of dust Come on, Bert, let me buy you a drink Oh, Tracy, I know Oh, ain't no reason to be sore Ain't you and me pals and we start out from home together? Sure, I just saw my chance and took it Ain't no reason to be sore Did I tell you about, Mr. Aver? You got a strong box Great big strong box made of iron Full of money Well, we're gonna empty that strong box of money With what me and Sam dug Go buy everybody a drink Yes, sir, with what me and Sam dug Just reach down there and back to the right up off the ground Great big chunks, beautiful Hold them up to the sun They shine in your face Thousands of tiny little mirrors Not like the rest of them, man Say, Mr. Aver We'll see You and Wilkins pull up the dust, Jack Gonna buy everybody a drink Gonna walk up to Mr. Wilkins and say It is now splitting up time Gonna buy everybody a drink Don't go away But ain't my little old partner from Missouri, Tracy Powell Gonna buy everybody a drink, need a little money What do you say we split up the dust? Sure, kid, sure Right now Pretty fair wage, if you ask me, for two weeks work My share was half, Sam Good boy Take it and move on Half for gold is mine, Mr. Wilkins Get out of my way Why did I leave Missouri, Bert? Why did I come over 2,000 miles? For gold? That's right And I had it, didn't I? I had it right in my fist Half that gold was mine, Mr. Aver You was there when we made the deal How bad do you want it? I'd be obliged to have your gun, Mr. Aver Get yourself killed Don't do it, Tracy It ain't worth it to goldie Worth it? I ain't never killed a man before Care to change your dust, Mr. Powell? I guess you were too busy to see that look on Wilkins face Yes, sir, I believe you're right I think you're going to make This time I'm going to let you keep all of this Seeing as how you did so good with Wilkins Only usually I get my share Just remember that Take it easy, take it easy Well, here you are Almost $1,900 Not bad for a beginning You should have told me Wilkins was working for you I'm saying it now What's the difference? Maybe you didn't hear I want you in with us I like you You got nerve Why a man like you and a man like me, we can make a fortune Don't be a fool, boy Maybe it's just because I don't like you, Aver All right, you'll wind up scratching just like the rest of them Maybe so, but I didn't come all the way out here Just end up thieving All right, boy I thought you had it, but I guess you ain't No hard feelings Don't worry about me, Aver I'll get along all right One you better feel sorry for here is Wilkins He's going to be your partner Wilkins is working for Aver He wants me to go in with him What'd you say? I guess you was right, Bert I ain't his kind Let's quit tracing Forget about the gold A whole new world's opening up Other things, other ways to do besides the gold There ain't nobody going to get rich around here Unless he wants to be like that fella Aver Or unless he wants the gold So bad he's willing to do most anything for it A man don't need no mountain to live out his life happy You ain't seen it up in the hills like I have, Bert It's true, like we say Then one day a man can make his self enough to live like a king lost his life You got a sickness, Tracy Can't you see it? You got a sickness And you'll either die from it or end up partners with the devil There ain't no in between You better have a drink Because you're looking at a man that's figuring on going straight to the devil The town grew I got started in the drag bits business did pretty good too I didn't see much of Tracy during those years Most of the time he lived in the hills and only came into town once in a while Whenever he needed another stake I was glad to help him Business was good It was about this time that Tracy met Julie Right from the beginning they fell in love I never could understand how a wonderful girl like Julie could wait all those years But she did One summer day he did come back with a rock in his hand and love in his heart I was looking for my shirts, are they ready yet? I was worried you'd find yourself a man Kept thinking Julie'd be gone but she ain't You waited Yes, I waited I said I wouldn't but I waited Tracy, I love you This time was the hardest The night's never ended I worked until I could stop Anything to keep from thinking That lie on the ground at night came there driving me crazy thinking about you too I said I wouldn't wait that I thought he's got to get it out of his system When he does he'll come back to me I tried to lie to myself Oh you should have heard the things I said to myself about you Ever since I can remember I've been waiting to make a home Ohio, Kentucky In Tennessee I remember the day my mother and I started to put up the first set of curtains on the farm My father came with a wagon The stories of California He must have been one of your father from what you told me He had ambition I bet if he'd have lived you and your mother had everything I never could understand what made her stick with him She loved him I mean to have that home Tracy The one my mom never had I'd work my fingers down to the stubs for it For a place of my own To love a man and to bring up children in a proper way You understand that Tracy You understand what I want I'm going to give it to you, Julie When I'd come near to give enough I'd think of you I'd say to myself it ain't just for me it's for Julie Everything's for Julie And then I'd get to the next rise and I'd look up And the climate was that much easier And now I've found it And I'm going to give you everything that a woman like you should have Oh I carry your backpack We're going to get married now You better give me that clean shirt Man can't get married around here without a clean shirt That's a new law that passed since they got so much civilization I'm kidding Only better get a no one Otherwise the preacher will think he's marrying me to a bear I never did see so much dirt Congratulations Trace Bert, how's the old business man? Fine, fine I gum you're going to be proud of me Anybody be proud of giving a girl like Julie? Yeah sure but I'm talking about another Julie This is all rock and dirt With the prettiest yellow streaks running through it you ever did see I tell you Mr. Killian you got yourself 25% of the richest strike ever made around here within 200 miles That's mighty generous of you Tracey Now wait a minute You staked me you're going to get your share Where do you see her? She's over at the assayers now All written up legal and all the Julie O I call her I ain't staking you this time Tracey Bert you don't understand Where do you see the rock? Come on over to the assayers with me Like it's not she'll run 120 to the ton All we gotta do is follow that vein You uh you told Julie you're going out again? Don't be a fool Bert I know what I got this time You knew last time too This time I won't be waiting you'll have to choose now Bert you gotta stake me just this last time If it don't work I'll quit I swear it Julie you gotta see I want what you want a home like you said And don't go out again You won't quit you got no sense I told you that Julie's got no sense She was my girl you knew that too Yeah I knew it and that's why I ain't staking you this time I'm gonna prove you're not for her you got no sense I don't need you I'll get me a stake somewhere else I see how weighted you and him get out All right you can wait outside This looks like a mighty promising claim Sam you better look into it Howdy Tracey it's been a long time Sam here says that you registered a claim up on Dorado Ridge Mighty promising he said the assay is better than 120 to the ton Oh that's all right you can talk in front of Sam He don't bury no grudge do you Sam How'd you find out about the clean? The assayer works for me and so does the registrar In this business it's necessary to know everything that's going on Well what can I do for you Tracey? If there's anything I can I will I'm glad you saw fit to come to me A man learns by experience I guess I need a stake Haver it's a rich claim I know it I ain't expecting to stake me without getting something in return I'll pay Tracey you don't understand you see I'm running a bank now it makes a little difference It's not just me there are others in San Francisco I have to account to I can't invest the depositors money to claim without knowing what's in it first How can I know what I got unless I get the equipment to find out Just a vicious circle ain't it can't get the money unless you know what you have Can't tell what you have unless you got the money to find out That's like I said it's a business now Man don't stand a chance by himself unless he's uh willing to go along How much do you want? All of it that's the way it works now Man it's been up in the hills maybe wouldn't know We put up the money we work to claim and we give what we think it's worth for finding it Every day somebody comes in here with a rock isn't that so Sam? We can't get enough machinery to work what we've already got It's a business now Tracey just like I said Sam here took the trouble to file all around you You won't get water or nothing unless you come in with us claim ain't worth a cent We've been taking extra special trouble to watch you Tracey Isn't that true Sam? Just for old time's sake I'm letting you clear out this time Tracey Well nobody touch you I'll see to that Funny thing about you Tracey you're you're different You're different than Sam here or me Trouble is you want that gold so much you're gonna come crawling And I'll be here when you do Touch me There's no man I'd let touch me Look at you how are you gonna end up? You are right You ain't gonna end up like all the rest I shouldn't have the earth with no human feet I'm looking for the gold to help me to be healthy Tracey would but he tried to build a home turn a living just like everybody else It wasn't easy because Tracey was a man who wanted to be a king It's only the hills We're doing all right Tracey Crop will be ensued harvest Your tool will get some cows build a house Oh you see it won't be long in no time we'll have a ranch like other folks Like other folks I look at you working out there and I think I'm a ma She hadn't hardly give birth to me and she was out there working again Bending her back scratching the earth I'm not afraid to work if it's for a reason If we just had two thousand dollars we'd get started right We could buy ourselves some livestock we'd have a chance You've got to stop dreaming Tracey Look how long you looked and you didn't find it most never do But they live and work and have a family and love each other That's what's important I ain't changing my mind Julie it's just that well this seems crazy breaking our backs this way I can't help it I seen some of the stupidest biggest Stumblebumps come roaring in from a strike They could dig enough gold in one weight to buy us the biggest ranch in these parts Don't worry I ain't going out again But I gotta tell you how I feel I'm trying Julie you know I am It's just they don't seem right sitting here with all that gold running through them hills A drink with the hardest fighting Hardest drinking dirt scratchers really predator makes them firstly cross the sacramento Come on now Tracey tell me I don't remember boy Since you and me first arrived and there's a course of sales in search of the rainbow, eh Tell me now even if it doesn't make me feel me eight ten years nine ten years Do you remember the time I had 25 percent of the black hole I can't cut it And come in and took me south of Bath in a whole bucket full of whiskey Then it turned out that some dirty swine Sorted the mine just to make away with those little scratches And here was I with a whole bucket full of bourbon and sausage as dirty as finnigan's goat I want you from that partner I do that boy You'll make the finest partner man if you ever want So come on on with that come on on it now look I got the eye of an eagle and the nose of a nandator And I can spot a mother loaded Caesar than 20 miles I'd be proud to have it from me partner proud to be associated with it and on that We'll have another Snake venom, what do you say now come on. Let me see it. Let me see it. Sure. I gotta wait you're sure too here Here And you look at it four or five times up any how much is it worth? 115th of the turn, so help me And you didn't register it nobody around here knows where it is. Oh, not sure not sure Ah, so they wouldn't let you keep it. It's a business now Goals of business We do the sweating Haver does it again. Yeah, no not from jim or mccan they won't Tracy I've got big connections here Up in san francisco in the san francisco mine and company Sure. Haver never get his hands on this outfit How aren't we hard to do traces find the thing And that if there's anyone in the world can do that any better than tracy powell I'd like you know who it is I've certainly made me miss out And we're partners Sure and sure like that's right tracy latch. You'll know by so it does nothing lets matters accept the gold You don't think I'd spend me whole life. Do you have to wind up with nothing? Not that you know jim. Oh, I'm going to write down this main street in the golden carrots And stick out my tongue at the room when I see and say this is me Jim or mccan I comfort and know I've got it and you can now jump when I talk Because this ain't no little man talking This is a big big man who done it himself because he had the guts What jim I wanted today tracy He wants you to go off with him He got himself a grub steak I said no I'm going to have a baby tracy There's no marriage without children It's just like I said it never would be when I was you read I'd had the narrative face of face to face and say darlin I'm a man that's footloose and fancy free and I'm on the road But I'll be back someday with the power for a bottle and make it up to you. I want to ask you a question What am I? Am I something or am I nothing? You're nothing Absolutely nothing tracy boy What you've got to face is Women don't understand about these things. You're right. She doesn't understand A woman doesn't understand I gotta make it The tracy meant to come back soon even before the baby was born, but he didn't The weeks became months in the months years years of climbing taking scratch By 1869 most everybody forgot to go Civilization came west Our town grew big Most of us did the ordinary things working farming building a business But there were still a few like tracing jammal Who never forgot to drink Well chase What do you think? I think we dig here now look let's try and be logical We know that somewhere in this enormous bay hide. There's a beautiful vein of golden honey Now the question is Does the vein come out here or in the next hill over there? Or maybe there's no vein at all But wait trace. Look, I'll never let it cross me mind again. I say we dig here. I agree with you. We'll dig here So in that case We'll have to give it the final asset test To make sure we're going to toss a coin This is the last honest dollar I ever made And I say we're just such an occasion is this Will it be trace hesitate? I don't care about no coin. I say we dig here Oh, look trees your man can only do so much for himself by I think the biggest right was stuck in tinnopah When a fellow woke up so drunk one morning he put his pants unbuckled and didn't know which way he was walking Will it be trace hesitate? Oh heads Well heads it is. Yeah now that we got science to back us up. Let's get to work Now what do you think you're doing? Well, it's been so long since me and the lord harnessed and decided which other I thought now would be a good time to get acquainted again We're going to be needing now. Well, there'll be plenty of time for that on sunday We've got a tunnel to dig here. Let's go Never ever Drop it Well Ever ain't the worst two-faced weasel known to man What are you doing here sam? Welcome. See? Oh, no, no, don't think you're gonna scare me with that p sure you got there At this close range One squirted tobacco juice and I'll brand you for life. Get out of me away. I mean business jimbo I'm taking over this claim Sammy don't make me laugh Oh, now sure you're clean jumping again. Eh May may but happen to mighty fallen though Whatever became of that more than sweet smell and job you have with that skunk able Him and me split up. Come on now, old man. Get your stuff together and get out out of these parts Tracy I should have known Honest Tracy. If I'd known this was your claim, I I wouldn't have tried nothing. I guess my luck is just plum run out Well, I'll just be going along now What's this about you not working for Haber no more? Well, he threw me out He's a big man now He don't need the likes of me no more So I just busted loose for the hills. Nothing else. I could do Things sure have changed a lot Tracy All the claims was spoke for reminder Ain't worth nothing Say trace Let me work for you. We don't need nobody trace I think we better take it man It's better than having and running down to the town shooting his mouth off about what we're doing up here It'll be swarming all over the place. How do we know you ain't gonna go running to Haber before we can file? I'd die first trace honest. I would you know what he had me doing He's got a big house now see He had me fixing things that was broke I'm painting I've died for I'd run to him if I catch you turn against us this time. I'll kill you Thanks trace I ain't doing this for you wilkins My heart just naturally goes out to anybody who can't stand Haber I guess we could use a man Now get to work slave god Did you Me and Wilkins will carry you down to the mules and then you can ride you We're gonna fix you up. All right What was it like a hey You didn't get a chance to see it What was it like? Real rich jimmo real rich Tell me trace His rise must then 150 to the town. I seen her shining right through Just like you said a mountain of gold I Can't feel my legs I find a leg trace it. You don't have to worry about nothing. You're gonna be walking better in me like you always done Won't have to walk now I've got me a mountain Could have set the way up on top but To rest me whole life right around Any golden carriage? Stick out me Jimmo jimmo fight you got everything ahead of you anything you want to do right around the world You can sleep on the bed. It's a soft just like you said it's hard to talk trace Tell me what you're gonna be like When you get home I was gonna be julie and the kid like I told you jimmo And we're gonna walk in there with our arms full of money and I'm gonna spread mine out from front of julie And we're gonna buy the biggest house in san francisco and you're gonna live with us neatly You're gonna sit at the head of the table And you're gonna smoke big seagars the biggest this side of Sacramento river Shame this had to happen to the old man What's the spin there is whole life looking I guess jimmo is kind of lucky There's them that looks all their life never makes it. She could say jimmo is really lucky Hello, she's called and we got enough rockies for the rest of our lives A chance to drink yourself into a purple horn for it neither because me sam wilkins Parks is buying So every man jack you get up to the bar there since before my mom had to come here seems like I always do when I first get to town I understand I'm sure I'm going crazy. I'll bet you can't find a mule within 50 miles of here And every day you find a gold strike as promising as the jimmo Mighty glad that you decided to come to us before negotiating with anybody else Well jimmo trusted you so I trust you About a drink here's to the first day's digging may she go on and on Here's the jimmo and now we have here the final papers All properly drawn and the initial 5000 cash as you requested You will understand we're making an exception in this case. We don't usually advance anything until the extent of the claim can be verified Mr. Powell you understand that we don't know as yet precisely how much gold they raise in the jimmo So the sale of the stock is purely speculative at the moment However, we do believe I'll be right back. She won't see you Did you tell her what I told you that I hit it big that I come back like I said a word The fact that you hit it big is all over town. Look tracy You can't do what you did to a woman and expect her to take you back least of all julie why she's raised that kid dunlaundron She says she doesn't want to see you. She's got to see me. I've got to make it up to her I'll bring her the money. I'll show it to her when she sees it. She'll believe it. It'll all be hers Still the money Hey, well, this is rosson call again for you like I said I told bird. I didn't want to see you That's what he said And get out but how come you didn't take up with no other man Go on. Tell me after all this time if you wasn't waiting for me. I waited for you to change To come back in out of the hills to come to your senses I thought every day any day you'd come back But I am back just like you said Yes, you're back But nothing's changed. Don't you understand? I don't want it. I never wanted it I wanted a husband who would love me and respect me and be a father to my children not the money Do you think that makes up for the years? For the boy who never had a father Will you buy Billy? This is your father. Come on. She shouldn't worry. I told her someday you'll be back Everybody said you would Will you stay now? I know son. It ain't up to me. I expect you and me is gonna have some real good hunting together First rifle I ever owned Shares of beauty reminds me of the time old jim on me was Stalked by a wildcat. Did I ever tell you about jimbo? He was the one you named the strike for but not about the wildcat What about it? Did you kill him or did jimbo? Well, it was like this It was about old nine years ago Jim on me had this same hunch about Julie left tracy come and visit the boy She couldn't make up her mind whether to take him back or not She needed time Like I said bird if a man's got faith in himself and is willing to stick it out. I'm done. All right, tracy business Sure, sure, sure, but uh if you could have been there when me and wilkins First reached out and touched it with our hands. Well, sir, I tell you it was worth everything I've been through from the time you and me left home together And you know how much she has a 150 to the ton How do you like that 150 to the ton? What do you want? What's the matter the jimbo? She Backs to told me to tell you what's the matter. What happened? We ain't got nothing The pain come up short the men quit thinking the gold run out. You're crazy. All right. It's crazy. We got nothing who said Who said it's syndicate? The toby to tell you there's nothing there the men are coming back in We ain't got nothing the lion We seen the gold Sam you and I seen the gold I've seen it. You hear I seen it Wilkins says there ain't no gold in the jimbo. What do you mean by quality? I want them papers back. I signed the deals off. It's all right. Baxter. Give it to him. It's all right. Baxter Give him the paper It's been a long time pal Oh, you can put away the gun No one's going to cheat you Why you don't blame baxter. He was only carrying out orders Now if you have come to me, I could have told you there are no mining operations in this area that I don't control That's a lie and another one of your dirty tricks Tell him it's the truth pal We worked the claim and the vein come up short I'll take you up there. I'll show it to you That must be the vein There's gold there. I know it. I'm sure there's gold there Just like you said the biggest strike since ton of bar the main vein was in the next hill We went on and found it after yours run out. You're a lion You're trying to take my gold away from me. I dug that gold me and jimbo We broke our backstigan. Now you know what I'm going to take my gold here. I'll kill you first Jimbo says shall we go on to the next hill? I says no, I like it fine right here Do you hear me Bert? We was that close you understand standing right there Then I still would have everything one more stick in the hill Tracy listen to me It's nothing to be ashamed of for a man to fail Nothing to be ashamed of I tell you Jimbo was right If you've got the guts you can make it Guts You call that guts Tell you what you really are A coward you hear a coward Afraid to live and struggle like a normal human being to build a life But no you got it at me To have enough gold. What do you think I want to do? I do want to come home, but with what empty hands with nothing Nothing Very very delicate. This is just a temporary setback. Just temporary. I'll be back soon. Tell it to Tracy Let him go Julie Let him go. He's no good Not even for himself Nothing will help him no more Nothing So the years passed and became the winter of Tracy's life I guess maybe you can't blame a man for trying Some don't know when to quit Others of us Maybe give up too soon Ain't nothing wrong with you except maybe a little cold Some of this makes you feel good Can't be losing you You're just about the best mule I ever had You ought to be proud of that name I give you. He was the one in that gym all He said I could smell gold so good I could find a dentist with my eyes shut You just get yourself a little rest there now boy Now once you try some of this Here here Nothing easy does it boy Ain't nothing to be ashamed of being sick Now happens near everybody Sure I bet you feel better already I'll get you some more over here boy. Good boy. Stand up. Don't give up. Come on. You can do it boy You can do it. We'll go back to the cave. We'll stay nice and warm. We'll build a fire We'll stay there till the snow is gone. You can do it boy. You can do it Come on. You got two on needs Leave the man alone Timmy I'm awfully sorry. The boy doesn't understand. That's all right, ma'am. I am a little dirty. I've been up in the hills Staking the claim You see that timmy this old gent's a prospector looking for silver Gold ma'am all bellies rich. Come on You rich mister My pa's says there's lots of gold around here as much as a million even You got a million mister I'm awfully sorry That's all right, ma'am. Boy didn't mean nothing Can I help you sir? Oh, uh, I was looking for Bert. Uh, uh, mr. Killian He's an old friend of mine said these. Oh, mr. Killian's over at the hotel the new one There's a city father's lunch there this afternoon Oh, uh, well, uh, it's just over a couple of streets. You can't miss it. It's brand new Thank you, ma'am Tracy Tracy Howdy, Bert I can't believe it I just can't believe it How you doing? Are you are you staying in this time? Listen to me How about a drink come on? I'll bet you haven't had a drink since the last time you were taking some whiskey charlie Very nice to have you back Tracy. Can't tell you how that's good, Bert. You got no idea how good You uh, you ain't fixing to go back up in those hills right away. Are you Tracy? Oh, what a question. What do you think I'm fixing to do? I'm gonna let you in on it this time, Bert, just for old time's sake I shouldn't be telling you this but as long as you're gonna be in on it, you might as well know You know, I always was talking about a squall ridge. Well, I've been over from stem to stern You know, how I always had a nose for a vein of gold Well, sir, this isn't hotter in the gym. Oh, yes, sir real promise It ain't like you was an old man Tracy you're You're still young enough to do most anything A few months sitting around and you you'll die you'll go back up in those hills and it ain't right It's like killing yourself before your time I'll get me a steak somewhere else now. Don't go blowing off your head Do you ever think to go see Julie or the boy? You want no part of me? How do you know? He ain't seen them a long time, Tracy Things happen People change Look at me. I ain't mad at you I know you did what you had to do and That's all I'll tell you I'll go fit some boy. He's got himself a cleaning business to and find you'll be real proud of him And we'll just see if he don't want nothing to do with this pa. We'll just see how it sound We want you to come home pa I expect Bert's told you about this strike. I'm real close to Well, I got to get on up to it for the thoughts that's in Man's got to be first to a claim if he's gonna do himself any good I know But maybe you could hold off just long enough to visit with this and then you could be going on in the spring Well, I don't know how kindly your mod looked to me coming Come on So Tracy came the long way Took a lot of courage to do what he did Julie was waiting as always because Well, she loved it. I guess Tracy finally realized that a love like julie's meant more than we go