美國歷史劇《進入荒野邊境》第2季1-4集 P4 - Into the Wild Frontier_S02E04_Jim Clyman_ Frontier Survivor.UMMU.NET

在他第一年成為囚犯的那一年 山上人士James Klyman 曾經逃過一場瘟疫 一場又一場 他被分裂了 從他的囚犯團隊中 Klyman採取了一個驚人的 六百公里的旅程 離開了森林 這將會把他推向 死亡和飢餓的極致 在一座荒蕪的村莊 出現了不可思議的決定 可以要求幫助 避免痛苦的死亡 或者留在 殘酷的森林之下 看似決心 慢慢地殺了他 他的命在 不信任的囚犯手中 James Klyman 只能希望 勇氣和決心 會避免一場 沮喪的死亡 做吧! 我準備死亡了! 一個有能力的囚犯 探員 士兵和導師 James Klyman 可能是他那時 最低級的前線人物 有著一系列的成就 與他更有名的 前線人物競爭 James Klyman 是美國前線人物的 歷史上 他並不是 一個狂野的人 就像他的同伴們 那樣 看來他只能 依靠決心和決心 Klyman一直在 世界各地 如果你不知道他的故事 你不知道你錯過了什麼 Klyman 出生於1792年 他的父親 從 華盛頓出生 他小時候 他學會了捕獲 他學會了前線的方式 他學會了農業 他學會了 你需要的基本知識 去成為一個山人 就像他那時的 很多年輕人 他年紀還小 他前往西方 尋找他的運氣 貨幣貨幣 Ashley almost immediately recognizes Klyman is a man of intelligence and great ability And so he enlists Klyman to help recruit that group of 100 men Klyman turns out to be a skilled recruiter quickly helping enlist the men who become known as Ashley's 100 I think they were desperate to get just about any man that they could get They couldn't be too old They couldn't be too young They couldn't be sick But I think beyond that they would sign you up We need men of good character resilient, hardy We'll be 100 men strong Ashley is leading us to territory that's never been trapped So many beaver they're practically jumping into your boat And when our furs start flowing down to Missouri every man still cooling his heels here in St. Louis will regret they stayed behind You mark my words I need to see your terms Of course Right this way, Mr. Reid Gibbs The folks call me Gibbs Then let's step on in, Gibb And have some coffee while I look over the terms And though he doesn't know it yet these men will play pivotal roles in the greatest adventure of Klyman's life Traveling by keel boat hundreds of miles up the Missouri River With Ashley's expedition Klyman reaches an important waypoint The villages of the Arikara tribe By the time they arrived In 1823 There had recently been some bad blood Between the Arikaras and the Sioux And some other tribes Along the Missouri Ashley's company aren't quite sure What to expect But they have no choice They need horses Horses are a key component Of Ashley's venture That will enable him to send Traffic parties overland But the Arikara had something of a checkered history With members of white civilization Musket ball Powder No gun After several days of trading James Klyman and his friend Reid Gibbs Are getting uneasy About their Arikara hosts We've been back and forth for days I don't like it Easy Gibson, don't get jumpy We ain't going anywhere Until the general secures some horses What trade? Me? I take the river over Some pesky nag every time I'd wager the ponies would prefer that too Mr.Klyman Make known the ledger We'll trade horses for a case of musket balls And a pound of powder per horse Mr.Smith will make the selections Hi, sir After three days of trading The Ashley Company Has acquired 20 horses At the cost, as Klyman notes Of significant quantities Of ammunition Some of the men thought That he was just arming the enemy And giving them a chance To attack That's quite a bit of ammunition We're handing over How many guns do you think they've got up there? I don't like this place one bit, Jim I can feel it in my gut We've got to get out of the river Let's go unload the crates But they don't plan to leave Until the next day So everybody's down on the river Below these two Arikara villages The man Ashley leaves in charge On the beach Is Jedediah Smith Who will soon become a frontier legend himself Get comfortable, men General Ashley wants us To stay on the beach for the night Wait, we're not going back to the boats He's worried our yonder friends Might try and take back a horse or two Keep a sharp lookout Why are we still here? From Ashley's perspective Maybe it's to show good faith It smells like trouble, Klyman Yet neither Klyman Nor any man of Ashley's hundred Have any idea Just how bad that trouble In the night Several of the rougher men in the group Went looking for women in the village And one of the men was shot In this process Sneaking around in the dark Enraged by the provocative actions Of the trappers Arikara warriors cross the river During the night And launch a furious attack The next morning Although taken by surprise The trappers managed to hold their ground At least at first General Ashley Everything started to go sideways The men started scrambling The horses were dropping These are brave men, these are bold men But they've never seen anything like this They were totally fish in a barrel Sitting ducks, whatever you want to say Klyman, they're behind us Think about the breadth, that line of fire On one spot on that beach And that is just horrific It's a terrible choice He elects to swim for it Klyman has barely escaped The massacre of his friends on the beach But he's now just moments away From drowning As the battle rages around him After escaping the chaotic battle Frontiersman James Klyman Is moments away from drowning In the Missouri River Even worse His panicked fellow trappers Refuse to let Klyman into their overloaded canoe So he tucks his gun down his pant leg And the lock gets tangled up in his belt Now he can't get the gun out And he's starting to get worn out And thinking, oh my gosh, I'm not going to make it But as Klyman is about to draw His very last breath He's plucked from the swirling waters Of the river Reed Gibson was on one of these boats And helped Klyman Get onto the skiff But Klyman's ordeal isn't over In fact, it's just beginning Now completely exposed on the river Klyman has only one choice Row as hard as he can For the opposite bank Come on, we're getting out of here We got to paddle, all right, come on Not one, but three Arrival warriors Have followed him And he's, of course, dropped His gun and his knife In the course of crossing the river Cut off from help And completely unarmed Klyman has no way to defend himself Or his friend Reed Gibson Who urges Klyman to save himself Leave me All they'll get is my skill I'll stay low I'll come back if I can make it Trying to lure the orichras away From his injured friend Klyman begins a deadly game Of cat and mouse Alone and unarmed All Klyman can do Is pray the orichras don't spot him To ensure the orichras Don't circle back for Gibson Klyman risks a cheeky show of defiance To lead them back into the woods As legend has it Klyman spies his orichra pursuers And gives them a bow After escaping the orichras Klyman skirts the riverbank And by sheer chance He finds Jed Smith And a few other survivors Jed, it's me Klyman We had a sight for sore eyes We thought you drowned And while retreating downstream in canoes Smith found Gibson as well But when Klyman arrives His friend is fading fast He's in a bad way Gibson You saved my life Gibson dies right there In Klyman's arms And Klyman is thinking Hey man, this guy saved my life And now he's dead Although many of their dead Were left behind on the beach The trappers hold a hasty funeral And as did your son Jesus Christ, O Lord These men have died So that we may live We commit their spirits into thy holy care And now James Klyman faces the hardest decision Of his life Mr. Klyman You may have heard The general intends to push on And we will fight him again If we have to But the general needs to know Who will stay the course And who will take the boat back downriver Back to St. Louis Doesn't that make them deserters There's no shame in departing We didn't sign up for war Before this journey Fewer men had stronger ideas Of their bravery than I But what happened on that river May have cooled my courage some They push off within the hour You can oblige me By tending to the wounded You misunderstand me, Jed I'll never desert you Nor the others Nor will I ever I knew you'd be a man of great spirit Now come on The general will be glad to hear it But after burying their dead comrades The men of Ashley's expedition Turn their thoughts from sorrow To revenge Word of the massacre rapidly spreads Across the frontier Spurring the U.S. Army into action Against the Arikara And as troops under Colonel Henry Leavenworth March up the Missouri Trappers led by Jed Smith Converge as well On August 2, 1823 What becomes known as the Missouri Legion arrives Along with a contingent of Native allies About 750 Sioux Arrived to go along with Leavenworth's men to attack The Arikara villages They were mortal enemies with the Arikara For a very long time But Colonel Leavenworth Doesn't seem inclined To launch a headlong assault Gentlemen As you know Our objective Is to secure and make good This great river road And mark my words We will humble The Arikara And we will make them pay For the blood That they have spilt here General Ashley Your men show remarkable bravery In returning to this place Of outrage Stand ready men You will be called upon soon Soon Say what you will About this Leavenworth fellow But the man is deliberate Yeah, and if I know The Colonel His main concern with this assault Is political I'll wager we'll be here for a while But the fragile truce Between the Arikaras and the Americans Is broken by a glory-seeking Sioux warrior The warriors who are standing by Waiting to attack They want to stay out of rifle range When possible during the siege One of the warriors rides his horse Right to the front of the village And over 50 rifles Shoot at this one man On his horse Or maybe not On your toes men Make ready your primer As Clyman and the trappers Cheer him on The warrior taunts the Arikaras From just outside The range of their rifles Then this warrior Comes out whooping And just completely energized And unhurt The warrior's bravery Triggers an instant fusillade Of long-range gunfire From both sides It's always louder than you expect isn't it Let them have it boys It opens up Leavenworth's forces unleash A pretty devastating fire From those cannon Against the village Yet to the intense disappointment Of the vengeful trap Quickly peters out into a parley The Arikaras begged for peace Almost before the first shot Is even fired Leavenworth's Sioux allies Soon inform him that the Arikaras Are prepared to surrender And even abandon their village It appears a negotiation is in the works Is that it Will Leavenworth not fight Sir respectfully We spent the last 10 years at Council Bluffs Eating nothing but pumpkins And now at long last a small opportunity For a promotion manifests I insist we be allowed to attack the village Raising their village to the ground Is not one of our objectives captain Then allow me to lead an assault sir I can overwhelm them with one bold charge No captain They have offered a surrender We will accept it Sir Captain You have your orders That is all I'm sure the mood for many of the men Was one of defeat They had suffered pretty heavy blow and losses In the first part of the battle And then at the end of it They were in a no really different position Than they were when they started The end of the Arikara war Is a disappointment to almost everyone involved But its consequences are even worse Mr. Ashley Colonel Leavenworth gives his regards He is already on the keel boats Headed back So you and your men Are on your own at this time Following the destruction of their village The furious Arikara scatter up and down The Missouri River The Missouri River was Shut down as a thoroughfare So everything has to change Well general Now what Well Thanks to the benevolence Of the U.S. Army The Arikara are scattered All up and down the upper Missouri Their hearts are full of anger And we can no longer Reach the Yellowstone by boat We don't have any horses either general No No indeed Mr. Smith How fair is the rest of the brigade They are breaking camp up river They are full of fight With the river closed to him Ashley must ask Kleinman and his other men To undertake a risky new venture Well I propose we march to meet the crow On the Yellowstone Winter there And then trap all of next season You all ready to get back to work lads I am general As am I Good to hear Bravo to you lads And everybody is full of heart and bravery Mr. Smith Walk with me let's discuss routes Yet as Kleinman prepares To finally leave the place Where he fought for his life And lost close friends in battle He has no way of knowing That the hardest part of his journey Still lies ahead The fighting in the brief Arikara war Of 1823 Frontiersman James Kleinman Is finally setting out To trap for beaver All right men Let's get ready to break camp Keep your eyes peeled How many of us are left yet Number 10 now that the wounded Are on the river I'm afraid it's too late to join them No It's just that when we started There were over 60 of us Not so few of us are left Fear not my friend It's for the best Now the pork eaters and layabouts Are down river Now the easy part is over Hold up Jed That was the easy part Kleinman sets off Into the wilderness On a history making journey With no idea of the dangers That lie in wait Throughout the fall of 1823 The brigade led by Smith and Kleinman Traps and explores Across present day South Dakota But before long They encounter another Of the frontier's deadliest predators Jed Stay back Every time someone Tangled with a grizzly bear It usually was a bear Coming out number one Certainly that was the case With Jed Smith The grizzly at one point Has Jed's entire head In his mouth And he virtually rips his scalp off But in what becomes One of the most celebrated stories Of the entire frontier era Smith's amazing courage And Kleinman's steady calm Prevent the attack from turning fatal Does anyone have a needle and thread at all He tells Kleinman Get a needle and thread And sew on everything you can on my head It's the prettiest thing You've ever seen. I did the nicest job I could, sir. I'm sure you have, Mr. Kleinman. And I thank you for it. These are the type of things That helps you build A lasting friendship With the person That you experienced it with. So a totally unique And unbreakable bond Is formed between these men. Kleinman and Smith continue west Across the southern part Of the Black Hills And entered what is today Wyoming And followed the Sweetwater River. Now hundreds of miles From any settlement Smith and Kleinman face a new peril They can't handle alone. Winter is coming And they really need to settle in somewhere And they're headed toward the Crow Indian land To hopefully try to negotiate With the Crow. Far from any source of supplies Kleinman's brigade won't survive winter Without help from the Crow tribe. Jed Smith and his group Have a man who negotiates things Between Smith's party And the Crow. Yeah. We should have no need for that, Mr. Kleinman. And for Kleinman, Memories of his deadly encounter With the Iricarus are all too fresh. But for better or worse, Kleinman must now place himself At the mercy of a native tribe Let's go, man. For a second time. To approaching the wilderness, Frontiersman James Kleinman Must turn to the Crow tribe For food and shelter Despite nearly dying At the hands of another native tribe Just a few months before. I'm sure you recall The last time we tried trading with Indians. Well, we should have no problem here. The Crow are friends. We thought the Iricarus were, too. Every tribe has their own way, Mr. Kleinman. Now, they regard our presence here Varies from welcome to hatred To every shade of feeling in between. Now, the Crow have no ingrained Ill will for us, But if we or some other brigade wrong them, That could change. And we should hope it doesn't. The Crow are a strong and proud people. Fortunately for Kleinman And his brigade, The Crow decide to let them spend the winter At their camp. Let's get acquainted. I'm keen to learn what they know about crossing the Rockies. And if they got a good enough supper, I'm equally as keen. Let's go, men. As winter turns to spring, The brigade led by Smith and Kleinman Resumes trapping, Taking a rich haul of pelts at last. But finally ready To return to the settlements With their valuable catch, They face a new problem. Without horses to haul Their sizable cash to the Missouri River, The trappers must improvise A new way to move them. Do you think we can make bull boats So that the beaver packs down To an outpost on the Missouri? They realize that this Sweetwater Goes east, and that might get them To a place where they can get down to St. Louis. Well, You can load the pelts on the bull boats Here on the Sweetwater, And I suppose that would flow Through the North Flat onto the Missouri. But we haven't traced that far, So we can't be sure. As usual, Mr. Kleinman, You've provided a solution. You'll oblige us by scouting ahead with me To see which river the Sweetwater joins. Oh, with all due respect, Captain, I was not proposing to... Well, weren't you once a surveyor? I was, back in Illinois, but... Well, north and south in Illinois Is north and south here. Pack your powder. Make it quick. After scouting the Sweetwater River, Kleinman believes they can build Improvised boats and float their catch Down tributaries of the Missouri Back to the settlements. Yeah, if I had to guess, I'd say this joins the plat Of Daytree's March further down. Yeah, but that's just a guess, Jeff. Well, I'll take your guess over mine. Why don't you head downriver another day? Find us a camp. I'll bring up the brigade. We'll load what we can and cash the rest. Very well. I'll be waiting. At this point, Kleinman went ahead of the group And arrived at the confluence Of the Sweetwater and plat rivers. There, Kleinman makes camp And settles in to wait for the brigade, But quickly discovers He's not alone. He realizes that there's A war party of Blackfoot Right across the river from him. Encounters between American trappers And Blackfeet Almost always ended in A fight, so Kleinman couldn't risk discovery. When Smith arrives At the appointed meeting spot the next day, He's confronted with a terrible dilemma. I count ten warrior tracks. No idea where Kleinman might be. And I can only conclude that Kleinman is beyond our help. We must look to the safety of the brigade. We'll march till nightfall. Smith makes the difficult decision Not to search for Kleinman, Unaware that his friend Is actually very much alive. After waiting for several days With no sign of his friend Smith, Kleinman realizes he's now Entirely on his own. He had to make a choice About whether to go in search of them And risk getting killed By the Blackfeet, Or simply head east And try and reach Fort Atkinson, Which was many, many, many miles away. Kleinman has only a vague idea Of his location, But he hopes the river he's following Will take him to Fort Atkinson. The prospect of that Must have been incredibly daunting, But he really didn't have a choice, And so he just put one foot In front of the other And started marching To the east, downriver. James Kleinman knows He faces a trek over hundreds of miles Of hostile wilderness, But he has little idea That the journey will become An epic saga of the frontier era. After escaping a prowling war party Of Blackfeet, Frontiersman James Kleinman Now faces a harrowing ordeal. To reach the safety of a fort On the Missouri River, He must make a 600-mile wilderness trek And do it utterly alone. Kleinman's arduous journey Stretches over days And then weeks, As he becomes weaker Both physically and mentally. So this trip was physically exhausting. I didn't have very much to eat. The human body can famously go Only days without water, But weeks without food. But very quickly, Your judgment is affected, Your sense of direction. The body begins eating itself. It was extremely grueling on him Psychologically, And he started to pine For human contact of any kind, Even if it might prove fatal. Hundreds of miles into his ordeal, Kleinman has reached the end of his endurance. And he's prepared to take any risk to survive. When he encounters a Pawnee village, His reaction isn't Concern Or hesitation, But hope. Kleinman has experienced both brutal violence And friendly hospitality From native tribes, And he can only hope That this one will have mercy On his extreme distress. So he actually ends up Walking right into the village, Not knowing what kind of welcome awaits him. But within moments, Kleinman discovers He may have made a terrible mistake. All the trappers knew That when you were in A serious situation With a Native American tribe, You didn't want to show fear. If you showed any kind of fright, You were done. Kleinman knows That if he resists, The warriors will kill him. But if he shows fear, They may kill him anyway. Then do it! I'm ready for death! But if you showed bravery, They appreciated that. Against all the odds, Kleinman's incredible display of courage Impresses the chief Of the Pawnee village. After eating his first Real food in weeks, Kleinman takes stock Of his new situation. The Pawnee chief's mercy May be too good to be true. And suddenly, James Kleinman Faces death yet again, This time with no hope Of rescue or escape. After nearly dying At the hands of fearsome Pawnee warriors, Frontiersman James Kleinman Is now entirely at the mercy Of the village chief. But having impressed the Pawnees With his bravery, The chief only wants a lock Of Kleinman's hair as a trophy. Kleinman rather wryly in his memoir Said that he kept his scalp, But he lost his hair. Kleinman would never know The name of the chief Who saved his life, Or why he did so. If he hadn't come upon A party of Pawnees, He probably wouldn't have made it. It was the help of Native peoples That saved his life. But Kleinman would never forget That in his darkest hour, He found salvation From a Native American tribe. Kleinman's weary journey continues, And after nearly three months, He surpassed the limits Of human endurance. The story of the mountain men Is replete with these tales Of solo adventures, And certainly Kleinman's tale Is as strong as any of them. Kleinman's ironclad determination To survive keeps him moving, Mile after grueling mile. After weeks of trudging eastward, Kleinman has all but given up hope When, miraculously, He sees something in the distance. And as he approaches, It becomes clear that that thing Is in fact the American flag Flying above the fort. He sees old glory flying over the fort, And he realizes he's made it. It's like, that's our flag. And after harrowing adventures And peril that could have killed him At any turn, James Kleinman has lived to tell his tale. Reflecting on the life of James Kleinman, We come away with a confirmed sense That this was an important man. He had a great life, And all of his narratives In his later years. So without Kleinman, We wouldn't know hardly anything About some of these events that happened. The adventures that he recounts Are priceless. They're accurate depictions Of those adventures And not just tall tales. Let's do it! I'm ready for death! He wasn't simply an observer Of these great moments In American history. He was a participant. Come on, we're getting out of here!