WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:17.000 Ranger Bill, Warrior of the Woodland. 00:17.000 --> 00:20.000 Ranger Bill, Warrior of the Woodland. 00:20.000 --> 00:25.280 Struggling against extreme odds, traveling dangerous trails, showing rare courage in 00:25.280 --> 00:27.340 the face of disaster. 00:27.340 --> 00:34.600 In the air. 00:34.600 --> 00:41.520 On horseback. 00:41.520 --> 00:53.000 Or in a screaming squad car. 00:53.000 --> 01:02.880 Ranger Bill, his mind alert, a ready smile, unswerving, loyal to his mission. 01:02.880 --> 01:20.960 And all this in exchange for the satisfaction and pride of a job well done. 01:20.960 --> 01:22.360 Hear that? 01:22.360 --> 01:24.680 Makes your hair stand on end, doesn't it? 01:24.680 --> 01:28.160 It's a mighty ghostly, scary sound, and that's a fact. 01:28.160 --> 01:31.720 Oh, by the way, I'm Ranger Bill, back again. 01:31.720 --> 01:33.600 Most of you know me by now. 01:33.600 --> 01:37.280 I've been the United States Forest Ranger out here in this part of the west for a long 01:37.280 --> 01:39.200 time now. 01:39.200 --> 01:41.680 My job is mostly conservation. 01:41.680 --> 01:46.240 Taking care of our great natural resources, woods and waters, animals and birds. 01:46.240 --> 01:49.840 It's a wonderful job that I have, and I like it. 01:49.840 --> 01:52.120 Sometimes though, it can be dangerous. 01:52.120 --> 01:55.440 That's all part of the day's work to a forest ranger. 01:55.440 --> 02:00.200 Our work deals with real people and real things. 02:00.200 --> 02:03.520 Wild animals and trees and mountains. 02:03.520 --> 02:08.000 But once we had to deal with something that wasn't real, something that seemed to come 02:08.000 --> 02:15.200 from another world, something unseen, unknown, supernatural. 02:15.200 --> 02:21.200 That strange, wild, eerie wail you heard a moment ago was the signal for the uncanny 02:21.200 --> 02:30.200 adventure I call the Abominable Snowman. 02:30.200 --> 02:31.200 Shut that window. 02:31.200 --> 02:35.560 Here we are in a skyscraper, 40 stories above the street, and yet that traffic noise will 02:35.560 --> 02:37.480 drive you crazy. 02:37.480 --> 02:38.480 Shut the window, I say. 02:38.480 --> 02:44.040 Yes, Mr. Carstairs, right away. 02:44.040 --> 02:45.040 That's better. 02:45.040 --> 02:47.040 Now a fellow can think. 02:47.040 --> 02:50.160 Let's see, where were we to hewn? 02:50.160 --> 02:54.880 I was just about to read you more from the encyclopedia here about the Rocky Mountain 02:54.880 --> 02:55.880 Big Horn Sheep. 02:55.880 --> 02:56.880 Oh, yes, of course. 02:56.880 --> 02:57.880 Well, go on, go on. 02:57.880 --> 02:59.880 What am I paying you for? 02:59.880 --> 03:00.880 Yes, sir. 03:00.880 --> 03:01.880 Sorry, sir. 03:01.880 --> 03:07.040 The Big Horn Sheep is thought by many experts to be the most difficult animal to shoot in 03:07.040 --> 03:08.840 all the ranks of big game. 03:08.840 --> 03:09.840 Ha, ha. 03:09.840 --> 03:10.840 That's for me. 03:10.840 --> 03:11.840 Go on. 03:11.840 --> 03:17.840 Living as it does in the Rocky Mountains above the Timberline, and even in the area of perpetual 03:17.840 --> 03:20.560 snow, it is a real hardship to pursue. 03:20.560 --> 03:22.480 Snow country, eh? 03:22.480 --> 03:25.200 That's what it says, Mr. Carstairs. 03:25.200 --> 03:30.720 The immense animal with its huge curling horns nevertheless has an uncanny ability to run 03:30.720 --> 03:36.720 and jump on steep slopes where even a man cannot possibly climb or crawl. 03:36.720 --> 03:39.040 Sounds better all the time. 03:39.040 --> 03:40.040 Keep reading. 03:40.040 --> 03:45.120 Possessed of keen eyesight and hearing, the animal can almost never be approached to within 03:45.120 --> 03:47.280 logical rifle shot. 03:47.280 --> 03:52.360 The slightest sound or movement easily seen and heard in the bare open spaces above the 03:52.360 --> 03:58.960 Timberline is enough to send the Big Horn Sheep out of sight in an instant. 03:58.960 --> 04:00.720 Is that all? 04:00.720 --> 04:06.480 It says here that the animal is very rare because it makes such a prize trophy that 04:06.480 --> 04:09.520 big game hunters value it above everything else. 04:09.520 --> 04:11.560 Hmm, big game hunters, eh? 04:11.560 --> 04:15.520 Who's the most famous big game hunter you ever heard of? 04:15.520 --> 04:17.000 Why, you, sir. 04:17.000 --> 04:18.000 Yes, me. 04:18.000 --> 04:20.640 Craig Carstairs, millionaire sportsman. 04:20.640 --> 04:22.280 That's what the newspapers call me. 04:22.280 --> 04:25.840 Why, I've shot every kind of big game animal there is. 04:25.840 --> 04:29.000 Rhinostras, elephant, lion, in India, tigers. 04:29.000 --> 04:33.400 I have the world's record of Kodiak bear, the world's record of African buffalo. 04:33.400 --> 04:38.480 I have them all, heads and horns all mounted, hanging on the walls of this penthouse apartment 04:38.480 --> 04:39.480 in New York. 04:39.480 --> 04:40.480 Yes, sir. 04:40.480 --> 04:42.600 But there's one I haven't got. 04:42.600 --> 04:43.600 And that is? 04:43.600 --> 04:45.320 The Big Horn Sheep. 04:45.320 --> 04:53.880 And that's the one I'm going to get. 04:53.880 --> 05:10.480 That's beautiful, Stuffy, beautiful. 05:10.480 --> 05:12.480 Why the concerts so early in the morning? 05:12.480 --> 05:16.160 Well, I'm practicing for our high tone visitor. 05:16.160 --> 05:21.320 I figured a fellow response to him ought to be serenaded with a harmonica concert. 05:21.320 --> 05:24.600 Might be a good idea at that. 05:24.600 --> 05:27.400 But tell me, how did you know we were due for a visitor? 05:27.400 --> 05:31.080 I can read the papers, long as the print ain't too small. 05:31.080 --> 05:34.600 Look here, right on the front page there. 05:34.600 --> 05:38.600 Bigger life and twice as natural. 05:38.600 --> 05:44.000 Craig Carstairs, world famous big game hunter and millionaire sportsman planning to visit 05:44.000 --> 05:45.000 Naughty Pine. 05:45.000 --> 05:52.200 Mr. Carstairs will be in this year's territory sometime in order to incongerate a campaign 05:52.200 --> 05:55.400 to shoot a world's record Rocky Mountain sheep. 05:55.400 --> 06:01.680 Mr. Carstairs is the holder of many world's records for big game and wishes to incorporate 06:01.680 --> 06:08.080 a pair of Big Horn Sheep horns into his collection of trophies. 06:08.080 --> 06:09.080 What's a trophy? 06:09.080 --> 06:10.080 Trophies, Stumpy. 06:10.080 --> 06:15.640 The mounted head of some poor animal that's been shot to satisfy the ego of a man like 06:15.640 --> 06:16.640 our friend Mr. Carstairs. 06:16.640 --> 06:17.640 Well, he ain't my friend. 06:17.640 --> 06:18.640 He might be... 06:18.640 --> 06:19.640 Oh, it looks like he's coming now. 06:19.640 --> 06:20.640 Hey, just feast your eye on that hat with the fancy feather in it, would you? 06:20.640 --> 06:21.640 Here I go. 06:21.640 --> 06:41.000 Come in, please. 06:41.000 --> 06:42.640 Are you the forest ranger? 06:42.640 --> 06:44.200 I am, sir, and at your service. 06:44.200 --> 06:45.480 What can I do for you? 06:45.480 --> 06:47.440 I'm Craig Carstairs. 06:47.440 --> 06:50.800 You've heard of me, Craig Carstairs, a gentleman hunter. 06:50.800 --> 06:51.800 Yes. 06:51.800 --> 06:54.360 They told me down at the state capitol that you were the man to see. 06:54.360 --> 06:56.760 Said you had to check my hunting license. 06:56.760 --> 06:57.760 Oh, yes. 06:57.760 --> 07:01.640 Then, too, we like to sort of get acquainted with anybody who's setting out for the mountains. 07:01.640 --> 07:02.640 Why? 07:02.640 --> 07:04.200 Well, they're pretty big mountains, you know. 07:04.200 --> 07:05.200 Nonsense. 07:05.200 --> 07:06.200 I know my way around. 07:06.200 --> 07:07.200 I can take care of myself. 07:07.200 --> 07:08.200 I see. 07:08.200 --> 07:10.720 I'm out here to shoot a world's record Rocky Mountain sheep. 07:10.720 --> 07:13.520 I wonder what the sheep will think about that. 07:13.520 --> 07:14.520 What's that? 07:14.520 --> 07:16.720 No, nothing, nothing. 07:16.720 --> 07:18.960 May I see your license, Mr. Carstairs? 07:18.960 --> 07:20.440 There it is. 07:20.440 --> 07:21.440 Now in order. 07:21.440 --> 07:23.880 I wish to hire a guide. 07:23.880 --> 07:27.840 I pay top prices plus a bonus after I get the sheep. 07:27.840 --> 07:31.280 I spend money, but I always get what I want. 07:31.280 --> 07:34.160 Right now, I want the best guide money can buy. 07:34.160 --> 07:37.640 Well, the best guide we have out here doesn't guide for money. 07:37.640 --> 07:41.880 If I can persuade him to take you, you couldn't be in better hands, though. 07:41.880 --> 07:42.880 Doesn't work for money. 07:42.880 --> 07:44.560 Well, what's the matter with him? 07:44.560 --> 07:45.560 Is he crazy? 07:45.560 --> 07:49.080 No, he just happens to love animals, that's all. 07:49.080 --> 07:53.800 Since this license here gives you permission to shoot a big horn, he'll go along to protect 07:53.800 --> 07:57.600 your welfare up there in the mountains and to protect the big horn, too. 07:57.600 --> 08:00.240 I don't need to be protected from a sheep. 08:00.240 --> 08:02.760 No, but suppose you only wounded it. 08:02.760 --> 08:03.760 I never miss. 08:03.760 --> 08:08.560 But if you did, it would be up to the guide to see that the wounded animal was not left 08:08.560 --> 08:09.560 to die in agony. 08:09.560 --> 08:12.560 Very pretty speech, but let's get the guide. 08:12.560 --> 08:15.200 Well, I'll talk to him and then let you know. 08:15.200 --> 08:17.560 You let me know? 08:17.560 --> 08:20.000 This character must be the world's greatest white hunter. 08:20.000 --> 08:23.360 He ain't one of them high and mighty white hunters. 08:23.360 --> 08:27.440 In fact, come to think of it, he ain't a white hunter at all. 08:27.440 --> 08:43.840 He's an Indian. 08:43.840 --> 08:46.080 How much farther do we have to go? 08:46.080 --> 08:48.040 How much longer do we have to wait? 08:48.040 --> 08:49.520 Not far and not long. 08:49.520 --> 08:53.480 We go around this bend, maybe see a big horn up ahead. 08:53.480 --> 08:55.120 You're there for sure. 08:55.120 --> 08:56.400 I hope so. 08:56.400 --> 08:59.520 We've been hunting a big horn for three weeks. 08:59.520 --> 09:01.720 Three weeks not long to hunt big horn. 09:01.720 --> 09:04.240 Some men hunt many years, never shoot one. 09:04.240 --> 09:05.600 Well, not me. 09:05.600 --> 09:07.800 What I hunt for, I find. 09:07.800 --> 09:09.240 Find and shoot. 09:09.240 --> 09:11.640 Well, let's go. 09:11.640 --> 09:13.640 You got breath back now? 09:13.640 --> 09:14.640 Sure. 09:14.640 --> 09:16.640 Keep flat on ground. 09:16.640 --> 09:20.480 Don't make noise. 09:20.480 --> 09:22.640 Big horn see far and hear good. 09:22.640 --> 09:23.920 All right. 09:23.920 --> 09:24.920 Careful now. 09:24.920 --> 09:28.840 Soon we get to top of ridge, we see big horn ahead. 09:28.840 --> 09:30.480 You go first. 09:30.480 --> 09:31.480 Move slow. 09:31.480 --> 09:32.480 Ah. 09:32.480 --> 09:33.480 What you see? 09:33.480 --> 09:37.280 Yeah, a magnificent ram, a record pair of horns. 09:37.280 --> 09:38.280 How far away? 09:38.280 --> 09:41.080 700 yards, an easy shot with my scope. 09:41.080 --> 09:42.880 You need not stay there too long. 09:42.880 --> 09:44.560 Oh, what a shoot. 09:44.560 --> 09:46.520 All right, big horn. 09:46.520 --> 09:48.200 This is your finish. 09:48.200 --> 09:49.200 I'm taking aim. 09:49.200 --> 09:52.560 Now I've got your shoulder lined up. 09:52.560 --> 09:54.560 Front and rear sights. 09:54.560 --> 09:56.240 Oh, I'll just... 09:56.240 --> 09:59.240 Hey, Rusty, there he is. 09:59.240 --> 10:00.240 Hooray, we found him. 10:00.240 --> 10:02.320 Big horn game gone. 10:02.320 --> 10:04.200 We not find him for two or three months now. 10:04.200 --> 10:08.200 In another half second, I'd have pulled the trigger and had his horns for a trophy. 10:08.200 --> 10:10.440 That shouting scared him away. 10:10.440 --> 10:11.440 Who was it that shouted? 10:11.440 --> 10:12.440 Who was it? 10:12.440 --> 10:13.440 I demand to know. 10:13.440 --> 10:14.440 You sound like boy. 10:14.440 --> 10:15.440 I'm not deaf. 10:15.440 --> 10:16.440 Who was it? 10:16.440 --> 10:17.440 I'll have him arrested. 10:17.440 --> 10:18.440 I'll have him put in jail. 10:18.440 --> 10:20.440 Boy not break law. 10:20.440 --> 10:21.440 This free country. 10:21.440 --> 10:23.440 These mountains, yours, mine, boy's. 10:23.440 --> 10:26.600 Boy can come here and shout and yell and have fun. 10:26.600 --> 10:28.400 But this is hunting country. 10:28.400 --> 10:30.640 Ordinary people should be kept out. 10:30.640 --> 10:32.280 It's God's country too. 10:32.280 --> 10:34.480 Boy have as much right here as millionaire hunter. 10:34.480 --> 10:35.680 Oh, is that so? 10:35.680 --> 10:37.480 Well, we'll see about that. 10:37.480 --> 10:41.400 Stalk an animal for three weeks and then have him scared away by some kid yelling like a 10:41.400 --> 10:42.400 lunatic. 10:42.400 --> 10:52.440 I'll see to it that everybody is kept out of these mountains until I get what I want. 10:52.440 --> 11:04.440 Well, I'm sorry you lost your sheep, Mr. Carstairs, but that's the luck of a hunter. 11:04.440 --> 11:06.320 I demand you do something about it. 11:06.320 --> 11:07.320 Do something? 11:07.320 --> 11:08.320 Yes. 11:08.320 --> 11:11.680 I demand you issue orders to keep people out of these mountains, out of the whole territory 11:11.680 --> 11:13.400 until I get my sheep. 11:13.400 --> 11:15.560 That's ridiculous and impossible. 11:15.560 --> 11:17.760 Those mountains are free to everyone. 11:17.760 --> 11:20.040 They're not your mountains any more than they're mine. 11:20.040 --> 11:24.200 Just because some boys on a hike happened to see that sheep just when you did. 11:24.200 --> 11:25.200 Boys? 11:25.200 --> 11:26.200 Then you know who did the shouting? 11:26.200 --> 11:27.200 Of course. 11:27.200 --> 11:30.160 They came in here all happy and excited to report they'd seen a big horn. 11:30.160 --> 11:31.160 And did you arrest them? 11:31.160 --> 11:32.160 Are they in jail? 11:32.160 --> 11:34.760 I'll prosecute them to the full extent of the law. 11:34.760 --> 11:35.760 What for? 11:35.760 --> 11:36.760 Why for? 11:36.760 --> 11:38.880 Well, for disturbing the peas, that's what. 11:38.880 --> 11:40.920 Oh, that's nonsense, Mr. Carstairs. 11:40.920 --> 11:44.200 You had some bad luck, but it's nobody's fault. 11:44.200 --> 11:47.360 You mean to sit there and tell me you won't do anything about it? 11:47.360 --> 11:53.800 There's nothing I can do or would do. 11:53.800 --> 11:56.320 Hello? 11:56.320 --> 12:00.560 Hello, Cuddler? 12:00.560 --> 12:04.000 Yes? 12:04.000 --> 12:05.560 This is Carstairs. 12:05.560 --> 12:07.120 I'm calling from Notty Pine. 12:07.120 --> 12:09.200 Did you get your big horn? 12:09.200 --> 12:11.360 No, that's what I'm calling about. 12:11.360 --> 12:14.480 I nearly got one, but some boys scared it away. 12:14.480 --> 12:16.000 Too many people up in those mountains. 12:16.000 --> 12:20.280 If I could keep the people out, I'd have a chance to get that big horn. 12:20.280 --> 12:21.280 Now listen. 12:21.280 --> 12:35.040 Oh, right here was where we were last week, Grey Wolf, when we saw the big horn. 12:35.040 --> 12:36.400 I was here with the boys' brigade. 12:36.400 --> 12:39.080 And we were on a hike, a nature hike. 12:39.080 --> 12:40.360 You know what a nature hike is? 12:40.360 --> 12:42.160 A nature hike, good thing. 12:42.160 --> 12:44.800 Boys learn about trees, flowers, animals. 12:44.800 --> 12:45.800 Yeah, yeah. 12:45.800 --> 12:48.520 I guess that rich man was mighty mad at us. 12:48.520 --> 12:53.080 Or at me, I mean, because I hollered to the other guys when I spotted the big horn. 12:53.080 --> 12:54.280 How you find this out? 12:54.280 --> 12:56.800 Oh, he's staying down at the hotel in town. 12:56.800 --> 12:59.840 And he told the waitress that's Rusty's mother. 12:59.840 --> 13:04.480 And she told Rusty, and Rusty told old Hank, and Hank told his little brother, and his 13:04.480 --> 13:05.760 little brother told me. 13:05.760 --> 13:07.320 But you're not worried. 13:07.320 --> 13:08.760 No, not now. 13:08.760 --> 13:10.840 I told Ranger Bill, and he said it was OK. 13:10.840 --> 13:14.600 Say, what's that rich guy staying around here for anyway? 13:14.600 --> 13:15.720 He want to shoot big horn. 13:15.720 --> 13:17.680 He want record pair of horns. 13:17.680 --> 13:19.840 Hmm, I see. 13:19.840 --> 13:22.800 That's why he doesn't want anybody up in these mountains but him. 13:22.800 --> 13:27.240 So he can be sure and get a shot at that big horn without anybody around to scare it away. 13:27.240 --> 13:28.240 I think he'd go home. 13:28.240 --> 13:29.240 No, no, no. 13:29.240 --> 13:30.240 He's still here. 13:30.240 --> 13:34.280 Hey, do you think that old big horn will show up in this mountain peak today like he did 13:34.280 --> 13:35.280 last week? 13:35.280 --> 13:36.960 Maybe so, maybe not. 13:36.960 --> 13:38.320 Big horn sheep, very shy. 13:38.320 --> 13:42.280 Get big scare and go back in far hills up in snow. 13:42.280 --> 13:44.200 Don't come back in long time. 13:44.200 --> 13:45.200 Yeah. 13:45.200 --> 13:48.240 Well, it's always like this. 13:48.240 --> 13:50.880 Lonely and scary up here, isn't it? 13:50.880 --> 13:51.880 Yeah. 13:51.880 --> 13:56.200 Lonely on timber line, no trees, grass, just rocks. 13:56.200 --> 13:59.000 It's getting, getting towards sunset. 13:59.000 --> 14:00.000 We wait. 14:00.000 --> 14:02.000 You watch for big horn. 14:02.000 --> 14:04.360 All right. 14:04.360 --> 14:09.080 What's that? 14:09.080 --> 14:10.080 I don't know. 14:10.080 --> 14:11.960 Is it a mountain lion? 14:11.960 --> 14:13.520 Is it a mountain lion, gray wolf? 14:13.520 --> 14:15.320 No, not mountain lion. 14:15.320 --> 14:16.920 Was it a bird? 14:16.920 --> 14:17.920 No. 14:17.920 --> 14:21.280 Gray wolf, maybe we better be heading for home. 14:21.280 --> 14:24.600 I'm not much interested in seeing that big horn sheep after all. 14:24.600 --> 14:26.800 I'm pretty sure he's not coming. 14:26.800 --> 14:30.560 Gray wolf, let's go home. 14:30.560 --> 14:31.560 Okay. 14:31.560 --> 14:34.520 What's making that awful noise, gray wolf, some animal? 14:34.520 --> 14:35.520 No, not animal. 14:35.520 --> 14:36.520 A man? 14:36.520 --> 14:38.320 Don't sound like man. 14:38.320 --> 14:41.880 Indians call this barren land above timber line home of ghosts. 14:41.880 --> 14:42.880 Ghost country. 14:42.880 --> 14:44.960 Gray wolf, was that a ghost? 14:44.960 --> 14:46.560 No such thing as ghost, but... 14:46.560 --> 14:47.720 But what? 14:47.720 --> 14:51.520 It sounded like ghost. 14:51.520 --> 15:05.240 I've known you since we both were boys, gray wolf. 15:05.240 --> 15:09.040 And I regard you as one of the most level-headed men I've ever seen. 15:09.040 --> 15:12.480 Yet this story, you tell, it has me buffaloed. 15:12.480 --> 15:14.920 Are you sure you heard that sound? 15:14.920 --> 15:15.920 I sure, bro. 15:15.920 --> 15:16.920 Now listen. 15:16.920 --> 15:20.400 You've gone to college. 15:20.400 --> 15:22.360 You're a sensible man. 15:22.360 --> 15:28.720 Yet you stand there and tell me this wasn't made by a man, an animal, a bird, or the wind. 15:28.720 --> 15:29.720 That's crazy talk. 15:29.720 --> 15:32.840 That doesn't leave anything but the supernatural. 15:32.840 --> 15:34.640 You're not right. 15:34.640 --> 15:37.800 Man, don't tell me you believe in ghosts. 15:37.800 --> 15:39.720 I think you not heard sound. 15:39.720 --> 15:41.760 No, what next? 15:41.760 --> 15:45.680 We at place now, where Boy and I hear bad sound yesterday. 15:45.680 --> 15:46.680 Good. 15:46.680 --> 15:48.920 Well, come on. 15:48.920 --> 15:50.360 Let's wait here a while. 15:50.360 --> 15:51.360 All right. 15:51.360 --> 15:53.360 Oh, don't tell me that you're... 15:53.360 --> 15:55.080 Oh, very well. 15:55.080 --> 15:57.560 You might as well rest and catch your breath. 15:57.560 --> 16:02.480 It's a tough climb up here and there's no... 16:02.480 --> 16:06.480 We will... 16:06.480 --> 16:08.880 We go home now, huh, Bill? 16:08.880 --> 16:09.880 No. 16:09.880 --> 16:10.880 Not right away. 16:10.880 --> 16:11.880 That sound... 16:11.880 --> 16:16.240 It beats anything I ever heard. 16:16.240 --> 16:17.240 I think... 16:17.240 --> 16:20.200 We not go ahead either, huh, Bill? 16:20.200 --> 16:21.200 No. 16:21.200 --> 16:24.920 Here, get the wooden box out of the knapsack on my back. 16:24.920 --> 16:25.920 Right there. 16:25.920 --> 16:26.920 Hand it over. 16:26.920 --> 16:27.920 Thanks. 16:27.920 --> 16:28.920 What you do? 16:28.920 --> 16:29.920 What's that, Bill? 16:29.920 --> 16:33.920 This is a portable tape recorder. 16:33.920 --> 16:40.120 If that thing howls or wails or screeches again, I'll get it on this tape and I might be able 16:40.120 --> 16:45.120 to study it and find... 16:45.120 --> 16:46.120 There. 16:46.120 --> 16:48.120 I've got it. 16:48.120 --> 16:51.280 I'm obliging to it to serenade us again. 16:51.280 --> 16:56.320 Here, slip this box back in my pack again. 16:56.320 --> 16:57.320 All done, Sid. 16:57.320 --> 16:58.720 Now what we do, Bill? 16:58.720 --> 17:02.640 Well, to be truthful, I don't want to go looking for that thing any more than you seem to want 17:02.640 --> 17:03.640 to. 17:03.640 --> 17:07.640 Like to have some kind of an idea of what I'm looking for before I go rushing ahead. 17:07.640 --> 17:10.120 All right, let's get back to the office. 17:10.120 --> 17:13.920 I have some research reading ahead of me, Gray Wolf. 17:13.920 --> 17:28.440 Then we'll come back with rifles. 17:28.440 --> 17:29.440 What do you want? 17:29.440 --> 17:31.440 I thought I told you not to be seen talking to me. 17:31.440 --> 17:37.080 Well, I was going to slip a note under your door here in the hotel, but this was too good 17:37.080 --> 17:38.080 to keep. 17:38.080 --> 17:39.600 What's too good to keep? 17:39.600 --> 17:43.840 I was down in the general store tonight getting some groceries. 17:43.840 --> 17:44.840 There was a lot of people there. 17:44.840 --> 17:45.840 So what? 17:45.840 --> 17:51.240 Well, everybody was yapping about that terrible howling and screeching up in the big game 17:51.240 --> 17:52.240 country. 17:52.240 --> 17:55.680 It seems that kid's been talking his head off. 17:55.680 --> 18:00.600 He heard it, and it liked to scare him to death. 18:00.600 --> 18:01.600 Isn't that a pity? 18:01.600 --> 18:03.560 More yet, listen to this. 18:03.560 --> 18:09.480 Mr. Hot Shot Ranger and his man Friday, that educated redskin, they heard it too. 18:09.480 --> 18:11.160 And the Indian. 18:11.160 --> 18:13.760 The Indian just ain't talking. 18:13.760 --> 18:14.760 He's scared too. 18:14.760 --> 18:34.320 Hey, you certain sure that their high-powered portable cannon of yours is loaded? 18:34.320 --> 18:35.320 This rifle? 18:35.320 --> 18:37.760 Oh, it's loaded all right, Stumpy. 18:37.760 --> 18:40.200 So on, freeze up, will she? 18:40.200 --> 18:44.000 Man, it's snowy and cold up here above the timber line. 18:44.000 --> 18:50.560 Man must be crazy to come up here, especially when he's hunting for a spook. 18:50.560 --> 18:54.400 What are we hunting for anyways? 18:54.400 --> 18:55.400 I'm not sure. 18:55.400 --> 18:56.400 Well, you've come a long ways. 18:56.400 --> 18:57.400 If all we're hunting for is nothing. 18:57.400 --> 18:58.400 Hey, watch them up ahead. 18:58.400 --> 18:59.400 Bar tracks? 18:59.400 --> 19:00.400 Man, they high up for a bar. 19:00.400 --> 19:01.400 Come on, let's find out. 19:01.400 --> 19:20.680 Well, pound me down and call me shorty, if that ain't the peculiarist tracks I ever did 19:20.680 --> 19:21.680 see. 19:21.680 --> 19:24.960 Fresh snow must have fallen last night. 19:24.960 --> 19:26.960 Fresh tracks, perfectly clear. 19:26.960 --> 19:29.960 But what kind of tracks, Bill? 19:29.960 --> 19:32.400 Well, looks like a huge bear. 19:32.400 --> 19:36.680 Yeah, but them ain't no bar tracks. 19:36.680 --> 19:39.600 Maybe a giant ape, a gorilla. 19:39.600 --> 19:40.600 You daffy too. 19:40.600 --> 19:43.600 No gorillas up here on this snow. 19:43.600 --> 19:45.800 No benneed monkey tracks. 19:45.800 --> 19:48.800 Could it be a man? 19:48.800 --> 19:49.800 A man? 19:49.800 --> 19:52.800 Look here, these ear marks. 19:52.800 --> 19:56.200 Looks like something was dragging. 19:56.200 --> 19:59.200 Like a tail. 19:59.200 --> 20:02.200 A big tail. 20:02.200 --> 20:05.200 Bill, I'm getting powerful cold. 20:05.200 --> 20:08.200 Oliver shouldn't like it. 20:08.200 --> 20:11.200 I'm getting the pneumonia. 20:11.200 --> 20:14.200 I'm going back right out of here. 20:14.200 --> 20:19.200 We gotta get home immediately, right now. 20:19.200 --> 20:22.200 Say, boy. 20:22.200 --> 20:23.200 Boy. 20:23.200 --> 20:24.200 Who, me? 20:24.200 --> 20:25.200 Yes, come on over here. 20:25.200 --> 20:26.200 I want to talk to you. 20:26.200 --> 20:27.200 What is it? 20:27.200 --> 20:30.200 Do you know who I am? 20:30.200 --> 20:31.200 Yes, sir. 20:31.200 --> 20:32.200 Everybody in town does. 20:32.200 --> 20:35.200 You're Mr. Carstairs, the million, the big game hunter. 20:35.200 --> 20:36.200 Right. 20:36.200 --> 20:41.200 I called you over to ask you, well, I've asked everybody else in town. 20:41.200 --> 20:45.200 Do you know where I can get a guide to take me up into the mountains, into the big horns, sheep ranges? 20:45.200 --> 20:47.200 No, sirree, I don't. 20:47.200 --> 20:49.200 Nobody's going up in them mountains anymore. 20:49.200 --> 20:50.200 Not nobody. 20:50.200 --> 20:51.200 Not since... 20:51.200 --> 20:53.200 Not since what? 20:53.200 --> 20:58.200 Not since that wailing and screeching's been going on up there. 20:58.200 --> 21:01.200 Oh, yes, seems I have heard something about that. 21:01.200 --> 21:04.200 Do you mean to say people are afraid to go up there now? 21:04.200 --> 21:07.200 Well, maybe not afraid. 21:07.200 --> 21:08.200 They just don't want to go. 21:08.200 --> 21:09.200 How about you? 21:09.200 --> 21:10.200 Me? 21:10.200 --> 21:12.200 I wouldn't go for a million dollars. 21:12.200 --> 21:13.200 Why not? 21:13.200 --> 21:14.200 Me? 21:14.200 --> 21:17.200 Up there, where... where that thing is? 21:17.200 --> 21:20.200 Not on your life. 21:20.200 --> 21:22.200 The abominable snowman. 21:22.200 --> 21:23.200 What did you say, mister? 21:23.200 --> 21:24.200 Nothing. 21:24.200 --> 21:25.200 Nothing of importance. 21:25.200 --> 21:37.200 It doesn't make sense. 21:37.200 --> 21:39.200 It just doesn't make sense. 21:39.200 --> 21:41.200 Bill, plenty of people hear this and stay out of mountains. 21:41.200 --> 21:43.200 It can't be possible, Grey Wolf. 21:43.200 --> 21:47.200 Plenty of people see tracks in snow, tracks made by things. 21:47.200 --> 21:48.200 See tracks. 21:48.200 --> 21:49.200 Come back and stay out of mountains. 21:49.200 --> 21:51.200 It can't happen here. 21:51.200 --> 21:54.200 Boy, tell you that millionaire man tell him about snowman? 21:54.200 --> 21:55.200 Yes, and it tallies. 21:55.200 --> 21:58.200 It all adds up, but I still can't believe it. 21:58.200 --> 22:01.200 Did you read that article in the encyclopedia that I marked for you? 22:01.200 --> 22:02.200 Yes. 22:02.200 --> 22:04.200 It bears out what we heard. 22:04.200 --> 22:08.200 That recording we made parallels the description in the article. 22:08.200 --> 22:12.200 What those hunters from Milk River say up there agrees with the article. 22:12.200 --> 22:14.200 Let me see that again. 22:14.200 --> 22:17.200 It just can't be. 22:17.200 --> 22:43.200 For centuries there has been a legend that high in the Himalayan mountains, in India and the land of perpetual snow, there lives a strange creature, part bear, part ape, part man, shaggy, with a long tail, walks upright and has a piercing, ghostly cry. 22:43.200 --> 22:48.200 People who hear it or see it are invariably terrified. 22:48.200 --> 22:52.200 It has never been captured or shot. 22:52.200 --> 22:58.200 The thing is known as the abominable snowman. 22:58.200 --> 23:00.200 What do you think, Bill? 23:00.200 --> 23:04.200 You think we have this snowman in our mountains? 23:04.200 --> 23:05.200 People here think so. 23:05.200 --> 23:09.200 What do you think, Grey Wolf? 23:09.200 --> 23:11.200 I see. 23:11.200 --> 23:13.200 What do you do now, Bill? 23:13.200 --> 23:14.200 I'm going to go hunting. 23:14.200 --> 23:18.200 I'm going to find this thing and end this reign of terror. 23:18.200 --> 23:23.200 And one other thing, Grey Wolf, we're taking Mr. Millionaire Sportsman Craig Carstairs along with us. 23:23.200 --> 23:24.200 No. 23:24.200 --> 23:25.200 No? Why not? 23:25.200 --> 23:28.200 He left for a mountain this morning with rifle and pack. 23:28.200 --> 23:29.200 He left alone. 23:29.200 --> 23:30.200 All right. 23:30.200 --> 23:33.200 We can settle with him later if we have to. 23:33.200 --> 23:54.200 Grey Wolf, my friend, we're going after the abominable snowman. 23:54.200 --> 23:56.200 There it is. 23:56.200 --> 23:58.200 Not far now. 23:58.200 --> 24:00.200 We've trailed it to its den, I think. 24:00.200 --> 24:04.200 We've been over a snow line three, four hours. 24:04.200 --> 24:07.200 Followed tracks high up into the valley. 24:07.200 --> 24:08.200 Yeah. 24:08.200 --> 24:10.200 Nothing up here but snow and ice. 24:10.200 --> 24:11.200 Let's go. 24:11.200 --> 24:13.200 You got rifle ready? 24:13.200 --> 24:16.200 Sure, but I don't want to use it unless I have to. 24:16.200 --> 24:18.200 I want to capture this thing alive if I can. 24:18.200 --> 24:20.200 You have the net ready? 24:20.200 --> 24:21.200 Net ready. 24:21.200 --> 24:24.200 This net like Animal Trainer used to catch wild beasts. 24:24.200 --> 24:25.200 All right, come along. 24:25.200 --> 24:30.200 Slowly though. 24:30.200 --> 24:33.200 Oh, grace. 24:33.200 --> 24:35.200 It goes closer now. 24:35.200 --> 24:36.200 Yeah. 24:36.200 --> 24:37.200 Can't be very far away. 24:37.200 --> 24:39.200 Been trailing it at a fast pace. 24:39.200 --> 24:41.200 Must be getting tired. 24:41.200 --> 24:42.200 Or else. 24:42.200 --> 24:43.200 Or else what? 24:43.200 --> 24:45.200 Or else it's decided to turn and attack us. 24:45.200 --> 24:46.200 We'd be ready. 24:46.200 --> 24:47.200 Yeah. 24:47.200 --> 24:49.200 Watch close now. 24:49.200 --> 24:52.200 Lots of tracks here. 24:52.200 --> 24:55.200 Must be near its den. 24:55.200 --> 24:56.200 Easy now. 24:56.200 --> 24:59.200 Let's go around this summit of snow very cautiously. 24:59.200 --> 25:00.200 Bill. 25:00.200 --> 25:01.200 Yeah? 25:01.200 --> 25:02.200 That place where ice make roof. 25:02.200 --> 25:03.200 Yeah? 25:03.200 --> 25:04.200 Underneath. 25:04.200 --> 25:05.200 Where it dark, you see? 25:05.200 --> 25:06.200 You see it. 25:06.200 --> 25:07.200 Yeah. 25:07.200 --> 25:09.200 I see it all right. 25:09.200 --> 25:12.200 Shaggy matted hair covering the body. 25:12.200 --> 25:13.200 Yeah? 25:13.200 --> 25:16.200 Long tail, big claws. 25:16.200 --> 25:17.200 Big teeth. 25:17.200 --> 25:20.200 The face of a prehistoric monster. 25:20.200 --> 25:23.200 Get ready, Gryff. 25:23.200 --> 25:25.200 We'll rush it. 25:25.200 --> 25:27.200 It can't get out of this gorge. 25:27.200 --> 25:29.200 It comes this way. 25:29.200 --> 25:30.200 You take your end of the net. 25:30.200 --> 25:31.200 Got it. 25:31.200 --> 25:32.200 Now, I'll take this side. 25:32.200 --> 25:35.200 And don't forget, I have the rifle. 25:35.200 --> 25:36.200 Hey, you. 25:36.200 --> 25:38.200 Whatever you are. 25:38.200 --> 25:42.200 Are you coming out of there peaceably? 25:42.200 --> 25:46.200 Who or what are you? 25:46.200 --> 25:49.200 If you won't come out, we'll go and get you. 25:49.200 --> 25:51.200 Okay, come on, Gray Wolf. 25:51.200 --> 25:52.200 Fast and quick. 25:52.200 --> 25:53.200 That's it. 25:53.200 --> 25:54.200 That's it. 25:54.200 --> 25:55.200 That's it. 25:55.200 --> 25:56.200 Hurry up. 25:56.200 --> 25:57.200 I got it. 25:57.200 --> 25:58.200 I got it. 25:58.200 --> 25:59.200 I got it. 25:59.200 --> 26:00.200 I got it. 26:00.200 --> 26:01.200 I got it. 26:01.200 --> 26:02.200 I got it. 26:02.200 --> 26:03.200 I got it. 26:03.200 --> 26:04.200 I got it. 26:04.200 --> 26:05.200 I got it. 26:05.200 --> 26:06.200 He's not even tied. 26:06.200 --> 26:07.200 He can't move. 26:07.200 --> 26:08.200 All right. 26:08.200 --> 26:09.200 All right now, monster. 26:09.200 --> 26:13.200 I'll just get a good hole in the shaggy head of yours. 26:13.200 --> 26:14.200 Pull. 26:14.200 --> 26:18.200 And off comes your mask and wig. 26:18.200 --> 26:22.200 I expose the abominable snowman. 26:22.200 --> 26:23.200 It's a man. 26:23.200 --> 26:24.200 Yes. 26:24.200 --> 26:26.200 A man dressed in monster clothes. 26:26.200 --> 26:27.200 Yes. 26:27.200 --> 26:32.200 A man registered at the hotel as Mr. Cutler. 26:32.200 --> 26:35.200 Did Carstairs put you up to this? 26:35.200 --> 26:36.200 Yes. 26:36.200 --> 26:39.200 Might as well let me up. 26:39.200 --> 26:42.200 I won't try to get away. 26:42.200 --> 26:48.200 Carstairs erred me to pretend to be mythical abominable snowman. 26:48.200 --> 26:54.200 I've been a ski instructor and an actor. 26:54.200 --> 26:56.200 I had this outfit made up. 26:56.200 --> 27:03.200 It came here in his orders to scare people out of the mountains so he'd be free to hunt. 27:03.200 --> 27:05.200 He paid me $5,000. 27:05.200 --> 27:09.200 All this just so he could shoot a wrecked pair of horns. 27:09.200 --> 27:11.200 What are you going to do to me? 27:11.200 --> 27:12.200 You don't know yet. 27:12.200 --> 27:14.200 Our next job is to find Carstairs. 27:14.200 --> 27:16.200 He's up here alone in these mountains. 27:16.200 --> 27:17.200 That's no good. 27:17.200 --> 27:20.200 He said he was going to Rocky Ledge Ridge. 27:20.200 --> 27:21.200 Two hours from here. 27:21.200 --> 27:22.200 Come on. 27:22.200 --> 27:29.200 You too. 27:29.200 --> 27:31.200 See anything of him, Grey Wolf? 27:31.200 --> 27:32.200 No, but I hear. 27:32.200 --> 27:34.200 Listen. 27:34.200 --> 27:35.200 I hear him. 27:35.200 --> 27:36.200 Where is he? 27:36.200 --> 27:37.200 This is rifle. 27:37.200 --> 27:38.200 Down the ground. 27:38.200 --> 27:39.200 Up there. 27:39.200 --> 27:40.200 There he is. 27:40.200 --> 27:42.200 Halfway up that steep, silver shale. 27:42.200 --> 27:43.200 His heel's caught somehow. 27:43.200 --> 27:45.200 He's hanging practically head-downward. 27:45.200 --> 27:47.200 Nobody can get a foothold in that loose shale. 27:47.200 --> 27:51.200 I try, Bill. 27:51.200 --> 27:53.200 Stop fighting. 27:53.200 --> 27:55.200 Get your foot loose. 27:55.200 --> 27:56.200 Stop fighting. 27:56.200 --> 27:58.200 If you struggle, you bring down more rocks. 27:58.200 --> 27:59.200 Hold on up. 27:59.200 --> 28:10.200 Head coming. 28:10.200 --> 28:12.200 We'll sit here and rest. 28:12.200 --> 28:16.200 We've got a long hike ahead of us before we hit the timber line. 28:16.200 --> 28:21.200 Mr. Jefferson, Grey Wolf, I'm ashamed. 28:21.200 --> 28:22.200 What can I do? 28:22.200 --> 28:28.200 Your colleague Cutler is going to give the high school gymnasium the $5,000 you paid him to impersonate the monster. 28:28.200 --> 28:30.200 It's the least I can do. 28:30.200 --> 28:32.200 That and apologize. 28:32.200 --> 28:33.200 I'll double that amount. 28:33.200 --> 28:35.200 Triple it. 28:35.200 --> 28:39.200 But I wish I could prove to you how repentant I really am. 28:39.200 --> 28:40.200 Look. 28:40.200 --> 28:41.200 You want record big horn ram? 28:41.200 --> 28:42.200 Over there. 28:42.200 --> 28:43.200 400 yards. 28:43.200 --> 28:44.200 Perfect shot. 28:44.200 --> 28:46.200 There he stands. 28:46.200 --> 28:48.200 The world's record head if I ever saw one. 28:48.200 --> 28:50.200 Go ahead, Carstairs. 28:50.200 --> 28:52.200 You'll never get a chance like this again. 28:52.200 --> 28:53.200 Go ahead. 28:53.200 --> 28:56.200 If you want that ram, shoot. 28:56.200 --> 28:58.200 No. 28:58.200 --> 29:03.200 No, I've seen how you men spend your life saving animals and people. 29:03.200 --> 29:07.200 Your way of life has taught me a lesson. 29:07.200 --> 29:13.200 I'm going to let that big horn sheep go back to his mountains where he belongs. 29:13.200 --> 29:17.200 Craig, I know you're supposed to be the world's greatest big game hunter. 29:17.200 --> 29:21.200 But I found out just now you're more than that. 29:21.200 --> 29:34.200 You're a man. 29:34.200 --> 29:35.200 Well, that's about it. 29:35.200 --> 29:39.200 Carstairs and his actor friend did help the gymnasium fun. 29:39.200 --> 29:44.200 But what was really important, they learned that bragging and showing off don't help you when you're in trouble. 29:44.200 --> 29:51.200 And incidentally, we have the costume in our little museum, the one worn by the fake abominable snowman. 29:51.200 --> 30:18.200 Well, see you next week for more Adventure with Ranger Bill.