Bonanza - The Prime of Life | Episode 147 | WILD WEST | Best Western Series | Full Length

[Music] [Applause] foreign [Music] ben why you old son of a gun how are you invited how are you just fine i thought you were going to give up my default oh you know me better than that yeah i guess i do oh i figured i had plenty of time when my informant told me that the bidding was down to just you and me your informant give me your spy well sometimes that works out pretty good i remember once taking a contract for three ships away from you through the aid of a spy ah yeah she was a redhead wasn't she yeah well that was a long time ago i was a little younger then we've had some pretty good tussles through the years ben yes you have never had a dull one no and there never will be and i'll buy a drink to that no matter who gets his contract all right i'll take you up on it uh should we go in and uh find out the bad news after you man the lost has been found gentlemen mr fuller we've all been waiting for you now we can get down to business gentlemen mr fuller mr cartwright gentlemen well this is it gentlemen the way it'll look when it's up it'll take a lot of lumber and we'll need it fast of course we'll expect the contracting company to put up the usual guarantees that they can handle it the sooner east and west are connected by rail the better for the whole country it's a big important contract frankly we had a very difficult time deciding between you two gentlemen although there is a contract for some more material speaking for my boys and myself huh i think we consider it a privilege just to be part of this project any part well i'm afraid i'm not as gracious as mr cartwright i'm after the trestle not the tailing mr fuller i'm sorry but the contract has been awarded to mr cartwright you'll furnish lumber for rail cars and ties but ben cartwright has got the trestle i'll have the contracts and the specifications drawn up by this evening congratulations thank you gentlemen thank you thank you very much bonnie i uh hope you're not too disappointed are you sympathizing with me ben ah gentlemen i have a healthy stand of timber just waiting for the saw if anything happens to mr cartwright the railroad can depend on me to finish the trestle hey bonnie you're not forgetting about a drink are you oh no no of course not you're sure a gracious loser mr fuller he sure is but i wouldn't trust him farther than i could throw [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] so [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh mr quick ride fella brought this up from the railroad for you how can i get you something to drink mr cartwright oh no thank you isn't this fine railroads added some extra crew so now they want 200 of those big pilings by monday 50 a day from then on oh the 50 i can guarantee you but 200 by monday ain't got the crew or the teams to do it with i'll see if i can get some extra men from the mines and i'll get some teams in town oh by the way adam i noticed some of your trimmers nipping at the bottle on the job i want you to put a stop to that before some of them find itself without hands and feet well i've done the best i can the man wants to drink that's his business i can't be every place at once man in charge of a crew is responsible for everything connected with it we've got a rough schedule i want results now we really got a rough schedule ahead of us i know you boys are tired already you sure are that yeah no you'd like to have a few days rest hey gee thanks bob that's all right you're uh you got to come into you that sounds great yeah well like i said you got to come over here after the job is done what color is the sky mr cartwright i said uh what color is the sky blue you didn't look up when you said it you just guessed how long has it been since you looked up you better get it back to shoveling those blades gabe we'll need them all in the morning they'll be ready when they need them if you ever hear the fella who couldn't see the forest for the trees he got himself so lost he never did get out now if he had taken it kind of slow and easy and kept his head up instead of down he might have got a glimpse of the sun or he might have followed the wild geese into the clear instead of working yourself too fragile like you're doing i'm doing all right i like the way you get things done mr carter rod but a man's got to ease up once in a while you know just to stop take time to give thanks for the blessing of just being alive if he don't he's liable to have an epitaph on his tombstone that reads here lies a man who let the joy of living wait he waited too long now it's too late well thanks for the warning gabe i've always worked pretty hard and i guess i always will hello sean martha come on let me help you down here yeah this is my uh grandson mr cartwright jody say uh howdy to mr carter hi mr cartwright how did tony this is my daughter martha married named fletcher that's what you get uh by looking boy here thank you very much i didn't think you'd mind martha driving him over here once in a while to visit with his grandfather oh well well just as long as he keeps out of harm's way oh you take care of yourself all right he learned his lesson when he saw paul kill himself trying to break a spooky horse and a terrible loss to all of us yeah well uh why don't you uh want to show jody the flume gabe sure i'll do that come on jody hey don't ever tell you the time i went around the corner so to hear about your husband mr fletcher you know gabe and i don't think alike but too many things i'm awfully glad that your boy has such a fine man as his grandfather to look up to and love well thank you very much mr cartwright you bring your boy around it tommy want him totally welcome thank you you to get me those extra teams and i'm telling you ben i ain't got any extra teeth i do have plenty last week what am i supposed to do feed them hay burners waiting for you to need more horses no sir i got an offer i rented them well then get them back oh come on ben well i'll get him back who's got him barney fuller yeah i might have known him his money's as good as anybody's now why don't you speak to him make a deal that'll be the day see round band in case you didn't hear me i said that will be the day i don't know what you mean van look barney if you come here to gloat i haven't got the time oh on the contrary my spies tell me the railroad's got the ties laid within a couple of miles of the trestle but the men are sitting around idle waiting for the pilings i just hope you don't have to pay an expensive penalty because you had a little hard luck with your delivery you'd love it oh no what i'm trying to say is if it'll be of any help i can let you have a little of my own timber now you listen to me barney and you listen good i wouldn't take one soft wood sapling out of your stand now that dress is going to be built but it's going to be built with ponderosa lumber well i hope you're right but ben just remember one thing you can always depend on barney fuller to help a friend well if i ever find a friend of bonnie fullers i'll tell him [Music] adam [Applause] i was holding up those pilots they should have been out here long ago that was a crack blocking the rigging haas is working on oh fine that's all i need you better get down to the pistol pacify those railroad men you tell them that every log they need will be down to that site tomorrow at dawn if it takes every available man and team of the country what's going on here a sunday school picnic now why isn't that block fixed well there ain't no way to fix it it's got to be replaced i got another on the way on the way from where we got plenty of those in the storeroom oh wait for these then hey all right gabe horse tells me we have no more double blocks how's that a plum forgot to stalk him oh did you yeah but i'll send a man into town for some and they should be here in about an hour about an hour and how long have you been fooling around with that about an hour it makes two hours lost oh yes you listen to me i want all these logs on the logging road and on their way by nightfall i don't want any excuses i just want them at the dresser by morning paul that that block ain't safe it it might come apart any time it might and it might not we'll never know until we try and find out we're going to try now you will listen to me i heard bonnie fuller tell me that i'm in trouble and i just heard you tell me why i'm in trouble what appears to me the only trouble that i'm in is trying to make you understand that i made a promise to the railroad and i intend for us all to live up to it how is that clear sure enough paul come on fellers hey that air sure smells good don't it why don't you get the center of that pine in your lungs you know it's just like a tonic i gave i got a hundred things on my mind let me be oh oh see i i got something for you i forgot it it's a little harsh joey whittled it for you of course i helped him some but i don't want you to tell him about that when you see him he wanted you to have it all right you say thank you to jody for me yes i will mr clark right but that block just ain't gonna hold just get it rigged up get that team hooked up over there pete yeah i'll do that keep out from under that block all right now snap to it come on now what's holding everything up here charlie get out i'm under the block a bunch of sunday schools you gotta be careful with that background what we got to be careful of that block i will be careful over here i'll guide it now get those horses moving come on get those horses moving let's go [Music] gabe bring me a cat hook coming right up bill come on getting that moving up we go all right then now swing around [Music] here you go bear swing up it's going paul [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh deeper gabe house gabe you're dead boy [Music] there that painful ben oh just a little stiff now that'll clear up as soon as the lake has some use and there'd hardly be any scarring since those lacerations heal now ben you're gonna heal a lot quicker without the use of that cane yeah goodbye [Music] oh hi boys doc how's paul that's a good i'm afraid he needs more help than i can give him well it's not a complications with a leg no no i don't think you'd even have a scar what is it then doc well the scar that worries me is in here your father's not over the shock of old gabe's death he feels responsibly broods on it yeah we've noticed that anything we can do getting back to work as soon as possible get his mind off that accident well we need him back on the job that's for sure good that's what he needs i'll see you boys hey bobby just talked to the doc he said your fit is a fiddle let's say we get started huh joseph will you uh bring me the cash box please yes sir here are the latest figures on the cutting we finished up on the ridge and uh we can start on the hog back it's all right with you i'll do what you think best out joseph we gotta have one of the hands deliver this to gabe's daughter mrs fletcher i'd like it done today yes sir don't you think we ought to get started back to work got a lot to do on that trestle look pop you can't go on blaming yourself forever it was an accident oh he's right you can't go on faulting yourself just for trying hard what a man tries so hard that he risks the lives of other people [Music] now on the ponderosa belongs to the three of you you run it any way you see fit [Music] foreign [Music] well i thought i told you two to stay out on the hog back and all right what's wrong plenty no teams all right where are they watch wrangler said he got a word from town to pull out and you let him go well how was i supposed to stop him adam with a gun no i just want you two to hold up your end of the job like i'm holding up mine look at him if you're the real walking boss around here like you're supposed to be you to know about those teams before we did oh would you like to take over no i wouldn't that bennett i wish our poet come back and do his job so we could do our own all right let's ride into town and find out what this is all about business always comes first with me adam and when a man has offered a sizable boost in his rates he can't let friendship stand in his way well now let's just forget about friendship you made an agreement with my father furnish the teams for this job that's correct the gentleman's agreement with your father not with his sons you had no right pulling out without giving proper notice oh i tried adam i tried i would have rode out to see ben myself if i didn't have this misery in my back but i sent word for him to come and see me and and talk about a renegotiation of our little agreement but your old man didn't even have the gumption to answer back so what we want them horses i'd be happy to oblige horse if i could but that belgium hauling stock is hard to come by and every one of my horses is spoken for elsewhere well well they've gone to barney fuller [Music] well the cartridge boys i'd like to buy you all a drink you know my ramrod jesse wade a couple of my hands tom jake chris we want those teams back fuller you know i've been meaning to come out to see your father most unfortunate thing men getting hurt delivery schedules all fouled up well accidents will happen i guess pull up chair sit down now uh what was this about some teams fuller i want the teams back at the bondurosa by tomorrow morning or you'll do what young fella send a sheriff and he's posse out after him i've got legal right to them teams i'm not interested in your rights i'm more interested in your reason tomorrow i start to log from my own stand for the humboldt canyon trestle whose decision was that the railroads or your own mr fuller i told your paw that if the railroad got in trouble and the cartwrights started to drag their feet they could call on me and it looks like the cartwrights are starting to drag their feet my father made an agreement to deliver ponderosa lumber to that trestle now you're not using those teams so uh what are your terms for releasing them there are no terms and i only talked to the head man well now you're talking to us his throat talking to you you boys go bald to your big powerful daddy maybe he's got better ways than you have begging mr fuller to get him off the hook [Music] hold it well it's quite a show you put on and that's all it was just a show you'll find out that it takes more than a fist fistfight to get along in the business your father and i are in and when you get home tell your father the next time he wants to talk to mr fuller not to send a boy to do a man's job adam the duck tells me your dad's leg is all healed up why did he send you instead of coming himself it's none of your business [Music] bonnie's up this old trick sir well you're gonna have to watch out for him he's always in there crying well what do you want us to do about fuller do whatever you want you don't care is that it yeah i think i've cared too much all my life about the wrong things couldn't see the bars for the trees uh maybe it's not too late to change paul it's it's it's such a waste you're writing a prime of life and just to throw it away not throwing it away just want to change my life before it's too late this ranch has always planned for you three anyways good time for you to take over paul that ain't what i meant what did you mean [Music] powered horseman is it is that we need you with us paul well i think you'll have to start seeing things my way well we can't see it your way because this isn't your way it's puttering around a lot of small talk that's gabe's way leave him out of this or ben cartwright just come for you mr cartwright she sent it back she say why no [Music] she didn't have to [Music] hey little buddy what you got here this is fort fletcher new cavalry outpost for the protection of the settlers yeah well i reckon we can use another ford around here joey hey mister you know my name what's yours house house cartwright is your mom home she's inside mama what is it oh man i'd like to talk to you a minute if i could uh run along jody sure mom well what did you want to say mr cartwright well now it's it's about our paul well he's been blaming himself for forget for your father's death well he mustn't do that it was an accident all right paul don't believe it we started hoping maybe if you'd come out and talk to him you'd be in gabe's daughter and all that maybe he'd well maybe it'd be more important that way and give more help well i'll think about it mr cartwright thank you ma'am anything you can do we'll appreciate it thank you little buddy did your paw get the horse i car for him he sure did you tell your paw if he likes it i'll make him another one so he'll have a matched pair fine i'll tell him thank you little buddy find this in woodshed mr cartwright for you for for making pretty things not good you sit here all the time you ready to eat mr carlite oh no thank you when you hungry you just holler [Music] oh didn't mean to get you out of bed ben you mind if i come in hmm how do you feel ben oh feel pretty good bonnie sit down you know ben i've been worried about you huh i mean it we've had a few battles throughout the years but there's never been anything personal you know that yeah i know your boys were in town to see me yesterday i suppose you know yeah did they tell you what i told them yeah they told me what i especially told him was to tell you not to send boys to do a man's job now bonnie don't go underestimating those boys they're better than i ever was is that so yeah sorry i can't say the same about you i didn't think you pulled that kind of trick i cut my cloth to fit the size of the people i'm up against you're making a mistake barney is that so that is unless you've been giving them the benefit of your advice well they're handling things their own way why big ben cartwright getting tired abdicating i find that hard to believe even on your say-so but i don't care what you believe and i ain't jumping when you throw that hickory club of yours at my wheel so i'm beginning to see that sort of clears things up for me you know ben i've always admired this house maybe someday i'll see my way clear to buy it you know i have no respect for a man that don't measure up i can't afford to waste my time on him if he just stands there i walk right over him the ben cartwright i know wouldn't hold still for that but you don't act like him takes all the fun out of this business when you got nobody to stand up to you go back to bed man [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] what are you doing with those horses taking them out to the camp what for hauling logs oh joe the saddle horse is you know better yeah i know better but when you haven't got anything else you make do with what you've got what should never been allowed to get away with taking our teams watts got away with that because because look you made it quite clear you're not interested whether that trestle gets finished or not you're not interested in that or in anything else all right fine it took us a little while to get used to that but now we are and we're going to take care of everything by ourselves give you plenty of time to do whatever it is you want to do now we don't ask any questions of you pa i think it'd be just fair if you didn't ask any questions of us [Music] oh just fletcher how do you do mr cartwright i was just passing and um i'm so glad uh please come in i'll have hop sing make us some tea oh no thank you i can't stay long i left jody with a neighbor please sit down i wasn't just passing mr cartwright i came to see you deliberately [Music] do you know why well i i hope it's because you changed your mind about the money huh no i haven't changed my mind about that i i hadn't meant to offend you bite if i did i'm sorry that i can say oh i wasn't offended well why did you send it back we don't need that kind of help well then how will you and your boy get along our livelihood did not depend on my father i have a small business as a dressmaker in virginia city you knew that well yes yes i did know that you sent me that money to ease your conscience didn't you i take full blend for what happened mrs fletcher no you mustn't do that it was an accident oh no wouldn't have happened if i hadn't been pushing so hard your father tried to tell me i wouldn't listen you're a builder mr cartwright a doer oh my father he was a dreamer you built the ponderosa he built castles and sand miss fletcher isn't making it any easier for you to try to find excuses for me men die at their work every day even on their own land like my husband no one's to blame [Music] fact still remains i'm responsible for your father's death not any more than i am i was the one that made him work there does that make me responsible my husband died breaking a horse to support me and my child are we guilty of his death we can't weep forever for our dead mr cartwright or for our mistakes we have to continue to live me for jody and you for your sons you have to hook them up in threes before they can do any real hauling i'm not sure if they can do it even then we have a choice all right take them up the logging road their equipment they want their pay i mean she can't quit not after we brought the extra teams up here well i guess this is another one of barney fuller's little tricks well i've tried dogging with him adam you have a go at it you know there's a kind of an unwritten law in the logging business nobody quits in the middle of cutting season without good cause now what's the reason mike it's matter conditions what conditions your paws boil the woods in this camp when we first came in now looks like he's not going to come back and likely won't need us again after the cutting's finished if it is maybe there's something i didn't think was necessary to tell you i'm bull of the woods here and it really doesn't matter whether my father comes back or not whatever you think his job was it's mine now are any of you man enough to prove me wrong any one of you no no [Applause] it's gonna be interesting joe let's sit down watch [Applause] no no no not me him he's the bill of the woods get it get it does that answer your question man all of you working here you can go right on working if you want to quit you can quit but whether you quit whether you continue to work i just want you to know that the ponderosa will continue to operate no matter who tries to stop it okay fellas let's go back to work let's see if huh yeah what's your next move adam get the teams back oh would you do me a paper would you mind if i uh did that alone i would have sent word to you ben i said word to you i would have come up myself but i had this egg in my back you see and i couldn't make it oh come on ben cut right here no code because i told you i sent word for you to come and see me about this well i'm here so we can get them teams right now but i can't get them together well we'll get as many as we can and we'll get the rest later but ben now listen to me you what you did was no better than horse feeling horse stealing or stealing but they're my own animals well i'm wrecking them get them [Applause] well then what are you doing out of bed and without a cane well won't you come down from under that geranium pot and i'll tell you no i don't want to see you standing out here come on inside sit down you come down here here's what i want to tell you about we still got that tesla contract i'm gonna pay whatever penalty we have to for the delay i caused but just remember this it's going to be a ponderosa trestle and if these uh timberwolves of viewers get in the way but we'll just have to cut them down the way we cut down our trees put that away jesse you know i guess i figured wrong i was plumb sure you'd lost your guts what happened somebody taught me an angle what angle that a man can't really go against his true nature it's a pretty good angle yeah i let it from a friend oh oh yeah ben i like a dig up for the present step aside boy i said step aside boy [Music] thank you what [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] welcome home ben well there it is most beautiful trestle in the world and there was a day when i thought we'd never see it there's a time when i didn't care if i ever did an eye we knew better than that paul hey paul what about that little rest you promised us oh yeah well uh that depends know what in the bowl of the woods moo ball said yeah [Music] [Applause] [Music] you

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Length: 48min 18sec (2898 seconds)

Published: Fri Mar 26 2021