WEBVTT 00:01.568 --> 00:04.404 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% - [Narrator] On June 17th, they rattled out of town 00:04.404 --> 00:08.074 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% heading for Wyoming and quickly made 30 miles 00:08.074 --> 00:12.245 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% until the hub and bearings on a front wheel gave out. 00:13.646 --> 00:16.282 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% In Montpelier, Idaho, they borrowed some bearings 00:16.282 --> 00:19.252 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% from a farmer's mowing machine and once again 00:19.252 --> 00:23.423 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% had to rely on a local blacksmith to install them. 00:24.758 --> 00:28.128 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% The delay cost them the rest of the day. 00:28.128 --> 00:31.464 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% But Jackson's optimism was undiminished. 00:32.832 --> 00:35.301 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% - [Jackson] Darling Swipes, just a line to say 00:35.301 --> 00:40.106 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% that everything is all right with your wondering boy. 00:40.106 --> 00:43.610 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% I can't write much as we sleep, then work. 00:45.845 --> 00:48.848 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% When you hear that we have reached Rawlins, Wyoming 00:48.848 --> 00:51.451 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% you will know that I can make the trip a go. 00:51.451 --> 00:55.221 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% So bet all the money that you have got on it. 00:56.456 --> 00:59.259 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% Well old girlie, I can't say anymore. 00:59.259 --> 01:00.860 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% You know how I feel. 01:02.028 --> 01:04.898 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% I shall make up for lost time, Nelly. 01:08.201 --> 01:12.205 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% - If ever there was somebody who saw the glass half full, 01:12.205 --> 01:14.207 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% even if it's only a quarter, 01:14.207 --> 01:17.677 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% it's got to be Horatio Nelson Jackson. 01:17.677 --> 01:20.547 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% Every time, every single time it seems that something 01:20.547 --> 01:24.117 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% goes wrong with his car, and at a time when 01:24.117 --> 01:27.187 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% you know, a rational person probably would say, 01:27.187 --> 01:30.223 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% I've gone far enough, give it my best shot, 01:30.223 --> 01:32.358 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% I'll catch the train, go home. 01:32.358 --> 01:34.994 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% Instead, he writes to his wife and it's this 01:34.994 --> 01:37.530 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% sort of I don't think it was all bravado 01:37.530 --> 01:39.799 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% or just trying to reassure her that everything was okay 01:39.799 --> 01:42.335 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% I think he believed it. 01:42.335 --> 01:44.804 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% He thought, if I just get over this next thing 01:44.804 --> 01:48.041 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% it's going to be smooth sailing from here on out. 01:48.041 --> 01:52.679 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% And he said that time and time and time and time again. 01:52.679 --> 01:55.115 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% Every obstacle that he encountered 01:55.115 --> 01:58.218 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% was going to be the last obstacle. 01:58.218 --> 02:00.453 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% And of course it never was. 02:02.322 --> 02:04.724 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% [Guitar Music] [Thunder] 02:04.724 --> 02:07.293 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% - [Narrator] Things got even worse on June 20th, 02:07.293 --> 02:10.196 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% after they had crossed into Wyoming. 02:10.196 --> 02:12.432 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% A tremendous cloud burst struck the area, 02:12.432 --> 02:15.135 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% after they passed through the town of Granger 02:15.135 --> 02:17.971 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% flooding and washing out the road. 02:19.606 --> 02:21.808 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% They now resorted to trying to navigate 02:21.808 --> 02:23.409 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% across the open country. 02:23.409 --> 02:25.311 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% Changing direction every time they encountered 02:25.311 --> 02:28.014 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% a gully too deep to cross. 02:28.014 --> 02:30.350 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% And getting hopelessly lost. 02:31.618 --> 02:34.487 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% We zig-sagged as best we could, Jackson wrote, 02:34.487 --> 02:36.689 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% sometimes we went North instead of East 02:36.689 --> 02:39.459 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% and others we even went Northwest 02:40.627 --> 02:44.531 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% bringing us back where we had been before. 02:44.531 --> 02:46.733 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% They struggled along for hours, 02:46.733 --> 02:50.336 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% ultimately going 69 miles out of their way. 02:53.173 --> 02:54.507 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% [River Babbling] 02:56.209 --> 02:58.511 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% - [Jackson] Coming to the bank of a river 02:58.511 --> 03:00.246 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% we judged from our maps and compass 03:00.246 --> 03:02.315 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% that it was the Green River. 03:02.315 --> 03:06.920 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% And we resolved to follow its downward course. 03:06.920 --> 03:10.256 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% When night came on we made camp beside the car, 03:10.256 --> 03:13.359 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% and having lost our cooking outfit and provisions, 03:13.359 --> 03:16.162 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% and it being an uninhabited region, 03:16.162 --> 03:18.831 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% went to bed without any supper.