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- [Voiceover] Passthrough 
winter's canyon.

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Very narrow road.

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Stream with beautiful 
falls, 1,000 feet below

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and high granite 
walls on each side.

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A grand sight.

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I never went through 
such country in my life.

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(peaceful acoustic guitar)

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- I think an early 
automobile trip

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would be about the most 
fun a person could have.

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It was a visceral experience.

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The landscape coming 
at you as it did.

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Especially when you 
had no windshield

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or top to block your 
view. It's all around you.

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It's no wonder it appealed 
so much to Jackson

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because he, like everyone else,

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had ridden trains 
most of his life.

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Enclosed, cramped, 
stuffy railroad cars.

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What a difference 
that would have been.

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- [Man] "Mount Shasta, which 
for days had been in view

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"off and on like a guide 
post," Jackson wrote,

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"now faded completed 
from sight behind them,

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"as they came down 
out of the mountains,

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"and headed for the 
town of Alturas,

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"in the northeastern 
corner of California."

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- [Voiceover] My darling girl,

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we have crossed the 
mountains and don't expect

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to come to any more 
until we get in to Idaho.

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We have proven that my 
machine can do or go anywhere.

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I feel confident we can make it.

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How I wish you were 
with me, and that it was

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possible for you 
to take the trip.

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With a barrel full of love,

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I am as always,

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yours.

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Nelson.

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(hawk cries)