States of Mind; Shoshone

<v CPB Speaker>Funding for this program is provided by the Friends of 4, 10 and KUID <v CPB Speaker>and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. <v George W. Bush>Just two hours ago, Allied air forces began an attack on military targets <v George W. Bush>in Iraq and Kuwait. <v George W. Bush>These attacks continue as I speak. <v George W. Bush>Five months ago, Saddam Hussein started this cruel war against Kuwait. <v George W. Bush>Tonight, the battle has been joined. <v George W. Bush>[Sounds of a train crossing sign] <v George W. Bush>I've told the American people before that this will not be another <v George W. Bush>Vietnam. <v George W. Bush>And I repeat this here tonight. <v George W. Bush>Our troops will have the best possible support in the entire world

<v George W. Bush>and they will not be asked to fight with one hand <v George W. Bush>tied behind their back. <v George W. Bush>I'm hopeful that this fighting will not go on for long and that casualties <v George W. Bush>will be held to an absolute minimum. <v George W. Bush>And let me say to everyone listening and watching tonight when the troops we <v George W. Bush>sent [Overlapping news report] finish their work, I'm determined to bring them home <v George W. Bush>as soon as possible. <v Woman>The day that the war started was our home ed club [overlapping news report] meeting and <v Woman>we discussed would we go to war? <v Woman>And then by the time we came home, the president had declared war <v Woman>and it was real shaking at. <v Woman>I felt for all the boys that were over there, but I had a grandson over <v Woman>there, and that always makes you think harder about <v Woman>it, and it been a long time

<v Woman>since we had war. <v Woman>And I remembered World War 2 and [I got] really scared. <v News Reporter>-Waited today for the start of the ground attack. <v Woman>I can remember Pearl Harbor and how I shook <v Woman>for several hours after that came over. <v Woman>Something had to be done about Saddam. <v Woman>I always say it back in World War 2, Hitler was allowed <v Woman>to-do all those killings they <v Woman>killed all those Jews, and the whole world, knew about it, but it still went on. <v Woman>And this was kind of a repeat of that. <v Woman>I felt that he had to be stopped and we were the ones that had <v Woman>to stop him. <v KEZJ Speaker>KEZJ Country weather looks like more of the same hot, dry, sunny <v KEZJ Speaker>days as the highs get up into the 70s to the lower 80s for the next three or four <v KEZJ Speaker>days anyway.

<v KEZJ Speaker>Those hot, dry winds still drying things out as we continue on this long wilting <v KEZJ Speaker>draught up around Magic Reservoir the other day. <v KEZJ Speaker>It's hardly anything more than a mudhole right now, usually a big, huge reservoir. <v KEZJ Speaker>You can go up and catch your limit on trout in nothing flat. <v KEZJ Speaker>Well, that's all changed. <v KEZJ Speaker>That's the weather outlook, and we have more of Idaho's famous country coming up on KEZJ. <v KEZJ Speaker>[Country music plays briefly] <v Woman>I will defend my crew, myself and my country, <v Woman>mostly my crew's right to live. <v Woman>It is them or us. <v Woman>I still want a chance to be happy and productive. <v Woman>I see this war as the only obstacle between me and

<v Woman>my wish. <v Woman>I have learned little by being told. <v Woman>My hardhead prevents good sense and knowledge from entering on the first try, <v Woman>so I end by paying the price. <v Woman>I just want God to understand. <v Woman>Well, I'll write in a couple of days. <v Woman>I need to seal this one up. <v Woman>Don't worry. And thank you all for your support. <v Woman>Love Andrew. <v Woman>This was from Andrew's letter of February 19th, <v Woman>1991. <v Army Officer>?inaudible? Low. Aim. Fire. [Guns fire] <v Army Officer>Ready, aim, fire [Guns fire] <v Army Officer>Ready, aim, fire. [Guns fire] Present arms.

<v Sheriff>We lost our people in the Second World War from here. <v Sheriff>We lost people from here in the Korean War. <v Sheriff>We lost people from here in the Vietnam War. <v Sheriff>Everybody in the community had a feeling <v Sheriff>of part of that loss when one of our boys went down and that <v Sheriff>that those-that those boys were there representing us <v Sheriff>and-and that we were all behind them.

<v Sheriff>My job as Lincoln County sheriff is <v Sheriff>to preserve the peace and help the people of the total of Lincoln <v Sheriff>County, which is approximately 1,250 square miles <v Sheriff>every direction you go, with exception of one, there's desert on three <v Sheriff>sides of Shoshone. <v Sheriff>You might call it an oasis because of the desert that surrounds it. <v Sheriff>I left the hometown for about 10 years, <v Sheriff>and it was like I was lost. <v Sheriff>I like the small town and I like-I like that comradeship with-with people <v Sheriff>that you walk down the street and most of the people you see, you know, most of them <v Sheriff>speak to you. I like the feeling of security <v Sheriff>that comes with living in a in-in a community where people <v Sheriff>know each other and people trust each other.

<v Sheriff>What are you guys doing? <v Sheriff>What are you doing? [Guy say, "We're calling it a day."] Is it quitting time <v Sheriff>already? [Guy says, "Sure."] Can't beat a deal like that. <v Man>You're getting better. [Woman laughs] <v Man>Well, I know how I feel about this war. <v Man>I don't think they should quit till they get that son of a bitch. <v Man>That's what I think you know. <v Man>They let him win he'd ?inaudible? <v Man>right there. <v Man>They can go over there and ?inaudible?. <v Man>I don't believe it's worth one person dying over there ?inaudible?. <v Man>You threw me that 9 with your old buddies? <v Man>Sure you don't like to see anybody get killed. <v Man>I'm just glad I wasn't there. Well, I'm glad they didn't stop <v Man>like they did over in Vietnam. I always say, you can't win a war if you draw a line over

<v Man>they can go across, and that you can't go across. Vietnam, that's what happened in <v Man>Korea and Vietnam bull. <v Man>You can't win a war without- if we're going to fight one, fight it to win. <v Man>It's like you get in a street fight out here, you better fight to win or you might get <v Man>your shit kicked. <v Men>Shows you what good clean living will do. <v Men>I'm talking good, clean living. <v Men>My God, you had to get it from the neighbors. <v Men>You had good, clean living. Willie's going to win this game. <v Men>Bullshit, give me that. <v Men>He's still trying to reduce. How many you got? <v Men>The difference in tone. Yes. That's what I thought. I got a King. <v Men>Guess what I got? ?inaudible? <v Men>Willie have you got kings? <v Men>No. God damn. There's a dandy here. <v Weld and others>How much double your card-they call me ?Weld? <v Weld and others>its a nickname they hang on me a long time ago, back in the 30s. <v Weld and others>Don't just sit there. I rode the freight train back to Shoshone

<v Weld and others>when I was 16, and I remembered the old road out across <v Weld and others>the sand flats, and that's the one I walked out on. <v Weld>I worked at everything I was a-I herded sheep, and I <v Weld>farmed, I was a soldier, I was a rodeo hand <v Weld>cowboy, punch cattle. And I got elected sheriff 1952 <v Weld>when I was sheriff '52 till 1972. <v Weld>Sheriff job is not a good job. <v Weld>But I did make a living. <v Weld>I didn't have the pettiness that they seem to-that everybody has now. <v Weld>When I arrest a man, I could throw him in jail and a judge could keep him there <v Weld>for six months through a year or whatever it took. <v Weld>But nowadays, it seems like the jail isn't good enough for anybody. <v Weld>I never shot at anybody when I was Sheriff. <v Weld>I did pull a gun on him, a couple of fellas, made him sit down

<v Weld>beside the road and I explained to them that I was a little apprehensive being out <v Weld>there alone. If they didn't sit quietly, I'd probably kill <v Weld>'em because they were allegedly to have robbed some place in Goody. <v Weld>And I didn't know whether they had guns or not, but I just told them very frankly <v Weld>that they'd get shot if things didn't go just right. <v Weld>They sat real quiet till the Gooding's officers come got them but I was serious, <v Weld>these guys were strangers to me. <v Weld>I didn't want to shoot 'em, but I wanted to know that I could and that I would, <v Weld>made nice boys out of 'em. <v Man>You can see where all our Magic water is, we're quite a bit lower <v Man>in content than we were last year at this time. <v Man>The snowpack in the mountains is the last report I got. <v Man>It's about the same as it was last year at this time. <v Man>I was crossing a week ago, and it's a long way up that mountain with the snow. <v Man>So I'm not going to look at it from this year.

<v Man>If the snow comes off the same we're 24,000 feet of water short today <v Man>from a year ago. <v Water Official>?inaudible? any other business, Mr. Ross is here, who is a stockholder. <v Mr. Ross>You all know why I'm here, that hasn't changed before. <v Water Official>What, what you're asking for is some relief on your waterfield. <v Mr. Ross>That's right. That's why I came down here for for the last 3 years- <v Water Official>?your claim is? from Kramer. You know, you-you <v Water Official>weren't in charge as to how much water runs. <v Mr. Ross>I want the guy to get some water to pay the water bill. <v Mr. Ross>That's what I want. He's a guy that can afford to pay the bill. <v Water Official>So the cost of operation is what you're really talking about. <v Water Official>The cost of your service, that's all you're ever talking about. <v Mr. Ross>If these guys right now can guarantee me a full season of water, I'll pay 25. <v Water Official>We guarantee you a full season service. <v Mr. Ross>Guaranteed me- <v Water Official>That's all- <v Mr. Ross>Until the 30th of September and I'll pay 25 dollars. <v Mr. Ross>I'll write you a check out right now.

<v Water Official>Where do you get the idea that we supply water? <v Water Official>Huh? All we supply is a service. <v Man>Canal company still messing around, they haven't told us when <v Man>they're gonna have water for us. They haven't told us how much water we're gonna have. <v Farmer's Family>It stays like this if you don't get it by the 15th, everything will be blown away. <v Farmer's Family>What is it looking like we're going to get any storms. <v Farmer's Family>Didn't look like we were going in any storms all winter and we didn't. <v Farmer's Family>Well, anyway, I guess 70 percent beach, 10 percent or whatever. <v Farmer's Family>It's not having any like you. <v Farmer's Family>Castle went into a meeting for the cattlemens <v Farmer's Family>over in his laufman. If there's no water in the canal, it doesn't, can't be <v Farmer's Family>divide up you know. And they were going to discuss what to do, and Wendell Johnson <v Farmer's Family>is one of the ones that runs cattle out there who's also worked for the canal company. <v Man>And he said, well, we're going to have 58 days of water and we can do this and this,

<v Man>and this with the cattle. And Castle looked at 'em and says, well, what if we don't have <v Man>58 days of water? And Wendell looked right at him and said, well, I just <v Man>told you, we're gonna have 58 days of water. <v Man>So that's how it's going to be just like, you know, he's going to manufacture the water <v Man>if not- <v Woman>Like you guys better making manufactured water. <v Man>Well, I told Castle, I says tell him to guarantee it in writing and <v Man>with the end of 60 days when we're through with it, we'll come in and pay our water. <v Man> If they don't make 60 days. We don't have to pay. <v Woman>Are you getting ready to have that calf? <v Woman>What's the matter? <v Woman>So my father came in 1907 <v Woman>from ?inaudible? Islands and he filed on this homestead a hundred <v Woman>and sixty acres. Oh. <v Woman>He was a waiter, and that's how we work to earn enough money to come

<v Woman>to America. <v Woman>There wasn't the machinery that there is now. <v Woman>You know, you clean the brush out by hand. <v Woman>And of course you had horses, and the <v Woman>land that they put in cultivation was around the river. <v Woman>My sons do the farming now. <v Woman>I don't have a lot of ?hardwood?, but if we <v Woman>have water, it makes a good living. <v KEZJ Speaker>KEZJ Country weather, it looks like we're getting more of that much needed precipitation <v KEZJ Speaker>today. Certainly good news. Course, with the lingering drought going into its 5th year <v KEZJ Speaker>now we can use all the precipitation we can get, especially in the Shoshone Wood River <v KEZJ Speaker>Valley area of Magic Reservoir being merely more than a large mud puddle <v KEZJ Speaker>right now as opposed to normal at this time of year. <v KEZJ Speaker>[Fades into the background] <v Woman> Small farmers have a lot of perseverance and they have to have or <v Woman>they couldn't stay on the farm. On hard years, our drought years and so

<v Woman>forth. People need a job to help supplement the living. <v Woman>So we're really having to tighten up our belts and <v Woman>go to work to stay put on the farm. <v Woman>I don't think I could have made it at all in a big town. <v Woman>The tea this is hot, girls. <v Woman>Do you need some Tabasco ketchup? <v Woman>We got some cowboys, mainly farmers, um construction <v Woman>people. They're like family when you get to know 'em. <v Woman>Make a mushroom and cheese omelette with whole wheat, and a cheese and mushroom omelette <v Woman>with white bread. <v Woman>Small town living. It's clean and it's friendly. <v Woman>You can double park and nobody's gonna have a heart attack.

<v Woman>You can jaywalk, nobody's gonna have a heart attack. <v Woman>They wave at you. Matter of fact, they scared me because they started waving <v Woman>the first time I ever went through town and I'm going, "Oh, my God. <v Woman>These people are crazy." They don't know me. They're going-I ran home to my husband. <v Woman>I said, my God, I think these men are putting a make on me. <v Woman>I-it's terrified me because I didn't know. <v Woman>I'd never been in a small town. <v Hostess and Customers>No. Well, I'm not either. My wife is. <v Hostess and Customers>We have to take three kids and a grandchild. <v Hostess and Customers>Three kids?! Oh my. <v Men>You're behind on that water. They won't turn that on until you pay back your back tax, <v Men>back water. ?inaudible? a lot of us? <v Men>Well, we don't bid for three years, you lose your water rate. <v Men>What, three years as opposed to water down last year they didn't <v Men>have hardly anything, this year looks just about the same way. <v Men>Well, they distribute less last year. <v Men>Well, I don't know. They got pretty good snow up here.

<v Men>Up in Gibson, they figure one month they didn't ?bring? <v Men>much water. <v Men>Could be a hell of a problem. Yeah. <v Men>That ran for a whole 190,000- 191,000. <v Men>Yes. So it's nowhere near. <v Men>?Northam, north?. <v Men>It shouldn't be impossible to get it for the- It rains hard for 30 <v Men>days, it might. But you know, it really is awful. <v Men>Hello there. Hi Reynolds. <v Men>How you doing Doug? Good. <v Men>What are you doing with all the snow up there? Well it's melting pretty fast. <v Man>All going in the ground I suppose. <v Man>The ground is going to hurt these farmer. <v Man>But you cannot kill this town. <v Man>I'll tell you why it isn't going to die because it never did grow very big. <v Man>No. Right across the street over there, there used to be some girls work up there in that <v Man>hotel. They're gone. You know why? <v Man>The population in Shoshone remains constant. <v Man>Why? Every time a baby is born, some man leaves town. <v Man>That's why our population doesn't fluctuated.

<v Man>?inaudible? Going to die no more. <v Weld>I don't think there's much change to be made in this town. <v Weld>I don't know what business would ever come to that town. <v Weld>Mostly it's just people come there to live and uh they <v Weld>work for the Bureau of Land Management now or the Department of Highways or the power <v Weld>company. We don't have any industry like we did have the big sheep industry, <v Weld>which was huge for a small town and one man owned 25,000 head, <v Weld>another man owned 8,000 head and they had-it took quite a few people to take <v Weld>care of them, and they bought the hay from the farmers and grain and raised these <v Weld>sheep and sold them. <v Weld>And the railroad workers worked on the trains right there in Shoshone shown them around <v Weld>the roundhouse that's been torn down. [Indistinct conversation] <v Woman>It doesn't stand still. <v Woman>We kinda have to get more industry, do more to maintain

<v Woman>the town, or it'll-won't exist. <v Woman>These little towns kind of have a history of going up and down at <v Woman>one time. Then there is more work, more industry <v Woman>and then some of them will move away or quit. <v Woman>All the stores were filled and we have a lot of empty <v Woman>buildings now. <v Woman>What we have at the theatre and we have a good show every night. <v Woman>I remember going to see Gone With the Wind and that was <v Woman>real special. <v Movie Speaker>[Conversation from movie] What a fine feature it was! Wait says Ellen, uh oh <v Movie Speaker>they left their garbage, but West knows what to do because he's come prepared. <v Movie Speaker>Rules and responsibilites ?inaudible? on <v Movie Speaker>a trip on the movies. <v Singer>[Indistinct conversation]

<v Singer>Rejoice and sing now all around her. <v Singer>Pray with a glorious splendor. <v Singer>All her darkness has been vanquished. <v Priest>I baptize thee Stephaine in the name of the Father, <v Priest>of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. <v Priest>Amen. <v Woman>OK. Have we got any praise the Lord tonight? <v Woman>Lea? <v Lea>Well um, I, I praise the Lord because he's still in the <v Lea>prayer answering business with all, with losing that house <v Lea>the 1st of March and I thought I was going to have to sell my car and

<v Lea>pay my rent and I have a job interview tomorrow. <v Lea> That will um that will do more <v Lea>than-than the house that I just lost. <v Lea>And I praise the Lord for that. <v Woman>I praise the Lord for a little bit of moisture I got yesterday. <v Woman>[Lady says, "Amen"] And boy, do we need that some more but Hey. <v Woman>Ok Harmon, how about you? <v Harmon>Yeah, I got to praise the lord for my family and our health and the work that we <v Harmon>got and shelter. <v Woman>Charlaine, how about you? <v Charlaine>Oh, we got our car fixed. [Gathering says, "Yeah, amen"]. <v Woman>So we want to start reading in Revelation <v Woman>21 and 8, has everyone got it? <v Woman>OK. Last last time we done-done all the unbelievers <v Woman>and the murderer.

<v Woman>So tonight I think we'd like to take sorceries. <v Woman>You know, we know that ?inaudible? being hypnotized is-is not of God. <v Preacher>You've seen a man take a quarter out of his pocket and flip it up on the air and grab it <v Preacher>and show it to some little kid and then hold his hand like that, and it completely <v Preacher>disappears, and he'll walk over and say well, there it is behind <v Preacher>your ear and show them the quarter. <v Preacher>It seems as harmless as it can be, but according to the Bible, it's an abomination <v Preacher>to God. <v Speaker>[Song playing from band][Indistinct conversation from police radio]. <v Woman>In Shoshone, there are many different walks of life, including the bar <v Woman>life.

<v Woman>But being a Christian separates you from most of them. <v Woman>It's just it's just the way we live. <v Woman>Well, our niece was here from Illinois last summer and she asked <v Woman>her uncle. You preach, preach, preach. <v Woman>Why don't you quit it and get on with your life? <v Woman>That's because it is our life. [Indistinct conversation] Telling other people about <v Woman>Jesus Christ is our life. <v Preacher> These people that gather together and call up evil spirits, they <v Preacher>gather around a table and they can raise the table and these voices come out and then-and <v Preacher>they're not. Yeah, they-they have the ability to sound exactly like <v Preacher>the loved one that they're trying to call up. <v Preacher>Their voice is the same, but they are right out of the pits of hell. <v Preacher>It is the devil speaking. [Person asks, "Isn't that witchcraft honey?"] <v Preacher>Yes, it's witchcraft. But it's necromancy. <v Preacher>And it's got a special name. It's called séance. <v Preacher>[Indistinct conversation while bells are ringing] <v Police Officer>Shoshone 22 to Code 6.

<v Police Officer>The town itself is very slow paced. <v Police Officer>There's, it's Idaho to George. <v Police Officer>Not much that happens in the way of crime. <v Police Officer>[Indistinct conversation] Majority of the citations I read is the out-of-towners <v Police Officer>speeding stop signs, whatever infractions. <v Police Officer>But like I stopped one gentleman for a stop sign that he'd went through and <v Police Officer>he said we've always ran the stop sign. <v Police Officer>You know, it's it's always been that way. And I just basically explain to him that, you <v Police Officer>know, it may have always been that way, and it's not just because I've come to town that <v Police Officer>it's going to change, but it's the law. <v Police Officer>And you have to abide by the law. <v People>Let's hear it. I got it. <v People>How's that? Hey, I want some ?scotch?. <v People>You want everything don't you? [Overlapping conversation] Wait a minute, don't <v People>run off with everything.

<v People>Oh, come on. Did you say it was Darrell? <v People>Darrell. Good heavens. <v People>Oh, I'll find someone else if it was Darrell. <v Woman>There's around 60 different animals and they're from every continent

<v Woman>in the world. Now, they're not all I killed, but they are just <v Woman>a specimen from each country. <v Woman>I came up here in '83, but I didn't start this museum till <v Woman>sometime in '83. <v Woman>And then I didn't open it up for quite some time. <v Woman>I'd looked all over. I wanted a place to settle out of town. <v Woman>I didn't want it in the city and I wanted a country town. <v Woman>So I go to all these town-these states <v Woman>and join in here and I wanted to stay in Idaho. <v Woman>So one day I was coming through here from Twin Falls and I got <v Woman>over here about 50 miles. And I thought, what's the name of that little town there? <v Woman>Maybe I better go back and look that over. <v Woman>And then I came up and started. <v Woman>You know, in the big cities in Los Vegas and places you'd never know where your

<v Woman>next neighbor, you go for days and days and they don't even speak. <v Woman>You don't know 'em. You're just strangers there within this big town. <v Woman>And I don't like that. I like to have people to know me and ?meet? <v Woman>new people. <v Woman>And to live, I like to live. <v Woman>I don't find any colored people up here, much about any Mexicans, there are some Indians, <v Woman>but most of them are just pure old white Americans and <v Woman>have the same trouble as you have. <v Sheriff>I think that when you're-when you're a close knit type community, that you have a <v Sheriff>mistrust of outsiders.

<v Sheriff>If they're not part of your community, there must be something wrong with them or they <v Sheriff>would live here. <v Sheriff>What we can talk about here, I think, is probably a word that we <v Sheriff>read in the newspaper every day, and that's prejudice. And-and I think. <v Sheriff>I think that that's a twofold word. <v Sheriff>And particularly in dealing from the law, you know, <v Sheriff>everybody I deal with I'm prejudiced for or against. <v Sheriff>But, you know, I try to treat those people that have broken <v Sheriff>the law as I feel if I was in the same position. <v Sheriff>The only difference you come with there is that the people that are residents here, you <v Sheriff>know them. And you know whether their word is good or and so on. <v Sheriff>And so sometimes you deal with a little more leeway with those people. <v Roderick B. Wood>People in small towns and in particular this small town <v Roderick B. Wood>think that they are important, which they are, and they have a lot of pride

<v Roderick B. Wood>and they like to take a belief that they <v Roderick B. Wood>can solve a lot of their own problems. <v Roderick B. Wood>What's really funny about it, for instance, put it on a state level. <v Roderick B. Wood>The federal government here not long ago said <v Roderick B. Wood>no more under-21 drinking [Indistinct conversation] Well, people in Idaho, <v Roderick B. Wood>just scream bloody murder. You know? <v Roderick B. Wood>Not that-not the alcohol issue, but that we'll solve our own problems here. <v Roderick B. Wood>We don't need you folks telling us what the hell to do. <v Roderick B. Wood>You are Michael Blecker? <v Michael Blecker>Yes, I am. <v Roderick B. Wood>Mr. Blecker, you were previously charged by criminal <v Roderick B. Wood>complaint in this work with the underage possession <v Roderick B. Wood>or consumption of an intoxicating beverage. <v Roderick B. Wood>Correct? <v Michael Blecker>Yes, I was. <v Roderick B. Wood>You have previously pled guilty to that offense. <v Roderick B. Wood>[Michael Blecker says, "Yes, I did"] <v Roderick B. Wood>In a small town. It's a lot more personal. <v Roderick B. Wood>[Court continues] You know, more of the people by far

<v Roderick B. Wood>tend to know more about the circumstances or the impact it will <v Roderick B. Wood>have and get to fashion sentences <v Roderick B. Wood>more like custom made to fit a particular circumstance because <v Roderick B. Wood>we have the luxury of time. <v Roderick B. Wood>Anything you'd like to say? <v Michael Blecker>I'd just like to say I haven't had anything to drink since the night I was posted. <v Roderick B. Wood>And that was? <v Michael Blecker>I don't remember. <v Roderick B. Wood>I think what you need to realize Mike and I want to talk to you briefly <v Roderick B. Wood>as a human being. Okay? <v Roderick B. Wood>Not as a judge trying to impose any penalty. <v Roderick B. Wood>All right? It doesn't do any good to put out the fire in the attic if you don't put out <v Roderick B. Wood>the fire in the basement as well. And stopping drinking while it's commendable, and I-an <v Roderick B. Wood>absolute first step. That's putting out the fire in the attic. <v Roderick B. Wood>You've got to address the underlying issues, which is the fire in the basement. <v Roderick B. Wood>People here strongly believe in <v Roderick B. Wood>pride and freedom. And the difficulty with that is,

<v Roderick B. Wood>especially on the younger generation level, is that they're satisfied with living right <v Roderick B. Wood>here, right now. <v Roderick B. Wood>There is no real vision into the future. <v Roderick B. Wood>You see very few younger people getting a quality higher education. <v Roderick B. Wood>I tend to call it the new pickup mentality, you know, as soon as they get out of high <v Roderick B. Wood>school, they're satisfied with getting a job working construction, earning eight bucks an <v Roderick B. Wood>hour. And the first thing they do is they go buy a brand new pickup. <v Roderick B. Wood>And boy, I've got the world by the tail, you know? <v Roderick B. Wood>They don't look down the road for anything past today. <v Game Announcer>Everyone, for a moment of silence in honor of our troops in the Persian

<v Game Announcer>Gulf. [Singing] <v Roderick B. Wood>The result of the Gulf War has been a very <v Roderick B. Wood>gratifying redemption, if you will, to the older generation <v Roderick B. Wood>because they are the people who came here or their

<v Roderick B. Wood>parents did when this was nothing but sagebrush and rocks. <v Roderick B. Wood>And they are tough people and they through grit and <v Roderick B. Wood>hard work, put this place together <v Roderick B. Wood>and so while Korea and Vietnam were a black eye. <v Roderick B. Wood>The feeling here was always there always has been that we could have won those wars <v Roderick B. Wood>if we had done it right. <v Men>It's getting pretty short. You guys went up to the dam, what did you see? <v Men>About where it was last year about this time, there's water in it. <v Men>Last time I talked to someone, they were up there. <v Men>They could see that most of the screens still sticking out of the top of the wall. <v Men>The canal company would have us believe we have 60 days of water in there, just like

<v Men>we did last year. That's what they told us. <v Men>He come right on the television and told us that. <v Men>Well, I suppose there isn't but a trickle in Rock Creek today. <v Men>Like even, well, like we're talking about the snowmelt and <v Men>we look at the mountains from here. <v Men>And its turned white three times in March. <v Men>It's beautiful. That's better than we've had, you know? <v Men>It really looks good. <v Men>But right now it's melted off again. <v Men>And this is the third time it's melted off this month. <v Men>And Rock Creek is still just a little stream. <v Men>So like if the fish can live in it, it's all on going into the grounds instead of going <v Men>in the reservoir. <v Woman>We still have a few cattle, around 60 head <v Woman>of beef cattle, but I have a dairy for <v Woman>20 years that I sold in 1980. <v Farmers>?inaudible? Get these two out!

<v Farmers>They both go out. <v Farmers>Open up the other one. ?inaudible? <v Farmers>We got that with several, right? You got to calm down or you don't get nothing. <v Woman>The only ones I want out is that one. <v Man>So let the ones you don't want out back. <v Woman>Yes, that's what I'm trying to do. <v Man>You're not, you're ?stirring?. <v Johnny U>Just put away your worldly ambitions. <v Johnny U>Give up, let your heart be free, <v Johnny U>you take up my cross. <v Johnny U>And then you follow me and I'll <v Johnny U>make you what I want you to be. <v Woman>Dean and I were kinda intense lovers.

<v Woman>We had an intense life and we were kind of known as a lovers <v Woman>of North Shoshone. <v Woman>And then I don't know whether what they call the men's menopause <v Woman>or what. He just seemed to change. <v Woman>We got a legal separation about <v Woman>10 years ago. <v Woman>We were married for 50 years and Dean was a cowboy. <v Woman>And that's his life and that's what he likes to do. <v Woman>He leaves in April, goes out to the desert till the July <v Woman>1st, and then they take the cows to the hills, <v Woman>to the mountains. <v Auctioneer> [Auctioneer calling out for the auction] <v Woman>He has his private room here and he stays here in winter time,

<v Woman>and he gets cabin fever and he's really raring to go when April comes <v Woman>around. <v Auctioneer>[Auctioneer calling out for the auction] <v Woman>If I had not stayed here and worked we would have lost the ?plot? <v Woman>that was paid for. But there's always taxes or some water, electric <v Woman>telephone. You buy diesel gas <v Woman>and machinery are high, and I just did <v Woman>what I had to do, I guess. <v Man>Ha! Now pay off or go to jail. <v Man>I don't care what you do. <v Man>I got it. He's dealing me in. <v Man>Now, what do you think is going to happen there? Saddam Hussein is back in full power.

<v Man>He's taken over all of the cities, got a big army. <v Man>He's coming back. Now what's going to happen? <v Man>You see those Arabs? They don't think like you and I do. <v Man>They think he's-some may kiss his hand. <v Men>Yeah, well, I'll tell you what, they see me. <v Men>You're going to have to go back to ?Scudman? else, something because. <v Men>Well, I don't know. He's back in the-You're a dyed in the wool Democrat ain't ya? <v Man>No, I'm not a dyed in the wool Democrat. <v Man>But I do believe that it's going to be tough over there because we have all kinds <v Man>of trouble keeping the other groups out of there. <v Man>And Schwarzkopf, he's going to be coming back to the United States, running for <v Man>president, he's going to lose control. <v Men>God Joe I-?inaudible?. <v Men>I mean, Joe, I don't know where you get all this stuff. <v Men>[Overlapping words]. <v Men>It's the facts! You said that- Hey, I've been to New York for three days. <v Men>I don't give a goddamn. <v Men>[Overlapping argument] You guys in Idaho don't know a damn thing about politics. <v Man>That was not there was nothing worth fighting for.

<v Man>Listen, we never have should been in it. <v Man>You know that if the Jews hadn't destroyed his atomic bomb <v Man>factory here, what was it, seven, eight years ago, he'd had that sucker by now. <v Man>You know, the Jews went in and done that all by themselves. <v Man>Now you can run the Jews down all you want to. <v Man>But I'll tell you this much. You kill one them Jews. <v Man>You better find a place to hide because they're going to come after you. <v Man>They whip that whole damn Arab country in six days. <v Men>I mean, they wiped them out. Why they let him do it instead of taking?- Well, because <v Men>we had the Arabs are helping. <v Men>The Arabs don't like Jews. [Indistinct] They made him stay home. <v Man>Oh, and play that ace, it's all I got. <v Man>Six thirty eight. <v Man>It's over. <v Man>48, 50. <v Men>[Overlapping conversation]. Can you count well Willie? <v Men>Would rather pay the son of a gun anyway. <v Men>Yeah, I got to go. <v Men>You got to go? Well-Is it lunchtime?

<v Men>Yeah. <v Man>I think it's the God damned, god blessed you're getting all of my money anyway. <v Clint Black>I spent my lifetime wishin' the waitress would come around, telling jokes and <v Clint Black>shooting pool on the other side of town. <v Clint Black>When the whistle blows at five o'clock, there's only one place I'll be found. <v Clint Black>Down at Ernie's icehouse <v Clint Black>lifting longnecks to that good old country sound. <v Clint Black>And talkin' about the good old times, braggin' on how it used to be, but I've worn out the same old lines. And now it seems nothing's news to me. [Sounds of a train, oil rig, cows <v Clint Black>mooing] [People praying at chruch] <v Woman>Shoshone people are quite religious.

<v Woman>I think a lot of small towns that the people are more religious and <v Woman>do attend their churches. <v Woman>But I never was good at going to church. <v Woman>Of course I had to go when the folks went and they made me go to Mass. <v Woman>But I always came home with a headache and I felt like if you <v Woman>went to church and always come home with a headache, it wasn't the thing to do. <v Woman>So I don't go to any church, but I do believe in God and I do pray <v Woman>a lot. <v Pastor>Father, now increase our faith to believe for miracles. <v Pastor>We pray for those that are coming home Father from the war, that those would be <v Pastor>encouraged, that you would reunite those families together. <v Pastor>And minister to them in a special way. <v Pastor>We thank you, Lord God, for how you're moving in through our lives, how we can be <v Pastor>your servants and serve you, and Father we'll give you the praise and worship for it. <v Pastor>As we ask these things in your precious name, amen and amen. <v Woman>About once a month, the senior centers

<v Woman>get together and have a bus that takes them to Jackpots so they can gamble. <v Woman>I always say I work hard and I play hard, but that's kind of how the <v Woman>life on the farm is. <v Woman>I feel sometimes like there isn't enough to do, but <v Woman>you have to make your own fun. <v Woman>I mean, there isn't-nobody is going to entertain you. <v Pastor>And we know that sin does separate man from God. <v Pastor>And we also know that all have sinned from short of the glory of God and of course, the <v Pastor>wages of sin is death, and that is eternal separation from God. <v Pastor>And he didn't wait for us to get our act together. <v Pastor>For all we were yet sinners, God sent his only son to die for us. <v Pastor>Now the Bible talks about three great qualities. <v Pastor>One, of course, is love, and another is faith, and of course, <v Pastor>we have hope. <v Woman>I get this feeling that maybe it's my day and I could win big. <v Woman>And some people do win big.

<v Casino Workers>[Indistinct conversations in the casino] <v Woman>Most of us have a certain amount of money we're willing to lose and cash it in. <v Woman>If you can get so much money <v Woman>and keep playing the whole time, that's good. <v Woman>Sometimes you have bad luck and we just give them our money, <v Woman>but we enjoy every minute of it. <v Women>I got to get the winnings. <v Women>Well I am too or I'm going to be out. <v Women>I don't mind losing as long as I can keep playing. <v Commercial>You're going to be tempted every Sunday. <v Commercial>Over 50 mouthwatering buffet selections.

<v Commercial>Wait for you every Sunday with our famous Sunday champagne brunch <v Commercial>in the all new Canyon coal buffet. And it's all for just $6.95. <v Woman>Sure, Americans think that anyone can be rich and we all <v Woman>have the same chance there. It's what we do, but then there's a lot of luck involved, <v Woman>too. <v Woman>People are fascinated by money, but what can <v Woman>you do without money? <v KEZJ Speaker>You guys have arrived home from the Persian Gulf. <v KEZJ Speaker>We want to say a big and hearty welcome home and a good job, well <v KEZJ Speaker>done. Once again for this Operation Homecoming, if you know someone who is returning from <v KEZJ Speaker>the Gulf give him a call because they'd love to set up a welcome home party for them <v KEZJ Speaker>when they arrive.

<v KEZJ Speaker>734-7678 is that number once again. <v KEZJ Speaker>We have more coming up as we continue. <v Man>He did see action there, well he fixes the <v Man>trucks and whatever that carry the bombs, missiles, whatever out to the <v Man>plane, he can never really say what the mission of their base was. <v Man and Family>[Indistinct conversation between family]. <v Man and Family>We got a black dog coming instead of Dean. <v Man and Family>See the black dog? <v Family>[Indistinct conversation] <v Dean>Hey, Dad, how's it going?

<v Dean>[Dean's father says, "Good to see you."] Come here mom, right now. <v Mother>How are you? Oh, sweetheart it's good that you're home. <v Mother>I was worried about you. <v George W. Bush>Fear and uncertainty caused by the Gulf crisis were understandable. <v George W. Bush>But now that the war is over, oil prices are down. <v George W. Bush>Interest rates are down, and confidence is rightly coming <v George W. Bush>back. Americans can move forward to lend, spend <v George W. Bush>and invest in this, the strongest economy on earth. <v George W. Bush>[Audience claps] <v Farmer>They call it bad lands, but it's beautiful. <v Farmer>There's already been people leaving. <v Farmer>And uh if it continues at this rate, there'll be more people leave. <v Farmer>After five years, if you look around, it's

<v Farmer>thinned us out. <v Farmer>Some of the farms are empty. <v Farmer>The government has taken over and made just leave them sat idle, and <v Farmer>they just let 'em go to weeds supposedly for bird habitat, <v Farmer>unheard of. <v Farmer>On good years, the people who were farming there if they had the water, there's no way <v Farmer>they'd let anybody take over and do something like that. <v Farmer>They'd stay there and raise the crops and take in <v Farmer>the benefits. <v Farmer>Drive around, most of the farms are not even being farmed and you <v Farmer>can't raise a crop. How do we expect to pay the water bills? <v Water Official>We reviewed this contract and our attorneys reviewed this contract and I can find no <v Water Official>place in there that says if we can charge anybody any dip. <v Water Official>We left to maintenance at $12.75 for this year. <v Farmer>You know, we don't mind paying the water when we got it and it's running down the river, <v Farmer>but by golly. You know, time's gonna come, we're going to start barking.

<v Farmer>And if we don't pay our water bill, how are you guys gonna stay with your jobs? <v Farmer>We can-we can go on strike like Union Pacific is. <v Farmer>We can stand in front that office and say, don't pay our water bill. <v Farmer>Then somebody is going to have to come out that door and say, hey, we're going to have to <v Farmer>do something because I don't-I don't know how many more years we can-we can go <v Farmer>through this. <v Woman>The government is for big farming. <v Woman>So we have to stay in there and fight for our little <v Woman>share of everything. <v Woman>The subsidy payments and things they make helps a big farmer. <v Woman>They don't help us little people at all-at all. <v Woman>Everybody has to eat, and that's what we do, we produce food for people <v Woman>to eat, and the way it's going, people are going <v Woman>to be hungry one day.

<v Police Officer>You know, even though the biggest share of the-of Americans live in the big cities, <v Police Officer>that's not what America is about. <v Police Officer>That's-that's the commerce, what America's about and what keeps America going <v Police Officer>is-is the rural area of America, because they're the ones <v Police Officer>that feed all those other people. They're the ones that with their very <v Police Officer>own hands, turn that soil and make the-make <v Police Officer>that food and the things that they that for that commerce to keep going, and <v Police Officer>without it, we wouldn't have America. <v Woman>Well, I tell everybody my roots are down in too deep and I can't <v Woman>pull them out. I thought at one time I wanted to get away and really <v Woman>make something of myself, cause I know there isn't money in farming, <v Woman>not that much. You never get rich here, you just trying to keep <v Woman>going and keep making a living. <v Woman>But then I got the feeling that my father would

<v Woman>want me to stay here and continue this place that he started. <v Woman>And I wanted to get up like I thought my father could look down on <v Woman>it and be proud of me. <v Woman>And if I win the lottery, I'm still going to [she laughs]. <v Woman>But that was always my goal and still kind of is. <v Johnny U>Just put away your worldly <v Johnny U>ambitions, give up and let your <v Johnny U>heart be free, <v Johnny U>you take up my cross and <v Johnny U>then you follow me and I'll <v Johnny U>make you what I want you to be. <v CPB Speaker>Funding for this program has been provided by the Friends of 4, 10

<v CPB Speaker>and KUID and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. <v Speaker>But I never was good at going to church. <v Speaker>Of course I have to go when the folks went and they made me go to Mass. <v Speaker>But I always came home with a headache and I felt like if you <v Speaker>went to church and always come home with a headache, it wasn't the thing to do. <v Speaker>So I don't go to a church, but I do believe in God night. <v Speaker>You pray a lot. <v Speaker>Father, now increase our faith to believe. <v Speaker>For miracles. For those in need healing. <v Speaker>For those that are in the hospital, for those in need direction. <v Speaker>We pray for those that are coming home farther from the war. <v Speaker>Those would be encouraged that you would reunite those families together. <v Speaker>And minister to them in a special way.

<v Speaker>We thank you, Lord God, for how you're moving through our lives and how we can <v Speaker>be your servants and serve you. <v Speaker>Father, we'll give you the praise and worship for it. <v Speaker>So we ask these things in your precious name, a man. <v Speaker>Now, once a month, the senior centers. <v Speaker>Get together and have a bus that takes you to jackpot's so they can <v Speaker>gamble. <v Speaker>And I always say I work hard and I play hard. <v Speaker>That's kind of how the life on the far me is. <v Speaker>I feel sometimes like there isn't enough to do. <v Speaker>You have to make your own fun. <v Speaker>I mean, Gary said nobody's going down or change. <v Speaker>I. <v Speaker>And we know that. Send us separate man from God. <v Speaker>We also know that all this saying come short of the glory of God. <v Speaker>And of course, the wages of sin are death.

<v Speaker>And that is eternal separation from God. <v Speaker>And he didn't wait for us to get our act together. <v Speaker>But while we were yet sinners, God sent his only son to die for us. <v Speaker>Now the Bible talks about three great qualities. <v Speaker>One, of course, is love. And another is faith. <v Speaker>And of course, we have hope. <v Speaker>I get this feeling that maybe it's my day and I could win big <v Speaker>and some people do win big. <v Speaker>Every. <v Speaker>Or do we go on to report <v Speaker>anything? 26 year old Brian to report.

<v Speaker>Most of us have a certain amount of money. <v Speaker>We're willing to lose cash, even <v Speaker>if you can get so much money and keep playing the whole time. <v Speaker>That's good. Sometimes you have bad luck and we just give an <v Speaker>hour. We enjoy every minute of it. <v Speaker>We're. <v Speaker>I don't mind as long as to fight. <v Speaker>You're gonna be tempted every Sunday here at gack speeds over 50 <v Speaker>mouthwatering buffet selections wait for you every Sunday with our famous <v Speaker>Sunday champagne brunch and the all new Kenyan gold buffet. <v Speaker>And it's all for just 6 9 5. <v Speaker>Americans saying that anyone can be rich and we <v Speaker>all have the same chance. There, it's what we do.

<v Speaker>But then there lot of luck involved, too. <v Speaker>But I always say when I give a lottery ticket, I say, well, I got exactly <v Speaker>the same chances a guy that's going to win. <v Speaker>People are fascinated by money. <v Speaker>What? What can you do without moving? <v Speaker>He's a mechanic for a

<v Speaker>rally. He fixes the trucks and whatever that carry the bombs, <v Speaker>missiles, whatever out to the plane, he can never really say <v Speaker>what the mission their base was. <v Speaker>Here we are. <v Speaker>We got the black dog study and <v Speaker>see the black. <v Speaker>Overnight, we can rally and.