WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.836 --> 00:00:04.037 Something hunts 2 00:00:04.037 --> 00:00:07.173 these mountains shaped for myth 3 00:00:08.475 --> 00:00:11.177 formed by the spirit of the mountain man. 4 00:00:11.478 --> 00:00:13.113 He lives, by the way. 5 00:00:13.113 --> 00:00:22.188 He hunts. 6 00:00:24.290 --> 00:00:27.660 Born of the mountainous blood of the Indian, 7 00:00:28.161 --> 00:00:31.231 he survives by heart and long, bottled. 8 00:00:32.699 --> 00:00:33.933 He's alone. 9 00:00:33.933 --> 00:00:35.235 He's free. 10 00:00:35.235 --> 00:00:38.838 He's forged by the elements. 11 00:00:39.472 --> 00:00:42.242 This journey with the last of a breed. 12 00:00:43.043 --> 00:00:45.612 Sasquatch, mountain man. 13 00:00:46.246 --> 00:00:47.947 Laramie. Sasquatch. Miller. 14 00:00:47.947 --> 00:00:51.451 This has been an epic voyage of discovery in his single 15 00:00:51.451 --> 00:00:53.887 season. 16 00:00:59.459 --> 00:01:00.326 Black powder 17 00:01:00.326 --> 00:01:03.363 has been a way to live off the land. 18 00:01:04.197 --> 00:01:07.700 But when it comes to tradition, especially with the terror 19 00:01:07.700 --> 00:01:10.770 king of the North American Wilderness, disaster 20 00:01:10.804 --> 00:01:13.106 can hang on a small copper cap. 21 00:01:16.109 --> 00:01:18.711 Now, the question is, which is faster? 22 00:01:18.945 --> 00:01:22.115 A charging grizzly or a bulky muzzle loader. 23 00:01:26.352 --> 00:01:27.353 Could bear standing up 24 00:01:27.353 --> 00:01:31.024 looking to turn bad. 25 00:01:31.691 --> 00:01:35.195 A dead grizzly does indeed concentrate the mind. 26 00:01:36.062 --> 00:01:40.733 But Laramie is quest for the dangerous game of the mountain men and their 27 00:01:45.338 --> 00:01:45.872 tooth and 28 00:01:45.872 --> 00:01:49.776 claw have not been the only threat as Sasquatch faced. 29 00:01:49.776 --> 00:01:54.481 White death on his way to making his winter meet. 30 00:02:00.053 --> 00:02:02.255 Laramie has packed the trappers basket, 31 00:02:02.889 --> 00:02:05.458 and as he trekked across the historic names 32 00:02:05.458 --> 00:02:08.728 on the old maps, he's lived by a code of ethics 33 00:02:08.728 --> 00:02:12.098 that has added a special complexity and meaning to the course 34 00:02:12.098 --> 00:02:15.602 of his journey. 35 00:02:17.070 --> 00:02:17.837 To Tonka 36 00:02:17.837 --> 00:02:21.774 is the name from Laramie, his own native heritage for the most 37 00:02:21.774 --> 00:02:24.077 revered animal in all the West. 38 00:02:25.512 --> 00:02:28.515 And for Laramie, there's only one true way 39 00:02:28.515 --> 00:02:37.624 to hunt this icon. 40 00:02:43.563 --> 00:02:44.364 For Laramie, 41 00:02:44.364 --> 00:02:48.468 the arc of his quest now carries him back to the bedrock of his life 42 00:02:48.835 --> 00:02:52.372 the great shining mountains and the long hunt for the one animal 43 00:02:52.372 --> 00:02:54.774 that most made him what he is. 44 00:02:54.774 --> 00:02:57.377 The American Al Gore, uppity. 45 00:03:01.714 --> 00:03:04.651 Jeremy Miller has the sound of the Elk's bugle 46 00:03:04.651 --> 00:03:10.323 and the sight of its friends to carry him into the mountains. 47 00:03:11.658 --> 00:03:12.959 While 48 00:03:17.897 --> 00:03:20.934 the subtle and sophisticated art of calling elk 49 00:03:21.067 --> 00:03:29.609 includes the cow whistle for. 50 00:04:03.343 --> 00:04:04.377 Songs. 51 00:04:08.615 --> 00:04:09.515 Boy now up on a. 52 00:04:09.515 --> 00:04:10.583 Mountain time. 53 00:04:10.583 --> 00:04:18.057 Eleanor Jackson, Rocky Mountain, Elk, Colorado. 54 00:04:18.057 --> 00:04:20.193 Public Land. Beau hunting is tough. 55 00:04:20.493 --> 00:04:24.063 I don't care what anybody tries to tell you, it's a very low success rate. 56 00:04:24.097 --> 00:04:27.066 We get so much rain that you can't go 57 00:04:27.066 --> 00:04:30.703 sit on one waterhole and expect to kill, you know, a decent bull or no. 58 00:04:30.937 --> 00:04:32.705 Because they travel so much. 59 00:04:32.705 --> 00:04:34.974 They travel ten, 12 miles in one night. 60 00:04:35.608 --> 00:04:38.077 If you can kill enough with the bulls publicly in Colorado, 61 00:04:38.077 --> 00:04:39.646 you've done something. 62 00:04:40.313 --> 00:04:42.548 For the mountain men who preceded Laramie. 63 00:04:42.615 --> 00:04:45.785 These lands were all public, open and free, 64 00:04:46.352 --> 00:04:48.588 but they were not all created equal. 65 00:04:48.888 --> 00:04:53.660 And even the mountain men had to hunt hard to discover the finest areas 66 00:05:06.639 --> 00:05:10.543 of the mountain. 67 00:05:10.543 --> 00:05:12.745 Big game is not limited to elk. 68 00:05:13.212 --> 00:05:20.586 This young ram has more peaks to climb. 69 00:05:20.586 --> 00:05:24.090 Laramie is calling sounds irresistible to at least 70 00:05:24.090 --> 00:05:25.558 one bull 71 00:05:37.704 --> 00:05:38.338 striker. 72 00:05:38.338 --> 00:05:44.143 That's what I wrote for. 73 00:05:44.143 --> 00:05:48.514 Sasquatch is brought to you by Honda Power Sports for great deals on gifts 74 00:05:48.514 --> 00:05:55.254 that go it's go time at your Honda dealer. 75 00:05:55.254 --> 00:05:59.192 The marrow of Laramie Miller's bones is mountains light please 76 00:05:59.726 --> 00:06:01.994 calling and hunting Elk are in his blood 77 00:06:02.895 --> 00:06:05.598 even when victory goes to the wild party. 78 00:06:06.299 --> 00:06:10.136 And boy 79 00:06:10.203 --> 00:06:12.405 now up on a mountainside, melanoma. 80 00:06:13.373 --> 00:06:15.341 Some rocky mountain out. 81 00:06:27.487 --> 00:06:29.188 One bull may have bolted, 82 00:06:29.188 --> 00:06:31.891 but Laramie Call and draws the attention of another 83 00:06:41.634 --> 00:06:43.669 but it's deer and not help that 84 00:06:43.669 --> 00:06:46.005 put in an appearance 85 00:06:55.248 --> 00:06:56.582 for the mountain men. 86 00:06:56.582 --> 00:06:58.751 A dog could be as vital as a horse. 87 00:06:59.152 --> 00:07:04.824 Sometimes in extreme ways. 88 00:07:04.824 --> 00:07:10.563 O hope of finding elk vanishes and crew famished beckons mountain man William 89 00:07:10.563 --> 00:07:13.933 Sublette and Black Harris as they snowshoe 90 00:07:13.933 --> 00:07:16.502 500 miles through blinding blizzards. 91 00:07:16.936 --> 00:07:20.473 Their royal wolf dog carries a £50 pack of jerky. 92 00:07:20.973 --> 00:07:23.342 But the Indian Dogs pack has torn, 93 00:07:23.676 --> 00:07:27.480 and all the jerky is lost in seeming amends. 94 00:07:27.480 --> 00:07:29.549 The dog catches a scrawny hare, 95 00:07:29.549 --> 00:07:32.752 but the men are ultimately reduced to eating raw raven. 96 00:07:33.186 --> 00:07:36.122 The failing dog can barely keep up on the marches. 97 00:07:36.489 --> 00:07:39.392 And now, beside a feeble campfire, three 98 00:07:39.392 --> 00:07:43.629 gaunt figures unable to travel farther, face starvation. 99 00:07:43.963 --> 00:07:47.400 Without elk, two of them will have to look to the third 100 00:07:47.667 --> 00:07:58.978 for desperately needed nourishment, the 101 00:08:09.522 --> 00:08:11.424 cow, elk ranchers. 102 00:08:11.424 --> 00:08:14.427 A cow make different calls in each sound, and each pitch 103 00:08:15.695 --> 00:08:17.763 relates to how she's feeling at that time. 104 00:08:17.763 --> 00:08:20.733 You know, you got call to her calf. He's got cattle calls. 105 00:08:20.733 --> 00:08:22.869 The other cows, you've got cow estrus calls 106 00:08:22.969 --> 00:08:25.838 for your estrus calls are when the cows are ready to be bred. 107 00:08:25.838 --> 00:08:26.973 And that's what really gets him. 108 00:08:26.973 --> 00:08:30.810 Bulls fired up and for the most part, they're longer and drawn out, 109 00:08:31.077 --> 00:08:35.681 have a lot more energy and them. You. 110 00:08:36.482 --> 00:08:38.885 Know, real kind of long, drawn out, higher pitched. 111 00:08:38.885 --> 00:08:41.153 If you've got a bull that's getting antsy 112 00:08:41.153 --> 00:08:43.389 and you want to calm them down, a good way to calm him down 113 00:08:43.389 --> 00:08:47.159 and some cow calf calls would make him more willing to come in. 114 00:08:47.159 --> 00:08:48.327 For the most part that we. 115 00:08:50.396 --> 00:08:56.002 000000. 116 00:08:56.669 --> 00:09:00.106 You know, just real raw, soft and low key. 117 00:09:00.506 --> 00:09:03.709 And the better, you know, the different sounds they make, 118 00:09:04.043 --> 00:09:06.045 the more success you're going to have. 119 00:09:06.045 --> 00:09:07.013 I was real fortunate. 120 00:09:07.013 --> 00:09:10.016 I was raised up in a hunting family, but nothing else in my entire life. 121 00:09:10.683 --> 00:09:14.053 My uncle owned an outfitting business, distributed VHS 122 00:09:14.053 --> 00:09:15.988 is back in the seventies and eighties. 123 00:09:15.988 --> 00:09:17.557 My grandpa has been hunting his whole life. 124 00:09:17.557 --> 00:09:19.258 My dad got it from my uncle. 125 00:09:19.258 --> 00:09:21.494 I've been lucky to learn from some of the best. 126 00:09:21.494 --> 00:09:24.931 By the time I was young man, I was already educated email 127 00:09:25.197 --> 00:09:27.934 better than anybody that could have been out there 20 years 128 00:09:32.838 --> 00:09:33.806 for Laramie. 129 00:09:33.806 --> 00:09:36.742 The Mountain Man Way is simply part of an old family 130 00:09:36.742 --> 00:09:49.155 tradition. A 131 00:09:50.823 --> 00:09:53.893 A Bull spawns 132 00:10:02.368 --> 00:10:02.735 right there. 133 00:10:02.735 --> 00:10:03.603 That's what. I look for. 134 00:10:11.877 --> 00:10:13.379 In a mountain wilderness. 135 00:10:13.379 --> 00:10:18.184 LARAMIE Sasquatch Miller is taking the ultimate test hunting. 136 00:10:18.184 --> 00:10:22.221 Elk with bone marrow on public land is as extreme 137 00:10:22.221 --> 00:10:25.591 and challenging as it gets. 138 00:10:25.591 --> 00:10:27.360 He just to get up here. 139 00:10:27.360 --> 00:10:30.096 See it, to calm down people of maybe go 140 00:10:30.096 --> 00:10:41.674 after him again. 141 00:10:41.674 --> 00:10:44.710 In Camp Laramie has wild Barbary sheep 142 00:10:44.710 --> 00:10:48.848 meat to fix with potatoes and while onions they give him strength 143 00:10:48.848 --> 00:10:53.986 to hunt elk. 144 00:10:53.986 --> 00:10:57.790 The Republic of Texas is the far end of the Mountain Man Trail 145 00:10:58.124 --> 00:11:02.128 and where Laramie ventured to hunt out and that's pretty cool. 146 00:11:02.728 --> 00:11:04.964 At 25 yards. 147 00:11:04.964 --> 00:11:07.600 Just a bunch using kids, 148 00:11:07.600 --> 00:11:10.636 nothing more than dark. 149 00:11:10.636 --> 00:11:16.509 Still, the collegiate rock trails were once trod by the boots of Spanish 150 00:11:16.509 --> 00:11:19.712 conquistadors, then mountain men bent 151 00:11:19.712 --> 00:11:22.882 on finding everything from Badger to Jaguar. 152 00:11:22.882 --> 00:11:26.352 For Laramie, the quest was this large wild ram, 153 00:11:26.686 --> 00:11:44.704 dressed in fringes of long hair, £300 on the hood 154 00:11:45.071 --> 00:11:49.675 and able to scale rock faces sheer as skyscraper windows. 155 00:11:50.910 --> 00:11:52.678 Now the journeys spirals 156 00:11:52.678 --> 00:11:55.381 back to the heart of the game for Laramie Miller. 157 00:11:57.049 --> 00:12:01.053 Luckily for all concerned, Laramie has sufficient sheep meat 158 00:12:01.420 --> 00:12:09.528 for the moment, black hair is still starving. 159 00:12:09.528 --> 00:12:12.498 William Sublette that their wolf dog must die. 160 00:12:13.032 --> 00:12:17.636 Shuddering in the frozen night of freezing, Sublette Weekly concurs. 161 00:12:18.404 --> 00:12:21.640 Sensing its fate, the dog flashes its fierce yellow 162 00:12:21.640 --> 00:12:24.343 eyes and bears its fangs as Harris approaches. 163 00:12:24.744 --> 00:12:28.814 But the dog also is too weak to stand, and its growl 164 00:12:28.814 --> 00:12:32.785 becomes a pitiful howl as the first blow of the tomahawk descends 165 00:12:33.452 --> 00:12:35.721 the hatchet head, then flies off the handle. 166 00:12:36.255 --> 00:12:39.759 A wretched sublette must get up to assist in the assassination, 167 00:12:40.126 --> 00:12:42.261 stabbing the dog with his knife. 168 00:12:42.261 --> 00:12:43.395 The dog is thrown 169 00:12:43.395 --> 00:12:47.466 on the embers of the fire, but it's not dead and kicks itself off. 170 00:12:47.867 --> 00:12:51.570 At last the terrible deed is done and the dog roasted 171 00:12:51.904 --> 00:12:54.874 the mountain men staving off death with their cruel 172 00:12:54.874 --> 00:13:06.652 virtues. 173 00:13:06.652 --> 00:13:07.486 Could not bear 174 00:13:08.454 --> 00:13:12.491 to descend into the timber. 175 00:13:12.491 --> 00:13:14.994 Upper income would drop back down and go down the valley 176 00:13:15.661 --> 00:13:20.833 so that I can get the wind right and come up warm. 177 00:13:20.833 --> 00:13:22.802 This is for mountain goats. 178 00:13:22.802 --> 00:13:29.241 No, sasquatches. 179 00:13:29.241 --> 00:13:33.045 This looks like a good little transition area for transition from their feeding 180 00:13:33.045 --> 00:13:36.115 with a very real mullet are being to see if I can get a response 181 00:13:40.319 --> 00:13:45.291 I, I like to stop 182 00:13:45.858 --> 00:13:46.659 you know in places 183 00:13:46.659 --> 00:13:47.560 I think the elk are going 184 00:13:47.560 --> 00:13:50.629 to be hanging out at that time of day and it would be a cattle call 185 00:13:50.629 --> 00:13:51.964 and see if I can't get a reaction. 186 00:13:51.964 --> 00:13:53.999 So I'm not bumping elk and walking into him. 187 00:13:57.636 --> 00:13:59.905 That a bull being run up the canyon that is 188 00:14:01.273 --> 00:14:03.342 still. Shifty, so. 189 00:14:03.342 --> 00:14:16.555 Hesitant to move, you know, it's. 190 00:14:45.351 --> 00:14:46.185 For Laramie. 191 00:14:46.185 --> 00:14:50.522 It's as if time going back across the centuries to the old mountain men 192 00:14:50.823 --> 00:14:53.492 as drawn to a halt 193 00:15:09.608 --> 00:15:11.310 right there. 194 00:15:11.310 --> 00:15:16.548 That's what I live for. 195 00:15:16.548 --> 00:15:20.920 Sasquatch is brought to you by Honda Power Sports four great deals on gifts 196 00:15:20.920 --> 00:15:26.659 that go it's go time at your Honda dealer. 197 00:15:26.659 --> 00:15:29.795 The wild and free summits of the Rocky Mountains 198 00:15:35.367 --> 00:15:36.769 for Laramie Sasquatch. 199 00:15:36.769 --> 00:15:42.308 Miller It's the heart and soul of the way he takes on life. 200 00:15:42.308 --> 00:15:45.444 You know, I can see. 201 00:15:45.678 --> 00:15:47.012 The final ascent 202 00:15:47.012 --> 00:16:06.899 begins. 203 00:16:06.899 --> 00:16:10.169 It's an elk Laramie could take, but it's a bull with more 204 00:16:10.169 --> 00:16:13.806 useful years ahead of it. 205 00:16:13.806 --> 00:16:17.977 The sacred tenet of the Native Americans is that the land, the sky, 206 00:16:18.043 --> 00:16:21.113 the water and the games can't be ours to attach 207 00:16:21.113 --> 00:16:25.718 these truths at best, we may only be stewards and service. 208 00:16:26.719 --> 00:16:28.721 We see that in traveling through here like crazy. 209 00:16:28.721 --> 00:16:29.455 This game trails. 210 00:16:29.455 --> 00:16:31.657 Everywhere, a lot of fresh tracks and so on. 211 00:16:31.657 --> 00:16:32.691 Our fresh robes. 212 00:16:32.691 --> 00:16:35.294 There's a big meadow up at the end, up above Timberline. 213 00:16:36.028 --> 00:16:38.464 I think we're going to come up here and sit and wait for him to come back 214 00:16:38.464 --> 00:16:39.264 if he. 215 00:16:41.967 --> 00:16:44.670 Can track the easiest way to tell the difference. 216 00:16:44.670 --> 00:16:45.971 20 gallon of water. 217 00:16:45.971 --> 00:16:48.374 Cow shoulders will be more narrow. 218 00:16:48.640 --> 00:16:51.443 Thinner hips. 219 00:16:51.443 --> 00:16:53.012 He gives birth to calves. 220 00:16:53.012 --> 00:16:54.580 It's kind of natural bulls coming together 221 00:16:54.580 --> 00:16:56.749 in order to show his shoulders can be wider. 222 00:16:57.750 --> 00:16:59.318 The cows can do the opposite. 223 00:16:59.318 --> 00:17:01.587 Our shoulders can be narrower than ribs 224 00:17:01.587 --> 00:17:04.723 and with age, although the cow more definite. 225 00:17:04.723 --> 00:17:08.727 But you can tell on their track, you know, right there, that's a really young cow. 226 00:17:08.794 --> 00:17:11.063 Their hands are just a little bit wider. 227 00:17:11.063 --> 00:17:13.766 Their shoulders are not much, but just a little 228 00:17:42.594 --> 00:17:44.663 meaning. 229 00:17:45.964 --> 00:17:47.900 You can tell there's no better 230 00:17:47.900 --> 00:17:50.035 put it down sometime fairly recently. 231 00:17:50.869 --> 00:17:53.906 So I go real slower in their battery. 232 00:17:53.939 --> 00:17:56.175 I usually don't like to disturb their petting area, but 233 00:17:57.609 --> 00:18:08.220 that's exactly what you got to do. 234 00:18:08.220 --> 00:18:12.791 And the backbone of the continent, lone trail that lines 235 00:18:12.791 --> 00:18:16.695 across land and time, a lifetime in a season 236 00:18:17.863 --> 00:18:20.132 in the taste of the full wind. 237 00:18:20.132 --> 00:18:55.801 Laramie senses the final goal of his journey. 238 00:18:55.801 --> 00:19:05.043 Laramie receives an answer. 239 00:19:05.043 --> 00:19:05.844 There's more than. 240 00:19:05.844 --> 00:19:08.847 One more call in America. 241 00:19:31.136 --> 00:19:34.173 Now drop the bugle and knock an arrow 242 00:20:13.579 --> 00:20:16.114 like an arrow is. 243 00:20:16.114 --> 00:20:19.518 Let fly in the woods and there is one man 244 00:20:19.651 --> 00:20:23.522 and one help to hear it. 245 00:20:23.522 --> 00:20:26.758 But we get this bold visual up the canyon first thing this morning. 246 00:20:27.092 --> 00:20:30.262 We worked our way up onto this bench and couldn't get him to bugle 247 00:20:30.262 --> 00:20:33.465 and finally ended up on this bench and got him to respond to this again. And 248 00:20:34.499 --> 00:20:37.069 he was calling we wouldn't real fired up. 249 00:20:37.069 --> 00:20:40.772 And so I started chuckling at him and 250 00:20:40.939 --> 00:20:43.342 the whole canyon erupted 251 00:20:46.511 --> 00:20:46.878 right there. 252 00:20:46.878 --> 00:20:48.614 That's where I look for 253 00:20:57.189 --> 00:20:58.056 a place. 254 00:20:58.290 --> 00:21:01.693 To live, for a life in the wild, a life of freedom 255 00:21:02.327 --> 00:21:05.163 to follow the treks of the mountain. Men. 256 00:21:05.163 --> 00:21:09.134 That is the Sasquatch way.