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Cara Dutton : The weddings' for woman, if it were for men we would've spat on our hands then shook on it and then you would've bent me over the first thing you could find that would hold our weight.
Jacob Dutton : That's not far from how it happened, honey
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Cara Dutton : Can we speak, Elizabeth?
Elizabeth Strafford : Yes.
Cara Dutton : You know, I admire you. And the opportunities you've had. I regret not sending Jack back east for school. I feel sometimes that we've robbed him of countless experiences, all of which you've had. But what you haven't had, however, is an education about this way of life. You will miss more than weddings for cattle, my dear. If you give birth during calving season it will be a month before he sees his first child. If you give birth in the fall it will be even longer. You will stand knee deep in mud to help a sick foal. You will drive wagons through blizzards with hay for cattle and hear them screaming their gratitude when you approach. And you will be free in a way that most people can barely conceive. Now, if this is not the life you want, you must tell the boy now. Because you have to want more than the boy, you have to want the life, too. Because in this life, there's no debating which is more important: the wedding or the cattle. It's always the cattle.
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Cara Dutton : [narrating] Violence has always haunted this family. It followed us from the Scottish Highlands and the slums of Dublin. It ravaged us upon the coffin ships of Ireland, stranded us on the beaches of New Jersey, devoured us upon the battlefields of Shiloh and Antietam. And it followed us here, lurking beneath the pines and in the rivers.
Cara Dutton : And where it doesn't follow, we hunt it down. We seek it.
