Elsa is staring at a traveler (gypsy) as she rides by.

She's realized that she's a cowboy.

Elsa wants someone to make her a set of pants. She rips a charm off of her bracelet and gives it to the woman revealing that James hid his money in jewelery.

In her new pants and an altered top from her dress, Elsa joins the others. Margaret doesn't think it's a bad idea but doesn't want to know how she got them, either.

The men are trying to figure out how to get across the river, especially since Josef and his people can't swim. They were never allowed and whipped if they dared.

The Duttons will help transport people across the river, and Margaret will drive the wagon.

James and Shea have a moment, and Thomas wants to put James in his place.

Josef wonders if Oregon is worth the risk. Shea assures him it is, and then he tells Thomas he cannot believe these people haven't run back toward home already. Shea thinks that the unknown is the scariest thing in life, but Thomas tells him nothing is scarier than having a whip to your back, and these people are never going home to face that again.

James wants to break camp tonight and cross the river. They can't help the others if they don't.

Elsa is singing Beautiful Dreamer while watching the cattle when Ennis rides up. She says she's too shy to continue singing. He talks her into it and kisses her mid-song. They kiss a long time.

Elsa wonders if James is angry at her, but he said he can't treat her like an adult sometimes and a child others. Her mother is a different story, and he says Elsa is telling her.

Noemi offers dinner to Thomas, and he doesn't want her to waste supplies on him. She would have no supplies if it weren't for him. They have a cute chat about love and freedom.

Josef and his wife talk about Oregon while listening to the dangers around them before they make love to start a family.

James and Margaret are at the river. His horse is struggling. It's not going to be an easy journey, and Margaret has a more difficult one than James. They make a plan to cross, with James telling her there's nothing worth dying for on that wagon. If she has to abandon it, she can swim up river and he'll find her.

She makes it, but tells James it's a lot harder than he said it would be.

Shea recalls leading a charge. That kind of warfare is just nuts. People were mowed down in front of him as he sobbed toward the sky.

It was a nightmare. He wakes up with a scream and is annoyed that Thomas sleeps like a baby. Thomas says it's because he sleeps to escape the living nightmare he enbdured growing up.

Shea isn't pleased to see the Duttons across the river.

Elsa sleeps in, and Ennis teases her.

Shea tells Josef and his wife that the people to leave most everything behind. Instead of helping people to understand the dangers, they speak angrily and without compassion. It's not easy to watch.

They were holding onto their past and items of their trade, but Shea says they aren't those things anymore. They're pioneers until they get where they're going.

Shea decides to tell a man begging to keep his instrument that if he doesn't unload his wagon, Shea will burn it to the ground.

The field is soon strewn with all of their earthly possessions and heirlooms.

The travelers cannot believe they are going to cross that river. A rope is strewn across and the people make a chain to work thier way across. A man falls under, and Thomas grabs his wife and gets her across. They're all sobbing.

It's time to get the wagons across, and Thomas hopes that cool heads prevail because the alternative is drowning.

James tells Margaret to remove her skirt because if it gets wet, she'll drown.

Wade, Ennis, and Elsa arrive in the field of abandoned items, and Elsa gets off her horse to play the piano.

The music plays across the utter chaos of the river crossing. James and Margaret try saving as many people as possible, and at one point, Margaret is dragged into the water.

They're saying goodbye to the life they knew, and as she plays, Elsa begins to cry.

Margaret had to tear herself from the woman who dragged her down, and when she gets to land, she's gutted at what happened.

Elsa realizes that no matter how much they love the land, the land will never love them back.