Fact1: Natty 's widowed father Sol Out of parlays surefootedness work, Fact2: Connie reporting her as abandoned child, Fact3: Natty runs to find father embarking on cross-country journey riding rails along with other penniless travelers and hoboes, Fact4: dog becomes friend in attempt to return to father, Fact5: smith turns out to be kind and fair-minded
Output: Set in 1935, the movie tells the story of a 15yearold tomboy girl, Natty Gann. Out of work because of Depressionera unemployment, Nattys widowed father Sol parlays his surefootedness into getting a job as a lumberjack. To take the job he must leave on almost no notice on a company bus from Chicago to the state of Washington. Unable to find Natty before the bus leaves, he leaves her a letter promising to send her the fare to join him as soon as he has earned it. Meanwhile he makes arrangements with Connie, the shallow and insensitive innkeeper of their roominghouse, so Natty can stay on under Connies temporary supervision. After overhearing Connie reporting her as an abandoned child, Natty runs away to find her father on her own, embarking on a crosscountry journey riding the rails along with other penniless travelers and hoboes. Along the way she saves a wolfdog from a dog fighting ring. In return the dog, whom she calls Wolf, becomes her friend and protector in her attempt to return to her father. She has a brief, innocent romance with another young traveler, Harry, and encounters various obstacles that test her courage, perseverance, and ingenuity, such as being falsely accused of cattle rustling and remanded to a juvenile facility. Natty escapes the detention center and confronts the blacksmith who has been given control of the captured Wolf. The smith turns out to be kind and fairminded, releases Wolf to Natty, and gives her food, a ride to a train station and enough money for a ticket. She is cheated of her ticket money by an unscrupulous ticket agent and narrowly escapes his attempt to turn her in, returning to riding the rails illicitly on freight trains, where she is unexpectedly reunited with Harry in a railside shantytown. When Nattys father calls Connie, she tells him Natty is gone. In a later phone call he is grieved to learn that Nattys wallet was found underneath a derailed freight train  unbeknownst to him, she lived through the crash. He is given a weeks leave from the lumber company to search through the wreckage for her, to no avail. He returns to the lumber camp and requests the most dangerous jobs, known as widows work, now that he seems to have little to live for. Arriving on the west coast, Nattys journey takes several more challenging turns. Harry finds work through the federal Works Progress Administration in San Francisco, but she declines his invitation to go with him, preferring to find her father. The logging operation does not list Sol Gann among their workers, but Natty is undeterred, searching fruitlessly for him by showing other loggers his photo in a pendant he has given her which is her last trace of her parents. Wolf hears the calls of other wolves nearby and Natty tearfully tells him to go join his own kind. The company clerk catches her in one of the backwoods camps and makes arrangements for her to be sent back down the mountain for her own safety. The clerk then unexpectedly finds the returned letter her father had sent enclosing her train ticket to rejoin him and tells Natty of his location. Natty sets out on foot and sees a company truck pass by loaded with injured men. In the truck, she glimpses her father. She runs after it, calling out for him, but is eventually devastated when it outpaces her. She hears his voice call out for her and finds him standing in the road. They share an emotional embrace with Wolf unknowingly looking on from a nearby cliff.