Wagon Train (TV Series)

The Duncan McIvor Story (1964)

Denny Miller: Duke Shannon

Quotes 

• Lt. Duncan McIvor : I'm headed for Fort Chacon. Do you know how long it will take to get there?

  Duke Shannon : Exactly four days, two and a half hours, give or take a few minutes for Indian fights.

• Duke Shannon : Bill, right straight ahead.

  Bill Hawks : Company?

  Duke Shannon : Some of our feathered friends, I think. Saw some movement in that copse of trees.

  Bill Hawks : There's no close cover. Horses are too tired to outrun them.

  Duke Shannon : Let's move on up the hill as far as we can, give us some working room anyway.

• Duke Shannon : When they

  [the Indians] 

  Duke Shannon : come out, you take the even numbers, I'll take the odd.

• Garrett : Besides, Sir, the purchases have already been made. It takes a dishonourable man to back out of a deal once it's been consumated.

  Duke Shannon : And I bet there's not much that you don't know about dishonourable men.

• Lt. Duncan McIvor : Look at their eyes.

  Duke Shannon : You're right, Mac. No man's gonna die face up to the sun with his eyes open.

  Lt. Duncan McIvor : Lips are dry and burnt like the rest of them but they're not blistered. When you're thirsty when there's a hot sun like this, you lick your lips and it makes blisters.

  Duke Shannon : But you gotta be alive to do that.

  Bill Hawks : These men were dead before they were staked out.

  Charlie Wooster : They was?

  Lt. Duncan McIvor : Staking out is for torturing live captives. This wasn't done by Indians.

  Duke Shannon : Somebody sure wanted them to look like that.

• Duke Shannon : Mac, Carter is not going to confess, he's not going to do one thing to keep you out of Levonworth.