Wagon Train (TV Series)
The Steve Campden Story (1959)
Ward Bond: Major Seth Adams
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Quotes
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Major Seth Adams : Well?
Charlie Wooster : It got so cold up there I thought my intestines turned to icicles.
Major Seth Adams : You wanted to go.
Flint McCullough : It's no good, Major. Another five miles and the snow will be up to the wagon beds.
Major Seth Adams : That bad, huh?
Flint McCullough : Yeah, sometimes you can't even follow the trail.
Major Seth Adams : Flint, if we have to winter here, half the stock won't make it through to Spring and a lot people won't either.
Flint McCullough : There are other routes.
Major Seth Adams : Such as?
Flint McCullough : The old fur trappers had a way of getting into the Green River country. In Jim Bridger's day it was a pretty good trail.
Major Seth Adams : Yeah, that was 30 years ago.
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Flint McCullough : Sort of a reconnaissance mission.
Major Seth Adams : Which way are you going to reconnoitre?
Flint McCullough : South towards Green River country. Any objection?
Major Seth Adams : Ah, I suppose not. But you be back here before sundown tomorrow. You hear?
Flint McCullough : I won't be late.
Major Seth Adams : If your guess is wrong, you get word back to me before then.
Flint McCullough : It's no guess.
Major Seth Adams : No?
Flint McCullough : It's a calculated risk. First principle of tactics. Remember?
Major Seth Adams : Get out of here.
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Major Seth Adams : I swear, Flint, it's a good thing this train of ours doesn't run on the ocean. You'd come back riding the whales, spouting stories about a great, big sea monster. Ha, ha, ha. You know that horse of yours came back by itself. We kinda figured you might be in real trouble. Charlie tried to ask some questions about it, he wouldn't answer. We kinda thought the horse was plain ashamed of what you was up to.
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Major Seth Adams : Old Whiskers here, he says it's definitely gonna be a thaw, he can feel it in his bunions.