Wagon Train (TV Series)

The Barbara Lindquist Story (1964)

Robert Fuller: Cooper Smith

Quotes 

• Christopher Hale : Coop, mind if I give the usual warning about wine, women and Poker?

  Cooper Smith : Not at all, Chris. Like you said, you've been out of touch.

• Barbara Lindquist : Coop, I expected to find men out here brutalised by their environment. I must say, they have lived up to expectation. But you're intelligent, well-informed, warm, friendly. Would you please tell me how you live your life in this desolation of nothing but chalk dust, red hot sun and sudden death?

  Cooper Smith : It's not all that bad, Barbara.

  Barbara Lindquist : It's worse.

  Cooper Smith : It's the only life I know.

• Cooper Smith : Come here, Barbara, I'm gonna draw you up a map of the trail ahead. It's gonna mean learning a dozen turns and a hundred landmarks. So we're going to take a little at a time.

  Barbara Lindquist : I'm not very good at that kind of thing. I have no sense of direction. I get lost in a Boston carriage. Anyway you'll be with me.

  Cooper Smith : It'll be better if we play it safe.

• Cooper Smith : Barbara, would a pretty girl like you really burden herself for the rest of her life with a cripple.

• Cooper Smith : What of a man was born under an open sky, hunted buffalo on the plains, and antelope in the forest, caught mountain trout in the stream for breakfast? What if a man spent his life on a horse and now can't ride?

• Cooper Smith : Who asked you to mother me?

  Barbara Lindquist : I volunteered. I was hoping for the chance to shoot up your other leg.

  Cooper Smith : At least you don't pass out a whole lot of phoney pity... Did you make this

  [soup] 

  Cooper Smith : ?

  Barbara Lindquist : Mm, mm.

  Cooper Smith : I thought so, it's terrible.

  Cooper Smith : How would you know? The only thing you're used to is pork and ashes served with sand.

  Cooper Smith : You better watch out. I'll quote you to Wooster.