Wagon Train (TV Series)

The Bob Stuart Story (1964)

John McIntire: Christopher Hale

Quotes 

• Christopher Hale : I usually try to keep my nose where it belongs. But could there be anything I might be able to iron out for you?

  Bob Stuart : I doubt it. I shot him in the back. From an ambush.

  Christopher Hale : I take it you thought you had a good reason?

  Bob Stuart : The best in the world. I was a 90 a month marshal riding into a range war where the pay went often as $500 for a man like Smith. I felt it was a simple equation. To come out alive I had to have the fear of God on my side. And before that day was finished, your Smith was in the hospital with a shotgun blast in the back. Two of his men were dead and that young man over there, that young man had my shotgun broken over his skull. My only regret was that I didn't leave more of them lying there dead. Can I get you another piece of cake?

• Christopher Hale : The older you get, the less you look for perfection in any man.