Wagon Train (TV Series)

The Patience Miller Story (1961)

Rhonda Fleming: Patience Miller

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• Flint McCullough : You were suppose to go there when your husband was a- I don't mean to bring up a painful subject.

  Patience Miller : The subjct of my husband is not painful. William Penn says: This the comfort of friends that through they may be set to die they are ever present because they are immortal.

• Mr. Wise : I'd forgotten how women are about a little dirt.

  Patience Miller : Well, I never expected it to be easy. But William Penn says: No grief, no glory. No cross, no crown.

• Prudence : Mother, there are Indians up there.

  Patience Miller : They're bound to be curious.

  Prudence : I guess no one's ever told them it isn't polite to stare.

• Chief Spotted Horse : HAIR OF FIRE. Medicine Woman.

  Patience Miller : What did thee say?

  Chief Spotted Horse : Forgive us. We not know you medicine woman. Us good Indians.

  Indian : Do not strike us dead.

  Patience Miller : Thee will not be struck dead as long as thee mind thy manners.

• Patience Miller : [the Indians ride into the Mission firing their rifles]  The Indians emptying their guns is a sign of friendship. It says so in the Government pamphlet.

• Flint McCullough : Did the pamphlet also tell you that when an Arapaho boy gets his first bow and arrow he says: I want to kill a white man... Oh, I've heard you people want to be matyrs.

  Patience Miller : Mr McCullough. Thee might not be aware of this, but Chief North Star signed a treaty in Washington that his people would settle down and learn the ways of peace. And in that same treaty the government said they would send people to help them.

  Flint McCullough : Mrs Miller, North Star has the bloodiest reputation on the Plains. Be reasonable, will you.

• Chief North Star : In Arapaho, man go first, protect woman. I don't know big snake not in wigwam, live buffalo, hungry lion.

  Patience Miller : Mr North Star, I do not fear big snakes, live buffalo or angry lions. They fear me.

• Prudence : What does it mean?

  Evening Star : It means it is a joy to be free, does it not?

  Patience Miller : Yes, that's exactly what it means.

  Evening Star : Sometimes I ride my horse as fast as I can and I feel like that. How strange a man in a book could feel as I feel. He is an Indian man?

• Patience Miller : That might be custom, but it's not courtesy.

• Patience Miller : Thy father has killed many people?

  Evening Star : In battle.

  Patience Miller : And scalped them?

  Evening Star : Father has the biggest scalp shirt in whole village. You want see it?

• Chief North Star : Mm, mm. This my fur?

  Patience Miller : Yes.

  Chief North Star : I not know I have so many white ones.

• Evening Star's Mother : [Evening Star's mother introduces the other wives, Brown Robin, Falling Rain, Silver Sparrow and the most recent bride Mist of the Morning]  Oh, no. We not content at all. But Chief North Star promise we soon be six.

  Patience Miller : Thee wants to be six?

  Brown Robin : Yes, yes, more wife, less work.

• Chief North Star : You teach son all people's good. How he know enemy?

  Patience Miller : Must he have enemies?

  Chief North Star : When Ararapo born, they born with enemies. Soon we go on warpath. Son of Chief must protect his people.

  Patience Miller : Against whom?

  Chief North Star : Commanche.

  Patience Miller : Why?

  Chief North Star : Commanche enemy, always enemy. You tell her so.

  Evening Star : It has always been so.

  Chief North Star : Commanche, murderer, thief. Every year they attacks, steal, kill. Bad people.

• Chief North Star : I not like you should agree.

  Patience Miller : Why?

  Chief North Star : When you agree I think you have purpose I do not know and I sure not like. You not afraid of me?

  Patience Miller : Indeed I'm not.

  Chief North Star : But I Mighty Warrior.

  Patience Miller : O, yes. I'm aware of that. I've been looking at your war record.

• Chief North Star : I invite you to LEAVE.

  Patience Miller : And I accept your invitation.

• Patience Miller : Killing this boy will not bring Evening Star back. It will only dishonour his name.

  Chief North Star : If Evening Star was to die young, he should have die on battlefield. Evening Star robbed of this glory. I have son of Dark Eagle, Leader of all Commanche. I give son to him like he give son to me.