Wagon Train (TV Series)

The Zebedee Titus Story (1964)

John McIntire: Christopher Hale

Quotes 

• Christopher Hale : There is one other thing the mountain men are noted for besides their exploits and that is the stories they tell about their exploits. They are the originators of the tall tale.

• Christopher Hale : Who'd you think was going to deal with the Indians? Who'd you think was going to handle the fur trade? Who'd you think was going to do the hunting so that the post would have fresh meat?

• Christopher Hale : I never doubted you, Duke.

  Duke Shannon : You sure sounded like you did.

  Christopher Hale : And you got mad, didn't you?

  Duke Shannon : How'd you expect me to get?

  Christopher Hale : Mad. You'll get over it. Have you any idea what it would mean to an old man like that to be told he was through. That, after all his wonderful accomplishments, the people that owed him the most, were ready to throw him on the woodpile. And we owe him a great deal. This whole country does. I just don't want to be the one to break his heart.

• Christopher Hale : [Voice over by the Wagon Master]  He was an old man, almost the last of those breed of pathfinders, the trailblazers of the Great West, those expert woodsmen who were the hunters and fur trappers, known as the mountain men. The mountain men who opened up the West to immigrants from the East and proved that it was possible for wagons to cross the Continental Divide. No wagon train would have reached the Pacific Ocean if the mountain men hadn't been there first, seeking fresh trapping grounds. And now the fur trade bonanza is gone but to the grateful immigrants moving West, the names of these fearless trailblazers will never die. For the chroniclers of the era, Washington Irving, Ned Buntlines, rendered them unimperishable, names like Jim Bridger, William Sublette, Davy Crockett, Jedidiah Smith, Kit Carson, and this one, Zebedee Titus.

• Christopher Hale : [to Charlie]  You're not going to get any older if you don't tend to sitting on that seat.