Wagon Train (TV Series)

The Annie Griffith Story (1959)

Ward Bond: Major Seth Adams

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Quotes 

• Major Seth Adams : Well, I'll be...

  Flint McCullough : Major.

  Major Seth Adams : Howdy.

  Flint McCullough : Sorry I held you up, Major. But I ran into a little trouble.

  Major Seth Adams : Wasn't you that held us up, was getting ready to go on without you anyhow.

  Flint McCullough : I see.

• Major Seth Adams : You listen to me, boy. I don't know whether we gonna get through the Sierra or not. We got trouble as it is without some strange female coming along complicating matters worse than they are.

• Flint McCullough : So maybe you'd be obliged and happy if she could ride in your wagon.

  Major Seth Adams : My wagon?

  Flint McCullough : Yes, Major. Thank you very much, Major. Come this way, Annie. I'll show you the Major's wagon.

• Charlie Wooster : Why ain't people smart like me?

  Major Seth Adams : You know, Charlie, I wonder how I keep forgetting how really smart you are.

  Charlie Wooster : I'd like to know that myself.

  Major Seth Adams : Well, in case you break the point of that shovel, I suggest you use something harder and more pointed. Like your head.

  Charlie Wooster : What what did I say?

  Bill Hawks : Too much.

• Pop : Just keep totting away at this and you got your own fire.

  Major Seth Adams : [the Major has a slug from the jug]  Well, thanks, Pop. Thanks.

• Major Seth Adams : Y'know something, I never saw a wind that could blow as hard as a Texan can.

  Cleve Colter : That's right. And if I wasn't blowing against it, this whole train'd be moving backwards.

  Major Seth Adams : I'll see that you get a medal for it.

  Cleve Colter : There's a feel of snow in it.

  Major Seth Adams : It's too early to snow in this country, Mister.

• Charlie Wooster : I bet wherever he is, he's hip deep in snow this minute.

  Major Seth Adams : It's too early to snow in this country, Charlie.

  Charlie Wooster : Why them Sierra Passes are full of snow. You can't tell me...

  Major Seth Adams : I'm telling you it's too early to snow in this country. And you'd better not say anything different, get all these people in the train panicked, I'll stick your head in the first snowdrift we come to.

  Charlie Wooster : Now, what'd I say?

  Bill Hawks : Too much.

• Major Seth Adams : Let me tell you something, Mister. This train is far ahead of where that other one was. We got food, we got fuel, and we got clothes. Our stock's in good condition and we're not lost. And as far as I know, everybody on this train is in his right mind. So if I was you folks, I go get my belly full and keep warm. And if you gotta think about wagon trains that came this way, think about the ones that got through.

• Major Seth Adams : Snow cloud sure is the devil.

  Bill Hawks : Yeah, and there's no mistaking them. What would you give to see old McCullough come riding right out from under them right now.

  Major Seth Adams : That's more than I got, I'll tell you that. It's be advice to these people if he'd show up. If he doesn't come in tomorrow at dawn, I'm gonna send you and Charlie out looking for him

  [Bill's hat is blown off by the wind] 

  Bill Hawks : Figure he's lost?

  Major Seth Adams : No, he's not lost. He's never lost. I figure he's snowbound. He's got to be

  [Bill retrieves his hat from the ground behind them] 

• Cleve Colter : You must know what a Northener is.

  Major Seth Adams : Yeah. In every place else besides Texas, it's just a wind, a big wind.

  Cleve Colter : Freezing wind. Right out of the North. Comes roaring down the plain from Canada. Turns everything to ice. Snow.

  Major Seth Adams : I guess you been over the High Sierras, huh?

  Cleve Colter : No.

  Major Seth Adams : Well, I have and so has Flint McCullough. We both know darn well that some of those passes are full of snow, and we also know that some of the passes down south are just as clear as Main Street. And McCullough's gonna pick the right ones for us.

• Major Seth Adams : And I've got two smart young boys like you working for me that can't even handle a woman with a shotgun.

  Charlie Wooster : You never saw a woman like her. We wouldn't be much good to you dead.

  Major Seth Adams : You're not much good to me alive either, are you?

• Charlie Wooster : Tell him about that kooked crazy female. If you ask me, Flint would be better off with the Shoshone.

  Major Seth Adams : Female? Shoshone? What the devil are you talking about? Did you get a little snowblind up there?

  Charlie Wooster : I could've, there's enough snow.