Wagon Train (TV Series)

The Isaiah Quickfox Story (1965)

Frank DeKova: Isaiah Quickfox

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Quotes 

• Isaiah Quickfox : They just sit in silence all night and in silence the spirits came to them, to meet them.

  Prof. Sheffield : What spirits?

  Isaiah Quickfox : The spirits that live in the silence each man carries within himself. That's a meeting no man can avoid if he is to become a man.

• Isaiah Quickfox : Unless we know what fear is, Miss Kate, we can never know what it is to be brave.

• Isaiah Quickfox : This is the place where most of the bats are found. It is a big cavern. My people used to call it the Cave of the Spirits for here is where the young boys were brought and left. Those who were weak died. But those who would be men lived. The braves came for them the next morning and called them worthy and called them men. And called them brothers.

• Cooper Smith : How much of a drop is it?

  Isaiah Quickfox : Nobody knows. Nobody's ever gone down there and come back.

• Cooper Smith : Has he ever tried to do anything to you?

  Isaiah Quickfox : No, not yet. He watches me like the child watching the darkness for a ghost. You cannot harm a ghost. You can only sit in the darkness and wait for it to come to you.

• Isaiah Quickfox : [the Indian returns]  I have come with my people to make our peace with you, Burt Enders.

  Burt Enders : Don't you believe him. Listen. Hear that.

  [Bats] 

  Burt Enders : Hundreds of them, they're all around us.

  Isaiah Quickfox : We are not many and we come in peace. I speak for my people.

  Burt Enders : Don't you believe him. If we hold him, the others will come into the compound... When I give you the signal...

  Isaiah Quickfox : Then you will murder, murder.

  Burt Enders : I had to do it. I had to order it. They were our children, they were our women.

  Isaiah Quickfox : We came to you without weapons. We came in peace.

  Burt Enders : I DIDN"T KNOW THAT!

  Isaiah Quickfox : But when you found out, you had to hide it. You had to silence even our women, our children, to bury forever your secret.

• Charlie Wooster : [Charlie bursts into the saloon]  COOP! LIKE I SAID. Whole town's been massacred.

  Isaiah Quickfox : I saw the lights. My name is Isiah Quickfox - I live here.

  [He is the one solitary Indian that stands in front of Charlie and Coop] 

  Charlie Wooster : You're not fooling us any. You probably got a whole war party hidden behind the buildings.

• Isaiah Quickfox : My people never disturbed it. But I think it should be yours now. Enders, take this treasure for you and your people. It is the greatest gift ever brought into the West.