Wagon Train (TV Series)

The Richard Bloodgood Story (1964)

Robert Fuller: Cooper Smith

Quotes 

• Charlie Wooster : Coop, you want to tell Uncle Charlie what the trouble is?

  Cooper Smith : There's nothing to tell. And since when did I join your family?

  Charlie Wooster : Oh, when you joined the wagon train. We're all one family here, Mr Chris, Bill, Barney, you, me. Just like blood ties and brothers don't fight with each other either.

  Cooper Smith : Sometimes they do. Brothers have been known to kill each other.

  Charlie Wooster : I'm sure when they do it doesn't make God happy with them.

• Charlie Wooster : Piney Flats, Texas? That's where you stem from, ain't it Coop? Huh?

  Cooper Smith : Yeah. What about it?

  Charlie Wooster : Nothing. I was just thinking. Must be a nice little town. You know, pine trees, pine cones, bet it smells nice there too, yessir. It's a small town, ain't it, Coop?

  Cooper Smith : Yes, it's a small town. What's your point?

  Charlie Wooster : Nothing. I was just making small talk while I tidy up. Funny coincidence, now, come to think of it, Piney Flats is where that Sangre comes from.

  Cooper Smith : What's funny about it?

  Charlie Wooster : Kind of a funny thing. People from a small town are generally neighbourly and know everybody. You and him don't seem to get on?

  Cooper Smith : How do you know he's from Piney Flats?

  Charlie Wooster : Well, I um, well, I was gathering up firewood. I got a little close to their wagon. I heard Sangre and that fella say what a beautiful town Piney Flats was and how nice the air is.

  Cooper Smith : It's a dirty town and there's no pine forest left. The air is full of the stink of the turpentine they make there. You quit snooping and keep your nose out of what is none of your business, else I gonna do something neither of us is gonna like. Is that understood?

• Cooper Smith : Janet Rose, she was as beautiful as moonlight on still water. She was the loveliest thing Sangre and I had ever seen. At the same time she was as vicious as a sidewinder. She was mean, cruel and completely heartless.

• Cooper Smith : From the little Spanish I remember, sangre means blood. Espada, that's a sword used by a bullfighter, I believe.

• Richard Bloodgood : Would you have sent your man to pick us up if I had signed the telegramme Richard Bloodgood, your blood brother?

  Cooper Smith : You're planning on having your friend here kill me?

  Richard Bloodgood : No, Coop. I'll kill you. In time. You just be my guide. And with a gun. Not in the back either. Face to face. Eye to eye. Man to man.

  Cooper Smith : I'm supposed to give this greeting to all newcomers: Welcome to the Wagon Train.