Centennial (TV Mini Series)

The Shepherds (1978)

David Janssen: Paul Garrett, Narrator

Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  Paul Garrett : [an eagle is soaring high in the sky]  If the land belonged to anybody, it belonged to him. But by 1876 a number of claimants had pushed into his territory, and made their marks. Come and gone.

• Paul Garrett : It was a time of change and celebration. Colorado, the nation's 38th state, was admitted to the union on the nation's 100th birthday. The Union Pacific linked the town to the markets to the east. And the village founded 32 years before by Levi Zendt got a new name: Centennial. The next five years was a time of growing hope, and growing hatred. Summer 1881.