Wagon Train (TV Series)

The Duncan McIvor Story (1964)

Ron Hayes: Lt. Duncan McIvor

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Quotes 

• Lt. Duncan McIvor : I'm headed for Fort Chacon. Do you know how long it will take to get there?

  Duke Shannon : Exactly four days, two and a half hours, give or take a few minutes for Indian fights.

• Lt. Duncan McIvor : Comes from Pope's Essay on Man. Low the poor Indian whose untutored mind steals the fat cow nor leaves the horse behind

  [explaining why he calls the Indian Mr Low] 

• Lt. Duncan McIvor : Look at their eyes.

  Duke Shannon : You're right, Mac. No man's gonna die face up to the sun with his eyes open.

  Lt. Duncan McIvor : Lips are dry and burnt like the rest of them but they're not blistered. When you're thirsty when there's a hot sun like this, you lick your lips and it makes blisters.

  Duke Shannon : But you gotta be alive to do that.

  Bill Hawks : These men were dead before they were staked out.

  Charlie Wooster : They was?

  Lt. Duncan McIvor : Staking out is for torturing live captives. This wasn't done by Indians.

  Duke Shannon : Somebody sure wanted them to look like that.

• Sgt. Jake Orly : It's not going to be easy, Sir. I'm the only one who wasn't sent here as a punishment. Aside from you, that is.

  Lt. Duncan McIvor : You still have that distinction.

  Sgt. Jake Orly : Oh, well, they're angry men. But they're the best fighting men in the Army if they like their Commander. I've seen them break many a shavetail. They have their ways.

• Lt. Duncan McIvor : Jake? Major Jake Orly?

  Sgt. Jake Orly : Not any more, Sir.

  2nd Lt. Brad Carter : He's the man you're thinking about.

  Lt. Duncan McIvor : Couldn't they do any better than First Sergeant for the man whose tactices we study.

  Sgt. Jake Orly : I surrendered my federal commission to follow Alabama out of the Union. Can't say they're not wrong in giving it back to me right now.

  Lt. Duncan McIvor : But you're different.

  Sgt. Jake Orly : No different to any other Confederate. Except Army's all I know. I'll settle for stripes until the Army change their Policy.

  Lt. Duncan McIvor : If you look at it that way, there's no reason why I shouldn't. I'm privileged to have you under my command, Sergeant.