Stagecoach West (TV Series)
Object: Patrimony (1961)
Robert Vaughn: Beaumont Butler Buell
Quotes
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Beaumont Butler Buell : You know courage, Perry, is an admirable quality... up to a point. Past that it's insanity.
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[tosses Luke a hatchet]
Beaumont Butler Buell : I figure it's always good for a man to know he's earnin' his keep.
[Buell brandishes his pistol]
Beaumont Butler Buell : And before you start talkin' yourself into throwin' that axe, remember I've got five arguments against that you haven't heard yet so start choppin'.
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Luke Perry : Captain Beaumont Butler Buell - he ranked right alongside of Stuart, Mosby, Fitzhugh Lee. Whatever happened to him?
Beaumont Butler Buell : Captain Buell died at Gettysburg. I buried him myself.
Luke Perry : I can understand that, but why?
Beaumont Butler Buell : You saw what was left of Virginia - ashes, gravestones, crippled ex-soldiers pickin' rags. I was raised to breed horses and drink mint juleps... to be a professional gentleman. Me a rag picker? Not Beau Buell. I borrowed a horse from a carpetbagger and for some reason he objected. I shot him in self-defense but the posse didn't see it that way and I been ridin' ever since.
Luke Perry : You only been ridin' part of the time, Captain, but you been runnin' all of the time - and not with gentlemen mint julep drinkers and horse breeders. You've been runnin' with a pack of wolves.