Stagecoach West (TV Series)

Object: Patrimony (1961)

Wayne Rogers: 'Luke Perry'

Quotes 

• 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.

• Luke Perry : A man once told me officers shouldn't send other men to do a job he couldn't handle himself.

• [last lines] 

  [Luke stares at Susan as she rides slowly out of town] 

  Cal : My, it's a good thing Sime and David are not here.

  Luke Perry : Yeah? Why's that?

  Cal : How would I ever explain that dyin' cow face you've got?