“Wagon Train” (Part 1)
“Wagon Train” (Part 1)
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Season: 2 episode 5
Series Episode: 14
Air Date: February 12, 1999
Teaser
“Nothing makes men kill each other faster than gold.” – Nathan Jackson
Exploit
Protect a wagon train
Remuneration
A dollar a day and found
Euphemisms / Quotes / Literary References
“Your husband seems to be fightin’ the bit a lot of the time.” – Vin Tanner
“These folks look sadder than an old woodpecker in a stone forest.” – Bucklin “Buck” Wilmington
“He has outsoared the shadow of our night;
Envy and calumny and hate and pain,
And that unrest which men miscall delight,
Can touch him not and torture not again;
He is secure, and now can never mourn
A heart grown cold, a head grown grey in vain.
He lives, he wakes—’tis Death is dead, not he.” – Josiah Sanchez
Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats
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He has outsoared the shadow of our night;
Envy and calumny and hate and pain,
And that unrest which men miscall delight,
Can touch him not and torture not again;
From the contagion of the world’s slow stain
He is secure, and now can never mourn
A heart grown cold, a head grown grey in vain.
Nor, when the spirit’s self has ceas’d to burn,
With sparkless ashes load an unlamented urn.
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He lives, he wakes—’tis Death is dead, not he;
Mourn not for Adonais. Thou young Dawn,
Turn all thy dew to splendour, for from thee
The spirit thou lamentest is not gone;
Ye caverns and ye forests, cease to moan!
Cease, ye faint flowers and fountains, and thou Air,
Which like a mourning veil thy scarf hadst thrown
O’er the abandon’d Earth, now leave it bare
Even to the joyous stars which smile on its despair!
by Percy Bysshe Shelley as recited (green lines) by Josiah Sanchez at Jack’s grave.
For the full rendition of the poem, click here.
Cast & Crew Lists
Cast
Character Role Actor Actor Age Status
Chris Larabee
Gunfighter
Michael Biehn
42 Credited
Vin Tanner
Gunfighter Eric Close
31 Credited
John “J.D." Dunne
Gunfighter Andrew Kavovit
27 Credited
Bucklin "Buck" Wilmington
Gunfighter Dale Midkiff
39 Credited
Josiah Sanchez
Gunfighter/ Theologian Ron Perlman
48 Credited
Ezra Standish
Gambler/ Conman/ Gunfighter
Anthony Starke
35 Credited
Nathan Jackson
Gunfighter / Healer Rick Worthy
31 Credited
Mary Travis
Owner and editor of The Clarion News
Laurie Holden
29 Credited
Judge Oren Travis
United States Territorial Circuit Court Judge / Mary's father-in-law / Billy's paternal grandfather
Robert Vaughn
66 Credited
Billy Travis
Mary Travis' son / Owen Travis' grandson
Gemini Barnett
8 Credited
Dicky O'Shea
Gang Leader
Bruce McGill
48 Credited
Charlotte Richmond
Will Richmond's wife / Homesteader
Kathryn Morris
30 Credited
Will Richmond
Homesteader / Wagon master
James G. MacDonald
Credited
Gerard Whitman
Homsteader
Michael Woods
41 Credited
“Powder Man”
Explosive expert
Tim de Zarn (DeZarn)
46 Credited
Alice
Widow / Homesteader
Bobbie Phillips
31 Credited
Eugene
Alice's son
Alan James Morgan
Credited
Happy
Dicky O'Shea's henchman
Kevin West
33 Credited
Jack's widow
Nancy Jeffries
Credited
Jack
Homesteader
Chis (Christopher) Close
Uncredited
Child on wagon train
Ken Rowland
Uncredited
David S. Winn III
Uncredited
Patty McDowell
Gang leader of guns for hire
Uncredited
Katie Whitman
Gerard Whitman's daughter
Uncredited
“Da” O'Shea
Dicky O'Shea's father
Mentioned
Allison Richmond
The Richmond's daughter (deceased)
Mentioned
Frank Travis
Mary Travis' former husband (deceased)
Mentioned
Juanita
One of Buck inamorata's in Mexico
Mentioned
Crew
Director Christopher Cain
First Assistant Director Kevin Collins
Second Assistant Director
Susan Price
Choreographer Peggy Holmes
Developed by
John Watson / Pen Desham
Original Screenplay
William Roberts / Walter Bernstein (uncredited) / Walter Newman (uncredited)
Teleplay
Melissa Rosenberg
Television Story Sara Davidson / Melissa Rosenberg
Script Supervisor
Jan Rudolph
Script Coordinator Christina Weir
Executive Producers
Pen Densham
/ Richard Barton Lewis
/ Walter Mirisch
/ Mark Stern
/ John Watson
Producers
Steve Beers / Lynne Symons
Associate Producer Dennis C. Duckwall
Supervising Producer Melissa Rosenberg
Consulting Producer Richard Kletter / Mark Haskell Smith
Composer: Original Theme Elmer Bernstein
Music Don Harper
Director of Photography
Gordon C. Lonsdale
Camera Operator(s)
Gregory Paul Collier / Brian Sullivan (uncredited)
Film Loader Mathew Brewer (uncredited)
Key Grip
Jason (D.) Hodges
Best Boy Grip Bob Snowdon (uncredited)
Chief Lighting Technician
Jack Todd
Best Boy Electric
J. B. Richner (uncredited)
Film Editor
James R. Symons, A.C.E.
Assistant Editor
Vaune Kirby Frechette / Kerry Michael Tym
Supervising Sound Editor(s)
Victor Iorillo, M.P.S.E. /Doug Kent
Sound Editor(s) Miles O'Fun
Production Sound Mixer
Richard Schexnayder
Re-recording Mixer(s)
Pete Elia / Larry Stensvold
Art Director
John Bucklin
Set Decorator
John (F.) Brown
Construction Coordinator
Dean (R.) Brown
Property Master
Curtis Akin
Assistant Property Master James L. Eddy (uncredited)
Prop Assistant John West (uncredited)
Propmaker Foreman
Steven Fidler (uncredited)
Location Manager
Patrick Mignano
Location Liaison
Daniel Veluzatd (uncredited)
Transportation Coordinator
Rockey (Rocky) Reed
Production Designer
Jerry Wanek
Unit Production Manager
Bob (Robert M.) Rolsky
Production Coordinator
Bill (William) Sell
Post-Production Executive
Hudson Hickman (uncredited)
Post-Production Supervisor
Shana Fischer Huber
Post-Production Assistant Michelle Sabrina Wong (uncredited)
Production Accountant
Jeff Gafin
Original casting
Janet Hirshenson, C.S.A. / Jane Jenkins, C.S.A.
Casting
Mary Jo Slater, C.S.A.
Casting Associate Tim (Timothy) Michals
Costume Design
Dan Moore
Costumer
Susan Saldutti (uncredited)
Makeup Artist/ Makeup Department Head
Phyllis Temple
Makeup Artist David Abbott (uncredited)
Hair Stylist(s)
Gary Walker
Special Effect Coordinator
Dan (Danny) Lester
Stunt Coordinator
Walter Scott
Assistant Stunt Coordinator
Tony Lee Boggs (uncredited)
Stunt Double Bret Kiene (for Eric Close) (uncredited)
Stuntmen Richard Burch (uncredited)
Boss Wrangler
Clay M. Lilley (uncredited)
Main Title
Frankfurt Balkind
Film Laboratory Services
FotoKem (Film lab)
Audio Post Production
Westwind Media
Post Production Services
The Post Group (Production Suites)
Production Companies
Trilogy Entertainment Group / The Mirisch Corporation / Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM) (Television)
Distribution Company
Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS)
Annals of Time
Jonah (Jonah.1-4, The Bible KJV)
Hot on the Trail
Lennox
Dulcet Refrains
“Camptown Races”
by Stephen Foster
De Camptown ladies sing dis song—Doo-dah! doo-dah!
De Camp-town race-track five miles long—Oh! doo-dah day!
I come down dah wid my hat caved in—Doo-dah! doo-dah!
I go back home wid a pocket full of tin—Oh! doo-dah day!
[Chorus]
Gwine to run all night!
Gwine to run all day!
I’ll bet my money on de bob-tail nag—
Somebody bet on de bay.
De long tail filly and de big black hoss—Doo-dah! doo-dah!
Dey fly de track and dey both cut across—Oh! doo-dah-day!
De blind hoss sticken in a big mud hole—Doo-dah! doo-dah!
Can’t touch bottom wid a ten foot pole—Oh! doo-dah-day!
[Chorus]
Old muley cow com onto de track—Doo-dah! doo-dah!
De bob-tail fling her ober his back—Oh! doo-dah-day!
Den fly along like a rail-road car—Doo-dah! doo-dah!
Runnin’ a race wid a shootin’ star—Oh! Doo-dah-day!
[Chorus]
See dem flyin’ on a ten mile heat—Doo-dah! doo-dah!
Round de race track, den repeat—Oh! doo-dah-day!
I win my money on de bob-tail nag—Doo-dah! doo-dah!
I keep my money in an old tow-bag—Oh! Doo-dah-day!
[Chorus]
To hear this song, please click here.
Refreshments & Libations
Apples (green and red)
Candy
Coffee
Jerky
Spit Roasted Rabbit
Whiskey
Sources
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