Wagon Train (TV Series)

The Widow O'Rourke Story (1963)

John McIntire: Christopher Hale

Quotes 

• Christopher Hale : What did you say?

  Cooper Smith : I said I can tell you where we're going and what's up ahead. Easy country, no hostile Indians. Nothin' much to worry about... except maybe the Widow.

  Christopher Hale : Widow? What are you talking about?

  Cooper Smith : I spent a lot of time around here, Chris, about five years ago. I was looking for land to homestead, and I found it, too, in a big valley. Land as green and rich and sweet as I've ever seen, except it had already been claimed by a tough red-headed Irishman named O'Rourke. Over 200,000 acres of it. In fact, when I got to the nearest town he was dead. His widow was claiming his body.

  Christopher Hale : Coop, I'm not in the mood just now to listen to a lot of fanciful yarns.

  Cooper Smith : And she came to town - the Widow O'Rourke, I mean - in a coach that made the one Queen Victoria of England rides in look like a mud wagon. I never saw anything so grand. But no one saw her. No one had ever seen Mrs. O'Rourke.