Tales of Wells Fargo (TV Series)

Assignment in Gloribee (1962)

Patricia Owens: Katherine Anne Murdock

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• [first lines] 

  Katherine Anne Murdock : [narrating]  They wanted me to write the truth about the savage west land. Well, I will write the truth. I'll call it "A Wilderness Without Hope". What was it Dante said? "All hope abandon ye who enter here".

• [looking out at the desert] 

  Nathan Chance : A woman like you wouldn't stand much chance out there.

  Katherine Anne Murdock : Maybe better than here.

  Nathan Chance : I don't know about that. If some short-legged Comanche didn't lift that pretty rolled up hair of yours, the desert sun would sure cook the salt out of you.

  Katherine Anne Murdock : What a quaint way of putting it.

• Katherine Anne Murdock : A woman's point of view can be a dangerous thing.

  Jim Hardie : Well, the truth shouldn't be too dangerous, ma'am.

• Nathan Chance : You sure got a chin full of argument. What are you doing out here?

  Katherine Anne Murdock : I'm writing a book, if you must know.

  Nathan Chance : You know, I've only read one book in my entire life: Aesop's Fables. There's a story in there about a fox who wanted some grapes. He called 'em sour when he couldn't reach 'em. I reckon some folks are apt to feel that way about life when they can't quite grab hold.

• Katherine Anne Murdock : Western law enforcement is apparently quite incompetent.

  Jim Hardie : Western law is no different than any other law.

  Katherine Anne Murdock : Laws are silent in the midst of arms - Cicero.

  Jim Hardie : And laws aren't valuable only because they're laws, but because there's right in them. A man by the name of Beecher said that.

• Jim Hardie : What makes you so bitter?

  Katherine Anne Murdock : I'm cynical, Mr. Hardie. Can't you tell the difference?

• Jim Hardie : You seem to sit a horse very well for an Easterner.

  Katherine Anne Murdock : My family's been riding to the hounds for years, Mr. Hardie.

  Jim Hardie : Well, I hope we can show you our way of life out here hasn't had the chance to go to the dogs yet.

• Katherine Anne Murdock : I-I want to thank you for saving my life.

  Nathan Chance : Don't thank me, New England - chew my head off like before. I like you better with the same kind of crust like I've got.

• [last lines] 

  [writing in her journal] 

  Katherine Anne Murdock : As the train twisted its iron way through the limestone hills, I knew that I had learned something about myself as I learned about them. The arms of the West are open to those who believe and are unafraid. I think I'm welcome there now.