How the West Was Won (TV Series)

Provost Marshal (1977)

Vicki Schreck: Jessie Macahan

Quotes 

• Zeb Macahan : Well, see, we had this sudden freeze, real fast. And there was this little lake at Cod Side there, a little lake, and it was covered over with ducks, that, resting there over night on their way south. Well, I seen them ducks and I says to myself: Zeb, you gonna have yourself a roast duck breakfast. Well, I aimed and fired, you wouldn't believe what happened.

  Jessie Macahan : Well what happened?

  Zeb Macahan : Well, them ducks they took off, took the whole lake with 'em.

  Jessie Macahan : They took the lake with 'em?

  Zeb Macahan : Why, sure, honey. See, that cold spell came on so fast, that it just froze that lake solid round them duck's feet. And when they lifted off, they pulled that lake clean out of the ground, they flew it to next county.

• Laura Macahan : How can you eat those things, Jessie? They're so ugly.

  Jessie Macahan : Out here you appreciate what you get, Laura.

  Laura Macahan : Well, it's not for me, Jessie. I was born a female. A feminine girl and that's what I aim to stay. Sloppin' pigs an, eh, eatin' catfish and stamping over a hot stove all day, it's just not for me.