Cimarron Strip/The Battle of Bloody Stones

The Battle of Bloody Stones
Season 1, Episode 6
Airdate	October 12, 1967
Production Number	0705
Written by	Jack Curtis
Directed by	Richard C. Sarafian
← 1x05 The Hunted	1x07 → Whitey
Cimarron Strip — Season One

Guest Starring: Gene Evans (Wildcat Gallagher), Henry Wilcoxon (Ghost Wolf).

Co-Starring: Michael J. Pollard (Bert), James Hampton (Sam), Richard X. Slattery (Max), Elisha Cook (Spud), Karl Swenson (Dr Kihlgren), Tom Nardini (John Wolf), Robert Viharo (Tom Penney), Richard Lapp (Little Crow), Hank Patterson (Old Will), Roy E. Glenn, Sr. (Foreman), George Cisar (Storekeeper).

Plot Overview

A Wild West Show featuring the Battle of Bloody Stones, a cavalry slaughter of Indians, is playing in Cimarron, starring impresario Wildcat Gallager. Marshal Crown watches with apprehension as three Indian lads, John Wolf, Little Crow, and Tom Penney indicate displeasure. John Wolf's father Ghost Wolf had been at the battle and told them a different story.

After the show, two actors engage the townsman, John Wolf is badly injured. Crown jails the participants and tells Wildcat his show must leave town. Tom Penney and Little Crow escape, and after taunting Ghost Wolf for his inactivity they set fire to a railroad bridge. While Crown is away at Skull Bute talking to Ghost Wolf, Wildcat and his friends torment the convalescent John knocking out Francis and MacGregor. Seeking escape, the Indian boy jumps on a swinging chandelier, only to fall to his death. Tom Penny and Little Crow take the body to his father.

Retaliating for the burned bridge, Bert sets fire to the Penneys' small farmhouse and is shot by Tom Penney. Ghost Wolf, informed by Crown of his son's death, posts himself in front of the show amphitheater, waiting for Wildcat Gallagher.

Arc Advancement

Happenings

All the battles mentioned by Wildcat Gallagher are ficticious. Crown said he was at Adobe Walls, a battle that took place on the Texas side of the panhandle on June 27, 1874.

Characters

Dulcey wonders if she is cut out for life in the west after being an upstairs maid in a three story house in Providence Rhode Island.

Francis was born in St Louis.

Dr Kihlgren remembers all the Indian injuries he treated in the army wars against the Indians. It was good practise.

Trivia

Allusions and References

Two battles took place at Adobe Walls. One in 1864 and a second in 1874 that led to the Red River War of 1874-75, resulting in the final relocation of the Southern Plains Indians to reservations in what is now Oklahoma.

Quotes

• Crown "It's mostly the wild blood that greens the fields hearabouts. There isn't any Buffalo left, Wolf, Beaver or wild Indian hardly".

• Dr Kihlgren "This must be my lucky day, another 10 minutes and I'd be gone fishing. I'd sooner sew up a redskin than catch a sackfull of Catfish anyday. They're always in top condition, first rate muscle tone, no fat, lots of red blood, never a case of lockjaw. Don't flinch away neither, stoic, you know all of them. Tough as barbed wire".