Cimarron Strip/The Last Wolf

The Last Wolf
Season 1, Episode 13
Airdate	December 14, 1967
Production Number	0708
Written by	Preston Wood
Directed by	Bernard McEveety
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Cimarron Strip — Season One

Guest Starring: Albert Salmi (Sam Gallatin), Robert Wilke (Hardy Miller), Morgan Woodward (Bill Henderson), Denver Pyle (Charley Austin), Tom Reese (Pete Spurber), Stanley Clements (Kiowa Kid), Laurie Mock (Mary Varner), Lane Bradford (Brom), Read Morgan (Jess Daley), Gil Perkins (Swede), Eddie Firestone (Crawford), Perry Cook (Potter), John Pickard (Carl Kersey), Robert Moloney (Aaron Weatherbee), Mary Wilcox (Virginia Weatherbee), Phil Arnold (Clerk)

Plot Overview

When a band of wolf hunters, led by Sam Gallatin, whose very success in hunting the wolves to extinction has put them out of business becomes a problem for the settlers, cattlemen and farmers alike, of the Cimarron Strip. Gallatin gate crashes a wedding ceremony and Crown tries to help him by getting a job as an army scout but he prefers to join his fellow hunters at a squatters camp. Broke and hungry, they resort to killing cattle for sustenance much to the annoyance of the cattlemen who mete out their own justice.

Seeking revenge Gallatin convinces Charley Austin to kill cattlemen which he does being killed in the process.

Marshal Crown offers them a section of land to homestead, but Sam Gallatin, believes that the life of an outlaw is preferable to that of a dirt farmer and with their hunting prowess and buffalo guns, Crown fears a bloodbath.

Quotes

Marshall Crown " What you going to hunt here, coyotes? And then, after you've wiped them all out, what? Prairie dogs? Well, the first thing you know, you'll be chasin' grasshoppers".