- 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.
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- Narrator: The 1860s was a decade in which one of the most terrible civil wars in history was to begin and end. But far from the bloody fields of Gettisburg and Shiloh, changes which were to alter forever the face of the American west, had already begun. Telegraphs were spinning a web of voices across the great plains and railroads were pushing steel fingers into the heart of the wilderness. Along their rights of way, new trails were being broken. New towns were born overnight. And settlers by the tens of thousands poured westward and began putting ploughs to the land the indian considered his birthright. The inevitable happened: two totally divergent cultures, indian and white, met on a collission course. The white man demanded his manifest destiny, the right to take the land he wanted. And the army began the subjugation of the red man with a savagery that plunged this nation into a series of indian wars that were to last more than a quarter of a century.
- Kate Macahan: How dare you tell me how Timothy felt. You haven't the faintest idea what goes on between a decent man and woman who really love each other. Have you ever really loved a woman? All you know is animal lust on a, on a buffalo robe with some indian squaw.
- Zeb Macahan: I'll tell you something, lady. There's a lot more animal lust in all of us, including you, than you'd like to admit.
- 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.
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What is the broadcast (satellite or terrestrial TV) release date of Provost Marshal (1977) in Australia?
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