Wagon Train (TV Series)

The Estaban Zamora Story (1959)

Ernest Borgnine: Estaban Zamora

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Quotes 

• Estaban Zamora : Where's your Mama gone, huh? Ay, Little One, So that's what became of her... Oh, easy Lion, easy, we will not harm you... No, we'll just persuade you to go away like we do with the wolves. Si.

• Estaban Zamora : In all my life, I have never seen better country for raising sheep.

• Estaban Zamora : How find he die, Manuel?

  Manuel Zamora : A horse fell with him.

  Estaban Zamora : A horse? He rode so well as a boy.

  Manuel Zamora : A horse can fell with anyone...

  Estaban Zamora : When did this happen? Perhaps if I had hurried, came ahead of the wagon train alone?

• Estaban Zamora : The knife is of no use to you. It was Raoul's.

  Sheriff Hixon : His own? Are you sure?

  Estaban Zamora : I made it for him myself... These hands made the knife that killed... I made many gifts for my sons. In the hills and in the long nights I would carve of wood, hammer iron. Always I made gifts for my sons. Little crosses to wear, toys when they were small. Knives to protect them. This one... was not much protection, was it.

• Estaban Zamora : I think things do not go so well in this countryside.

  Major Seth Adams : What makes you say that?

  Estaban Zamora : I have seen the signs. Like the little lamb with the lion. A good shepherd would not have lost either him or his mother. If I was to judge, I would say they are very careless in these hills. And yet my sons are somewhere near us.

• Estaban Zamora : No one molests me.

  [a fight ensues with Charlie supervising while dancing on the bartop] 

• Estaban Zamora : I like it here. I like it here. How do you think I came here? Easily, without effort? But no one paid my passage. I saved for two years for the boat. I worked in this country for one year to buy my mules, my carreta and my passage west. People laughed at me. You doubted me. But I am here. But I cannot ignore the killing of my son. It is my duty.

• Luke Stone : We've been watching that donkey cart of yours crawl up the mountain for hours.

  Estaban Zamora : Mm, I thought you would be watching. Bandits are always the same. But in my country, they are gentler, cleverer. They do not beat a man or tie cloths about his face. They only throw dust in his eyes to blind him.

  Luke Stone : Say, I'll remember that.

• Estaban Zamora : It may be dangerous where I'm going.

  Flint McCullough : I wouldn't be surprised. Move over.

  Estaban Zamora : But, no, Senor, por favor.

  Flint McCullough : Now, look, Zamora, you gotta get it through your stubborn head, I can be just as stubborn as you.

• Flint McCullough : I don't like this.

  Estaban Zamora : I do not think they will harm us.

  [Flint takes a blow from a rifle butt to the back of his head and Estaban also takes a whack to the head] 

• Estaban Zamora : The same side?

  Luke Stone : Sure, if I knew who killed your boy, I'd gun him down in a minute.

  Estaban Zamora : The same side. With a bandit.