Mystery of the Green Feather

Episode aired Dec 17, 1972
1h 15m

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8.0/10

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Drama Mystery Western

Hec sets out to uncover the killers of a family of settlers. Their arrow-pierced bodies and a brave's medicine sack containing a green feather implicate the Indians, but Hec is reluctant to ... Read allHec sets out to uncover the killers of a family of settlers. Their arrow-pierced bodies and a brave's medicine sack containing a green feather implicate the Indians, but Hec is reluctant to rush to judgment.Hec sets out to uncover the killers of a family of settlers. Their arrow-pierced bodies and a brave's medicine sack containing a green feather implicate the Indians, but Hec is reluctant to rush to judgment.

Directors
- Herschel Daugherty
- Charles Ziarko
Writers
- Harold Jack Bloom
- John Meston
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IMDb RATING

8.0/10

YOUR RATING

Directors
- Herschel Daugherty
- Charles Ziarko
Writers
- Harold Jack Bloom
- John Meston
Stars

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Trivia
Several references are made to the Allotment Act, whereby Indians, i.e. Native Americans, were given land to live on. This was an actual law, the Dawes Act of 1887 (amended in 1891, and in 1898 by the Curtis Act, and again in 1906 by the Burke Act). Indians would receive 160 acres to live on and could be granted US citizenship. This was similar to the Homestead Act of 1863, which gave 160 acres of land to settlers to "prove up" the land. The first Homestead was granted outside Beatrice, Nebraska on January 1, 1863.

Quotes
Chief Sheriff Oliver B. Stamp: [Stamp looks at the body of the dead boy] They scalped him all right. The savages!
Hec Ramsey, Deputy Sheriff: Hey, you know where Indians picked up that little trick, scalpin'?
Chief Sheriff Oliver B. Stamp: No.
Hec Ramsey, Deputy Sheriff: From the white man.
Chief Sheriff Oliver B. Stamp: I don't believe it.
Hec Ramsey, Deputy Sheriff: You don't wanna believe it. You ever hear of the Iroquois tribes back east, New England?
Chief Sheriff Oliver B. Stamp: Yes.
Hec Ramsey, Deputy Sheriff: Well, the very first settlers - the Puritans themselves - they put a bounty on those Indians, but it would've been a lot of trouble to bring in a whole Indian, so they found an easy way - just cut and jerk on the hair and ya get your bounty money.