David Janssen credited as playing...
Paul Garrett • Narrator
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- Paul Garrett: The final decades of the 19th century marked the beginning of slow but far-reaching changes throughout the American west. A violent adolescence gave way to a raw-boned maturity. In Colorado, leaders of the three major power bases: Oliver Seccombe of the Stockgrowers Association, Messmore Garrett of the Woolgrowers, and Hans Brumbaugh representing Centennial's farmers, shifted from open warfare toward an uneasy peace. And law officers like Axel Dumire began to insist they keep it. The frontier was vanishing. There was time for a man to take a quiet breath, to think about the past instead of the present, to wonder what had become of the people and places he'd left behind. There was even time to go back for a while, if a man wanted to, and dared to. There was time, but it was borrowed. It was peace but it lacked any feeling of permanence. It was the calm before the storm.