ANDREW
COOK
GENERAL BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
Mid 20's. Elizabeth Quinn brings him along with her and Mike's sisters
Rebecca and Marjorie to assist in the birth of Mike's and Sully's
first child. Andrew is the handsome young son of "Edward Cooke who,
Elizabeth reminds Mike, was "... a very dear friend of your father's."
Andrew graduated from Harvard first in his class. Colleen and he develop
crushes on each other in this episode. (#0427)
We learn that Andrew plans, after delivering Mike's baby, to go back
to Boston, where his uncle has one of the finest medical practices
in town, and work their with him. Later, Andrew performs his first
surgery in Colorado Springs successfully; (removal of Horace Bing's
gallbladder) Colleen assists. At end of episode, we see Preston mention
that his health resort will have a clinic -- and we see Andrew's wheels
turning -- could this be a job for him? (#0428)
MEDICAL HISTORY
Catches
spotted fever, recovers (#5__)
EMMA (Works for Hank - no contract - to save
money for her dress shop)
GENERAL BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
Matthew meets pretty Emma when Hank, in a kindly but misguided gesture,
sends Emma out to the old homestead to alleviate Matthew's grief over
losing Ingrid by seducing him. Though she doesn't succeed, the two
are obviously attracted to each other. Emma refers to her little brother
in this episode -- she used to like to take him riding; he is crazy
about horses. (#0413)
Emma and Matthew begin dating. In this episode, we learn that Emma's
little brother loved her potato salad, ("the only thing I ever learned
to cook") that she wants to start a dress shop, that her mother told
her that "whorin' is all she's good for," and that her father may
have molested her. To the family's surprised dismay, she also reveals
to them at dinner that she doesn't even have a contract with Hank
-- she's working there willingly. (#0415)
Emma strikes firm position against the death penalty when she and
Matthew (Matthew is the Sheriff as well as her boyfriend, and bound
to uphold the law) cross swords regarding this issue. (#0420)
Emma gets beaten up by a saloon customer. She receives a black eye,
bleeding mouth and nose, and a kick in the stomach by this customer.
The beating is the goad that makes her realize she doesn't want to
be a whore anymore, and since she doesn't have a contract with Hank,
leaving 'the life' is no problem. Emma announces that she'll be staying
at the boarding house. Matthew helps her arrange a 50/50 deal with
Loren -- as a dressmaker, she'll split her profits with him evenly,
since he's allowing her to set up a dressmaking spot in The General
Store. Unfortunately, the kick to her abdomen exacerbates an existing
tumor in her uterus, and Mike must operate on Emma to remove the tumor;
removing the uterus in the process. This is a blow for Emma -- Matthew
has told her he loves her for the first time, and she knows Matthew
wants a family. Nonetheless, she goes through with the operation;
at end of episode, she returns Matthew's vow of love with the words
"I love you." (#0424)
In this episode, Emma starts working in the store. Emma makes a beautiful,
white baby gown for Mike's baby and presents it to Mike at Mike's
baby shower. (#0427)
Matthew mentions marriage to Emma, but Emma tells him that perhaps
they should hold off talking about marriage; they don't have to go
so fast. Watching Myra and Horace part sadly at the train station
is what prompts Emma to make this remark. (#0427/28)
MEDICAL:
Mike performs a hysterectomy on Emma due to a tumor in her uterus.
(#0424)
EMILY DONAVAN
GENERAL BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
Owns tailor shop.
Dr. Mike delivered her baby by cesarean and saved her life. (Pilot)
Has two children:
five-year-old-son
baby
Lost husband Sam; he got the flu. (#0101)
Emily belonged to a sewing circle - donates quilt to Founder's Day
Auction to help raise money for school. (#0103)
Emily remarries ("I still can't believe anybody'd want a woman with
two children") and leaves town. (#0115)
MEDICAL:
Caught influenza. (#0101)
Mike pronounces Emily to be anemic. (#0102)
Emily gets married and leaves town; comes back to visit. (#0115)
Mike performed a cesarean on Emily. (Pilot)
EMILY'S BABY
GENERAL BIOGRAPHICAL/MEDICAL INFORMATION
Born by Cesarean. (Pilot)
Caught Influenza, survives. (#0101)
FRIENDS OF BRIAN AND COLLEEN
ALICE O'CONNER
GENERAL BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
Friend (sort of) of Colleen's. She's kind of snotty, always stirs
the pot. For example; she scares Brian about witches at Halloween.
She also spreads stories about Colleen for kissing Richard, whom Becky
had a crush on, then lures him away from Colleen and Becky at the
Sweetheart's Dance. (#0207)
Alice appears in episodes #0106, #0113, #0116, #0207, #0210, #0217,
#0218, #0224, #0316, #0321, #0325.
BECKY BINDER
GENERAL BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
Colleen's best friend. Becky and Colleen had a falling-out over a
boy, but they are soon reunited. (#0210)
Becky wins the part of Juliet in Dorothy's production of "Romeo and
Juliet." Unfortunately, she gets laryngitis, and it looks like Colleen,
who understudied her, will get the part. Happily, she recovers and
performs ably, as she's "a natural." (#0320)
Colleen lent Becky her lucky stone, a gift Grandma Quinn gave her
(it's from Ireland) during her try-outs for Dorothy's production of
"Romeo and Juliet." (#0320)
Becky is more sensible than Colleen when she bows out of a fast crowd
they are both enamored with after the crowd dares the girls to jump
from the barbershop roof to the General Store roof and Becky almost
slips off. (#0403)
Becky appears in episodes #0104, #0106, #0210, #0303/0399, #0316,
#0318, #0319, #0320, #0321, #0403, #0420.
MEDICAL HISTORY
Becky is first diagnosed with gastrointestinitis, (by Miriam Tillson,
a visiting ex-physician friend of Mike's whom Mike went to medical
school with) but Mike later diagnoses her with an intestinal obstruction,
(Volvulus) operates on it, and saves her life. (#0422)
CHARLES
GENERAL BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
Charles, friend of Brian's. Participates in frog-jumping contest with
Brian. Loses. Appears in ep. #0309.
Charles reappears to exert a bad influence on Brian when he persuades
Brian to steal a train from Bray's General Store in order to enter
it into a train fair in Denver. (#0414)
JARED MCALLISTER
GENERAL BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
A teen-aged lothario, Jared appears in #0303/0304. A new kid just
in town from Denver, he engages Colleen as a tutor, only to display
an inordinate amount of interest in her ample chest. Colleen rejects
him promptly, and is then mortified when he makes fun of her bosoms
in school and town. Finally, she confronts him and sets him straight.
#0303/0304.
We learn that Jared is a crummy baseball player. This impacts Colleen,
who, though a natural ball player, temporarily holds back her talent
in the game so as not to put Jared off. (#0402)
Jared, part of a "fast" teenage crowd at school, dislocates his shoulder
(Mike sets it) and gets some nasty gashes (Colleen and Mike stitch
him up) when he plays "chicken" on horseback and gets thrown. (#0403)
Jared makes fun of the hanging in town; (Johnny Reed's) and this upsets
Colleen, who doesn't believe in the death penalty. #0420.
Jared appears in: #0303/0399, #0402, #0403, #0420
KYLE
GENERAL BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
Kyle, 13 year old schoolmate of Brian's. Kyle's nose gets put "out
of joint" when the Reverend selects a story Brian wrote over his,
to be printed in Dorothy's "Gazette." Kyle takes his revenge on the
10-year-old Brian by telling him the story of "Dead Red... a miner
'round these parts... (who was) buried alive in this very mine...(because)
some kids were playin' in the mine and it caved in... (on him). ...
So now every year at Halloween, Dead Red comes outta his grave, and
he goes from minin' town to minin' town, lookin' for revenge..." (on
the kids who caused the mine cave-in; who, of course, were all 10-year
old boys). According to Kyle, "Every Halloween he kills a ten-year
old boy," with the implication that this year, it will be Brian who
becomes his latest victim. (#0407)
Kyle has big eyes for new girl Sara (see below) and competes against
Brian for her affections. For a while, it looks like Kyle's got the
edge, (especially when he throws Brian in the horse trough) but Brian
wins out when Kyle takes Sara in the woods to find a Christmas tree
and he gets her lost and almost hurled down a canyon crevice in the
process. To Kyle's vast embarrassment, Brian must come rescue the
two, and Kyle returns to town a (slightly) humbled boy. (#0412)
LEWIS BING
GENERAL BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
Horace Bing's nephew; he first shows up in ep. #0113.
(NOTE: Use of Lewis, who supposedly lives with Myra and Horace, is
discouraged as it invites such questions as, "If he lives with Myra
and Horace, where is he all of the time?")
LOOKS FOR THE SUN
GENERAL BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
Looks for the Sun is 10 years old. His parents are dead. He's a Lakota,
and his father was an "elk dreamer," which means his family doesn't
hunt deer or elk. Of all the Indian children, he's the most receptive
to the white man's clothes, education, religion, etc., when the decision
is made to put a school (to learn white ways) on the reservation.
He's almost baptized by the Reverend before Cloud Dancing intervenes.
The Reverend's insistence on baptizing Indian children enrages certain
Indian members, most notably Cloud Dancing, who feels that he's "seeing
his people die twice" as he watches the Indian children being taught
white ways in opposition to their Indian traditions. (#0421)
MISSY
GENERAL BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
Friend of Colleen's.
Appears in episodes #0113, #0116, #0207, #0213, #0217, #0218, #0224,
#0301.
MISSY WILL NOT APPEAR AGAIN.
NO HARM COMES TO HIM
GENERAL BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
Friend of Brian's.
Brian learns to play the flute from his Indian friend, "No Harm Comes
to Him." No Harm Comes to Him and Brian become fast friends; nah-yoohs,
even, which, roughly translated, means "blood brothers." Later, Sully
helps Brian deal with his emotions when No Harm Comes to Him is slaughtered,
along with his tribe, on the banks of the Washita. (#0322/23)
PAUL
GENERAL BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
Friend of Colleen's.
Appears in episode #0420.
RICHARD
GENERAL BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
Richard lends Colleen a copy of one of his books. Colleen receives
her first kiss from Richard, a new boy at school, then gets branded
"easy" from her jealous schoolmates Alice, Missy and Becky. (#0210)
Richard appears again, as one of many of Colleen's teen-age friends
who are determined to stay out all night. (#0316)
Richard appears in #0210, #0316
STEVEN MYERS
GENERAL BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
Steven, a friend of Brian's, appears for the first time as a child
who's been physically roughed-up by the new schoolteacher, Louise
Chambers. Angered by the abuse, Steven's father confronts the Reverend.
(#0224)
Steven reappears to look at Mike's medical journals -- female nudes
-- with Brian as an indicating of Brian and he's burgeoning puberty.
#0302.
Steven appears in ep. #0224, #0302, #0325.
SARAH SHEEHAN (Brian's first big crush!)
GENERAL BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
Sara Sheehan and her mother move to town right before Christmas. They've
moved to Colorado Springs because Mrs. Sheehan (newly widowed when
her husband died of exposure from the elements a few months before)
has a sister in town. Sara, an exceptionally pretty little girl, immediately
catches the eye of Brian, though, at age eleven, she's one year older
than him (an "older woman!"). Unfortunately, an older boy, Kyle, (see
above) also notices her. At first it seems Kyle has a distinct advantage
over Brian, being bigger as well as older, and something of a bully
as well. Even so, Brian at first tries to compete with Kyle, by, for
instance, taking piano lessons with Sara. But when Kyle beats him
up and throws him in the horse trough, he almost gives up on Sara
-- that is, until Kyle takes Sara out in the woods to find a Christmas
tree and gets them both lost. With Sully's encouragement, Brian heads
into the woods with Fifi, his new miniature poodle dog, to track the
two. Fifi finds them, and Brian saves them from falling over a cliff,
for which he's rewarded with a kiss from Sara, to Kyle's consternation.
Later, Brian gives Fifi to Sara as a Christmas present and she kisses
him again. (He'd given her a red scarf earlier, but Fifi tore it up.)
Happily for all involved, Brian, Sara, Kyle and the search party all
get back to town in time for "the living nativity." (#0412)
END FRIENDS OF BRIAN AND COLLEEN
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JACKSON TAIT
GENERAL BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
Jackson Tait, Chief Surveyor for the "Kansas Pacific Railroad," comes
to town to announce that the "Denver and Rio Grande Railroad" will
be routed through Colorado Springs. (#0301) Jackson comes back to
town, contracts Robert E to fix the locomotive steam engine; leaves
Peter Chow to watchdog the operation. (#0317)
PETER CHOW
Peter Chow, Jackson Tait's handsome, adopted, teenage, Chinese son,
accompanies him. Peter works for Jackson. Jackson Tait adopted Peter
when Peter's father, a railroad employee, died in a town called Petersburg.
Peter took the town's name in his father's memory. Peter's stricken
with malaria, which Colleen successfully diagnoses. She nurses him,
and the two teenagers develop crushes on each other, culminating in
Peter giving Colleen some earth from China to remember him by. (#0301)
Peter Chow comes back to town with Jackson Tait. Jackson contracts
Robert E to fix a locomotive steam engine; Jackson leaves Peter to
oversee the operation. Peter's relationship with Colleen deepens on
this visit. (#0317)
Peter alerts Mike that there's disease in the mining camp; (dysentary)
when she goes to treat the men, she finds Matthew running the
saloon tent. Peter Chow loses some Chinese friends in an explosion
-- he makes Chinese lanterns for them to "help guide their spirits
to the other side. (#0405)
