Cimarron Strip 1967 - 1968

Cimarron Strip is an American Western television series that aired on 
CBS from September 1967 to March 1968. Starring Stuart Whitman as 
Marshal Jim Crown, the series was produced by the creators of Gunsmoke. 

Regular cast

Stuart Whitman as Marshal Jim Crown
Jill Townsend as Dulcey Coopersmith
Percy Herbert as MacGregor
Randy Boone as Francis Wilde

Cimarron Strip was one of only three 90-minute weekly Western series 
that aired during the 1960s (the others are The Virginian and, for one 
season, Wagon Train), and the only 90-minute series of any kind to be 
centered primarily around one lead character. Cimarron Strip was set in 
the Oklahoma Panhandle, which comprises, east to west, Beaver, Texas, 
and Cimarron counties in Oklahoma. The show is set in 1888, just as the 
continuous frontier of the West, which once ran from the Canadian to the
Mexican border, was closing. In less than five years there would no longer
be that "continuous frontier," only pockets of undeveloped land. This was 
the late "Wild West" that Marshall Jim Crown was called to defend.

In the late 1880s, the Cherokee Outlet across the Cimarron River was the last 
free homestead land in America. The outlet was leased and controlled by 
cattlemen, and the local farmers were expecting authorities in Washington 
to send news that they would be given rights to the land, for which they had 
been campaigning. U.S. Marshal Jim Crown (Stuart Whitman), who led a 
rather wild life and cleaned up Abilene, was assigned to Cimarron (one of 
the towns in the Cimarron Strip). He arrives to find that the sheriff has 
resigned, leaving Crown on his own to settle the increasing unrest caused 
by the news he brings - the cattlemen's leases have been revoked and a 
final decision on the land is postponed indefinitely. With no sheriff and no 
support from Army troops, Crown is on his own to keep law and order in 
this borderland between the Kansas Territory and Indian Territory.

Dulcey Coopersmith (Jill Townsend), born in England in 1869, arrives in 
Cimarron City on the same train as Marshal Crown, two months after her 
mother's death in Providence. Dulcey worked as an upstairs maid and 
traveled to Cimarron to be with her father she had not seen since the 
age of five, only to discover he had been killed by a beer wagon.

Her father's partner was MacGregor (Percy Herbert), a Scotsman, who 
had let the Wayfarer's Inn fall into disrepair. He was a retired Colonel in 
Her Majesty's (Queen Victoria) forces.

Another friend of Dulcey's father was Francis Wilde (Randy Boone), 
born in St. Louis and trying to make his way in the world as a reporter and photographer.

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