A Little Learning
Rafe Simmons wants to learn to read so he can read his mother's diary. He quits Shiloh to move to Medicine Bow to learn from the attractive Martha Perry. However, the big man is caught in a tangle with town bullies and her ex-con ...
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"Guest Stars dominate this Virginian story. Albert Salmi plays a trail hand who is completely illiterate and walks into Susan Oliver's schoolhouse and wants to learn to read. She's willing to teach him, but complicating matters is the arrival of Bruce Dern her husband lately released from prison. He's the jealous type. Salmi is quite the figure of ridicule among the other kids and some adults in Medicine Bow. Still he persists with his dream. I've known at least one illiterate person in my life and it's a prison as strong as Alcatraz/. Salmi does a fine job with a st..."
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Although neither died in the show, both Susan Oliver and Albert Salmi would die within three weeks of each other in 1990, her on May 10 at age 58 and he on April 22 at age 62.
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Rafe Simmons wants to learn to read so he can read his mother's diary. He quits Shiloh to move to Medicine Bow to learn from the attractive Martha Perry. However, the big man is caught in a tangle with town bullies and her ex-con ...