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Frank Hayden
Grandpa Hayden is a bigoted and potentially violent man who favors his son Frank over his other son Wesley. He knows about Frank’s abuse of Sioux women, but his only concern is that Frank will father a non-white child. He is furious when Wesley arrests Frank, not because he believes that Frank is innocent but rather because he considers the crimes, perpetrated as they were against “Indians,” to be unimportant. He is a very powerful man in Mercer County, and Grandpa Julian’s influence is one of the main reasons Wesley believes Frank will never be convicted of his crimes.
Grandpa Hayden (Julian) Quotes in Montana 1948
The Montana 1948 quotes below are all either spoken by Grandpa Hayden (Julian) or refer to Grandpa Hayden (Julian). For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 1
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The sheriff of Mercer County was elected, but such was my grandfather’s popularity and influence—and the weight of the Hayden name—that it was enough for my grandfather to say…now I want my son to have this job…It would never have occurred to my father to refuse.
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Chapter 2
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“You know what your granddad said it means to be a peace officer in Montana? He said it means knowing when to look and when to look away.”
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Chapter 3
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I suddenly felt sorry for my father—not as he stood before me at that moment, but as a boy. What must it have been like to have a father capable of speaking to you like that?
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“Screwing an Indian. Or feeling her up or whatever. You don’t lock up a man for that. You don’t lock up your brother. A respected man. A war hero.”
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Grandpa Hayden (Julian) Quotes in Montana 1948
The Montana 1948 quotes below are all either spoken by Grandpa Hayden (Julian) or refer to Grandpa Hayden (Julian). For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 1
Quotes
The sheriff of Mercer County was elected, but such was my grandfather’s popularity and influence—and the weight of the Hayden name—that it was enough for my grandfather to say…now I want my son to have this job…It would never have occurred to my father to refuse.
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Chapter 2
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“You know what your granddad said it means to be a peace officer in Montana? He said it means knowing when to look and when to look away.”
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Chapter 3
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I suddenly felt sorry for my father—not as he stood before me at that moment, but as a boy. What must it have been like to have a father capable of speaking to you like that?
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“Screwing an Indian. Or feeling her up or whatever. You don’t lock up a man for that. You don’t lock up your brother. A respected man. A war hero.”
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