Walt Whitman is a fictional character portrayed by Donald Moffat in the TV series Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman.
In the first episode they appeared in, titled The Body Electric (season 5), they were 66 years old.
They appear in 1 episodes out of a total of 148 aired
Episodes1
The Body Electric
episode S5.E21 april 1997Dr. Mike and the townspeople excitedly welcome the famous writer and poet Walt Whitman to Colorado Springs until rumors about his personal life begin to circulate. When Dr. Cook brings to light the rumor about Whitman preferring the company of men, Preston, who is playing host to Whitman, abruptly cancels the poet's reading, the townspeople shun him, and even Dr. Mike finds herself acting with suspicion when she learns that Whitman has taken Brian under his journalistic wing.
