- [first lines]
- Lou Banks: Well, that does it, Sam.
- Sam Wellman: Well, according to my figures, we should have about five hundred head bottled up in the canyon. How'd you make out with the Bannion stock?
- Jack Marlin: They got away with about half his herd. We can pick up the rest whenever we want 'em without any trouble.
- Sam Wellman: Now listen, I don't want any killings. Understand?
- Jack Marlin: Now who said anything about killings?
- Sam Wellman: Well, I know you. You'd put a slug in your grandmother if she got in your way.
- Lou Banks: We've cleaned out this territory, Sam. How about unloadin' 'em to the Army.
- Sam Wellman: Not yet.
- Lou Banks: We can get on hundred dollars a head right now and that's not bad!
- Jack Marlin: It sure isn't, considerin' all we invested was a little energy. I think Lou's right. Five hundred head at a hundred dollars a head that's, ah, that's...
- Sam Wellman: Don't strain yourself, kid, that's fifty thousand.
- Sam Wellman: When you've forged as many bills of sale as I have, you'll see how simple it is.
- Jack Marlin: Well, I hope you don't writer's cramp from forgin' 'em.
- Sam Wellman: Well, I only hope that you keep those fancy six-shooters of yours in their holsters. You know when the government starts investigatin' murders, it ain't so easy to fool 'em.
- Jack Marlin: You know as well as I do that we have to start usin' guns sooner or later.
- Sam Wellman: Well, let's make it later and we'll be safer.
- Jack Marlin: Anytime from now on is later, so you do the thinkin' and leave the shootin' to me.
- Lou Banks: Yeah, and I'll do the worryin'.
- Alice Long: What's going on here and who are you?
- Whip Wilson: The name's Wilson, Whip Wilson. And I might add that you're the best lookin' sheriff I've seen yet.
- Whip Wilson: Are you really the sheriff here?
- Alice Long: Acting sheriff. My father's the regular sheriff, but he's sick.
- [Alice pulls her pistol]
- Alice Long: Does that satisfy you?
- Hemingway: Now we're getting someplace.
- Whip Wilson: Very nice, ma'am, only if you were a man and tried that, you'd be dead by now. This gambling friend of yours here tried to take the life savings of an old homesteader in a card game. I happened along in time to prevent a killing. And where were you, Sheriff? Doing embroidery?
- Whip Wilson: Thank you very much, ma'am. You know, it's a good thing there aren't too many law officers like you. I'd be in trouble *all* the time.
- [the rustlers accuse Whip of horse-stealing]
- Jack Marlin: What are you doin' with those horses?
- Whip Wilson: I collect horses. It's a hobby of mine.