- [discussing possible treatment of a Cherokee squaw's head injury]
- Dr. Robert Taber: You know what's maddening is the whole thing's so simple. It's a slight depression of skull running about three inches across. A firm pressure of fingers about the periphery of the dent just might fix it.
- Jim Bowie: Is that what you've been thinking about?
- Dr. Robert Taber: Of course.
- Jim Bowie: I'd have thought you were preparing to meet your maker.
- Dr. Robert Taber: I'm a doctor.
- [indicating Mattie Cameron who is bound and gagged in the medicine man's teepee]
- Dr. Robert Taber: Hey, shall we untie her?
- Jim Bowie: She's in no danger. She'd only holler.