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- William Barclay 'Bat' Masterson: I sure will be glad when the Army escort picks up this cargo. There's something about explosives that's so... explosive.
- William Barclay 'Bat' Masterson: Well, if the Sioux army attacks the fort, how many men are there?
- Billy Willow: Not enough. The supply bins are full of nothing but daylight.
- Billy Willow: You've still got a patriotic duty!
- William Barclay 'Bat' Masterson: To the poker playing millionaires of Cheyenne! If I don't teach them how to lose graciously, they'll never learn.
- Narrator: Rapid City, South Dakota, 1875: The end of the line for the railroads. Beyond this point, nothing but wilderness and badlands, inhabited by hostile Indians, gun-happy renegades, and, for a short but violent interval, Bat Masterson, the man who became a legend in his own time.
- William Barclay 'Bat' Masterson: I've got important business in Cheyenne with three of its richest citizens and poorest poker players.
- Jody Reese: Wancho, no!
- Wancho Tully: The man's paying the highest wages.
- Jody Reese: What's he paying the widows?
- Billy Willow: They got renegade written all over them! I'm mighty glad you changed your mind, Bat.
- William Barclay 'Bat' Masterson: They changed it for me, Billy.
- Billy Willow: What do you mean?
- William Barclay 'Bat' Masterson: Well, they were at the depot around the cargo and then they weren't, then they volunteered and then they didn't, then they did. A woman could just change her mind, but a man... a man's usually got to have a reason.
- Billy Willow: I reckon nobody will be building a pyramid to remember him by.
- William Barclay 'Bat' Masterson: There's only one decent thing we can do for a man like that - forget him.