- Major Whitsett: The army has always been my first objective.
- Colonel Downey: Has it? The way you twist the truth should make you a very successful politician
- Doc: You gotta get up pretty early to get the Colonel. I heard he left at dawn this morning.
- William Barclay 'Bat' Masterson: You mean he went to the peace conference?
- Doc: I don't know where he went. He just left. They don't tell me nothin'. They just come in after the shootin' and order me to stop 'em from bleedin' to death.
- Major Whitsett: Are you calling me a liar?
- William Barclay 'Bat' Masterson: Yes, I am. I'm almost tempted to call you a murderer.
- [the Major's political operatives get the drop on Bat]
- Amos Judd: We've got orders to kill you, Masterson.
- William Barclay 'Bat' Masterson: Well now, that's no way to treat a registered voter.
- Doc: Poor devil. I guess he wanted to serve his country and didn't know how.
- William Barclay 'Bat' Masterson: He did... he died.
- William Barclay 'Bat' Masterson: Where's the water wagon?
- Doc: Gone. Why?
- William Barclay 'Bat' Masterson: I'm thirsty!
- Narrator: Fort Logan, 1876. Colorado, the newest State in the Union, was still without Representatives in Congress. Political bosses combed the ranks of the military for candidates with popular appeal. A brass hat in the ring could attract a lot of votes. But for one civilian scout in the Cavalry, it attracted more bullets than ballots and helped make Bat Masterson a legend in his own time.