- Sergeant: Sir, ain't you Colonel Donovan from over Fort Yuma? Why, sure you are! I just seen you get the silver star over there last month.
- Col. Ted Donovan: I'm sorry you recognized me, Sergeant.
- [Donovan indicates that he wants the soldiers shot]
- Coot Leonard: I'm already wanted for murder. Join the ranks.
- [Donovan pulls out his pistol and shoots]
- Hank Brackett: Why are they chasing you, Don? Did you steal one of their cannons?
- Johnny Reach: I don't know about any cannons.
- Hank Brackett: Don't give that "I don't know about any cannons!" You tried to steal a Stutz Bearcat, you'd try to steal a cannon. Look at me! Now you want to tell us all about it?
- Johnny Reach: I'm AWOL.
- Don Kemper: When did that happen?
- Johnny Reach: Oh, eight weeks ago, I was in a brawl. A couple of soldiers got stabbed. There was too much whiskey and too few women. I ran. I'm a mountain boy and I ran for the nearest mountain I could find.
- Hank Brackett: What's that got to do with why they were chasin' you?
- Don Kemper: They were the military that came after me. They got army gear.
- Johnny Reach: They're not the military - they're traitors. They're going to blow up a U.S. Army convoy.
- Hank Brackett: And kill a lot of those soldier boys like you.
- Don Kemper: Why?
- Hank Brackett: For a buck.