Rawhide (TV Series)

Incident of the Coyote Weed (1959)

Eric Fleming: Gil Favor

Quotes 

• Gil Favor : Pushin' cattle up the Sedalia Trail's a thousand miles of aching bones and deep madness. You lose a lot of men. Some men never make it. Sometimes you don't rightly think a man was ever born who could. Well, men fool you sometimes, especially on a cattle drive. I ought to know. My name's Gil Favor, trail boss.

• Rowdy Yates : Hey, Boss, um, why don't you let me stay?

  Gil Favor : Give 'em room to learn, Rowdy.

  Rowdy Yates : Yeah, but, ah, but it's his first, ah, time out...

  Gil Favor : Then don't rob him of his chance to stand on his own legs.

  Roy Evans : Somebody's gotta do it.

• Gil Favor : You! You! And you! Get on your feet! You're moving around camp. You two are riding and you are sitting straight in the saddle. They're not gonna know we're sick in here. That goes for all of yer!

• Gil Favor : Get on your feet! Get up! We're gonna stumble out there to that waterhole and drop like the poison dropped you. When you fall, stay there. If you wanna live, this is what chance you have left. When they come, wait 'til they're 10 yards from yer. Then open up. Start moving!

• Rowdy Yates : I been meaning to ask you. How come you weren't scared back there? You know we're moving a lot of beef here.

  Gil Favor : You learn after a while you don't scare men any more than you scare cattle. Not if you wanna keep 'em moving in a straight line.

• Porter : Who'd want to poison us? We ain't got nothing.

  Gil Favor : We got 3,000 head of cattle. Somebody wants them, and wants us dead before they take them.

• Pete Nolan : They're all around us, Boss.

  Gil Favor : We're not moving when we should be moving. We're in trouble. They're just waiting for us to drop.

• Gil Favor : There's a bandit out there with a band of cutthroats. His name is Sanchez. We've seen of his men. Maybe there's a lot more than that. Looks like they're after us, for a chance to take us. You know what he's capable of doing to a man. Hanging him upside down, burning, and branding him. He wanted you to see that, wants to scare you off, make you run like rabbits. I hired you to drive cattle. You want to live forever, yuo should have stayed where you came from.