- Pete Nolan: Delawares.
- Gil Favor: Delawares? That's an Eastern Indian. What's he doing in Texas?
- Pete Nolan: What was left of them wandered off out here in search of peace. A few small bands of them between the Rio Grande and the Three Ports of Missouri. It's a little hard to believe, but they're friendly. The way I understand it, most of them are Christians.
- Gil Favor: If they're friendly, how'd this happen?
- Gil Favor: Pointing 'em north, most things you can calculate. Your men, for instance. You know what to expect. But there's one thing you can't calculate on - the people who cross your trail. The thousand ways they can make their troubles yours. You find that out real quick in my job. My name's Gil Favor, trail boss.
- Rowdy Yates: Did they hurt you Ma'am? Don't you even know what I'm saying? But, look, I, ah, I'm riding ahead of a herd scouting for bed ground. So, you see, there's no need to fret. Why, I'll tell you what, Ma'am, I'll take you with me. Yeah, I'll take you with me and you'll be all right. I just can't leave you here alone. Look, I'll tell you what, you stay here until I get back. Ma'am, it's the best thing for you.
- Pete Nolan: They haven't been shot, nobody's knifed 'em. Nothing to say what killed them.
- Gil Favor: They didn't just fall down dead.
- Gil Favor: You're married, aren't you, Ma'am? There's a man's coat and shoes in there. Who is he? Are you like this because of something that happened to him?
- Amelia Spaulding: You're going to let me ride with the herd until you reach a stage stop. If you deny me this, Mr Favor, I'll kill myself.
- Amelia Spaulding: He died of a perforated stomach, almost a month ago.
- Gil Favor: I see.
- Amelia Spaulding: No, I don't think you do, Mr Favor. Though you may not be aware of it, there are a great many things you don't understand.
- Gil Favor: Then maybe you'll tell me.
- Amelia Spaulding: My husband was a missionary, felt the call to administer to the heathen Indians. His heart led him into the wilderness. And he went. Like Paul into Jerusalem. He brought an overflowing love... I took my place at his side, his bride sworn to share whatever might befall. I buried him. Then I couldn't bring myself to leave.
- Clarissa Gray: I wanted her to stay because there was no place for her to go. She talked about going home to Concord. There was no home in Concord. Ever since we've been here, there's been no home in Concord. She sold it.
- Amelia Spaulding: [to Rowdy] You've been very sweet to me. You've made things bearable when they would have been impossible.
- Amelia Spaulding: It's getting warmer, don't you think?
- Mushy: Well, thinking's one thing I fight against, Ma'am.
- Capt. Brandon: Why don't you make yourselves comfortable and try to do what we do and forget where you are,
- Wishbone: ME? SHINING UP TO HER? The only ones doing that are the ones that are still green behind the ears. You and that other lover boy, Mushy.
- Wishbone: What are ya? A ramrod or a kitchen maid? Besides, that ain't tea, Lover Boy. That's Chinese herbs for liver bile. That's tea. If you can't read the label, smell it.
- Pete Nolan: His cooking's the best, like I keep telling him that sourdough is burnt on the outside, raw in the middle, salty as a fish. But always, just the way I like 'em.
- Wishbone: For the last time. I say, take your potion, lie down, and keep warm.
- Pete Nolan: I've all your poison that I can stand. You give me my pants and boots, Wishbone. If you don't I'm gonna use this on yer!
- Wishbone: You don't scare me, Pete Nolan, you don't scare me at all. 'Cos I took all your bullets out. Can't trust a man in high fever.
- Amelia Spaulding: You think more of those dirty savages than you do of a white woman.
- Gil Favor: You don't sound much like the widow of a missionary, Ma'am.
- Pete Nolan: I just started to walk away from the chuck wagon when it hit me.
- Wishbone: He must be full to the gills with that stuff.
- Gil Favor: What stuff?
- Wishbone: Arsenic. Mushy, go get me a sack of mustard and plenty of water. NOW MOVE... I seen it before. Settlers keep it around for wolves and coyotes. Sometimes humans get it by mistake.
- Mr. Moon: My name Moon, Captain. Mr Moon. Your prisoner.
- Capt. Brandon: Chief of the Delawares?
- Mr. Moon: Too few of us left to have Chief... Missionaries in Kansas teach me be good Christian. Live by Bible. Does Bible not say: Eye for eye, tooth for tooth? May the Lord have mercy on her soul. And on mine.
- Amelia Spaulding: I couldn't forget that night in the South Pass when those other Indians were screaming and killing us. Their faces, streaks of paint, yellow, black, green, have been in my nightmares ever since.