- Gil Favor: The Sedalia Trail's as rough as it is long. You might say deuces are wild the way everything comes in twos. In the low country, two inches of rain in half an hour. Coming through the passes, it was two feet of snow. On this side of the mountain, we had two brushes with rustlers. Ended up burying two hands. Now it's been two days since grass and water. But my job's to kick this herd along no matter what. The only way I know to get a thing done is to keep trying. Gil Favor's my name, trail boss.
- Storekeeper: Not for sale.
- Taslatch: I can build rake. Seed I must buy.
- Storekeeper: Fresh out of seed.
- Joe Scarlet: I lose. How do I stand?
- Jim Quince: Well, since the drive started, you're behind $68,430.
- Joe Scarlet: How much is that in real money?
- Jim Quince: Well, that tallies down to $1.17.
- Matt Reston: Since when do you need a reason to whip an Indian?
- Gil Favor: Guess we'll be riding, Rowdy.
- Jed Reston: Hey, ain't you guys supposed to chow?
- Gil Favor: My stomach won't hold much food now.
- Matt Reston: I figure your stomach won't take the facts of life.
- Gil Favor: Hold it. All that drumming is just to show he's fully growed.
- Gil Favor: I gave candy to a child.
- Jed Reston: An Indian child. I can't tolerate ingratitude, Mr Favor. That's exactly what you're guilty of.
- Gil Favor: You making war on babies, Mr Reston?
- Gil Favor: Hey, Pete, tell me about Commanches.
- Pete Nolan: They're mean.
- Gil Favor: How mean?
- Pete Nolan: I'd say, man for man, they've killed more whites than any other tribe.
- Gil Favor: Commanche territory close by.
- Pete Nolan: That's over south. The Government's got them on a reservation
- Gil Favor: You figure they could become farmers?
- Pete Nolan: Farmers? What would they raise? Scalps?
- Rowdy Yates: What would an Indian do with a milch cow?
- Jed Reston: He fancies himself a farmer. Can you imagine that. A Commanche aiming to farm.
- Lady from the Freight Office: That plough will get here one of these days.
- Storekeeper: So?
- Lady from the Freight Office: He's paid for it and he paid the freight.
- Storekeeper: He don't get the plough.
- Lady from the Freight Office: I thought I married a human being.
- Storekeeper: You think he really wants to farm? Sure. That's what the Commanches want us to think.
- Storekeeper: We can't afford to go against Reston.
- Henny Morton: That's right. Reston's spread gives us all a living.
- Gil Favor: How long are you going to live on your knees?
- Gil Favor: Seems like the men are getting fatter than the cows.
- Pete Nolan: They could use some thinning down. As for the herd, they're as fat as they're gonna get.
- Gil Favor: Well, let's get moving before we forget the taste of dust.
- Wishbone: I allow myself the privilege of calling you a fool once in a drive, Boss, and this is that once.,
- Jed Reston: When you master that stallion, then you can enter the men's council. In the meantime, keep your mouth shut.
- Chisera: Your father is a liar.
- Matt Reston: The Restons are men of honour.
- Chisera: Your father has no honour. He will hang Taslatch. This will start a war. He will get our land.
- Matt Reston: You're just looking for an excuse to kill me.
- Chisera: We will kill only one man for death of Taslatch. Jed Reston. Only those who stand in the way will also die.