- Rowdy Yates: When you said Crowning's group was a raggletail group, you weren't being just polite.
- Gil Favor: Pasture cows always trouble on first day out.
- Gil Favor: As long as it's only the first day.
- Lije Crowning: Hey, Pancho!
- Hey Soos: Senor! Not all Mexicans are called Pancho! We have many other names.
- Lije Crowning: Oh, yeah, yeah. I know. But I can never remember what they are. No offence, of course, but they all sound like Pancho to me. Oh, nothing the matter with Pancho is there? Now you take my name, Lije, ever hear a stupider name in all your life?
- [They both laugh]
- Gil Favor: Look, Wish, you're paid to cook, not judge cattle. Now when I want your advice on the merits or demerits of cows, I'll come and ask you. Until then, get packed, and get rolling.
- Lije Crowning: Oh, nice night.
- [a group of six men sitting by the campfire walk away]
- Lije Crowning: I got kinda lonesome over there by myself, you know. You get to talking to yourself. Ha, ha, ha.
- [More men leave including an infuriated Hey Soos]
- Lije Crowning: Well, it coulda happened to anybody. You don't think I fell off that horse on purpose, do you?
- [Only Joe Scarlet is left]
- Lije Crowning: It's the breaks of the game. It's the way things go. Twenty men on the drive and I had to be the one to fall and twist my knee. That's the way my luck's been going lately. Now, I know it's just as hard for you fellows as it is for me. But I'll tell you what, I'll make it up to you. I'll work twice as hard as soon as I'm able to be up and around on this knee. Now, I know I don't look it, maybe, but I can ride with the best of them. You ask Gil if I can. Gil'll tell you.
- Joe Scarlet: Mr Favor to you.
- [And Lije is left all alone]
- Lije Crowning: I promise, Gil.
- Gil Favor: YOU PROMISE! How many times you gotta use a word before you wear it out?
- Lije Crowning: Look, when we get to Denver, I'll make you a partner, 50/50. How's that? Why, in 3, 4 years, you could buy and sell these cowpokes.
- Jim Quince: Why don't you quit dreaming, Crowning. Colorado is no different from Texas and men don't change. Only the scenery.
- Mushy: That's a mighty fine looking rifle.
- Lije Crowning: The best. The very best. It's a Henry Repeater, accurate up to 100 yards.
- Mushy: Phew!
- Lije Crowning: 'Cause you have to be a real man to know how to handle these things. But I needn't tell you a thing like that, a drover like you. Why, you probably cut your teeth on a shooting iron, huh?
- Mushy: Well, I do know which end to hold.
- Lije Crowning: Marksman, the mark of a true frontiersman.
- Lije Crowning: You looking for something?
- Rowdy Yates: Whiskey.
- Lije Crowning: Whiskey?
- Rowdy Yates: Yeah, and judging by the smell on you, it's pure sour mash. Now where is it?