- Lou Bowdark: I'll tell you what, you start running. I'll give you a long count of ten. That's fair enough.
- Rowdy Yates: Look, I told you I ain't no mustanger. I'm not running neither. I'm a little too tired for that.
- Lou Bowdark: So you're a drover, huh?
- Rowdy Yates: That's right.
- Lou Bowdark: All right. One thing, what's a drover doing up here catching horses?
- Wishbone: What about the water? Did you find any?
- Rowdy Yates: Oh sure, sure. I found a beautiful lake on the other side of the San Marcos.
- Wishbone: Have you ever been kissed by a dusty old man?
- Rowdy Yates: No. I wouldn't start puckering up, Wish. I'll tell you.
- Wishbone: Wonder what he meant by that?
- Wishbone: There's something about that man, a cold-eyed man with a pussycat smile. I tell you something, I don't like him.
- Rowdy Yates: Catch!
- Lou Bowdark: What's this?
- Rowdy Yates: A dollar for a day's work.
- Lou Bowdark: [Bowdark tosses the coin back] I'll take my pay at the end of the drive.
- Rowdy Yates: Maybe you don't understand. This is the end of the drive for you.
- Lou Bowdark: Are you trying to tell me I'm fired?
- Rowdy Yates: Now you're getting it.
- Lou Bowdark: Well, it won't take! You're not firing me!
- Rowdy Yates: What's that?
- Lou Bowdark: I'm taking this herd over the San Marcos! And nobody's gonna stop me!
- Rowdy Yates: Just a minute here.
- [but Bowdark wallops Rowdy in the face]
- Rowdy Yates: What about the rest of the crew? Anybody hurt?
- Hey Soos: No, no, no one hurt. No one dead yet.
- Rowdy Yates: What do you mean: yet?
- Hey Soos: The Red Wind's still blows, Senor.
- Rowdy Yates: You still think the Devil's still hunting a soul?
- Hey Soos: Si, Senor.
- Rowdy Yates: Send it around, I'm willing to deal.
- Rowdy Yates: There won't be any drive if you don't come with me right now.
- Gil Favor: Meaning?
- Rowdy Yates: 3,000 head at $40 per head. You wanna put that up against 4 hours? It's up to you.
- Lou Bowdark: The time for talk is done, cowboy.
- Rowdy Yates: Wrong, Bowdark, it's just started, 'cos you're gonna come along too.