- Gil Favor: On a trail drive, a man can find the things he wants - a sense of God's good earth, the room to move in, a job to be done. Of course, there's not always enough water, and you can't always choose your own company. There's some that say that's all that's wrong with Hell. That's up to me to handle - the good and bad. I'm Gil Favor, trail boss.
- Gil Favor: What were you doing out there, Davey? Where're your folks?
- David Colby: It was Indians.
- Gil Favor: Indians?
- David Colby: They killed my father and my grandfather and they carried off my mother.
- Rowdy Yates: How'd you get away?
- David Colby: I was hiding in the barn.
- Gil Favor: Aw, don't take it so hard, Pete. Some kids just find it easier to lie than tell the truth. Shall we be getting back, Davy?
- David Colby: Mr Favor, I bin thinking. On a trail drive a man has to pull his own weight.
- Gil Favor: That's right, Davy.
- David Colby: Well, maybe you could find something for me to do that'd be useful to you.
- Gil Favor: I'll sure find something.
- Wishbone: After all the sufferings he's been through, to be thinking of somebody else, well, that's something. A fine lad, Mr Favor.
- Gil Favor: And it might be, he's got a fine imagination.
- Pete Nolan: We go right by Aberlee, Mr Favor.
- Gil Favor: Now, Pete, even if we didn't, we sure wouldn't leave him all alone out there in the middle of the prairie.
- Gil Favor: You know what this is?
- David Colby: No, sir.
- Gil Favor: It's a tree. This isn't a hickory branch but it will do.
- David Colby: You want to wallop me, Mr Favor?
- Gil Favor: I want the truth, Davy.
- Pete Nolan: Did I see what I always thought I saw?
- Jim Quince: [Fireworks erupt] You must've, I'm seeing it too.
- Pete Nolan: Indians don't have things like that.
- Gil Favor: [Rowdy rides into camp at speed, and produces a frog from his hat for Davy] Took a little old frog to do what 25 grown men couldn't.
- Pete Nolan: Yep, it just don't seem right, Lord sending big trouble to a little kid. I guess he hasn't got to you the way he has to the rest of us.
- Gil Favor: Oh, he gets to me all right. But I was just wondering why we hadn't heard about Indians in the neighbourhood.
- Pete Nolan: There's a lot of things we don't hear about.
- Gray: What are you after, Mister?
- David Colby: This small boy. Sounds kinda crazy?
- David Colby: That's him, Mr Gray.
- Gray: Yeah, yeah, sounds kinda crazy.
- Pete Nolan: Wait a minute. I don't know what Davy's told you, but I kinda can figure it out.
- Gray: You're making out you didn't kill his family?
- David Colby: Ma, Ma, I'm sorry I made you worry.
- Jennie Colby: Why should I worry about you? I never saw you before in my life.
- Pete Nolan: I understand, Ma'am. Sorry to have bothered you.
- David Colby: BUT MA!
- Jennie Colby: Would you please take him away.
- [And Pete does, taking the boy by the scruff of the neck, and reaching for a branch to use as a birch]
- Stan Brodie: The duty of a bounty hunter has a dirty smell. Vultures get the same smell from their work. Look at it from my side, a couple of 45s, when he comes in that door and he'll walk like me. He'll be a cripple. How'd you like your Pa to walk like me, boy? How'd you like that?
- Woman: DAVY! You forgot your frog.
- David Colby: You keep him, Ma'am. I don't deserve anything as nice as that.
- Grandpa: He ain't bothering me none, Jennie.
- Jennie Colby: A boy his age needing to bother his Grandpa. There's plenty of things in here for him to play with. Maybe you could build something, a fort or something.
- Grandpa: Ooh, oh, that's a good idea, Jennie. Come on, boy, I'll show you how to play Roman Soldiers.
- Pete Nolan: You, ah, run away from home?
- David Colby: Asking questions of strangers 'round here, Mister, will just get you into trouble.