- Rowdy Yates: All right, spit it, what's bothering you?
- Wishbone: You know mighty well what's bothering me. You got us into a shooting war with the Army, that's what.
- Rowdy Yates: As far as I'm concerned I didn't start it.
- Wishbone: Other than the fact that you shot a lieutenant.
- Rowdy Yates: Look, I nicked a young punk who was trying to run off with a hundred of my steers.
- Wishbone: Well, whether he's a punk or not, he's still a lieutenant in the US Army, and if you shoot the lieutenant, you shoot the Army. You shoot the Army and the Army shoots back.
- Rowdy Yates: What'd you want me to do? Let him run off with the whole herd? Or maybe better yet, shoot me?
- Major Taggert: We have no gold,
- Rowdy Yates: No gold?
- Major Taggert: No. Even buttons seem to be in short supply.
- Rowdy Yates: I'll have the gold or the cattle back or Captain Masters dead on the ground. You can bet on that!
- Jed Colby: I had a cousin named Jackson once from Texas. He was about as snarl-bit as you.
- Rowdy Yates: Yeah, what happened to him?
- Jed Colby: Well, he was out in the fields one day and bent over, someone came along and threw a brand on him. Last I heard of him, they took him off with a load of beef to Kansas City.
- Jackson: Why you.
- Joseph Denner: I told you to be alert, not ambush the man.
- Karl Denner: He's dangerous. I got the wound to prove it.
- Joseph Denner: You'll answer for it later.