- [about General Sherman]
- Bat Masterson: There goes a fine soldier. He's the man who said "War is hell."
- Marshal: He wouldn't have said it if he'd seen Dodge City first.
- Drew: Yankees sure do some funny things - like hanging a piece of tin on a tinhorn and callin' it the law.
- Bat Masterson: All right, folks, listen carefully to what I have to say and spread the word. I've been deputized, so as long as General Sherman is a guest in Dodge City, I'm going to be nothing more or less than a walking revolver with a hair trigger itching to explode... so don't say I didn't warn you.
- Newspaper Reporter: Don't you feel a bit nervous coming here when so many of our citizens are from the South?
- General William T. Sherman: Well this is part of the United States, isn't it?
- General William T. Sherman: [to the marshal] I thought you were going to bring Bat Masterson up here.
- Marshal: This is Bat Masterson right here.
- General William T. Sherman: [to Bat] You? Dressed like that with a cane?
- Bat Masterson: Well, sir, sometimes the cane is mightier than the gun.
- [General Sherman has agreed to meet Bat at 9:30 that evening to take a tour of Dodge City's saloons and gambling houses]
- Marshal: I can't let you do it , General.
- General William T. Sherman: Why not?
- Marshal: The town's full of Texas cowboys. They'll be all liquored up and spoiling for trouble.
- General William T. Sherman: In that case it's a point of honor. I must do it. There's no alternative.
- Marshal: It'll be plain suicide if you do it, sir.
- General William T. Sherman: There are a lot worse things in life, marshall, than being sniped at. Nine-thirty sharp.
- Marshal: I must warn you, there may be some characters about who would like to take a shot at you.
- General William T. Sherman: What's the population of Dodge City?
- Marshal: Well... What do you mean?
- General William T. Sherman: Well, at one time, General Joe Johnston's whole army was hoping to take a shot at me.
- Bat Masterson: And now, General, last but not least, the Alhambra - every game of chance known to man from poker to parcheesi.
- [first lines]
- Narrator: Dodge City, Kansas. The year - 1880. The western frontier considered him among its most famous gamblers. Yet Bat Masterson found that one of his greatest gambles had nothing to do with cards.