Quotes
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John Grail : Well, I'll tell you, it was a long time ago, but me and Wolfson were in one hell of a fix - sort of like the one we got now, except we got a situation where we got much too much water and we had one where there wasn't damn near enough. Anyway, that's a long story.
Billy Pike : Keep talkin', Sheriff. We ain't goin' nowhere and that's for certain.
John Grail : That means I gotta tell 'em.
Wolf Lucas : Confession's good for the soul, John - especially your soul.
John Grail : [sighs] I ain't from Texas.
Billy Pike : Wha'?
Harland Pike : What?
Isaiah 'Ice' McAdams : I think he said he's not from Texas.
Billy Pike : Well, where you from then, Sheriff?
John Grail : Georgia.
Harland Pike : Georgia! Well, that's practically up North.
John Grail : Georgia is further south than some parts of Texas will ever be.
Isaiah 'Ice' McAdams : Amen.
John Grail : Maybe I was born in Georgia, but I was certainly *reborn* when I moved out here.
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[John and Wolf find that natural arsenic has poisoned the only waterhole on the wagon train's path]
John Grail : What's that you're doin'?
Wolf Lucas : This here is called a cairn. It'll tell 'em.
John Grail : Tell 'em what? They won't know what that means.
Wolf Lucas : Can you write?
John Grail : No.
Wolf Lucas : Well, I can't either. We gotta find some other water. Couple of seasons ago, there was a spring up there in those foothills.
John Grail : A couple of seasons ago?
Wolf Lucas : If I was out here on my own, it would be plain bad luck, but now that I got a bunch of sodbusters leanin' on me, all of a sudden I'm a snake that doesn't know his business.
John Grail : I don't want you feelin' that way. It's just this Lord-forsaken land.
Wolf Lucas : [referring to Mother Nature] You gonna whoop her, huh? You don't win like that out here. You open up an listen to what the country's tryin' to tell ya. You better listen and listen good or you're going to go under.
John Grail : I don't listen to nothin' that's tryin' to kill me and my own.
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Wolf Lucas : We were out in the badlands. We didn't have enough water between us to make a tear...
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[cocking his pistol as the storm reaches a crescendo]
Wolf Lucas : Now, brothers! Let us go among them!
