- Elsa Dutton: I know death now, I've seen it. It had no fangs, it smiled at me, and it was beautiful!
- Spotted Eagle: You know that the Lakota, they dip their arrows in manure, so a hit is fatal. And an arrow to the liver is for certain.
- Spotted Eagle: I know a place for you. You go through that pass, then you follow the river south. I used to hunt that valley as a boy. The winters are cruel, but the summers are rich and a man who plans can thrive. And you look like a man who plans.
- James Dutton: What's the valley called?
- Spotted Eagle: I don't know the word in your language, but it's, uh, when you die, you go there.
- James Dutton: Heaven.
- Spotted Eagle: No, there's another word, that's not it.
- James Dutton: Paradise.
- Spotted Eagle: Yes, Paradise, good name. But you know this: that in seven generations, my people will rise up and take it back from you.
- James Dutton: In seven generations, you can have it.
- James Dutton: We ain't gonna lay her to rest here. We keep headin' north. Where she dies, that's where we stay. She'll be with us. And you can visit her any time you want.
- Margaret Dutton: Oh, I'll be there every day... until you put me in the ground right beside her.
- Shea Brennan: I've lost a daughter too. Time will come when you blame yourself. Think it's your fault for givin' her so much rein.
- Elsa Dutton: Another future awaited them, and it lay in the abyss of unmarked graves along the Oregon Trail.