- Gil Favor: In the trail towns, they say the only thing wilder than Texas steers are the cowhands who drive 'em. So if a big herd is gonna reach the market, there has to be someone tough enough to handle the crew and the cattle and anything else they might get in the way during a thousand slow, grinding miles. And it's a job, and it's mine. Gil Favor's my name - trail boss.
- Eli Becker: I apologise for bringing them but I thought it better by showing force now, it might save us from using it later.
- Eli Becker: Well, who's cheating who here? You take it easy on him, Aunt E. He's a tenderfoot, y'know.
- Cort: Tenderfoot? My left eyebrow! Pretty face cardshark. I swear he's got 19 fingers and every one of 'ems crooked.
- Cort: She's right, Eli. I'm not fit company for a decent lady. You should have left me in that saloon.
- Eli Becker: Well, I couldn't do that. You were spilling blood all over Jake's floor and he didn't have any sawdust left.
- Minnie Lou: Ah, you still didn't have to bring him here. I don't know why you can't bring home stray cats and dogs like other men do, Eli Becker.
- Gil Favor: I keep seeing her face, the way she looked at what was left of her husband. Just kept screaming, couldn't believe he was gone. She was bringing him coffee.
- Jesus 'Hey Soos' Patines: I will go and ask the horses to come back. I can do that easier alone. The horses will listen to me when they are not excited.
- Gil Favor: Hey Soos, you run into anybody, you keep your mouth shut.
- Jesus 'Hey Soos' Patines: Senor.
- Gil Favor: Just don't let them know you're our wrangler.
- Jesus 'Hey Soos' Patines: Senor Favor, Hey Soos right now not very proud to be your wrangler.
- Pete Nolan: Why don't you just marry that old gun and be done with it, Wishbone?
- Wishbone: Well, I'll tell you now. You treat a gun like this right, she'll be a wife to you, and a mother, and a lady friend too. You can depend on that.
- Cort: Farce. All he did was taunt the trail boss, take a glance around the ravine and that was the whole investigation.
- Minnie Lou: So it means a war.
- Cort: A tribute, my lovely lady.
- Minnie Lou: Sit down. Show me how to do that trick with the red card.
- Cort: Well, that's cheating, Minnie Lou.
- Minnie Lou: Never mind the morality, you pious fake. Just show me how,
- Gil Favor: How are we for shells?
- Rowdy Yates: We got plenty of rifle shells, enough 45s to fight... an army.
- Gil Favor: How about gauze, laudanum, carbolic?
- Wishbone: Plenty.
- Millie Wade: What kind of men, Aunt Minnie?
- Minnie Lou: Hardworking, god-faring men, I suppose, who tried to ease your pain the only way they know how.
- Millie Wade: Blood money. What good is it? What can I buy with it?
- Rowdy Yates: We took up a collection. The whole crew chipped in. It's not very much but it might help a little.
- Cort: Well, that's very kind of you.
- Eli Becker: And very clever. Can't pay for killing Ken Wade. Can't buy your way out of causing a man's death. Now get out of here. And don't forget to take your blood money with you. you're not gonna save your skins with that.
- Mushy: I wish you'd speak to Mr Wishbone.
- Gil Favor: About what?
- Mushy: Well, for one thing, he's got every pocket stuffed with shells for the Greener
- [shotgun]
- Mushy: and he wants to drive with that shotgun loaded and rested between his legs under the seat. Well, Mr Favor, if we ever hit a bump, he'll blow our hip pockets clear over the State of Kansas.
- Minnie Lou: It's not for you to point the avenging finger. Lest you point your finger towards the Heavens. That's where the lightning came from that caused the horses to bolt.
- Millie Wade: What are you saying? What are you trying to do? Turn me against God?
- Gil Favor: As trail boss, I'm responsible for everything that happens on the drive, even accidents.
- Hornbeck: You know what you're saying?
- Gil Favor: If you've got to have blood, one man's better than forty. All I ask is a fair trial.
- Eli Becker: You've already been tried in the Bible, Favor. An eye for an eye. Get that rope, Hornbeck.
- Millie Wade: You've never even had a husband to lose.
- Minnie Lou: No, I never had, that's right. But there was gonna be. We made plans for 5 years. Only the Comanches took a hand. When it was over, I buried what was left. My sister, Eli's mother, then I buried his father and his two older brothers.
- Millie Wade: Minnie.
- Minnie Lou: Buried all the hopes and dreams me and Frank had. And I took Eli to raise. But you're quite right, Millie, I never have had a husband to lose.
- Millie Wade: Minnie Lou, I hope you understand.
- Minnie Lou: That's the trouble, I do.
- Millie Wade: I only want to see justice done.
- Minnie Lou: You mean revenge.
- Millie Wade: They murdered my husband. I want to see them pay for it. Is that so terrible?
- Minnie Lou: It is when you use Eli to be your executioneer.
- Jesus 'Hey Soos' Patines: You stare at me like I look strange. This is how I dress for church. This is how I think fitting to go to my maker. I'm Senor Favor's remudero, the man you want.