Eric Fleming: Gil Favor

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• Gil Favor : Takin' a herd north, you have to trail across nearly a thousand miles of the wrinkled skin of earth. Over terrain as strange and different as paradise above from the hot place below. Mostly its too rough or too steep, too wet or dry, too hot or cold, too windy, too lonely. But you take what comes and find a way to move the beeves on through. At least you try. My name's Gil Favor, trail boss.

• Pete Nolan : You sick?

  Gil Favor : What do you expect me to be doing? Singing and telling snappy jokes in a place like this?

  Pete Nolan : No, but I don't expect you to act like a hammer headed cow with a case of colic either.

  Gil Favor : If you just did your job.

  Pete Nolan : We're all doing our best. It's your orders that brought us this way. So don't blame somebody else if it's too tough for you.

• John Cord : Texas fever? Pocs, cholera.

  Jose Becerra : Don't know. It's strange.

  John Cord : What is it, Mr Favor?

  Gil Favor : Don't worry about it. Nothing catching.

  John Cord : What's wrong. Tell us, man.

  Gil Favor : I took a hit in the war, skull fracture. They warned me it might bother me someday. Could mean brain fever, blindness, maybe worse. Anyway, a man can't push a trail herd with half a mind.

  John Cord : How do you know what this is?

  Gil Favor : It's like they told me. Bad headaches, everything blurry, hard to think.

• Gil Favor : I'm gonna quit it and go back East one of these days, I swear.

  John Cord : Let me know when you do. I'd like to hire your crew, every man of them.

  Gil Favor : You're showing better sense than I thought you'd have.

  John Cord : They're good. I don't know why they stay with you.

  Gil Favor : Matter of fact, I don't either.