- Gil Favor: There's money in beef, but it doesn't come easy. There's a market for all the steers you can raise. But it's a thousand miles away. You get top prices only for top cattle. Pushin' the herd up the trail is only half the job. You've gotta get in there in good shape. It takes tough men workin' long hours for low wages, starin' trouble in the face at every bend in the trail. I'm one of 'em. Gil Favor, trail boss.
- Gil Favor: My name's Favor.
- Winoka: "Fay-vor".
- Gil Favor: It's me. My name. You?
- Winoka: Winoka.
- Gil Favor: Winoka.
- [He pauses]
- Gil Favor: Winoka, did you ever have other name.
- Winoka: Other... name?
- Gil Favor: Yes, like... like Nancy?
- Winoka: "Nan-see"? "Nan-see"?
- Gil Favor: Winoka, what about your other name?
- Winoka: [confused] My name Winoka.
- Gil Favor: Other name. Like Nancy? Nancy... Curtis?
- Winoka: "Nancy Curtis"?
- Gil Favor: How does that sound to you?
- Winoka: I... don't know.
- Gil Favor: Ah, don't worry. It'll all come back. Look, i-if you've got any... something that isn't Cheyenne, uh, I'll show you... ring, um, necklace...
- [Winoka shows Favor her Cheyenne necklace and bracelets]
- Gil Favor: No, uh, not Cheyenne. A... bracelet, a necklace, when you...
- [He gestures a short height]
- Gil Favor: ... very small.
- [Winoka darts out of the tent]
- Pete Nolan: Boss, will you listen to me a minute? That girl ain't even sure she wants to go with us. I know you think you're right about this but it could be the means of us all getting wiped out.
- Houk: I figure we're on this trip for the same reason. Bounties for whites the Cheyennes captured. Government paying 500 a piece for their return, ain't it?
- Daggett: You here for that reason?
- Houk: Same as you. I knew the herd was trailing through Cheyenne country. Say, why don't you throw in with me?
- Teddy: Beeves are too hot to move, Mr Favor.
- Gil Favor: Well, you always got a choice. You can stand guard or draw your pay.
- Teddy: What's eating on him, Jim?
- Jim Quince: We're in Cheyenne country. Pete's been gone two days. He's got a right to be bothered.
- Pete Nolan: Sure didn't take long for them to get out of here.
- Gil Favor: What chance we got of following 'em?
- Pete Nolan: When Cheyenne move, they move fast. We got no chance at all.
- Jim Quince: There's something that ain't too hard to trace.
- Pete Nolan: Looks like your Cheyenne friend's calling in his braves.
- Collins - Drover: Miss? Miss, don't worry about your family not liking yer. They're gonna fall over themselves and they'll hold you so tight you won't be able to take two breaths in a row. Don't you worry, not a bit.
- Winoka: Manso, you have been good, kind to me. But.
- Manso: Speak your own tongue!
- Winoka: I speak the tongue of my people.
- Manso: Cheyenne are your people.
- Winoka: I love Cheyenne, all of them. But look at the others. I am like them.
- Manso: I see only men, Winoka. Am I not a man?
- Winoka: Finest, bravest
- [and the most handsome of all men]
- Winoka: . But these are my own kind.
- Manso: It is not for you to decide. I take Winoka.
- Winoka: They no longer on the prairie. White men come in like waters in the Spring floods. Maybe no more Cheyenne law. Like so many Cheyenne warriors. Gone. Manso say he send others
- [ie white people]
- Winoka: later.
- Gil Favor: Manso's a wise man.
- Winoka: Fine and brave man
- [and incredibly handsome]
- Winoka: .