- Gil Favor: The Sedalia Trail is a thousand miles of dust, deep river crossings, and stampedes, a job forgotten by those who wait for their cattle at the end of the drive. But not forgotten by the men in the saddle who bring the cattle through. Like me - Gil Favor, trail boss.
- Marshal Lindstrom: What can I do to make it right with us?
- Clovis Lindstrom: For one thing you can get me out of these clothes. I'm still wearing the ones I wore when I worked in the dancehall. You could give me enough money so I could buy clothes fit for a wife.
- Marshal Lindstrom: How do I know if I give you money, you don't take the next stage and run away.
- Clovis Lindstrom: If I wanted to do that, I could've got somebody to give it to me.
- Rowdy Yates: I think you're the nicest girl I ever met.
- Clovis Lindstrom: Nicest?
- Rowdy Yates: Yep.
- Clovis Lindstrom: Wanna know why I live in a town like this?
- Rowdy Yates: It doesn't make any difference.
- Clovis Lindstrom: My hometown is Springfield, Illinois. I came out to be a schooteacher.
- Rowdy Yates: Well, they all say that.
- Poke: They don't get somebody in that prison pretty soon, you're gonna lose your job working for Lindstrom. Then you're gonna have all day sitting out here by your daughter's grave.
- Rowdy Yates: Then I'm quitting the drive, as of now.
- Gil Favor: Man quits middle of a drive only once. I never take quitters back.
- Rowdy Yates: Well, I quit only once.
- Gil Favor: You make me wish I had a hickory rod.
- Rowdy Yates: Well, you don't need a hickory rod, Mr Favor, you got two good fists. Now, if you think I need a lesson and you're the teacher, go ahead and try.
- Gil Favor: All right, I'll give you your fight. In Sedalia. If your temper is still with you by then. I never fight with my men on the trail.
- Rowdy Yates: Well, I'm not your man any more.
- Rowdy Yates: I'm looking for a girl. She's kinda short
- [He indicates to about 2 inches above his elbow height]
- Rowdy Yates: Got blondish hair. Real pretty. And when she talks she's got a nice, warm sound to her voice.
- Rowdy Yates: You're the Law but don't you go roughing me up.
- Gil Favor: There was no call for that, Sheriff.
- Marshal Lindstrom: It's my lookout how I treat my prisoners.
- Clovis Lindstrom: JAIL? You turned him over to Sheriff Lindstrom?
- Gil Favor: On a trumped up charge that will hold him until you're out of town.
- Clovis Lindstrom: You want him killed?
- Gil Favor: A few hours in jail never killed anybody.
- Clovis Lindstrom: Do you know who I am? I'm Lindstrom's wife. His wife. Now you get that boy out of jail before Lindstrom kills him.
- Rowdy Yates: Mister Favor, when you're always riding me, you never say anything good even when I do things right. I don't get sore at that. I realise you're trying to make me do my job better.
- Gil Favor: And be able to step into my boots when the time comes.
- Rowdy Yates: I can take that. I'm even grateful. But this is different.
- Gil Favor: Meaning?
- Rowdy Yates: Meaning it's a personal, private matter. That's what.
- Marshal Lindstrom: You ain't never do anything no harm. They'll just find you tomorrow morning hung from that saddle, resisting arrest.
- Gil Favor: How much?
- The Undertaker: $20, with the Tombstone, wooden.
- Gil Favor: Name's Billy Grant.
- The Undertaker: Born?
- Gil Favor: Don't know where or when. Just put the name. Put San Anton, Texas. That's where I picke dhim up.
- The Undertaker: It'll be written, not carved.
- Gil Favor: Seems a mighty flimsy way of fixing a head piece. It'll fade in a month.
- The Undertaker: Last just as long as the memory of him.