- Charlie Wooster: You know there was a time when nobody liked what they heard about you. You know they still remember you down there. And it wasn't for toting that prayerbook. You outshot and outdrunk everybody down there.
- Bill Hawks: Seems to me if we headed east along the river there, it'd be a lot easier traveling.
- Charlie Wooster: I never knew a ramrod yet that'd give in to anybody who'd know any more than he did. As a matter of a fact I used to work at Pierce's Bend. Seventeen, or eighteen years ago. I was quite young then.
- Bill Hawks: [Bill adjusts his hat, travel weary and wary of Charlie's stories] You know, Charlie, why is it every time some place is mentioned, you always say you worked there. You know you'd have to be as old as you look to cover that much ground.
- Jarbo Pierce: I make it a point not to extend credit to empty-headed boys making it on pure gall.
- [He has a change of heart when he sees the man's rag-covered feet. He tosses the boots to him]
- Jarbo Pierce: Next time try sleeping with these under your head.
- Adam Pierce: Just so you sleep well.
- [He tosses the boots back]
- Adam Pierce: There's some security.
- Marie: You could not trust him for boots?
- Jarbo Pierce: It's not the boots, Marie. That's Adam.
- Marie: Your brother?
- Charlie Wooster: Well, it looks like Mr Fortune is saving more souls than you
- [Jarbo]
- Charlie Wooster: of making honest men out of thieves.,
- Jarbo Pierce: The next time you boys tearing up a Ute or a Cheyenne camp, you're gonna tussle me right to the finish.
- Jarbo Pierce: [seeing Harlan and Adam together] It didn't take long for two of a kind to get together.
- Bill Hawks: Now look, I never cheat a man, never! On the other hand, I never stop him from outwitting himself.
- Bill Hawks: I see you've developed a strong stomach for your age.
- Charlie Wooster: What's that supposed to mean?
- Bill Hawks: When your name is Pierce and you enter the slave trade, news travels fast in the Bend
- Charlie Wooster: Since when is signing Indians up for work slave trade.