- Flint McCullough: 'Cause, if you don't want to risk it, a man your age, I'd understand.
- Major Seth Adams: Listen here, McCullough, one of these days I'm gonna forget that I've got 25 pounds on you.
- Bill Hawks: Major.
- Major Seth Adams: And I'm gonna pound a little respect into that thick skull of yours.
- Bill Hawks: Major.
- Major Seth Adams: Yeah, what is it?
- Bill Hawks: Take a look over there. Got him strung out to dry like a suit of Wooster's old underwear.
- Flint McCullough: He must be quite a warrior to deserve this. This is a special kind of Shoshone execution they reserve for their most highly respected enemy.
- Tanner: I don't aim to drive no wagon with a Pawnee at my back.
- Jose Maria Moran: Then how would you like one at your front? Senor?
- Jocko Naughton: Nursing that heathen. Shameful.
- Tim Naughton: Shameful. I used that same word when your mother gave dying English soldier a drink of water thirty years ago. I was wrong, Jocko, and so are you.
- Tanner: Indian or renegade Mexican. They both mean trouble. I tell you one thing, he so much as blinks an eye at me, I'll close it for good.
- Jose Maria Moran: We raided a village to get some horses. Then we got careless.
- Major Seth Adams: Who's we?
- Jose Maria Moran: My brothers, the Pawnee. Now they are dead.
- Charlie Wooster: Major, what if they come after him?
- Major Seth Adams: He needs no man's help. You heard him, Charlie.
- Don Luis Salazar: California needs strong men like your brother and father.
- Mary Naughton: Jocko and Tim? A bull who'd rather fight than eat. A saloon keeper who'd rather talk than make a profit. It's they that need California.
- Jose Maria Moran: What will it be, the sword or the harp?
- Tim Naughton: What would you be knowing of the minstrel boy?
- Jose Maria Moran: Por favor, senor
- [he takes the guitar, sits down and sings the Tom Moore Irish patriotic song]
- Jose Maria Moran: The Minstrel-Boy to the war is gone, In the ranks of death you'll find him; His father's sword he has girded on, And his wild harp slung behind him. "Land of song!" said the warrior-bard, "Tho' all the world betrays thee, One sword, at least, thy rights shall guard, One faithful harp shall praise thee!" Thy songs were made for the pure and free, They shall never sound in slavery.
- Mary Naughton: You saved my life. And you're still my prisoner. Remember?
- Jose Maria Moran: I also took liberties with you.
- Mary Naughton: [She kisses him] That score is even.
- Jose Maria Moran: [He kisses her] I'm still your prisoner. What is your pleasure, Mary?
- Mary Naughton: My pleasure, Joseph Mary, is you. Come with us back to your home. Why did you tell John Lewis you couldn't go back?
- Jose Maria Moran: What is a Spanish-born Californian doing with these Americanos?
- Don Luis Salazar: A Californian is an Americano, amigo. I was commissioned by the Governor and sent to Washington to look up certain Spanish land grants in Northern California.
- Jose Maria Moran: Northern California.
- Don Luis Salazar: Si, I was El Alcalde of Monterey there. Part of my commission was to trace heirs.
- Jose Maria Moran: Were you successful?
- Don Luis Salazar: In some cases, si. You know California, amigo?
- Jose Maria Moran: You have the mind of an inquisitor, Don Luis, and the touch of a doctor.
- Major Seth Adams: No, listen. He's opened the gates for you. You fight him any way you want to. Just get him down. Body, anything else. Now, get in there and do it, boy.
- Major Seth Adams: Well, Mr McCullough, where've you been? Or am I speaking to Lewis and Clark?
- Flint McCullough: I've been following a thick headed wagonmaster's orders.
- Major Seth Adams: Did you find the Shoshone?
- Flint McCullough: No. But they found me.
- Major Seth Adams: Say, Tim. Isn't that expression supposed to be "the grand old English art of self-defence?"
- Tim Naughton: Not in Dublin, it isn't.
- Major Seth Adams: I know the odds are long and the stakes are high. But a man's life, whatever he is, doesn't come cheap.
- Major Seth Adams: One thing you should know. The Shoshone are well-armed and they're wearing enough warpaint to start five wars.
- Major Seth Adams: Tanner, you're from Georgia. What did you do when Sherman made his march to the sea. I can tell you in two words, you fought. And Dane, you're a Jayhawker. What did you do when John Brown's boys hit your part of the country? We've all had the same kind of experience once in our life at least.
- Flint McCullough: Jose Maria Moran. Major? This Moran fellow. He say he was from California?
- Major Seth Adams: No, he's a Pawnee by adoption. He didn't say why.
- Flint McCullough: That figures. I mean, a man usually hides when he has a price on his head.
- Tanner: Go over that again, McCullough.
- Flint McCullough: It's gotta be the same man. I mean, a name like that doesn't come along twice.
- Tim Naughton: You know, I'm wondering if those historians are right. The ones that claim that St Patrick was Spanish.
- Jocko Naughton: Well, maybe, maybe, he was half-Spanish anyway.