- Kay Weston: This country is crawling with Indians, and you're going fishing.
- Matt Calder: There are lots of ways to die. Starving to death isn't my favorite.
- Mark Calder: How do you know when you fall in love?
- Kay Weston: I dunno. Can't eat or sleep.
- Mark Calder: Like an ache in the stomach?
- Kay Weston: Same thing - only in the heart.
- Matt Calder: If a man doesn't know what he's doing or where he's going, the best thing for him to do is just back up and start all over again.
- Mark Calder: She's beautiful, isn't she?
- Matt Calder: There's an old saying, Mark: "It's only skin-deep."
- Mark Calder: What is?
- Matt Calder: Beauty.
- Mark Calder: How deep should it be?
- Matt Calder: Well, ask her, son. She looks like an expert.
- Kay Weston: If something's easy to get, people don't care about it. They don't value it. If it's hard to get, well, then you've got something.
- Padre: I expected to find a small trading post, and instead: Sodom and Gomorrah. All because someone has found gold in this earth.
- Matt Calder: You looking for it too, padre?
- Padre: I came here as a missionary to the Indians. I think the white man will need me more.
- Mark Calder: Why did you name me Mark?
- Matt Calder: Simple. I'm Matthew. Mark follows Matthew. It's the Bible.
- Mark Calder: I follow you.
- Matt Calder: Right.
- Mark Calder: And that's how you thought of it?
- Matt Calder: Nah, it wasn't me, it was your mother. Come on, let's quit dreaming.
- Matt Calder: We could use some coffee. You got any?
- Ben: Got everything but Pâté de Foie Grass. Come on in.
- Matt Calder: Now, what's all this? What kind of an act is this?
- Kay Weston: I'm a performer. Didn't you know? Songs and dances.
- Matt Calder: I think I know you pretty well.
- Kay Weston: I think I know you, too.
- Matt Calder: Hm? What am I like?
- Kay Weston: Really not so bad. Not so tough and grim as you seem. I think you do a little acting yourself.
- Mark Calder: You shot him in the back?
- Matt Calder: That's right! I shot him, in the back or in the front. What does it matter how you kill a snake? What does it matter which way he's facing?
- Kay Weston: You oughta take a dip in the falls yourself. Might wash some of the starch out of you or rust.
- Ben: Matt Calder! Gosh, I thought you was down there on your farm - with a tomahawk in your head.
- Matt Calder: No, I like to keep my head, Ben. It's about the only thing I've got left.
- Kay Weston: [singing] I lost my love on the river, And for ever my heart will yearn, Gone, gone for ever, Down the River of No Return...
- Kay Weston: [singing] There is a river, Called the River of No Return, Sometimes it's peaceful, And sometimes wild and free, Love is a traveler, On the River of No Return, Swept on for ever, To be lost in the stormy sea ..
- Kay Weston: [singing] I got the fever, Oooooo the fever, But not for gold in the ground, I want the title, To something vital, That I can throw my fences around...
- Harry Weston: Don't I know you from somewhere?
- Matt Calder: Well, that might depend on what you do.
- Harry Weston: I'm a gambler.
- Matt Calder: Then you don't know me from anywhere.
- Harry Weston: I always say "What's the difference?"
- Matt Calder: That's what I always say.
- Kay Weston: [singing] Down in the meadow, Corn stalks are high, Pumpkins are ripe and ready for pie.
- Mark Calder: I said you were beautiful, and he said beauty was skin-deep.
- Kay Weston: Who did?
- Mark Calder: Matt, my dad. He said it was an old saying.
- Kay Weston: It's an old saying by an old crow!
- Kay Weston: You said no one could go down the river. You said it'd be suicide if he tried it.
- Matt Calder: He's not trying. I am. There's a difference.
- Kay Weston: [singing] Down in the meadow, Snow softly gleams, Earth goes to sleep, And smiles in her dreams.
- Kay Weston: I'll tell you how he didn't treat me. He didn't treat me like a tramp. He treated me like a woman. So he made a mistake. If you had lived like he has all of his life, on crumbs and bones, maybe you'd do a crazy thing if you had a chance to make a fortune. Maybe you'd do a foolish thing yourself.
- Matt Calder: I wouldn't leave a kid to die - or a woman, even if she was a tramp.
- Harry Weston: How much do you want for your horse and your gun?
- Matt Calder: Money? Now what would I do? Plough that field up with a silver dollar and then throw it in some Indian's face?
- Mark Calder: How was the water?
- Kay Weston: Freezing, but I'm becoming hardened. I guess it's from seeing life in the raw and running around with strong, silent types like you guys.
- Matt Calder: Yeah.
- Kay Weston: I'm sorry I opened my big mouth in front of the boy. You hurt me and I wanted to hurt you back.
- Matt Calder: Well, that's the way it works.
- Ben: They're all kinda crazy, ain't they?
- Matt Calder: What's that, Ben?
- Ben: The times! White men chasin' gold. Indians chasin' white men. Army chasin' the Indians.