- Gil Favor: Pretty hard to beat it when it sets in solid - boredom. You can feel it close in like heat around your riders, watch it dull 'em to the point where the drive gets to be something they'd just as soon forget. But they can't afford to forget it. I can't afford to let 'em. My name's Gil Favor, trail boss.
- Rowdy Yates: What's he gonna do with that?
- Louise: It will be cooked.
- Rowdy Yates: A lizard?
- Louise: When there's nothing else.
- Rowdy Yates: I've seen people hungry, but not like this.
- Pete Nolan: What do you make of him? Who's gonna come at us hard?
- Rowdy Yates: He's out of his mind. That's what I make of him.
- Gil Favor: Maybe he's out of his mind. Maybe not.
- Rowdy Yates: What do you mean?
- Gil Favor: Not sure what I mean just yet. It's just something about him. He finally let us catch him, talked just enough to make it interesting. He didn't say who was after him, just 'them.'
- Louise: It doesn't matter. In this country, nothing matters. In this country, a woman is less than a dog, and much less than a horse.
- Rowdy Yates: A pretty girl saying stuff like that.
- Pete Nolan: Anybody on this part of Texas can tell you there's nothing crawls the earth lower than a Comanchero. They're a dirty, murdering bunch of renegade whites that trade with the Comanches. They don't only trade for gold and silver, they buy captive women and children. Then turn them into slaves and sell them below the border. Comanchero's about only things on two legs that a man doesn't get hanged for killing.
- Louise: I wasn't waiting for anything. I was simply sitting here. If I hadn't been here, I would have been somewhere else equally as unimportant.
- Gil Favor: You take them the food. If they're stranded, bring 'em on back. But remember, we're moving cattle, not picking up strays. And stay out of trouble!
- Storekeeper: Where'd you get it?
- Rowdy Yates: Why?
- Storekeeper: You better tell me.
- Rowdy Yates: A girl gave it to me. A girl I met out on the prairie.
- Townsman: You think that story's gonna wash?
- Gil Favor: What's this all about, Mister?
- Storekeeper: There's engraving on this. Says Laura L Benton.
- Gil Favor: So what about it?
- Storekeeper: The Bentons were slaughtered by the Comanches, ranch looted and burnt out.
- Townsman: Only two kinds of people'd have that looking glass now, Comanches, or Comancheros. You don't look like a Comanche.
- Storekeeper: This was a trick, to draw you off. They beat me. They set me among yous to lead you into this ambush. If I didn't, they said they'd kill my son. Well, they've killed him anyway.
- Louise: You gave us back our lives, so we can go home now and face our own world. I shall never forget what you have done.
- [She reaches up to kiss Rowdy on the kips for a smooch, a kiss that he looks unlikely to ever forget]
- Gil Favor: I want to smash them on the first pass. Hit men if you can, horses if you have to. But we gotta sheer them off before they bite the cattle.
- Rowdy Yates: I see she didn't keep the present very long.
- Jim Quince: Now you wouldn't have waste this pretty little thing on her kind.
- Rowdy Yates: I don't know what she'd want to do with it once it's been around your filthy neck.
- Wishbone: I only need a dollar and you wouldn't be giving it to me. You'd only be putting it on account. On account of the poker losing you owe me.
- Rowdy Yates: Right. Being as you're putting it that way.
- Wishbone: The way I put it? Well, where'd you get a thing like that?
- Rowdy Yates: I guess that girl gave it to me.
- Wishbone: [laughing] Well, ain't that the daintiest! What's you keeping it hid for? 'Fraid somebody's gonna catch you checking your beautiful curls?
- Rowdy Yates: Now, look here, Wishbone.
- Mushy: It's real purdy, Mr Rowdy. Silver frame. I didn't know you had anything like that.
- Wishbone: Where's the powder puff that goes with it?
- Rowdy Yates: Tell me something, Wishbone. Do you want that dollar I owe you?
- Wishbone: Well, you're mighty well told you I do.
- Rowdy Yates: Well, you can just whistle up your elbow for it.