Rawhide (TV Series)

Incident of the Dry Drive (1959)

Victor Jory: Jess Hode

Quotes 

• Jess Hode : Not my worry somebody put a herd in your trust.

  Gil Favor : My steers carry my trail brand.

  Jess Hode : Nothing new or great about that. Us old-timers always had a trail brand.

  Gil Favor : You look real hard at those steers you're about brand, you'll see what my brand is.

  Jess Hode : Meaning?

  Gil Favor : You're branding my cattle.

• Jim Hode : I don't think Mr Favor ran, Pa.

  Jess Hode : Well, you can still see his dust.

• Jess Hode : When you've got an advantage, boy, you take it. It's time you learnt that.

• Jess Hode : They say I could boss a herd no more. Well, I decided I'd show 'em, build up my own herd, boss the whole range, and I dun it. We come this place, there was nothing. Nothing. And we had nothing. Your mother's little legacy sent you back East for learning. Then I pitched in, starving almost at first. With the railroad coming, I knew what beef would mean. And I got it wherever I could. Sure, in the scrub or on the prairie. So what if some didn't have brands on them. Any fool that didn't have sense or guts to look out for his own, deserved to lose 'em. I BUILT UP MY HERD!

  Gil Favor : With a long rope, a branding iron, and maybe a shot on the back some dark night.

  Jess Hode : And I ain't sorry for any of it. Because I ain't poor no more. And nobody tells ME what to do. NOBODY! NOT YOU! AND NOT YOU, BOY!