Rawhide (TV Series)

Incident of the Misplaced Indians (1959)

Eric Fleming: Gil Favor

Quotes 

• Pete Nolan : Delawares.

  Gil Favor : Delawares? That's an Eastern Indian. What's he doing in Texas?

  Pete Nolan : What was left of them wandered off out here in search of peace. A few small bands of them between the Rio Grande and the Three Ports of Missouri. It's a little hard to believe, but they're friendly. The way I understand it, most of them are Christians.

  Gil Favor : If they're friendly, how'd this happen?

• Gil Favor : Pointing 'em north, most things you can calculate. Your men, for instance. You know what to expect. But there's one thing you can't calculate on - the people who cross your trail. The thousand ways they can make their troubles yours. You find that out real quick in my job. My name's Gil Favor, trail boss.

• Pete Nolan : They haven't been shot, nobody's knifed 'em. Nothing to say what killed them.

  Gil Favor : They didn't just fall down dead.

• Gil Favor : You're married, aren't you, Ma'am? There's a man's coat and shoes in there. Who is he? Are you like this because of something that happened to him?

• Rowdy Yates : Against her will?

  Gil Favor : No, Rowdy, because she can't quite think for herself.

• Amelia Spaulding : He died of a perforated stomach, almost a month ago.

  Gil Favor : I see.

  Amelia Spaulding : No, I don't think you do, Mr Favor. Though you may not be aware of it, there are a great many things you don't understand.

  Gil Favor : Then maybe you'll tell me.

  Amelia Spaulding : My husband was a missionary, felt the call to administer to the heathen Indians. His heart led him into the wilderness. And he went. Like Paul into Jerusalem. He brought an overflowing love... I took my place at his side, his bride sworn to share whatever might befall. I buried him. Then I couldn't bring myself to leave.

• Gil Favor : You know, Pete, I'm beginning to think she scared those three Delawares to death.

• Amelia Spaulding : You think more of those dirty savages than you do of a white woman.

  Gil Favor : You don't sound much like the widow of a missionary, Ma'am.

• Pete Nolan : I just started to walk away from the chuck wagon when it hit me.

  Wishbone : He must be full to the gills with that stuff.

  Gil Favor : What stuff?

  Wishbone : Arsenic. Mushy, go get me a sack of mustard and plenty of water. NOW MOVE... I seen it before. Settlers keep it around for wolves and coyotes. Sometimes humans get it by mistake.