Rawhide (TV Series)

Incident of the Misplaced Indians (1959)

Sheb Wooley: Pete Nolan

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?

• 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.

• Pete Nolan : I'm just a scout. When I run across signs that puzzle me, I just naturally get curious.

• Pete Nolan : His cooking's the best, like I keep telling him that sourdough is burnt on the outside, raw in the middle, salty as a fish. But always, just the way I like 'em.

• Wishbone : For the last time. I say, take your potion, lie down, and keep warm.

  Pete Nolan : I've all your poison that I can stand. You give me my pants and boots, Wishbone. If you don't I'm gonna use this on yer!

  Wishbone : You don't scare me, Pete Nolan, you don't scare me at all. 'Cos I took all your bullets out. Can't trust a man in high fever.

• 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.

• Pete Nolan : It isn't an order, it's a conspiracy.