Bert Freed: Rufe Ryker

Quotes 

• R.G. Posey : I was thinkin' about sodbusters.

  Rufe Ryker : You don't like our neighbors?

  R.G. Posey : [Ruefully]  You don't know. Wasn't about a year I had me a job north of here. Good wages. Good boss. Then the nesters came.

  Rufe Ryker : They always do.

  R.G. Posey : Bunchin' up. The way they bunch up. You can smell them comin' a mile off. First it was fences on the range. Then it was barb wire. Then they fenced off the water. The water. And the law. The law said they could do it. Cows couldn't range. Pretty soon they couldn't hardly get no water. First thing I know, Mr. Kanigher, he...

  Rufe Ryker : Kanigher? I know him.

  R.G. Posey : First thing I know, Mr. Kanigher went and sold off a good part of his herd. Instead of a job I had me a saddle, six-gun, and a ten-dollar horse.