- Gil Favor: On a drive, the days and nights get mighty big. There's a lot of danger a man can understand, and a lot he can't. That's the kind I hate, the kind I can't understand. I'm Gil Favor, trail boss.
- Jefferson Devereaux: I only came to demand what is my own. In front of these people and in front of my own men, you have shamed me. I could raise my hand and there'd be a killing, and you'd come to me or you'd be dead. I won't do that. The only way I can rub out my shames is for you to come to me on your own. BEGGING, CRAWLING, and before you leave the plateau, that will happen. If she's got one ounce of decency, once she sees what's going to happen to all of you, she'll come back to me on her knees. SCREAMING for me to TAKE HER BACK!
- Riggs: What's the matter with you, Mr Favor? You bounced the saddle so long you forgot how to count? Devereaux's got twice as many men as you have.
- Rowdy Yates: It's just a high place. The way Joe's been talking you'd think that the house had two heads and was spitting fire.
- Joe Scarlet: Rowdy, sometimes I think you're so hickered you couldn't drive nails in a snowbank.
- Rowdy Yates: Maybe it's just I don't spook every time we look at something hard to do.
- Riggs: Do you want to know what I think? I think you're so drunk, boy, that you couldn't hit the ground with that great big beautiful hat of yours, if you had two tries.
- Arkansas: [He brandishes his knife] Some outfits I've worked for call one of these the Arkansas toothpick.
- Pete Nolan: He's no cowhand. He's one of them fancy talking people who spout words eight to the pound.
- Gil Favor: 40 men or 400, you don't have the right to ride into my camp.
- Jefferson Devereaux: Mister, the woman I spoke of, she gives me the right. She's my wife.
- Rowdy Yates: Now, I call that a morning's work. We herded those cows about five miles.
- [Shirtless, he stops washing up, sees Bryan and, wordless, a long bitter physical fight ensues]
- Tom Bryan: Own land as far as eagle can fly.
- Rowdy Yates: Looks like an old man to me.
- Tom Bryan: May be a little long on years but no one has sawn his horns off yet.
- Mushy: What do you reckon he wants here now?
- Tom Bryan: Whatever it is, senor, he take it.
- Rowdy Yates: When we were rotting in caves 80 feet below the ground, he was on top. We saw the sun maybe once a month and he saw it every day. He got all the food and water he wanted when some of it would have saved lives down where we were. Well, I'll tell you, everybody in that prison made a pact: First man to set his eyes on Tom Bryant would stomp his life out.
- Gil Favor: I gave your husband reason to come shooting his way into my camp. Maybe some of my men will be killed. But it'll be all right because you're sorry.
- Gil Favor: What's going on between you two?
- Rowdy Yates: As long as I have you for company, I'll walk up to the Devil himself. There's no room for you in this. There's no room at all.
- Gil Favor: Rowdy, when I tell you, I want you to kill Arkansas. Well, maybe a dead man can pull a trigger, maybe he can't. If he can, you'll find the trail log, map, list of owners, list of buyers in my saddlebags. You'll be in charge of the herd. Get them off this plateau before the Chubasco hits. When Mr Devereau comes in.
- Arkansas: Mr Favor, you talk like a man from the grave.
- Jefferson Devereaux: And my wife?
- Gil Favor: She's free to go anytime she chooses. We'll go back to the wagon and ask her.
- Jefferson Devereaux: I thought I made it clear, it doesn't make any difference what SHE decides.
- Gil Favor: It does to me.