"[to Bunk] I could take the end of your nose off just as easy. A man in your age stealin' sugar!"

"I signed nothing. If I had, I'd stay. You'll remember I joined your train after you left St. Louis."

"I'm startin' my own herd. I've watched the land south of here since we left the Salt Fork. It's good land, good grass…"

"Wherever they go, they'll be on my land. My land. We're here and we're gonna stay here. Give me ten years and I'll ha…"

"The big house will be down by the river and the corrals and the barns behind it. It'll be a good place to live in. Te…"

"[to Meeker] All right, we rounded up some of your stock and some of Diego's and some of everybody else's around here.…"

"Well, we start tomorrow. We're goin' to Missouri with ten thousand head. Most of you men have come back to Texas from…"

"[to Bunk] You started all this...we're three or four hundred head short and you killed Dan Latimer...stealin' sugar l…"

"All right. Anybody else? Say it now, 'cause I don't want ever to hear it again. I don't like quitters, especially whe…"

"Joanne Dru - Tess Millay"