"Agatha Clegg: [Lily has asked to partner-up with Agatha in a wagon train] You know something ? I got a hunch you're gonna draw men like fish to bait. Maybe I can catch one of them while they swim by. You got yourself a partner."

"Spencer Tracy - Narrator"

"One of these days I'm likely to pay you Rawlingses a little visit."

"James Stewart - Linus Rawlings"

"There's only one kind of peace I know of, Marshal. That's the kind my brother's got."

"[to Zeb Rawlings] Settled down for a year, once. Took ten years off my life!"

"Carroll Baker - Eve Prescott Rawlings"

"David Brian - Lilith's attorney"

"[to Mike King] Take a good look. You wanted a war, mister, you got one. I hope you're the first man killed in it."

"It ain't quite what I expected. There ain't much glory in lookin' at a man with his guts hanging out."

"Eli Wallach - Charlie Gant"

"Harry Dean Stanton - a member of Gant's gang"

"Lee J. Cobb - Marshal Lou Ramsey"

"Mickey Shaughnessy - Deputy Stover"

"[about the Civil War] Evening of April 6, 1862. The guns that roared all day fell silent, around a little church called the Shiloh Meeting House. Many a man had met his God that Sunday... but not in church... It had been the bloodiest day of the war on the Western Front. In the morning it had looked like a Confederate victory, but by nightfall, no man dared use the words "win" or "lose." After Shiloh, the South never smiled."

"[as the camera pans over the Rocky Mountains] This land has a name today, and is marked on maps. But the names and the marks and the maps all had to be won, won from nature and from primitive man."

"[about the Erie Canal ] About 150 years ago, an idea took shape in the mind of a man named DeWitt Clinton. And in the way Americans have of acting out their dreams, it came to be."

"The west was won by its pioneers, settlers, adventurers is long gone now. Yet it is theirs forever, for they left tracks in history that will never be eroded by wind or rain - never plowed under by tractors, never buried in the compost of events. Out of the hard simplicity of their lives, out of their vitality, of their hopes and sorrows grew legends of courage and pride to inspire their children and their children's children. From soil enriched by their blood, out of their fever to explore and be, came lakes where once were burning deserts - came the goods of the earth; mines and wheat fields, orchards and great lumber mills. All the sinews of a growing country. Out of their rude settlements, their trading posts came cities to rank among the great ones of the world. All the heritage of a people free to dream, free to act, free to mold their own destiny."

"Raymond Massey - President Abraham Lincoln"

"Harry Morgan - Gen. Ulysses S. Grant"

"John Wayne - Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman"

"Henry Fonda - Jethro Stuart"