- Doc Murdoch: Can you cook lamb?
- Cookie: There are nine different ways to cook mutton. And I know them all!
- Homer Kettle: Never mind that! Do you cook it with the hair on?
- Cookie: I should say not!
- Crowd: Hurray!
- Homer Kettle: Then you're hired!
- Edward Creighton: The last leg of your trip must have been rather lonesome.
- Richard Blake: Well I didn't mind that as much as I did the dust. I could do with a bath.
- Homer Kettle: A *bath*...?
- Richard Blake: Yes, don't you approve of them?
- Homer Kettle: Well if the weather's hot and you're near a river, I ain't got a thing agin 'em.
- [on the whereabouts of a recently deceased railroad worker]
- Charlie: He's being slapped with a spade right now.
- Doc Murdoch: Feels like you got a slug there, pardner. A .44?
- Charlie: Injun arrowhead. It don't bother me none.
- Doc Murdoch: You know, some members of the medical profession like to cut them things out. But I say, let 'em stay if it's that comfortable.
- [last lines]
- [listening to the clack of the telegraph]
- Richard Blake: Makes a nice sound, doesn't it, coming across a continent.
- Edward Creighton: It's music.
- Sue Creighton: I wish Shaw could hear it.
- Edward Creighton: It's a long way from Salt Lake City to Boot Hill in Elkville, but I think he can hear it.
- Edward Creighton: Well then, I guess I better see the law about this.
- Jack Slade: You'll have to go back to Omaha if you do. It don't run beyond there.
- Edward Creighton: I'll make some of my own!
- Vance Shaw: I like being alone.
- Edward Creighton: The best place to be alone sometimes is in a crowd.
- Vance Shaw: That's the way I figured it... until I ran into you.
- Vance Shaw: He says you come in peace today, but there won't be any peace if you try to take the singing wire through the Oglala nation.
- Edward Creighton: Well, tell him that the Great White Father who speaks with lightning over the singing wire is sorry for the wounding of his Indian son; but the lightning talk is strong medicine and it must go through.
- Richard Blake: I'd like to go with you.
- Vance Shaw: Sorry, this is one job I don't trust to a tenderfoot, no matter how good he is.
- Edward Creighton: The last leg of your trip must have been rather lonesome.
- Richard Blake: Well I didn't mind that as much as I did the dust. I could do with a bath.
- Homer Kettle: A *bath*...?
- Richard Blake: Yes, don't you approve of them?
- Homer Kettle: Well if the weather's hot and you're near a river, I ain't got a thing agin 'em.
- [spits tobacco at Blake's feet]