- Jed: You must've rode a long way.
- Ben Stride: I walked.
- Jed: Ain't you got no horse?
- Ben Stride: Did have. Chirichua jumped me about ten mile back.
- Jed: They stole 'em?
- Ben Stride: They ate him.
- Cavalry Lt. Collins: We've been dispatched from Fort Crittenden to make a wide sweep south to contact any and all Chirichua in the area. Reports indicate they may be massing along the border.
- Ben Stride: Can't be more than 50 of them left in the whole territory.
- Cavalry Lt. Collins: Oh, according to our scouts there's well over 100.
- Ben Stride: [Laconically] That include the squaws, Lieutenant?
- Cavalry Lt. Collins: I take it you don't think the Indians are dangerous.
- Ben Stride: They're worse than that. They're hungry. Nothing as deadly as a half-starved Chirichua,
- Cavalry Lt. Collins: Well then, we agree.
- Ben Stride: [Ambiguously] Do we?
- Ben Stride: Well, I'll be seein' yuh. We gotta be movin'.
- The Prospector: You oughta do the same, mister unless you hanker for a haircut from a Chirachua barber.
- [laughs]
- Ben Stride: What happened up there?
- Bill Masters: Payte Bodeen... I killed him.
- Ben Stride: Why?
- Bill Masters: Why not?