Lonesome Dove

Gus McCrae:
A man who wouldn't cheat for a poke don't want one bad enough.

Gus McCrae:
It's not dying I'm talking about, it's living.

Woodrow Call:
[after handing the gun to Newt] It is better to have that and not need it, then to need it and not have it.

Woodrow Call:
[Woodrow walking towards Gus] I 'spect you been sittin' up all night reading the good book.

Woodrow Call:
[after beating a man nearly to death for hitting Newt he climbs on his horse and looks at the horrified towns people] I hate rude behavior in a man. I won't tolerate it.

Gus McCrae:
Here's to the sunny slopes of long ago.

[referring to the Hat Creek Cattle Company sign]

Woodrow Call:
...and if that ain't bad enough you got all them Greek words on there, too.

Gus McCrae:
I told you, Woodrow, a long time ago it ain't Greek, it's Latin.

Woodrow Call:
Well what does it say in Latin? [Gus blusters some gibberish] For all you know it invites people to rob us.

Gus McCrae:
Well the first man comes along that can read Latin is welcome to rob us, far as I'm concerned. I'd like a chance t' shoot at a educated man once in my life.

Woodrow Call:
You ever get tired o' loafin' I reckon you can get a job waitin' on tables.

Gus McCrae:
Oh, I had a job waitin' tables once. S' on a riverboat. I wasn't no older than Newt, there, but I hadda give it up.

Newt:
How come?

Gus McCrae:
Well I was, too young and pretty and the whores wouldn't let me alone.

Gus McCrae:
I could kick you for givin' him all them ideas about Montana. Now we're gonna suffer for the rest of our damn lives.

Jake Spoon:
Yeah, I forgot how determined he can get, once an idea takes root.

Gus McCrae:
I'm just tryin' to keep everything in balance, Woodrow. You do more work than you got to, so it's my obligation to do less.

Gus McCrae:
Well, I'm glad I ain't scared to be lazy.

Woodrow Call:
I guess it's our fault we should've shot sooner.

Gus McCrae:
I don't want to start thinking Woodrow of all the things we should have done for this good man.

Woodrow Call:
We come to this place to make money. They wasn't nothin' about fun in the deal.

Gus McCrae:
What are you talkin' about? You don't even like money. You like money even less than you like fun, if that's possible.

Roy Suggs:
What did you find?

Dan Suggs:
Nothing but his old watch. Damn sodbusters!

Jake Spoon:
You shot those two men for a watch?

Dan Suggs:
Shot 'em, now I'm going to hang 'em.

Eddie Suggs:
Hang 'em? Dang, you beat all! I've never heard of hanging dead men.

Dan Suggs:
Shot 'em, now I'm gonna hang 'em, then I'm gonna burn 'em! Damn sodbusters. Can't ever be too dead to suit me.

Clara Allen:
Sometimes it seems like grave digging is all we do around here, don't it Cholo? What do you think happens when we die?

Cholo:
Not too much. You are just dead.

Clara Allen:
Maybe it's not as big a change as we think. Maybe you just go back to where you lived or near your family, or wherever you were the happiest. Only you're just a spirit now... and you don't have the troubles the living have.

[while July Johnson helped Gus McCrae attack the bandits' camp, July's friends were murdered by Blue Duck]

July Johnson:
It was my fault! Hell, you told me to stay.

Gus McCrae:
I know I did, son. And I'm sure you wished you had. But yesterday's gone, we can't get it back. Now you go on with your digging.

[Jake is about to be hanged]

Jake Spoon:
Well, hell, boys. I'd damn sight rather be hung by my friends than by a bunch o' damn strangers. Newt... Well, adios, boys. Hope you won't hold it against me. Never meant no harm.

[spurs his horse, hanging himself before Gus does it]

Joshua Deets:
[in the Wyoming Badlands] What we doin' up here, Captain? This ain't our land.

Gus McCrae:
Woodrow is determined to be the first man to graze cattle in Montana, even if it kills all of us.

Joshua Deets:
Don't seem right, Captain. A man ought not to leave his land and his people.

Blue Duck:
[to Gus] You ever bring that tongue of yours north of the Canadian River, I'll cut it off and feed it to my wolf pups.

Woodrow Call:
[Call thinks Gus has died] Augustus.

Gus McCrae:
[opens his eyes] By God, Woodrow; it's been one hell of a party. [dies]

Woodrow Call:
Well, Augustus is dead. Died from blood poisonin' from them arrows them Indians shot in him. They cut off one of his legs, but the poison got in the other and he wouldn't let 'em cut it off. Stubborn about it; that's what killed him, bein' stubborn.

Woodrow Call:
[after burying Gus by the stream in Texas] Well, Gus; there you go. I guess this will teach me to be more careful about what I promise people in the future.

Roscoe Brown:
[Peach has told Roscoe to go find July] Find July! He's been gone over six days!

Peach Johnson:
He's gone to Texas, Roscoe. I reckon you can find Texas!

Roscoe Brown:
Of course I can find Texas, Peach. I just don't know if I can find July!

Woodrow Call:
[riding in San Antonio] Things sure have changed since the last time I was here. It's all growed up.

Gus McCrae:
Of course it's growed up, Woodrow. He killed all the Indians and bandits so the bankers could move in.

Woodrow Call:
Only a fool would want the Indians back.

Gus McCrae:
Has it ever occurred to you, Woodrow; that all the work we done was for the bankers? Hell, we killed off everybody made this country interestin'!

Blue Duck:
[Call is looking at Blue Duck in jail] I hear you brought you stinkin' old friend to watch my hangin'.

Woodrow Call:
He'd have enjoyed it.

Blue Duck:
I should've killed him when I had a chance.

Woodrow Call:
I'd have killed you for it.

Blue Duck:
[laughing] I stole horses, burned farms, killed men, raped women and stole children all over your territory and until today, you never even got a good look at me! I don't think you would've killed me. Rangers! I 'spect I'll kill a passel of you yet.

Clara Allen:
I loved Augustus McRae, but I wasn't willing to share him with you every time you decided to ride off on some adventure. I despised you for what you were then, Captain Call; and I despise you for what you're doing!

Woodrow Call:
How do I know you won't start missin' your wife after about five miles and decide to quit?

Po Campo:
My wife is in hell; where I sent her.

Joshua Deets:
[laughing] Done put a gun on you. Reckon you'll be boss of this outfit before too much longer.

Newt:
[Going along with the joke] You better hope not, Deets. First thing I'll do is cut your wages for all them times you been joshin' me.

Gus McCrae:
[Call and McRae are about to hang the Suggs brothers] Say goodbye to your brothers; I expect you got them into this.

Dan Suggs:
The hell with them! They ain't worth a red piss; and neither are you!

Gus McCrae:
I'll say this, Suggs; you're the kind of man it's a pleasure to hang. If all you can talk is guff, you can talk it to the Devil. [Hits Dan's horse with a quirt causing his and Eddie's horse to bolt]

Roy Suggs:
I shoulda been second. Little Eddie was the youngest.

Gus McCrae:
I apologize, son; I never meant to scare his horse like that. Well, are you ready?

Roy Suggs:
[Shrugs] Yeah, I guess so.

July Johnson:
[Gus walks up on July's bunch in the dark] Who were they shootin' at?

Gus McCrae:
They were shootin' at me! This is Captain Augustus McRae, Texas Rangers. Now, don't shoot me; I'm walkin' in.

Gus McCrae:
[Shaking hands with July] Augustus McRae. Those were Blue Duck's boys. I've been chasin' him. He stole a woman and I'm tryin to get her back.

July Johnson:
July Johnson, I'm sheriff in Fort Smith, Arkansas. This is my deputy Roscoe Brown, this is Joe and Janie.

Gus McCrae:
July Johnson! You're that Arkansas sheriff came down lookin' for Jake Spoon. If you're lookin' for Jake, you missed him by about 200 miles.

July Johnson:
I'm not looking for Spoon right now. I've got more urgent business in the North.

Gus McCrae:
I've got to go after Blue Duck. I expect he's up on the Canadian somewhere. If I could trouble you for the loan of a horse, I'll return it and probably a few more.

Gus McCrae:
[to Jake about his riding with the Suggs] A man that will go along with five killin's is taking his leaving awful slow.

Gus McCrae:
[Coming upon the sodbusters killed by Dan Suggs] I'god, a man could get rich in the grave digging business around here. Pea, you ought to get a long shovel.

Pea Eye Parker:
I don't think I'd want to do that.

Woodrow Call:
This is a bad bunch we're after.

Newt:
Gus, Jake wouldn't have nothin' to do with something like this!

Gus McCrae:
Jake's always been a drifter Newt. Any wind can blow him.

Gus McCrae:
Is that all you boys can think about; gettin' to Ogallala and spendin' your money on whores?

Jasper Fant:
That's all right for you, Gus; you got Lorena with you. What about the rest of us?

Gus McCrae:
What's good for me might not be good for the weak minded.

Newt:
Gus, are you sure the Captain is my father?

Gus McCrae:
Yep, he is.

Newt:
He ain't never mentioned it.

Gus McCrae:
Well, Woodrow ain't much of a mentioner.

Jake Spoon:
A man that will talk to a pig ain't no better than a farmer.

Gus McCrae:
I expected you to own a bank or at least a whorehouse by now Jake. It seems life has been a disappointment to both of us.

Jake Spoon:
That might be so, but by God, I ain't never said a word to a pig.

Gus McCrae:
Well we don't rent pigs and I figure it's better to say it right out front because a man that does like to rent pigs is... he's hard to stop

Newt:
Jake wasn't a killer.

Gus McCrae:
Jake liked to joke. He didn't like to work. I have exactly those same failings myself.

Gus McCrae:
It's an accident she is even on this trip.

Clara Allen:
I never noticed you having accidents with ugly girls.

Newt:
Captain, can I go with you down to the river next time you go? I believe I'm gettin' old enough.

Woodrow Call:
You get old quick, sittin' out here on the porch, talkin'. Best go on to bed.

Newt:
It's still early, Captain.

Woodrow Call:
You go on to bed now, like I told you to.

Gus McCrae:
Now, why did you do that? Best chance the boy's got at a education is listenin' to me talk.

Woodrow Call:
What kinda education is that?

Gus McCrae:
You think he'll learn more shovelin' horse poop for you?

Woodrow Call:
I shoveled my share of it, it ain't hurt me none.

Gus McCrae:
Well, it's fine with me if that's how you wanna make your fortune.

Gus McCrae:
Lorie darlin', life in San Francisco, you see, is still just life. If you want any one thing too badly, it's likely to turn out to be a disappointment. The only healthy way to live life is to learn to like all the little everyday things, like a sip of good whiskey in the evening, a soft bed, a glass of buttermilk, or a feisty gentleman like myself.

Gus McCrae:
Only way to get better food around here is by shooting Bolivar. And another thing, Bol, I want you to quit whackin' that dinner bell for supper. You can hit it at noon if you want to, but lay off doin' it in the evenin'. See, a man with any sense at all can tell when it's sundown, without you whackin' that bell.

Bolivar:
General Robert E. Lee freed the slaves. I can whack it if I want to.

Gus McCrae:
It was Abe Lincoln that freed the slaves, Bol, not General Lee.

Pea Eye Parker:
He didn't free Mexicans, anyway, Bol. It was Americans he freed.

Gus McCrae:
You're in over your head, Pea. It was a bunch of Africans Abe Lincoln freed. No more American than Call here.

Woodrow Call:
I'm American! By God!

Gus McCrae:
You was born in Scotland, as I recall. You was still draggin' on the tit when they brought you over here.

Woodrow Call:
I reckon I'm as American as anyone from Tennessee.

Woodrow Call:
Gus.

Gus McCrae:
What?

Woodrow Call:
Why not go up to Montana? It's a cattleman's paradise to hear Jake tell it.

Gus McCrae:
Sounds like a damn wilderness if you ask me. And we're a shade old to start fightin' Indians all over again, don't you think?

Woodrow Call:
I mean it, Gus. Why not, go north with a herd?

Gus McCrae:
I'll tell you what. You ride on up there, clear out the Iindians, build a little cabin, get a nice fire goin' in the fireplace and me and Jake will gather a herd and then we'll come on up.

Woodrow Call:
I'd like to see the herd that you and Jake could gather. Herd o' whores, maybe.

Gus McCrae:
Well you ain't no more a cattleman than I am, Call, and y'know it, too.

Woodrow Call:
I wanna do it, Gus. I wanna see that country, before the bankers and lawyers all git it.

Jake Spoon:
[Jake is back after being away ten years] Hey, didn't Deets have that same cap before I left?

Gus McCrae:
Well, you know Deets, he ain't one to quit on a garment just 'cause it's gotta a little age. We c'ain't always be fine dressers like you, Jake.

Gus McCrae:
A little early in the day to be wigglin' your bean, ain't it Jake?

[first lines]

Gus McCrae:
[to fighting pigs] Go down to the river to eat that snake. Now go on, get outa here. Go on! Go on, git!

Janey:
[to Joe] You ever ate a frog?

Monkey John:
[Blue Duck has shot an Indian that disagreed with him] Life is cheap up here on the Canadian.

Blue Duck:
It's apt to get a lot cheaper. Let's gamble.

Woodrow F. Call:
The best thing you can do for death is ride off from it.

Augustus 'Gus' McCrae:
[riding into San Antonio seeing hundreds of people] There's durn people makin' towns everywhere. And it's our fault, too.

Woodrow F. Call:
Our fault?

Augustus 'Gus' McCrae:
Well, we chased out the Indians, didn't we? Hung all the good bandits. Did it ever occur to you that everything we done was a mistake? You and me done our work too well, Woodrow. Hell, we killed off all the people that made this country interesting to begin with, didn't we?

Woodrow F. Call:
You're lucky they didn't through you in jail.

Augustus 'Gus' McCrae:
Well, it ain't much of a crime whackin' a surely bartender. I guess they may have forgot us though.

Woodrow F. Call:
Why wouldn't they forget us? We haven't been around here in years.

Augustus 'Gus' McCrae:
No, the reason is we never got killed, that's why they forgot us.

Woodrow F. Call:
That is a dang foolish thing to say.

Augustus 'Gus' McCrae:
No it ain't. If a thousand Comanches had cornered us in a gutter somewhere and wiped us out, like the Soo just done Custer, why they'd remember us sure. Hell, they'd be writin' songs about us for a hindered years.

Woodrow F. Call:
Now there weren't ever a thousand Comanches in the whole world, and you know it.

Augustus 'Gus' McCrae:
Well that ain't the point, Woodrow!

Augustus 'Gus' McCrae:
If you want only one thing too much, it's likely to turn out a disappointment. Now the only healthy way to live, as I see it, is to learn to like all the little every day things.

Cowboy:
[about Gus] I keep expecting to hear him talk. When he ain't here, my ears start to get empty.

Augustus 'Gus' McCrae:
You've got a long time to live. And you don't want this thing dragging you back.

[Gus refuses to have his leg amputated knowing he will die if he doesn't]

Woodrow Call:
What do you want legs for anyway? You don't like to do nothing but sit on the porch and drink whiskey!

Gus McCrae:
I like to kick a pig every once in a while. How would I do that?

Woodrow Call:
You're one-of-a-kind, Augustus. We're gonna miss you.

Gus McCrae:
Even you?

Woodrow Call:
Even me. What you want me to do your half the cattle?

Gus McCrae:
I want you to buy 'em from me.

Woodrow Call:
Buy 'em from you? Hellfire, you ain't put in a day's worth of work in on 'em on this whole trip. You ought to just give 'em to me if you don't want 'em.

Gus McCrae:
You just said they were half-mine, are they half-mine or not?

Woodrow Call:
Yes, they're half-yours.

Gus McCrae:
Alright then. I want you to buy 'em from me, and give the money to... Lorena.

Woodrow Call:
Lorena. Well is there anything else? Are you sure you don't want me to haul you down to the South Pole and bury you down there? All you gotta do is ask.

Gus McCrae:
[chuckling] Yeah, there is something else. I want you to tell Newt that you're his daddy. I've already told him myself, but I want him to hear it from you.

Woodrow Call:
You ought not told him that.

Gus McCrae:
What are you gonna do, shoot me for it? It's time you stopped mistreating that boy.

Woodrow Call:
I don't know that I ever have mistreated him.

Gus McCrae:
Well not giving him your name is mistreating him. Now he's the only son you'll ever have.

Woodrow Call:
I don't know that he is my son.

Gus McCrae:
I know it, and you know it. Darn, you're stubborn! No wonder women don't like you. Reach in that drawer there, find me something to write on. I want to leave a couple notes to Lori and Clara.

Woodrow Call:
[hands Gus paper and pen] You want me to do anything about those Indians that shot you?

Gus McCrae:
We got no call to be vengeful, they didn't invite us here.

Gus McCrae:
[writing] It's a dangerous business, writing to two women at the same time. I'm so light-headed I can hardly remember which one's which. Now this one, this one's for Lori. And this one here, my God...

Woodrow Call:
You want me to help you with that?

Gus McCrae:
What would you know to say to a woman? [falls asleep writing]

Woodrow Call:
[places hand on Gus's chest] Augustus.

Gus McCrae:
[Looks up] My God, Woodrow. It has been quite a party, ain't it?

Woodrow Call:
Yes, sir.

Pea Eye Parker:
[Indians have attacked Gus & Pea, on a scouting expedition, wounding both] They're gonna try sneakin' up on us in the dark, ain't they Gus?

Gus McCrae:
be takin' a chance if they do, couple of sharp-shooters like us

Pea Eye Parker:
I ain't no sharp-shooter. I usually miss if I ain't got time to take careful aim

Gus McCrae:
'y god but it's depressin' to talk to you, Pea

Gus McCrae:
[Looking at a herd of buffalo, such as hadn't been seen in Texas for many years] Pretty, ain't they?

Pea Eye Parker:
I reckon

Gus McCrae:
Let's chase 'em. You want to?

Pea Eye Parker:
Shoot us one for our supper?

Gus McCrae:
No, I mean chase 'em just for the sport of it

Pea Eye Parker:
to run them off?

Gus McCrae:
You don't get the point, do you Pea? I mean chase 'em, because before long, there won't be any buffalo left TO chase

Pea Eye Parker:
Them bulls 'll hook you. D'you remember ol' man Barlow? A buffalo hooked him bad

Gus McCrae:
Old man Barlow was a slow thinker, kinda like somebody else I could name

Pea Eye Parker:
Well he was a slow walker, too, after that buffalo got through with him. Wonder what ever happened to him...

Gus McCrae:
He married a fat widow over on the Blanco River, and had a passel of kids. Now you might as well have done the same thing yourself, since you don't want to chase buffalo

Pea Eye Parker:
Well I don't believe I'd want to chase buffalo even if I was married

Gus McCrae:
Forget I even mentioned it, Pea

Pea Eye Parker:
Well, I like bein' a bachelor, Gus

Gus McCrae:
That's good, Pea; I'm sure it's all part of god's plan that You ARE one [whistles & spurs his horse]

Blue Duck:
[Call is looking at Blue Duck in jail] I hear you brought your stinkin' old friend to my hangin'.

Woodrow Call:
He'd enjoy seein' it alright.

Blue Duck:
I should've caught him & cooked him when I had the chance.

Woodrow Call:
I'd have killed you for it, if you had.

Blue Duck:
[laughing] I raped women, stole children, and burned houses, & shot men, run off horses, & killed cattle, and robbed who I pleased, all over your territory, and you never even got a good look at me until today! I don't reckon you would've killed me.

Woodrow Call:
It don't matter much now though, does it?

Blue Duck:
You Rangers! I 'spect I'll kill a passel of you yet.

Woodrow Call:
I doubt it; not unless you can sprout wings 'n' fly through the hangman's noose

Blue Duck:
I can fly - an old woman taught me - and if you car to wait, you'll see me

Woodrow Call:
I'll wait. I give you my word on it

Augustus 'Gus' McCrae:
Woodrow ain't much of a mentioner when he can avoid it.

Newt Dobbs:
Well Gus, is it that he don't like me?

Augustus 'Gus' McCrae:
No. No. It's just, he don't want to admit he's human, like the rest of us, that's all.

Pea Eye Parker:
What Indians is it we're fightin' anyway?

Augustus 'Gus' McCrae:
They didn't introduce themselves.

Augustus 'Gus' McCrae:
Hope you didn't through my leg away. I may wanna make a walkin' stick out of the bone.

Clara Allen:
Did you give that boy your name before you left Montana?

Woodrow Call:
I gave him my horse.

Clara Allen:
You gave him your horse, but not your name?

Woodrow Call:
I put a lot more value on the animal than I do my name.

Woodrow Call:
[grave-side] Well there ya are, Augustus. I guess this'll teach me to be more careful about what I promise in the future.

Grave Marker:
UVA UVAM VIVENDO VARIA FIT

[last lines]

Reporter:
They say you're a man of vision. Is that true?

Woodrow Call:
[flashing back to all that has gone on]

Reporter:
Captain Call?

Woodrow Call:
A man's vision, you say. Yeah. Hell of a vision...

Pea Eye Parker:
[after Gus tells him he has to sneak past the Indians and go for help] What if they catch me?

Gus McCrae:
Well, they'll probably start by cuttin' your cojones off.

Woodrow Call:
[looks over at Newt after Clara gives Newt the horse] Women!

Clara Allen:
Here, Mr. Johnson. Meet your son. [Hands baby to July Johnson, who holds him in his arms] Well, that's a good sign. I guess you'd at least catch him if somebody threw him off a roof.

Pea Eye Parker:
What's it read, Gus?

Gus McCrae:
It says, "Josh Deets. Served with me 30 years. Fought In 21 engagements with the Comanche and the Kiowa. Cheerful in all weathers. Never shirked a task. Splendid behavior." That's what it says.

Pea Eye Parker:
My lord. Old Deets is gone. My lord.

Gus McCrae:
You know how it works Jake, you ride with an outlaw, you die with an outlaw. I'm sorry you crossed the line.

Jake Spoon:
I didn't see no line Gus. I was just trying to get through the territory without getting scalped, that's all.

Gus McCrae:
[Call is about to hang Jake] You know how it goes, Jake. You ride with an outlaw, you die with an outlaw. Sorry you crossed the line.

Jake Spoon:
I never seen no line, Gus. I was just trying to get through the territory without gettin' scalped.

Gus McCrae:
I don't doubt that's true, Jake.

Gus McCrae:
[after Woodrow almost beats a man to death for whipping Newt and hitting some of his men] It don't do to anger Woodrow F. Call, does it?

Woodrow Call:
Didn't you hear me? I said get your boots off

Dan Suggs:
Damned if we will. I said we were horse traders

Gus McCrae:
We're more persuaded by the bodies we just buried. Get your boots off

Dan Suggs:
I don't know what the hell you're talkin' about

Gus McCrae:
You're a black liar sir

Dan Suggs:
Just ask Jake if we didn't buy them horses

Woodrow Call:
'dyou buy them three cowboys you shot? 'dyou buy them two farmers you burned? Pea, you & Newt get your ropes; tie 'em up

Jake Spoon:
Oh you don't need to tie me up, Newt. Hell I ain't killed anybody. I just fell in with these boys to get me through the territory; hell I was gonna leave 'em first chance I got

Gus McCrae:
I wish you'd taken that chance a little earlier, Jake; a man who'll go along with five killin's, takin' his leave a little slow. Go ahead Newt

Jake Spoon:
Pea, you know me; I ain't no killer. Deets you know it too. Gus I ain't no criminal; now you know that. It was Dan that killed them two sod-busters. Hell I didn't kill nobody

Dan Suggs:
You shut your damn mouth, Spoon

Woodrow Call:
Put 'em on their horses

Roy Suggs:
Where's he goin'?

Gus McCrae:
Pick out a tree to hang you from, son

Jake Spoon:
Gus, I...

Gus McCrae:
You know how it works, Jake: you ride with an outlaw, you die with an outlaw. I'm sorry you crossed the line

Jake Spoon:
I didn't see no line, Gus. I was just tryin' to get through the territory, without gettin' scalped; that's all

Gus McCrae:
I'm sure that's true, Jake

Woodrow Call:
You're that sheriff from Fort Smith Arkansas, come lookin' for Jake Spoon

July Johnson:
That was a long time ago. I don't reckon I'm lookin' for him no more

Woodrow Call:
That's good, 'cause he fell in with a bad bunch and we hung 'im

Newt Dobbs:
Jake was no killer.

Augustus 'Gus' McCrae:
Jake liked to joke, he didn't like to work. I got exactly those same feelings myself.

Clara Allen:
Why don't you get down?

July Johnson:
Well thank you but we wouldn't want to trouble you.

Clara Allen:
Oh, we grow our own troubles around here. Their names are Sally and Betsy.

Augustus 'Gus' McCrae:
I told you what happened. It's an accident she's even on this trip.

Clara Allen:
Oh, I never noticed you having accidents with ugly girls!

[last lines]

Woodrow Call:
I guess it's our fault, we shoulda shot sooner.

Augustus 'Gus' McCrae:
I don't want to start thinking, Woodrow, about all the things we that shoulda done for this good man.

She ran off she just run off

Spoken by Gus to Jake shortly after Jake arrived and Lonesome Dove and explained why he was on the Run. Jake detailed how he had shot a dentist in Fort Smith Arkansas when he shot through a wall, with the bullet going through and hitting the dentist. The dentist's brother was the sheriff. In reply, Gus said something to Jake along the lines of:
a clapboard wall won't stop a bullet, but a dentist will!