The High Chaparral

Buck Cannon:
[Explaining to a cowboy why he pulled a hidden gun] I whole lot rather be watchin' them put you in the ground and have folks sayin' 'That Buck Cannon, he don't fight fair' than to have 'Here lies Buck Cannon, he fought fair' on my tombstone.

Billy Blue Cannon:
I need all the rest I can get, Uncle Buck

Buck Cannon:
When I was your age, Blue, the word 'rest' hadn't been invented.

Billy Blue Cannon:
What do you think's keeping Mano?

Buck Cannon:
Could be a good sign, Blue Boy. Bad news don't usually take so long.

Billy Blue Cannon:
You can untie me. I won't run away.

Chief Morales:
That's not why your hands are tied. It gives strength to my people.

Billy Blue Cannon:
How do you figure that?

Chief Morales:
Anybody can kill an enemy. It takes strength to kill a friend.

Sam Butler:
Blue?

Billy Blue Cannon:
Yeah?

Sam Butler:
You're a pistol, kid.

[Annalee gazes at the desert vista]

Annalee Cannon:
Isn't it beautiful, John? It should have a name.

Big John Cannon:
You name it.

Annalee Cannon:
What is that bush called - that green one?

Big John Cannon:
Chaparral.

Annalee Cannon:
That's it - Chaparral. I christen thee "The High Chaparral" - the greatest cattle ranch in the whole territory... the whole world!

Jennie Simmons:
Is John Cannon your daddy?

Buck Cannon:
Sometimes he's my daddy, but most of the time he's my big brother.

Tobin Boggs:
China Pierce is a vindictive man, a violent man, a mad man and his son was killed...

Buck Cannon:
His son was cheatin'. He pulled a gun when he was called on it. And he was fair killed.

Tobin Boggs:
I don't care about that; I care about this town, Cannon. One person is not as important as many persons. You must move him, Cannon.

Buck Cannon:
Well, Boggs, I talked to quite a bit of your town and my answer to them is the same as it is to you. Jones here, or whoever he is, stays because he's hurt and deservin' and on top of it all, stinkin' and low-life as you might find him, it's him and his type, engine to honesty, who made this land so much as you could build your carbunkle to nowhere.

Buck Cannon:
He lives or he dies, but he just plain isn't movin' - not for somethin' he didn't do. Pierce will have to kill me to do it and this year I take some killin'. Tell your town that a man's gonna get a man's needs and the devil take the hindmost.

Buck Cannon:
I guess I like you because I favor dumb animals

Billy Blue Cannon:
Don Sebastian! You gotta come quick! Mano's in bad trouble.

Don Sebastian Montoya:
The sun is also shining.

Billy Blue Cannon:
I mean no disrespect, ma'am, but you could never be my mother.

Victoria Cannon:
Never is like always, Blue. There is no such thing.

Buck Cannon:
Well, Blue Boy, good thing we love this land so much.

Billy Blue Cannon:
Huh?

Buck Cannon:
Seeing as how we're likely to get buried in it.

[to John Cannon]

General Tirrel:
The good Lord must have known what he was doing to direct a man like you to this desolate land.

Big John Cannon:
Blue, you've only know her a few days. How can you marry a girl you don't even know?

Billy Blue Cannon:
You did.

Billy Blue Cannon:
Don't you think everything has already been said?

Manolito Montoya:
Well, possible... Did you change your mind?

Billy Blue Cannon:
No.

Manolito Montoya:
Then everything has not been said.

Pedro:
May all your teeth fall out of your mouth except one - and that one shall have a toothache.

Big John Cannon:
It's the High Chaparral, all the things I want for it. It's your life, it's mine, your children, for all the Cannon children that come after us. That's what we're building.

"You two have already used all the good rocks."