The Tall Texan

Tinnen:
How do we know we can trust the Indians to keep their word?

Trask:
You got a point there. Indians got a point too. They've had dealings with whites before.

Laura Thompson:
A man's dying doesn't mean very much to you, does it?

Trask:
On the contrary, a man's dying means a lot to me.

Capt. Theodore Bess:
Whatever I do I never apologize for it, do you?

Laura Thompson:
No.

Capt. Theodore Bess:
Well, I do now... with reservations.

Laura Thompson:
Such as?

Capt. Theodore Bess:
O, no excuses for discoverin' you're a real woman... my kind... never met one before.

Laura Thompson:
Next I'll remind you of your mother.

Capt. Theodore Bess:
You couldn't. I was raised in a foundling home.

Tinnen:
[Asking about his gold panning] What are you gettin', Sammy?

Carney:
Sand fleas and sore knees.

Trask:
[to Laura referring to his feet in the crowded wagon] I gotta put'em someplace, lady.

Sheriff Chadborune:
Pioneering in this country can be awful rough.

Jerome 'Jerry' Niblett:
Men go where there's money to be made.

Capt. Theodore Bess:
And women?

Laura Thompson:
They go with the men who make it... or try.

Trask:
[Alluding to Tinnen's duplicity] Union coat, Confeerate trousers... it figures.