Cimarron Strip1967

Major Ben Covington:
There's a field out there behind that hill, Marshal. Do you know what's in it?

Marshal Jim Crown:
No.

Major Ben Covington:
Neither do these farmers. There are four hundred stones out there, Marshal - dead boys with Kiowa arrows in there backs. Fifteen years of bloody Indian wars laying out the territory; making the peace. And do you know what they won for it? Meat once a month, the rest beans. Weaponry out-moded, fouled, a marksman couldn't hit a target. We're understaffed, we're underpaid, we've got recruits so green they don't know the difference between a Dahlgren mortar or a coehorn, or old men who have forgotten.