Lillian Gish credited as playing...
Mattilda Zachary
- Andy Zachary: What did he want, Ben?
- Ben Zachary: He wanted to buy a woman.
- [looks at Rachel]
- Ben Zachary: You.
- Rachel Zachary: Well, did you sell me?
- Ben Zachary: I held out for more horses.
- Rachel Zachary: Why would they want to buy me?
- Mattilda Zachary: Because you're a girl, my pretty. Horses and women are all the same to a Kiowa - to be bought or traded.
- [Ma Zachary has finally admitted to the family that Rachel really is a Kiowa]
- Mattilda Zachary: Your Papa brought me the little girl child. He put her in my arms as I lay cryin'. I'd just lost my own little girl baby with yellow curls. Not old enough to be named when she died. So I gave her promised name to Rachel. My ownest Rachel. My beautiful little Indian baby. My breasts were hurting with all that milk.
- Mattilda Zachary: Prairie fever.
- Rachel Zachary: What's that?
- Mattilda Zachary: Worst thing you can get. Loneliness. I was touched by it myself, once or twice.
- Mattilda Zachary: Just what did he look like, Rachel?
- Rachel Zachary: Like something blown in by the wind.
- Ben Zachary: What makes you so happy, Mama?
- Mattilda Zachary: Because you ain't sick or dead or scalped or something worse!
- Ben Zachary: Nothing could kill me, except lightning out of the sky. And then it'd have to hit twice.
- Mattilda Zachary: I've seen a hundred if I've seen one. They all look alike to me. Lonely. Well, they're lonely men ridin' all over this country. Buffalo hunters, only the buff is gone. I feel sorry for them.
- Mattilda Zachary: Kiowas are like panthers! Always sneakin' about when you can't see them.
- Rachel Zachary: That one in the white buckskin, I'll never forget him. He was beautiful!
- Mattilda Zachary: A Kiowa? You're daft, child!
- Mattilda Zachary: Give me some.
- Cash Zachary: Now that's Wichita whiskey, Mama. It's been aged about four minutes and that ain't long enough to cure whatever they put in it.
- Mattilda Zachary: I know it, but I need it.
- Cash Zachary: So do I.
- Zeb Rawlins: [to Rachel] We're gonna have to look at your body.
- Mattilda Zachary: You leave her be!
- Hagar Rawlins: Strip her down! Strip her down naked!
- Zeb Rawlins: Let the women take her in the house and undress her.