- Flint McCullough: I just learnt about Charity. Naturally it came as a great shock to me.
- Colonel James Harris: I know how it feels to have your heart torn out while you're still alive.
- Flint McCullough: I know how much you loved her, so did I.
- Colonel James Harris: The Commanches murdered my wife and they're going to pay.
- Flint McCullough: And so will the whole frontier. And I doubt your wife would want that.
- Bowman Lewis: What kind of people does he think we are. If he hurts my mother, I won't leave a white man or woman alive between the Missouri and the Rockies.
- Flint McCullough: You too learn very well from each other. He wants to butcher the whole Indian world because of his wife's murder.
- Bowman Lewis: Already we have an Army. In a month we'll have a great Army.
- Flint McCullough: Robert E Lee had a great army too. I know something about hopeless fights you can't possible win.
- Bowman Lewis: But we can die and we can take every white man west of the Missouri with us.
- Colonel James Harris: Because Red Bow is organing for war, and Washington thought that I could keeo the peace.
- Flint McCullough: You can.
- Colonel James Harris: Not with a savage, murderous, treacherous, wild animal. Not with a traitor.
- Flint McCullough: Is he a traitor because he chooses his mother's people?
- Colonel James Harris: He was raised by the Army.
- Flint McCullough: I fought for the Confederacy, what does that make me?
- Colonel James Harris: That was different.
- Flint McCullough: What was different about it? Colonel, let me talk to Bowman. Maybe I can arrange some kind of a peace conference between the two of you.
- Major Seth Adams: Flint, how old is their daughter now?
- Flint McCullough: They don't have one.
- Major Seth Adams: You be careful. I understand the Commanche are getting kinda touchy up in that part of the country.
- Flint McCullough: Oh, you don't have to worry about the Commanches, you're too far south. They won't give you any trouble at all.
- Major Seth Adams: I suppose not. How long do you figure on being...
- Flint McCullough: Oh, two or three days. I ought to be able to meet you at Spring Peak.
- Major Seth Adams: You be there, you understand. I'm not paying you to make social calls.
- Flint McCullough: Major, check the record, you're hardly paying me at all.
- Major Seth Adams: Listen, you keep your eyes peeled when you get up in Red Bow country, I understand he's got a pretty sister.
- Flint McCullough: Jim Bridger and I used to spend a lot of time at the Fort. The Colonel and his wife had a big hand is raising me.
- Charlie Wooster: Just like I've always told you, Major. The Army never does anything right.
- Major Seth Adams: Aw, Charlie, you can't blame the Army for the way Flint turned out. After all the Army does make mistakes, you know.
- Bill Hawks: You better watch it, Major, I think he's trying to get out of some work.
- Colonel James Harris: Don't you get mixed up in this too.
- Flint McCullough: Don't get mixed up in it? I've just heard you say Harry Lewis is the best friend I ever had. And you put his wife in a compound? Bowman Lewis was almost a brother to me. Now he's gone to live with the Commanches. Then you, then you tell me Bowman's Commanches murdered your wife. And she's about the closest thing I had to a mother. How can you say don't get mixed up in it?
- Bowman Lewis: He must think me the fool. He comes well-prepared to talk peace.
- Flint McCullough: I don't understand, Bowman. He gave me his word.
- Bowman Lewis: He wants to fight, we'll fight.
- Flint McCullough: You think the Commanches are just sitting, waiting for you? Bowman's got the Jicarilla Apaches with him and if you keep moving
- Colonel James Harris: You think I'm a fool. You've been using this tribal confederation myth to keep me from punishing your Commanche friend.
- Flint McCullough: Colonel, you can't order Bowman around, he's not a little boy playing at the Fort any more. He's an Indian chief.
- Colonel James Harris: A half-naked politician.
- Princess: If my son come, will he be safe?
- Colonel James Harris: On my love for Charity, I swear that he will. He can come, he can go, no matter what comes of our talks. I can make a treaty, Princess, I have the authority. But peace is up to you and Bowman.
- Princess: What father wants to kill his son?
- Colonel James Harris: What son kills his father's wife?
- Princess: Bowman not kill Charity, any more than I. I sorry for you.
- Bowman Lewis: Take a look. Now you see why the Army doesn't worry me any more.
- Flint McCullough: I wouldn't look too close, Bowman, you'll recognise the faces of a lot of your friends.
- Colonel James Harris: That filthy renegade murdered his last white woman. I don't owe him anything but a rope.
- Major Shegan: There is such a thing as honour.
- Colonel James Harris: [He brandishes his pistol] This is a soldier's honour. As long as I'm in command of this post, it's the only honour that counts.
- Sgt. Carl Boemher: Major, I've been in this man's Army since Andy Jackson was a pup and I ain't questioned no orders yet. Only.
- Major Shegan: Yes?
- Sgt. Carl Boemher: If I was you, I'd keep an eye on Major Harris.
- Major Shegan: Sergeant Boemher.
- Sgt. Carl Boemher: Yes, Sir.
- Major Shegan: Colonel Harris is your commanding officer. And mine.
- Sgt. Carl Boemher: That's what worries me.
- Colonel James Harris: GOT HIM! GOT HIM! That's the way to finish a jackal, Major. Don't hunt him, trap him.
- Bowman Lewis: Already the tribes gather, the Jicarilla Apaches here now. The Crow are on the way. They are separate like the fingers on a hand. Old grievances die hard... If there's any treachery the fingers on the hand will close into a fist.
- Flint McCullough: There's your myth, Colonel. You don't stand a chance.
- Major Shegan: Where'd they all come from?
- Flint McCullough: Utes, Commanches, Apaches, those up on the hill there are Crows. Your men will be cut to ribbons.
- Flint McCullough: What is my interest in this? You're as good a friend as I've ever had. And the colone's been almost a father to me. Adn you ask me what my interest is. Do you expect me to stand by while you two hack at each other until one or both of you is destroyed?
- Sgt. Carl Boemher: I say, Yes Sir, and I say, No Sir. And that's all I say. That goes for evrybody else around here. He lost more than his wife out there.
- Flint McCullough: Now, what's that's supposed to mean?