300 Best 1883 Quotes

- It ain't cowardice, ma'am.
- It's a shame that the question's even being asked.
- When do they leave?
- Should leave in the morning.
- I'm sorry.
- Ain't no other way.

- Pretty smart.
- They won't fall for it again.
- Pretty soon they'll just shoot the horses.
- Horses is probably what they're after.
- Farmers ain't got nothing else worth taking.
- They'll shoot the horses anyway.
- Then the farmer.

- Don't know any happy ones?
- Never had much interest in the happy ones.

- From me.
- We traded.
- I push your wagon, and you give food.
- You offered to help then you took the food.
- What are you doing?
- Let them work it out together.

Wade: Got her some chaps.
- It's official. You're all cowboy now.

- Well, that went better than I expected.
- You having fun?
- Yeah.
- We got to get someone at the mouth of that draw, so they don't leak into it.
- Someone else to push from the rear.
- I'll do it.
- Can I do it?
- You can do it.

- I wish I had a mirror.
- So you could see yourself.
- I'm not wearing it for me.
- You can see it.
- I guess that's all that matters.

Claire: I have had seven children, and they have all ended up just like this one, in the dirt I kneel beside.

- that makes you happy and protect you...
- Don't see the crime in it.
- You want me happy.
- 'Course I do.
- You want me to feel safe.
- Yes, ma'am.

[In English] Yeah, ha ha.
- He says you ride too good for white man pants.
- He's right.

- Up to his shoulders!
- Shoot behind his ears!

- Well, I guess we're about to find out, ain't we?
- Shit.
- It's better to double the iatigo with him.
- Girl... I've forgotten more about horses than you'll ever know.
- Ready?
- Let's get after it.

- Stay there.
- What happened?
- Horse thieves is what happened.
- You don't need to see it.
- Josef got snake bit.
- His wife fell off her horse.
- She's in a pretty bad way.
- Show me.

Elsa: The numbing shock of war is behind me now.
- Pain has taken its place.
- Hurts to move.
- Hurts to breathe.
- The back of my head throbs with every step of my horse.

Shea: None of you have firearms?
Josef: Do we need them?
Shea: [laughs] Do you need them?

- Sam?
- Sam.
- Why Sam?
- That was the name of the man who killed my wife.
- I know because I made him tell me.
- Then I killed him and took it.

- Don't have to get angry about it.
- We should check them.
- I know.
- All of them.
- I know.
- The farmer.

- I know it.
- Well, they may not deserve it but someone should say a prayer over these sorry sons of bitches.
- I doubt you care to hear.
- I don't.
- We need to get back to our people.
- We'll meet you there.

- Whoa, whoa.
[In English] He's broke now.
- Naw, he's a couple weeks from being broke.
- He's broke. Run him.
- If you want him to give you his heart, you must run him.

- And if you decide to do it again...
- Do it outside of earshot of the damn camp.
- Does daddy know?
- Your father's watching the herd.

- If there's gonna be a gunfight,
- I wanna be with you.
- Can I get some help here?
- Sorry to say sounds like she's winning this argument.
- When we find 'em you sit still till we're done with them, understand?
- This is the strangest outfit
- I ever worked for.
- It'll test yer noggin.

- I will, sir.
- I will.
- A little warning.
- That girl is gonna run you ragged.
- It's already got that look to it, sir.
- Mount up. Let's get back to camp.

- to navigate this place.
- We've seen nothing but grass for over a week, no game, no birds, no snakes, not even a lizard, and no evidence the human race still exists.
- But the plains are littered with bones.

- Buffalo.
[In English] Everywhere you go, a blessing follows.
- You know how to steal horses.
- Now I teach you to hunt...
- Lightning with the yellow hair.

- Where are the wagons?
- Hell if I know.
- Captain...
- Yeah.
- Goddammit.

- Say thank you.
- Thank you.
- You're welcome.
- Thank you.
- Yes, ma'am.
- Just so you know, that could've gone a lot worse.
- Lesson learned.
- Yeah, we'll see about that.

- You ready?
- I was thinkin' I'd just...
- Let's go.
[Singing] Rest your mind...
- Goodnight.
- Goodnight.

- Go saddle lightning.
- She's sick. From the water.
- They all are.
- Go saddle lightning.

- Mother.
- Be right back.

- Well, thanks for the fucking help.
- Don't take the horse.
- Well, I figure I earned it.
- Thieves run in pretty big packs around here.
- If one of his pack sees it...
- You'd just be advertising for the next gunfight.

- She's a survivor.
- Lay down!
- What do we do?
- We run.
- Which direction?
- That way.

- It means a spanking, and a good one, if you say it again.
- Is he getting a spanking?
- Some form of one is probably headed his way, son.
- Mm-hmm. Come on.
Cookie: Line up!

- We're gonna head north first thing in the morning.
- They ain't ready.
- They'd better get ready.
- Because everybody in this town is gonna be looking for us, and if they find us they're gonna hang us from a fucking tree.
- God damnit.

- But you have skinny hips.
- You think so?
- I know. I looking at you.
- When you have baby, its head coming out looking like eggplant.
- What's eggplant?

- Could be.
- I want you to sleep with the wagons tonight.
- Cattle and horses ain't the only thing they steal out here.
- You understand me?
- Yessir.
- Go right to camp.

Ennis: Catchin' up on your beauty sleep, I guess. Lord know you don't need much of that.

- With every death, our father moved camp a little farther away.
- As if death was not the result of accidents and disease, but death was its own disease.
- And carelessness was contagious.

Elsa: This way. Here.
- Stop.
[Weak] This is the spot.
- Where do you want to go?
- Against the tree.

- I know what trade is.
- Why you want my husband's pants?
- Tired of blisters from the saddle.
- Let's talk trade.
- What do you want?
- What do you have?
- What do you need?
- We need everything.

- I questioned my mind.
- I wondered if I am the one who is dead and this is all a dream.
- I watched him ride away and decided I must be awake.
- I must be alive.
- Then I chased after him.

- And from way up there...
- You can see 'em.
- The more fires folks see, the less chance they come to our camp seeing what else they can find.
- When's the last time they drank?
- I don't know.

- You need a better knife.
- That's too much.
- You won the race.
- It's not mine anymore.
- It's yours.

- That's the pattern here and it don't stop until you do what I say or you run out of face.
- No, no, no, no, no, no, nol
- How can we travel?
- You can't. Not with me.
- If you steal, you will stay where you stole.

- Ch-ch...
- I like your horse.
- Lightning. That's his name.
- Why lightning?
- Cause that's how fast he is.
- Show me, then.

- Hey, don't push from there, get to the back!
- Get to the back!

- You know, there's going to be a school here next year.
- Ten years there wasn't nothing, not a soul in this country.
- Mm.
- And now there's gonna be a school.
[Laughs] That's progress.
- I'm not even sure I know what that word means anymore.
- Nobody does!

- Everything you see and everything you saw yesterday is my home.
- You're always welcome in it, lighting with the yellow hair.
- It's your home too, now.

- Where are you going?
- I don't recall the part of our vows that said
- I need to ask your permission to go somewhere.

- There is no doctor.
- Just more of those thieves.
- And if we stay around here, they're gonna hang us.
- We are staying.
- The trail is easy enough to follow now.
- We will make it to Oregon without you.
- Suit yourself.

- It's okay.
- We need to get her to the fort.
- She needs to see a surgeon.
- We gotta get that arrow out right now, or she'll fuse to it.
- Let's get her to the wagons first.
- Y'all go on ahead.
- I'll see if anyone else made it through.
- Okay, it's okay.
- Baby, we'll take you, it's okay.

- The dirty hand of man can go unnoticed in the city.
- Because his dirty hand made the city.
- But in this place, where innocence is a mineral in the soil, the filth of our touch is an apocalypse.

[addresses immigrants]
Shea: You can police yourselves or I can do it for you. Now you've seen how I do it. Choice is yours... we leave tomorrow. We head west.

- What's the matter, never seen a woman in pants before?
- Naw, I think you're the first.
- Hey, cut it out.

- Just look at that, Helen.
- Isn't that beautiful...

- I ain't looking for help.
- I'm worried enough about my own family to be worrying about somebody else's.
- You got lucky in that field.
- You got lucky on the street.
- Hope you got enough luck left for those coming with you.

- Risa! Risa!
- What is this place!
- Where are you taking me!
- Shoot 'em! Shoot 'em!
- Keep shooting, keep firing!

- I'm gonna take this one back.
- I'm right behind you.
- Any chance you saw those cattle?
- I saw 'em. About a mile back.
- Six of yer boys was gathering 'em up.
- We don't have six boys.

- and the wagons would have a chance.
- Aim for the horse.
- You'll never hit the rider.
- Goddamnit!
- It's too far. Even for that.
- They're almost on us.
- Fire when I say fire.
- Fire!

- I just want to be with her.
- Yeah.
- Know her children when she has 'em.
- But I...
- Can't alter the course of her life just because of how bad
- I'm gonna miss her.
- She'll change her mind.

- But there are moments where I feel we are more.
- Where we have evolved beyond a search for the next meal or the dominance to breed who we choose.
- Where we breathe fresh air deep and can almost taste its maker.

- She's a wild one!
- My turn.
[Crying] Mama!
- Anybody else want to fuck with my family?
- You?

- You got that pistol with you?
- In my saddle bags.
- Get it out.

- Can't mess with an outfit's cook.
- You steal their cattle and they wouldn't be madder.
- I ain't looking for a gun fight this morning.
- We'll hire a cook and a cowboy going the other way at doan's.
- How's she doing?
- About how you'd expect.

Shea: I want to see it one last time, before it's settled... Before it's ruined.
Thomas: After you see it, then what?
Shea: Then I don't care. The world can open up and eat me.

- Where on the Trinity?
- There's a big oak bent over like an old woman.
- Big Boulder up against the trunk.
- Looks like it's crying over a grave.
- We'll meet you there.
- All right.

- Shea!
- Hold up here.
- Get ready.
- In the foot locker!

- You have no horses.
- No guns. You can't ride.
- You are a fucking fool!
- For thinking you can travel 2,000 miles with no skills to survive it.
- Captain.

- Yeah, a real hoot, son.
- Close your eyes, son.
- Cover his ears.
- This is harder than you said it would be.
- I told you it was gonna take everything we had and then some.
- You should've explained what "everything" meant.

Elsa: I know death now, I've seen it. It had no fangs, it smiled at me, and it was beautiful!

- I'm working the saw.
- I got the cutting leg.
- He's gonna try to kick the life out of you when he comes to.
- I don't think he's coming to.
- Well, he's coming to.
- -Margaret: Okay
- -shea: Slow down.

- Do you remember it?
- I don't know the lord's prayer...
- But if there is a god, he will not keep you out of heaven for what I don't know.
- You deserve peace...
- And this ain't it.

- My heaven is filled with good horses and open plains and wild cattle and a man who loves me.
- Race ya.

- The whole world faded away.
- No more stars or moon.
- No sky at all.
- No earth between my feet.
- No rock against my back.
- There was only us.

- That's love.
- Me letting you take care of me is not fear.
- It's loving you back.
- Do I look scared to you?
- I'm not the scared one.
- You are.

- Morning.
- Morning, captain.

- Then... let a man earn your love...
- Instead of you trading him for it.
- And trust me, that crusty bastard over there?
- Happiness runs from him like a scalded dog.
- No, ma'am, you don't want no part of the captain.
- No part of the captain.

[In English] She will help you with rip in pants.
- They're fixed.

[Screams] Please! No!
- No! No! No! No!

- That's how you ask?
- I ain't asking nothing.
- If she loves me...
- I'm taking it.
- If you won't give her to me,
- I'll goddam steal her, I swear it.
- You got it all figured out, don't you?

- What is wrong with you?
- Give it to me.
- You don't point this at anyone unless you plan on using it.
- I was gonna use it.
- Go to camp, and you wait there!

- I don't have a fever.
- It don't hurt.
- You just try and sleep and be still.
- They can cauterize the outside of you, but...
- Time's the only thing that can stitch the inside.
- Mm-hmm.

- This is poison oak and poison Ivy.
- It won't kill you, you'll just wish you were dead.
- Do not touch it.
- Do not walk in it.

Marshal: [after shooting several outlaws in the saloon] "There's only one killer in Fort Worth, and that's me."

- Come on, keep up.
- Come here.

- and I believe in our daughter.
- And that's all.
- Justice don't factor into it.
- You know that gun that's in your saddle bag?
- Yes, sir?
- You sleep with it.

- Charlie: No, just added.
- Don't like to get up that early.
- You're hurt.
- I'm fine.
- Are you fine?
- I'm fine, too.

Elsa: [internal monologue] All I knew of sex was rumors. Stories traded among friends as we tried to imagine what that word really meant.
[spies on a couple below her window]
Elsa: Now I knew...
Alley: [from the alley] Woo!
Elsa: [...] So much I don't know about life. We learn to read, we learn rules, learn scripture and manners, and how to avoid saying or doing things that make others uncomfortable. All those things seem to be the opposite of life. Seem to strangle it. But now, I'm sleeping on the edge of civilization, and soon we leave the edge behind. Then no rules. Then, only life. What an adventure. What an adventure for all of us...

- Hell, I sing to them all night, and I ain't shy about it.
- You probably should be.
- Well, you sure ain't shy about hard timing me.
- No, that comes pretty easy to me.
- Well...
- Somebody gotta sing to 'em.

- No more "ma'am."
- Noemi.
- Good morning, Noemi.
- Mornin'...
- Noemi.

- They was more than paired up.
- She's in mourning like a damn widow.
- She is a widow.

- Y'all ready?
- I think she dropped her reins.
- No. She let them go.

[In English] Thank you.
- Mm-hm.
- Good.

- than become strong themselves.
- No... I will stay in this world.
- This world doesn't care what the weak want.
- This world eats the weak...
- Don't he know we don't know where the hell we're goin'?
- I'll tell him.

- You made it.
- Thank you.
- All right, we'll gather up this herd.

- They're gonna hate you.
- At least they'll be alive to do it.

- and we're gonna bring their horses back, and scalps.
- With all the fucking lakota I speak?
- I can barely get my point across to these goddamn immigrants.
- Figure it out.
- Want us to Bury them or something?
- No, don't touch them.
- All right.

- 'Cause this is the last store
- 'fore we get to Wyoming.
- What about abilene?
- God damn abilene.
- Hookers and killers is all you'll find there.
- I ain't going near that sum bitch.
- Mm-mmm.

Shea: You got any other family here?
Noemi: [shakes her head] You are married?
Shea: [shakes his head emphatically] No.
Noemi: I can be a wife for you.
Shea: I don't want a wife.
Noemi: My boys are good boys and I can be a good wife. I can be a good wife.
Shea: Stop.
Noemi: [reaches into Shea's pants] Please don't go.
Shea: [pushes Noemi away] Quit. I don't want a wife. I'll help you. I'll help you with your horses. I can help you set your camp. With your boys... I had a wife, and I ain't looking for another one. You understand?
[...]
Thomas: [Thomas returns with the two horses, freshly watered] What happened to her?
Shea: She wants to marry me.
Thomas: Guessing you said no... or you said yes and she already regrets it.
Shea: No time for jokes, Thomas. She's having a hard time of it.
Thomas: Hard times is the only kind out here, Captain. Laughing through 'em is how you get through 'em... and I ain't joking, she's lucky as hell she ain't marrying your sour ass.
Thomas: [Shea chuckles] See how I did that? A joke on top of a joke.
Shea: [dryly] Yeah. Real funny.
[Shea turns and walks away]

- I'm still sorry.
- Are you? [Scoffs]
- Yes.
- You don't know what that word means.
- But you're going to learn.
- All of you are going to learn.

- It consumes you.
- Stronger than hunger or fear or anything I've ever felt.
- I feel it everywhere.
- My hands...
- My stomach, my toes...

- That ain't six, captain.
James: I count 12.
- Thirteen.
- Run. And fan out wide.
- You keep running, don't stop, no matter what!

- They got no business going this far.
- One could argue none of us do.
- Guess I'll bring 'em.
- We'll be waiting.
- Will you?
- I said I'll help. I'll help.

- You don't think that I hauled 40 gallons of water up those stairs just to get clean?
- I'm wooing you.
- Whoo, those buckets of water sure must have been heavy.
- They were, honey.
- Mm, poor thing.
- Woman: Woo!

- For the wagon.
- If you ain't settled up in 30 days, everything goes to auction.
- What's the rule about firearms in this town?
- This place'll pick you apart if you ain't got one.
- But if you pull your pistol in this town, mister...
- You'd better know how to use it.

- laying stakes in the emerald fields of the willamette valley.
- But I'd seen too much of this world...
- Knew too much about the nature of man to think either would be their future.
- Another future awaited them, and it lay in the abyss of unmarked graves along the Oregon trail.

- with his foot tomorrow.
- Y'all can get up now.
Elsa: Are we in Montana?
- Almost.
- Honey, you need to lay down.
- Mm.
- I'm cold. Wanna sit by the fire.

Elsa: I looked at my father, looked past his smile.
- Saw his worry.
- Saw something deeper.
- As if he were already in mourning.
- As if I were already gone.

- Three days.
- Her liver either heals or it fails.
- And if it heals, she's got another week maybe.
- Yeah.
- I gotta talk to my wife.

- I don't think there's any figuring that one out.
- What you need to figure out is her father and quick.
- 'Cause that son of a bitch is gonna kill you.
- You think he knows?
- The whole fuckin' camp knows.
- Daddy.

Ennis: Would you take off your hat? Wanna get a better look at you.
Elsa: Why get a better look?
Ennis: Well, there's a fair chance you're too purty for me. If you are, I'd rather know now so I don't waste my time.
Elsa: Maybe you're to pretty for me.
Ennis: [laughs] Well, shoot, I mean, if me bein' purty is a problem, then we ain't got a problem. Shoot.
[Elsa takes off her hat]
Ennis: Yep. Too purty for me. Dang it.

- What about these thieves?
- They need doctors.
- Fort caspar will have 'em.
- We need to head the other way if we're going to solve this problem we found.
- I know.
Margaret: James?

- and I looked behind me, the wilderness was gone.
- Not a tree left standing.
- Chopped down chest-high by bullets.
- We killed 5,000 men that day.
- When I say killing you means nothing to me, I mean it.
- Killing you means nothing.

- Helen.
- Didn't work.

- Not much we can do about it.
- He ain't on the payroll.
- Yeah.
- When there's two leaders there ain't no leader.
- Know what I mean?
- Need to figure that out.

- And she doesn't have that.
- Someday my family might seek to hunt that valley and if they do, you remember me.
- Hm?
- And you let them.
- Your family can hunt the day I get there and every day after.
- Mm. Good.

- It is necessary. He's a musician.
- No, he's not a musician!
- And you're not a carpenter, and he's not a fucking blacksmith.
- You are pioneers, and that's all you are until you get there.
- You have no home, no job, no farm.
- You have the journey, that's it.

- Did you find them?
- We found them.
- And?
- We murdered them.

- It is always sunrise in my world...
- And there are no storms.
- I am the only lightning.

- Well, I can't just leave you here.
- Well, it's a free country, remember?
- It is not your decision to make.
- It is mine. And I have made it.
- Goodbye, Claire.
- God damn you, James.
- God damn you and your dreams.

- Move 'em, Thomas!
- Let's go.

- Cholera will run the lot of them.
- What's my mother doing?
- She's wasting her time.
- I'm done with berries.
- Your turn.
- Mind the thorns.

- Fuck.
- That ain't one of yer good ones, is it?
Margaret: I don't have a good one.
- No, no, I'm not ready.

- We gonna talk about sex now?
- We just did.

- Wish there was a better way.
- Just come back to me.
- I love you.

- Well, if they're here they'll be at the white elephant.
- You're the only one without a badge.
- Will a badge make me shoot better?
- Doubtful.
- But it'll keep a rope off your neck if things go sideways.
- Raise your right hand.

- That is your leader.
- You chose him.
- Now follow him.
- Or choose someone you will follow.
- Break your camps and hitch your teams.
- We're leaving in an hour.
- I mean it.
- To follow us will be the death of you.

- Our wagon drive is over.
- Where we Bury her is where we stay.
- That is our home.
- Not here. Not in this place.
- No. Not in this place.
- I will find the place.
- By god, I will find a place.

- And she was about to kill another.
- I look in her eyes and the person staring back at me,
- I don't recognize.
- I will never forgive you for this!
- You don't forgive me?
- I don't forgive me.

- And I couldn't wait for another.
- River Rose overnight.
- How much?
- Enough.
- We need to lighten these wagons.
- If it ain't absolutely necessary it doesn't make the trip.

- You ain't no deputy.
- You ain't no judge, and you ain't no fucking jury.
- Them folks wasn't the thieves.
- You the thief.
- And you're gonna die for it.

- We're gonna ride into town with Josef and meet the marshal.
- I'd like you with us.
- Somebody needs to be here in case they come back.
- Cowboys are here.
- They've done dealt with their share of bandits.

- Give you 35 dollars for all of it.
- I'll take it.
- All right.
- You want cash or you wanna trade?
- Cash.
- All right.

- That's a pretty good ride though.
- We're ready when you are.
- Yee-haw. [Clicks tongue]
- Yee-haw.
- Come on, boys, y'all got cattle to sort, let's go.
- We'll be back for them cattle, don't you worry.
- Hya! [Clicks tongue]

- Shit.
- I think the voice of reason has been muted.
- Look at her face, honey.
- I see it.
- I just don't want to see it fall off.
- The one place you ain't got to worry about her is on the back of a horse.
- Mmm-hmm.

- I need your horse.
- So I can go get her.
- Get off the goddam horse.

- I only dream of the journey.
- That is all.
- No gold for me.
- Just the rainbow.
- You ready?
- Yessir.

- Mmm.
- Sorry.
- Thank you.
- Children can have that effect.
- Mine sure did.

Elsa: I remember stories of the great war, how it seemed man had lost all reason.
- That we 'd become animals, or perhaps we just surrendered to the fact that animals is all we've ever been.

Claire: [uncompassionate reaction to German immigrants succumbing to cholera after drinking unboiled water from the trinity river] Better they die up here than do something on the trail that gets us killed. Only cure for stupid is reaching the gates of heaven.
Margaret: Funny, I don't recall the word "stupid" anywhere in the Bible.

- Not if I can help it.
- You know...
- There's some real nice parts.
- You just ain't in one of 'em.
- Yeah, I can see that.
- Hotel Calhoun.
- Whoa, whoa, whoa.

- What have you got for food?
- You don't have any supplies?
- They took them.
- Who took them?

- I loved her.
- I don't doubt it, son.

- You want me to come?
- No, stay with the herd.
- I saw wolf tracks by the river.
- That one of them gypsies?
- Sorta.
- I'll bring you supper.
- Hey, bring me two.

- Don't just stand there. Stop him.
- Shoot him.
- Do something!

- I'm sorry he's gone.
- Me too.
- If... if I can do anything...
- Let me know.
- There's nothing to do.
- Ma'am.

- Thigh tore out.
- You have another dress.
- I'd rather wear a bean sack than be choked by a damned dress.
- It should be double stitched.
- Let me see it. Let me see it.

- You know this?
- I know it.
- You know how to take the leg?
- I know how.
- Take it.
- Okay.

- So this at least has a chance.
- He saved my life.
- Twice.
- Saved your husband's life too.
- I don't need to ask god's permission to love him.
- God sent him.

- It's a good place to call home.
- No Oregon?
- When was this decided?
- It wasn't.
- Not by me.
- We ain't stopping.

- Doubt the fighting's over.
- I marry your daughter, but I still belong to the people and the people belong to this land.
- We don't dare leave it.
- Maybe someday you find land to belong to, and you'll know what I mean.

- Swing your leg over slow.
- Didn't hurt at all yesterday.
- Hm.
- Guess it saved all the pain for today.
- The day after's always worse.
- What about the next day?
- The next day's a mystery.

- Whoa, whoa!
- We'll saddle one for you and we'll pick the rest up later.
- James...
- What is that?
- Tornado.
- Wagons! Move.

- It's not the worst idea you've had.
- I don't want to know where the pants came from.
- I traded for them...
- I said I don't want to know.
- Traded what?
- Never mind. I don't want to know.

- No way to stop her?
- For what?
- I've dug my share alone.
- So have I, and wouldn't wish it on anybody.
- I admire her courage.
- It wasn't courage.
- Yes, it was.

- Farmer ain't scared to use that shotgun.
- Farmer's gonna pick a fight he can't win before long.

- Risa!
- Whoa!
- Hey! Hey, don't shoot!
- You'll spook the horses.

- She's a mother.
- We can find the way without them.
- Only thing they have of use is guns and horses.
- Then come take 'em.
- Take three steps to the right.
- So I don't kill the woman standing behind you.

- We could have a look in the elephant.
- If they're in the elephant when we find 'em,
- I don't want 'em.
- Look who it is.
- That farmer's everywhere at once, ain't he?
- Mm-hmm.

Thomas: Captain... Shea. These folks here gots to trust us. If they don't trust us they won't follow us...
Shea: [interrupts] Trust us? They can't even trust each other.
Thomas: It's a bad way to start the trip.
Shea: The trip's already started... it's been bad from the beginning.
Thomas: You having second thoughts?
Shea: You're gonna tell me you ain't?
Thomas: Yeah, I'm having 'em... but... I figure maybe if... one of their kids has a kid and that kid does something... something that... the world's better 'cause that kid's in it. Know what I mean?
Shea: World ain't getting better, Thomas, no matter how many kids are in it.
[...]
Shea: [after a time of introspection] My daughter was one of those kids who could've made the world better.
Thomas: Yes, she was.
Shea: [determined] We're doing this for the same reasons, Thomas.

[In English] Why do you know those words?
- My husband taught me.
- Why he know them?
- He's comanche.
[In English] They're his words.
- You fight like comanche.

- You don't go in mein wagon.
- We have nothing... because of you.

Ennis: So... she was... she was flirtin'. Kinda mean the way she does it, but she is flirtin'. Woo-hoo!

- is gonna be a different story.
- You gonna tell her?
- Hell, no. I ain't gonna tell her.
- You're gonna tell her.
- Y'all hold the herd till every wagon is across that river.
- Yessir.

James: My wife can back a wagon through the doors of a saloon.

James: You do what you want. I'm heading west.
Shea: [emphatically] I said east.
James: I don't give a shit what you said. I don't work for you.
Shea: They won't make it. The country's too rough. No water. There's bandits in every canyon, and there ain't no wall around that reservation, neither.
James: I ain't asking your permission, I'm telling you my decision and my decision's west.
[reins and rides upbank]

- Thomas, stand by that door.
- Don't let any of that bullshit spill in here.
- That should answer any questions about how dangerous this journey will be.
- It will be that and worse, all the way to Oregon.
- Does anybody speak English?

Sam: Lightning with the Yellow Hair. Know this is your home. Know I am waiting. Know you fill my heart. Know you are the wife of a warrior. Know you are a warrior!

- All right.
- Do your best to stay still.
- Here we go.

- But now, I'm sleeping on the edge of civilization, and soon we leave the edge behind.
- Then no rules.
- Then, only life.
- What an adventure.
- What an adventure for all of us...

- You smell like a goat.
- I was gonna bathe in the river but ennis said this is bandit country and not to go anywhere alone.
- Sounds like ennis is hinting at a bath with you.
- He didn't suggest a bath.
- If he'd gotten this close to you he would've.

- Easy, boy.
- Turn the horse loose.
- How will they make it?
- They won't. Turn him loose.
- I love you.

- How we getting them emigrants across?
- That'll take all day, too.
- At least nobody drowns.
- That's two days we don't have.
- We should be in Kansas by now.
- At some point they gotta learn to do things for themselves.
- The only thing they're gonna learn crossing that is how to die.

- It was beautiful.
- Well, baby girl, you must've been chased by a different tornado than I was, because my tornado was hell.
- Rest of them make it?
- They're behind me.
- Let's get 'em mounted up.

Elsa: It seems the further we get from civilization, the more of its rules we leave behind.

- Mm-hmm.
- We have nothing to offer you, sir.
- Be gone!
- Be gone, she says.
- What do you want here?
- Lastlchecked, ain't nobody owned the river.
- Be gone.

- Why would they drag me off?
- 'Cause when people panic that's what they do.
- If you come out of the saddle, that dress'll drown you.
- Oh, my god.
- I guess we're gonna get to know each other a lot better after this day.

- This has been a fun first week.
- This deal ain't dull.
- Got chased by a tornado and lost a girl to an injun at the same time.
- Gotta have it to lose it, partner.
- I admit, uh...
- I might have overestimated my appeal.

- The only people who think this is america still live in Washington.
- There's water in this draw.
- Push the herd to it.
- We'll make camp here.
- Carve one out for the cook first.
- All right.
Colton: Yes, sir.

- What's he sayin'?
- He says these things, they can't be replaced.
- You are sending him to Oregon to be a beggar on the streets.
- These are his choices: He unloads his wagon.
- He goes back to fort worth, or I burn his wagon to the ground.
- Tell him.

- Too pretty for me.
- Dang it.
- And just like that, horror steps from the shadows.
- And our freedom was gone...

- and when they find their families dead they're gonna come after us and we are gonna give 'em the fucking business.
- You killed all those folks just to bait their men?
- Them Indians is prairie maggots and nothing else.
- You gotta kill 'em where you find 'em like fucking...
- Y'all swing wide.
- I'm gonna run right at 'em.

- I put it down.
- James.
- I don't wanna waste looking over my shoulder for you.
- You won't find us if you do.
- We's headed to fort worth.
- Well, I'd be headed that way.

- I'd object, but it sounds like you're not asking my permission.
- No, ma'am, I am not.
- How am I supposed to make her a lady when you keep treating her like a man?
- Plenty of ladies in this world.
- Pretty short on decent men, though.
- How am I supposed to respond to that?

- Pulling out worms.
- And I thought...
- "How smart.
- "Wait for the rain to soften the earth."
- I just thought that was so smart.
- You were right, honey. That was smart.

Ennis: [watching Margaret and Elsa hold the herd] Woo. One for me. One for you.
Wade: Think that one's taken. And her husband don't look too fun to fight. I'd keep that in mind when you're chasing his daughter.
Ennis: [Margaret and Elsa ride up] Well, good looks run in the family, I see.
Margaret: Good manners don't seem to run in yours.
[Wade looks down and chuckles appreciatively]

Ennis: [Elsa is crying when she finishes playing Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata] Don't know any happy ones?
[Elsa laughs]

- a little more animal.
- Now we try to find the balance between them.
- That's all life is.
- You understand?
- I didn't either first time I heard it.
- Hey, we got work to do.

- Is it there?
- Yes, sir.
- Put your finger on the trigger.
- Pull slowly.
- You got him.
- I got him?
- You got him, son.
- Let's go get him.

- Move it, move it!
- Wrap it tight.
- You've done this before.
- Not for an arrow.
- You nursed in the war?
- Who didn't.
- Cover. Help me get her in the wagon.

- What the hell is decent out here...
- What's the Gauge?
- You're the Gauge.
- You made a decision.
- Now stand by it.
- Right or wrong, you fucking stand by it.

- Fever's broke.
- Color's back too. That's good.
- How's the pain?
- It's there, but not like it was.
- You want some bacon?
[Laughs] Sure.

- Guess I'm the one being forward now.
- I'm sorry, I probably should...
- Do it again.

Shea: Pretty soon they'll just shoot the horses.
Thomas: Hosses are probly what they after. Farmers ain't got nuthin' else worth takin'.
Thomas: They'll shoot the horses anyway, then the farmer.

Elsa: Nothing had prepared me, no books, no teachers, not even my parents. I heard a thousand stories, but none could describe this place, it must be witnessed, to be understood, and yet I've seen it and understand it even less than before I first cast eyes on this place. Some call it the American dessert, others The Great Plains, but those phrases were invented by professors at universities surrounded by the illusion of order and the fantasy of right and wrong. To know it you must walk it, Bleed into its dirt, drown in its rivers, then its name becomes clear, it is hell, and there are demons everywhere. But if this is hell and I'm in it, then I must be a Demon too and I'm already dead.

Elsa: I'd known death since I was a child, it's everywhere, but it had never touched me, it had never placed Its' rotten finger on my heart, until today.

- Hold on.
Shea: Hold him! Hold him!

- He wouldn't quit us. Not out here.
- That's suicide.
- Maybe he trying to get ahead of the storm.
- I wish we had.
- I don't think we can baby 'em anymore.
- They're gonna have to get tough or die.

- and that kid does something...
- Something that...
- The world's better
- 'cause that kid's in it.
- Know what I mean?
- World ain't getting better, Thomas.
- No matter how many kids are in it.

- Pickpocket!
- Put that back!
- He took my goddamn wallet.

- The air at home is heavy, like a musky soup.
- Here it is light.
- With a strange scent of pollen and smoke, like burning flowers...
- It smelled wild. Untamed.
- It was beautiful.

- 'Cause it's the hell they know.
- Most terrifying thing on this planet is the unknown.
- That's 'cause you ain't never been whipped, captain.
- Let someone put a whip to your back and tell me the unknown is what scares you.
- These folks ain't never going home.

- Hope you had a chance to practice with that.
- You ready?
- You want my horse, take it.
- Let's go. Come on!
- I can't make it much easier than that.
- Bang.

Melodi: You can call me her name. You can close your eyes and you can call me her name and you can be with her again.

Shea: These people, they never been allowed to think for themselves. Now, they can hardly think at all.

- It seems the farther we get from civilization, the more of its rules we leave behind.
- Its traditions.
- Its inhibitions...
- The farther west we travel, the more those rules and customs become a burden.

- If you have a soul, you will leave the city and find a river, and lay down beside it and die in peace.
- If I see you again,
- I'll kill you myself.
- I don't have this thing you say.
- Get the fuck out of town!
- Go on, get out of here!
- I don't have this thing!

- We're ready.
- You coming?
- I'm thinking about it.
- Think on it quick.
- If I'm digging a hole,
- I'd rather do it before the sun's high.

- What's her deal? She's pretty sporty.
- She was paired up with ennis till a comanchero shot him.
- She plugged that son of a bitch three times in the chest.
- Ennis got killed?
- Yeah, she won't be in the mood for you.
- They're all in the mood for me.

- All right, any more?
- That back table.
- Yeah, I know this crew.
- Clyde barker!
- What of this business on the Trinity?
- We were just watering horses and these immigrants...

- White man is like the wolf.
- He kills everything until only the wolves are left, then the wolves kill each other.
- Then there is nothing.
- And the land is free again.
- That sounds about right.

- I've never seen it.
- Just get her strong enough to travel, that's all I ask.
- Travel? She's done traveling.
- Laramie is as far as she goes.
- If you're lucky.
- Best you can hope for is that she wakes and you get to say goodbye.
- I'll get my bag.

- And to think, all I wanted to do was water the horses.
- Ain't all I want to do now.
- It'll be the last thing you do.
- There's a dozen guns with 60 bullets between 'em out here.
- You've only got two.
- And they're both for you.
- Aw! Get off me!

- I ask why you wear clothes like a horseman.
- She says you are one.
- But you are a white woman, so I don't understand.
- No more rip.
- He already pay.
- Thank you.

- Now you've seen how I do it.
- Choice is yours...
- We leave tomorrow. We head west.
- Water will be scarce.
- Take what you can carry from here.
- And boil it first.

Elsa: Death is everywhere on the prairie.
- In every form you can imagine.
- And a few your worst nightmare couldn't muster...
- Death hides in the creek beds...
- Possesses animals...
- It hides in tall grass, waiting...

- Whoa!
- Ah!
- Ya! Come on!

- You hungry?
- No.
- Where are you going?
- I need some privacy.
- Why do you need privacy?
- I got my period.

- they just can't run off on you.
- Just place 'em around like this, in a figure eight.
- You know figure eight?
- You know what I mean?
- You try this one.

- The genuine article!
- Comanche! Kiowa! Kickapoo!
- Scalps! For sale today!
- Linson's magic elixir cures tuberculosis dysentery and consumption.
- But they who wait upon the lord shall renew their strength, they shall mount up with wings like eagles and they shall run...

- Ain't much water around here.
- Whatcha cookin'?
- Stew.
- That a fact?
- Ah, come on [laughs].
- You fucking bitch!

- I ain't questioning what you're able to do.
- There's three times as many things that can go wrong in the water with that.
- Now, you can not forgive me all you want.
- Add this to your list of reasons.
- But I ain't losing you to a river.
- You're forgiven.

- What's a spirit?
- The thing that drives you.
- What drives me?
- I don't know yet, honey.
- What drives Elsa?
- Hmmm... the wind.

- Where you going now?
- Back to work.

- Yee-hoo!
- Whoop, whoop, whoop.
- Come on. Come on.
- Come on! Hey!
- Woop!

- No matter where we go, you're wearing dresses.
- And raising babies, and sweating over a garden, and swallowing every dream you've ever had, because that's all the world wants from you.
- He may find some place where we can hold the world off for a while, but it'll find us there too, and bring all their rules with it.

- and form a perfect world.
- That is heaven.
- And each heaven is unique.
- It is the world of you.
- The land is filled with all you hold dear and the sky is your imagination.

- It calms the herd.
- No different than me singing to you in the cradle.
- They're, uh, they're bedded down pretty good.
- We can handle it from here.
- Y'all get some sleep.
- Thank you for the help.

- You were a nurse in the war.
- So, how many liver shots did you see survive?
- We got it out fast, James.
- Let me see it.

- Josef?
- Josef_

- Yes, ma'am.
[Laughs] We're so past "ma'am".
- If you have a child you'll raise it.
- I will not do it for you.
- Having a hard enough time raising my own, as you can clearly see.

- Always has been.
- And they never come true.
- It's coming true, Claire.
- This is not the dream.
- This is the nightmare.
- You'll see.

- Oh, please. James...
- Let me deal with one dreamer at a time.
- You're a dreamer, too.
- You wouldn't be with me if you weren't.
- I'm a believer, honey.
- There's a difference.
- Fair enough.

- You let her stay?
- I didn't let her do anything.
- That choice ain't mine.
- Don't look back.
- What are you gonna do?
- I'll catch up.
- Stay in the wagon, son.

- I hope so.
- I promise.
- And then a family?
- And then we make a family.
- Then we have a family.
- We start making it tonight.

- She'll hear the logic in it from you.
- From me, all she'll hear is the cruelty in it.
- You think you can do that for me?
- Please...
- Yeah.
- I can do that for ya.

- Well, joined up with some mustangs, I see.
- Mustangs are tricky to herd.
- This is your world, Sam.
- What do you think?
- I think we run the trick out of them.
- Carve out that stallion and get him caught.
- They'll follow us to camp like sheep.

- Make me a promise.
- Anything.
- Let me choose the spot. Please?
- Yeah, honey.
- You choose the spot.

Margaret: She has her eyes on this cowboy and he's eyeing her right back.
James: Well, I'll shoot him first thing in the morning, hon.

- God dammit.
- Go! You're not welcome here! Go!
- You are the devil! I see you! I see you!
- I see you!

- I've never understood it.
- The way I grew up?
- Things I seen? Shit...
- Wasn't scared of no nightmare.
- Hell, we went to sleep to escape 'em...
- I made coffee.

- Living without them.
- Well...
- My reasons'd be different than yours.
- I don't have anyone left who loves me.
- You do.
- I'll tell you a secret.

- Will you let me go?
- I will sell you.
- Or I will kill you!
- You speak English.
- How can you do this?
- You speak English.
- And no, your people do this.

- We have nothing. [Sniffs]
- No money, nothing.
- Look. I got money enough for the both of us...
- You ain't lose nothing.
- Now let's...
- Let's pick up what we can find.

Elsa: My father won't speak of the war.
- When men ask if he fought, he says no.
- I've seen fellow soldiers call out his name on the street.
- He turns and walks the other way.
- He spent three years in a union prison.
- When he came home, my mother said he weighed 97 pounds.

[In English] That was quite the battle, huh?
[Chuckles] Was a good one.
- You her father?
- I can call him.
- You call him.

- You play?
- I do.
- I did.
- I guess I don't play anymore.
- Well...
- You can play once more.

- Why are you sleeping here?
- I slept out there with him.
- Fair enough.
- We gotta get moving. Get to the herd.
- There's a storm coming.
- Let's go, sweetie.

- Elsa.
- This is a dangerous town.
- I don't want you to wander.
- I don't wander.
- Honey, that's all you do, is wander, and I don't want you doing it here.
- You promise me.
- I promise.
- All right.

- We don't know they're friends.
- If they weren't our friends, we'd already be dead.
- We asked them to come.
- They're here to trade.
- No matter which way we go we need provisions.
- Wait. Wait!
- Are we going somewhere different?

- No shoes.
[Sigh] We're a ways from the reservation.
- Maybe just hunting.
- Naw, they ain't travel this far to hunt.
- They know we're going water to water.
- Keep everything close tonight.

- It seems even trees are new to this place.
- They scatter about in clusters, like little villages...
- And everywhere, treasures.
- Everywhere there is a bounty just waiting to be scooped up...

- Take John.
- I'd like to spend some time with Elsa.
- All right, come on, son.
- Here we go. [Grunts]
- Don't let those traders swindle you.
- I plan on doing the swindling.
- I'll bet.

- Should've left it in town.
- Once we get to Kansas...
- Hell, it looks like ajunk yard, all the things folks dump at the river bank.
- Ovens, bath tubs, wind mill blades as big as the wagon it was in.
- I swear, folks must think the way west was paved.

- It's boggy enough to swallow horse and rider both.
- When you hit the Meadow, wait for the men in the south to fold north.
- Hold your line and we'll push
- 'em right into camp.
- Stay here. This is your hole.
- The rest follow me.
- What do I do?
- You follow 'em.

- We fear what we don't know.
- I knew what would happen.
- I would win the race or! Would be killed.
- There was comfort in the simplicity of it.
- Even though I could hear hooves getting closer,
- I felt no fear.

Shea: It shocks me, Thomas, that they haven't quit yet.
Thomas: I don't know why them folks'd want to go home. Their home sound like hell.
Shea: 'Cuz it's the hell they know. Most terrifyin' thing on this planet is the unknown.
Thomas: That's 'cuz you ain't never been whipped, Captain. Let someone put a whip to your back, tell me the unknown is what scares you. These folks ain't never goin' home.

- Sshhl goddammit, son...
- Shh...
- There's a... look, deer.
- -Deer -i see it.
- All right.
- Shh.

- You should leave, too.
- I wish I could.
- Take them to Colorado.
- Leave them there.
- Better for them.
- Yeah.

- Ya, go on! Ya, ya, ya, ya!
- Go east. Go south.
- Go any way but my way.
- If I see you again, I'm gonna kill you.

Thomas: [Shea And Thomas pass James and John heading in opposite directions] Ain't much of a team player.
Shea: Yeah, but he's capable.
Thomas: I don't like him questioning us.
Shea: Not much we can do about it. He ain't on the payroll.
Thomas: Yeah. When there's two leaders there ain't no leader. Know what I'm mean? Need to figure that out.

Elsa: [internal monologue] Death is everywhere on the prairie. In every form you can imagine and a few your worst nightmare couldn't muster. Death hides in the creek beds, possesses animals, It hides in tall grass, waiting. With every death, our father moved camp a little farther away... as if death was not the result of accidents and disease, but death was its own disease and carelessness was contagious. But of all the perils awaiting us, sickness and snakes, bad horses and bandits, there was one thing above all that sent terror through both man and beast. There was one word so feared it was never spoken and barely whispered... River.
Elsa: [...] Looking back, there were two journeys. One was filled with danger and death and despair, the other, adventure and wonder. I was on the latter. And I loved it... I didn't know enough to know they would collide. I didn't know enough to know how cruel and uncaring this world can be. The world doesn't care if you die. It won't listen to your screams. If you bleed on the ground, the ground will drink it. It doesn't care that you're cut. I told myself when I meet God it will be the first thing I ask him: why make a world of such wonder then fill it with monsters? Why make flowers and then snakes to hide beneath them? What purpose does the tornado serve? Then it hit me:
Elsa: [epiphany] He didn't make it for us.

- No, he said I could shoot you.
- If you act up.
- Well, acting up is my only skill.
- No, it ain't.
- Do it again.
- Come here.

- Young lady, I will not allow this.
- You're not allowing it?
- I'm 18 years old.
- I'm allowing it.
- You think being 18 makes you a woman?
- Law thinks it does.

- Where is this justice?
- You are sheep with no Shepherd!
- You follow the wolves.
- You follow the wolves!
- I'm a man of my word.
- If you ever see my face again, it'll be the last thing you see.

- If you are, I'd rather know now so I don't waste my time.
- Maybe you're too pretty for me.
- Well, shoot.
- I mean, if me being pretty is the problem, then we ain't got a problem.
- Shoot

- It's filthy, honey.
- She's young.
- She's young and she's so strong.
- And she's the light of my life and she's my soul...

- Next, stop, fort worth.
- Next stop, fort worth.
- Elsa!
- I'm just looking outside.

- Here you go, son.
- Our daughter gonna join us for breakfast today?
- She's with the herd.
- She's been with the herd for almost a week.
- It's making a good cowboy out of her.
- I didn't know that was the goal.

- Hyuleyup!
Shea: Ya! Hyupl
- Hyuleyup!

- I'd rather ride.
- Can I ride?
- Sure, honey. You can ride.
- I'm wearing pants.
- I don't give a shit what they say at the fort.
- Wear whatever you want.

- Well, if I can't...
- I'll come meet you on the beach.
- I'll save you a spot.
- We'll be right behind you.
- Keep 'em close.
- Like they were my own.

- Don't you worry about it.
- I ain't no fucking farmer.
- You were.
- I was a captain, too.
- I don't call myself that either...
- Captain.

- The question is, what are you going to do when they make it?
- What's it gonna be?
- We go with you.
- We head out in the morning.
- Come ready.

- Okay.
- It was the best thing I thought to do.
- I stand by it.
- I'll find you a shovel.
- And I'll help you use it.

- But nothing washes the world away like the lips of another.
- Seems an odd custom, strangers putting their mouths together and exploring each other with their tongues.
- When you think about it, kissing makes no sense at all.

- You just lay right there and take a nap.
- We ain't starting nothin'.
- Don't you...
- We ain't doing nothin'.
- Just lay back and rest.
- Let's give him a few minutes.

- For me, less fire.
- Yeah, I've cooked for you comanche before.
- I know how you like it.

Colton: Wasn't a day on this drive
- I was prettier than you.
- You'll always the be one that got away, Elsa.
- Colton, you gotta be pretty damn good looking to think the one you never had got away from you.
- Go back to Texas, you pretty son of a bitch.
- Ma'am.

- I'm gonna go find her.
- Okay.
- Where are we going to go, mama?
- We're gonna go help.
- Come on, let's go.

- This is a rattlesnake.
- They hide under logs, and under rocks.
- At night if it's cold they will look for warmth, and if you are sleeping on the ground that warmth is you.
- A bite will kill you.

- They're back early.
Shea: Who are they?
- A stroke of luck there, captain.

- Do you need anything?
- Well...
- I wouldn't be mad at a chocolate bar, if they happen to have one.
- If they have one, I'll buy it.
- Much appreciated.
- Come on. [Clicks tongue]

[dealer, with spike maul in hand, approaches Shea]
Shea: [draws cocked pistol and points it in the dealer's face and rises] You know what I'm doing here? Looking for a reason. You want to be my reason?
Dealer: No, I do not.
Shea: [emphatically] Then sit the fuck down.

- Never say it did.
- All right, mister.
- This right here, that's for the soil.
- And this, that's for the bank.
- Thank you.
- Pleasure.

- The right choice is luck, that's all.
- You need to put on a dress.
- Because if you ride into that army fort half-naked, dressed like an Indian?
- Have not learned enough about men on this trip?
- Then I won't go in the fort.
- I'll stay outside.
- Grant me one less thing to worry about.

- Storm couldn't catch up to you, could it?
- I'll look for more.
- How you gonna bring 'em back?

Elsa: But if this is hell, and I'm in it...
- Then I must be a demon too.
- And I'm already dead.

Shea: That's too many to face.
- If we can get to the mountains, we can lose 'em in the timber.
- Can't run.
- My family's out there.
- Let's hope they made it to the fort.
- I don't hope. I gotta know.

- Figure we find a valley with, uh...
- Some good water, no people.
- Then we stake it out and make it ours.
- And your boys will talk to you again.
- 'Cause the journey's over.

[In English] How bad he get you?
- What happened?
- Snake bite.
- You got that tourniquet?
- Yeah.

- I'm taking my wife to the ocean...
- And I'm gonna sit on the beach, and let her see it.
- That was her dream.
- Then I'm going to see her.
- That's my dream.
- In the meantime, the herd could sure use its cowgirl.

- I can do that.
- I'm gonna leave that with you.
- Hell, no.
- I'm liable to crawl in the son of a bitch trying to figure out what to do with that girl.
- It's looking like you might have to trust her too, James.

- Can we come back for the things we leave?
- How we gonna do that?
- If it's too heavy, here's where it stays. Let's go.
- We will get to Oregon with nothing.
- How do we make our lives with nothing?
- Josef?

- I don't regret it, mama.
- It was beautiful.
- And I don't regret it.
- Just once I'd love to see the world through your eyes.
- One day you'll see it through mine, though.
- And it breaks my heart.

- Get up against it on the other side!
- Push in on it.
- Whoop at him to keep him moving.
- Whoop at him?
- Girl's starting to ride like a comanche.
- That is a compliment, James.

- Forget about the bath, baby.
- You can come climb mama like a tree.
- Watch where the hell you're going.
- Give it back.
- Give what back?
- My wallet.
- I didn't take your fucking...

- What's he doing?
- I don't know.
- I don't give a shit.

- They never are.
- Stars for a blanket.
- Ground for a bed.
- Good horse, open country.
- That's all a cowboy needs.
- Guess it's all a cowgirl needs too.

- Would you like a lemonade?
- I would not, thank you.
- How 'bout a whiskey punch?
- You look like you could use it.
- Would you join me?
- Sister, I been joining you since noon.

- Let's hold the herd up here.
James: Hold 'em up!