- Uncle Shiloh Clegg: You boys ever draw on anybody?
- Travis Blue: No, sir. Just snakes.
- [later, after Travis shoots Clegg]
- Elder Wiggs: I thought you never drew on a man?
- Travis Blue: That's right, sir. Only on snakes.
- Sandy: By Golly, I bet it's going to be hotter then...
- Jackson: [Angrily] Mind your language!
- Sandy: I wasn't cussin'!
- Jackson: You were going to say Hell!
- Sandy: I was going to say Hades, but Hell ain't cussin', it's geography... It's the name of a place, like you might say Abilene or Salt Lake City.
- Jackson: [Taking offense] Don't you be going making any remarks about Salt Lake City!
- [Sandy turns away, but when he cinches his saddle, he purposesly bumps into Jackson, Jackson does it back, and they do it back and forth. Then they turn around and fight]
- Travis Blue: [of the indians] Near as I can figure out, he don't seem to like white men.
- Sandy: Yeah, he say's we're all thieves.
- Elder Wiggs: Smarter then he looks!
- [Sandy speaks Navajo, evidently translating what Elder Wiggs had just said]
- Elder Wiggs: Don't tell him that, you fool! Tell him we're Mormans!
- [the Navajos speak in their native touge, mutterring "Mormany" repeatedly]
- Elder Wiggs: What'd he say?
- Sandy: Say's the Mormans are his brothers. Say's they ain't big thieves like most white men. Just little thieves.
- Elder Wiggs: Right complementery, ain't he?
- Travis Blue: [after Sandy pushes a gun down the back of his pants] Be careful or you'll blow yer brains out.
- Elder Wiggs: You afraid of 'em?
- Travis Blue: Yeah. I am.
- Elder Wiggs: What about you?
- Sandy: Who, me?
- Elder Wiggs: That makes three of us. But I'm not gonna let the Cleggses know it. And I'm not gonna let my people know it.
- [Sandy fills a bucket of water from the river, and takes it to Prudence]
- Sandy: I brought you some water, ma'am
- [Prudence gratefully takes it]
- Prudence Perkins: Thank you. Won't you stop and have a bit of breakfast with us?
- Sandy: [Happily] Yes, ma'am.
- [Sandy instantly leaps from his horse]
- Travis Blue: [Travis comes riding up] Sandy, lets go!
- [Sandy regretfully gets back on his horse, and bows repeatily to Prudence before riding away]
- Travis Blue: Feet hurt, ma'am?
- Denver: Nope!
- Travis Blue: Well here, try these on!
- [Hands here a pair of walking shoes, she puts them on]
- Denver: Did you get these from that... red-headed gal?
- Travis Blue: You mean Miss Prudence?... yes ma'am.
- Denver: Is she your wife?
- Travis Blue: No ma'am... How do they feel?
- Denver: Fine. A little large for me maybe, but fine. Thanks very much, and thank your lady friend.
- [Denver arises, and starts to walk away, Travis looks after her]
- Travis Blue: She ain't that either ma'am!
- [singing]
- Sandy: I left my gal in Old Virginy...
- Travis Blue: Trailin' behind the wagon trail...
- Sandy: Another I left in Old Missoura...
- Travis Blue: Trailin' behind the wagon trail...
- Sandy, Travis Blue: [Together] Oh the Wite tops are a rollin', rollin', the big wheels keep a-turnin', and when I reach that promise land, for my gal I'll still be yearnin'.
- Travis Blue, Sandy: [singing, towards the end of the movie] Oh the white tops are a rollin' rollin', and the big wheels keep on turnin', there's a good little gal in that promise land already I'm a yearnin!
- Travis Blue: Sure hope that I see you again, Miss Denver.
- Denver: Thanks, but don't plan on it, We move around. The medicine show has to, to stay healthy.
- Travis Blue: We move around a lot trading horses. Good thing about it, though, you get to see a lot of pretty country, like the valley I got in mind. A man can make an awfully nice little cattle ranch in that valley. If he doesn't mind being lonesome.
- Denver: [pauses] Good luck, fellow.
- [She runs away, blinded by tears]
- Travis Blue: Sure hope I see you again, Miss Denver.
- Denver: Thanks, but don't think on it. We move around. The medice will show you have to to keep healthy.
- Travis Blue: We move around a lot trading horses. Good thing about it, though: You get see alot of pretty country, like the valley I've got in mind. A man can make an awfully nice little cattle ranch in that valley, if he didn't mind being lonesome, and some one to help him with the cooking and such...
- Denver: [pauses] Goodbye, fellow.
- [She runs away, blinded by tears]
- Elder Wiggs: [to Travis] Hey, you wouldn't, uh, happen to know that San Juan River country, would you?
- Sandy: Yeah, we know it. What about it, Grandpa?
- Elder Wiggs: [Taking offense] Now look here, don't you be grandpa-ing me, you young whippersnapper! I'll bull you off that fence and fan your britches for you! Goddarn...
- Elder Wiggs: You boys mind tellin' me if you're drinkin' men?
- Travis Blue: Nope. Got a brother who's a drunkard though.
- Elder Wiggs: You ever chaw?
- Travis Blue: [Dryly] Tried it once.
- Elder Wiggs: Use the words of wrath?
- Travis Blue: Only tolerable well.
- Elder Wiggs: Are you family men?
- Travis Blue: No, sir.
- Uncle Shiloh Clegg: They ain't gonna whip no Cleggses.
- Travis Blue: Whippin's better than a scalpin'.
- Uncle Shiloh Clegg: Ain't gonna be no scalpin' neither.
- Sandy: How are you gonna stop it, Uncle Shiloh?
- [points to gun-totting Navahos]
- Elder Wiggs: How'd you boys like to sell us aII these here gentle horses of yours, at $50 a head, and maybe pick yourselves up an extra hundred or so on the side?
- Travis Blue: Doin' what?
- Elder Wiggs: Wagon Master, that's what.
- Travis Blue: Me and my partner, we was kinda figurin' on settIin' and playin' a little High-Low Jick, Jack, Ginny and the Bean Gun.
- Sandy: Are you people Mormons?
- Elder Wiggs: That's right, son. That's why I keep my hat on all the time. So my horns won't show. Why, I got more wives than Solomon himself! At least, that's what folks around here say. And if they don't say it, they - they think it.
- Elder Wiggs: And so with their water all gone, Mr. Peachtree here poured a coupIe of quarts of this lightning elixir into a bucket and gave it to their mule. Last they seen of her, she was going over the hill like a Kansas twister. And here they've been ever since. Now these people, they have, what I used to call in my sinin' days - a ''hoochie-coochie'' show.
- Sister Ledyard: Oh, I do declare.
- Elder Wiggs: And the question is, what are we gonna do with them?
- Travis Blue: Better pull them up, Elder.
- Elder Wiggs: Hold your horses!
- Travis Blue: Hold your horses, men!
- Elder Wiggs: Hold your horses! Hold them horses! Why, you dad-blasted idiots! Hold them horses! Hold! Hold them horses!
- Sandy: Hey, gosh. Do I hear music? It sounds like music.
- Travis Blue: If I'm not loco, so do I.
- Sandy: Do you suppose it's Navajos?
- Elder Wiggs: I've never heard a Navajo playing a gui-tar.
- Sandy: Come to think of it, neither have I.
- Uncle Shiloh Clegg: Ain't likely any posse will look for us in a Mormon wagon train, now, is it?
- [takes a swig]
- Uncle Shiloh Clegg: That's good drinkin' liquor.
- Denver: Have I your permission to take a bath now?
- Travis Blue: Why, yes, ma'am. I reckon you...
- Denver: Thank you.
- Travis Blue: Hey, ma'am. I think I'll join you.
- Denver: Fine.
- Uncle Shiloh Clegg: Me and the boys seen your fire, scared at first you might be Navajo. Then I heard your mountain music. I said to Floyd here: ''Wherever there's singing and dancing, you can be sure there's Christian folks.'' Never did know a bad man that had any music in him.
- Fleuretty Phyffe: You like him, don't you?
- Denver: I don't wanna see him full of bullet holes, if that's what you mean.
- Travis Blue: No call to get mad at me, ma'am.
- Denver: And don't call me ''ma'am.''
- Travis Blue: No, ma'am.
- Uncle Shiloh Clegg: I'm tellin' you for the last time, Elder, if there's any trouble, I just gotta kill you. Now, where's that Wagon Master and that carrot-headed kid?
- Denver: I don't need any sympathy either. I've done nothing I need be ashamed of, no matter what you and your friends say. We didn't ask to be picked up by these Bible-shouters.
- Uncle Shiloh Clegg: Well, Elder, when you get over in that pretty valley he's talking about, I guess we won't see you no more. And you won't have no Cleggses to tie to wagon wheels and whip.