Dead Man's Walk

[the rangers dig side-by-side graves for two of their dead comrades]

Long Bill Coleman:
Josh and Zeke were pards. I don't guess they'll mind bunking together in the hereafter.

Bigfoot Wallace:
If anybody knows a good scripture, let 'em say it. We got to skedaddle. I don't fancy another fight with Buffalo Hump.

Long Bill Coleman:
There's that scripture about them green pastures...

Bigfoot Wallace:
So say it then, Bill!

Long Bill Coleman:
Well... them there's green pastures... that's all I recall.

Capt. Salazar:
I am slmost out of ammunition. If you send us back with no horses and no bullets, Gomez will kill all of us.

Major:
Ask that priest for a prayer. If he's a good priest, his prayers might be better than bullets or horses.

Carey:
There's plenty of food, gentlemen. You may want to wash first before you eat.

Long Bill Coleman:
Well, ma'am, if there's grub I'm for eating first and washing later.

Long Bill Coleman:
If i eat another plate of beans, I'll float back to Austin.

Long Bill Coleman:
I wish I still had my harmonica. It's dreary out here without no tunes.

Woodrow F. Call:
Did you hit him?

Johnny Carthage:
Hit who?

Woodrow F. Call:
Did you hit the Indian you shot at?

Johnny Carthage:
Who shot?

Woodrow F. Call:
You shot! Are you so drunk you can't remember shooting your own gun?

Johnny Carthage:
Oh, God, Bill, I hope it don't get cold again tonight. I don't mind dying... if I could do it warm.

Long Bill Coleman:
Did he freeze?

Bigfoot Wallace:
Well, he's frozen now.

Long Bill Coleman:
Me, I'll shoot myself in the head if I got time.

Bigfoot Wallace:
Well, that could go wrong, too. Don't be sticking no gun in your mouth unless it's a shotgun.

Augustus McCrae:
Why not? It's hard to miss your head with a gun in your mouth.

Bigfoot Wallace:
No, it ain't. That bullet could ricochet off a tooth... come out your ear. You'd be still healthy enough to torture for a week. You shove the butt of a gun against your eyeball... and pull. Now, that's sure. Then if some squaw comes along and chews your privates, you won't know the difference.

Captain Salazar:
If you had killed me, I would have been martyred. Now I'll merely be disgraced.

Bigfoot Wallace:
You best wrap up, Mattie.

Matilda Jane 'Mattie' Roberts:
I like givin' my customers a free look, might make 'em feel... prosperous.

Bigfoot Wallace:
Storm's comin'. You'll have icicles hangin' off your milkers you don't get dressed, honey.

Bigfoot Wallace:
[to Augustus] Life's just as dangerous whether you're a corporal or a private.

Clara's father:
[to Gus] You don't have to wait for an opinion with Miss Clara around. She'll give you one before you can catch your breath.

[repeated line]

Buffalo Hump's grandmother:
Beware the dark woman on the white mule.

Bigfoot Wallace:
Hang the general, kill the bird, and keep the dentist. Dentist might come in handy.

Caleb Cobb:
[Seeing Indians near the bison herd] Looks like we're not the only men that like buffalo liver.

Caleb Cobb:
We still have that flag?

Bigfoot Wallace:
What do we need a flag for?

Caleb Cobb:
Well, we brought the damn rag. Why not use it? It might impress them.

Caleb Cobb:
I'm a seaman. I never expected to die in the middle of the desert. I ought to be on my ship. What in hell am I doing here? [laughs ironically]

Captain Salazar:
All right, you did not accept my terms, so you're all still my prisoner. If you'd have killed me, I would have been martyred. Now I'll merely be disgraced.

Bigfoot Wallace:
Not in my eyes.

Long Bill Coleman:
[In the desert] Still wish I had my harmonica. It's dreary out here without no tunes.

Bigfoot Wallace:
[Speaking about the Apache] Oh, you put a bullet in the right place, they'll die the same as you and me. Their skins ain't the same color as ours, but their blood is just as red.

Woodrow F. Call:
[after seeing Gomez kill two men in the party] I see'd 'em, Captain!

Captain Salazar:
You're a lucky man, Corporal. If you saw Gomez, you're the only white man to do so and live.

Bigfoot Wallace:
[about two Mexican soldiers who cannot walk any more] They're finished, Captain. We all got our finishin' point, and these boys have reached theirs.

Augustus McCrae:
[Asking about the lepers] What are they, Bill? Dead or alive?

Long Bill Coleman:
Well, the one I seen looked somewhere in-between.

WOODROW F. CALL:

"I Choose To Live."