- Kenneth Murdock: There'll be no fur trade if the white man builds his house in Oregon.
- Russian: Of course, this immigration cannot be halted permanently. It can be discouraged for a number of years, and now is the time to do it, but we don't want bloodshed, you understand that?
- Kenneth Murdock: I understand the white man. When he wants land, for which he gives nothing, he'll destroy anything to get it.
- Russian: You speak almost as an Indian.
- Kenneth Murdock: My mother was an Indian... my father I never saw.
- Abby Masters: What'll we do if the food were all gone?
- Jim Burch: Dunno. Bunch of trappers got in that fix once... and they jest et each other.
- Abby Masters: Ooooh...
- Hetty Masters: I don't believe it.
- Bill O'Leary: Jim oughta know. He's the sole survivor of that party.