- Jason McCord: I lived through a massacre that took everybody else in our company. I've never been able to figure out why.
- Jed Colbee: Must have been some experience. Sounds something like Bitter Creek.
- Jason McCord: It was Bitter Creek.
- Jed Colbee: Well, like you said... only one man came back. Major? Captain?
- Jason McCord: Captain. Jason McCord.
- Navajo: No man travels into desert alone. Man who abandoned you is only one day ahead. You travel to Granite Wells? I will give you burro and guide you. And then I will stay and see you repay this man.
- Stable Owner: What about after that?
- Jed Colbee: After that, he's your horse.
- Stable Owner: How about her? You want to leave her too?
- Jessie Colbee: No, Daddy, you won't leave me again.
- Jason McCord: The desert can burn the reason and morality out of a man. And all he's left with is animal instinct to survive.