Eric Fleming: Gil Favor

Quotes 

• Gil Favor : On a trail drive, a man can find the things he wants - a sense of God's good earth, the room to move in, a job to be done. Of course, there's not always enough water, and you can't always choose your own company. There's some that say that's all that's wrong with Hell. That's up to me to handle - the good and bad. I'm Gil Favor, trail boss.

• Gil Favor : What were you doing out there, Davey? Where're your folks?

  David Colby : It was Indians.

  Gil Favor : Indians?

  David Colby : They killed my father and my grandfather and they carried off my mother.

  Rowdy Yates : How'd you get away?

  David Colby : I was hiding in the barn.

• Gil Favor : Aw, don't take it so hard, Pete. Some kids just find it easier to lie than tell the truth. Shall we be getting back, Davy?

• David Colby : Mr Favor, I bin thinking. On a trail drive a man has to pull his own weight.

  Gil Favor : That's right, Davy.

  David Colby : Well, maybe you could find something for me to do that'd be useful to you.

  Gil Favor : I'll sure find something.

  Wishbone : After all the sufferings he's been through, to be thinking of somebody else, well, that's something. A fine lad, Mr Favor.

  Gil Favor : And it might be, he's got a fine imagination.

• Pete Nolan : We go right by Aberlee, Mr Favor.

  Gil Favor : Now, Pete, even if we didn't, we sure wouldn't leave him all alone out there in the middle of the prairie.

• Gil Favor : You know what this is?

  David Colby : No, sir.

  Gil Favor : It's a tree. This isn't a hickory branch but it will do.

  David Colby : You want to wallop me, Mr Favor?

  Gil Favor : I want the truth, Davy.

• Gil Favor : [Rowdy rides into camp at speed, and produces a frog from his hat for Davy]  Took a little old frog to do what 25 grown men couldn't.

  Pete Nolan : Yep, it just don't seem right, Lord sending big trouble to a little kid. I guess he hasn't got to you the way he has to the rest of us.

  Gil Favor : Oh, he gets to me all right. But I was just wondering why we hadn't heard about Indians in the neighbourhood.

  Pete Nolan : There's a lot of things we don't hear about.