Steve Ihnat: R.G. Posey

Quotes 

• R.G. Posey : You can't stand it, can ya? You just can't live with the fact that I'm still riding on a horse while you're workin' like one on the ground.

  Shane : Not only can I live with it, I prefer it.

  R.G. Posey : Not if you ever really was a drover, you don't prefer it. You couldn't.

  Shane : I could. I'm here.

  R.G. Posey : Yeah. How come?

  Shane : [Thoughtfully]  Posey, do you know what a dinosaur is?

  R.G. Posey : Nope.

  Shane : Well, it's a prehistoric monster who died out because it couldn't learn to change with the times. Just like you. Just like Ryker.

  R.G. Posey : Ryker ain't gonna die out.

  Shane : Well, maybe not. But you will.

• R.G. Posey : I was thinkin' about sodbusters.

  Rufe Ryker : You don't like our neighbors?

  R.G. Posey : [Ruefully]  You don't know. Wasn't about a year I had me a job north of here. Good wages. Good boss. Then the nesters came.

  Rufe Ryker : They always do.

  R.G. Posey : Bunchin' up. The way they bunch up. You can smell them comin' a mile off. First it was fences on the range. Then it was barb wire. Then they fenced off the water. The water. And the law. The law said they could do it. Cows couldn't range. Pretty soon they couldn't hardly get no water. First thing I know, Mr. Kanigher, he...

  Rufe Ryker : Kanigher? I know him.

  R.G. Posey : First thing I know, Mr. Kanigher went and sold off a good part of his herd. Instead of a job I had me a saddle, six-gun, and a ten-dollar horse.

• R.G. Posey : Caught that boy stealing one of our calfs.

  Sam Grafton : You mean Joey?

  R.G. Posey : That's the one. Little sidewindin' son of a sodbuster.