Gregory Morton: John Forrest

Quotes 

• [Mike Gray Eagle has raised the prices for the water he is delivering to Lincoln during a severe drought] 

  John Forrest : There must be better ways of getting water and I'll find it even if I have to talk to the town council into hiring a rainmaker.

  Mike Gray Eagle : Rainmaker? And they call us Apaches superstitious for our medicine men and rain dances.

  Pat Garrett : Ah, you know, Gray Eagle, I wouldn't exactly count it as being superstition. I was reading an article just last week in Harper's Weekly about a Frenchman who has come up with a scientific way of making rain.

  Pat Garrett : I still say it's superstition... and if it isn't the rainmaker might keep in mind that I'm still an Apache.

• John Forrest : After stakin' out the only spring still flowin' within a thousand square miles, you know that no Apache called that a sacred spring until you put the idea in their heads and they won't let a white man near it now, Mike! Well, you're a highway robber.

  Mike Gray Eagle : I was taught the white man's ways at the mission school.

• John Forrest : You, Miss, are a fraud... Hank Russell!

  Henrietta Russel : Short for Henrietta.

  Pat Garrett : This is Mr. Forrest, our councilman.

  Henrietta Russel : How do you do, Mr. Forrest.

  John Forrest : How do you do.

  Henrietta Russel : I'm not a fraud - I can make rain. And if you don't believe it and, according to the contract, all you have to is cancel it... but, ah, you have to forfeit the retaining fee.

  John Forrest : Oh, you must have gone to the same mission school Gray Eagle attended.

• John Forrest : Oh, you did it! You did it, Miss Russell! I'm as good as reelected!

  Mike Gray Eagle : You speak to soon, Mr. Forrest.

  John Forrest : What are you talking about, you you you vulture!

  Mike Gray Eagle : Eagle! With my water supply business washed out, so to speak, I have decided to enter politics. I'll be running against you for councilman next month, Mr. Forrest.