- Bank Manager: The money and the accumulated interest was awarded by the court to Mrs. Masterson.
- Bat Masterson: How's that? Mrs. Masterson?
- Bank Manager: The Masterson widow, sir.
- Bat Masterson: Oh no, wait a minute. In order for a man to have a widow, he must be married and dead - in that order.
- Bank Manager: Now, now this takes clear thinking. This can't be settled in anger, you know.
- Bat Masterson: I'm not angry; I'm just hurt. Nobody had the decency to invite me to my own funeral.
- Bat Masterson: [to Judge Hodie] Now see here! You're going to tell me Bat Masterson's dead. I don't mind dying, your honor, but I hate to die broke.
- Jack Fontana: Masterson is dead. The man that shows up here will be a stranger - a trespasser. Now we got every right to gun him down.
- Nellie Fontana: If he lets you.
- Jack Fontana: [Jack goes outside and fires a bullet into a wadded telegram] He'll let me. He won't be looking when it happens.
- Bat Masterson: I never realized I had such excellent taste in wives. Too bad I died so young.
- Nellie Fontana: What do you want?
- Bat Masterson: Forgive me from being mercenary, ma'am: twenty thousand dollars and the man who murdered me.
- Nellie Fontana: He's more than a murderer, he's a madman! He killed some poor saddle tramp to put in your grave. He killed Judge Hodie, too. He's going to kill me next, unless I get away from here.
- Bat Masterson: No, I wouldn't dream of letting him kill my own widow. Not as long as I'm alive.
- A.J. Mulcaney: Mr. Masterson, I changed the marker on that grave. What'll I do with this one?
- Bat Masterson: Well, I'd just get rid of it, Mulcaney. I'm not going to be using it for a while.
- [first lines]
- Narrator: Bonanza, Colorado - 1882. Like many other mining towns, Bonanza enjoyed a moment of glory that was all too brief. In just a few short months, its roaring silver boom faded to a melancholy whisper. Bonanza became a town of dying dreams, haunted by ghosts of its recent past. And the most active ghost of them all carried a gold-headed cane: Bat Masterson, the man who became a legend in his own time.