Rawhide (TV Series)

The Long Shakedown (1961)

Sheb Wooley: Pete Nolan

Quotes 

• Pete Nolan : We did, what you call in the Army, a strategic retreat.

  Jim Quince : Just stayed back and waited in case the herd stampeded, or in case they ran the other way.

  Gil Favor : And you wanted to be there to stop 'em. Beautiful, that's one of the most beautiful, flat-faced lies I ever heard in my life.

  Pete Nolan : Well, thanks for letting us tell it.

  Jim Quince : You know, it made us feel better.

• Jess Clayton : Well, you just wait 'til we shake down a little bit. We gonna get those beeves to Abilene before they know they left Texas.

  Pete Nolan : If this was the Army, I'd say he was bucking for Sergeant.

• Gil Favor : That was a night. But now it's another day. This ain't Laredo, back on the open trail. Ain't no dancehalls, it's just scrub and dirt. Ain't no dance girls, just beeves, none of 'em knowing a two-step.

  Rowdy Yates : Yes, well, we're just gassing it up a little.

  Gil Favor : Well, exactly, that is the point. Let's get something straight, right now. Every drive starts from scratch, and so does every drover. And I won't stand for no belly-aching. You knuckle down to work, or so help me, I'll send you back to Laredo and you can ride herd in all the dancehall cows you want.

  Rowdy Yates : But we're only 3 days out.

  Pete Nolan : Yep!