John McIntire credited as playing...
Christopher Hale
- Mr. Murray: What do you think of her? Isn't she a beauty?
- Christopher Hale: Yes, she is. Nice hobby, collecting old guns. I had a revolutionary war musket once myself.
- Mr. Murray: Well, it's no hobby. I sold my Winchester to get this.
- Christopher Hale: YOU WHAT?
- Mr. Murray: Well, like Captain Brady says, you need range, got to get out there and pop 'em off at a thousand yards.
- Flint McCullough: [Reading from a newspaper article that's hot off the press] I could go on but it all sounds the same, even this part about being hurt so bad that he can't continue as your Chief Scout. You're pretty easy on him, weren't you?
- Christopher Hale: Ah, he's not a bad old boy.
- Flint McCullough: He caused you a lot of trouble.
- Christopher Hale: Well, the way I see it, he's not necessarily the kind of man a hero really is. But what people think he is, brave, noble, honest, strong. They're the qualities that people admire the most. Folks will always have their heroes, Flint. Dan Brady made a pretty good one for thirty years.
- Flint McCullough: Is he here yet?
- Christopher Hale: Who?
- Flint McCullough: He isn't here yet.
- Bill Hawks: Who're you talking about, Flint?
- Flint McCullough: I think it's more fun if I just wait and let you find out for yourself.
- [Captain Brady, John Grey Cloud, the band, the press and entourage arrive with loud fanfare]
- Christopher Hale: Captain Brady, I think there's been some misunderstanding, I already have a Chief Scout, Mr Flint McCullough.
- Captain Dan Brady: Of course, of course. Mr McCullough and I will get on just fine.
- Christopher Hale: You don't understand, Captain. I'm perfectly satisfied with Mr McCullough's work.
- Townsman: You mean you're turning down the chance to sign on Rocky Mountain Dan as your Chief Scout, Mr Hale?
- John Grey Cloud: He doesn't mean anything of the kind. Frankly, Mr Hale, I don't understand your attitude.
- Christopher Hale: Well, it's very easy to understand, I admire Captain Brady very much, but this happens to be MY wagon train.
- Christopher Hale: Somehow, somewhere, I've got to get hold of $5,000. It might as well be 5 million.
- John Grey Cloud: Captain Dan's home is in the saddle, Mr Hale, just like it always used to be.
- Christopher Hale: Well, suit yourself. You're liable to find out the ground's got a little hard in thirty years, Dan.
- Captain Dan Brady: But one thing I never forgot, one John never let me forget. I'm a Westerner, Chris. Same as you and him. There's a lot of things I miss. I miss the smell of sage brush, and the buffalo, millions of them 'til you can't see the dirt under their feet.
- Christopher Hale: You won't find the buffalo like that any more, Dan.
- Captain Dan Brady: That's the trouble, Chris. I've got to find the old things before they're all gone. I want to feel the earth beneath my feet when I get near the mountains. I want to hear the crack of leather and the roll of wagon wheels. Guess I'm homesick, Chris. I'm tired of being what I am. I want to be what I used to be.
- Christopher Hale: This is my train, Mr McCullough. I give the orders. I do the hiring and firing.
- Flint McCullough: That's right, Mr Hale. He stays?
- Christopher Hale: He stays.
- Flint McCullough: I quit.
- Flint McCullough: Well, how's it going? Is there any hope?
- Christopher Hale: Aw, there's always hope. Well, Flint, I guess the best thing to do is to come right out and tell yer.
- Flint McCullough: Tell me what?
- Christopher Hale: I've taken on Dan Brady as Chief Scout.
- Flint McCullough: Why'd you do that?
- Christopher Hale: Let's just say, for selfish reasons. Good publicity.
- Flint McCullough: You can believe that if you wanna, but I don't have to.
- Christopher Hale: I said I'm sorry.
- Flint McCullough: You may be a lot sorrier before you get to California. Even if Brady is everything he says he is, and I'm not sure of that, a lot can happen in 30 years.
- Christopher Hale: I know. I want you to stay on, Flint. I wouldn't want to head West without you riding out ahead of us.
- Flint McCullough: That's what you're paying him for, isn't it?
- Christopher Hale: Stay with us. I'm gonna need you.
- John Grey Cloud: Listen, Hale. Captain Dan is known all over this world.
- Christopher Hale: Well, all over the world and West of the Missouri are two pretty thoroughly different places. Dan, leave the wagon train to me and my people. That's our business.
- Captain Dan Brady: I didn't mean to be meddling.
- John Grey Cloud: You weren't. If anyone's meddling, Hale is.
- Christopher Hale: Mr Grey Cloud, I don't know what your function is with Captain Brady, but you don't have any at all with me.