- [first lines]
- [Coffin Sam kills a saddle tramp in a gunfight]
- Coffin Sam Sabine: I had the handle of this gun carved from a dead man's coffin. Each of them notches is the last mark left by eleven men.
- [Sam uses the dead man's gun to shoot another notch in the handle]
- Coffin Sam Sabine: I like to give anyone a chance to shoot once - even if they're dead. Tell your kids about this... that you saw Coffin Sam Sabine in action. It'll make a hero out of all of all of you!
- Billy Counts: Old Coffin Sam just layin' out there face down in the dirt - it ain't fittin' that a man should end up like that.
- Johnny Ringo: That's the way most gunslingers end up.
- Johnny Ringo: The West is growing up. Gunslingers aren't heroes any more - they're killers... and that's the way they usually treat it.