- William Barclay 'Bat' Masterson: Sit down, Fisher.
- [to Cactus Charlie]
- Eli Fisher: Go ahead, old man. Draw!
- William Barclay 'Bat' Masterson: You heard me, Fisher! I can speak louder with this
- [pistol]
- William Barclay 'Bat' Masterson: if you prefer.
- William Barclay 'Bat' Masterson: You know, there are some men, Charlie, who are born to riches, other men work for it and some have it thrust upon them. My conscience says no, but the rest of my refuses to listen.
- [Bat kills Hall in a shootout]
- William Barclay 'Bat' Masterson: I wonder if he weighed the odds against the stacks.
- [last lines]
- Cactus Charlie: Bat, you're more than a partner, you're a real friend. You know I'm kind of glad this thing turned out the way it did.
- William Barclay 'Bat' Masterson: How's that?
- Cactus Charlie: Well, I've been lookin' for gold so many years, that the lookin' for it's become more important than the findin' of it. So long, partner!
- [first lines]
- Narrator: Central City, Colorado, in the 1880's - the Gold Strike years. Fortunes were made overnight and with them sometimes came trouble and danger. One man who encountered both was Bat Masterson, the man who became a legend in his own time.