- Ben Wilson: We've come to a decision. We're not going to shoot you.
- Emile Barole: Unh-uh.
- William Barclay 'Bat' Masterson: Thank you. I knew I could help you think.
- Ben Wilson: We're going to blow you to kingdom come if you try to run.
- William Barclay 'Bat' Masterson: I love the sedentary life.
- William Barclay 'Bat' Masterson: What are you going to do with all your money?
- Emile Barole: I'm going to get all the glorious champagne to drink and all the gorgeous food to eat. Then I'm going to lie down to dream - to dream of more food and more champagne.
- [Bat plans to ask Miranda for a loan]
- William Barclay 'Bat' Masterson: What have I got to lose?
- Emile Barole: Nothing - the lady is so pretty.
- William Barclay 'Bat' Masterson: You Frenchmen.
- William Barclay 'Bat' Masterson: He's still alive. I hope he lives long enough to know that we - Ben Wilson and his friends - built a flume to the Mother Lode.
- [first lines]
- Narrator: The mother lode country of California, on the western slope of the Sierra Nevada. Some struck it rich; some threw away a lifetime digging and dreaming, always only two feet from a million dollars. Gold, the yellow Lorelei that opened the West, also provided one of the most exciting episodes in the colorful life of Bat Masterson, the man who became a legend in his own time.