- Fanah: Yuma says he will send the others later. He wants what is best for me, maybe for Apache people, too. Yuma says it must be white man's law, now. Apache law is dead, like many Apache warriors.
- Pete Nolan: I knew him in Santa Fe! He's a dirty Comenchero! He was selling rings that the Comanches took off the fingers of white women they'd scalped! They also lynched him for it down there!
- Rowdy Yates: Mescaleros Apaches?
- Pete Nolan: How'd you know?
- Rowdy Yates: Ah, this is their country.
- Gil Favor: On the trail?
- Pete Nolan: Right on it. I swung off aways, hid in an old willow sink until it got dark. Had to turn my horse loose. So I spent most of my day tracking him.
- Gil Favor: Hunting party or war party?
- Rowdy Yates: What difference does it make with Mescaleros?
- Pete Nolan: I couldn't make out if they were wearing paint or not. I wasn't sweating to get that close.
- Rowdy Yates: Look, I know West Texas. You ain't gonna find any tame reservation Indians around here. Be Comanches or Apaches.
- Gil Favor: I'd thought you heard the same news as me about cattle prices up north. And that we had to go West to find decent markets.
- Rowdy Yates: You'll run into trouble.
- Gil Favor: I never you to run from trouble before, so, what is it?
- Rowdy Yates: My own business.
- Gil Favor: Have it your own way. But we're gonna continue to head West, you know.
- Rowdy Yates: You're the boss.
- Gil Favor: And don't you forget it.
- Yuma: You have bad people. I have bad people.
- Rowdy Yates: You sure don't let them stay bad for long.
- Yuma: Apache law. We come here to hunt, not fight. I am Chief
- [and also the issuer of summary justice]
- Yuma: .
- Yuma: It was war. When we fought the white soldiers, some of our children were killed. So we took white children to take the places of those we had lost.
- Fanah: [Fanah has turned up in the drovers' camp] Maybe my family won't like me.
- Rowdy Yates: Ah, well, they'll like yah.. They'll like you so much, it hurts.
- Yuma: My people come here to hunt. My hunters are scattered all over. I set a few fires and hunters turn into warriors. Hundreds of them.
- Pete Nolan: There's something that ain't hard to track. Looks like the Mescalero's calling in his braves.
- [There are smoke signals on top of a mountain]
- Yuma: My men find them.
- Rowdy Yates: How do you know?
- Yuma: See flash? Other one there. What we look for is inbetween.