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Captain Nathan Brittles Never apologize. It's a sign of weakness.

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Top Sergeant Quincannon [on their upcoming retirement] The army will never be the same when we retire, sir.

Captain Nathan Brittles The army is always the same. The sun and the moon change, but the army knows no seasons.

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Sgt. Tyree [after the fight at Sudrow's Well] Sir, would you take a look at Trooper Smith?

Pvt. John Smith aka Rome Clay [mortally wounded] Don't bother about me, Captain. Trust you'll forgive my presumption... I'd like to commend the boy here... for the way he handled this action. In the best tradition of the cavalry, sir.

Sgt. Tyree [to Pvt. Smith] I take that very kindly, sir.

Pvt. John Smith aka Rome Clay Captain Tyree! Captain Tyree!

Captain Nathan Brittles Speak to him.

Sgt. Tyree Thank you.

[comes to attention]

Sgt. Tyree Yes, Sir. Sir! Sir!

Captain Nathan Brittles [realizes that Smith has died] I'm afraid he can't hear you, Captain.

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[Brittles knows Quincannon has been drinking on duty]

Captain Nathan Brittles You've got a breath on you like a hot mince pie!

Top Sergeant Quincannon Ah, Captain darlin', as you well know I took "the pledge" after Chapultepec.

Captain Nathan Brittles And Bull Run, and Gettysburg, and Shiloh. And St. Patrick's Day. And the Fourth of July! Beats me where you hide the stuff.

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Abby Allshard [Capt. Brittles is retiring after tonight] Where will you go, Nathan?

Captain Nathan Brittles Oh, West, I guess, Abby... California... new settlements.

Captain Nathan Brittles [to Olivia] "Old soldiers...", Miss Dandridge... hah! Someday you'll learn how they hate to give up. Captain of the troop one day: every man's face turned towards you; lieutenants jump when I growl! Now, tomorrow, I'll be glad if a blacksmith asks me to shoe a horse.

[he leaves]

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Abby Allshard How did "Marching Through Georgia" take the idea of "Old Iron Pants" riding with him?

Major Mac Allshard, Commanding Officer Fort Starke Under protest, my dear.

Captain Nathan Brittles Under WRITTEN protest, Abby, of course. It's always my pleasure to escort "Old Iron Pants." Well, as long as you're going along with us, I guess we'll have...

[notices how she's dressed]

Captain Nathan Brittles Abby, that is the dad-blastedest outfit I ever did see. Quincannon's old britches.

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Captain Nathan Brittles [while burying the dead] I also commend to your keeping, Sir, the soul of Rome Clay, late Brigadier General, Confederate States Army. Known to his comrades here, Sir, as Trooper John Smith, United States Cavalry... a gallant soldier and a Christian gentleman.

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Chief Pony That Walks Hey, Nathan! Nathan! I am a Christian! Hallelujah! Old friend, me. Long time. Long time.

Captain Nathan Brittles I come in peace, Pony That Walks.

Chief Pony That Walks Talk a salt, Nathan. Take salt. Smoke pipe. Good. Good.

Captain Nathan Brittles Pony That Walks, my heart is sad at what I see. Your young men painted for war. Their scalp knives red. The medicine drums talking. It is a bad thing!

Chief Pony That Walks A bad thing, Nathan. Many will die. My young men, your young men. No good. No good.

Captain Nathan Brittles We must stop this war.

Chief Pony That Walks Too late, Nathan. Young men do not listen to me. They listen to Big Medicine. Yellow Hair Custer dead. Buffalo come back. Red sun. Too late, Nathan! You will come with me. Hunt buffalo together. Smoke many pipes. We are too old for war.

Captain Nathan Brittles Yes, we are too old for war. But old men should stop wars.

Chief Pony That Walks Too late, too late! Many squaws will sing the Death Songs. Many lodges will be empty. You come with me, we hunt buffalo, get drunk together! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!

Captain Nathan Brittles No, friend, I must go. I go far away.

Chief Pony That Walks Then, Nathan, my brother, go in peace.

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Narrator [as the troop passes by] So here they are: the dog-faced soldiers, the regulars, the fifty-cents-a-day professionals... riding the outposts of a nation. From Fort Reno to Fort Apache - from Sheridan to Startle - they were all the same: men in dirty-shirt blue and only a cold page in the history books to mark their passing. But wherever they rode - and whatever they fought for - that place became the United States.

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Top Sergeant Quincannon Now men, I want youse all to pay attention to what I got to say. We'll have women going with us on this trip, so I want you to watch them words. Watch them words!

Trooper Watch them grammar!

Top Sergeant Quincannon Who said that?

[walks up and down ranks]

Top Sergeant Quincannon Whose dog is this? Whose dog is this?

[pats dog on the head]

Top Sergeant Quincannon Nice dog; Irish setter.

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Captain Nathan Brittles [Cohill and Pennell are about to fight over Olivia] Button your shirt, Mister Pennell! Thought better of you. Four years out here and still actin' like a wet-eared "kaydet" on the Hudson. What is this all about, Mr. Cohill?

Lt. Flint Cohill Sir, I... I decline to answer... respectfully.

Captain Nathan Brittles Mr. Cohill, it is a bitter thing, indeed, to learn that an officer who has had nine years experience in the cavalry - the officer to whom I am surrendering command of this troop in two more days - should have so little grasp of leadership as to allow himself to be chivvied into a go at fisticuffs while 'Taps' still sounds over a brave man's grave! God help this troop when I'm gone.

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Narrator So Nathan Brittles, ex-captain of cavalry U.S.A., started westward for the new settlements in California: westward toward the setting sun, which is the end of the trail for all old men. But the army hadn't finished with Nathan Brittles and it sent a galloper after him. THAT was Sgt. Tyree's department.

Sgt. Tyree Yo-oh! Capt. Brittles!

[catches up to him]

Sgt. Tyree Captain, sir.

Captain Nathan Brittles Huh?

Sgt. Tyree For you, sir. From the Yankee War Department.

[hands him the dispatch]

Captain Nathan Brittles I knew it. Dad blast it... I knew it!

[reading the dispatch]

Captain Nathan Brittles What? Sergeant... my appointment: chief of scouts! With a rank of Lt. Colonel. And will you look at those endorsements: Phil Sheridan, William Tecumseh Sherman and Ulysses Simpson Grant, President of The United States of America! There's three aces for you, boy!

Sgt. Tyree Yeah, but I kinda wish you'da been a-holdin' a full hand.

Captain Nathan Brittles Huh? Full hand? Whaddaya mean: full hand?

Sgt. Tyree Robert E. Lee, sir.

Captain Nathan Brittles Oh. Heh... wouldn't a been bad. Let's go.

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Olivia Dandridge [after the massacre at Sudrow's Wells] You don't have to say it, Captain. I know all this is because of me; because I wanted to see the West; because I wasn't - I wasn't "Army" enough to stay the winter.

Captain Nathan Brittles You're not quite "Army" yet, miss... or you'd know never to apologize... it's a sign of weakness.

Olivia Dandridge Yes, but this was your last patrol and I'm to blame for it.

Captain Nathan Brittles Only the man who commands can be blamed. It rests on me... mission failure!

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Sgt. Hochbauer [enters the bar with a crew to arrest Quincannon] You're under arrest, Quincannon.

Top Sergeant Quincannon By whose orders?

Sgt. Hochbauer By order of Capt. Brittles. Are you coming peaceably?

Top Sergeant Quincannon Laddie, I've never gone any place peaceably in me life.

[puts down his drink and slugs Sgt. Hochbauer]

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Captain Nathan Brittles Sgt. Tyree, I'm ordering you to volunteer again.

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Captain Nathan Brittles I don't know where you got your brains, Sergeant - God must have given you that pair of eyes. They're Arapahos, alright. Headin' the same way we are. Now why would they be movin' on Sudrow's Wells, Sergeant? Answer me that.

Sgt. Tyree My mother didn't raise any sons to be makin' guesses in front of Yankee captains.

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Captain Nathan Brittles [reading as he writes a letter of protest] How many *r's* in territory?

Major Mac Allshard, Commanding Officer Fort Starke Two.

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Sgt. Tyree [picking up a Cavalry cap] Cheyennes, Laddie. The same ones that killed them Yankee soldiers with General Custer.

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Top Sergeant Quincannon [about to cross a river] Can you swim, Dickie me boy?

Dickie, small boy No.

Top Sergeant Quincannon Well, I'm the best swimmer in the world. Once I swam the English Channel... with an anvil on me chest.

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[Quincannon is celebrating his upcoming retirement]

Sgt. Hochbauer You're out of uniform, Quincannon.

Top Sergeant Quincannon Oh, I am, am I? Well, I'm in the proper uniform... the uniform of a retired gentleman.

[enters the bar]

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Captain Nathan Brittles [the troop presents him with a solid silver watch for his retirement. He puts on his glasses and reads the engraved sentiment on the back] "To Capt. Brittles from C Troop. Lest we forget."

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[Nathan has retired and speaks to Maj. Mac Allshard before leaving the fort]

Captain Nathan Brittles Well, on my way. Goodbye, Mac. Say goodbye to Abby.

Abby Allshard [she walks up] And you'll do no such thing, Nathan Brittles. 'Goodbye' is a word we don't use in the cavalry. To our next posting...

[she hugs him]

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[When asked if the dead man in the coach was the Army paymaster]

Sgt. Tyree Yeah... Well, it look's like we're not gonna get paid for another three months!

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2nd Lt. Ross Penell I'm sorry, sir...

Captain Nathan Brittles Oh, shut up!

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Olivia Dandridge I'm sorry I made such a fool of myself at the gate this morning.

Captain Nathan Brittles You made a fool out of a couple of young lieutenants. That's never against Army regulations.

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Lt. Flint Cohill Where do you plan on having your picnic, Ross?

2nd Lt. Ross Penell Three months from now at Delmonico's in New York with Olivia on my arm, and I won't be wearning a blue suit either, bub.

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[Brittles and Tyree ride into the Indian camp to negotiate]

Captain Nathan Brittles Were you ever scared, "Captain" Tyree?

Sgt. Tyree Yes, sir. Up to and includin' now.

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Captain Nathan Brittles [at his wife's grave, referring to Olivia Dandridge] Nice girl... reminds me of you.

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Captain Nathan Brittles Give 'em a wide berth. Mr Cohill, past Sudrow's Wells by way of Twin Forks.

Lt. Flint Cohill We'll lose half a day, sir.

2nd Lt. Ross Penell The ladies will miss their stage, sir

Captain Nathan Brittles Would you rather have them miss their scalps, sir?

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Jenkins Sure got a hankerin' for some buffalo meat.

Trooper Cliff Me too. Ain't never had none.

Trooper Beans is safer. Mark my words, they'll be Injuns around that herd thick as flies.

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Captain Nathan Brittles [noticing the horse] Sidesaddle, Riley?

Soldier Sidesaddle, sir.

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Top Sergeant Quincannon [speaking to Capt. Brittles about Lt. Cohill and Olivia Dandridge who have been bickering on the trail] They'll make a fine, boisterous couple when they're married, Captain!

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Top Sergeant Quincannon I'll have a whiskey, Irish, and I'll pour it myself.

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Captain Nathan Brittles Where are you going, Mr. Penell?

2nd Lt. Ross Penell Picnic-ing, sir.

Captain Nathan Brittles Picnic-ing?

[to Olivia Dandridge]

Captain Nathan Brittles Picnic-ing, Miss Dandridge? Where, in St Louis?

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[Repeated line]

Sgt. Tyree That ain't my department, sir.

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Sgt. Tyree [inspecting a feather lodged inside a military cap] Cheyennes, Laddie; just like the ones that killed General Custer and all them Yankee soldiers.

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Captain Nathan Brittles Chawin' tobacco is a nasty habit. It's been known to turn a man's stomach.

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Captain Nathan Brittles If I gave you a written order, Mr. Cohill, would you follow it?