a very human hero

Kitty Dolan:   "You were so darn smart.  Half the time I wanted to break something over your head.  The other half I wanted you to wear my scarf in the battle."

Trampas:  "Scarf in the battle?"

Kim Ho:   "I have learned a great deal from you. . . The qualities I accused your people of lacking--you have them all."

Trampas:  "Whoa, now, I'm--"

Kim Ho:  "You think I mean things like being brave or heroic."

Trampas:  "What do you mean?"

Mr. Hale:   "I have to get those cattle to market, Henry.  If not, I lose the ranch, and I'm not about to do that without a fight."

Judge Garth (toying with Trampas): "Trail boss.  Someone who knows the trail well.  Anyone particular in mind?"

Mr. Hale:  "I thought I'd leave that up to you."

Judge Garth:  "It can't be my foreman, he's going to Cheyenne in the morning.  Who else is there?"

Trampas:  "Well, uh, Sir, I, uh, well, I --"

Trampas: "What's this 'I'm your father' business?  What are you trying to do, ruin my social life?"

Toby: "Look, Mr. Trampas, don't tell on me, not yet anyway."

Trampas: "I don't know, Toby, I just can't have you goin' around--"

Toby:  "I just gotta have a father, I just got to.  I told everybody in school I did. They said I was lyin', I swore I wasn't.  If Arnie and the other guys ever found out, they'd laugh me clear out of the school, so, please can't we just go on pretending?" . . Just for a little while, then I'll tell them, I promise."

Betsy Garth: "Trampas, if you were in trouble with the law would you go to a woman lawyer?"

Trampas: "Why not, if she were pretty."

Betsy Garth:  "No, I'm serious."

Trampas:  ". . . I think women would make good lawyers.   They're born devious."

Betsy Garth:  "Women are devious?  Who was it that made a date with two girls for the same dance and then told them he was sick with quinsy and couldn't go?"

Mr. Corwin: "Are you sure this Trampas is reliable?"

Ryker: "Well, yeah, absolutely.   You haven't got a worry there."

Randy:  "He sure is somethin', ain't he."

Belden:  "Yeah, he sure is.  You know, he reminds me of something that Old Abe, that's President Lincoln, was s'posed to have said about one of his generals.  He said it seemed like every time he saw this particular general he was either decorating him or bawling him out."

Randy:  "I wonder which it's gonna be this time."

Carmelita:   "What don't you believe, the 'Carmelita' or the 'Flannigan'? . . . I thought they sounded pretty nice together.  At least it's a name you don't forget easily."

Trampas: "I don't think you need a trick name to be remembered."

Carmelita: "That's better.  Now you're beginning to act human."

Trampas: "I'm bettin' Coulter's foreman thinks he taught me a lesson.   He won't expect me to go back for more."

Kitty Dolan: "Trampas, are you sure it's worth it?  Nothing you can find out there can bring Dad back."

Trampas: "I can't let go now, Kitty.  I'd never get a good night's sleep if I walked away from it.  And I did enough walking today to last me for a life time."

Trampas: "We can't let that old man leave like that. That dime was probably all he and the kid had. . . What do you think, we are short handed at the ranch."

Randy:  . . . "I don't know, Trampas, he's a pretty old man."

Trampas:  "That's his problem, who'd want to hire an old man like that?. . .  Who needs that kind of responsibility?. . .  I'm gonna go hire him!"