- Kate Brady: You really do care. You like helping people, don't you?
- James 'Grizzly' Adams: Well, when you come to think about it, all that a person has is other folks. And I reckon there's a lot of folks in these parts that could use a helping hand.
- Peg Adams: [at the rope bridge over the rapids] Pa, get away from him!
- Frank Briggs: [mockingly] Yeah papa, get back, Papa!
- [beat]
- Frank Briggs: Go ahead, Adams! Run again!
- James 'Grizzly' Adams: Not this time, Briggs! A man like you has got to be stopped!
- Bert Woolman: Hey Adams! Not bad for a greenhorn!
- James 'Grizzly' Adams: [happily] Bert! Bert, here all this time I thought you were just about dead.
- Bert Woolman: Any more of that widows' homebrew medicine, I just might have been!
- Sheriff Hawkins: [at the rope bridge over the rapids following the fight between Adams and Briggs, calling out to Adams on the other side] Adams! Adams, it's all right! I seen everything, Adams! It's all right!
- Bert Woolman: [wakes up in bed for the first time after being rescued] Adams.
- James 'Grizzly' Adams: Take it easy now, Bert.
- Bert Woolman: I was coming to see you. It's about your sister.
- James 'Grizzly' Adams: What's wrong with her?
- Bert Woolman: She come down with the lung fever.
- James 'Grizzly' Adams: Cora?
- Bert Woolman: James, she's dead. It happened last week... she went real quick.
- James 'Grizzly' Adams: Where's Peg?
- Bert Woolman: Well now, she's up to the sheriff's house. He's lookin' after her, till the stage gets here, then he's shipping her off to the orphan farm.
- James 'Grizzly' Adams: I've got to go get her.
- Bert Woolman: Now don't you go after that girl, or the sheriff'll get you for sure.
- James 'Grizzly' Adams: I gotta take that chance, Bert.
- Frank Briggs: [at the rope bridge over the rapids] Don't you ever get tired of running, Adams?
- James 'Grizzly' Adams: Don't you get tired of killing, Briggs?
- [Briggs laughs manically]
- James 'Grizzly' Adams: I know you were the one who killed Ferguson! I didn't know it for sure until the trial. There's just too much pure hate inside of you!
- Frank Briggs: [laughing] Pure hate! Yeah!
- James 'Grizzly' Adams: You broke up my family! You took everything away from me that meant anything! Why would you do that?
- Frank Briggs: Why? 'Cause you were there! You were handy!
- Frank Briggs: [riding up to Sheriff Hawkins after the tornado] That twister hit hard! Tore up half my ranch. My stock's spread out over half the territory.
- Sheriff Hawkins: Well that is sure too bad, Frank. But we've got troubles of our own.
- Frank Briggs: What happened to Adams?
- Sheriff Hawkins: He's gone. Along with the jail.
- Frank Briggs: Killed him, huh?
- Sheriff Hawkins: No, he just got away.
- Frank Briggs: [face tightening] You let him get away?
- Sheriff Hawkins: Now look, Frank. I've had plenty other things on my mind!
- Tom Quigley: Where's my boy? Where's Daniel? Anybody seen him?
- Daniel Quigley: Pa! Pa!
- Tom Quigley: [turns to see him, they embrace] You all right? You all right, boy?
- Daniel Quigley: [nods, smiling] Mr. Adams saved me from the caving in cellar! He lifted the beam off my leg!
- Sheriff Hawkins: That's true, Tom. Dan wouldn't be here if it weren't for Adams... a lot of the others, too.
- Frank Briggs: Never mind that. Me and my men is still a sworn posse. We'll get Adams. He can't have got far.
- [beat]
- Frank Briggs: Come on, Tom.
- Tom Quigley: I ain't goin', Mr. Briggs.
- [Briggs stares at him scornfully and rides off]
- Frank Briggs: [at Cora's gravesite after her burial] You know this'll bring him down out of those mountains.
- Sheriff Hawkins: Maybe so, Frank. But if Adams does show up, I'll catch him. And I'll see him tried for that murder that's been set against him.
- [walks off in a huff, Briggs turns to his men]
- Frank Briggs: He killed my partner. I want him to pay... trial or no trial. You all understand that?