Chuck Connors credited as playing...
Frank Briggs
- 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!
- 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?