Buck Jones: 'Red' Davidson

The Red Rider

'Red' Davidson

'Red' Davidson: Have you located Scotty McKee's killer yet?
'Silent' Slade: Not so's I can prove it.
'Red' Davidson: You know his name ends with N and he smokes marijuana
'Silent' Slade: I know the clothes fit Breen all right, but it's another thing to make him wear 'em.

'Red' Davidson: And when we found him, he'd been shot in the back.
Robert Maxwell: You mean murdered?
'Red' Davidson: Never saw a man committing suicide by shooting himself in the back.

Marie Maxwell: You don't like women, do you?
'Red' Davidson: Oh, I guess so. Soapy Caswell used to back in Montana, "Women are like liquor - a little bit's good for ya, too much gives you a headache."
Marie Maxwell: Well, I guess women might say the same thing about men.
'Red' Davidson: Sure, why not. I don't see what women see in men anyway.
Marie Maxwell: I wonder.
'Red' Davidson: You know if a woman was so foolish to fall in love with me, why I'd buy her a sack of nuts, and show 'em a big tree and tell her to enjoy herself.
Marie Maxwell: You know you don't mean that.

Johnny Snow: [toasting] Here's to ya, old timer. May your biggest problems be little ones.
'Red' Davidson: [clinking glasses] Idiot.
[both laugh]

Sheriff Campbell: Did you help Slade elude the posse?
'Red' Davidson: He was my friend.
Sheriff Campbell: But a murderer nevertheless.
'Red' Davidson: No, a victim of circumstantial evidence. They had a new prosecuting attorney up there that was out to make a record. Won his case and I was to be the executioner.
Sheriff Campbell: You?
'Red' Davidson: Yeah, you see I was the sheriff of Sun Dog at the time. That's where Scotty McKee was killed and they convicted Slade - and I turned him loose.
Sheriff Campbell: Well, by gosh. Wasn't that a funny thing for a sheriff to do?
'Red' Davidson: I was a funny sheriff, I guess.

[reading the telegram]
Johnny Snow: "Wiring plenty transportation, but you'll have to use your own authority."
'Red' Davidson: What's that?
Johnny Snow: Wait. "Soapy said you'd do it. Next time you resign as sheriff of Sundog, don't forget to sign your name. - Harp Harris, Acting Sheriff".

[last lines]
'Red' Davidson: Gee, that still makes me sheriff of Sun Dog. I'm awfully sorry, Marie, I didn't know that or I wouldn't have asked you to marry me.
Marie Maxwell: It's too late to back out now. I'll sue you.
Robert Maxwell: I was figuring on giving you half of this ranch as a wedding present and we could run it on a partnership basis
[the Abel Brothers are guzzling liquor out of the punch bowl and Silent steps forward to 'chastise' them]
'Red' Davidson: Hey, hey. After the wedding.

[discussing Breen]
'Red' Davidson: Will you lock him up, Sheriff, till I need him? I gotta telegraph Sundog for authority and transportation.
Sheriff Campbell: If you don't convict him, send him back to me and I will. I'll give you a warrant before you go.
'Red' Davidson: Don't figure on seeing him again. His plea of self-defense won't hold water.
Sheriff Campbell: How's that?
'Red' Davidson: Scotty McKee was shot in the back.

[Red and Marie find Robert Maxwell bound and gagged in a closet]
'Red' Davidson: Bet this is some of Breen's work.
'Red' Davidson: [entering the room with his pistol drawn] Keep your hands in the clear! You win that bet, Redhead, but you lose the diamonds.

'Red' Davidson: [In Chapter: 12, Red says to Silent Slade] Why you left handed monkey wrench!