Joel McCrea credited as playing...
William Frederick 'Buffalo Bill' Cody
- William F. 'Buffalo Bill' Cody: What killed my son?
- Doctor: Diptheria.
- William F. 'Buffalo Bill' Cody: What's that?
- Doctor: A germ.
- William F. 'Buffalo Bill' Cody: Where does it come from?
- Doctor: Water systems... and sewage. It's a crowd disease. A disease of civilization.
- William F. 'Buffalo Bill' Cody: Mr. President. Ladies and Gentlemen. I was afraid I was going to make a fool of myself in front of you tonight. But that would have been all right, because a man can make a fool of himself when he's off his own stamping grounds. But when a man makes a fool of himself on his own stamping grounds, there's no excuse for him. I don't hold with General Sherman that a good Indian is a dead Indian. From what I've seen, the Indian is a free-born American who'll fight for his folks, for his land and for his living... just like any other American.
- Yellow Hand: Now there is no debt and no friendship between us. If we meet in battle, as a brave of the Cheyenne, I will take the scalp of Pahashka and hang it on his lodge pole.
- William F. 'Buffalo Bill' Cody: It may be easier to hang it than to take it, Yellow Hand.
- Louisa Frederici Cody: Your fond of me powderface aren't you?
- William F. 'Buffalo Bill' Cody: Any Horse would be ma'am, you lite to carry and you sit quiet
- Louisa Frederici Cody: That what you said the first time we met, you repeating yourself Bill
- William F. 'Buffalo Bill' Cody: Powderface is a horse of sound judgment ma'am and his sentiments are alright with me anybody he fond of, I'm fond of
- Ned Buntline: You know the Indian, Cody, don't you?
- William F. 'Buffalo Bill' Cody: Nobody knows the Indian. I've had to fight them since I was fourteen. Pony Express, stage driver, scouting. Indians never do what you'd expect.
- William F. 'Buffalo Bill' Cody: When you do an Indian a favor, he never forgets it. But if you do him bad, he never forgets that either.
- Louisa Frederici Cody: What is she doing here all alone?
- William F. 'Buffalo Bill' Cody: She's just old. When Indians get too old to travel, why they're left behind with a little food and fuel.
- Louisa Frederici Cody: To die?
- William F. 'Buffalo Bill' Cody: Yeah.
- Louisa Frederici Cody: That's terrible! Can't we do something for her?
- William F. 'Buffalo Bill' Cody: It's the way of the people. There's nothing we can do.
- Louisa Frederici Cody: Here am I, going to bring a new life into the world, and leaving an old woman to die.
- William F. 'Buffalo Bill' Cody: That's nature's way, Louisa. When anything becomes too old to be useful, it's just pushed aside.
- Louisa Frederici Cody: But it shouldn't be! That's why we have civilization!
- Sgt. Chips: I've been waiting for you. Somebody has written you a letter.
- William F. 'Buffalo Bill' Cody: Who, me?
- Sgt. Chips: That's right, my boy. Who in the world would be writing to you?
- William F. 'Buffalo Bill' Cody: I don't know, but if you give me the letter, I'll find out.
- Sgt. Chips: You'll get yours in your proper turn. The mail is delivered according to rank. And there's plenty ranker than you!