Ben Brigade: [after meeting with the Mescalero chief] He's got a horse. Wants to make a trade.
Mrs. Carrie Lane: For what?
Ben Brigade: You. He said they'd been seeing you here. He wants to take you for his squaw.
Sam Boone: So what do we do now?
Ben Brigade: Play along with him.
Mrs. Carrie Lane: Play along with him?
Ben Brigade: If we don't, we're apt to stir up every buck in the country. Come on. Just do like I tell you.
Sam Boone: Brigade. Can't abide to see a woman's hair hangin' from a Mescalero war lance. I sure hope you know what you're doing.


--Pernell Roberts (as ) in Ride Lonesome

Sam Boone: [after the Mescalero chief is killed] Sure beats all, don't it? What a man will put himself through to get his hands on a woman. Can't say as I blame him, though.


--Pernell Roberts (as ) in Ride Lonesome

Sam Boone: [Sees smoke signals] Look at it out there. War signs.
Whit: Well, we got a treaty with the Mescaleros, ain't we?
Sam Boone: Just words on paper, Whit.
Whit: Yeah, we been getting along.
Sam Boone: I knew a man once. Got along with his wife. One day she up'n head-shot him.
Whit: Dead? But why?
Sam Boone: Got mad. Mescalero, they're mad.
Whit: But we ain't done nothing to 'em.
Sam Boone: We're white. That's good enough.


--Pernell Roberts (as ) in Ride Lonesome

Sam Boone: Funny, ain't it? How a thing can seem one way, and then turn out altogether something else?
Ben Brigade: Boone, you said you wanted to start over. I hope so. 'Cause you don't, I'll be the one comes looking to find you.
Sam Boone: I'll remember that.


--Pernell Roberts (as ) in Ride Lonesome

Sam Boone: There are some things a man just can't ride around.


--Pernell Roberts (as ) in Ride Lonesome