Rawhide (TV Series)

Incident at Barker Springs (1959)

Eric Fleming: Gil Favor

Quotes 

• Gil Favor : I got a cousin, woman, teaches in a school house back East. She tells me those boys daydream about becomin' cowboys. Of all the jobs a man could pick, why'd he ever want to choose this way to make a livin'? Three thousand head of God's lowest form of life, cattle. If they don't die of rick fever, strangle in a dust storm or trample their fool selves to death, then the market'll go gown to two cents a pound on the hoof. They might as well have died before we set out. But they need food back East. It's my job to get this herd movin'. My name's Gil Favor, trail boss.

• Rowdy Yates : What happens if you wake up some morning and find him gone. And half the herd with him.

  Gil Favor : I doubt it. Not the way he handles cattle. He hasn't done anything except cover his face. No law against that.

• Marshal Tobin : We got no room for trouble here.

  Gil Favor : Mister, a good way not to start it, is not to mention it.

• Gil Favor : No, you only get one time around. Brazo, you had no way of knowing how it was going to work out. Anybody can tell who won the last hands, the cards are right there on the table. But at the time you gotta play 'em blind. Just by guess.

• Gil Favor : Rowdy, easy on him. He's younger and more inexperienced than you. If that's possible.

  Rowdy Yates : Yessir.

• Lance Ford : He come up on this drive lookin' for me.

  Brazo Ford : You talk too much.

  Gil Favor : You don't talk enough, Brazo.

  Brazo Ford : Easy now, Mr Favor.

  Gil Favor : Maybe Brazo is short to Bronson. That right?

  Brazo Ford : Maybe.

  Gil Favor : Hired gunfighter in the Fence Wars in East Texas. Pretty well known a few years back. Worked for both sides at different times. Real successful. What's a gunfighter doing interested in this boy?

• Rowdy Yates : You think we ought to catch up to him?

  Gil Favor : He wouldn't stand for that.