- Sheila: [to Luke] When you get down to the end of that bottle, you're gonna need something else besides more whiskey.
- Zeb Macahan: Look boy, never quit, never lie and never appologize. Them's three things a man ought to live by.
- Arapaho Chief: This is the house of the White Eagle?
- Kate Macahan: I am the woman of his brother.
- Arapaho Chief: Macahan is a man who gave us back the lives of our children.
- Zeb Macahan: Luke, you know, if we could see down the road in the beginning, what was waiting for us, I reckon a lot of us wouldn't go on. Just the same, we owe a debt, boy. All of us. Just for the gift of livin'. For the shinin' times we got to taste on the way.
- Kate Macahan: Forgive me for saying some of those things I said to you.
- Zeb Macahan: Ha. Forget it! Some of 'em was true.
- Luke Macahan: It's hard to believe. We started off for Oregon four years ago and we're still only half way there.
- Zeb Macahan: Yeah, cheer up, Luke. It ain't goin' anywhere, it's waiting for us.
- [last lines]
- Narrator: 1865 - two years from the time when mighty herds of cattle would move up the dusty trails from Texas. Four years from the time when railroads would tie two great oceans together. A time of turmoil, of the gunfighter and hell for leather cowboys. And a time when the blood of indian and white man stained a hundred battlefields. But it was also a time of opportunity for those who, like the Macahans, had the courage to look to west in search of a new beginning.