The Plainsman (1936)

Helen Burgess: Louisa Cody

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• Louisa Cody : Will, does he kill like that?

  Buffalo Bill Cody : Ain't a corpse-maker like him, honey!

• Wild Bill Hickok : That river clipper is saying good-bye to you, ma'am. Now you're going to have three long days of this prairie clipper.

  Louisa Cody : But tomorrow is Sunday. Do we have to ride on Sunday?

  Wild Bill Hickok : Well, there's no Sunday west of Junction City, no law west of Hayes City and no God west of Carson City.

• Louisa Cody : It's a big place we're going to, the West, isn't it?

• Louisa Cody : It's so dusty and I haven't got my curtains done yet.

  Calamity Jane : Well, We'll help ya. Here, hey you long-legged two-spot, give your wife a hand. And here's the bodkin.

  Louisa Cody : Put it in that window over there Will.

• Louisa Cody : Mr. Hickok, Will promised me. You don't understand. I - I can't let him go.

  Wild Bill Hickok : There are things that have to be done ma'am. You know, Lincoln set a goal we have to work toward. He said the frontier must be made safe.

  Louisa Cody : Well, but, Lincoln's dead. What right of the dead to tell the living what to do.

  Wild Bill Hickok : His words are alive. Bill Cody knows that as well as I do.

• Calamity Jane : That old coyote's got a toad in his gullet.

  Louisa Cody : It couldn't be an Indian, could it?

  Calamity Jane : Honey, when you hear somethin' yellin' at night around here, it's just some varmint. But, when you don't hear nothin', it's an Injun.

• Wild Bill Hickok : I never was a murderer. I never did fight unless put upon.

  Louisa Cody : Thou shalt not kill.

  Wild Bill Hickok : No ghost ever come bothering me. There was always the other man or me. In a fair fight!

  Louisa Cody : Well, what right have you to judge who is to live or who is to die? Put away your guns Mr. Hickok.

• Buffalo Bill Cody : What's up?

  Seventh Cavalryman : Custer's been ordered to move against Sitting Bull and the Sioux up in the Big Horn country.

  Louisa Cody : Well, what does General Custer want Will for?

  Seventh Cavalryman : Well, you know ma'am, the General doesn't let me in on all his secrets. Come on, get a move on.

  Buffalo Bill Cody : Go ahead. I'll be right behind you.