I packed me a squaw for 10 years, pilgrim. Cheyenne, she was. And the meanest bitch that ever balled for beads! I lodgepoled her at Dead Wolf Creek and traded her for a Hawkin gun!

— Bear Claw (Will Geer)

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13 seconds sound clip from the Jeremiah Johnson (1972) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:19:38.369 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

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- I've seen them on a dead run with one foot in the horse's rump and one wrist through a loop in the horse's mane shooting arrows and guns from under the horse's neck.

- But they are an adulterous people. Adulterous.

- Here you are, pilgrim. Sharp enough to scale a fish with.

- Ever get lonesome?

- For what?

- Woman?

- Full-time night woman?

- I never could find no tracks in a woman's heart.

- I packed me a squaw for 10 years, pilgrim. Cheyenne, she was. And the meanest bitch that ever balled for beads! I lodgepoled her at Dead Wolf Creek and traded her for a Hawkin gun!

- Don't get me wrong, I love the women, I surely do!

- But I swear a woman's breast is the hardest rock the Almighty ever made on Earth and I can find no sign on it.

- Now these coals here will simmer until sunrise. You better go do likewise.

- Didn't put enough dirt down. Saw it right off.

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