Del Gue [to Jeremiah amidst his ongoing fight with the Crows]
I cannot brag on your choice of campsites.
Played by Stefan Gierasch 
Jeremiah Johnson (1972) · 27 quotes
Jeremiah Johnson (1972) · 27 quotes
2nd most-quoted character in Jeremiah Johnson (1972): in 15 of its 27 quotes
Most scenes with: Jeremiah Johnson (12)
I didn't know they was gonna be Flatheads.
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Where you headed?
Del Gue Same place you are, Jeremiah: hell, in the end.
Del Gue I got a fine horse under me! [sneezes] Got one of them feathers in my nose.
Keep sneezing, it'll come out all right. Haven't seen anyone pass by recent, have you?
Del Gue Nobody's gone in front of me. Can't say what's happened behind me, though.
Indians put you here?
Del Gue T'weren't Mormons! A chief, name of Mad Wolf. Nice fella, don't talk a hell of a lot. Say, you wouldn't have an extra hat on you, would you? Shade's getting' scarce in these parts.
What'd you shave your head for?
Del Gue Mad Wolf figures like every other Indian I know, says this scalp ain't fit for no decent man's lodgepole. Ain't the first time I've protected my head in such a way. Name's Del Gue, with an "e".
You will do well, Del. You will do well, if you don't get in too much trouble with all that hair.
Del Gue Ain't this somethin'? I told my pap and mam I was coming to the mountains to trap and be a mountain man. Acted like they was gut-shot. Says, "son, make your life go here. Here's where the peoples is. Them mountains is for animals and savages." I said, "Mother Gue, the Rocky Mountains is the marrow of the world." And by God I was right.
Del Gue I ain't never seen 'em, but my common sense tells me the Andes is foothills, and the Alps is for children to climb! Keep good care of your hair! These here is God's finest scupturings! And there ain't no laws for the brave ones! And there ain't no asylums for the crazy ones! And there ain't no churches, except for this right here! And there ain't no priests excepting the birds. By God, I are a mountain man, and I'll live 'til an arrow or a bullet finds me. And then I'll leave my bones on this great map of the magnificent . . .
Del Gue Which way you headed, Jeremiah?
Canada, maybe. I hear there is land there a man has never seen.
Del Gue Well, keep your nose in the wind, and your eyes along the skyline.
I will do that, Del Gue.
Del Gue [Jeremiah and Del have killed the Indians that stole Del's horse and gear]
Don't you want any of these?
What?
Del Gue Scalps!
Del Gue Well, Mother Gue never raised such a foolish child!
[Pulls his knife and begins scalping the Indians]
Del Gue [Del and Jeremiah have run into a Flathead scouting party]
He wants to know if you are the great warrior who avenges the crazy women that lives in the Wolf Tail Valley. She's big medicine. You are too, if you be that man.
Del Gue Scared of ya.
Del Gue Tweren't Mormons! Chief name of Mad Wolf; nice enough fellow, don't talk a hell of a lot.
Why'd you shave your head?
Del Gue Mad wolf, like most Indians I know, figures this scalp ain't fit for no descent man's lodge pole; It's not the first time I've saved my head in such a manner. Name's Del Gue. With an E.
Del Gue Jeremiah, maybe you best go down to a town, get outta these mountains.
I've been to a town Del.
Del Gue [Jeremiah has just killed a Crow warrior who has been stalking him]
Is it always like this? One at the time?
Yep.
Del Gue Lucky they were Crow. Apache would have sent fifty at once.
[Jeremiah is being forced by the Flathead chief to marry an Indian girl]
Del Gue, I don't think this is a good idea.
Del Gue He may be a Christian and read the bible, but he's still an Indian and his rules is his rules. If you value your hair, you will get married! Now, when this is over you can take her to Fort Hawley and sell her, but you best take her my friend. Besides, maybe she ain't near bad.
[after Jeremiah is introduced to The Swan by Two Tongues Lebeaux] Maybe you need her?
Del Gue You turn this down, and they'll slit you, me, Caleb and the horses from crotch to eyeball with a dull deer antler.
Ain't that hair I see on your head, Del?
Del Gue I figured that when I depart this life I'd like to leave something behind even if just to be remembered on some man's lodge pole.
Sound wisdom.
Del Gue Ain't that Hatchet Jack's rifle?
Yep.
Del Gue How did you get it?
Found him froze to a tree.
Del Gue Damn! Hatchet Jack was a wild one. He was livin' two years up in in a cave on the Musselshell with a female panther. She never did get used to him.
