July 20, 2025 • 25 mins
Set in a frontier town, this series follows a U.S. Marshal as he maintains law and order. The show combines action with moral dilemmas of the Old West.
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Speaker 1 (00:12):
Around Dodge City and in the territory on West. There
is just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers.
And that's where the US Marshal and the smell of
guns smoke.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Gone.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Will Spoke, starring William Conrad, the story of the violence
that moved west with young America and the story of
a man who moved with it.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
I'm that man, Matt Dillon, United States Marshall, the first
man they look for and the less they want to meet.
It's a chancy job and it makes a man watchful
and a little lonely.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
You're moved, Doc, Yes, damn, yes, I see it. Only
I don't like my choices. I mean, you got me
kind of corn it giddy.
Speaker 5 (01:26):
Oh now that smart man like you ought to be
able to think his way up.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Well, let we've see. No, No, there's nothing I can
do except this and pray. Your eyesight's going back on you.
Speaker 6 (01:40):
Not today.
Speaker 5 (01:40):
It hasn't done yet. Yeah, fair, you can't battle any
eye glassy's here today.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
How many games do you want? Now? Five straight?
Speaker 5 (01:51):
And remember we were planning two thousand dollars a game
in trade.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
That was some best.
Speaker 5 (01:56):
I'd have to die to collect it and.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
The same thing if I had a one five thousand
dollars worth of your whiskey, whype out every doctor to
the west you were. You don't want to play another game,
by any.
Speaker 5 (02:07):
Chance, Not by any chance?
Speaker 4 (02:08):
Ah, thank heaven?
Speaker 5 (02:10):
Why did you go and make a few calls back?
Speaker 4 (02:13):
Love to the trouble as no one needs me. The
town and the county are just busting with good help. Yeah,
and look at the saloon.
Speaker 5 (02:21):
One paying customer at the bar and he's drinking beer.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
Well, I've shit at Matt and Chester to pick themselves
a good time to be out of town.
Speaker 5 (02:28):
Yeah, they got a pretty soft all right. Of course
they get shot at now and then at least they
got out of dodge once.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
Nowhw let me see where he's in a poe blow
this time.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
Was near there anyway. Didn't say how long they'd be gone.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
No, And I bet I know why uh why? It's
some of the best fishing in the world not far
from poe Blow. Wouldn't surprise me the least bit if
they set her back next to a stream that's just
jumping with a mountain trouts. How's your leg feel well?
Speaker 2 (03:11):
You hit bad?
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Miss doing I never heard of being hit good Chester,
the pant leg's buddy and some Yeah, I know what
got aim of them Indians?
Speaker 4 (03:19):
Anyway, we was just riding through.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
If it hadn't been us that had gone after a
rabbit or a coyote, maybe of these rocks they were
shooting for the noise of it.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
I guess they had to be used, didn't.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
They renegade us? Most likely?
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Well they got tired of us, or they think they
killed us one or the other. Can you bear weight
on that legue?
Speaker 2 (03:41):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
I let's try. Let me slip my arm behind you here. Yeah,
cool yourself up?
Speaker 2 (03:49):
All right?
Speaker 4 (03:49):
Old? None means? Can you make hit?
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Yeah? I make it to my horse. I think.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
You better rest some pore, I try to mind.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
No, let's get it over with, shster.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
You'll have to swing your hurt leg over.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Or you'll have to guide it.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
If I kick your teeth out in the process, you'll
take it as nothing personal.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Huh, Yes, alright, here we go.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
You all right is doing?
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (04:38):
I could strap you in your saddle.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Oh, there's no need. Huh, let's go.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
You're awful peaked looking at you're doing? Played up? Ain't you?
Speaker 2 (05:01):
There's water? I had to the left and those trees.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
There, well, you can't go on and get water.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
A little house water the horses, so.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
Ain't miss daylight. Left at night, we'd find a settler
and get you bedded down for the night.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Uh, it's your country, Chester. They've rotted out most of
the cellars and through those trees now, and there's good
grasp for the stream.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Don't don't you move yet, miss Dening.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
I'll help you alright. How you starting to steady me?
My leg won't bear anyway?
Speaker 4 (05:44):
Yeah, sir, there you know now, get hold for you
give me right now? You just you just bet you
out there? How's that miss doing?
Speaker 2 (06:00):
It's fine, Chester, It's just fine.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
I'll get you some water and declare you look a fright?
Speaker 2 (06:07):
H I just need to catch my breath, rest a
little bit. You sure do?
Speaker 4 (06:13):
Wish I could make you comfortable in a bed with
some warm food.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
I know, I know. Here's one of the horses. Huh,
that's sure. Oh shaster shasta.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
Oh you wait with you, John?
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Yeah? Yeah, I shouldn't have gone to sleep, I guess.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
I mean you didn't have no choice. Once you swallowed
that cool water, you were just plumb.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
What is that? What is that? Horses.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
Oh no, miss Deyning, I hobbled them for I set out.
They ain't making the suns.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Wait a minute, it's horses, all right, they're coming this way,
all right.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
Sure I don't hear a thing. You you're you're you're
fire with fever, Miss Delling. You you just might be imagining.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Oh you cap listening.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
You'll hear 'em, yes, sir, but I was gonna say
it was while you was resting. Nice set out and
took a look around. There's a cabin not more than
a couple hundred yards wish.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Coming from the north.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
Good by Jing. I think you're right, Miss Den. Look
look through the trees there, Indians could be them, same
reunning gage. Yeah, maybe we sure better make for that cabin.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
No, we're better off here.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Trees will hide us. Let's they already know we're here.
Just life Lochester. They start through the trees, fire, you.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
Able to handle a gun.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
I'm ready for 'em.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
They're making right for as sure as see.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Yeah, they're right.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
At the trees. Take it easy, and I sure ain't
keen on them seeing us first.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
And they're riding right along the tree line, going on
the south.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
I can't make him out anymore. You see him. They're
on past the thicket, but I can't see him. I
swear that was close. Yeah, it's still close. Sounds like
I stopped. I counted six of 'em.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Yeah, six. That cabin, where is it?
Speaker 4 (08:59):
I braid that's where they Alright, it's that direction, no
more than a couple hundred yards away. Uh, that's some better.
That's a welcome son, fair fact.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
You're talking about a deserted cabin. Chester.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
Well, I didn't see no signs of life, likeul'd been
that way for years.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
And look of it. Oh, you gonna have to drag me, Chester,
I can't mount again.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
I'll get you there, miss done. Don't you fret yourself.
I eat going about ten steps. You can make it,
(09:46):
miss done. I don't know, Chester, Come on, man, you
just lean heavy on me. You make out my eye.
Speaker 6 (09:54):
You can now crowds, what wof.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
Ma'am? You can just put that shot gun away right now.
Speaker 6 (10:00):
I jared you about to shoote What air's him?
Speaker 4 (10:05):
He's shocking and we ma'am, I gotta put him down inside.
I never lay that on you before. No, man, we're
clean shirt. You are right, mister doing, mister doing. He
did no, ma'am, not yet. Would you just try to
(10:26):
help set that shop gun aside and help about how
you are food? We got precious a little I'll tell
you that rankets chairs.
Speaker 6 (10:36):
You got anything?
Speaker 4 (10:37):
What I got is a mighty sick friend here, ma'am.
And I'm lifting him up right now and taking him
in that hot much money you've got, I don't know
a little hand it over once we're inside, I tell you, boy.
Speaker 6 (10:50):
I'd soon shoot the both of your jar with you.
I want your money in your gun for.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
There now.
Speaker 6 (11:03):
Then there's money too.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
Oh my, I'm gonna here. I'm bringing him inside now
now alright, but for this a little bit of money.
He ain't gonna be there long. Oh yeah, you're another
(11:40):
week one, are you?
Speaker 5 (11:42):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (11:42):
I'm carrying my weight in the lord about.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
The stove and quit wimprin soft bellysed a lot of you.
How is he as kim? He only making out he's sleeping.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Miss Dylan, How you can fuller Chester, don't try?
Speaker 4 (12:02):
You sure didn't give me a fright. I wasn't sure
you was gonna make it.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
I'm alright. She get the bullet out, yeah, and half
of my leg I.
Speaker 6 (12:10):
Think, yeah, I've seen new cubs been tougher. Hide.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
You told me you knew what you was about.
Speaker 6 (12:16):
You mind your tongue.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
I'm no mind to hear you better cause to go
at her Chester she did alright.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
Oh she took everything to have mister Dylan, our guns, bullets, money.
Speaker 6 (12:25):
I've never seen her best cried here.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
I buried four husbands, twenty children, couple of strangers.
Speaker 6 (12:31):
Don't FaZe me.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
You better got some sleep Chester, She says, you watched
over me all night.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
Now if you need me, Miss Dylan, Oh I'm fine.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
You go on. Now you go to sleep. Eh. Yt
see four husbands, man.
Speaker 6 (12:51):
Four outlived them. They was men, regular men.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
I can believe that we didn't try for with Marshalls
army folk, no days. Mr Sitton and he lived as
peaceable as could be with Indian folk. We come here
peaceable me, Mir Sitton? When was that the thirties?
Speaker 2 (13:13):
The things were different then.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
No difference than with Mr griverth mister Albright, even later
on with Mr Nedson. There was lessons to learn in
the west. Nym days.
Speaker 6 (13:31):
Eat the porridge?
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Uh don't you oblige?
Speaker 6 (13:35):
Ma'am netty?
Speaker 2 (13:37):
How's that?
Speaker 6 (13:38):
Neddi? I say Neddie sitting.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
I'd go buy that. I can't buy it being called ma'am.
Speaker 6 (13:45):
Oh, I lean toward Neddie.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
Uh, Nettie, Neddie. You live alone in the middle of
you country? How do you manage?
Speaker 4 (13:54):
Mum? I come by your gun. Such a little money
you had, and sometimes it's food, sometimes it robes.
Speaker 6 (14:03):
I take what I can get.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
It don't matter to me if it's settlers or Scots
or US marshals or youts. Oh, don't find Netty that'sen
their lost.
Speaker 6 (14:16):
To half dead. Open your eyes to see what they
park with.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
You always greet 'em with a shotgun. Need be before
we came here yesterday a band that you'd braves stuff here.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
I got good errors, strong bowls, rifles, even a couple
of buffalo guns off a mountain man broke his leg down.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Kenyon, they got a camp near the ute.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
You got something more to give me?
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Chester says you clean as Archer.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
Then you're getting full measure.
Speaker 6 (15:06):
He out here now, And I ain't had a pretty
first spell that of fact.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
I bot that ring myself in Saint Louis man. It's
not Saint sleeping here fit just fine once I wrap
some twining around it.
Speaker 6 (15:21):
By these fingers thin with age.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
I declare, next thing, I know you will be picking my.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Bones, shine your tongue, ring back.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
Nodding, not like c No Don will say you can't
hit an old woman when she's so mean and contrary
for one thing or shotgun.
Speaker 6 (15:37):
I just as soon use it as have a ruckus
with you.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
You take his ring, you give us something, Maddy, Oh.
Speaker 6 (15:45):
I do it, my pretty. I clean forgot the bit fear.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
And they give you our guns for the ring medding.
That's fair.
Speaker 4 (15:53):
I come by your horses down by the quickst morning.
They're grazing on my grass. It's swilling my water.
Speaker 6 (16:00):
The prettiest to.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
Pay for that, I better go see them horse.
Speaker 6 (16:05):
You'll stay where the sick and I'll see to the horses.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
You say, and he can't leave the cabin not alive, he.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
Can't, Well, you dog, I do that now. I've got
tending to do outside. No need peering around for your
guns whilst Ii'm gone. You won't find them, mister Don.
We have got to get out of here now.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
We need the horses to do it. Come in, no,
steady me, you ain't it stands yet, you just stand steady.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
I will have to crawl once we're outside anyway, I
can manage to the door.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
Like it's not He just crouched out there waiting person, and.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
That's worth a chance. We might not get another one.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
All right, Get on your belly, move small through the
brush toward the stream.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Can you see her?
Speaker 4 (17:10):
Don't?
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Can't a stream? How far is it?
Speaker 4 (17:14):
A good hundred yards? Maybe more?
Speaker 2 (17:17):
I don't see the horses, and I don't either, Uh
flatten Chester, that's it.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
She's talking to them Indian.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
You're gonna have to go back Chester to the cabin
with our guns or horses. Were no gut out here?
Speaker 4 (17:36):
Come on, what do you reckon? She's none of her
guns on her.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
She might not eat 'em.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
Yeah, I'm steady after the walk. I give a lot
for some of her strength right now, you reckon? I
can find them guns loan and I.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Got yourself killed. Daughter. That's no good chests there. We're
gonna have to wait.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
You just as bad as foolishes can be. Inch you
curling around in the brush out there?
Speaker 6 (18:17):
What side do you fresh air? You got no guns,
no food? These utes are around you don't think too
good to get hides?
Speaker 4 (18:25):
Do you?
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Where are the horses now?
Speaker 6 (18:27):
They your cutters coming back?
Speaker 4 (18:30):
Now you heard him? What about them horses?
Speaker 6 (18:33):
They bring good press in these parts. I could get
me a passer of things, trading horses.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
You're real friendly with a yout They treating.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
Me good course, they know, mister sitting in me, come
peaceable to their country, not to run them off what
right LEAs their land. You ever seen them that they're
killing women babies?
Speaker 2 (18:54):
No matter to them.
Speaker 6 (18:55):
E rescue yourself. Who started it?
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Are?
Speaker 6 (18:58):
But I've seen it happen, the whites and their gun
moving in. It wasn't pretty work. They did women and
children too.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
That's a fact they let you live here. It's gotta
be a reason.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
He come here like you, for the shot ailing white
man's doing. Mister sitting in me, We took him in,
tended him. He was a young chief then. But white
Bear never forgot not in all these years.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
White bear's the oldest chief among the ute.
Speaker 6 (19:32):
Now he don't forget.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
Neddy's sitting he's near the relations I got.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Here from another age. Nettie, you and a white bear.
Speaker 4 (19:42):
Mm, maybe you got someone a wife, no no wife,
no mother's then.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
H I got her memory and a pair of ear
rings she always wore that's all now done.
Speaker 6 (20:00):
You I didn't come on 'em.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
They're back in Dodge City.
Speaker 4 (20:04):
Oh that's your pity, that's your pity.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
You think you can get the guns without waking her.
Speaker 4 (20:20):
And I can't make a good no light, but I
can find an old woman in the dark.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Not long ago. The sun up is maybe her last chance.
Take it easy.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
Now, that's just close enough if I don't mind shooting
one bit stealing up.
Speaker 6 (20:43):
On an old woman. What kind of men are?
Speaker 4 (20:45):
You're a dog on witch, that's what you are seeing
in the darks there.
Speaker 6 (20:49):
And you ain't no kind of woman at all. Maybe
not now, boy, but I was once more a woman
than you could have made.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Right, Shut up, both of you. Somebody's coming.
Speaker 6 (21:00):
They come earlier than I said.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
It's the same Indians, mister Johnt.
Speaker 6 (21:05):
Yeah, maybe you stand still, a pair of you.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
I was done. That's where I had my rifle, and
I blow us up for I'd let them take.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
His sat Maybe i'd help your chester.
Speaker 4 (21:20):
She's out there right now trading for us.
Speaker 5 (21:22):
You know that.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
I don't get ready. Somebody's coming.
Speaker 6 (21:31):
Oh now, that.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
Cut her beef for the last me a good long time.
There was a gift from my friend right there for us. Oh, now,
then you were the shit more than that. It's doing
there right now?
Speaker 3 (21:54):
Alright, you're sparing us now they why sparing? Yeah, you
didn't tell 'em about us.
Speaker 4 (22:02):
We didn't ask how come you're acting humans or something like?
Speaker 6 (22:05):
After?
Speaker 4 (22:06):
You're scaring us today.
Speaker 6 (22:07):
I ain't gonna miss this boy, that's the truth of it.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
It's one ball in big mouth.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
We'll be glad to get out of your way and
trade for guns, our horses and the cut of your
new beef.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
I've been thinking about them here, Bobs.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
And I've been thinking about our guns.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
Under my bed, these two horses Saturday. Look the spring
now them here, Bobs.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
Earn a strong box in Todge City. You mean to
ride back with us?
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Uh?
Speaker 6 (22:34):
I wouldn't be seen in the daylight with you.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Yeah, well I might get back this way some day.
If I do, I'll bring 'em to.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
You for these old years. Uh yeah, now here, boy,
take your ring w P. It it ain't for me,
not anymore. I'll take you. I declare. I don't understand
you at all. You you just beat the DUTs, that's.
Speaker 5 (23:05):
What you do.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
If you as regular man, you'd find yourself a woman,
PETI is, don't put on on a man's hand. There
ain't no strong box us women folks gives us that
right feeling. Having it pretty.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Done. Smoke but Houston, directed in Hollywood by Norman McDonald's fars.
William Conrad asked Matt Viillon Us Marshall the story especially
written for Dunsmoked by Kathleen Hide without a rial supervision
by John Mesting. Featured in the cast was Virginia, Greg
Parley Bear is Chester, Howard mcneer is doctor, and Georgia
(24:09):
Ellis is kidding. And now here's a special word from
our star.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
This is William Conrad.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
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That means we're getting the truth through the jamming and
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Speaker 2 (24:46):
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Speaker 1 (24:57):
This is George wolsh In body you to Johnis again.
Next week, CBS Radio presents another story on gunsmoke.
Around Dodge City and in the territory on West. There
is just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers.
And that's where the US Marshal and the smell of
guns smoke.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Gone.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Will Spoke, starring William Conrad, the story of the violence
that moved west with young America and the story of
a man who moved with it.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
I'm that man, Matt Dillon, United States Marshall, the first
man they look for and the less they want to meet.
It's a chancy job and it makes a man watchful
and a little lonely.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
You're moved, Doc, Yes, damn, yes, I see it. Only
I don't like my choices. I mean, you got me
kind of corn it giddy.
Speaker 5 (01:26):
Oh now that smart man like you ought to be
able to think his way up.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Well, let we've see. No, No, there's nothing I can
do except this and pray. Your eyesight's going back on you.
Speaker 6 (01:40):
Not today.
Speaker 5 (01:40):
It hasn't done yet. Yeah, fair, you can't battle any
eye glassy's here today.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
How many games do you want? Now? Five straight?
Speaker 5 (01:51):
And remember we were planning two thousand dollars a game
in trade.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
That was some best.
Speaker 5 (01:56):
I'd have to die to collect it and.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
The same thing if I had a one five thousand
dollars worth of your whiskey, whype out every doctor to
the west you were. You don't want to play another game,
by any.
Speaker 5 (02:07):
Chance, Not by any chance?
Speaker 4 (02:08):
Ah, thank heaven?
Speaker 5 (02:10):
Why did you go and make a few calls back?
Speaker 4 (02:13):
Love to the trouble as no one needs me. The
town and the county are just busting with good help. Yeah,
and look at the saloon.
Speaker 5 (02:21):
One paying customer at the bar and he's drinking beer.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
Well, I've shit at Matt and Chester to pick themselves
a good time to be out of town.
Speaker 5 (02:28):
Yeah, they got a pretty soft all right. Of course
they get shot at now and then at least they
got out of dodge once.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
Nowhw let me see where he's in a poe blow
this time.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
Was near there anyway. Didn't say how long they'd be gone.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
No, And I bet I know why uh why? It's
some of the best fishing in the world not far
from poe Blow. Wouldn't surprise me the least bit if
they set her back next to a stream that's just
jumping with a mountain trouts. How's your leg feel well?
Speaker 2 (03:11):
You hit bad?
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Miss doing I never heard of being hit good Chester,
the pant leg's buddy and some Yeah, I know what
got aim of them Indians?
Speaker 4 (03:19):
Anyway, we was just riding through.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
If it hadn't been us that had gone after a
rabbit or a coyote, maybe of these rocks they were
shooting for the noise of it.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
I guess they had to be used, didn't.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
They renegade us? Most likely?
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Well they got tired of us, or they think they
killed us one or the other. Can you bear weight
on that legue?
Speaker 2 (03:41):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
I let's try. Let me slip my arm behind you here. Yeah,
cool yourself up?
Speaker 2 (03:49):
All right?
Speaker 4 (03:49):
Old? None means? Can you make hit?
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Yeah? I make it to my horse. I think.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
You better rest some pore, I try to mind.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
No, let's get it over with, shster.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
You'll have to swing your hurt leg over.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Or you'll have to guide it.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
If I kick your teeth out in the process, you'll
take it as nothing personal.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Huh, Yes, alright, here we go.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
You all right is doing?
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (04:38):
I could strap you in your saddle.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Oh, there's no need. Huh, let's go.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
You're awful peaked looking at you're doing? Played up? Ain't you?
Speaker 2 (05:01):
There's water? I had to the left and those trees.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
There, well, you can't go on and get water.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
A little house water the horses, so.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
Ain't miss daylight. Left at night, we'd find a settler
and get you bedded down for the night.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Uh, it's your country, Chester. They've rotted out most of
the cellars and through those trees now, and there's good
grasp for the stream.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Don't don't you move yet, miss Dening.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
I'll help you alright. How you starting to steady me?
My leg won't bear anyway?
Speaker 4 (05:44):
Yeah, sir, there you know now, get hold for you
give me right now? You just you just bet you
out there? How's that miss doing?
Speaker 2 (06:00):
It's fine, Chester, It's just fine.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
I'll get you some water and declare you look a fright?
Speaker 2 (06:07):
H I just need to catch my breath, rest a
little bit. You sure do?
Speaker 4 (06:13):
Wish I could make you comfortable in a bed with
some warm food.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
I know, I know. Here's one of the horses. Huh,
that's sure. Oh shaster shasta.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
Oh you wait with you, John?
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Yeah? Yeah, I shouldn't have gone to sleep, I guess.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
I mean you didn't have no choice. Once you swallowed
that cool water, you were just plumb.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
What is that? What is that? Horses.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
Oh no, miss Deyning, I hobbled them for I set out.
They ain't making the suns.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Wait a minute, it's horses, all right, they're coming this way,
all right.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
Sure I don't hear a thing. You you're you're you're
fire with fever, Miss Delling. You you just might be imagining.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Oh you cap listening.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
You'll hear 'em, yes, sir, but I was gonna say
it was while you was resting. Nice set out and
took a look around. There's a cabin not more than
a couple hundred yards wish.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Coming from the north.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
Good by Jing. I think you're right, Miss Den. Look
look through the trees there, Indians could be them, same
reunning gage. Yeah, maybe we sure better make for that cabin.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
No, we're better off here.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Trees will hide us. Let's they already know we're here.
Just life Lochester. They start through the trees, fire, you.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
Able to handle a gun.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
I'm ready for 'em.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
They're making right for as sure as see.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Yeah, they're right.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
At the trees. Take it easy, and I sure ain't
keen on them seeing us first.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
And they're riding right along the tree line, going on
the south.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
I can't make him out anymore. You see him. They're
on past the thicket, but I can't see him. I
swear that was close. Yeah, it's still close. Sounds like
I stopped. I counted six of 'em.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Yeah, six. That cabin, where is it?
Speaker 4 (08:59):
I braid that's where they Alright, it's that direction, no
more than a couple hundred yards away. Uh, that's some better.
That's a welcome son, fair fact.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
You're talking about a deserted cabin. Chester.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
Well, I didn't see no signs of life, likeul'd been
that way for years.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
And look of it. Oh, you gonna have to drag me, Chester,
I can't mount again.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
I'll get you there, miss done. Don't you fret yourself.
I eat going about ten steps. You can make it,
(09:46):
miss done. I don't know, Chester, Come on, man, you
just lean heavy on me. You make out my eye.
Speaker 6 (09:54):
You can now crowds, what wof.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
Ma'am? You can just put that shot gun away right now.
Speaker 6 (10:00):
I jared you about to shoote What air's him?
Speaker 4 (10:05):
He's shocking and we ma'am, I gotta put him down inside.
I never lay that on you before. No, man, we're
clean shirt. You are right, mister doing, mister doing. He
did no, ma'am, not yet. Would you just try to
(10:26):
help set that shop gun aside and help about how
you are food? We got precious a little I'll tell
you that rankets chairs.
Speaker 6 (10:36):
You got anything?
Speaker 4 (10:37):
What I got is a mighty sick friend here, ma'am.
And I'm lifting him up right now and taking him
in that hot much money you've got, I don't know
a little hand it over once we're inside, I tell you, boy.
Speaker 6 (10:50):
I'd soon shoot the both of your jar with you.
I want your money in your gun for.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
There now.
Speaker 6 (11:03):
Then there's money too.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
Oh my, I'm gonna here. I'm bringing him inside now
now alright, but for this a little bit of money.
He ain't gonna be there long. Oh yeah, you're another
(11:40):
week one, are you?
Speaker 5 (11:42):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (11:42):
I'm carrying my weight in the lord about.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
The stove and quit wimprin soft bellysed a lot of you.
How is he as kim? He only making out he's sleeping.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Miss Dylan, How you can fuller Chester, don't try?
Speaker 4 (12:02):
You sure didn't give me a fright. I wasn't sure
you was gonna make it.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
I'm alright. She get the bullet out, yeah, and half
of my leg I.
Speaker 6 (12:10):
Think, yeah, I've seen new cubs been tougher. Hide.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
You told me you knew what you was about.
Speaker 6 (12:16):
You mind your tongue.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
I'm no mind to hear you better cause to go
at her Chester she did alright.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
Oh she took everything to have mister Dylan, our guns, bullets, money.
Speaker 6 (12:25):
I've never seen her best cried here.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
I buried four husbands, twenty children, couple of strangers.
Speaker 6 (12:31):
Don't FaZe me.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
You better got some sleep Chester, She says, you watched
over me all night.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
Now if you need me, Miss Dylan, Oh I'm fine.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
You go on. Now you go to sleep. Eh. Yt
see four husbands, man.
Speaker 6 (12:51):
Four outlived them. They was men, regular men.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
I can believe that we didn't try for with Marshalls
army folk, no days. Mr Sitton and he lived as
peaceable as could be with Indian folk. We come here
peaceable me, Mir Sitton? When was that the thirties?
Speaker 2 (13:13):
The things were different then.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
No difference than with Mr griverth mister Albright, even later
on with Mr Nedson. There was lessons to learn in
the west. Nym days.
Speaker 6 (13:31):
Eat the porridge?
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Uh don't you oblige?
Speaker 6 (13:35):
Ma'am netty?
Speaker 2 (13:37):
How's that?
Speaker 6 (13:38):
Neddi? I say Neddie sitting.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
I'd go buy that. I can't buy it being called ma'am.
Speaker 6 (13:45):
Oh, I lean toward Neddie.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
Uh, Nettie, Neddie. You live alone in the middle of
you country? How do you manage?
Speaker 4 (13:54):
Mum? I come by your gun. Such a little money
you had, and sometimes it's food, sometimes it robes.
Speaker 6 (14:03):
I take what I can get.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
It don't matter to me if it's settlers or Scots
or US marshals or youts. Oh, don't find Netty that'sen
their lost.
Speaker 6 (14:16):
To half dead. Open your eyes to see what they
park with.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
You always greet 'em with a shotgun. Need be before
we came here yesterday a band that you'd braves stuff here.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
I got good errors, strong bowls, rifles, even a couple
of buffalo guns off a mountain man broke his leg down.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Kenyon, they got a camp near the ute.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
You got something more to give me?
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Chester says you clean as Archer.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
Then you're getting full measure.
Speaker 6 (15:06):
He out here now, And I ain't had a pretty
first spell that of fact.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
I bot that ring myself in Saint Louis man. It's
not Saint sleeping here fit just fine once I wrap
some twining around it.
Speaker 6 (15:21):
By these fingers thin with age.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
I declare, next thing, I know you will be picking my.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Bones, shine your tongue, ring back.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
Nodding, not like c No Don will say you can't
hit an old woman when she's so mean and contrary
for one thing or shotgun.
Speaker 6 (15:37):
I just as soon use it as have a ruckus
with you.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
You take his ring, you give us something, Maddy, Oh.
Speaker 6 (15:45):
I do it, my pretty. I clean forgot the bit fear.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
And they give you our guns for the ring medding.
That's fair.
Speaker 4 (15:53):
I come by your horses down by the quickst morning.
They're grazing on my grass. It's swilling my water.
Speaker 6 (16:00):
The prettiest to.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
Pay for that, I better go see them horse.
Speaker 6 (16:05):
You'll stay where the sick and I'll see to the horses.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
You say, and he can't leave the cabin not alive, he.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
Can't, Well, you dog, I do that now. I've got
tending to do outside. No need peering around for your
guns whilst Ii'm gone. You won't find them, mister Don.
We have got to get out of here now.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
We need the horses to do it. Come in, no,
steady me, you ain't it stands yet, you just stand steady.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
I will have to crawl once we're outside anyway, I
can manage to the door.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
Like it's not He just crouched out there waiting person, and.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
That's worth a chance. We might not get another one.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
All right, Get on your belly, move small through the
brush toward the stream.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Can you see her?
Speaker 4 (17:10):
Don't?
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Can't a stream? How far is it?
Speaker 4 (17:14):
A good hundred yards? Maybe more?
Speaker 2 (17:17):
I don't see the horses, and I don't either, Uh
flatten Chester, that's it.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
She's talking to them Indian.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
You're gonna have to go back Chester to the cabin
with our guns or horses. Were no gut out here?
Speaker 4 (17:36):
Come on, what do you reckon? She's none of her
guns on her.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
She might not eat 'em.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
Yeah, I'm steady after the walk. I give a lot
for some of her strength right now, you reckon? I
can find them guns loan and I.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Got yourself killed. Daughter. That's no good chests there. We're
gonna have to wait.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
You just as bad as foolishes can be. Inch you
curling around in the brush out there?
Speaker 6 (18:17):
What side do you fresh air? You got no guns,
no food? These utes are around you don't think too
good to get hides?
Speaker 4 (18:25):
Do you?
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Where are the horses now?
Speaker 6 (18:27):
They your cutters coming back?
Speaker 4 (18:30):
Now you heard him? What about them horses?
Speaker 6 (18:33):
They bring good press in these parts. I could get
me a passer of things, trading horses.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
You're real friendly with a yout They treating.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
Me good course, they know, mister sitting in me, come
peaceable to their country, not to run them off what
right LEAs their land. You ever seen them that they're
killing women babies?
Speaker 2 (18:54):
No matter to them.
Speaker 6 (18:55):
E rescue yourself. Who started it?
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Are?
Speaker 6 (18:58):
But I've seen it happen, the whites and their gun
moving in. It wasn't pretty work. They did women and
children too.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
That's a fact they let you live here. It's gotta
be a reason.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
He come here like you, for the shot ailing white
man's doing. Mister sitting in me, We took him in,
tended him. He was a young chief then. But white
Bear never forgot not in all these years.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
White bear's the oldest chief among the ute.
Speaker 6 (19:32):
Now he don't forget.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
Neddy's sitting he's near the relations I got.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Here from another age. Nettie, you and a white bear.
Speaker 4 (19:42):
Mm, maybe you got someone a wife, no no wife,
no mother's then.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
H I got her memory and a pair of ear
rings she always wore that's all now done.
Speaker 6 (20:00):
You I didn't come on 'em.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
They're back in Dodge City.
Speaker 4 (20:04):
Oh that's your pity, that's your pity.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
You think you can get the guns without waking her.
Speaker 4 (20:20):
And I can't make a good no light, but I
can find an old woman in the dark.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Not long ago. The sun up is maybe her last chance.
Take it easy.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
Now, that's just close enough if I don't mind shooting
one bit stealing up.
Speaker 6 (20:43):
On an old woman. What kind of men are?
Speaker 4 (20:45):
You're a dog on witch, that's what you are seeing
in the darks there.
Speaker 6 (20:49):
And you ain't no kind of woman at all. Maybe
not now, boy, but I was once more a woman
than you could have made.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Right, Shut up, both of you. Somebody's coming.
Speaker 6 (21:00):
They come earlier than I said.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
It's the same Indians, mister Johnt.
Speaker 6 (21:05):
Yeah, maybe you stand still, a pair of you.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
I was done. That's where I had my rifle, and
I blow us up for I'd let them take.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
His sat Maybe i'd help your chester.
Speaker 4 (21:20):
She's out there right now trading for us.
Speaker 5 (21:22):
You know that.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
I don't get ready. Somebody's coming.
Speaker 6 (21:31):
Oh now, that.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
Cut her beef for the last me a good long time.
There was a gift from my friend right there for us. Oh, now,
then you were the shit more than that. It's doing
there right now?
Speaker 3 (21:54):
Alright, you're sparing us now they why sparing? Yeah, you
didn't tell 'em about us.
Speaker 4 (22:02):
We didn't ask how come you're acting humans or something like?
Speaker 6 (22:05):
After?
Speaker 4 (22:06):
You're scaring us today.
Speaker 6 (22:07):
I ain't gonna miss this boy, that's the truth of it.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
It's one ball in big mouth.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
We'll be glad to get out of your way and
trade for guns, our horses and the cut of your
new beef.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
I've been thinking about them here, Bobs.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
And I've been thinking about our guns.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
Under my bed, these two horses Saturday. Look the spring
now them here, Bobs.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
Earn a strong box in Todge City. You mean to
ride back with us?
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Uh?
Speaker 6 (22:34):
I wouldn't be seen in the daylight with you.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Yeah, well I might get back this way some day.
If I do, I'll bring 'em to.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
You for these old years. Uh yeah, now here, boy,
take your ring w P. It it ain't for me,
not anymore. I'll take you. I declare. I don't understand
you at all. You you just beat the DUTs, that's.
Speaker 5 (23:05):
What you do.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
If you as regular man, you'd find yourself a woman,
PETI is, don't put on on a man's hand. There
ain't no strong box us women folks gives us that
right feeling. Having it pretty.
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