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Speaker 1 (00:07):
Around God's City and the territory on west.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
There's just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers,
and that's with the US. Marshall and the smell of
gun smoke, guns smoke story William Conrad. The Story of
(00:41):
the Violence that moved West with Young America. The story
of a man who moved with it. Matt Dylon, United
States Marshall, Oh boy, oh.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Wild hog?
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Wild hog? Got you? Wild Hog? You there? Who are you?
Put that spirit down? Listen, wild Hog and me are friends,
big friends. You will make much noise. You're chy and nature.
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You must be with wild Hog? What name you? What man?
A moored spicer? Hord? Spicy? You hear you bother me?
And you'll be in big trouble with wild Hog. No trouble.
Tell these other redskins to put their spears down. I
need more room. Come, white man, are you with wild Hog?
Ain't you much talk? Come all right? Any tricks? I'll
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shoot you first? No one around here? Where is he? Horse? Here?
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You walk and I'm lasted. Why can't he ride out
like anybody else? I want to be in Dodge tonight. Come,
wild Hog, it's me gets hard Spicer all right, yes,
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he's brave as you are. Sure keep you covered. You
can't tell one from another except you. Of course I
didn't thought maybe i'd run into the wrong Indians. No
moan tonight. Oh, I recognize the Miss Cheyne's all right,
But you never know with with with what? Spicer nothing,
wild Hog, forget it. You'll never know with Indians now,
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wild Hug, you and mayor friends. Don't get the touchy.
I didn't mean nothing. You're not friends. I pay you,
that is all. Sure, we're friends. You're about the most
educated Endian I ever met. That's why I learn only
English from the white men, nothing else. You sure had
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a good teacher, fellow General Custer. Many bit her moons
ago I was a scout, don't matter. I never heard
of him. He was killed. Well, it's nothing to do
with me. You got the money, wild Hog, Yes, here
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five hundred dollars five hundred. Our deal was for a thousand.
We'll get the rest later. But I'm running a big
risk for you, shines. This is mighty dangerous work, wild Hog.
It will be even more dangerous if we do not
meet again. Sp I said, Oh, wild Hog, you can
trust me. I'll be back. You know that yes, when, oh,
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two three days, Where'll I find you? Make camp near here?
We'll find you. Okay, I'll get on into Dodge now, goodbye,
wild hogs. Don't get drunk, Spicer, never touch it, hey, bartender,
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set out another bottle of whiskey for me and my friend.
Once you sing your call stranger Org Spicer, friend here,
let me fail your glass sometime you got here, Dodge.
You're sure easy with your money, Spiser. Nothing is too
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good for my friend. Say what name you go by? Anyway?
You've got a lot of money, Specer. Sure I got money.
I'll have more soon. You must have hit it rich. Huh,
Sure I had it rich, easy money, friend, easy money.
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How'd you do it? Spisher? Anyway? When I love like
a gamble, My life's chicken one day and feathers and
that right now it's all chicken.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Yeah, how'd you do it?
Speaker 1 (06:34):
You made our real good spy, Brains and guts, friends,
brains and guts. That's all it takes nobody. But you
don't get money like that, Robin old Indians? What's that?
Speaker 4 (06:49):
Huh?
Speaker 1 (06:50):
What'd you say about Indians? Well, it's just a way
of saying it back home. Don't get on the proude
about it. Maybe you talk too much, Maybe you asked
too many questions. Hey, what's the matter with you? Anyway?
Maybe you know too much. Look, Spicer, you're hiding something.
Don't trouble yourself. I ain't interested in you, your money
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or your liquor. I don't like that. You don't have
to you, bet, I don't keep your eyes right on, mind, Spicer.
I want to watch you die.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
Spicy.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
How's our prisoner, Chester? I got to mister Dylon. You
got two Yeah, sir, there's that ord spicier fella you
locked up. And then there's a drunk who tried to
buffalo me after you went to bed. Uh huh. Do
you have any trouble with him?
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Oh, little mister Dilan.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
He tried to hit me on the head with his
six gun. What do you look?
Speaker 3 (08:08):
All right?
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Oh he didn't do it, Sir. I bit his thumb
and need him at the same time. Well that's quite
a trick, Chester. You must have been practicing. No, sure,
I haven't been practicing, but I had it all thought out.
I see. All right, let's turn Spicy. Let's I'll go
get him. Mister Dillon, mm him about time? Where's my gun, Marshall.
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There it is spic sir, and uh don't use it
around here anymore. You can't bother a man for self defense.
I just want you to stay out of dodge. One
kill a chair limit here given in self defense. I
had a fair to you, Marshall. Besides, this is a
poor town. Anyways, you can have it my That man
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had kick a hog bare footinge. Hey, surewood Chester, there's
something real bad about him. Yeah. I don't know what
it is, Chester, and I hope I don't have to
find out. Well, you'll go away fellas like that. God
keep moving. Seems like nobody wants. I don't feel sorry
for him, Chester. He got that way all by himself.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Yes, I mean no, sir, more than Marshall.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Those greaters got here yet, Jack yep, come in on
the Santa fe yesterday, Marshall for him right back here. Oh,
good beautiful guns. If it's just beautiful a star keeper, Jack,
But I only need two of them. Well, I can
make you good price in all four, Marshall. It wouldn't
be any good if I don't need four.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
Was it?
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Well? Maybe not, but I never know. I got half
a dozen forty four sharps, rifles, seam shipman. Thought I'd
be stuck with him forever, right with the big fifty
out Now, there ain't a buffalo hundred use forty four anymore.
I don't see any forty four. Well, that's just what
I'm telling you. Fellers stopped in just this morning. Took
all six maybe seventy five dollars a piece too. He
sold six rifles to one man. That's right, Marshall a
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buffalo hunter.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Looked more like a.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Drifter to me. Had plenty of cash. Oh you know
his name, No idea, nothing wrong with it, Wizard Marshall.
Been a hold up around here? Haven't heard about Uh No,
there's a lot of rifles for one man to buy.
No long gein it is there? What this man look like? Jack?
Speaker 4 (10:50):
Tall?
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Skinny? Kind of mean faith? You wear one six gun,
black grips. Yeah, come to think, But he did you
know him? Or Spicer killed a man? Man? Well, now
I heard about that shooting. What he supposed he's up to?
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Now where'd he go? I wouldn't know it. Backed the
rifles on him and rode out of town. You going
after Marshall? No, No, it's like you said, Jack there's
no law against the man buying all the rifles he wants.
It seems strange. So oh, let's settle on the pressure
of those Greeners. Huh. Next day, Chester and I took
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the new Greeners and rode out for a prairie chicken.
We had a sack flo within an hour, and we
headed back to town, arguing on the way as to
whether we'd bake the bird's hole or just cut the
breasts off and broil them. We still hadn't settled the
matter when we reached Dodge, and we never did the
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stage from Hayes City to the right. I have half
hour before bringing with it the bodies of two men
found alongside the road. They were just laying there, Marshal
about five miles back, both shot dead. But I thought
I'd better bring me anyway. You recognize them, Pete, No,
Marshall didn't. Doc says there are a couple of riders
from the t bar outfit. He got them up in
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his office now bringing their horses. No sign of a horse,
but there was an awful lot of tracks around. All right,
I'll go see if Doc's found anything. I hang around people.
You I may want some more information from you okay
if I do my waiting at the Yelpaganza, Marshal Yeah, sure, sure,
I'll put our horses up, mister Dilan, now yours Chester,
I may want mine? Yes, oh hell on my sure
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finishing up here? Be right with him? How'd they die? Doc?
Speaker 5 (12:57):
Well, they got half shot and then shot dead.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Yeah, I know, I know, But is there any way
I tell him that maybe they killed each other?
Speaker 5 (13:07):
Heyah ah, no, there is my shirt. But I'd be
mighty surprised if he did. What do you mean, doctor,
there were cowboys. Some cowboys just don't generally carry buffalo guns.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Yeah. Take a look.
Speaker 5 (13:23):
I dug some of these out of each of them.
Those are slugs from a sharp's rifle. I said, yeah, sure,
that one's the best I found right there. What, Tellorboud
you say this is? I'd get forty four forty four sharps.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Not many forty fours in use around here since the
big fifty came. I know a man was six of them? Doctor,
h what do you think of that? I'll let you
know when I get back. It's a long time.
Speaker 6 (14:15):
We will return for the second act of gun Smoke
in just a moment. But first, behind the famous creaking
door to Inner Sanctum Tomorrow evening. There lies one of
the most hair raising tales today. Meet Raymond, your host
on Inner Sanctum Tomorrow night on most of these same
CBS radio stations. Now the second act of gun Smoke.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
The stage driver rode with me back to where he
found the bodies, and from there I rode on a
It was an easy trail at first. There must have
been more than a dozen horses running together long toward dusk. However,
they suddenly split up, and I was faced with two
different trails to follow. Made again, there's choice and lot
harder than ever. There was only an hour of light
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left the track by when my horse stepped into a
prairie dog oh and snapped his leg and went over hard,
and my head glanced off a rock. There was a
shower light and nothing. That's him, all right, that's DELI.
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He's a Marshal Dodge.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
I told you about.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
I think he is not dead. What will you have done?
But you can't let him live. He'd kill us, all right,
I'm gonna kill him and he would dive for it
if you do. Okay, you're the boss that you'll wish
i'd shot him. He's coming to him. Now. We take
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care of him our own way, white plut pick up
his guns. Yah, it's hurts, it's not out. That's all
Indians gianes. I'm no Indian, Marshall Spicier, Yeah, sure, no
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tricks now, Marshall's redskins will shoot you to pieces. Yeah,
those those sharps forty fours you bought him up. It's
no business yours, Marshall. Not Now you're through. You're all
the way through, Specier. You're under arrest. What I said,
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you're under arrest now, Marshall, what are you arresting me for?
Not that it matters, mate, for selling gun to Indians
and on suspicion of murder. All right, so I'm under arrest.
But Marshall, I want to ask you something. Yeah, how
are you gonna take me in? That's all? Just how
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are you gonna manage? I'll worry about that. You sure
will come on while og Let's shoot him and get
it over with. This is a man of much heart.
I admired his courage to stand with death on all
sides and arrest a man. No, it will not kill him,
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not yet. But you can't take him with us Cloud
give him a horse? Come. They gave me a horse
all right, with a T bar brand on it. But
I was surrounded by six armed Indians and a no
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good white who would shoot me anytime he thought he
could get by with it. Wild Hog rode up ahead,
leading the party northwest, apparently the rendezvous with a bunch
that had split off from this one. Spicer has stated
right alongside of me, Well, am I still under rath
mark him? You're still killing? Aren't you sure? I admit
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it don't matter, being as how you'll never see Dodge
again or any other place. What are you doing with
these chyans here? Anyway? Specier? I gotta deal with Wildlog Marshall.
Real good deal. Killing white men part of it. They
don't need any help, Air Marshall. They like to kill
white men. Maybe they'll kill you before they're truth. No,
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I'm too valuable to them. They like me, now, now
why would they like you? Well, it doesn't at first,
but I talked him into it, talk Wildlog into it.
He's a smart fello at inion. It's all right away.
What I could do for him, like buying those rifles?
What else did you do for him? Well? I stop
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those two riders with the horses told him I was sick.
Got them all guard. Those Chians were on before they
could move. It was real easy. You're kind of like
a Judas sheep and a slaughter pin. Huh yeah, I said,
Marshall pays battle, though I got five d dollars coming.
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Since we find a ranchitude raid, I see pretty good deal. Huh.
You know, I think a lot more of these Indians
than I do with you, Spicer. I don't like that, Marshall.
At least they got an argument on their side. But
you're just a renegade white. I'll kill you for that. March.
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I'll shut up all right. You've asked for shoot me
and wild Hoggle. Split your wide open, Spicer. Besides, he
spotted the rest of his party up there. Huh oh yeah,
all right for now, Marshall. But I'll see you dead.
I promise I'll see you dead. I was still alive
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two days later when I crossed the Smoky Hill River,
about one hundred miles northwest of Dodge. There were fifteen
Cheyennes in the party, and day and night, two of them,
by turns, never took their eyes off of me. They
seemed anxious for an excuse to cut my throat, and
I had to watch every movement I made looked pretty hopeless.
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Wild Hog was smart and he took no chances. But
often he and I rode along together. They were always
flanked by my two warrior guards. The country is greener, already,
better every mile. Why have you been raiding so far south,
wild Hog? If you like this land better. We are
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Northern Cheyenne Marshall from the Big Horn Mountains. The army
took us south to a reservation in the Oklahoma Territory US.
So that's it. You jumped your reservation. Huh. Why should
we live in a hot flat land that has no game?
But the army will be after you again. You've broken
the law? Whose law ours are yours? All right, wild hunk?
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But the Indian has a law against the murder. You've
broken that twice that I know of. Cheyenne does not
speak of it as murder to kill his enemy. Those
cowboys went't your enemy, wild howk They weren't fighting you.
The army drove us from our home in the mountains.
The army took our horses from us. We are going
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back home now on other horses. That's all. That doesn't
explain your killen. Those men were peaceful, Marshall. If I could,
I would kill every white man in the country. I cannot.
The Indian nations cannot. Red men has always fled before
the white men. Those cowboys weren't chasing you. We needed
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their horse. They didn't even have a chance to fight.
You tricked them. Is it only the white man who
was allowed to trick his enemy? I was young once, Marshal,
but I have seen too much trickery and lies and
destruction and broken promises. I'll admit that's happened, wild Hock.
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But you know not every man is a liar and
a killer. No, there are white men like you, and
there are white men like Spiceres Spicer, tell me something.
Would you consider a word? Spicer guilty of murder? The
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Indian is Spicer's enemy, not his own people. Therefore it
is murder. And you understand why at Spicer, I came
after not you, Why not me, Marshall. You're the army's problem,
not mine. I expect to fight the army many times
before we reach the mountains. Yeah, what what are your
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plans for me? Wild Hut? I have been thinking, Yeah,
I do not know yet. But what about Spicer? Spicer
works for me. Why should I think about him? And
you're not as smart as I figured? All right, Marshall,
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I do not trust Spicer. He is a traitor to
his own people and only for money. I have rifles
now and enough horses. I do not need Spicer your
god to kill him. Why not? He is only another
white man. You said yourself, you can't kill all the
white men. If you were free, Marshal, you would take
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him back and let other white men kill him. What
difference how he dies makes a difference to me, Wild Hunt,
I'm a law man. I may have to kill you too.
You're a hard man to be friends with. I will
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explain to you, Marshal, it matters little about any Indian.
A few more winters and not many of my people
will be alive. I do not complain of our fate.
Tribe follows tribe, Nation follows. Nations is the law of nature.
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A white man's turn to be defeated and to disappear
will come. It is just a matter of time, and
so we may be brothers after all, Marshall. I'm not
sure I believe all of that, Wild Hug. Of course,
not still. I recognize you as a warrior among your people,
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as I am a warrior among mine. Too bad, we're
not on the same side. As long as we are
brave and willing to die does not matter. I write ahead,
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now you stay with the others. That night, we reached
the north fork of the Solomon River and camp with
the shadow of low hills twenty miles I had wild
hog ordered my guards to keep me some distance from
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the rest of the party, so I pulled up some
buffalo grass and betted down on it. Early. I watched
the stars until sleep came. Next thing I heard was
the sound of horses fading. Not in the distance. The
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two braves garden me had disappeared, so I got up
and walked carefully back to where the Cheyennes were camped.
There are a couple of horses that tied to a bush,
but they were alone. The Indians had left. I stopped
for a moment to listen, and then suddenly I saw
the figure of a man lying in the moonlight about
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twenty feet off. Spicer, Spicer, no blood on you, You're
all right. Come on of it, man, Come on here,
you've been knocked out. That's song. I come on, sit up.
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Oh it's you, marsh What happened? Where are they? Where's Wildhall?
They've gone gone gone? Where? I mean, where'd they go?
They've been headed for the Big Horn Mountains. Let's chance
there running into the army if they travel at night.
But they couldn't leave me, not here, not now. It's
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like they did some brave clubs in they rode off,
that's all. But I gotta go with them. You're still groggy, Spicer,
you're still under arrest. Remember, you can't take me in, Marshall.
Wild Hog will be back. You won't let you. Why
do you think he left you here? Spicer? We're friends,
big friends, Me and Wildhall. You've got no friends. You
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don't belong in anybody's camp. And I'm taking you back
to Dodge anyway and murdering Redski's a better man than you, Spicer.
He's brave and he's willing to die. Now, come on,
we got along ride.
Speaker 6 (28:16):
Back gun Smoke under the direction of Norman McDonald's stars
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William Conrad as Matt Dillon Us Marshall. Tonight's story was
specially written for Gun Smoke by John Meston, with music
composed and conducted by rex Cory. Featured in tonight's cast
were Harry Bartel, Larry Dobkin, Herb Viigron and Jack Krushan.
Harley Bayer is Chester, and Howard mcneer is Dark. Join
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us again next week as Dylan US Marshall fights to
bring law in order after the wild violence.
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Around God's City and the territory on west.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
There's just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers,
and that's with the US. Marshall and the smell of
gun smoke, guns smoke story William Conrad. The Story of
(00:41):
the Violence that moved West with Young America. The story
of a man who moved with it. Matt Dylon, United
States Marshall, Oh boy, oh.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Wild hog?
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Wild hog? Got you? Wild Hog? You there? Who are you?
Put that spirit down? Listen, wild Hog and me are friends,
big friends. You will make much noise. You're chy and nature.
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You must be with wild Hog? What name you? What man?
A moored spicer? Hord? Spicy? You hear you bother me?
And you'll be in big trouble with wild Hog. No trouble.
Tell these other redskins to put their spears down. I
need more room. Come, white man, are you with wild Hog?
Ain't you much talk? Come all right? Any tricks? I'll
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shoot you first? No one around here? Where is he? Horse? Here?
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You walk and I'm lasted. Why can't he ride out
like anybody else? I want to be in Dodge tonight. Come,
wild Hog, it's me gets hard Spicer all right, yes,
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he's brave as you are. Sure keep you covered. You
can't tell one from another except you. Of course I
didn't thought maybe i'd run into the wrong Indians. No
moan tonight. Oh, I recognize the Miss Cheyne's all right,
But you never know with with with what? Spicer nothing,
wild Hog, forget it. You'll never know with Indians now,
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wild Hug, you and mayor friends. Don't get the touchy.
I didn't mean nothing. You're not friends. I pay you,
that is all. Sure, we're friends. You're about the most
educated Endian I ever met. That's why I learn only
English from the white men, nothing else. You sure had
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a good teacher, fellow General Custer. Many bit her moons
ago I was a scout, don't matter. I never heard
of him. He was killed. Well, it's nothing to do
with me. You got the money, wild Hog, Yes, here
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five hundred dollars five hundred. Our deal was for a thousand.
We'll get the rest later. But I'm running a big
risk for you, shines. This is mighty dangerous work, wild Hog.
It will be even more dangerous if we do not
meet again. Sp I said, Oh, wild Hog, you can
trust me. I'll be back. You know that yes, when, oh,
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two three days, Where'll I find you? Make camp near here?
We'll find you. Okay, I'll get on into Dodge now, goodbye,
wild hogs. Don't get drunk, Spicer, never touch it, hey, bartender,
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set out another bottle of whiskey for me and my friend.
Once you sing your call stranger Org Spicer, friend here,
let me fail your glass sometime you got here, Dodge.
You're sure easy with your money, Spiser. Nothing is too
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good for my friend. Say what name you go by? Anyway?
You've got a lot of money, Specer. Sure I got money.
I'll have more soon. You must have hit it rich. Huh,
Sure I had it rich, easy money, friend, easy money.
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How'd you do it? Spisher? Anyway? When I love like
a gamble, My life's chicken one day and feathers and
that right now it's all chicken.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Yeah, how'd you do it?
Speaker 1 (06:34):
You made our real good spy, Brains and guts, friends,
brains and guts. That's all it takes nobody. But you
don't get money like that, Robin old Indians? What's that?
Speaker 4 (06:49):
Huh?
Speaker 1 (06:50):
What'd you say about Indians? Well, it's just a way
of saying it back home. Don't get on the proude
about it. Maybe you talk too much, Maybe you asked
too many questions. Hey, what's the matter with you? Anyway?
Maybe you know too much. Look, Spicer, you're hiding something.
Don't trouble yourself. I ain't interested in you, your money
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or your liquor. I don't like that. You don't have
to you, bet, I don't keep your eyes right on, mind, Spicer.
I want to watch you die.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
Spicy.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
How's our prisoner, Chester? I got to mister Dylon. You
got two Yeah, sir, there's that ord spicier fella you
locked up. And then there's a drunk who tried to
buffalo me after you went to bed. Uh huh. Do
you have any trouble with him?
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Oh, little mister Dilan.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
He tried to hit me on the head with his
six gun. What do you look?
Speaker 3 (08:08):
All right?
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Oh he didn't do it, Sir. I bit his thumb
and need him at the same time. Well that's quite
a trick, Chester. You must have been practicing. No, sure,
I haven't been practicing, but I had it all thought out.
I see. All right, let's turn Spicy. Let's I'll go
get him. Mister Dillon, mm him about time? Where's my gun, Marshall.
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There it is spic sir, and uh don't use it
around here anymore. You can't bother a man for self defense.
I just want you to stay out of dodge. One
kill a chair limit here given in self defense. I
had a fair to you, Marshall. Besides, this is a
poor town. Anyways, you can have it my That man
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had kick a hog bare footinge. Hey, surewood Chester, there's
something real bad about him. Yeah. I don't know what
it is, Chester, and I hope I don't have to
find out. Well, you'll go away fellas like that. God
keep moving. Seems like nobody wants. I don't feel sorry
for him, Chester. He got that way all by himself.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Yes, I mean no, sir, more than Marshall.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Those greaters got here yet, Jack yep, come in on
the Santa fe yesterday, Marshall for him right back here. Oh,
good beautiful guns. If it's just beautiful a star keeper, Jack,
But I only need two of them. Well, I can
make you good price in all four, Marshall. It wouldn't
be any good if I don't need four.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
Was it?
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Well? Maybe not, but I never know. I got half
a dozen forty four sharps, rifles, seam shipman. Thought I'd
be stuck with him forever, right with the big fifty
out Now, there ain't a buffalo hundred use forty four anymore.
I don't see any forty four. Well, that's just what
I'm telling you. Fellers stopped in just this morning. Took
all six maybe seventy five dollars a piece too. He
sold six rifles to one man. That's right, Marshall a
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buffalo hunter.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Looked more like a.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Drifter to me. Had plenty of cash. Oh you know
his name, No idea, nothing wrong with it, Wizard Marshall.
Been a hold up around here? Haven't heard about Uh No,
there's a lot of rifles for one man to buy.
No long gein it is there? What this man look like? Jack?
Speaker 4 (10:50):
Tall?
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Skinny? Kind of mean faith? You wear one six gun,
black grips. Yeah, come to think, But he did you
know him? Or Spicer killed a man? Man? Well, now
I heard about that shooting. What he supposed he's up to?
(11:12):
Now where'd he go? I wouldn't know it. Backed the
rifles on him and rode out of town. You going
after Marshall? No, No, it's like you said, Jack there's
no law against the man buying all the rifles he wants.
It seems strange. So oh, let's settle on the pressure
of those Greeners. Huh. Next day, Chester and I took
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the new Greeners and rode out for a prairie chicken.
We had a sack flo within an hour, and we
headed back to town, arguing on the way as to
whether we'd bake the bird's hole or just cut the
breasts off and broil them. We still hadn't settled the
matter when we reached Dodge, and we never did the
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stage from Hayes City to the right. I have half
hour before bringing with it the bodies of two men
found alongside the road. They were just laying there, Marshal
about five miles back, both shot dead. But I thought
I'd better bring me anyway. You recognize them, Pete, No,
Marshall didn't. Doc says there are a couple of riders
from the t bar outfit. He got them up in
(12:18):
his office now bringing their horses. No sign of a horse,
but there was an awful lot of tracks around. All right,
I'll go see if Doc's found anything. I hang around people.
You I may want some more information from you okay
if I do my waiting at the Yelpaganza, Marshal Yeah, sure, sure,
I'll put our horses up, mister Dilan, now yours Chester,
I may want mine? Yes, oh hell on my sure
(12:52):
finishing up here? Be right with him? How'd they die? Doc?
Speaker 5 (12:57):
Well, they got half shot and then shot dead.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Yeah, I know, I know, But is there any way
I tell him that maybe they killed each other?
Speaker 5 (13:07):
Heyah ah, no, there is my shirt. But I'd be
mighty surprised if he did. What do you mean, doctor,
there were cowboys. Some cowboys just don't generally carry buffalo guns.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Yeah. Take a look.
Speaker 5 (13:23):
I dug some of these out of each of them.
Those are slugs from a sharp's rifle. I said, yeah, sure,
that one's the best I found right there. What, Tellorboud
you say this is? I'd get forty four forty four sharps.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Not many forty fours in use around here since the
big fifty came. I know a man was six of them? Doctor,
h what do you think of that? I'll let you
know when I get back. It's a long time.
Speaker 6 (14:15):
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in just a moment. But first, behind the famous creaking
door to Inner Sanctum Tomorrow evening. There lies one of
the most hair raising tales today. Meet Raymond, your host
on Inner Sanctum Tomorrow night on most of these same
CBS radio stations. Now the second act of gun Smoke.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
The stage driver rode with me back to where he
found the bodies, and from there I rode on a
It was an easy trail at first. There must have
been more than a dozen horses running together long toward dusk. However,
they suddenly split up, and I was faced with two
different trails to follow. Made again, there's choice and lot
harder than ever. There was only an hour of light
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left the track by when my horse stepped into a
prairie dog oh and snapped his leg and went over hard,
and my head glanced off a rock. There was a
shower light and nothing. That's him, all right, that's DELI.
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He's a Marshal Dodge.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
I told you about.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
I think he is not dead. What will you have done?
But you can't let him live. He'd kill us, all right,
I'm gonna kill him and he would dive for it
if you do. Okay, you're the boss that you'll wish
i'd shot him. He's coming to him. Now. We take
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care of him our own way, white plut pick up
his guns. Yah, it's hurts, it's not out. That's all
Indians gianes. I'm no Indian, Marshall Spicier, Yeah, sure, no
(16:30):
tricks now, Marshall's redskins will shoot you to pieces. Yeah,
those those sharps forty fours you bought him up. It's
no business yours, Marshall. Not Now you're through. You're all
the way through, Specier. You're under arrest. What I said,
(16:51):
you're under arrest now, Marshall, what are you arresting me for?
Not that it matters, mate, for selling gun to Indians
and on suspicion of murder. All right, so I'm under arrest.
But Marshall, I want to ask you something. Yeah, how
are you gonna take me in? That's all? Just how
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are you gonna manage? I'll worry about that. You sure
will come on while og Let's shoot him and get
it over with. This is a man of much heart.
I admired his courage to stand with death on all
sides and arrest a man. No, it will not kill him,
(17:31):
not yet. But you can't take him with us Cloud
give him a horse? Come. They gave me a horse
all right, with a T bar brand on it. But
I was surrounded by six armed Indians and a no
(17:52):
good white who would shoot me anytime he thought he
could get by with it. Wild Hog rode up ahead,
leading the party northwest, apparently the rendezvous with a bunch
that had split off from this one. Spicer has stated
right alongside of me, Well, am I still under rath
mark him? You're still killing? Aren't you sure? I admit
(18:13):
it don't matter, being as how you'll never see Dodge
again or any other place. What are you doing with
these chyans here? Anyway? Specier? I gotta deal with Wildlog Marshall.
Real good deal. Killing white men part of it. They
don't need any help, Air Marshall. They like to kill
white men. Maybe they'll kill you before they're truth. No,
(18:36):
I'm too valuable to them. They like me, now, now
why would they like you? Well, it doesn't at first,
but I talked him into it, talk Wildlog into it.
He's a smart fello at inion. It's all right away.
What I could do for him, like buying those rifles?
What else did you do for him? Well? I stop
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those two riders with the horses told him I was sick.
Got them all guard. Those Chians were on before they
could move. It was real easy. You're kind of like
a Judas sheep and a slaughter pin. Huh yeah, I said,
Marshall pays battle, though I got five d dollars coming.
(19:23):
Since we find a ranchitude raid, I see pretty good deal. Huh.
You know, I think a lot more of these Indians
than I do with you, Spicer. I don't like that, Marshall.
At least they got an argument on their side. But
you're just a renegade white. I'll kill you for that. March.
(19:44):
I'll shut up all right. You've asked for shoot me
and wild Hoggle. Split your wide open, Spicer. Besides, he
spotted the rest of his party up there. Huh oh yeah,
all right for now, Marshall. But I'll see you dead.
I promise I'll see you dead. I was still alive
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two days later when I crossed the Smoky Hill River,
about one hundred miles northwest of Dodge. There were fifteen
Cheyennes in the party, and day and night, two of them,
by turns, never took their eyes off of me. They
seemed anxious for an excuse to cut my throat, and
I had to watch every movement I made looked pretty hopeless.
(20:40):
Wild Hog was smart and he took no chances. But
often he and I rode along together. They were always
flanked by my two warrior guards. The country is greener, already,
better every mile. Why have you been raiding so far south,
wild Hog? If you like this land better. We are
(21:02):
Northern Cheyenne Marshall from the Big Horn Mountains. The army
took us south to a reservation in the Oklahoma Territory US.
So that's it. You jumped your reservation. Huh. Why should
we live in a hot flat land that has no game?
But the army will be after you again. You've broken
the law? Whose law ours are yours? All right, wild hunk?
(21:25):
But the Indian has a law against the murder. You've
broken that twice that I know of. Cheyenne does not
speak of it as murder to kill his enemy. Those
cowboys went't your enemy, wild howk They weren't fighting you.
The army drove us from our home in the mountains.
The army took our horses from us. We are going
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back home now on other horses. That's all. That doesn't
explain your killen. Those men were peaceful, Marshall. If I could,
I would kill every white man in the country. I cannot.
The Indian nations cannot. Red men has always fled before
the white men. Those cowboys weren't chasing you. We needed
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their horse. They didn't even have a chance to fight.
You tricked them. Is it only the white man who
was allowed to trick his enemy? I was young once, Marshal,
but I have seen too much trickery and lies and
destruction and broken promises. I'll admit that's happened, wild Hock.
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But you know not every man is a liar and
a killer. No, there are white men like you, and
there are white men like Spiceres Spicer, tell me something.
Would you consider a word? Spicer guilty of murder? The
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Indian is Spicer's enemy, not his own people. Therefore it
is murder. And you understand why at Spicer, I came
after not you, Why not me, Marshall. You're the army's problem,
not mine. I expect to fight the army many times
before we reach the mountains. Yeah, what what are your
(23:26):
plans for me? Wild Hut? I have been thinking, Yeah,
I do not know yet. But what about Spicer? Spicer
works for me. Why should I think about him? And
you're not as smart as I figured? All right, Marshall,
(23:47):
I do not trust Spicer. He is a traitor to
his own people and only for money. I have rifles
now and enough horses. I do not need Spicer your
god to kill him. Why not? He is only another
white man. You said yourself, you can't kill all the
white men. If you were free, Marshal, you would take
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him back and let other white men kill him. What
difference how he dies makes a difference to me, Wild Hunt,
I'm a law man. I may have to kill you too.
You're a hard man to be friends with. I will
(24:31):
explain to you, Marshal, it matters little about any Indian.
A few more winters and not many of my people
will be alive. I do not complain of our fate.
Tribe follows tribe, Nation follows. Nations is the law of nature.
(24:55):
A white man's turn to be defeated and to disappear
will come. It is just a matter of time, and
so we may be brothers after all, Marshall. I'm not
sure I believe all of that, Wild Hug. Of course,
not still. I recognize you as a warrior among your people,
(25:22):
as I am a warrior among mine. Too bad, we're
not on the same side. As long as we are
brave and willing to die does not matter. I write ahead,
(25:43):
now you stay with the others. That night, we reached
the north fork of the Solomon River and camp with
the shadow of low hills twenty miles I had wild
hog ordered my guards to keep me some distance from
(26:05):
the rest of the party, so I pulled up some
buffalo grass and betted down on it. Early. I watched
the stars until sleep came. Next thing I heard was
the sound of horses fading. Not in the distance. The
(26:26):
two braves garden me had disappeared, so I got up
and walked carefully back to where the Cheyennes were camped.
There are a couple of horses that tied to a bush,
but they were alone. The Indians had left. I stopped
for a moment to listen, and then suddenly I saw
the figure of a man lying in the moonlight about
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twenty feet off. Spicer, Spicer, no blood on you, You're
all right. Come on of it, man, Come on here,
you've been knocked out. That's song. I come on, sit up.
(27:11):
Oh it's you, marsh What happened? Where are they? Where's Wildhall?
They've gone gone gone? Where? I mean, where'd they go?
They've been headed for the Big Horn Mountains. Let's chance
there running into the army if they travel at night.
But they couldn't leave me, not here, not now. It's
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like they did some brave clubs in they rode off,
that's all. But I gotta go with them. You're still groggy, Spicer,
you're still under arrest. Remember, you can't take me in, Marshall.
Wild Hog will be back. You won't let you. Why
do you think he left you here? Spicer? We're friends,
big friends, Me and Wildhall. You've got no friends. You
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don't belong in anybody's camp. And I'm taking you back
to Dodge anyway and murdering Redski's a better man than you, Spicer.
He's brave and he's willing to die. Now, come on,
we got along ride.
Speaker 6 (28:16):
Back gun Smoke under the direction of Norman McDonald's stars
(28:38):
William Conrad as Matt Dillon Us Marshall. Tonight's story was
specially written for Gun Smoke by John Meston, with music
composed and conducted by rex Cory. Featured in tonight's cast
were Harry Bartel, Larry Dobkin, Herb Viigron and Jack Krushan.
Harley Bayer is Chester, and Howard mcneer is Dark. Join
(28:58):
us again next week as Dylan US Marshall fights to
bring law in order after the wild violence.
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