August 14, 2025 • 25 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Now sugar Crinkles, the sugar rice treet that just writes sweet,
is proud to present gun smoke.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Around Dodge City and in the territory off West. There's
just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers.
And that's where the US marshal and the smell of
gun smoke.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Gun smoke, the story of the violence that move west
with Young America, the story of a man who moved
with it. Matt Dillon, United States Marshals say, if there
ever was a cereal designed to boost a family's breakfast morale,
it's new sugar crinkles. Why that sugar rice treat that's
(01:13):
just right sweet makes breakfast more fun than a circuit.
Come breakfast time, Just pour on milk and you've got
a breakfast main dish as you like it. Those golden
nuggets of sugar coated rice we call sugar crinkles are
really special, not too sweet the way some sugar coated
cereals seem to be, and not like others that don't
(01:36):
seem sweet enough. Sugar crinkles really are the sugar rice
treat that's just right sweet. And whether you eat 'em
from the bowl for breakfast, from the pack as a
snack or both ways. You love sugar crinkles, Try him
soon and now gun Smoke starring William Conrad.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
One thing about Dodge being quiet like this, there's time
for fishing.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
Bear's steak and catfish stew makes a good supper.
Speaker 5 (02:30):
You too are going to be sick stopping yourself that way.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
Oh, kiddy, Chester spent all day catching these fish. He's
got a right to eat what he wants. I've heard
of people.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Who go to bed with an aspitty bag around their
necks when they eat too heavy.
Speaker 5 (02:42):
I'd rather be sick.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Oh, it's not so bad once you're used to it.
It kind of loads you to sleep. It's more coffee,
it's kiddy.
Speaker 5 (02:50):
I know. Thanks late, I got to get back to
my place. You're a good cook, Chester.
Speaker 6 (02:56):
Oh Faith, thank you.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
Have you ever got tired of the law of business? Chester?
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Have you go get a job at Domonico.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
The regular customers might get a little tired of catfish stew.
Speaker 7 (03:04):
Man.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
Come on, kitty, I'll walk you back, all right.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Will I see you in the morning, mister Dylan.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
I'll be at the office early, and I want to
ride out to gym Rdigo's place.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Look at a horse.
Speaker 6 (03:13):
Can I go with you?
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Sure, and you'll see something you'd like to have. I
will leave early before it gets too hot.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
Goodnight, goodnight, goodnight. Very good.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Place is gonna look kind of nice, all in trees
growing up around the house.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
That way, he's done pretty good in the year's time.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Court is a long way out of Dodge.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
And needs space to raise good horses. Chester.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Yes, right, I know, but it must get mighty loansome
out here.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
I don't think that bothers Jim much.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
From here, like his crowd and cat's pins are empty,
mister Bylon.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
And maybe he's moved his horses out to get the
last of the summer grass.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
You got any special horse in mind?
Speaker 6 (04:11):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (04:11):
The last time he was in Dodge, Gem was bragging
up a sorrow stud he's got.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
Might take thirty dollars for him.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Well, good horses come high, mister.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
Yeah, Now, let's pull up here. Horses will stand quiet, like,
isn't it jem Gum ready to go?
Speaker 6 (04:39):
Maybe he's not here.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
He kind of gone far. He didn't even push the
door shut. I guess he won't mind if we go
in and boil up a.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
Pot of coffee.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
There's a pot already on the stove.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
It looks like he was just about to fry up
some inside me hot fool. Jim must have spent the
night away from here. Dog's cold chessa.
Speaker 6 (05:02):
Well maybe he had early this morning.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
How this stuff hasn't been let for longer than that?
A man doesn't leave side meat lying on cooking a skillet.
Speaker 6 (05:11):
You sure don't figure, mister Dyllan.
Speaker 8 (05:14):
Ain't or mister don't you?
Speaker 4 (05:16):
Why don't shoot me? But nobody's gonna shoot you? Oh man, Well,
come on in.
Speaker 8 (05:25):
I've seen you right up. I was hiding out back.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
Who are you?
Speaker 8 (05:33):
I'm Jed Cuff.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
What are you doing here?
Speaker 8 (05:37):
I worked for young Jim. Ready to go, but not anymore?
Speaker 4 (05:43):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 7 (05:45):
They come riding up and they killed Jim two nights ago.
It was I was hiding, but I got hungry and
I come in to get something to eat.
Speaker 9 (05:58):
Rediical's dead, laying dead against the water trough out back.
Speaker 8 (06:05):
They shot him? Can I eat something?
Speaker 4 (06:08):
Who shot him?
Speaker 9 (06:09):
The men who come to take the horses, they killed
Jim and then they run his horses off.
Speaker 8 (06:17):
Jim tried to.
Speaker 9 (06:18):
Fight him, but it was two of them against the
one and him.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
Oh, I thought you were here.
Speaker 8 (06:25):
I run away. I was scared. Cold coffee is better
on the empty stomach.
Speaker 6 (06:35):
He's putting on his head, mister Dylan.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Yeah, uh oh, man.
Speaker 8 (06:42):
Jed Cuff, that's me.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
Well show us where Jim is.
Speaker 10 (06:46):
Huh uh.
Speaker 5 (06:48):
I ain't a brave man, mister.
Speaker 8 (06:50):
I run away from all them guns.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
That's okay, Jack, you'll just take us to Jim out back.
Speaker 8 (06:58):
That's where he's laying. I'll show you. But before he died,
mister Jim killed one of them horse. He's dead. He's
laying out here too.
Speaker 6 (07:14):
Do you think this old man's telling the truth, mister Dillon.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
I was as straight as he can remember it. Chester,
just that he's old and not very bright.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Anyway, there he is, there's Jim, and there's.
Speaker 8 (07:28):
An other fella laying right where Jim shot him, out
of his shadow. Uh. Jim was a fine boy.
Speaker 9 (07:38):
But I was scared and I run out the back
way and hid where they couldn't see me.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
Chad, did you know these two men? Had you ever
seen him before?
Speaker 8 (07:49):
No, mister I never.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
Now, Uh, Chester, see if he can find a shovel.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
It took less than an hour to bury Jim Redigo
and the other men. When we were through, Jed put
a sort of marker.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
On each grave, and we went into the house.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Chester and I found some food in the cupboard and
we fed the old men. Then we started him for Dodge.
Happy enough astride an old donkey. We found grays and
free behind the house, and Chester and I watered our horses,
and a few minutes later rode away from the Redigo place,
following the two day old sign of the stolen horses.
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About sundown, we saw a long column of rider.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
It's moving towards the north. What do you think it did, Dylan?
Speaker 2 (08:51):
It could be cavalry out of Fort Larnett, or maybe
Indian or Indians.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
It is Indian, we aren't get out of here.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
They're right and too slow to be a war party. Chester,
it's Indians, all right. Cavalry wouldn't circle that way.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
Then we're gonna go right up to him. I hope
we can.
Speaker 10 (09:11):
Hey, look they've stopped.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
Yeah, how many.
Speaker 10 (09:14):
Of you figure there are?
Speaker 4 (09:16):
Oh maybe sixty seventy.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Might be a whole Indian village on the move. If
it is, they're not looking for trouble, I hope not.
Now they're waiting for us all right. Now when we
get up to them, keep both your hands on the
saddle horn. Yes, sir, all right, that's up.
Speaker 6 (09:38):
Yes, they're just sitting there looking at it.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
They'll talk when they're ready.
Speaker 10 (10:04):
I am quick knife.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
My name is Matt Dillon.
Speaker 10 (10:09):
Uh, my braves and I have watched you come. You
are looking for the white man.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
That's right.
Speaker 10 (10:18):
The white man sold us horses, our spoors ride them.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
Now. He stole those horses from another white man.
Speaker 10 (10:26):
We bought the horses with gold.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
He killed a man when he stole.
Speaker 10 (10:30):
You have come to take back the horses and punish
the man.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (10:37):
Uh, the horse that you cannot take, the man you
must find for yourself. The horses are ours now. There
are two of you and many of us.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
Alright, quick enough. Uh what about the man?
Speaker 10 (10:57):
He left the horses with us and rode west. His
name is t Bow.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
How long ago?
Speaker 10 (11:04):
That's love? You know someone is following him, and he's
afraid his trail will not be hard to follow.
Speaker 11 (11:14):
Thank you, quick night, Justine. Wonder if they're gonna talk?
Speaker 4 (11:25):
Look back, well, now, what what you gonna say? Nothing?
Speaker 11 (11:35):
Only they're still just setting back there on their horses.
Speaker 6 (11:38):
Mister Dylan watching us.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
Yeah, I was.
Speaker 6 (11:41):
Just a mite scared, was you?
Speaker 5 (11:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (11:44):
I think maybe I was.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Well, are we gonna track keyboard now, mister Doon, Yeah,
we'll track him Chester.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
And we'll find him.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
M If your family is getting weary of the same
old breakfast cereal every morning, time to retire it and
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is the sugar rice treat that's just right sweet. And
I'm here to tell you sugar crinkles make breakfast more
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coated rice and every nugget in your breakfast bowl just
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Treat yourself and your favorite family the new sugar Crinkles
at breakfast time and snack time too.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
All your breakfast sugar crimp.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
Sugar crimples cat beep sugar just right.
Speaker 5 (13:05):
Sweet with milk for the back of joy and.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Back from the pack of boy cant be beep just
right sweet sugar crimples go to now back to gun smoke.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Soon after we left the Indians. Night came and we
couldn't track Tebow any further. The next day we rode hard,
following his trail towards the west. The prairie stretched out
gray and green before us, and several times out on
the horizon we saw buffs of dust rising when you
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t Bow was somewhere ahead of us. Must have been
riding a good animal, because when dust came we hadn't
closed in on him. It was dark when we spotted
a nester's cabin and pulled us.
Speaker 6 (14:11):
Do you think maybe he's hiding out in there, Mitch dint.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
Yeah, he could be. Just keep your eyes open, but
who knows.
Speaker 6 (14:17):
We can't tract him at money. Maybe you'd just keep
it going.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
Oh, any man's got to sleep and eat sometimes.
Speaker 6 (14:24):
That's who.
Speaker 5 (14:36):
What do you want?
Speaker 2 (14:38):
I thought maybe we could get some food and water
our horses.
Speaker 5 (14:42):
Who are you?
Speaker 4 (14:43):
My name's Dylan.
Speaker 5 (14:45):
We don't have many strangers out here.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
I'm a US marshal.
Speaker 5 (14:50):
Well, I've got some tater soup working.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
Thank you. Uh, this is Chester, proud Foot.
Speaker 6 (15:01):
How I do, ma'am?
Speaker 5 (15:03):
You just sat at the table.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
There, Thank you?
Speaker 5 (15:06):
Man.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
Stop. Ah, you're a long ways out here.
Speaker 5 (15:12):
We was headed for Colorado Territory. We never made it.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
You're a with a woman.
Speaker 5 (15:19):
No, it's just the boy that died. Maybe that's why
my man and I stopped here. He built this place,
and y'all huh, thank you.
Speaker 6 (15:37):
Say there's real stout too.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
Where is your husband hunting?
Speaker 5 (15:44):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Huh uh, knight? Hunting's a pretty poor thing, isn't Yah.
Speaker 5 (15:48):
Sometimes a body don't have much choice.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
Wasn't your husband's be back?
Speaker 5 (15:54):
You're asking a lot of questions, mister.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
I told you I'm a US marshal.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
People have good luck and bad. I've been mostly bad.
Speaker 11 (16:05):
Huh.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
I'm looking for a man called Tea Bow.
Speaker 5 (16:10):
I don't know him.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Why yours is the only place we've seen he came
this way.
Speaker 5 (16:16):
My man's name is kerch, Abe Kerch. We don't know
anybody called people.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Uh well, uh, thank you, miss Kerch. We'll water our
horses and get moving, get.
Speaker 6 (16:29):
Moved, thank ma'am. With mighty casey.
Speaker 5 (16:34):
Soon you riding on now, ain't you?
Speaker 4 (16:37):
Yes?
Speaker 10 (16:38):
That's right.
Speaker 5 (16:40):
You can water your horses right out there in front.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
Good night, good night.
Speaker 6 (16:52):
Well, one thing, she wasn't too toughy of a woman.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
At least I've living out here so long. Maybe she's
lost a habit.
Speaker 6 (16:59):
Yeah, maybe this cussy buckskin can drink more water to
take this mule.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
Yeah, they've had enough.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Alright, let's ride, Oh.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
Mister Dillon, alright, I can't see no dog on tracks
and all that's dark.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
Never mind, here's her. But how are we gonna see
the world? Ride and be quiet Chester, Yes.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Sir, mister Dylon, alright, hold on, hold Now, let's got
these horses hobble.
Speaker 8 (17:45):
Oh.
Speaker 11 (17:46):
I think they'll stand at your dinner.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
And I wanna make sure they do, yes, sir, and
then we'll walk back to the nestor's cabin.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
Walk back.
Speaker 8 (17:55):
Well, what in the world.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
For That woman said her husband was out hunting, but
there was a sharp fifty leaning in the corner. A
man doesn't go hunting and leave his gun home, all right,
come on, you could be.
Speaker 6 (18:07):
Mister Kirch took another gun with him.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
He stooped forward to have another gun. Well where do
you think he is?
Speaker 2 (18:13):
I don't know, but there's something wrong back there at Chester.
His wife was mighty anxious to be rid of us.
Usually it's hard for a traveler to break away. The
people are so hungry for news and a little.
Speaker 11 (18:24):
Talk and get that's right.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
Yeah, now watch where you put your feet. Yes.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
It only took a few minutes to make our way
back to the mester's cabin, where a pale light showed
through the chinking and under the door. Some thirty feet
short of the cabin, we stopped. We could hear voices inside.
I motioned the Chester and we stretched out flat against
the ground and then inched our way closer. Now we
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could make out.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
It was a man and woman talking. One voice was.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Missus Kirch and the other was either her husband or
Tee Bowe.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
He said that he ain't hurt.
Speaker 5 (19:08):
Bad blood on his face.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
I hit him to keep him from talking.
Speaker 10 (19:12):
Eyes, get him around.
Speaker 5 (19:15):
I got rid of those two men like you told me.
You said you you wouldn't hurt it.
Speaker 4 (19:18):
But if I did that, wait a minute, checked her.
Speaker 10 (19:20):
I just hit him on the head. Now shut out.
Speaker 5 (19:23):
We ain't never had nobody.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
I did what you said.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
You just shut up.
Speaker 10 (19:32):
You open your mouth again, and I think your husband.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
Good. Get your food out all on that table. Gotta
have me something to take along Chester.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
He's missing packing up and that pooling him crawling around
to the back of the cabin. When I get and
then make some noise. It doesn't matter, just so he
knows somebody's out back. I don't know yet. I keep going.
That's fine, you take all that, but we're gonna eat
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so hungry.
Speaker 5 (20:09):
Those men here were the law one't they? One man
said he was a marshal. They've been following you. You
must have done something bad, real bad.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
I killed a man who talked too much.
Speaker 10 (20:20):
Woman, and I don't someone about that.
Speaker 5 (20:25):
Shut up.
Speaker 10 (20:32):
I'm going out.
Speaker 5 (20:34):
If you make a sound or.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
I'll come back for you. All right, table, drop it by,
I can see your table. Drop your gunner, I'll kill you.
Speaker 10 (20:47):
Well, Nah, hold on, mister, let's uh, let's talk a minute.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
I can't shoot at my voice. Not drop it?
Speaker 10 (20:56):
No, I won't.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
Everything all right, mister Dylon, Yeah, sure, kind of too bad.
You had to kill him, but then they'd have hung
him for a horse thief anyway. Yeah, and he killed Jim.
Ready to go to mister got it Chester.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
Yeah, we better get under the cabin. There's nothing we
can do out here. We did what we could to
make kerch.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Rest comfortable, and then sat up half the night talking
to his wife about oh god, the railroad stores all
the news a woman would be hungry for.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
And the next morning, early Chester and I started on.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
The ride back to Dodge. It was clear and bright,
and we made good time. Chester riding along feeling mighty broad.
The nesser had said he couldn't feed another horse, and
so Chester was trailing his own buckskin and riding the
big red stud that Tebow had been using.
Speaker 4 (22:29):
Chester was mighty pleased with life.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
And Tebau, who had stolen the stud a few days
earlier from Jim Redigo, was buried out on the prairie
with stones piled on his grave to keep off the coyotes.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
In just a moment, we'll tell you about next week's
adventure on gun Smoke. If you want to be a
real good scout, mom, tell you what to do. See
that your whole tribe sits down the post toasties for
breakfast in the morning. What a way to start the
day for every big and little Indian in your wigwam.
Speaker 4 (23:24):
You see, post toasties are heap good.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
Corn flakes, spankin fresh Chris with that sweet kernel corn
flavored toasted right end. It's a feather in your cap
to serve sure, because post toasties are not only the
best thing that's happened to corn since the Indians discovered it.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
Post toasties are the.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Best thing that ever happened to breakfast and say, if
you want to make a good thing even better, add
your favorite fruit to that bowl full of post toasties,
sugar and milk. It's mighty delicious nourishment. Get post toasting
the heat good cornflakes next time you shot. Gun Smoke
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under the direction of Norman McDonald, stars William Conrad as
Matt dylon Us Marshall. Tonight's story was specially written for
Gun Smokes by Norman McDonald, with music composed and conducted.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
By Rex Corey. Featured in the cast.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Were Helen Cleve, Ralph Moody, James Nusser and Paul Freeze,
Parley bear Is Chester and Georgia Ellis is kidding Ken
Peter is Speaking. Join us again next week as Matt
dylon Us Marshall tries to prevent mass murder during his
fight to bring law and order out of the wild
violence of the West in gun Smoke. Listen next week
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at this time when gun Smoke will be brought to
you by post toasting the heat good con m
Now sugar Crinkles, the sugar rice treet that just writes sweet,
is proud to present gun smoke.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Around Dodge City and in the territory off West. There's
just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers.
And that's where the US marshal and the smell of
gun smoke.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Gun smoke, the story of the violence that move west
with Young America, the story of a man who moved
with it. Matt Dillon, United States Marshals say, if there
ever was a cereal designed to boost a family's breakfast morale,
it's new sugar crinkles. Why that sugar rice treat that's
(01:13):
just right sweet makes breakfast more fun than a circuit.
Come breakfast time, Just pour on milk and you've got
a breakfast main dish as you like it. Those golden
nuggets of sugar coated rice we call sugar crinkles are
really special, not too sweet the way some sugar coated
cereals seem to be, and not like others that don't
(01:36):
seem sweet enough. Sugar crinkles really are the sugar rice
treat that's just right sweet. And whether you eat 'em
from the bowl for breakfast, from the pack as a
snack or both ways. You love sugar crinkles, Try him
soon and now gun Smoke starring William Conrad.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
One thing about Dodge being quiet like this, there's time
for fishing.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
Bear's steak and catfish stew makes a good supper.
Speaker 5 (02:30):
You too are going to be sick stopping yourself that way.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
Oh, kiddy, Chester spent all day catching these fish. He's
got a right to eat what he wants. I've heard
of people.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Who go to bed with an aspitty bag around their
necks when they eat too heavy.
Speaker 5 (02:42):
I'd rather be sick.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Oh, it's not so bad once you're used to it.
It kind of loads you to sleep. It's more coffee,
it's kiddy.
Speaker 5 (02:50):
I know. Thanks late, I got to get back to
my place. You're a good cook, Chester.
Speaker 6 (02:56):
Oh Faith, thank you.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
Have you ever got tired of the law of business? Chester?
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Have you go get a job at Domonico.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
The regular customers might get a little tired of catfish stew.
Speaker 7 (03:04):
Man.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
Come on, kitty, I'll walk you back, all right.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Will I see you in the morning, mister Dylan.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
I'll be at the office early, and I want to
ride out to gym Rdigo's place.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Look at a horse.
Speaker 6 (03:13):
Can I go with you?
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Sure, and you'll see something you'd like to have. I
will leave early before it gets too hot.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
Goodnight, goodnight, goodnight. Very good.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Place is gonna look kind of nice, all in trees
growing up around the house.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
That way, he's done pretty good in the year's time.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Court is a long way out of Dodge.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
And needs space to raise good horses. Chester.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Yes, right, I know, but it must get mighty loansome
out here.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
I don't think that bothers Jim much.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
From here, like his crowd and cat's pins are empty,
mister Bylon.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
And maybe he's moved his horses out to get the
last of the summer grass.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
You got any special horse in mind?
Speaker 6 (04:11):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (04:11):
The last time he was in Dodge, Gem was bragging
up a sorrow stud he's got.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
Might take thirty dollars for him.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Well, good horses come high, mister.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
Yeah, Now, let's pull up here. Horses will stand quiet, like,
isn't it jem Gum ready to go?
Speaker 6 (04:39):
Maybe he's not here.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
He kind of gone far. He didn't even push the
door shut. I guess he won't mind if we go
in and boil up a.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
Pot of coffee.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
There's a pot already on the stove.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
It looks like he was just about to fry up
some inside me hot fool. Jim must have spent the
night away from here. Dog's cold chessa.
Speaker 6 (05:02):
Well maybe he had early this morning.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
How this stuff hasn't been let for longer than that?
A man doesn't leave side meat lying on cooking a skillet.
Speaker 6 (05:11):
You sure don't figure, mister Dyllan.
Speaker 8 (05:14):
Ain't or mister don't you?
Speaker 4 (05:16):
Why don't shoot me? But nobody's gonna shoot you? Oh man, Well,
come on in.
Speaker 8 (05:25):
I've seen you right up. I was hiding out back.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
Who are you?
Speaker 8 (05:33):
I'm Jed Cuff.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
What are you doing here?
Speaker 8 (05:37):
I worked for young Jim. Ready to go, but not anymore?
Speaker 4 (05:43):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 7 (05:45):
They come riding up and they killed Jim two nights ago.
It was I was hiding, but I got hungry and
I come in to get something to eat.
Speaker 9 (05:58):
Rediical's dead, laying dead against the water trough out back.
Speaker 8 (06:05):
They shot him? Can I eat something?
Speaker 4 (06:08):
Who shot him?
Speaker 9 (06:09):
The men who come to take the horses, they killed
Jim and then they run his horses off.
Speaker 8 (06:17):
Jim tried to.
Speaker 9 (06:18):
Fight him, but it was two of them against the
one and him.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
Oh, I thought you were here.
Speaker 8 (06:25):
I run away. I was scared. Cold coffee is better
on the empty stomach.
Speaker 6 (06:35):
He's putting on his head, mister Dylan.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Yeah, uh oh, man.
Speaker 8 (06:42):
Jed Cuff, that's me.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
Well show us where Jim is.
Speaker 10 (06:46):
Huh uh.
Speaker 5 (06:48):
I ain't a brave man, mister.
Speaker 8 (06:50):
I run away from all them guns.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
That's okay, Jack, you'll just take us to Jim out back.
Speaker 8 (06:58):
That's where he's laying. I'll show you. But before he died,
mister Jim killed one of them horse. He's dead. He's
laying out here too.
Speaker 6 (07:14):
Do you think this old man's telling the truth, mister Dillon.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
I was as straight as he can remember it. Chester,
just that he's old and not very bright.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Anyway, there he is, there's Jim, and there's.
Speaker 8 (07:28):
An other fella laying right where Jim shot him, out
of his shadow. Uh. Jim was a fine boy.
Speaker 9 (07:38):
But I was scared and I run out the back
way and hid where they couldn't see me.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
Chad, did you know these two men? Had you ever
seen him before?
Speaker 8 (07:49):
No, mister I never.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
Now, Uh, Chester, see if he can find a shovel.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
It took less than an hour to bury Jim Redigo
and the other men. When we were through, Jed put
a sort of marker.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
On each grave, and we went into the house.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Chester and I found some food in the cupboard and
we fed the old men. Then we started him for Dodge.
Happy enough astride an old donkey. We found grays and
free behind the house, and Chester and I watered our horses,
and a few minutes later rode away from the Redigo place,
following the two day old sign of the stolen horses.
(08:41):
About sundown, we saw a long column of rider.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
It's moving towards the north. What do you think it did, Dylan?
Speaker 2 (08:51):
It could be cavalry out of Fort Larnett, or maybe
Indian or Indians.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
It is Indian, we aren't get out of here.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
They're right and too slow to be a war party. Chester,
it's Indians, all right. Cavalry wouldn't circle that way.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
Then we're gonna go right up to him. I hope
we can.
Speaker 10 (09:11):
Hey, look they've stopped.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
Yeah, how many.
Speaker 10 (09:14):
Of you figure there are?
Speaker 4 (09:16):
Oh maybe sixty seventy.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Might be a whole Indian village on the move. If
it is, they're not looking for trouble, I hope not.
Now they're waiting for us all right. Now when we
get up to them, keep both your hands on the
saddle horn. Yes, sir, all right, that's up.
Speaker 6 (09:38):
Yes, they're just sitting there looking at it.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
They'll talk when they're ready.
Speaker 10 (10:04):
I am quick knife.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
My name is Matt Dillon.
Speaker 10 (10:09):
Uh, my braves and I have watched you come. You
are looking for the white man.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
That's right.
Speaker 10 (10:18):
The white man sold us horses, our spoors ride them.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
Now. He stole those horses from another white man.
Speaker 10 (10:26):
We bought the horses with gold.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
He killed a man when he stole.
Speaker 10 (10:30):
You have come to take back the horses and punish
the man.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (10:37):
Uh, the horse that you cannot take, the man you
must find for yourself. The horses are ours now. There
are two of you and many of us.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
Alright, quick enough. Uh what about the man?
Speaker 10 (10:57):
He left the horses with us and rode west. His
name is t Bow.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
How long ago?
Speaker 10 (11:04):
That's love? You know someone is following him, and he's
afraid his trail will not be hard to follow.
Speaker 11 (11:14):
Thank you, quick night, Justine. Wonder if they're gonna talk?
Speaker 4 (11:25):
Look back, well, now, what what you gonna say? Nothing?
Speaker 11 (11:35):
Only they're still just setting back there on their horses.
Speaker 6 (11:38):
Mister Dylan watching us.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
Yeah, I was.
Speaker 6 (11:41):
Just a mite scared, was you?
Speaker 5 (11:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (11:44):
I think maybe I was.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Well, are we gonna track keyboard now, mister Doon, Yeah,
we'll track him Chester.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
And we'll find him.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
M If your family is getting weary of the same
old breakfast cereal every morning, time to retire it and
(12:20):
introduce him the new sugar crinkles. Say, new sugar Crinkles
is the sugar rice treat that's just right sweet. And
I'm here to tell you sugar crinkles make breakfast more
fun than a circus. Golden and crisp nuggets of sugar
coated rice and every nugget in your breakfast bowl just
right sweet. Forget your experience with sugar coated cereals have
(12:44):
seemed too sweet, and with others that don't seem sweet enough.
Treat yourself and your favorite family the new sugar Crinkles
at breakfast time and snack time too.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
All your breakfast sugar crimp.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
Sugar crimples cat beep sugar just right.
Speaker 5 (13:05):
Sweet with milk for the back of joy and.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Back from the pack of boy cant be beep just
right sweet sugar crimples go to now back to gun smoke.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Soon after we left the Indians. Night came and we
couldn't track Tebow any further. The next day we rode hard,
following his trail towards the west. The prairie stretched out
gray and green before us, and several times out on
the horizon we saw buffs of dust rising when you
(13:57):
t Bow was somewhere ahead of us. Must have been
riding a good animal, because when dust came we hadn't
closed in on him. It was dark when we spotted
a nester's cabin and pulled us.
Speaker 6 (14:11):
Do you think maybe he's hiding out in there, Mitch dint.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
Yeah, he could be. Just keep your eyes open, but
who knows.
Speaker 6 (14:17):
We can't tract him at money. Maybe you'd just keep
it going.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
Oh, any man's got to sleep and eat sometimes.
Speaker 6 (14:24):
That's who.
Speaker 5 (14:36):
What do you want?
Speaker 2 (14:38):
I thought maybe we could get some food and water
our horses.
Speaker 5 (14:42):
Who are you?
Speaker 4 (14:43):
My name's Dylan.
Speaker 5 (14:45):
We don't have many strangers out here.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
I'm a US marshal.
Speaker 5 (14:50):
Well, I've got some tater soup working.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
Thank you. Uh, this is Chester, proud Foot.
Speaker 6 (15:01):
How I do, ma'am?
Speaker 5 (15:03):
You just sat at the table.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
There, Thank you?
Speaker 5 (15:06):
Man.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
Stop. Ah, you're a long ways out here.
Speaker 5 (15:12):
We was headed for Colorado Territory. We never made it.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
You're a with a woman.
Speaker 5 (15:19):
No, it's just the boy that died. Maybe that's why
my man and I stopped here. He built this place,
and y'all huh, thank you.
Speaker 6 (15:37):
Say there's real stout too.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
Where is your husband hunting?
Speaker 5 (15:44):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Huh uh, knight? Hunting's a pretty poor thing, isn't Yah.
Speaker 5 (15:48):
Sometimes a body don't have much choice.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
Wasn't your husband's be back?
Speaker 5 (15:54):
You're asking a lot of questions, mister.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
I told you I'm a US marshal.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
People have good luck and bad. I've been mostly bad.
Speaker 11 (16:05):
Huh.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
I'm looking for a man called Tea Bow.
Speaker 5 (16:10):
I don't know him.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Why yours is the only place we've seen he came
this way.
Speaker 5 (16:16):
My man's name is kerch, Abe Kerch. We don't know
anybody called people.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Uh well, uh, thank you, miss Kerch. We'll water our
horses and get moving, get.
Speaker 6 (16:29):
Moved, thank ma'am. With mighty casey.
Speaker 5 (16:34):
Soon you riding on now, ain't you?
Speaker 4 (16:37):
Yes?
Speaker 10 (16:38):
That's right.
Speaker 5 (16:40):
You can water your horses right out there in front.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
Good night, good night.
Speaker 6 (16:52):
Well, one thing, she wasn't too toughy of a woman.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
At least I've living out here so long. Maybe she's
lost a habit.
Speaker 6 (16:59):
Yeah, maybe this cussy buckskin can drink more water to
take this mule.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
Yeah, they've had enough.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Alright, let's ride, Oh.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
Mister Dillon, alright, I can't see no dog on tracks
and all that's dark.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
Never mind, here's her. But how are we gonna see
the world? Ride and be quiet Chester, Yes.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Sir, mister Dylon, alright, hold on, hold Now, let's got
these horses hobble.
Speaker 8 (17:45):
Oh.
Speaker 11 (17:46):
I think they'll stand at your dinner.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
And I wanna make sure they do, yes, sir, and
then we'll walk back to the nestor's cabin.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
Walk back.
Speaker 8 (17:55):
Well, what in the world.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
For That woman said her husband was out hunting, but
there was a sharp fifty leaning in the corner. A
man doesn't go hunting and leave his gun home, all right,
come on, you could be.
Speaker 6 (18:07):
Mister Kirch took another gun with him.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
He stooped forward to have another gun. Well where do
you think he is?
Speaker 2 (18:13):
I don't know, but there's something wrong back there at Chester.
His wife was mighty anxious to be rid of us.
Usually it's hard for a traveler to break away. The
people are so hungry for news and a little.
Speaker 11 (18:24):
Talk and get that's right.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
Yeah, now watch where you put your feet. Yes.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
It only took a few minutes to make our way
back to the mester's cabin, where a pale light showed
through the chinking and under the door. Some thirty feet
short of the cabin, we stopped. We could hear voices inside.
I motioned the Chester and we stretched out flat against
the ground and then inched our way closer. Now we
(18:56):
could make out.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
It was a man and woman talking. One voice was.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Missus Kirch and the other was either her husband or
Tee Bowe.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
He said that he ain't hurt.
Speaker 5 (19:08):
Bad blood on his face.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
I hit him to keep him from talking.
Speaker 10 (19:12):
Eyes, get him around.
Speaker 5 (19:15):
I got rid of those two men like you told me.
You said you you wouldn't hurt it.
Speaker 4 (19:18):
But if I did that, wait a minute, checked her.
Speaker 10 (19:20):
I just hit him on the head. Now shut out.
Speaker 5 (19:23):
We ain't never had nobody.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
I did what you said.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
You just shut up.
Speaker 10 (19:32):
You open your mouth again, and I think your husband.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
Good. Get your food out all on that table. Gotta
have me something to take along Chester.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
He's missing packing up and that pooling him crawling around
to the back of the cabin. When I get and
then make some noise. It doesn't matter, just so he
knows somebody's out back. I don't know yet. I keep going.
That's fine, you take all that, but we're gonna eat
(20:07):
so hungry.
Speaker 5 (20:09):
Those men here were the law one't they? One man
said he was a marshal. They've been following you. You
must have done something bad, real bad.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
I killed a man who talked too much.
Speaker 10 (20:20):
Woman, and I don't someone about that.
Speaker 5 (20:25):
Shut up.
Speaker 10 (20:32):
I'm going out.
Speaker 5 (20:34):
If you make a sound or.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
I'll come back for you. All right, table, drop it by,
I can see your table. Drop your gunner, I'll kill you.
Speaker 10 (20:47):
Well, Nah, hold on, mister, let's uh, let's talk a minute.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
I can't shoot at my voice. Not drop it?
Speaker 10 (20:56):
No, I won't.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
Everything all right, mister Dylon, Yeah, sure, kind of too bad.
You had to kill him, but then they'd have hung
him for a horse thief anyway. Yeah, and he killed Jim.
Ready to go to mister got it Chester.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
Yeah, we better get under the cabin. There's nothing we
can do out here. We did what we could to
make kerch.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Rest comfortable, and then sat up half the night talking
to his wife about oh god, the railroad stores all
the news a woman would be hungry for.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
And the next morning, early Chester and I started on.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
The ride back to Dodge. It was clear and bright,
and we made good time. Chester riding along feeling mighty broad.
The nesser had said he couldn't feed another horse, and
so Chester was trailing his own buckskin and riding the
big red stud that Tebow had been using.
Speaker 4 (22:29):
Chester was mighty pleased with life.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
And Tebau, who had stolen the stud a few days
earlier from Jim Redigo, was buried out on the prairie
with stones piled on his grave to keep off the coyotes.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
In just a moment, we'll tell you about next week's
adventure on gun Smoke. If you want to be a
real good scout, mom, tell you what to do. See
that your whole tribe sits down the post toasties for
breakfast in the morning. What a way to start the
day for every big and little Indian in your wigwam.
Speaker 4 (23:24):
You see, post toasties are heap good.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
Corn flakes, spankin fresh Chris with that sweet kernel corn
flavored toasted right end. It's a feather in your cap
to serve sure, because post toasties are not only the
best thing that's happened to corn since the Indians discovered it.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
Post toasties are the.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Best thing that ever happened to breakfast and say, if
you want to make a good thing even better, add
your favorite fruit to that bowl full of post toasties,
sugar and milk. It's mighty delicious nourishment. Get post toasting
the heat good cornflakes next time you shot. Gun Smoke
(24:12):
under the direction of Norman McDonald, stars William Conrad as
Matt dylon Us Marshall. Tonight's story was specially written for
Gun Smokes by Norman McDonald, with music composed and conducted.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
By Rex Corey. Featured in the cast.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Were Helen Cleve, Ralph Moody, James Nusser and Paul Freeze,
Parley bear Is Chester and Georgia Ellis is kidding Ken
Peter is Speaking. Join us again next week as Matt
dylon Us Marshall tries to prevent mass murder during his
fight to bring law and order out of the wild
violence of the West in gun Smoke. Listen next week
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