August 28, 2025 • 24 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
Gun Smoke brought to you by Chesterfield. Chesterfield packs more
pleasure because it's more perfectly packed thanks to accurae, they
satisfy the most around Dot City and in the territory
(00:31):
on West. There's just one way to handle the killers
and the spoilers, and that's with a US Marshall and
the Smell of gun Smoke. Gun Smoke starring William Conrad.
(01:02):
The Ranch Drug story of the violence that moved west
with Young America, and the story of a man who
moved with it.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
I'm that man, Matt Dillon, United States Marshall, the first
man they look for and the last they want to meet.
It's a chancy job and it makes a man watchful
and a little lonely.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
You look a.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Little it's cold outside.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
While you sit down, I'll have samd fics.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
You have a coffee, groob.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Why do you think I came in?
Speaker 4 (02:03):
You sure know the way to compliment a lady.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Maybe, what do you think you're doing?
Speaker 4 (02:10):
Map luck, he's been spoiling for twelve ever since I
came in here.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
It's murder.
Speaker 5 (02:16):
Yeah, well.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
You don't need the whole bar. What did you say?
Speaker 6 (02:22):
I got as much right here as you.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
You got a knife.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Wait a minute, Murdoc, but.
Speaker 5 (02:36):
You a game dealing, just like the last time.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
You want more of the Scene's a little different now, Murdoch.
So I see you got a badge to hide behind him.
Put up the knife. H. That's better. This man's crazy, Marshall.
Speaker 6 (02:54):
I didn't do a thing to him, mean to Joscelyn.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
It's all right, son, it's over now. Going about your business, yes,
sir marthha, Yes, sir? Yeah.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
What kind of a boom pickers let for the high
plays times of changement? Not nothing but settlers and dudes,
boom pickers and trackmen, cow wranglers and blue coats and
law men.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
There's something you better understand, Murdoch. H. When Dodge wills
full of you buffalo hunters, you can throw your weight around.
Well not anymore. I ain't changed dealing. Just stay out
of trouble. I'll do as I want. He always did.
What are you doing in Dodge anyway?
Speaker 7 (03:37):
There?
Speaker 2 (03:37):
I haven't been on any buffalo around here for years.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
Maybe I came to see you dealing.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
And I thought you probably figured me for dead. Oh no,
I heared about you and your badge. Maybe it's just
as well for both of us. I'm wearing it. I
don't fear no man, and least of all you. Alright,
just let me give you a little warning. You're think
(04:05):
gonna go in south for Buffalo and the Indian territory.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
I wouldn't I do a lot of things, you would.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
It's his orders from Washington. They don't want any more
trouble with the Indians. The territory has closed the hunters.
I got cavalry patrols along the line.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
I go where I aim to go, and I don't
fear no cavalry.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
And I got artists to stop anyone.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Have you?
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Now? You just remember what I said, m.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
Math.
Speaker 8 (04:42):
He's dangerous.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Is a crazy look in his eyes, you know, kidding.
When the Buffalo herds were running, Dodge was two thousand
like him and not much else.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
Oh who is he?
Speaker 2 (04:54):
And he's the one the Indians call a long arm.
His name's Jace Murdoch.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
Oh I I've heard of him.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Yeah, almost a legend on the frontier and on the plains,
maybe thirty or more years beaver trapper, buffalo hunter, Indian scout.
He lived with the end. It's a long time, Matt.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
What's between you and Murdoch a grudge.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Ah, that's the kind of a thing a man doesn't
like to talk about her, Remember kidding when he takes
a beating. You and I were just in from Missouri,
Pretty green. Murdoch and some of his crowd were in
town on a spree, and when they're fun threatened to
include scalping a hide freighter. They didn't like. I stepped
(05:36):
into it. Like I say, I was pretty green. They
beat you. Matt love me for dead down by the river.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
Hm, you watch out for him. He's a trouble maker.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Yeah, but right now I want to find out why
he's here.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Introducing one of the country's best known jazz musicians and arrangers,
mister Bobby Haigert. How about whistling along with him?
Speaker 7 (06:32):
Packs more pleasure, packs more pleasures. Chesterfield packs more pleasure
because Chesterfield's more perfectly packed.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
The more perfectly packed your cigarette, the more taste and
mildness are released for you. Chesterfield, made by exclusive Vacuurae,
has an open easy draw that unlocks all the pleasure
of fine tobaccos. Now Accuae ensures an even distribution of
tobacco from one end of your chester fel to the other.
Chesterfield is firm and pleasing to the lips, Mild yet
(07:05):
deeply satisfying.
Speaker 7 (07:07):
Chesterfield packs more pleasure because Chesterfield's more perfectly packed to the.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Touch, to the taste, Chesterfield packs more pleasure because it's
more perfectly packed by Chesterfield. Mild, yet they satisfy the most.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
I figured Murdoch was on dodge outfitting a hunt. So
I found the merchant who sold in supplies. He couldn't
tell me much except that Murdoch had an Indian with
him for a skinner, and that they were camped somewhere
outside town. Took me a while, but I found the camp,
and when I came up, the Indian was alone. He
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was a young brave, and he was hunched over the fire,
sharpening a long curved skin a knife. It's all right,
go on, you're a long way from home. I him,
(08:36):
What are you blackfoot?
Speaker 1 (08:39):
How do you know that?
Speaker 2 (08:41):
The scars on your wrists, the cut arms? Your people
do that and mourning some close relatives death, don't they? Yeah?
For those four? Father, brother, mother? All right, my name's
Matt Dillon. I'm a US marshal. How are you called? Oh?
(09:08):
What does Murdoch call you?
Speaker 8 (09:11):
When he is not angry engine and what he is.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Dog eater and he knows he's Indian insults. What do
your people call you? It means golden calf. You're a breed,
aren't you.
Speaker 5 (09:28):
I'm an Indian.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Well then what are you doing here so far from
your tribe, skinning buffalo for a man like Murdoch.
Speaker 8 (09:36):
In the lodges at night? My people speak of the
pale warrior with a long arm, Jase Murdoch. And when
he was with us, his medicine was good. The planes
were dark with buffalo. They gave the Indian all he needed, food, clothes, beds,
lodge skins. Now we do not have good medicine. The
(10:00):
buffalo are gone.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
So you came looking for Murdoch for a long arm
to take him back.
Speaker 8 (10:06):
Yes, but he would not go, So I stay with him.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
And now you're going on a buffalo hunt with him
in the treaty territory. Huh. He does not tell me
where he goes, and I'll tell him. He's gonna hunt
among the few small herds that are left given him
by the treaty to the Indian. I do not know that. Well,
it's true. And if you do this you're robbing. Your
brothers are the little that's left to them. That's enough, Dylan. Uh, hello, Murdoch,
(10:38):
stand up, dog eater. Yes, don't hit him again, Murdach,
I'll do as I please.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
You got no right to come swoop and dealing, ask
him questions, trying to turn my skin egg in me.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
And the way you trade him, you'll turn him against yourself,
and he may not be so friendly once you tour
alone down to the Indian nations.
Speaker 5 (10:58):
I don't fear no Engine, least of all him. I
know him, lived with him twenty years.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
So I heard they thought you were a good medisine man.
Speaker 5 (11:08):
Sure, I brought him the long arm, the first gun
they ever seen, gave him more meat than they ever seen. Two.
Sure I was good medicine.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Yeah, but you've changed some.
Speaker 5 (11:22):
I am not so romantic as I was. I can
take him or leave him alone. Besides, Engine's day is done. Man,
don't need to walk easy with.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Him no more. I wouldn't be too sure of that. Hmm.
With this, I can be sure you still should a
big fifty huh Yeah.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
And I can load and fire as fast as another
man with one of them new repeaters. And I can
drop a buffalo near a mile, or a man hey
killed an engine once at twelve hundred yards, like to took.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Off his head. You'll enjoy killing, don't you, Murdac. I
don't mind it. You know, thirty years on the plains
have done something to you, something crazy. Maybe you were
a pioneer once opening up the west, the lorner, doing
what you had to do, making your own law. But
your day's finished, Murdoch. You have to abide by the law. Now,
(12:23):
are you through? Divan? I see why your outfit. You're
going light and fast. That must mean South. Well, I'm
warning you don't try it.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
I'll go where I aim to go.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
No cavalry stop me, And I just hope you try.
All right, If that's the way you want it, you
cross that line and I'll come after you. Say where
(13:07):
are you listening to gun smoke.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
In your car? Getting ready for dinner?
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (13:16):
I see, just relaxing in your favorite easy chair. I'd
say you're in a good spot right now to really
enjoy Chesterfield's better taste and mildness. You see, Chesterfield packs
more pleasure because it's more perfectly packed. A more perfectly
packed cigarette gives you an open easy draw that unlocks
(13:39):
all the better taste and mildness of fine tobaccos. And Chesterfield,
made by exclusive Vaccuae is more perfectly packed, with an
even distribution of tobacco from one end of your Chesterfield
to the other. Firm and pleasing to the lips. Mild
yet deeply satisfying. Remember to the touch to the taste.
Speaker 7 (14:03):
Chester Field packs more pleasure because Chesterfield's more perfectly packed.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
By Chesterview Mild, yet they satisfy the most.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
I could have sent word to the Colonel out at
Fort Dodge and let the cavalry handle Murdoch, but this
was something personal. There was a job I wanted to
do myself. I couldn't touch Murdoch until he crossed the
line into the Indian Nations. So the next morning I
just watched him drive out of town. I gave him
a couple of hours, and then Chester and I started
(14:57):
on his trail. We straight uh across the Arkansas and
of the Nations.
Speaker 6 (15:10):
I don't know, mister Dill. It seems almost too easy.
His wagon tracks and the snow going.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Straight to the board as far as you can see
over the.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Next ride, Yeah, Chester, but we better keep our eyes open.
We should be getting close to him now.
Speaker 6 (15:23):
Well, I guess ain't nothing to worry about as long
as we can see his tracks up ahead.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Now maybe not. We'll come up on that rise easy.
Just might be waiting for us on the other side.
Speaker 6 (15:34):
I don't know the way. He ain't bothering the curbage trail.
Seems like he ain't expect us to forward. Maybe he
didn't leave it.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
And I don't count on it.
Speaker 6 (15:42):
Why I swear this ain't the time year for traveling?
Is it good time for buffalo hunting? No coach will
be prime?
Speaker 3 (15:51):
And if I was.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Chester, you hit no.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
So he didn't get me. He got my horse. But
I'm pinned down.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
All right, I'll get you out.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
He's still shoot all right?
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Just stay flat behind a horse. Now, you pull your
leg out when I lift up on the saddle. There,
I stay lowt.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Well, you don't heard that shot come from?
Speaker 2 (16:22):
And I'm not sure, but yeah, I'm over in that
rim of rock there, that's a circle round. Yeah, we
rode right into a trap. How's your leg?
Speaker 3 (16:36):
And it ain't broken? Don't think that hurts him?
Speaker 5 (16:39):
All right?
Speaker 3 (16:41):
I'm afraid I ain't gonna be much used to you.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Mister Dylan, I don't worry about it, Chester, But what
are we gonna do?
Speaker 3 (16:46):
We can't just lay here in the snow. We'll freeze.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
That's probably what Murdoch's thinking.
Speaker 6 (16:51):
He sure planned it and got us pinned out here
and open. No color anywhere's near, mister dilling My ride
was under the horse.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Maybe we can No, I wouldn't do any good anyway, Chester,
it's too far. Only his buffalo gun has this range?
Speaker 5 (17:09):
I got.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
Where is it?
Speaker 6 (17:12):
Now?
Speaker 3 (17:13):
He shot your horse, mister Dealing, There was no need
for that.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Yeah, he's showing us how great a hunter he is. Chester.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
What are we gonna do without horses?
Speaker 2 (17:23):
And we'll worry about that later. Now there's one thing
we can do, get up to those rocks and rush him.
But how now his big fifty is a single shot.
He's got to reload between shots.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
He's doing it mighty fast.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Yeah, but quietly he is.
Speaker 6 (17:41):
I could be moving, mister Dillan, you wouldn't never make it.
Why that's five hundred yards or more.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
How you got any other ideas? Chester's right? Learn this
league's all right, Chester, This isn't your fight anyway. I
think I'll draw a shot and see just how fast
he canary load.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
No, no, what you're doing one you're taking off.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Of standing up like that. If you do it all
right now in the five seconds that ain't very long.
It don't have to be longer that nod Chester, Good luck,
mister Jellan. Yeah, same to you, Chester. Hey, murderch one
(18:38):
two three four not like hunting buffalo?
Speaker 4 (18:52):
Is that?
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Murch one two three four five?
Speaker 5 (19:06):
Ahya getting caught the murder.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
To wonder two free Maybe he's caught on Ahmura. You
couldn't be out of ammunition, Coker, m I wonder, ah MANA.
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I lay there, half covered, but the snow no, and
Murdoch might easily be holding me in the sights of
his rifle. But I also knew I couldn't lie that
much longer. I freeze before darkness could give me the
cover I needed. Then I saw a movement among the rocks.
It was Golden Calf. He walked to the rim and
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started down toward me, the body of Jace Murdoch, lifeless
in his arms. I got up and went to meet him.
As I approached, Golden Calf stopped and after a moment
he placed the body gently on the ground. Why did
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you do it, Golden Calf?
Speaker 8 (20:37):
I know now you spoke the truth. His medicine was
not good, not anymore?
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Is that the only reason you killed him? Here? Now
all right? Thanks anyway, I'm gonna have to take you back.
But nobody or convicts you for saving the life of
a US Marshall. We're gonna have to bury him. Yes here,
(21:10):
Wait a minute, let me see your wrist. That's a note.
Gash was Murdock a relative of yours. He was my father.
I am Golden Calf, the son of Longha. Oh oh,
(21:38):
all right, Golden Calf. Let's get started.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
In a moment, our star William Conrad.
Speaker 7 (22:14):
Chesterfield packs more pleasure because Chesterfield's more perfectly packed.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Chesterfield made by Exclusive Vacuae, packs more pleasure because it's
more perfectly packed, unlocks all the pleasure of fine tobaccos.
Speaker 7 (22:29):
Chesterfield packs more pleasure because Chesterfield's more perfectly packed.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Firm, and pleasing to the lips, Chesterfield mild, yet they
satisfy the most.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
In how the arrival of a Texas Heard and Dodge
usually meant celebraton and the general hurraih of the town.
But next week I heard arrives with a murdered man,
and that was the West. Good Night.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Gun Smoke Produceton directed by Norman McDonald Dars William Conrad
as Matt Dylan Us Marshall. The special music for gun
Smoke was composed and conducted by Wretch Cory, sound patterns
by Tom Hanley and Bill James. Featured in the cast
were Nester Piva, Sam Edwards and Harry Bartel, Harley bear
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(23:43):
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Speaker 3 (23:45):
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Speaker 2 (23:47):
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Speaker 1 (23:57):
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Join us again next week for another specially transcribed story
on gun smoke.
Gun Smoke brought to you by Chesterfield. Chesterfield packs more
pleasure because it's more perfectly packed thanks to accurae, they
satisfy the most around Dot City and in the territory
(00:31):
on West. There's just one way to handle the killers
and the spoilers, and that's with a US Marshall and
the Smell of gun Smoke. Gun Smoke starring William Conrad.
(01:02):
The Ranch Drug story of the violence that moved west
with Young America, and the story of a man who
moved with it.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
I'm that man, Matt Dillon, United States Marshall, the first
man they look for and the last they want to meet.
It's a chancy job and it makes a man watchful
and a little lonely.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
You look a.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Little it's cold outside.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
While you sit down, I'll have samd fics.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
You have a coffee, groob.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Why do you think I came in?
Speaker 4 (02:03):
You sure know the way to compliment a lady.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Maybe, what do you think you're doing?
Speaker 4 (02:10):
Map luck, he's been spoiling for twelve ever since I
came in here.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
It's murder.
Speaker 5 (02:16):
Yeah, well.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
You don't need the whole bar. What did you say?
Speaker 6 (02:22):
I got as much right here as you.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
You got a knife.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Wait a minute, Murdoc, but.
Speaker 5 (02:36):
You a game dealing, just like the last time.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
You want more of the Scene's a little different now, Murdoch.
So I see you got a badge to hide behind him.
Put up the knife. H. That's better. This man's crazy, Marshall.
Speaker 6 (02:54):
I didn't do a thing to him, mean to Joscelyn.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
It's all right, son, it's over now. Going about your business, yes,
sir marthha, Yes, sir? Yeah.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
What kind of a boom pickers let for the high
plays times of changement? Not nothing but settlers and dudes,
boom pickers and trackmen, cow wranglers and blue coats and
law men.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
There's something you better understand, Murdoch. H. When Dodge wills
full of you buffalo hunters, you can throw your weight around.
Well not anymore. I ain't changed dealing. Just stay out
of trouble. I'll do as I want. He always did.
What are you doing in Dodge anyway?
Speaker 7 (03:37):
There?
Speaker 2 (03:37):
I haven't been on any buffalo around here for years.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
Maybe I came to see you dealing.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
And I thought you probably figured me for dead. Oh no,
I heared about you and your badge. Maybe it's just
as well for both of us. I'm wearing it. I
don't fear no man, and least of all you. Alright,
just let me give you a little warning. You're think
(04:05):
gonna go in south for Buffalo and the Indian territory.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
I wouldn't I do a lot of things, you would.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
It's his orders from Washington. They don't want any more
trouble with the Indians. The territory has closed the hunters.
I got cavalry patrols along the line.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
I go where I aim to go, and I don't
fear no cavalry.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
And I got artists to stop anyone.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Have you?
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Now? You just remember what I said, m.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
Math.
Speaker 8 (04:42):
He's dangerous.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Is a crazy look in his eyes, you know, kidding.
When the Buffalo herds were running, Dodge was two thousand
like him and not much else.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
Oh who is he?
Speaker 2 (04:54):
And he's the one the Indians call a long arm.
His name's Jace Murdoch.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
Oh I I've heard of him.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Yeah, almost a legend on the frontier and on the plains,
maybe thirty or more years beaver trapper, buffalo hunter, Indian scout.
He lived with the end. It's a long time, Matt.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
What's between you and Murdoch a grudge.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Ah, that's the kind of a thing a man doesn't
like to talk about her, Remember kidding when he takes
a beating. You and I were just in from Missouri,
Pretty green. Murdoch and some of his crowd were in
town on a spree, and when they're fun threatened to
include scalping a hide freighter. They didn't like. I stepped
(05:36):
into it. Like I say, I was pretty green. They
beat you. Matt love me for dead down by the river.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
Hm, you watch out for him. He's a trouble maker.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Yeah, but right now I want to find out why
he's here.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Introducing one of the country's best known jazz musicians and arrangers,
mister Bobby Haigert. How about whistling along with him?
Speaker 7 (06:32):
Packs more pleasure, packs more pleasures. Chesterfield packs more pleasure
because Chesterfield's more perfectly packed.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
The more perfectly packed your cigarette, the more taste and
mildness are released for you. Chesterfield, made by exclusive Vacuurae,
has an open easy draw that unlocks all the pleasure
of fine tobaccos. Now Accuae ensures an even distribution of
tobacco from one end of your chester fel to the other.
Chesterfield is firm and pleasing to the lips, Mild yet
(07:05):
deeply satisfying.
Speaker 7 (07:07):
Chesterfield packs more pleasure because Chesterfield's more perfectly packed to the.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Touch, to the taste, Chesterfield packs more pleasure because it's
more perfectly packed by Chesterfield. Mild, yet they satisfy the most.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
I figured Murdoch was on dodge outfitting a hunt. So
I found the merchant who sold in supplies. He couldn't
tell me much except that Murdoch had an Indian with
him for a skinner, and that they were camped somewhere
outside town. Took me a while, but I found the camp,
and when I came up, the Indian was alone. He
(08:07):
was a young brave, and he was hunched over the fire,
sharpening a long curved skin a knife. It's all right,
go on, you're a long way from home. I him,
(08:36):
What are you blackfoot?
Speaker 1 (08:39):
How do you know that?
Speaker 2 (08:41):
The scars on your wrists, the cut arms? Your people
do that and mourning some close relatives death, don't they? Yeah?
For those four? Father, brother, mother? All right, my name's
Matt Dillon. I'm a US marshal. How are you called? Oh?
(09:08):
What does Murdoch call you?
Speaker 8 (09:11):
When he is not angry engine and what he is.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Dog eater and he knows he's Indian insults. What do
your people call you? It means golden calf. You're a breed,
aren't you.
Speaker 5 (09:28):
I'm an Indian.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Well then what are you doing here so far from
your tribe, skinning buffalo for a man like Murdoch.
Speaker 8 (09:36):
In the lodges at night? My people speak of the
pale warrior with a long arm, Jase Murdoch. And when
he was with us, his medicine was good. The planes
were dark with buffalo. They gave the Indian all he needed, food, clothes, beds,
lodge skins. Now we do not have good medicine. The
(10:00):
buffalo are gone.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
So you came looking for Murdoch for a long arm
to take him back.
Speaker 8 (10:06):
Yes, but he would not go, So I stay with him.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
And now you're going on a buffalo hunt with him
in the treaty territory. Huh. He does not tell me
where he goes, and I'll tell him. He's gonna hunt
among the few small herds that are left given him
by the treaty to the Indian. I do not know that. Well,
it's true. And if you do this you're robbing. Your
brothers are the little that's left to them. That's enough, Dylan. Uh, hello, Murdoch,
(10:38):
stand up, dog eater. Yes, don't hit him again, Murdach,
I'll do as I please.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
You got no right to come swoop and dealing, ask
him questions, trying to turn my skin egg in me.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
And the way you trade him, you'll turn him against yourself,
and he may not be so friendly once you tour
alone down to the Indian nations.
Speaker 5 (10:58):
I don't fear no Engine, least of all him. I
know him, lived with him twenty years.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
So I heard they thought you were a good medisine man.
Speaker 5 (11:08):
Sure, I brought him the long arm, the first gun
they ever seen, gave him more meat than they ever seen. Two.
Sure I was good medicine.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Yeah, but you've changed some.
Speaker 5 (11:22):
I am not so romantic as I was. I can
take him or leave him alone. Besides, Engine's day is done. Man,
don't need to walk easy with.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Him no more. I wouldn't be too sure of that. Hmm.
With this, I can be sure you still should a
big fifty huh Yeah.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
And I can load and fire as fast as another
man with one of them new repeaters. And I can
drop a buffalo near a mile, or a man hey
killed an engine once at twelve hundred yards, like to took.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Off his head. You'll enjoy killing, don't you, Murdac. I
don't mind it. You know, thirty years on the plains
have done something to you, something crazy. Maybe you were
a pioneer once opening up the west, the lorner, doing
what you had to do, making your own law. But
your day's finished, Murdoch. You have to abide by the law. Now,
(12:23):
are you through? Divan? I see why your outfit. You're
going light and fast. That must mean South. Well, I'm
warning you don't try it.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
I'll go where I aim to go.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
No cavalry stop me, And I just hope you try.
All right, If that's the way you want it, you
cross that line and I'll come after you. Say where
(13:07):
are you listening to gun smoke.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
In your car? Getting ready for dinner?
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (13:16):
I see, just relaxing in your favorite easy chair. I'd
say you're in a good spot right now to really
enjoy Chesterfield's better taste and mildness. You see, Chesterfield packs
more pleasure because it's more perfectly packed. A more perfectly
packed cigarette gives you an open easy draw that unlocks
(13:39):
all the better taste and mildness of fine tobaccos. And Chesterfield,
made by exclusive Vaccuae is more perfectly packed, with an
even distribution of tobacco from one end of your Chesterfield
to the other. Firm and pleasing to the lips. Mild
yet deeply satisfying. Remember to the touch to the taste.
Speaker 7 (14:03):
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Speaker 1 (14:09):
By Chesterview Mild, yet they satisfy the most.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
I could have sent word to the Colonel out at
Fort Dodge and let the cavalry handle Murdoch, but this
was something personal. There was a job I wanted to
do myself. I couldn't touch Murdoch until he crossed the
line into the Indian Nations. So the next morning I
just watched him drive out of town. I gave him
a couple of hours, and then Chester and I started
(14:57):
on his trail. We straight uh across the Arkansas and
of the Nations.
Speaker 6 (15:10):
I don't know, mister Dill. It seems almost too easy.
His wagon tracks and the snow going.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Straight to the board as far as you can see
over the.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Next ride, Yeah, Chester, but we better keep our eyes open.
We should be getting close to him now.
Speaker 6 (15:23):
Well, I guess ain't nothing to worry about as long
as we can see his tracks up ahead.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Now maybe not. We'll come up on that rise easy.
Just might be waiting for us on the other side.
Speaker 6 (15:34):
I don't know the way. He ain't bothering the curbage trail.
Seems like he ain't expect us to forward. Maybe he
didn't leave it.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
And I don't count on it.
Speaker 6 (15:42):
Why I swear this ain't the time year for traveling?
Is it good time for buffalo hunting? No coach will
be prime?
Speaker 3 (15:51):
And if I was.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Chester, you hit no.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
So he didn't get me. He got my horse. But
I'm pinned down.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
All right, I'll get you out.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
He's still shoot all right?
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Just stay flat behind a horse. Now, you pull your
leg out when I lift up on the saddle. There,
I stay lowt.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Well, you don't heard that shot come from?
Speaker 2 (16:22):
And I'm not sure, but yeah, I'm over in that
rim of rock there, that's a circle round. Yeah, we
rode right into a trap. How's your leg?
Speaker 3 (16:36):
And it ain't broken? Don't think that hurts him?
Speaker 5 (16:39):
All right?
Speaker 3 (16:41):
I'm afraid I ain't gonna be much used to you.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Mister Dylan, I don't worry about it, Chester, But what
are we gonna do?
Speaker 3 (16:46):
We can't just lay here in the snow. We'll freeze.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
That's probably what Murdoch's thinking.
Speaker 6 (16:51):
He sure planned it and got us pinned out here
and open. No color anywhere's near, mister dilling My ride
was under the horse.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Maybe we can No, I wouldn't do any good anyway, Chester,
it's too far. Only his buffalo gun has this range?
Speaker 5 (17:09):
I got.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
Where is it?
Speaker 6 (17:12):
Now?
Speaker 3 (17:13):
He shot your horse, mister Dealing, There was no need
for that.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Yeah, he's showing us how great a hunter he is. Chester.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
What are we gonna do without horses?
Speaker 2 (17:23):
And we'll worry about that later. Now there's one thing
we can do, get up to those rocks and rush him.
But how now his big fifty is a single shot.
He's got to reload between shots.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
He's doing it mighty fast.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Yeah, but quietly he is.
Speaker 6 (17:41):
I could be moving, mister Dillan, you wouldn't never make it.
Why that's five hundred yards or more.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
How you got any other ideas? Chester's right? Learn this
league's all right, Chester, This isn't your fight anyway. I
think I'll draw a shot and see just how fast
he canary load.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
No, no, what you're doing one you're taking off.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Of standing up like that. If you do it all
right now in the five seconds that ain't very long.
It don't have to be longer that nod Chester, Good luck,
mister Jellan. Yeah, same to you, Chester. Hey, murderch one
(18:38):
two three four not like hunting buffalo?
Speaker 4 (18:52):
Is that?
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Murch one two three four five?
Speaker 5 (19:06):
Ahya getting caught the murder.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
To wonder two free Maybe he's caught on Ahmura. You
couldn't be out of ammunition, Coker, m I wonder, ah MANA.
(19:48):
I lay there, half covered, but the snow no, and
Murdoch might easily be holding me in the sights of
his rifle. But I also knew I couldn't lie that
much longer. I freeze before darkness could give me the
cover I needed. Then I saw a movement among the rocks.
It was Golden Calf. He walked to the rim and
(20:10):
started down toward me, the body of Jace Murdoch, lifeless
in his arms. I got up and went to meet him.
As I approached, Golden Calf stopped and after a moment
he placed the body gently on the ground. Why did
(20:34):
you do it, Golden Calf?
Speaker 8 (20:37):
I know now you spoke the truth. His medicine was
not good, not anymore?
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Is that the only reason you killed him? Here? Now
all right? Thanks anyway, I'm gonna have to take you back.
But nobody or convicts you for saving the life of
a US Marshall. We're gonna have to bury him. Yes here,
(21:10):
Wait a minute, let me see your wrist. That's a note.
Gash was Murdock a relative of yours. He was my father.
I am Golden Calf, the son of Longha. Oh oh,
(21:38):
all right, Golden Calf. Let's get started.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
In a moment, our star William Conrad.
Speaker 7 (22:14):
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Speaker 1 (22:20):
Chesterfield made by Exclusive Vacuae, packs more pleasure because it's
more perfectly packed, unlocks all the pleasure of fine tobaccos.
Speaker 7 (22:29):
Chesterfield packs more pleasure because Chesterfield's more perfectly packed.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Firm, and pleasing to the lips, Chesterfield mild, yet they
satisfy the most.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
In how the arrival of a Texas Heard and Dodge
usually meant celebraton and the general hurraih of the town.
But next week I heard arrives with a murdered man,
and that was the West. Good Night.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Gun Smoke Produceton directed by Norman McDonald Dars William Conrad
as Matt Dylan Us Marshall. The special music for gun
Smoke was composed and conducted by Wretch Cory, sound patterns
by Tom Hanley and Bill James. Featured in the cast
were Nester Piva, Sam Edwards and Harry Bartel, Harley bear
(23:22):
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(23:43):
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Speaker 3 (23:45):
Make today your big Red letter day.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Change to L and M today, Ell and M, so
good to your taste, so quick on the draw, Jen
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Speaker 1 (23:57):
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