November 19, 2025 • 30 mins
The Lone Ranger radio series debuted in 1933 and became one of the most successful radio programs in history, producing over 3,000 episodes until 1956. It featured the adventures of a masked Texas Ranger and his Native American companion, Tonto, as they fought for justice in the American Old West.
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Speaker 1 (00:16):
A fiery horseless speed of light, a cloud of dust
in a.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Hotty high old silver, A lone Ranger.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
And atta and attack stop.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
A phantom figure of the plains rode the trails of
the Western United States, helping the agencies of law to
bring peace to a lawless new land. It was the
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famous Lone Ranger, his identity unknown to anyone except his
loyal Indian Franzanto. Adventure always followed him in his exciting exploits.
So let's thrill once again, as we turned back many
years to the wild and untamed west of Old A
Lone Ranger rides again.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
So soon from the Long Hard to the helm Us.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Eagle Pass was a narrow cut between two sheer walls
of solid rock. It separated the fertile valley where fine
cattle grazed from the trail that led to the new
shipping point. The general store and hotel run by old
Pop Carter, was located at the pass. Here, the cattlemen
were accustomed to pause for rest and suppliers before continuing
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their cattle drivers eastward. In the first scene of our
Lone Ranger drama, we find Clem Peabody guiding his large
herd toward the pass.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Here, pop, I'm going. If you ain't a sack for soul.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
Rise, I claim, maybe you won't be so glad to
see me when you hear what I gotta tell you.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Holy folks, any for, I'll draw up and pass the
word while I wait for the critters to catch up
to me. I got the finest stock ever. Just look
at him, long horn here for Samura, You look like
you'd aged ten years this last time I come through here.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
Reckon, I have clem Things ain't been good with me, Samara.
Big Bill Larson's outfit.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
William Kathy's working around here, not exactly, but you'll have
trouble with him. I got me and to wipe them out.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Don't get that sort of idy claim. Take a look ahead.
There's bars across the pass. You see what's in for
toll told Yep, you see My land went across the pass.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
As you know. Sure, but what about it?
Speaker 4 (04:18):
I always had to put a fair income from a
store there. I was glad to leave things stand like
it was. But then Big Bill and his breeds and
polecats come along. We're there there, right inside my place.
They tuck it over. You mean they took you mean
they brought.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
It from me.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
I had my choice of selling or die. Well, oh,
I sold it, and they let me stay here to
sort of tell you and all other ranchers it will
be passing this way how things stand. Ah claim it's
a bad state of affairs?
Speaker 2 (04:50):
What's laws? And want cash? You said something about told.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
Yep two bits for every head that goes through the past,
two bits.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Well, I got over two thousand head of cattle. Then
it'll cost you plenty to get him through the pass, won't. Hey,
it's robbery. I'm a far It ain't no choice, klan.
I'll turn back.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
I'll go back, and you won't get no cows to market.
You know as as I do that, you can't go around,
no other way.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
All going it. It'll mount up to me five hundred dollars.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
Well, if you prefer, you can sign one fourth yere
cattle over the Big Bill one quarter.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
On my cattle. That's even worse robbery.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
Yeah, you see, he don't want to take the cattle.
He'd sooner have the cash.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
And if I give him five hundred cows, I'll never
come out even.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
I know it. So's Big Bill. He's figuring nobody will
leave cattle with.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Him if I will. Is there any movie yonder.
Speaker 5 (05:44):
Yeah, that's him.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
I'll go see it. Get up there, one hundred dollars
five chick, I should see that any there, loss. I
want to talk with you, and I figured you would.
What your name fame Peabody from the bar spread. What's
this I hear about you robbing men the aim to
get to market? I ain't robbing nobody, Peabody. I own
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this land. Now. If you want to cross and pay
two bits ahead for cows, it's all there is to it.
I heard of you and your outlaws and your rustling
hold on everybody. I don't like to listen to that
kind of talk in the first place. I ain't a
lorman in the country looking for me or any man
that's with me. I ain't a lorman. Wouldn't like to
have some proof of the things you've done that may
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be right. But lack and proof, they can't do much,
can they. So now you scheme a legal way to
rob folks. I ain't no cash with me. It's all right, pybody,
cash or cattle, it don't matter one cow do you
for every three I take? Through Them's the terms. It's robbery.
I don't aim to make it too hard for you, Jims.
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You can give me your note and pay it when
you come back here in your way home. Your mighty trusting,
ain't you? Of course you could go the long way
around through the hills and travel one hundred miles to
cross the canyon. If you went through the pass and
took the other route back, just send me into your
ranch to collect on a note. So I don't take
no chance in trusting you. See, I have one hundred
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dollars if you got two thousand head, that's just right.
Speaker 5 (07:13):
Why you wondering?
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Load down? I like Harshwartz Peabody, Now pay up, sign
a note to turn your cattle back one of the three.
What if I head ride on through, I order my
boys to open fire on your critters for trespassing on
my land. Reckon, I know my legal rights. Reckon your
dirty pole cat. I have to give you a note.
Ain't no choice. Will I tell the boys in the
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lone Home cafe about your scheme? Exc you wait?
Speaker 1 (08:01):
The long huned cafe was filled with cattlemen and cowboys.
Claim Peabody entered and join his friends. They gathered around
him while he told of the Lawson gang and control
of Eagle Pass.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Hey, the doing this thing? You ever heard teller clam?
I don't see how Lawson could get away with that
sort of things? Are doing it? If you talk to
the sheriff. I talk to the sheriff, talked to the banker,
and talk to the United States marshals. They all said
he was within his right charging toll. Yep, he can
charge whatever a dog gone pleases. Facts. If you don't
want to let the cattle through, he can stop it
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all together. That's dog gone funny law. If you ask me,
what's a man to do about it? Here, I got
the cash of my cattle. I got a hand over
five hundred dollars over it to that on ra coyote
on my way back. Well, if you don't do it,
he's holding my note. Yeah, but just the same I
don't pay the cash, you'll stop me from going back
to my reign. I ain't that the dynast thing you
ever heard of?
Speaker 6 (08:49):
It's get this all man can make a living no more.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
And the worst of it he is every cattleman in
the valley. He'll have to do the same dog gone thing.
How many men is the man seeks you've never heard.
That's the Beaker's gray in the whole state.
Speaker 6 (09:01):
Must be at least fifty sixty ranches there.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
At least it runs on for miles in every direction.
How many have your figure come through that this year?
Shirks thin over one hundred and fifty thousand.
Speaker 6 (09:12):
Head, I miss my guess what you need Clem's drink?
Speaker 2 (09:14):
I need a couple of I'll keep pitch up that
bottle and.
Speaker 7 (09:17):
Set it down a go, Tyler, did you hear what
Clem Peabody was telling m don't hear?
Speaker 2 (09:26):
The law is trying to me?
Speaker 7 (09:27):
Is put Bill Last and his gang in jail?
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Them plenty mad.
Speaker 7 (09:31):
Nothing has ever been proved against them.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Though, en fine way to beat law.
Speaker 7 (09:36):
There's the disguise on my face, all right, teller?
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Mmmm it plenty good.
Speaker 7 (09:41):
I'll I'll be recognized if I move around here in
the cafe without a mask, and I'm going to get
closer and hear more of what Clem Peabody has to say.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
You maybe talk to him.
Speaker 7 (09:51):
I think I will come over.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
That's way with me, teller. And if you do want
to pay two BIPs ahead, you can leave a quarter
of your cap twenty five percent your cows. That's right.
What Sam Hill will lost and do with all that chat.
Speaker 5 (10:03):
You will do murdering with it.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
You don't figure out getting nothing? Oh he wants is
a cash money? Rotten? This game are hotel? Did you
hear that?
Speaker 7 (10:11):
Hutter Lawson would have a hard time handling a lot
of cattle?
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Hum? That's right. With his reputation as an.
Speaker 7 (10:18):
Outlaw, he'd have an almost impossible time selling branded cattle.
All I could do would be to hold it for
a year and sell the unbranded cabs. And I'm going
to talk to claim Peabody.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
I'm good. You maybe got plan? Perhaps I have.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
At Eagle Pass, Bill Lawson and his men had converted
the general story into a lounging room.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
With tables for cards. Old Pop Carter, its.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Former owner, sat alone behind the counter, which had been
made into a bar. A man entered, slapping Gus from
his clothes and lost and look.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Out, saying, well, what ook you long enough to get
back from town? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (11:05):
I was sort of hill up there. Things didn't work
out just the way we figured they would.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
What do you mean they didn't work out? Just what
I say?
Speaker 6 (11:12):
Kept an eye on Clem Peabody, just like you told me.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
To well, what do you do?
Speaker 8 (11:16):
Sold the critters and got the cash from Yeah? Then
what hey, give me a drink there, pop, I'm thirsty
from the.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Right mind that where's Clem Peabody heading.
Speaker 6 (11:25):
Back this way with five hundred head of cattle?
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Five hundred head of cattle for a watch for you?
Speaker 8 (11:29):
I reckon what you said he'd sold his cattle, So
he did, and he talked to a stranger, and two
of them left the cafe and still kept on talking.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Who's the stranger?
Speaker 6 (11:39):
I don't know, never seen him before?
Speaker 2 (11:41):
What?
Speaker 8 (11:42):
He stayed over till the next morning, So I had
to stay along too to keep an eye on him.
Speaker 5 (11:47):
Like you said to do.
Speaker 8 (11:48):
Yeah, Well, next morning he goes to the agent. He'd
sold the cows too, and bought back five hundred head
for cash.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Money sure, And he.
Speaker 8 (11:57):
Rounded up his waddies and they started driving five hundred
head of cattle back this way, heading this way.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Now, how far back? They'll be here in an hour?
So I reckon.
Speaker 6 (12:07):
I didn't want to get too far ahead of them.
I wanted to make sure they was heading back this.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Way when they want to see here he's bringing back
five hundred head of cattle. For What do you do
with the rest of his cash when he left it
in the bank there, paint it. You mean to say
he's coming back without no cash. That's just what he's doing.
But I got his note. I got his note for
five hundred dollars. Yeah, I know you have. He owes
me five hundred dollars or five hundred head of cattle.
Speaker 6 (12:32):
Maybe he figures on paying in cattle.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
He's crazy if he does that. Cattle's worth a sight
more than five hundred dollars.
Speaker 5 (12:38):
Crazy like a fox cut up.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Maybe ain't worth that much to him. What'd he pay
for it to buy it back?
Speaker 5 (12:44):
You know?
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Nope, couldn't find out. Peabody hitting this way now you
can see him off in the disk. Let me take
a look.
Speaker 5 (12:52):
You see Bill?
Speaker 2 (12:53):
There he is? Ain't that him? Looks like him? That's him,
all right. I don't want them cattle. I didn't figure
anybody to pay us cattle. I want the cash.
Speaker 6 (13:02):
Looks like you're going to get the cattle instead.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Bill, What will we do with the critters. There ain't
no crazon here for him. I'll tell you what I figure.
Speaker 8 (13:09):
In fact, I was told that by an engine named
Tonno never hear him.
Speaker 6 (13:13):
Pop, Well, I might have been again, I might not.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Never mind that. What do you tell you?
Speaker 6 (13:19):
You see Bill?
Speaker 2 (13:20):
His engine.
Speaker 6 (13:20):
He come up to me and he says, the only.
Speaker 8 (13:22):
Way they could drive us out in here is to
get you to do something illegal.
Speaker 6 (13:26):
Yeah, that's you're selling branded cattle.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
They can't get me if I buy it legal, can they?
Well as to that they might be able to.
Speaker 8 (13:34):
Might be hard for a man with your background to
prove you got it legal savvy.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Anyhow, we're wised up to what Clem Peabody is scheming.
That's something. Let him bring the cattle. Earl accept it. Hey,
don't get me and no law angles. I am too
smart for him.
Speaker 5 (13:54):
Engine named Tonto with a white horse.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
What are you capanan laughing about your four?
Speaker 5 (13:59):
Oh nothing?
Speaker 4 (14:00):
As you say, Bill, you're too smart to get trapped easy.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
The curtain falls on the first act of tonight's thrilling
Lone Ranger drama. Before the next exciting scenes, please permit
us to pause for just a few moments.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Now to continue our story.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Bill Lawson purchased the control of Eagle Pass and demanded
that he receive either cash or cattle, or each herd.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Driven through the cut.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Clam Peabody, following the advice of the lone ranger, paid
his toll in cattle. Our next scene opens in clam
Peabody's house. His wife is scolding him for giving lawson
five hundred cows bold up.
Speaker 8 (16:00):
Clean and fancy food.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Oh Dolly, I knowed what I was doing, not fun.
Speaker 5 (16:04):
You did of all things I ever heard tell of.
Speaker 6 (16:06):
This is a limit, all.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Right, Dolly, let it go. It there.
Speaker 5 (16:09):
I won't let it go.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
You must have lost your mind.
Speaker 5 (16:12):
You had all the cash money it was to turn
five hundred dollars of it over to.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Bill lost, and that's a lot of money. But you
spend sight more than mad buying back five hundred head
of cattle. Whatever got into you. I talked to a
man at Longhorn.
Speaker 6 (16:27):
You talk to a minute, My six alive.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
I'm glad you didn't talk to two men.
Speaker 6 (16:32):
You might have come back without.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Bag and a dime. Someone coming, Dolly, now, hush up
while we got company. Come on in.
Speaker 5 (16:43):
Him.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
I want to speak to you. Hey, Brent, Hey Ginger.
It's good to see her leave the door open. It's
kind of stuff in here, A long way from your
own spread. Where have I heard things about Eagle Pass,
and there's plenty of hair about I just got back.
Speaker 9 (17:00):
I know that you had to choose between five hundred
dollars and five hundred head of cattle.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
That's right, and a dog gun.
Speaker 5 (17:06):
It gave away the cattle, so I heard.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
That's why I come here.
Speaker 5 (17:10):
Clym. You ain't touching the head, are you?
Speaker 2 (17:12):
No, ain't been eating local weeding.
Speaker 9 (17:14):
No, every one of your waddies was pume disgusted with
you for what you've done.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
I better not say so. I can hear him claim
I'm an old friend.
Speaker 5 (17:22):
I'm here to see just what's being behind.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
That movie yours.
Speaker 9 (17:26):
Now, you ain't a fool, and you never in your
life went off half cock in a business deal, not
till now.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
But he's sure made up for all the course, and
he showed here the phone.
Speaker 5 (17:35):
Now, hold on, Dolly, there's a smart look in his face. Clem.
Just what's your angle on it?
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Everbl there's a mask man heading this way. He's coming
around through the hills to get to this graze and
without going through the pass. Yeah, he's a riding a
white horse, a finest horse in the hull Blame country.
Go on, he's the one told me to give them
critters cattle instead of cat.
Speaker 5 (18:00):
Tell me some more.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
He's gonna have a talk with on you ranchers before
you drive your cows through the pass, and try and
persuade you to do what I.
Speaker 5 (18:08):
Done by all the right.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
If he thinks he can do that, he's more a
fool than klemm Is. He'm so sure he won't persuade
the boys to give away cows, Dolly.
Speaker 9 (18:17):
If there was any point to it. Hey, there's someone
riding down here. Now look out that door, a white horse.
Speaker 5 (18:26):
Clim get your gun. He must be one of the outlaws. Clim.
Speaker 9 (18:32):
He's called his horse silver. You mean to say, the
man and told you what to do? Is the lone ranger?
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Yes? So, and there he comes to get the rest
of you common to help. Well, if the.
Speaker 5 (18:41):
Lone Ranger says for me to give them crooks cattle,
I'll give them cattle.
Speaker 6 (18:45):
You'll do what Clim done.
Speaker 9 (18:46):
Yes, And to all the other men, Darling mean to say,
you never heard of the lone ranger.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Here I am, mister. He got through the hills and
wreck of time kill the lakeland. We've got to call
on the other answers before they drive the hat into
the pass.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
Here's one you can talk to right now, mister.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Tell him your scheme and you'll help to spread the
word around. Good. Come on and ride with.
Speaker 5 (19:07):
Me, claim, claim, get your horse and stuff.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Did you hear that? I heard it, and we're all right.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Lam Peabody and a Brent rode with a lone ranger.
They went from ranch to ranch, pausing only long enough
to explain their plan and get a promise of cooperation
from the owners. They covered the valley from end to
end as they enlisted the ranchers and their cause. When
their work was done, the lone ranger left the valley
by way of the hills, avoiding Lawson's men an eagle pass.
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Lawson himself was pacing the floor of the General storm
in a rage. Pop Carter, grinning, watched him from behind
the counter.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
You gotta do something about it. What's the matter with you, man,
ken honey?
Speaker 5 (19:58):
You think of something?
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Who would ever think the thing would work out this way?
Every dog on Criticus going through here with a herd
is chosen to leave cattle instead of cash.
Speaker 5 (20:09):
I got the whole place. Cut it up with cattle. Hush.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
All I'm contingenced is do you stop excepting cattle making
pain cans. I'm blasted? How can I They don't have
the cash when they head for the east. They can't
get the cash. They don't sell the cattle, and they
won't go through with cattle unless I take the dog
on cows in payment of the toe.
Speaker 8 (20:28):
We can't go on like this much longer us then
cows have gotta be Padn't you take a chance and
drive him into town.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
And send them. Wouldn't that be smart? Now? Wouldn't it
be smart? Every woman in the country wanting to frame
me for something? And I go to try and sell
cattle with fifty assorted brands register in other men's names,
can show bills to sail though, improve the cattle yours?
Where's that engine that was around here?
Speaker 5 (20:51):
Right here? Besign me?
Speaker 4 (20:53):
Hey?
Speaker 2 (20:53):
You come over here, me what you want? You've been
hanging around here for the past week? Uh me help you?
I wonder if you've been helping. You said they was
laying for me in town, waiting for me to try
and sell some of this cattle. Why you not trying?
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Where'd you get your facts? Me here? Lorman? Talk what
they say and say, maybe get them You in jail. Last,
what about selling cattle? Lorman? Hope you try, Reckon. That's
all I need to know them. They ain't no sense
in playing right in their hands.
Speaker 6 (21:31):
They just hanker to have you run them cars to town.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Bill, will we gotta do something? We got too much
value on them cars. Let them die for lack of grayson.
See who that is? There ain't no more cows heading
this way? Is he?
Speaker 5 (21:43):
God said? He would have said?
Speaker 2 (21:45):
So he was, what do you want this?
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Make a deal?
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Well, you got a lot of cattle and needs grays,
and ain't you what about it? I thinkured maybe you
could use my men to drive heard the town to
sell them. Oh you did? Eh? Well, I'm wise to
the scheme to get me to sell them critters. See,
I ain't stepping in the no frame up to land
me in jail. How'd you know about that? I know
about it, that's all it counts. All shucks. Well, then,
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ain't no use us figuring no further. Reckon. You get
the best of it done right after me letting you
have cows instead of cash, hoping to get you that
away here, Now get out of here.
Speaker 5 (22:26):
I'm broke.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Now o'll here, Lawson, You need land. Don't you what
if I do? Your cows has to eat. If you
had a ranch and the brands that go with it,
you'd be sitting right well in the cattle business with
all them critters to start with. Well, you'll have to
hold them the next season if you don't own some
brands of your own. Now, why don't you buy my spread?
Speaker 5 (22:48):
Maybe there's an idea bill?
Speaker 2 (22:50):
How much? How much cash you got? None? I'll sign
notes for the place I hope to get some cash.
I ain't more than a thousand dollars all told, you
give me that much down, take notes for the resk.
How'll that be? What do you think of it? Boys?
He'll deal, get out some paper, will draw up an agreement. Boys,
we're gonna be honest cattlemen. Who's that?
Speaker 1 (23:26):
An agreement was drawn up between Lawson and Clem and
the one thousand dollars paid over to the rancher. Unnoticed
by anyone, Tanto left the store and rode to the cliff,
where he sent up a smoke signal. Lawson's men began
the roundup of their cattle. Their horses circled the herd,
forcing the scattered animals into a compact group. Then the
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herd was started on its journey into the valley Lemon.
Lawson rode side by side quite a way to go to.
Speaker 5 (23:53):
Reach the range.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Lawson her work quite a while. Get there. We got
a cross gushing of the ranges. Hey, here's guards off alone.
But it ain't the wine, answered the range owners us
the end from one side of the other. Here here's
a square toe just the head. What are only men
laying up there and fixing up the fences. Looks like
they've been picking up their shooting uns. What are the
(24:14):
ironists like that? Per Oh my hey for throw arrange
to be lost. He's moving his cattle too it Yeah,
well he has across my land to get there, all right,
then let me throw not so fast loss, and I'm
charging toll to get across my range.
Speaker 5 (24:32):
What's yeah?
Speaker 2 (24:34):
He ain't the charges across this land?
Speaker 10 (24:39):
A man coming along with Yeah, I figured maybe you
wouldn't like pay him toll as well as you like
collecting its arrange for the cheff to be here eat
shore admire to see you start some trouble.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
Ain't he trouble here? Not that chef?
Speaker 8 (24:56):
But late feel he ain't got no care, that's all right,
I'll take it out a quarter of what he's got.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Lawson turned over the fourth of his herd to the
owner of the square. D Wrench then continued his journey,
while the Sheriff's posse and the lone Ranger accompanied him.
At length, they reached the boundary of the next range,
where they were confronted by Sam Tuttle and his men, all.
Speaker 5 (25:27):
Of the armed.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
What's all that hold out my place? Sam Lossner's taking
his twitters there? Yeah, well that's interesting, reckon. I'll have
to get some toll if you have to cross myland.
Speaker 5 (25:39):
What's extrabberrary of hold the twilight?
Speaker 2 (25:41):
I'm on, Lawton, make some trouble.
Speaker 5 (25:43):
Cash Turtle.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
You'll have your choice, Lawson, cash or a quarter of
your stock yet cash your cow? No matter, I won't
do it. We'll go back. You pay to go back,
pay for the square. They will charge you again. All
the Samuel farshow wretch whinest fall it lasted?
Speaker 5 (25:57):
Old?
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Come on the quarter of the cows and leaf rom
here we gotta go on. What's tighing ahead? Racing Bill?
There's another ranch we got across and more toll of
paint racing show prevelin comes high in these party are
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turned back, turned back, and then first to a collect again.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Loss, and almost frantic, went on his way. With every
ranch he crossed, more cows were taken. The cattlemen no
longer asked for one fourth, but each demanded the return
of the same number of animals originally taken from him.
When at last they reached pem Peabody's ranch, less than
one hundred cows remained. Lawson stared at the cattleman, his
temper beyond control.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
How you can all go to places I'm here? And
what curls I cann left her mind? I bought this
lance of clear off one minute lass and you want
the land? But what will you do for water? What
ain't the water here? I sure have mentioned it, Billy,
you gotta get your water from the next range. No skin, flint,
loose and over stingy. I'm a beard. Do you want cash? Money?
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Get it? The whole thing's a put up job. You'll
realize that at last time I realized that when you
call that horse silver, you've done this.
Speaker 5 (27:20):
You scheme to get the cows back to these ranchers.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Using you can stay here on Clam's land and do
without water you can let Clem keep the catalysts left
and the cash you paid and clear out. He was
better off before we tried to go. Honest, you didn't
try in the right way. Oh is we're quitting?
Speaker 5 (27:34):
Please get out of here.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
I had it not come on? You keep your turn
ranch a car, Thank you, Billy. Just sign this paper
I already got drawn down. You give it to me.
Is it already? Now we're leaving here. Let's start now
there's soon ne a bat a hold on, Butcher, don't
go back the way we come. We're heading for the hills,
he says. We're heading for the hills. If we go
back across all them dog gone ranches, we won't even
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have our horses left.
Speaker 5 (28:11):
The sip.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Oh boy, how was I here? Do you see what
he's thinking in us?
Speaker 5 (28:16):
For I don't see
Speaker 1 (29:50):
The story you've just heard is a copyrighted feature of
The Lone Ranger, Incorporated.
A fiery horseless speed of light, a cloud of dust
in a.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Hotty high old silver, A lone Ranger.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
And atta and attack stop.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
A phantom figure of the plains rode the trails of
the Western United States, helping the agencies of law to
bring peace to a lawless new land. It was the
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famous Lone Ranger, his identity unknown to anyone except his
loyal Indian Franzanto. Adventure always followed him in his exciting exploits.
So let's thrill once again, as we turned back many
years to the wild and untamed west of Old A
Lone Ranger rides again.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
So soon from the Long Hard to the helm Us.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Eagle Pass was a narrow cut between two sheer walls
of solid rock. It separated the fertile valley where fine
cattle grazed from the trail that led to the new
shipping point. The general store and hotel run by old
Pop Carter, was located at the pass. Here, the cattlemen
were accustomed to pause for rest and suppliers before continuing
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their cattle drivers eastward. In the first scene of our
Lone Ranger drama, we find Clem Peabody guiding his large
herd toward the pass.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Here, pop, I'm going. If you ain't a sack for soul.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
Rise, I claim, maybe you won't be so glad to
see me when you hear what I gotta tell you.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Holy folks, any for, I'll draw up and pass the
word while I wait for the critters to catch up
to me. I got the finest stock ever. Just look
at him, long horn here for Samura, You look like
you'd aged ten years this last time I come through here.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
Reckon, I have clem Things ain't been good with me, Samara.
Big Bill Larson's outfit.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
William Kathy's working around here, not exactly, but you'll have
trouble with him. I got me and to wipe them out.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Don't get that sort of idy claim. Take a look ahead.
There's bars across the pass. You see what's in for
toll told Yep, you see My land went across the pass.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
As you know. Sure, but what about it?
Speaker 4 (04:18):
I always had to put a fair income from a
store there. I was glad to leave things stand like
it was. But then Big Bill and his breeds and
polecats come along. We're there there, right inside my place.
They tuck it over. You mean they took you mean
they brought.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
It from me.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
I had my choice of selling or die. Well, oh,
I sold it, and they let me stay here to
sort of tell you and all other ranchers it will
be passing this way how things stand. Ah claim it's
a bad state of affairs?
Speaker 2 (04:50):
What's laws? And want cash? You said something about told.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
Yep two bits for every head that goes through the past,
two bits.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Well, I got over two thousand head of cattle. Then
it'll cost you plenty to get him through the pass, won't. Hey,
it's robbery. I'm a far It ain't no choice, klan.
I'll turn back.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
I'll go back, and you won't get no cows to market.
You know as as I do that, you can't go around,
no other way.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
All going it. It'll mount up to me five hundred dollars.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
Well, if you prefer, you can sign one fourth yere
cattle over the Big Bill one quarter.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
On my cattle. That's even worse robbery.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
Yeah, you see, he don't want to take the cattle.
He'd sooner have the cash.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
And if I give him five hundred cows, I'll never
come out even.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
I know it. So's Big Bill. He's figuring nobody will
leave cattle with.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Him if I will. Is there any movie yonder.
Speaker 5 (05:44):
Yeah, that's him.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
I'll go see it. Get up there, one hundred dollars
five chick, I should see that any there, loss. I
want to talk with you, and I figured you would.
What your name fame Peabody from the bar spread. What's
this I hear about you robbing men the aim to
get to market? I ain't robbing nobody, Peabody. I own
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this land. Now. If you want to cross and pay
two bits ahead for cows, it's all there is to it.
I heard of you and your outlaws and your rustling
hold on everybody. I don't like to listen to that
kind of talk in the first place. I ain't a
lorman in the country looking for me or any man
that's with me. I ain't a lorman. Wouldn't like to
have some proof of the things you've done that may
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be right. But lack and proof, they can't do much,
can they. So now you scheme a legal way to
rob folks. I ain't no cash with me. It's all right, pybody,
cash or cattle, it don't matter one cow do you
for every three I take? Through Them's the terms. It's robbery.
I don't aim to make it too hard for you, Jims.
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You can give me your note and pay it when
you come back here in your way home. Your mighty trusting,
ain't you? Of course you could go the long way
around through the hills and travel one hundred miles to
cross the canyon. If you went through the pass and
took the other route back, just send me into your
ranch to collect on a note. So I don't take
no chance in trusting you. See, I have one hundred
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dollars if you got two thousand head, that's just right.
Speaker 5 (07:13):
Why you wondering?
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Load down? I like Harshwartz Peabody, Now pay up, sign
a note to turn your cattle back one of the three.
What if I head ride on through, I order my
boys to open fire on your critters for trespassing on
my land. Reckon, I know my legal rights. Reckon your
dirty pole cat. I have to give you a note.
Ain't no choice. Will I tell the boys in the
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lone Home cafe about your scheme? Exc you wait?
Speaker 1 (08:01):
The long huned cafe was filled with cattlemen and cowboys.
Claim Peabody entered and join his friends. They gathered around
him while he told of the Lawson gang and control
of Eagle Pass.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Hey, the doing this thing? You ever heard teller clam?
I don't see how Lawson could get away with that
sort of things? Are doing it? If you talk to
the sheriff. I talk to the sheriff, talked to the banker,
and talk to the United States marshals. They all said
he was within his right charging toll. Yep, he can
charge whatever a dog gone pleases. Facts. If you don't
want to let the cattle through, he can stop it
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all together. That's dog gone funny law. If you ask me,
what's a man to do about it? Here, I got
the cash of my cattle. I got a hand over
five hundred dollars over it to that on ra coyote
on my way back. Well, if you don't do it,
he's holding my note. Yeah, but just the same I
don't pay the cash, you'll stop me from going back
to my reign. I ain't that the dynast thing you
ever heard of?
Speaker 6 (08:49):
It's get this all man can make a living no more.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
And the worst of it he is every cattleman in
the valley. He'll have to do the same dog gone thing.
How many men is the man seeks you've never heard.
That's the Beaker's gray in the whole state.
Speaker 6 (09:01):
Must be at least fifty sixty ranches there.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
At least it runs on for miles in every direction.
How many have your figure come through that this year?
Shirks thin over one hundred and fifty thousand.
Speaker 6 (09:12):
Head, I miss my guess what you need Clem's drink?
Speaker 2 (09:14):
I need a couple of I'll keep pitch up that
bottle and.
Speaker 7 (09:17):
Set it down a go, Tyler, did you hear what
Clem Peabody was telling m don't hear?
Speaker 2 (09:26):
The law is trying to me?
Speaker 7 (09:27):
Is put Bill Last and his gang in jail?
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Them plenty mad.
Speaker 7 (09:31):
Nothing has ever been proved against them.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Though, en fine way to beat law.
Speaker 7 (09:36):
There's the disguise on my face, all right, teller?
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Mmmm it plenty good.
Speaker 7 (09:41):
I'll I'll be recognized if I move around here in
the cafe without a mask, and I'm going to get
closer and hear more of what Clem Peabody has to say.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
You maybe talk to him.
Speaker 7 (09:51):
I think I will come over.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
That's way with me, teller. And if you do want
to pay two BIPs ahead, you can leave a quarter
of your cap twenty five percent your cows. That's right.
What Sam Hill will lost and do with all that chat.
Speaker 5 (10:03):
You will do murdering with it.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
You don't figure out getting nothing? Oh he wants is
a cash money? Rotten? This game are hotel? Did you
hear that?
Speaker 7 (10:11):
Hutter Lawson would have a hard time handling a lot
of cattle?
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Hum? That's right. With his reputation as an.
Speaker 7 (10:18):
Outlaw, he'd have an almost impossible time selling branded cattle.
All I could do would be to hold it for
a year and sell the unbranded cabs. And I'm going
to talk to claim Peabody.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
I'm good. You maybe got plan? Perhaps I have.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
At Eagle Pass, Bill Lawson and his men had converted
the general story into a lounging room.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
With tables for cards. Old Pop Carter, its.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Former owner, sat alone behind the counter, which had been
made into a bar. A man entered, slapping Gus from
his clothes and lost and look.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Out, saying, well, what ook you long enough to get
back from town? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (11:05):
I was sort of hill up there. Things didn't work
out just the way we figured they would.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
What do you mean they didn't work out? Just what
I say?
Speaker 6 (11:12):
Kept an eye on Clem Peabody, just like you told me.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
To well, what do you do?
Speaker 8 (11:16):
Sold the critters and got the cash from Yeah? Then
what hey, give me a drink there, pop, I'm thirsty
from the.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Right mind that where's Clem Peabody heading.
Speaker 6 (11:25):
Back this way with five hundred head of cattle?
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Five hundred head of cattle for a watch for you?
Speaker 8 (11:29):
I reckon what you said he'd sold his cattle, So
he did, and he talked to a stranger, and two
of them left the cafe and still kept on talking.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Who's the stranger?
Speaker 6 (11:39):
I don't know, never seen him before?
Speaker 2 (11:41):
What?
Speaker 8 (11:42):
He stayed over till the next morning, So I had
to stay along too to keep an eye on him.
Speaker 5 (11:47):
Like you said to do.
Speaker 8 (11:48):
Yeah, Well, next morning he goes to the agent. He'd
sold the cows too, and bought back five hundred head
for cash.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Money sure, And he.
Speaker 8 (11:57):
Rounded up his waddies and they started driving five hundred
head of cattle back this way, heading this way.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Now, how far back? They'll be here in an hour?
So I reckon.
Speaker 6 (12:07):
I didn't want to get too far ahead of them.
I wanted to make sure they was heading back this.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Way when they want to see here he's bringing back
five hundred head of cattle. For What do you do
with the rest of his cash when he left it
in the bank there, paint it. You mean to say
he's coming back without no cash. That's just what he's doing.
But I got his note. I got his note for
five hundred dollars. Yeah, I know you have. He owes
me five hundred dollars or five hundred head of cattle.
Speaker 6 (12:32):
Maybe he figures on paying in cattle.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
He's crazy if he does that. Cattle's worth a sight
more than five hundred dollars.
Speaker 5 (12:38):
Crazy like a fox cut up.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Maybe ain't worth that much to him. What'd he pay
for it to buy it back?
Speaker 5 (12:44):
You know?
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Nope, couldn't find out. Peabody hitting this way now you
can see him off in the disk. Let me take
a look.
Speaker 5 (12:52):
You see Bill?
Speaker 2 (12:53):
There he is? Ain't that him? Looks like him? That's him,
all right. I don't want them cattle. I didn't figure
anybody to pay us cattle. I want the cash.
Speaker 6 (13:02):
Looks like you're going to get the cattle instead.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Bill, What will we do with the critters. There ain't
no crazon here for him. I'll tell you what I figure.
Speaker 8 (13:09):
In fact, I was told that by an engine named
Tonno never hear him.
Speaker 6 (13:13):
Pop, Well, I might have been again, I might not.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Never mind that. What do you tell you?
Speaker 6 (13:19):
You see Bill?
Speaker 2 (13:20):
His engine.
Speaker 6 (13:20):
He come up to me and he says, the only.
Speaker 8 (13:22):
Way they could drive us out in here is to
get you to do something illegal.
Speaker 6 (13:26):
Yeah, that's you're selling branded cattle.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
They can't get me if I buy it legal, can they?
Well as to that they might be able to.
Speaker 8 (13:34):
Might be hard for a man with your background to
prove you got it legal savvy.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Anyhow, we're wised up to what Clem Peabody is scheming.
That's something. Let him bring the cattle. Earl accept it. Hey,
don't get me and no law angles. I am too
smart for him.
Speaker 5 (13:54):
Engine named Tonto with a white horse.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
What are you capanan laughing about your four?
Speaker 5 (13:59):
Oh nothing?
Speaker 4 (14:00):
As you say, Bill, you're too smart to get trapped easy.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
The curtain falls on the first act of tonight's thrilling
Lone Ranger drama. Before the next exciting scenes, please permit
us to pause for just a few moments.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Now to continue our story.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Bill Lawson purchased the control of Eagle Pass and demanded
that he receive either cash or cattle, or each herd.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Driven through the cut.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Clam Peabody, following the advice of the lone ranger, paid
his toll in cattle. Our next scene opens in clam
Peabody's house. His wife is scolding him for giving lawson
five hundred cows bold up.
Speaker 8 (16:00):
Clean and fancy food.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Oh Dolly, I knowed what I was doing, not fun.
Speaker 5 (16:04):
You did of all things I ever heard tell of.
Speaker 6 (16:06):
This is a limit, all.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Right, Dolly, let it go. It there.
Speaker 5 (16:09):
I won't let it go.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
You must have lost your mind.
Speaker 5 (16:12):
You had all the cash money it was to turn
five hundred dollars of it over to.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Bill lost, and that's a lot of money. But you
spend sight more than mad buying back five hundred head
of cattle. Whatever got into you. I talked to a
man at Longhorn.
Speaker 6 (16:27):
You talk to a minute, My six alive.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
I'm glad you didn't talk to two men.
Speaker 6 (16:32):
You might have come back without.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Bag and a dime. Someone coming, Dolly, now, hush up
while we got company. Come on in.
Speaker 5 (16:43):
Him.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
I want to speak to you. Hey, Brent, Hey Ginger.
It's good to see her leave the door open. It's
kind of stuff in here, A long way from your
own spread. Where have I heard things about Eagle Pass,
and there's plenty of hair about I just got back.
Speaker 9 (17:00):
I know that you had to choose between five hundred
dollars and five hundred head of cattle.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
That's right, and a dog gun.
Speaker 5 (17:06):
It gave away the cattle, so I heard.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
That's why I come here.
Speaker 5 (17:10):
Clym. You ain't touching the head, are you?
Speaker 2 (17:12):
No, ain't been eating local weeding.
Speaker 9 (17:14):
No, every one of your waddies was pume disgusted with
you for what you've done.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
I better not say so. I can hear him claim
I'm an old friend.
Speaker 5 (17:22):
I'm here to see just what's being behind.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
That movie yours.
Speaker 9 (17:26):
Now, you ain't a fool, and you never in your
life went off half cock in a business deal, not
till now.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
But he's sure made up for all the course, and
he showed here the phone.
Speaker 5 (17:35):
Now, hold on, Dolly, there's a smart look in his face. Clem.
Just what's your angle on it?
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Everbl there's a mask man heading this way. He's coming
around through the hills to get to this graze and
without going through the pass. Yeah, he's a riding a
white horse, a finest horse in the hull Blame country.
Go on, he's the one told me to give them
critters cattle instead of cat.
Speaker 5 (18:00):
Tell me some more.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
He's gonna have a talk with on you ranchers before
you drive your cows through the pass, and try and
persuade you to do what I.
Speaker 5 (18:08):
Done by all the right.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
If he thinks he can do that, he's more a
fool than klemm Is. He'm so sure he won't persuade
the boys to give away cows, Dolly.
Speaker 9 (18:17):
If there was any point to it. Hey, there's someone
riding down here. Now look out that door, a white horse.
Speaker 5 (18:26):
Clim get your gun. He must be one of the outlaws. Clim.
Speaker 9 (18:32):
He's called his horse silver. You mean to say, the
man and told you what to do? Is the lone ranger?
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Yes? So, and there he comes to get the rest
of you common to help. Well, if the.
Speaker 5 (18:41):
Lone Ranger says for me to give them crooks cattle,
I'll give them cattle.
Speaker 6 (18:45):
You'll do what Clim done.
Speaker 9 (18:46):
Yes, And to all the other men, Darling mean to say,
you never heard of the lone ranger.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Here I am, mister. He got through the hills and
wreck of time kill the lakeland. We've got to call
on the other answers before they drive the hat into
the pass.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
Here's one you can talk to right now, mister.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Tell him your scheme and you'll help to spread the
word around. Good. Come on and ride with.
Speaker 5 (19:07):
Me, claim, claim, get your horse and stuff.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Did you hear that? I heard it, and we're all right.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Lam Peabody and a Brent rode with a lone ranger.
They went from ranch to ranch, pausing only long enough
to explain their plan and get a promise of cooperation
from the owners. They covered the valley from end to
end as they enlisted the ranchers and their cause. When
their work was done, the lone ranger left the valley
by way of the hills, avoiding Lawson's men an eagle pass.
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Lawson himself was pacing the floor of the General storm
in a rage. Pop Carter, grinning, watched him from behind
the counter.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
You gotta do something about it. What's the matter with you, man,
ken honey?
Speaker 5 (19:58):
You think of something?
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Who would ever think the thing would work out this way?
Every dog on Criticus going through here with a herd
is chosen to leave cattle instead of cash.
Speaker 5 (20:09):
I got the whole place. Cut it up with cattle. Hush.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
All I'm contingenced is do you stop excepting cattle making
pain cans. I'm blasted? How can I They don't have
the cash when they head for the east. They can't
get the cash. They don't sell the cattle, and they
won't go through with cattle unless I take the dog
on cows in payment of the toe.
Speaker 8 (20:28):
We can't go on like this much longer us then
cows have gotta be Padn't you take a chance and
drive him into town.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
And send them. Wouldn't that be smart? Now? Wouldn't it
be smart? Every woman in the country wanting to frame
me for something? And I go to try and sell
cattle with fifty assorted brands register in other men's names,
can show bills to sail though, improve the cattle yours?
Where's that engine that was around here?
Speaker 5 (20:51):
Right here? Besign me?
Speaker 4 (20:53):
Hey?
Speaker 2 (20:53):
You come over here, me what you want? You've been
hanging around here for the past week? Uh me help you?
I wonder if you've been helping. You said they was
laying for me in town, waiting for me to try
and sell some of this cattle. Why you not trying?
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Where'd you get your facts? Me here? Lorman? Talk what
they say and say, maybe get them You in jail. Last,
what about selling cattle? Lorman? Hope you try, Reckon. That's
all I need to know them. They ain't no sense
in playing right in their hands.
Speaker 6 (21:31):
They just hanker to have you run them cars to town.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Bill, will we gotta do something? We got too much
value on them cars. Let them die for lack of grayson.
See who that is? There ain't no more cows heading
this way? Is he?
Speaker 5 (21:43):
God said? He would have said?
Speaker 2 (21:45):
So he was, what do you want this?
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Make a deal?
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Well, you got a lot of cattle and needs grays,
and ain't you what about it? I thinkured maybe you
could use my men to drive heard the town to
sell them. Oh you did? Eh? Well, I'm wise to
the scheme to get me to sell them critters. See,
I ain't stepping in the no frame up to land
me in jail. How'd you know about that? I know
about it, that's all it counts. All shucks. Well, then,
(22:14):
ain't no use us figuring no further. Reckon. You get
the best of it done right after me letting you
have cows instead of cash, hoping to get you that
away here, Now get out of here.
Speaker 5 (22:26):
I'm broke.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Now o'll here, Lawson, You need land. Don't you what
if I do? Your cows has to eat. If you
had a ranch and the brands that go with it,
you'd be sitting right well in the cattle business with
all them critters to start with. Well, you'll have to
hold them the next season if you don't own some
brands of your own. Now, why don't you buy my spread?
Speaker 5 (22:48):
Maybe there's an idea bill?
Speaker 2 (22:50):
How much? How much cash you got? None? I'll sign
notes for the place I hope to get some cash.
I ain't more than a thousand dollars all told, you
give me that much down, take notes for the resk.
How'll that be? What do you think of it? Boys?
He'll deal, get out some paper, will draw up an agreement. Boys,
we're gonna be honest cattlemen. Who's that?
Speaker 1 (23:26):
An agreement was drawn up between Lawson and Clem and
the one thousand dollars paid over to the rancher. Unnoticed
by anyone, Tanto left the store and rode to the cliff,
where he sent up a smoke signal. Lawson's men began
the roundup of their cattle. Their horses circled the herd,
forcing the scattered animals into a compact group. Then the
(23:46):
herd was started on its journey into the valley Lemon.
Lawson rode side by side quite a way to go to.
Speaker 5 (23:53):
Reach the range.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Lawson her work quite a while. Get there. We got
a cross gushing of the ranges. Hey, here's guards off alone.
But it ain't the wine, answered the range owners us
the end from one side of the other. Here here's
a square toe just the head. What are only men
laying up there and fixing up the fences. Looks like
they've been picking up their shooting uns. What are the
(24:14):
ironists like that? Per Oh my hey for throw arrange
to be lost. He's moving his cattle too it Yeah,
well he has across my land to get there, all right,
then let me throw not so fast loss, and I'm
charging toll to get across my range.
Speaker 5 (24:32):
What's yeah?
Speaker 2 (24:34):
He ain't the charges across this land?
Speaker 10 (24:39):
A man coming along with Yeah, I figured maybe you
wouldn't like pay him toll as well as you like
collecting its arrange for the cheff to be here eat
shore admire to see you start some trouble.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
Ain't he trouble here? Not that chef?
Speaker 8 (24:56):
But late feel he ain't got no care, that's all right,
I'll take it out a quarter of what he's got.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Lawson turned over the fourth of his herd to the
owner of the square. D Wrench then continued his journey,
while the Sheriff's posse and the lone Ranger accompanied him.
At length, they reached the boundary of the next range,
where they were confronted by Sam Tuttle and his men, all.
Speaker 5 (25:27):
Of the armed.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
What's all that hold out my place? Sam Lossner's taking
his twitters there? Yeah, well that's interesting, reckon. I'll have
to get some toll if you have to cross myland.
Speaker 5 (25:39):
What's extrabberrary of hold the twilight?
Speaker 2 (25:41):
I'm on, Lawton, make some trouble.
Speaker 5 (25:43):
Cash Turtle.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
You'll have your choice, Lawson, cash or a quarter of
your stock yet cash your cow? No matter, I won't
do it. We'll go back. You pay to go back,
pay for the square. They will charge you again. All
the Samuel farshow wretch whinest fall it lasted?
Speaker 5 (25:57):
Old?
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Come on the quarter of the cows and leaf rom
here we gotta go on. What's tighing ahead? Racing Bill?
There's another ranch we got across and more toll of
paint racing show prevelin comes high in these party are
(26:21):
turned back, turned back, and then first to a collect again.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Loss, and almost frantic, went on his way. With every
ranch he crossed, more cows were taken. The cattlemen no
longer asked for one fourth, but each demanded the return
of the same number of animals originally taken from him.
When at last they reached pem Peabody's ranch, less than
one hundred cows remained. Lawson stared at the cattleman, his
temper beyond control.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
How you can all go to places I'm here? And
what curls I cann left her mind? I bought this
lance of clear off one minute lass and you want
the land? But what will you do for water? What
ain't the water here? I sure have mentioned it, Billy,
you gotta get your water from the next range. No skin, flint,
loose and over stingy. I'm a beard. Do you want cash? Money?
(27:13):
Get it? The whole thing's a put up job. You'll
realize that at last time I realized that when you
call that horse silver, you've done this.
Speaker 5 (27:20):
You scheme to get the cows back to these ranchers.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Using you can stay here on Clam's land and do
without water you can let Clem keep the catalysts left
and the cash you paid and clear out. He was
better off before we tried to go. Honest, you didn't
try in the right way. Oh is we're quitting?
Speaker 5 (27:34):
Please get out of here.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
I had it not come on? You keep your turn
ranch a car, Thank you, Billy. Just sign this paper
I already got drawn down. You give it to me.
Is it already? Now we're leaving here. Let's start now
there's soon ne a bat a hold on, Butcher, don't
go back the way we come. We're heading for the hills,
he says. We're heading for the hills. If we go
back across all them dog gone ranches, we won't even
(27:57):
have our horses left.
Speaker 5 (28:11):
The sip.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Oh boy, how was I here? Do you see what
he's thinking in us?
Speaker 5 (28:16):
For I don't see
Speaker 1 (29:50):
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The Lone Ranger, Incorporated.
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