December 1, 2025 • 24 mins
Have Gun Will Travel was a popular western radio drama series that ran from 1958 to 1960. It debuted as a television series in 1957 and was one of only a few American television programs that paved the way for a radio version. Although the radio show initially featured stories adapted from television, many of the 106 radio episodes were original stories. The stories follow the adventures of Paladin, played by John Dehner.
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
There's something you should remember, mister. Man going into Indian
country should never be paid in advance. Have Gone, Will Travel,
(00:36):
starring mister John Daymer as Paladin, San Francisco, eighteen seventy five,
The Carlton Hotel, headquarters of a man called Paladin and
(01:01):
some sucks. Yes, what is it?
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Mister followed it?
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Look?
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Oh? Miss why dressful? Party?
Speaker 4 (01:13):
You like?
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Oh? I certainly do. But why the mask? Miss mask?
Speaker 3 (01:19):
He's going to masculade party.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Trying to tell me that I take it the hay boy.
Speaker 5 (01:24):
Oh big problem with hey boy.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
He's going as cowboys.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Well that's no problem.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Ohsa big problems. He wears cowboy hat, let uppants, big boots, everything.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
But why what is the problems? Oh? Oh big spurs minicapolisan.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Please forgive me for information on how to walk with Picksburgs.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
All right, send them in.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Oh you got them one now that can do your
boy harmly can walk?
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Afraid to try this?
Speaker 3 (01:57):
You come down? Please?
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Yes, go out, come down. As soon as I finished packing,
did you take another trip? Yes? Another trip?
Speaker 6 (02:04):
Oh you traveled too much?
Speaker 5 (02:06):
He's apologies? Where are you going this time?
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Up around the little big horn?
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Oh, little big horn?
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Well that's a river, Miss Wong in Montana Territory. All right,
come on, let's get the hey boy untangled from his spurs.
Speaker 7 (02:27):
You know, I guess just about the most popular sport
in the world everywhere in the world is fishing. You
hear a lot of discussion among American sportsmen which is
better the dry fly, the wet flies, still fishing or
trolling lake stream or ocean.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Everyone has his own ideas.
Speaker 7 (02:44):
About the sport of fishing, and he goes after it
in his own way.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Well, that's true all over the world.
Speaker 7 (02:50):
As our servicemen have observed, there are a lot of
different ways of catching fish. In Borneol, for example, the
natives crushed the berries of a certain shrub and the
juice poisons the fish of a river without spotting them
as food. In Africa, South America and Alaska, the spear
or harpoon is used.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
In Japan, trained.
Speaker 7 (03:09):
Birds called cormorants are sent diving down into the water
to bring up fish. In some Pacific islands, nets are used.
In others, the bow and arrow is the favorite method
of getting fish for supper. Well, what's true about fishing
is true about other customs and traditions around the world.
A way of doing things may be different, but the
ideals are the same. No one way is right or wrong.
(03:33):
It's just what suits the individual's best. These customs are
important to the people who follow them, and our servicemen
are helping to maintain goodwill by observing the customs of
other people in other lands.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
My problem was to find an army deserter named Henry
Carver and persuade him to go back to his outsits.
It seems he'd deserted in order to rescue our girlfriend
from the marriage that was being forced on her. He
was asking for money from his family to help him
escape into Canada. He and the girl would be at
the Billings water Hole. Montana was no place to be
(04:15):
at this time. The Sioux were being pressed by the
army to go back to the reservations. I saw a
lot of Indian signed several times. There were Indian spoke
signals on the far hills. Then I saw the water holes.
But someone saw me first. I don't don't show. Where
(04:37):
are you keep riding?
Speaker 5 (04:39):
Mistress?
Speaker 1 (04:41):
You Corporal Carver? Who are you? My name is Paladin?
Your mother sent me?
Speaker 5 (04:48):
Did you send the money?
Speaker 1 (04:49):
No?
Speaker 5 (04:50):
Then get out of here.
Speaker 8 (04:51):
Ah?
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Wait, wait, let me talk to you.
Speaker 5 (04:55):
I don't come any closer. We got nothing to talk about.
You get back on that horse, right out of here.
Can we Maybe he can help Becky? You stay out
of this. Go on, mister, start moving.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Any message for your mother?
Speaker 9 (05:09):
Yeah, tell her Becky and me you'll make Canada on
our own.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
And maybe you won't. What are you talking about? A
troop of cavalry? What figure now? You stay out of sight.
They may be looking for you.
Speaker 9 (05:23):
No, don't try anything. I got this rifle pointed at
your heart.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
All right, look down there. You're right.
Speaker 5 (05:35):
It is a troop of cavalry.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
What are we gonna do? Mister? We they're not after me.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
You came to help me.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
I came because your mother asked me to. Well, then
go on get back where you were. They're probably just
coming in for a water break.
Speaker 5 (05:48):
Maybe don't try to trick us.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
I still have you covered. Go on, hurry.
Speaker 5 (06:07):
Right up the lander.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
We move on. I'm up a scouts top.
Speaker 6 (06:14):
You can push the flat cards farther off too.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Captain who are you, John Keeo's like to see you
in the middle of No, John Kell, Let's say, well
that's right, Captain Keel, how long is it Van Paladin?
Six seven years? Oh, I'm not sure you came through
San Francisco. Yeah I did, and I still got the hangover.
Oh Dolan, yeah, capt'n Yeah. Meet my friend Paladin Sam
(06:41):
Dolan Kala, Oh you Dolan. Dolan and this man joined
us a couple of hours back. Oh, Scott's uh, civilian.
I'm hunting for a man. But them engines, the way
they are I figured traveling with the cavalry was safer.
I understand. Well John Keele there, I see you're still
riding that same old horse man. She sure we've been
together along time. What are you doing out here? Paladin?
(07:02):
Business in Indians Just sign we've been driving most of
the north.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
Well, let's walk to higher ground.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Maybe we can see something. Dolan, you better come. Maybe
the man you're looking for is around here.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
On June fifteenth, in the year twelve fifteen, King John
of England met a group of barons on the meadow
of Running Meade. There he placed the royal signature upon
a charter which means much to us today. The document
that King John signed was the Magna Carta. In later years,
from its provisions developed our present day concepts of trial
(07:48):
by jury and the right of habeas corpus, concepts which
are a vital part of democratic life. Thus, the Magna Carta,
written in England almost seven hundred and fifty years ago,
became an important source of American democracy.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
From the contributions of the past come the principles of
the president. See anything, kill now, I don't sign it.
(08:26):
All that's good.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Well let's start back down.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Yeah, hey, you you married yet? Paladin? No? No, I
guess I move around too much for that. You got
to see the fine family I got back at Fort Lincoln. Yeh,
wife and four kids. Good for you. And this is
my last field trip. Next week I go out. I
(08:53):
plan to get a piece of land and teach those
kids of mind how to live off. Where are you
going now? Rejoin the battalion and rode bud Crick not
far from here? Oh what half a day? Who's your
command now? George Crusker?
Speaker 9 (09:08):
Remember him?
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Oh? Yeah, I remember him? What about you, mister Dolan?
Is a dangerous country to be traveling in. I'm here
on a personal matter. Oh nothing, A kid and a girl,
I told your boys, all right, and a girl and
I are supposed to be married. But this boy made
off with her. I traced him to this area, and
I see sure got a score to settle with him. Well,
(09:31):
if I run into him, I'll give him your regards. Captain.
Do you mind if we still tag along with your captain?
Suit yourself? Oh, good luck to your paladin. Say hello
to San Francisco for me. I'll do that. I watched
(09:53):
Captain Keo and his men leave. You and I have
been in the war together. If it hadn't been for
the business of the Carver boy, I'd have ridden on
with him. When I was sure they couldn't see me.
I edged around the rock toward Carver. Only the girl
was there. Where'd you go?
Speaker 3 (10:12):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (10:14):
I'm writing the back of your paladon. Don't try anything.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Give yourself up, Carver.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Maybe you ought to Henry.
Speaker 5 (10:23):
Don't talk like that.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Get moving, Paladin. You're in my way.
Speaker 5 (10:29):
I'll step side.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Get on your horse, all right, give me that right.
He'll live. He's not shot.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Oh what are you gonna do with this?
Speaker 1 (10:54):
I'm gonna save you from yourselves if I can.
Speaker 10 (11:07):
Say, here's a question I'd like to put to you.
How much do you appreciate the things that make life
just a little easier. For instance, take away our teenage
gals dress for Saturday night dance, all glamorous like and
just regular walking fashion place. And when they get to
the dance there's a super combo waiting to give out
(11:28):
with the music. Let's go back a spell round seventeen
ninety and see what the teenage gals were wearing then
for a weekend get together. It's Sunday afternoon and the
gals are attending a rare social gathering. Every last one
of them is dressed in a plain homemade linsey woodie
dress dyed with butternut or walnut juice, and there isn't
(11:51):
a frill or a bright colored ribbon to be seen.
They don't cotton too, sich d dads in seventeen ninety.
Of course they all bought. They're spinning wheels and looms
with them and while they sit and talk, their fingers
kept busy. Their stockings to be made for everybody in
the family, mittens and shawls for the winter, may be
a potholder a two to protect mothers hands from the
(12:14):
homemade iron pots.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
And what do they talk about?
Speaker 10 (12:17):
Mostly about the time when they'll get mad and have
their own families to take care of, and sometimes when
the Indians pull a surprise attack on the fort, the
goals are called out to take their place at their stockade,
to keep the muskets loaded or maybe fireing themselves. Yeah,
that's what a weekend date meant to the gals in
seventeen ninety. But to them it was just part of
(12:37):
the routine, because like their folks, they worked and fought
so living it'd be easier in the future, the future
that you're now protecting.
Speaker 5 (13:01):
He might as well have turned me over that captain
this morning.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
It's not the same as giving yourself up.
Speaker 5 (13:07):
I'm not giving myself up.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Can't you see it's not his faulty. He didn't just
run away. I begged him.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
To help me. He was in the service. It was
his duty to stay there.
Speaker 9 (13:17):
Hum duty, beating the scrub for a handful of disorganized engines.
Speaker 5 (13:24):
Becky was being forced into marrying that old coop Dolan.
You saw, I'm a kind of a man he is.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
He's still deserted, mister Paladin.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
There's something you should know.
Speaker 5 (13:35):
I don't bother Becky. It won't make any difference to him.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
We're married, mister Paladin. The day after we ran away.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Oh my best wish is give me this carver. However,
your husband's right, that doesn't make any difference. No, wait
a minute, hold up, what now looks like there was
a camp here not long back Indians. I don't know
(14:08):
what is it? Canteen stamped seventh US Cavalry, the seven. Yeah,
cause you're out at the corporal. From the look of it,
it was a large group, larger than kios. Well, let's
get out of here. Oh what is it?
Speaker 5 (14:32):
What do you change?
Speaker 1 (14:36):
You hear it? What? I don't know. They're rumbling in
the ground. It's like a lot of horses are distant thunder.
I don't know. Let's go.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Why are you so worried, mister Paladin?
Speaker 1 (15:10):
What makes you think I am?
Speaker 3 (15:12):
I've been watching you everything. You heard that that sound?
You've changed?
Speaker 5 (15:17):
Like something bothering you?
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Paladin?
Speaker 5 (15:20):
Look what that horse on top of.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
That ridge over there? Yeah? I see him. Hey, you've
gotta sidle on and let's ride up there.
Speaker 5 (15:32):
Maybe his owner's forage.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Maybe he's just fairly moving, Paladin, that's a cavalry saddle. Yeah,
I said, Wait a minute, that's got to kill his horse. Boy?
Who no, boy, you know.
Speaker 11 (15:55):
Hey boy, come bent you easy, easy boy, good lord,
this horse has been shot.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
What do you think happened? Tarver? Get down, help me
doctor this horse. Then we'll look for Captain Keel. Watch
your horses, don't slip.
Speaker 5 (16:25):
What are we going down here for?
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Paladin? I gotta find out what happened to k.
Speaker 8 (16:33):
Yeah, I'm hon it's head down that drawdin.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
We got you from both sides doing like I got
my bride back, and our friends are deserters too.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
You can't do anything now, mister Dolan.
Speaker 5 (16:58):
We're married about that later.
Speaker 6 (17:01):
Thanks Paladin for delivering them up.
Speaker 5 (17:03):
We saw you coming a long ways back.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
What happened to the cavalry? Dulham and I left them
this morning? There was a lot of Indian signs, so
we turned back.
Speaker 5 (17:12):
It's a lucky thing we might have missed you.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
All right, boys, get them off the trail to the
clearing then get that news ready.
Speaker 5 (17:19):
We got a deserter to hang.
Speaker 7 (17:29):
With our American servicemen. In many countries around the world,
they have a wonderful opportunity to observe new customs and traditions.
What might have seemed strange before is becoming pretty familiar
to them. For instance, among the Mohammedans, to drink coffee
with anybody is regarded as a sacred rule of hospitality,
a token of peace.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
The berries are roasted over a.
Speaker 7 (17:50):
Charcoal fire and the coffee is allowed to boil three times.
It's thickly sugared and served in very small cups. All
this is traditional among Mohammadan, but as our servicemen have observed,
it's well, it's simply their version of our mid morning
coffee break or our afternoon tea party. For our cocktail hour.
It's a time for friends to sit down and relax.
(18:12):
It's a time for conversation with a cup of whatever
beverage suits the individual taste. And this is true of
customs and traditions of all countries. A way of doing
things may be different, but the ideals are the same.
So it is by observing these customs that our servicemen
are helping to maintain goodwill with other people in other lands.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Dolan and the two men forced us towards a big
tree in a clearing nearby. One man threw a rope
over a branch, while the other put the noose around
Henry Carver's neck. Dolan sat his horse watching with a
grin on his face. I waited the chance to get
to my derringer.
Speaker 5 (18:59):
All right, get this job done and get out of here.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Spat that horse out from under him. Oh please, don't
do it.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
I'll do anything you say.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
You will anyway. Now go on, boys, do it. Get
away from that horse. You too will get the same thing.
Speaker 5 (19:14):
We ain't chained to set our business. Come on, Peldan,
he is doing dead.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Yes, he's dead, and I've got his gun.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
Mister Peladan gooted right acute, So drop that Darren.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Becky, don't do this. Drop the gun, all right, but
you're not going to win anything.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
This way, Henry and I can get to Cannon.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Oh, ken you there's a cavalry patrol coming this way.
Speaker 5 (19:35):
Becky, quit talking and gets this rope off on me.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
The patrol just kept coming on, as though they hadn't seen.
Speaker 5 (19:49):
Any of us.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
The kids were riding up the hillside. I mounted and
started after the dead. Stopped at the top, Carver and
the girls sat their horses, staring down the other a side.
As I rode up, Oh, Carvert, what's the matter.
Speaker 5 (20:07):
Palidence, look.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Down there? H what is it? Good lord?
Speaker 5 (20:22):
It's the seventh cavalry.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
No one's moving, mister Palladin.
Speaker 5 (20:28):
They've been slaughtered. They're all dead.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
My outfeeling me don't please?
Speaker 3 (20:35):
I could you have gune except die with them?
Speaker 1 (20:38):
That's what I could have done.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
Oh go there, yeah, I'm about tonn of Bradley for
Colonel Gibon.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
I look, if the general.
Speaker 6 (20:57):
Castles come on.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Down there by the river, go find all of them, right, thanks?
Mess up?
Speaker 11 (21:11):
Oh no, they must have been ambushed. They're massacred by Indians.
No survivors could come out of that.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
And there is a survivor, Lieutenant, there's a there's a horse.
Speaker 5 (21:28):
There's another survivor of lieutenant.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
Oh, Henry, don't.
Speaker 9 (21:31):
Do it, lieutenant. I'm Corporal Henry Carver. I deserted from
the seventh Cavalry. I want to turn myself inn Please, Becky,
try to understand. I couldn't go with you now, not
till I've done what i have to do.
Speaker 6 (21:50):
All right, couple falling with us?
Speaker 3 (21:54):
Oh why mister Palla Why did he turn himself in?
They won't care now he will.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
He was a part of his seventh Cavalry, Becking, he
was a part of other men. Come on, I'll take
you home. Have Gun, Will Travel, Created by her Medal
(22:49):
and Sam Rawl, is produced and directed in Hollywood by
Norman McDonald and stars John Damer as Paladin, with Ben
Wright as hey Boy. Tonight's Glory was written by Irving
Wallace and adapted for radio by Tom Hanley. Featured in
the cast were Sam Edwards, Barbara Eiler, Vic Barron, and
(23:10):
Jack Miles. Have Gun, Will Travel is brought to you
through the worldwide facilities of the Armed Horses Radio and
Television
Speaker 3 (23:28):
Service after the b
There's something you should remember, mister. Man going into Indian
country should never be paid in advance. Have Gone, Will Travel,
(00:36):
starring mister John Daymer as Paladin, San Francisco, eighteen seventy five,
The Carlton Hotel, headquarters of a man called Paladin and
(01:01):
some sucks. Yes, what is it?
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Mister followed it?
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Look?
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Oh? Miss why dressful? Party?
Speaker 4 (01:13):
You like?
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Oh? I certainly do. But why the mask? Miss mask?
Speaker 3 (01:19):
He's going to masculade party.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Trying to tell me that I take it the hay boy.
Speaker 5 (01:24):
Oh big problem with hey boy.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
He's going as cowboys.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Well that's no problem.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Ohsa big problems. He wears cowboy hat, let uppants, big boots, everything.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
But why what is the problems? Oh? Oh big spurs minicapolisan.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Please forgive me for information on how to walk with Picksburgs.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
All right, send them in.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Oh you got them one now that can do your
boy harmly can walk?
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Afraid to try this?
Speaker 3 (01:57):
You come down? Please?
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Yes, go out, come down. As soon as I finished packing,
did you take another trip? Yes? Another trip?
Speaker 6 (02:04):
Oh you traveled too much?
Speaker 5 (02:06):
He's apologies? Where are you going this time?
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Up around the little big horn?
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Oh, little big horn?
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Well that's a river, Miss Wong in Montana Territory. All right,
come on, let's get the hey boy untangled from his spurs.
Speaker 7 (02:27):
You know, I guess just about the most popular sport
in the world everywhere in the world is fishing. You
hear a lot of discussion among American sportsmen which is
better the dry fly, the wet flies, still fishing or
trolling lake stream or ocean.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Everyone has his own ideas.
Speaker 7 (02:44):
About the sport of fishing, and he goes after it
in his own way.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Well, that's true all over the world.
Speaker 7 (02:50):
As our servicemen have observed, there are a lot of
different ways of catching fish. In Borneol, for example, the
natives crushed the berries of a certain shrub and the
juice poisons the fish of a river without spotting them
as food. In Africa, South America and Alaska, the spear
or harpoon is used.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
In Japan, trained.
Speaker 7 (03:09):
Birds called cormorants are sent diving down into the water
to bring up fish. In some Pacific islands, nets are used.
In others, the bow and arrow is the favorite method
of getting fish for supper. Well, what's true about fishing
is true about other customs and traditions around the world.
A way of doing things may be different, but the
ideals are the same. No one way is right or wrong.
(03:33):
It's just what suits the individual's best. These customs are
important to the people who follow them, and our servicemen
are helping to maintain goodwill by observing the customs of
other people in other lands.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
My problem was to find an army deserter named Henry
Carver and persuade him to go back to his outsits.
It seems he'd deserted in order to rescue our girlfriend
from the marriage that was being forced on her. He
was asking for money from his family to help him
escape into Canada. He and the girl would be at
the Billings water Hole. Montana was no place to be
(04:15):
at this time. The Sioux were being pressed by the
army to go back to the reservations. I saw a
lot of Indian signed several times. There were Indian spoke
signals on the far hills. Then I saw the water holes.
But someone saw me first. I don't don't show. Where
(04:37):
are you keep riding?
Speaker 5 (04:39):
Mistress?
Speaker 1 (04:41):
You Corporal Carver? Who are you? My name is Paladin?
Your mother sent me?
Speaker 5 (04:48):
Did you send the money?
Speaker 1 (04:49):
No?
Speaker 5 (04:50):
Then get out of here.
Speaker 8 (04:51):
Ah?
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Wait, wait, let me talk to you.
Speaker 5 (04:55):
I don't come any closer. We got nothing to talk about.
You get back on that horse, right out of here.
Can we Maybe he can help Becky? You stay out
of this. Go on, mister, start moving.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Any message for your mother?
Speaker 9 (05:09):
Yeah, tell her Becky and me you'll make Canada on
our own.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
And maybe you won't. What are you talking about? A
troop of cavalry? What figure now? You stay out of sight.
They may be looking for you.
Speaker 9 (05:23):
No, don't try anything. I got this rifle pointed at
your heart.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
All right, look down there. You're right.
Speaker 5 (05:35):
It is a troop of cavalry.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
What are we gonna do? Mister? We they're not after me.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
You came to help me.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
I came because your mother asked me to. Well, then
go on get back where you were. They're probably just
coming in for a water break.
Speaker 5 (05:48):
Maybe don't try to trick us.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
I still have you covered. Go on, hurry.
Speaker 5 (06:07):
Right up the lander.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
We move on. I'm up a scouts top.
Speaker 6 (06:14):
You can push the flat cards farther off too.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Captain who are you, John Keeo's like to see you
in the middle of No, John Kell, Let's say, well
that's right, Captain Keel, how long is it Van Paladin?
Six seven years? Oh, I'm not sure you came through
San Francisco. Yeah I did, and I still got the hangover.
Oh Dolan, yeah, capt'n Yeah. Meet my friend Paladin Sam
(06:41):
Dolan Kala, Oh you Dolan. Dolan and this man joined
us a couple of hours back. Oh, Scott's uh, civilian.
I'm hunting for a man. But them engines, the way
they are I figured traveling with the cavalry was safer.
I understand. Well John Keele there, I see you're still
riding that same old horse man. She sure we've been
together along time. What are you doing out here? Paladin?
(07:02):
Business in Indians Just sign we've been driving most of
the north.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
Well, let's walk to higher ground.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Maybe we can see something. Dolan, you better come. Maybe
the man you're looking for is around here.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
On June fifteenth, in the year twelve fifteen, King John
of England met a group of barons on the meadow
of Running Meade. There he placed the royal signature upon
a charter which means much to us today. The document
that King John signed was the Magna Carta. In later years,
from its provisions developed our present day concepts of trial
(07:48):
by jury and the right of habeas corpus, concepts which
are a vital part of democratic life. Thus, the Magna Carta,
written in England almost seven hundred and fifty years ago,
became an important source of American democracy.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
From the contributions of the past come the principles of
the president. See anything, kill now, I don't sign it.
(08:26):
All that's good.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Well let's start back down.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Yeah, hey, you you married yet? Paladin? No? No, I
guess I move around too much for that. You got
to see the fine family I got back at Fort Lincoln. Yeh,
wife and four kids. Good for you. And this is
my last field trip. Next week I go out. I
(08:53):
plan to get a piece of land and teach those
kids of mind how to live off. Where are you
going now? Rejoin the battalion and rode bud Crick not
far from here? Oh what half a day? Who's your
command now? George Crusker?
Speaker 9 (09:08):
Remember him?
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Oh? Yeah, I remember him? What about you, mister Dolan?
Is a dangerous country to be traveling in. I'm here
on a personal matter. Oh nothing, A kid and a girl,
I told your boys, all right, and a girl and
I are supposed to be married. But this boy made
off with her. I traced him to this area, and
I see sure got a score to settle with him. Well,
(09:31):
if I run into him, I'll give him your regards. Captain.
Do you mind if we still tag along with your captain?
Suit yourself? Oh, good luck to your paladin. Say hello
to San Francisco for me. I'll do that. I watched
(09:53):
Captain Keo and his men leave. You and I have
been in the war together. If it hadn't been for
the business of the Carver boy, I'd have ridden on
with him. When I was sure they couldn't see me.
I edged around the rock toward Carver. Only the girl
was there. Where'd you go?
Speaker 3 (10:12):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (10:14):
I'm writing the back of your paladon. Don't try anything.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Give yourself up, Carver.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Maybe you ought to Henry.
Speaker 5 (10:23):
Don't talk like that.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Get moving, Paladin. You're in my way.
Speaker 5 (10:29):
I'll step side.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Get on your horse, all right, give me that right.
He'll live. He's not shot.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Oh what are you gonna do with this?
Speaker 1 (10:54):
I'm gonna save you from yourselves if I can.
Speaker 10 (11:07):
Say, here's a question I'd like to put to you.
How much do you appreciate the things that make life
just a little easier. For instance, take away our teenage
gals dress for Saturday night dance, all glamorous like and
just regular walking fashion place. And when they get to
the dance there's a super combo waiting to give out
(11:28):
with the music. Let's go back a spell round seventeen
ninety and see what the teenage gals were wearing then
for a weekend get together. It's Sunday afternoon and the
gals are attending a rare social gathering. Every last one
of them is dressed in a plain homemade linsey woodie
dress dyed with butternut or walnut juice, and there isn't
(11:51):
a frill or a bright colored ribbon to be seen.
They don't cotton too, sich d dads in seventeen ninety.
Of course they all bought. They're spinning wheels and looms
with them and while they sit and talk, their fingers
kept busy. Their stockings to be made for everybody in
the family, mittens and shawls for the winter, may be
a potholder a two to protect mothers hands from the
(12:14):
homemade iron pots.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
And what do they talk about?
Speaker 10 (12:17):
Mostly about the time when they'll get mad and have
their own families to take care of, and sometimes when
the Indians pull a surprise attack on the fort, the
goals are called out to take their place at their stockade,
to keep the muskets loaded or maybe fireing themselves. Yeah,
that's what a weekend date meant to the gals in
seventeen ninety. But to them it was just part of
(12:37):
the routine, because like their folks, they worked and fought
so living it'd be easier in the future, the future
that you're now protecting.
Speaker 5 (13:01):
He might as well have turned me over that captain
this morning.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
It's not the same as giving yourself up.
Speaker 5 (13:07):
I'm not giving myself up.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Can't you see it's not his faulty. He didn't just
run away. I begged him.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
To help me. He was in the service. It was
his duty to stay there.
Speaker 9 (13:17):
Hum duty, beating the scrub for a handful of disorganized engines.
Speaker 5 (13:24):
Becky was being forced into marrying that old coop Dolan.
You saw, I'm a kind of a man he is.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
He's still deserted, mister Paladin.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
There's something you should know.
Speaker 5 (13:35):
I don't bother Becky. It won't make any difference to him.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
We're married, mister Paladin. The day after we ran away.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Oh my best wish is give me this carver. However,
your husband's right, that doesn't make any difference. No, wait
a minute, hold up, what now looks like there was
a camp here not long back Indians. I don't know
(14:08):
what is it? Canteen stamped seventh US Cavalry, the seven. Yeah,
cause you're out at the corporal. From the look of it,
it was a large group, larger than kios. Well, let's
get out of here. Oh what is it?
Speaker 5 (14:32):
What do you change?
Speaker 1 (14:36):
You hear it? What? I don't know. They're rumbling in
the ground. It's like a lot of horses are distant thunder.
I don't know. Let's go.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Why are you so worried, mister Paladin?
Speaker 1 (15:10):
What makes you think I am?
Speaker 3 (15:12):
I've been watching you everything. You heard that that sound?
You've changed?
Speaker 5 (15:17):
Like something bothering you?
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Paladin?
Speaker 5 (15:20):
Look what that horse on top of.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
That ridge over there? Yeah? I see him. Hey, you've
gotta sidle on and let's ride up there.
Speaker 5 (15:32):
Maybe his owner's forage.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Maybe he's just fairly moving, Paladin, that's a cavalry saddle. Yeah,
I said, Wait a minute, that's got to kill his horse. Boy?
Who no, boy, you know.
Speaker 11 (15:55):
Hey boy, come bent you easy, easy boy, good lord,
this horse has been shot.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
What do you think happened? Tarver? Get down, help me
doctor this horse. Then we'll look for Captain Keel. Watch
your horses, don't slip.
Speaker 5 (16:25):
What are we going down here for?
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Paladin? I gotta find out what happened to k.
Speaker 8 (16:33):
Yeah, I'm hon it's head down that drawdin.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
We got you from both sides doing like I got
my bride back, and our friends are deserters too.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
You can't do anything now, mister Dolan.
Speaker 5 (16:58):
We're married about that later.
Speaker 6 (17:01):
Thanks Paladin for delivering them up.
Speaker 5 (17:03):
We saw you coming a long ways back.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
What happened to the cavalry? Dulham and I left them
this morning? There was a lot of Indian signs, so
we turned back.
Speaker 5 (17:12):
It's a lucky thing we might have missed you.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
All right, boys, get them off the trail to the
clearing then get that news ready.
Speaker 5 (17:19):
We got a deserter to hang.
Speaker 7 (17:29):
With our American servicemen. In many countries around the world,
they have a wonderful opportunity to observe new customs and traditions.
What might have seemed strange before is becoming pretty familiar
to them. For instance, among the Mohammedans, to drink coffee
with anybody is regarded as a sacred rule of hospitality,
a token of peace.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
The berries are roasted over a.
Speaker 7 (17:50):
Charcoal fire and the coffee is allowed to boil three times.
It's thickly sugared and served in very small cups. All
this is traditional among Mohammadan, but as our servicemen have observed,
it's well, it's simply their version of our mid morning
coffee break or our afternoon tea party. For our cocktail hour.
It's a time for friends to sit down and relax.
(18:12):
It's a time for conversation with a cup of whatever
beverage suits the individual taste. And this is true of
customs and traditions of all countries. A way of doing
things may be different, but the ideals are the same.
So it is by observing these customs that our servicemen
are helping to maintain goodwill with other people in other lands.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Dolan and the two men forced us towards a big
tree in a clearing nearby. One man threw a rope
over a branch, while the other put the noose around
Henry Carver's neck. Dolan sat his horse watching with a
grin on his face. I waited the chance to get
to my derringer.
Speaker 5 (18:59):
All right, get this job done and get out of here.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Spat that horse out from under him. Oh please, don't
do it.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
I'll do anything you say.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
You will anyway. Now go on, boys, do it. Get
away from that horse. You too will get the same thing.
Speaker 5 (19:14):
We ain't chained to set our business. Come on, Peldan,
he is doing dead.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Yes, he's dead, and I've got his gun.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
Mister Peladan gooted right acute, So drop that Darren.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Becky, don't do this. Drop the gun, all right, but
you're not going to win anything.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
This way, Henry and I can get to Cannon.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Oh, ken you there's a cavalry patrol coming this way.
Speaker 5 (19:35):
Becky, quit talking and gets this rope off on me.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
The patrol just kept coming on, as though they hadn't seen.
Speaker 5 (19:49):
Any of us.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
The kids were riding up the hillside. I mounted and
started after the dead. Stopped at the top, Carver and
the girls sat their horses, staring down the other a side.
As I rode up, Oh, Carvert, what's the matter.
Speaker 5 (20:07):
Palidence, look.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Down there? H what is it? Good lord?
Speaker 5 (20:22):
It's the seventh cavalry.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
No one's moving, mister Palladin.
Speaker 5 (20:28):
They've been slaughtered. They're all dead.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
My outfeeling me don't please?
Speaker 3 (20:35):
I could you have gune except die with them?
Speaker 1 (20:38):
That's what I could have done.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
Oh go there, yeah, I'm about tonn of Bradley for
Colonel Gibon.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
I look, if the general.
Speaker 6 (20:57):
Castles come on.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Down there by the river, go find all of them, right, thanks?
Mess up?
Speaker 11 (21:11):
Oh no, they must have been ambushed. They're massacred by Indians.
No survivors could come out of that.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
And there is a survivor, Lieutenant, there's a there's a horse.
Speaker 5 (21:28):
There's another survivor of lieutenant.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
Oh, Henry, don't.
Speaker 9 (21:31):
Do it, lieutenant. I'm Corporal Henry Carver. I deserted from
the seventh Cavalry. I want to turn myself inn Please, Becky,
try to understand. I couldn't go with you now, not
till I've done what i have to do.
Speaker 6 (21:50):
All right, couple falling with us?
Speaker 3 (21:54):
Oh why mister Palla Why did he turn himself in?
They won't care now he will.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
He was a part of his seventh Cavalry, Becking, he
was a part of other men. Come on, I'll take
you home. Have Gun, Will Travel, Created by her Medal
(22:49):
and Sam Rawl, is produced and directed in Hollywood by
Norman McDonald and stars John Damer as Paladin, with Ben
Wright as hey Boy. Tonight's Glory was written by Irving
Wallace and adapted for radio by Tom Hanley. Featured in
the cast were Sam Edwards, Barbara Eiler, Vic Barron, and
(23:10):
Jack Miles. Have Gun, Will Travel is brought to you
through the worldwide facilities of the Armed Horses Radio and
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Speaker 3 (23:28):
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