October 7, 2025 • 23 mins
Gunsmoke was a beloved American radio Western drama series centered on Dodge City, Kansas, in the 1870s, during the settlement of the American West. The central character is lawman Marshal Matt Dillon, played by William Conrad. The program aired from 1952 to 1961 and is widely considered one of the greatest western series ever produced for radio or television. It was gritty, featuring tough and sometimes very violent subject matter. Gunsmoke is a treasured classic that left a permanent mark of the history of radio and westerns.
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
Around Dodge City and in the territory on West. There
is just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers.
And that's where the US Marshal and The Smell of
Guns Smoke Gun, starring William Conrad, the story of the
(00:40):
violence that moved west with Young America and the story
of a man who moved with it.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
I'm that man, Matt Dillon, United States Marshall, the first
man they look for and the last they want to meet.
It's a chance, a job, and it makes a man
watchful and a little lonely.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
M my coffee, Doc, Oh no, thanks to the mind.
(01:22):
If I have them, no not.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
If you can standing, I can another game of Checkers.
Speaker 5 (01:31):
I'll be crowning kings in my sleep as it is.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Why don't we just cause the knight?
Speaker 6 (01:37):
Yeah, I guess.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
M doesn't look like Matt and Chester will be back
tonight anyways.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
No, you just waiting up.
Speaker 5 (01:48):
You worried about theom Doc, you were whom you What
do you mean we're about them?
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Yeah, of course not.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
I didn't really expect them before tomorrow anyway, or even
the day after.
Speaker 5 (01:59):
It's a long ride to Hayes City, and if they
had to stay over to Testifire.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
I guess they can take care of themselves. But there
has been some Indian trouble up that way again. Huh yeah,
I heard the troll went out from Fort Dodge last
week to ransom that Mary Tabor who got captured by
the rappers.
Speaker 5 (02:24):
Anyway, it's not Indians I'm worried about. It's those Hayes
City females.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
Oh yes, I heard about them myselves.
Speaker 7 (02:34):
You think that's what's holding them up?
Speaker 8 (02:36):
And better not they?
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Oh here, we are worrying about them, and they're probably
enjoying themselves in some honky tonk saloon, girls and liquor,
singing and dancing and oh oh, you won't say they're
having funnel, right, Joan, you recon that tokyo singing.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
That sounds like a Kyo chester.
Speaker 7 (03:12):
I mean there might be any that might be.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
It's no matter you worried.
Speaker 7 (03:19):
Don't shoot, just kindly dry.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
We go to be a bouck to the river.
Speaker 7 (03:24):
Don't you think I'm sure we'll be glad to get there. Oh,
I ain't complaining, you understand, And you was perfectly right
not to camp back back them rocks.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Oh the horses need water, yes, I.
Speaker 7 (03:36):
Said, I ain't complaining. You was right to come out
of the river, even if it is pitch dark. Only
thing I declare I could eat me a buffalo hide,
hoopan horn, but I'll settle for baking the biscuits.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
And wait a minute of Chester. That looks like we're
gonna have a company at the river.
Speaker 7 (03:56):
Sure enough, they got a campfire going.
Speaker 6 (04:01):
Reckon.
Speaker 7 (04:01):
It might be Indians.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
The only idea that every built up fire that big Chester.
Speaker 7 (04:06):
Yes, we think it could be way out here.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
And only one way to find out.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Hey, now hold, you.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Got fire that fangs and been recognized alright? Why it's
a cavalry ouity, Yeah, come about to go on in.
Speaker 7 (04:39):
They got guards posted out, must be expecting trouble. Ain't
very many of 'em. Uh must be transport crow cliff.
We got a wagon over there day I'm from mister Dylan. Look,
I ain't that a lady over.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
There with that wagon?
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Hell if it is, the cavalry has got a new uniform.
Speaker 7 (05:05):
Marshall Dillan catcher, Sergeant Cromwell, I lot, Sergeant Holly, Sorry
about that shot, Marshall.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
As long as you're going to hit us? Who was
in charge? Sergeant him Marshall, Lieutenant Dickon, Lieutenant, I'm Matt Dylan.
Now that's Chuster properly. I don't remember saying you around Dodge,
was Honah. I only been at the fort about a month, Marshal.
I see yeh.
Speaker 7 (05:31):
We've got to know the sergeant here pretty well. He's
been our border. You might save a few times.
Speaker 8 (05:37):
I sure can't recommend accommodations.
Speaker 7 (05:40):
Arm Eh, what's that cooking?
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Oh Buffalo states?
Speaker 8 (05:45):
You hungry?
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Well, now we got our own food, sergeant, And.
Speaker 8 (05:51):
There's plenty for everybody, isn't there, Lieutenant, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
Yes, course join us, Marshall, glad to have you.
Speaker 7 (05:57):
I'll just go tend the hearts.
Speaker 6 (05:59):
You right.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
A long way from Dodge, an't you?
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Musham?
Speaker 2 (06:04):
I would delivered a prisoner at Hey City and we're
on our way back. I uh, I'll have to ask
you why you're out here. That's Mary Tabor over there,
isn't it. So you know the story?
Speaker 6 (06:16):
Now?
Speaker 2 (06:16):
I heard of attachment had gone out to a ransomer
from the Orapa house. Yeah, we had that wagon loaded
with trade goods to buy her back, guns and ammunition included.
Oh they took it, of course, they got the.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
Girl only because I insisted the exchange be simultaneous.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
They brought the girl, we rode away and left the goods.
Otherwise we'd all have been dead.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
Oh what boy, they'd have turned on us a minute
they got their hands in them guns. Marshall, I've always
heard the Arapa Hub deal fairly.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
I wouldn't trust any Indian or anybody else. What do
you mean that shots you had thrown at us just
ordinary riders coming in with enough noise for a regiment.
It was only a warning. We get reason to be cautious. Marshall.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
There was a Rappoh you trust so much? Have been
following us ever since we made the exchange. How do
you know we've seen sign even caught a glimpse of
a scout on the horizon.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
A couple of times. You're out there all right, just
waiting a chance to take her back. Why would they
wait until you're only a day's right out of Fort Dodge?
If I wouldn't they jump You're right there in their
own country when they had the advantage. You're only a
small detachment. Hm, small as right? Eight men? That's all
laid allow me?
Speaker 6 (07:26):
Uh huh.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
It makes you nervous to the Marshall, I know there's
somebody out there in the dark right now? Have you
scotted since making camp?
Speaker 6 (07:35):
Certainly?
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Do you mind if I go out and take a
look around.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
Ain't got guards mount and I'll handle him. Shoot yourself much?
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Thank you? You knew out here with a day. I've
been commissioned over two years.
Speaker 9 (07:51):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
This is your first tour on the planes though. Huh
what do you insinuate in Marshall? Nothing, lieutenant nothing. It's
always better to know what you're facing. Sometimes you find
you have nothing to be afraid of. Uh, you mind
if I take Sergeant clumb over with me? Go ahead?
Speaker 6 (08:11):
Thank you?
Speaker 2 (08:29):
The hair marshal. Yeah, he brought his horse down the water. Uh,
I'd say that they stopped at that Clumper Will was
over there properly.
Speaker 8 (08:40):
But only one in the end, you know. Come to
think of it, it's always only one. We've seen sign
for three days, but always only one rider at a time.
Today I got a close look. It's in a wrapper hole.
Now what do you think that means?
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Maybe that there is only one sergeant? Well then, well
what's he doing here? I don't know, but somebody might
who married taber.
Speaker 7 (09:21):
Ohm on my saving some of this buffalo steak. It's
mighty good.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
I touched her in a minute. Will Marshall, you're right, Lieutenant.
At least there's one a rapper out there, a scout,
of course.
Speaker 6 (09:38):
Maybe.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Anyway, I don't think one man will try to attack
eight or now ten of us. Nevertheless, I'll keep my
guards posted shut. Uh, Lieutenant, I'd like to talk to
Mary Taber if you don't mind, go ahead.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
If you talk to you, she won't any of us.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Of course, I suppose she's been through a lot. Go ahead,
try ah, Thanks, I love miss table.
Speaker 9 (10:11):
I Marshall Dylon, I know I've seen you around, Dodge Marshall.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Oh, now, folks back there will be money pleased that
you're safe, Will THEE. Marshall? Sure they thought you were
killed like the rest of that wagon train. When the
word game that you were still alive, everybody's mighty happy
about it. Your father got together that wagon load of goods.
Speaker 9 (10:33):
I noticed he didn't come out himself.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Well it's a hard trip, ma'am. And he's not too young,
you know. Besides, only eight men were allowed to go
into the Arapahoe camp. Look, miss Taber, your father isn't wealthy.
It took almost everything he had to stock that wagon.
Speaker 9 (10:56):
I'm sorry, Marshall, I don't know what's wrong.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
They'll all be glad to have you back. Mary.
Speaker 9 (11:04):
I didn't know. I was afraid maybe they'd think, you
know what, they'd think how most women are treated. It
wasn't like that with me.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
It wouldn't matter if folks understand how it.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Is, do they, Marshal?
Speaker 9 (11:22):
They say so, But I've seen how they look at
women who had come back. I did it myself, and
I know what I was thinking.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
But it wasn't like that with me.
Speaker 9 (11:33):
I swear you didn't touch me. He two eagles, the
Arapahole brave who bought me, bought you.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
But you were captured by the Arapa. Ho weren't you?
Speaker 10 (11:47):
No?
Speaker 9 (11:48):
It was Cheyenne attacked the train, killed everybody but me
and two little boys. We rode all night, and then
we came to the Arapahole village and.
Speaker 7 (11:59):
They sold me there.
Speaker 9 (12:01):
I guess they told me because I was so much trouble,
so worn out. They took the little boys with them
to raise his warriors.
Speaker 6 (12:09):
I guess.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
And there's a robbers who two eagles brought.
Speaker 9 (12:13):
You for ten horses.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
I mean must have valied your highway. That's a good price.
Speaker 9 (12:20):
But he didn't touch me, Marshall. I swear it never
in all the two months. He treated me fine, just like.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
The rest of his family told me, Miss Tabor. Would
he have any reason to follow you? Follow me now here?
Speaker 9 (12:36):
But you think he's the one I've been see I.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
I don't know. I'm only asking if there might be
a reason for him to do it.
Speaker 9 (12:44):
I I don't think so, Marshall. I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
H Thanks, ma'am. Uh, I don't worry about the folks
and Dodge or your father. He's he's gonna be money.
Glad to see you, Thanks Marshall.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
Sure, Marshall, uh yess 'em.
Speaker 9 (13:06):
That Indian out there, they won't hurt him.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Wow, No, ma'am, not if they don't see him. Is
she dealing your Buffalo States?
Speaker 7 (13:26):
Getting cold?
Speaker 6 (13:27):
All right?
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Chester?
Speaker 7 (13:28):
Sergeant from well up stairs? You found him? Signed m
uh Well, one Indian can't make too much trouble, can he?
Speaker 2 (13:37):
All that depends on the end of Anchester and why
he's here.
Speaker 7 (13:56):
Mit, you're dealing week means you're dealing with uh it
sh something funny's going on?
Speaker 2 (14:04):
H you hear that. Yeah, it sounds like a dove,
but it's still dark.
Speaker 7 (14:11):
Now I'm just break him Dawn.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Only one is to notice that those me and her
her be married, Taber, she's.
Speaker 7 (14:19):
Only pretending to sleep. Every time that cussin bird goes,
she lifts her head and look.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Try to look. Sees you there? Yeah, I see why, Chester,
look over the edge of that brush there, but.
Speaker 7 (14:33):
That's your India.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Quiet, But mister Dills, wait and watch. Yeah, she sees him, but.
Speaker 7 (14:40):
Sure she does. He's right there playing a day. That
fool guard must be sound asleep. Shouldn't we also have it?
Speaker 9 (14:47):
What?
Speaker 7 (14:49):
Why wear't that Indian.
Speaker 6 (14:50):
Go to him?
Speaker 7 (14:51):
He's gone again, disappeared.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Be quiet, Chester, Just look at Mary taper Ah.
Speaker 7 (14:59):
She's out of her blankets, crawling away with m mister Dylon.
That girl sneaking away out into the brush. She's going
to that Indian. She's running away.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
It looks like it. Well, we can't just lay. If
we tell them, Chester, they'll be shooting and somebody will
get hurt, maybe the girl. I'm gonna follow her and
you follow me, maybe twenty or thirty paces and but be.
Speaker 7 (15:19):
Quiet, don't worry, and guards lad will start throwing lead
at any sound of hears out there.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Alright, let's go marry Harry Tabor. White man moved, white
(16:04):
man die.
Speaker 10 (16:17):
No, no, don't don't kill him.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Eh likes Mary.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
It's Marshall Dylan.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
He's my friend, friend, friend.
Speaker 7 (16:39):
I'm right behind you.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
You let him go.
Speaker 7 (16:41):
You're a dead Indian.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
No, you don't sure.
Speaker 7 (16:43):
I'm trying to drop that night from me, mister Dylan.
Speaker 9 (16:45):
Loose two eagles. Let him go, friend friend.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
All right, you just give him covered Chester you now,
maybe you better explain this, Mary.
Speaker 9 (17:01):
I just had to talk to him, Marshall. I I
had to see that nothing happened to him. Those soldiers
have seen anymore if he tried to come into camp.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
So this is too eggles. This is the man who
bought you.
Speaker 6 (17:13):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
And he's young, yes, and he's handsome, yes. And he's
come to claim his property. It's not like that.
Speaker 9 (17:27):
I told you.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
It was never like that.
Speaker 9 (17:31):
I know you probably won't believe it. I know the
lieutenant never could. But he's a good man, Marshall, gentle
and kind and good. Do you believe that?
Speaker 6 (17:43):
Maybe?
Speaker 2 (17:45):
What do you mean.
Speaker 9 (17:47):
He's in a rapper home and anan No, you mean
he's only a savage. I'm sorry, Marshall, and you're right.
There were times when I almost forgot it, and then
something would remind me, something that would turn my stomach.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
That's why.
Speaker 9 (18:13):
That's the only reason.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Why he didn't become his wife.
Speaker 9 (18:18):
Yes, any of the others would simply have taken me,
specially after they paid.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Ten horses.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
That made me his ado with.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Just as he liked.
Speaker 9 (18:30):
But he courted me. Marshal stood in his blanket outside
the teepee and sang to me it was frightening, but
it was lovely too. Do you understand, Marshall?
Speaker 2 (18:43):
It was lovely and I listened.
Speaker 9 (18:45):
I listened. I understand Mary, and I'm not ashamed when
you tell them back and Dodge tell them that too.
I'm not ashamed.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Harry. How much of what we're saying does he understand?
Speaker 9 (18:56):
Not much. I taught him a few words of English,
she taught me a few of a rabbit hole, but
it was mostly like animals that we understood each other.
By the way it was said, by the tone of voice, you.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Should have told Lieutenant Dick about him married.
Speaker 8 (19:13):
What for.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
You'd have been all the more delighted to shoot him
on sight?
Speaker 2 (19:18):
And what are you gonna do. You're gonna go back
with two eagles? You know I can't? And why did
you come out here?
Speaker 9 (19:27):
I told you to warn him, send him back before
something happened.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Are you're sure? Mary? You must have known once he
had his hands on you again he wouldn't let you go.
Didn't you know that?
Speaker 9 (19:37):
I suppose I did, Marshall?
Speaker 2 (19:39):
And what are you gonna do?
Speaker 9 (19:41):
You mean you you let.
Speaker 8 (19:44):
Me go with him?
Speaker 2 (19:46):
If that's what you really want? If you're sure it's done? Yeah,
I hear him, trust him. Oh, they have discovered your gone,
Miss Table. There's not much time go go?
Speaker 9 (19:57):
How could I ever be sure?
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Marsia? None of us can ever be sure about the future,
Miss Tabor. But you can't fear the future either. You
have to decide what you want and then stick to
your decision.
Speaker 9 (20:05):
But if I need to regret it.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
If you have to question it, Larry, then you're not
sure enough.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Squawk, Come get drum?
Speaker 2 (20:12):
What are you gonna do? Miss Taber? To evil love,
come no to eagles.
Speaker 9 (20:16):
I can't.
Speaker 8 (20:18):
I can't.
Speaker 9 (20:18):
It would be wrong. How can I tell it?
Speaker 2 (20:21):
I can't help you?
Speaker 10 (20:23):
Goodbye two weeks, goodbye and thank you Love.
Speaker 9 (20:27):
I'll never forget you.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
No, all right, come on, Chester Holding, I'll take her.
I'm going to squawk, go way past. Lord, good for you.
Speaker 5 (20:38):
I'm going back to your people.
Speaker 10 (20:40):
Hurry, I'm going.
Speaker 8 (21:02):
Well, he just ran right at us, man, I know
what he thought he could do against eight men, though,
almost like he wanted to die.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
I understand the sergeant.
Speaker 4 (21:14):
You must have been crazy to follow you all this way.
But you never know about Indians, don't you worry?
Speaker 6 (21:19):
Miss?
Speaker 2 (21:19):
There's nothing more to fear. Your ordeal is over. We'll
be in Dodge by nightfall. Thank you. A lieuten here,
let me help you on the wagon.
Speaker 9 (21:33):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
I'm sure once you're safe at the back in Dodge,
we'll be able to make you forget all this. I'll
make it my personal project to help allong. The whole
thing will be just a unpleasant nightmare.
Speaker 9 (21:46):
Will it, Lieutenant?
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Why? Well, yes, of course. Huh excuse me? Alright, man,
ready to move out?
Speaker 6 (21:55):
You haven't?
Speaker 9 (21:55):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Who are you ready to move out? And just a minute, Bartling,
all right, move will Marshall. We buried him up on
the hill overlooking the river.
Speaker 6 (22:10):
Mary, I uh, I brought this little medicine bag.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
I thought I thought you might like it from a mento.
Maybe it all happened for the best, Mary. Some day
it will be forgotten, will it?
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Marshall?
Speaker 9 (22:32):
Why I ever again find a man who loved me
that much?
Speaker 2 (22:37):
That I don't know? Mary, that I really don't know?
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Mcgunn Smoke, produced and directed by Norman McDonald, stars William
Conrad as Matt Billon U S Marshall. The story was
specially written for Guns Smoke by John Dunkle, with editorial
supervision by John Meston. Featured in the cast were Gene Bates,
Jack Moyles and Vic Perrin, Harley Bear is Chester, Howard
mcneer is Doc, and Georgia Ellis is Kidding.
Around Dodge City and in the territory on West. There
is just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers.
And that's where the US Marshal and The Smell of
Guns Smoke Gun, starring William Conrad, the story of the
(00:40):
violence that moved west with Young America and the story
of a man who moved with it.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
I'm that man, Matt Dillon, United States Marshall, the first
man they look for and the last they want to meet.
It's a chance, a job, and it makes a man
watchful and a little lonely.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
M my coffee, Doc, Oh no, thanks to the mind.
(01:22):
If I have them, no not.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
If you can standing, I can another game of Checkers.
Speaker 5 (01:31):
I'll be crowning kings in my sleep as it is.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Why don't we just cause the knight?
Speaker 6 (01:37):
Yeah, I guess.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
M doesn't look like Matt and Chester will be back
tonight anyways.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
No, you just waiting up.
Speaker 5 (01:48):
You worried about theom Doc, you were whom you What
do you mean we're about them?
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Yeah, of course not.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
I didn't really expect them before tomorrow anyway, or even
the day after.
Speaker 5 (01:59):
It's a long ride to Hayes City, and if they
had to stay over to Testifire.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
I guess they can take care of themselves. But there
has been some Indian trouble up that way again. Huh yeah,
I heard the troll went out from Fort Dodge last
week to ransom that Mary Tabor who got captured by
the rappers.
Speaker 5 (02:24):
Anyway, it's not Indians I'm worried about. It's those Hayes
City females.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
Oh yes, I heard about them myselves.
Speaker 7 (02:34):
You think that's what's holding them up?
Speaker 8 (02:36):
And better not they?
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Oh here, we are worrying about them, and they're probably
enjoying themselves in some honky tonk saloon, girls and liquor,
singing and dancing and oh oh, you won't say they're
having funnel, right, Joan, you recon that tokyo singing.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
That sounds like a Kyo chester.
Speaker 7 (03:12):
I mean there might be any that might be.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
It's no matter you worried.
Speaker 7 (03:19):
Don't shoot, just kindly dry.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
We go to be a bouck to the river.
Speaker 7 (03:24):
Don't you think I'm sure we'll be glad to get there. Oh,
I ain't complaining, you understand, And you was perfectly right
not to camp back back them rocks.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Oh the horses need water, yes, I.
Speaker 7 (03:36):
Said, I ain't complaining. You was right to come out
of the river, even if it is pitch dark. Only
thing I declare I could eat me a buffalo hide,
hoopan horn, but I'll settle for baking the biscuits.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
And wait a minute of Chester. That looks like we're
gonna have a company at the river.
Speaker 7 (03:56):
Sure enough, they got a campfire going.
Speaker 6 (04:01):
Reckon.
Speaker 7 (04:01):
It might be Indians.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
The only idea that every built up fire that big Chester.
Speaker 7 (04:06):
Yes, we think it could be way out here.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
And only one way to find out.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Hey, now hold, you.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Got fire that fangs and been recognized alright? Why it's
a cavalry ouity, Yeah, come about to go on in.
Speaker 7 (04:39):
They got guards posted out, must be expecting trouble. Ain't
very many of 'em. Uh must be transport crow cliff.
We got a wagon over there day I'm from mister Dylan. Look,
I ain't that a lady over.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
There with that wagon?
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Hell if it is, the cavalry has got a new uniform.
Speaker 7 (05:05):
Marshall Dillan catcher, Sergeant Cromwell, I lot, Sergeant Holly, Sorry
about that shot, Marshall.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
As long as you're going to hit us? Who was
in charge? Sergeant him Marshall, Lieutenant Dickon, Lieutenant, I'm Matt Dylan.
Now that's Chuster properly. I don't remember saying you around Dodge,
was Honah. I only been at the fort about a month, Marshal.
I see yeh.
Speaker 7 (05:31):
We've got to know the sergeant here pretty well. He's
been our border. You might save a few times.
Speaker 8 (05:37):
I sure can't recommend accommodations.
Speaker 7 (05:40):
Arm Eh, what's that cooking?
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Oh Buffalo states?
Speaker 8 (05:45):
You hungry?
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Well, now we got our own food, sergeant, And.
Speaker 8 (05:51):
There's plenty for everybody, isn't there, Lieutenant, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
Yes, course join us, Marshall, glad to have you.
Speaker 7 (05:57):
I'll just go tend the hearts.
Speaker 6 (05:59):
You right.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
A long way from Dodge, an't you?
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Musham?
Speaker 2 (06:04):
I would delivered a prisoner at Hey City and we're
on our way back. I uh, I'll have to ask
you why you're out here. That's Mary Tabor over there,
isn't it. So you know the story?
Speaker 6 (06:16):
Now?
Speaker 2 (06:16):
I heard of attachment had gone out to a ransomer
from the Orapa house. Yeah, we had that wagon loaded
with trade goods to buy her back, guns and ammunition included.
Oh they took it, of course, they got the.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
Girl only because I insisted the exchange be simultaneous.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
They brought the girl, we rode away and left the goods.
Otherwise we'd all have been dead.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
Oh what boy, they'd have turned on us a minute
they got their hands in them guns. Marshall, I've always
heard the Arapa Hub deal fairly.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
I wouldn't trust any Indian or anybody else. What do
you mean that shots you had thrown at us just
ordinary riders coming in with enough noise for a regiment.
It was only a warning. We get reason to be cautious. Marshall.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
There was a Rappoh you trust so much? Have been
following us ever since we made the exchange. How do
you know we've seen sign even caught a glimpse of
a scout on the horizon.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
A couple of times. You're out there all right, just
waiting a chance to take her back. Why would they
wait until you're only a day's right out of Fort Dodge?
If I wouldn't they jump You're right there in their
own country when they had the advantage. You're only a
small detachment. Hm, small as right? Eight men? That's all
laid allow me?
Speaker 6 (07:26):
Uh huh.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
It makes you nervous to the Marshall, I know there's
somebody out there in the dark right now? Have you
scotted since making camp?
Speaker 6 (07:35):
Certainly?
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Do you mind if I go out and take a
look around.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
Ain't got guards mount and I'll handle him. Shoot yourself much?
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Thank you? You knew out here with a day. I've
been commissioned over two years.
Speaker 9 (07:51):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
This is your first tour on the planes though. Huh
what do you insinuate in Marshall? Nothing, lieutenant nothing. It's
always better to know what you're facing. Sometimes you find
you have nothing to be afraid of. Uh, you mind
if I take Sergeant clumb over with me? Go ahead?
Speaker 6 (08:11):
Thank you?
Speaker 2 (08:29):
The hair marshal. Yeah, he brought his horse down the water. Uh,
I'd say that they stopped at that Clumper Will was
over there properly.
Speaker 8 (08:40):
But only one in the end, you know. Come to
think of it, it's always only one. We've seen sign
for three days, but always only one rider at a time.
Today I got a close look. It's in a wrapper hole.
Now what do you think that means?
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Maybe that there is only one sergeant? Well then, well
what's he doing here? I don't know, but somebody might
who married taber.
Speaker 7 (09:21):
Ohm on my saving some of this buffalo steak. It's
mighty good.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
I touched her in a minute. Will Marshall, you're right, Lieutenant.
At least there's one a rapper out there, a scout,
of course.
Speaker 6 (09:38):
Maybe.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Anyway, I don't think one man will try to attack
eight or now ten of us. Nevertheless, I'll keep my
guards posted shut. Uh, Lieutenant, I'd like to talk to
Mary Taber if you don't mind, go ahead.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
If you talk to you, she won't any of us.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Of course, I suppose she's been through a lot. Go ahead,
try ah, Thanks, I love miss table.
Speaker 9 (10:11):
I Marshall Dylon, I know I've seen you around, Dodge Marshall.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Oh, now, folks back there will be money pleased that
you're safe, Will THEE. Marshall? Sure they thought you were
killed like the rest of that wagon train. When the
word game that you were still alive, everybody's mighty happy
about it. Your father got together that wagon load of goods.
Speaker 9 (10:33):
I noticed he didn't come out himself.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Well it's a hard trip, ma'am. And he's not too young,
you know. Besides, only eight men were allowed to go
into the Arapahoe camp. Look, miss Taber, your father isn't wealthy.
It took almost everything he had to stock that wagon.
Speaker 9 (10:56):
I'm sorry, Marshall, I don't know what's wrong.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
They'll all be glad to have you back. Mary.
Speaker 9 (11:04):
I didn't know. I was afraid maybe they'd think, you
know what, they'd think how most women are treated. It
wasn't like that with me.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
It wouldn't matter if folks understand how it.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Is, do they, Marshal?
Speaker 9 (11:22):
They say so, But I've seen how they look at
women who had come back. I did it myself, and
I know what I was thinking.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
But it wasn't like that with me.
Speaker 9 (11:33):
I swear you didn't touch me. He two eagles, the
Arapahole brave who bought me, bought you.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
But you were captured by the Arapa. Ho weren't you?
Speaker 10 (11:47):
No?
Speaker 9 (11:48):
It was Cheyenne attacked the train, killed everybody but me
and two little boys. We rode all night, and then
we came to the Arapahole village and.
Speaker 7 (11:59):
They sold me there.
Speaker 9 (12:01):
I guess they told me because I was so much trouble,
so worn out. They took the little boys with them
to raise his warriors.
Speaker 6 (12:09):
I guess.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
And there's a robbers who two eagles brought.
Speaker 9 (12:13):
You for ten horses.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
I mean must have valied your highway. That's a good price.
Speaker 9 (12:20):
But he didn't touch me, Marshall. I swear it never
in all the two months. He treated me fine, just like.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
The rest of his family told me, Miss Tabor. Would
he have any reason to follow you? Follow me now here?
Speaker 9 (12:36):
But you think he's the one I've been see I.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
I don't know. I'm only asking if there might be
a reason for him to do it.
Speaker 9 (12:44):
I I don't think so, Marshall. I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
H Thanks, ma'am. Uh, I don't worry about the folks
and Dodge or your father. He's he's gonna be money.
Glad to see you, Thanks Marshall.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
Sure, Marshall, uh yess 'em.
Speaker 9 (13:06):
That Indian out there, they won't hurt him.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Wow, No, ma'am, not if they don't see him. Is
she dealing your Buffalo States?
Speaker 7 (13:26):
Getting cold?
Speaker 6 (13:27):
All right?
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Chester?
Speaker 7 (13:28):
Sergeant from well up stairs? You found him? Signed m
uh Well, one Indian can't make too much trouble, can he?
Speaker 2 (13:37):
All that depends on the end of Anchester and why
he's here.
Speaker 7 (13:56):
Mit, you're dealing week means you're dealing with uh it
sh something funny's going on?
Speaker 2 (14:04):
H you hear that. Yeah, it sounds like a dove,
but it's still dark.
Speaker 7 (14:11):
Now I'm just break him Dawn.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Only one is to notice that those me and her
her be married, Taber, she's.
Speaker 7 (14:19):
Only pretending to sleep. Every time that cussin bird goes,
she lifts her head and look.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Try to look. Sees you there? Yeah, I see why, Chester,
look over the edge of that brush there, but.
Speaker 7 (14:33):
That's your India.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Quiet, But mister Dills, wait and watch. Yeah, she sees him, but.
Speaker 7 (14:40):
Sure she does. He's right there playing a day. That
fool guard must be sound asleep. Shouldn't we also have it?
Speaker 9 (14:47):
What?
Speaker 7 (14:49):
Why wear't that Indian.
Speaker 6 (14:50):
Go to him?
Speaker 7 (14:51):
He's gone again, disappeared.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Be quiet, Chester, Just look at Mary taper Ah.
Speaker 7 (14:59):
She's out of her blankets, crawling away with m mister Dylon.
That girl sneaking away out into the brush. She's going
to that Indian. She's running away.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
It looks like it. Well, we can't just lay. If
we tell them, Chester, they'll be shooting and somebody will
get hurt, maybe the girl. I'm gonna follow her and
you follow me, maybe twenty or thirty paces and but be.
Speaker 7 (15:19):
Quiet, don't worry, and guards lad will start throwing lead
at any sound of hears out there.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Alright, let's go marry Harry Tabor. White man moved, white
(16:04):
man die.
Speaker 10 (16:17):
No, no, don't don't kill him.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Eh likes Mary.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
It's Marshall Dylan.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
He's my friend, friend, friend.
Speaker 7 (16:39):
I'm right behind you.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
You let him go.
Speaker 7 (16:41):
You're a dead Indian.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
No, you don't sure.
Speaker 7 (16:43):
I'm trying to drop that night from me, mister Dylan.
Speaker 9 (16:45):
Loose two eagles. Let him go, friend friend.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
All right, you just give him covered Chester you now,
maybe you better explain this, Mary.
Speaker 9 (17:01):
I just had to talk to him, Marshall. I I
had to see that nothing happened to him. Those soldiers
have seen anymore if he tried to come into camp.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
So this is too eggles. This is the man who
bought you.
Speaker 6 (17:13):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
And he's young, yes, and he's handsome, yes. And he's
come to claim his property. It's not like that.
Speaker 9 (17:27):
I told you.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
It was never like that.
Speaker 9 (17:31):
I know you probably won't believe it. I know the
lieutenant never could. But he's a good man, Marshall, gentle
and kind and good. Do you believe that?
Speaker 6 (17:43):
Maybe?
Speaker 2 (17:45):
What do you mean.
Speaker 9 (17:47):
He's in a rapper home and anan No, you mean
he's only a savage. I'm sorry, Marshall, and you're right.
There were times when I almost forgot it, and then
something would remind me, something that would turn my stomach.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
That's why.
Speaker 9 (18:13):
That's the only reason.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Why he didn't become his wife.
Speaker 9 (18:18):
Yes, any of the others would simply have taken me,
specially after they paid.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Ten horses.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
That made me his ado with.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Just as he liked.
Speaker 9 (18:30):
But he courted me. Marshal stood in his blanket outside
the teepee and sang to me it was frightening, but
it was lovely too. Do you understand, Marshall?
Speaker 2 (18:43):
It was lovely and I listened.
Speaker 9 (18:45):
I listened. I understand Mary, and I'm not ashamed when
you tell them back and Dodge tell them that too.
I'm not ashamed.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Harry. How much of what we're saying does he understand?
Speaker 9 (18:56):
Not much. I taught him a few words of English,
she taught me a few of a rabbit hole, but
it was mostly like animals that we understood each other.
By the way it was said, by the tone of voice, you.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Should have told Lieutenant Dick about him married.
Speaker 8 (19:13):
What for.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
You'd have been all the more delighted to shoot him
on sight?
Speaker 2 (19:18):
And what are you gonna do. You're gonna go back
with two eagles? You know I can't? And why did
you come out here?
Speaker 9 (19:27):
I told you to warn him, send him back before
something happened.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Are you're sure? Mary? You must have known once he
had his hands on you again he wouldn't let you go.
Didn't you know that?
Speaker 9 (19:37):
I suppose I did, Marshall?
Speaker 2 (19:39):
And what are you gonna do?
Speaker 9 (19:41):
You mean you you let.
Speaker 8 (19:44):
Me go with him?
Speaker 2 (19:46):
If that's what you really want? If you're sure it's done? Yeah,
I hear him, trust him. Oh, they have discovered your gone,
Miss Table. There's not much time go go?
Speaker 9 (19:57):
How could I ever be sure?
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Marsia? None of us can ever be sure about the future,
Miss Tabor. But you can't fear the future either. You
have to decide what you want and then stick to
your decision.
Speaker 9 (20:05):
But if I need to regret it.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
If you have to question it, Larry, then you're not
sure enough.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Squawk, Come get drum?
Speaker 2 (20:12):
What are you gonna do? Miss Taber? To evil love,
come no to eagles.
Speaker 9 (20:16):
I can't.
Speaker 8 (20:18):
I can't.
Speaker 9 (20:18):
It would be wrong. How can I tell it?
Speaker 2 (20:21):
I can't help you?
Speaker 10 (20:23):
Goodbye two weeks, goodbye and thank you Love.
Speaker 9 (20:27):
I'll never forget you.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
No, all right, come on, Chester Holding, I'll take her.
I'm going to squawk, go way past. Lord, good for you.
Speaker 5 (20:38):
I'm going back to your people.
Speaker 10 (20:40):
Hurry, I'm going.
Speaker 8 (21:02):
Well, he just ran right at us, man, I know
what he thought he could do against eight men, though,
almost like he wanted to die.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
I understand the sergeant.
Speaker 4 (21:14):
You must have been crazy to follow you all this way.
But you never know about Indians, don't you worry?
Speaker 6 (21:19):
Miss?
Speaker 2 (21:19):
There's nothing more to fear. Your ordeal is over. We'll
be in Dodge by nightfall. Thank you. A lieuten here,
let me help you on the wagon.
Speaker 9 (21:33):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
I'm sure once you're safe at the back in Dodge,
we'll be able to make you forget all this. I'll
make it my personal project to help allong. The whole
thing will be just a unpleasant nightmare.
Speaker 9 (21:46):
Will it, Lieutenant?
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Why? Well, yes, of course. Huh excuse me? Alright, man,
ready to move out?
Speaker 6 (21:55):
You haven't?
Speaker 9 (21:55):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Who are you ready to move out? And just a minute, Bartling,
all right, move will Marshall. We buried him up on
the hill overlooking the river.
Speaker 6 (22:10):
Mary, I uh, I brought this little medicine bag.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
I thought I thought you might like it from a mento.
Maybe it all happened for the best, Mary. Some day
it will be forgotten, will it?
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Marshall?
Speaker 9 (22:32):
Why I ever again find a man who loved me
that much?
Speaker 2 (22:37):
That I don't know? Mary, that I really don't know?
Speaker 1 (23:09):
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