September 4, 2025 • 23 mins
Frontier Gentleman was a short-lived radio Western series on CBS network from February 2 to November 16, 1958. It was set in the post-Civil War United States and it was different from other westerns like Gunsmoke or The Six Shooter in that it showed the wild west from the point of view of a British reporter from the London Times. That man is "Britt Kendle", played by John Dehner.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
There seems to be only two kinds of people in
Montana Territory, the good and the bad. Sometimes it's hard
to tell which is which.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Run Tier Gentleman, now starring John Dayner, This is the
story of JB. Kendall fron Tier Gentleman. I was on
(00:43):
my way back to Fort Central Missouri River when I
reached Helena. There, I was lucky enough to receive an
awful of transportation in the wagon, so I sold my
horse and we set out on the Mullin Road.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
My companion, or old Michael as he.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Called himself, there's a leathery stream chap who might have
been fifty or seventy.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
It was hard to sell.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
His name was George Skill. He seemed more than happy
to have someone to talk to.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Yes, sir, I was running the first chart to the
California gold Rush when.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
I was my father in forty nine.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
How old you figure, iron boy, well y eight.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Fifty eight wouldn't think it, would you? Well?
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Well fifty eight, never had a sick day in life,
been married three times, buried too, But they got took
by Patree down in Arizona, Terra. Sorry, I pitied the
portion of a gun in and the hooked up with
her boy. She was, I mean its peak of Calico.
You weres had eyes on and it was a lucky
day for me.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
You are you married? No, my vish boy. What you see?
Your name was Kemball.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
You know you ain't Ken of the Brown County, Texas Kendall,
are you No, I'll come to think of it. Their
name was and Kendle will preaching.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Now how come you figure I just remember that? What
was we talking about?
Speaker 2 (02:00):
I'm not quite sure. Now you take my father eighty
six years.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Old, two is back. I'm taking him home to bury him. Oh,
I'm sorry, Oh the.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Things for sorrow all got to go up the Salt
River sometime.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Old butters, we're not in California.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Butter than thirty years. There ain't no play for Amanda
sacking his saddle. So last trip out, I said, Paul,
I got to take you back to Kentucky because when you.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Back to dust to dain't fit to do it in
this here place.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
That's what I said. See, well, we got his place
in Kentucky figuring out to rest comfortable?
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Are but did he die on the way uh, on
the way from California?
Speaker 2 (02:39):
If he did, since you got on back in helen Oh, you,
old buttered ain't head yet. He's asleep in Hawaiian. Oh
he's in sleep.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
The ain't much else to do.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
I guess old buttered Deeve was a pool.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
When he wakes up, you just say O.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Smile at him and here'll think that's just fine.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Jas fond. Oh you're a job I know, thank you.
We don't.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Let's go do it? No, I suppose, honey, what's your measure?
I'm a newspaper card of sponge rider.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Yes, m.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
News paper fer Huh, yes, that's right. Ball add me
to run in with one of your kind.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Back in sixty two maybe sixty three. I's a muse.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Skinner with major mcleans out in the patchy gun to
do You haven't done that?
Speaker 3 (03:36):
No, mean Currey means gun ain't sitting for nothing?
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Okay here, no budget, woke up?
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Heverything? Fine?
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Ball mappy, Oh you ain't never nothing but ball got
a way to go yet, Paul. Hey, this here's mister Kendall.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
He got on in helen Us. How do you do?
That's a scared don't matter what you day. Guess you're talking. Yeah,
I understand you're going back to can tuck to that.
What does he say? He don't tell him you're going
back to sleep? Fuel put it off.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
Anyone that's telling.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Me he's gonna do it. Yes, he didn't like you.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Oh arm, he can stranger, he'll talk your you're off
talking man. I ever seen if he don't take you,
he does what I tell.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Him, I get naught. He'll keep his mouth shut. Novel,
you get off and I'm sorry, Oh no, cars no cars.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Man can't help what he is if I get told
you ain't like that. She's killing dog of a newspaper.
Before I was telling you about I sure didn't sharpen
my hole on him.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Well, whatever he did, I assure you I'll be very
careful enough to make the same mistake news pay for fire.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
At midday, we stopped for our meal.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Scale Senior and Junior kept up an extraordinary conversation, during
which time I was completely ignored. The pair reminded me
a little of Dickinson Califoris, a certain.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Gentleman and his aged parents.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
After his food, the aged parents clambered back into the
wagon and presumably went back to sleep as we continued
on our way. And I'll bring up tobacco mellow scale someone,
and I thought it possibly I might be forgiven for.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
My sin, my association.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
It was late that afternoon when we saw the three riders.
They were halted by the side of the road.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Where when you know you got gunny or here, you
better be ready to read when you think that outlaws
man's own seasons. He don't take chances, not me part.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Looks as though one of them has hurt for to fack. Well,
I'll be a way very stoke shopper, a warmer scngel,
Look at God.
Speaker 5 (06:01):
If that don't be all whoa, whoa, Hey, Hey, you
got grumble, haven't got the medicines have No, I've got
some whiskey.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
It's not a husband.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
He's hurt, kind of bad.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
There ain't nothing, I'll tell you, darn.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Just let me rest a while, we'll get on.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
You ain't gonna make it.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Behut up master, I'll buy your whiskey.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
That'll fix me. No such thing. He isn't whiskey you
need either. You just know about doctrine nor more. I
know a little, not much.
Speaker 6 (06:35):
Let him take a look bill jack it come on,
give me a hand down.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
No candle, I got a feeling I know last, but
I ain't sure.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Why don't you bring your whiskey up?
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Missus Kale's look as if you can use a time.
Speaker 7 (06:52):
Get your jacket off your woman?
Speaker 3 (06:54):
I take it either. Oh man, that sure looks which it?
You better sit down? There's the rock over there? Comm
When is it happen three days ago? I didn't get
the bullet out? No, I'm all right, I'll tell you.
Just let me r not all right? That's Gangreen the
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shoulder and I'm mister doctor and Helena. I won't take
you more than three hours to get what you ain't
going to Helen, I missed you. We're going to Afford Benton,
but that's over one hundred miles. You've already got a fever.
Speaker 7 (07:26):
If I were you going to wait me still, he's
right now, Please let's go back.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
I think I could remove the bullet, but that won't
help you.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Ain't no doctor, Hey, for come of this part of
juice and your gizzard.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Cure everything from.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
The rattles too well, I ain't gonna cure rack.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Give me a bottle taking a good big slug bill. Hey,
don't I know him? Some face not likely to miss it.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
I ain't never forgot a face. I swear I've seen
his mind. If I asked your name, I'm blad for
your kick.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
We'll be moving on.
Speaker 7 (08:04):
Oh, Phil, what good is it going to be?
Speaker 3 (08:06):
You're six, you can't ride all that way. Not too luck,
he said, Or you heard what I said? Come on,
Oh it's saints. He cut it into the wagon, put
him inside. The ancient Penans woke up, smiled pleasantly.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
A newcomings and must be interested with his wife and
the one called Jack did what they could to make.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
The wounded man uncomfortable. I felt a tug at my sleeve.
Scales drew me away from the wagon. I know him,
I remember, I know who he is.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
I'll never forget a man's face.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Only difference. Now he ain't got that muskache used to wear.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
The Powder River kid, Bill Logan nats, who uh oh,
ain't you got no savvy? The Powder River kid. He's
wanted more terriacories, needing the James boys. I've seen the posters.
There's two thousand dollars reward for him dead or alive.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
Wow, what do you say?
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Make pretty good chares. I'm moving the narrow thousands for you,
thousand for me.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Because his wife's and his friends might have something to
say about that.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Bring me shoot him, sure, shoot him down. Then we'll
take the kid on into Bent and collects.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
I don't think he'll live that long, not without a doctor.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
We're talking about a live Polters, a live or dead.
Don't be thinking that we would be better off with sharing.
Might save a sack were in trouble. I seen him
raw once down in Virginia City. Was he fanned tom
In down so quick? He had his gun back and
the horse herefore they hit that girl?
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Yes, come in, hunt the furs. Getting out of the
wagon too. We go to Kiln. No, he's still unconscious.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Mister.
Speaker 7 (09:43):
You said you could take out the bullets.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Maybe they do some good. Mis too much poison.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
He's got one chance, and let's take him back to
Helena this year wagon, mister Kendalls, No.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
Mim, it's mine. George gave Mitch Scale.
Speaker 7 (09:56):
I'll pay you two hundred dollars if you turn around
take us back to Helen.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Well, now that's a mighty to cut you offer. I
don't know, Dorry Bill said, I don't care what he says.
Right now, he's dying.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Boy, mister, my wife offers, you're two hundred to take
me back to Helen. You let me wrest a while
in your wagon until i'm fit to ride the other way.
I'll make it three hundred. That's fair.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Yes, sure, that's a fair deal.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
I'll do that. Make yourself the home.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
The old buget to my pa.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
If he talks at you too much, get better, good,
Allow go to sleep.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
You old buttert ride in here with me, Dorry Jack,
stay on yours or billy. Let's take it easy, all right, boy,
let's boom.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Be getting some rain bot bark, yes, m idea, I
can't pretty soon, but the party river gives him though
this trailing off. Hey, allong figured till he hangs up.
He's at I don't know, but I wouldn't worry about it.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
I ain't worrying. I never known some thinking. I'm come.
You suppose you don't want to go back to Helena.
Somebody's answer him. Can't imagine, that's my guest. There's somebody,
the US Marshal, and that marshal finds him before the
kid died. You thigure, maybe we'll have to cut.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Another share on the reward A fine legal points laugh.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
I ain't going to worry. They're coming on Hey, the
LFE is looking clearing up the road. I gotta feed
the old butters.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Yeahs.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
After the supper, I walked away from the camp to.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Arise overlooking the Missouri. There were flashes of lightning in
the east and you can see the outline of heavy
black clouds, but there hadn't been any rain yet. I
still go about ten minutes smoking my pipe.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Then I heard steps behind me. Scale said, you come
up this way. How's your husband?
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (12:14):
I think the fever's worse.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Will he make it? Another doctor? You don't have to be.
You should have gone back to Helena. He couldn't. He
was afraid to.
Speaker 7 (12:26):
Scales knows who he is, doesn't he?
Speaker 3 (12:29):
You know?
Speaker 7 (12:31):
Yes, there's been a Marshall trailing us for six months.
He cut up with Bill and Helena. My brother Jack
helped him get away, and we hit out in town
for three days.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
But why didn't you get a doctor? Oh?
Speaker 7 (12:42):
He wouldn't let us. There's a reward. Bill was afraid
of doctor. Try and collect just like your friend wants it.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
He is pretty obvious, isn't he.
Speaker 7 (12:54):
Oh Man's luck runs out. Kyle started snapping for the leavings.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Me and Bill's on our way to Benton.
Speaker 7 (13:02):
Before the marshal caught up with him. We figured, I'm
going back east.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
Were you and your brother both working with flooding?
Speaker 7 (13:09):
No, and Bill hasn't done anything wrong since we was married,
mister Kendler, I'll tell you a straight thing. I haven't
been with a man like you'd call a decent woman
most of my life. I have been a wild one,
but not since Bill.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
I wish I could help missus, logan.
Speaker 6 (13:32):
I I really come to ask you to. I saw
it done once before, with a man's leg that got
like Bill's arm.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
They cut it off. Yes, I thought of them. It's
too late.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
The poisons in his shoulder wouldn't do any could I'm sorry.
Speaker 7 (14:00):
Preacher out in Utah married us. He'd never heard of
the Powder River kid. He thought we was nice folks.
I better get back to the camp.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
I went with her. Jack was the logan in the wagon.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Scale's father was sitting on his haunches by the campfire,
sucking on a piece of root camp and quickling a
sliver of wood.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
He rocked back and forth, coming to himself. Scales leaned
against the tree, ruminating on a piece of tobacco. He
beckoned to me what she warned. She wanted me to
cut off his arms ratch a woman for you, m George. No,
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I wouldn't do any good in probably killing me. I
wouldn't think you were a gun slinger.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Look now, you wouldn't stick shaking, whimpering like a dime up.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Do you think we could go on tonight?
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Not on this trail with the rains coming? Nor share
you old budget don't like traveling.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
In the dark.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
I hope he don't keep that up all night. None
of us shall get any shut.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Off like that. Anything I can do with that stick
to the head right now, your decision know about us?
(15:45):
We figured so all right, Kendle. My sister does too.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
I want to tell you, and I will start thinking
about that real war.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
A few minutes later, it began to rain and continued
intermittently all through the night, but the dawn was clear, and.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
He took the combined efforts of oxen horses and men.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
To take the wagon back onto the trail.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
The wheels had sunk nearly hub deep in mud, but
as the sun rose we were on our way northward again.
Bill Logan was no longer delirious, but in the grayness.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Of his face I knew that he didn't have long
to live. It was during the early afternoon that his
wife called out to me.
Speaker 7 (16:34):
Missy Candle, Yes, who do you come back?
Speaker 3 (16:37):
And in?
Speaker 1 (16:37):
All right?
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Maybe dead, maybe.
Speaker 7 (16:42):
He wants to talk to you.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Are going up with that boy? What I got to
say is rid make you mistake quiet more close away
the old man's sleep. Yes, oh yes, non finished. I
ain't a doctor. Nothing gonna help me now, I'm feeling now.
Speaker 4 (17:04):
I never asked a favor, no matter in my life.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
I'm asking one now.
Speaker 4 (17:08):
But it is a reward for me. It didn't much,
only two thousand, but it means something for Dorry. I
ain't gonna say no reward for a man who's died naturally.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
If I do like is not he go to that
Marshall fellow is darking me off. I want you to
fix it so Dory can get it. How you feel
me full of lead? Shoot you shoot me? No, I
trust you, he said, I trust you to give the
money to Dorry. You're out of your head. No, no, mister,
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I ain't last night, but not now. It's the best
I can do for her. She's a good woman. Now
let me give her something so she don't have to
go back to what you want. I can't kid you.
You've got a right to look. I'm wanted, kindle. I've
done more children than I can remember. It ain't a
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wrong thing for you to do. You could say I
was trying to escape. No, I can't. That's not drawn.
It doesn't make any difference. We both know you wouldn't shoot.
I'm sorry. I don't think he felt very much pain.
(18:28):
He just drank scales whiskey and talked quietly to his life.
He died just before the sun went down. I guess
he's dead. No, I think so.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
You figure she want to take him into Venting or
bury him out here.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
I don't know. Sure do seem a shame?
Speaker 2 (18:50):
And it's in you see that reward go up in smoke.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Perhaps it doesn't have to him? How you mean?
Speaker 1 (18:58):
How come I could ride back to Helena wouldn't take
more than a few hours.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
What good does that do? I take him back with me.
All you have to do is to see that they
don't try to stop me.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Listen, boy, for a thousand dollars, nobody's going to stop you.
The old buddy's just spying up to hold a gun.
I just have to tell him who you have pointed
at it all? Hey, how do I know you come back?
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Well? I imagine you just have to take my word
for it. Oo.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
I ain't never trusted you the newspaper fuller yet, but
I guess it ain't no choice.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
I give you my word of honor. I'll come back. Oh,
curry in there too. I ain't going to be nothing
to it. Why Curry, you keep.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Your hands high both if you get on tether side
of the wagon a part of the river.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
The kid's going back to Heleniah.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
Scales shouted instructions to his father, who disarmed the dead man,
and Kerry then held a gun steady, a smile on
his old face, head nodding approvingly. I took Logan's body
out of the wagon and tied it onto a horse.
Just before I rode away, I saw missus Logan watching.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
Me, crying the soundless, terrible cry. I must have traveled
ten miles in the night before I found the carriage
to do what I had to do.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
I led the horses off the road, keried them and
took down Logan's body.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
He looked peaceful. Forgive me Logan.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
I delivered the body to the Marshall in Helena and
collected two thousand dollars reward for the capture and killing
Little Logan alias the Powder River Kit. Then I took
the horses and rode back to where I'd.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
Left the wagon. Did you get it for?
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Did you get the money?
Speaker 3 (21:31):
I got it? One of these days. I'm going to
catch up with you. Mister.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Get on your horse, you too, Missus Logan, go on,
go on ease day.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
That was fine boy, fine, knock.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
On Legdivia Fred Nutt, Mister Scales, I've got some bad
news for you. You are getting nothing or exactly flapped
your gun or the old Buzzard's going to lose his son.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Am I don known just track the other one ash thinking,
oh good load gun paper sorrows.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
It's the most unpleasant association. I took Logan's horse.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
And caught up with Missus Logan and her brother a
little further along the Mullin Road. I gave her the
two thousand dollars, and together we rode on into Fort Benton,
Montana Territory.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Frontier Gentleman was written, produced, and directed by Anthony Ellis.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
And stars John Damer as JB. Kendall. Featured in the
cast were Joe Kerns.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Paula Winslow, Larry Dobkin, Parney Phillips, and Robert Rudier. Music
was composed and conducted by Wilbur Hatch front Here, gentlemen,
has come to you through the worldwide facilities of the
United States Armed Forces Radio and Television Service,
There seems to be only two kinds of people in
Montana Territory, the good and the bad. Sometimes it's hard
to tell which is which.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Run Tier Gentleman, now starring John Dayner, This is the
story of JB. Kendall fron Tier Gentleman. I was on
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my way back to Fort Central Missouri River when I
reached Helena. There, I was lucky enough to receive an
awful of transportation in the wagon, so I sold my
horse and we set out on the Mullin Road.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
My companion, or old Michael as he.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Called himself, there's a leathery stream chap who might have
been fifty or seventy.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
It was hard to sell.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
His name was George Skill. He seemed more than happy
to have someone to talk to.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Yes, sir, I was running the first chart to the
California gold Rush when.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
I was my father in forty nine.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
How old you figure, iron boy, well y eight.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Fifty eight wouldn't think it, would you? Well?
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Well fifty eight, never had a sick day in life,
been married three times, buried too, But they got took
by Patree down in Arizona, Terra. Sorry, I pitied the
portion of a gun in and the hooked up with
her boy. She was, I mean its peak of Calico.
You weres had eyes on and it was a lucky
day for me.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
You are you married? No, my vish boy. What you see?
Your name was Kemball.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
You know you ain't Ken of the Brown County, Texas Kendall,
are you No, I'll come to think of it. Their
name was and Kendle will preaching.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Now how come you figure I just remember that? What
was we talking about?
Speaker 2 (02:00):
I'm not quite sure. Now you take my father eighty
six years.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Old, two is back. I'm taking him home to bury him. Oh,
I'm sorry, Oh the.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Things for sorrow all got to go up the Salt
River sometime.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Old butters, we're not in California.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Butter than thirty years. There ain't no play for Amanda
sacking his saddle. So last trip out, I said, Paul,
I got to take you back to Kentucky because when you.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Back to dust to dain't fit to do it in
this here place.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
That's what I said. See, well, we got his place
in Kentucky figuring out to rest comfortable?
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Are but did he die on the way uh, on
the way from California?
Speaker 2 (02:39):
If he did, since you got on back in helen Oh, you,
old buttered ain't head yet. He's asleep in Hawaiian. Oh
he's in sleep.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
The ain't much else to do.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
I guess old buttered Deeve was a pool.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
When he wakes up, you just say O.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Smile at him and here'll think that's just fine.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Jas fond. Oh you're a job I know, thank you.
We don't.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Let's go do it? No, I suppose, honey, what's your measure?
I'm a newspaper card of sponge rider.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Yes, m.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
News paper fer Huh, yes, that's right. Ball add me
to run in with one of your kind.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Back in sixty two maybe sixty three. I's a muse.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Skinner with major mcleans out in the patchy gun to
do You haven't done that?
Speaker 3 (03:36):
No, mean Currey means gun ain't sitting for nothing?
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Okay here, no budget, woke up?
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Heverything? Fine?
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Ball mappy, Oh you ain't never nothing but ball got
a way to go yet, Paul. Hey, this here's mister Kendall.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
He got on in helen Us. How do you do?
That's a scared don't matter what you day. Guess you're talking. Yeah,
I understand you're going back to can tuck to that.
What does he say? He don't tell him you're going
back to sleep? Fuel put it off.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
Anyone that's telling.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Me he's gonna do it. Yes, he didn't like you.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Oh arm, he can stranger, he'll talk your you're off
talking man. I ever seen if he don't take you,
he does what I tell.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Him, I get naught. He'll keep his mouth shut. Novel,
you get off and I'm sorry, Oh no, cars no cars.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Man can't help what he is if I get told
you ain't like that. She's killing dog of a newspaper.
Before I was telling you about I sure didn't sharpen
my hole on him.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Well, whatever he did, I assure you I'll be very
careful enough to make the same mistake news pay for fire.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
At midday, we stopped for our meal.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Scale Senior and Junior kept up an extraordinary conversation, during
which time I was completely ignored. The pair reminded me
a little of Dickinson Califoris, a certain.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Gentleman and his aged parents.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
After his food, the aged parents clambered back into the
wagon and presumably went back to sleep as we continued
on our way. And I'll bring up tobacco mellow scale someone,
and I thought it possibly I might be forgiven for.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
My sin, my association.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
It was late that afternoon when we saw the three riders.
They were halted by the side of the road.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Where when you know you got gunny or here, you
better be ready to read when you think that outlaws
man's own seasons. He don't take chances, not me part.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Looks as though one of them has hurt for to fack. Well,
I'll be a way very stoke shopper, a warmer scngel,
Look at God.
Speaker 5 (06:01):
If that don't be all whoa, whoa, Hey, Hey, you
got grumble, haven't got the medicines have No, I've got
some whiskey.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
It's not a husband.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
He's hurt, kind of bad.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
There ain't nothing, I'll tell you, darn.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Just let me rest a while, we'll get on.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
You ain't gonna make it.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Behut up master, I'll buy your whiskey.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
That'll fix me. No such thing. He isn't whiskey you
need either. You just know about doctrine nor more. I
know a little, not much.
Speaker 6 (06:35):
Let him take a look bill jack it come on,
give me a hand down.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
No candle, I got a feeling I know last, but
I ain't sure.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Why don't you bring your whiskey up?
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Missus Kale's look as if you can use a time.
Speaker 7 (06:52):
Get your jacket off your woman?
Speaker 3 (06:54):
I take it either. Oh man, that sure looks which it?
You better sit down? There's the rock over there? Comm
When is it happen three days ago? I didn't get
the bullet out? No, I'm all right, I'll tell you.
Just let me r not all right? That's Gangreen the
(07:16):
shoulder and I'm mister doctor and Helena. I won't take
you more than three hours to get what you ain't
going to Helen, I missed you. We're going to Afford Benton,
but that's over one hundred miles. You've already got a fever.
Speaker 7 (07:26):
If I were you going to wait me still, he's
right now, Please let's go back.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
I think I could remove the bullet, but that won't
help you.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Ain't no doctor, Hey, for come of this part of
juice and your gizzard.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Cure everything from.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
The rattles too well, I ain't gonna cure rack.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Give me a bottle taking a good big slug bill. Hey,
don't I know him? Some face not likely to miss it.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
I ain't never forgot a face. I swear I've seen
his mind. If I asked your name, I'm blad for
your kick.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
We'll be moving on.
Speaker 7 (08:04):
Oh, Phil, what good is it going to be?
Speaker 3 (08:06):
You're six, you can't ride all that way. Not too luck,
he said, Or you heard what I said? Come on,
Oh it's saints. He cut it into the wagon, put
him inside. The ancient Penans woke up, smiled pleasantly.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
A newcomings and must be interested with his wife and
the one called Jack did what they could to make.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
The wounded man uncomfortable. I felt a tug at my sleeve.
Scales drew me away from the wagon. I know him,
I remember, I know who he is.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
I'll never forget a man's face.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Only difference. Now he ain't got that muskache used to wear.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
The Powder River kid, Bill Logan nats, who uh oh,
ain't you got no savvy? The Powder River kid. He's
wanted more terriacories, needing the James boys. I've seen the posters.
There's two thousand dollars reward for him dead or alive.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
Wow, what do you say?
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Make pretty good chares. I'm moving the narrow thousands for you,
thousand for me.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Because his wife's and his friends might have something to
say about that.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Bring me shoot him, sure, shoot him down. Then we'll
take the kid on into Bent and collects.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
I don't think he'll live that long, not without a doctor.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
We're talking about a live Polters, a live or dead.
Don't be thinking that we would be better off with sharing.
Might save a sack were in trouble. I seen him
raw once down in Virginia City. Was he fanned tom
In down so quick? He had his gun back and
the horse herefore they hit that girl?
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Yes, come in, hunt the furs. Getting out of the
wagon too. We go to Kiln. No, he's still unconscious.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Mister.
Speaker 7 (09:43):
You said you could take out the bullets.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Maybe they do some good. Mis too much poison.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
He's got one chance, and let's take him back to
Helena this year wagon, mister Kendalls, No.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
Mim, it's mine. George gave Mitch Scale.
Speaker 7 (09:56):
I'll pay you two hundred dollars if you turn around
take us back to Helen.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Well, now that's a mighty to cut you offer. I
don't know, Dorry Bill said, I don't care what he says.
Right now, he's dying.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Boy, mister, my wife offers, you're two hundred to take
me back to Helen. You let me wrest a while
in your wagon until i'm fit to ride the other way.
I'll make it three hundred. That's fair.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Yes, sure, that's a fair deal.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
I'll do that. Make yourself the home.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
The old buget to my pa.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
If he talks at you too much, get better, good,
Allow go to sleep.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
You old buttert ride in here with me, Dorry Jack,
stay on yours or billy. Let's take it easy, all right, boy,
let's boom.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Be getting some rain bot bark, yes, m idea, I
can't pretty soon, but the party river gives him though
this trailing off. Hey, allong figured till he hangs up.
He's at I don't know, but I wouldn't worry about it.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
I ain't worrying. I never known some thinking. I'm come.
You suppose you don't want to go back to Helena.
Somebody's answer him. Can't imagine, that's my guest. There's somebody,
the US Marshal, and that marshal finds him before the
kid died. You thigure, maybe we'll have to cut.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Another share on the reward A fine legal points laugh.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
I ain't going to worry. They're coming on Hey, the
LFE is looking clearing up the road. I gotta feed
the old butters.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Yeahs.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
After the supper, I walked away from the camp to.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Arise overlooking the Missouri. There were flashes of lightning in
the east and you can see the outline of heavy
black clouds, but there hadn't been any rain yet. I
still go about ten minutes smoking my pipe.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Then I heard steps behind me. Scale said, you come
up this way. How's your husband?
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (12:14):
I think the fever's worse.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Will he make it? Another doctor? You don't have to be.
You should have gone back to Helena. He couldn't. He
was afraid to.
Speaker 7 (12:26):
Scales knows who he is, doesn't he?
Speaker 3 (12:29):
You know?
Speaker 7 (12:31):
Yes, there's been a Marshall trailing us for six months.
He cut up with Bill and Helena. My brother Jack
helped him get away, and we hit out in town
for three days.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
But why didn't you get a doctor? Oh?
Speaker 7 (12:42):
He wouldn't let us. There's a reward. Bill was afraid
of doctor. Try and collect just like your friend wants it.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
He is pretty obvious, isn't he.
Speaker 7 (12:54):
Oh Man's luck runs out. Kyle started snapping for the leavings.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Me and Bill's on our way to Benton.
Speaker 7 (13:02):
Before the marshal caught up with him. We figured, I'm
going back east.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
Were you and your brother both working with flooding?
Speaker 7 (13:09):
No, and Bill hasn't done anything wrong since we was married,
mister Kendler, I'll tell you a straight thing. I haven't
been with a man like you'd call a decent woman
most of my life. I have been a wild one,
but not since Bill.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
I wish I could help missus, logan.
Speaker 6 (13:32):
I I really come to ask you to. I saw
it done once before, with a man's leg that got
like Bill's arm.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
They cut it off. Yes, I thought of them. It's
too late.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
The poisons in his shoulder wouldn't do any could I'm sorry.
Speaker 7 (14:00):
Preacher out in Utah married us. He'd never heard of
the Powder River kid. He thought we was nice folks.
I better get back to the camp.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
I went with her. Jack was the logan in the wagon.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Scale's father was sitting on his haunches by the campfire,
sucking on a piece of root camp and quickling a
sliver of wood.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
He rocked back and forth, coming to himself. Scales leaned
against the tree, ruminating on a piece of tobacco. He
beckoned to me what she warned. She wanted me to
cut off his arms ratch a woman for you, m George. No,
(14:56):
I wouldn't do any good in probably killing me. I
wouldn't think you were a gun slinger.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Look now, you wouldn't stick shaking, whimpering like a dime up.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Do you think we could go on tonight?
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Not on this trail with the rains coming? Nor share
you old budget don't like traveling.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
In the dark.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
I hope he don't keep that up all night. None
of us shall get any shut.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Off like that. Anything I can do with that stick
to the head right now, your decision know about us?
(15:45):
We figured so all right, Kendle. My sister does too.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
I want to tell you, and I will start thinking
about that real war.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
A few minutes later, it began to rain and continued
intermittently all through the night, but the dawn was clear, and.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
He took the combined efforts of oxen horses and men.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
To take the wagon back onto the trail.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
The wheels had sunk nearly hub deep in mud, but
as the sun rose we were on our way northward again.
Bill Logan was no longer delirious, but in the grayness.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Of his face I knew that he didn't have long
to live. It was during the early afternoon that his
wife called out to me.
Speaker 7 (16:34):
Missy Candle, Yes, who do you come back?
Speaker 3 (16:37):
And in?
Speaker 1 (16:37):
All right?
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Maybe dead, maybe.
Speaker 7 (16:42):
He wants to talk to you.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Are going up with that boy? What I got to
say is rid make you mistake quiet more close away
the old man's sleep. Yes, oh yes, non finished. I
ain't a doctor. Nothing gonna help me now, I'm feeling now.
Speaker 4 (17:04):
I never asked a favor, no matter in my life.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
I'm asking one now.
Speaker 4 (17:08):
But it is a reward for me. It didn't much,
only two thousand, but it means something for Dorry. I
ain't gonna say no reward for a man who's died naturally.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
If I do like is not he go to that
Marshall fellow is darking me off. I want you to
fix it so Dory can get it. How you feel
me full of lead? Shoot you shoot me? No, I
trust you, he said, I trust you to give the
money to Dorry. You're out of your head. No, no, mister,
(17:43):
I ain't last night, but not now. It's the best
I can do for her. She's a good woman. Now
let me give her something so she don't have to
go back to what you want. I can't kid you.
You've got a right to look. I'm wanted, kindle. I've
done more children than I can remember. It ain't a
(18:04):
wrong thing for you to do. You could say I
was trying to escape. No, I can't. That's not drawn.
It doesn't make any difference. We both know you wouldn't shoot.
I'm sorry. I don't think he felt very much pain.
(18:28):
He just drank scales whiskey and talked quietly to his life.
He died just before the sun went down. I guess
he's dead. No, I think so.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
You figure she want to take him into Venting or
bury him out here.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
I don't know. Sure do seem a shame?
Speaker 2 (18:50):
And it's in you see that reward go up in smoke.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Perhaps it doesn't have to him? How you mean?
Speaker 1 (18:58):
How come I could ride back to Helena wouldn't take
more than a few hours.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
What good does that do? I take him back with me.
All you have to do is to see that they
don't try to stop me.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Listen, boy, for a thousand dollars, nobody's going to stop you.
The old buddy's just spying up to hold a gun.
I just have to tell him who you have pointed
at it all? Hey, how do I know you come back?
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Well? I imagine you just have to take my word
for it. Oo.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
I ain't never trusted you the newspaper fuller yet, but
I guess it ain't no choice.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
I give you my word of honor. I'll come back. Oh,
curry in there too. I ain't going to be nothing
to it. Why Curry, you keep.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Your hands high both if you get on tether side
of the wagon a part of the river.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
The kid's going back to Heleniah.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
Scales shouted instructions to his father, who disarmed the dead man,
and Kerry then held a gun steady, a smile on
his old face, head nodding approvingly. I took Logan's body
out of the wagon and tied it onto a horse.
Just before I rode away, I saw missus Logan watching.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
Me, crying the soundless, terrible cry. I must have traveled
ten miles in the night before I found the carriage
to do what I had to do.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
I led the horses off the road, keried them and
took down Logan's body.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
He looked peaceful. Forgive me Logan.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
I delivered the body to the Marshall in Helena and
collected two thousand dollars reward for the capture and killing
Little Logan alias the Powder River Kit. Then I took
the horses and rode back to where I'd.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
Left the wagon. Did you get it for?
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Did you get the money?
Speaker 3 (21:31):
I got it? One of these days. I'm going to
catch up with you. Mister.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Get on your horse, you too, Missus Logan, go on,
go on ease day.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
That was fine boy, fine, knock.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
On Legdivia Fred Nutt, Mister Scales, I've got some bad
news for you. You are getting nothing or exactly flapped
your gun or the old Buzzard's going to lose his son.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Am I don known just track the other one ash thinking,
oh good load gun paper sorrows.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
It's the most unpleasant association. I took Logan's horse.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
And caught up with Missus Logan and her brother a
little further along the Mullin Road. I gave her the
two thousand dollars, and together we rode on into Fort Benton,
Montana Territory.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Frontier Gentleman was written, produced, and directed by Anthony Ellis.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
And stars John Damer as JB. Kendall. Featured in the
cast were Joe Kerns.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Paula Winslow, Larry Dobkin, Parney Phillips, and Robert Rudier. Music
was composed and conducted by Wilbur Hatch front Here, gentlemen,
has come to you through the worldwide facilities of the
United States Armed Forces Radio and Television Service,
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