April 22, 2025 • 28 mins
Follows a lawyer who returns to his hometown to seek justice for his father's murder, leading him to become a frontier attorney. The series blends legal drama with Western themes.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
What tier towns. Let's Taga, the Royal West?
Speaker 2 (00:13):
What deer Town, El Paso, Diane, Pola River t Stone?
Speaker 3 (00:24):
What tier towns?
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Here's the adventurous story of the early.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
West, the pains and the untained anapacos of Powder River,
God City, the boer Plants.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
These are the towns they fought to live in and
live to fight for, taming crucibles of pioneer freedom.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
What Hartown.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
If you're ever in Dos Riel, it's a need a lawyer,
you might look me up in a coward town or
frontier town. I don't need much of an office. If
you really wanna find me, my one room suite is
upstairs over Cherokee O'Bannon's livery stables. There's a sign out
on the side alley with my name on it, Chad Rent.
(01:51):
I don't want you to think there's not much of
a country lawyer to do in Dose Riels, because it's
a type of people who settles au front tier and
whose places for over it. We've got all kinds, the
good and meek, the loud and leathery. Take just last week,
for instance, not only did I get a client, but
I earned myself plenty of trouble came close to being
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shot to dead. I guess the best place to start
is when I was over at Judge Philmore's house, chatting
with the Judge and enjoying a few understanding smiles and
looks from the sort of man Chad.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
No matter what you and I and Libby think about it,
we've got about as much real law out here on
the prairie as a porcupine has tin feathers.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
Well, you know, I don't always agree with my father,
judge or not.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
This time, I'm lift Livia. I don't disagree with you too,
Phil Waris, but I feel we can't just accept the
facts because they're facts. They got to do everything we
can to rid ourselves as gun law and substitute legal law.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
That's exactly the point I was making when I was
up at the state capitol last week.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
The Governor, as you remember it is not only a
political associated mind, but one of my oldest trends.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Surprised that Daniel B. Tillmore drops the judge from his
name next selection and substitute.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
The tenant governor for help. And I suppose the daughter
of the Lieutenant Governor would consider herself swumming and she
went out with a top town lawyer.
Speaker 5 (03:16):
That is, if he asks, now, don't forget you as
good a friend of mine as the governor.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
May be your father was the closest friend.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
I exclusion goose. Someone just tells up the bank.
Speaker 5 (03:32):
Great he in the morning, the bank, Libby, you were here,
check it out.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
And dol there you postmanias put me, put the whole
cat all this time.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
I'll beat your pains. I'll prepare for Cherokee. I mean
to stand there and tell me you captured this government
inside the bank's single hander.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
My boy, don't have to be sad for the bandon
single hand. It takes just one ol'd bannon to care
for one round, but for a band it might take two.
Standstill here, you barn, and stop twisting my eyes. Hand bag.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Everybody here comes the carriage.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
How will they move back?
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Move back here? Good thing you got here, sheriff. There's
no hurry anymore. One man on me O'Bannon.
Speaker 6 (04:25):
Caught your man, boy, Well, so you thought you could
get away with holding up the bank or by yourself,
did you, Joel?
Speaker 1 (04:31):
I wasn't asking just to hear myself talk. Maybe he's
not answering on advice and counsel. Shriff, what's your name?
He's Smith, Don Smith.
Speaker 5 (04:43):
Why don't you just make it John Doe, Jewel Smith,
or whatever your name is.
Speaker 6 (04:48):
I'm hauling you down to the Calliboos and maybe by
the time we get through you down there, we'll find
out who you are, where you came from, and your
right name, so we can make it legal and we
change your name to a number.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Now, come on, well, Charity and I helped the sheriff
down to jail and waited in the outside office while
the sheriff tried to get a slightly better identification than
the convenient name of John Smith. While we were there,
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no one Cherokee. I took the occasion to do a
little investigating of my own. I had a memory of
my state that brother chant. I'm telling you the truth,
the whole truth, and very little of the truth. Now, Cherokee,
I'm not saying you didn't catch the rest. I'm not
saying you're not a hero. All I'm saying is, since
you didn't have a bottle of your Cherokee Indian rattlesnake
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oil with you, what did you drink to give you
that much Dutch coverage? Harm? On a chat. I was cold, sober, Wow,
I was cold at that. Yeah, what I must advance
that I have a just passing by the bank for
that deeple no good buddy.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Smith backed out, tipped.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Over me when I landed on top of him, knocked
all his window. Now we're getting places, and since we've
gotten the true facts, counsel would excuse witness for Oh well, sir,
what did you find out? We have nothing? All he'll
say is his name is John Smith. But there's a
label in his shirt from the store in Houston.
Speaker 6 (06:22):
Hey, if I thought I might telegraph down there with
a description of him and see if we can't be identified.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Say that's a good idea, fell like, that's probably one
and on thirty charges in thirty states, might even be
a little reward money They weren't money. This is getting
to look.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Like the brightest day of my your favorite life. They
tug it down, Send that telegraph to Houston my side.
Speaker 6 (06:42):
Don't no, you don't Cherokee as the man who caught
the place. Now you're staying right here and answering a
lot of questions for me.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
You see, Cherokee, the wages of heroism is work. I'll
tell you. Why, I'll stop by the Western Union office
and send a telegram for you myself. Oh, Harry, the
sheriff asked me to stop buying, send me telegram for him? Why? Sure, Chad? Sure?
(07:11):
What's it about? If Fellow tried to hold up the blank?
You dabbed your rope right on. Hi? So what was
that again? Oh? I forgot. You've been out here in
the cattle country for me a few years, Harry. To
dab your rope on something, it's a cowboys way of saying,
you hit the bullseye. Oh. I guess I'll ever get
used to the way us because my wife my lunch.
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I am miss Cummings. You bring enough lunch in the Twilvies.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
Remingen, No, but I'll be glad to go home and
get some more.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Hello, do bring me something good?
Speaker 4 (07:44):
Well, there's a piece of that punkin tie we had
last night.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Cool. No, I don't mean to interrupt the menu, but
I think so I don't impede the wheels of justice.
I'd better send this telegram to Houston and get along,
Uh to we to Houston? Maybe coming from Schenecta that
you don't know the Houston f Texas.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
Yeah, yes, we know Houston's in Texas.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Hey, oh, what's going on here? Then? And I mentioned Houston,
you both started to look as if you'd lost your
last friend. Ho No, no, there's nothing wrong. It's just
that well, there seems to be some trouble on the
line that Houston lately. And mine's your Harry, And I'm
not calling you a liar, but that's really a little flimsy. Harry,
what's the us?
Speaker 4 (08:28):
Mister Renning and knows you're lying?
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Telling the truth now, Martha, you keep out of it.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
I'm not going to We've had this thing hanging over
our heads.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
For years now.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
I'm I'm tired of it. I'm nice. You can't even
sleep prayed my own shadows.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Weally will listen. What's the trouble with or in Houston?
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Go on, Harry, Well, nine years ago I got thrown
to jail in Houston.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
I was working for the railroad then as telegrapher.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
There was a hold that they sell Harry was mixed
up in.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
You weren't or mixed up the way they man who
I could have stopped him, but I didn't, Uh huh.
And then what happened?
Speaker 2 (09:10):
All the sentenced me to seven years after a year
I I broke out.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
I see. I still don't understand your reluctance to telegraph.
All right, I don't know if you know much about US.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Telegraph operators, but well we all have a certain touch.
Another telegrapher can recognize a man's fist, just the way
you can recognize someone's voice.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
He seen mister Remington about ten days ago. When Harry
was sending a message to Houston. The man on the
other end thought he recognized him.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Nastiness.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
His name wasn't Harry Cheesbrough cheese.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Grows our real name? Can I'm scared I served a year.
I shouldn't have served it. They're not gonna put me back,
believe me or not. Oh look, Harry, as a lawyer
and as a friend, the best possible thing you can
do is turn yourself over to the sheriff. What listen
to him, Harry, I don't want to regisent. I'll handle vacation,
M sure as a man can be that. I'll get
you off, Harry.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
Do what mister Rennington says. Living like this is just
like living in predatory.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
But come on, Harry, you and I are going down
to jail. Harry didn't like the idea, but once the
sheriff reassured him that his chances are getting off were
pretty good, he seemed to feel better with our little
jail full if sheriff put him in the same shell
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he put the bank banded Psmith a little earlier. There's
my client now in jail. I went down to see
the judge. Chad.
Speaker 5 (10:38):
I'm afraid you don't realize what you're asking me to
do just because the governor happens to be.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
An old friend of sir. As a judge, I know
you're interested in justice. End's a justice wouldn't be served
by having that man extra, did it?
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Chad's right?
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Father? Why Harry and Martha Cummings as good people?
Speaker 4 (10:54):
There hasn't been a Sunday, they haven't been the church,
and they've never done anything wrong in all their lives, Judge.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
Of that, all I know is that someone did find
him guilty and send him to jail. Besides, to be
very frank about it, I don't especially like Chad's suggestion
that I impose on a friendship.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Oh. I didn't say anything, but your friendship with the governor.
I appeal to you as a judge and there's an
honest and upright citizen to have the governor quash any
extradition proceedings should they ever be brought. Please, I'll see
what I can do. But believe me, it's not entirely voluntary.
(11:39):
Believe me, miss not missing a friend like you then
can certainly call me myself. All right, Marsha, Now if
you just lean on my arm, I think we can
make the two blocks to the Sheriff's office in no time.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
I just can't wait to see the look on Harry's
face when he sees this teleigion he's gotten from the Governor.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Me too, Now I needs a You know, Harry's gonna
have to worry about Houston or any other town on
the face. So Suthy Martha, come on. No shots are
come in from the jail. All I can see is
some horses tearing out of town. Sjarff, sharff.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
What happened?
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Nothing?
Speaker 3 (12:22):
Nothing, nothing at.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
All, Thank Brook, John Smith, Jerkey, Bogy, bust it out
of jail.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
To stop huffing and puffing. You'll catch him again. That's
not too bad. Maybe that's not too bad. But Harry coming,
he's busted out.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
Hey, he goes out of jail.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
He sure did, man Or, that serves me right. I
get the man practically pardoned by the governor, and what
does he doing breaks jail makes a real outlaw of himself.
Now there's no question about it. Harry Cummings is actually
a fugitive from justice. Well, we turn to the starring
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climax of Frumptier Town in just about one minute, and
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now pump Tier Town. I'm not asking for sympathy. I'm
just asking her to try and understand, as far as
everyone was concerned, and that includes me, Chad Lemington, everything
I'd done it been wrong. Not only had I induced
Harry Cummings to give himself up and go to jail,
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but when because of it he broke out again. The
sheriff was against me, Harry's wife was against me, and
most of all, Judge Bill Moore and Libby were against me.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
Chad, How could you?
Speaker 1 (14:17):
How could I?
Speaker 4 (14:18):
Why not enough that you came here first and talk
father into helping you. Did you help to come back? No, No,
that it's too late.
Speaker 5 (14:25):
I'm only trying to explain youay that explanations are no
longer in order. In fact, I'm afraid any explanations that
are due will be mine trying to explain to the
governor the meaning of this, this utterly ridiculous situation.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
I thought if anyone around us, we suld understand and
have a little sympathy to the you two.
Speaker 6 (14:44):
Oh so now you're going to try to turn things
around and bring them on further in me less said
about this, the better off we'll all be.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
In other words, without a trial, without any suitable evidence,
you're gonna convict a man that just yesterday you agreed
with decent and honice to the best of your know.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
Tad, I resent your tone of voice, and I certainly
resent your speaking that way to my.
Speaker 5 (15:03):
Tut just a moment, Lily, I'm quite capable of taking
care of myself. Mister Remington seems to feel that this
is a courtroom and that as the attorney for the poor, downtrodden,
misunderstood defendant, he's going to make an impassion or.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Atory o'dallyhoo on behalf of his client. I'm not trying
to do one man. You could at least have the
decency to wait.
Speaker 5 (15:26):
Until I fitch, yes, I were just going to add that,
since this is not a courtroom.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
And since your client is not on trial here. But
since this is the power of my home, i'd appreciate
your leaving. Oh so this is your father's home. I'm
certain he's not going to be any happier or any
more satisfied until I've proved that Harry comings Harry Cheeseborough.
(15:53):
I'll accept the correction, your honor, until I've proved that
Harry Cheeseborough either was forced to break jail or is
completely out of his head. You're not going to prove
anything standing here. You're quite right, judge. When I've proved something,
I'll be seeing Cherokee. I appreciate your trying to buck
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me up, but it's a waste of friends. Now just
a minute, my fie, up standing friend.
Speaker 7 (16:30):
If I hear in my hand I hold this little
bottle of absolutely genuine Cherokee indd Rabble snake oil. You
say you want to know what this Monarco does, I'm
going to tell you this astounding preparation not only kills
Dangrus from Heves and your favorite horse, but it's whole
of the money back guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
It kills morning after Calibob Blue.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Isn't it bored in?
Speaker 1 (16:50):
This hire work? Like doctor old Bannon. I certainly can't
give a testimonial for your universal fantasia, but I'm ready
and willing to admit that even without your rattlesnake or
you can cure a case of blues depression and save
a man from suicide house. Honey boy, you're talking so
what to analyze your problem? You wouldn't have a problem
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in the world if we could find every Cummings and
hear this thing on just as simple as all that,
it is even simpler. How look at it this way?
He broke on a team with a John Smith character
who caught John Smith the first place. Never mind, I'll
tell you what I did, and if I could do
it once, do it again. Well, if you think I'm
gonna wait until the two of them stumble over your
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legs this time, you're greatly mistaken. If you really want
to help saw a couple of saddles on two of
those broken down nags, you run here and let's deputize
ourselves as two men. Posse they'll find them and bring
them back.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Find him?
Speaker 1 (17:45):
How do you propose to do that? I might be
a lawyer now, Cherokee, but don't forget I was born
on a ranch and brought up on a ranch. I
can still read sign and cut trail. Now go on,
get me a good horse.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Let's be going, Oh, Chad, if you only could find him.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
I just know that Harry never never booked out of
jail himself.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Well man, he certainly broke out. Me and Tyny going
to find him at all unless we get moca moten.
If that's the word Marcaul believed me. I'll do everything
a man possibly can. Don't forget you and Harry aren't
the only ones involved in this thing, now, God bless you,
all right, Cherokee. Get that horse turned out ever looked
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for a needle in a haystack, And that's what we
were doing. To make it worse. The weather it turned
as black as my mood, the cold wind that frozen
the ground hard, showing about as much sign as a
piece of smooth cobbed granite. But with Martha Cummings on
my mind, lit be no more in my heart, Cherry y.
Speaker 7 (19:06):
And I stubbing there, how I go, man plans tare
but this is one while didn't change.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Ryan started to feel like the goose.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
He looked like a.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Gon cos with well there is a goose involved in this,
all right, several pieces and facts. Harry's Martha's not the
least of 'em my own. Knowing the fair Sex like
the two, I can promise you let me get over it.
And knowing the judge like I go, I can plumb
you see. Oh ho, raight up? What are the purnies
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just cooping around here? For? When I'm freezed to there? O? Could?
I shouldn't want to look at that friar bush over there?
Friar bush. Hey, hey, jerkey, look look up? A snack
off on that fire. Looks like a little piezer black claw,
black alt packer clock, if I'm not mistaken, the same
black out pack I Harry, come the sleeve guards Omega Cherokee.
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I think we found the trail. I'll braid my hair
and call me Pocahontas. You mean to say you spotted
that to the pats of black twarmp out here in
the middle of boat place. Ended up means something, or
it does mean something. Means we're turning our horses and
riding through that brier passion. But there ain't nothing beyond
the brier. That is nothing but rocks, nothing but rocks,
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And I hope a trail that will lead us to
that bank man, Little Harry Cummings. Oh this is good
Cherokee right here?
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Oh boy, hell you want to get eat pine?
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Oh nothing up here but rocks. Huh what does that
look like? Looks like the entrance to a deserted mine,
except I don't know how deserted it is right now.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
N If those two are down there and we go
in after him, with the light coming from behind us,
we'd make two of the prettiest targets you ever saw.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Right about that. She'll wish there was some way of
finding out if there's anybody down there. What's going on? Smith,
I'll tell you what's starved down here.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Wouldn't have been better off staying.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
In jail, right as you'd try.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
I should have left you in that jail to rut.
Maybe I'd been better off riding there than down here.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
We only had some air.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
You'll keep that up and you'll get air, all right.
I'll ventilate you proper. You're just a kind of wood too.
So I had any salt in me at all, I
wouldn't let it take me with you.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Well, you we've got clap of yours shot. Look yeah,
down here, so bad. I showed me. See if I
can't dig a little hole up toward the top, just
the little one, just enough to get some fresh air. Yeah,
all right, keep you amused like you would a kid.
Should I Can I use one of your spurs to
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dig with?
Speaker 3 (22:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (22:06):
You can use anything, or they just shut up? Zeerus
nice and I wouldn't get some there. Hey, cherry, you
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hear that sounds like someone digging inside? Done? It's not
just digging. Isn't steady enough? Sounds more like like DUTs
and dashes, like like telegraph code. You mean a cherry?
You send us a message? What does he say? I
don't know. They didn't teach telegraphy at law school. It
convinces me of one thing. Harry didn't voluntarily escape, and
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he's risking his neck now on. I hope that somebody
will hear this and capture them. Yeh fine chance. If
the two of ours the entrance was price a regular
shooting gallery, Cherokee, if you got to stop to try something.
I've got an idea that may work, and it's got
to work, and none of us are gonna get out
of here, Alix. If I had wanted to save Harry,
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it would have been easy enough. I could have shot
through the entrance to the mine and blasted them out
of there. A shot might have killed Harry. So I
had Cherokee climb on top of the entrance and hang
there like a possum by its tail. Then I gathered
up some dry brush, trust into the wind to carry
the smoke inside. Set fire. It was the smoke flowing
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inside the place. And just wait, and then after minutes
seemed hours. Right, you got it coming out? And keep
your hands where we can say him, I watch the ersey.
Don't trust that smith as far as you can throw
a buffalo by his tails. And I got your chair.
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Tell on him once and I can do it.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
It can't all right?
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Come on, shake a lego. You'll both end up in
there barbecue. Okay, all right, mischief you got us out
of there? If you haven't got me yet? Oh what
a yellow spine? Varmit? You ask me? Using Harry as
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a shield. Now mind me? Can I get him? I'm
afraid Harry, that just talks. Easy. Come on if you
want horses, ours are over there, all right, mister, good moving?
All right, Cherokee, jock, why are you going? I said, Cherokey.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Hold on a.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Cherokee.
Speaker 8 (25:06):
That's one way of getting business, getting business, you bet it.
I can't think of a better customer now for your
Cherokee Indian rattlesnake oil and mister John Smith. You might
even do a wholesale business with him when he's up
in his permanent home, the state penitentially.
Speaker 4 (25:43):
Chad, I can't ever tell you how much both Harry
and I owe you.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
You don't owe me a thing anything you might owe.
You owe the judge for his influences, the.
Speaker 5 (25:52):
Government, all stuff and nonsense. I'd say the real things
are due to Cherokee. He's the man who knocks the
wind out of Smith. Try ow just a minute.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Nobody could have done anything if Harry hadn't tapped out
that mushy hob.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
We don't even down there.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
What would you have done at your life with a
stake no stairs. I'm fastening the metal right back at
chat Libby.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
Let's let them all stay here making speeches. I think
you and I ought to take a little walk. We
have a few things to talk over.
Speaker 4 (26:23):
I haven't must have stayed chat but do you think
you have.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
I can be an awfully good listener Bluntier Town sign
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Bluntier Town came to you from Hollywood
What tier towns. Let's Taga, the Royal West?
Speaker 2 (00:13):
What deer Town, El Paso, Diane, Pola River t Stone?
Speaker 3 (00:24):
What tier towns?
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Here's the adventurous story of the early.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
West, the pains and the untained anapacos of Powder River,
God City, the boer Plants.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
These are the towns they fought to live in and
live to fight for, taming crucibles of pioneer freedom.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
What Hartown.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
If you're ever in Dos Riel, it's a need a lawyer,
you might look me up in a coward town or
frontier town. I don't need much of an office. If
you really wanna find me, my one room suite is
upstairs over Cherokee O'Bannon's livery stables. There's a sign out
on the side alley with my name on it, Chad Rent.
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I don't want you to think there's not much of
a country lawyer to do in Dose Riels, because it's
a type of people who settles au front tier and
whose places for over it. We've got all kinds, the
good and meek, the loud and leathery. Take just last week,
for instance, not only did I get a client, but
I earned myself plenty of trouble came close to being
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shot to dead. I guess the best place to start
is when I was over at Judge Philmore's house, chatting
with the Judge and enjoying a few understanding smiles and
looks from the sort of man Chad.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
No matter what you and I and Libby think about it,
we've got about as much real law out here on
the prairie as a porcupine has tin feathers.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
Well, you know, I don't always agree with my father,
judge or not.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
This time, I'm lift Livia. I don't disagree with you too,
Phil Waris, but I feel we can't just accept the
facts because they're facts. They got to do everything we
can to rid ourselves as gun law and substitute legal law.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
That's exactly the point I was making when I was
up at the state capitol last week.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
The Governor, as you remember it is not only a
political associated mind, but one of my oldest trends.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Surprised that Daniel B. Tillmore drops the judge from his
name next selection and substitute.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
The tenant governor for help. And I suppose the daughter
of the Lieutenant Governor would consider herself swumming and she
went out with a top town lawyer.
Speaker 5 (03:16):
That is, if he asks, now, don't forget you as
good a friend of mine as the governor.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
May be your father was the closest friend.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
I exclusion goose. Someone just tells up the bank.
Speaker 5 (03:32):
Great he in the morning, the bank, Libby, you were here,
check it out.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
And dol there you postmanias put me, put the whole
cat all this time.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
I'll beat your pains. I'll prepare for Cherokee. I mean
to stand there and tell me you captured this government
inside the bank's single hander.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
My boy, don't have to be sad for the bandon
single hand. It takes just one ol'd bannon to care
for one round, but for a band it might take two.
Standstill here, you barn, and stop twisting my eyes. Hand bag.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Everybody here comes the carriage.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
How will they move back?
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Move back here? Good thing you got here, sheriff. There's
no hurry anymore. One man on me O'Bannon.
Speaker 6 (04:25):
Caught your man, boy, Well, so you thought you could
get away with holding up the bank or by yourself,
did you, Joel?
Speaker 1 (04:31):
I wasn't asking just to hear myself talk. Maybe he's
not answering on advice and counsel. Shriff, what's your name?
He's Smith, Don Smith.
Speaker 5 (04:43):
Why don't you just make it John Doe, Jewel Smith,
or whatever your name is.
Speaker 6 (04:48):
I'm hauling you down to the Calliboos and maybe by
the time we get through you down there, we'll find
out who you are, where you came from, and your
right name, so we can make it legal and we
change your name to a number.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Now, come on, well, Charity and I helped the sheriff
down to jail and waited in the outside office while
the sheriff tried to get a slightly better identification than
the convenient name of John Smith. While we were there,
(05:20):
no one Cherokee. I took the occasion to do a
little investigating of my own. I had a memory of
my state that brother chant. I'm telling you the truth,
the whole truth, and very little of the truth. Now, Cherokee,
I'm not saying you didn't catch the rest. I'm not
saying you're not a hero. All I'm saying is, since
you didn't have a bottle of your Cherokee Indian rattlesnake
(05:43):
oil with you, what did you drink to give you
that much Dutch coverage? Harm? On a chat. I was cold, sober, Wow,
I was cold at that. Yeah, what I must advance
that I have a just passing by the bank for
that deeple no good buddy.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Smith backed out, tipped.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Over me when I landed on top of him, knocked
all his window. Now we're getting places, and since we've
gotten the true facts, counsel would excuse witness for Oh well, sir,
what did you find out? We have nothing? All he'll
say is his name is John Smith. But there's a
label in his shirt from the store in Houston.
Speaker 6 (06:22):
Hey, if I thought I might telegraph down there with
a description of him and see if we can't be identified.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Say that's a good idea, fell like, that's probably one
and on thirty charges in thirty states, might even be
a little reward money They weren't money. This is getting
to look.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Like the brightest day of my your favorite life. They
tug it down, Send that telegraph to Houston my side.
Speaker 6 (06:42):
Don't no, you don't Cherokee as the man who caught
the place. Now you're staying right here and answering a
lot of questions for me.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
You see, Cherokee, the wages of heroism is work. I'll
tell you. Why, I'll stop by the Western Union office
and send a telegram for you myself. Oh, Harry, the
sheriff asked me to stop buying, send me telegram for him? Why? Sure, Chad? Sure?
(07:11):
What's it about? If Fellow tried to hold up the blank?
You dabbed your rope right on. Hi? So what was
that again? Oh? I forgot. You've been out here in
the cattle country for me a few years, Harry. To
dab your rope on something, it's a cowboys way of saying,
you hit the bullseye. Oh. I guess I'll ever get
used to the way us because my wife my lunch.
(07:34):
I am miss Cummings. You bring enough lunch in the Twilvies.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
Remingen, No, but I'll be glad to go home and
get some more.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Hello, do bring me something good?
Speaker 4 (07:44):
Well, there's a piece of that punkin tie we had
last night.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Cool. No, I don't mean to interrupt the menu, but
I think so I don't impede the wheels of justice.
I'd better send this telegram to Houston and get along,
Uh to we to Houston? Maybe coming from Schenecta that
you don't know the Houston f Texas.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
Yeah, yes, we know Houston's in Texas.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Hey, oh, what's going on here? Then? And I mentioned Houston,
you both started to look as if you'd lost your
last friend. Ho No, no, there's nothing wrong. It's just
that well, there seems to be some trouble on the
line that Houston lately. And mine's your Harry, And I'm
not calling you a liar, but that's really a little flimsy. Harry,
what's the us?
Speaker 4 (08:28):
Mister Renning and knows you're lying?
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Telling the truth now, Martha, you keep out of it.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
I'm not going to We've had this thing hanging over
our heads.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
For years now.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
I'm I'm tired of it. I'm nice. You can't even
sleep prayed my own shadows.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Weally will listen. What's the trouble with or in Houston?
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Go on, Harry, Well, nine years ago I got thrown
to jail in Houston.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
I was working for the railroad then as telegrapher.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
There was a hold that they sell Harry was mixed
up in.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
You weren't or mixed up the way they man who
I could have stopped him, but I didn't, Uh huh.
And then what happened?
Speaker 2 (09:10):
All the sentenced me to seven years after a year
I I broke out.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
I see. I still don't understand your reluctance to telegraph.
All right, I don't know if you know much about US.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Telegraph operators, but well we all have a certain touch.
Another telegrapher can recognize a man's fist, just the way
you can recognize someone's voice.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
He seen mister Remington about ten days ago. When Harry
was sending a message to Houston. The man on the
other end thought he recognized him.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Nastiness.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
His name wasn't Harry Cheesbrough cheese.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Grows our real name? Can I'm scared I served a year.
I shouldn't have served it. They're not gonna put me back,
believe me or not. Oh look, Harry, as a lawyer
and as a friend, the best possible thing you can
do is turn yourself over to the sheriff. What listen
to him, Harry, I don't want to regisent. I'll handle vacation,
M sure as a man can be that. I'll get
you off, Harry.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
Do what mister Rennington says. Living like this is just
like living in predatory.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
But come on, Harry, you and I are going down
to jail. Harry didn't like the idea, but once the
sheriff reassured him that his chances are getting off were
pretty good, he seemed to feel better with our little
jail full if sheriff put him in the same shell
(10:30):
he put the bank banded Psmith a little earlier. There's
my client now in jail. I went down to see
the judge. Chad.
Speaker 5 (10:38):
I'm afraid you don't realize what you're asking me to
do just because the governor happens to be.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
An old friend of sir. As a judge, I know
you're interested in justice. End's a justice wouldn't be served
by having that man extra, did it?
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Chad's right?
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Father? Why Harry and Martha Cummings as good people?
Speaker 4 (10:54):
There hasn't been a Sunday, they haven't been the church,
and they've never done anything wrong in all their lives, Judge.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
Of that, all I know is that someone did find
him guilty and send him to jail. Besides, to be
very frank about it, I don't especially like Chad's suggestion
that I impose on a friendship.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Oh. I didn't say anything, but your friendship with the governor.
I appeal to you as a judge and there's an
honest and upright citizen to have the governor quash any
extradition proceedings should they ever be brought. Please, I'll see
what I can do. But believe me, it's not entirely voluntary.
(11:39):
Believe me, miss not missing a friend like you then
can certainly call me myself. All right, Marsha, Now if
you just lean on my arm, I think we can
make the two blocks to the Sheriff's office in no time.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
I just can't wait to see the look on Harry's
face when he sees this teleigion he's gotten from the Governor.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Me too, Now I needs a You know, Harry's gonna
have to worry about Houston or any other town on
the face. So Suthy Martha, come on. No shots are
come in from the jail. All I can see is
some horses tearing out of town. Sjarff, sharff.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
What happened?
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Nothing?
Speaker 3 (12:22):
Nothing, nothing at.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
All, Thank Brook, John Smith, Jerkey, Bogy, bust it out
of jail.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
To stop huffing and puffing. You'll catch him again. That's
not too bad. Maybe that's not too bad. But Harry coming,
he's busted out.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
Hey, he goes out of jail.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
He sure did, man Or, that serves me right. I
get the man practically pardoned by the governor, and what
does he doing breaks jail makes a real outlaw of himself.
Now there's no question about it. Harry Cummings is actually
a fugitive from justice. Well, we turn to the starring
(13:06):
climax of Frumptier Town in just about one minute, and
(13:43):
now pump Tier Town. I'm not asking for sympathy. I'm
just asking her to try and understand, as far as
everyone was concerned, and that includes me, Chad Lemington, everything
I'd done it been wrong. Not only had I induced
Harry Cummings to give himself up and go to jail,
(14:05):
but when because of it he broke out again. The
sheriff was against me, Harry's wife was against me, and
most of all, Judge Bill Moore and Libby were against me.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
Chad, How could you?
Speaker 1 (14:17):
How could I?
Speaker 4 (14:18):
Why not enough that you came here first and talk
father into helping you. Did you help to come back? No, No,
that it's too late.
Speaker 5 (14:25):
I'm only trying to explain youay that explanations are no
longer in order. In fact, I'm afraid any explanations that
are due will be mine trying to explain to the
governor the meaning of this, this utterly ridiculous situation.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
I thought if anyone around us, we suld understand and
have a little sympathy to the you two.
Speaker 6 (14:44):
Oh so now you're going to try to turn things
around and bring them on further in me less said
about this, the better off we'll all be.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
In other words, without a trial, without any suitable evidence,
you're gonna convict a man that just yesterday you agreed
with decent and honice to the best of your know.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
Tad, I resent your tone of voice, and I certainly
resent your speaking that way to my.
Speaker 5 (15:03):
Tut just a moment, Lily, I'm quite capable of taking
care of myself. Mister Remington seems to feel that this
is a courtroom and that as the attorney for the poor, downtrodden,
misunderstood defendant, he's going to make an impassion or.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Atory o'dallyhoo on behalf of his client. I'm not trying
to do one man. You could at least have the
decency to wait.
Speaker 5 (15:26):
Until I fitch, yes, I were just going to add that,
since this is not a courtroom.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
And since your client is not on trial here. But
since this is the power of my home, i'd appreciate
your leaving. Oh so this is your father's home. I'm
certain he's not going to be any happier or any
more satisfied until I've proved that Harry comings Harry Cheeseborough.
(15:53):
I'll accept the correction, your honor, until I've proved that
Harry Cheeseborough either was forced to break jail or is
completely out of his head. You're not going to prove
anything standing here. You're quite right, judge. When I've proved something,
I'll be seeing Cherokee. I appreciate your trying to buck
(16:24):
me up, but it's a waste of friends. Now just
a minute, my fie, up standing friend.
Speaker 7 (16:30):
If I hear in my hand I hold this little
bottle of absolutely genuine Cherokee indd Rabble snake oil. You
say you want to know what this Monarco does, I'm
going to tell you this astounding preparation not only kills
Dangrus from Heves and your favorite horse, but it's whole
of the money back guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
It kills morning after Calibob Blue.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Isn't it bored in?
Speaker 1 (16:50):
This hire work? Like doctor old Bannon. I certainly can't
give a testimonial for your universal fantasia, but I'm ready
and willing to admit that even without your rattlesnake or
you can cure a case of blues depression and save
a man from suicide house. Honey boy, you're talking so
what to analyze your problem? You wouldn't have a problem
(17:12):
in the world if we could find every Cummings and
hear this thing on just as simple as all that,
it is even simpler. How look at it this way?
He broke on a team with a John Smith character
who caught John Smith the first place. Never mind, I'll
tell you what I did, and if I could do
it once, do it again. Well, if you think I'm
gonna wait until the two of them stumble over your
(17:33):
legs this time, you're greatly mistaken. If you really want
to help saw a couple of saddles on two of
those broken down nags, you run here and let's deputize
ourselves as two men. Posse they'll find them and bring
them back.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Find him?
Speaker 1 (17:45):
How do you propose to do that? I might be
a lawyer now, Cherokee, but don't forget I was born
on a ranch and brought up on a ranch. I
can still read sign and cut trail. Now go on,
get me a good horse.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Let's be going, Oh, Chad, if you only could find him.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
I just know that Harry never never booked out of
jail himself.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Well man, he certainly broke out. Me and Tyny going
to find him at all unless we get moca moten.
If that's the word Marcaul believed me. I'll do everything
a man possibly can. Don't forget you and Harry aren't
the only ones involved in this thing, now, God bless you,
all right, Cherokee. Get that horse turned out ever looked
(18:46):
for a needle in a haystack, And that's what we
were doing. To make it worse. The weather it turned
as black as my mood, the cold wind that frozen
the ground hard, showing about as much sign as a
piece of smooth cobbed granite. But with Martha Cummings on
my mind, lit be no more in my heart, Cherry y.
Speaker 7 (19:06):
And I stubbing there, how I go, man plans tare
but this is one while didn't change.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Ryan started to feel like the goose.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
He looked like a.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Gon cos with well there is a goose involved in this,
all right, several pieces and facts. Harry's Martha's not the
least of 'em my own. Knowing the fair Sex like
the two, I can promise you let me get over it.
And knowing the judge like I go, I can plumb
you see. Oh ho, raight up? What are the purnies
(19:40):
just cooping around here? For? When I'm freezed to there? O? Could?
I shouldn't want to look at that friar bush over there?
Friar bush. Hey, hey, jerkey, look look up? A snack
off on that fire. Looks like a little piezer black claw,
black alt packer clock, if I'm not mistaken, the same
black out pack I Harry, come the sleeve guards Omega Cherokee.
(20:02):
I think we found the trail. I'll braid my hair
and call me Pocahontas. You mean to say you spotted
that to the pats of black twarmp out here in
the middle of boat place. Ended up means something, or
it does mean something. Means we're turning our horses and
riding through that brier passion. But there ain't nothing beyond
the brier. That is nothing but rocks, nothing but rocks,
(20:22):
And I hope a trail that will lead us to
that bank man, Little Harry Cummings. Oh this is good
Cherokee right here?
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Oh boy, hell you want to get eat pine?
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Oh nothing up here but rocks. Huh what does that
look like? Looks like the entrance to a deserted mine,
except I don't know how deserted it is right now.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
N If those two are down there and we go
in after him, with the light coming from behind us,
we'd make two of the prettiest targets you ever saw.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Right about that. She'll wish there was some way of
finding out if there's anybody down there. What's going on? Smith,
I'll tell you what's starved down here.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Wouldn't have been better off staying.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
In jail, right as you'd try.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
I should have left you in that jail to rut.
Maybe I'd been better off riding there than down here.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
We only had some air.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
You'll keep that up and you'll get air, all right.
I'll ventilate you proper. You're just a kind of wood too.
So I had any salt in me at all, I
wouldn't let it take me with you.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Well, you we've got clap of yours shot. Look yeah,
down here, so bad. I showed me. See if I
can't dig a little hole up toward the top, just
the little one, just enough to get some fresh air. Yeah,
all right, keep you amused like you would a kid.
Should I Can I use one of your spurs to
(22:05):
dig with?
Speaker 3 (22:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (22:06):
You can use anything, or they just shut up? Zeerus
nice and I wouldn't get some there. Hey, cherry, you
(22:35):
hear that sounds like someone digging inside? Done? It's not
just digging. Isn't steady enough? Sounds more like like DUTs
and dashes, like like telegraph code. You mean a cherry?
You send us a message? What does he say? I
don't know. They didn't teach telegraphy at law school. It
convinces me of one thing. Harry didn't voluntarily escape, and
(22:58):
he's risking his neck now on. I hope that somebody
will hear this and capture them. Yeh fine chance. If
the two of ours the entrance was price a regular
shooting gallery, Cherokee, if you got to stop to try something.
I've got an idea that may work, and it's got
to work, and none of us are gonna get out
of here, Alix. If I had wanted to save Harry,
(23:28):
it would have been easy enough. I could have shot
through the entrance to the mine and blasted them out
of there. A shot might have killed Harry. So I
had Cherokee climb on top of the entrance and hang
there like a possum by its tail. Then I gathered
up some dry brush, trust into the wind to carry
the smoke inside. Set fire. It was the smoke flowing
(23:51):
inside the place. And just wait, and then after minutes
seemed hours. Right, you got it coming out? And keep
your hands where we can say him, I watch the ersey.
Don't trust that smith as far as you can throw
a buffalo by his tails. And I got your chair.
(24:13):
Tell on him once and I can do it.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
It can't all right?
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Come on, shake a lego. You'll both end up in
there barbecue. Okay, all right, mischief you got us out
of there? If you haven't got me yet? Oh what
a yellow spine? Varmit? You ask me? Using Harry as
(24:36):
a shield. Now mind me? Can I get him? I'm
afraid Harry, that just talks. Easy. Come on if you
want horses, ours are over there, all right, mister, good moving?
All right, Cherokee, jock, why are you going? I said, Cherokey.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Hold on a.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Cherokee.
Speaker 8 (25:06):
That's one way of getting business, getting business, you bet it.
I can't think of a better customer now for your
Cherokee Indian rattlesnake oil and mister John Smith. You might
even do a wholesale business with him when he's up
in his permanent home, the state penitentially.
Speaker 4 (25:43):
Chad, I can't ever tell you how much both Harry
and I owe you.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
You don't owe me a thing anything you might owe.
You owe the judge for his influences, the.
Speaker 5 (25:52):
Government, all stuff and nonsense. I'd say the real things
are due to Cherokee. He's the man who knocks the
wind out of Smith. Try ow just a minute.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Nobody could have done anything if Harry hadn't tapped out
that mushy hob.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
We don't even down there.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
What would you have done at your life with a
stake no stairs. I'm fastening the metal right back at
chat Libby.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
Let's let them all stay here making speeches. I think
you and I ought to take a little walk. We
have a few things to talk over.
Speaker 4 (26:23):
I haven't must have stayed chat but do you think
you have.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
I can be an awfully good listener Bluntier Town sign
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