August 1, 2025 • 29 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Around Dodge City and the territory on West. There's just
one way to handle the killers, miss spoilers, and that's
with the US Marshall and the Spell of Gun Smoke,
(00:38):
Guns Smoke, starring William Conrad, The transcribed story of the
violence that moved West with Young America, The story of a.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Man who moved with it. Matt Dillon, United States Marshall.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
H here's the river, mister, Jason Dryer's a boom our
last hoop of water for the hurry. I quite peck
us gotten one pond is just over the rise ahead
of us.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
Rid me be drying? Who but they haven't hear a
ring on the prairie for six months.
Speaker 5 (01:32):
It won't be drive.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
I've been bringing cattle up here to God's City for
twelve years.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Rout the no drought.
Speaker 5 (01:40):
The ponds always had water.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Get better than here.
Speaker 5 (01:43):
We're losing fifteen hit an hour.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Now, keep pushing much further they have by water. Luck.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
The railroad's got the cars for us. Wait and start
loading this afternoon.
Speaker 5 (01:56):
By this time, chunge like the boy he's up my
head run un or something.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Yeah, come on, here's a pound. Vega's plenty of water.
I guess you were right. I wonder why the herd's
fatting up. You ought to be stampeding for that pun
you think, captain hold up peggan.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
A farm ware fence.
Speaker 5 (02:26):
Somebody's fans talk the pond, Miter Jackson.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
It looks like we've got a fight on our hands.
(02:51):
I don't like it. Duck, it's too quiet. Things got
too quiet, and dodge it always means a blow up's coming.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
Just sit down, Matt.
Speaker 6 (03:00):
You're just getting yourself for casingers. You've been aloftter too long,
shot at you many time. You ain't getting so you
just act like a spooky old horse. You're jumping your gun,
shy and hamming those forceps.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Fen Oh yeah, you mean us.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
Thank you? Now you take me, mat I.
Speaker 6 (03:24):
I don't rant and rail against fate.
Speaker 5 (03:26):
I just sit back and take what comes.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Yeah I should.
Speaker 6 (03:31):
If I get a patient, fine, I steal in blind
and if I don't, wen I keep my hand in
setting a broken leg on a dog. Yeah, that's slent
out a hole, emity. Matter of fact, I could use
a fear too. Not planning to shoot anybody, are you?
Speaker 4 (03:51):
Man?
Speaker 2 (03:51):
If this drought doesn't break, I'm in the mood to
shoot myself.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
That's a bad one all.
Speaker 6 (03:56):
I don't think I've ever seen the prairies driseres this year.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Oh there you are.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Mister Dillon. Well come on then, Chester, I've been looking
all over for you. We've got trouble, mister Dylon. Huh, trouble.
Old man Howard gets h a rider in the trail
drives pulled in from the Big Bend. They're threatening to
cut his spencers so they can water the cattle.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
At Cottonwood Pong.
Speaker 7 (04:17):
Well as you blow up, Matt, a real head on,
smash a thirsty herd against that skin flint, Howard, that
I could get myself a few fees off of this
before it's over.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Good old Doc, always hoping for the best. Now, come on, Chester,
let's ride out to Cottonwood Dyke.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Howard had no call to fence that pond, mister Dillon.
There's enough water there for all the trail herds in
the next ten years.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
That's on his ranch.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
Chester.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
He's got a right to fence his own range.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Got a right, maybe, but no decent ranger would take
advantage of it.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Howard's meed just down right. I think it's more than that, Chester.
It's the old business. I'm making two dollars grow where
one dollar grew before. I think Howard figured on something
like this when he strung that fence last month. The
trouble is looking to mister Dylon.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Huh must be fifty or sixt year ride heers facing
each other across that fence.
Speaker 5 (05:26):
Looks like a couple of armies.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
That wouldn't be the first range war that started over
water rights.
Speaker 8 (05:30):
Come on, all right, boy, I put away the guns.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
The party's over.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
Who says Almester?
Speaker 7 (05:56):
I do?
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Who are you? Tell him? Us? Martial? Much my show?
Speaker 9 (06:01):
That man is kang a threat of the break for
my princes. I trust us on my property. I demand
the protection of the law.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
You'll get it hard. You're the owner. That's hurd.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
That's right, Marshall jack Jackson from the circle z spread
down in the big ben.
Speaker 5 (06:19):
Maybe you can make.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
This fellawsy reason.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
I gotta herd of cattle here that's dying like flies
for lack of water over there one hundred yards.
Speaker 5 (06:27):
There's plenty of.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Water on this sneak and crook is fizzed in.
Speaker 5 (06:32):
How about it?
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Martin his line, Jackson, the law gives him the right
to fence.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
It wall right, Everything I got in the world's tied up,
and I'd heard there's twenty five trail riders there in
the satellite can't even pay wages to if.
Speaker 5 (06:45):
I lose these cattle.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
There's a low pole pushing a man against the wall
and wiping him out.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
It wasn't intended to hard. Whyn't you right up here
to the fence and talk.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
Huh?
Speaker 2 (06:55):
I sure my shoe?
Speaker 9 (06:57):
Oh chickens and offense in it?
Speaker 2 (07:01):
How nobody's doubting it? Now?
Speaker 4 (07:04):
Look?
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Is there any reason why you can't get together with
this man and let him take that hurt in and
water it. I made him an.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Off Uh, he turned him off a dollar I had
a day for water or by the hurt himself for
three dollars ahead.
Speaker 9 (07:15):
It's a pretty stiff terms, Howard, better than losing everything
like he's gonna do?
Speaker 5 (07:19):
Are you dirty?
Speaker 2 (07:22):
I luck? If he's any gun sling and starts, I'm
gonna be in on it too, You understand? How would
I just don't understand you? Most people out here on
the frontier stick together when trouble starts. They don't kick
a man when he's down, and they don't look on
a draft or a blizzard as a chance to make
a personal cleaning.
Speaker 9 (07:42):
A just a minute, Dylan, you call yourself a log dodge.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
All right? Does a law?
Speaker 9 (07:49):
Say I convince in my own land it does. And
never mind your opinions, Marshall. All I want out of
you is enforcement of the law.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
All right, Howard, you'll get it, and that's all you'll get. Jackson,
you better have your boys start to hurd circling.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
This mean you're backing him off, Marshall.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
I'm backing up the law, that's all, Jackson, and I.
Speaker 5 (08:11):
Don't think much of your laws up here.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
I only enforce him. I don't make him. Now you
better sickle that herd, I say you better.
Speaker 9 (08:18):
I'm ordering my boys to shoot the first man of
steel that comes through that fence.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Yes to you, cover Howard, Yes, you're mister Dilon. If
he orders any of his men to fire a shot,
kill him, do you pleasure?
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Mister Dillon?
Speaker 4 (08:30):
What's the idea?
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Mar You wanted the law enforced? All right, you're getting it.
But I'm gonna do the enforcing, Howard, not you. So
if you're smart, you won't give any orders about shooting.
All right, mister.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
Dylan, you got a tough job. I guess you're trying
to do it fair and square.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Man does what he has to do.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Jackson, I know Black with me that herd of mine
beds down without water. Most of them won't get off
the ground in the morning. So law, no law.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
We're going through that fence tonight, Matt.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Bad liquor or busted?
Speaker 4 (09:23):
How are you eager?
Speaker 10 (09:25):
But you've probably noticed that before.
Speaker 11 (09:28):
He though, what's wrong, Blunny.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
One of the bloodiest little range wars you ever saw
is just about to break.
Speaker 10 (09:36):
At a cottonwood pond.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
I heard about it.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
You're here too that I'm back in the wrong side.
Speaker 10 (09:41):
Here, Paula still up to the bar, Harry, you drink
from mister Jallon, No thanks.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
I can't stay kidding. I gotta try to round up
some deputies and tries. Probably about as far as I'm
gonna get. Old Ton will be siding with the Texas
Boys against Howard and against me.
Speaker 10 (09:58):
Maybe you ought which sides?
Speaker 6 (10:00):
Man?
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Oh? Sure, sure, I order, I know, but I can't.
I started making my own rules. That mean the end
of law and order in Dodge City. Yeah, I just
can't do it, Kitty, which as I'd.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Like to well.
Speaker 10 (10:16):
Not for me to say, you're the oneer has to decide.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Chester, what'd you find out, mister high tower down the railroad?
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Default check clear through the Topeka. They can't get enough
cattle cars here to load that heurd out before day after?
Speaker 2 (10:30):
That's that it's an outside chance anyway. I just can't
do it, Kitty, which as I'd like to.
Speaker 10 (10:39):
Well, not for me to say, you're the oneer has to.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Decide, Chester, what'd you find out, mister high tower down
railroad default check clear through the Topeka.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
They can't get enough cattle cars here.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
To load that? Heard out before day after? That's that
it's an outside chance anyway. So he might load him
up fast, kiddy, and run him up to the Walnut Creek.
It's still got a little water in it.
Speaker 10 (11:05):
Matt, there's something wrong with the law that help pulls
a lowdown scheme like this.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Oh, what Howard's doing is wrong morally, but it's right legally.
I got to find a legal way to stop him.
Speaker 10 (11:17):
I that a lawyer could find a way of some kind.
Too bad this town doesn't happen just the same matter.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Yeah, what is it? My name is spent Range. Yeah,
I know you work for Dike Howard, Well, what's on
your mind? Well, mister Howard figures.
Speaker 6 (11:40):
You ought to be arranged and to protect his property.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Jackson gave me his word he'd lay off until nine tonight.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
It's words, sure would, mister Howard, figures would be a
good idea if you deputize his right.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Is get up? Wait a second morning, I want get up? Well,
I want Howard's advice. I'll ask for it. I go
tell him that. Well, yeah, but go on, get up, move.
Speaker 11 (12:14):
Deputize his writers.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Sure like that?
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Well, it just may come to that, mister Dylan, and
I couldn't get anybody else.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
You know, I ought to throw this badge away and
go out there and help Jackson cut that fence.
Speaker 10 (12:29):
Man, I.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Know, I know. I ought to get a lawyer. Well, Kenny,
the only lawyer Dodge City ever saw was that young
fellow from Boston who died here last year on.
Speaker 11 (12:40):
What is it?
Speaker 4 (12:41):
Man Chester?
Speaker 3 (12:42):
What happened to those books is well, nobody never claimed him.
They're still in the back of the jail there.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Sound it's a long shot, but Kitty, I love you.
Come on, Chester, let's find those books. I don't know, Chester,
(13:12):
take amount of year just to learn what these words mean.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Well, I sure can't help you, mister Dylan. Look you there,
tort replevin statutory malfees ants.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Why don't they write the laws out in English? There
be no work for lawyers, and the only thing that
might do it is this one. I'm not too sure
what it means. Oh, Doc, come on in here, will you?
Speaker 4 (13:45):
Figured I'll bring you.
Speaker 6 (13:46):
A little courage for the battle might.
Speaker 5 (13:49):
Be snakes out at Cotton Pon.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
It's very thoughtful, Yes, Calamo.
Speaker 5 (13:54):
And Irish whiskey.
Speaker 6 (13:56):
No doctor west of the Mississippi ought to be without him.
Calum's for thetand yeah, sure of course abouttle Jameson might
not cure a patient, but it sure makes him enjoys.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Yeah. Look, Doc, you've been to school at least I
guess you had.
Speaker 6 (14:12):
Oh well, I browsed through a copy.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Well, listen to this and tell me what you think
about this paragraph right here.
Speaker 6 (14:19):
Well, let's say a Schedule of Territorial Ordinances and Judicial
Presidents Handbook for Local Administrators.
Speaker 11 (14:28):
Well, I didn't go to law school.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
No, no, but you've but read books and you know
big words. I listen to this the local administrator or
other July constituted authority in a territorial division is hereby
empowered to declare a state of acute emergency in case
a riot, rebellion, or any natural catastrophe which threatens a
(14:51):
general welfare. Now, Doc, would you say I'm a duly
constituted authority?
Speaker 6 (14:55):
Huh, Well, Dodd City, I guess you're about the only authority.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Yeah, no, No, would you say this droughtwere heaven is
a threat to the general welfare? I've never seen a
worse one. But all right, just listen to this. During
the period of such emergency, the officer in charge is
authorized to seize, confiscate, allocate, or otherwise administer critical materials
and facilities in accordance with a common need and his
(15:21):
own discretion.
Speaker 6 (15:22):
Alright, Matt, water is a material.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Yeah, And as far as.
Speaker 6 (15:26):
Keeping cattle lives concerned, cottonwood pond is a facility.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
That's all I wanted to know.
Speaker 6 (15:31):
I don't see how I'll I help you, though, Matt
Howard will never stand for it. You're still going to
have a pitched battle in your hands.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Maybe so, Doc, but at least I'll be fighting in
the way I want to fight. Oh, come on, just
let's go it's eight o'clock. We will return for the
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as dark now must be pushing nine o'clock. Hope they
don't jump the gun on us Chester.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
I figure Jack will stick by his word.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Mister Dylon.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
If Howard letsigon, you know, we might get a break
and this trows of that storm comes this way.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Let's say it's only heat, lightning, all thunder and no rain.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Well, if it goes on a few more weeks, this
prail will be dried right down to the number.
Speaker 8 (17:06):
Hold it.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Pull up them horses.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
He's right there with the fence, mister Dillan, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
I see who's there, speaker. I usually answer bush wheckers
with a six gun. This is your lucky knight Fenton.
Oh Marshall, I didn't know where's your boss?
Speaker 9 (17:27):
All right here, Tyler, not time you got here? And
my may trying to rush the finch centimnute Now, not.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Yet, Howard, I said, nine o'clock.
Speaker 5 (17:39):
You got five minutes yet.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Come on over here, Jackson. I want you to hear
this too.
Speaker 5 (17:46):
I kind of wish you'd stayed out of it, Marshall,
rather than not have thought.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
I guess you never mind, mister hard By the authority
vested in me as a US Marshall, and under the
territorial laws and Ordinances of the UNI United States, I'm
hereby declaring the state of acute emergency due to the drought.
Speaker 9 (18:04):
What are you talking about, Dylan?
Speaker 2 (18:05):
The US Territorial Ordinance Schedule of eighteen fifty eight, Section
seven twenty one CE.
Speaker 9 (18:11):
What are you trying to say?
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Just this, for the duration of the emergency, I am
taking charge of Cottonwood Pond in the name of the
United States Government, and I'm allocating use of it to
mister Jackson. Here the water is heard. If you want
to try to make a deal with him, he got
five minutes before I cut the wire and open the fence.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
I've never bought water before. I'll gave you ten cents ahead, Howard,
how about it.
Speaker 9 (18:38):
I'll see it dead first I'll truck did myself before
I see one head of your stock on my property. Dylan,
I don't know what's for heard this move. Maybe you
have so loud medideali rule.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
He's a Howard.
Speaker 9 (18:51):
If not ten, then you've lost your mind.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
You five minutes are running out. Now what are you
gonna do? Fight? What do you think I'm gonna do?
Gonna resist the law? You call it the law? I don't, Dylan,
lum give my boys orders.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
I shoot any man lays a hand on this fence.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
And that goes for you. Listen to me, Howard. You
got a chance to do something that costs you nothing
and means life or death to somebody else, and you're
refusing to do it. Well, I'm sorry to see it
that way, but in any case, this hurd gets water,
maybe they will. All right, boys, you hurt it? Cheat
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that fence cover? Jackson, I guess I'm gonna need some deputies.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Well, I got twenty five men here, marshall, are yours
if you want them?
Speaker 2 (19:41):
All right?
Speaker 4 (19:42):
Boys?
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Well, you all raise your right hands. Do you swear
to up hold the Constitution, Ordinances, and by laws of
the United States to the best of your ability? So
I help you I do, all right, you're all temporary
Deputy Marshalls acting under my orders. Now. A bunch of
the cattle in this way and got them through the fence.
As soon as I open the wire.
Speaker 5 (20:02):
They won't need much start in, Marshall. They've been smelling
that water for hour.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Don't shoot unless you're fired on. If you are, protect
yourselves and your hurt.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
All right, let's.
Speaker 12 (20:10):
Go because kay, boss Blankers closing my man towards the
opening here they crown on that fence. Elf cut themselves
to rebel rights over this, Chester, Come here, man.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
Yes, you got the war cutters.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
You're your arms to Dylan. You know, I think we
gotta fight on our hands.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
I guess, all right, keep me covered.
Speaker 5 (20:41):
I'll watch the left over here, all right, mister Jackson.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Well there's one string they're cooking up. Thanks, mister hard
all right, fired the flesh.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
Yes, Oh my gracious, I wish there was a moon.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
There's one more strand I spotted him. Here's the last one.
Speaker 5 (21:04):
Alright, boys, the fence is open, ring up through.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Heads up, Chester. They won't give end this season.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
You can hear him out there, but you can't see
for the dun Yeah, Win's coming up on that clock.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Oh, come on, let's try to find Howard. I'm gonna
take him in for attempted murder.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
Last time I heard him, he was down along the
fence here, Summers.
Speaker 8 (21:39):
Why wants it?
Speaker 5 (21:43):
Look look at him torches, mister.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Dillon, There is satin fire in the grass. Yeah, destris
it as they will step the whole prairie place, Jackson,
get your hurt to the fence. They're trying to stampede it.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
It'll take more than fire to turn those cattle away
from water.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
I guess you're right, but send as many as your
voice as you canna help me. We gotta get that
fire stopped.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
Don fast.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
I don't know, mister Dylan.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
I don't know if we're winning or losing.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
I don't if that backfire holes that we're we're winning Chester. Otherwise,
it couldn't have been a worse time.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
The prairie's dry, gun Powdy not.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
At least the herd's safe. They wouldn't leave that fond
of the whole world. Cut any orders for the boys,
mister Dylan. Yeah, I just haven't keep working along the
edge of the backfire. Pacers beat out on any sparks
that get across, right.
Speaker 5 (22:45):
Marshall, I got you.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Have you seen anything of the Howard gang. We're not
a sign.
Speaker 5 (22:49):
I guess they figured they'd done all they could.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Yeah, maybe, mister Dylan, and I'd swear a storm's gonna break.
I can halfway smell rain about that, Chester, and it's
doing one thing. It won't help us. What do you mean?
Look the wind shifting starting to drive those flames across
the backfire.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
Well, if it catches there again, it'll get clear away
from sure.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Well, now come on, let's grab some of the boys
and start working behind it. Yes, Zilan, Well Fenton, I
figured you'd be halfway to the Mexican border by now.
You figured it wrong. You keep your hands still, both
of you one moment at your last one. That's about
the way you planned it.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
Anyway, It isn't it.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
You wipe us out, Dylan. Backfire took the ranch house
in the barns. That's the first you know a drift.
Only first drop the gun. Your under arrest.
Speaker 8 (23:40):
I'm dropping you.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
Well you warned in, mister Dylan.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
That doesn't matter much.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
Well, Chester, Yes, sir, he's jumped the backfire with that
wind driving it it'll burn the whole prairie from here, Clark.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
The river and Dodge setting along with it. Not a
way in the world.
Speaker 5 (24:06):
Is stopping it either, Shot Marshall, You're right.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
I'm sick of my stomach. That's all Dodd said. He's
gonna burn Jackson and there's nothing we can do.
Speaker 5 (24:15):
I sure didn't figure on this. I let him have
her drading.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
Oh it's my fault. I should have jumped in first.
Speaker 5 (24:22):
The man does what he has to Marshall.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
I don't think that's your way.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
Oh maybe my way the wrong way when it leads
to burning ten thousand acres a prairie in a whole town.
They must be something rushing down.
Speaker 4 (24:34):
What is it?
Speaker 2 (24:35):
Chest I to yeah, I toly, I could smell it,
smell what what the devil?
Speaker 11 (24:40):
He rain?
Speaker 5 (24:44):
Yes, sure, my heaven's just stopping the ring by Heaven
may be the right expression.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
Well, I don't know about that, but I know it's
the only thing I can save Dods. We come on
red faster, got loosen rain?
Speaker 8 (25:01):
Will you an't doing and.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
This and never look at it?
Speaker 5 (25:05):
And people down on that far.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Right chess, you know, out here on the front, or
sometimes when a thing like this happens makes you wonder
if maybe well, I don't know. Come on, Chester, let's
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find our horse.
Speaker 6 (25:48):
It.
Speaker 5 (25:48):
You're not letting nothing, mister Billy.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
No, it was still quite a way from Tom. Let's
swing over along the bluff, Chester and find a place
to wait it out for a while.
Speaker 4 (25:58):
Huh.
Speaker 5 (25:58):
That's what I was hoping, you say.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Came on and it took a long time to break loose,
but it sure may get up for a lock.
Speaker 4 (26:06):
Wow.
Speaker 9 (26:08):
I never saw a lightning in this before.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Usually let's up once the rain starts. I guess it's
just a freak storm anywhere. Off your horse just to
fly on the ground.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
I saw a flash, mister Dillon. It come from that
lone cottonwood tree.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Yeah, it's a bad spot. He's got covered and we haven't.
And I guess we've found out what happened to mister Howard.
All right, Howard, come on, put your hands up, your
honor arrest. Why don't you get diner.
Speaker 11 (26:47):
You're going to flipper shot at the tree?
Speaker 2 (26:48):
Chester, roll away?
Speaker 4 (26:49):
So aside?
Speaker 2 (26:50):
Fire all right, smart, that's what.
Speaker 11 (27:03):
That one was close. There's enough light for him to see.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
He's got all the odds.
Speaker 11 (27:09):
It keeps it up, he will get us. Sure, maybe
we might just well rest you've mister Dylan. We haven't
got much to lose as.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
An outside chance just there, and he's bound to get
one of us. Yeah, but this way it's both Yeah,
I know, alright, we'll go in on the count of
three and not move fast.
Speaker 11 (27:31):
Yes, and good Lechester, see you, mister Donne. Alright, one,
it's cool.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
Three mister Dylon.
Speaker 4 (27:55):
W what happened?
Speaker 2 (27:58):
It was like ruck the tree. I think Howard's lying
over there on the ground. Come on, Yeah, he's done
all right.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
He said he'd be struck dead before he'd ever give in.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
Well he was by heaven.
Speaker 11 (28:25):
No, no, no, second time the night You're not Chester.
I think I'm gonna change my ways.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
Guns Smoke transcribed under the direction of Norman MacDonald, stars
William Conrad as Matt Dylan Us Marshall.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
Tonight's story was specially written for Gun Smoke by Les Crutchfield,
with music composed and conducted by Rex Cory. Featured in
the cast were Harry Bartel and Lou Krugman, with Joe Devall,
Barney Phillips and Georgie Ellis Parley Bears Chester and Howard
mcneer is doc join us again next week as Matt
Dylan US Marshall fights.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
To bring law and order out of the wild violence
of the West. In gun Smoke, where there's crime afoot,
look for Gangbusters tonight
Around Dodge City and the territory on West. There's just
one way to handle the killers, miss spoilers, and that's
with the US Marshall and the Spell of Gun Smoke,
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Guns Smoke, starring William Conrad, The transcribed story of the
violence that moved West with Young America, The story of a.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Man who moved with it. Matt Dillon, United States Marshall.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
H here's the river, mister, Jason Dryer's a boom our
last hoop of water for the hurry. I quite peck
us gotten one pond is just over the rise ahead
of us.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
Rid me be drying? Who but they haven't hear a
ring on the prairie for six months.
Speaker 5 (01:32):
It won't be drive.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
I've been bringing cattle up here to God's City for
twelve years.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Rout the no drought.
Speaker 5 (01:40):
The ponds always had water.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Get better than here.
Speaker 5 (01:43):
We're losing fifteen hit an hour.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Now, keep pushing much further they have by water. Luck.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
The railroad's got the cars for us. Wait and start
loading this afternoon.
Speaker 5 (01:56):
By this time, chunge like the boy he's up my
head run un or something.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Yeah, come on, here's a pound. Vega's plenty of water.
I guess you were right. I wonder why the herd's
fatting up. You ought to be stampeding for that pun
you think, captain hold up peggan.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
A farm ware fence.
Speaker 5 (02:26):
Somebody's fans talk the pond, Miter Jackson.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
It looks like we've got a fight on our hands.
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I don't like it. Duck, it's too quiet. Things got
too quiet, and dodge it always means a blow up's coming.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
Just sit down, Matt.
Speaker 6 (03:00):
You're just getting yourself for casingers. You've been aloftter too long,
shot at you many time. You ain't getting so you
just act like a spooky old horse. You're jumping your gun,
shy and hamming those forceps.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Fen Oh yeah, you mean us.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
Thank you? Now you take me, mat I.
Speaker 6 (03:24):
I don't rant and rail against fate.
Speaker 5 (03:26):
I just sit back and take what comes.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Yeah I should.
Speaker 6 (03:31):
If I get a patient, fine, I steal in blind
and if I don't, wen I keep my hand in
setting a broken leg on a dog. Yeah, that's slent
out a hole, emity. Matter of fact, I could use
a fear too. Not planning to shoot anybody, are you?
Speaker 4 (03:51):
Man?
Speaker 2 (03:51):
If this drought doesn't break, I'm in the mood to
shoot myself.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
That's a bad one all.
Speaker 6 (03:56):
I don't think I've ever seen the prairies driseres this year.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Oh there you are.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Mister Dillon. Well come on then, Chester, I've been looking
all over for you. We've got trouble, mister Dylon. Huh, trouble.
Old man Howard gets h a rider in the trail
drives pulled in from the Big Bend. They're threatening to
cut his spencers so they can water the cattle.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
At Cottonwood Pong.
Speaker 7 (04:17):
Well as you blow up, Matt, a real head on,
smash a thirsty herd against that skin flint, Howard, that
I could get myself a few fees off of this
before it's over.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Good old Doc, always hoping for the best. Now, come on, Chester,
let's ride out to Cottonwood Dyke.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Howard had no call to fence that pond, mister Dillon.
There's enough water there for all the trail herds in
the next ten years.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
That's on his ranch.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
Chester.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
He's got a right to fence his own range.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Got a right, maybe, but no decent ranger would take
advantage of it.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Howard's meed just down right. I think it's more than that, Chester.
It's the old business. I'm making two dollars grow where
one dollar grew before. I think Howard figured on something
like this when he strung that fence last month. The
trouble is looking to mister Dylon.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Huh must be fifty or sixt year ride heers facing
each other across that fence.
Speaker 5 (05:26):
Looks like a couple of armies.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
That wouldn't be the first range war that started over
water rights.
Speaker 8 (05:30):
Come on, all right, boy, I put away the guns.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
The party's over.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
Who says Almester?
Speaker 7 (05:56):
I do?
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Who are you? Tell him? Us? Martial? Much my show?
Speaker 9 (06:01):
That man is kang a threat of the break for
my princes. I trust us on my property. I demand
the protection of the law.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
You'll get it hard. You're the owner. That's hurd.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
That's right, Marshall jack Jackson from the circle z spread
down in the big ben.
Speaker 5 (06:19):
Maybe you can make.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
This fellawsy reason.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
I gotta herd of cattle here that's dying like flies
for lack of water over there one hundred yards.
Speaker 5 (06:27):
There's plenty of.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Water on this sneak and crook is fizzed in.
Speaker 5 (06:32):
How about it?
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Martin his line, Jackson, the law gives him the right
to fence.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
It wall right, Everything I got in the world's tied up,
and I'd heard there's twenty five trail riders there in
the satellite can't even pay wages to if.
Speaker 5 (06:45):
I lose these cattle.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
There's a low pole pushing a man against the wall
and wiping him out.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
It wasn't intended to hard. Whyn't you right up here
to the fence and talk.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
Huh?
Speaker 2 (06:55):
I sure my shoe?
Speaker 9 (06:57):
Oh chickens and offense in it?
Speaker 2 (07:01):
How nobody's doubting it? Now?
Speaker 4 (07:04):
Look?
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Is there any reason why you can't get together with
this man and let him take that hurt in and
water it. I made him an.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Off Uh, he turned him off a dollar I had
a day for water or by the hurt himself for
three dollars ahead.
Speaker 9 (07:15):
It's a pretty stiff terms, Howard, better than losing everything
like he's gonna do?
Speaker 5 (07:19):
Are you dirty?
Speaker 2 (07:22):
I luck? If he's any gun sling and starts, I'm
gonna be in on it too, You understand? How would
I just don't understand you? Most people out here on
the frontier stick together when trouble starts. They don't kick
a man when he's down, and they don't look on
a draft or a blizzard as a chance to make
a personal cleaning.
Speaker 9 (07:42):
A just a minute, Dylan, you call yourself a log dodge.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
All right? Does a law?
Speaker 9 (07:49):
Say I convince in my own land it does. And
never mind your opinions, Marshall. All I want out of
you is enforcement of the law.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
All right, Howard, you'll get it, and that's all you'll get. Jackson,
you better have your boys start to hurd circling.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
This mean you're backing him off, Marshall.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
I'm backing up the law, that's all, Jackson, and I.
Speaker 5 (08:11):
Don't think much of your laws up here.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
I only enforce him. I don't make him. Now you
better sickle that herd, I say you better.
Speaker 9 (08:18):
I'm ordering my boys to shoot the first man of
steel that comes through that fence.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Yes to you, cover Howard, Yes, you're mister Dilon. If
he orders any of his men to fire a shot,
kill him, do you pleasure?
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Mister Dillon?
Speaker 4 (08:30):
What's the idea?
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Mar You wanted the law enforced? All right, you're getting it.
But I'm gonna do the enforcing, Howard, not you. So
if you're smart, you won't give any orders about shooting.
All right, mister.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
Dylan, you got a tough job. I guess you're trying
to do it fair and square.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Man does what he has to do.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Jackson, I know Black with me that herd of mine
beds down without water. Most of them won't get off
the ground in the morning. So law, no law.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
We're going through that fence tonight, Matt.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Bad liquor or busted?
Speaker 4 (09:23):
How are you eager?
Speaker 10 (09:25):
But you've probably noticed that before.
Speaker 11 (09:28):
He though, what's wrong, Blunny.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
One of the bloodiest little range wars you ever saw
is just about to break.
Speaker 10 (09:36):
At a cottonwood pond.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
I heard about it.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
You're here too that I'm back in the wrong side.
Speaker 10 (09:41):
Here, Paula still up to the bar, Harry, you drink
from mister Jallon, No thanks.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
I can't stay kidding. I gotta try to round up
some deputies and tries. Probably about as far as I'm
gonna get. Old Ton will be siding with the Texas
Boys against Howard and against me.
Speaker 10 (09:58):
Maybe you ought which sides?
Speaker 6 (10:00):
Man?
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Oh? Sure, sure, I order, I know, but I can't.
I started making my own rules. That mean the end
of law and order in Dodge City. Yeah, I just
can't do it, Kitty, which as I'd.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Like to well.
Speaker 10 (10:16):
Not for me to say, you're the oneer has to decide.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Chester, what'd you find out, mister high tower down the railroad?
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Default check clear through the Topeka. They can't get enough
cattle cars here to load that heurd out before day after?
Speaker 2 (10:30):
That's that it's an outside chance anyway. I just can't
do it, Kitty, which as I'd like to.
Speaker 10 (10:39):
Well, not for me to say, you're the oneer has to.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Decide, Chester, what'd you find out, mister high tower down
railroad default check clear through the Topeka.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
They can't get enough cattle cars here.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
To load that? Heard out before day after? That's that
it's an outside chance anyway. So he might load him
up fast, kiddy, and run him up to the Walnut Creek.
It's still got a little water in it.
Speaker 10 (11:05):
Matt, there's something wrong with the law that help pulls
a lowdown scheme like this.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Oh, what Howard's doing is wrong morally, but it's right legally.
I got to find a legal way to stop him.
Speaker 10 (11:17):
I that a lawyer could find a way of some kind.
Too bad this town doesn't happen just the same matter.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Yeah, what is it? My name is spent Range. Yeah,
I know you work for Dike Howard, Well, what's on
your mind? Well, mister Howard figures.
Speaker 6 (11:40):
You ought to be arranged and to protect his property.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Jackson gave me his word he'd lay off until nine tonight.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
It's words, sure would, mister Howard, figures would be a
good idea if you deputize his right.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Is get up? Wait a second morning, I want get up? Well,
I want Howard's advice. I'll ask for it. I go
tell him that. Well, yeah, but go on, get up, move.
Speaker 11 (12:14):
Deputize his writers.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Sure like that?
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Well, it just may come to that, mister Dylan, and
I couldn't get anybody else.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
You know, I ought to throw this badge away and
go out there and help Jackson cut that fence.
Speaker 10 (12:29):
Man, I.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Know, I know. I ought to get a lawyer. Well, Kenny,
the only lawyer Dodge City ever saw was that young
fellow from Boston who died here last year on.
Speaker 11 (12:40):
What is it?
Speaker 4 (12:41):
Man Chester?
Speaker 3 (12:42):
What happened to those books is well, nobody never claimed him.
They're still in the back of the jail there.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Sound it's a long shot, but Kitty, I love you.
Come on, Chester, let's find those books. I don't know, Chester,
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take amount of year just to learn what these words mean.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Well, I sure can't help you, mister Dylan. Look you there,
tort replevin statutory malfees ants.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Why don't they write the laws out in English? There
be no work for lawyers, and the only thing that
might do it is this one. I'm not too sure
what it means. Oh, Doc, come on in here, will you?
Speaker 4 (13:45):
Figured I'll bring you.
Speaker 6 (13:46):
A little courage for the battle might.
Speaker 5 (13:49):
Be snakes out at Cotton Pon.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
It's very thoughtful, Yes, Calamo.
Speaker 5 (13:54):
And Irish whiskey.
Speaker 6 (13:56):
No doctor west of the Mississippi ought to be without him.
Calum's for thetand yeah, sure of course abouttle Jameson might
not cure a patient, but it sure makes him enjoys.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Yeah. Look, Doc, you've been to school at least I
guess you had.
Speaker 6 (14:12):
Oh well, I browsed through a copy.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Well, listen to this and tell me what you think
about this paragraph right here.
Speaker 6 (14:19):
Well, let's say a Schedule of Territorial Ordinances and Judicial
Presidents Handbook for Local Administrators.
Speaker 11 (14:28):
Well, I didn't go to law school.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
No, no, but you've but read books and you know
big words. I listen to this the local administrator or
other July constituted authority in a territorial division is hereby
empowered to declare a state of acute emergency in case
a riot, rebellion, or any natural catastrophe which threatens a
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general welfare. Now, Doc, would you say I'm a duly
constituted authority?
Speaker 6 (14:55):
Huh, Well, Dodd City, I guess you're about the only authority.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Yeah, no, No, would you say this droughtwere heaven is
a threat to the general welfare? I've never seen a
worse one. But all right, just listen to this. During
the period of such emergency, the officer in charge is
authorized to seize, confiscate, allocate, or otherwise administer critical materials
and facilities in accordance with a common need and his
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own discretion.
Speaker 6 (15:22):
Alright, Matt, water is a material.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Yeah, And as far as.
Speaker 6 (15:26):
Keeping cattle lives concerned, cottonwood pond is a facility.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
That's all I wanted to know.
Speaker 6 (15:31):
I don't see how I'll I help you, though, Matt
Howard will never stand for it. You're still going to
have a pitched battle in your hands.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Maybe so, Doc, but at least I'll be fighting in
the way I want to fight. Oh, come on, just
let's go it's eight o'clock. We will return for the
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second act of gun smoke in just a moment. But first,
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Men and women from teenage up rider, Phone your nearest
civil defense center. Now the second act of gun smoke
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as dark now must be pushing nine o'clock. Hope they
don't jump the gun on us Chester.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
I figure Jack will stick by his word.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Mister Dylon.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
If Howard letsigon, you know, we might get a break
and this trows of that storm comes this way.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Let's say it's only heat, lightning, all thunder and no rain.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Well, if it goes on a few more weeks, this
prail will be dried right down to the number.
Speaker 8 (17:06):
Hold it.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Pull up them horses.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
He's right there with the fence, mister Dillan, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
I see who's there, speaker. I usually answer bush wheckers
with a six gun. This is your lucky knight Fenton.
Oh Marshall, I didn't know where's your boss?
Speaker 9 (17:27):
All right here, Tyler, not time you got here? And
my may trying to rush the finch centimnute Now, not.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Yet, Howard, I said, nine o'clock.
Speaker 5 (17:39):
You got five minutes yet.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Come on over here, Jackson. I want you to hear
this too.
Speaker 5 (17:46):
I kind of wish you'd stayed out of it, Marshall,
rather than not have thought.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
I guess you never mind, mister hard By the authority
vested in me as a US Marshall, and under the
territorial laws and Ordinances of the UNI United States, I'm
hereby declaring the state of acute emergency due to the drought.
Speaker 9 (18:04):
What are you talking about, Dylan?
Speaker 2 (18:05):
The US Territorial Ordinance Schedule of eighteen fifty eight, Section
seven twenty one CE.
Speaker 9 (18:11):
What are you trying to say?
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Just this, for the duration of the emergency, I am
taking charge of Cottonwood Pond in the name of the
United States Government, and I'm allocating use of it to
mister Jackson. Here the water is heard. If you want
to try to make a deal with him, he got
five minutes before I cut the wire and open the fence.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
I've never bought water before. I'll gave you ten cents ahead, Howard,
how about it.
Speaker 9 (18:38):
I'll see it dead first I'll truck did myself before
I see one head of your stock on my property. Dylan,
I don't know what's for heard this move. Maybe you
have so loud medideali rule.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
He's a Howard.
Speaker 9 (18:51):
If not ten, then you've lost your mind.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
You five minutes are running out. Now what are you
gonna do? Fight? What do you think I'm gonna do?
Gonna resist the law? You call it the law? I don't, Dylan,
lum give my boys orders.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
I shoot any man lays a hand on this fence.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
And that goes for you. Listen to me, Howard. You
got a chance to do something that costs you nothing
and means life or death to somebody else, and you're
refusing to do it. Well, I'm sorry to see it
that way, but in any case, this hurd gets water,
maybe they will. All right, boys, you hurt it? Cheat
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that fence cover? Jackson, I guess I'm gonna need some deputies.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Well, I got twenty five men here, marshall, are yours
if you want them?
Speaker 2 (19:41):
All right?
Speaker 4 (19:42):
Boys?
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Well, you all raise your right hands. Do you swear
to up hold the Constitution, Ordinances, and by laws of
the United States to the best of your ability? So
I help you I do, all right, you're all temporary
Deputy Marshalls acting under my orders. Now. A bunch of
the cattle in this way and got them through the fence.
As soon as I open the wire.
Speaker 5 (20:02):
They won't need much start in, Marshall. They've been smelling
that water for hour.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Don't shoot unless you're fired on. If you are, protect
yourselves and your hurt.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
All right, let's.
Speaker 12 (20:10):
Go because kay, boss Blankers closing my man towards the
opening here they crown on that fence. Elf cut themselves
to rebel rights over this, Chester, Come here, man.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
Yes, you got the war cutters.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
You're your arms to Dylan. You know, I think we
gotta fight on our hands.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
I guess, all right, keep me covered.
Speaker 5 (20:41):
I'll watch the left over here, all right, mister Jackson.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Well there's one string they're cooking up. Thanks, mister hard
all right, fired the flesh.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
Yes, Oh my gracious, I wish there was a moon.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
There's one more strand I spotted him. Here's the last one.
Speaker 5 (21:04):
Alright, boys, the fence is open, ring up through.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Heads up, Chester. They won't give end this season.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
You can hear him out there, but you can't see
for the dun Yeah, Win's coming up on that clock.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Oh, come on, let's try to find Howard. I'm gonna
take him in for attempted murder.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
Last time I heard him, he was down along the
fence here, Summers.
Speaker 8 (21:39):
Why wants it?
Speaker 5 (21:43):
Look look at him torches, mister.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Dillon, There is satin fire in the grass. Yeah, destris
it as they will step the whole prairie place, Jackson,
get your hurt to the fence. They're trying to stampede it.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
It'll take more than fire to turn those cattle away
from water.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
I guess you're right, but send as many as your
voice as you canna help me. We gotta get that
fire stopped.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
Don fast.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
I don't know, mister Dylan.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
I don't know if we're winning or losing.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
I don't if that backfire holes that we're we're winning Chester. Otherwise,
it couldn't have been a worse time.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
The prairie's dry, gun Powdy not.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
At least the herd's safe. They wouldn't leave that fond
of the whole world. Cut any orders for the boys,
mister Dylan. Yeah, I just haven't keep working along the
edge of the backfire. Pacers beat out on any sparks
that get across, right.
Speaker 5 (22:45):
Marshall, I got you.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Have you seen anything of the Howard gang. We're not
a sign.
Speaker 5 (22:49):
I guess they figured they'd done all they could.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Yeah, maybe, mister Dylan, and I'd swear a storm's gonna break.
I can halfway smell rain about that, Chester, and it's
doing one thing. It won't help us. What do you mean?
Look the wind shifting starting to drive those flames across
the backfire.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
Well, if it catches there again, it'll get clear away
from sure.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Well, now come on, let's grab some of the boys
and start working behind it. Yes, Zilan, Well Fenton, I
figured you'd be halfway to the Mexican border by now.
You figured it wrong. You keep your hands still, both
of you one moment at your last one. That's about
the way you planned it.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
Anyway, It isn't it.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
You wipe us out, Dylan. Backfire took the ranch house
in the barns. That's the first you know a drift.
Only first drop the gun. Your under arrest.
Speaker 8 (23:40):
I'm dropping you.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
Well you warned in, mister Dylan.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
That doesn't matter much.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
Well, Chester, Yes, sir, he's jumped the backfire with that
wind driving it it'll burn the whole prairie from here, Clark.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
The river and Dodge setting along with it. Not a
way in the world.
Speaker 5 (24:06):
Is stopping it either, Shot Marshall, You're right.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
I'm sick of my stomach. That's all Dodd said. He's
gonna burn Jackson and there's nothing we can do.
Speaker 5 (24:15):
I sure didn't figure on this. I let him have
her drading.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
Oh it's my fault. I should have jumped in first.
Speaker 5 (24:22):
The man does what he has to Marshall.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
I don't think that's your way.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
Oh maybe my way the wrong way when it leads
to burning ten thousand acres a prairie in a whole town.
They must be something rushing down.
Speaker 4 (24:34):
What is it?
Speaker 2 (24:35):
Chest I to yeah, I toly, I could smell it,
smell what what the devil?
Speaker 11 (24:40):
He rain?
Speaker 5 (24:44):
Yes, sure, my heaven's just stopping the ring by Heaven
may be the right expression.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
Well, I don't know about that, but I know it's
the only thing I can save Dods. We come on
red faster, got loosen rain?
Speaker 8 (25:01):
Will you an't doing and.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
This and never look at it?
Speaker 5 (25:05):
And people down on that far.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Right chess, you know, out here on the front, or
sometimes when a thing like this happens makes you wonder
if maybe well, I don't know. Come on, Chester, let's
(25:31):
find our horse.
Speaker 6 (25:48):
It.
Speaker 5 (25:48):
You're not letting nothing, mister Billy.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
No, it was still quite a way from Tom. Let's
swing over along the bluff, Chester and find a place
to wait it out for a while.
Speaker 4 (25:58):
Huh.
Speaker 5 (25:58):
That's what I was hoping, you say.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Came on and it took a long time to break loose,
but it sure may get up for a lock.
Speaker 4 (26:06):
Wow.
Speaker 9 (26:08):
I never saw a lightning in this before.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Usually let's up once the rain starts. I guess it's
just a freak storm anywhere. Off your horse just to
fly on the ground.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
I saw a flash, mister Dillon. It come from that
lone cottonwood tree.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Yeah, it's a bad spot. He's got covered and we haven't.
And I guess we've found out what happened to mister Howard.
All right, Howard, come on, put your hands up, your
honor arrest. Why don't you get diner.
Speaker 11 (26:47):
You're going to flipper shot at the tree?
Speaker 2 (26:48):
Chester, roll away?
Speaker 4 (26:49):
So aside?
Speaker 2 (26:50):
Fire all right, smart, that's what.
Speaker 11 (27:03):
That one was close. There's enough light for him to see.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
He's got all the odds.
Speaker 11 (27:09):
It keeps it up, he will get us. Sure, maybe
we might just well rest you've mister Dylan. We haven't
got much to lose as.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
An outside chance just there, and he's bound to get
one of us. Yeah, but this way it's both Yeah,
I know, alright, we'll go in on the count of
three and not move fast.
Speaker 11 (27:31):
Yes, and good Lechester, see you, mister Donne. Alright, one,
it's cool.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
Three mister Dylon.
Speaker 4 (27:55):
W what happened?
Speaker 2 (27:58):
It was like ruck the tree. I think Howard's lying
over there on the ground. Come on, Yeah, he's done
all right.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
He said he'd be struck dead before he'd ever give in.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
Well he was by heaven.
Speaker 11 (28:25):
No, no, no, second time the night You're not Chester.
I think I'm gonna change my ways.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
Guns Smoke transcribed under the direction of Norman MacDonald, stars
William Conrad as Matt Dylan Us Marshall.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
Tonight's story was specially written for Gun Smoke by Les Crutchfield,
with music composed and conducted by Rex Cory. Featured in
the cast were Harry Bartel and Lou Krugman, with Joe Devall,
Barney Phillips and Georgie Ellis Parley Bears Chester and Howard
mcneer is doc join us again next week as Matt
Dylan US Marshall fights.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
To bring law and order out of the wild violence
of the West. In gun Smoke, where there's crime afoot,
look for Gangbusters tonight
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