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Speaker 3 (01:05):
I'm that man, Matt Dillon, United States Marshall, the first
man they look for and the less they want to meet.
It's a chancy job, and it makes a man watchful
and a little lonely. It happened on the way back
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to Dodge from a trip to a straggling little settlement
to the southeast called Medicine Lodge. That country was a
lot different from the flat prairie land around Dodge City.
Down there, it was dotted with buttes and hills, jumped
some in red shale, and it was cut by narrow
winding canyons. It was kind of pretty too, and we
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were in no hurry, so every few hours we stopped
and got down out of the shade of some little
hill and had.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
Ourselves a smoke or too.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
I don't understand, mister Dillon, understand what Chester well ship?
Speaker 5 (02:25):
If the San Fe Railroad had to start a town
like Dodge, you're tall, why didn't you do it down here?
This country ain't at all boorsome?
Speaker 4 (02:35):
I agree with you, es.
Speaker 5 (02:36):
There's one thing though, This is better outlaw country. A
man can keep out of sight and mighty easy among
these hills.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Oh, that reminds me what sell king of an animal.
I saw some antelope tracks headed toward the other side
of this hill. I just might sneak up.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
There and have a look.
Speaker 6 (02:55):
We can sure do some fresh meat.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
Yeah, rifle did you bring with you, Dylan?
Speaker 4 (03:02):
Uh? Spring Field forty five mm?
Speaker 6 (03:05):
Well, I don't take care anything within thousand yards?
Speaker 4 (03:09):
Uh, providing I hit it, And if.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
You can't, just give me a yell, I'll come help you.
Speaker 6 (03:19):
Good hunting.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
Nothing not an antelope in the site? Okay, Hey, did
you do.
Speaker 7 (03:59):
What?
Speaker 4 (04:03):
Somebody was shooting at me? Chester? What did you hit you?
Speaker 8 (04:15):
No?
Speaker 7 (04:16):
Well?
Speaker 6 (04:18):
Can you see him?
Speaker 3 (04:18):
If I cut out, I had a bullet in him.
Speaker 6 (04:21):
You you didn't see him at tall?
Speaker 4 (04:22):
And I saw the smoke from his rifle.
Speaker 6 (04:24):
Well, then maybe you hit him.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
And if I didn't, that came off for close.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
Can it?
Speaker 6 (04:28):
Take a look down?
Speaker 4 (04:29):
No, you better stay where you are.
Speaker 6 (04:34):
What was he shooting at before?
Speaker 4 (04:35):
What you're doing?
Speaker 3 (04:36):
And I last came when we got close enough Chester,
I know where he was. We will skirt that hill
to where I left there and come up on his flank.
And I like getting bush whiked. Well, I swear he
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was Chester behind that clump of beard grass.
Speaker 6 (05:05):
Or you sure ain't there now?
Speaker 4 (05:08):
Yeah, I guess I didn't hit him, after all.
Speaker 6 (05:12):
I don't see no sign of blood.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
No, but we can track him anyway. You ride to
one side and I'll follow his trail.
Speaker 6 (05:18):
Alright, sirre.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
You yell out if you see anything at all, justin yes, sir,
I sure will now't here's where he had his horse.
And uh now by having.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
Those are mule tracks.
Speaker 6 (05:41):
Hey, look beyond them. Preez there what you're doing? They're
a little stream over there.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Yeah, that's big enough to hide his tracks.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
All he has to do is ride down the middle
of it.
Speaker 9 (05:52):
Oh, you can.
Speaker 5 (05:53):
Follow along one bank and I'll take the other.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
He's gotta come out of the water. Someplace.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Probably gonna tell if he's headed upstream or down?
Speaker 5 (06:00):
All right, I never thought of that.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Now, here's where he went under the water, Trusted, I'll
go over and see if he rode straight across.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
So wait a minute, Mite, Dylan, what come on down here? Yeah?
What is it?
Speaker 5 (06:25):
We look at them tracks?
Speaker 6 (06:27):
Mister Dun't he come out of the.
Speaker 8 (06:28):
Water right here?
Speaker 4 (06:31):
Now?
Speaker 3 (06:31):
What was he doing riding downstream one hundred yards? All
that did was slow him up.
Speaker 6 (06:36):
He's crazy.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Anybody riding him you must be crazy.
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They can't be too far ahead of us, Trusted, let's
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For a half a mile or so we had no
trouble tracking him, But then he started up along the
side of a low hill that was mostly shale, and
since his mule was unshod as trail became almost impossible
to follow up. We lost it over and over again,
and I had to get down and move along a
foot or two at.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
A time in order to pick it up.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
But finally some tracks led down onto the soft dirt,
and a couple of miles further on we spotted a
little cabin.
Speaker 5 (09:03):
Huh, looks like he ain't nothing but a nasty mister John.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
He handles a rifle better than I ain't nast or
eye every so, yes, Uh, well, we better go on
foot from Rochester.
Speaker 6 (09:22):
M ain't gonna sign it nobody. He probably inside waiting
for him.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Ali hasn't shot out us yet. That's a chance that
huh walk right up there.
Speaker 5 (09:36):
Okay, there's a cry a lout back beyond that wagon.
Speaker 8 (09:44):
Mister June.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Yeah, there's his mule, just stuck his head up and
then there must be somebody home.
Speaker 6 (09:55):
I hope they don't come out shooting.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
How do you do, ma'am?
Speaker 6 (10:19):
What do you want?
Speaker 4 (10:21):
We're looking for your husband. There's a home.
Speaker 8 (10:25):
We don't know who people are out here.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Mister.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
My name's Dylan and uh it's Chester Brodfoot.
Speaker 6 (10:31):
How do you man? Never heard of you?
Speaker 4 (10:34):
How we're strangers hire. This ain't a good place to be, mister.
Speaker 8 (10:39):
You better keep riding.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
Well we uh, we gotta talk to your husband first.
Speaker 7 (10:44):
When John ways, Eliza, there's a couple of strangers standing here,
mister Phoebe.
Speaker 8 (10:50):
We got nothing for strangers.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
They want to talk to you.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
Get him away from the door.
Speaker 8 (10:57):
I've come outside and talked.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
To mister Peevee said to get away from the door.
All right.
Speaker 8 (11:05):
Now he's coming out.
Speaker 10 (11:10):
Now.
Speaker 8 (11:12):
You stay here, lies and keep pau all the way too.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
If I want to see.
Speaker 8 (11:17):
What's going on. Uh, go back to your room, Paul.
Speaker 6 (11:24):
And carry that right from like a blue ridd run. Man,
it's dying.
Speaker 7 (11:28):
Yeah, my wife says, you want to talk to me?
Speaker 8 (11:34):
What a buy?
Speaker 7 (11:36):
Your name is Phoebe Alvin Peevee I'm not Dylan Pevy.
Speaker 8 (11:41):
They don't mean nothing to me.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
I'm alarm mind the US Marshal.
Speaker 7 (11:45):
They don't mean nothing to me. Neither well attract your
hare PV. You and your mule tracked me?
Speaker 8 (11:53):
What for?
Speaker 4 (11:55):
Because I don't like getting shot at.
Speaker 7 (11:58):
I don't know what you're talking about out, Marshall, but
I ain't proud to have you standing here in front
of my cabin and putting blame on me.
Speaker 4 (12:05):
I said, tract you here.
Speaker 7 (12:07):
What difference does that make? I didn't do no shooting,
and you can't prove I did. If I was you,
i'd clear out and leave people to their own business.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
You'll try to kill a man and then they had
gotten mad when he complains about it.
Speaker 7 (12:23):
Why should I try to kill you? It don't make
sense to kill a man you don't even know. I
never shot at a man without cause in my life,
and that's the truth.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
Anything else you'll want to tell me.
Speaker 8 (12:36):
No, except to leave me alone, all right?
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Come on, Chester, mister Dillon, you can't let him get
Come on, I said, yes, we're.
Speaker 6 (12:52):
Just gonna ride off and let him get by with this,
mister Dillon.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
We're gonna ride off Chester. But we'll be back in
the morning.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
We'll leave every day for a week if we have to.
Speaker 6 (13:23):
Carrol's empty, Mister Dylon, He's wagon's gone too.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Or maybe Miss Phoebe's inside. Let's tire our horses hair Chester.
She might even give us some coffee.
Speaker 5 (13:35):
These Phoebees ain't exactly the most hospitable folks I ever
come across.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Maybe they'll improve when they get used to us.
Speaker 6 (13:42):
More likely they'll shoot us first.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Quite a minute over there, coming around that hill.
Speaker 6 (13:52):
There's Peevy's wagon. Who's that driving a mule?
Speaker 4 (13:56):
That's a woman, probably Miss Phoebe.
Speaker 6 (13:58):
Where you suppose it being.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
I'm shooting strangers?
Speaker 5 (14:02):
Probably, And it'd be better off if they spent their
time fixing this place up.
Speaker 6 (14:06):
So it's going plumb to ruin.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
I Pevy he's got other things on his mind.
Speaker 6 (14:10):
Ses, Yeah, he sure had.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
He acts like a man riding the shotgun.
Speaker 6 (14:17):
Doesn't he fancy letting his woman do all the work?
Speaker 8 (14:22):
Whoa, whoa, whoa, Get down, Liza, He'll stand.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
Morning.
Speaker 7 (14:35):
Peevy, ma'am, I thought I told you to leave us alone.
Speaker 8 (14:42):
You did, and what are you doing back?
Speaker 4 (14:45):
But I thought you might be a little more friendly
than they were yesterday. I am. I guess I was wrong.
Speaker 8 (14:50):
I ain't got time to be friendly.
Speaker 7 (14:53):
No, Marshall, I'll tell you straight out so you won't
get any wrong ideas. He's a man in that wagon.
What he's dead? Shot dead, and.
Speaker 8 (15:06):
We're gonna bury him now? Oh is he his name?
Speaker 11 (15:10):
Don't matter?
Speaker 8 (15:12):
But I didn't shoot him. You can go look if
you want. He's been dead most of day.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
Now what are you doing with him?
Speaker 7 (15:20):
I found him laying out there, so as I got
the wagon and brought him in, I'm gonna bury you.
Speaker 4 (15:25):
Gone to a lot of trouble, PV.
Speaker 7 (15:27):
Why I found a man laying dead on the ground.
I ain't gonna ride off and leave him.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Now?
Speaker 4 (15:33):
Where did you find him? Out that way?
Speaker 8 (15:35):
A few miles?
Speaker 4 (15:37):
What difference it makes none? Maybe you want some help.
Speaker 8 (15:45):
We don't need no help, Marshall.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
All right, Olivia to your work. That's got our Ausochester.
We rode off in the opposite direction. The TV's had come,
made a circle and picked up their wagon tracks about
a half a mile from the cabin. It was an
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easy trail to follow, and an hour later we found
the spot where they had picked up the body. It
proved what I'd suspected all along. So we turned around
and rode back.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
Toward the TV cabin.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
We were about a mile from it when we saw
an old man and a woman ahead of us, both
armed and both riding mules.
Speaker 6 (16:35):
Well they've seen this, mister Dillon.
Speaker 4 (16:36):
They're stopping good.
Speaker 6 (16:39):
They aren't look none too friendly.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Neither do they.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
Nobody does around here? Hello, you would even leave? Hello?
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Three, I'm a US marshal from Dodge. Name is Dylan,
looked in for somebody?
Speaker 4 (17:09):
Maybe? What's your name? Caid? Jack Cade? He? Here's my wife, Hylan?
You need us you're looking for? You'll live around Haircane
a few miles from here. Albin Peeve a friend of yours.
Not hardly shut up? And if you're not friends, what
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are you doing? Hirricade? Man can ride? Or please chill up.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
When a man and his wife start out carrying rifles
and are headed for Albin Peevey's place, it might be different.
Speaker 9 (17:43):
You keep out of this martial. US cads don't need
no loan.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
Who is it Cad? Your son?
Speaker 1 (17:55):
What's he know about?
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Ben?
Speaker 4 (17:56):
I told you to shut up, Bill, and I'll do
the O. Ben? Is that it came?
Speaker 8 (18:03):
Did TV?
Speaker 4 (18:04):
Kill your son Ben.
Speaker 9 (18:07):
All right, you're so smart. I'll tell you, man like
TV don't deserve to live. He killed Ben and he
stole them, run off with his body. Man can't get
lower than that.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
How do you know he killed him?
Speaker 9 (18:24):
I found Ben last night, That's how last night I
couldn't handle him alone.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
So I went home after Ellen and he got dark
and we had to wait there till morning. He was gone.
Speaker 9 (18:37):
But then I knew it was Alban PV stole them
and he killed him too. He's gonna die for it.
We're gonna face him straight on and get it over
with past. Ellen's as good as shot as I am.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
Luck. If TV killed.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Your son, I don't blame you if for being man,
but he must have had some reason for him.
Speaker 4 (18:59):
It ain't your bother, Marshall.
Speaker 6 (19:02):
I keep telling.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
You, all right, I'll have to make it my brother.
Don't move, Cage, you're coming mess Cage, you.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Hold that rifle down, or I'll have to shoot your husband.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
Ritty, sneaky. Ain't you got a rifle? Chester?
Speaker 6 (19:23):
Thank you?
Speaker 4 (19:26):
And I'll take yours.
Speaker 5 (19:27):
Kid, go ahead, got another rifle where at home and I'll.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
Get it too. And I'm going home, kid, who do
you meet.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
We're gonna go see the peevies first, like you say,
we're gonna get this thing over with.
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Speaker 4 (21:25):
The cabin's empty, Chester, where they got to here? Stay
with the caids. I'm going to take a look around back.
Speaker 9 (21:32):
I hope Alban TV shoots you Musha, and.
Speaker 4 (21:35):
I hope it doesn't keep an eye on it.
Speaker 11 (21:37):
Chester.
Speaker 6 (21:39):
You're staying really? You know gade and quiet too.
Speaker 4 (21:59):
Mister p you fetch my rifle? Lies? No stay? Why
now don't your movie?
Speaker 7 (22:09):
Then?
Speaker 8 (22:09):
Phoebe what you let him get the drop on. It's
for I didn't see him.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
I'm not gonna shoot anybody. Peevy, How sir rang.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
I'm back here?
Speaker 8 (22:19):
What are you up to? Anyways?
Speaker 4 (22:21):
I want to explain something to you. PV and the
jack cade and his wife too.
Speaker 8 (22:26):
Kay.
Speaker 4 (22:27):
We met him coming over here to kill you. I'm
got to get my rifle out armed. We chucked our rifles.
Speaker 8 (22:33):
He's right, mister Pev, they ain't armed. Kill him with
my bear.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
Hang you'll move and I'll bend my gun barrel over
your head. TV.
Speaker 9 (22:49):
Look at that, Marshall. He's burying Peevey. He's burying my boy.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
Is that who it is? Phoebe? Is Ben Caden? Oh?
Speaker 7 (23:02):
Tell me, well, what's the difference now?
Speaker 8 (23:08):
It's Ben Key?
Speaker 7 (23:09):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (23:09):
Why didn't you leave him? Why did you bring him here?
Speaker 8 (23:11):
There's another grave here, Marshall.
Speaker 6 (23:13):
You can't see it.
Speaker 8 (23:14):
I fixed it so's nobody can see it.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
Right.
Speaker 7 (23:18):
Two months ago, Ben Kate shot my son before he died.
I promised i'd someday bury Ben nearby, and that's what
I'm doing.
Speaker 4 (23:27):
It's your boy's own fault.
Speaker 9 (23:29):
He got chopped if he hadn't been hounding Benny.
Speaker 4 (23:33):
Wouldn't I have. That's what this field's all about.
Speaker 8 (23:36):
It ain't over.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
Yet, Marshall.
Speaker 8 (23:38):
Phoebe's gonna die for killing Ben.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
Wait a minute, kid, Poebe, I want to ask you something. Well,
you are after young kid for killing your son?
Speaker 4 (23:48):
Is that right?
Speaker 8 (23:50):
That's right?
Speaker 4 (23:51):
And now he's dead.
Speaker 7 (23:52):
You're satisfied. That's all I wanted. You don't matter who
killed him.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
And you okay, you're after Phoebe because he shot your boy.
Speaker 4 (24:01):
I'll kill him for it if it takes ten years
and you're wasting your time. The feud's over, gentlemen. Huh,
I killed Ben Kiden? What are you talking about?
Speaker 3 (24:17):
He tried to shoot me from ambush. He thought I
was Peeve stalking him, so I fired back and I must.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
Have hit him. But he didn't die till he got
across that stream where you found his body.
Speaker 5 (24:29):
We tracked him as far as bank and then I
got smart and picked up the trail had come out
down below.
Speaker 6 (24:35):
I thought it was Ben's. Of course he was peevy.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
Yeah, true, Pebe, you didn't.
Speaker 7 (24:43):
Shoot him and never claimed it dead. You can't blame
the marshal key.
Speaker 4 (24:54):
No, he had to defend yourself. Wh my blaming it.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
I'm sorry it happened, Katy, but now maybe both of
you men are ready to agree that there's been enough
killing around here.
Speaker 7 (25:11):
What do you say, Boebe, He's been enough for me.
I'm satisfying.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
What about you, Kate? What do you think it ought
to stop?
Speaker 8 (25:21):
Now we lost our boys.
Speaker 9 (25:25):
I'm thinking maybe it's right that they should be buried
here like that.
Speaker 4 (25:31):
Kind of remind us.
Speaker 7 (25:35):
Kay, Yeah, Poebe, you'll leave Ben here.
Speaker 8 (25:41):
Yes, you ought to come by once in a while.
Speaker 4 (25:44):
Well, i'd want to do that. See my son's grief.
Speaker 8 (25:49):
I'll take good care of both of them. Marsham.
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Yeah.
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Maybe if my woman boils up some coffee, all you
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