August 31, 2025 • 25 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
Around on City and in the territory on West. There's
just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers.
And that's where the US Marshall and the Smell of
Gun Smoke, Guns Smoke, starring William Conrad. The Story of
(00:40):
the violence that moved West with Young America, The story
of a man who moved with it. Matt Dylon, United
States Marshall.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Movie.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Here, Matt, take a look at these.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
Huh, which do you think it's prettiest?
Speaker 5 (01:18):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (01:20):
I don't wear galluses, kiddy, I like those anyway, Oh
mad mister Jonas order 'em all the way from New York.
We got encouraging the story.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Will never stalk anything but beans and a remission.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
I like and.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
Huge beans and ammunition, but I won't wear those.
Speaker 6 (01:37):
Lovely, you look nice in a pair of bright to
spend the galaxies?
Speaker 7 (01:41):
Alright, galuses?
Speaker 3 (01:43):
You like the purple one?
Speaker 4 (01:44):
No, but they're not as bad as those pink and
orange ones. Huh? What is that they got stitched on 'em?
Speaker 5 (01:51):
Anyway?
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Chickens, they's silly, they're parents. They'll fancy man.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
I buy him, No, you won't pise mine. Give him
to Chester if you want or more his style than mine?
All right, will you refuse to be elegant?
Speaker 5 (02:06):
I refuse.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
If Chester has any sense, he will too. Or in
those people that think he's a whiskey drummer or a
barber that.
Speaker 8 (02:15):
BEA's looking like a buffalo A hundred what oh you're
looking for me, Chester, Yes, sir well, miss kiddy morning Chester.
Speaker 9 (02:23):
Uh, mister Dillon, there's a sergeant from Fort Dodge or
the office Major Evanson hymn.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
Oh, what does he want? He says?
Speaker 7 (02:29):
The Major w gracious alive?
Speaker 4 (02:33):
Look at them galaxies?
Speaker 3 (02:36):
My?
Speaker 4 (02:36):
What does he want? Chester?
Speaker 7 (02:39):
Eh? He says, the major wants to talk to you.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
Uh, sure, right away, he said, Chicken, Well, where is
the major?
Speaker 5 (02:47):
M the Major?
Speaker 7 (02:49):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (02:50):
Out of Fort Dodge again? Oh, Chester, you tell the
sergeant I might ride out sometime tomorrow if I'm not busy.
Speaker 5 (02:56):
Yes, sir well, it's.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Only five miles. Mass might be important.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
I knows, but uh, I've dealt with major evenens before. Kitty.
Was there any mail that's known? Chester?
Speaker 7 (03:18):
No, you're not a thing for three days now?
Speaker 4 (03:21):
Yeah, got much less trouble.
Speaker 9 (03:23):
Oh oh, here comes some trouble crossing the plaza.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
No, what Major avens uhuh and I guess he really
does want to see me.
Speaker 7 (03:32):
Sure looks like it.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Good afternoon, Marshall.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
Oh how are you, Major? Won't you sit on?
Speaker 10 (03:44):
No?
Speaker 4 (03:44):
Thanks?
Speaker 11 (03:45):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (03:45):
Major avens No, yeah, Chester Marshall. I sent Sergeant Bowers
after you this morning.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
But I was figuring on maybe uh riding out tomorrow. Major,
I prefer not to wait another day. Oh, what's the trouble.
Pawnee is a rating again? I hadn't heard that. Now,
that's an army matter except for one thing.
Speaker 6 (04:05):
Oh, they've been supplied with rifles, Marshall, and I'm convinced
those rifles come.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
Out of Dodge.
Speaker 6 (04:10):
Why now, it's the closest source of supply, and I
want you to stop it.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
I'll gladly stop it.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
Major.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
If it's true, they can find that out easily enough.
I'll they'll go over and see mister Jonas right across
the street there. I'll be back shortly. Tester. Oh, okay,
how along? Who is this Jonas? Marshall. He's the only
man and Dodger sells rifles. Yeah, let me see anybody's
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been buying lately. He'll know. Can he be trusted? And
I trust him?
Speaker 6 (04:43):
Well, somebody's been buying rifles here, and they might have
paid this Gentans to keep a client.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
He isn't that kind of a man.
Speaker 12 (04:51):
Major, mm, well, I hope you're gonna buy something, miss
time Marshall.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
Oh, I'm afraid not, mister Jonas, But I want you
to meet Major Evans from uh Fort Dodge. How do
you do, Major Jonas? What can I do for you?
We'd like to know if anybody's been buying rifles and
quantity lately Indian trouble.
Speaker 9 (05:17):
Huh?
Speaker 6 (05:18):
I told you, Marshall told him, what if you've been
selling rifles to some gun smugglers?
Speaker 3 (05:24):
No, Major, I don't believe I have.
Speaker 6 (05:27):
Now do you know whether you have or not? Anybody
can walk in here, Sure they can.
Speaker 12 (05:33):
But if I didn't know him, they brought up a
wagon load of rifles on the sudden, I'd tell the
Marshal about it right off.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
The only man who've ever been.
Speaker 12 (05:41):
In here are buffalo hunters, and they only buy two
three rifles.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
At the most.
Speaker 6 (05:46):
Well, Major, those rifles are coming from Dodge somehow.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
I know they are, and I'll stop it if I
have to search every wagon that leaves here. You mean
you'd used soldiers for that? Yes, there'd be trouble. Sooner
or later, they'd try to stop some hardhead who'd start shooting.
Soldiers are trained to shoot back, Marshals. I don't want
innocent men shot down for no reason at all.
Speaker 6 (06:08):
The Pawnees waited a ranch down on Crooked Creek just
this morning, Marshal, fifty miles from here.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
They did. But how come nobody's heard about it?
Speaker 6 (06:15):
The man and the woman can't be moved, and the
two boys were killed at once. The cavalry patrol found
them this morning and sent a messenger to the fort.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Well, why didn't you tell me this before we got
to get dock down there. I'm on my way there myself.
Speaker 10 (06:26):
We'll give you an escort, Marshal good if you can
keep up with us.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
We will return for the second act of gun Smoke
in just a moment. But first, there is a definite
betting pattern that overtakes the community when the gamblers move in.
Here are the facts playing, unvarnished in the words of
those actually involved. Tomorrow, when CBS Radio's hard hitting Department
of Public Affairs offers a full hour documentary expose titled
(07:07):
the Gamblers, Remember It's Tomorrow. On most of these same stations.
Don Hollenbeck narrates and the brazen facts speak for themselves
now the second act of gun Smoke.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
We rode hard, but it was nearly dawn when we
reached what was left to the ranch on Crooked Creek.
It had been burned, of course, and the stock destroyed.
Half a dozenment of the Cavalry Patrol were standing an
all night watch while their Indian scopit obile slept peacefully
in his blanket. The Lieutenant in charge informed us that's
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the man and the woman had both died. So after
he dispatched his messenger to Fort Dodge, but Doc wanted
to have a look at him anyway, So Major Evans
and Chester and I went to the fire, had a
cup of coffee.
Speaker 9 (08:19):
I don't know anything I'd rather have right now.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
On this coffee, he ought to join the Army. Chester.
Speaker 6 (08:25):
The Army doesn't usually serve coffee all night. And I
don't approve of this fire.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
Major, I'll get Tabille over there. If he thought the
Pawnees would be back, he'd put the fire out himself.
And some hm was sleeping. I suppose you were Rock Marshall.
After all, he's an Indian himself. He's a good scout too.
I've done tabelle a long time now. It's rather undisciplined.
(08:53):
What value boom? How bad he is on both counts.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
I'll die well, Yeah, all the usual things, man h
and a few new ones. Uh uh Chester mm uh,
got docs and coffee with you?
Speaker 4 (09:17):
Oh sure, scalped I suppose or a staric major worse
than that? How that man.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Lived as long as he did? Uh?
Speaker 4 (09:35):
I don't know, m sybage devils, but I think the
woman was unconscious during most of it. The man must
have tried to kill her and only raised her head.
Speaker 5 (09:49):
And how to get out of him?
Speaker 4 (09:52):
Give your coffee dot, Oh, thank thank you.
Speaker 13 (09:54):
Ester.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
The the groove across your head was.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
Too narrow for a rifle bullet, Matt.
Speaker 6 (10:06):
And I don't think those pawnees had pistol, No, but
they certainly had rifles.
Speaker 13 (10:11):
Oh.
Speaker 5 (10:11):
That reminds me I'd got a bullet out of the
man many.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
Uh uh, but that's funny. What is uh? This is
a forty four caliber? You don't say many of 'em anymore?
Here take a look nature.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
M.
Speaker 5 (10:36):
M as. I believe you're right.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
What do you make it with Marshall.
Speaker 5 (10:43):
Maysure, I think I can find this gun smuggler, you do, yeah?
Speaker 4 (10:50):
Uh, I'd like to borrow a tobile over there to
help me my scalp.
Speaker 13 (10:55):
What for?
Speaker 4 (10:56):
Although these Pawnees have a day's start on us, But
with top Biele's help, I think I can catch up
with him. Oh no, no, no, I'm afraid that'll bring
out the old tribe.
Speaker 6 (11:05):
Now, I'll run this war party down myself as soon
as there a supply of arms is cut off. O,
there'll just be to Bill and Chester and me.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
Major. It's the gun smuggler I'm after, not the Indians,
and I'll go with you. Now, that'd spot a troop
of cavalry. But three of us can get through the
country without there knowing that if we have any luck
at all.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
Just what do you have in mind, Marshall? I'll tell
you later if it works well, he guess I can't
stop me.
Speaker 5 (11:33):
No you can't.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
Then I'll go without Tabille if I have to, as
you would, all right, Marshall take him. Thanks. I just
hope you know what you're doing.
Speaker 5 (11:47):
Major, Does a man ever know for sure?
Speaker 3 (12:11):
On the rides slow.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
They don't think we follow, And I just hope they
don't find out to be you.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
So bad they find out maybe thirty forty war party,
they kill us very easy.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
Now we better breathe our horses a little. Let's stop here.
Speaker 7 (12:33):
Well, all right, now, I wish I was an army.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
I'd feel a whole lot safer.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
Mushrooms, Why we why we follow poor nee? Yeah, I'd
feel better if I knew myself.
Speaker 5 (12:54):
Maybe.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
Well, I'll tell you. First of all, that was a
forty four caliber bullet doc found in that rancher's buddy
only Henry rifle shoot forty four?
Speaker 5 (13:08):
Uh, yeah, that's right to bill.
Speaker 9 (13:10):
My I ain't seen forty four Henry since I can remember.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
No, most of the buffalo hunters around here use a
forty five, or if they use a Sharps or a Remington,
that's a fifty. You just don't see many forty four's army.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
They have all Springfield forty five.
Speaker 9 (13:28):
Yeah, but somebody's cornered a bunch of them Henry forty
fours and sold him to the Pawnees thatout you figured.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
Yeah, that's right, Chester, But whoever it is didn't think
far enough ahead. What do you mean? Well, he sold
his rifles all right, but his customers are gonna have
to come back to him for ammunition they can't get
at anyplace else, and the market sol.
Speaker 9 (13:51):
His nouns to me like he's created a pretty good business.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
Yeah, too good. Now those ponies will be looking for
him and him alone, Marshall.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Right, most Indian only need rifle, steal ammunition all over
one place, other place, h forny no fine forty four bullet,
no place.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
So they'll go back to this man. They have to
find him, and if we can keep on their trail
long enough, we will just naturally find him.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Two thirty for knee on what pack?
Speaker 4 (14:24):
All arm? Would good rifle?
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Maybe find us before we find them?
Speaker 7 (14:31):
Yeah, I guess it could work.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
Moveway. Well, nobody's gonna find anybody if we sit here.
All right, let's get moving. The Pawney trail lead sup
in a straight line and so they know exactly where
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they were going. We followed them for two days, and
on the third Tobil informed us that the war party
had been joined by another one of about equal strength.
The band of Indians is large, should protect itself with
a ring of Scots. So we were forced to drop
back and follow them more slowly. And then they turned
(15:21):
to the east and on the fourth day, we began
to wonder if we were wrong about their trying to
find the gun smuggler. Maybe they were just gonna lose
themselves in Oklahoma territory.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
A country Marshall only maybe blow apart like sand.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
I mean, they might separate and wait a while before
raiding back into Kansas.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Sometimes do.
Speaker 7 (15:52):
It's dying? Look you want to come to ride it?
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Why? White man.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
Cowboy? Yeah, he's riding pretty hard, ride like man of fraid. Hell,
let's wait here for him.
Speaker 13 (16:10):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (16:27):
Hello, ed it in the wrong direction? Oh? Why you
men are smart? You'll turn around and ride these country
is alive with pawnee U see any if I had,
I probably wouldn't be here to tell you about it.
But I've seen plenty of sign and the worst kind
of sign too.
Speaker 5 (16:45):
What do you mean they had a power?
Speaker 4 (16:46):
Who was some sort about twenty miles back from you? Mister?
They left the white man there?
Speaker 5 (16:52):
How was he dead?
Speaker 4 (16:55):
Just about? Did you talk to him?
Speaker 14 (16:58):
I talked to him, but he didn't have much to say,
not with no tongue. He left him there. It's not
all they've done to him, But he could still use
one hand. I'd give him my six gun ah, I see.
It's the funny thing though, there was wagon tracks leading
into that camp and leading out of.
Speaker 8 (17:18):
It too, and figured no, how or the wall probably
no keep wagon, marshall. Marshall, you're chasing them engines. No,
So the wagon were after and whoever's driving it, Well,
your business, marshall. But I'm riding all the way to
Darty and I'm gonna stay there.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
Maybe we'll say it when we got back. I'll be there,
but I wouldn't gamble on seeing you so long, so long? Well,
what do you make of it?
Speaker 7 (17:53):
Mister Dylan.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
Els Tobello says that the Pawnees wouldn't fool around with
a wagon. There must have been mother one white man.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
We find the wagon, I think maybe five six are Yeah,
but it'll be dark too.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
They'll be a track wagon and dark. They're gonna have
to move fast to be out of this country by daylight.
We'll move.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
O s.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
Yeah, that's the wagon. But I only see one man
there till we m one man. Big fire. Wooh, white
man the fire.
Speaker 5 (18:55):
Well, we've crawl.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
Close enough, but stop here, eh.
Speaker 7 (19:03):
We gonna rush him, mister Dylon.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
If he starts shooting Chester, we'll have the pawnees down
on us. Wait for sleep to Bill crawl up, good
throat now now, Trebille. I gotta be sure this is
the right man.
Speaker 7 (19:26):
Yeah, but how are you gonna bringend out?
Speaker 5 (19:30):
Well?
Speaker 4 (19:32):
Bluff him? Look Chester, mm you and to Belle stay here.
Speaker 5 (19:41):
I'm gonna walk up to that fire.
Speaker 9 (19:44):
You're taking a awful chance, mister Dylon.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
Lay on ye, thanks.
Speaker 7 (20:04):
Hop way, Uh, get your hands up.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
No, I'll kill you, and my friend's out there. I'll
kill you my friend. Put your gun away. Mister, you
haven't got a chance. Who are you anyway? What are
you doing here? Put up your gun? Uh? They might
get nervous. How do I know anybody's alright? Then shoot
and you'll find out. I'll go ahead. You must be crazy, alright,
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I'll put it up. H alright, and now tell me
about you and the pawnees. Arnie, what are you talking about?
I I don't know where you got those rifles. You're
sold 'em those Henry forty four's you long man. Don't
try it, mister. You can't outdraw me.
Speaker 11 (20:56):
Maybe not, but I didn't sure bring them Indians down
on you faster that you won't live to see him.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
I won't hang, you won't hang. Go get about ten
years in prison? It's not enough, but that's all you'll get.
But are you a share for something? The US? Marshall?
Speaker 11 (21:13):
Now, Marshal, all I gotta do is shoot or make
you shoot, and then pawnees will take care.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
Of the rest. So I'll make your deal. I don't
make deals.
Speaker 11 (21:24):
You have to make this one if you want to live,
because I've decided I'd just as soon die right here.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
I spend ten years in prison. What about your partner?
My partner? You know everything, don't you adjust about? And
you can't touch him? He's with the pawnees.
Speaker 11 (21:43):
They keep him his sort of a hostage till I
get back from Tuscosa with more amunition.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
You buy the rifles in Tascosa Shore.
Speaker 11 (21:52):
But them Indians is kind of mad about not finding
four or four caliber bullets.
Speaker 4 (21:55):
Real handy. He foxed him good. They're not very bright
to How do you suppose I know about your partner?
How did you we found him? Where you met the pawnees?
Speaker 5 (22:08):
He was dead?
Speaker 4 (22:10):
Dead? Yeah, they want me to tell you about it?
Oh what's that tell? They got mad and killed him.
He died slow, mister, real slow.
Speaker 5 (22:24):
They that's right.
Speaker 4 (22:27):
He wasn't very pretty when we found out. I don't
want to hear about it. He was your partner might
have the youth. I don't want to hear about it. Well,
I'm gonna tell you about it anyway. First of all,
they know don't tell me. Understand that I hate all right,
then listen to me. You start shooting. I'm not gonna
kill you, neither of my friends. But the pawnees will
come and they'll think you tried to fool him. They'll
do worse things to you than they did to him.
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I couldn't go through that. You'll see what they do,
all right, gim me your gun, Come on, take it.
I don't care what happened long as they don't get me.
All right, Now, go get your horse, misship, and hurry,
and none of us will get out of here.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Gun Smoke, under the direction of Norman McDonald, stars William
Conrad as Matt Dylan Us Marshall. Tonight's story was specially
written for Gun Smoke by John Meston, with music composed
and conducted by Rex Cory. Featured in the cast were
John Dayner, Lawrence Dobkin, Harry Bartel, Barney Phillips and Jack Edwards,
Harley Bear is Chester, Howard mcneer is Doc, and Georgia
(23:46):
Ellis as Kiddie. Gun Smoke has been selected by the
Armed Forces Radio Service to be heard by our troops overseas.
Join us again next week as Matt dylon Us Marshall
fights to bring law and order out of the wild
violence of the West. In Gunsmoke. Jean Keerney recreates one
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of her most famous screen roles in the Lux Radio
Theater adaptation of Laura. This Monday night on CBS Radio.
You will want to hear again this gripping story of
a detective who falls in love with the girl who's
murder he's trying to save. Gene Tierney and Laura I'm
the Lux Radio Theater this Monday night on most of
these same stations. George Walsh, speaking Radio's outstanding theater of
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thrill Suspense is also heard Monday evenings on the CBS
Radio network
Around on City and in the territory on West. There's
just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers.
And that's where the US Marshall and the Smell of
Gun Smoke, Guns Smoke, starring William Conrad. The Story of
(00:40):
the violence that moved West with Young America, The story
of a man who moved with it. Matt Dylon, United
States Marshall.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Movie.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Here, Matt, take a look at these.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
Huh, which do you think it's prettiest?
Speaker 5 (01:18):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (01:20):
I don't wear galluses, kiddy, I like those anyway, Oh
mad mister Jonas order 'em all the way from New York.
We got encouraging the story.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Will never stalk anything but beans and a remission.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
I like and.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
Huge beans and ammunition, but I won't wear those.
Speaker 6 (01:37):
Lovely, you look nice in a pair of bright to
spend the galaxies?
Speaker 7 (01:41):
Alright, galuses?
Speaker 3 (01:43):
You like the purple one?
Speaker 4 (01:44):
No, but they're not as bad as those pink and
orange ones. Huh? What is that they got stitched on 'em?
Speaker 5 (01:51):
Anyway?
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Chickens, they's silly, they're parents. They'll fancy man.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
I buy him, No, you won't pise mine. Give him
to Chester if you want or more his style than mine?
All right, will you refuse to be elegant?
Speaker 5 (02:06):
I refuse.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
If Chester has any sense, he will too. Or in
those people that think he's a whiskey drummer or a
barber that.
Speaker 8 (02:15):
BEA's looking like a buffalo A hundred what oh you're
looking for me, Chester, Yes, sir well, miss kiddy morning Chester.
Speaker 9 (02:23):
Uh, mister Dillon, there's a sergeant from Fort Dodge or
the office Major Evanson hymn.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
Oh, what does he want? He says?
Speaker 7 (02:29):
The Major w gracious alive?
Speaker 4 (02:33):
Look at them galaxies?
Speaker 3 (02:36):
My?
Speaker 4 (02:36):
What does he want? Chester?
Speaker 7 (02:39):
Eh? He says, the major wants to talk to you.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
Uh, sure, right away, he said, Chicken, Well, where is
the major?
Speaker 5 (02:47):
M the Major?
Speaker 7 (02:49):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (02:50):
Out of Fort Dodge again? Oh, Chester, you tell the
sergeant I might ride out sometime tomorrow if I'm not busy.
Speaker 5 (02:56):
Yes, sir well, it's.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Only five miles. Mass might be important.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
I knows, but uh, I've dealt with major evenens before. Kitty.
Was there any mail that's known? Chester?
Speaker 7 (03:18):
No, you're not a thing for three days now?
Speaker 4 (03:21):
Yeah, got much less trouble.
Speaker 9 (03:23):
Oh oh, here comes some trouble crossing the plaza.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
No, what Major avens uhuh and I guess he really
does want to see me.
Speaker 7 (03:32):
Sure looks like it.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Good afternoon, Marshall.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
Oh how are you, Major? Won't you sit on?
Speaker 10 (03:44):
No?
Speaker 4 (03:44):
Thanks?
Speaker 11 (03:45):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (03:45):
Major avens No, yeah, Chester Marshall. I sent Sergeant Bowers
after you this morning.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
But I was figuring on maybe uh riding out tomorrow. Major,
I prefer not to wait another day. Oh, what's the trouble.
Pawnee is a rating again? I hadn't heard that. Now,
that's an army matter except for one thing.
Speaker 6 (04:05):
Oh, they've been supplied with rifles, Marshall, and I'm convinced
those rifles come.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
Out of Dodge.
Speaker 6 (04:10):
Why now, it's the closest source of supply, and I
want you to stop it.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
I'll gladly stop it.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
Major.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
If it's true, they can find that out easily enough.
I'll they'll go over and see mister Jonas right across
the street there. I'll be back shortly. Tester. Oh, okay,
how along? Who is this Jonas? Marshall. He's the only
man and Dodger sells rifles. Yeah, let me see anybody's
(04:38):
been buying lately. He'll know. Can he be trusted? And
I trust him?
Speaker 6 (04:43):
Well, somebody's been buying rifles here, and they might have
paid this Gentans to keep a client.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
He isn't that kind of a man.
Speaker 12 (04:51):
Major, mm, well, I hope you're gonna buy something, miss
time Marshall.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
Oh, I'm afraid not, mister Jonas, But I want you
to meet Major Evans from uh Fort Dodge. How do
you do, Major Jonas? What can I do for you?
We'd like to know if anybody's been buying rifles and
quantity lately Indian trouble.
Speaker 9 (05:17):
Huh?
Speaker 6 (05:18):
I told you, Marshall told him, what if you've been
selling rifles to some gun smugglers?
Speaker 3 (05:24):
No, Major, I don't believe I have.
Speaker 6 (05:27):
Now do you know whether you have or not? Anybody
can walk in here, Sure they can.
Speaker 12 (05:33):
But if I didn't know him, they brought up a
wagon load of rifles on the sudden, I'd tell the
Marshal about it right off.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
The only man who've ever been.
Speaker 12 (05:41):
In here are buffalo hunters, and they only buy two
three rifles.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
At the most.
Speaker 6 (05:46):
Well, Major, those rifles are coming from Dodge somehow.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
I know they are, and I'll stop it if I
have to search every wagon that leaves here. You mean
you'd used soldiers for that? Yes, there'd be trouble. Sooner
or later, they'd try to stop some hardhead who'd start shooting.
Soldiers are trained to shoot back, Marshals. I don't want
innocent men shot down for no reason at all.
Speaker 6 (06:08):
The Pawnees waited a ranch down on Crooked Creek just
this morning, Marshal, fifty miles from here.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
They did. But how come nobody's heard about it?
Speaker 6 (06:15):
The man and the woman can't be moved, and the
two boys were killed at once. The cavalry patrol found
them this morning and sent a messenger to the fort.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Well, why didn't you tell me this before we got
to get dock down there. I'm on my way there myself.
Speaker 10 (06:26):
We'll give you an escort, Marshal good if you can
keep up with us.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
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Speaker 4 (07:36):
We rode hard, but it was nearly dawn when we
reached what was left to the ranch on Crooked Creek.
It had been burned, of course, and the stock destroyed.
Half a dozenment of the Cavalry Patrol were standing an
all night watch while their Indian scopit obile slept peacefully
in his blanket. The Lieutenant in charge informed us that's
(07:59):
the man and the woman had both died. So after
he dispatched his messenger to Fort Dodge, but Doc wanted
to have a look at him anyway, So Major Evans
and Chester and I went to the fire, had a
cup of coffee.
Speaker 9 (08:19):
I don't know anything I'd rather have right now.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
On this coffee, he ought to join the Army. Chester.
Speaker 6 (08:25):
The Army doesn't usually serve coffee all night. And I
don't approve of this fire.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
Major, I'll get Tabille over there. If he thought the
Pawnees would be back, he'd put the fire out himself.
And some hm was sleeping. I suppose you were Rock Marshall.
After all, he's an Indian himself. He's a good scout too.
I've done tabelle a long time now. It's rather undisciplined.
(08:53):
What value boom? How bad he is on both counts.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
I'll die well, Yeah, all the usual things, man h
and a few new ones. Uh uh Chester mm uh,
got docs and coffee with you?
Speaker 4 (09:17):
Oh sure, scalped I suppose or a staric major worse
than that? How that man.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Lived as long as he did? Uh?
Speaker 4 (09:35):
I don't know, m sybage devils, but I think the
woman was unconscious during most of it. The man must
have tried to kill her and only raised her head.
Speaker 5 (09:49):
And how to get out of him?
Speaker 4 (09:52):
Give your coffee dot, Oh, thank thank you.
Speaker 13 (09:54):
Ester.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
The the groove across your head was.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
Too narrow for a rifle bullet, Matt.
Speaker 6 (10:06):
And I don't think those pawnees had pistol, No, but
they certainly had rifles.
Speaker 13 (10:11):
Oh.
Speaker 5 (10:11):
That reminds me I'd got a bullet out of the
man many.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
Uh uh, but that's funny. What is uh? This is
a forty four caliber? You don't say many of 'em anymore?
Here take a look nature.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
M.
Speaker 5 (10:36):
M as. I believe you're right.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
What do you make it with Marshall.
Speaker 5 (10:43):
Maysure, I think I can find this gun smuggler, you do, yeah?
Speaker 4 (10:50):
Uh, I'd like to borrow a tobile over there to
help me my scalp.
Speaker 13 (10:55):
What for?
Speaker 4 (10:56):
Although these Pawnees have a day's start on us, But
with top Biele's help, I think I can catch up
with him. Oh no, no, no, I'm afraid that'll bring
out the old tribe.
Speaker 6 (11:05):
Now, I'll run this war party down myself as soon
as there a supply of arms is cut off. O,
there'll just be to Bill and Chester and me.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
Major. It's the gun smuggler I'm after, not the Indians,
and I'll go with you. Now, that'd spot a troop
of cavalry. But three of us can get through the
country without there knowing that if we have any luck
at all.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
Just what do you have in mind, Marshall? I'll tell
you later if it works well, he guess I can't
stop me.
Speaker 5 (11:33):
No you can't.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
Then I'll go without Tabille if I have to, as
you would, all right, Marshall take him. Thanks. I just
hope you know what you're doing.
Speaker 5 (11:47):
Major, Does a man ever know for sure?
Speaker 3 (12:11):
On the rides slow.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
They don't think we follow, And I just hope they
don't find out to be you.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
So bad they find out maybe thirty forty war party,
they kill us very easy.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
Now we better breathe our horses a little. Let's stop here.
Speaker 7 (12:33):
Well, all right, now, I wish I was an army.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
I'd feel a whole lot safer.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
Mushrooms, Why we why we follow poor nee? Yeah, I'd
feel better if I knew myself.
Speaker 5 (12:54):
Maybe.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
Well, I'll tell you. First of all, that was a
forty four caliber bullet doc found in that rancher's buddy
only Henry rifle shoot forty four?
Speaker 5 (13:08):
Uh, yeah, that's right to bill.
Speaker 9 (13:10):
My I ain't seen forty four Henry since I can remember.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
No, most of the buffalo hunters around here use a
forty five, or if they use a Sharps or a Remington,
that's a fifty. You just don't see many forty four's army.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
They have all Springfield forty five.
Speaker 9 (13:28):
Yeah, but somebody's cornered a bunch of them Henry forty
fours and sold him to the Pawnees thatout you figured.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
Yeah, that's right, Chester, But whoever it is didn't think
far enough ahead. What do you mean? Well, he sold
his rifles all right, but his customers are gonna have
to come back to him for ammunition they can't get
at anyplace else, and the market sol.
Speaker 9 (13:51):
His nouns to me like he's created a pretty good business.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
Yeah, too good. Now those ponies will be looking for
him and him alone, Marshall.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Right, most Indian only need rifle, steal ammunition all over
one place, other place, h forny no fine forty four bullet,
no place.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
So they'll go back to this man. They have to
find him, and if we can keep on their trail
long enough, we will just naturally find him.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Two thirty for knee on what pack?
Speaker 4 (14:24):
All arm? Would good rifle?
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Maybe find us before we find them?
Speaker 7 (14:31):
Yeah, I guess it could work.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
Moveway. Well, nobody's gonna find anybody if we sit here.
All right, let's get moving. The Pawney trail lead sup
in a straight line and so they know exactly where
(14:58):
they were going. We followed them for two days, and
on the third Tobil informed us that the war party
had been joined by another one of about equal strength.
The band of Indians is large, should protect itself with
a ring of Scots. So we were forced to drop
back and follow them more slowly. And then they turned
(15:21):
to the east and on the fourth day, we began
to wonder if we were wrong about their trying to
find the gun smuggler. Maybe they were just gonna lose
themselves in Oklahoma territory.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
A country Marshall only maybe blow apart like sand.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
I mean, they might separate and wait a while before
raiding back into Kansas.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Sometimes do.
Speaker 7 (15:52):
It's dying? Look you want to come to ride it?
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Why? White man.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
Cowboy? Yeah, he's riding pretty hard, ride like man of fraid. Hell,
let's wait here for him.
Speaker 13 (16:10):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (16:27):
Hello, ed it in the wrong direction? Oh? Why you
men are smart? You'll turn around and ride these country
is alive with pawnee U see any if I had,
I probably wouldn't be here to tell you about it.
But I've seen plenty of sign and the worst kind
of sign too.
Speaker 5 (16:45):
What do you mean they had a power?
Speaker 4 (16:46):
Who was some sort about twenty miles back from you? Mister?
They left the white man there?
Speaker 5 (16:52):
How was he dead?
Speaker 4 (16:55):
Just about? Did you talk to him?
Speaker 14 (16:58):
I talked to him, but he didn't have much to say,
not with no tongue. He left him there. It's not
all they've done to him, But he could still use
one hand. I'd give him my six gun ah, I see.
It's the funny thing though, there was wagon tracks leading
into that camp and leading out of.
Speaker 8 (17:18):
It too, and figured no, how or the wall probably
no keep wagon, marshall. Marshall, you're chasing them engines. No,
So the wagon were after and whoever's driving it, Well,
your business, marshall. But I'm riding all the way to
Darty and I'm gonna stay there.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
Maybe we'll say it when we got back. I'll be there,
but I wouldn't gamble on seeing you so long, so long? Well,
what do you make of it?
Speaker 7 (17:53):
Mister Dylan.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
Els Tobello says that the Pawnees wouldn't fool around with
a wagon. There must have been mother one white man.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
We find the wagon, I think maybe five six are Yeah,
but it'll be dark too.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
They'll be a track wagon and dark. They're gonna have
to move fast to be out of this country by daylight.
We'll move.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
O s.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
Yeah, that's the wagon. But I only see one man
there till we m one man. Big fire. Wooh, white
man the fire.
Speaker 5 (18:55):
Well, we've crawl.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
Close enough, but stop here, eh.
Speaker 7 (19:03):
We gonna rush him, mister Dylon.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
If he starts shooting Chester, we'll have the pawnees down
on us. Wait for sleep to Bill crawl up, good
throat now now, Trebille. I gotta be sure this is
the right man.
Speaker 7 (19:26):
Yeah, but how are you gonna bringend out?
Speaker 5 (19:30):
Well?
Speaker 4 (19:32):
Bluff him? Look Chester, mm you and to Belle stay here.
Speaker 5 (19:41):
I'm gonna walk up to that fire.
Speaker 9 (19:44):
You're taking a awful chance, mister Dylon.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
Lay on ye, thanks.
Speaker 7 (20:04):
Hop way, Uh, get your hands up.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
No, I'll kill you, and my friend's out there. I'll
kill you my friend. Put your gun away. Mister, you
haven't got a chance. Who are you anyway? What are
you doing here? Put up your gun? Uh? They might
get nervous. How do I know anybody's alright? Then shoot
and you'll find out. I'll go ahead. You must be crazy, alright,
(20:34):
I'll put it up. H alright, and now tell me
about you and the pawnees. Arnie, what are you talking about?
I I don't know where you got those rifles. You're
sold 'em those Henry forty four's you long man. Don't
try it, mister. You can't outdraw me.
Speaker 11 (20:56):
Maybe not, but I didn't sure bring them Indians down
on you faster that you won't live to see him.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
I won't hang, you won't hang. Go get about ten
years in prison? It's not enough, but that's all you'll get.
But are you a share for something? The US? Marshall?
Speaker 11 (21:13):
Now, Marshal, all I gotta do is shoot or make
you shoot, and then pawnees will take care.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
Of the rest. So I'll make your deal. I don't
make deals.
Speaker 11 (21:24):
You have to make this one if you want to live,
because I've decided I'd just as soon die right here.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
I spend ten years in prison. What about your partner?
My partner? You know everything, don't you adjust about? And
you can't touch him? He's with the pawnees.
Speaker 11 (21:43):
They keep him his sort of a hostage till I
get back from Tuscosa with more amunition.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
You buy the rifles in Tascosa Shore.
Speaker 11 (21:52):
But them Indians is kind of mad about not finding
four or four caliber bullets.
Speaker 4 (21:55):
Real handy. He foxed him good. They're not very bright
to How do you suppose I know about your partner?
How did you we found him? Where you met the pawnees?
Speaker 5 (22:08):
He was dead?
Speaker 4 (22:10):
Dead? Yeah, they want me to tell you about it?
Oh what's that tell? They got mad and killed him.
He died slow, mister, real slow.
Speaker 5 (22:24):
They that's right.
Speaker 4 (22:27):
He wasn't very pretty when we found out. I don't
want to hear about it. He was your partner might
have the youth. I don't want to hear about it. Well,
I'm gonna tell you about it anyway. First of all,
they know don't tell me. Understand that I hate all right,
then listen to me. You start shooting. I'm not gonna
kill you, neither of my friends. But the pawnees will
come and they'll think you tried to fool him. They'll
do worse things to you than they did to him.
(22:48):
I couldn't go through that. You'll see what they do,
all right, gim me your gun, Come on, take it.
I don't care what happened long as they don't get me.
All right, Now, go get your horse, misship, and hurry,
and none of us will get out of here.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Gun Smoke, under the direction of Norman McDonald, stars William
Conrad as Matt Dylan Us Marshall. Tonight's story was specially
written for Gun Smoke by John Meston, with music composed
and conducted by Rex Cory. Featured in the cast were
John Dayner, Lawrence Dobkin, Harry Bartel, Barney Phillips and Jack Edwards,
Harley Bear is Chester, Howard mcneer is Doc, and Georgia
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Ellis as Kiddie. Gun Smoke has been selected by the
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Join us again next week as Matt dylon Us Marshall
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