July 9, 2025 • 29 mins
Set in a frontier town, this series follows a U.S. Marshal as he maintains law and order. The show combines action with moral dilemmas of the Old West.
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
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Story of the violence moved.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
What with Young America and the story of a man
will move with it.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
I'm that man, Matt dyllon United States Marshall, the first
man they looked for and the last they want to meet.
It's a chancy job, and it makes a man watchful
and a little lonely.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
It's a dog on shame, mister Dylan.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Oh what is just?
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Well? For long? It'll be too cold to set out
here of an evening?
Speaker 2 (01:52):
When is too cold? Summer's too odd? How do you
like spring?
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Oh? Springs all right up here?
Speaker 4 (01:59):
And I remember back in we all got to ayu
every spring.
Speaker 5 (02:02):
Oh, A terrible fever makes a man feel like a
harp with a thousand strings.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Yeah, I know I've had it.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
You know, Mama had an id.
Speaker 5 (02:10):
We wouldn't get it if we had three hard boiled
eggs on good Friday. But if that didn't work and
we got to Au anyway, then she'd tie salt mackel
onto our feet.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Let's shut it, toughened up your feet. Anyway, we all survived.
Speaker 5 (02:24):
That stage is mighty late tonight, mister John.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
How are you expecting somebody? Me? Will?
Speaker 3 (02:30):
My?
Speaker 6 (02:30):
Who'd I be expected?
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Oh? Maybe some girl from Waco who has found out
where you've been hiding.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Not very likely.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
Even my MAA don't know where I'm at anymore.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
Hey, here come to stage?
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Driver is Jim Buck Yeah, Marshall? Oh Ester w Yeah,
that's a matter of trouble.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Then I'd call it trouble. Marshall got held up. One
passenger shot down in cold blood. Huh, meanest thing I
ever saw.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Of what had happened.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
I had a wagon bed springs between there and Jesse Daggetts.
Daggets He runs the stage station out toward the colorad
of line. I got a mighty strong feeling. Jesse Daggett's
in on this, Marshal, Or.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
What makes you think so? John?
Speaker 3 (03:12):
He knew I was carrying gold was much, but it
was some after we'd laid over an hour. So at
the station, I seen Daggett talking to a man who
just rode in his cussed looking the gunman as you'd want.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Well, then what happened? The fellow rode off.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
He was alone, just him, his face covered, and he
never said a word, took the strong box, robbed the passengers,
and he got on his horse, turned around and shot
one up and right through the head forevermore. Then he
rode off. I could have cried. I was so mad, helpless.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
That's a strange thing. Jim is shooting down the passenger.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Why would a man do that, Marshal, I don't understand it.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
How they just likes to kill. Maybe I'll go back
with you to horror, Jim, maybe we can find ours.
We made the trip down the Santa Fe Trail next day,
through wagon bed springs and onto Jesse Daggett stage station.
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I stood on the box with Jim Bucken Wilchester Road
inside with the passengers, and by evening everybody was classed.
When we reached Naggetts it was a typical road ranch,
with a large eating room and a row of sleeping
quarters for the travelers. Jesse Daggett himself was a tall,
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angular man, lawned and gray. He was quiet, but one
could feel the trouble that lay inside him. The first
chance I had to talk to him was in the
yard after summer.
Speaker 6 (04:52):
Colwall be coming soon at Ley in Moore.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Whiskey. I figured you've probably made your own whiskey, daggett.
Speaker 6 (04:58):
I do the five barrel of corn buried on the road.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Out there stage, and no horses keep them shook up propriately.
H you have this station along three years come spring, Marshall,
but up myself. Oh, hes try to burn her down on.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Them, but I'm still here. You plan to stay here?
Speaker 6 (05:24):
Man's plans or his own, Marshall.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
I'm sorry, it was just an idol question. That's all right.
I think I'd like it here myself. No neighbors, but
lots of company passing through.
Speaker 6 (05:38):
They't no good company.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Lots of people travel good and bad, And that's true.
Like the man who held up Jim Bucks stage yesterday,
shot that passenger. What about him? Wow? You might call
him comedy like we were talking about the bad kind.
Speaker 6 (05:58):
Any man kills in cold blow that way, I'm called back.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
It might have been a mistake, though, gun might have
gone off by accidents. Might you don't think it did
what I think won't raise a dead Marshall, No, but
it's might keep more people from dying.
Speaker 6 (06:18):
Figure, that's what you're doing here looking for that felling.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Jim Buck thinks it might have been a gun when
you were talking to here the day of the holder.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
That was Matt Bilcher.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
And I don't care.
Speaker 6 (06:31):
What Jim Buck thinks.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
It won't help your business or the stage companies if
more passengers get killed in their heir dagger. Oh, it won't.
For a fact, everybody expects the stage he got held
up once in a while, but it's a different matter
to shoot people down for nothing. Now, I don't figure
this man unless he's just a born.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Killer who could have a lot of reasons. Men are
all different, carl all got different reasons for doing what
they do, living the way they live. I guess it's
what happened to him in the past that spells it out. Now,
that's why I'm a law man, and you run a
stage station, and to whoever he is holds up people
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and kills him, Marshall, I'll tell you something, but it
ain't what you want to hear. I believe and let
an ever man kill his own snakes.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Then this business is between whoever that bad it is
and me is that it? That's it exactly ever man
for himself. You might say I don't interfere and I
want help, and I say it's got to be like that.
Even though a man was killed.
Speaker 6 (07:47):
Nothing but a dog eat dog.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
I see, well, I hope you won't regret attacking one more.
Regret won't break me, Marshall. I'm not so sure that.
I'm not so sure it won't.
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Speaker 2 (09:29):
Trying to get anything out of Jesse Daggett was hopeless,
and I still couldn't agree with Jim Buck the Daggett
was partners with a road Ancient Daggett somehow wasn't that
kind of a man. Anyway, There was nothing to do
but waits let things happen. Two days past while Chester
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and I sat.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
In the eating room and played two handed.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Studs and got bored and restless. Late afternoon of the
second day, however, Jim Buck drove back with his The
travelers came in first went to the rooms, and then
Jim came up with to say hello.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
I wish I had a job like yours. Nothing to
do but sit around and play cards and drink whiskey.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
Well, we do a lot of thinking, Jim.
Speaker 5 (10:15):
That's what makes up for it.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
You do well, you'd done anybody finding Jesse Daggett's friend
Nat pull him.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
If we didn't find him, Jim, we couldn't.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Prove anything, No revery could eye. I guess you might
just shoot him for luck.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
You too suspicious, Jim. It was probably just some cowboy
right in the through.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Maybe. Anyway, I got no.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Gold this trip, and there's nothing to worry about it.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
There's another food to him for supper. That's first bit,
Tod we've had since you left.
Speaker 8 (10:44):
Jim, man.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
That's to be mighty hungry to ride in here for
Jesse Daggett's food. Where is Daggett anyway?
Speaker 5 (10:49):
But he went outside just after you pulled in, didn't
you see him?
Speaker 3 (10:53):
I was busy with the horses and I still got
work to do. I'll see it supper.
Speaker 5 (10:58):
Oh my, that's a hard, live driving stage, mister John.
I don't think i'd want to do that.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
You might give it a try first, justine that a
minute I heard there was.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
A Marshall here.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Yeah, that's right. What can I do for you? Me?
Speaker 4 (11:24):
You can't do nothing for me Marshall?
Speaker 2 (11:27):
And what he wanted?
Speaker 9 (11:29):
Oh, I just wanted to see what a Marshall looks
like a live one.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Yes satisfied? Sure all right. I didn't get out of here.
Speaker 10 (11:47):
You're touching Marshall, real touchy.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
I don't aim to start no trouble. And we come
in and say hello, friendly life.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
That's your name Pilcher, That Pilcher.
Speaker 10 (11:59):
I O heure, I'm afraid of Jesse Daggett's an old friend.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Or do you live pilchup? He got a job around here.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
I'm a cowboy in Marshall. Know, anybody needs a good hand.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
What do you do besides ride? Funny?
Speaker 10 (12:15):
Assay, there's you being a law man. It is ever
hear Charlie Hall, sheriff.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
Over New Mexico.
Speaker 10 (12:24):
I have they say play Alison shot him. That's what
they say, Marshall.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
But I know for a.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
Fact he wasn't.
Speaker 6 (12:33):
Clay.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Nice meeting you, Marshall, See you later. Jesse dagget stage
station lay on the prairie, miles from anywhere. It would
be an easy thing for a man liking Matt Pilcher
to ride in long enough to check on a stage
coach from the value of its cargo, and then ride
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up the road a few miles and wait for it.
But I still didn't believe Daggett wasn't on the deal,
even though he and Pilcher had obviously known each other
somewhere before the next morning the dawn, Jim buckloaded his
passengers aboard and pulled out Daggett and I stood there
and watched the little cloud of dust to move up
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the Santa Fe trail towards wagon. Bet springs'll make Dodge tonight.
Speaker 6 (13:27):
He'll be back here tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Half he doesn't get shut up. I'm carrying no gold
this trip. I met your friend NTT. Pilcher last night,
Daggott Pilcher rolled up before his supper DNA and black.
He only came in to tell me what a hard
CASEY is to warn me about it didn't that much effect.
(13:49):
You're still here. You don't think I scared that easy?
You're all right, Marshall. He should have gone back to Dodge, why, Dagget,
Why should I?
Speaker 6 (14:04):
Things will work out here without you.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Go ahead. That's so I don't know what's going on
down here. And if I'm meddling in your affairs, I'm sorry.
But a stage has been robbed and a man's been killed,
and that makes it my affairs too.
Speaker 6 (14:22):
I want to thank you for not thinking I.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Got anything to do with all that, Marshall. And I
wasn't sure at first, but I am not even so
I'm not going back to Dodge without a man. No,
I suppose you won't. Now let's go inside. Sure you
know you ought to plant some trees out here, dagg
Sure improve the place, not enough water, not to dig
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for it. I never got a woman to come out
here and marry you, and measure at least got some trees.
How's that? No, offense. I was just remarking that women
like things growing around the place. I's said it, I
meant it generally. I thought to have a woman here
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once when I first planned about running the stage station.
That was over in New Mexico.
Speaker 6 (15:15):
Seems like a long time ago.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Now things don't always work out. I was mighty fond
of her, but I lost to.
Speaker 6 (15:30):
Have been a little lonely ever since I came close.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
That's better than some men do. Oh, I don't know
about that.
Speaker 6 (15:38):
Funny how a man goes right on living even when.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
He's luck he's about run out. Yeah, I'm on inside.
Speaker 7 (15:49):
Heat up some coffee, got him Chester, mister.
Speaker 6 (16:13):
Doling, you mind if we don't play no more.
Speaker 5 (16:16):
That's why I'm beginning to see things.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
It's okay with me. The stage ought to be here
pretty soon anyway.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
You just think Jim Buck's taking the stage all the
little dodging back, and we've just been sitting here in
another two days.
Speaker 6 (16:33):
Well, waiting's always.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
The hardest part. I just hope it pays off.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Oh, there's the stage now, he said, do some people
around here.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Let's go out and make it.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Hugh hod again, come out here, mushall.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
What's a lot of more trouble. Jam he stuck me again.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Mushall, my heaven, I'm going after him now. If you don't,
take a look at the coach there. Uh why watch woman?
She dead, Jim, Of course she's dead. He got a
bullet in there.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Where are you rather? Passengers? Tip?
Speaker 3 (17:11):
Hey, Danny, she's the only one on this trip. Look
at him, Marshall, he killed it.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
There's some blood sucking. Throw your jacket, Jem.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
You hit bad in the shoulder. I wasn't gonna stop
at all to knocked me off the box, and he
just rode up and put a bullet in it and
rode off. You never said a word.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
I think it was a toll trip.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Who else would it be? You've seen him, you know
what he's like. Must be him. Let's ask Jessey Daggett
here who it was. Take a look in the coach, Daggett,
take a good look, well, jagged, what do you think
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of killing women? Look at him, Marshall. I told you,
do you ever see a juilliar looking man?
Speaker 2 (18:12):
How You're wrong, Jim? It doesn't even make sense.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
He didn't do it, No, but he's in on it somehow.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
I'll help you take a woman inside, then we'll see
what we can go about your shoulder.
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Speaker 2 (19:48):
None at all, but I figured it would soon. And
after I did what I could for Jim Buck's shoulder,
Chester and I buried the woman lost over a grave.
We'd find out later who she was. The rest of
the night we took turns watching for a move from
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Jesse Daggett's not sure enough. About an hour before dawn,
he settled up and rode out into the prairie. We
let him get a little start, and then took a
couple of his horses and followed him.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Do you think he's going to meet Pilcher?
Speaker 5 (20:30):
If he can find him, he must come ten miles already.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Yeah about that. We shouldn't let him get so far
ahead of us, so we're right on his trail. Yeah,
I know that's not up there, man, Come on?
Speaker 3 (20:52):
Why his Daggett, mister don he'd been shocked.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
He followed me, Marshall, I better get hurt, dagget pretty
bad Filcher. I'd have killed him, Marshall, but my gun
didn't go off, and he got me.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
No luck left at all?
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Right, any idea where Filcher is now? Taggett? He said
he was going back to the station to get you.
Took my horse sleeping. I had to come with you
this morning, Daggett.
Speaker 6 (21:31):
It wasn't your business between me and Filcher.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
He come here looking for a fight. I didn't want
to kill nobody, no more, not even him, so he
drove me to it.
Speaker 6 (21:47):
Finally, finally, that woman he knew. I couldn't stand that.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
I mean, he shot her and that other passenger just
too broad. You into a fight, Marshall. I'll tell you now.
I had a woman out New Mexico. I caught her
running off with that Builcher. I didn't shoeld him, though,
I shot her instead. Figured that made more sense. He
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killed her. I don't think he'd mind it so much
if I had to kill him. I figured he wasn't
doing nothing. I didn't want to do myself.
Speaker 6 (22:27):
I didn't blame him, none to blame her.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Pilcher's been after me ever since. I could have stopped
all this a bit. I told me sooner that ever.
A man's got to kill his own snakes. Marshall, I tried,
you can have no. I ain't gonna live long. I'm
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sorry that Chester will stay with you. I'm going back
to the station.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
You both go. I can die alone.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
I'm afraid. No. Goodbye, b bye Marshall. Justin, Yes, do
what you can for him poor. I'll send somebody out
to help you bring him in later.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Yes, it's about time you've got back, Marshall.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Where's Pilcher?
Speaker 3 (23:55):
Chim back looking for whiskey? Where's everybody else?
Speaker 2 (23:59):
Gonna busy morning? How's your shoulder?
Speaker 3 (24:01):
It hurts? I gotta get up to dodge some hunch.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
H Good morning, Marshall.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Hell about Pilcher.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
Yeah, you've been writing.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
So you.
Speaker 4 (24:21):
Man like me, rides a lot.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
You should have kept going, Pilcher.
Speaker 4 (24:28):
I wanted to see you again before I leave.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Yeah, yeah, that's what Jesse Dagger told me.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
I'm going to kill you and then Jim here, I'll
wait a.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Minute, Jim, I'll show you can drop your gun belt
and take your chances and court if you like.
Speaker 4 (24:49):
My chances are better right here, Marshall.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
That's your choice.
Speaker 4 (24:55):
It's always been my.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
Choice, except for the night Jesse Dagg gets shot his wife.
Did he tell you about that? It doesn't not at
all to me, it does?
Speaker 3 (25:21):
You killed him, Marshall, Yeah, you're.
Speaker 5 (25:26):
No.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
What's this all about anyway?
Speaker 2 (25:31):
A woman? Jim, I'm going to hitch up the stage
and drive you other dodge.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
I'd be grateful for that, Marshall.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
We'll have to go out of our waist, some boy,
Jesse daggets luck round all the way out this morning.
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I'm that man, Matt dyllon United States Marshall, the first
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It's a chancy job, and it makes a man watchful
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Speaker 4 (01:44):
It's a dog on shame, mister Dylan.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Oh what is just?
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Well? For long? It'll be too cold to set out
here of an evening?
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When is too cold? Summer's too odd? How do you
like spring?
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Oh? Springs all right up here?
Speaker 4 (01:59):
And I remember back in we all got to ayu
every spring.
Speaker 5 (02:02):
Oh, A terrible fever makes a man feel like a
harp with a thousand strings.
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Yeah, I know I've had it.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
You know, Mama had an id.
Speaker 5 (02:10):
We wouldn't get it if we had three hard boiled
eggs on good Friday. But if that didn't work and
we got to Au anyway, then she'd tie salt mackel
onto our feet.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Let's shut it, toughened up your feet. Anyway, we all survived.
Speaker 5 (02:24):
That stage is mighty late tonight, mister John.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
How are you expecting somebody? Me? Will?
Speaker 3 (02:30):
My?
Speaker 6 (02:30):
Who'd I be expected?
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Oh? Maybe some girl from Waco who has found out
where you've been hiding.
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Not very likely.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
Even my MAA don't know where I'm at anymore.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
Hey, here come to stage?
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Driver is Jim Buck Yeah, Marshall? Oh Ester w Yeah,
that's a matter of trouble.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Then I'd call it trouble. Marshall got held up. One
passenger shot down in cold blood. Huh, meanest thing I
ever saw.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Of what had happened.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
I had a wagon bed springs between there and Jesse Daggetts.
Daggets He runs the stage station out toward the colorad
of line. I got a mighty strong feeling. Jesse Daggett's
in on this, Marshal, Or.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
What makes you think so? John?
Speaker 3 (03:12):
He knew I was carrying gold was much, but it
was some after we'd laid over an hour. So at
the station, I seen Daggett talking to a man who
just rode in his cussed looking the gunman as you'd want.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Well, then what happened? The fellow rode off.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
He was alone, just him, his face covered, and he
never said a word, took the strong box, robbed the passengers,
and he got on his horse, turned around and shot
one up and right through the head forevermore. Then he
rode off. I could have cried. I was so mad, helpless.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
That's a strange thing. Jim is shooting down the passenger.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Why would a man do that, Marshal, I don't understand it.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
How they just likes to kill. Maybe I'll go back
with you to horror, Jim, maybe we can find ours.
We made the trip down the Santa Fe Trail next day,
through wagon bed springs and onto Jesse Daggett stage station.
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I stood on the box with Jim Bucken Wilchester Road
inside with the passengers, and by evening everybody was classed.
When we reached Naggetts it was a typical road ranch,
with a large eating room and a row of sleeping
quarters for the travelers. Jesse Daggett himself was a tall,
(04:36):
angular man, lawned and gray. He was quiet, but one
could feel the trouble that lay inside him. The first
chance I had to talk to him was in the
yard after summer.
Speaker 6 (04:52):
Colwall be coming soon at Ley in Moore.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Whiskey. I figured you've probably made your own whiskey, daggett.
Speaker 6 (04:58):
I do the five barrel of corn buried on the road.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Out there stage, and no horses keep them shook up propriately.
H you have this station along three years come spring, Marshall,
but up myself. Oh, hes try to burn her down on.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Them, but I'm still here. You plan to stay here?
Speaker 6 (05:24):
Man's plans or his own, Marshall.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
I'm sorry, it was just an idol question. That's all right.
I think I'd like it here myself. No neighbors, but
lots of company passing through.
Speaker 6 (05:38):
They't no good company.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Lots of people travel good and bad, And that's true.
Like the man who held up Jim Bucks stage yesterday,
shot that passenger. What about him? Wow? You might call
him comedy like we were talking about the bad kind.
Speaker 6 (05:58):
Any man kills in cold blow that way, I'm called back.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
It might have been a mistake, though, gun might have
gone off by accidents. Might you don't think it did
what I think won't raise a dead Marshall, No, but
it's might keep more people from dying.
Speaker 6 (06:18):
Figure, that's what you're doing here looking for that felling.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Jim Buck thinks it might have been a gun when
you were talking to here the day of the holder.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
That was Matt Bilcher.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
And I don't care.
Speaker 6 (06:31):
What Jim Buck thinks.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
It won't help your business or the stage companies if
more passengers get killed in their heir dagger. Oh, it won't.
For a fact, everybody expects the stage he got held
up once in a while, but it's a different matter
to shoot people down for nothing. Now, I don't figure
this man unless he's just a born.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Killer who could have a lot of reasons. Men are
all different, carl all got different reasons for doing what
they do, living the way they live. I guess it's
what happened to him in the past that spells it out. Now,
that's why I'm a law man, and you run a
stage station, and to whoever he is holds up people
(07:16):
and kills him, Marshall, I'll tell you something, but it
ain't what you want to hear. I believe and let
an ever man kill his own snakes.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Then this business is between whoever that bad it is
and me is that it? That's it exactly ever man
for himself. You might say I don't interfere and I
want help, and I say it's got to be like that.
Even though a man was killed.
Speaker 6 (07:47):
Nothing but a dog eat dog.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
I see, well, I hope you won't regret attacking one more.
Regret won't break me, Marshall. I'm not so sure that.
I'm not so sure it won't.
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Speaker 2 (09:29):
Trying to get anything out of Jesse Daggett was hopeless,
and I still couldn't agree with Jim Buck the Daggett
was partners with a road Ancient Daggett somehow wasn't that
kind of a man. Anyway, There was nothing to do
but waits let things happen. Two days past while Chester
(09:49):
and I sat.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
In the eating room and played two handed.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Studs and got bored and restless. Late afternoon of the
second day, however, Jim Buck drove back with his The
travelers came in first went to the rooms, and then
Jim came up with to say hello.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
I wish I had a job like yours. Nothing to
do but sit around and play cards and drink whiskey.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
Well, we do a lot of thinking, Jim.
Speaker 5 (10:15):
That's what makes up for it.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
You do well, you'd done anybody finding Jesse Daggett's friend
Nat pull him.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
If we didn't find him, Jim, we couldn't.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Prove anything, No revery could eye. I guess you might
just shoot him for luck.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
You too suspicious, Jim. It was probably just some cowboy
right in the through.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Maybe. Anyway, I got no.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Gold this trip, and there's nothing to worry about it.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
There's another food to him for supper. That's first bit,
Tod we've had since you left.
Speaker 8 (10:44):
Jim, man.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
That's to be mighty hungry to ride in here for
Jesse Daggett's food. Where is Daggett anyway?
Speaker 5 (10:49):
But he went outside just after you pulled in, didn't
you see him?
Speaker 3 (10:53):
I was busy with the horses and I still got
work to do. I'll see it supper.
Speaker 5 (10:58):
Oh my, that's a hard, live driving stage, mister John.
I don't think i'd want to do that.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
You might give it a try first, justine that a
minute I heard there was.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
A Marshall here.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Yeah, that's right. What can I do for you? Me?
Speaker 4 (11:24):
You can't do nothing for me Marshall?
Speaker 2 (11:27):
And what he wanted?
Speaker 9 (11:29):
Oh, I just wanted to see what a Marshall looks
like a live one.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Yes satisfied? Sure all right. I didn't get out of here.
Speaker 10 (11:47):
You're touching Marshall, real touchy.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
I don't aim to start no trouble. And we come
in and say hello, friendly life.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
That's your name Pilcher, That Pilcher.
Speaker 10 (11:59):
I O heure, I'm afraid of Jesse Daggett's an old friend.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Or do you live pilchup? He got a job around here.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
I'm a cowboy in Marshall. Know, anybody needs a good hand.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
What do you do besides ride? Funny?
Speaker 10 (12:15):
Assay, there's you being a law man. It is ever
hear Charlie Hall, sheriff.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
Over New Mexico.
Speaker 10 (12:24):
I have they say play Alison shot him. That's what
they say, Marshall.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
But I know for a.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
Fact he wasn't.
Speaker 6 (12:33):
Clay.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Nice meeting you, Marshall, See you later. Jesse dagget stage
station lay on the prairie, miles from anywhere. It would
be an easy thing for a man liking Matt Pilcher
to ride in long enough to check on a stage
coach from the value of its cargo, and then ride
(12:57):
up the road a few miles and wait for it.
But I still didn't believe Daggett wasn't on the deal,
even though he and Pilcher had obviously known each other
somewhere before the next morning the dawn, Jim buckloaded his
passengers aboard and pulled out Daggett and I stood there
and watched the little cloud of dust to move up
(13:19):
the Santa Fe trail towards wagon. Bet springs'll make Dodge tonight.
Speaker 6 (13:27):
He'll be back here tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Half he doesn't get shut up. I'm carrying no gold
this trip. I met your friend NTT. Pilcher last night,
Daggott Pilcher rolled up before his supper DNA and black.
He only came in to tell me what a hard
CASEY is to warn me about it didn't that much effect.
(13:49):
You're still here. You don't think I scared that easy?
You're all right, Marshall. He should have gone back to Dodge, why, Dagget,
Why should I?
Speaker 6 (14:04):
Things will work out here without you.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Go ahead. That's so I don't know what's going on
down here. And if I'm meddling in your affairs, I'm sorry.
But a stage has been robbed and a man's been killed,
and that makes it my affairs too.
Speaker 6 (14:22):
I want to thank you for not thinking I.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Got anything to do with all that, Marshall. And I
wasn't sure at first, but I am not even so
I'm not going back to Dodge without a man. No,
I suppose you won't. Now let's go inside. Sure you
know you ought to plant some trees out here, dagg
Sure improve the place, not enough water, not to dig
(14:46):
for it. I never got a woman to come out
here and marry you, and measure at least got some trees.
How's that? No, offense. I was just remarking that women
like things growing around the place. I's said it, I
meant it generally. I thought to have a woman here
(15:06):
once when I first planned about running the stage station.
That was over in New Mexico.
Speaker 6 (15:15):
Seems like a long time ago.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Now things don't always work out. I was mighty fond
of her, but I lost to.
Speaker 6 (15:30):
Have been a little lonely ever since I came close.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
That's better than some men do. Oh, I don't know
about that.
Speaker 6 (15:38):
Funny how a man goes right on living even when.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
He's luck he's about run out. Yeah, I'm on inside.
Speaker 7 (15:49):
Heat up some coffee, got him Chester, mister.
Speaker 6 (16:13):
Doling, you mind if we don't play no more.
Speaker 5 (16:16):
That's why I'm beginning to see things.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
It's okay with me. The stage ought to be here
pretty soon anyway.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
You just think Jim Buck's taking the stage all the
little dodging back, and we've just been sitting here in
another two days.
Speaker 6 (16:33):
Well, waiting's always.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
The hardest part. I just hope it pays off.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Oh, there's the stage now, he said, do some people
around here.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Let's go out and make it.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Hugh hod again, come out here, mushall.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
What's a lot of more trouble. Jam he stuck me again.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Mushall, my heaven, I'm going after him now. If you don't,
take a look at the coach there. Uh why watch woman?
She dead, Jim, Of course she's dead. He got a
bullet in there.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Where are you rather? Passengers? Tip?
Speaker 3 (17:11):
Hey, Danny, she's the only one on this trip. Look
at him, Marshall, he killed it.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
There's some blood sucking. Throw your jacket, Jem.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
You hit bad in the shoulder. I wasn't gonna stop
at all to knocked me off the box, and he
just rode up and put a bullet in it and
rode off. You never said a word.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
I think it was a toll trip.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Who else would it be? You've seen him, you know
what he's like. Must be him. Let's ask Jessey Daggett
here who it was. Take a look in the coach, Daggett,
take a good look, well, jagged, what do you think
(18:00):
of killing women? Look at him, Marshall. I told you,
do you ever see a juilliar looking man?
Speaker 2 (18:12):
How You're wrong, Jim? It doesn't even make sense.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
He didn't do it, No, but he's in on it somehow.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
I'll help you take a woman inside, then we'll see
what we can go about your shoulder.
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Speaker 2 (19:48):
None at all, but I figured it would soon. And
after I did what I could for Jim Buck's shoulder,
Chester and I buried the woman lost over a grave.
We'd find out later who she was. The rest of
the night we took turns watching for a move from
(20:09):
Jesse Daggett's not sure enough. About an hour before dawn,
he settled up and rode out into the prairie. We
let him get a little start, and then took a
couple of his horses and followed him.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Do you think he's going to meet Pilcher?
Speaker 5 (20:30):
If he can find him, he must come ten miles already.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Yeah about that. We shouldn't let him get so far
ahead of us, so we're right on his trail. Yeah,
I know that's not up there, man, Come on?
Speaker 3 (20:52):
Why his Daggett, mister don he'd been shocked.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
He followed me, Marshall, I better get hurt, dagget pretty
bad Filcher. I'd have killed him, Marshall, but my gun
didn't go off, and he got me.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
No luck left at all?
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Right, any idea where Filcher is now? Taggett? He said
he was going back to the station to get you.
Took my horse sleeping. I had to come with you
this morning, Daggett.
Speaker 6 (21:31):
It wasn't your business between me and Filcher.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
He come here looking for a fight. I didn't want
to kill nobody, no more, not even him, so he
drove me to it.
Speaker 6 (21:47):
Finally, finally, that woman he knew. I couldn't stand that.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
I mean, he shot her and that other passenger just
too broad. You into a fight, Marshall. I'll tell you now.
I had a woman out New Mexico. I caught her
running off with that Builcher. I didn't shoeld him, though,
I shot her instead. Figured that made more sense. He
(22:18):
killed her. I don't think he'd mind it so much
if I had to kill him. I figured he wasn't
doing nothing. I didn't want to do myself.
Speaker 6 (22:27):
I didn't blame him, none to blame her.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Pilcher's been after me ever since. I could have stopped
all this a bit. I told me sooner that ever.
A man's got to kill his own snakes. Marshall, I tried,
you can have no. I ain't gonna live long. I'm
(22:51):
sorry that Chester will stay with you. I'm going back
to the station.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
You both go. I can die alone.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
I'm afraid. No. Goodbye, b bye Marshall. Justin, Yes, do
what you can for him poor. I'll send somebody out
to help you bring him in later.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Yes, it's about time you've got back, Marshall.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Where's Pilcher?
Speaker 3 (23:55):
Chim back looking for whiskey? Where's everybody else?
Speaker 2 (23:59):
Gonna busy morning? How's your shoulder?
Speaker 3 (24:01):
It hurts? I gotta get up to dodge some hunch.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
H Good morning, Marshall.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Hell about Pilcher.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
Yeah, you've been writing.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
So you.
Speaker 4 (24:21):
Man like me, rides a lot.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
You should have kept going, Pilcher.
Speaker 4 (24:28):
I wanted to see you again before I leave.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Yeah, yeah, that's what Jesse Dagger told me.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
I'm going to kill you and then Jim here, I'll
wait a.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Minute, Jim, I'll show you can drop your gun belt
and take your chances and court if you like.
Speaker 4 (24:49):
My chances are better right here, Marshall.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
That's your choice.
Speaker 4 (24:55):
It's always been my.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
Choice, except for the night Jesse Dagg gets shot his wife.
Did he tell you about that? It doesn't not at
all to me, it does?
Speaker 3 (25:21):
You killed him, Marshall, Yeah, you're.
Speaker 5 (25:26):
No.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
What's this all about anyway?
Speaker 2 (25:31):
A woman? Jim, I'm going to hitch up the stage
and drive you other dodge.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
I'd be grateful for that, Marshall.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
We'll have to go out of our waist, some boy,
Jesse daggets luck round all the way out this morning.
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