September 24, 2025 • 24 mins
Have Gun Will Travel was a popular western radio drama series that ran from 1958 to 1960. It debuted as a television series in 1957 and was one of only a few American television programs that paved the way for a radio version. Although the radio show initially featured stories adapted from television, many of the 106 radio episodes were original stories. The stories follow the adventures of Paladin, played by John Dehner.
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Speaker 1 (00:15):
I know you men have accepted money to make trouble
in this camp.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Now listen, there's.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
A broken jar waiting for every one of you. If
you're not out of here by sundown, have gone, Will Travel,
(00:41):
starring mister John Dayner as Paladin, San Francisco, eighteen seventy five,
The Carlton Hotel, headquarters of a man called Paladino.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Yes, over here, hey boy, Oh telegram come for you.
You listen to this, Hey boy? Would you consider a job?
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Foreman Railroad construction crew need you will Wayne Nevada Urgent,
Alan Hurley, Oh deesz.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Man make a joke, mister tad Warman Railroad construction crew.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Well I know this, Alan Hurley, Hey boy, I don't
think he means it as a joke. I don't believe
this telegram exactly covers the situation.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Hey boy, advice do not accept Papa?
Speaker 4 (01:43):
Why not?
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Hey boy?
Speaker 3 (01:45):
One time with members of Celestial Dragon Society walk a
railroad who very hard work.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Borman was very tough. Oh so you don't think I
am mad enough for the job? Oh you want to
be like that? You go ahead.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
We don't pack gun, tuck a pick a shovel.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Do you find out, No, sir, no picking shovel for me.
If I'm the foreman, I'm the boss here. Welly tough
thought you bet? So you are to be tough bought?
Oh telegram, say ogent. So we go pack now, well,
maybe there's time for another cognac and coffee. Please, hey boy,
and listen, hey boy, Let's make no mistake about packing
the gun. I'm sure Alan Hurley doesn't want to hire me,
(02:25):
just on my merit as a construction crew foreman.
Speaker 5 (02:37):
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Speaker 6 (02:54):
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(03:23):
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Speaker 1 (03:41):
Where the train stopped to let me off, there was
a water tank, a corral, and a framed building with
a big sign that said Pat Casey hauling. The one
road that led from the railroad tracks was narrow banked
by sheer, rugged clips. I made the ninety nine miles
to will Way and the Stomfort and the sort of
combination frightened passenger mule drawn coach obviously at Pat Casey Enterprise.
(04:05):
When we finally reached will Way, we pulled up in
front of a saloon adjoining the fight guard, and I
went in. There was one other customer in the place,
an old, gray haired man who was having.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
An argument with a bipender.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
I didn't get the gist of the words, but I
saw the old man reach for his gun when suddenly
a long bull whip flicked out from the top of.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
The stairway and snaked around the man's.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Gun arm, jerking it upwards, sending the bullet while into
the ceiling.
Speaker 7 (04:27):
You know, I won't have that in my plate.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
It's robbery, That's what it is.
Speaker 8 (04:31):
Robbery. Take it guns in.
Speaker 7 (04:36):
I'm wind a whip from his wrist.
Speaker 8 (04:44):
All right, buscha, what's your problem? I got some more.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
I gotta get the rail road.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Yesterday he said, when I come in, I could have
a mule train for four hundred dollars.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Today he tells me seven.
Speaker 9 (04:57):
Hundred seven d then told you that, yes where we did,
Vince was mistaken. The train will cost you one thousand.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
I can't.
Speaker 9 (05:07):
Oh, it's a shame. Now you can always walk over
the mountain by you and here take a gun and anita.
Speaker 10 (05:14):
You're not getting get away with us, rever you wait,
you wait?
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Oh?
Speaker 10 (05:23):
What can I do for you?
Speaker 8 (05:24):
Mister?
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (05:26):
I just stopped in for a drink. That's quite a trick,
that thing with a whip.
Speaker 10 (05:30):
Yeah, I learned that for a vote will turn some
years ago. It comes in handy, Vince, give the stranger
a drink.
Speaker 8 (05:37):
I'll be up in my office.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
I'm usey.
Speaker 7 (05:39):
I don't want to be bothered less important.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Sure, Casey Casey, it's Pat Casey.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Pat Casey hauling. Yep, what do you know? Pretty ainky
out of here. When she got on one of them
fancy dresses instead of.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Them men's clothes with that old man in here, she
was a little rough on him, wasn't she.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
You oanna know it don't pay to get Casey riled.
Anybody's gonna mind to do any freighting out of here.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Has got a deal with Pat Casey, and it's easier
when she ain't riled.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
He got his aura this far, couldn't use his own animals.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Casey owns the right of way to business with her, or,
like she said, go over the mountain.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Quite a setup. Why a woman, Which way is the
King's Hotel?
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Out the door on your left, Thanks.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Hello, oh Palette, and come in. Thanks. Oh, I'm glad
you got here. Your wires said urgent minutes, calm Palette.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
And we're working against a deadline so important that if
we don't meet it, it means.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Ruin, ruin.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Most of us citizens of will Wait invested all old
future in the future of this town.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
That was some time ago when we heard that the
Central Pacific Railway was coming through here.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Ah, and instead they laid their tracks ninety nine miles away. Yes,
and at first we thought Whilway was going to be
another ghost town. It's a sad thing to see a
town die. Well, we weren't going to bury it without
a fight. There was one chance to save it a
connection with the railroad, so we promoted our own line.
We're laying an narrow gage track that connects with the
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Central Pacific.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
It's quite an undertaking.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Well, it's been a battle all the way. Now that
the end is inside, it looks like we might lose.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
After all that. Well, we've got opposition top opposition one.
Pat Casey, Pat Casey.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
I just had the pleasure or you'd be surprised how
much weight that that woman can throw around. She fought
us on the franchise, she fought us on the financial backing.
Now she's fighting us on construction. I can see your point.
A railway was certainly cut into that lucrative little business
she has set up. Now the track's been laid to
just twelve miles outside of town. We've got three weeks
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to finish it or lose our franchise.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Twelve miles and three weeks. You ought to be able
to do that, Oh, under.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Ordinary circumstances, yes, but not the way we're going. One
delay after another, trouble among the men, trouble with the equipment,
all kinds of trouble.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
It consumes precious time. Trouble instigated by Casey. Yes, now
we need your help. We've got to.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Meet that deadline. I mean, you expect me to fight
a woman. That's why I sent for you early. Look
all it than our lay odds. You never had a
craftier adversary. It seems to me you pick pretty rough
country for your railroads. Took our engineer and a party
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of surveyors exactly a year to lay out our roots
through here.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
This runs parallel to cases right away.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
That's five miles east. Oh, there's a construction camp down there. Listen,
when I meet the men, you'll introduce me as the
new foremant right. Yes, figure, that would be the way
to really keep your.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Eye on what's going on. I'm hardly qualified to pause
of construction. The engineer will help you in any technical points.
All you have to do is be tough stuff. That
seems to be.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
It found out our last woman was.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Being paid off by Casey. Yes, her money is buying
all your trouble.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Hey wait a.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Minute, what's going on there?
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Man? That's the mess TENTPT sounds like a riot coney.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Form. Remember, come on.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
Quiet?
Speaker 11 (09:45):
Yeah, I.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Said, quiet, what's going on here? Answer me? What's the
meaning of this? We ain't eating this slop.
Speaker 8 (09:55):
That's what we want.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Real time is over. Anyway, get back on the job.
Here's you were you giving them orders? I'm bossing this outfit,
and I got back on the job here. Yeah, here,
you missed it. But I don't like the sound of you.
You want to do something about it?
Speaker 8 (10:10):
Yeah, oh no, you don't, all right?
Speaker 1 (10:18):
And he went next, I know this man on the
ground here was accepting money to make trouble.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
In this camp.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
Now you listen to me.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
There's a broken jar waiting for every one of you
on that payroll, every one of you taking that dirty money.
If you're not out of camp by sundown.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
You really scared him. Getting tough didn't seem to help
the cause. Out of thirty men we've got too left.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Those men wouldn't have done any good. Casey was paying
him off to see that the road was never completed.
At the since she'd get her money's work, she managed
to accomplish your purpose. Anyway you mean, I mean we've
been defeated, ballad. By the time we have left, we
be able to get another crew to get it. And
there's no place around here you can line up some
men willing to will Oh we tried. These fellows we
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had all came from out of the state early. Exactly
how much remains to be done? Well, I blasted the
cuts and laid in the culverts, put up the trestle.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Work.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
All we need now men who can swing a pick
and shovel and lay down twelve mile a track. Wait
the pick and shovel. Oh wait a minute, but I
think I can get you a crew early. Let's get
back to town. I want to send a telegram early.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
This is King Chang, otherwise known as heyboy.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Those gentlemen lined up back there, the members of the
Celestial Dragon Society, all ready to go to work. Well,
I certainly want to thank you, hey boy, you and
your friends for coming to our rescue.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Oh, hey boy, tell remember Celestial Dragon Society, high work,
tough boss. Why is ion telegram saying Misa father didn't
need help, You better go.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
What did you tell a Corton hotel? Oh?
Speaker 3 (12:13):
I tell her Cotton hotel. Hey boy, moscow have uncle
in sallenas very thick?
Speaker 1 (12:19):
No, hey boy, you didn't use that old story about
your sick uncle and Selena's again. Oh, always work list,
Hey boy, we had less than two weeks now they
lay twelve miles of track.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Do you think you can do it? Oh? Sure, don't
you wire?
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Missa holly right, Hey boy, the tires are stacked up
by the railhead. Back there, the rails are on the flat.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
I want you to know those ties are worth their
weight in gold.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
We had to scout around sawmills as far away as Wyoming.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
To get those. Hey boy, get the boys lined up
with stricks and shovels. Get to work.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Excuse please pardon, look back, Maybe you better do something quick.
Look like that smooke come from where?
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Ties on side?
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Oh he's right there on fire, telling the fires no accidents.
Speaker 8 (12:57):
If don't go up, we're finished.
Speaker 12 (12:59):
Come on, hey boy, get the boys lined up the pipe.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Oh hello, Palette, come money, h white along face early
because we're licked. You know a week in a day
to go. Boys been cutting ties in that standard trees. Yes,
I know it's a good try. Palette earlier to be
surprised at what they've accomplished. I talked to your chief engineer.
He figures that with what we've managed to say from
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the fire, we've got enough to finish the job.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
He still thinks it can be done. In time.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Well, providing we can haul those tires down from the
canyon immediately.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
But we'll need every mule in the county.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Oh well you'll know who has all the mules in
the county.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Yeah, I'm going to make a deal to hire them. Oh,
you're out of your mind. Maybe it's worth a try.
Speaker 8 (14:08):
And no.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Here are Edgerbergen and Charlie McCarthy. Charlie, where have you been?
Well it's a.
Speaker 8 (14:13):
Long story, Bergen. Remember you said you wanted the car lubricated.
Speaker 6 (14:16):
I said I wanted a guardian maintenance lubrication. Like all Chevrolets, Pontiacs, Oldsmobiles, Buicks,
Cadillacs and Chevy and GMC trucks, our car deserves the
best of service and that means guardian maintenance at our
dealer service department.
Speaker 8 (14:31):
Yes, well I drove our car to our dealers.
Speaker 6 (14:33):
Without an accident. Oh most of the way, Charley. Where's
the car now?
Speaker 4 (14:37):
It's on Main.
Speaker 8 (14:37):
Street between fourth and fifth.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Is it closer to fourth to fifth?
Speaker 8 (14:40):
It's all the way from fourth to five.
Speaker 6 (14:42):
All right, young man, you're going to get it now.
Speaker 8 (14:45):
I'm only Kenning Bergen. It's just a scratch spender.
Speaker 6 (14:48):
Our dealers GM train mechanics have already got it looking
like Miligan.
Speaker 8 (14:52):
It's part of their.
Speaker 6 (14:52):
Quality appearance service.
Speaker 8 (14:54):
Shall I still meet you in the woodshed?
Speaker 6 (14:57):
You drove the car without permission. It's the woodshed. You
go there as soon as I phoned the dealer. But
I'll take your time. If you're not there in ten minutes,
I'll start without you.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
M Hello, Vince, Oh, hello Pat Casey and upstairs in
her office? Want to drink later?
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Hey, you can't go up there?
Speaker 8 (15:29):
And yeah, say.
Speaker 7 (15:38):
What's the idea?
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Wo? Vince was right?
Speaker 4 (15:44):
He was.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
He told me I should see you in a fancy
dress sometime instead of those boys clothes.
Speaker 8 (15:52):
M hm, lovely, mister, I know how I look in address.
Speaker 10 (15:55):
I also know you're with that railroad outst Now what
do you want yep?
Speaker 2 (16:00):
I want to hire your mules.
Speaker 8 (16:02):
It'll costume when you want them. Mhmm, I said when
you want them.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Bye.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
I'm sorry. I haven't afraid that I was expecting to fight.
Does this mean you've come to realize how important the railroad.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Is to will Waite.
Speaker 10 (16:18):
I'm not interested in anything that isn't important to Pat Casey.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
But why the change of heart?
Speaker 10 (16:23):
I can relax now a country will take over.
Speaker 8 (16:26):
Have you looked at the sky. No, I know this country, mister,
it fights back. I know it's going to rain.
Speaker 10 (16:33):
I know it's going to rain hard. I know it
might even flood in those mountains. You'll never get those
tracks laid in time.
Speaker 8 (16:41):
Even if you have my mules, We'll take the chance.
Speaker 10 (16:44):
You'll fight hard.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
You do too.
Speaker 8 (16:47):
Mine's a dedicated fight, has to be.
Speaker 10 (16:51):
I swore i'd wipe the name of this town off
the map, and I've.
Speaker 8 (16:54):
Just about got it done.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Why so bitter?
Speaker 10 (16:58):
I was with a show troop. My partner and I
got stranded in this town. He's a sweet guy.
Speaker 9 (17:05):
The town wasn't very nice to us. We were used
to that, but my partner was sick. Maybe if the
town had been a little nicer, he'd be alive, and
the least idea.
Speaker 10 (17:18):
Why I told you that. I don't think a person
in Bulwagh remembers.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
I'm glad you did tell me.
Speaker 10 (17:25):
All right, get him pick up the mules when the
money's on the line.
Speaker 13 (17:29):
I'm busy over here, Hey boy, boys, the last piece
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of talk but still had three miles ago.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Yeah, I know, hey boy, that track ought to be
here any minute now was on a siding at the
other end of our line.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
I saw it. But he's a follow in time. Yeah,
I realized that midnight to night.
Speaker 8 (18:02):
Oh, somebody comes.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
Probably early, he'll know just what the track will get here?
What about the track early?
Speaker 2 (18:14):
It won't get here?
Speaker 8 (18:16):
Do you mean?
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Flat car?
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Is the rail eight miles up the way by a flood?
Rails are buried in a wash and there's no possible
way to get a mountain time? I mean, this beats
us with only three miles to go. How do you
like that at midnight tonight? Because of those three miles
when we lose our Franchi. Oh, it must be something early.
How does that contract read only agreed to have track
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laid from the Central Pacific Lines through the city limits
in this specified time and we're just three miles short
of the city limits.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Yes, I'm afraid. So all right, you know about the
mountain coming to Muhammad, don't you? What are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Can you call a special meeting of the wil Way
City Council.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Nah, yes, it's the emergency.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Why in view of the potential growth of will Wage,
I think we should point out that the city council
they should be far sighted enough to allow room for
that growth by extending the city limits three miles before
midnight from off, Oh, Paladin, Baladan that sheer ge Paladin
you had well, hey boy, usually figures that you can
get further that way than by being tough.
Speaker 4 (19:21):
Maleus go beat that dedline.
Speaker 7 (19:37):
Well, this is a big day for our time.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
Just about time.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Who but that cases? Yeah, of course here you're leaving.
Will wait casing take too long as it is allow.
Speaker 7 (20:01):
Let's put the dive down there.
Speaker 9 (20:03):
I'll tell you b yeah, and they get out there
by time tom.
Speaker 8 (20:07):
I'll look you out.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Yeah, Halladin Carlton Hotel.
Speaker 8 (20:11):
I remember.
Speaker 13 (20:14):
That.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Like Katy Simon.
Speaker 11 (20:38):
I've been working on.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
The rail road long days and.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
Well hello that see you. We're glad to be home again.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
So you see a long look here boys hands you've
got any whistles? Oh, hey boy, dick, hey boy, swing
you thick, hey boy?
Speaker 4 (21:05):
Work?
Speaker 3 (21:05):
Oh he live long day?
Speaker 2 (21:07):
Hey boy, you and the boys that are fine?
Speaker 1 (21:08):
Job Yeah, co onne in my room and sit down
before you report into the hotel.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
Oh no, no, hey boy, say ready to start back
to work.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
And uh, hey boy, so god they'll be home now.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
We're going to leave carton the hotel again.
Speaker 14 (21:23):
Oh, hey, boys, have to leave right away.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
He has to leave.
Speaker 10 (21:30):
Chang o chang, Hey boys, Uncle in Slena he's very sick.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Oh no, it's wrong. You mean hey boy really has
an uncle in Selena's.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
Oh he's sick, Hey boy, let's go, Hey boy, this
is like the boy who hollered Wolf.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
You sa when you here?
Speaker 11 (21:50):
Boy?
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Hello uncle.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Thirsty people everywhere prefer ice cold pepsicola, and because it's light,
it refreshes without feelings.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
I am okay.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Pepsi is a favorite of thirsty people from Maine to Hawaii,
from Alaska to Florida. It's perfect for parties or picnics.
So serve pepsi to your guests. This is the sociable part.
Keep plenty of pepsi, ice cold and ready. Remember it
goes fast because everybody likes pepsi.
Speaker 8 (22:31):
Singing still sounds more inviting.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
May I be sociable?
Speaker 14 (22:36):
Loop keep poppas to names with THEMSIE strings like refreshing, stay.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
But singing doesn't say. Pick up an extra carton of
pepsi today. Better yet, get a case you do that?
Have gun will travel Heded by Herb Metow and Sam
(23:17):
Row He is prodial stand directed in Hollywood by Frank
Parris and stars John Dayner as Paladin, with Ben Wright
as hey Boy and Virginia greg as Miss Wong. Tonight's
story was specially written for Have Gun Will Travel By
and Dow Hatred. In the cast were Geene Bates, Tim Graham,
Charlie Lung, and Lawrence Dodkin. This is Hugh Douglas inviting
you to join us again next week when's CBS Radio
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presents Have Gun Will Travel
Speaker 11 (24:03):
End Under
I know you men have accepted money to make trouble
in this camp.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Now listen, there's.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
A broken jar waiting for every one of you. If
you're not out of here by sundown, have gone, Will Travel,
(00:41):
starring mister John Dayner as Paladin, San Francisco, eighteen seventy five,
The Carlton Hotel, headquarters of a man called Paladino.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Yes, over here, hey boy, Oh telegram come for you.
You listen to this, Hey boy? Would you consider a job?
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Foreman Railroad construction crew need you will Wayne Nevada Urgent,
Alan Hurley, Oh deesz.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Man make a joke, mister tad Warman Railroad construction crew.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Well I know this, Alan Hurley, Hey boy, I don't
think he means it as a joke. I don't believe
this telegram exactly covers the situation.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Hey boy, advice do not accept Papa?
Speaker 4 (01:43):
Why not?
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Hey boy?
Speaker 3 (01:45):
One time with members of Celestial Dragon Society walk a
railroad who very hard work.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Borman was very tough. Oh so you don't think I
am mad enough for the job? Oh you want to
be like that? You go ahead.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
We don't pack gun, tuck a pick a shovel.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Do you find out, No, sir, no picking shovel for me.
If I'm the foreman, I'm the boss here. Welly tough
thought you bet? So you are to be tough bought?
Oh telegram, say ogent. So we go pack now, well,
maybe there's time for another cognac and coffee. Please, hey boy,
and listen, hey boy, Let's make no mistake about packing
the gun. I'm sure Alan Hurley doesn't want to hire me,
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just on my merit as a construction crew foreman.
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Speaker 1 (03:41):
Where the train stopped to let me off, there was
a water tank, a corral, and a framed building with
a big sign that said Pat Casey hauling. The one
road that led from the railroad tracks was narrow banked
by sheer, rugged clips. I made the ninety nine miles
to will Way and the Stomfort and the sort of
combination frightened passenger mule drawn coach obviously at Pat Casey Enterprise.
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When we finally reached will Way, we pulled up in
front of a saloon adjoining the fight guard, and I
went in. There was one other customer in the place,
an old, gray haired man who was having.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
An argument with a bipender.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
I didn't get the gist of the words, but I
saw the old man reach for his gun when suddenly
a long bull whip flicked out from the top of.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
The stairway and snaked around the man's.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Gun arm, jerking it upwards, sending the bullet while into
the ceiling.
Speaker 7 (04:27):
You know, I won't have that in my plate.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
It's robbery, That's what it is.
Speaker 8 (04:31):
Robbery. Take it guns in.
Speaker 7 (04:36):
I'm wind a whip from his wrist.
Speaker 8 (04:44):
All right, buscha, what's your problem? I got some more.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
I gotta get the rail road.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Yesterday he said, when I come in, I could have
a mule train for four hundred dollars.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Today he tells me seven.
Speaker 9 (04:57):
Hundred seven d then told you that, yes where we did,
Vince was mistaken. The train will cost you one thousand.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
I can't.
Speaker 9 (05:07):
Oh, it's a shame. Now you can always walk over
the mountain by you and here take a gun and anita.
Speaker 10 (05:14):
You're not getting get away with us, rever you wait,
you wait?
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Oh?
Speaker 10 (05:23):
What can I do for you?
Speaker 8 (05:24):
Mister?
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (05:26):
I just stopped in for a drink. That's quite a trick,
that thing with a whip.
Speaker 10 (05:30):
Yeah, I learned that for a vote will turn some
years ago. It comes in handy, Vince, give the stranger
a drink.
Speaker 8 (05:37):
I'll be up in my office.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
I'm usey.
Speaker 7 (05:39):
I don't want to be bothered less important.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Sure, Casey Casey, it's Pat Casey.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Pat Casey hauling. Yep, what do you know? Pretty ainky
out of here. When she got on one of them
fancy dresses instead of.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Them men's clothes with that old man in here, she
was a little rough on him, wasn't she.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
You oanna know it don't pay to get Casey riled.
Anybody's gonna mind to do any freighting out of here.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Has got a deal with Pat Casey, and it's easier
when she ain't riled.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
He got his aura this far, couldn't use his own animals.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Casey owns the right of way to business with her, or,
like she said, go over the mountain.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Quite a setup. Why a woman, Which way is the
King's Hotel?
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Out the door on your left, Thanks.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Hello, oh Palette, and come in. Thanks. Oh, I'm glad
you got here. Your wires said urgent minutes, calm Palette.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
And we're working against a deadline so important that if
we don't meet it, it means.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Ruin, ruin.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Most of us citizens of will Wait invested all old
future in the future of this town.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
That was some time ago when we heard that the
Central Pacific Railway was coming through here.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Ah, and instead they laid their tracks ninety nine miles away. Yes,
and at first we thought Whilway was going to be
another ghost town. It's a sad thing to see a
town die. Well, we weren't going to bury it without
a fight. There was one chance to save it a
connection with the railroad, so we promoted our own line.
We're laying an narrow gage track that connects with the
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Central Pacific.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
It's quite an undertaking.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Well, it's been a battle all the way. Now that
the end is inside, it looks like we might lose.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
After all that. Well, we've got opposition top opposition one.
Pat Casey, Pat Casey.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
I just had the pleasure or you'd be surprised how
much weight that that woman can throw around. She fought
us on the franchise, she fought us on the financial backing.
Now she's fighting us on construction. I can see your point.
A railway was certainly cut into that lucrative little business
she has set up. Now the track's been laid to
just twelve miles outside of town. We've got three weeks
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to finish it or lose our franchise.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Twelve miles and three weeks. You ought to be able
to do that, Oh, under.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Ordinary circumstances, yes, but not the way we're going. One
delay after another, trouble among the men, trouble with the equipment,
all kinds of trouble.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
It consumes precious time. Trouble instigated by Casey. Yes, now
we need your help. We've got to.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Meet that deadline. I mean, you expect me to fight
a woman. That's why I sent for you early. Look
all it than our lay odds. You never had a
craftier adversary. It seems to me you pick pretty rough
country for your railroads. Took our engineer and a party
(08:41):
of surveyors exactly a year to lay out our roots
through here.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
This runs parallel to cases right away.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
That's five miles east. Oh, there's a construction camp down there. Listen,
when I meet the men, you'll introduce me as the
new foremant right. Yes, figure, that would be the way
to really keep your.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Eye on what's going on. I'm hardly qualified to pause
of construction. The engineer will help you in any technical points.
All you have to do is be tough stuff. That
seems to be.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
It found out our last woman was.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Being paid off by Casey. Yes, her money is buying
all your trouble.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Hey wait a.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Minute, what's going on there?
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Man? That's the mess TENTPT sounds like a riot coney.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Form. Remember, come on.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
Quiet?
Speaker 11 (09:45):
Yeah, I.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Said, quiet, what's going on here? Answer me? What's the
meaning of this? We ain't eating this slop.
Speaker 8 (09:55):
That's what we want.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Real time is over. Anyway, get back on the job.
Here's you were you giving them orders? I'm bossing this outfit,
and I got back on the job here. Yeah, here,
you missed it. But I don't like the sound of you.
You want to do something about it?
Speaker 8 (10:10):
Yeah, oh no, you don't, all right?
Speaker 1 (10:18):
And he went next, I know this man on the
ground here was accepting money to make trouble.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
In this camp.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
Now you listen to me.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
There's a broken jar waiting for every one of you
on that payroll, every one of you taking that dirty money.
If you're not out of camp by sundown.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
You really scared him. Getting tough didn't seem to help
the cause. Out of thirty men we've got too left.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Those men wouldn't have done any good. Casey was paying
him off to see that the road was never completed.
At the since she'd get her money's work, she managed
to accomplish your purpose. Anyway you mean, I mean we've
been defeated, ballad. By the time we have left, we
be able to get another crew to get it. And
there's no place around here you can line up some
men willing to will Oh we tried. These fellows we
(11:14):
had all came from out of the state early. Exactly
how much remains to be done? Well, I blasted the
cuts and laid in the culverts, put up the trestle.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Work.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
All we need now men who can swing a pick
and shovel and lay down twelve mile a track. Wait
the pick and shovel. Oh wait a minute, but I
think I can get you a crew early. Let's get
back to town. I want to send a telegram early.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
This is King Chang, otherwise known as heyboy.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Those gentlemen lined up back there, the members of the
Celestial Dragon Society, all ready to go to work. Well,
I certainly want to thank you, hey boy, you and
your friends for coming to our rescue.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Oh, hey boy, tell remember Celestial Dragon Society, high work,
tough boss. Why is ion telegram saying Misa father didn't
need help, You better go.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
What did you tell a Corton hotel? Oh?
Speaker 3 (12:13):
I tell her Cotton hotel. Hey boy, moscow have uncle
in sallenas very thick?
Speaker 1 (12:19):
No, hey boy, you didn't use that old story about
your sick uncle and Selena's again. Oh, always work list,
Hey boy, we had less than two weeks now they
lay twelve miles of track.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Do you think you can do it? Oh? Sure, don't
you wire?
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Missa holly right, Hey boy, the tires are stacked up
by the railhead. Back there, the rails are on the flat.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
I want you to know those ties are worth their
weight in gold.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
We had to scout around sawmills as far away as Wyoming.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
To get those. Hey boy, get the boys lined up
with stricks and shovels. Get to work.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Excuse please pardon, look back, Maybe you better do something quick.
Look like that smooke come from where?
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Ties on side?
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Oh he's right there on fire, telling the fires no accidents.
Speaker 8 (12:57):
If don't go up, we're finished.
Speaker 12 (12:59):
Come on, hey boy, get the boys lined up the pipe.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Oh hello, Palette, come money, h white along face early
because we're licked. You know a week in a day
to go. Boys been cutting ties in that standard trees. Yes,
I know it's a good try. Palette earlier to be
surprised at what they've accomplished. I talked to your chief engineer.
He figures that with what we've managed to say from
(13:37):
the fire, we've got enough to finish the job.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
He still thinks it can be done. In time.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Well, providing we can haul those tires down from the
canyon immediately.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
But we'll need every mule in the county.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Oh well you'll know who has all the mules in
the county.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Yeah, I'm going to make a deal to hire them. Oh,
you're out of your mind. Maybe it's worth a try.
Speaker 8 (14:08):
And no.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Here are Edgerbergen and Charlie McCarthy. Charlie, where have you been?
Well it's a.
Speaker 8 (14:13):
Long story, Bergen. Remember you said you wanted the car lubricated.
Speaker 6 (14:16):
I said I wanted a guardian maintenance lubrication. Like all Chevrolets, Pontiacs, Oldsmobiles, Buicks,
Cadillacs and Chevy and GMC trucks, our car deserves the
best of service and that means guardian maintenance at our
dealer service department.
Speaker 8 (14:31):
Yes, well I drove our car to our dealers.
Speaker 6 (14:33):
Without an accident. Oh most of the way, Charley. Where's
the car now?
Speaker 4 (14:37):
It's on Main.
Speaker 8 (14:37):
Street between fourth and fifth.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Is it closer to fourth to fifth?
Speaker 8 (14:40):
It's all the way from fourth to five.
Speaker 6 (14:42):
All right, young man, you're going to get it now.
Speaker 8 (14:45):
I'm only Kenning Bergen. It's just a scratch spender.
Speaker 6 (14:48):
Our dealers GM train mechanics have already got it looking
like Miligan.
Speaker 8 (14:52):
It's part of their.
Speaker 6 (14:52):
Quality appearance service.
Speaker 8 (14:54):
Shall I still meet you in the woodshed?
Speaker 6 (14:57):
You drove the car without permission. It's the woodshed. You
go there as soon as I phoned the dealer. But
I'll take your time. If you're not there in ten minutes,
I'll start without you.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
M Hello, Vince, Oh, hello Pat Casey and upstairs in
her office? Want to drink later?
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Hey, you can't go up there?
Speaker 8 (15:29):
And yeah, say.
Speaker 7 (15:38):
What's the idea?
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Wo? Vince was right?
Speaker 4 (15:44):
He was.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
He told me I should see you in a fancy
dress sometime instead of those boys clothes.
Speaker 8 (15:52):
M hm, lovely, mister, I know how I look in address.
Speaker 10 (15:55):
I also know you're with that railroad outst Now what
do you want yep?
Speaker 2 (16:00):
I want to hire your mules.
Speaker 8 (16:02):
It'll costume when you want them. Mhmm, I said when
you want them.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Bye.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
I'm sorry. I haven't afraid that I was expecting to fight.
Does this mean you've come to realize how important the railroad.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Is to will Waite.
Speaker 10 (16:18):
I'm not interested in anything that isn't important to Pat Casey.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
But why the change of heart?
Speaker 10 (16:23):
I can relax now a country will take over.
Speaker 8 (16:26):
Have you looked at the sky. No, I know this country, mister,
it fights back. I know it's going to rain.
Speaker 10 (16:33):
I know it's going to rain hard. I know it
might even flood in those mountains. You'll never get those
tracks laid in time.
Speaker 8 (16:41):
Even if you have my mules, We'll take the chance.
Speaker 10 (16:44):
You'll fight hard.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
You do too.
Speaker 8 (16:47):
Mine's a dedicated fight, has to be.
Speaker 10 (16:51):
I swore i'd wipe the name of this town off
the map, and I've.
Speaker 8 (16:54):
Just about got it done.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Why so bitter?
Speaker 10 (16:58):
I was with a show troop. My partner and I
got stranded in this town. He's a sweet guy.
Speaker 9 (17:05):
The town wasn't very nice to us. We were used
to that, but my partner was sick. Maybe if the
town had been a little nicer, he'd be alive, and
the least idea.
Speaker 10 (17:18):
Why I told you that. I don't think a person
in Bulwagh remembers.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
I'm glad you did tell me.
Speaker 10 (17:25):
All right, get him pick up the mules when the
money's on the line.
Speaker 13 (17:29):
I'm busy over here, Hey boy, boys, the last piece
(17:51):
of talk but still had three miles ago.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Yeah, I know, hey boy, that track ought to be
here any minute now was on a siding at the
other end of our line.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
I saw it. But he's a follow in time. Yeah,
I realized that midnight to night.
Speaker 8 (18:02):
Oh, somebody comes.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
Probably early, he'll know just what the track will get here?
What about the track early?
Speaker 2 (18:14):
It won't get here?
Speaker 8 (18:16):
Do you mean?
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Flat car?
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Is the rail eight miles up the way by a flood?
Rails are buried in a wash and there's no possible
way to get a mountain time? I mean, this beats
us with only three miles to go. How do you
like that at midnight tonight? Because of those three miles
when we lose our Franchi. Oh, it must be something early.
How does that contract read only agreed to have track
(18:39):
laid from the Central Pacific Lines through the city limits
in this specified time and we're just three miles short
of the city limits.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Yes, I'm afraid. So all right, you know about the
mountain coming to Muhammad, don't you? What are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Can you call a special meeting of the wil Way
City Council.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Nah, yes, it's the emergency.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Why in view of the potential growth of will Wage,
I think we should point out that the city council
they should be far sighted enough to allow room for
that growth by extending the city limits three miles before
midnight from off, Oh, Paladin, Baladan that sheer ge Paladin
you had well, hey boy, usually figures that you can
get further that way than by being tough.
Speaker 4 (19:21):
Maleus go beat that dedline.
Speaker 7 (19:37):
Well, this is a big day for our time.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
Just about time.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Who but that cases? Yeah, of course here you're leaving.
Will wait casing take too long as it is allow.
Speaker 7 (20:01):
Let's put the dive down there.
Speaker 9 (20:03):
I'll tell you b yeah, and they get out there
by time tom.
Speaker 8 (20:07):
I'll look you out.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Yeah, Halladin Carlton Hotel.
Speaker 8 (20:11):
I remember.
Speaker 13 (20:14):
That.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Like Katy Simon.
Speaker 11 (20:38):
I've been working on.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
The rail road long days and.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
Well hello that see you. We're glad to be home again.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
So you see a long look here boys hands you've
got any whistles? Oh, hey boy, dick, hey boy, swing
you thick, hey boy?
Speaker 4 (21:05):
Work?
Speaker 3 (21:05):
Oh he live long day?
Speaker 2 (21:07):
Hey boy, you and the boys that are fine?
Speaker 1 (21:08):
Job Yeah, co onne in my room and sit down
before you report into the hotel.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
Oh no, no, hey boy, say ready to start back
to work.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
And uh, hey boy, so god they'll be home now.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
We're going to leave carton the hotel again.
Speaker 14 (21:23):
Oh, hey, boys, have to leave right away.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
He has to leave.
Speaker 10 (21:30):
Chang o chang, Hey boys, Uncle in Slena he's very sick.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Oh no, it's wrong. You mean hey boy really has
an uncle in Selena's.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
Oh he's sick, Hey boy, let's go, Hey boy, this
is like the boy who hollered Wolf.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
You sa when you here?
Speaker 11 (21:50):
Boy?
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Hello uncle.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Thirsty people everywhere prefer ice cold pepsicola, and because it's light,
it refreshes without feelings.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
I am okay.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Pepsi is a favorite of thirsty people from Maine to Hawaii,
from Alaska to Florida. It's perfect for parties or picnics.
So serve pepsi to your guests. This is the sociable part.
Keep plenty of pepsi, ice cold and ready. Remember it
goes fast because everybody likes pepsi.
Speaker 8 (22:31):
Singing still sounds more inviting.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
May I be sociable?
Speaker 14 (22:36):
Loop keep poppas to names with THEMSIE strings like refreshing, stay.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
But singing doesn't say. Pick up an extra carton of
pepsi today. Better yet, get a case you do that?
Have gun will travel Heded by Herb Metow and Sam
(23:17):
Row He is prodial stand directed in Hollywood by Frank
Parris and stars John Dayner as Paladin, with Ben Wright
as hey Boy and Virginia greg as Miss Wong. Tonight's
story was specially written for Have Gun Will Travel By
and Dow Hatred. In the cast were Geene Bates, Tim Graham,
Charlie Lung, and Lawrence Dodkin. This is Hugh Douglas inviting
you to join us again next week when's CBS Radio
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