September 3, 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 (00:12):
You have be confused of fantom, but don't bother to explain.
Now right out of here before that mob decides to
hang you.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Have gone, will travel.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Darrying mister John damer As Taladin, San Francisco, eighteen seventy five,
the Carlton Hotel, headquarters of a man called Taladin.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Come in, Uh, good morning, miss wrong wrong to help
you pass Ooh?
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Thanks, I don't think so. I'm traveling like this trip.
I'll be riding through some pretty rough countries where you go.
I'm doing a job for an insurance company, Miss Wrong.
They're concerned about their losses. Want me to survey the
flight routes up through the north and checked with the
express offices along the way, doesn't it? Hey, Hey, boy
told me that you and he were going out in
(01:26):
the town last night.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Say, boy, take me you want to see very fine
stage place.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
What did you see?
Speaker 5 (01:34):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (01:36):
There was a little girl named Popsy Topsy. Yes, yes,
the little girl names Eva. Yes, a nice old man name.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Missa Uncle Tom, mister uncle Tom, your uncle Tom.
Speaker 5 (01:53):
You know what mesa poly does? Missa Uncle Tom?
Speaker 1 (01:57):
He U, I understand this one.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
And Minni girl of either she all the dip.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
That he put time on the road between the town
of Lexington, Massachusetts and the Conquered River Bridge are a
number of stones and monuments that are a part of
our American heritage. In the spring of seventeen seventy five,
(02:31):
the minute Men of New England brought together a supply
of stores and munitions in the small village of Conquered.
The provincial congress had voted for the stockpile for defense only,
but British General Gauge regarded the collected munitions and stores
as potentially dangerous to King George's troops. On April nineteenth,
(02:52):
seventeen seventy five, Gauge dispatched a force under Major Pitcairn
to capture the stockpile. The root of the British roofs
took them through the town of Lexington, which had been
alerted by Paul Ravere and others.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
At Lexington, the.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
British were met by a small American force, and a
skirmish ensued on Village Green. The American Revolution had begun.
Their superior numbers allowed the British to continue their advance
toward Conquered, but William Prescott, who had ridden with Paul Revere,
carried the warning of their approach, Pitcairn's British regulars moved
(03:28):
into Conquered and occupied North and South Bridges, while a
small group of minute Men waited across the river for reinforcements.
When helpful the Colonials arrived from nearby towns, the British
were forced to withdraw cross North Bridge. Here shots were
exchanged and the British were forced into a retreat. The
(03:48):
retreat soon became a disorderly route, as Minutemen fired on
Pitcairn's men from behind walls, houses and barns.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
The Colonials had won the day.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Today, the brave actions of the American fighting men at
Lexington and Conquered are marked by many monuments, including the
famous statue of the minute Man.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Some of the original landmarks are still preserved.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
The monuments that Lexington and Conquered remind us of the
rich heritage that as Americans we share and stand ready
to defend. The towns along my route were scattered and
the distances were great. I had reached northern Nevada, and
(04:33):
I was following a trail that wound its way over
a rugged mountain pass. The trail had been chipped from
a rocky cliff, which rose straight up on one side
and then took a sheer drop of several hundred feet
on the other. When I reached the top and started
down towards the Humboldt River Valley, I saw a man
ahead of me. He was riding lazy, guiding his horse carefully,
(04:54):
when suddenly, on a sharp turn, the animal seemed to spook,
fold up, and in the next time was jogging down
the path with an empty saddle. I couldn't have any faster.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
I could only hope that when I.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Reached the spot where the man had gone over the edge,
i'd find him alive. Oohoo hey down there, can you
hear me? Yes, my man, it's a fine time to
be sure you are right. Oh, I'm fine. Do this
(05:25):
bit of a tree. Some I'm hanging toug his way.
Got any kind of foothold down there? Some I gotta
rope up here. Hold on, I'll get it to you. Oh,
that's fine, salt, Oh in a easy boy, Now stand
it all right? Here she goes you got it? I
(05:54):
got it. I tied it around your waist. Yes, let
me know. When you're ready, I'll start hauling. Yeah, I'm trying.
D ah h already now all right, here we go.
What what's the trouble?
Speaker 4 (06:10):
Well, would you give us a bit of flash? On
that hope with you? Now?
Speaker 1 (06:13):
That's a present for Katy?
Speaker 4 (06:15):
Was that Hag's present is allowed?
Speaker 1 (06:17):
You may put it.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
I can reason if you give you a bit of flash?
Speaker 1 (06:23):
How's that all that?
Speaker 4 (06:25):
Pine? Hi?
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Hall away my hearty?
Speaker 4 (06:30):
Yah hah, hurtful, grateful? I am to you too? Who
abandons me? Names or red deck on you? And don't
need to be telling you?
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Why Andy when it catch me bread? I have a
few words to say about that. No good cuts it
not headed horse or twice in a month that sut
me down without even so much as a buy your leave?
Never mind the horse. We better check you for broken bones.
Oh no, no, no, Bandon's a tough one though.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
I am hurt a bit. A few place you've got
to praise be.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Katie's present is safe. Katie is present, which I don't know.
On what day is this, sir? Yes?
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Is Thursday.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
That's right in March the seventeen, and that's a court
Saint Patrick's day. But more than that, it's the first
day of mid Darland.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Katie You're wife.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Yes, like a man, I'm afraid I would have for
forgetting the occasion. Want you, Katie like a woman, dropped
the hint here and there. So I had just saddled
off and ride into town to buy the gig off. Well,
we better get started down the trail. You go ride
my horse?
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Now walk? Oh?
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Now, a fine thing that would be the tank A
man for saving me life, be taking the heart out
from under him. No, sir, abandon will walk a good
walker's sake, keeck out of me. It was almost sundown
before we reached the ol'bannon farmhouse.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Katie was waiting at the gate.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
She was tiny and gay and very pretty, and she
insisted that I stay to share the birthday celebrations. Then
it got so late they both insisted that I stay
the night. They were warm, friendly people, and when I
left the next morning, it was with the promise to
see them on my way back. My business took me
on into Idaho, and it was nearly two months before
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I passed through Nevada again. The last stop on my
route was the town of Tuanta, only twenty miles from
the Obamon place. I checked into a hotel, then started
for the Horseshoe Saloon.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
You ain't gonna get a drink in air miser?
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Oh why not? Her?
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Old and trial and their today trial? Can I start
soon as the judge gets here.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Once it start, won't last long.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Open and shutcases. I just kept watching.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
I knew i'd see the fella again someday. Who's that
fellow on trial? Rob My Stage killed my shotgun rider.
I got a good look at him. I knew i'd
spot him again, and I did. Over in lander COTTI
sheriff brought him in.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
You gonna visit the trial?
Speaker 1 (09:04):
No, No, I have business at the freight office.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Just thought i'd have a drink first. We'll fix him.
Dirty killer fell the name of Obamon.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Obamon, knowing well, I'm acquainted with an Obama up this way,
but now I'm sure this is the same one.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
We're gonna fix him quick and good.
Speaker 6 (09:30):
About ten miles north of Springfield, Massachusetts, and five miles
northeast of Tickapee is Westover Air Force Base, headquarters for
the eighth Air Force. The field was named after Oscar Westover,
who was Chief of the Air Corps from nineteen thirty
five until his death in nineteen thirty eight. Westover was
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born in Bay City, Michigan, July eighteen eighty three. He
entered the Army as a private in nineteen hundred one
and graduated from West Point in nineteen hundred and six.
During the infancy of flight, Westover became interested in the
Air Service and worked in the office of Director of
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Air Service in nineteen eighteen. In nineteen twenty two, he
became the Director of Aircraft Production for the Army. Then
in nineteen twenty eight, Westover was offered a post as
assistant to the Chief of the Air Corps. He held
this assignment until nineteen thirty five, when he was commissioned
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a major general and moved up the ladder to Air
Corps Chief. About this time, there was much discussion concerning
the value of air power. Like other top Air Corps officers,
General Westover pointed out the need for a stronger air force.
Together with General Andrews, he advocated a policy whereby the
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Air Corps could have more fighting power become a more
independent unit. Unfortunately, in nineteen thirty eight, Westover was killed
in a plane crash before his recommendations were placed in effect.
Despite his untimely death, Westover holds an important place in
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the growth of American airpower men like General Westover serve
as a reminder that those who today wear the Air
Force uniform also play a most important part in the
progress of air power, the instrument which is so vital
for the preservation of our American way of life. I
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had started down straight to the Tauana Flight Office when
I saw the sheriff bringing the prisoner from the jail.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
It was hard to believe, but the lbanonon trial was
my red haired friend of the mountain trail. He didn't
glance in my direction. I decided to postpone my business
and visit the trial. After all, what the court convened
and the Horseshoe Saloon lacked in formality had made up
for and it's obvious zeal to fix him quicken Good
(12:12):
Circuit Judge Charlie Cakel called the court to order and
Wes Barker took the stand. And do you swear to
tell the truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth.
Help you God, I do sit down. Larry'sisted right there,
the cob pleased mister Barker. Not so fast. I want
you to tell us just what happened. Well, the coats
wasn't running just on schedule at we didn't have no passengers,
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but we had some important freight to carry, valuable freight gold.
The shipman wasn't ready on our regular time to leave,
so we waited for it. And when was this, oh
two months ago? Remember what day exactly? Sure it was
March seventeenth. We just got a ways out of town
about sundown. It was when this man and this man
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right here, he busts out in the road and flags
his down, yells, hold up, you got a gun right
in my face now. Joe Panelli rode shot gun with
me for six years. He knew when to throw down
on a hold up man when not to. Joe didn't
throw down on his fellow, but he plugged him anyway.
Got a shot off at me too, but he just
nicked me. He took the gold what he could carry,
(13:19):
and I got a good look at him. And last
month when I seen him over in Lander Cattie, I
recognize him in Toula Sheriff. That's him sitting right there.
Thank you. So that'll be all, mister Parker, tag your honor?
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Yes, say don't I know you?
Speaker 1 (13:35):
I think so?
Speaker 2 (13:36):
My name is Colivan.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Sure what can I do for him? Mister pell I
like to be sworn in your honor. A man's life
is at stake here, and I just don't understand it.
There's something terribly wrong. Yeah, come on up here, thank you.
All right, let's keep it quiet now. You swear to
tell the truth, the whole truth. Nothing about the truth.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Help you, goun I do?
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Yeah, Judge, if this murder and hold up occurred on
March seventeen, about sundown, the man's sitting here, O'Bannon can't
be guilty, my down, Let's keep order. Why do you
say that? Because I was with O'Bannon on March seventeenth
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at that time, and he was over forty miles from here.
Speaker 4 (14:25):
That's half order.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Pat, you better tell us the whole story, back from
the beginning. Mister Ballan, All right, case dismissed. That's all
for today, sir. Yeah, I can't figure what your game is.
(14:53):
But you sure didn't make yourself any friends here. But
I'm sorry, Barker. I told the truth, yeah, to put
a reasonable doubt in the judge's mind.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
But I know better.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
You said yourself. It was almost sundown when they hold
up a curtain, and it must have all happened pretty fast.
You could be mistaken, you though, No, no mistake. I
saw Bannon kill my shotgun rider.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Joe had a lot of friends.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
If the law ain't gonna take care of the man
that murdered him, maybe his friends will have to. That's
mighty careless talk, Barker. Look at that sheriff's turning him loose,
that dirty killer walking out of town of free Man
when he ought to be hanging on the end of
a rope right now. And we can thank you for
butting in with your big lion mouth. I didn't lie.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
I know better.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Like I say, I don't know what your game is,
but it ain't over yet.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Here comes your friend. You ain't seen the last of this.
You can tell it.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Hey O'Bannon. Oh hello friend Obama, you better get out
of here or the tanks. And what do I owe you?
What do you mean? One could torn deserves another? What
could I do for you? Twenty you want? I don't
want anything. I had to tell the truth. Truth, mister.
You never saw me before in your life, and you
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know it. Listen. If it's some sort of a joke,
I don't appreciate it. And I'm afraid this is no
time for questions and answers. These people watching us, they're
in an ugly mood. They don't waste any love on
me doing it. They're dangerous. I've seen it happen too
many times. You better get out of town as fast
as you can, oh, Bari, intend to I have any
plans are made, And thanks again friend for you for
(16:29):
your pretty nice You have me really confused, though, Bannon.
But I'll expect some answers for this, and they better
be good. All right, out to your place tomorrow, my place,
all right, Just get going, Oh sure, oh Pat, but
you'll find me at nor talk. I watched O'Bannon walk away,
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trying in my mind to make some kind of sense
out of the whole thing. His last remark was easily
heard by the people left in the courtroom, and with
the mood that crowd was in, he might just as
well have been sending out invitations to his own lynching.
There was no question about it. If he really intended
to show up in north Fork, he have a lot
of angry men waiting for him. As soon as I
had finished my business the next day, I headed out
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of town in the direction of the Obannon farmhouse. I
wanted to see Katie. As I rode up to the house,
I noticed a winded, lathered horse brown tide in the
front yard. Oo, Katy, what had you done? Obamon, obamon,
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he's dead, God of mercy on me.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Give me the gun.
Speaker 5 (18:08):
Ah, it had to be done.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
I don't understand this, Katie, your own husband.
Speaker 5 (18:16):
No, no, no, not my husband, not Red. It is
Liam O'Bannon. I was there, Liam, born of the same mother,
within the same hour. And on the outside is a
like as two peas in apart, my man and Liam,
but inside one is black.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
And one is white.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Wait a minute, Kitty, you mean this man is your
husband's twin brother.
Speaker 5 (18:41):
Yes, but my old Bannon is the daylight and this
one the dark. For this to the evil ones he
was I knew at the end when the two came courting,
and it was Red I chose to marry.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
What was Liam doing here?
Speaker 5 (18:59):
It was after to me to leave this place with
him with wicked words of how he had sent my
old Ben and rid him off to his death.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Katie, Where's Red gone to answer.
Speaker 5 (19:11):
The call of Liam as he always has? Should? Liam
so much as crook his little finger. One of Liam's
ropes that traveled with him came early this morning with
a message, but with the message.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
That Red should ride to north Fork North Fork and wait.
Speaker 5 (19:30):
Until Liam should meet him there. But Liam came here
instead to take me off with him.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Katie, it just might be the Red is riding to
his death. How long ago to the start? Oh? Some
time I'll have to go after him, Katie, Will you
give me a blanket? I'm afraid Liam must ride with
me as the crow flies. Northward wasn't far, but the
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trail over the mountain was narrow and winding, and travel
was slow. With the head start Red hat, it was
a chancy thing. Whether I could reach there in time
to save him from the trap he was riding into.
It was late in the day when I saw the
little town just ahead. All right, mister, that's far enough. Marker.
Drop your gun. I've got something to tell you. We
had to listen to you once before we're done listening.
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Now drop the gun, mister. We ain't going to take
any interference this time.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
I told you.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
It's up to us now to take care of the
man who killed our friend Joe Pinelli. We're waiting for him.
You mean he hasn't shown up yet. No, but we'll
get him. You won't have to wait any longer. The
man you want is riding my second horse, wrapped in
that blanket.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (20:45):
See for yourself, Jim, all right, what happened doesn't matter
the death of your friend Opinelli has been.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
A venge Barker and eye for an eye. That's what
you wanted, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
So now I trust you'll give Liam O'Bannon a suitable burial.
Then I started back down the mountain trail. Whatever had
delayed Red O'Bannon stripped the north book and saved his life.
But I became more and more concerned as to what
had happened to him. I reached the end of the
rocky ledge, and there, off to the right and the
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grassy meadow was a horse that looked somehow familiar. He
was nibbling grass and wearing an empty saddle. I turned
around and went back up the trail. Arett O'Bannon got
a rat.
Speaker 5 (21:47):
The heart of an angel.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Red, Yes, read, you are right for the time being. Yeah,
that's no goods not headed horse, he says it again. Yeah,
well you can be mighty grateful to that. No good
cuss it not headed horse. I thought, never mind, I'll
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get the rope.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Have Gun Will Travel.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Created by Herb Meadow and Sam Roll, He is produced
and directed in Hollywood by Frank Parrots and stars John
Dayner as Paladin with Virginia greg as Miss Walk. Tonight's
story was specially written for Have Gun Will Travel by
hand Out. Specially featured in the cast was Ben Right
with Harry Bartel, Jack.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Moyles, and Jean Bates.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
This is Hugh Douglas inviting you to join us again
next week when CBS Radio presents Have Gun Will Travel.
Have Gun Will Travel is brought to you through the
worldwide facilities of the Armed Forces, Radio and Television services
Speaker 4 (24:23):
Of
You have be confused of fantom, but don't bother to explain.
Now right out of here before that mob decides to
hang you.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Have gone, will travel.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Darrying mister John damer As Taladin, San Francisco, eighteen seventy five,
the Carlton Hotel, headquarters of a man called Taladin.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Come in, Uh, good morning, miss wrong wrong to help
you pass Ooh?
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Thanks, I don't think so. I'm traveling like this trip.
I'll be riding through some pretty rough countries where you go.
I'm doing a job for an insurance company, Miss Wrong.
They're concerned about their losses. Want me to survey the
flight routes up through the north and checked with the
express offices along the way, doesn't it? Hey, Hey, boy
told me that you and he were going out in
(01:26):
the town last night.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Say, boy, take me you want to see very fine
stage place.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
What did you see?
Speaker 5 (01:34):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (01:36):
There was a little girl named Popsy Topsy. Yes, yes,
the little girl names Eva. Yes, a nice old man name.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Missa Uncle Tom, mister uncle Tom, your uncle Tom.
Speaker 5 (01:53):
You know what mesa poly does? Missa Uncle Tom?
Speaker 1 (01:57):
He U, I understand this one.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
And Minni girl of either she all the dip.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
That he put time on the road between the town
of Lexington, Massachusetts and the Conquered River Bridge are a
number of stones and monuments that are a part of
our American heritage. In the spring of seventeen seventy five,
(02:31):
the minute Men of New England brought together a supply
of stores and munitions in the small village of Conquered.
The provincial congress had voted for the stockpile for defense only,
but British General Gauge regarded the collected munitions and stores
as potentially dangerous to King George's troops. On April nineteenth,
(02:52):
seventeen seventy five, Gauge dispatched a force under Major Pitcairn
to capture the stockpile. The root of the British roofs
took them through the town of Lexington, which had been
alerted by Paul Ravere and others.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
At Lexington, the.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
British were met by a small American force, and a
skirmish ensued on Village Green. The American Revolution had begun.
Their superior numbers allowed the British to continue their advance
toward Conquered, but William Prescott, who had ridden with Paul Revere,
carried the warning of their approach, Pitcairn's British regulars moved
(03:28):
into Conquered and occupied North and South Bridges, while a
small group of minute Men waited across the river for reinforcements.
When helpful the Colonials arrived from nearby towns, the British
were forced to withdraw cross North Bridge. Here shots were
exchanged and the British were forced into a retreat. The
(03:48):
retreat soon became a disorderly route, as Minutemen fired on
Pitcairn's men from behind walls, houses and barns.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
The Colonials had won the day.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Today, the brave actions of the American fighting men at
Lexington and Conquered are marked by many monuments, including the
famous statue of the minute Man.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Some of the original landmarks are still preserved.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
The monuments that Lexington and Conquered remind us of the
rich heritage that as Americans we share and stand ready
to defend. The towns along my route were scattered and
the distances were great. I had reached northern Nevada, and
(04:33):
I was following a trail that wound its way over
a rugged mountain pass. The trail had been chipped from
a rocky cliff, which rose straight up on one side
and then took a sheer drop of several hundred feet
on the other. When I reached the top and started
down towards the Humboldt River Valley, I saw a man
ahead of me. He was riding lazy, guiding his horse carefully,
(04:54):
when suddenly, on a sharp turn, the animal seemed to spook,
fold up, and in the next time was jogging down
the path with an empty saddle. I couldn't have any faster.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
I could only hope that when I.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Reached the spot where the man had gone over the edge,
i'd find him alive. Oohoo hey down there, can you
hear me? Yes, my man, it's a fine time to
be sure you are right. Oh, I'm fine. Do this
(05:25):
bit of a tree. Some I'm hanging toug his way.
Got any kind of foothold down there? Some I gotta
rope up here. Hold on, I'll get it to you. Oh,
that's fine, salt, Oh in a easy boy, Now stand
it all right? Here she goes you got it? I
(05:54):
got it. I tied it around your waist. Yes, let
me know. When you're ready, I'll start hauling. Yeah, I'm trying.
D ah h already now all right, here we go.
What what's the trouble?
Speaker 4 (06:10):
Well, would you give us a bit of flash? On
that hope with you? Now?
Speaker 1 (06:13):
That's a present for Katy?
Speaker 4 (06:15):
Was that Hag's present is allowed?
Speaker 1 (06:17):
You may put it.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
I can reason if you give you a bit of flash?
Speaker 1 (06:23):
How's that all that?
Speaker 4 (06:25):
Pine? Hi?
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Hall away my hearty?
Speaker 4 (06:30):
Yah hah, hurtful, grateful? I am to you too? Who
abandons me? Names or red deck on you? And don't
need to be telling you?
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Why Andy when it catch me bread? I have a
few words to say about that. No good cuts it
not headed horse or twice in a month that sut
me down without even so much as a buy your leave?
Never mind the horse. We better check you for broken bones.
Oh no, no, no, Bandon's a tough one though.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
I am hurt a bit. A few place you've got
to praise be.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Katie's present is safe. Katie is present, which I don't know.
On what day is this, sir? Yes?
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Is Thursday.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
That's right in March the seventeen, and that's a court
Saint Patrick's day. But more than that, it's the first
day of mid Darland.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Katie You're wife.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Yes, like a man, I'm afraid I would have for
forgetting the occasion. Want you, Katie like a woman, dropped
the hint here and there. So I had just saddled
off and ride into town to buy the gig off. Well,
we better get started down the trail. You go ride
my horse?
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Now walk? Oh?
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Now, a fine thing that would be the tank A
man for saving me life, be taking the heart out
from under him. No, sir, abandon will walk a good
walker's sake, keeck out of me. It was almost sundown
before we reached the ol'bannon farmhouse.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Katie was waiting at the gate.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
She was tiny and gay and very pretty, and she
insisted that I stay to share the birthday celebrations. Then
it got so late they both insisted that I stay
the night. They were warm, friendly people, and when I
left the next morning, it was with the promise to
see them on my way back. My business took me
on into Idaho, and it was nearly two months before
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I passed through Nevada again. The last stop on my
route was the town of Tuanta, only twenty miles from
the Obamon place. I checked into a hotel, then started
for the Horseshoe Saloon.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
You ain't gonna get a drink in air miser?
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Oh why not? Her?
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Old and trial and their today trial? Can I start
soon as the judge gets here.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Once it start, won't last long.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Open and shutcases. I just kept watching.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
I knew i'd see the fella again someday. Who's that
fellow on trial? Rob My Stage killed my shotgun rider.
I got a good look at him. I knew i'd
spot him again, and I did. Over in lander COTTI
sheriff brought him in.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
You gonna visit the trial?
Speaker 1 (09:04):
No, No, I have business at the freight office.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Just thought i'd have a drink first. We'll fix him.
Dirty killer fell the name of Obamon.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Obamon, knowing well, I'm acquainted with an Obama up this way,
but now I'm sure this is the same one.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
We're gonna fix him quick and good.
Speaker 6 (09:30):
About ten miles north of Springfield, Massachusetts, and five miles
northeast of Tickapee is Westover Air Force Base, headquarters for
the eighth Air Force. The field was named after Oscar Westover,
who was Chief of the Air Corps from nineteen thirty
five until his death in nineteen thirty eight. Westover was
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born in Bay City, Michigan, July eighteen eighty three. He
entered the Army as a private in nineteen hundred one
and graduated from West Point in nineteen hundred and six.
During the infancy of flight, Westover became interested in the
Air Service and worked in the office of Director of
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Air Service in nineteen eighteen. In nineteen twenty two, he
became the Director of Aircraft Production for the Army. Then
in nineteen twenty eight, Westover was offered a post as
assistant to the Chief of the Air Corps. He held
this assignment until nineteen thirty five, when he was commissioned
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a major general and moved up the ladder to Air
Corps Chief. About this time, there was much discussion concerning
the value of air power. Like other top Air Corps officers,
General Westover pointed out the need for a stronger air force.
Together with General Andrews, he advocated a policy whereby the
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Air Corps could have more fighting power become a more
independent unit. Unfortunately, in nineteen thirty eight, Westover was killed
in a plane crash before his recommendations were placed in effect.
Despite his untimely death, Westover holds an important place in
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the growth of American airpower men like General Westover serve
as a reminder that those who today wear the Air
Force uniform also play a most important part in the
progress of air power, the instrument which is so vital
for the preservation of our American way of life. I
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had started down straight to the Tauana Flight Office when
I saw the sheriff bringing the prisoner from the jail.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
It was hard to believe, but the lbanonon trial was
my red haired friend of the mountain trail. He didn't
glance in my direction. I decided to postpone my business
and visit the trial. After all, what the court convened
and the Horseshoe Saloon lacked in formality had made up
for and it's obvious zeal to fix him quicken Good
(12:12):
Circuit Judge Charlie Cakel called the court to order and
Wes Barker took the stand. And do you swear to
tell the truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth.
Help you God, I do sit down. Larry'sisted right there,
the cob pleased mister Barker. Not so fast. I want
you to tell us just what happened. Well, the coats
wasn't running just on schedule at we didn't have no passengers,
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but we had some important freight to carry, valuable freight gold.
The shipman wasn't ready on our regular time to leave,
so we waited for it. And when was this, oh
two months ago? Remember what day exactly? Sure it was
March seventeenth. We just got a ways out of town
about sundown. It was when this man and this man
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right here, he busts out in the road and flags
his down, yells, hold up, you got a gun right
in my face now. Joe Panelli rode shot gun with
me for six years. He knew when to throw down
on a hold up man when not to. Joe didn't
throw down on his fellow, but he plugged him anyway.
Got a shot off at me too, but he just
nicked me. He took the gold what he could carry,
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and I got a good look at him. And last
month when I seen him over in Lander Cattie, I
recognize him in Toula Sheriff. That's him sitting right there.
Thank you. So that'll be all, mister Parker, tag your honor?
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Yes, say don't I know you?
Speaker 1 (13:35):
I think so?
Speaker 2 (13:36):
My name is Colivan.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Sure what can I do for him? Mister pell I
like to be sworn in your honor. A man's life
is at stake here, and I just don't understand it.
There's something terribly wrong. Yeah, come on up here, thank you.
All right, let's keep it quiet now. You swear to
tell the truth, the whole truth. Nothing about the truth.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Help you, goun I do?
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Yeah, Judge, if this murder and hold up occurred on
March seventeen, about sundown, the man's sitting here, O'Bannon can't
be guilty, my down, Let's keep order. Why do you
say that? Because I was with O'Bannon on March seventeenth
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at that time, and he was over forty miles from here.
Speaker 4 (14:25):
That's half order.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Pat, you better tell us the whole story, back from
the beginning. Mister Ballan, All right, case dismissed. That's all
for today, sir. Yeah, I can't figure what your game is.
(14:53):
But you sure didn't make yourself any friends here. But
I'm sorry, Barker. I told the truth, yeah, to put
a reasonable doubt in the judge's mind.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
But I know better.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
You said yourself. It was almost sundown when they hold
up a curtain, and it must have all happened pretty fast.
You could be mistaken, you though, No, no mistake. I
saw Bannon kill my shotgun rider.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Joe had a lot of friends.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
If the law ain't gonna take care of the man
that murdered him, maybe his friends will have to. That's
mighty careless talk, Barker. Look at that sheriff's turning him loose,
that dirty killer walking out of town of free Man
when he ought to be hanging on the end of
a rope right now. And we can thank you for
butting in with your big lion mouth. I didn't lie.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
I know better.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Like I say, I don't know what your game is,
but it ain't over yet.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Here comes your friend. You ain't seen the last of this.
You can tell it.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Hey O'Bannon. Oh hello friend Obama, you better get out
of here or the tanks. And what do I owe you?
What do you mean? One could torn deserves another? What
could I do for you? Twenty you want? I don't
want anything. I had to tell the truth. Truth, mister.
You never saw me before in your life, and you
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know it. Listen. If it's some sort of a joke,
I don't appreciate it. And I'm afraid this is no
time for questions and answers. These people watching us, they're
in an ugly mood. They don't waste any love on
me doing it. They're dangerous. I've seen it happen too
many times. You better get out of town as fast
as you can, oh, Bari, intend to I have any
plans are made, And thanks again friend for you for
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your pretty nice You have me really confused, though, Bannon.
But I'll expect some answers for this, and they better
be good. All right, out to your place tomorrow, my place,
all right, Just get going, Oh sure, oh Pat, but
you'll find me at nor talk. I watched O'Bannon walk away,
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trying in my mind to make some kind of sense
out of the whole thing. His last remark was easily
heard by the people left in the courtroom, and with
the mood that crowd was in, he might just as
well have been sending out invitations to his own lynching.
There was no question about it. If he really intended
to show up in north Fork, he have a lot
of angry men waiting for him. As soon as I
had finished my business the next day, I headed out
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of town in the direction of the Obannon farmhouse. I
wanted to see Katie. As I rode up to the house,
I noticed a winded, lathered horse brown tide in the
front yard. Oo, Katy, what had you done? Obamon, obamon,
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he's dead, God of mercy on me.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Give me the gun.
Speaker 5 (18:08):
Ah, it had to be done.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
I don't understand this, Katie, your own husband.
Speaker 5 (18:16):
No, no, no, not my husband, not Red. It is
Liam O'Bannon. I was there, Liam, born of the same mother,
within the same hour. And on the outside is a
like as two peas in apart, my man and Liam,
but inside one is black.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
And one is white.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Wait a minute, Kitty, you mean this man is your
husband's twin brother.
Speaker 5 (18:41):
Yes, but my old Bannon is the daylight and this
one the dark. For this to the evil ones he
was I knew at the end when the two came courting,
and it was Red I chose to marry.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
What was Liam doing here?
Speaker 5 (18:59):
It was after to me to leave this place with
him with wicked words of how he had sent my
old Ben and rid him off to his death.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Katie, Where's Red gone to answer.
Speaker 5 (19:11):
The call of Liam as he always has? Should? Liam
so much as crook his little finger. One of Liam's
ropes that traveled with him came early this morning with
a message, but with the message.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
That Red should ride to north Fork North Fork and wait.
Speaker 5 (19:30):
Until Liam should meet him there. But Liam came here
instead to take me off with him.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Katie, it just might be the Red is riding to
his death. How long ago to the start? Oh? Some
time I'll have to go after him, Katie, Will you
give me a blanket? I'm afraid Liam must ride with
me as the crow flies. Northward wasn't far, but the
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trail over the mountain was narrow and winding, and travel
was slow. With the head start Red hat, it was
a chancy thing. Whether I could reach there in time
to save him from the trap he was riding into.
It was late in the day when I saw the
little town just ahead. All right, mister, that's far enough. Marker.
Drop your gun. I've got something to tell you. We
had to listen to you once before we're done listening.
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Now drop the gun, mister. We ain't going to take
any interference this time.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
I told you.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
It's up to us now to take care of the
man who killed our friend Joe Pinelli. We're waiting for him.
You mean he hasn't shown up yet. No, but we'll
get him. You won't have to wait any longer. The
man you want is riding my second horse, wrapped in
that blanket.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (20:45):
See for yourself, Jim, all right, what happened doesn't matter
the death of your friend Opinelli has been.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
A venge Barker and eye for an eye. That's what
you wanted, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
So now I trust you'll give Liam O'Bannon a suitable burial.
Then I started back down the mountain trail. Whatever had
delayed Red O'Bannon stripped the north book and saved his life.
But I became more and more concerned as to what
had happened to him. I reached the end of the
rocky ledge, and there, off to the right and the
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grassy meadow was a horse that looked somehow familiar. He
was nibbling grass and wearing an empty saddle. I turned
around and went back up the trail. Arett O'Bannon got
a rat.
Speaker 5 (21:47):
The heart of an angel.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Red, Yes, read, you are right for the time being. Yeah,
that's no goods not headed horse, he says it again. Yeah,
well you can be mighty grateful to that. No good
cuss it not headed horse. I thought, never mind, I'll
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get the rope.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Have Gun Will Travel.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
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