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August 21, 2025 • 23 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 (00:08):
Your husband made his choice ten years ago. If I
interfere now in this life he's made for himself, you
are the one who will be hurt. Have done, We'll travel,

(00:33):
starring mister John Dayner as Paladin, San Francisco, eighteen seventy five,
The Carlton Hotel, headquarters of a man called Paladin.

Speaker 2 (00:55):
I see good night now that's going down. That's for you.

Speaker 1 (00:59):
Thank you was wrong. I'm ready for him right. Uh.
Where's a man down that somebody bear their soul to him?

Speaker 2 (01:07):
Oh you stay a long time talk w that then tonight.

Speaker 1 (01:11):
Well man, he was here. He's quite a famous surgeon,
this one from the East coast, and he's just learned
that he has only six months to live.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
Ooh too die.

Speaker 1 (01:20):
Now he decided you got to get his house in order.

Speaker 2 (01:22):
Uh, come coach up, hunh uh huh.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
He's a dying man. And suddenly his conscience has come alive.

Speaker 3 (01:29):
Ah he sir.

Speaker 1 (01:31):
Yeah. Ten years ago, through carelessness, clearly a matter of
now practice, he allowed a patient to die, and he
placed the blame on a young doctor working with him.

Speaker 2 (01:38):
Ooh, all he true.

Speaker 1 (01:40):
And there was no way the young doctor could defend himself.
He had a very promising career, which naturally was ruined.

Speaker 4 (01:46):
MM.

Speaker 1 (01:47):
He felt he had bought disgrace to his wife and family,
so he left them disappeared. And that was ten years ago.

Speaker 2 (01:52):
Long time.

Speaker 1 (01:54):
Now this man, this surgeon, wants me to find the
young doctor. He wants to make it right. Thinks he
can just wipe out the past ten years. Dad misalid
whoa if he thinks he can buy absolutionless? Way, It's
all right with me.

Speaker 4 (02:19):
Eye are smoking more now but enjoying it?

Speaker 1 (02:22):
Lets have a real finger, rat have a camel.

Speaker 4 (02:27):
The B make the berry.

Speaker 1 (02:29):
That's you have a real finger. Ret have a camel,
and how you're looking for play her in mine?

Speaker 4 (02:38):
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Speaker 1 (02:39):
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(03:28):
search for AMOSR Bradberry MD, I pursued the false leads
and wrong hunches for two thousand seven and forty nine miles,
and came to one decision. I would never again leave
the Cotton Hotel on any assignment more difficult than finding
a needle in a haystack. After following a trail to
the mouth of the Missouri River in Dakota Territory, which
ended in another discouragement, I decided to give up and

(03:50):
took passage down river on the packet Yellowstone Bell. The
small stern wheeler carried a cargo of fur pelts, and
one other passenger name was Benjamin Tuggs, a tough, wizzled
old muftain man.

Speaker 4 (04:05):
The fourth day is usually get tied up to the river.

Speaker 1 (04:07):
Bank at sundown. Sometime before daylight, I awakened and went
out on deck. My fellow passenger was conning at the rail.
I shed a salkini mush head, misbegotten son with a
nose better than to sit tight with a payload of
skin stinging up his boat, pulling out of invite. This
close to them, hostile, I beg your pardon, you might

(04:28):
as relief, and now just keep down mischief.

Speaker 4 (04:32):
They're more coming.

Speaker 1 (04:34):
Look, this is a rick of our country, isn't. I
don't know they were hostile. He used to be mostly friendly.
And they got their damn draped back a piece because
they were cheated by some white fur traders where they
want the cargo and a few scalps. There's only eight
of us on his tub, but there's about six hundred
dam engines strung out along them, riverbanks. How can you tell?
So it's too black out there to see anything.

Speaker 4 (04:52):
It's my business, mister on a scout.

Speaker 1 (04:55):
Huh. I see I can't smell them, and I know
this is any time to sit still in August. Gotta
get and listen. He go right across the other side.
Oh damn mean to eating vomits. They's putting me in
the water where they're pool and they're gonna surround us.
Looks like we're gonna have to argue after all. Might
as loose break out the life hosey hubs. They're using

(05:18):
fire aisles.

Speaker 4 (05:20):
Chick, mister, one of them catches you.

Speaker 1 (05:21):
Here's a little old guy up hunkle wood rope hooting on.
He's just gonna go up and one of them deadn't
there goes to the wheelhouse. I gotta get the water bucket.
No good day's coming from all side the pools putting
the skips in the water. Tell let's get my hand out.

Speaker 4 (05:37):
I gotta get my orders in my table, the orders.

Speaker 1 (05:40):
Huh, come back, come ups?

Speaker 4 (05:55):
Where are you all right here?

Speaker 5 (05:58):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (05:58):
Burn Kimber across my legging?

Speaker 1 (06:01):
Dimon, come here here?

Speaker 4 (06:05):
You get it off?

Speaker 1 (06:06):
Knowing him extortion hot and I'm pinned down, tyson, I'm want.

Speaker 4 (06:10):
Did your shelf off this top? No? I can. I
know you'll go on and get this leg. I think
it's right.

Speaker 1 (06:21):
I can't move here, giving your army.

Speaker 4 (06:28):
Herd. But we get off this timp.

Speaker 1 (06:31):
We shill got them speaking redskins to take care of
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(06:54):
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The river was alive with shadowy dugouts, and the Indians

(07:58):
were no longer silent but shrill. Now with a victory,
Benjamin tubbs and eyes slipped into the river, and with
my arm across his chest, we went deep under the
water to the far bank. I managed to pull him
up on the marshy slope, and I half carried, half
dragged him, and we fought our way through the swampy
jungle growth until I lost all track of time. Finally

(08:18):
we reached the rocky clearing and the sun was high.

Speaker 4 (08:21):
Oh shit, this is where then Cabsure is gonna have
to call quitch. I just gotta sit down.

Speaker 1 (08:30):
I don't see how you never take it this far?
Here easy, Now you can lean up against this rocky.
Think we better take a look at that leg at yours?

Speaker 4 (08:39):
Oh well, let me tell you is she ragged? Better
not be giving me any trouble. I got my orders.
I got a report for Dowey.

Speaker 1 (08:47):
Uh who you are scouting for Severn's cavalry. Well, this
leg doesn't look too good.

Speaker 4 (08:54):
Ah it hurts like believe me. Hey, look up there.

Speaker 1 (08:59):
Yeah, looks like an Indian pony.

Speaker 4 (09:03):
Oh one engine must be one hundred more like it?
Just now, Benjamin tub d ain't got a liquor fire
reft him.

Speaker 1 (09:11):
Oh that's an Indian alright, had a right tortoise?

Speaker 3 (09:14):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (09:16):
Uh? Two women? It's an Indian woman?

Speaker 4 (09:20):
Oh well, all right?

Speaker 1 (09:26):
He no motto, ah, no motto? Oh hein young.

Speaker 2 (09:34):
You speak do a language?

Speaker 1 (09:35):
No? No, I'm afraid that's about it.

Speaker 2 (09:38):
Then I speak your language from high place, stare on
the rock. I have watched you.

Speaker 4 (09:44):
You have need of help, and whom you sure hit
it smack dab bond about from that time?

Speaker 3 (09:48):
May I offer to suit you?

Speaker 1 (09:50):
Uh?

Speaker 4 (09:50):
Right now engine, Now we ran into a back the
trouble with them Ariqulas. You know anything about that nut
of that tribe?

Speaker 5 (09:57):
I know nothing.

Speaker 1 (10:00):
I am called monasea eh monna saya. This is Benjamin Tubbs.
My name is Palatte huh shy.

Speaker 4 (10:06):
You sure put a shine on this morner. Eh, you're
the pretty sttle thing I really see.

Speaker 2 (10:11):
Mister Tubb speak brave and happy words, but.

Speaker 4 (10:14):
There is pay voice.

Speaker 2 (10:17):
A man's leg does not lie a cricket on ground
like that. He must say doctor, yeah, oh, and how
do we do that? I have been on errand I
return to my home. Now I take hither to a
man of great wisdom.

Speaker 4 (10:30):
As healer, one of your medicine men, or one of.

Speaker 2 (10:34):
Your medicine men, mister Tubb, he is of your people.

Speaker 1 (10:38):
A white man, a doctor. Yes, what's his name?

Speaker 5 (10:41):
His name is Wesaka keeks yet name.

Speaker 1 (10:43):
Maybe that's his Indian name, but I mean his real name.
His his name is a white man. What is it?

Speaker 2 (10:48):
His name is Wesaka kicks to yuppiar.

Speaker 1 (10:52):
I see well, it must not be lay already.

Speaker 2 (10:54):
It will be nightfall before we reach village.

Speaker 5 (10:57):
Mister Paladin, will you'll help me make splinse for a
broken leg of mister tu Pilip would contin less pain
to travel?

Speaker 4 (11:03):
Oh you're a nurse monish here.

Speaker 5 (11:05):
I learned much from my husband.

Speaker 1 (11:07):
Your husband.

Speaker 2 (11:08):
We suck a kixie uppy.

Speaker 1 (11:21):
It's a good thing. We lashed under out. Silent looks
like he's plaining.

Speaker 5 (11:26):
Did his drogginess from Peter?

Speaker 2 (11:29):
It's not good time.

Speaker 5 (11:31):
But because most he has enjoyed much pain.

Speaker 1 (11:34):
NIC's doup, old fella. They wanna say, Uh he the
reason I was interested in the name of this doctor,
uh your husband? Yeah? Well, I was hired to find
a certain doctor, Amos Bradbury, who left his home on
the eastern coast of this country because of an an
injustice that was done with him. And I followed this

(11:54):
trail for many miles and finally to Fort Union here
on the river.

Speaker 5 (11:58):
What did you I bury injustice?

Speaker 1 (12:02):
Well, the man who wronged him is dying and wants
to make amends. Now Bradberry had a wife and a child,
and he felt that he had brought displace to them.
But now the truth will be told, and his family
and the world he left will learn that there was
no dishonor.

Speaker 2 (12:19):
And why do you tell me this, mister Plage, I.

Speaker 1 (12:22):
Wanna say I I'm thinking it's been ten years. The
doctor has probably made a new life for himself. Perhaps
he has found a pleasant place to live and someone
to share it with him, And maybe he just as
soon forget what's passed, mister Pologine's.

Speaker 2 (12:45):
My husband's name, a white man is Amos Bradberry. Somehow
I thought so his Indian name we suck a kick
the Yup, he's too.

Speaker 1 (12:58):
It means.

Speaker 5 (13:00):
Man who remembers.

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Speaker 4 (14:14):
Oh, and so like that.

Speaker 1 (14:24):
After all the days and all the miles, my search
was ended. But it didn't seem to matter just then.
More important at the moment was to see that Ben
Tubbs got the care he needed. When we reached the
Indian village, his condition was serious, and Whennise had some
men carry him immediately to a little stone building set
up as a hospital, she didn't mention the doctor again
that night, nor did I. She bandaged my burned hand,

(14:48):
gave me food in the blanket, and I spent the
night under a coold sky. In the morning, I went
to see Ben. He was lying on a narrow cot
in a small bare room when you saw me. He
made a quick brush at the big tear on his
good little face, scowled and cut loose and rubbery headed,
stink enrhyments run dumb squirted.

Speaker 4 (15:11):
Ben, mister, do you know what that doctor done?

Speaker 2 (15:15):
He cut off my leg?

Speaker 3 (15:16):
Gets you what he's done.

Speaker 1 (15:17):
He had to do it, Ben, with your leg of
your life.

Speaker 4 (15:21):
The should have been of a wife to a SCOWLO
ain't gotten too ragged.

Speaker 1 (15:25):
After a while, you'll be getting around again, just as
tough as ever.

Speaker 4 (15:27):
But I had my orders.

Speaker 1 (15:30):
I was on the way to report it the seventh
Cavalry Special Scowl to sign at General George Cushterer. Can
I be hopping one legged after shitting ball? Sitting both
the time cushers are going after shitting boar his shelf?

Speaker 4 (15:45):
I was gaming, you're being on understand it on my
own two feet.

Speaker 1 (15:49):
And there'll be other battles for Ben.

Speaker 4 (15:51):
Oh, there ain't gonna be another battles custers.

Speaker 1 (15:54):
Well, then maybe one of these days we can get
together and make it up to you. Well, w I
have to find him. Wanna say it, man, I'll see
a letter.

Speaker 5 (16:08):
Ah, good morning, mister Polladine.

Speaker 1 (16:20):
Morning. Wanna say do you want to see my husband now? Well,
I've been looking for him a long time now, but
I'm not quite sure whether I whether I wanna see
him or not.

Speaker 5 (16:36):
I do not understand.

Speaker 1 (16:37):
I'm gonna say, o w what I was trying to
tell you last night. I don't think that I have
any right to interfere in this life He's made for
himself here. He made a choice ten years ago. Maybe
maybe it's a good one.

Speaker 2 (16:50):
Mister Paladine, do you have to see you? You not
wished to go through with this because it will hurt
WHENNA say you. Maybe I tell my husband last night
about your search.

Speaker 1 (17:05):
You didn't.

Speaker 3 (17:06):
I tell him that he can return to his world
now that the way has been made for him to
go in honor.

Speaker 1 (17:15):
What do you say? He say? He not go? Huh?

Speaker 3 (17:21):
You see like you, mister Baladin. He not wish to
hurt when I say, he walk with me thought the river?

Speaker 1 (17:33):
Alright?

Speaker 2 (17:36):
Do you see there the troll rock on the blust
m Yes, that his enion was lucky that he's the
figure of a woman olding child.

Speaker 1 (17:48):
Uh huh.

Speaker 2 (17:49):
My people have legend that a certain boy once took
a second wife and first wife became jealous and when.

Speaker 5 (17:58):
Tribe moved on, she refused to to follow, but remained
by her.

Speaker 2 (18:01):
Lodge, holding her child. And when many days passed and
still she had not joined them, the tribes then became
concerned returned to look for her, and they found her
sitting by her lodge holding her child, but she had
turned to stone.

Speaker 1 (18:23):
Now I'm afraid I don't under stony. Wait.

Speaker 2 (18:27):
So the tribes then picked up the stone figure and
they carried it back with them, And after that, wherever
tribe moved, enian Wislaka was carried along.

Speaker 1 (18:38):
She was always there.

Speaker 5 (18:42):
The image of the first.

Speaker 1 (18:44):
Wife and child. Maybe I do understand, of course.

Speaker 2 (18:51):
Always in the life of Monasea is the image of
first wife and child. Mister Paladin, you do the job
you set out to do. He take doctor Amos Bridbury
back to his world.

Speaker 1 (19:05):
But what about you wanna say her, My own village
is farther up river.

Speaker 2 (19:09):
I have a pierog already stock I go to my
own people.

Speaker 1 (19:14):
Now you you mean right now? Without letting Bridbury know.
Seems to me he should have something to say in
this decision.

Speaker 5 (19:21):
He is we sucker kicks. See up in this Typoloty
the mane who remembers.

Speaker 2 (19:27):
The image of the first rightsome child is always in.

Speaker 5 (19:30):
His life too.

Speaker 1 (19:33):
Gonna say a yes, you can count me as the
man who remembers for your concerned.

Speaker 3 (19:42):
Not that any hun mistipoloty nothing.

Speaker 1 (19:45):
Mm what does that mean?

Speaker 3 (19:48):
Good hunting?

Speaker 1 (19:50):
Not damn hung to you when you say a today? Oh,

(20:14):
he thought, part of you welcome home? Hello, hey boy,
if you get my bag on the seat there, please?

Speaker 4 (20:20):
Oh, he thought, Ah, you've been gone a long time.

Speaker 1 (20:29):
Half nights the trip. Well, I did what I was
haired to do. I went in search of a man,
found him, and he seemed grateful what I had. He
rejoined his family. I hope it was the right thing.

Speaker 4 (20:42):
You hope you don't know?

Speaker 1 (20:45):
Nope? Why well, hey boy? Yes, if I hadn't found him,
a very lovely woman would still have much happiness in
her heart rather than sadness. Oh, who do you see woman?
I'll explain it to you later, Hey boy, take it
back out to my room. When he please, you talk,
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