October 2, 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 (00:13):
Remember this, Jim. Nobody has a right to a gun
unless he knows how to think when he handles it.
Have Gun, Will Travel, starring mister John Dayner as Paladin.
(00:43):
San Francisco, eighteen seventy five. The Carlton Hotel headquarters of
a man called Paladin. Yes, oh, he's a paladin. Oh
you get ready to go away again? Yes, hey boy,
(01:05):
I have to make a trip out Nebraska. And what's
on your mind?
Speaker 2 (01:07):
He's a paladin, Hey boy, have exceptional good fortune?
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Well, I'm glad to hear it.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Oh, he's a you know, guesting hotel Colonel Seymour van Courtney.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
That slick looking gent too took this suite on the
third floor.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
He's a well Colonel van Courtney, think, hey.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Boy, very nice fella.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Go along with that.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Oh he's a hard Thank you, so Colonel van Courtney,
with utmost generosity, Permit hey boy to buy.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Mining stock, mining stock stock That con artist is floating.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Boh he's a again, hey boy, and I have investment
in Golden West Consolidated, my company limited.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Oh, hey boy, won't you ever learn too bad? You
must go away?
Speaker 2 (01:47):
He's a paladin. H Maybe hey boy could talk to
Colonel Van Courtney when he comes back, Hey boy, would
say you good friend. Maybe he permit you to buy
stock too.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Where's Colonel Van Courtney? Now? Oh?
Speaker 2 (02:00):
He check out a hotel this morning. I must look
off a vast business enter place.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Yes, I see, Hey boy, you work hard for your money,
and it seems time you started thinking about your future. Well,
when I get back, we're going to have a long talk.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Oh no, maybe by that time, he boy can fix
all you can explended the investment too.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Never mind, hey boy. I was following a rutted trail
through the Nebraska plains, dry desolate land parched by drought.
(02:41):
I was still a good many miles from the nearest
town when my horse stepped into a prairie dog hole
went down, breaking his leg. It's a bad thing to
have to shoot a horse. The sun was already low
in the west when I shouldered my gear and started
walking toward a wisp of chimney smoke in the distance,
and it was dark by the time on him. As
I started through the yard, dog got out a howl.
(03:03):
The chickens began to squawk. Timehouse door opened and a
boy stepped out on the porch. He looked in my direction,
then raised a rifle to his shoulder. Hello, yeah, he's
a man. Where were you shooting at? Boy?
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Come here the man.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
I shot a man out here, Jim, Mister, Uh, think
the good Lord, he ain't dead.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
I thought it was in Kyle's after her chickens again.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Paul, don't try to say nothing a stranger. It s
LEDs in the tickler's spot. We got to take care
of how we handle him. Jim, go tell your mother
to get some water, boil, and then come back here
and give me a hand. Oh stranger. Looking at you today,
(04:08):
I'd say you're gonna make it, But now you just
lie back there quiet. You still got a long way
to go. I don't mind telling you now. It looked
pretty touchy there for a while. But we can thank
the Good Lord you're alive.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
I guess we can thank you too.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
There ain't gonna be a man's blood on my son's hands,
not if I can help it.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
Mister, want to let go that shot her? Thought it
was im Kyle's out there figure to scare him off.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
I've been trying to teach a boy to be dang
sure when he sends a bullet.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Off a gun is only as dangerous as the hand
that holds it. Guns.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
I hate him, he got some strong notions.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
I wasn't much older than Jim here when they took
me off my farm back in Illinois, put her soldier
suit on me. She have a gun in my hand
and sent me out to kill. I wasn't a soldier.
I was a farmer. That there's men might be living
today except shot him with that gun they gave me.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
Were you an a war.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Mister, Yes, But I trained to be a soldier. That's different.
I I understand how your father feels. I don't.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
I guess I ain't like Paul.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
I wish I.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
Could have been in the war.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
You can say that.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Boy.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Now it's over and done with a stranger. You ain't
gonna be able to travel for a while yet, and
we want to make it comfortable.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Thank you. Oh.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
By the way, I'm James Bulford and.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
This here is my son, jam. My name is Paladin.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
You're Paladin, Paladin the gunfighter.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Well, I don't consider myself a gunfighter.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Is that true that you live by your gun?
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Well? Yes, I guess that's right.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
He who lives by the sword shall perish by the sword. Paladin,
And it might cross your mind once in a while
how you was nearly killed for a sneaking cow. Indeed,
it might. Jim's gonna bring up the wagon. He'll drive
(06:40):
you into town.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
You'll be able to pick yourself up a horse.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
You're sure now you feel up to travel?
Speaker 1 (06:47):
I'm sure I better be on my way.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Thanks, well, Paladin. I don't approve of the way you
make your living, but I got to admit it's been
awful nice knowing you well.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
I've enjoyed our talked and I hope you get that
rain soon.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Oh, sure it'll come. But I can just forget this
crap cornalls stunted and shriveled on the stalk. I can
still be time for some winter wheat, though. Oh, say
you can do something for me in town?
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Sure?
Speaker 3 (07:20):
This letter here, it goes to mister Kyle at the bank.
It's about a loan we talked about.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
You really have to put up a fight for this land,
don't you, DoD.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Yeah, And it's been fighting me back every inch of away.
But I don't beat it yet.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
You ever feel like giving up? Lots of time?
Speaker 3 (07:41):
I'm hanging on for Jim Mare when he's ready to
take over. He's going to have a farm. He can
be mighty proud on oil.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Yeah, how it's a long Belford. Good luck along flight fall.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
You'd be back for sundown, Jim, he's too bad.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
What seems too bad will be a very good time when.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
We get into town.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Huh, good time for what?
Speaker 4 (08:15):
Well, Tom, we're kind of empty. I was hoping there'll
be a lot of folks around. Seen me drive up
with a with a gunfire?
Speaker 1 (08:24):
No, what kind of nonsense is that? And I'm not
a gunfighter?
Speaker 4 (08:28):
Well, however you call it, I've been sort of killing around.
How Palden's been o at our place? I see you know,
mister Palden Pi, we don't understand Holly thinks about his farm.
I never did have a chance to talk to you much.
(08:49):
I've been practicing with a gun I got which I
can show you. I think I can do pretty good.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Don't you like farming, Jim?
Speaker 4 (08:58):
No, I don't want to be a farmer. I want
to do something that it takes nerve, takes a gizzard.
I want to be like you.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Uh, pull up here, Jim, I might as well deliver
this letter to the bank for your father.
Speaker 5 (09:23):
Oh, mister p look those men quick, Jim up, stuck
down the other side of the wagons.
Speaker 6 (09:34):
Money, Yeah, ll.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
Up, mister powder. They've been holding up the bank.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Look, just the bank money.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
Are you gonna do something?
Speaker 1 (09:55):
I'm gonna stay right here behind this wagon.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
Don't get away? So why not? Helen can go after?
You got your gun?
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Five men with rifles. They don't go up against odds
like that.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
You're scared, sure.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Well, let's go talk to the sheriff.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
I never saw nothing like a sheriff free right there
in broad daylight. Those those men really got gizzard to
do a thing like that.
Speaker 7 (10:39):
I'm not sure that's what it took, Jim. It figured
their odds pretty well.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
What do you mean, wouldn't take much.
Speaker 7 (10:46):
Study in at this time to learn that there aren't
many people on the street, and the bank's nearly always
empty at that time of day. Now we gotta do
a little figuring.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Oh, they can't be planning to ride far during the
daylight in this open country.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
It can't be very far away. Now, you can spot
them anywhere out there. Why don't you just go out
after him?
Speaker 7 (11:06):
They're desperate men, all criminals are. If the law catches
up with him, if we'd face him out there in
the open. I mean, just violent warfare. Somebody get hurt bad.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
You're scared.
Speaker 7 (11:19):
Sure, No, We'll let to figure to get them cornered
someplace where we'll have the odds on our side.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
From the fork's on. The roads is so dry and
hard packed, is impossible to pick up a trail.
Speaker 7 (11:30):
It's my hunch they're headed toward Wheatville. Wheatville it's about
ten miles north here. It's been a ghost town since
the grasshopper invasion wiped out the crops in seventy four.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Oh, it sounds like a fair hunch. I'll get a
posse together. We'll ride up that way. I'd be happy
to ride with you.
Speaker 7 (11:47):
Glad to have you.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
Did I go along?
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Jim? Your pause said you were to be home before sundown?
Speaker 8 (11:52):
Ah, Jim, Yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Have you ever been exasperated by a child who's reached
the why stage? Why is the sky blue? Why do
birds fly? Why do I have to go to bed?
The questions are endless, But through questions like these, a
young child learns. Encountering an inquisitive child, be grateful that
here is a youngster whose mind has the capacity and
(12:27):
the urge to grow. There are some without this capacity
for mental growth. They are our mentally retarded children. One
hundred twenty thousand are born every year. That's three out
of every one hundred babies. Naturally, we want to help
these retarded children to develop into normal, responsible members of
the community, and we can, but the process is a long,
(12:48):
slow one that requires many special services, expensive services, and
continuing research into the causes and cures of mental retardation.
Funds for education and research come from the Nationalists Siation
for retarded children. Won't you give now to your local
unit in order that more children may be helped carab
(13:17):
those tracks in that drawback there, Your hunch was right,
this is where they headed.
Speaker 7 (13:22):
Yeah, but as you can see, we'd go with a
pretty spread out little community where they're hold up to
another thing.
Speaker 9 (13:29):
Hold it, hold it.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Oh yeah, this is quite a time. What's that tall
tower up ahead there?
Speaker 7 (13:39):
Grain elevator built by some Eastern outfit when wheat.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Was booming, might be a likely hide out, not a.
Speaker 7 (13:45):
Very healthy one. Exploded with grain dust.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
It wouldn't take much to cause an explosion.
Speaker 7 (13:50):
The tiniest spark and that thing you'd go right up.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
As dry as this country as that could be bad.
Speaker 7 (13:55):
I hate to think about it. The fire that could
start from an explosion in that all vedor could wipe
out the country for miles around.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Well, if they are in there, it's a sense we
can't smoke them.
Speaker 7 (14:06):
Out wherever they are when we corner them. They'll give
up when they see how they're out numbered. Let's ride
up the elevator and have a look.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
See hey, wait a minute, look look back there. That
horse that Jim Bulford I sure is Palin Jim? What
are you doing here?
Speaker 4 (14:33):
Went home? Got my gun cut across?
Speaker 7 (14:37):
What's the idea?
Speaker 4 (14:38):
I want to be on the excitement, acting.
Speaker 7 (14:40):
Like a fool kid, But there's nothing to do about it.
Now you get back there and behave yourself.
Speaker 9 (14:45):
Yes, odd man, let's.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Ride to the grain elevator. Well, Sheriff, it's their houses,
(15:08):
all right, get away in that lean too, And they
are in this grain elevator, no question about it. How
do we go about getting them out?
Speaker 7 (15:15):
They got the men stationed all around the place. I
don't think they'll give us any argument when they know
they're surrounded.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
None of your men are apt to go for their guns,
are they? The ain't no better?
Speaker 7 (15:24):
They all know what a shot into the grain does
to do.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
I guess the hold up men do too.
Speaker 7 (15:29):
Sure being jailed for bank robbery is better than being
blown to kingdom. Come come on, well, I'll be hell.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Look up there, I'm that ladder going up the side
of the tower. That's Jim Buford. What's that crazy kid
up to? Now?
Speaker 7 (15:47):
What's he doing climbing up there?
Speaker 1 (15:49):
He's heading for the cupola on the top of the elevator.
Speaker 7 (15:51):
He's got that gun Paladin. You suppose he's figuring to
get in there from the top and face those hold
up men.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
That's probably it.
Speaker 7 (15:58):
Oh the odd one ain't got sent enough not to
fire that grain destiny.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
I think you're right, he's got to be stopped. Jim, Jim,
come down here.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
I know way to get in for the top.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Jim, climb down here.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
I know what I'm doing.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
You're a fool, Hi, Jim, stay where you are with me.
Just stay where you are. I know.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
Give me that gun no, pal I know way to
get in from the top.
Speaker 6 (16:38):
Here.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
Come on, we'll face those guys. Smoke him on.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Give me that gun No, I'm Jim, I said, give
me back from gun no. Now, you a little fool.
Climb down from here, go on, climb down.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
Oh all right, what's the matter with you? You're scared
your face up to those men in there? You got
too much gizzard, Gloria.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
I'll show you how much gizard they have. Come on,
what's the idea?
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Boy?
Speaker 1 (17:15):
You were right sherff. He was going in there to
smoke him out.
Speaker 7 (17:18):
You want to set fire to the hold in Nebraska? Boy, No,
come on.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Let's take him. All right.
Speaker 6 (17:29):
We know you're in there.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
You know we're out here.
Speaker 9 (17:34):
There's five of you, there's twenty of us.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
We got you surrounded.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Let's have your rifles.
Speaker 9 (17:43):
Throw them out, now, come on out your hands behind
your head.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
You don't even give you no trouble, sir.
Speaker 9 (18:03):
I didn't think so, come on, let's move.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
Well they just give up without any.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Fire at all.
Speaker 6 (18:12):
Sure the odds were against them.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
Well I got them all locked up. I guess i'd
better get back to the farm.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
I guess you'd better. You'll never make it before sundown.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
You're gonna give me back my gun?
Speaker 1 (18:40):
I suppose I don't have to. It's yours. I've got
no right to it. But you haven't either. What do
you mean nobody nobody has got a right to a
gun unless he knows how to think when he handles it. Jim,
you nearly killed me because you took a while shout
(19:00):
at a sound in the dark. You didn't think back
there in Wheatville. You might have caused a disaster like
this country has never known by firing into that grain
dust because you didn't think, Well, how old are you fourteen? Yeah? Well,
it seems to me it's about time you started thinking
(19:22):
like a man instead of a crazy kid.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
Yes, sir, I guess sir, Jim.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
There's something else. Yes, you were disappointed in me when
I wouldn't stand up to five men with rifles. Weren't you? Now? Sure?
Sure you were? And you were let down when those
hold up men wouldn't fight it out with a posse
of twenty.
Speaker 4 (19:47):
Yeah, I guess that's right.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Well, this past week I have known a man who
will stand up to any odds and fight who your father.
When your father homestead of his land, the government was
betting that one hundred and sixty acres that he couldn't
stick it out six months, but your paw won the bet.
(20:12):
But that didn't end the struggle. There was this spring
blizzard in seventy three that wiped him out, but he
came back fighting. There was the grasshopper invasion seventy four.
His crops just leveled to the ground, but he stood
up to it. Now there's the drought, but he's not
about to give up. He's negotiating alone right now so
(20:36):
that he can keep up the fight, a fight against
real odds. Do you understand what I'm saying, Jim, Yes, sir, Yes, sir,
you're paw. Now there's a man doing a job that
takes gizzard.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
Yes sir, yes, sir.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Uh uh, Miss Wongha, just give the room a looking
a promise. I'm gonna lie down and rest a while.
Speaker 10 (21:22):
Oh Isa, you have a hard trip Metropolitan.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
Yes, I'm tired. Oh my, too bad? What's too bad?
Speaker 11 (21:32):
You work so hard for your money, Misspolodan. Too bad
you can't make splendid investment like, hey boy, what's that?
Speaker 7 (21:43):
Oh?
Speaker 11 (21:43):
Hey boy buy mining stock? Then he sell mining stock
and making lots of money?
Speaker 1 (21:49):
What what hey boy was able to sell that stock
he bought in the Golden West, whatever.
Speaker 11 (21:55):
It was, Isa make lots of money. Now, hey boy,
investment in laundry business with his cousin laundry business.
Speaker 10 (22:07):
It's very good, well, misopolidan, Yes, excuse please, but since
it's time you've started thinking about your future, maybe you
and Hey Boy should have a long talk.
Speaker 11 (22:22):
He tells you how to invest money.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
MMM. Have Gone, Will Travel? Created by Herb Metal and
(22:54):
Sam Rawl is proteo stand directed in Hollywood by Frank
Paris and stars John Daaner as Paladin, with Ben Wright
as hey Boy and Virginia greg as Miss Won. Tonight's
story was specially written for Half Gun Will Travel by
Anne Dowd. Featured in the cast were Harry Bartel, Barney Phillips,
and Richard Biale's. This is Hugh Douglas inviting you to
(23:16):
join us again next week when CBS Radio presents Have Gun,
Will Travel,
Remember this, Jim. Nobody has a right to a gun
unless he knows how to think when he handles it.
Have Gun, Will Travel, starring mister John Dayner as Paladin.
(00:43):
San Francisco, eighteen seventy five. The Carlton Hotel headquarters of
a man called Paladin. Yes, oh, he's a paladin. Oh
you get ready to go away again? Yes, hey boy,
(01:05):
I have to make a trip out Nebraska. And what's
on your mind?
Speaker 2 (01:07):
He's a paladin, Hey boy, have exceptional good fortune?
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Well, I'm glad to hear it.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Oh, he's a you know, guesting hotel Colonel Seymour van Courtney.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
That slick looking gent too took this suite on the
third floor.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
He's a well Colonel van Courtney, think, hey.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Boy, very nice fella.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Go along with that.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Oh he's a hard Thank you, so Colonel van Courtney,
with utmost generosity, Permit hey boy to buy.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Mining stock, mining stock stock That con artist is floating.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Boh he's a again, hey boy, and I have investment
in Golden West Consolidated, my company limited.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Oh, hey boy, won't you ever learn too bad? You
must go away?
Speaker 2 (01:47):
He's a paladin. H Maybe hey boy could talk to
Colonel Van Courtney when he comes back, Hey boy, would
say you good friend. Maybe he permit you to buy
stock too.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Where's Colonel Van Courtney? Now? Oh?
Speaker 2 (02:00):
He check out a hotel this morning. I must look
off a vast business enter place.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Yes, I see, Hey boy, you work hard for your money,
and it seems time you started thinking about your future. Well,
when I get back, we're going to have a long talk.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Oh no, maybe by that time, he boy can fix
all you can explended the investment too.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Never mind, hey boy. I was following a rutted trail
through the Nebraska plains, dry desolate land parched by drought.
(02:41):
I was still a good many miles from the nearest
town when my horse stepped into a prairie dog hole
went down, breaking his leg. It's a bad thing to
have to shoot a horse. The sun was already low
in the west when I shouldered my gear and started
walking toward a wisp of chimney smoke in the distance,
and it was dark by the time on him. As
I started through the yard, dog got out a howl.
(03:03):
The chickens began to squawk. Timehouse door opened and a
boy stepped out on the porch. He looked in my direction,
then raised a rifle to his shoulder. Hello, yeah, he's
a man. Where were you shooting at? Boy?
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Come here the man.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
I shot a man out here, Jim, Mister, Uh, think
the good Lord, he ain't dead.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
I thought it was in Kyle's after her chickens again.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Paul, don't try to say nothing a stranger. It s
LEDs in the tickler's spot. We got to take care
of how we handle him. Jim, go tell your mother
to get some water, boil, and then come back here
and give me a hand. Oh stranger. Looking at you today,
(04:08):
I'd say you're gonna make it, But now you just
lie back there quiet. You still got a long way
to go. I don't mind telling you now. It looked
pretty touchy there for a while. But we can thank
the Good Lord you're alive.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
I guess we can thank you too.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
There ain't gonna be a man's blood on my son's hands,
not if I can help it.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
Mister, want to let go that shot her? Thought it
was im Kyle's out there figure to scare him off.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
I've been trying to teach a boy to be dang
sure when he sends a bullet.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Off a gun is only as dangerous as the hand
that holds it. Guns.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
I hate him, he got some strong notions.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
I wasn't much older than Jim here when they took
me off my farm back in Illinois, put her soldier
suit on me. She have a gun in my hand
and sent me out to kill. I wasn't a soldier.
I was a farmer. That there's men might be living
today except shot him with that gun they gave me.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
Were you an a war.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Mister, Yes, But I trained to be a soldier. That's different.
I I understand how your father feels. I don't.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
I guess I ain't like Paul.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
I wish I.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
Could have been in the war.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
You can say that.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Boy.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Now it's over and done with a stranger. You ain't
gonna be able to travel for a while yet, and
we want to make it comfortable.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Thank you. Oh.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
By the way, I'm James Bulford and.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
This here is my son, jam. My name is Paladin.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
You're Paladin, Paladin the gunfighter.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Well, I don't consider myself a gunfighter.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Is that true that you live by your gun?
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Well? Yes, I guess that's right.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
He who lives by the sword shall perish by the sword. Paladin,
And it might cross your mind once in a while
how you was nearly killed for a sneaking cow. Indeed,
it might. Jim's gonna bring up the wagon. He'll drive
(06:40):
you into town.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
You'll be able to pick yourself up a horse.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
You're sure now you feel up to travel?
Speaker 1 (06:47):
I'm sure I better be on my way.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Thanks, well, Paladin. I don't approve of the way you
make your living, but I got to admit it's been
awful nice knowing you well.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
I've enjoyed our talked and I hope you get that
rain soon.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Oh, sure it'll come. But I can just forget this
crap cornalls stunted and shriveled on the stalk. I can
still be time for some winter wheat, though. Oh, say
you can do something for me in town?
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Sure?
Speaker 3 (07:20):
This letter here, it goes to mister Kyle at the bank.
It's about a loan we talked about.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
You really have to put up a fight for this land,
don't you, DoD.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Yeah, And it's been fighting me back every inch of away.
But I don't beat it yet.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
You ever feel like giving up? Lots of time?
Speaker 3 (07:41):
I'm hanging on for Jim Mare when he's ready to
take over. He's going to have a farm. He can
be mighty proud on oil.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Yeah, how it's a long Belford. Good luck along flight fall.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
You'd be back for sundown, Jim, he's too bad.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
What seems too bad will be a very good time when.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
We get into town.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Huh, good time for what?
Speaker 4 (08:15):
Well, Tom, we're kind of empty. I was hoping there'll
be a lot of folks around. Seen me drive up
with a with a gunfire?
Speaker 1 (08:24):
No, what kind of nonsense is that? And I'm not
a gunfighter?
Speaker 4 (08:28):
Well, however you call it, I've been sort of killing around.
How Palden's been o at our place? I see you know,
mister Palden Pi, we don't understand Holly thinks about his farm.
I never did have a chance to talk to you much.
(08:49):
I've been practicing with a gun I got which I
can show you. I think I can do pretty good.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Don't you like farming, Jim?
Speaker 4 (08:58):
No, I don't want to be a farmer. I want
to do something that it takes nerve, takes a gizzard.
I want to be like you.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Uh, pull up here, Jim, I might as well deliver
this letter to the bank for your father.
Speaker 5 (09:23):
Oh, mister p look those men quick, Jim up, stuck
down the other side of the wagons.
Speaker 6 (09:34):
Money, Yeah, ll.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
Up, mister powder. They've been holding up the bank.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Look, just the bank money.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
Are you gonna do something?
Speaker 1 (09:55):
I'm gonna stay right here behind this wagon.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
Don't get away? So why not? Helen can go after?
You got your gun?
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Five men with rifles. They don't go up against odds
like that.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
You're scared, sure.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Well, let's go talk to the sheriff.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
I never saw nothing like a sheriff free right there
in broad daylight. Those those men really got gizzard to
do a thing like that.
Speaker 7 (10:39):
I'm not sure that's what it took, Jim. It figured
their odds pretty well.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
What do you mean, wouldn't take much.
Speaker 7 (10:46):
Study in at this time to learn that there aren't
many people on the street, and the bank's nearly always
empty at that time of day. Now we gotta do
a little figuring.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Oh, they can't be planning to ride far during the
daylight in this open country.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
It can't be very far away. Now, you can spot
them anywhere out there. Why don't you just go out
after him?
Speaker 7 (11:06):
They're desperate men, all criminals are. If the law catches
up with him, if we'd face him out there in
the open. I mean, just violent warfare. Somebody get hurt bad.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
You're scared.
Speaker 7 (11:19):
Sure, No, We'll let to figure to get them cornered
someplace where we'll have the odds on our side.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
From the fork's on. The roads is so dry and
hard packed, is impossible to pick up a trail.
Speaker 7 (11:30):
It's my hunch they're headed toward Wheatville. Wheatville it's about
ten miles north here. It's been a ghost town since
the grasshopper invasion wiped out the crops in seventy four.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Oh, it sounds like a fair hunch. I'll get a
posse together. We'll ride up that way. I'd be happy
to ride with you.
Speaker 7 (11:47):
Glad to have you.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
Did I go along?
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Jim? Your pause said you were to be home before sundown?
Speaker 8 (11:52):
Ah, Jim, Yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Have you ever been exasperated by a child who's reached
the why stage? Why is the sky blue? Why do
birds fly? Why do I have to go to bed?
The questions are endless, But through questions like these, a
young child learns. Encountering an inquisitive child, be grateful that
here is a youngster whose mind has the capacity and
(12:27):
the urge to grow. There are some without this capacity
for mental growth. They are our mentally retarded children. One
hundred twenty thousand are born every year. That's three out
of every one hundred babies. Naturally, we want to help
these retarded children to develop into normal, responsible members of
the community, and we can, but the process is a long,
(12:48):
slow one that requires many special services, expensive services, and
continuing research into the causes and cures of mental retardation.
Funds for education and research come from the Nationalists Siation
for retarded children. Won't you give now to your local
unit in order that more children may be helped carab
(13:17):
those tracks in that drawback there, Your hunch was right,
this is where they headed.
Speaker 7 (13:22):
Yeah, but as you can see, we'd go with a
pretty spread out little community where they're hold up to
another thing.
Speaker 9 (13:29):
Hold it, hold it.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Oh yeah, this is quite a time. What's that tall
tower up ahead there?
Speaker 7 (13:39):
Grain elevator built by some Eastern outfit when wheat.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Was booming, might be a likely hide out, not a.
Speaker 7 (13:45):
Very healthy one. Exploded with grain dust.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
It wouldn't take much to cause an explosion.
Speaker 7 (13:50):
The tiniest spark and that thing you'd go right up.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
As dry as this country as that could be bad.
Speaker 7 (13:55):
I hate to think about it. The fire that could
start from an explosion in that all vedor could wipe
out the country for miles around.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Well, if they are in there, it's a sense we
can't smoke them.
Speaker 7 (14:06):
Out wherever they are when we corner them. They'll give
up when they see how they're out numbered. Let's ride
up the elevator and have a look.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
See hey, wait a minute, look look back there. That
horse that Jim Bulford I sure is Palin Jim? What
are you doing here?
Speaker 4 (14:33):
Went home? Got my gun cut across?
Speaker 7 (14:37):
What's the idea?
Speaker 4 (14:38):
I want to be on the excitement, acting.
Speaker 7 (14:40):
Like a fool kid, But there's nothing to do about it.
Now you get back there and behave yourself.
Speaker 9 (14:45):
Yes, odd man, let's.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Ride to the grain elevator. Well, Sheriff, it's their houses,
(15:08):
all right, get away in that lean too, And they
are in this grain elevator, no question about it. How
do we go about getting them out?
Speaker 7 (15:15):
They got the men stationed all around the place. I
don't think they'll give us any argument when they know
they're surrounded.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
None of your men are apt to go for their guns,
are they? The ain't no better?
Speaker 7 (15:24):
They all know what a shot into the grain does
to do.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
I guess the hold up men do too.
Speaker 7 (15:29):
Sure being jailed for bank robbery is better than being
blown to kingdom. Come come on, well, I'll be hell.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Look up there, I'm that ladder going up the side
of the tower. That's Jim Buford. What's that crazy kid
up to? Now?
Speaker 7 (15:47):
What's he doing climbing up there?
Speaker 1 (15:49):
He's heading for the cupola on the top of the elevator.
Speaker 7 (15:51):
He's got that gun Paladin. You suppose he's figuring to
get in there from the top and face those hold
up men.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
That's probably it.
Speaker 7 (15:58):
Oh the odd one ain't got sent enough not to
fire that grain destiny.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
I think you're right, he's got to be stopped. Jim, Jim,
come down here.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
I know way to get in for the top.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Jim, climb down here.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
I know what I'm doing.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
You're a fool, Hi, Jim, stay where you are with me.
Just stay where you are. I know.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
Give me that gun no, pal I know way to
get in from the top.
Speaker 6 (16:38):
Here.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
Come on, we'll face those guys. Smoke him on.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Give me that gun No, I'm Jim, I said, give
me back from gun no. Now, you a little fool.
Climb down from here, go on, climb down.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
Oh all right, what's the matter with you? You're scared
your face up to those men in there? You got
too much gizzard, Gloria.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
I'll show you how much gizard they have. Come on,
what's the idea?
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Boy?
Speaker 1 (17:15):
You were right sherff. He was going in there to
smoke him out.
Speaker 7 (17:18):
You want to set fire to the hold in Nebraska? Boy, No,
come on.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Let's take him. All right.
Speaker 6 (17:29):
We know you're in there.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
You know we're out here.
Speaker 9 (17:34):
There's five of you, there's twenty of us.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
We got you surrounded.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Let's have your rifles.
Speaker 9 (17:43):
Throw them out, now, come on out your hands behind
your head.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
You don't even give you no trouble, sir.
Speaker 9 (18:03):
I didn't think so, come on, let's move.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
Well they just give up without any.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Fire at all.
Speaker 6 (18:12):
Sure the odds were against them.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
Well I got them all locked up. I guess i'd
better get back to the farm.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
I guess you'd better. You'll never make it before sundown.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
You're gonna give me back my gun?
Speaker 1 (18:40):
I suppose I don't have to. It's yours. I've got
no right to it. But you haven't either. What do
you mean nobody nobody has got a right to a
gun unless he knows how to think when he handles it. Jim,
you nearly killed me because you took a while shout
(19:00):
at a sound in the dark. You didn't think back
there in Wheatville. You might have caused a disaster like
this country has never known by firing into that grain
dust because you didn't think, Well, how old are you fourteen? Yeah? Well,
it seems to me it's about time you started thinking
(19:22):
like a man instead of a crazy kid.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
Yes, sir, I guess sir, Jim.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
There's something else. Yes, you were disappointed in me when
I wouldn't stand up to five men with rifles. Weren't you? Now? Sure?
Sure you were? And you were let down when those
hold up men wouldn't fight it out with a posse
of twenty.
Speaker 4 (19:47):
Yeah, I guess that's right.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Well, this past week I have known a man who
will stand up to any odds and fight who your father.
When your father homestead of his land, the government was
betting that one hundred and sixty acres that he couldn't
stick it out six months, but your paw won the bet.
(20:12):
But that didn't end the struggle. There was this spring
blizzard in seventy three that wiped him out, but he
came back fighting. There was the grasshopper invasion seventy four.
His crops just leveled to the ground, but he stood
up to it. Now there's the drought, but he's not
about to give up. He's negotiating alone right now so
(20:36):
that he can keep up the fight, a fight against
real odds. Do you understand what I'm saying, Jim, Yes, sir, Yes, sir,
you're paw. Now there's a man doing a job that
takes gizzard.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
Yes sir, yes, sir.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Uh uh, Miss Wongha, just give the room a looking
a promise. I'm gonna lie down and rest a while.
Speaker 10 (21:22):
Oh Isa, you have a hard trip Metropolitan.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
Yes, I'm tired. Oh my, too bad? What's too bad?
Speaker 11 (21:32):
You work so hard for your money, Misspolodan. Too bad
you can't make splendid investment like, hey boy, what's that?
Speaker 7 (21:43):
Oh?
Speaker 11 (21:43):
Hey boy buy mining stock? Then he sell mining stock
and making lots of money?
Speaker 1 (21:49):
What what hey boy was able to sell that stock
he bought in the Golden West, whatever.
Speaker 11 (21:55):
It was, Isa make lots of money. Now, hey boy,
investment in laundry business with his cousin laundry business.
Speaker 10 (22:07):
It's very good, well, misopolidan, Yes, excuse please, but since
it's time you've started thinking about your future, maybe you
and Hey Boy should have a long talk.
Speaker 11 (22:22):
He tells you how to invest money.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
MMM. Have Gone, Will Travel? Created by Herb Metal and
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Paris and stars John Daaner as Paladin, with Ben Wright
as hey Boy and Virginia greg as Miss Won. Tonight's
story was specially written for Half Gun Will Travel by
Anne Dowd. Featured in the cast were Harry Bartel, Barney Phillips,
and Richard Biale's. This is Hugh Douglas inviting you to
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