August 30, 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 (00:14):
I can't believe I'm seeing you again. I buried our
love twelve years ago when they told me you were dead.
Have gone. We'll Travel, starring mister John Dayner as Paladin,
(00:44):
San Francisco, eighteen seventy five, The Carlton Hotel, headquarters of
a man called Paladin. You want somebody stuff? Missa? Hey boy?
How could you talk that way? For what I say?
(01:06):
But you don't say? Do you want any more of
this stuff? You call it by its name? This is
I'll hold you want some other this stuff? Yes? I
do often we get that, will you? Hey boy? Oh
that miss Young is not come? Do you tell you
(01:28):
your voice? Yes? I am here? What is it?
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Miss Wang? Can come for you?
Speaker 1 (01:37):
All right? Sit there, please.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Facial for you very.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
All right now, thank you, miss one.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
You say it's a.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Long time coming, come so very far away? You want
me to open it? Now? All right? Let me see?
Well you should not insist like that. Keep boy, I
just deliver message. MS. Are you sick? I can't believe
(02:07):
it's new faith or white bad news? Oh boy? The
stage that left this afternoon stops overnight at Cove Canyon.
Doesn't it where you saw Cold Kanyon? Why Mesa Palady.
I've got to get on that stage. Oh, then you
did get bad news. No, not exactly. It's just that
(02:30):
I've heard from a friend, a woman I thought had
died twelve years ago. She's in Dakota Territory and needs me.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Then it's good news to hear from a woman friend.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Yes, Miss Wong, I think it's the best news I've
ever had. In the hills of South Dakota, a shrine
of American democracy has been carved five hundred feet above
ground Mount Rushmore. Giant faces of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson,
(03:05):
Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt look out of the surrounding countryside.
Gutzon Borglum began work on what is the world's largest
sculpture in the year nineteen twenty seven. He continued his
efforts until his death in nineteen forty one. The project
was carried to completion by Borglum's son, Lincoln, who had
(03:25):
worked with his father for fourteen years. The faces of
the four presidents are designed to the proportions of men
who would be four hundred sixty five feet tall. In
spite of their size, the continances are quite realistic in detail.
And expression. Each month, thousands of visitors to Mount Rushmore
(03:46):
National Memorial remind us of the rich heritage that as
Americans we share and stand ready to defend. Oo. Ellen
Stoneham had been a nurse in my outfit one hundred
and twelfth Illinois. I'd once spent years looking for her.
Now the telegram said I could reach her through an
(04:06):
Indian agent named Baxter at Fort Ramble, Dakota Territory. When
I arrived, they told me I could find him in
a wooden building. It was used to store government supplies.
Inside was a man instructing three sullen Indians on the
finer points of loading a wagon. How are your todd sawdiers?
Get that thing loaded and get it out of here?
(04:26):
Wagon will break down? Too much grain wagon day. That's
not a good one. First time I ever heard an
Indian Tommy, I was giving up too much grain. Wagon breakdown,
two big loads? Mate, Now the trip, ah, you're not
coming back here? Take it all now, engine. Now what
do you want? Stranger? My name is Paladin. I'm looking
(04:48):
for mister Baxter. I'm Wade Baxter. What do you want?
Ellen Stoneham said you would direct me to her? Stone
I don't own ay ellen Stonehem. Wait a minute, she
a good run woman, light hair. Yes, there might be her,
but her name is Stoneham. It's Ellen Carson, missus Carson.
She used to work for me keeping records. Now she
(05:09):
teaches a m engine kids. Well where would I find
this missus Carson? Probably up at the schoolhouse, that is,
if she's got any engine kids left to teach. What
do you mean, Oh yeah, there's been a lot of
engine trouble here. Red Cloud talked a bunch of them
into leaving the reservation. Well that's all right with me.
Makes my job that much easier. Where do I find
the schoolhouse? Yeah, right out two miles south of Fort Rynolds.
(05:31):
Can't miss it. Thank you. All the way out to
the schoolhouse, I kept hoping that a mistake had been made.
This missus Carson was not ellen Stonem. If I could
go back to mister Baxter, we'd start all over again,
(05:52):
and then he'd remember ellen Stonem. It wasn't to be.
I found the schoolhouse with no difficulty, walked to the
door of the tiny logged building, and no white.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
You realized that they couldn't be greased. When they were
they crossed the Great ocean to come to the shores
of America. Here they were able to worship and the Yes,
Paladin children, you may leave, ma'am.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Won't you come in.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
With the Captain Canaden.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
It is not captain anymore, Ellen, No, of course not.
I'm I'm sorry Ellen. They told me you were dead,
that you had died in the prison camp in Florida.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
It was another woman in the camp. They buried her,
thinking it was me.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
I refuse to believe you were dead. Asked for my
discharge in the South to look for you. Then I
when I came to the camp in Florida and there
was this grave with your name on it. After that,
I went west.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
But I finally escaped. I looked for you, Paladin. For
the longest time. I looked for you. I even went
to the Department of War. They told me that you
were missing in action in North Carolina.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
I was for a while. They never could keep their records.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
I met mister Carson. He asked me to marry him.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Tell him please, you don't have to explain. No, it's
not necessary, but.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
I feel like a shameful woman, but I do. Ever
since I married, I've always had a feeling that you
were still alive.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Well it's too late for us. Now you are married
and there's nothing we can do about it. Now, why
did you send for me?
Speaker 2 (07:43):
It's my son. He's been taken by the Indians. I
want you to get him back.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
For me, your son. I'll do everything I can.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
I don't even know if he's alive.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Well, now, ain't that interested? Wait, that's real interesting. Randall's
full of soldiers waiting for an excuse to kill Engines.
But she don't tell them the Engines got her son.
She tells everybody is she sent the boy Baggie.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
It's because I don't want the soldiers to know. It
would be a fight and the Indians would kill Jimmy.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Oh, don't you worry, Ellen, Nothing will happen to Jimmy.
I'll get every able buddied man in this town and
the soldiers. We'll get them back. Don't you think that's
up to missus Carson or her husband husband? She ain't
got a husband, Ah, Paladin, you're new here. You just
let me worry about lul Le Ellen. I've been watching
out for her ever since Carson got scalped of the
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Engines two years ago. Now I'll get on out.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
To the fight. Please don't hurt.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Teach some engines. The lady said, not to go out there.
You're gonna stop me if I have to, not if
I can help it. Right now, I'm sorry Ellen. When
he wakes up, tell him I'm gone to talk to
the commanding officer at the fort.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Although most men by nature don't feel in a combat
mood much of the time, there are some who just
can't get enough of a good fight, particularly if there
is good sound reason for it. In July nineteen hundred,
when American fighting men were protecting the rights and liberty
of their fellow countrymen during the Boxer Uprising.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
The battle was a furiously forught affair. Army Private Robert H.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Von Schlick, serving with Company C of the ninth United
States Infantry Division, was in the thick of the frakas.
Although he had been wounded previously while carrying a wounded
comrade to a place of safety, he rejoined his command,
which partly occupied an exposed position on a dike. Private
von Schlick remained there after his company had been withdrawn,
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and in spite of the hail of bullets around him,
single handedly continued.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
To fire into the enemy wres.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Oblivious to the fact that he was a conspicuous target,
he refused to leave the fight until he was literally
shot off his position by the enemy. Private Robert von
Schlick earned the Medal of Honor for valiant devotion to
duty and added heroic background to the code of conduct
of American fighting men.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
I don't know, mister Peladon. If they've taken a white boy,
it's our duty to go after him. What good was
that to, Colonel? They'd kill a boy and you'd have
to kill a lot of Indians. But it breaks down
the moral of the settlers if we don't do something. Colonel,
aren't you a little remiss in your duty already? Now?
What do you mean? I mean? Red Cloud's been off
the reservation for one two months. Shouldn't you have gone
after him before this? WHOA? Technically yes, but my command
(10:57):
was split. I had some of my troops up north.
We heard a rumor that Sitting Bull was in the
bad Lands. Sitting bulls in Canada, and you know it, Yes, yes,
you're right, Paladin. When I heard that the Red Cloud
had left the reservation, I sent two companies up north,
ostensibly looking for Sitting Bull. Purposely splitting your command. You
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must have had a good reason. I did. If I'd
been Red Cloud, i'd have left the reservation too. Why
they were starving? Government policy, I guess. Seems we make
agreements with the Indians to get them on the reservation,
and after they're there, why we start cutting back. Baxter
gave them a million pounds less meat this year than
last year, and he has government sanctioned for that. I
(11:39):
assume he does. I don't much care for the man,
so I stay out of his affairs and he stays
out of mind. Well that's fine, except that now Red
Cloud has walked out, and he's taken a white boy
with him, and you're going to track him down and
kill a lot of starving Indian. I don't have to
track him. I know right where he is. He joined
up with crow Dog. What he's out in Crosscut Canyon?
(12:00):
The old Devil's just sitting out there, hasn't moved. I
had to keep an eye on him, no matter how
I felt. Tremla, let me try something, will him? Let
me go out and talk to Red Cloud? Oh what
good would that? Well? Did it ever occur to you
that maybe he's just sitting out there waiting for somebody
to come out. I don't know. The todd will be
(12:22):
up in arms when Baxter tells about the boy. All right,
you make your move, but just hold off and let
me go in first. If I fail, well you can
do what you have to do. If anything happened to you,
mister Pelladin, I know if it does, nobody will miss me.
All right, but be careful. Thanks Colonel, I'll leave right away.
(12:51):
It was almost sundown when I reached crosscutt Canyon. I
didn't try to conceal myself coming into Red Cloud's camp,
with the result that upon my request, I was taken
immediately to see the chief. Red Cloud taught long. He
told me the whole history of himself and his tribe,
the Sioux, and even of his part of the battle
with Custom. And he told him how afterwards he even
(13:12):
lured to the reservation with promises of grain, corn and meat.
Promise is fine, but not true. We get less and
less food for Indian Great Chief Red Cloud. This still
gives you no right to take White Boy and kill him.
Not kill White Boy, take him. Wait for a long time. Now,
(13:34):
hold for bargain. Make Agent Baxter give full treaty. Rations
to Indian. Well, what does Baxter have to do with this?
Baxter cheat? Sheat Indian cheat his government. How he tell
government more Indians on reservation than we have, and he
get more supplies. But tell Indian government send less than
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even ration. He keep the rest. Tell us hoggrout or
die we die? I see then he sells a surplus. Yeah,
make much money for himself. Red Cloud will get fair
deal or white boy will die? No more talk All right,
Red Cloud, I will go. He will take her time.
(14:20):
No su me lab morty no oh. Paladin comes and
talks of peace, but he does not travel alone. You
tell Colonel takes soldiers back to Fort randall tonight, or
boy be dead by morning. Let us have peace. These
(14:48):
were the words spoken by General Ulysses asked Grant when
he accepted the nomination for the presidency in eighteen sixty eight,
and they are the words which are carried over the
entrance of Grant's tomb in New York City. The interior
of the memorial to the general who led the Union
forces to final victory in the Civil War is somewhat
like that of the tomb of another's skillful military leader,
(15:11):
Napoleon Bonaparte. But what a contrast there is between the
empire seeking little corporal and the American military man who
fought with distinction in the Mexican War and the Civil War,
but wanted only peace for his nation. Each year, many
visitors pay homage to Ulysses Granted his tomb, which is
circled by New York's busy Riverside Drive. The memorial contains
(15:35):
twin burial faults with the remains of the general and
his lady. Grant's tomb is a lasting reminder of the
rich heritage that as Americans we share and stand ready
to defend. I rode back to the colonel and asked
him to give me another day to get the boy
(15:55):
back without bloodshed. I told him I had a plan.
He agreed, and then I was able to go to
Ellen and tell her her son was still alive.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Oh Palace the night I knew you'd find him.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
But we haven't gotten him back yet. Ellen.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
But he's alive, and you will get him back.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
I'll try. Ellen. There's something I have to know. Yes,
you didn't tell me your husband was dead.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Why I thought that it wasn't fair to tell you.
When I learned where you were. I asked you to
come here because I knew you were the only man
who would get Jimmy back, not to pick up where
we left all.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
You had no right to decide that.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
I didn't think you'd want me.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
After so long, I've never stopped wanting.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
You, Paladin. Mister Carson was one of the finest men
I've ever known. He wanted to help the Indians when
everyone else wanted to kill them. After Custer was killed,
a lot of people wanted to lead to Kotea territory.
Not mister Carson. He vowed he'd never leave the Coda no.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Matter what, Ellen, don't don't do this.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
I want you to know the kind of man he
was that I didn't just marry anyone. He went out
that day and he tried to talk to some Indians.
He saw he was alone, but some friends could see
him from a distance. We never got his body back.
It was right after Custard.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
It was two ten years ago. Ellen, Oh, Ellen stopped. Ellen,
Listen to me.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Ellen.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
I've always loved you, Ellenen, I still do that. It's true. Ellen.
I want you to go to San Francisco with me.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Are you sure?
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Will you? Ellen?
Speaker 2 (17:37):
What about my son?
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Of course he love San Francisco.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
We'll see when we did, Jimmy Beck.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
All right, I'll have to work fast. Tell me, do
you know where Baxter keeps his government papers?
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Yes, they're in his warehouse.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Why. Oh, he's been cheating the Indians. And if I
could only prove it if.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
We went down there before it got light, we we Yes,
I can, So you're right where the papers are.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Finding evidence against Baxter was a simple matter. He had
been ordered to increase his allotments, not to cut them,
and he even received more goods. But what I plan
to do I needed the Colonel as a witness. So
together we forced Baxter to go with us to Red Cloud.
There he admitted having cheated the Indians. The Colonel promised
a full report to Washington and punishment for Baxter. The
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Chief was satisfied and suddenly waved an arm towards one
of his braves. What's he doing now, Peladin, I'm not sure, colonel. Look,
well that's the boy. They're bringing him out, Pladin. Look
there is the white man with him. Yeah, I see
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that man's been Why his scalp has been lifted? K
Mote Knakato Leima JOHNA Gusser. The boy is unharmed paladin. Yes,
I see then, who is the white man with him?
He is a man found by crow Dog two year ago,
(19:13):
almost dead. He was cut, his tongue taken out by
renegade Indians. We fixed him good to work to get about,
but he would not go back to own people that way.
The boy tell me he would not leave without him.
Boy has good heart well, and I believe that's yes,
(19:34):
it is. That's Carson. Carson. Oh, no, the boy's father.
I barely recognize him, but I'm certain you'll go now.
Red Cloud will bring tribe back to reservation. H you'll go.
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The boy had not recognized his own father, but he
had persuaded Carson to come with him. A man should
be with his own kind, no matter what. The chief
provided horses and the colonel agreed to escort them home,
while I rode on ahead.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
To tell Allen, you realize what this means, don't you?
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (20:16):
I can't leave him. I wouldn't even if I could.
He's my husband.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
I understand, Ellen. Do you?
Speaker 2 (20:26):
I wonder if you could possibly know how I feel.
You'll be leaving for San Francisco, now, won't you?
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Yes, I'll have to be getting back at him.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Yes, of course, Well, Captain pallatn't I I'd better put
myself together, hadn't I? My son and my husband are
coming home.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Yes, come in. Oh, mellow, miss wad you sit in
dark room?
Speaker 2 (21:17):
See doing now everythince you come back from him?
Speaker 1 (21:21):
What are you doing, miss Wan in dark room.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Beautiful San Francisco, the outside, mister, let light in Mitapoladan.
It's not good for you.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
No, I suppose you're right. I right, Hey boy, hey boy?
Oh now what are you and miss Wan up to? Oh?
Now you're me happy? Well? What are you there? Hey boy? Happy?
On on, missa Paladin Champagne. That's your one thing. That's
the one thing, mister Taladin, God Lady Champagne. Yes, hey boy,
(21:59):
And it's one thing mister Paladin will always have plenty
of Champagne. Have Gun Will Travel Created by Herb Meadow
(22:29):
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(22:50):
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Speaker 2 (24:14):
It's extreme
I can't believe I'm seeing you again. I buried our
love twelve years ago when they told me you were dead.
Have gone. We'll Travel, starring mister John Dayner as Paladin,
(00:44):
San Francisco, eighteen seventy five, The Carlton Hotel, headquarters of
a man called Paladin. You want somebody stuff? Missa? Hey boy?
How could you talk that way? For what I say?
(01:06):
But you don't say? Do you want any more of
this stuff? You call it by its name? This is
I'll hold you want some other this stuff? Yes? I
do often we get that, will you? Hey boy? Oh
that miss Young is not come? Do you tell you
(01:28):
your voice? Yes? I am here? What is it?
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Miss Wang? Can come for you?
Speaker 1 (01:37):
All right? Sit there, please.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Facial for you very.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
All right now, thank you, miss one.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
You say it's a.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Long time coming, come so very far away? You want
me to open it? Now? All right? Let me see?
Well you should not insist like that. Keep boy, I
just deliver message. MS. Are you sick? I can't believe
(02:07):
it's new faith or white bad news? Oh boy? The
stage that left this afternoon stops overnight at Cove Canyon.
Doesn't it where you saw Cold Kanyon? Why Mesa Palady.
I've got to get on that stage. Oh, then you
did get bad news. No, not exactly. It's just that
(02:30):
I've heard from a friend, a woman I thought had
died twelve years ago. She's in Dakota Territory and needs me.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Then it's good news to hear from a woman friend.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Yes, Miss Wong, I think it's the best news I've
ever had. In the hills of South Dakota, a shrine
of American democracy has been carved five hundred feet above
ground Mount Rushmore. Giant faces of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson,
(03:05):
Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt look out of the surrounding countryside.
Gutzon Borglum began work on what is the world's largest
sculpture in the year nineteen twenty seven. He continued his
efforts until his death in nineteen forty one. The project
was carried to completion by Borglum's son, Lincoln, who had
(03:25):
worked with his father for fourteen years. The faces of
the four presidents are designed to the proportions of men
who would be four hundred sixty five feet tall. In
spite of their size, the continances are quite realistic in detail.
And expression. Each month, thousands of visitors to Mount Rushmore
(03:46):
National Memorial remind us of the rich heritage that as
Americans we share and stand ready to defend. Oo. Ellen
Stoneham had been a nurse in my outfit one hundred
and twelfth Illinois. I'd once spent years looking for her.
Now the telegram said I could reach her through an
(04:06):
Indian agent named Baxter at Fort Ramble, Dakota Territory. When
I arrived, they told me I could find him in
a wooden building. It was used to store government supplies.
Inside was a man instructing three sullen Indians on the
finer points of loading a wagon. How are your todd sawdiers?
Get that thing loaded and get it out of here?
(04:26):
Wagon will break down? Too much grain wagon day. That's
not a good one. First time I ever heard an
Indian Tommy, I was giving up too much grain. Wagon breakdown,
two big loads? Mate, Now the trip, ah, you're not
coming back here? Take it all now, engine. Now what
do you want? Stranger? My name is Paladin. I'm looking
(04:48):
for mister Baxter. I'm Wade Baxter. What do you want?
Ellen Stoneham said you would direct me to her? Stone
I don't own ay ellen Stonehem. Wait a minute, she
a good run woman, light hair. Yes, there might be her,
but her name is Stoneham. It's Ellen Carson, missus Carson.
She used to work for me keeping records. Now she
(05:09):
teaches a m engine kids. Well where would I find
this missus Carson? Probably up at the schoolhouse, that is,
if she's got any engine kids left to teach. What
do you mean, Oh yeah, there's been a lot of
engine trouble here. Red Cloud talked a bunch of them
into leaving the reservation. Well that's all right with me.
Makes my job that much easier. Where do I find
the schoolhouse? Yeah, right out two miles south of Fort Rynolds.
(05:31):
Can't miss it. Thank you. All the way out to
the schoolhouse, I kept hoping that a mistake had been made.
This missus Carson was not ellen Stonem. If I could
go back to mister Baxter, we'd start all over again,
(05:52):
and then he'd remember ellen Stonem. It wasn't to be.
I found the schoolhouse with no difficulty, walked to the
door of the tiny logged building, and no white.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
You realized that they couldn't be greased. When they were
they crossed the Great ocean to come to the shores
of America. Here they were able to worship and the Yes,
Paladin children, you may leave, ma'am.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Won't you come in.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
With the Captain Canaden.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
It is not captain anymore, Ellen, No, of course not.
I'm I'm sorry Ellen. They told me you were dead,
that you had died in the prison camp in Florida.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
It was another woman in the camp. They buried her,
thinking it was me.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
I refuse to believe you were dead. Asked for my
discharge in the South to look for you. Then I
when I came to the camp in Florida and there
was this grave with your name on it. After that,
I went west.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
But I finally escaped. I looked for you, Paladin. For
the longest time. I looked for you. I even went
to the Department of War. They told me that you
were missing in action in North Carolina.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
I was for a while. They never could keep their records.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
I met mister Carson. He asked me to marry him.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Tell him please, you don't have to explain. No, it's
not necessary, but.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
I feel like a shameful woman, but I do. Ever
since I married, I've always had a feeling that you
were still alive.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Well it's too late for us. Now you are married
and there's nothing we can do about it. Now, why
did you send for me?
Speaker 2 (07:43):
It's my son. He's been taken by the Indians. I
want you to get him back.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
For me, your son. I'll do everything I can.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
I don't even know if he's alive.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Well, now, ain't that interested? Wait, that's real interesting. Randall's
full of soldiers waiting for an excuse to kill Engines.
But she don't tell them the Engines got her son.
She tells everybody is she sent the boy Baggie.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
It's because I don't want the soldiers to know. It
would be a fight and the Indians would kill Jimmy.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Oh, don't you worry, Ellen, Nothing will happen to Jimmy.
I'll get every able buddied man in this town and
the soldiers. We'll get them back. Don't you think that's
up to missus Carson or her husband husband? She ain't
got a husband, Ah, Paladin, you're new here. You just
let me worry about lul Le Ellen. I've been watching
out for her ever since Carson got scalped of the
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Engines two years ago. Now I'll get on out.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
To the fight. Please don't hurt.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Teach some engines. The lady said, not to go out there.
You're gonna stop me if I have to, not if
I can help it. Right now, I'm sorry Ellen. When
he wakes up, tell him I'm gone to talk to
the commanding officer at the fort.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Although most men by nature don't feel in a combat
mood much of the time, there are some who just
can't get enough of a good fight, particularly if there
is good sound reason for it. In July nineteen hundred,
when American fighting men were protecting the rights and liberty
of their fellow countrymen during the Boxer Uprising.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
The battle was a furiously forught affair. Army Private Robert H.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Von Schlick, serving with Company C of the ninth United
States Infantry Division, was in the thick of the frakas.
Although he had been wounded previously while carrying a wounded
comrade to a place of safety, he rejoined his command,
which partly occupied an exposed position on a dike. Private
von Schlick remained there after his company had been withdrawn,
(09:54):
and in spite of the hail of bullets around him,
single handedly continued.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
To fire into the enemy wres.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Oblivious to the fact that he was a conspicuous target,
he refused to leave the fight until he was literally
shot off his position by the enemy. Private Robert von
Schlick earned the Medal of Honor for valiant devotion to
duty and added heroic background to the code of conduct
of American fighting men.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
I don't know, mister Peladon. If they've taken a white boy,
it's our duty to go after him. What good was
that to, Colonel? They'd kill a boy and you'd have
to kill a lot of Indians. But it breaks down
the moral of the settlers if we don't do something. Colonel,
aren't you a little remiss in your duty already? Now?
What do you mean? I mean? Red Cloud's been off
the reservation for one two months. Shouldn't you have gone
after him before this? WHOA? Technically yes, but my command
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was split. I had some of my troops up north.
We heard a rumor that Sitting Bull was in the
bad Lands. Sitting bulls in Canada, and you know it, Yes, yes,
you're right, Paladin. When I heard that the Red Cloud
had left the reservation, I sent two companies up north,
ostensibly looking for Sitting Bull. Purposely splitting your command. You
(11:19):
must have had a good reason. I did. If I'd
been Red Cloud, i'd have left the reservation too. Why
they were starving? Government policy, I guess. Seems we make
agreements with the Indians to get them on the reservation,
and after they're there, why we start cutting back. Baxter
gave them a million pounds less meat this year than
last year, and he has government sanctioned for that. I
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assume he does. I don't much care for the man,
so I stay out of his affairs and he stays
out of mind. Well that's fine, except that now Red
Cloud has walked out, and he's taken a white boy
with him, and you're going to track him down and
kill a lot of starving Indian. I don't have to
track him. I know right where he is. He joined
up with crow Dog. What he's out in Crosscut Canyon?
(12:00):
The old Devil's just sitting out there, hasn't moved. I
had to keep an eye on him, no matter how
I felt. Tremla, let me try something, will him? Let
me go out and talk to Red Cloud? Oh what
good would that? Well? Did it ever occur to you
that maybe he's just sitting out there waiting for somebody
to come out. I don't know. The todd will be
(12:22):
up in arms when Baxter tells about the boy. All right,
you make your move, but just hold off and let
me go in first. If I fail, well you can
do what you have to do. If anything happened to you,
mister Pelladin, I know if it does, nobody will miss me.
All right, but be careful. Thanks Colonel, I'll leave right away.
(12:51):
It was almost sundown when I reached crosscutt Canyon. I
didn't try to conceal myself coming into Red Cloud's camp,
with the result that upon my request, I was taken
immediately to see the chief. Red Cloud taught long. He
told me the whole history of himself and his tribe,
the Sioux, and even of his part of the battle
with Custom. And he told him how afterwards he even
(13:12):
lured to the reservation with promises of grain, corn and meat.
Promise is fine, but not true. We get less and
less food for Indian Great Chief Red Cloud. This still
gives you no right to take White Boy and kill him.
Not kill White Boy, take him. Wait for a long time. Now,
(13:34):
hold for bargain. Make Agent Baxter give full treaty. Rations
to Indian. Well, what does Baxter have to do with this?
Baxter cheat? Sheat Indian cheat his government. How he tell
government more Indians on reservation than we have, and he
get more supplies. But tell Indian government send less than
(13:56):
even ration. He keep the rest. Tell us hoggrout or
die we die? I see then he sells a surplus. Yeah,
make much money for himself. Red Cloud will get fair
deal or white boy will die? No more talk All right,
Red Cloud, I will go. He will take her time.
(14:20):
No su me lab morty no oh. Paladin comes and
talks of peace, but he does not travel alone. You
tell Colonel takes soldiers back to Fort randall tonight, or
boy be dead by morning. Let us have peace. These
(14:48):
were the words spoken by General Ulysses asked Grant when
he accepted the nomination for the presidency in eighteen sixty eight,
and they are the words which are carried over the
entrance of Grant's tomb in New York City. The interior
of the memorial to the general who led the Union
forces to final victory in the Civil War is somewhat
like that of the tomb of another's skillful military leader,
(15:11):
Napoleon Bonaparte. But what a contrast there is between the
empire seeking little corporal and the American military man who
fought with distinction in the Mexican War and the Civil War,
but wanted only peace for his nation. Each year, many
visitors pay homage to Ulysses Granted his tomb, which is
circled by New York's busy Riverside Drive. The memorial contains
(15:35):
twin burial faults with the remains of the general and
his lady. Grant's tomb is a lasting reminder of the
rich heritage that as Americans we share and stand ready
to defend. I rode back to the colonel and asked
him to give me another day to get the boy
(15:55):
back without bloodshed. I told him I had a plan.
He agreed, and then I was able to go to
Ellen and tell her her son was still alive.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Oh Palace the night I knew you'd find him.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
But we haven't gotten him back yet. Ellen.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
But he's alive, and you will get him back.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
I'll try. Ellen. There's something I have to know. Yes,
you didn't tell me your husband was dead.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Why I thought that it wasn't fair to tell you.
When I learned where you were. I asked you to
come here because I knew you were the only man
who would get Jimmy back, not to pick up where
we left all.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
You had no right to decide that.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
I didn't think you'd want me.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
After so long, I've never stopped wanting.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
You, Paladin. Mister Carson was one of the finest men
I've ever known. He wanted to help the Indians when
everyone else wanted to kill them. After Custer was killed,
a lot of people wanted to lead to Kotea territory.
Not mister Carson. He vowed he'd never leave the Coda no.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Matter what, Ellen, don't don't do this.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
I want you to know the kind of man he
was that I didn't just marry anyone. He went out
that day and he tried to talk to some Indians.
He saw he was alone, but some friends could see
him from a distance. We never got his body back.
It was right after Custard.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
It was two ten years ago. Ellen, Oh, Ellen stopped. Ellen,
Listen to me.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Ellen.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
I've always loved you, Ellenen, I still do that. It's true. Ellen.
I want you to go to San Francisco with me.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Are you sure?
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Will you? Ellen?
Speaker 2 (17:37):
What about my son?
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Of course he love San Francisco.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
We'll see when we did, Jimmy Beck.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
All right, I'll have to work fast. Tell me, do
you know where Baxter keeps his government papers?
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Yes, they're in his warehouse.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Why. Oh, he's been cheating the Indians. And if I
could only prove it if.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
We went down there before it got light, we we Yes,
I can, So you're right where the papers are.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Finding evidence against Baxter was a simple matter. He had
been ordered to increase his allotments, not to cut them,
and he even received more goods. But what I plan
to do I needed the Colonel as a witness. So
together we forced Baxter to go with us to Red Cloud.
There he admitted having cheated the Indians. The Colonel promised
a full report to Washington and punishment for Baxter. The
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Chief was satisfied and suddenly waved an arm towards one
of his braves. What's he doing now, Peladin, I'm not sure, colonel. Look,
well that's the boy. They're bringing him out, Pladin. Look
there is the white man with him. Yeah, I see
(18:51):
that man's been Why his scalp has been lifted? K
Mote Knakato Leima JOHNA Gusser. The boy is unharmed paladin. Yes,
I see then, who is the white man with him?
He is a man found by crow Dog two year ago,
(19:13):
almost dead. He was cut, his tongue taken out by
renegade Indians. We fixed him good to work to get about,
but he would not go back to own people that way.
The boy tell me he would not leave without him.
Boy has good heart well, and I believe that's yes,
(19:34):
it is. That's Carson. Carson. Oh, no, the boy's father.
I barely recognize him, but I'm certain you'll go now.
Red Cloud will bring tribe back to reservation. H you'll go.
(19:55):
The boy had not recognized his own father, but he
had persuaded Carson to come with him. A man should
be with his own kind, no matter what. The chief
provided horses and the colonel agreed to escort them home,
while I rode on ahead.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
To tell Allen, you realize what this means, don't you?
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (20:16):
I can't leave him. I wouldn't even if I could.
He's my husband.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
I understand, Ellen. Do you?
Speaker 2 (20:26):
I wonder if you could possibly know how I feel.
You'll be leaving for San Francisco, now, won't you?
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Yes, I'll have to be getting back at him.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Yes, of course, Well, Captain pallatn't I I'd better put
myself together, hadn't I? My son and my husband are
coming home.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Yes, come in. Oh, mellow, miss wad you sit in
dark room?
Speaker 2 (21:17):
See doing now everythince you come back from him?
Speaker 1 (21:21):
What are you doing, miss Wan in dark room.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Beautiful San Francisco, the outside, mister, let light in Mitapoladan.
It's not good for you.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
No, I suppose you're right. I right, Hey boy, hey boy?
Oh now what are you and miss Wan up to? Oh?
Now you're me happy? Well? What are you there? Hey boy? Happy?
On on, missa Paladin Champagne. That's your one thing. That's
the one thing, mister Taladin, God Lady Champagne. Yes, hey boy,
(21:59):
And it's one thing mister Paladin will always have plenty
of Champagne. Have Gun Will Travel Created by Herb Meadow
(22:29):
and Sam Rawle. He is proteoce stand directed in Hollywood
by Frank Parris and stars John Dayner as Paladin, with
Ben Wright as hey Boy and Virginia Gregg as Miss Wong.
Tonight's story was specially written for Have Gun Will Travel
by Thomas Henley. Featured in the cast were Louke Krugman,
Bartlet Robinson, Ralph Moody, James Nusser, and Lillian Bayaff. This
(22:50):
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