October 31, 2025 • 23 mins
Dive into the gritty world of 'Old Time Radio: Gunsmoke', where each episode delivers suspense and raw storytelling from the days of frontier justice. Perfect for history buffs and fans of classic radio dramas.
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
Around Dodge City and in the territory on West. There
is just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers.
And that's where the US Marshal and the Smell of
Guns Smoke Gun Will Spoke, starring William Conrad, The story
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of the violence that moved west with young America and
the story of a man who moved with it.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
I'm that man, Matt Dillon, United States Marshall, the first
man they look for and the less they want to meet.
It's a chance, a job, and it makes a man work.
Watch had a little lone lad.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Rape?
Speaker 4 (01:27):
Rape?
Speaker 5 (01:29):
What are you shooting at?
Speaker 6 (01:31):
Something moving near the barn?
Speaker 5 (01:33):
I declare rape. I think you're beginning to see things.
You were out here shooting about this time yesterday. Come
on in and.
Speaker 6 (01:39):
Have you something. I saw something.
Speaker 7 (01:41):
I tell you, I'm going down there, not rape.
Speaker 8 (01:44):
Your eyes are playing tricks on you in the twilight.
You didn't find anything last night.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Did you.
Speaker 6 (01:49):
I didn't get a good look y'all.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
All.
Speaker 7 (01:51):
Let me back here, like the Engines was after you.
Speaker 5 (01:54):
A woman likes.
Speaker 8 (01:55):
Her supper at once she sets it on the table.
Come on, rape, you're probably getting.
Speaker 7 (02:00):
Oh, I'll but one of these times I'm gonna get
a good shot at him.
Speaker 8 (02:09):
Put that gun down and pull up to the table.
You really think you could make somebody out?
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Somebody was there, alright.
Speaker 6 (02:31):
I got me a good idea of who it was.
Speaker 7 (02:33):
You got me a good idea. It's a worthless dude
kid we had around here, Tom?
Speaker 2 (02:39):
You mean Tom, and I sure do.
Speaker 8 (02:41):
Now.
Speaker 5 (02:41):
You wouldn't like to go and shoot him, would you?
Speaker 7 (02:43):
I'll shoot him sure if I find him on my land.
He caught nothing but trouble, letting the hogs loose, tipping
the lantern in the loft, founding my mayor.
Speaker 6 (02:52):
He wasn't used to living on a rank, and he don't.
Speaker 7 (02:55):
Bong on one, especially not mine.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Yeah, I reckon.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
He's miles away by now.
Speaker 8 (03:02):
Mm threw a battle scare into him the day you
send him packing.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
I meant to you.
Speaker 7 (03:07):
If I see him around here again, I'll send him
packing again. A little buckshotting, Yeah, hold your cup if you.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Some more coffee?
Speaker 6 (03:40):
Boy? You here, boy, Yes, I'm I'm here. So why
ever didn't you come back?
Speaker 3 (03:52):
You are hill?
Speaker 5 (03:52):
Oud he get to the side of you. Come on
out here where I can see you.
Speaker 8 (04:01):
Come on, now, boy, I can't stand here all night
he might wake up.
Speaker 6 (04:05):
I can't move too good, ma'ama.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
You hurt.
Speaker 6 (04:09):
It's my leg.
Speaker 8 (04:11):
Well, lands sakes, I should say it is.
Speaker 6 (04:13):
It's all over blood. Yes, I'm you've been shot. You've
been up too well, nothing, ma'am.
Speaker 5 (04:24):
Come on, boy, tell me the truth.
Speaker 6 (04:27):
I was just trying to get me some food. I
was awful hungry, souse.
Speaker 5 (04:30):
He tried to steal somebody's chicken.
Speaker 6 (04:32):
Oh no, ma'am, I wasn't trying to steal nothing.
Speaker 5 (04:34):
Well, why would anybody shoot you?
Speaker 6 (04:36):
Then? Well, ma'am, I don't rightly know. Well I didn't
exactly see.
Speaker 8 (04:42):
Never mind that right now your leg needs binding up.
Turn your head, boy, ma'am, turn your head.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
Oh no, it's not down. I don't have to do
for a bind minute. H declear races ride about one thing.
Speaker 8 (04:56):
You.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
You don't bring nothing but trouble. I swear, I don't
know what do about you.
Speaker 8 (05:01):
You're purely out of place on the prairie.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
You never should have left Baltimore in the first place.
Speaker 6 (05:07):
You hear me, boy, Yes, I'm m. I ain't much
good out here.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
Well, now, don't fret. You'll just fix you up somehow.
Now let me see that like.
Speaker 9 (05:38):
Now, just listen a minute, uh, if you will, I've
got a little story to tell you. Well, it's not
so little. It's sort of a tall tale. It's about
a legendary hero, a login hero. You know, Login is
a pretty important business and this hero, Tony Beaver was
his name. Well, he gets most of the credit for
making it what it is today. Now, Tony came from
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the Eel River country. It's kind of hard to figure
out just where that is, cause Georgia claims him in
SODA's North Carolina, and then West Virginia says he's from there.
But wherever it was, well, that's where they raised the
greatest lagger of them all. Seems Tony used to raise
water melons before he started lumbering. The biggest melons there ever,
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was too. Why they were so big, They used the
shells for bunk houses. That's where the army got the
idea for quantct huts. Yes, sir, well, it seems Tony
was bringing in the load of these melons by flat
car one day and he was clipping along pretty fast
when he hit a curve and dumped the whole load into.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
The Eel River.
Speaker 9 (06:44):
Bouncing down the hill broke them all to smithereens, and
the seeds, which were big enough to sit on, floated
downstream and jammed up against the sawmill. Dam. Old Tony
he wasn't short on brains. He made a deal with
the mill owner who took the sea he leads off
his hands and sold 'em for hardwood. And that's how
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Tony got started in the login business. First thing, you knowed,
everybody was floating their logs down rivers to the sawmills,
saying as Tony had done with.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
The melon seeds. Oh, Tony was inventive.
Speaker 6 (07:16):
He was.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
The two men saw was his idea.
Speaker 9 (07:19):
You know. Of course, he made that big saw with
a handle on both ends just for his own use,
so he could clear more acreage of trees during a
day's work. But a couple of his men got into
a fight over his saw one day, and while he
was a tugging back and forth trying to get the
saw away from one another, why they saw it cleaned
through a big tree. Yes, sir, at two handle saw
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worked real good for two men. Floggers are still teaming
up with it today. At Tony Beaver he was the
heart and spirit of the login country. Many's the tale
I could tell you, and you'd believe me too, wouldn't you?
Hm say, isn't it nice being citizens of a country
where you can laugh and talk about things free as
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a breeze, and write and read and worship too? Yes, sir,
maybe you don't think about it much, but you should.
Speaker 10 (08:12):
Mm.
Speaker 6 (08:25):
I declare that must be the sixth one I saw
a day. Mmm, I said that must be the sixth one.
Speaker 7 (08:33):
Oh, excuse me, mister Delani.
Speaker 6 (08:35):
Didn't mean to disturb your reading of the paper.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Oh, that's all right, chest him. What do you count anyway?
Speaker 6 (08:42):
Ladies?
Speaker 2 (08:44):
You keeping track of the ladies all of a sudden?
Speaker 7 (08:47):
Well, no, sir, but it seems like today there's a
lot of extra.
Speaker 6 (08:50):
Ones driving into town. I'm much count of sick at lee.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
I don't know what do you make of it?
Speaker 4 (08:54):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (08:54):
I know why they hear?
Speaker 2 (08:55):
All right?
Speaker 6 (08:56):
Is that doings that the church are getting ready for dogs?
Speaker 2 (09:00):
That's your supper?
Speaker 6 (09:01):
Sociable something like that. Anyway, they're bringing in all sorts
of homegok food.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
No wonder you're so interested, And I'm.
Speaker 6 (09:10):
Sure I would like to send my teeth into some
of it. Matter the fact.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Now, maybe you can tuck yourself under. Some looks like
one of the ladies is heading this way.
Speaker 6 (09:18):
Oh that's Raef Mayfield's wife, ain't it?
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Yeah? I think it is. Oh, Marshall, can I do, ma'am?
How long miss Mayfield? How how are you and rape
making out these days?
Speaker 8 (09:32):
It's holerible, I guess, Marshall. Can I speak to you
for a few minutes in private life?
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Well? Sure, Miss Mayfield? Here, let me help you down?
Oh ay h yeah, come on it, sir, Well.
Speaker 6 (09:48):
That's all be going along.
Speaker 5 (09:50):
Oh, I don't mind you Chester. You might even have.
Speaker 6 (09:54):
Well now, thank you, ma'am.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Uh, just to pull up a chairfulness Mayfield, Yes, sir,
here you are, ma'am. A lot of what's on your mind, ma'am.
Speaker 8 (10:15):
Well, Marshall, we've known each other for a long time,
haven't we.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Oh yes, ma'am.
Speaker 8 (10:21):
I guess you know me well enough to know I
wouldn't go behind Race's back.
Speaker 5 (10:25):
Is an ordinary way of doing things, Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 6 (10:28):
I think I know that I can't let.
Speaker 5 (10:30):
Him find out about this though?
Speaker 8 (10:32):
Why he drive that boy right off hurt as he is?
Speaker 9 (10:35):
Boy?
Speaker 2 (10:36):
What boy?
Speaker 8 (10:37):
Well, that boy from Baltimore, the one we took on
is a hand a few much.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Oh you mean that uh Wilson Kidder was uh Tom.
Speaker 5 (10:44):
And that's his name. Race ran him off the place
two weeks ago.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Oh what he do?
Speaker 8 (10:49):
It's not so much what he'd done wrong, it's more
that he's never done nothing right. He surely wasn't cut
out to be on a ranch. Race says he's worthless
clean through, but I don't believe it. He's a nice boy.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Please come back.
Speaker 8 (11:04):
I found him out in the barn last night with
a bullet hole in his lags.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Oh shut him.
Speaker 8 (11:11):
I can't get it out of him. He just don't
talk straight whenever I asked him about it. But he
can't stay out there, Marshall, rape sure to find out,
and he won't stand for it.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
We better go out there and bring him into the tongue.
Speaker 5 (11:22):
Not be much obliged. Raced away picking up a new mayor.
If he could come today, he wouldn't have to know
about it.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Would do that in Miss Mayfield, od Chester. I'll go
down and get the loan of Moss Grimmic's wagon with him.
We'll bring him in the docks.
Speaker 5 (11:33):
Aren't sure thank him, Marshall?
Speaker 2 (11:35):
I don't thank him. Miss Mayfield I'm kind of curious
about that bullet hole.
Speaker 6 (11:51):
You think a doctor's office could be a little handier
to get to sit all? He's staring. Oh, I'm making
all right.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
You will hold the door, Chester, and I got him?
Speaker 6 (12:01):
Yes, Oh what have we got here?
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Why don't you take a look at this leg? Will
you not?
Speaker 7 (12:10):
I get him up on the table.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Then, yeah, yeah, that's fine.
Speaker 6 (12:17):
I'll go see the wagons.
Speaker 7 (12:20):
Yeah, let me see and uh oh yes, yeah, a
bullet caused that?
Speaker 6 (12:27):
And yes, sir, did it?
Speaker 7 (12:29):
H You're lucky though it's not too deep. Must have
bled a lot, that sure did bleed. Yes, sir, that's
a good thing. Cleans itself out for you, probably capture.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
From getting lock jaws as a bullet still in there.
Speaker 6 (12:43):
No, no, it isn't. He just creased down top of
his leg. Funny thing.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
That's Ben. Holler you up now telling him to hold
his horses? Yeah, up here, Ben, But he's busy right now.
He'll be with you in a minute. Oh he can't
be busy, Marshall.
Speaker 6 (13:05):
It's Lucy.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
It's her time, and I been calm down, you know
how she is.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
She don't waste no time once she gets started.
Speaker 6 (13:12):
All right, Ben.
Speaker 7 (13:13):
All right, this boy is okay, man, I've cleaned his leg.
God just needs buying him up again.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
I guess I can do that. Doctor.
Speaker 6 (13:21):
Well, I shoot you can. I better be moving him.
Speaker 7 (13:23):
This is Loosey's sixth and like Ben says, she doesn't
waste any time. But after this minute, I don't know
why she needs a doctor. Alright, Uh you boy, better
take it kind of easy for there too, and then
you'll be as good as new.
Speaker 6 (13:38):
Thank you, doctor.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Yeah, it's kind of painful, I guess.
Speaker 6 (13:45):
Oh no, Marshall, it don't hurt hardly at all.
Speaker 5 (13:49):
No more.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
I wasn't thinking about you. I was thinking about Ben
being a father.
Speaker 6 (13:54):
Oh yeah, I guess.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
So you old still now bind you up. I sure
must have been a trick shot that got you.
Speaker 6 (14:05):
What do you mean, Marshall or else?
Speaker 2 (14:07):
The gun? But I must have been ten feet straight
up above you? Why I had bullet angles really straight down.
It's a pretty hard shot to make, Marshall. Seems to
me that you couldn't help seeing who it was I
got that close enough to shoot you like that? Uh well,
but uh you didn't see anybody, did your time?
Speaker 3 (14:29):
All?
Speaker 6 (14:29):
At Marshall? I guess you know.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
You did this yourself, didn't you.
Speaker 6 (14:34):
Yeah, Marshall, I did.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Did you do it on purpose?
Speaker 9 (14:38):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (14:39):
No? Now, I was trying to shoot me a rabbit.
I was awful hungry, and I guess I shot a
mite too soon.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
And it's usually a good idea to get your gun
out before you pull a trigger. You you know, you
should have spoken right out about this time.
Speaker 6 (14:54):
I couldn't, Marshall. I just couldn't. But then I haven't
done anything right since I run off from Baltimore.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Well maybe that was your first mistake here.
Speaker 6 (15:03):
I'm sure don't belong in the West, and that's a fact.
But well, when you're so all fired clumsy you shoot
yourself in your own leg, where do you belong Marshall.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Now there's lots of accidents with guns, Tom, that's no disgrace.
Speaker 6 (15:18):
You don't understand, Marshall. I had done nothing right. Besides,
I'm I'm scared of guns.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Tom. The man who isn't scared of guns is a fool.
Speaker 6 (15:33):
I tell you, Marshall, I never thought it would be
like this. I didn't get scared when I was reading
them stories and hearing folks tell their tales about the West.
But once I got out here. Well, nothing's been right.
I shouldn't have come.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Well you can always go back, I.
Speaker 6 (15:52):
Guess no, I can't, least ways, not like this.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
You. Uh you've got any folks? Uh? Whould they send
you any money?
Speaker 6 (16:00):
Oh? Yes, sir, they'd send it. But I just can't
ask for it. I can't go back with my tail
between my legs. I can't go home while i'm yellow,
while I'm afraid of a gun.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Hell, all right, you climbs down off the table. Now,
can you bear any weight on that leg?
Speaker 6 (16:23):
Yes, sir, I think so.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Right. If you do, think so, I'll be able to
work down as far as Delmonico's and get something either.
Speaker 6 (16:29):
Oh oh sure, marshall. Thank you.
Speaker 10 (16:49):
This land is your?
Speaker 8 (16:52):
This land is.
Speaker 7 (16:55):
This lad was paid when.
Speaker 5 (16:59):
I was a child.
Speaker 4 (16:59):
Are you a little spelling game to remember Mississippi mis
sis sip pi remember now? Of course I remember Mississippi
in other ways.
Speaker 5 (17:09):
For other things.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
I remember Faulkner and Yoknapatafa County, the aristocratic old plantations
of matches, trimp boats setting out from Biloxi. Many of you, too,
must remember watching the oystermen off the shores of past
Christian or cotton pickers in Greenville, attending the Delta Staple
Cotton Festival in Clarksdale. Patting the Spanish moss on the
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giant oaks. Mississippi stirs remembrances in most people, even those
who have never visited the Magnolia State.
Speaker 5 (17:38):
For the history and the name of the.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
State, and yes, even the spelling game make us stop
to think and to ponder the wisdom behind the state
motto by Valor and Arms.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Hello man, Hello kitty. I was just on my way
down to see it. Uh, thought I might have a
glass of beer.
Speaker 7 (18:07):
Come on, then it will be a pleasure.
Speaker 6 (18:09):
A kid also a novel here.
Speaker 5 (18:12):
Oh, oh, what do you mean you haven't exactly.
Speaker 8 (18:15):
Been making a habit of coming around?
Speaker 2 (18:17):
They think, Well, I been kind of busy, kitty, That's
what I hear. And I understand you've adopted the boy.
Oh who told you that?
Speaker 6 (18:31):
Isn't two?
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Isn't that broken boy staying with you? Wow? Just till
he got himself enough money to go back to Baltimore.
Speaker 8 (18:38):
I never heard of you taking such an interest before.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Mat Ah, Kitty, he's uh, he's got things pretty mixed up.
Poor kid thinks he's no good.
Speaker 8 (18:49):
Oh and you think you'll figure he's not so bad
as the Marshall will put up with him.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Uh not, kiddie.
Speaker 5 (18:56):
I all right, Mack, I don't blame you.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
He seems like a nice boy.
Speaker 8 (19:01):
He waited on me yesterday mister Jonas's store.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Now another months they would have earned his train fair
back home.
Speaker 5 (19:07):
Sudn't somebody lending?
Speaker 3 (19:08):
No?
Speaker 2 (19:08):
I won't take it. Says he's going back on his
own the same way he came.
Speaker 6 (19:13):
Sounds kind of proud foolish to me. Wow, you Marshall
Marcell Billon.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Yeah, mister Jonas, you better come quick.
Speaker 7 (19:22):
What's happening that boy? Tommy? He tried to shoot it
out and hold up man. Huh, And I'm afraid he's dying.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Kiddy dog, got doc with you soon, my mister Jonas, Yes, sir,
where is he?
Speaker 7 (19:34):
Hu had carried him into the storeroom.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Exactly what happened?
Speaker 6 (19:38):
Well, I was behind the counter.
Speaker 7 (19:41):
This man came in held a gun on me.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Yeah, you'll try to do anything about her, Who know, Marshall.
Speaker 7 (19:46):
I just put my hands up. Here's enough money in
dodge Worth getting shot over.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Then the boy rushed in.
Speaker 8 (19:52):
Huh.
Speaker 7 (19:53):
He must have grabbed a gun off the shelf, he
stuck it in the man's back and the fellow world
and shot it.
Speaker 6 (20:00):
Boy didn't even get a chance.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
To pull the trigger. And the man got away. Marshall.
He he got away, and I'll find him all right,
right back here, Marshall. Tom, it's Matt Dylan.
Speaker 6 (20:19):
Marshall.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
Yeah, you get that, fine, Tom.
Speaker 7 (20:24):
But I.
Speaker 6 (20:25):
Didn't get any Marshall.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Oh well, that doesn't matter.
Speaker 6 (20:28):
The thing is you'd try, yes, sir, I sure try.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
I nobody can do more Oran that.
Speaker 6 (20:37):
Marshall wasn't afraid when I grabbed that gun. Does that
count for anything?
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Counts for a lot of time.
Speaker 6 (20:50):
I don't have to be ashamed anymore, No, of course
you don't. I can go home and facebooks.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
You can't face anybody now.
Speaker 6 (21:04):
Then, I guess I'm glad I come west after all.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Is he dead, Marshall, Yeah, he's dead. It's a shame,
you just a shame. I'll tell you what's the real shame,
mister Jonas, A whole lot more times back in Baltimore
and all through the East, growing up with the idea
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that out here a man's not a man without a gun.
I'll tell you, mister Jonas, I Hope, I, Rest of 'em,
and Stay Home.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Gun Smoke, produced and directed by Norman McDonald, stars William
Conrad as Matt Dylan US Marshall. The music was composed
and conducted by Rex Cory. Sound patterns were composed by
Ray Kepper and Bill James. Featured in the cast were
Parley Bear as Chester, Howard mcneer as Doc, and Georgia
Allis is Kidding George Wolf Speaking. Join us again next
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week for another story of the western frontier of America
in the eighteen seventies on gun Smoke. This is the
United States Armed Forces Radio and Television Service.
Around Dodge City and in the territory on West. There
is just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers.
And that's where the US Marshal and the Smell of
Guns Smoke Gun Will Spoke, starring William Conrad, The story
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of the violence that moved west with young America and
the story of a man who moved with it.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
I'm that man, Matt Dillon, United States Marshall, the first
man they look for and the less they want to meet.
It's a chance, a job, and it makes a man work.
Watch had a little lone lad.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Rape?
Speaker 4 (01:27):
Rape?
Speaker 5 (01:29):
What are you shooting at?
Speaker 6 (01:31):
Something moving near the barn?
Speaker 5 (01:33):
I declare rape. I think you're beginning to see things.
You were out here shooting about this time yesterday. Come
on in and.
Speaker 6 (01:39):
Have you something. I saw something.
Speaker 7 (01:41):
I tell you, I'm going down there, not rape.
Speaker 8 (01:44):
Your eyes are playing tricks on you in the twilight.
You didn't find anything last night.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Did you.
Speaker 6 (01:49):
I didn't get a good look y'all.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
All.
Speaker 7 (01:51):
Let me back here, like the Engines was after you.
Speaker 5 (01:54):
A woman likes.
Speaker 8 (01:55):
Her supper at once she sets it on the table.
Come on, rape, you're probably getting.
Speaker 7 (02:00):
Oh, I'll but one of these times I'm gonna get
a good shot at him.
Speaker 8 (02:09):
Put that gun down and pull up to the table.
You really think you could make somebody out?
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Somebody was there, alright.
Speaker 6 (02:31):
I got me a good idea of who it was.
Speaker 7 (02:33):
You got me a good idea. It's a worthless dude
kid we had around here, Tom?
Speaker 2 (02:39):
You mean Tom, and I sure do.
Speaker 8 (02:41):
Now.
Speaker 5 (02:41):
You wouldn't like to go and shoot him, would you?
Speaker 7 (02:43):
I'll shoot him sure if I find him on my land.
He caught nothing but trouble, letting the hogs loose, tipping
the lantern in the loft, founding my mayor.
Speaker 6 (02:52):
He wasn't used to living on a rank, and he don't.
Speaker 7 (02:55):
Bong on one, especially not mine.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Yeah, I reckon.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
He's miles away by now.
Speaker 8 (03:02):
Mm threw a battle scare into him the day you
send him packing.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
I meant to you.
Speaker 7 (03:07):
If I see him around here again, I'll send him
packing again. A little buckshotting, Yeah, hold your cup if you.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Some more coffee?
Speaker 6 (03:40):
Boy? You here, boy, Yes, I'm I'm here. So why
ever didn't you come back?
Speaker 3 (03:52):
You are hill?
Speaker 5 (03:52):
Oud he get to the side of you. Come on
out here where I can see you.
Speaker 8 (04:01):
Come on, now, boy, I can't stand here all night
he might wake up.
Speaker 6 (04:05):
I can't move too good, ma'ama.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
You hurt.
Speaker 6 (04:09):
It's my leg.
Speaker 8 (04:11):
Well, lands sakes, I should say it is.
Speaker 6 (04:13):
It's all over blood. Yes, I'm you've been shot. You've
been up too well, nothing, ma'am.
Speaker 5 (04:24):
Come on, boy, tell me the truth.
Speaker 6 (04:27):
I was just trying to get me some food. I
was awful hungry, souse.
Speaker 5 (04:30):
He tried to steal somebody's chicken.
Speaker 6 (04:32):
Oh no, ma'am, I wasn't trying to steal nothing.
Speaker 5 (04:34):
Well, why would anybody shoot you?
Speaker 6 (04:36):
Then? Well, ma'am, I don't rightly know. Well I didn't
exactly see.
Speaker 8 (04:42):
Never mind that right now your leg needs binding up.
Turn your head, boy, ma'am, turn your head.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
Oh no, it's not down. I don't have to do
for a bind minute. H declear races ride about one thing.
Speaker 8 (04:56):
You.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
You don't bring nothing but trouble. I swear, I don't
know what do about you.
Speaker 8 (05:01):
You're purely out of place on the prairie.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
You never should have left Baltimore in the first place.
Speaker 6 (05:07):
You hear me, boy, Yes, I'm m. I ain't much
good out here.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
Well, now, don't fret. You'll just fix you up somehow.
Now let me see that like.
Speaker 9 (05:38):
Now, just listen a minute, uh, if you will, I've
got a little story to tell you. Well, it's not
so little. It's sort of a tall tale. It's about
a legendary hero, a login hero. You know, Login is
a pretty important business and this hero, Tony Beaver was
his name. Well, he gets most of the credit for
making it what it is today. Now, Tony came from
(06:02):
the Eel River country. It's kind of hard to figure
out just where that is, cause Georgia claims him in
SODA's North Carolina, and then West Virginia says he's from there.
But wherever it was, well, that's where they raised the
greatest lagger of them all. Seems Tony used to raise
water melons before he started lumbering. The biggest melons there ever,
(06:23):
was too. Why they were so big, They used the
shells for bunk houses. That's where the army got the
idea for quantct huts. Yes, sir, well, it seems Tony
was bringing in the load of these melons by flat
car one day and he was clipping along pretty fast
when he hit a curve and dumped the whole load into.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
The Eel River.
Speaker 9 (06:44):
Bouncing down the hill broke them all to smithereens, and
the seeds, which were big enough to sit on, floated
downstream and jammed up against the sawmill. Dam. Old Tony
he wasn't short on brains. He made a deal with
the mill owner who took the sea he leads off
his hands and sold 'em for hardwood. And that's how
(07:04):
Tony got started in the login business. First thing, you knowed,
everybody was floating their logs down rivers to the sawmills,
saying as Tony had done with.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
The melon seeds. Oh, Tony was inventive.
Speaker 6 (07:16):
He was.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
The two men saw was his idea.
Speaker 9 (07:19):
You know. Of course, he made that big saw with
a handle on both ends just for his own use,
so he could clear more acreage of trees during a
day's work. But a couple of his men got into
a fight over his saw one day, and while he
was a tugging back and forth trying to get the
saw away from one another, why they saw it cleaned
through a big tree. Yes, sir, at two handle saw
(07:41):
worked real good for two men. Floggers are still teaming
up with it today. At Tony Beaver he was the
heart and spirit of the login country. Many's the tale
I could tell you, and you'd believe me too, wouldn't you?
Hm say, isn't it nice being citizens of a country
where you can laugh and talk about things free as
(08:02):
a breeze, and write and read and worship too? Yes, sir,
maybe you don't think about it much, but you should.
Speaker 10 (08:12):
Mm.
Speaker 6 (08:25):
I declare that must be the sixth one I saw
a day. Mmm, I said that must be the sixth one.
Speaker 7 (08:33):
Oh, excuse me, mister Delani.
Speaker 6 (08:35):
Didn't mean to disturb your reading of the paper.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Oh, that's all right, chest him. What do you count anyway?
Speaker 6 (08:42):
Ladies?
Speaker 2 (08:44):
You keeping track of the ladies all of a sudden?
Speaker 7 (08:47):
Well, no, sir, but it seems like today there's a
lot of extra.
Speaker 6 (08:50):
Ones driving into town. I'm much count of sick at lee.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
I don't know what do you make of it?
Speaker 4 (08:54):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (08:54):
I know why they hear?
Speaker 2 (08:55):
All right?
Speaker 6 (08:56):
Is that doings that the church are getting ready for dogs?
Speaker 2 (09:00):
That's your supper?
Speaker 6 (09:01):
Sociable something like that. Anyway, they're bringing in all sorts
of homegok food.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
No wonder you're so interested, And I'm.
Speaker 6 (09:10):
Sure I would like to send my teeth into some
of it. Matter the fact.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Now, maybe you can tuck yourself under. Some looks like
one of the ladies is heading this way.
Speaker 6 (09:18):
Oh that's Raef Mayfield's wife, ain't it?
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Yeah? I think it is. Oh, Marshall, can I do, ma'am?
How long miss Mayfield? How how are you and rape
making out these days?
Speaker 8 (09:32):
It's holerible, I guess, Marshall. Can I speak to you
for a few minutes in private life?
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Well? Sure, Miss Mayfield? Here, let me help you down?
Oh ay h yeah, come on it, sir, Well.
Speaker 6 (09:48):
That's all be going along.
Speaker 5 (09:50):
Oh, I don't mind you Chester. You might even have.
Speaker 6 (09:54):
Well now, thank you, ma'am.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Uh, just to pull up a chairfulness Mayfield, Yes, sir,
here you are, ma'am. A lot of what's on your mind, ma'am.
Speaker 8 (10:15):
Well, Marshall, we've known each other for a long time,
haven't we.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Oh yes, ma'am.
Speaker 8 (10:21):
I guess you know me well enough to know I
wouldn't go behind Race's back.
Speaker 5 (10:25):
Is an ordinary way of doing things, Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 6 (10:28):
I think I know that I can't let.
Speaker 5 (10:30):
Him find out about this though?
Speaker 8 (10:32):
Why he drive that boy right off hurt as he is?
Speaker 9 (10:35):
Boy?
Speaker 2 (10:36):
What boy?
Speaker 8 (10:37):
Well, that boy from Baltimore, the one we took on
is a hand a few much.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Oh you mean that uh Wilson Kidder was uh Tom.
Speaker 5 (10:44):
And that's his name. Race ran him off the place
two weeks ago.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Oh what he do?
Speaker 8 (10:49):
It's not so much what he'd done wrong, it's more
that he's never done nothing right. He surely wasn't cut
out to be on a ranch. Race says he's worthless
clean through, but I don't believe it. He's a nice boy.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Please come back.
Speaker 8 (11:04):
I found him out in the barn last night with
a bullet hole in his lags.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Oh shut him.
Speaker 8 (11:11):
I can't get it out of him. He just don't
talk straight whenever I asked him about it. But he
can't stay out there, Marshall, rape sure to find out,
and he won't stand for it.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
We better go out there and bring him into the tongue.
Speaker 5 (11:22):
Not be much obliged. Raced away picking up a new mayor.
If he could come today, he wouldn't have to know
about it.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Would do that in Miss Mayfield, od Chester. I'll go
down and get the loan of Moss Grimmic's wagon with him.
We'll bring him in the docks.
Speaker 5 (11:33):
Aren't sure thank him, Marshall?
Speaker 2 (11:35):
I don't thank him. Miss Mayfield I'm kind of curious
about that bullet hole.
Speaker 6 (11:51):
You think a doctor's office could be a little handier
to get to sit all? He's staring. Oh, I'm making
all right.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
You will hold the door, Chester, and I got him?
Speaker 6 (12:01):
Yes, Oh what have we got here?
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Why don't you take a look at this leg? Will
you not?
Speaker 7 (12:10):
I get him up on the table.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Then, yeah, yeah, that's fine.
Speaker 6 (12:17):
I'll go see the wagons.
Speaker 7 (12:20):
Yeah, let me see and uh oh yes, yeah, a
bullet caused that?
Speaker 6 (12:27):
And yes, sir, did it?
Speaker 7 (12:29):
H You're lucky though it's not too deep. Must have
bled a lot, that sure did bleed. Yes, sir, that's
a good thing. Cleans itself out for you, probably capture.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
From getting lock jaws as a bullet still in there.
Speaker 6 (12:43):
No, no, it isn't. He just creased down top of
his leg. Funny thing.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
That's Ben. Holler you up now telling him to hold
his horses? Yeah, up here, Ben, But he's busy right now.
He'll be with you in a minute. Oh he can't
be busy, Marshall.
Speaker 6 (13:05):
It's Lucy.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
It's her time, and I been calm down, you know
how she is.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
She don't waste no time once she gets started.
Speaker 6 (13:12):
All right, Ben.
Speaker 7 (13:13):
All right, this boy is okay, man, I've cleaned his leg.
God just needs buying him up again.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
I guess I can do that. Doctor.
Speaker 6 (13:21):
Well, I shoot you can. I better be moving him.
Speaker 7 (13:23):
This is Loosey's sixth and like Ben says, she doesn't
waste any time. But after this minute, I don't know
why she needs a doctor. Alright, Uh you boy, better
take it kind of easy for there too, and then
you'll be as good as new.
Speaker 6 (13:38):
Thank you, doctor.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Yeah, it's kind of painful, I guess.
Speaker 6 (13:45):
Oh no, Marshall, it don't hurt hardly at all.
Speaker 5 (13:49):
No more.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
I wasn't thinking about you. I was thinking about Ben
being a father.
Speaker 6 (13:54):
Oh yeah, I guess.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
So you old still now bind you up. I sure
must have been a trick shot that got you.
Speaker 6 (14:05):
What do you mean, Marshall or else?
Speaker 2 (14:07):
The gun? But I must have been ten feet straight
up above you? Why I had bullet angles really straight down.
It's a pretty hard shot to make, Marshall. Seems to
me that you couldn't help seeing who it was I
got that close enough to shoot you like that? Uh well,
but uh you didn't see anybody, did your time?
Speaker 3 (14:29):
All?
Speaker 6 (14:29):
At Marshall? I guess you know.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
You did this yourself, didn't you.
Speaker 6 (14:34):
Yeah, Marshall, I did.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Did you do it on purpose?
Speaker 9 (14:38):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (14:39):
No? Now, I was trying to shoot me a rabbit.
I was awful hungry, and I guess I shot a
mite too soon.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
And it's usually a good idea to get your gun
out before you pull a trigger. You you know, you
should have spoken right out about this time.
Speaker 6 (14:54):
I couldn't, Marshall. I just couldn't. But then I haven't
done anything right since I run off from Baltimore.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Well maybe that was your first mistake here.
Speaker 6 (15:03):
I'm sure don't belong in the West, and that's a fact.
But well, when you're so all fired clumsy you shoot
yourself in your own leg, where do you belong Marshall.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Now there's lots of accidents with guns, Tom, that's no disgrace.
Speaker 6 (15:18):
You don't understand, Marshall. I had done nothing right. Besides,
I'm I'm scared of guns.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Tom. The man who isn't scared of guns is a fool.
Speaker 6 (15:33):
I tell you, Marshall, I never thought it would be
like this. I didn't get scared when I was reading
them stories and hearing folks tell their tales about the West.
But once I got out here. Well, nothing's been right.
I shouldn't have come.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Well you can always go back, I.
Speaker 6 (15:52):
Guess no, I can't, least ways, not like this.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
You. Uh you've got any folks? Uh? Whould they send
you any money?
Speaker 6 (16:00):
Oh? Yes, sir, they'd send it. But I just can't
ask for it. I can't go back with my tail
between my legs. I can't go home while i'm yellow,
while I'm afraid of a gun.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Hell, all right, you climbs down off the table. Now,
can you bear any weight on that leg?
Speaker 6 (16:23):
Yes, sir, I think so.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Right. If you do, think so, I'll be able to
work down as far as Delmonico's and get something either.
Speaker 6 (16:29):
Oh oh sure, marshall. Thank you.
Speaker 10 (16:49):
This land is your?
Speaker 8 (16:52):
This land is.
Speaker 7 (16:55):
This lad was paid when.
Speaker 5 (16:59):
I was a child.
Speaker 4 (16:59):
Are you a little spelling game to remember Mississippi mis
sis sip pi remember now? Of course I remember Mississippi
in other ways.
Speaker 5 (17:09):
For other things.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
I remember Faulkner and Yoknapatafa County, the aristocratic old plantations
of matches, trimp boats setting out from Biloxi. Many of you, too,
must remember watching the oystermen off the shores of past
Christian or cotton pickers in Greenville, attending the Delta Staple
Cotton Festival in Clarksdale. Patting the Spanish moss on the
(17:31):
giant oaks. Mississippi stirs remembrances in most people, even those
who have never visited the Magnolia State.
Speaker 5 (17:38):
For the history and the name of the.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
State, and yes, even the spelling game make us stop
to think and to ponder the wisdom behind the state
motto by Valor and Arms.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Hello man, Hello kitty. I was just on my way
down to see it. Uh, thought I might have a
glass of beer.
Speaker 7 (18:07):
Come on, then it will be a pleasure.
Speaker 6 (18:09):
A kid also a novel here.
Speaker 5 (18:12):
Oh, oh, what do you mean you haven't exactly.
Speaker 8 (18:15):
Been making a habit of coming around?
Speaker 2 (18:17):
They think, Well, I been kind of busy, kitty, That's
what I hear. And I understand you've adopted the boy.
Oh who told you that?
Speaker 6 (18:31):
Isn't two?
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Isn't that broken boy staying with you? Wow? Just till
he got himself enough money to go back to Baltimore.
Speaker 8 (18:38):
I never heard of you taking such an interest before.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Mat Ah, Kitty, he's uh, he's got things pretty mixed up.
Poor kid thinks he's no good.
Speaker 8 (18:49):
Oh and you think you'll figure he's not so bad
as the Marshall will put up with him.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Uh not, kiddie.
Speaker 5 (18:56):
I all right, Mack, I don't blame you.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
He seems like a nice boy.
Speaker 8 (19:01):
He waited on me yesterday mister Jonas's store.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Now another months they would have earned his train fair
back home.
Speaker 5 (19:07):
Sudn't somebody lending?
Speaker 3 (19:08):
No?
Speaker 2 (19:08):
I won't take it. Says he's going back on his
own the same way he came.
Speaker 6 (19:13):
Sounds kind of proud foolish to me. Wow, you Marshall
Marcell Billon.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Yeah, mister Jonas, you better come quick.
Speaker 7 (19:22):
What's happening that boy? Tommy? He tried to shoot it
out and hold up man. Huh, And I'm afraid he's dying.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Kiddy dog, got doc with you soon, my mister Jonas, Yes, sir,
where is he?
Speaker 7 (19:34):
Hu had carried him into the storeroom.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Exactly what happened?
Speaker 6 (19:38):
Well, I was behind the counter.
Speaker 7 (19:41):
This man came in held a gun on me.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Yeah, you'll try to do anything about her, Who know, Marshall.
Speaker 7 (19:46):
I just put my hands up. Here's enough money in
dodge Worth getting shot over.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Then the boy rushed in.
Speaker 8 (19:52):
Huh.
Speaker 7 (19:53):
He must have grabbed a gun off the shelf, he
stuck it in the man's back and the fellow world
and shot it.
Speaker 6 (20:00):
Boy didn't even get a chance.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
To pull the trigger. And the man got away. Marshall.
He he got away, and I'll find him all right,
right back here, Marshall. Tom, it's Matt Dylan.
Speaker 6 (20:19):
Marshall.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
Yeah, you get that, fine, Tom.
Speaker 7 (20:24):
But I.
Speaker 6 (20:25):
Didn't get any Marshall.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Oh well, that doesn't matter.
Speaker 6 (20:28):
The thing is you'd try, yes, sir, I sure try.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
I nobody can do more Oran that.
Speaker 6 (20:37):
Marshall wasn't afraid when I grabbed that gun. Does that
count for anything?
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Counts for a lot of time.
Speaker 6 (20:50):
I don't have to be ashamed anymore, No, of course
you don't. I can go home and facebooks.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
You can't face anybody now.
Speaker 6 (21:04):
Then, I guess I'm glad I come west after all.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Is he dead, Marshall, Yeah, he's dead. It's a shame,
you just a shame. I'll tell you what's the real shame,
mister Jonas, A whole lot more times back in Baltimore
and all through the East, growing up with the idea
(21:38):
that out here a man's not a man without a gun.
I'll tell you, mister Jonas, I Hope, I, Rest of 'em,
and Stay Home.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Gun Smoke, produced and directed by Norman McDonald, stars William
Conrad as Matt Dylan US Marshall. The music was composed
and conducted by Rex Cory. Sound patterns were composed by
Ray Kepper and Bill James. Featured in the cast were
Parley Bear as Chester, Howard mcneer as Doc, and Georgia
Allis is Kidding George Wolf Speaking. Join us again next
(23:05):
week for another story of the western frontier of America
in the eighteen seventies on gun Smoke. This is the
United States Armed Forces Radio and Television Service.
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