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Speaker 2 (01:04):
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 chancy job, and it makes a man watchful
and a little lonely.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
I'd seen it.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Before, but every time I'd hoped I'd never see it again.
A homestead smolder and it ruins the stock, slaughter to
run off, and the family scattered all over. A body
by the corral, another in the doorway. Another is buried
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in the ashes of the house. S all of 'em
scalped and mutilated. Chester So at first we're about fifty
miles north of Dodge.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Up on the Pawnee.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Uh my horse had gone lame from a rough four
day chase that had led to nothing. We'd lost the
trail and had turned back and Chester was riding up
her head. He stopped and waited. Then we rode up
to the scene together and got on.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
This must be the father mischief doing.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
He was coming out of the house to help his
son that was there by the corral.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
Well he got one and didn't before he died.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Uh, cheyenne, They wait a minute, This is why they're
out any arrows around?
Speaker 4 (03:12):
Hey, that's a spencer repeating rifle.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
It sure is.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
You must have stolen out somewhere's mister doing?
Speaker 2 (03:19):
No, Now, there isn't one arrow here. The whole war
party had rifles.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
You mean they've been buying 'em.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Well that's my guess. Y.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
Hey, look you on 'em as you're doing huh, coming
over their eyes or.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Yeah, they're a little late. The whole troop cavalry.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Yeah, they must be from Fort Dodge. I wonder who's
in command.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Can tell?
Speaker 4 (03:43):
Yeah, look at 'em they're spreading out.
Speaker 5 (03:48):
Hm.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
Maybe they think we're Indians.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Out of the last four days we've put in. No
Indian could look as bad.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
As we do.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
Oh they can.
Speaker 6 (03:58):
Hey, Hey, look yeah, they're taking their rifles up there,
they're gonna charge.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
The captain's playing safe, that's all.
Speaker 5 (04:06):
Just well, it may be safe for him.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Just standy, say Chester.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
Oh I ain't about him. Oh oh.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
I did three none, that's what's he doing? Oh? He
doesn't need the whole troop up here?
Speaker 4 (04:29):
Who is that anyway? I never seen him before, and
I heard.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
There was a new troop at foot Dodge. I guess
this must be it must be it.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
Here they come.
Speaker 5 (04:42):
What are you men doing here? We'll speak up.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
We're looking around, captain, same as you.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
Don't be insolent, Captain.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
What is it?
Speaker 7 (04:53):
Sergeant?
Speaker 5 (04:53):
The rifle he is holding? More than forty four spencers?
You're right, sergeant, just i'm those men.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
If I were you, i'd stand back, sergeant, hold your.
Speaker 5 (05:05):
Rifles on them.
Speaker 8 (05:06):
Man, don't be a fool. There are four of us
here and eighty men behind us. You can't fight a
troop of.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Cavalry as your rifles, Sergeant, I.
Speaker 8 (05:17):
Said, disarm them completely. Yes, they make them over. Your
troopers shoot them.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Kill me who you are, mister Dillon?
Speaker 9 (05:25):
No?
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Just give him me a gun?
Speaker 5 (05:27):
Chester?
Speaker 4 (05:29):
All right, here.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Here's mine.
Speaker 8 (05:38):
Now are you going to tell me what you're doing here? No,
then you men are prisoners. I'm taking you to four.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
Dodge well of all the crazy.
Speaker 5 (05:49):
Secure these men, and then we'll form a burial party.
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reporting with the prisoner's major, come.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Up to his desk. Are these your prisoners, Captain Nichols? Yes, sir.
Speaker 9 (07:52):
They were at the scene of the raid with a
spencer rifle and you thought they might have something to
do with the gun runners?
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Is that it?
Speaker 8 (07:58):
They wouldn't talk, and they showed signs of resist. I
thought it best to bring them in.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Why wouldn't you talk? I got curious, curious about what? Well?
Speaker 2 (08:09):
I hadn't heard about any Cheyennes being on the warpath lately.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
That's one reason. Yeah, what else?
Speaker 2 (08:14):
I found that Spencer rifle there, and I figured somebody's
been selling guns to those Indians. But when the captain
came up with his troop, I knew that there was
more to it than that. Why he was more interested
in us than in tracking down that war party?
Speaker 1 (08:29):
What's going on?
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Major?
Speaker 5 (08:30):
Be civil?
Speaker 9 (08:30):
You, I'll handle this, captain, Yes, sir, you know about
the reservation?
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Eas to hear?
Speaker 2 (08:37):
How I heard that you're holding a couple of thousand
Cheyennes so you can move them down Oklahoma away.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Yeah, that's right, except for one thing. Oh what's that?
Lost a few of them about forty But that's enough.
You saw that?
Speaker 4 (08:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Who's leading them? Young renegade called Stone Eagle?
Speaker 2 (08:54):
And why didn't the captain go after him instead of
stopping to take us prisoner?
Speaker 9 (08:57):
The captain's orders were to catch whoever selling those rifles.
Thought you might have something to do with.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
It, sure, but he still might have been able to
run down the Stone Eagles party.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Well, what good did that do?
Speaker 9 (09:08):
Other leaders will come up and place a stone eagle
as long as rifles are available. There isn't a brave
on the reservation. It won't hear about it sooner or
later and slip away from it. Or can't you patrol
the reservation? That's the whole point. I don't have enough
men for more in a token patrol. Ah, I see
this gun running isn't stopped. The situation will become more
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and more serious.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Well, I understand no magic. Now wait, captain, you let
me explain. You're new out here.
Speaker 9 (09:37):
You did right bringing in these two about as disreputable
as looking pair as I've seen since the Border War days.
Look like they've been living in a badger hole. Yes, sir,
that's what I thought. I expect to've been in a
ride somewhere. Take them out, give them a bath, couple
of clean shirts, and bring them back right, and then
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have a couple extra places set for them and they officers.
Mess been a long time since Chester and Marshall Dillon
have visited Fort Dodge. Marshall Dillon, Yeah, well it's understandable, Captain.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
I've done the same if I hadn't known them as
long as I have.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Now you were acting on orders, Captain, even though your
orders lack intelligence. What does that mean, Marshall, I'm sorry
I shouldn't that a fear Major is not my army
I want to know.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Well, I meant.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Intelligence in the military since gone. Well, look, you're chasing
all around over the prairie looking for some gun runners
that you probably will never find.
Speaker 5 (10:38):
Why not?
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Well, you haven't found them yet, have you? No?
Speaker 2 (10:40):
But if you were a Cheyenne, I'll bet you could.
And that's what I mean by intelligence. I've asked our
Indian scout.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
All the Cheyennes hate your Indian Scott's worse than they
hate you.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
I know it.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
I wish I knew what to do. Major his chief
long robe on that reservation. Well the old man, yes
see is why tell?
Speaker 2 (11:04):
He's a friend of mine? At least he was a
long time ago. Now go on, Well I might have
a talk with him. Impossible, Oh, why, Indians too restless.
I wouldn't dare send you on a guard into that camp.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
But I'll go without a guard. They'd kill any white
man walk in there alone. I'll try to reach a
long road before they do. No.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Uh, not worth it, Marshall. I'll let you know about
that tomorrow. Major you're going tonight. Yeah, might help get
the picture of that homesteader and his family out of
my mind before I try to sleep. M throw your
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gun belt across your saddle, Chester, do what A gun
won't do you any good if these Chyannes decide they
want us.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Alright, sir, Now you wanted to come in Chester?
Speaker 4 (12:15):
Oh, I ain't complaining, not yet anyway.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Okay, let's go.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
Gracious. I wish i'd least had me a boy. Now
what you're doing?
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Yeah, it's late. Most of these people are asleep.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
They's two thousand Chians and he's campaign all sleep.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Now now we're being watched every second.
Speaker 6 (12:46):
Yeah, and some young buck could get his first coup
for etherbody spearing House.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
He wouldn't want to stand in the way of a
man becoming a brave, would you, Chester.
Speaker 6 (12:55):
I am also thinking about how they treat people that
ain't killed right off, where they turn him over to
the squaws for torture and stuff.
Speaker 5 (13:04):
Ah.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Now you're even afraid of women.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
How shy and women?
Speaker 6 (13:07):
I am.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
You there much? You never were being stopped?
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Yeah, I see him. Just keep walking and don't make
any quick moves.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Oh now, yo, yah, deal a lot of long robe now.
I he usually out you, I'd say, uh, alright, let's
move Chester, but keep an eye on him.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
He's still standing there.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
No, I told him I'm a friend of long robes.
Luckily he's from the same clan.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Which clans at white Fox. There it is.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
See that medicine pull over there with the white skin
on him. Yeah, that's the long Robes large. Alright, you
uh better wait out here, Chester, good?
Speaker 3 (14:12):
Oh ya see ye may hang it all.
Speaker 5 (14:15):
Usually we go you, me and my son woman would
give you a buffalo robe to sit on. I leave
when out here.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
Yeah, there's.
Speaker 5 (14:31):
Eline Alba, Yeah is here.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Oh. It's been a long time since we've talked, Long Rub.
Speaker 5 (14:42):
A long time. I know why you'll come.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Yeah, Stone Eagle, four.
Speaker 5 (14:49):
Or more braves went past soldiers last night. There'll be
more tomorrow and day after.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Long Rub.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
The last time we talked, you told me it was
hopeles to go on fighting the white Man's army.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
You said that you wanted peace for your people.
Speaker 5 (15:06):
I am old man. My son Stone Eagle and his
braves are young. Their blood is hot now. They have
rifles that shoot many times.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
I thought you'd know about their rifles.
Speaker 5 (15:18):
Soon every brave on reservation will know. Then they will
leave in spite of guard of soldiers.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
It'll lead the war Long Robe, big war.
Speaker 5 (15:29):
There are many clans among Cheyennes. I am chief only
of White.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Fox, but klan is stone Eagle.
Speaker 5 (15:38):
Stone Eagle is of two Moon plan.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
But there are White Fox braves with him.
Speaker 5 (15:43):
Yeh, I cannot stop them. I remember what it was
like when I was young.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Now it was different than Long Rope. You had a chance.
Now they have no chance.
Speaker 5 (15:55):
They have many rifles, they.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Have a few, yes, but the army has got thousands
and thousands of rifles.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Long up.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
In the end, the Cheyenne cannot win. He must live
in peace or he will be destroyed. Now you're a
wise man. You you know this is true.
Speaker 10 (16:15):
You are right.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Stone Eagle's supply of rifles have got to be stopped.
How many of your people will die?
Speaker 5 (16:22):
You want to know where rifles come from?
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Just tell me where Stone Eagle meets the white man
who've been supplying him.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
Now do the rest. He'll be saving lives.
Speaker 7 (16:34):
Long Rope.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Cheyenne lives.
Speaker 5 (16:39):
For the shake of my people. I tell you place
north of here, place near Rock Mound, there is cabin.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
There rock mound.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
All right, I'll find it, but I.
Speaker 5 (16:53):
Must warn you, my son, what I know the feelings
of my people. They are like powder.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
I know.
Speaker 5 (17:00):
It is more than you know. Go find white men
with guns, but not kill any of Stone Eagle's warriors.
If you do, word will come and every brave here
will rise and go on warpath, whether they have rifles
or not. If one single Cheyenne is killed by cavalry
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or by you, this will happen.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
It's as bad as that I speak the truth. Well,
thank you long rub.
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Speaker 6 (19:25):
We're right on in Mark.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
He's waiting for you, I guess Sargon, and then Marshall,
I'll good morning, Katherin, Good morning.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Where's Major Honeymoon?
Speaker 8 (19:40):
The Major was ordered to Fort Larned for a few days.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
Oh, I see.
Speaker 8 (19:43):
I'm in command until the Major's return. Did you find
out anything last night, Marshall, Well.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
I know where Stone Eagle meets the gun Runners.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
If you do, then our problem is solved.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
Not quite.
Speaker 8 (19:58):
All I have to do is take my troop. They
wait for Stone Eagle to come for more rifles. I
can wipe out him and the gun Runners at the
same time.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
No, no, why not.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Chief long Robe's a wise old man captain. He knows
his people will so if one brave is killed, there'll
be an uprising.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
There's an uprising already, marsh.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
Only some forty or fifty men. This would be the
whole Cheyenne nation. Doesn't make sense, maybe not to us,
but it does to them, and long Robe never lies.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
I'll chance it.
Speaker 8 (20:31):
I'll kill everyone of Stone Eagle's braves. That'll show them
what cavalryes for now, where is this meeting place? I'm sorry, Captain, sorry,
I can't tell you.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
I order you to tell me very well.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
Then it's your duty to tell me.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
You're all right, Captain, that you're new out here and
you're too eager. Indians are the Army's business, so you
do what you want. I'm going back to Dodge. It
was true the Indian problem belonged to the army, but
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renegade white gun runners.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
How it was different.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
About a mile down the road to Dodge, Chester and
I turned north and rode hard for Rock Mound. We
reached it next day, and sure.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
Enough, by half a mile away we found the.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
Cabin that the Long Road had told me about. We
scouted it carefully and then rode up to it. It
was empty, and so was the small barn out back.
There was nothing to do but put our horses up
and settled down in the cabin and waked.
Speaker 5 (22:00):
Mister Dillon.
Speaker 4 (22:02):
Yeah, I Chester, I just thought of something.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
Gunding that walker yours or beginning to reach me.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
Uh, I'm serious. What did them Indians show up first
before the gun runners.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
Do work on something? I was Chester?
Speaker 8 (22:17):
What I thought of that?
Speaker 3 (22:18):
Myself?
Speaker 4 (22:19):
Yeah, but what would we do?
Speaker 3 (22:20):
I don't know. Join 'em, I guess. Oh, now, mister dealing,
wait a minute, be quiet?
Speaker 5 (22:29):
What about by the cabin?
Speaker 6 (22:30):
Do you?
Speaker 3 (22:32):
Those aren't Indians? Alright? Take it likes chestice, can't you're
a get old? Don't shoot on us? I I do quiet? Now?
Speaker 10 (22:42):
What do the wagon here? Let's go inside to get
a drink or kit here or welcome? Mm made it
just intact. It's already sundown. Hold it so it shoot?
Speaker 5 (23:01):
Can't call it.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
You killed both of 'em if you dinner. I didn't
even get a shot off.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
Ah, that's one's still alive. Who are you a us?
Marshal Uh?
Speaker 4 (23:26):
I'm gonna die, Marshall.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
There's that wagon full of rifles.
Speaker 5 (23:33):
And ammunition I'm supplied from which you talk. But it
ain't gonna do you no good and all that. Now
you're gonna die too. But am Indians n never late
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when they're out of ammunition and be here any minute.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
I wish I could stay to watch.
Speaker 6 (24:10):
What they do to you.
Speaker 5 (24:12):
Hm hm.
Speaker 4 (24:21):
Oh, he must have been lying.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
Why shut? They have led?
Speaker 4 (24:24):
Well, then we'd better run for it.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
Now they'd catch us easy, won't be much of a fight.
Speaker 6 (24:31):
Two man against to have a hundred giants, but we
can kill some of 'em by golle.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
And start a war.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
M I forgot about that. And no matter what we do,
they'll get those rifles. H and the less we can
destroy 'em.
Speaker 4 (24:51):
That wagon looks plumb fool, mister Dylan. I swear I
must be thirty forty in there. At least Hey we
get gather up some wood and fire that wagon.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
No, it's total a Chester, what look coming over with
that rise there?
Speaker 4 (25:10):
Huh. There's only two of 'em though, Scouts.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
The war party will come on. They signal we couldn't
get that fires started.
Speaker 4 (25:19):
M Hey, mister Dillon, the scouts disappeared.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
And that's funny, Hey, Chester, what out there? Well, Glory
b that's what those Cheyenne scouts were looking at.
Speaker 4 (25:37):
Captain Nichols. Huh. That troop ain't moving very fast.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
They're still tracking us, riding slow and watching the ground.
Speaker 6 (25:45):
Oh, their Indians will be half way to Kennedy by
the time he gets here.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
I hope.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
So anyway, Stoney goes finished now that he's out of ammunition.
Speaker 4 (25:55):
That Captain Nichols sure didn't trust you none, did he?
Mister Dillon, well, Chester we.
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