August 2, 2025 • 28 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
H Countier towns, the spargo of the Roaring West.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Frontier Town, Helpetho Plan Calgary Tombstone, Huntier Town.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Here is the adventurous story of.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
The early West, the Tame and the young tams On,
the Pacers, Sapara, Rivers, Goads, Bitty, the poker plaque.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
These are the towns they spot to live in and
live to fight.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Poor teeming prisms of pioneer freedom.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
Hun Heier Town.
Speaker 5 (01:31):
In all down in goes Rios, nice little frontier town.
I come from where I'm the only lawyer. The layer
business certainly takes many.
Speaker 6 (01:39):
A peculiar term.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Hope seemed to come to achrowdtown.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Lawyer like Chad Remy didn't text me almost any kind
of advice and for help in.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Almost any kind of trouble and trouble Believe me, we
have a plenty out on the rolling roystering Frontier.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Of course, a lot of our trub was on brought
to Maybe they just happened, like the trouble we had
just a.
Speaker 5 (02:04):
Few weeks ago. Mister, that was bad trouble, real bad trouble.
Cherokee O'Bannon, the ex medicine man who runs the Gusto
slippery stable. Now that he's performed somewhat, had gone with
me to the judges for supper.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
To Cherokee, the principal attraction was for suffer. I mean
it was the judge's daughter, Libby. Well, we were finishing
off one of Libby's slimming sponge pies.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
When there's something wrong, Cherokee.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Well, come on, Cherokee, there is something wrong.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Big things just copies.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
If you've ever seen coffee before.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
Er come on, O'Bannon, the judge in Libya. Cut it
would your jaw down?
Speaker 3 (02:43):
What's wrong? That would be perfectly honest with you.
Speaker 7 (02:46):
Why I was just reflecting, or what a part.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Of Brandy might do would have the flavor of mismochan Java, Cherokee,
I haven't got any brand aid, but die, I've gotta
do a whine.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Why my dear child.
Speaker 8 (03:01):
Share It sounds with the tumble down in the house.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
It's sure guts a little like years, I'd say, someone straighting.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
The Wells Fargo office, Wells five.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Literally, you stay here, Jerry can get the judge's rifle
off the wall. Let's get going fast.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
By the time we got our horses back into town.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
A posse had already mounted up and was streaking out.
Speaker 6 (03:33):
Of those vehels, following.
Speaker 5 (03:34):
The bandits, who headed with the hills over the wickedly
wouldn't bridge across the White River.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
There was no move under the tumble owning of blackness.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
There was a little no follow at the receding sound
of a hook piece, which led further and further up
a gradually narrowing trail into the parlor rocky regions of
the hills.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
By this time we were sure we'd lost them in.
Speaker 6 (03:58):
The Marshall Parla hall to hold the town in the war.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
Well, Marshall, what do we do now?
Speaker 2 (04:10):
I can't say right off, kid, And they get a
pretty good notion. And the leader of that bunch with
add Cleever, he's been pulling rage not too far from here.
Legally I leave the I've heard this Fleevert sent is
the Smarts a rabbis snake back to the hold.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
I think you make a mistake this time. What do
you mean, Jerokee Marshall.
Speaker 5 (04:27):
I think Cherokee means they've written in the sort of
a cold distacked the bottleneck, because except for laws Peterson's wanch,
there's nothing back up in those hills but rim rock.
It runs straight up and the headwaters of the White River. Dad,
I do believe you're right.
Speaker 9 (04:45):
Once they ride past Peterson's ranch, they literally have their
backs to the.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Wall and we can starve them out. Well, I'll be
dumb gun durned of your own right. Thanks.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
You take poor man and call up at the rim
behind them. Two craps up there, that's flow.
Speaker 8 (04:59):
Into the right.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Have a do few other fellows go with.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
My chief Deputy Andy Thomas and former half circle down here.
The rest of us will go back to town, get
some more ammunition than rife horse.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
We'll be back up here for his honey.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
Have to give you them relief and crows in.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
On them blasted curve.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
Watching Cherokee riding around this rim away you're silhouetted to
make a perfect target at any of.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Ally blue plains? Is tad that build the whole rights
through my stats. Well it proves one thing. We're not
gonna catch him nothing. Can you see any of our
boys around here? We'll be seen u. Yeah, there's nothing.
Chief's Deputy Andy Thomas porting down behind that.
Speaker 6 (05:51):
Some on this job.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
But you have to pull a horse now, it's got
to look like a free hire and.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
Believe may I'm no honey, or am I get up there?
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Oh? Boy? Call it? Oh anything happened?
Speaker 10 (06:12):
Andie nothing but that sniping? Can you see them down there? Nope,
it's a tougher smoke. When they threw a shot up
here and the Marshall said he'd be up with some
lunch for you around noon time. The meantime here at
two extra rifles and three hundred rounds of shells and
a spyglass that Judge's party used at Gettysburger.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Thanks Chad and h.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Taylor marshamant to forget a pluck of my charn tobacker
all up here for garshnows?
Speaker 3 (06:35):
How fair? Ain't you listening to me? Oh?
Speaker 5 (06:39):
Oh, I'm sorry, Andy, I was looking down to where
they've got. Cleve went his game sewed up. Without ladders,
they'll never be able to get up here. They could
move off to the east a few hundred yards and
come up behind the dis place. If they did, with
what's surplies, they could get from there. This siege might
last for months. I'd like to see.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Him pryor or fetus and hold her about the two
most stubborn squeeds all over the county wouldn't be a
wouldn't buy a bottle of my rattlesnake on for two pairs.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
They fight clefand his whole gang to pretty well, it's
just the same.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
I think the thing to do is to get back
to town and call a little strategy meeting. All we've
got to do is figure every possible move Clever I
might make, and have some counter tactics ready.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Clear to lose nothing by getting your heads together. It's
just a few heads.
Speaker 5 (07:26):
There's a person in this entire valley who has the
time to spend two months until Cleaner starved out.
Speaker 6 (07:32):
It's he does manage to get some supplies.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
I don't follow at the crying us no good, get wet.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
When I get back to town, I'm gonna write mister
Stepson a letter.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
But we need out here as a half as bullet pro.
Speaker 5 (07:52):
Not only did we need hats that were bullet through,
but we found we needed a lot of help. Clever
wasn't just true as it cant amount. He was a
man who was willing to take a chance. However, as
we had figured it out, Cleveland made a mistake. Apparently,
when he laid his plans for the Wells fargo raid.
He'd counted on crossing the river and getting away, But
(08:13):
instead of crossing the Red River, which had meadow land
on this opposite bank, he crossed the White found himself
with his back to the rocks on one side and
the headwaters on the other.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
That was about the only joyful note.
Speaker 5 (08:26):
I could sound in the whole meeting with the Judge
and the marshall, call for early that evening, and.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
To please buy it down.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
As much as we want your help and ideas, we.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Can't hear anything if you all tried talking at the
same time.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
All right, Chad, would you go on with what you
were saying? Well, it is not much more, Judge, I
just think there was no moon tonight. It'd be a
good idea if we could sneak about a dozen.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Men up to Lars Peterson's place, just in case Clever
gets the same idea that I got. I don't take
it to third idea, And just to start the ball
aroungs how barns her to be one of those ben
my sick. The way the ten you layers is cleeber
ever gets wise, you can put us off one by
one and we'll never get anybody to Peterson. What's more,
if we do get men up to Peterson, what happens
(09:19):
if they're trying to break.
Speaker 8 (09:20):
Out some other way?
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Not all? It was after all the Marshall's in charge.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
How you think, Mirshall, if.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
We could get some of the men into Peterson's and
had certainly stopped Cleeber Oh, Michael Mussel, Wait a minute,
who just came in hell Peterson?
Speaker 4 (09:42):
Then they come here with bad news, la bless bad news.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Now what come on, Helly, you better come up here
on the platform so we can all heed.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
Okay, nothing so bad. Have never happened to me in there?
Speaker 3 (09:59):
What is it? Hell? Th happened? Gor Chads? Man goes cooked?
They breaking tom Oh, no.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
Time wing there's now we are in So what happened
to your husband?
Speaker 3 (10:08):
What happened? Alt lorst Mike, here's hot on he cooks, here's.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Hot like wise man, but those outpost beat him on here,
then take him place for us.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
You got away here, didn't get foray.
Speaker 9 (10:20):
So let me go on, tell mister come down here.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
And get you an instition by jumping him. And it's
the worst job they ever had to do. That's cruel.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Cam Kiev, He.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Says, Well, lest he get him and this man upper
changing and right away the damn not headwaters the pipe rivers,
and then go up them and thar.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
That horn tower.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
No, don't go get me excited. They can't the town
that's him parkable. I'm afraid it's not impossible. Marsh where
they're located. Take a damn up that water. In no
time is the goup man damn the walk.
Speaker 5 (10:52):
And with the water damned up, even a child could
divert and't let it come roaring down on the town.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Do let them cooks loose. You can't be serious. I can't.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
And you're gonna lose our ranches and our stores and
everything we own just to catch them side wine and cooks?
Speaker 4 (11:11):
Who ever done any harm?
Speaker 8 (11:13):
My god?
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Are you allow of sheep? Are you going to let
a low down, double dyed common murderer stampede you in
the coward? I am taken from a man who knows.
If you will see this various demands, you will never
be able to live with yourselves, poor, say neighbors, neighbors.
Maybe I haven't always.
Speaker 5 (11:37):
Been right, but I think everyone here will grant that
I've never consciously worked against the interest of my friends
in my town.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
What are you doing running for contis?
Speaker 8 (11:48):
There's no matter for laugh.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
I'm not so parious. And even though I have Cleaver's
holding me, their husbands, what's her callings? Hostage host? They
must not know?
Speaker 4 (12:00):
Crooks said that must fight yellows.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
I say, keep Helga here to start with, then sending
her back to stuff for along with Lars.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
When Helga doesn't come back, that'll be Cleaver's answer by
the time he realizes that is his answer. We ought
to be able to figure something.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Out and come ebbside of high water. We'll fight for
this valley like men, not like the Yellow.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Spine cowards those out who's really are.
Speaker 9 (12:44):
We'll return to the second act of guns of raft
while exciting funds. Heretown adventure in just a few moments,
(13:23):
and no fund's here town.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Like I said before, this was trouble, real trouble. And
even though I did pull.
Speaker 5 (13:39):
A politician's spell by the trick assuring everyone that we'd
fight back successfully, I honestly didn't think ad Cleaver would
do any more than dam up the water to frighteness.
So that was because I didn't know ap Cleaver, as
I learned later from Lars Peterson, and s Cleva didn't
wait very long, scarcely an hour after the time. He's thinking,
(14:00):
hell going to be back with our word of acquiescence.
Cleaver walked out to where his metal was gathered her
on the willow burst damn leg though, Well, Abs, no, lady,
get back.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
No, we ain't gonna wait. I'm gonna show him that
when I have Cleavers send stuff and he means.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
It to.
Speaker 11 (14:21):
Okay with me, boys, Me and the boys already got
the powder planted under the dam. All we gotta do
is light the fuse and ten million gallons of water
will come rushing down on those wheels like it.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Was Judgment days. Well, what are you waiting for it?
They got matches, ain't sure like that? Furs?
Speaker 6 (14:41):
You know stuff?
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Mayab This is gonna be more fun than the fourth
of July. He's lit, boys, I'll stay.
Speaker 4 (14:52):
I sure there's no stuff on that.
Speaker 8 (15:25):
I think you can say, maybe say they couldn't set.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
Outside, you don't like? Yeah, had Cleave crossed me up
(16:08):
and as Rios is underwater.
Speaker 5 (16:11):
But the strange thing was, and we could see it
from our vantage point up in the rocks of Crow's.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Nest, the town wasn't white down far from it.
Speaker 5 (16:21):
It was just as if the river had spoiln in
a flash spring flood float over its banks and covered
the streets of the town with about three feet of
silk filled muddy water. Of the judge let be Cherokee,
and I pondered this, tried to figure it out as
we looked down on the southern town.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
Why this is no worse than that spring slutly when
I was a little girl.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Maybe not even as bad, no question about it, Lily,
But I for one can't make it out even think
paper figures that.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
But only a few feet of water. We'll go back
into town and maybe he let the rest of it
loose and really grown. Yeah, with a man like USh
go down to park at.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
This time, because if he had wanted the gunners, he
could have done it in the first place.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
I charge your eyes.
Speaker 6 (17:07):
What do you make of a judge?
Speaker 5 (17:09):
I don't know exactly, Judge, but I'm sure there must
have been some reason for it. Just trying to put
myself in ad Cleeper's place and figure out what he
could possibly have hadn't gone it. I think I got
it good. You see, see way down there, just kind
of picking their way into town, you can just barely
make them out.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
There's eight horses, and I reckon they got eight men
on their back.
Speaker 12 (17:34):
Who are they?
Speaker 4 (17:36):
What do you think they're up to?
Speaker 6 (17:37):
Last?
Speaker 3 (17:38):
I miss my guess, and you this, and those men
are Ad Cleaver and his gang.
Speaker 5 (17:44):
If they wanted to get away, they wouldn't be heading
back again toward town.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Is that right? Yes?
Speaker 6 (17:51):
I guess so.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
But but I think they let loose a portion of
that water.
Speaker 5 (17:55):
They're clear of the town, and now that the town's clear,
they're going back in come completely unmolested, to help themselves
to anything and everything they can find out.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Ball, the afnxious, audacious, dacive be paid here. We are
way up here, and if we start down toward town,
he'll be able to pick us off like flies have
a house flies with cars, not the horse fly whose
pieicacious and wear a kid?
Speaker 7 (18:20):
Can't we do something?
Speaker 3 (18:22):
You bet we can't.
Speaker 6 (18:23):
Now.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Look, we're up here on the high ground just as
they were, except that we are up on the headwaters
of the Red River. So what's to stop us from
pulling the same trick they pulled and threatening to let
the whole Red River down on them unless they give
up After the unfortunate advice you gave everybody.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
Chad's already. Do you think that you have any influence
left with him? Maybe not, but never yet rule a
man off the tland. So what do you say?
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Let's get down off these rocks and over to the
mesa where the rest of the folks together.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
Don't gone to Chad. Two wrongs don't make a right.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
If we damned up the red River, we might finish
those wheels for Parre my yours there.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Puck, I say, oh no, said off? Let them clos
Chicka ay, let's check neck color horse.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
You're Chad.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
You can't quick when you're gone this far. Look, don't
you see? If you men will get back up in
the hills and start filding the damn, I can circle
down with the marshall and a posse and we'll have.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
Them cut off, caught between the foot we're gonna let
loose on.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Them, and enough men to make to a line them
up like lace curtains, just just a crack a craft.
Dad just wants to clip from them. And if Flavor
will give up and you don't want.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
To let the water down on him, you don't have
to ok.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
This time, Chad's right, I'm blamed if I don't think
show if you folks are willing to help me and
my man will risk our lives.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
Oh my boy, what are you looking at me for? Marshall?
If we ride, you'll ride with us? An't your cherokee?
Speaker 8 (20:11):
Well?
Speaker 4 (20:12):
When you put up that way?
Speaker 3 (20:13):
Chand there? Yes, man, what about the rest of you?
Speaker 4 (20:16):
All right there that's knocked on?
Speaker 3 (20:22):
These horses ran up?
Speaker 7 (20:39):
Then this is a hard we go, Kad Hoppy blames
you were right.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
See those men are rantacking the stores and loading everything
they can under that horses.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
Well, how are you going to pole our fever from here?
Watch turkey?
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Hey, cleaver, cleaver, can you hear us? And we're up
here over your heads to the east stop by the.
Speaker 12 (21:16):
Quakest he beat you jade. See looking up here, Cleaver,
you're getting.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Yourself into a track by coming back into Doserios.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
I'm here with the Marshall and a twenty man pussy.
The rest of the town is.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Back up in the hills. They're all set to let
the Red River row down behind you.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
How you got any prings at all?
Speaker 4 (21:49):
You'll quick?
Speaker 2 (21:51):
This is the Marshall pay and we're giving you just
one minute to make up your minds.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
Yeah, do you're hell, I'll be hanged.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
I'll tip that bank. I'll be blamed. You see them,
they've all got their hips together talking it over.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
Dad. I believe this is going to work. It looks
like I said, made their minds up.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Here, held man to tell your guns into the street.
They're coming down.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
All right, boys, let's get going well.
Speaker 6 (22:52):
We sure were feeling.
Speaker 5 (22:53):
Good being in particular, we spreaded our ways through the aspens,
came out in the lane on the back of high
backs plants, and headed.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
Through the water and mud into town. A few seconds
after the marshall.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Told the voice to spread out prut a board cover
more tends in the street.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
Cherokee suddenly nuts me and pointed to something bad. There's
not someone trying to get away into the alley.
Speaker 6 (23:17):
It's dog going right, it is.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
And I try not mistake and it tab Cleeve. Come on, Cherokees,
I'm still gonna need your help, Cleaver. The farther you
run now the party, you're gonna bounce later when I
lag you back to town.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
Oh so that's the way you want to play. Huh,
how's your work?
Speaker 4 (23:45):
Your gun? What's the ftter with you port that the figures.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Whole food nothing doing Cherokees, I got plans for that president.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
He comes off his horse and right behind that people
don't temper.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
Jog gone at this time?
Speaker 4 (24:04):
Where you got him?
Speaker 3 (24:05):
Four more d downtowns he's fighting.
Speaker 6 (24:15):
Don't look go think this time. I'm gonna trust in
my life to you.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
You dog gone, go better be careful. What do you mean,
what are you gonna do?
Speaker 2 (24:23):
Why you stay behind his lock and cover me hanging
a belly called across his clearing, set him out from
behind that log.
Speaker 6 (24:30):
And beat his brazer. He hesitated, A goodness, be careful,
I'll be closs you be careful, careful where you shoot,
covering me like he does.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
That's time about and let take six all right to
believe you're contempty.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
I reckon, My fists are loaded.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
Don't tell me you don't think you won't be loved.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
You're not gonna evena be able to do all right?
Speaker 5 (25:20):
Jerokee throws my knuckles on his pull cat's tin. He'll
grab him and swing him over. Your horse going back
to town loaded when stuck.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Out a flipping after all that exertion, how about another
piece of your Weather's.
Speaker 7 (25:50):
Fun pot keachy more coffee.
Speaker 5 (25:54):
I guess Cherokee, take a second cup of coffee if
you were well, if from something.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
To put in. I still have that wine in the cupboard. Way, Wait, gentlemen,
what kind of wine is? It's a very wonderful rare old.
Speaker 13 (26:18):
Boy, and I rather think, oh cher cherrkee, and don't
say yoga. It turned down a station a little port wine.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
Indeed, sir, I am not because of the man of
y character. It's any port in the storm. Flunteer sound
(27:35):
starring Text Sandler, is a Bruce l.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
Productive story and supervision by Joel Murder, direction by Paul Flanklin,
music written and.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
Played by Ivan dick Bard.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
Be sure to be with us again, James, I am
next week for another fine action, aventious story with your
favorite young Western star Pick Handler.
Speaker 9 (28:06):
Now, this is Bill Foreman telling you that Contier Down
came to U from Hollywood.
H Countier towns, the spargo of the Roaring West.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Frontier Town, Helpetho Plan Calgary Tombstone, Huntier Town.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Here is the adventurous story of.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
The early West, the Tame and the young tams On,
the Pacers, Sapara, Rivers, Goads, Bitty, the poker plaque.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
These are the towns they spot to live in and
live to fight.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Poor teeming prisms of pioneer freedom.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
Hun Heier Town.
Speaker 5 (01:31):
In all down in goes Rios, nice little frontier town.
I come from where I'm the only lawyer. The layer
business certainly takes many.
Speaker 6 (01:39):
A peculiar term.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Hope seemed to come to achrowdtown.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Lawyer like Chad Remy didn't text me almost any kind
of advice and for help in.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Almost any kind of trouble and trouble Believe me, we
have a plenty out on the rolling roystering Frontier.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Of course, a lot of our trub was on brought
to Maybe they just happened, like the trouble we had
just a.
Speaker 5 (02:04):
Few weeks ago. Mister, that was bad trouble, real bad trouble.
Cherokee O'Bannon, the ex medicine man who runs the Gusto
slippery stable. Now that he's performed somewhat, had gone with
me to the judges for supper.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
To Cherokee, the principal attraction was for suffer. I mean
it was the judge's daughter, Libby. Well, we were finishing
off one of Libby's slimming sponge pies.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
When there's something wrong, Cherokee.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Well, come on, Cherokee, there is something wrong.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Big things just copies.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
If you've ever seen coffee before.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
Er come on, O'Bannon, the judge in Libya. Cut it
would your jaw down?
Speaker 3 (02:43):
What's wrong? That would be perfectly honest with you.
Speaker 7 (02:46):
Why I was just reflecting, or what a part.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Of Brandy might do would have the flavor of mismochan Java, Cherokee,
I haven't got any brand aid, but die, I've gotta
do a whine.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Why my dear child.
Speaker 8 (03:01):
Share It sounds with the tumble down in the house.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
It's sure guts a little like years, I'd say, someone straighting.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
The Wells Fargo office, Wells five.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Literally, you stay here, Jerry can get the judge's rifle
off the wall. Let's get going fast.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
By the time we got our horses back into town.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
A posse had already mounted up and was streaking out.
Speaker 6 (03:33):
Of those vehels, following.
Speaker 5 (03:34):
The bandits, who headed with the hills over the wickedly
wouldn't bridge across the White River.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
There was no move under the tumble owning of blackness.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
There was a little no follow at the receding sound
of a hook piece, which led further and further up
a gradually narrowing trail into the parlor rocky regions of
the hills.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
By this time we were sure we'd lost them in.
Speaker 6 (03:58):
The Marshall Parla hall to hold the town in the war.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
Well, Marshall, what do we do now?
Speaker 2 (04:10):
I can't say right off, kid, And they get a
pretty good notion. And the leader of that bunch with
add Cleever, he's been pulling rage not too far from here.
Legally I leave the I've heard this Fleevert sent is
the Smarts a rabbis snake back to the hold.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
I think you make a mistake this time. What do
you mean, Jerokee Marshall.
Speaker 5 (04:27):
I think Cherokee means they've written in the sort of
a cold distacked the bottleneck, because except for laws Peterson's wanch,
there's nothing back up in those hills but rim rock.
It runs straight up and the headwaters of the White River. Dad,
I do believe you're right.
Speaker 9 (04:45):
Once they ride past Peterson's ranch, they literally have their
backs to the.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Wall and we can starve them out. Well, I'll be
dumb gun durned of your own right. Thanks.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
You take poor man and call up at the rim
behind them. Two craps up there, that's flow.
Speaker 8 (04:59):
Into the right.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Have a do few other fellows go with.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
My chief Deputy Andy Thomas and former half circle down here.
The rest of us will go back to town, get
some more ammunition than rife horse.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
We'll be back up here for his honey.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
Have to give you them relief and crows in.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
On them blasted curve.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
Watching Cherokee riding around this rim away you're silhouetted to
make a perfect target at any of.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Ally blue plains? Is tad that build the whole rights
through my stats. Well it proves one thing. We're not
gonna catch him nothing. Can you see any of our
boys around here? We'll be seen u. Yeah, there's nothing.
Chief's Deputy Andy Thomas porting down behind that.
Speaker 6 (05:51):
Some on this job.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
But you have to pull a horse now, it's got
to look like a free hire and.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
Believe may I'm no honey, or am I get up there?
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Oh? Boy? Call it? Oh anything happened?
Speaker 10 (06:12):
Andie nothing but that sniping? Can you see them down there? Nope,
it's a tougher smoke. When they threw a shot up
here and the Marshall said he'd be up with some
lunch for you around noon time. The meantime here at
two extra rifles and three hundred rounds of shells and
a spyglass that Judge's party used at Gettysburger.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Thanks Chad and h.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Taylor marshamant to forget a pluck of my charn tobacker
all up here for garshnows?
Speaker 3 (06:35):
How fair? Ain't you listening to me? Oh?
Speaker 5 (06:39):
Oh, I'm sorry, Andy, I was looking down to where
they've got. Cleve went his game sewed up. Without ladders,
they'll never be able to get up here. They could
move off to the east a few hundred yards and
come up behind the dis place. If they did, with
what's surplies, they could get from there. This siege might
last for months. I'd like to see.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Him pryor or fetus and hold her about the two
most stubborn squeeds all over the county wouldn't be a
wouldn't buy a bottle of my rattlesnake on for two pairs.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
They fight clefand his whole gang to pretty well, it's
just the same.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
I think the thing to do is to get back
to town and call a little strategy meeting. All we've
got to do is figure every possible move Clever I
might make, and have some counter tactics ready.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Clear to lose nothing by getting your heads together. It's
just a few heads.
Speaker 5 (07:26):
There's a person in this entire valley who has the
time to spend two months until Cleaner starved out.
Speaker 6 (07:32):
It's he does manage to get some supplies.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
I don't follow at the crying us no good, get wet.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
When I get back to town, I'm gonna write mister
Stepson a letter.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
But we need out here as a half as bullet pro.
Speaker 5 (07:52):
Not only did we need hats that were bullet through,
but we found we needed a lot of help. Clever
wasn't just true as it cant amount. He was a
man who was willing to take a chance. However, as
we had figured it out, Cleveland made a mistake. Apparently,
when he laid his plans for the Wells fargo raid.
He'd counted on crossing the river and getting away, But
(08:13):
instead of crossing the Red River, which had meadow land
on this opposite bank, he crossed the White found himself
with his back to the rocks on one side and
the headwaters on the other.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
That was about the only joyful note.
Speaker 5 (08:26):
I could sound in the whole meeting with the Judge
and the marshall, call for early that evening, and.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
To please buy it down.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
As much as we want your help and ideas, we.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Can't hear anything if you all tried talking at the
same time.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
All right, Chad, would you go on with what you
were saying? Well, it is not much more, Judge, I
just think there was no moon tonight. It'd be a
good idea if we could sneak about a dozen.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Men up to Lars Peterson's place, just in case Clever
gets the same idea that I got. I don't take
it to third idea, And just to start the ball
aroungs how barns her to be one of those ben
my sick. The way the ten you layers is cleeber
ever gets wise, you can put us off one by
one and we'll never get anybody to Peterson. What's more,
if we do get men up to Peterson, what happens
(09:19):
if they're trying to break.
Speaker 8 (09:20):
Out some other way?
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Not all? It was after all the Marshall's in charge.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
How you think, Mirshall, if.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
We could get some of the men into Peterson's and
had certainly stopped Cleeber Oh, Michael Mussel, Wait a minute,
who just came in hell Peterson?
Speaker 4 (09:42):
Then they come here with bad news, la bless bad news.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Now what come on, Helly, you better come up here
on the platform so we can all heed.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
Okay, nothing so bad. Have never happened to me in there?
Speaker 3 (09:59):
What is it? Hell? Th happened? Gor Chads? Man goes cooked?
They breaking tom Oh, no.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
Time wing there's now we are in So what happened
to your husband?
Speaker 3 (10:08):
What happened? Alt lorst Mike, here's hot on he cooks, here's.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Hot like wise man, but those outpost beat him on here,
then take him place for us.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
You got away here, didn't get foray.
Speaker 9 (10:20):
So let me go on, tell mister come down here.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
And get you an instition by jumping him. And it's
the worst job they ever had to do. That's cruel.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Cam Kiev, He.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Says, Well, lest he get him and this man upper
changing and right away the damn not headwaters the pipe rivers,
and then go up them and thar.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
That horn tower.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
No, don't go get me excited. They can't the town
that's him parkable. I'm afraid it's not impossible. Marsh where
they're located. Take a damn up that water. In no
time is the goup man damn the walk.
Speaker 5 (10:52):
And with the water damned up, even a child could
divert and't let it come roaring down on the town.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Do let them cooks loose. You can't be serious. I can't.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
And you're gonna lose our ranches and our stores and
everything we own just to catch them side wine and cooks?
Speaker 4 (11:11):
Who ever done any harm?
Speaker 8 (11:13):
My god?
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Are you allow of sheep? Are you going to let
a low down, double dyed common murderer stampede you in
the coward? I am taken from a man who knows.
If you will see this various demands, you will never
be able to live with yourselves, poor, say neighbors, neighbors.
Maybe I haven't always.
Speaker 5 (11:37):
Been right, but I think everyone here will grant that
I've never consciously worked against the interest of my friends
in my town.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
What are you doing running for contis?
Speaker 8 (11:48):
There's no matter for laugh.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
I'm not so parious. And even though I have Cleaver's
holding me, their husbands, what's her callings? Hostage host? They
must not know?
Speaker 4 (12:00):
Crooks said that must fight yellows.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
I say, keep Helga here to start with, then sending
her back to stuff for along with Lars.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
When Helga doesn't come back, that'll be Cleaver's answer by
the time he realizes that is his answer. We ought
to be able to figure something.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Out and come ebbside of high water. We'll fight for
this valley like men, not like the Yellow.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Spine cowards those out who's really are.
Speaker 9 (12:44):
We'll return to the second act of guns of raft
while exciting funds. Heretown adventure in just a few moments,
(13:23):
and no fund's here town.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Like I said before, this was trouble, real trouble. And
even though I did pull.
Speaker 5 (13:39):
A politician's spell by the trick assuring everyone that we'd
fight back successfully, I honestly didn't think ad Cleaver would
do any more than dam up the water to frighteness.
So that was because I didn't know ap Cleaver, as
I learned later from Lars Peterson, and s Cleva didn't
wait very long, scarcely an hour after the time. He's thinking,
(14:00):
hell going to be back with our word of acquiescence.
Cleaver walked out to where his metal was gathered her
on the willow burst damn leg though, Well, Abs, no, lady,
get back.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
No, we ain't gonna wait. I'm gonna show him that
when I have Cleavers send stuff and he means.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
It to.
Speaker 11 (14:21):
Okay with me, boys, Me and the boys already got
the powder planted under the dam. All we gotta do
is light the fuse and ten million gallons of water
will come rushing down on those wheels like it.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Was Judgment days. Well, what are you waiting for it?
They got matches, ain't sure like that? Furs?
Speaker 6 (14:41):
You know stuff?
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Mayab This is gonna be more fun than the fourth
of July. He's lit, boys, I'll stay.
Speaker 4 (14:52):
I sure there's no stuff on that.
Speaker 8 (15:25):
I think you can say, maybe say they couldn't set.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
Outside, you don't like? Yeah, had Cleave crossed me up
(16:08):
and as Rios is underwater.
Speaker 5 (16:11):
But the strange thing was, and we could see it
from our vantage point up in the rocks of Crow's.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Nest, the town wasn't white down far from it.
Speaker 5 (16:21):
It was just as if the river had spoiln in
a flash spring flood float over its banks and covered
the streets of the town with about three feet of
silk filled muddy water. Of the judge let be Cherokee,
and I pondered this, tried to figure it out as
we looked down on the southern town.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
Why this is no worse than that spring slutly when
I was a little girl.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Maybe not even as bad, no question about it, Lily,
But I for one can't make it out even think
paper figures that.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
But only a few feet of water. We'll go back
into town and maybe he let the rest of it
loose and really grown. Yeah, with a man like USh
go down to park at.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
This time, because if he had wanted the gunners, he
could have done it in the first place.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
I charge your eyes.
Speaker 6 (17:07):
What do you make of a judge?
Speaker 5 (17:09):
I don't know exactly, Judge, but I'm sure there must
have been some reason for it. Just trying to put
myself in ad Cleeper's place and figure out what he
could possibly have hadn't gone it. I think I got
it good. You see, see way down there, just kind
of picking their way into town, you can just barely
make them out.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
There's eight horses, and I reckon they got eight men
on their back.
Speaker 12 (17:34):
Who are they?
Speaker 4 (17:36):
What do you think they're up to?
Speaker 6 (17:37):
Last?
Speaker 3 (17:38):
I miss my guess, and you this, and those men
are Ad Cleaver and his gang.
Speaker 5 (17:44):
If they wanted to get away, they wouldn't be heading
back again toward town.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Is that right? Yes?
Speaker 6 (17:51):
I guess so.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
But but I think they let loose a portion of
that water.
Speaker 5 (17:55):
They're clear of the town, and now that the town's clear,
they're going back in come completely unmolested, to help themselves
to anything and everything they can find out.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Ball, the afnxious, audacious, dacive be paid here. We are
way up here, and if we start down toward town,
he'll be able to pick us off like flies have
a house flies with cars, not the horse fly whose
pieicacious and wear a kid?
Speaker 7 (18:20):
Can't we do something?
Speaker 3 (18:22):
You bet we can't.
Speaker 6 (18:23):
Now.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Look, we're up here on the high ground just as
they were, except that we are up on the headwaters
of the Red River. So what's to stop us from
pulling the same trick they pulled and threatening to let
the whole Red River down on them unless they give
up After the unfortunate advice you gave everybody.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
Chad's already. Do you think that you have any influence
left with him? Maybe not, but never yet rule a
man off the tland. So what do you say?
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Let's get down off these rocks and over to the
mesa where the rest of the folks together.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
Don't gone to Chad. Two wrongs don't make a right.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
If we damned up the red River, we might finish
those wheels for Parre my yours there.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Puck, I say, oh no, said off? Let them clos
Chicka ay, let's check neck color horse.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
You're Chad.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
You can't quick when you're gone this far. Look, don't
you see? If you men will get back up in
the hills and start filding the damn, I can circle
down with the marshall and a posse and we'll have.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
Them cut off, caught between the foot we're gonna let
loose on.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Them, and enough men to make to a line them
up like lace curtains, just just a crack a craft.
Dad just wants to clip from them. And if Flavor
will give up and you don't want.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
To let the water down on him, you don't have
to ok.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
This time, Chad's right, I'm blamed if I don't think
show if you folks are willing to help me and
my man will risk our lives.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
Oh my boy, what are you looking at me for? Marshall?
If we ride, you'll ride with us? An't your cherokee?
Speaker 8 (20:11):
Well?
Speaker 4 (20:12):
When you put up that way?
Speaker 3 (20:13):
Chand there? Yes, man, what about the rest of you?
Speaker 4 (20:16):
All right there that's knocked on?
Speaker 3 (20:22):
These horses ran up?
Speaker 7 (20:39):
Then this is a hard we go, Kad Hoppy blames
you were right.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
See those men are rantacking the stores and loading everything
they can under that horses.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
Well, how are you going to pole our fever from here?
Watch turkey?
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Hey, cleaver, cleaver, can you hear us? And we're up
here over your heads to the east stop by the.
Speaker 12 (21:16):
Quakest he beat you jade. See looking up here, Cleaver,
you're getting.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Yourself into a track by coming back into Doserios.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
I'm here with the Marshall and a twenty man pussy.
The rest of the town is.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Back up in the hills. They're all set to let
the Red River row down behind you.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
How you got any prings at all?
Speaker 4 (21:49):
You'll quick?
Speaker 2 (21:51):
This is the Marshall pay and we're giving you just
one minute to make up your minds.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
Yeah, do you're hell, I'll be hanged.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
I'll tip that bank. I'll be blamed. You see them,
they've all got their hips together talking it over.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
Dad. I believe this is going to work. It looks
like I said, made their minds up.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Here, held man to tell your guns into the street.
They're coming down.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
All right, boys, let's get going well.
Speaker 6 (22:52):
We sure were feeling.
Speaker 5 (22:53):
Good being in particular, we spreaded our ways through the aspens,
came out in the lane on the back of high
backs plants, and headed.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
Through the water and mud into town. A few seconds
after the marshall.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Told the voice to spread out prut a board cover
more tends in the street.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
Cherokee suddenly nuts me and pointed to something bad. There's
not someone trying to get away into the alley.
Speaker 6 (23:17):
It's dog going right, it is.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
And I try not mistake and it tab Cleeve. Come on, Cherokees,
I'm still gonna need your help, Cleaver. The farther you
run now the party, you're gonna bounce later when I
lag you back to town.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
Oh so that's the way you want to play. Huh,
how's your work?
Speaker 4 (23:45):
Your gun? What's the ftter with you port that the figures.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Whole food nothing doing Cherokees, I got plans for that president.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
He comes off his horse and right behind that people
don't temper.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
Jog gone at this time?
Speaker 4 (24:04):
Where you got him?
Speaker 3 (24:05):
Four more d downtowns he's fighting.
Speaker 6 (24:15):
Don't look go think this time. I'm gonna trust in
my life to you.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
You dog gone, go better be careful. What do you mean,
what are you gonna do?
Speaker 2 (24:23):
Why you stay behind his lock and cover me hanging
a belly called across his clearing, set him out from
behind that log.
Speaker 6 (24:30):
And beat his brazer. He hesitated, A goodness, be careful,
I'll be closs you be careful, careful where you shoot,
covering me like he does.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
That's time about and let take six all right to
believe you're contempty.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
I reckon, My fists are loaded.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
Don't tell me you don't think you won't be loved.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
You're not gonna evena be able to do all right?
Speaker 5 (25:20):
Jerokee throws my knuckles on his pull cat's tin. He'll
grab him and swing him over. Your horse going back
to town loaded when stuck.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Out a flipping after all that exertion, how about another
piece of your Weather's.
Speaker 7 (25:50):
Fun pot keachy more coffee.
Speaker 5 (25:54):
I guess Cherokee, take a second cup of coffee if
you were well, if from something.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
To put in. I still have that wine in the cupboard. Way, Wait, gentlemen,
what kind of wine is? It's a very wonderful rare old.
Speaker 13 (26:18):
Boy, and I rather think, oh cher cherrkee, and don't
say yoga. It turned down a station a little port wine.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
Indeed, sir, I am not because of the man of
y character. It's any port in the storm. Flunteer sound
(27:35):
starring Text Sandler, is a Bruce l.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
Productive story and supervision by Joel Murder, direction by Paul Flanklin,
music written and.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
Played by Ivan dick Bard.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
Be sure to be with us again, James, I am
next week for another fine action, aventious story with your
favorite young Western star Pick Handler.
Speaker 9 (28:06):
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