December 8, 2025 • 26 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:17):
That's far enough, mister Williams.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Miss missus, missus, would you please put that rifle down.
I came here without any guns, without any means of
force whatsoever. You come here with force now, missus, come.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Here to force me out of my house, off my land.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Missus Sagar, please nobody.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Shoves me off of my land. Mister Williams. Nobody. This
land is mine. It's pretty and clear, every inch of it.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
I have no doubt.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
Husband's take this land twenty five years ago. He homesteaded
it and raised cattle on it every year till he died.
Every year till he died, he raised cattle.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
On this land.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
I have every respect.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
And nobody takes me off this land.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
Mister Williams, you or you're filed the railroad or anybody else.
My husband left me this land, and he said, Libby,
this is your land, and you keep it. I said hard,
I swear by everything decent. Nobody will ever take this
land away from me. A solemn and a holy oath,
(01:22):
mister Williams to a dying man, Missus.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Saga, now listen to me for just a minute.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
You know what you're going to say.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Just a minute.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
One minute, a hundred times if you said it.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Won please, missus Saga, just one minute, go.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
On, go on, talk, then talk and get it over
with one minute.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
One minute.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
I represent the rail I know that, and we of
reserved from the United States Government a right of way
of land across the United States for our railroad, transcontinental railroad,
missus Saga, transcottinental, the United States government.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
State government. I heard you. What what do you want
to do scare me or something?
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Transcontinental? It's progress, missus Sager. You can't hold back the time.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
That's what you always say.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
You can't hold your land.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Your land, missus Saga is directly in the right of way.
Now we're willing, more than willing. We're happy to pay
you three times the worth of this land.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
I said I wouldn't sell, mister Williams.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
How many times I got to repeat it.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
It's not a matter of uh, missus Sager. Please, I
wish you'd lower that carbine. It's making me nervous.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
I noticed you're shaken. The minute's almost up.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
The point is you've got to sell. You're on public
land to be reconverted. Now we sent you a check
and a notice to get off the land. No, not us,
the United States government that makes it mandatory, compulsory. Free
country progress, missus saga for the common and God.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
It's a free country.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
I can live where I want, and this is where
I'm living. And let me tell you something, mister Williams,
I'm staying right here. You could have orders from the President.
I'm just as good as citizen as he is. Now,
you just scoot off on this property.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
I'd hate to have to call the United States Marshall. Now,
missus sager. I don't like to use force when reason
will do.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Get off this property, mister Williams, or I'm gonna remember
the United States Government has a law about trespassing. Did
you hear me?
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Scoot You can't hold back the times. That's what I
told her, Marshall. She held that rifle on me every second.
(03:59):
That seems funny, do you watch?
Speaker 6 (04:01):
No, I didn't mean to laugh at you. Mister Williams
was well. Libby Seger is quite a woman. I I've
known a long time, and you were hust.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Anybody could be married.
Speaker 6 (04:13):
Now. What you've got to understand about Libby is, mister Williams,
that Libby isn't an ordinary woman.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
That's sure.
Speaker 7 (04:21):
No.
Speaker 6 (04:21):
Libby is well, she's kind of like the West. I
mean by that she's got her ways, and her ways
are free, and she's hard to tain.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Well, i'll tell you this, Marshall. In a railroad business,
when we come to a mountain, if we can't go
around it.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
We blast right through it.
Speaker 6 (04:43):
Yeah, well, I'm not so sure i'd try that with
Libby if.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Marshall, I've tried talking to her, I've said her letters,
I've tried everything.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
There's no movie.
Speaker 6 (04:53):
Yeah, I know, I know, but you've got to keep
in mind that Libby's lived there for almost a quarter
of a century.
Speaker 8 (04:59):
I've got a to do.
Speaker 6 (05:01):
Look, can't you go around her land?
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Oh fine, Fine, a straight line track for a few
hundred miles and all of a sudden it juts out.
Speaker 9 (05:08):
For a few little acres.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
And then back to another straight line for another one
hundred miles.
Speaker 6 (05:16):
I would break it up a little.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Bit, Marshall. I want you to get out there with
this order. It's an order to vacate. Every time we
send her a check, she sends it right back. So
here's a check to go with the order.
Speaker 6 (05:30):
Look, mister Williams, she's not going to move. I know
that woman, and she's not going to move.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
That's the United States government order, and you're the United
States Mow.
Speaker 6 (05:41):
Please, mister Williams, don't remind me of my duties. There's
some things I don't like about this job. Eviction and seizure, Chester, yes,
or mister Dylon, eviction federal order. Well, yes, sir, you
(06:07):
weren't listening at the door, were you're?
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Chester?
Speaker 9 (06:10):
Oh no, sir, my, absolutely not, mister Dylon. It's just
I am cursed with wonderful eggs come from so many
nights out hunting.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
My whole van.
Speaker 6 (06:22):
Yeah all right, all right, Chester.
Speaker 9 (06:25):
Mister Dylon. Isn't there some way the railroad can go
around that property? I purely hate see that woman.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
He may be a villain when I'm just doing my job.
Speaker 6 (06:36):
Yeah, yeah, all right, mister Williams. I guess we all
feel a little like that right now.
Speaker 10 (06:43):
Come on, Chester, listen. Now hold it, Libby, saw you
(07:17):
threw the curtains.
Speaker 6 (07:19):
Well, I saw you peeking.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Car Little Railroad has to bring the.
Speaker 8 (07:23):
Marshall, mister Williams.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
I had to missus, siger.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
I told you before it.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Bety little Railroad had to get them on.
Speaker 8 (07:29):
Now, Levy Lebby, I.
Speaker 6 (07:32):
Want you to put that carbine down, and I want
you to act like a human being.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
Don't you start anything with me that kind of talk now,
Matt Dillon, I knew you too long for that kind
of talk.
Speaker 6 (07:41):
Levy, what would Hoard have said if he could see
you standing there holding a carbine on me?
Speaker 4 (07:46):
You can see what you got to say right here
and right now. Just leave my poor dead husband out
of this.
Speaker 6 (07:54):
You think he'd stand in the way of progress the.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
Way you are progress, That big loud steam and daunty thing,
a howling buy black smoke, bringing in the trash from
back east.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
You call up progress.
Speaker 6 (08:10):
I'll make a deal with you. Libby. You put down
your gun and I'll send mister Williams and Chester back to town. Huh.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
I've got nothing to say to you.
Speaker 7 (08:20):
Marshall Chester.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
Yes, mister Dillon.
Speaker 6 (08:24):
Here, take my gun, Chester.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Unless what what are you doing?
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Mister Dyllan?
Speaker 3 (08:31):
You took off your start.
Speaker 6 (08:32):
Take it back to the office with you, and take
mister Williams with you too. Libby and I are going
to talk.
Speaker 9 (08:39):
Yes, come on, mister Williams.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
You can't hold back the times. Mister Sager, get him
off here.
Speaker 6 (08:45):
You better go, mister Williams, I'll see you back in town.
Marshal Well, Libby, aren't you gonna ask me in?
Speaker 4 (09:00):
I told you, Marshall, them.
Speaker 6 (09:02):
Name's still matt Lebby. No star. See now can I
come in?
Speaker 4 (09:11):
We had life, I suppose, thank you.
Speaker 6 (09:20):
Ah, looks just about the same.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
Yeah, it's gonna stay that way. Nothing's gonna come steaming
through this sitting room.
Speaker 8 (09:32):
Sit down, mane Lebby.
Speaker 6 (09:34):
I'd give anything not to have to give you this order.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
But here, Oh, Howard took me out here to this
piece of land. He staked it out here because it
had a quick for the cattle and some wood grass
land we just got married. Took me out here and
stood me right about where you're standing now, and they said, Tolibby,
(10:05):
this is ours, yours and mine.
Speaker 6 (10:09):
Uh huh.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
He built this place mat every board he split with
his own hands, every board of it, every nail in it.
Speaker 6 (10:21):
I know, you don't know.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
Three days and three nights, just the two of us
hud that upsoft wagon caught out burn the attack. Oh,
they'd have burned the house down, but we held him off.
All of our medians are hooping and a hollering was
(10:45):
until the second day they got him.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
Oh, but our al must have been terrible inside him.
It was like something in my own chestnut.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
I swear it.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
It couldn't have hurt no more. I held him in
my arms. I was crying and couldn't help it. She
looked like a little boy. My sword seemed like he
wasn't a man anymore. It's just a little boy in
(11:23):
my arms. There, he said, Libby, you gotta hang on
to the land. Libby, it's all ease, I said, I
know it. Howard, he said, don't let nobody drive you
(11:46):
off here. I said, Howard, I won't, and I didn't.
I stayed there and no food, no water.
Speaker 5 (12:02):
Two days more.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
To waiting, but they'd be gone and the place was
still mine.
Speaker 6 (12:15):
Letbe now you.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Do.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
You'll think I'm gonna get off of this land now
just because of a little piece of paper.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Matt.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
You going back till that railroad. I'm here for good,
dead or alive. Next time you better keep your.
Speaker 7 (12:44):
Guns, Marshall, what'd you say?
Speaker 6 (13:06):
Marshall?
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Talk didn't do any good, did it. I knew it wouldn't.
Speaker 8 (13:14):
Mister Williams.
Speaker 6 (13:15):
Share did your job. Now, why don't you go back
to the hotel, and uh, we'll get in touch with you.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
Huh sure, uh.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Marshall, yeah, are you sure you don't need me for anything?
Speaker 6 (13:34):
I'm sure?
Speaker 11 (13:36):
Okay, Well, oh, mister Williams, Hello, Chester.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Where's he going? Mister Dilan?
Speaker 6 (13:48):
I sent him back to the hotel. Chester had made
that shammy there with you.
Speaker 9 (13:55):
Yes here, Oh, thank you, mister Dylon.
Speaker 5 (14:05):
If she don't leave peaceable, you're gonna carry her out.
Speaker 6 (14:11):
Well, we'll see what happens, Chester.
Speaker 5 (14:13):
I mean, if she don't come out peaceable.
Speaker 6 (14:16):
Look, Chester, that railroad is going to be here for
a long time, a long time now. There's going to
be a lot of people depending on it for beef
and for well, for everything else. And Libby is just
one person, just one person.
Speaker 9 (14:33):
One person. Yes, that's right, that's right, Dylan. Mister Dylon,
I've never seen you like this before.
Speaker 6 (14:45):
Chester. I can't do it all right.
Speaker 9 (14:51):
You gave her ten days to give you an answer,
mister Dylon, and the order come down almost a month ago.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
You did everything you could. If you asked me, you
aren't to feel bad.
Speaker 8 (15:01):
You just got to do it.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
That's all.
Speaker 6 (15:03):
Never hurt. Anybody paid all her bills. Now we gotta
runner off our lane.
Speaker 9 (15:10):
Well, it wasn't nobody's fault that Howard Sager homesteaded.
Speaker 8 (15:13):
On what was going to be a railroad track.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Wasn't his fault, nor her fault.
Speaker 9 (15:18):
Ner your fault wasn't even.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
The railroad fault.
Speaker 6 (15:20):
I know you're a white Chester.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
You're right.
Speaker 5 (15:23):
And mister Dillon, she'll have enough money she can live anywhere.
Speaker 6 (15:27):
Yeah, yeah, sure, sure, any work except where she really
wants to live. Well, yeah, I know Chester. Well it's
almost tent. Very well, we gave it a noon today.
I guess we better get packing.
Speaker 5 (15:49):
I guess you better.
Speaker 9 (16:07):
Oh well, well, sir, here's the gate.
Speaker 5 (16:16):
Go ahead, Chester, after you, mister Dylon.
Speaker 9 (16:29):
Yelling There she is, mister Dylan on the porch. She's
got her carbine.
Speaker 6 (16:38):
Yeah, I see her.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
Get off my property, Levy.
Speaker 6 (16:45):
Now we gave you plenty of notice.
Speaker 12 (16:47):
My property, Marshal.
Speaker 13 (16:48):
Or aren't you now?
Speaker 7 (16:50):
You know me?
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Mad?
Speaker 8 (16:51):
I don't just talk Lebby.
Speaker 6 (16:53):
You got your check? Now, why don't you counting three?
Speaker 1 (16:58):
You're not starting off with this land by the count.
Speaker 5 (17:00):
I'm gonna shoot.
Speaker 10 (17:02):
I'm sorry, man, you're a perfect target.
Speaker 12 (17:06):
Now I'm a one and you you three?
Speaker 13 (17:26):
Come on that you're doing that big rock over there,
way over her heads.
Speaker 6 (17:41):
Yeah, she meant it that way.
Speaker 5 (17:42):
Makes me feel a little silly running cover from a
woman I.
Speaker 6 (17:47):
Got a decent respect for Lebby's eye. Chester. Well, what
do we do, mister Dylan.
Speaker 5 (17:53):
Well, we can't just stay here forever.
Speaker 6 (17:56):
Look, maybe we can sneak up from the other side.
You think you could work your.
Speaker 5 (18:02):
Way around, imagine. So all right, and Chester, now.
Speaker 9 (18:08):
Don't worry mister Bill and I.
Speaker 5 (18:10):
I'm not gonna use no gun.
Speaker 6 (18:13):
All right, if you can get in my house and
get that rifle away from our artist, stay out here
and try to keep her attention. Yes, okay, good.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Luck, lady. I'm gonna shoot to kill Matt. Next man
tries to get me out of here, shoot.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
To kill hot That's right. Here's to you.
Speaker 14 (19:04):
Williams. Sure I must be getting drunk. Even this stuff
tastes good.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Sam.
Speaker 11 (19:16):
I can't help admire that woman. But then I'm always
the one to boost the underdog.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
We gotta start construction on the eighteenth to keep the schedule.
You haven't even had a chance to start. Serving One
woman standing alone against a whole Messives Sikes crew raid.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
It's inspiring.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Ties all creosoded, I'll get bounced.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Sure.
Speaker 11 (19:43):
Let me tell you, Williams, she's one out of a million.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Quite a woman, quite a woman.
Speaker 11 (19:49):
Yeah, I said that, And I say right now, nobody
takes that woman off her land.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
Alive, nobody.
Speaker 11 (19:58):
She's got more real stuff in her than you and
me put together.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
You're drunk, hanging on to the last breath. It's wonderful.
Woman like that can't.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Hold back the progress of a whole nation, Absolutely not.
Nobody can hold back the time.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
Time and tide wait for no man.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
If everybody felt like her, there wouldn't be any railroads,
There wouldn't be any progress whatsoever.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
You need a drink?
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Willbe I do, Sam. I don't think that Marshall's doing
the thing out there. Meaning of the lawd strikes me
as sentimental at more.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Point is, there's a job to do. I think we
ought to go out there and prodding. You said, he
told you to stay in the hotel room. No, that's
that's what you said. Well, if you want to go
down there, it's fine with me. But that's what you
told me. He said, Well, how does it look? The
railroad representative taking the.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
Afternoon all at a time like this.
Speaker 7 (21:03):
Huh.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
And I'm a holster. Huh? What do you want guns for? Now?
Speaker 2 (21:13):
I'll tell you what I think. I think the woman's
a little demented, holding herself up that way, husband's death,
years alone in that house.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
She's crazy fanatic.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Yeah, yeah, here thanks m hmm, fully loaded. It's a
wonderful woman, though dead shot with that rival of hers.
I'm not going out there and protected. And I don't
blame you a bit.
Speaker 6 (21:41):
I think I will take my host too.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Hey, one for the road, huh? No more? One for
Libby or what you say? All right? One for Libby.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
To Letty Seger the spirit of the Old West?
Speaker 3 (22:07):
Right?
Speaker 11 (22:11):
You know they'll write a song about her, how the
track was built over her soul, and they'll write a
song about us too.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Oh, stop it, you're drunk. How's it going, Marshall?
Speaker 6 (22:36):
Didn't I tell you to stay back at the hotel?
Speaker 2 (22:39):
I brought Sam with me, thought maybe you could use
some help Sam with h Hello, Marshall, you don't mind
if we just stick around?
Speaker 6 (22:48):
Well, stay back and keep quiet. Where's your friend trying
to sneak in the back on the troubles?
Speaker 3 (22:57):
Right here? Libby?
Speaker 12 (22:58):
I got my sidekick of yours.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
You either call him back or I'm gonna have to
shoot him.
Speaker 6 (23:08):
Chester.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
Oh, having, mister.
Speaker 5 (23:12):
Dylon, I'm sorry, No, it's all right.
Speaker 6 (23:22):
Chester, just didn't work.
Speaker 5 (23:23):
That's so, I declare.
Speaker 9 (23:25):
I can't figure how she spotted me.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
You don't know how careful?
Speaker 6 (23:28):
Yah, I know, I know, I know the fuck. There's
only one thing to do that's going.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
After now you're talking.
Speaker 6 (23:36):
Fine, Now you two just stay right where you are
and no guns.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
Yeah, let me letty, we're coming in now, put your
carbine up.
Speaker 12 (23:50):
Let me come on, come on, I'm ready.
Speaker 6 (23:55):
Let's go, Chester and stay close to the ground.
Speaker 9 (23:58):
We can weave over to that rock over there, and
then I'm buying Maybe that's a good idea.
Speaker 6 (24:07):
Yeah, all right, what.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
You are right?
Speaker 6 (24:13):
Chester, just just scared, that's all that crazy fool.
Speaker 9 (24:17):
What's the matter, mister Dillon, surveyor Sam wavelet rifle alone.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
I'm just covering for your marshall.
Speaker 8 (24:26):
She hit him, mister do he's gonna showed back.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
Scon h, mister Dillon. She got her, mister.
Speaker 8 (24:34):
Dillon, come on, Chester, Libby, Uh.
Speaker 5 (24:53):
Good shown Marcia it wasn't him, Miss Fager, Lift up
her head.
Speaker 4 (24:58):
Chester it's better this way, Mad, It's much better this way.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
Marshall. Oh, I didn't mean too Mushia.
Speaker 6 (25:14):
I told you to put up that gun.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
I was trying to cover for you when she got
me in my shoulder. I didn't think I just.
Speaker 6 (25:26):
Might you just like quiet. Let me will send for
the doc.
Speaker 5 (25:31):
Now you let me be so mad?
Speaker 3 (25:36):
Yeah, Libby.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Mada, bet you people.
Speaker 6 (25:44):
Don't forget me so easy. They won't let me, you know, mad.
Speaker 4 (25:52):
I'll bet they'll remember me, Irrit.
Speaker 9 (26:05):
H.
Speaker 6 (26:10):
Yeah, every time that train whistle blows.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
My gracious you know Chester.
Speaker 6 (26:21):
Sometimes progress is hard to come by
That's far enough, mister Williams.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Miss missus, missus, would you please put that rifle down.
I came here without any guns, without any means of
force whatsoever. You come here with force now, missus, come.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Here to force me out of my house, off my land.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Missus Sagar, please nobody.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Shoves me off of my land. Mister Williams. Nobody. This
land is mine. It's pretty and clear, every inch of it.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
I have no doubt.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
Husband's take this land twenty five years ago. He homesteaded
it and raised cattle on it every year till he died.
Every year till he died, he raised cattle.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
On this land.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
I have every respect.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
And nobody takes me off this land.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
Mister Williams, you or you're filed the railroad or anybody else.
My husband left me this land, and he said, Libby,
this is your land, and you keep it. I said hard,
I swear by everything decent. Nobody will ever take this
land away from me. A solemn and a holy oath,
(01:22):
mister Williams to a dying man, Missus.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Saga, now listen to me for just a minute.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
You know what you're going to say.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Just a minute.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
One minute, a hundred times if you said it.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Won please, missus Saga, just one minute, go.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
On, go on, talk, then talk and get it over
with one minute.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
One minute.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
I represent the rail I know that, and we of
reserved from the United States Government a right of way
of land across the United States for our railroad, transcontinental railroad,
missus Saga, transcottinental, the United States government.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
State government. I heard you. What what do you want
to do scare me or something?
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Transcontinental? It's progress, missus Sager. You can't hold back the time.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
That's what you always say.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
You can't hold your land.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Your land, missus Saga is directly in the right of way.
Now we're willing, more than willing. We're happy to pay
you three times the worth of this land.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
I said I wouldn't sell, mister Williams.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
How many times I got to repeat it.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
It's not a matter of uh, missus Sager. Please, I
wish you'd lower that carbine. It's making me nervous.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
I noticed you're shaken. The minute's almost up.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
The point is you've got to sell. You're on public
land to be reconverted. Now we sent you a check
and a notice to get off the land. No, not us,
the United States government that makes it mandatory, compulsory. Free
country progress, missus saga for the common and God.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
It's a free country.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
I can live where I want, and this is where
I'm living. And let me tell you something, mister Williams,
I'm staying right here. You could have orders from the President.
I'm just as good as citizen as he is. Now,
you just scoot off on this property.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
I'd hate to have to call the United States Marshall. Now,
missus sager. I don't like to use force when reason
will do.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Get off this property, mister Williams, or I'm gonna remember
the United States Government has a law about trespassing. Did
you hear me?
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Scoot You can't hold back the times. That's what I
told her, Marshall. She held that rifle on me every second.
(03:59):
That seems funny, do you watch?
Speaker 6 (04:01):
No, I didn't mean to laugh at you. Mister Williams
was well. Libby Seger is quite a woman. I I've
known a long time, and you were hust.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Anybody could be married.
Speaker 6 (04:13):
Now. What you've got to understand about Libby is, mister Williams,
that Libby isn't an ordinary woman.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
That's sure.
Speaker 7 (04:21):
No.
Speaker 6 (04:21):
Libby is well, she's kind of like the West. I
mean by that she's got her ways, and her ways
are free, and she's hard to tain.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Well, i'll tell you this, Marshall. In a railroad business,
when we come to a mountain, if we can't go
around it.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
We blast right through it.
Speaker 6 (04:43):
Yeah, well, I'm not so sure i'd try that with
Libby if.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Marshall, I've tried talking to her, I've said her letters,
I've tried everything.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
There's no movie.
Speaker 6 (04:53):
Yeah, I know, I know, but you've got to keep
in mind that Libby's lived there for almost a quarter
of a century.
Speaker 8 (04:59):
I've got a to do.
Speaker 6 (05:01):
Look, can't you go around her land?
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Oh fine, Fine, a straight line track for a few
hundred miles and all of a sudden it juts out.
Speaker 9 (05:08):
For a few little acres.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
And then back to another straight line for another one
hundred miles.
Speaker 6 (05:16):
I would break it up a little.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Bit, Marshall. I want you to get out there with
this order. It's an order to vacate. Every time we
send her a check, she sends it right back. So
here's a check to go with the order.
Speaker 6 (05:30):
Look, mister Williams, she's not going to move. I know
that woman, and she's not going to move.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
That's the United States government order, and you're the United
States Mow.
Speaker 6 (05:41):
Please, mister Williams, don't remind me of my duties. There's
some things I don't like about this job. Eviction and seizure, Chester, yes,
or mister Dylon, eviction federal order. Well, yes, sir, you
(06:07):
weren't listening at the door, were you're?
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Chester?
Speaker 9 (06:10):
Oh no, sir, my, absolutely not, mister Dylon. It's just
I am cursed with wonderful eggs come from so many
nights out hunting.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
My whole van.
Speaker 6 (06:22):
Yeah all right, all right, Chester.
Speaker 9 (06:25):
Mister Dylon. Isn't there some way the railroad can go
around that property? I purely hate see that woman.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
He may be a villain when I'm just doing my job.
Speaker 6 (06:36):
Yeah, yeah, all right, mister Williams. I guess we all
feel a little like that right now.
Speaker 10 (06:43):
Come on, Chester, listen. Now hold it, Libby, saw you
(07:17):
threw the curtains.
Speaker 6 (07:19):
Well, I saw you peeking.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Car Little Railroad has to bring the.
Speaker 8 (07:23):
Marshall, mister Williams.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
I had to missus, siger.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
I told you before it.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Bety little Railroad had to get them on.
Speaker 8 (07:29):
Now, Levy Lebby, I.
Speaker 6 (07:32):
Want you to put that carbine down, and I want
you to act like a human being.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
Don't you start anything with me that kind of talk now,
Matt Dillon, I knew you too long for that kind
of talk.
Speaker 6 (07:41):
Levy, what would Hoard have said if he could see
you standing there holding a carbine on me?
Speaker 4 (07:46):
You can see what you got to say right here
and right now. Just leave my poor dead husband out
of this.
Speaker 6 (07:54):
You think he'd stand in the way of progress the.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
Way you are progress, That big loud steam and daunty thing,
a howling buy black smoke, bringing in the trash from
back east.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
You call up progress.
Speaker 6 (08:10):
I'll make a deal with you. Libby. You put down
your gun and I'll send mister Williams and Chester back to town. Huh.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
I've got nothing to say to you.
Speaker 7 (08:20):
Marshall Chester.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
Yes, mister Dillon.
Speaker 6 (08:24):
Here, take my gun, Chester.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Unless what what are you doing?
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Mister Dyllan?
Speaker 3 (08:31):
You took off your start.
Speaker 6 (08:32):
Take it back to the office with you, and take
mister Williams with you too. Libby and I are going
to talk.
Speaker 9 (08:39):
Yes, come on, mister Williams.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
You can't hold back the times. Mister Sager, get him
off here.
Speaker 6 (08:45):
You better go, mister Williams, I'll see you back in town.
Marshal Well, Libby, aren't you gonna ask me in?
Speaker 4 (09:00):
I told you, Marshall, them.
Speaker 6 (09:02):
Name's still matt Lebby. No star. See now can I
come in?
Speaker 4 (09:11):
We had life, I suppose, thank you.
Speaker 6 (09:20):
Ah, looks just about the same.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
Yeah, it's gonna stay that way. Nothing's gonna come steaming
through this sitting room.
Speaker 8 (09:32):
Sit down, mane Lebby.
Speaker 6 (09:34):
I'd give anything not to have to give you this order.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
But here, Oh, Howard took me out here to this
piece of land. He staked it out here because it
had a quick for the cattle and some wood grass
land we just got married. Took me out here and
stood me right about where you're standing now, and they said, Tolibby,
(10:05):
this is ours, yours and mine.
Speaker 6 (10:09):
Uh huh.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
He built this place mat every board he split with
his own hands, every board of it, every nail in it.
Speaker 6 (10:21):
I know, you don't know.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
Three days and three nights, just the two of us
hud that upsoft wagon caught out burn the attack. Oh,
they'd have burned the house down, but we held him off.
All of our medians are hooping and a hollering was
(10:45):
until the second day they got him.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
Oh, but our al must have been terrible inside him.
It was like something in my own chestnut.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
I swear it.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
It couldn't have hurt no more. I held him in
my arms. I was crying and couldn't help it. She
looked like a little boy. My sword seemed like he
wasn't a man anymore. It's just a little boy in
(11:23):
my arms. There, he said, Libby, you gotta hang on
to the land. Libby, it's all ease, I said, I
know it. Howard, he said, don't let nobody drive you
(11:46):
off here. I said, Howard, I won't, and I didn't.
I stayed there and no food, no water.
Speaker 5 (12:02):
Two days more.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
To waiting, but they'd be gone and the place was
still mine.
Speaker 6 (12:15):
Letbe now you.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Do.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
You'll think I'm gonna get off of this land now
just because of a little piece of paper.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Matt.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
You going back till that railroad. I'm here for good,
dead or alive. Next time you better keep your.
Speaker 7 (12:44):
Guns, Marshall, what'd you say?
Speaker 6 (13:06):
Marshall?
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Talk didn't do any good, did it. I knew it wouldn't.
Speaker 8 (13:14):
Mister Williams.
Speaker 6 (13:15):
Share did your job. Now, why don't you go back
to the hotel, and uh, we'll get in touch with you.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
Huh sure, uh.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Marshall, yeah, are you sure you don't need me for anything?
Speaker 6 (13:34):
I'm sure?
Speaker 11 (13:36):
Okay, Well, oh, mister Williams, Hello, Chester.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Where's he going? Mister Dilan?
Speaker 6 (13:48):
I sent him back to the hotel. Chester had made
that shammy there with you.
Speaker 9 (13:55):
Yes here, Oh, thank you, mister Dylon.
Speaker 5 (14:05):
If she don't leave peaceable, you're gonna carry her out.
Speaker 6 (14:11):
Well, we'll see what happens, Chester.
Speaker 5 (14:13):
I mean, if she don't come out peaceable.
Speaker 6 (14:16):
Look, Chester, that railroad is going to be here for
a long time, a long time now. There's going to
be a lot of people depending on it for beef
and for well, for everything else. And Libby is just
one person, just one person.
Speaker 9 (14:33):
One person. Yes, that's right, that's right, Dylan. Mister Dylon,
I've never seen you like this before.
Speaker 6 (14:45):
Chester. I can't do it all right.
Speaker 9 (14:51):
You gave her ten days to give you an answer,
mister Dylon, and the order come down almost a month ago.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
You did everything you could. If you asked me, you
aren't to feel bad.
Speaker 8 (15:01):
You just got to do it.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
That's all.
Speaker 6 (15:03):
Never hurt. Anybody paid all her bills. Now we gotta
runner off our lane.
Speaker 9 (15:10):
Well, it wasn't nobody's fault that Howard Sager homesteaded.
Speaker 8 (15:13):
On what was going to be a railroad track.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Wasn't his fault, nor her fault.
Speaker 9 (15:18):
Ner your fault wasn't even.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
The railroad fault.
Speaker 6 (15:20):
I know you're a white Chester.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
You're right.
Speaker 5 (15:23):
And mister Dillon, she'll have enough money she can live anywhere.
Speaker 6 (15:27):
Yeah, yeah, sure, sure, any work except where she really
wants to live. Well, yeah, I know Chester. Well it's
almost tent. Very well, we gave it a noon today.
I guess we better get packing.
Speaker 5 (15:49):
I guess you better.
Speaker 9 (16:07):
Oh well, well, sir, here's the gate.
Speaker 5 (16:16):
Go ahead, Chester, after you, mister Dylon.
Speaker 9 (16:29):
Yelling There she is, mister Dylan on the porch. She's
got her carbine.
Speaker 6 (16:38):
Yeah, I see her.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
Get off my property, Levy.
Speaker 6 (16:45):
Now we gave you plenty of notice.
Speaker 12 (16:47):
My property, Marshal.
Speaker 13 (16:48):
Or aren't you now?
Speaker 7 (16:50):
You know me?
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Mad?
Speaker 8 (16:51):
I don't just talk Lebby.
Speaker 6 (16:53):
You got your check? Now, why don't you counting three?
Speaker 1 (16:58):
You're not starting off with this land by the count.
Speaker 5 (17:00):
I'm gonna shoot.
Speaker 10 (17:02):
I'm sorry, man, you're a perfect target.
Speaker 12 (17:06):
Now I'm a one and you you three?
Speaker 13 (17:26):
Come on that you're doing that big rock over there,
way over her heads.
Speaker 6 (17:41):
Yeah, she meant it that way.
Speaker 5 (17:42):
Makes me feel a little silly running cover from a
woman I.
Speaker 6 (17:47):
Got a decent respect for Lebby's eye. Chester. Well, what
do we do, mister Dylan.
Speaker 5 (17:53):
Well, we can't just stay here forever.
Speaker 6 (17:56):
Look, maybe we can sneak up from the other side.
You think you could work your.
Speaker 5 (18:02):
Way around, imagine. So all right, and Chester, now.
Speaker 9 (18:08):
Don't worry mister Bill and I.
Speaker 5 (18:10):
I'm not gonna use no gun.
Speaker 6 (18:13):
All right, if you can get in my house and
get that rifle away from our artist, stay out here
and try to keep her attention. Yes, okay, good.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Luck, lady. I'm gonna shoot to kill Matt. Next man
tries to get me out of here, shoot.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
To kill hot That's right. Here's to you.
Speaker 14 (19:04):
Williams. Sure I must be getting drunk. Even this stuff
tastes good.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Sam.
Speaker 11 (19:16):
I can't help admire that woman. But then I'm always
the one to boost the underdog.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
We gotta start construction on the eighteenth to keep the schedule.
You haven't even had a chance to start. Serving One
woman standing alone against a whole Messives Sikes crew raid.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
It's inspiring.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Ties all creosoded, I'll get bounced.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Sure.
Speaker 11 (19:43):
Let me tell you, Williams, she's one out of a million.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Quite a woman, quite a woman.
Speaker 11 (19:49):
Yeah, I said that, And I say right now, nobody
takes that woman off her land.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
Alive, nobody.
Speaker 11 (19:58):
She's got more real stuff in her than you and
me put together.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
You're drunk, hanging on to the last breath. It's wonderful.
Woman like that can't.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Hold back the progress of a whole nation, Absolutely not.
Nobody can hold back the time.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
Time and tide wait for no man.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
If everybody felt like her, there wouldn't be any railroads,
There wouldn't be any progress whatsoever.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
You need a drink?
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Willbe I do, Sam. I don't think that Marshall's doing
the thing out there. Meaning of the lawd strikes me
as sentimental at more.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Point is, there's a job to do. I think we
ought to go out there and prodding. You said, he
told you to stay in the hotel room. No, that's
that's what you said. Well, if you want to go
down there, it's fine with me. But that's what you
told me. He said, Well, how does it look? The
railroad representative taking the.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
Afternoon all at a time like this.
Speaker 7 (21:03):
Huh.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
And I'm a holster. Huh? What do you want guns for? Now?
Speaker 2 (21:13):
I'll tell you what I think. I think the woman's
a little demented, holding herself up that way, husband's death,
years alone in that house.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
She's crazy fanatic.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Yeah, yeah, here thanks m hmm, fully loaded. It's a
wonderful woman, though dead shot with that rival of hers.
I'm not going out there and protected. And I don't
blame you a bit.
Speaker 6 (21:41):
I think I will take my host too.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Hey, one for the road, huh? No more? One for
Libby or what you say? All right? One for Libby.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
To Letty Seger the spirit of the Old West?
Speaker 3 (22:07):
Right?
Speaker 11 (22:11):
You know they'll write a song about her, how the
track was built over her soul, and they'll write a
song about us too.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Oh, stop it, you're drunk. How's it going, Marshall?
Speaker 6 (22:36):
Didn't I tell you to stay back at the hotel?
Speaker 2 (22:39):
I brought Sam with me, thought maybe you could use
some help Sam with h Hello, Marshall, you don't mind
if we just stick around?
Speaker 6 (22:48):
Well, stay back and keep quiet. Where's your friend trying
to sneak in the back on the troubles?
Speaker 3 (22:57):
Right here? Libby?
Speaker 12 (22:58):
I got my sidekick of yours.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
You either call him back or I'm gonna have to
shoot him.
Speaker 6 (23:08):
Chester.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
Oh, having, mister.
Speaker 5 (23:12):
Dylon, I'm sorry, No, it's all right.
Speaker 6 (23:22):
Chester, just didn't work.
Speaker 5 (23:23):
That's so, I declare.
Speaker 9 (23:25):
I can't figure how she spotted me.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
You don't know how careful?
Speaker 6 (23:28):
Yah, I know, I know, I know the fuck. There's
only one thing to do that's going.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
After now you're talking.
Speaker 6 (23:36):
Fine, Now you two just stay right where you are
and no guns.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
Yeah, let me letty, we're coming in now, put your
carbine up.
Speaker 12 (23:50):
Let me come on, come on, I'm ready.
Speaker 6 (23:55):
Let's go, Chester and stay close to the ground.
Speaker 9 (23:58):
We can weave over to that rock over there, and
then I'm buying Maybe that's a good idea.
Speaker 6 (24:07):
Yeah, all right, what.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
You are right?
Speaker 6 (24:13):
Chester, just just scared, that's all that crazy fool.
Speaker 9 (24:17):
What's the matter, mister Dillon, surveyor Sam wavelet rifle alone.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
I'm just covering for your marshall.
Speaker 8 (24:26):
She hit him, mister do he's gonna showed back.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
Scon h, mister Dillon. She got her, mister.
Speaker 8 (24:34):
Dillon, come on, Chester, Libby, Uh.
Speaker 5 (24:53):
Good shown Marcia it wasn't him, Miss Fager, Lift up
her head.
Speaker 4 (24:58):
Chester it's better this way, Mad, It's much better this way.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
Marshall. Oh, I didn't mean too Mushia.
Speaker 6 (25:14):
I told you to put up that gun.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
I was trying to cover for you when she got
me in my shoulder. I didn't think I just.
Speaker 6 (25:26):
Might you just like quiet. Let me will send for
the doc.
Speaker 5 (25:31):
Now you let me be so mad?
Speaker 3 (25:36):
Yeah, Libby.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Mada, bet you people.
Speaker 6 (25:44):
Don't forget me so easy. They won't let me, you know, mad.
Speaker 4 (25:52):
I'll bet they'll remember me, Irrit.
Speaker 9 (26:05):
H.
Speaker 6 (26:10):
Yeah, every time that train whistle blows.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
My gracious you know Chester.
Speaker 6 (26:21):
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