December 13, 2025 • 24 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Around Dodge City and in the territory on West. There
is just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers.
And that's where the US Marshall and the Smell of
Guns Smoke Gun Will Spoke, starring William Conrad, The story
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of the violence that moved west with.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Young America and the story of a man who moved
with it. I'm that man, Matt Dyllon United States Marshall,
the first man they look for and the less they
want to meet. It's a chance a job, and it
makes a man watchful and a little lonely. Marshall.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
All right, Marshall, I've been looking for you, hell about
I just want to ask you one question, all right,
go ahead?
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Ask are you?
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Are you not sworn as a matter of bounding?
Speaker 4 (01:25):
Do it?
Speaker 2 (01:26):
I poll law and ordering Dot City. I guess you
could put it that way.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
And why don't you get up from out there table
and go out and find that cow and the shooting armist.
And don't god dudes go around hunting. I'm spanny on.
You keep your mouth yet, Chester, get the dog on
linings here, ain't nobody.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
I'll set down Chester, sit on, all right, you two
toush you keep waving your arms like that, you're gonna
get abaplex.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
I ain't got no time to sit down, Marshall. I
got fourteen hundred head of cattle over cross. Whoever bawling
in the prophet I got fires up at the dodge house,
willing to pay partner or anything I asked, because I'm
bringing in the first trail herd of the season, providing
I can, Marsha, You've got to find out what happened
to on it, Hagar and not god dying Colla here.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Oh, do you know anything that has happened to it?
They shack.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
He is neither one of If he was just going best,
then he wouldn't take the.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Cow, would it?
Speaker 3 (02:15):
He might only Hagar is pretty crazy about that cow.
You shut up, Chester, or I didn't ask you. I
didn't ask. If you ask God, you said moon fit
all right?
Speaker 2 (02:23):
All right, Chester, luck toush. Why don't you just sit on?
Have a clear on. He'll be back in this on
good time.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Well, his good time ain't mine. Burt Collins is bringing
a herd up for the circle. See ain't for it
in two days behind me? And if he gets his
cattle across that revenend of them shipping pens first, you'll
get the big.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Prices, not be final. I'll check her on ton in
the morning and see if anybody knows where on they went.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
I already to ask his neighbors. Ain't sitting it for
for four or five days or the cow either, And Marshall,
I have my minding you of your sworn duty.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
My sworn duty doesn't include going out in the scour
on the countryside for a missing.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Cow, even if there's been foul play done.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 3 (03:04):
That shack of his has tore up something awful like
there was a big fighting rockers in it?
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Is that the only reason you think something's happened to
only the way the place looks.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Marshal Burke Collins wouldn't stop it nothing to get that
hurt of his end ahead of me. He's just low down,
mean enough.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Wow, it's too late to start tonight, but I'll see
what I can find out first thing in the morning.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
All I'm asking, Marshall for you to enforce the law
and protect the innocent and bring a galt at the
jay Ja.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Yeah, I'll try to do all of that toush the
first thing in the morning, huh. Now, why don't you
checking out the dodge house and try to get some.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Sleep that I'll close my eyes. All in cattle on
the far side of the river, all that money on
this side, I won't sleep and went Marshall. But I
hope you pass a play. Thanks toush mine goodness must
have done all that human and pretting over a sixteen
year old cole. It's a dang skinnier hip bone stick
out like a hubs and wagon.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
With Yeah, but she comes un behind it for a
job like this. Uh you like acid beer?
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Yeah? Thank you?
Speaker 2 (04:08):
All right?
Speaker 5 (04:11):
What tesh lee or works up about?
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Man?
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Oh, he's got a trail herd and he wants to
bring across the river, and he's pretty upset because you
can't find only hagar and that cow is.
Speaker 6 (04:23):
What the only hagar's cow's got to do with it?
Speaker 3 (04:26):
From the landsicks and skiddy, everybody knows you gotta have.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
A cow or a steer.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
It's a good swimmer and it'll take the lead if
you want to drive a herd across water.
Speaker 6 (04:34):
Well, I didn't know it is that too many?
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Yeah, that's true. See a lot of herds have a
natural leader or two and uh they will take the water.
The rest of the cattle will follow him across. But
you try to force the herd in the chatches are
they'll panic and half of them more drum Huh, I
never heard of it makes a lot of money every
season just leading the herds across the air Kansas. And
that old cow of his takes the water like a duck.
Speaker 6 (04:59):
Well, and it's not out of jails without that cow
touches in trumble and sure.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
He's in trouble. When Burke Collins heads here in a
couple of days, what has heard? There's there's gonna be
more trouble.
Speaker 6 (05:09):
But he's already him then Collins, well.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Yeah, I seen the monstreets doing any doing yet.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
He must have had a gonna have. Mister doon T.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Said that shack on its all tore off like they'd
been a fight.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Yeah, and on he's not one to go off on
sudden trips. You know something, kiddy, I think you're right.
It's not a chill.
Speaker 7 (05:52):
Now just listen a minute, uh if you will. I've
got a little story to tell you. Well, it's not
so little.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
It's sort of a tall tail. It's about a drought.
Speaker 7 (06:02):
Busting weather conjurer named Feebold feebles and why they say
Kansas never had a drought that he couldn't bust in
twenty four hours. They say he had at least a
hundred different ways of doing it too. Once, when it
got so hot that folks had to spend half their
time in some lake to keep them drying up and
blowing away, Old Feebold figured it was time for a
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little rain. Well, he thought on the problem for a while.
Then he went out and built huge fires all around
the lakes and kept them going until the lake started
boiling and the water got the vaporizing. These vapor clouds
rose up from the lake so fast they slammed into
one another and started raining all over the place well
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else their Once primed, the rains came again and were
soon back on schedule. The bowl saved the country that time.
That wasn't the only time that Feebole saved the country either.
There were others too, Like the time he used the
noise method to make rain. Oh, he didn't use cat
and and rockets in the light he was original. He
used frogs now. Feebold realized that frogs wouldn't croak unless
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they were good and wet, so he hypnotized a couple
of 'em and told him it was raining. Well, sir,
it would have done your heart good to hear them
frogs croaking with joy and spreading the news around. Soon
every frog in the country was croaking as loud as
he could, which was loud enough to give an Indian
rain got a skull splitting a headache. Well, the amount
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of noise turned out to be just right, and the
rains just poured down. Of course, Old Feebold could only
use that method once a year, cause so much rain
would come down that the frogs would get washed clear
down of the Gulf of Mexico, and it'd take 'em
near a year to get back home. Rain, fog, sleet, snow, heat,
or what have you. Old Feebold had a way to
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handle the situation. Why I remember the time that no, h,
I hadn't better tell you that one. Why it's almost unbelievd,
and I don't wanna take a chance on making you
think that I might stretch the truth just a little bit. Say,
isn't it nice being citizens of a country where you
can laugh and talk about things free as a breeze,
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and write and read and worship too. Yes, sir. Maybe
you don't think about it much, but you should.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
My sure, it is good to get back mister Dana.
I'm terrible hungry.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
All huh, wait a minute, Oh hello, Doc, hold.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Ong, wanna talk to you?
Speaker 2 (08:47):
All right? Oh uh? Trust her? You you're going ahead
if you want. I'll make sure the rest of her well.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
I am feeling and for mister dyllnon, they are going in.
I'll feel it right testy.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Ah, that's on your mind, doctor Bill.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Matt, what are you planning to do today?
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Work? Same as the other six days every week?
Speaker 7 (09:15):
Work work?
Speaker 3 (09:16):
He said, You mean sitting down there in that jail
office with your feet on the desk.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
No, not today, Doc, I got a track down a cow, a.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Cow, a cow that see, Matt, see you come along
with me. But I got to look in on a
couple of patients out toward Kiawa meadows. Now we'll take
long and we'll have the rest of the day to
shoot us some prairie and prairie.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
And this time of year, Doc, the only prairie in
are on here right now? Or hold up in the
plumb thickets, A deep and a weasel can't keep it
getting ah, Now, that's.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Just where you're wrong. You know how Kiawa Meadows is
protected by that bend in the river, those high bluffs
on the north side. Oh yeah, And these last few
weeks it's the mighty warm for this time of year. Yeah, real,
it's me the kind of a full spring out there
in the meadow. Now, the way I hear it, it's
just as green as may where to stand. The young
clover come up there, and wild timoth him and buffalo
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grass and the prairie hens are just swarm.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
You know something that's possible, Doc, I remember something like
that happened in a few years back.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Well, come on, then, let's get out here and get
out of it.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Doc, I already told you I gotta find a cow.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
What are you serious?
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Yes, I thought that was a journal I wish it was. Uh, say,
you haven't seen anything ony hagar, have you?
Speaker 3 (10:31):
You mean one's cow?
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Uh huh?
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Oh my, that old bag of bones.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
If that old bag of bones doesn't turn up pretty quick,
it's gonna cause the worst fight that this town's ever seen.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
Who about the fight over that scrawny old walking cock
is now? Except owning your car?
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Yeah, not only a couple of pretty tough boys named
Burt Collins, and tush Lee say only's disappeared, and that's
the trouble. Touch thinks that Collins has had something to
do with it. I'm not too sure about what he
may be, right, and what what do you mean? Oh,
chestera and I just got back from a look at
on a shock this morning, and I'm gonna fight him
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at all right. The cook stoves knocked over tables smashing.
No sign of on A or the cow anywhere.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Oh well, gee, Matt, maybe he went on a.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Trip he took his cow on.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Oh oh no, I say, Matt, if anything something to
pull on he, they ought to be hung.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
I feel the same way, doctor.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
And he's got his faults, but he's a harmless old coot.
And and he never did any hurt to anybody in
his whole life.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
H it kind of looks like somebody did some hurt
to him, though.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
I just don't seem to have no appetite tall in
mister John.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Yeah, I I I know that's Chester. You only had
the six eggs.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Well, I don't mean I don't eat exactly, but I
just don't seem to relish it so much.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
And ah, I see, or maybe if you uh, cut
down on the quantity a little bit, maybe.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Uh No, No, it ain't that, I don't think, uh see,
I it's just more like I been feeling poorly lately.
Speaker 7 (12:28):
That not nothing particular.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
You got me just kinally sore over.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Tell me something, Chester you You you didn't start getting these
feelings just a few minutes ago that you're going, uh
when I told you about the doc going hunting today?
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Oh my goodness, No, mister John, I know I I
been having these pains for a long time.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Oh I see, of course.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
Now that you mention it, I declared, I I bet
it sure wouldn't do me no harm.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
To get out in the open for a while, like
around Kyle was met at, for.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Instance, praying makes mighty good eating. I heard you say
that to yourself many a time.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Doc's already promised that something chest it's.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Already look seeing is believing Doc can't hit the side
of a barn and both hands and the board.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
In the middle.
Speaker 5 (13:22):
You know that.
Speaker 6 (13:25):
Hello, Kitty Matt, you better get over the long branch
right away.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Why what's wrong?
Speaker 6 (13:29):
Natush and Burt Cullins over there, sidling around each other
like a pair of tonguekats.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
It's gonna bust loose any minute.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Come on, Chester, ill got pop Jack here on he
bring him with you. Ain't know how to say nothing
about mobile.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
I know what kind of people some people are with him?
Kind proven ain't needed.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Well, now, Man, I never had no friend this whole
born days.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
You'll not expect nobody here to agree with man.
Speaker 6 (14:07):
I forget another mirror. Brother, we might have closed out.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
I will see what we can do. You stay Rochester.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
I made off with on the hagar and that cow
his and more than likely you've done him in.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Now that's a lie, and I'm gonna break you in
pieces for it. You start whenever you're all at both
of you.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
Well, there's a murder of Marshall. Do you do? Didn't
I Marshall?
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Marshall A man shouldn't want to go tell him lies
about somebody. Addie, what are you doing in? Tom Collins?
I thought your herd was still out there so south
of the river. Well I rode in the head order
to talk to them.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Cattle buyers come in to steal that cow. Murder on
the hagar, that's what he done.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Have you seen on any Come right, I want to
see him.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
I got two three good swimmers of my heart.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
You're gonna rest of them, ain't you, Marshall?
Speaker 2 (14:56):
I afraid I haven't got much reason to such.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
All right, take a line in my own hands.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
I wouldn't advise that.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
I give you your chance, Marshall. If you ain't gonna do
your job, I'm gonna bring my boys into town and
do it for.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Come back, well, man, crazy fool. The man is going
to be attacked. He shouldn't Aldy just stand around and
do nothing to protect himself, should he? I wait a minute,
I wait nothing.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
I'm going I can't get some of my boy at
Marshall wool.
Speaker 7 (15:26):
And gone.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
Old Kyle Shore he has carding A lot.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Of couple incis young. Yeah, that's gonna get worse. This land,
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this land is mine, This lad was.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
For all that we tend to group Nebraska with one
or another of the states. The Krnhusker state has many
characteristics which are strictly its own. Since eighteen seventy five,
for example, Nebraska has been a debt free state which
preferred to spend ten years building the capital at Lincoln
rather than spend money it didn't have. Further, as its
name may indicate, Corn is its most important crop, and
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Omaha's stockyards are among the largest in the world. Then
there's historic Chimney Rock near Bayard and the town of Alliance,
which was once almost sold by the Burlington Lines railroad.
Many years of tiers and Indian wars and hardships such
as the Grasshopper plague contributed to the words which are
engraved upon the capital honor to pioneers who broke the
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sods that men to come might live. Nebraskans live by
these words, and they live for them.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
It looks like this just keeps my nerve tor mister Dillon,
mister Dillon, shut the door. Chester, Oh, mister Dillon, what
are you aiming to do?
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Sit here and digest my breakfast wine?
Speaker 3 (17:25):
But they're gonna be added any minute now. Who is
tush Lee and Burt Collins? You ain't forgot about.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Them, have you?
Speaker 3 (17:31):
No?
Speaker 2 (17:32):
But I wish I couldn't.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Well, they're in town right now, both of them, and
they got their men with them.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Yeah, I know.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Well, if you already know, why don't you do something
like what?
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Chester?
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Well, my land, you could at least you could go
well maybe if you couldn't do that, you well, you
can't just sit here and let them.
Speaker 6 (17:52):
Kill each other.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
But I can sit here until I'm sure that that's
what they're gonna do.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
But they are, they are, That's what I'm telling you.
Tush is out there the Long Branch saying how he's
gonna hang Burt, and Bert's down the other end of
the street and making his brag about how he's gonna
shoot that so full of holds of birds can fly Chester.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
If all the killing that's talked about and Dodge said
he was actually done, Boothell would be ten miles wide
and twenty miles long.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
But these two are really going to.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Then I'll deal with it when it starts.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
And that'll be any minute now. Everybody else in town
thinks so too. Did they take a look out this
Windowy and the soul in the street except for some
crazy food leading the leading the mister Dyllan teh, what's
the matter, Tony Hager?
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Huh, he's got his car.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
He ain't dead to talk.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Come on, hey, honnye right up a minute way there
and look there the door of the Long Branch there, Yeah,
that comes Collins and needs him.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Margie up.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
Just Yearnis looking up to be another mighty pleasant day now,
or would you say so?
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's a fine, fine day. Only where
have you been?
Speaker 6 (19:12):
You know?
Speaker 4 (19:13):
Me and Ida Bell here has been up to kylewa
Meadows for a few days Kyle on medals. Oh my goodness,
it's just like sprang up there, all new grass and
fresh clover, and either Bell ain't at nothing but dry.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Feed all over.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
He's just done her world of good?
Speaker 4 (19:33):
Ain't that right now?
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Dearie, Hush, I'm on out of here. Your Joe Collins
I bothered here? Come along?
Speaker 4 (19:42):
You had any excitement around town while I've been gone.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Marshall excitement? Oh no, none to speak of. Things have
been pretty quiet.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
Only did you see any prayer? Hand up? Kyle of medics,
Oh my yes, there was just schedule mighty glad you
got away from the morning. Did it hurt you bad?
Speaker 2 (20:01):
On? I shut up and left with me, both of you.
Before you start taking the law out of your hands again, Tush,
you better stop and think for a minute. Only he
has only been away on a little trip. Collins here
had nothing to do with it. What it's true? Tell
me mo.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
Well, I don't know what you're talking about. But me
and Ida Bell has been up to Kylewood.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Well here you are, Tush, what God told you.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
Hours?
Speaker 2 (20:31):
I don't know?
Speaker 3 (20:31):
Well you didn't know. And it's like I said, a
man hadding all to say what he ain't sure of,
I recognize kind of in the wrong.
Speaker 7 (20:41):
All right, Well that's.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
For dang sure.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
And you made me look real bad, USh, Yeah, I
guess it did. Bird. I might set up drinks if
you was my core.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Right, you ain't gonna say that, but one time, let's go.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
Only way to have that cor down or ever. A
couple of hours ago, got a job for her.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
I'm mighty sorry, but Ida Belle can't do no swimming today.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
She can't well why not?
Speaker 2 (21:09):
She hit too much.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
Green clover and she ain't going to be fit to
go in the water before tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
Tomorrow may be too late.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
We'll forget it. Still, you're hurting with mine, will.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
Swimming across together.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
They will hold out for the same price with.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Them cattle buyers.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
Fair enough for right, Come on, let's get that drink, okay,
say ooneye? Yeah, if you went up on tip on
your own choice, now, how from your house was all
to ups about that way? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Well, there was a.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
Charity of Whitey Bill she didn't know where we was going,
and she put up an awful ruptus before I convinced her.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
But it wasn't the barn that was top.
Speaker 7 (21:51):
It was a house.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
Well, of course it was. Where do you expect me
to keep her outdoors?
Speaker 5 (21:56):
No?
Speaker 2 (21:56):
No, ain't. Nobody would expect you to keep that cow
in place except right in the house.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Gunsmoke. We're used and directed by Norman McDonald, stars William
Conrad as Matt, Dylan, Us Marshall Hear in the cast
for Barley Bear as Chester, Howard McNear as Doc, and
Georgia Ellis as Kiddie George Walls Speaking. Join us again
next week for another specially transcribed story on gun smoke.
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This is the United States Armed Forces Radio and Television Service.
Around Dodge City and in the territory on West. There
is just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers.
And that's where the US Marshall and the Smell of
Guns Smoke Gun Will Spoke, starring William Conrad, The story
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of the violence that moved west with.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Young America and the story of a man who moved
with it. I'm that man, Matt Dyllon United States Marshall,
the first man they look for and the less they
want to meet. It's a chance a job, and it
makes a man watchful and a little lonely. Marshall.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
All right, Marshall, I've been looking for you, hell about
I just want to ask you one question, all right,
go ahead?
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Ask are you?
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Are you not sworn as a matter of bounding?
Speaker 4 (01:25):
Do it?
Speaker 2 (01:26):
I poll law and ordering Dot City. I guess you
could put it that way.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
And why don't you get up from out there table
and go out and find that cow and the shooting armist.
And don't god dudes go around hunting. I'm spanny on.
You keep your mouth yet, Chester, get the dog on
linings here, ain't nobody.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
I'll set down Chester, sit on, all right, you two
toush you keep waving your arms like that, you're gonna
get abaplex.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
I ain't got no time to sit down, Marshall. I
got fourteen hundred head of cattle over cross. Whoever bawling
in the prophet I got fires up at the dodge house,
willing to pay partner or anything I asked, because I'm
bringing in the first trail herd of the season, providing
I can, Marsha, You've got to find out what happened
to on it, Hagar and not god dying Colla here.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Oh, do you know anything that has happened to it?
They shack.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
He is neither one of If he was just going best,
then he wouldn't take the.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Cow, would it?
Speaker 3 (02:15):
He might only Hagar is pretty crazy about that cow.
You shut up, Chester, or I didn't ask you. I
didn't ask. If you ask God, you said moon fit
all right?
Speaker 2 (02:23):
All right, Chester, luck toush. Why don't you just sit on?
Have a clear on. He'll be back in this on
good time.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Well, his good time ain't mine. Burt Collins is bringing
a herd up for the circle. See ain't for it
in two days behind me? And if he gets his
cattle across that revenend of them shipping pens first, you'll
get the big.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Prices, not be final. I'll check her on ton in
the morning and see if anybody knows where on they went.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
I already to ask his neighbors. Ain't sitting it for
for four or five days or the cow either, And Marshall,
I have my minding you of your sworn duty.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
My sworn duty doesn't include going out in the scour
on the countryside for a missing.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Cow, even if there's been foul play done.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 3 (03:04):
That shack of his has tore up something awful like
there was a big fighting rockers in it?
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Is that the only reason you think something's happened to
only the way the place looks.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Marshal Burke Collins wouldn't stop it nothing to get that
hurt of his end ahead of me. He's just low down,
mean enough.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Wow, it's too late to start tonight, but I'll see
what I can find out first thing in the morning.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
All I'm asking, Marshall for you to enforce the law
and protect the innocent and bring a galt at the
jay Ja.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Yeah, I'll try to do all of that toush the
first thing in the morning, huh. Now, why don't you
checking out the dodge house and try to get some.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Sleep that I'll close my eyes. All in cattle on
the far side of the river, all that money on
this side, I won't sleep and went Marshall. But I
hope you pass a play. Thanks toush mine goodness must
have done all that human and pretting over a sixteen
year old cole. It's a dang skinnier hip bone stick
out like a hubs and wagon.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
With Yeah, but she comes un behind it for a
job like this. Uh you like acid beer?
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Yeah? Thank you?
Speaker 2 (04:08):
All right?
Speaker 5 (04:11):
What tesh lee or works up about?
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Man?
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Oh, he's got a trail herd and he wants to
bring across the river, and he's pretty upset because you
can't find only hagar and that cow is.
Speaker 6 (04:23):
What the only hagar's cow's got to do with it?
Speaker 3 (04:26):
From the landsicks and skiddy, everybody knows you gotta have.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
A cow or a steer.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
It's a good swimmer and it'll take the lead if
you want to drive a herd across water.
Speaker 6 (04:34):
Well, I didn't know it is that too many?
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Yeah, that's true. See a lot of herds have a
natural leader or two and uh they will take the water.
The rest of the cattle will follow him across. But
you try to force the herd in the chatches are
they'll panic and half of them more drum Huh, I
never heard of it makes a lot of money every
season just leading the herds across the air Kansas. And
that old cow of his takes the water like a duck.
Speaker 6 (04:59):
Well, and it's not out of jails without that cow
touches in trumble and sure.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
He's in trouble. When Burke Collins heads here in a
couple of days, what has heard? There's there's gonna be
more trouble.
Speaker 6 (05:09):
But he's already him then Collins, well.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Yeah, I seen the monstreets doing any doing yet.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
He must have had a gonna have. Mister doon T.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Said that shack on its all tore off like they'd
been a fight.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Yeah, and on he's not one to go off on
sudden trips. You know something, kiddy, I think you're right.
It's not a chill.
Speaker 7 (05:52):
Now just listen a minute, uh if you will. I've
got a little story to tell you. Well, it's not
so little.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
It's sort of a tall tail. It's about a drought.
Speaker 7 (06:02):
Busting weather conjurer named Feebold feebles and why they say
Kansas never had a drought that he couldn't bust in
twenty four hours. They say he had at least a
hundred different ways of doing it too. Once, when it
got so hot that folks had to spend half their
time in some lake to keep them drying up and
blowing away, Old Feebold figured it was time for a
(06:23):
little rain. Well, he thought on the problem for a while.
Then he went out and built huge fires all around
the lakes and kept them going until the lake started
boiling and the water got the vaporizing. These vapor clouds
rose up from the lake so fast they slammed into
one another and started raining all over the place well
(06:44):
else their Once primed, the rains came again and were
soon back on schedule. The bowl saved the country that time.
That wasn't the only time that Feebole saved the country either.
There were others too, Like the time he used the
noise method to make rain. Oh, he didn't use cat
and and rockets in the light he was original. He
used frogs now. Feebold realized that frogs wouldn't croak unless
(07:08):
they were good and wet, so he hypnotized a couple
of 'em and told him it was raining. Well, sir,
it would have done your heart good to hear them
frogs croaking with joy and spreading the news around. Soon
every frog in the country was croaking as loud as
he could, which was loud enough to give an Indian
rain got a skull splitting a headache. Well, the amount
(07:29):
of noise turned out to be just right, and the
rains just poured down. Of course, Old Feebold could only
use that method once a year, cause so much rain
would come down that the frogs would get washed clear
down of the Gulf of Mexico, and it'd take 'em
near a year to get back home. Rain, fog, sleet, snow, heat,
or what have you. Old Feebold had a way to
(07:52):
handle the situation. Why I remember the time that no, h,
I hadn't better tell you that one. Why it's almost unbelievd,
and I don't wanna take a chance on making you
think that I might stretch the truth just a little bit. Say,
isn't it nice being citizens of a country where you
can laugh and talk about things free as a breeze,
(08:14):
and write and read and worship too. Yes, sir. Maybe
you don't think about it much, but you should.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
My sure, it is good to get back mister Dana.
I'm terrible hungry.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
All huh, wait a minute, Oh hello, Doc, hold.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Ong, wanna talk to you?
Speaker 2 (08:47):
All right? Oh uh? Trust her? You you're going ahead
if you want. I'll make sure the rest of her well.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
I am feeling and for mister dyllnon, they are going in.
I'll feel it right testy.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Ah, that's on your mind, doctor Bill.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Matt, what are you planning to do today?
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Work? Same as the other six days every week?
Speaker 7 (09:15):
Work work?
Speaker 3 (09:16):
He said, You mean sitting down there in that jail
office with your feet on the desk.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
No, not today, Doc, I got a track down a cow, a.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Cow, a cow that see, Matt, see you come along
with me. But I got to look in on a
couple of patients out toward Kiawa meadows. Now we'll take
long and we'll have the rest of the day to
shoot us some prairie and prairie.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
And this time of year, Doc, the only prairie in
are on here right now? Or hold up in the
plumb thickets, A deep and a weasel can't keep it
getting ah, Now, that's.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Just where you're wrong. You know how Kiawa Meadows is
protected by that bend in the river, those high bluffs
on the north side. Oh yeah, And these last few
weeks it's the mighty warm for this time of year. Yeah, real,
it's me the kind of a full spring out there
in the meadow. Now, the way I hear it, it's
just as green as may where to stand. The young
clover come up there, and wild timoth him and buffalo
(10:08):
grass and the prairie hens are just swarm.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
You know something that's possible, Doc, I remember something like
that happened in a few years back.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Well, come on, then, let's get out here and get
out of it.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Doc, I already told you I gotta find a cow.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
What are you serious?
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Yes, I thought that was a journal I wish it was. Uh, say,
you haven't seen anything ony hagar, have you?
Speaker 3 (10:31):
You mean one's cow?
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Uh huh?
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Oh my, that old bag of bones.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
If that old bag of bones doesn't turn up pretty quick,
it's gonna cause the worst fight that this town's ever seen.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
Who about the fight over that scrawny old walking cock
is now? Except owning your car?
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Yeah, not only a couple of pretty tough boys named
Burt Collins, and tush Lee say only's disappeared, and that's
the trouble. Touch thinks that Collins has had something to
do with it. I'm not too sure about what he
may be, right, and what what do you mean? Oh,
chestera and I just got back from a look at
on a shock this morning, and I'm gonna fight him
(11:09):
at all right. The cook stoves knocked over tables smashing.
No sign of on A or the cow anywhere.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Oh well, gee, Matt, maybe he went on a.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Trip he took his cow on.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Oh oh no, I say, Matt, if anything something to
pull on he, they ought to be hung.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
I feel the same way, doctor.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
And he's got his faults, but he's a harmless old coot.
And and he never did any hurt to anybody in
his whole life.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
H it kind of looks like somebody did some hurt
to him, though.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
I just don't seem to have no appetite tall in
mister John.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Yeah, I I I know that's Chester. You only had
the six eggs.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Well, I don't mean I don't eat exactly, but I
just don't seem to relish it so much.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
And ah, I see, or maybe if you uh, cut
down on the quantity a little bit, maybe.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Uh No, No, it ain't that, I don't think, uh see,
I it's just more like I been feeling poorly lately.
Speaker 7 (12:28):
That not nothing particular.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
You got me just kinally sore over.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Tell me something, Chester you You you didn't start getting these
feelings just a few minutes ago that you're going, uh
when I told you about the doc going hunting today?
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Oh my goodness, No, mister John, I know I I
been having these pains for a long time.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Oh I see, of course.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
Now that you mention it, I declared, I I bet
it sure wouldn't do me no harm.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
To get out in the open for a while, like
around Kyle was met at, for.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Instance, praying makes mighty good eating. I heard you say
that to yourself many a time.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Doc's already promised that something chest it's.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Already look seeing is believing Doc can't hit the side
of a barn and both hands and the board.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
In the middle.
Speaker 5 (13:22):
You know that.
Speaker 6 (13:25):
Hello, Kitty Matt, you better get over the long branch
right away.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Why what's wrong?
Speaker 6 (13:29):
Natush and Burt Cullins over there, sidling around each other
like a pair of tonguekats.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
It's gonna bust loose any minute.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Come on, Chester, ill got pop Jack here on he
bring him with you. Ain't know how to say nothing
about mobile.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
I know what kind of people some people are with him?
Kind proven ain't needed.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Well, now, Man, I never had no friend this whole
born days.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
You'll not expect nobody here to agree with man.
Speaker 6 (14:07):
I forget another mirror. Brother, we might have closed out.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
I will see what we can do. You stay Rochester.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
I made off with on the hagar and that cow
his and more than likely you've done him in.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Now that's a lie, and I'm gonna break you in
pieces for it. You start whenever you're all at both
of you.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
Well, there's a murder of Marshall. Do you do? Didn't
I Marshall?
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Marshall A man shouldn't want to go tell him lies
about somebody. Addie, what are you doing in? Tom Collins?
I thought your herd was still out there so south
of the river. Well I rode in the head order
to talk to them.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Cattle buyers come in to steal that cow. Murder on
the hagar, that's what he done.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Have you seen on any Come right, I want to
see him.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
I got two three good swimmers of my heart.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
You're gonna rest of them, ain't you, Marshall?
Speaker 2 (14:56):
I afraid I haven't got much reason to such.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
All right, take a line in my own hands.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
I wouldn't advise that.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
I give you your chance, Marshall. If you ain't gonna do
your job, I'm gonna bring my boys into town and
do it for.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Come back, well, man, crazy fool. The man is going
to be attacked. He shouldn't Aldy just stand around and
do nothing to protect himself, should he? I wait a minute,
I wait nothing.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
I'm going I can't get some of my boy at
Marshall wool.
Speaker 7 (15:26):
And gone.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
Old Kyle Shore he has carding A lot.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Of couple incis young. Yeah, that's gonna get worse. This land,
(15:54):
this land is mine, This lad was.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
For all that we tend to group Nebraska with one
or another of the states. The Krnhusker state has many
characteristics which are strictly its own. Since eighteen seventy five,
for example, Nebraska has been a debt free state which
preferred to spend ten years building the capital at Lincoln
rather than spend money it didn't have. Further, as its
name may indicate, Corn is its most important crop, and
(16:24):
Omaha's stockyards are among the largest in the world. Then
there's historic Chimney Rock near Bayard and the town of Alliance,
which was once almost sold by the Burlington Lines railroad.
Many years of tiers and Indian wars and hardships such
as the Grasshopper plague contributed to the words which are
engraved upon the capital honor to pioneers who broke the
(16:45):
sods that men to come might live. Nebraskans live by
these words, and they live for them.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
It looks like this just keeps my nerve tor mister Dillon,
mister Dillon, shut the door. Chester, Oh, mister Dillon, what
are you aiming to do?
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Sit here and digest my breakfast wine?
Speaker 3 (17:25):
But they're gonna be added any minute now. Who is
tush Lee and Burt Collins? You ain't forgot about.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Them, have you?
Speaker 3 (17:31):
No?
Speaker 2 (17:32):
But I wish I couldn't.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Well, they're in town right now, both of them, and
they got their men with them.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Yeah, I know.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Well, if you already know, why don't you do something
like what?
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Chester?
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Well, my land, you could at least you could go
well maybe if you couldn't do that, you well, you
can't just sit here and let them.
Speaker 6 (17:52):
Kill each other.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
But I can sit here until I'm sure that that's
what they're gonna do.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
But they are, they are, That's what I'm telling you.
Tush is out there the Long Branch saying how he's
gonna hang Burt, and Bert's down the other end of
the street and making his brag about how he's gonna
shoot that so full of holds of birds can fly Chester.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
If all the killing that's talked about and Dodge said
he was actually done, Boothell would be ten miles wide
and twenty miles long.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
But these two are really going to.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Then I'll deal with it when it starts.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
And that'll be any minute now. Everybody else in town
thinks so too. Did they take a look out this
Windowy and the soul in the street except for some
crazy food leading the leading the mister Dyllan teh, what's
the matter, Tony Hager?
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Huh, he's got his car.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
He ain't dead to talk.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Come on, hey, honnye right up a minute way there
and look there the door of the Long Branch there, Yeah,
that comes Collins and needs him.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Margie up.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
Just Yearnis looking up to be another mighty pleasant day now,
or would you say so?
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's a fine, fine day. Only where
have you been?
Speaker 6 (19:12):
You know?
Speaker 4 (19:13):
Me and Ida Bell here has been up to kylewa
Meadows for a few days Kyle on medals. Oh my goodness,
it's just like sprang up there, all new grass and
fresh clover, and either Bell ain't at nothing but dry.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Feed all over.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
He's just done her world of good?
Speaker 4 (19:33):
Ain't that right now?
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Dearie, Hush, I'm on out of here. Your Joe Collins
I bothered here? Come along?
Speaker 4 (19:42):
You had any excitement around town while I've been gone.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Marshall excitement? Oh no, none to speak of. Things have
been pretty quiet.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
Only did you see any prayer? Hand up? Kyle of medics,
Oh my yes, there was just schedule mighty glad you
got away from the morning. Did it hurt you bad?
Speaker 2 (20:01):
On? I shut up and left with me, both of you.
Before you start taking the law out of your hands again, Tush,
you better stop and think for a minute. Only he
has only been away on a little trip. Collins here
had nothing to do with it. What it's true? Tell
me mo.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
Well, I don't know what you're talking about. But me
and Ida Bell has been up to Kylewood.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Well here you are, Tush, what God told you.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
Hours?
Speaker 2 (20:31):
I don't know?
Speaker 3 (20:31):
Well you didn't know. And it's like I said, a
man hadding all to say what he ain't sure of,
I recognize kind of in the wrong.
Speaker 7 (20:41):
All right, Well that's.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
For dang sure.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
And you made me look real bad, USh, Yeah, I
guess it did. Bird. I might set up drinks if
you was my core.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Right, you ain't gonna say that, but one time, let's go.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
Only way to have that cor down or ever. A
couple of hours ago, got a job for her.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
I'm mighty sorry, but Ida Belle can't do no swimming today.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
She can't well why not?
Speaker 2 (21:09):
She hit too much.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
Green clover and she ain't going to be fit to
go in the water before tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
Tomorrow may be too late.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
We'll forget it. Still, you're hurting with mine, will.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
Swimming across together.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
They will hold out for the same price with.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Them cattle buyers.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
Fair enough for right, Come on, let's get that drink, okay,
say ooneye? Yeah, if you went up on tip on
your own choice, now, how from your house was all
to ups about that way? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Well, there was a.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
Charity of Whitey Bill she didn't know where we was going,
and she put up an awful ruptus before I convinced her.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
But it wasn't the barn that was top.
Speaker 7 (21:51):
It was a house.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
Well, of course it was. Where do you expect me
to keep her outdoors?
Speaker 5 (21:56):
No?
Speaker 2 (21:56):
No, ain't. Nobody would expect you to keep that cow
in place except right in the house.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Gunsmoke. We're used and directed by Norman McDonald, stars William
Conrad as Matt, Dylan, Us Marshall Hear in the cast
for Barley Bear as Chester, Howard McNear as Doc, and
Georgia Ellis as Kiddie George Walls Speaking. Join us again
next week for another specially transcribed story on gun smoke.
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