December 3, 2025 • 24 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Around godd City and in the territory on West. There
is just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
And that's where the US.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Marshal and The Smell of Guns Smoke Gun, starring William Conrad,
(00:42):
the story of the violence that moved west with young
America and the story of a man who moved with it.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
I'm that man, Matt dllon the 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
him watchful, a little lonely. Nice dayment he the wind's
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gone down anyway.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
Sure, what's blowing last night?
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Where were you last night?
Speaker 4 (01:25):
Docor out at the Collinwell place? This is cold expecting huh.
Still it was a false alarm last night.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Now here you ought to got some sleep while you can.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
I know that's right.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
We're I'm aheaded too, Jock Adam.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
Oh, hello, Ruf, I've been looking for you, Doc man.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
This is Rufe Tucker Shell. Tucker's soon, Oh, Ruth.
Speaker 5 (01:48):
We ain't met before, Marshall.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Oh, we haven't out here Pa these days.
Speaker 6 (01:52):
We just like ever.
Speaker 5 (01:53):
But it's more I come to get doctor.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
What's the matter?
Speaker 5 (01:56):
He swallowed the nail, Doc, and he's hritten her band.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
Swallowed the nail. How'd you do that? Well?
Speaker 6 (02:00):
I told her not to, but she was fixing the
chicken house anywhere, and she had some nails in her
mouth and it's hurting.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
It's her stomach.
Speaker 5 (02:07):
She's got a terrible pain in her stomach.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
He said, I'll ride out with you right away, Rufe,
I want to warn you, Doc.
Speaker 5 (02:13):
You know how poor is.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
Shell doesn't like Doc h he hates them.
Speaker 5 (02:20):
But he ain't there right now.
Speaker 6 (02:21):
Doc.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
He's been out on the prairie the last couple of days.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
I want to he be back.
Speaker 6 (02:25):
I don't know for sure, Marshall, but Mars had to
get Doc anyway. She doesn't want to die.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Shell had caused trouble. If he found Doc there.
Speaker 5 (02:35):
He sure would he'd beat him half to death.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Maybe I better ride out with you, Doc, just in
case Shell comes home while you're there. It's a good idea.
I think you'd better. Uh ruf you know Chester, don't
you sure? I'll go over to the Long Branch and
tell him that I wanted to go with us.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Who came Marshall.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
At least mister Dollon.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
I don't know Chester, doc's still working on her.
Speaker 5 (03:16):
Well, I ain't no sign of Shell anyway.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
That's some help.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
What's the matter?
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Man?
Speaker 3 (03:22):
When I said, mister Dillon heating doctors the way he does,
I don't know, Chester, Probably there weren't any doctors around
when he was young, and I was good enough for
his father's good enough for him some full of motion
like that.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
You know, Michelle always was a mean little kuss, except
for his horses.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
He's always treated horses like they as a human. Did
you ever notice.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
That Shell wasn't really a bad man, Chester, He just
ignorant and prejudiced because of his ignorance.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
If he'd have been here, he'd letting his tucker die
right and have Doc.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Operating around when he Yeah, probably, Oh that's bad to me, kid.
Maybe if Doc saved him some day, you might get
over as I is.
Speaker 7 (04:06):
And uh, Doc ain't gonna have a chance to help
call any He ain't never had a sick day in
his hole.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
I finally a h help. Rude.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Yeah, all though it at least she doctor, she's dead dead.
I guess her heart couldn't take it. I don't know.
I had to operate though she'd have died sure.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
If I hadn't tied it isn't sure a fault, Docky
that I'll get cooked her. But I always feel maybe
if I wud have done it better, things like this
wouldn't happen.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
They're not to blame. Uh Uh. He don't want me
to tell Rufe.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
I've already told him. He's in there with her. Uh.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
How they take it?
Speaker 4 (04:52):
He didn't say it wouldn't it? You know, Doc, you
must be some more out m doct Oh yes, sir.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
You too, Marshall. You gonna have to help me.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Sure, we'll help you, Rofe. What is it? Well, it's
about Paul. Huh.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
I don't know what to tell him when he comes back.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
I just tell him the truth, Rufe. Doc tried to say.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
To your mother, but he wasn't able to Nobody could.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
Have we You don't know Paul very well. I guess
he just don't stand for it.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
There's nothing he can do about it.
Speaker 8 (05:33):
Now.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
It's a wolf it.
Speaker 5 (05:36):
When Paul says a thing, he means it.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
And he said none of us was ever to go
near a doctor, Rufe.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Do you agree with your Paul's thinking?
Speaker 5 (05:46):
No? Neither did Mar. But we didn't dare cross him
when he was around. Anyway, I'm afraid of him. Marshall.
You have to stay here and tell him.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
And I've got to get out of the all the.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Old place that babies do anytime.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
But you can't go now, stay early comes back roof Chester.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
You better ride in the.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Town in case anybody's looking for of him.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
The funny thing how a doctor can lose one life
and maybe bring another into the world very same day.
Ones you can ride partway together.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
I got another one those Civil War.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Centennial stamps in my album here, and you know, I
kind of like this the best of more because it's
the one on Appomatics where the Blue and the Gray
got together and decided to quit all let's shooting and killing.
That's okay, now, yeah, yes, here Now, this this Appomatic
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was just a little town in Virginia, but it got
into history in a big way on April the ninth,
eighteen hundred and sixty five.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
That's when General Robert E.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Lee figured the South had had it and asked General
US Grant to come there and talk it over. Now
they say the Union general showed up wearing a private's
uniform and ton of money from the ride. But looks
didn't much matter.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
The thing was that Grant took to heart what President
Lincoln said, like it's on the stamp with malice toward none.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Yeah, and he made the terms of surrender decent enough
to go along with to be to be real.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
Precade me only surrendered for the.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Army of Virginia at Appomatics, and not for the whole Confederacy.
But when the word got around about it, all the
armies of the Hill threw away their guns and came
back home again.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
I'll let out of god r.
Speaker 5 (08:33):
I want her very good.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Marshalls about a cross you want to put across.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
I'll let Paul design back.
Speaker 5 (08:49):
Oh my gosh, Marshall, here it comes now.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
Uh uh, that's like he's been riding pretty hard.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
I mean I.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
Always rides Hord, but he takes mighty good care of
his horses all the same. He's never hurt one yet.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
Yeah, I know.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Hello, they're a Marshall alright, yeah, shall.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Well, yeah, what are you doing out here?
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Shall Your wife died, died roof and I just finished
burying her.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
She died, you know, just a few hours ago.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
We didn't know when you get back, so Wall, when
I hadn't buried her, would she die of?
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (09:44):
She was holding some nails in her mouth and she swallowed.
When I'm.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Roof, take this horse into the barn and dry him off.
Speaker 5 (09:54):
Sure, pump, well be good?
Speaker 4 (09:56):
Now?
Speaker 5 (09:57):
How will pump?
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Uh? Don't let him near know water yet?
Speaker 3 (10:05):
What are you doing out here, Marshall? I came out
with Doc, who doc at him. He did everything he
could to save her live. Show he cut on her,
didn't me? And he tried to get the nail. If
that's what you mean, she'd have died from it if
he hadn't.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Cutting on her. That's what killed her. Luck, Shell, Your
wife was dying and Doc tried to save her.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Now that's what happened. No matter what you think. I
got no use for doctor. They're all Quakers.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
That's what my old man called Quaker, and that's what
killed him.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Now.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
Well, I kind of figured that's where all this came from.
Jelly Ever thought maybe.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
That your old man might have been wrong.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Not about time.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
He wasn't who told doctor come out here? Your wife
wanted it?
Speaker 2 (10:54):
After all the times I've told her to stay away
from doctor. Well, I guess she didn't want to die.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Shell. I guess she wanted a chance to who are
defenseless woman?
Speaker 2 (11:02):
He come out here and killed her.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Well, Doc Adams is going to pay for this, Marshall.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
I'm telling you right now.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
You'll lay a hand on Doc, and I'll run you
out of the country. Shell.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Maybe he won't be a hand I'll use more.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Try anything like that, and you'll hang for it. I'll
find your wherever you go.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
He killed my wife with his bunkling butchery.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
He's a murderer.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
There's no man of Kansas at the Bullieve that that's
a pretty valuable citizen around here.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Not to me, he hain't. It's an eye for an eye, Marshall.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Like it said in the book, you'll even try it
and I'll throw you in jail.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
I don't try nothing, then you'll hang.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Will a high Marshall.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
I left Shell Tucker standing by his wife's grave, and
I rode back to Dutch or Narrow lay. Shell was
feasible enough, but there was no telling what he might
do now.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
Doc stay that the car will place.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
That night and the next day too.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
I thought he'd be safe there, so I didn't worry
about him until the next tea. And then Kitty and
I were having the supper.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
At the DoD job.
Speaker 9 (12:04):
Now, for a town that lives in the cattle trade,
you'd think that they're able to eat decent stake.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
You should have had a prairie chicken, Kitty. It didn't
have to walk all the way from Texas.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
Oh, that's sake I had got carried.
Speaker 9 (12:16):
It was too old a walk of eaten prairie chicken.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Now what the taste like, Well, i'll tell you, kitty,
it's a little chicken or an awful lot of prairie.
Speaker 9 (12:25):
I didn't know you better. I'd say you've been drinking.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Eh.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
And if I know you, your ordered steak next time. Anyway,
I don't give up eating you.
Speaker 5 (12:38):
Yeah, I know, I remember it.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (12:42):
Sure, you don't know much about women theed matter.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Well I'm learning.
Speaker 5 (12:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (12:48):
At the pace you've set, I'll be in my grave
before you're out of first grade.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
You know it took me ten years to learn how
to handle a six gun.
Speaker 9 (12:56):
Well, it's the nicest compliment I've had all day.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
Drink your coffee.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
I gotta get out of here, sir.
Speaker 5 (13:02):
This is a Dylan.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Doc. Once you get back, just listing him.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
How need you call?
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Well?
Speaker 4 (13:11):
Doc? She gave birth to her twelve pound boy this afternoon.
Speaker 5 (13:15):
Oh that's fine, that's not what I.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
Came to talk about.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
So, Matt, somebody tried to shoot me on the way
back in the car place.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
Huh it wasn't.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
I didn't see him since I didn't have.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
A gun and I rode straight ahead fast or where.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
This happened about a mile the other side the grove.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
And I should have come out there and written him
back with you and.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
You know something about it.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Yeah, Shell, Tucker, he came back after you and Chester left.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Doc.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
He made some threats.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
I might have known, But I'm not going to be
a target for Shell. Every time I go on a
call in the country, I'm going out and see him. Matt,
we'll have this out face to.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
Face, and I don't think he can change his mind.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Doctor, I'll go with you. If he admits shooting.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
At you this after no, I'll bring him back to jail.
Maybe I'll bring him back anyway.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Hometowns in America have a lot in common, and yet
they're each one of a kind. Take for example, Niagara Falls,
New York. In addition to serving as a honeymoon capital
of the World, Niagara Falls finds it necessary to consider
its own one hundred thousand citizens, most of whom are
not just marriage but year round residents. They work at
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DuPont Chemical or Union Carbide and shop at Beer Brothers.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
On a clear day, they can see.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Toronto from the pool at the country Club, and in
the evening they read the gazette and dine at the Treadwaves. Meanwhile,
aside from the newlywed, others take the plumb literally. One
of these was Red Hill, a champion of the Falls,
whose battered barrel is at the Falls Museum. Others of
sheer grip have gone over in everything from life preservers
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to rubber balls. Fortunately, most prefer the view from Prospect
Point or the cave of the winds Cap Walk where
you catch the spray in.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
A yellow slicker.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
But if your hometown is Niagor Falls, you already know it.
We only wanted to remind you.
Speaker 8 (15:31):
If still there.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Somebody in the crowler man that looks like shell is him,
and let's leave him here.
Speaker 8 (16:03):
They will stand.
Speaker 7 (16:04):
They got a horse tied down, and there what's doing?
Speaker 4 (16:15):
And he's down Chester, but he's not.
Speaker 8 (16:17):
Tied down here.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
And see when you look at that and he broke
his leg and it's too bad.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
Well, hell yeah, Doc, I'll go in first in case
Shell gets excited.
Speaker 4 (16:36):
Uh, go ahead, out coding, hellout Shell boo.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
You bring that croaker out here to kill my horse
for me, and I shall let him in. I uh,
I'm sorry about your horse. Show that bay's the finest
animal room.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
What happened.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Just popping him off when it fell, busted his leg.
Don't man roof going up the house and fetching my rifle.
Speaker 5 (17:11):
Okay, bauh.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Terrible thing to lose a horse like this. Yeah, uh,
I'll do the shoot him if you like show, No thanks,
I'll kill him myself. It's my job.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
It's a funny thing.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
They always shoot a horse if it breaks a leg,
but he wouldn't think of shooting a man when he does.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
You croaker has got other ways of getting made of people.
I'll overlook that show, but I'll tell.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
You something I don't wanna hear nothing. You like that
horse a horse?
Speaker 3 (17:43):
I man, don't shoot him. Don't shoot him. Look show
that horse is done for anyway, but it won't hurt him.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Let me try to fix his leg the same way
I would with a man. It just might work.
Speaker 5 (17:54):
You mean put a cast on him?
Speaker 1 (17:55):
I do.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
I never heard of putting my cast on a horse.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
You're crazy.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
It's up to your show.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
I wouldn't let you near my wife Vibe in the here,
and I'm not going to.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Let you fool with my horse.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
All right?
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Shall you shoot your horse?
Speaker 3 (18:10):
And then I'm taking you back to Dodge? What You're
going to jail for taking a shot at Doc yesterday?
Speaker 2 (18:17):
I didn't exactly say I ain't going to know jail.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
Yes you are, unless maybe Doc changes his mind about
charging you with attempted murder. And then I couldn't put
you in jail. You know, Show, I might get so
busy working on this horse, i'd plane forget out of
the earth, and I might even save the animal the boot, and.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
I'll make up your mind. Show.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
I got to get back to Dodge, all right, But.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
You better make it work, I said.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
I try.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
That's the best I can do if no matter who
the patient is.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Okay, Doc, you try, but you try real hard.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
I always do, show real hard.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
Chester and Rufe made a fast trip on the Dodge
for a plaster of Paris and.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Some muslin to go under it. And when they got back,
Doc went to work. An hour later, he had a
heavy cast on a horse's leg, and.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
After giving a Shell some final instructions, he was finished,
and he promised to come back in.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
A couple of weeks and put a lighter cast on him,
and we left. Sheld him same unchly.
Speaker 4 (19:35):
I knew if anything went wrong with that horse, he'd be.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
After Doc again. However, six weeks went for before anything
that Doc and I were to his office with a
game of chess that we started a few days earlier.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
Rooker, you are sitting down the man. If I move
my bishop, you'll be dragging on my.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Crew as you on the movie. Got Doc?
Speaker 4 (20:00):
All right, he see you didn't do that. Couple morelos
and I'll get that queen Doc. Oh hello Shell, Doc.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
I've been looking everywhere you blasting. Why'd you put a
sign on your.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Door seeing you were out?
Speaker 4 (20:17):
Shell?
Speaker 1 (20:19):
How come you're wearing a gun? Man? Do you fool
not to wear a gun in this town? Marshall would
be a worse foe to try to use it, now,
don't you rile me? I'm in a bad enough tim
well already.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
What's wrong? Shells?
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Something happens to your horse now?
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Now he's tied up right outside.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Doc.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
Yeah, I took that second cast off myself, and then
I rode him in here.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
Of course I took it easy with him, Doc, what
do you know by haven't it worked?
Speaker 4 (20:47):
Well?
Speaker 3 (20:48):
That's fine, Shall, But you say hit it up a
box man. You'd be hearing up to Marshall if you've
been carrying a bed tooth in your jaw as long
as I have too. Huh you mean you're looking for
a doctor shelf.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Wow, I'm mad enough to admit it.
Speaker 7 (21:06):
Mar.
Speaker 6 (21:06):
Oh, well, you just sit out right over there, do that.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
I'll see what I can.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Okay, Doc, this is the one right here.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
I see.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
I'll try to get it out here.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
I'll try Shell. That's the best econimity is.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
That's good enough for me, Doc.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
It seems that my best source for examples of usage
of political terms is that old political character of a politician,
Elijah Cuttlestone. To give you an example, I'll say, I
say there are too many factions.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
That is, too many.
Speaker 10 (21:59):
Factions are working against each other. What we need is harmony.
I mean within the party, harmony is essential. That is well,
what elijahs said is true. There must be order and
harmony of purpose for a group to successfully reach a goal.
Too many factions struggling against each other within a group
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can defeat the purpose of the group without outside help.
It's peculiar, but faction met a fighting group in the
days of the Romans. They divided the combatants in the
circus into groups or classes called factions, each class wearing
their own spatial colors. These combatants entertained as strong as
pre decor as they strove against each other. Because of
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the competitiveness and spirit of these factions, the term faction
was easily applied to political partisans.
Speaker 11 (23:30):
Gunsmoke, produced and directed by Norman McDonald, stars William Conrad
as Matt Villon Us Marshall. Featured in the cast were
Parley Bear as Chapter, Howard mcneher as Doc, and Georgia
Ellis as Kiddy George Wall Speaking.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Join us again next week for another especially transcribed story
on guns Smoke. This is the United States so.
Speaker 11 (23:59):
Armed Forces Radio and Television service
Speaker 10 (24:15):
H
Around godd City and in the territory on West. There
is just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
And that's where the US.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Marshal and The Smell of Guns Smoke Gun, starring William Conrad,
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the story of the violence that moved west with young
America and the story of a man who moved with it.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
I'm that man, Matt dllon the 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
him watchful, a little lonely. Nice dayment he the wind's
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gone down anyway.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
Sure, what's blowing last night?
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Where were you last night?
Speaker 4 (01:25):
Docor out at the Collinwell place? This is cold expecting huh.
Still it was a false alarm last night.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Now here you ought to got some sleep while you can.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
I know that's right.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
We're I'm aheaded too, Jock Adam.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
Oh, hello, Ruf, I've been looking for you, Doc man.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
This is Rufe Tucker Shell. Tucker's soon, Oh, Ruth.
Speaker 5 (01:48):
We ain't met before, Marshall.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Oh, we haven't out here Pa these days.
Speaker 6 (01:52):
We just like ever.
Speaker 5 (01:53):
But it's more I come to get doctor.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
What's the matter?
Speaker 5 (01:56):
He swallowed the nail, Doc, and he's hritten her band.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
Swallowed the nail. How'd you do that? Well?
Speaker 6 (02:00):
I told her not to, but she was fixing the
chicken house anywhere, and she had some nails in her
mouth and it's hurting.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
It's her stomach.
Speaker 5 (02:07):
She's got a terrible pain in her stomach.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
He said, I'll ride out with you right away, Rufe,
I want to warn you, Doc.
Speaker 5 (02:13):
You know how poor is.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
Shell doesn't like Doc h he hates them.
Speaker 5 (02:20):
But he ain't there right now.
Speaker 6 (02:21):
Doc.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
He's been out on the prairie the last couple of days.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
I want to he be back.
Speaker 6 (02:25):
I don't know for sure, Marshall, but Mars had to
get Doc anyway. She doesn't want to die.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Shell had caused trouble. If he found Doc there.
Speaker 5 (02:35):
He sure would he'd beat him half to death.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Maybe I better ride out with you, Doc, just in
case Shell comes home while you're there. It's a good idea.
I think you'd better. Uh ruf you know Chester, don't
you sure? I'll go over to the Long Branch and
tell him that I wanted to go with us.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Who came Marshall.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
At least mister Dollon.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
I don't know Chester, doc's still working on her.
Speaker 5 (03:16):
Well, I ain't no sign of Shell anyway.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
That's some help.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
What's the matter?
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Man?
Speaker 3 (03:22):
When I said, mister Dillon heating doctors the way he does,
I don't know, Chester, Probably there weren't any doctors around
when he was young, and I was good enough for
his father's good enough for him some full of motion
like that.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
You know, Michelle always was a mean little kuss, except
for his horses.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
He's always treated horses like they as a human. Did
you ever notice.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
That Shell wasn't really a bad man, Chester, He just
ignorant and prejudiced because of his ignorance.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
If he'd have been here, he'd letting his tucker die
right and have Doc.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Operating around when he Yeah, probably, Oh that's bad to me, kid.
Maybe if Doc saved him some day, you might get
over as I is.
Speaker 7 (04:06):
And uh, Doc ain't gonna have a chance to help
call any He ain't never had a sick day in
his hole.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
I finally a h help. Rude.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Yeah, all though it at least she doctor, she's dead dead.
I guess her heart couldn't take it. I don't know.
I had to operate though she'd have died sure.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
If I hadn't tied it isn't sure a fault, Docky
that I'll get cooked her. But I always feel maybe
if I wud have done it better, things like this
wouldn't happen.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
They're not to blame. Uh Uh. He don't want me
to tell Rufe.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
I've already told him. He's in there with her. Uh.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
How they take it?
Speaker 4 (04:52):
He didn't say it wouldn't it? You know, Doc, you
must be some more out m doct Oh yes, sir.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
You too, Marshall. You gonna have to help me.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Sure, we'll help you, Rofe. What is it? Well, it's
about Paul. Huh.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
I don't know what to tell him when he comes back.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
I just tell him the truth, Rufe. Doc tried to say.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
To your mother, but he wasn't able to Nobody could.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
Have we You don't know Paul very well. I guess
he just don't stand for it.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
There's nothing he can do about it.
Speaker 8 (05:33):
Now.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
It's a wolf it.
Speaker 5 (05:36):
When Paul says a thing, he means it.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
And he said none of us was ever to go
near a doctor, Rufe.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Do you agree with your Paul's thinking?
Speaker 5 (05:46):
No? Neither did Mar. But we didn't dare cross him
when he was around. Anyway, I'm afraid of him. Marshall.
You have to stay here and tell him.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
And I've got to get out of the all the.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Old place that babies do anytime.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
But you can't go now, stay early comes back roof Chester.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
You better ride in the.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Town in case anybody's looking for of him.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
The funny thing how a doctor can lose one life
and maybe bring another into the world very same day.
Ones you can ride partway together.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
I got another one those Civil War.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Centennial stamps in my album here, and you know, I
kind of like this the best of more because it's
the one on Appomatics where the Blue and the Gray
got together and decided to quit all let's shooting and killing.
That's okay, now, yeah, yes, here Now, this this Appomatic
(07:10):
was just a little town in Virginia, but it got
into history in a big way on April the ninth,
eighteen hundred and sixty five.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
That's when General Robert E.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Lee figured the South had had it and asked General
US Grant to come there and talk it over. Now
they say the Union general showed up wearing a private's
uniform and ton of money from the ride. But looks
didn't much matter.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
The thing was that Grant took to heart what President
Lincoln said, like it's on the stamp with malice toward none.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Yeah, and he made the terms of surrender decent enough
to go along with to be to be real.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
Precade me only surrendered for the.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Army of Virginia at Appomatics, and not for the whole Confederacy.
But when the word got around about it, all the
armies of the Hill threw away their guns and came
back home again.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
I'll let out of god r.
Speaker 5 (08:33):
I want her very good.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Marshalls about a cross you want to put across.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
I'll let Paul design back.
Speaker 5 (08:49):
Oh my gosh, Marshall, here it comes now.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
Uh uh, that's like he's been riding pretty hard.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
I mean I.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
Always rides Hord, but he takes mighty good care of
his horses all the same. He's never hurt one yet.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
Yeah, I know.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Hello, they're a Marshall alright, yeah, shall.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Well, yeah, what are you doing out here?
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Shall Your wife died, died roof and I just finished
burying her.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
She died, you know, just a few hours ago.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
We didn't know when you get back, so Wall, when
I hadn't buried her, would she die of?
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (09:44):
She was holding some nails in her mouth and she swallowed.
When I'm.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Roof, take this horse into the barn and dry him off.
Speaker 5 (09:54):
Sure, pump, well be good?
Speaker 4 (09:56):
Now?
Speaker 5 (09:57):
How will pump?
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Uh? Don't let him near know water yet?
Speaker 3 (10:05):
What are you doing out here, Marshall? I came out
with Doc, who doc at him. He did everything he
could to save her live. Show he cut on her,
didn't me? And he tried to get the nail. If
that's what you mean, she'd have died from it if
he hadn't.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Cutting on her. That's what killed her. Luck, Shell, Your
wife was dying and Doc tried to save her.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Now that's what happened. No matter what you think. I
got no use for doctor. They're all Quakers.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
That's what my old man called Quaker, and that's what
killed him.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Now.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
Well, I kind of figured that's where all this came from.
Jelly Ever thought maybe.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
That your old man might have been wrong.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Not about time.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
He wasn't who told doctor come out here? Your wife
wanted it?
Speaker 2 (10:54):
After all the times I've told her to stay away
from doctor. Well, I guess she didn't want to die.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Shell. I guess she wanted a chance to who are
defenseless woman?
Speaker 2 (11:02):
He come out here and killed her.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Well, Doc Adams is going to pay for this, Marshall.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
I'm telling you right now.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
You'll lay a hand on Doc, and I'll run you
out of the country. Shell.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Maybe he won't be a hand I'll use more.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Try anything like that, and you'll hang for it. I'll
find your wherever you go.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
He killed my wife with his bunkling butchery.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
He's a murderer.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
There's no man of Kansas at the Bullieve that that's
a pretty valuable citizen around here.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Not to me, he hain't. It's an eye for an eye, Marshall.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Like it said in the book, you'll even try it
and I'll throw you in jail.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
I don't try nothing, then you'll hang.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Will a high Marshall.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
I left Shell Tucker standing by his wife's grave, and
I rode back to Dutch or Narrow lay. Shell was
feasible enough, but there was no telling what he might
do now.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
Doc stay that the car will place.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
That night and the next day too.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
I thought he'd be safe there, so I didn't worry
about him until the next tea. And then Kitty and
I were having the supper.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
At the DoD job.
Speaker 9 (12:04):
Now, for a town that lives in the cattle trade,
you'd think that they're able to eat decent stake.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
You should have had a prairie chicken, Kitty. It didn't
have to walk all the way from Texas.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
Oh, that's sake I had got carried.
Speaker 9 (12:16):
It was too old a walk of eaten prairie chicken.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Now what the taste like, Well, i'll tell you, kitty,
it's a little chicken or an awful lot of prairie.
Speaker 9 (12:25):
I didn't know you better. I'd say you've been drinking.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Eh.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
And if I know you, your ordered steak next time. Anyway,
I don't give up eating you.
Speaker 5 (12:38):
Yeah, I know, I remember it.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (12:42):
Sure, you don't know much about women theed matter.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Well I'm learning.
Speaker 5 (12:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (12:48):
At the pace you've set, I'll be in my grave
before you're out of first grade.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
You know it took me ten years to learn how
to handle a six gun.
Speaker 9 (12:56):
Well, it's the nicest compliment I've had all day.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
Drink your coffee.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
I gotta get out of here, sir.
Speaker 5 (13:02):
This is a Dylan.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Doc. Once you get back, just listing him.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
How need you call?
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Well?
Speaker 4 (13:11):
Doc? She gave birth to her twelve pound boy this afternoon.
Speaker 5 (13:15):
Oh that's fine, that's not what I.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
Came to talk about.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
So, Matt, somebody tried to shoot me on the way
back in the car place.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
Huh it wasn't.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
I didn't see him since I didn't have.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
A gun and I rode straight ahead fast or where.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
This happened about a mile the other side the grove.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
And I should have come out there and written him
back with you and.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
You know something about it.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Yeah, Shell, Tucker, he came back after you and Chester left.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Doc.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
He made some threats.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
I might have known, But I'm not going to be
a target for Shell. Every time I go on a
call in the country, I'm going out and see him. Matt,
we'll have this out face to.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
Face, and I don't think he can change his mind.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Doctor, I'll go with you. If he admits shooting.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
At you this after no, I'll bring him back to jail.
Maybe I'll bring him back anyway.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Hometowns in America have a lot in common, and yet
they're each one of a kind. Take for example, Niagara Falls,
New York. In addition to serving as a honeymoon capital
of the World, Niagara Falls finds it necessary to consider
its own one hundred thousand citizens, most of whom are
not just marriage but year round residents. They work at
(14:45):
DuPont Chemical or Union Carbide and shop at Beer Brothers.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
On a clear day, they can see.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Toronto from the pool at the country Club, and in
the evening they read the gazette and dine at the Treadwaves. Meanwhile,
aside from the newlywed, others take the plumb literally. One
of these was Red Hill, a champion of the Falls,
whose battered barrel is at the Falls Museum. Others of
sheer grip have gone over in everything from life preservers
(15:14):
to rubber balls. Fortunately, most prefer the view from Prospect
Point or the cave of the winds Cap Walk where
you catch the spray in.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
A yellow slicker.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
But if your hometown is Niagor Falls, you already know it.
We only wanted to remind you.
Speaker 8 (15:31):
If still there.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Somebody in the crowler man that looks like shell is him,
and let's leave him here.
Speaker 8 (16:03):
They will stand.
Speaker 7 (16:04):
They got a horse tied down, and there what's doing?
Speaker 4 (16:15):
And he's down Chester, but he's not.
Speaker 8 (16:17):
Tied down here.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
And see when you look at that and he broke
his leg and it's too bad.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
Well, hell yeah, Doc, I'll go in first in case
Shell gets excited.
Speaker 4 (16:36):
Uh, go ahead, out coding, hellout Shell boo.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
You bring that croaker out here to kill my horse
for me, and I shall let him in. I uh,
I'm sorry about your horse. Show that bay's the finest
animal room.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
What happened.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Just popping him off when it fell, busted his leg.
Don't man roof going up the house and fetching my rifle.
Speaker 5 (17:11):
Okay, bauh.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Terrible thing to lose a horse like this. Yeah, uh,
I'll do the shoot him if you like show, No thanks,
I'll kill him myself. It's my job.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
It's a funny thing.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
They always shoot a horse if it breaks a leg,
but he wouldn't think of shooting a man when he does.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
You croaker has got other ways of getting made of people.
I'll overlook that show, but I'll tell.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
You something I don't wanna hear nothing. You like that
horse a horse?
Speaker 3 (17:43):
I man, don't shoot him. Don't shoot him. Look show
that horse is done for anyway, but it won't hurt him.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Let me try to fix his leg the same way
I would with a man. It just might work.
Speaker 5 (17:54):
You mean put a cast on him?
Speaker 1 (17:55):
I do.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
I never heard of putting my cast on a horse.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
You're crazy.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
It's up to your show.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
I wouldn't let you near my wife Vibe in the here,
and I'm not going to.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Let you fool with my horse.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
All right?
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Shall you shoot your horse?
Speaker 3 (18:10):
And then I'm taking you back to Dodge? What You're
going to jail for taking a shot at Doc yesterday?
Speaker 2 (18:17):
I didn't exactly say I ain't going to know jail.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
Yes you are, unless maybe Doc changes his mind about
charging you with attempted murder. And then I couldn't put
you in jail. You know, Show, I might get so
busy working on this horse, i'd plane forget out of
the earth, and I might even save the animal the boot, and.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
I'll make up your mind. Show.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
I got to get back to Dodge, all right, But.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
You better make it work, I said.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
I try.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
That's the best I can do if no matter who
the patient is.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Okay, Doc, you try, but you try real hard.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
I always do, show real hard.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
Chester and Rufe made a fast trip on the Dodge
for a plaster of Paris and.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Some muslin to go under it. And when they got back,
Doc went to work. An hour later, he had a
heavy cast on a horse's leg, and.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
After giving a Shell some final instructions, he was finished,
and he promised to come back in.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
A couple of weeks and put a lighter cast on him,
and we left. Sheld him same unchly.
Speaker 4 (19:35):
I knew if anything went wrong with that horse, he'd be.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
After Doc again. However, six weeks went for before anything
that Doc and I were to his office with a
game of chess that we started a few days earlier.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
Rooker, you are sitting down the man. If I move
my bishop, you'll be dragging on my.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Crew as you on the movie. Got Doc?
Speaker 4 (20:00):
All right, he see you didn't do that. Couple morelos
and I'll get that queen Doc. Oh hello Shell, Doc.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
I've been looking everywhere you blasting. Why'd you put a
sign on your.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Door seeing you were out?
Speaker 4 (20:17):
Shell?
Speaker 1 (20:19):
How come you're wearing a gun? Man? Do you fool
not to wear a gun in this town? Marshall would
be a worse foe to try to use it, now,
don't you rile me? I'm in a bad enough tim
well already.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
What's wrong? Shells?
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Something happens to your horse now?
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Now he's tied up right outside.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Doc.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
Yeah, I took that second cast off myself, and then
I rode him in here.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
Of course I took it easy with him, Doc, what
do you know by haven't it worked?
Speaker 4 (20:47):
Well?
Speaker 3 (20:48):
That's fine, Shall, But you say hit it up a
box man. You'd be hearing up to Marshall if you've
been carrying a bed tooth in your jaw as long
as I have too. Huh you mean you're looking for
a doctor shelf.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Wow, I'm mad enough to admit it.
Speaker 7 (21:06):
Mar.
Speaker 6 (21:06):
Oh, well, you just sit out right over there, do that.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
I'll see what I can.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Okay, Doc, this is the one right here.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
I see.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
I'll try to get it out here.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
I'll try Shell. That's the best econimity is.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
That's good enough for me, Doc.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
It seems that my best source for examples of usage
of political terms is that old political character of a politician,
Elijah Cuttlestone. To give you an example, I'll say, I
say there are too many factions.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
That is, too many.
Speaker 10 (21:59):
Factions are working against each other. What we need is harmony.
I mean within the party, harmony is essential. That is well,
what elijahs said is true. There must be order and
harmony of purpose for a group to successfully reach a goal.
Too many factions struggling against each other within a group
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can defeat the purpose of the group without outside help.
It's peculiar, but faction met a fighting group in the
days of the Romans. They divided the combatants in the
circus into groups or classes called factions, each class wearing
their own spatial colors. These combatants entertained as strong as
pre decor as they strove against each other. Because of
(22:44):
the competitiveness and spirit of these factions, the term faction
was easily applied to political partisans.
Speaker 11 (23:30):
Gunsmoke, produced and directed by Norman McDonald, stars William Conrad
as Matt Villon Us Marshall. Featured in the cast were
Parley Bear as Chapter, Howard mcneher as Doc, and Georgia
Ellis as Kiddy George Wall Speaking.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Join us again next week for another especially transcribed story
on guns Smoke. This is the United States so.
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