November 20, 2024 • 29 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
In a moment you'll hear James Stewart as the six Shooter.
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Speaker 2 (00:30):
Both mirth and music.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
It's a great Friday night lineup of comedy programs, all
of them heard only on NBC. James Stewart as the
six Shooter. The man in the saddle is angular and
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long legged. His skin is sun dyed brown. The gun
and his holster is gray, steel and rainbow. Mother of pearl.
It's handle on marked. People call them both the six Shooter.
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The NBC Radio Network presents James Stewart as The six Shooter,
a transcribed series of radio dramas based on the life
of Britt Punset, the Texas plainsman who wandered through the
Western territories, leaving behind a trail of still remembered legends.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Halfway Crack sure wasn't much of a town. Oh that
General Starr and cafe, roumanhouse and a blacksmith's shop. That's
about all it was to us. And I'd never figured
out where the place got its name either. It didn't
seem to be halfway to anything. As a matter of fact. Act,
he was right at the end of the trail from
Santa Fe. Only thing further west was a couple of
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small farms and get Bastings Double seven ranch. That's where
I was heading the Double seven to see if I
could sign on with Gid for the spring round of Ah. Wow,
it didn't look like I was gonna have to ride
out all the way. Oh boy, yeah, Oh, there was
Gid himself, pounded down the main street, five or six
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fellows behind him. Oh he had that many men working
for him already. He probably wouldn't. Hey, brick rit ursy
height a Gid? What the name of Moses you come from? Brick? Oh?
No place spatial. I was Landsom railroad track out of
Denver first fell, But then I thought it was about
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time for me to hit the saddle again. If you're
looking for a job, we can always use an extra hand,
can't we buy it? It's mighty nice of you. Get
that to tell you the truth, I was sort of
hoping much you had room for enough. We'll go on,
brit uh I uh, I guess you've got enough help
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here without name Fitts van Groen. Since you were through
here last, we stretched clear over the patch of hill.
You don't say it takes a lot of riders to
cover that much ground. Yeah, yeah, I guess it does. Oh,
come on, then let's go well, I way back to
the Double seven right now? Or maybe uh maybe next
round up? Get what's the matter with you bricks? He
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said you were looking for work? I reckon, I'm gonna
change funds in mine. Get correct. Need's a little too
fancy to ride alongside me? How about it? Six shooter?
You boys know each other. We met up. Yeah, well
take it easy to get I'll be saying, I'll hold
up a minute, britt You go ahead, boys, I'll catch
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up with you. I want to talk to Fontant. You're
wasting your breath. I'm still boss to the Double seven. Clints,
I don't need no advice from you. Get Bet a
cup of coffee, brit Ah, thanks, I guess I could
use one, Yes, Christy, I ain't the best cook in
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the world. You can usually get his coffee down without
a gagging you, Chris, he's still run the cafe. Sure
sure that ain't changed much grit on the surface, that is.
Oh oh well, come on in, mister Bascom, come money. Hello, Christy,
you remember Brett Ponsen britt Well, for goodness sakes, when'd
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you get back to time just a little while ago, Chrusty? Ah,
you're sure a looking while there's a fit fit.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Now you both sit down that table over there, and
I bring you some of my special for today, beef
stew I made it fresh this money, No.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Thanks, Christy, We just come in for some coffee. Well,
it's half to four o'clocks packed the time for supper.
Coffee will do the trick for now.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Oh well what about you, mister Pints?
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Didn't taste of my steward? No, no, no, I think
I'll just stick the coffee too.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Oh okay, well the pots on the stove out and.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
No hurry, Well, brit it's Clint right, he's on account
of him. You don't want to work for me? I
never said that. Again, he sure acted well, to tell
you the truth. I was sort of surprised that you'd
hire a man like Clint Sutton. Rit I just didn't
have no choice. Oh, like I told you, the Double
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seven has been growing. When a ranch gets big, like
it's a man's bound to make enemies, you need somebody
who's handy with a gun around. You never had any
enemies before. Again, well, times are different now, brit What
do you mean to lie? You remember those shot busters
down by the creek, Perry Waddell and Fred Govern. Sure,
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well there's been some new ones moving in the last year.
So well, that isn't your land along the creek? Is it?
Never claimed it was. I always figured there was plenty
of space around here rooming up for me. And then
nest is too. Wow. Now I ain't been like some
of the other ranches. You know that, Britt. I ain't
never try to run the side busters off or burn
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them out. Live and let live. That's what I always said.
I try to practice my preach too. Here's your coffee again,
right off the stove.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
You sure you won't have nothing now?
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Oh? Thanks Christy, here you go. I'll hold your hands
away from your pockets. Bread. I guess I can afford
a couple of cups of coffee. Oh well, thank you. Mister,
and yeah, I've got some bread in the.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Ovens, So if you want anything more, you just come.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Boy, I better saucer it for a spell. Let it
cool off something. Wow, it's not the heat, it's the taste. Gee,
that stuff's what's as bad as the coffee. I make
myself worse. Yeah, I guess it's a good thing we do,
or to none of Christie stool, Yeah, yeah, it is. Anyway,
Britt about Clinton Suttons, there was a good reason for
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hiring him. They've been stealing my cattle. What had them nests? Now,
there ain't any doubt about it. But tell he's as
short after the round up. I know for certain how
many they got away with on our gid. It doesn't
stand a reason that man like Waddell and Garber had
russell your animals. They are in a rough spot as
it is, when they're living right next to the edge
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you're a ranch. Well, they must know that you could
shove them off of there if you took a mind
to it. I guess they know that all right. Anyway,
one of them and tried to shoot me. They were
you sure of that. I didn't see who it was,
not for certain, but they ain't been any strangers around
halfway Quick lately, so Sutton's a stranger. I hired him
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after the shooting. I had to have somebody, Britt. My
own boys ain't very fast with a gun. They they
ain't have much experience lately. No, Gid, you're just asking
for trouble, bringing Clint sudden, Britt. The trouble's already started,
and I didn't start it. They did. Of course. If
I had known you were coming into town, I wouldn't
have taken Clinton. Like what you wanted was a gun.
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I'm not the man for you, I reckon Clint is Well,
that's the way you feel, Brick, that's the way I feel.
Maybe you'll change your mind after thing's quiet down. Oh
maybe they won't be a serious mix up now that
them busters know that I mean business. I wouldn't a
cloud on that yet. Well, actually, coffee, I was getting
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on toward egan now, and I was beginning to feel
some hunger pains down the pitum and stomach. I sure
didn't like the idea samp and Christians do. I figured
i'd be better off to buy some cold grub at
the general store, so I hadn't across the street. Just
as I started to go in the front door, I
saw somebody spearing at me from behind the wagon over
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to the blacksmith's shop. Sun was directly behind him, so
I couldn't tell who it was exactly, not until it
came around into the shade. Bread that you bread? Huh
yeah yeah, h don't you recognize me, parawadell Oh oh sure, Para.
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I uh, the sun was in my eyes. I couldn't
see you. You busy Bread? Oh?
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Oh, especially well, I'd I'd like to talk to you
if you got a minute. Spare the best of going
to my wagon. He was this morning, and I'm waiting
for Sam Todds.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
He can put it together. Wow, well, how things been going?
Was here? Parah? Not a good brid not so good? Yeah,
I was just talking to get the basket. Uh. Well,
what's behind the trouble anyway?
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Seem stray wrecking big rand, small farms. It just ain't
room from bulls.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Uh. There was always plenty room before Parry ged tells
me that some of his cattle are messing.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Oh that's just his excuse to get rid of us.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Uh huh, No, I ain't no thief, Bread, of course, not,
of course not Parry. But I understand that they've been
some new families moving. Is that right?
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Any farmer who steals and gets heard, he'd be plumb local.
He he'd just be asking forgetting to burn him out.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Yeah, that's true enough.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
I suppose Get told you if somebody took a shot
at him too.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
And said it was one of us.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
He mentioned something about it. Yeah, he just needed a
reason for bringing that Clint Sutton in here. Clint's a killer,
pure and simple. Think bad not that Gid wants her land.
He's got to hire a gunfighter to take it away
from us or Get never objected to your farm before Parry,
there was always plenty of other land waiting for him.
Now he's pushed his RANSCARTI patchy hill. He can't go
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no farther in that direction, so he's got spread east
and wearing his way.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
It just somehow doesn't sound like Gid. He sure seems
sincere when I talk to him now. I'm almost certain
he believes somebody's been rustling his cattle.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
GrITT, I swear to you that I never smut laid
a hand on any of his dogs.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Well, that's not my concerned power. I've seen I'm leaving
town anyway.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Well you you can't leave, bet you you you gotta
stay here.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
What you're the only man who can stand up the
basketom and something, oh and a whole only we We.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
Couldn't pay you much, but we'd all chip in and
give you what we can.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
I told Get, I'm not a hired gun. I'm gonna
tell you the same thing. Rit Bet my farms all
I've got in this world. I spent twenty one years
trying to build it up into something.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
That had mean a decent living for my wife and kids.
Nobody's gonna take it away from me, now, I understand that.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
I understand. Hm, well look at that. Looks like somebody's
in a rush. Huh mmm it's Ruth loves Oh oh.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
He's homestead in the place right next to mine.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Well, bro, what you hurry? I gotta see you, Perry. Sure, yeah,
but it's real important. Well, I was just going on
to the store anyway. The Russia operator RU this year
is brit ponted. You You can speak your mind in
front of him, sick suitter. That's right, real place to
meet you, miss Ponsty. Now what's all us about?
Speaker 4 (12:19):
RUF gonna burn us out tonight, Perry, when it gets.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Own men told me, well, I was just talking to
get this a little while ago. Rub He never had
any intention then, And maybe.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
He's changed his mind since then, Miss Ponto. Maybe he
didn't feel like advertising what he's up to now, Perry,
we got to get together all us farmers.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
Sure, sure, we'll hold them off, hold them off.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
Why we wouldn't have a chance against a man like Clinton, Sutton, Well,
we we gotta do something.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
We gotta fight. Then we'll fight back, all right, but.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
On their own ground. What do you mean? You know
they'll be righting toward our farms tonight, getting all his boys.
There won't be a soul over at the double seven. Yeah,
we'll show get best and he ain't gonna have everything
his way. We'll burn him out. Well, he's burning us.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Oh, I sure don't see what you'll accomplish by that.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
Ruet'll think Christ before he tries to set somebody else around.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
That's what we'll accomplish, may me so, But it won't
save your farm. What else can we do? Well, you
might try talking to Gid see if you can find
out what's eating.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
And talk talks a waste of time.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Well, I don't know, Rufe.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Maybe he'll listen to reason.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Has he ever listened to us before?
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Well, say, is what about Clint Sutton?
Speaker 4 (13:29):
Who's gonna reason?
Speaker 2 (13:30):
What that gunner is?
Speaker 3 (13:33):
I kind of forgot about Clinton brid Parry bed talking
to Gid.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Is your idea? Yeah? I know it is. I know,
but I oh, gone it, Perry, all right, I'll see
if I can head him off. I know you and
Rufe go back to your farm.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
Stay put huh, Okay, it's a bonsor.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
You don't know how much this means. That's britt Yeah,
gone it. Maybe they I'll learn to keep my dog
Gune ideas myself, we'll return to James Stewart as the
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six shooter in just a moment.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
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or female? Your country needs you in the Civilian Ground
Observer Corps. You've heard the radio broadcasts, seen the television pictures,
you know the facts. You know what a single H
bomb dropped in any metropolitan area could do. And to
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day's long range bombers have made intercontinental war possible. Enemy
planes based on the other side of the world could
reach the United States in a matter of hours. Radar
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which low flying planes can penetrate without detection. To fill
out our detection system, civilian personnel is needed, particularly along
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the East and West coasts and in the Northern States.
Skywatching is not a game, it's unnecessary precaution.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
The Ground Observer Corps is.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Now operating on a twenty four hour a day basis
and needs at least two hundred thousand volunteers to contribute
a few hours of their spare time to this vital work.
Will you volunteer? Get in touch with your local civilian
defense center at once now, Act two of the six Shooter,
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starring James Stewart as Britt Ponset.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Get Bascombe's Ranch houses about a three hours a ride
from town. So around about eight o'clock I figured out
halfway there the moon was just beginning to silver up
the top of a patchy hill. I I hadn't been
too sure of the trail, but now the things were
lightening up some. I gave Scarlet a nudge, come on,
let's go on. It was real sandy country. A purple
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sage every now and then, once in a while pine
tree or two, and we must covered about four miles
and then we came to the little creek. From there on,
the trail started to wind into a kind of a
jagged ravine with a couple of tall yellow rocks at
the mouth, sort of sticking up straight in the air
like a couple of fingers. We were just getting past
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those rocks when I heard what sounded like about a
half a dozen horses coming toward me. Wo woo, woofs go.
I'd pull up and waited, Oh, hondy, get what are
you doing out here? Britt? Oh? I just thought I
might come out and take a look for Double seven
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some other time. You uh in a hurry to go somewhere.
That's read. We're in a hurry. Oh oh oh, clant
it's fun, kid. We ain't got all night, right, You
mind telling me where you're heading? And gain look up
at you a job this afternoon? You turn me down.
I don't see where anything I do from here on
in is your concern. No, No, aren't sure, but I
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was just noticing and looks to me like you've got
the whole crew with you. What if I have? Well,
that must be something kind of important to take you
all the way out here away from the ranch. This
time of night, we're gonna burn out a bunch of
Stephen Rustler's that important enough for you? Bunds it plant all,
you might as well know it. You can't do nothing
to stop us. What's happened? Gad, You weren't planning anything
like this When I talked to you a little while ago.
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I had found five of mess tears over in the canyon.
Behind one of them, fum, Well, maybe your steers got lost.
Maybe they're just straight over that one and hobble themselves. Well,
even so, it seems to me like this is a
matter for the law. A sheriff and halfway Creek you
know that brick, Well, there's a sheriff at Bixby Fall.
Somebody go over and get him. You get him if
you want him.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
Did we got other things to do? No?
Speaker 2 (18:08):
No, I wouldn't let Clint hurry me if I was you,
gidd What difference does it make? It might make a
lot of difference, seeing as how those farmers were talking
about paying you back if you go after them, You're like,
know what they could do? Well, they sort of had
an idea that they could burn down the Double seventh.
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Well a sure much want to get themselves killed. Uh huh,
it doesn't look to me like there'd be anybody there
to kill him. Sudden. Look he's lying, He's just trying
to stall that. Uh do you think I'm lying? Good?
Get around, boys, we're going back to the ramp.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
You're crazy, Get them turn around, let's go. Well.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
I watched him for a minute or two, moving along
through the ravine, heading back to the Double seven. I
could hear Clint arguing with Gid and kid didn't seem
to be paying much attention to him. Then a swung
scar around toward halfway creek. Must have been about thirty
minutes later when we came down to a narrow stretch
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of trail that twisted down the side of the cliff. Easy, easy, easy.
The moon was sliding under a thick milk white cloud,
and uh, rocks and the trees started fading into the
night shadows. For a minute or so, everything got real still,
even the crickets. Uh uh. Somebody else was taking the
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same trail. Sounded like he was following me. I got
a kind of a crickly feeling across the back of
my neck. I started w wonder and maybe Clint Sudden.
I p t twisted it around to see if I
can get a look. I had to squint my eyes.
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Finally I am made out the shape of a horse
about forty feet back. He would just standing there and
nibbling on a couple of tufts of grass. Wasn't anybody
in the saddle? And right then the cloud over the
moon started skidding away and the trees began coming back
to size. I was just about to give the scar
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touch of the spur when I saw him crouching low
behind a clump of pines. I saw something else to
a little glint of metal. Whoever it was had a gun.
I jerked out of the saddle and hit the ground,
looked around for cover. His name was closed. It was
too darn closed. Well, it couldn't be Sudden. I knew
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clint style of gun play. He might miss one shot,
and he wouldn't miss twice. And then I spouted a
little gully a few feet to my left and my
cold toward keeping his law as I could. I was
almost there before he had a chance to fire again.
When he did, I started rolling like tumbled down into
the drawer. I took out my gun. I was hoping
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he'd think he'd hit me, but his bullet had sent
me over the side, and I couldn't hear him move.
I pressed flat and I pulled up behind a couple
of big tumbleweeds, and and I sort of cut down
my chance of him spotting me. He was coming now,
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he was gonna be at the edge of the gully
and a couple more steps, I shove him a gun
up and the sort of gauge where I thought he'd show.
And then a lad came into sight about more than
six feet away, and then his body swung up in
the view, and just before he fired, he went down
on his knees fast. I swung out of the way
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and just pull it cut through one of the tumbleweeds.
I gave it a shove and the wind sort of
caught it. He fired again, and he wasn't fire at me.
Now he's firing out the weed and he he had
to rise up in the sight to get aim, and
a bullet slapped him on the shoulder, and for a
minute he sort of hung in mid air and teetering
on the edge of the draw. And then he pitched
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for me and toppled down beside me, and I turned
him over and got a look at his face. Uh, oh,
what well, what the thunder you trying to do? Rufe.
You should have been able to recognize me. It wasn't
as dark as all that.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
I recognized you on what you shouldn't have meddled in.
This kid would have burned us up it hadn't been
for you stopping him.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Well, y, you wanted him to burn you out.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
It's gonna happen anyway, and it sooner or later.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Well not if Gid isn't forced into it.
Speaker 4 (22:51):
The grandsons don't need no force.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
And what are you talking about? I I don't understand you,
rufe It. It was your farm who was gonna burn
You're talking like that you hoped it would happen.
Speaker 4 (23:01):
I think I care about that farm. I had me
a farm once down in Texas, real good, soiled, brown,
salt rich, plenty of water or too. Man could grow
anything on that land.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Oh what happened to him?
Speaker 4 (23:16):
Well, it was a rant bigger than gids out that even,
but it wasn't big enough, not big enough to suit
the fellow on that he kept stretching out, crawling down
from the hills, moving his fences closer and closer to
one day, they was right up against my property. Offered
to buy me out. They offered me good money, but
it was my farm. I didn't want to sell, no
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matter what he was willing to pay me.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Here, come on, I'll pull out your shirt to you.
Try and see if things get that bleeding to stop. Yeah,
you think you'll be able to ride?
Speaker 4 (23:51):
I don't know. I don't give give me a couple
of minutes, go.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Sure, sure they will go on. Now you were telling
me about your farm down Texas.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
Uh ain't much more more to tell. I wouldn't sell it. Nancy.
He she was my wife. She told me I was wrong.
I'd have to give in, but I didn't listen to her.
I sort of listened and burned us out. Let me see,
I wasn't there when it happened.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
I was in town.
Speaker 4 (24:17):
Nancy. She tried to stop him.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
And killed her. Oh I'm sorry, I love it.
Speaker 4 (24:25):
I killed her and left her there at the house. Well,
it burned. It couldn't even.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Give her a decent burial there would now I'll take
it easy, Rose.
Speaker 4 (24:34):
M don't matter what becomes of MENI pots it not anymore.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
After Nancy. Oh.
Speaker 4 (24:42):
Afterwards, I'd come up here to New Mexico, figured maybe
I could start over, maybe things a bit different. But
there wasn't no different. There's always a ranch from a
fella like get bask him to shove you all around.
I watched him, watched him spread not clear to a
patchy hills, noneing. When he couldn't go no further than
that direction, I know they'd be coming my way. Well,
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I wasn't just gonna sit around and wait for him
like I've done before.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
So you stole Gid's cattle? Is that what you're saying?
Speaker 4 (25:10):
Didn't have nothing to lose. I was gonna be burned
out anyways. I even took a shot at him, but
it ain't much good. But the gun I just kind
of showed that tonight.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
Well it wasn't good. It burned you out down in
Texas Road.
Speaker 4 (25:22):
Luke was her answer, just like Gid all the same
concert with her grabbing burning children. I figured if I
stirred up enough trouble to force Gid out in the open,
maybe then some of the other farmers had come along
with me and we'd burn him up. He'd get a
taste of his own medicine. I'd be paying Gid back
for what he'd done to Nancy for the roof. I
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I can still see how it was that night, smoking
ashes everywhere. First, I couldn't believe it that they killed her.
I started to holler and holler until my throat was
the sword. The sound just wouldn't come out no more.
But she didn't answer me. I thought maybe should run
off somewhere, s it'd scared it and should run away.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
And I saw her over behind a pile of smoke
and timbers. Their clothes was all burned up. That's what
he'd done. That's what get it done.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
That wasn't good, basket. Now, get a hold of yourself.
I'd got to make it up for Nancy. I got
to burn a double seven.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
And you're come in to town with me? Town? Come on, now,
can you stand up? M I guess so? Who are you? Uh?
You come along here? Let me give you a hand.
Speaker 4 (26:42):
Oh what about Luke Harperluke Harper, you ain't been listening
to me.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
I told you I got to get even with Harper
for killing my wife.
Speaker 4 (26:54):
That's what I was gonna do tonight. Burn down these rants.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Now, I told you, I know I know, yeah, you
you told me, but you just better forget about that
for now.
Speaker 4 (27:03):
And I I couldn't forget. No, I am not ever.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
Come on, Rope, come on, you and me are going
to town.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
Huh they're uh help you on your horse?
Speaker 2 (27:15):
Here? Come on?
Speaker 4 (27:15):
Thank thanks, mister, thanks a lot. You've been y of kindo.
That's funny. There's something wrong with my shoulder. Somebody somebody
shot me. Did Luke Harper do that? Mister?
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Maybe he did rufe in a way, Maybe he did.
I took Rolfe as far as Parry Wardell's house and
parably White in to get the dark. And it looked
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like Wolfe was gonna be all right. At least it
looked like he'd get over that wound on the shoulder.
But whether he'd really ever did well again, I guess
even the doctor couldn't tell. That. Next morning, Gid Baskin
rode into town found out what had happened. He said
he was willing to forget about the stolen cattle and
the other trouble Roof had caused him, and he said
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he'd get rid of Clint Sutton too. He didn't come
right out and met it, but I've got a hunch
he was kind of sorry that he'd hired Sutton. On
the first plays, it just goes show you there's differences
in ranchers like any o.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
The six Shooter is a transcribed NBC Radio Network production
in association with Review Productions. It is written by Frank
Berts and is based on a character created by him.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
Mister Stewart, may currently.
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Be seen in the Universal International Picture The Glenn Miller Story.
Others in the cast were Lamont Johnson, Gerald Moore, Bob Griffin,
Parley Bear, and Howard mcneer. Special music for this program
was by Basil Ladlin, and the entire production is under
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In a moment you'll hear James Stewart as the six Shooter.
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It's a great Friday night lineup of comedy programs, all
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six Shooter. The man in the saddle is angular and
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long legged. His skin is sun dyed brown. The gun
and his holster is gray, steel and rainbow. Mother of pearl.
It's handle on marked. People call them both the six Shooter.
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The NBC Radio Network presents James Stewart as The six Shooter,
a transcribed series of radio dramas based on the life
of Britt Punset, the Texas plainsman who wandered through the
Western territories, leaving behind a trail of still remembered legends.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Halfway Crack sure wasn't much of a town. Oh that
General Starr and cafe, roumanhouse and a blacksmith's shop. That's
about all it was to us. And I'd never figured
out where the place got its name either. It didn't
seem to be halfway to anything. As a matter of fact. Act,
he was right at the end of the trail from
Santa Fe. Only thing further west was a couple of
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small farms and get Bastings Double seven ranch. That's where
I was heading the Double seven to see if I
could sign on with Gid for the spring round of Ah. Wow,
it didn't look like I was gonna have to ride
out all the way. Oh boy, yeah, Oh, there was
Gid himself, pounded down the main street, five or six
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fellows behind him. Oh he had that many men working
for him already. He probably wouldn't. Hey, brick rit ursy
height a Gid? What the name of Moses you come from? Brick? Oh?
No place spatial. I was Landsom railroad track out of
Denver first fell, But then I thought it was about
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time for me to hit the saddle again. If you're
looking for a job, we can always use an extra hand,
can't we buy it? It's mighty nice of you. Get
that to tell you the truth, I was sort of
hoping much you had room for enough. We'll go on,
brit uh I uh, I guess you've got enough help
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here without name Fitts van Groen. Since you were through
here last, we stretched clear over the patch of hill.
You don't say it takes a lot of riders to
cover that much ground. Yeah, yeah, I guess it does. Oh,
come on, then let's go well, I way back to
the Double seven right now? Or maybe uh maybe next
round up? Get what's the matter with you bricks? He
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said you were looking for work? I reckon, I'm gonna
change funds in mine. Get correct. Need's a little too
fancy to ride alongside me? How about it? Six shooter?
You boys know each other. We met up. Yeah, well
take it easy to get I'll be saying, I'll hold
up a minute, britt You go ahead, boys, I'll catch
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up with you. I want to talk to Fontant. You're
wasting your breath. I'm still boss to the Double seven. Clints,
I don't need no advice from you. Get Bet a
cup of coffee, brit Ah, thanks, I guess I could
use one, Yes, Christy, I ain't the best cook in
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the world. You can usually get his coffee down without
a gagging you, Chris, he's still run the cafe. Sure
sure that ain't changed much grit on the surface, that is.
Oh oh well, come on in, mister Bascom, come money. Hello, Christy,
you remember Brett Ponsen britt Well, for goodness sakes, when'd
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you get back to time just a little while ago, Chrusty? Ah,
you're sure a looking while there's a fit fit.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Now you both sit down that table over there, and
I bring you some of my special for today, beef
stew I made it fresh this money, No.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Thanks, Christy, We just come in for some coffee. Well,
it's half to four o'clocks packed the time for supper.
Coffee will do the trick for now.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Oh well what about you, mister Pints?
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Didn't taste of my steward? No, no, no, I think
I'll just stick the coffee too.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Oh okay, well the pots on the stove out and.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
No hurry, Well, brit it's Clint right, he's on account
of him. You don't want to work for me? I
never said that. Again, he sure acted well, to tell
you the truth. I was sort of surprised that you'd
hire a man like Clint Sutton. Rit I just didn't
have no choice. Oh, like I told you, the Double
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seven has been growing. When a ranch gets big, like
it's a man's bound to make enemies, you need somebody
who's handy with a gun around. You never had any
enemies before. Again, well, times are different now, brit What
do you mean to lie? You remember those shot busters
down by the creek, Perry Waddell and Fred Govern. Sure,
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well there's been some new ones moving in the last year.
So well, that isn't your land along the creek? Is it?
Never claimed it was. I always figured there was plenty
of space around here rooming up for me. And then
nest is too. Wow. Now I ain't been like some
of the other ranches. You know that, Britt. I ain't
never try to run the side busters off or burn
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them out. Live and let live. That's what I always said.
I try to practice my preach too. Here's your coffee again,
right off the stove.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
You sure you won't have nothing now?
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Oh? Thanks Christy, here you go. I'll hold your hands
away from your pockets. Bread. I guess I can afford
a couple of cups of coffee. Oh well, thank you. Mister,
and yeah, I've got some bread in the.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Ovens, So if you want anything more, you just come.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Boy, I better saucer it for a spell. Let it
cool off something. Wow, it's not the heat, it's the taste. Gee,
that stuff's what's as bad as the coffee. I make
myself worse. Yeah, I guess it's a good thing we do,
or to none of Christie stool, Yeah, yeah, it is. Anyway,
Britt about Clinton Suttons, there was a good reason for
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hiring him. They've been stealing my cattle. What had them nests? Now,
there ain't any doubt about it. But tell he's as
short after the round up. I know for certain how
many they got away with on our gid. It doesn't
stand a reason that man like Waddell and Garber had
russell your animals. They are in a rough spot as
it is, when they're living right next to the edge
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you're a ranch. Well, they must know that you could
shove them off of there if you took a mind
to it. I guess they know that all right. Anyway,
one of them and tried to shoot me. They were
you sure of that. I didn't see who it was,
not for certain, but they ain't been any strangers around
halfway Quick lately, so Sutton's a stranger. I hired him
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after the shooting. I had to have somebody, Britt. My
own boys ain't very fast with a gun. They they
ain't have much experience lately. No, Gid, you're just asking
for trouble, bringing Clint sudden, Britt. The trouble's already started,
and I didn't start it. They did. Of course. If
I had known you were coming into town, I wouldn't
have taken Clinton. Like what you wanted was a gun.
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I'm not the man for you, I reckon Clint is Well,
that's the way you feel, Brick, that's the way I feel.
Maybe you'll change your mind after thing's quiet down. Oh
maybe they won't be a serious mix up now that
them busters know that I mean business. I wouldn't a
cloud on that yet. Well, actually, coffee, I was getting
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on toward egan now, and I was beginning to feel
some hunger pains down the pitum and stomach. I sure
didn't like the idea samp and Christians do. I figured
i'd be better off to buy some cold grub at
the general store, so I hadn't across the street. Just
as I started to go in the front door, I
saw somebody spearing at me from behind the wagon over
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to the blacksmith's shop. Sun was directly behind him, so
I couldn't tell who it was exactly, not until it
came around into the shade. Bread that you bread? Huh
yeah yeah, h don't you recognize me, parawadell Oh oh sure, Para.
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I uh, the sun was in my eyes. I couldn't
see you. You busy Bread? Oh?
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Oh, especially well, I'd I'd like to talk to you
if you got a minute. Spare the best of going
to my wagon. He was this morning, and I'm waiting
for Sam Todds.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
He can put it together. Wow, well, how things been going?
Was here? Parah? Not a good brid not so good? Yeah,
I was just talking to get the basket. Uh. Well,
what's behind the trouble anyway?
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Seem stray wrecking big rand, small farms. It just ain't
room from bulls.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Uh. There was always plenty room before Parry ged tells
me that some of his cattle are messing.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Oh that's just his excuse to get rid of us.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Uh huh, No, I ain't no thief, Bread, of course, not,
of course not Parry. But I understand that they've been
some new families moving. Is that right?
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Any farmer who steals and gets heard, he'd be plumb local.
He he'd just be asking forgetting to burn him out.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Yeah, that's true enough.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
I suppose Get told you if somebody took a shot
at him too.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
And said it was one of us.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
He mentioned something about it. Yeah, he just needed a
reason for bringing that Clint Sutton in here. Clint's a killer,
pure and simple. Think bad not that Gid wants her land.
He's got to hire a gunfighter to take it away
from us or Get never objected to your farm before Parry,
there was always plenty of other land waiting for him.
Now he's pushed his RANSCARTI patchy hill. He can't go
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no farther in that direction, so he's got spread east
and wearing his way.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
It just somehow doesn't sound like Gid. He sure seems
sincere when I talk to him now. I'm almost certain
he believes somebody's been rustling his cattle.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
GrITT, I swear to you that I never smut laid
a hand on any of his dogs.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Well, that's not my concerned power. I've seen I'm leaving
town anyway.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Well you you can't leave, bet you you you gotta
stay here.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
What you're the only man who can stand up the
basketom and something, oh and a whole only we We.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
Couldn't pay you much, but we'd all chip in and
give you what we can.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
I told Get, I'm not a hired gun. I'm gonna
tell you the same thing. Rit Bet my farms all
I've got in this world. I spent twenty one years
trying to build it up into something.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
That had mean a decent living for my wife and kids.
Nobody's gonna take it away from me, now, I understand that.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
I understand. Hm, well look at that. Looks like somebody's
in a rush. Huh mmm it's Ruth loves Oh oh.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
He's homestead in the place right next to mine.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Well, bro, what you hurry? I gotta see you, Perry. Sure, yeah,
but it's real important. Well, I was just going on
to the store anyway. The Russia operator RU this year
is brit ponted. You You can speak your mind in
front of him, sick suitter. That's right, real place to
meet you, miss Ponsty. Now what's all us about?
Speaker 4 (12:19):
RUF gonna burn us out tonight, Perry, when it gets.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Own men told me, well, I was just talking to
get this a little while ago. Rub He never had
any intention then, And maybe.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
He's changed his mind since then, Miss Ponto. Maybe he
didn't feel like advertising what he's up to now, Perry,
we got to get together all us farmers.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
Sure, sure, we'll hold them off, hold them off.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
Why we wouldn't have a chance against a man like Clinton, Sutton, Well,
we we gotta do something.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
We gotta fight. Then we'll fight back, all right, but.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
On their own ground. What do you mean? You know
they'll be righting toward our farms tonight, getting all his boys.
There won't be a soul over at the double seven. Yeah,
we'll show get best and he ain't gonna have everything
his way. We'll burn him out. Well, he's burning us.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Oh, I sure don't see what you'll accomplish by that.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
Ruet'll think Christ before he tries to set somebody else around.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
That's what we'll accomplish, may me so, But it won't
save your farm. What else can we do? Well, you
might try talking to Gid see if you can find
out what's eating.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
And talk talks a waste of time.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Well, I don't know, Rufe.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Maybe he'll listen to reason.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Has he ever listened to us before?
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Well, say, is what about Clint Sutton?
Speaker 4 (13:29):
Who's gonna reason?
Speaker 2 (13:30):
What that gunner is?
Speaker 3 (13:33):
I kind of forgot about Clinton brid Parry bed talking
to Gid.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Is your idea? Yeah? I know it is. I know,
but I oh, gone it, Perry, all right, I'll see
if I can head him off. I know you and
Rufe go back to your farm.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
Stay put huh, Okay, it's a bonsor.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
You don't know how much this means. That's britt Yeah,
gone it. Maybe they I'll learn to keep my dog
Gune ideas myself, we'll return to James Stewart as the
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six shooter in just a moment.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
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Skywatching is not a game, it's unnecessary precaution.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
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Now operating on a twenty four hour a day basis
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Will you volunteer? Get in touch with your local civilian
defense center at once now, Act two of the six Shooter,
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starring James Stewart as Britt Ponset.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Get Bascombe's Ranch houses about a three hours a ride
from town. So around about eight o'clock I figured out
halfway there the moon was just beginning to silver up
the top of a patchy hill. I I hadn't been
too sure of the trail, but now the things were
lightening up some. I gave Scarlet a nudge, come on,
let's go on. It was real sandy country. A purple
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sage every now and then, once in a while pine
tree or two, and we must covered about four miles
and then we came to the little creek. From there on,
the trail started to wind into a kind of a
jagged ravine with a couple of tall yellow rocks at
the mouth, sort of sticking up straight in the air
like a couple of fingers. We were just getting past
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those rocks when I heard what sounded like about a
half a dozen horses coming toward me. Wo woo, woofs go.
I'd pull up and waited, Oh, hondy, get what are
you doing out here? Britt? Oh? I just thought I
might come out and take a look for Double seven
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some other time. You uh in a hurry to go somewhere.
That's read. We're in a hurry. Oh oh oh, clant
it's fun, kid. We ain't got all night, right, You
mind telling me where you're heading? And gain look up
at you a job this afternoon? You turn me down.
I don't see where anything I do from here on
in is your concern. No, No, aren't sure, but I
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was just noticing and looks to me like you've got
the whole crew with you. What if I have? Well,
that must be something kind of important to take you
all the way out here away from the ranch. This
time of night, we're gonna burn out a bunch of
Stephen Rustler's that important enough for you? Bunds it plant all,
you might as well know it. You can't do nothing
to stop us. What's happened? Gad, You weren't planning anything
like this When I talked to you a little while ago.
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I had found five of mess tears over in the canyon.
Behind one of them, fum, Well, maybe your steers got lost.
Maybe they're just straight over that one and hobble themselves. Well,
even so, it seems to me like this is a
matter for the law. A sheriff and halfway Creek you
know that brick, Well, there's a sheriff at Bixby Fall.
Somebody go over and get him. You get him if
you want him.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
Did we got other things to do? No?
Speaker 2 (18:08):
No, I wouldn't let Clint hurry me if I was you,
gidd What difference does it make? It might make a
lot of difference, seeing as how those farmers were talking
about paying you back if you go after them, You're like,
know what they could do? Well, they sort of had
an idea that they could burn down the Double seventh.
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Well a sure much want to get themselves killed. Uh huh,
it doesn't look to me like there'd be anybody there
to kill him. Sudden. Look he's lying, He's just trying
to stall that. Uh do you think I'm lying? Good?
Get around, boys, we're going back to the ramp.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
You're crazy, Get them turn around, let's go. Well.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
I watched him for a minute or two, moving along
through the ravine, heading back to the Double seven. I
could hear Clint arguing with Gid and kid didn't seem
to be paying much attention to him. Then a swung
scar around toward halfway creek. Must have been about thirty
minutes later when we came down to a narrow stretch
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of trail that twisted down the side of the cliff. Easy, easy, easy.
The moon was sliding under a thick milk white cloud,
and uh, rocks and the trees started fading into the
night shadows. For a minute or so, everything got real still,
even the crickets. Uh uh. Somebody else was taking the
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same trail. Sounded like he was following me. I got
a kind of a crickly feeling across the back of
my neck. I started w wonder and maybe Clint Sudden.
I p t twisted it around to see if I
can get a look. I had to squint my eyes.
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Finally I am made out the shape of a horse
about forty feet back. He would just standing there and
nibbling on a couple of tufts of grass. Wasn't anybody
in the saddle? And right then the cloud over the
moon started skidding away and the trees began coming back
to size. I was just about to give the scar
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touch of the spur when I saw him crouching low
behind a clump of pines. I saw something else to
a little glint of metal. Whoever it was had a gun.
I jerked out of the saddle and hit the ground,
looked around for cover. His name was closed. It was
too darn closed. Well, it couldn't be Sudden. I knew
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clint style of gun play. He might miss one shot,
and he wouldn't miss twice. And then I spouted a
little gully a few feet to my left and my
cold toward keeping his law as I could. I was
almost there before he had a chance to fire again.
When he did, I started rolling like tumbled down into
the drawer. I took out my gun. I was hoping
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he'd think he'd hit me, but his bullet had sent
me over the side, and I couldn't hear him move.
I pressed flat and I pulled up behind a couple
of big tumbleweeds, and and I sort of cut down
my chance of him spotting me. He was coming now,
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he was gonna be at the edge of the gully
and a couple more steps, I shove him a gun
up and the sort of gauge where I thought he'd show.
And then a lad came into sight about more than
six feet away, and then his body swung up in
the view, and just before he fired, he went down
on his knees fast. I swung out of the way
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and just pull it cut through one of the tumbleweeds.
I gave it a shove and the wind sort of
caught it. He fired again, and he wasn't fire at me.
Now he's firing out the weed and he he had
to rise up in the sight to get aim, and
a bullet slapped him on the shoulder, and for a
minute he sort of hung in mid air and teetering
on the edge of the draw. And then he pitched
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for me and toppled down beside me, and I turned
him over and got a look at his face. Uh, oh,
what well, what the thunder you trying to do? Rufe.
You should have been able to recognize me. It wasn't
as dark as all that.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
I recognized you on what you shouldn't have meddled in.
This kid would have burned us up it hadn't been
for you stopping him.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Well, y, you wanted him to burn you out.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
It's gonna happen anyway, and it sooner or later.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Well not if Gid isn't forced into it.
Speaker 4 (22:51):
The grandsons don't need no force.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
And what are you talking about? I I don't understand you,
rufe It. It was your farm who was gonna burn
You're talking like that you hoped it would happen.
Speaker 4 (23:01):
I think I care about that farm. I had me
a farm once down in Texas, real good, soiled, brown,
salt rich, plenty of water or too. Man could grow
anything on that land.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Oh what happened to him?
Speaker 4 (23:16):
Well, it was a rant bigger than gids out that even,
but it wasn't big enough, not big enough to suit
the fellow on that he kept stretching out, crawling down
from the hills, moving his fences closer and closer to
one day, they was right up against my property. Offered
to buy me out. They offered me good money, but
it was my farm. I didn't want to sell, no
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matter what he was willing to pay me.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Here, come on, I'll pull out your shirt to you.
Try and see if things get that bleeding to stop. Yeah,
you think you'll be able to ride?
Speaker 4 (23:51):
I don't know. I don't give give me a couple
of minutes, go.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Sure, sure they will go on. Now you were telling
me about your farm down Texas.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
Uh ain't much more more to tell. I wouldn't sell it. Nancy.
He she was my wife. She told me I was wrong.
I'd have to give in, but I didn't listen to her.
I sort of listened and burned us out. Let me see,
I wasn't there when it happened.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
I was in town.
Speaker 4 (24:17):
Nancy. She tried to stop him.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
And killed her. Oh I'm sorry, I love it.
Speaker 4 (24:25):
I killed her and left her there at the house. Well,
it burned. It couldn't even.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Give her a decent burial there would now I'll take
it easy, Rose.
Speaker 4 (24:34):
M don't matter what becomes of MENI pots it not anymore.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
After Nancy. Oh.
Speaker 4 (24:42):
Afterwards, I'd come up here to New Mexico, figured maybe
I could start over, maybe things a bit different. But
there wasn't no different. There's always a ranch from a
fella like get bask him to shove you all around.
I watched him, watched him spread not clear to a
patchy hills, noneing. When he couldn't go no further than
that direction, I know they'd be coming my way. Well,
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I wasn't just gonna sit around and wait for him
like I've done before.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
So you stole Gid's cattle? Is that what you're saying?
Speaker 4 (25:10):
Didn't have nothing to lose. I was gonna be burned
out anyways. I even took a shot at him, but
it ain't much good. But the gun I just kind
of showed that tonight.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
Well it wasn't good. It burned you out down in
Texas Road.
Speaker 4 (25:22):
Luke was her answer, just like Gid all the same
concert with her grabbing burning children. I figured if I
stirred up enough trouble to force Gid out in the open,
maybe then some of the other farmers had come along
with me and we'd burn him up. He'd get a
taste of his own medicine. I'd be paying Gid back
for what he'd done to Nancy for the roof. I
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I can still see how it was that night, smoking
ashes everywhere. First, I couldn't believe it that they killed her.
I started to holler and holler until my throat was
the sword. The sound just wouldn't come out no more.
But she didn't answer me. I thought maybe should run
off somewhere, s it'd scared it and should run away.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
And I saw her over behind a pile of smoke
and timbers. Their clothes was all burned up. That's what
he'd done. That's what get it done.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
That wasn't good, basket. Now, get a hold of yourself.
I'd got to make it up for Nancy. I got
to burn a double seven.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
And you're come in to town with me? Town? Come on, now,
can you stand up? M I guess so? Who are you? Uh?
You come along here? Let me give you a hand.
Speaker 4 (26:42):
Oh what about Luke Harperluke Harper, you ain't been listening
to me.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
I told you I got to get even with Harper
for killing my wife.
Speaker 4 (26:54):
That's what I was gonna do tonight. Burn down these rants.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Now, I told you, I know I know, yeah, you
you told me, but you just better forget about that
for now.
Speaker 4 (27:03):
And I I couldn't forget. No, I am not ever.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
Come on, Rope, come on, you and me are going
to town.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
Huh they're uh help you on your horse?
Speaker 2 (27:15):
Here? Come on?
Speaker 4 (27:15):
Thank thanks, mister, thanks a lot. You've been y of kindo.
That's funny. There's something wrong with my shoulder. Somebody somebody
shot me. Did Luke Harper do that? Mister?
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Maybe he did rufe in a way, Maybe he did.
I took Rolfe as far as Parry Wardell's house and
parably White in to get the dark. And it looked
(27:58):
like Wolfe was gonna be all right. At least it
looked like he'd get over that wound on the shoulder.
But whether he'd really ever did well again, I guess
even the doctor couldn't tell. That. Next morning, Gid Baskin
rode into town found out what had happened. He said
he was willing to forget about the stolen cattle and
the other trouble Roof had caused him, and he said
(28:21):
he'd get rid of Clint Sutton too. He didn't come
right out and met it, but I've got a hunch
he was kind of sorry that he'd hired Sutton. On
the first plays, it just goes show you there's differences
in ranchers like any o.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
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in association with Review Productions. It is written by Frank
Berts and is based on a character created by him.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
Mister Stewart, may currently.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Be seen in the Universal International Picture The Glenn Miller Story.
Others in the cast were Lamont Johnson, Gerald Moore, Bob Griffin,
Parley Bear, and Howard mcneer. Special music for this program
was by Basil Ladlin, and the entire production is under
the direction of Jack Johnstone. All characters and incidents were fictitious,
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