July 14, 2025 • 23 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:12):
Around Dodge City and in the territory on West. There's
just one way to handle the killers of the spoilers,
and that's where the US Marshal and The Smell of
Guns Smoke, Gun Will Smoke, starring William Conrad. The story
(00:42):
of the violin that moved west with Young America and
the story of a man who moved with it. I'm
that man, Matt Dillon, United States Marshall, the first man
they look for and the less they want to meet.
It's a chancy job, and it makes a man watchful
for a little lone lad.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
And myself.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
A great time all kidding, Uh huh, Matt Matthews and
Frank Rucins Ammi wilkin Son. Oh are you Frank. I've
done your bar for a long time. I'm glad to
meet you, my sir.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Franks, come back here to live, man.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
That's fine.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
I know your pall be slee Oh yes, sir, I
can sit ladder and fight harder and tell more lies
than any man this part.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Who's that I heard him say his name is Bullholgan.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Yeah, it seems he's a buffalo hunter. You stole the
hold of hides and kind of waiting him out of
his money.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
It looks like his friend there is kind of anxious
to help him him.
Speaker 5 (01:53):
I got fifty dollars, it says Bull is right, Hey,
why can I told you are wont to bottle of
the fist. This stuff ain't gotten the strength the pot.
Now you watch me a drink that'll scratch going down
and thump when it hits bottom. Now, hop to it,
barn And when Bull said hop you hop YoY.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
You him put that gun back in your home, stir
and you'll leave it there. Who are you and the
Marshall here?
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Yeah? Bull? Look what's four in our party? Oh?
Speaker 1 (02:31):
We don't mean no harm. Marshal, I have a drink.
You're gonna pay for this damage. I understand, We're sure.
I am.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
I've been out in the prairie six month, Marshall.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
I aim to have some fun tonight. That's all all right,
Go ahead and leave a little of a town standing
for the people who live here with him.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
Well, he's gonna cramp my style some, but I'll try.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Okay, you'll do that.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Hey boy, Marshall's gone. Let's find us a couple of girls.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
No, not yet done. I'm gonna listen to the music
Hey boy.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
It's a real looker over there at that table. Boot
will go get her.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
How's you're with?
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Wait, Hobby, you're busy, mister, Well it's cherry.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
Now look here.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
What's your name?
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Frank Wilkins. Oh you're going back to your friend?
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Not you, mister, You little lady. You know you're pretty
He that you heard her? Mister, My friend Bull wants
to talk to this little honey pot here while he
sent a sidewinder like you, that blowheart can talk to himself.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Blowhide, Hey bull, come here, y'all yellow?
Speaker 4 (03:53):
Yeah, what you want?
Speaker 2 (03:54):
This fellow calls you a blow hide?
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Is that right?
Speaker 5 (03:59):
Did you means?
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (04:01):
I called it.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
The ball now now now.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Don't don't go for that gun. It's just a friendly fight.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
I ain't mad.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
It's you. We got a difference of opinions.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
As all eat him again.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Bull was sure, but not here like the Marshalls, had
no need to bust up the place. Go outside unless
you're yellow.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
It's all right, miss kitty. You wait here, Come on, everybody,
me and this fellow is gonna get out of the
dust down older.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Older by the brink. Oh oh my hair bowl? Yeah,
why not came back there?
Speaker 1 (04:44):
The row. Yeah, hold down, you ready, mister, Yeah, I'm ready. Well,
come on, fellow, get up, he can h you whipped him,
good boy? Oh why that wasn't hardly no fight at all. Shucks.
(05:09):
We can't wait around for him to buy the whisk
y'all buy it.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
Everybody inside, everybody inside, no one, no one to come
on here.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Dump dump some water out that side.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Your boy.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
I'll take care of him, real good care of him.
Call me a sidewinder.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Huh. Now just listen a minute, uh, if you will.
(06:02):
I've got a little story to telling. Well it's not
so little. It's sort of a tall tale. It's about
a navy hero, Alfred Bullard's storm Along was his name.
Oh he was a legend. He was. Where he was
born doesn't matter, but he was first heard of in
Boston Harbor. That was when he signed on as a
member of the crew of a ship called the Lady
(06:23):
of the Sea. Now, old storm Along stood thirty feet
tall and had muscles in his arms big as powder kegs.
And when the good captain got a look at him,
he said to the rest of the crew, here's an
abel bodied seaman for you. Then he entered Alfred Bullard's
name in the log as storm Along AB. Somebody realized
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that the A B could also stand for able bodied,
and they sort of picked it up, and for a
long time seamen would put that A B after their
own names, meaning abel bodied semen. Yes, sir, well, Old
storm Along was a great sailor, he was, and it
wasn't many a year before he captained his own ship,
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the Courser. It was one of the biggest afloat for
hied was so long from stem to stern it took
a man on horse back twenty four hours to make
the trip. The mass was hinged so so let the
sun and the moon get by. Took a man a
week to climb the rigging. Yes, sir, the Courser was
a big un and storm Along's skill as a sailor
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man became known throughout the Seven Seas. One of his
greatest feats was taking the Courser through the English Channel.
Seems the channel was only about two inches wider than
his ship at high tide. But Old storm Along was
up with the problem. He you bet he was. He
bought all the soap in Holland, and he and his
men greased down the sides of the Courser who else.
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Or it slipped through that old channel as slick as
a whistle, didn't damage it one bit, But so much
of that soap rubbed off onto the English coast that
to this day the clips of Dover are white. Course,
you believe me, don't you say? It? Nice being citizens
of a country where you can laugh and talk about
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things free as a breeze, and write and read and
worship too. Yes, sir, maybe you don't think about it much,
but you should. Who huh what's your doing?
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Mister d'm I've been looking all over for you.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
I if I may Chester Wether?
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Uh Frank Wilkins, he's dead, He's what dead? Oh?
Speaker 1 (08:48):
I was sitting with him just a few minutes ago, yester,
But he's dead now?
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Or what happened when they told me he got into
a fifth bite with Hume buffalo hunter or at Long Branch.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Bull hug and uh answer that the name?
Speaker 2 (08:59):
He went outside and that man clean beat Frank to death.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
With his face white him in a chester. Do you
mean that all those people at the Long Branch stood
and watched it and nobody stopped it?
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Well, they don't make samps. They must have saw it,
you know how they are when they's a pipe.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
I'm gonna have me a talk with those citizens while
already talk to some of 'em.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
It's doing, they swear up and down.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
It was a fair fight.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Chatter in a fist fight. A man's beat long before
he's beat to death. And anybody not crazy for blood
knows such.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Money can't undertended.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
But one thing's for sure.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Frank's dead. Doc examined him and then had the body
moved over to his office.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
His bullhog and still at the long branch.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Which now she ain'ts He's gone till he won't.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Get far out to see to that dell.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
When got you kiss me? For got your horse hiding
him trees? You better get going me.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Del win. I'd come into dark shitty to have me
a good time. It ain't no fun sneaking out here
to the edge of town, hiding in the dark. I
ain't having me no fun at all.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
It's better than being hung, ain't it. You killed that man.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
I didn't mean to that.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Don't make no difference he did. You're stronger and you
think you are. I never seen a man hit so hard.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
I I finish, swim faster, and hit harder than any
other man.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
This her.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Sorry, I keep your voice down. Bull, Being strong won't
do you no good at the end of a rope.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
It was a fair fight.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
I don't matter. They need to hang you, Bull. You
didn't see how they was all looking at you cold
like well. If I hadn't made you leave that saloon
when I did, they'd have closed.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
In on you then and there.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
I'm the only friend you got, Bull.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Go, and you are to tell them that I didn't
mean to do that.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Wouldn't do no good, not now. The only chance is
to get out of town to lay cool off. Now,
come on, Lucky, I remember seeing that old hut up
Riven on my way in. It's a good place to hide,
and you reckon.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
I can find it.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
You go, just like I told you. You find him,
and I want no thanks for this, Bull. I'm risking
my neck to help you. But that's what friends are for.
They here in town. See how the wind blows. Tomorrow
I'll write out and let you know, and bring some
grub and a bottle.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
I'm sure you I get joined.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
I ain't never running away from nothing before in.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
My whole life.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
You ain't running away, boy, You're being smart.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
I ain't never try that before neither. I hope it
works aster. I'd talk to every man who saw that fight,
and my all a grave. It was an old match,
(11:52):
a lot of last that it was fought fair. I
guess I gotta take her word for it. And see,
you sure knew they were all surprised that Frank died
from it.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
So well, I'd be surprised he hadn't sitting knocked down
that hard.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Yeah, cracking his skull on something when they fell.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Only one thing that you don't If it was such
a very fight, why did that cause it? Bull? Hogan
light out to Fin.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
I don't know, Chester, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Young he's miss Kitty now, Matt, Matt, did you find
the bull hooking?
Speaker 1 (12:27):
They left? Tom? Kitty, I'm gonna trailing in the corner.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
H Mitter.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Welkins stopped in to see me. Well, you don't blame you, now,
what happened, was Kitty?
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Why not you?
Speaker 2 (12:36):
He was a rail broken up about his sun.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
Matt.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Did you know he's offered a thousand dollars a reward
for the bullhooking?
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Yeah? I wish he hadn't.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Well, see did you see how he feeds mat That
girl win Casper's head.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Yeah, I had Casper.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
First.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
I want you to tell me where Bullhogan is, and
then I want you to get out of dodge and
don't come back.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
I don't know where he is, Marshall, How would I know?
Speaker 1 (13:11):
He were bragging about being his friend?
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Me, I never laid eyes on Bullhogan till the night.
I ain't no friend to hear it left her together,
that was, but we went separate ways. Bull high Tail
did right on out of town. Me I just stepped
out for a while cause the climate here didn't seem healthy.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
That doesn't changed now.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Look, Marshall, I didn't do nothing tonight except go along
with the crowd for a little fun. And you got
no cost to write me out of that fight. Cast Well,
I didn't finish it. Bullhogan done that.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
There ought to be some way to prove I no
friend to hear tell me where he went?
Speaker 2 (13:48):
If I knew, I would, I sure would. I hear
the father of that poor fella bull killed is put
up a thousand dollars reward for him. Is it true? Yeah,
that's true, Marshall.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Would I clear myself if I helped you trail your bull,
You're gonna be busy traveling. Remember, now you get out
of here, and if I see you again tonight, I'll
lock you up. He'll be out a town of daybreak.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
You're a hard man, Marshall. You ain't fair.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
I just i'd get out.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Well you got rid of him that.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Yeah, that was a pleasure, kidding Cashper just ain't no
good at talk, Am.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
I sure would hate to be laying help with some
words and have him finding You'll have a good way.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
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Speaker 5 (15:51):
A boo that you.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
You got your early Yeah, see you found the hut.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
There's nothing to it. You gave me real good directions.
Den When what what's the news?
Speaker 2 (16:04):
You don't look good for you both. They got a
thousand dollars reward.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
No, no, it was a fair fight. It ain't like
I don't.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Murder they think you did. It's the same thing.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Did you bring me something to eat?
Speaker 2 (16:18):
No, I thought about it. I decided not to waste
the money.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
No, what you mean waste what I've done for.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Long?
Speaker 4 (16:31):
Don't when you.
Speaker 5 (16:33):
Know when you said do you weren't what boldly free?
Speaker 3 (16:40):
I guess I was lying, mister d I swear I just.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Don't understand you today.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
First off, you run.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
That Dell one cap out of town and we meet
him out here heading back to Dodge, and you tell
him the doll right at least says he got Bullerhgan.
He claims the.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Reward, and you just look at him and nods, just
say that money's all he is.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Right now, do you think he really got Bullhogan? There's
no doubt about it. Oh, we gotta donads get him.
Casper killed Frank Chester why they probably clubbed in with
a pistol. You know, it's something here said to me
that started me thinking in that direction. We Yeah, you
said that you'd sure hate to be helpless and have
Casper find you. I'm sure now that that's what happened
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to Frank. The problem is to prove it.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
There's that dog Hude, he talks about it.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Yeah, my goodn'tear's bull too, Buller Hogan new shirt and wrong.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
He's any done. He wasn't trotting the back.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Ah, but he might as well have been forever chance.
He hadn't.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
No uh right down over the sick of the place
by his show.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Him now now Chester bow Wagon and Steading were gonna
take him back to Dodge.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
He he's Mitch John all the way over here. I
couldn't get a word out.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
You fix that.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
You wanna see me?
Speaker 1 (18:40):
That's the right Caster.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Well you gonna get my reward. I think you could
say that when you found.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Ball, Yeah, we found him. Had quite a time bringing him.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
In though, bringing him in. He's the strongest roughest man
I ever tangle w What are you trying to say? Mark?
Speaker 1 (18:57):
We got Ball? Hear in jail, Doctor gave him a
potter to put him to sleep. He's in the first cell.
Go see for yourself.
Speaker 5 (19:06):
Well wait, he dead.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
I I shot him.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
You shot him, all right, only you didn't kill him.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
Well I did.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
I hit him lighting a chest. That's what saved his life.
Casthererine heah. You ever seen one of these things before?
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Yeah, I it's when a name Indian charm bag, ain't he?
Speaker 1 (19:24):
That's right, A leather pouch full of pebbles and signed
and bones. Bow's a lonely, superstitious man. He was wearing
us around his neck, and that's what stopped your bullet, Casper. See.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
But but he fell down, he was dead.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
A dark says that a blow over her heart like
that'll stun a man coal, But it only lasts for
a few minutes, and then he's as good as now.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
You're lying to me.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
You're trying to take me out of.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
My Rowall now you'll get what's coming to your casser
And a bull's got an idea that somebody clubbed Frank
Wilkins with a pistol while he was knocked. Uh, And
I'm gonna lock you in that cell with bow one
after two of you talk it over, not me in
with him when now you can't do that? Or why
not think that one of you will have a gun.
(20:08):
You'll just talk what could happen to you?
Speaker 3 (20:10):
Wouldn't go wake him up?
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Now?
Speaker 3 (20:11):
Which day?
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Yeah? Chester, go wake him up? Alright, Come on, cass,
where you're gone in now with her?
Speaker 2 (20:17):
No?
Speaker 1 (20:17):
No, I'm not uh huh, Well maybe you'd rather tell
me about it now.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
I didn't do nothing, and n I ain't.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
Going in there.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Oh yes you are. You're gonna tell out the bull
and face her face right now?
Speaker 3 (20:31):
Lock that doll.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
No, I done it.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
I I club work in with my pistol.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
He was me. Kill me the hell out of Chester.
Ye see, alright, I pack his gun when Johnny I
lock him up Chester, an old berry bull, that's you.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Then he is dead.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Yeah, he's dead, and you're gonna right behind him, Caspin.
I hope he's waiting for you. Gun Smoke produced and
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directed by Norman McDonald's stars William Conrad as Matt Pillon
Us Marshall. The music was composed and conducted by Rex
cory Don. Patterns were composed by Ray Kepper and Bill James.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Featured in the cast were partly there as Chester, Howard
mcneer as.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Doc, and Georgia Allis as kidding George wolf Speak. Join
us again next week for another story of the western
frontier of America in the eighteen seventies. Don gun smoke.
This is the United States Armed Forces Radio and Television Service.
Around Dodge City and in the territory on West. There's
just one way to handle the killers of the spoilers,
and that's where the US Marshal and The Smell of
Guns Smoke, Gun Will Smoke, starring William Conrad. The story
(00:42):
of the violin that moved west with Young America and
the story of a man who moved with it. I'm
that man, Matt Dillon, United States Marshall, the first man
they look for and the less they want to meet.
It's a chancy job, and it makes a man watchful
for a little lone lad.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
And myself.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
A great time all kidding, Uh huh, Matt Matthews and
Frank Rucins Ammi wilkin Son. Oh are you Frank. I've
done your bar for a long time. I'm glad to
meet you, my sir.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Franks, come back here to live, man.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
That's fine.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
I know your pall be slee Oh yes, sir, I
can sit ladder and fight harder and tell more lies
than any man this part.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Who's that I heard him say his name is Bullholgan.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Yeah, it seems he's a buffalo hunter. You stole the
hold of hides and kind of waiting him out of
his money.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
It looks like his friend there is kind of anxious
to help him him.
Speaker 5 (01:53):
I got fifty dollars, it says Bull is right, Hey,
why can I told you are wont to bottle of
the fist. This stuff ain't gotten the strength the pot.
Now you watch me a drink that'll scratch going down
and thump when it hits bottom. Now, hop to it,
barn And when Bull said hop you hop YoY.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
You him put that gun back in your home, stir
and you'll leave it there. Who are you and the
Marshall here?
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Yeah? Bull? Look what's four in our party? Oh?
Speaker 1 (02:31):
We don't mean no harm. Marshal, I have a drink.
You're gonna pay for this damage. I understand, We're sure.
I am.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
I've been out in the prairie six month, Marshall.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
I aim to have some fun tonight. That's all all right,
Go ahead and leave a little of a town standing
for the people who live here with him.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
Well, he's gonna cramp my style some, but I'll try.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Okay, you'll do that.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Hey boy, Marshall's gone. Let's find us a couple of girls.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
No, not yet done. I'm gonna listen to the music
Hey boy.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
It's a real looker over there at that table. Boot
will go get her.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
How's you're with?
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Wait, Hobby, you're busy, mister, Well it's cherry.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
Now look here.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
What's your name?
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Frank Wilkins. Oh you're going back to your friend?
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Not you, mister, You little lady. You know you're pretty
He that you heard her? Mister, My friend Bull wants
to talk to this little honey pot here while he
sent a sidewinder like you, that blowheart can talk to himself.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Blowhide, Hey bull, come here, y'all yellow?
Speaker 4 (03:53):
Yeah, what you want?
Speaker 2 (03:54):
This fellow calls you a blow hide?
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Is that right?
Speaker 5 (03:59):
Did you means?
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (04:01):
I called it.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
The ball now now now.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Don't don't go for that gun. It's just a friendly fight.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
I ain't mad.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
It's you. We got a difference of opinions.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
As all eat him again.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Bull was sure, but not here like the Marshalls, had
no need to bust up the place. Go outside unless
you're yellow.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
It's all right, miss kitty. You wait here, Come on, everybody,
me and this fellow is gonna get out of the
dust down older.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Older by the brink. Oh oh my hair bowl? Yeah,
why not came back there?
Speaker 1 (04:44):
The row. Yeah, hold down, you ready, mister, Yeah, I'm ready. Well,
come on, fellow, get up, he can h you whipped him,
good boy? Oh why that wasn't hardly no fight at all. Shucks.
(05:09):
We can't wait around for him to buy the whisk
y'all buy it.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
Everybody inside, everybody inside, no one, no one to come
on here.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Dump dump some water out that side.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Your boy.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
I'll take care of him, real good care of him.
Call me a sidewinder.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Huh. Now just listen a minute, uh, if you will.
(06:02):
I've got a little story to telling. Well it's not
so little. It's sort of a tall tale. It's about
a navy hero, Alfred Bullard's storm Along was his name.
Oh he was a legend. He was. Where he was
born doesn't matter, but he was first heard of in
Boston Harbor. That was when he signed on as a
member of the crew of a ship called the Lady
(06:23):
of the Sea. Now, old storm Along stood thirty feet
tall and had muscles in his arms big as powder kegs.
And when the good captain got a look at him,
he said to the rest of the crew, here's an
abel bodied seaman for you. Then he entered Alfred Bullard's
name in the log as storm Along AB. Somebody realized
(06:45):
that the A B could also stand for able bodied,
and they sort of picked it up, and for a
long time seamen would put that A B after their
own names, meaning abel bodied semen. Yes, sir, well, Old
storm Along was a great sailor, he was, and it
wasn't many a year before he captained his own ship,
(07:06):
the Courser. It was one of the biggest afloat for
hied was so long from stem to stern it took
a man on horse back twenty four hours to make
the trip. The mass was hinged so so let the
sun and the moon get by. Took a man a
week to climb the rigging. Yes, sir, the Courser was
a big un and storm Along's skill as a sailor
(07:28):
man became known throughout the Seven Seas. One of his
greatest feats was taking the Courser through the English Channel.
Seems the channel was only about two inches wider than
his ship at high tide. But Old storm Along was
up with the problem. He you bet he was. He
bought all the soap in Holland, and he and his
men greased down the sides of the Courser who else.
(07:50):
Or it slipped through that old channel as slick as
a whistle, didn't damage it one bit, But so much
of that soap rubbed off onto the English coast that
to this day the clips of Dover are white. Course,
you believe me, don't you say? It? Nice being citizens
of a country where you can laugh and talk about
(08:12):
things free as a breeze, and write and read and
worship too. Yes, sir, maybe you don't think about it much,
but you should. Who huh what's your doing?
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Mister d'm I've been looking all over for you.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
I if I may Chester Wether?
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Uh Frank Wilkins, he's dead, He's what dead? Oh?
Speaker 1 (08:48):
I was sitting with him just a few minutes ago, yester,
But he's dead now?
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Or what happened when they told me he got into
a fifth bite with Hume buffalo hunter or at Long Branch.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Bull hug and uh answer that the name?
Speaker 2 (08:59):
He went outside and that man clean beat Frank to death.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
With his face white him in a chester. Do you
mean that all those people at the Long Branch stood
and watched it and nobody stopped it?
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Well, they don't make samps. They must have saw it,
you know how they are when they's a pipe.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
I'm gonna have me a talk with those citizens while
already talk to some of 'em.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
It's doing, they swear up and down.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
It was a fair fight.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Chatter in a fist fight. A man's beat long before
he's beat to death. And anybody not crazy for blood
knows such.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Money can't undertended.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
But one thing's for sure.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Frank's dead. Doc examined him and then had the body
moved over to his office.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
His bullhog and still at the long branch.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Which now she ain'ts He's gone till he won't.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Get far out to see to that dell.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
When got you kiss me? For got your horse hiding
him trees? You better get going me.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Del win. I'd come into dark shitty to have me
a good time. It ain't no fun sneaking out here
to the edge of town, hiding in the dark. I
ain't having me no fun at all.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
It's better than being hung, ain't it. You killed that man.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
I didn't mean to that.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Don't make no difference he did. You're stronger and you
think you are. I never seen a man hit so hard.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
I I finish, swim faster, and hit harder than any
other man.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
This her.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Sorry, I keep your voice down. Bull, Being strong won't
do you no good at the end of a rope.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
It was a fair fight.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
I don't matter. They need to hang you, Bull. You
didn't see how they was all looking at you cold
like well. If I hadn't made you leave that saloon
when I did, they'd have closed.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
In on you then and there.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
I'm the only friend you got, Bull.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Go, and you are to tell them that I didn't
mean to do that.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Wouldn't do no good, not now. The only chance is
to get out of town to lay cool off. Now,
come on, Lucky, I remember seeing that old hut up
Riven on my way in. It's a good place to hide,
and you reckon.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
I can find it.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
You go, just like I told you. You find him,
and I want no thanks for this, Bull. I'm risking
my neck to help you. But that's what friends are for.
They here in town. See how the wind blows. Tomorrow
I'll write out and let you know, and bring some
grub and a bottle.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
I'm sure you I get joined.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
I ain't never running away from nothing before in.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
My whole life.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
You ain't running away, boy, You're being smart.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
I ain't never try that before neither. I hope it
works aster. I'd talk to every man who saw that fight,
and my all a grave. It was an old match,
(11:52):
a lot of last that it was fought fair. I
guess I gotta take her word for it. And see,
you sure knew they were all surprised that Frank died
from it.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
So well, I'd be surprised he hadn't sitting knocked down
that hard.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Yeah, cracking his skull on something when they fell.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Only one thing that you don't If it was such
a very fight, why did that cause it? Bull? Hogan
light out to Fin.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
I don't know, Chester, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Young he's miss Kitty now, Matt, Matt, did you find
the bull hooking?
Speaker 1 (12:27):
They left? Tom? Kitty, I'm gonna trailing in the corner.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
H Mitter.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Welkins stopped in to see me. Well, you don't blame you, now,
what happened, was Kitty?
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Why not you?
Speaker 2 (12:36):
He was a rail broken up about his sun.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
Matt.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Did you know he's offered a thousand dollars a reward
for the bullhooking?
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Yeah? I wish he hadn't.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Well, see did you see how he feeds mat That
girl win Casper's head.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Yeah, I had Casper.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
First.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
I want you to tell me where Bullhogan is, and
then I want you to get out of dodge and
don't come back.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
I don't know where he is, Marshall, How would I know?
Speaker 1 (13:11):
He were bragging about being his friend?
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Me, I never laid eyes on Bullhogan till the night.
I ain't no friend to hear it left her together,
that was, but we went separate ways. Bull high Tail
did right on out of town. Me I just stepped
out for a while cause the climate here didn't seem healthy.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
That doesn't changed now.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Look, Marshall, I didn't do nothing tonight except go along
with the crowd for a little fun. And you got
no cost to write me out of that fight. Cast Well,
I didn't finish it. Bullhogan done that.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
There ought to be some way to prove I no
friend to hear tell me where he went?
Speaker 2 (13:48):
If I knew, I would, I sure would. I hear
the father of that poor fella bull killed is put
up a thousand dollars reward for him. Is it true? Yeah,
that's true, Marshall.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Would I clear myself if I helped you trail your bull,
You're gonna be busy traveling. Remember, now you get out
of here, and if I see you again tonight, I'll
lock you up. He'll be out a town of daybreak.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
You're a hard man, Marshall. You ain't fair.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
I just i'd get out.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Well you got rid of him that.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Yeah, that was a pleasure, kidding Cashper just ain't no
good at talk, Am.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
I sure would hate to be laying help with some
words and have him finding You'll have a good way.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
To put it. Testing the United States Army, Hey God
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(14:59):
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(15:19):
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Speaker 5 (15:51):
A boo that you.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
You got your early Yeah, see you found the hut.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
There's nothing to it. You gave me real good directions.
Den When what what's the news?
Speaker 2 (16:04):
You don't look good for you both. They got a
thousand dollars reward.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
No, no, it was a fair fight. It ain't like
I don't.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Murder they think you did. It's the same thing.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Did you bring me something to eat?
Speaker 2 (16:18):
No, I thought about it. I decided not to waste
the money.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
No, what you mean waste what I've done for.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Long?
Speaker 4 (16:31):
Don't when you.
Speaker 5 (16:33):
Know when you said do you weren't what boldly free?
Speaker 3 (16:40):
I guess I was lying, mister d I swear I just.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Don't understand you today.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
First off, you run.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
That Dell one cap out of town and we meet
him out here heading back to Dodge, and you tell
him the doll right at least says he got Bullerhgan.
He claims the.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Reward, and you just look at him and nods, just
say that money's all he is.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Right now, do you think he really got Bullhogan? There's
no doubt about it. Oh, we gotta donads get him.
Casper killed Frank Chester why they probably clubbed in with
a pistol. You know, it's something here said to me
that started me thinking in that direction. We Yeah, you
said that you'd sure hate to be helpless and have
Casper find you. I'm sure now that that's what happened
(17:37):
to Frank. The problem is to prove it.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
There's that dog Hude, he talks about it.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Yeah, my goodn'tear's bull too, Buller Hogan new shirt and wrong.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
He's any done. He wasn't trotting the back.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Ah, but he might as well have been forever chance.
He hadn't.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
No uh right down over the sick of the place
by his show.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Him now now Chester bow Wagon and Steading were gonna
take him back to Dodge.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
He he's Mitch John all the way over here. I
couldn't get a word out.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
You fix that.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
You wanna see me?
Speaker 1 (18:40):
That's the right Caster.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Well you gonna get my reward. I think you could
say that when you found.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Ball, Yeah, we found him. Had quite a time bringing him.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
In though, bringing him in. He's the strongest roughest man
I ever tangle w What are you trying to say? Mark?
Speaker 1 (18:57):
We got Ball? Hear in jail, Doctor gave him a
potter to put him to sleep. He's in the first cell.
Go see for yourself.
Speaker 5 (19:06):
Well wait, he dead.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
I I shot him.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
You shot him, all right, only you didn't kill him.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
Well I did.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
I hit him lighting a chest. That's what saved his life.
Casthererine heah. You ever seen one of these things before?
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Yeah, I it's when a name Indian charm bag, ain't he?
Speaker 1 (19:24):
That's right, A leather pouch full of pebbles and signed
and bones. Bow's a lonely, superstitious man. He was wearing
us around his neck, and that's what stopped your bullet, Casper. See.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
But but he fell down, he was dead.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
A dark says that a blow over her heart like
that'll stun a man coal, But it only lasts for
a few minutes, and then he's as good as now.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
You're lying to me.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
You're trying to take me out of.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
My Rowall now you'll get what's coming to your casser
And a bull's got an idea that somebody clubbed Frank
Wilkins with a pistol while he was knocked. Uh, And
I'm gonna lock you in that cell with bow one
after two of you talk it over, not me in
with him when now you can't do that? Or why
not think that one of you will have a gun.
(20:08):
You'll just talk what could happen to you?
Speaker 3 (20:10):
Wouldn't go wake him up?
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Now?
Speaker 3 (20:11):
Which day?
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Yeah? Chester, go wake him up? Alright, Come on, cass,
where you're gone in now with her?
Speaker 2 (20:17):
No?
Speaker 1 (20:17):
No, I'm not uh huh, Well maybe you'd rather tell
me about it now.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
I didn't do nothing, and n I ain't.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
Going in there.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Oh yes you are. You're gonna tell out the bull
and face her face right now?
Speaker 3 (20:31):
Lock that doll.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
No, I done it.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
I I club work in with my pistol.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
He was me. Kill me the hell out of Chester.
Ye see, alright, I pack his gun when Johnny I
lock him up Chester, an old berry bull, that's you.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Then he is dead.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Yeah, he's dead, and you're gonna right behind him, Caspin.
I hope he's waiting for you. Gun Smoke produced and
(21:58):
directed by Norman McDonald's stars William Conrad as Matt Pillon
Us Marshall. The music was composed and conducted by Rex
cory Don. Patterns were composed by Ray Kepper and Bill James.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Featured in the cast were partly there as Chester, Howard
mcneer as.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Doc, and Georgia Allis as kidding George wolf Speak. Join
us again next week for another story of the western
frontier of America in the eighteen seventies. Don gun smoke.
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