August 15, 2025 • 25 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Around Dodge City and in the territory on West. There
is just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers.
And that's where the US Marshal and The Smell of
Guns Smoke Guns, starring William Conrad, The story of the
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violence that moved west with young America and the story
of a man who moved with it.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
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 watch
a little man.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Oh hi, Matt, Sam said, you were waiting to see me.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Yea, So maybe I could buy you a beer, kittie
h on.
Speaker 5 (01:35):
A hot day like this, I'd go pretty good, you said,
still mad, I'll.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
Get it all right.
Speaker 6 (01:41):
What's justin?
Speaker 4 (01:43):
Oh? He was hanging around Dona Mars Grimix.
Speaker 5 (01:46):
I brought a picture for for you just in casey yah,
thank you. Dog days maw could days like this? I
wish I was back in Kansas City.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
Just as bad there. Well, at least.
Speaker 5 (02:01):
There's something happening to keep your mind off of.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
It's really quick.
Speaker 6 (02:06):
Came here.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
Well, what is it Chester?
Speaker 6 (02:08):
They's a olephened out here in the street.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Oh oh, all right.
Speaker 6 (02:12):
All right here on the plaza.
Speaker 5 (02:15):
I could use an elephant in the street today.
Speaker 6 (02:16):
Man, you're the thing that you learn doing tricks and everything.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
Chester.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
When you get in out of the sun, he's gone,
you know, Chester sees things even on a good day.
Speaker 6 (02:28):
Oh, hey, that you in here?
Speaker 4 (02:31):
Yeah, Doc, I'm in here.
Speaker 6 (02:34):
That's sudden, so bright out there. I can hardly see you.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
Man. Well i'm in here at doc. Man, what do
you want where?
Speaker 6 (02:40):
I thought it was mercy around here.
Speaker 7 (02:42):
You'd be interested in knowing that there's an elephant out
on the street.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Yeah, so I hear it.
Speaker 6 (02:49):
But it's true, It's really true.
Speaker 8 (02:51):
I can't stand it any longer.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
I neither can I kiddy. All right, Doc, what's it really?
All of it?
Speaker 4 (02:57):
You see that?
Speaker 6 (02:58):
You think?
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Well, I'll be my golly, you're right, doctor. Is an
elephant out here.
Speaker 6 (03:08):
Yeah, he's advertising the searchus there.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
See him there, see him, see him him there, see him? Go?
Speaker 6 (03:15):
Why I can't hardly wait doing that?
Speaker 9 (03:17):
Man with Jenny there, give me his Handbill, Jenny, Yeah,
that's the elephant, Jenny, And let me see the handbeild.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Bannock's Grand International Circus and Menagerie banner.
Speaker 6 (03:31):
The show is going to be here tomorrow, mister doing
two o'clock.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
I'll be back in a minute, mister matters him mischiefs.
I'd like to talk to you me uh huh oh
for it in all Jenny, salute to Marshall trunk top.
Speaker 10 (03:54):
Yeah, it's the girl.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
That's very fine, very good. I Jim Conger, Marshall.
Speaker 10 (04:01):
Maybe you heard me.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
I used to be building a human fly.
Speaker 10 (04:05):
I could find anything anywhere, but I got too old
for it.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Now I'm the best bull man there is. Mister Conger.
Are you with the Bannock Show? Yes, sir, Now you're
planning to play here in Dodge.
Speaker 10 (04:18):
Yeah, tomorrow, Raid ten Show two. Of course, no tickets
needed for the law.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
You have to have a permit to play in Dodge
and we.
Speaker 10 (04:27):
Know that, Marshall. You wasn't in your office when I
came looking for one.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Mister Conger, I'm responsible for the peace in Dodge City
and I'm not going to sign a permit for this
circus to play here.
Speaker 10 (04:38):
Well, why is that, Marshall?
Speaker 4 (04:40):
You know as well as I do. Why for what.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Happened in Hayes City and a few other towns where
that shows played I don't want any riots.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
Here in Dodge. Oh you know about them things. Two
people were killed in Hayes when I reckon show.
Speaker 10 (04:56):
But Marshall, I don't see it happen here.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
I can't take that chance. Now, you go on back
to your boss and you tell him that I won't
let you play Dodge.
Speaker 10 (05:04):
Oh I can't do that, Marshall.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
Why not? She wouldn't listen to me.
Speaker 10 (05:10):
He's a strong woman. She Yeah, Maggie Bannock. She my wife,
Maggie is. She used to be known as dainty Margherita,
the strongest woman in the world. Where Marshall, she could
lift five men at one time when she was younger. Luck,
mister Conger, I I'd rather not have to tell her
what you said.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
All right, mister Conger, You show me where I can
find Maggie Bannock and I'll tell her.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
You know, mister known. When I was back in Texas
and the weather.
Speaker 9 (05:57):
Got extra dry and it was hot, people begun getting
on each other's touch bones more than you know?
Speaker 4 (06:04):
What happened?
Speaker 8 (06:06):
Oh what well, sir, Just when it seemed like everything
else had gone wrong.
Speaker 10 (06:12):
The circus had come to town.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Oh Chester, what are you trying? To say.
Speaker 9 (06:22):
Well, back in Texas, after the circus had came and went,
everything was different.
Speaker 8 (06:29):
It was Oh, yes, sir, somehow it didn't seem.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
Near so hot.
Speaker 8 (06:33):
Nurse the dry and you even forgot what you was
fighting with your friends about.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
That's the way it works in Texas. Yes it did. Chester.
I know it's been hot and Dodge has been pretty dull.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
But this particular circus isn't gonna help any Oh why
because there's trouble connected with this show. What kind of
trouble I don't really know, Chester, but two people got
killed over in a haze, and there's been trouble in
other places.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
Yes, sure, they are down to the creek.
Speaker 10 (07:04):
Oh look at that spring old wagon, will you with?
Speaker 4 (07:10):
Hey looks me like one of them is stuck in
the creek bed. Come on, let's get down there.
Speaker 11 (07:21):
Come for me, hight.
Speaker 6 (07:32):
Where God visitors a stranger?
Speaker 12 (07:38):
How I'm I'm magabiner partner, I'm.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
I doing from DoD Cilly. Glad to know you, Dylan.
Speaker 6 (07:47):
You look like that other team we've been needing to
move this wagon? You live large, won't you sure? How
have I fought sat there?
Speaker 4 (07:54):
St Chester? Chirk? Come on, give us a high. Tell
we don't use you.
Speaker 6 (08:00):
What's in that wagon? Don't let that lion worry. That's
all terrible Tom. He hasn't got a tooth in his name.
Say what are you dealing to, Marshall?
Speaker 4 (08:11):
Yes, ma'am, that's right boy.
Speaker 6 (08:13):
We made the big time. I told you we would.
Come on, Marshall, let's get that poll came.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
Out of that water, all right, ma'am, Come on, tester.
Speaker 11 (08:31):
All right, laugh whit mart Now I got Maggie, come
on by your shoulder.
Speaker 6 (08:39):
Now I thought we could do it.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
We can, ma'am. Tesser. Let me have that corner. Huh,
you're watching me?
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Yeah, he'll be more help where you can't see him.
Get over there, I said, all.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
Right, Maggie, here we go again. Well time, never.
Speaker 6 (09:21):
Thought that need. I Yankie Marshall, but I guess you
can't help being what you are.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
Thanks, Maggie.
Speaker 6 (09:32):
You are leaving Dodge are you?
Speaker 8 (09:33):
We're gonna put on the show there tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
That's what I came to talk to you about. Well,
then talk, Maggie. You can't bring your show to Dodge City.
Speaker 8 (09:44):
Hey, you are a big time Marshall, aren't you.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
Your performance in Hayes left two people dead.
Speaker 12 (09:52):
They came looking for trouble and they got it. Marshall,
I'll get out of my way. I'm hidding for don
it started the trouble, Maggie, I told you who started it.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Over and Kinsley too, and Atchison. It seems like trouble
follows your show, Maggie.
Speaker 8 (10:09):
Now why you got a big badge on you?
Speaker 4 (10:11):
Marshall?
Speaker 8 (10:12):
Why don't you figure it out for yourself?
Speaker 2 (10:16):
That's god boy, Maggie. You're not gonna play dodge, all right, Marshall.
Speaker 8 (10:26):
We won't play dodge. That make you feel better? Man,
seems like.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
An awfull, determined lady with yeah, and I guess you
have to be the runner circus, Joseph.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
All right, come on, let's get back to tom history.
Speaker 9 (11:10):
Ideas wearing mister Billings's you pray that's where he'll just
have himself.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
A fit on where's Matt miss kidding? He slept in
this morning.
Speaker 9 (11:21):
I just ain't got the heart to wake him to
this preads where he's gonna have a conniption fit when
he sees that lady's planning to go ahead.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Of her circuit.
Speaker 5 (11:31):
Well that I don't wake him, I'm gonna let else die.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
Kick.
Speaker 6 (11:40):
Where's the kill jaw on this heart?
Speaker 4 (11:43):
You mean? Matt says that he's still slay sleep, but
with this.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Parade going by into his snowmow, I need it, fine, doc,
he gets fine.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
Look at the spray of you. You look like three
crubby kit. I didn't no use of Why did that start? Chest?
Speaker 10 (12:00):
Oh well, fifteen minutes ago he did.
Speaker 8 (12:05):
Gy just went by with a big sign on our
backsand circus had two a plot.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
Why didn't you come and wake me up?
Speaker 8 (12:12):
Well?
Speaker 4 (12:12):
I just o, mister Jillen. You kind of go to
pieces around a circus, don't you?
Speaker 8 (12:19):
Chal most people?
Speaker 4 (12:20):
Doom Man.
Speaker 6 (12:21):
It looks to me like you didn't scare that circus owner.
Too bad, nag and I don't mind admitting that.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
I and black out of door, Little Anderson entertainment for
change Henderson doc of the circus takes place.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
All the entertainment you're gonna get'll be mending ahead.
Speaker 5 (12:35):
Oh man, look at all the people on the street work,
but all the county ty that people come miles around
for this?
Speaker 6 (12:44):
Why would they make trouble?
Speaker 4 (12:46):
I don't know, Kenny, but there must be something that
said them off. It's happened too many times the dog,
the dog.
Speaker 8 (12:54):
Look at that clown. Why he's coming right out of
the hue and then work, Yeah, guess what?
Speaker 6 (13:01):
Look what's on the horse?
Speaker 4 (13:03):
Everything like that and tight before well I do you
should do?
Speaker 6 (13:12):
It's good, rid blood and funny. Oh look at those people.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
You man, Doc, I have to look at there's some
money flying about her on the music and seeing those animals.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
On the clowns. Are you sharing the clowns? Look at
that man?
Speaker 7 (13:27):
If you do, only's standing on four horses at one way,
I'm gonna try the.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
Day you have enough trouble with one hard well.
Speaker 8 (13:33):
I defare I feel like I could do it this kidding.
Speaker 6 (13:36):
They are magsy. There's the magicums here.
Speaker 8 (13:40):
I cut you all like cat.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
You can company ride four horses and if he ever
does or not doesn't make any difference at all. Yeah, sure, doc,
Now you're gonna take that away from the hard working
people of this county.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
Doc, I like a circus as much as any about it.
Speaker 6 (13:54):
But improve it.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
Don't try to stop it. You're not changing my mind.
Speaker 6 (13:57):
Oh stuffing, that's what you are.
Speaker 4 (13:59):
I'm the way I.
Speaker 6 (14:02):
See it, Matt. You will have a red on your
hands if.
Speaker 9 (14:05):
You do stop mister, don't look coming around the corner,
Missus Bannet riding a big white horse, did you oh?
Speaker 4 (14:11):
Looking there? What he's got?
Speaker 6 (14:14):
She's carrying a Confederate flag.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
So that says me, that's where the trouble starts.
Speaker 6 (14:21):
What are you gonna do?
Speaker 11 (14:22):
Matter one, Marshal kind the circus, isn't it?
Speaker 4 (14:30):
Hold up, Maggie, I want to talk to you. I
hold up.
Speaker 6 (14:34):
Let go that bridle, Marshal.
Speaker 12 (14:36):
There's no law says we can't have the circus outside
the town limits.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
That's not what's bothering me now, Maggie. It's that flag, ah.
Speaker 6 (14:46):
All, that even bothers the law dode.
Speaker 4 (14:49):
That's not what I mean.
Speaker 12 (14:51):
This flag is all I got left, Marshall. My son's
died holding it high. Since then, I swaar, I'd hold
it father.
Speaker 8 (15:01):
No yankee yet has told me I had to burnt.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
Are you going to I'm not telling you to burn it.
I'm just saying you're shooting paraded through cancer.
Speaker 12 (15:10):
I do what I want, Marshall, whether it dogs, did
it changes or Atlanta, Georgia.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Let go of that bridle, all right, But if you
keep showing that flag, I can't be responsible for what
happens to you or your men.
Speaker 6 (15:27):
We take care of ourselves.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
Marshall.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
How what are you gonna do about it? Mister John,
I hope I'm wrong Chester. It's about all I can
do right now.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
Well, another hour and the circus.
Speaker 8 (15:54):
Will be starting.
Speaker 6 (15:55):
Yeah, there's one thing in your favorite mate.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
No, I'm glad to hear that. What is it?
Speaker 8 (16:01):
We've been in the Long.
Speaker 6 (16:02):
Branch almost an hour, and I don't think more than
ten or twelve men have been in for a drink.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
That'll help some with Chester. Oh, I imagine he's watering
the elephant right now.
Speaker 5 (16:15):
Matt. Why don't you deputize ten or fifteen men and
take him out out of the circus.
Speaker 8 (16:20):
Stop the trouble, the footst I.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
Thought of that. Ke anybody won't work. Why not do
I put guns in the hands of fifteen Yankees? Are
fifteen Southerner?
Speaker 10 (16:31):
Last chance?
Speaker 4 (16:32):
Where did you run?
Speaker 5 (16:33):
Ye?
Speaker 8 (16:36):
Hey, Barkie, I've had some service here.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
We're in a hurry. We got something to do. Ay,
we're born. You stay here, Kelly to him, Yeah, boy,
a circuits lover hisself. I don't know why you're dressed
that way.
Speaker 8 (16:55):
It's a little Confederate cove Marshall, what.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
Doy you care? I've never seen you wear any part
of your uniform before.
Speaker 8 (17:01):
He had reason to wear it since the war ended?
Speaker 4 (17:04):
And why did they?
Speaker 8 (17:05):
Ain't you heard?
Speaker 1 (17:06):
This is my passport to the circus, all us Johnny Ribs,
Maggie lets us in free.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
As long as we got a piece of old uniform
on a pace of the uniform and a gun. It's
not sure take it to the circus. Marshal.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
You're making the big thing out of this. We just
come in for some drink, long branches, clothes box. Since
when sons, Justina the boys have had enough to drink.
Just drinking our way out to the circus. Marshal, You
ain't gonna try to kill that one too, are you?
Speaker 4 (17:32):
And what is that supposed to mean? Why the whole
town knows.
Speaker 10 (17:35):
How you try to keep the circus from playing.
Speaker 8 (17:37):
People are saying you're stepping outside your duties, Marshal.
Speaker 10 (17:40):
Ain't that right?
Speaker 4 (17:40):
Boy? You saying a chow box? Yeah, I'm saying it too.
Only difference is I'm saying it this way. If anybody
else want to try me get in for it's just
another dangle. I go do that. The next man I
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make some move, I'll shoot him on my leg, all right,
start walking all of this walking? Where to jail, Marshall.
You can't lock ushlf.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
We're going to search now you're not. You're going to
jail for what. We ain't done nothing, Doc, he's been
luck drunk to me?
Speaker 4 (18:22):
What do you think?
Speaker 8 (18:23):
Never seen anything worse?
Speaker 4 (18:24):
What are you talking? All right? Your mamma doctor says
you're drunk. I'll start walking.
Speaker 10 (18:43):
Hey, Jenny, you want a piece of this apple?
Speaker 4 (18:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 10 (18:51):
You hear that, Jenny? That was my music from a
climbing act back in the old days.
Speaker 7 (18:56):
Yes, sir, I go in there and climb that twenty
fool faster than any in the business. That fucking Jimmy,
you're the only woman I ever loved outside of Meggie. Yeah,
that's some more apple man.
Speaker 10 (19:09):
Come on and Jim, Oh, how did marsha You didn't
know anyone was around? Suppose you heard me talking to
Jenny here? Yeah, I heard the jim She should probably
think I'm kind.
Speaker 4 (19:21):
Of crazy, you know, I got, jim, Look, I need
your help. That crops got the mailing there, and.
Speaker 7 (19:26):
I got a slump down, and I know Marshall, he
hangs that flag off the top of that Trni Poli man,
they fight the war all over again. Maybe if Maggie
had sons in the war, she would have let it
in proper.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
Like huh uh. She told me her sons died.
Speaker 10 (19:42):
But no, no, no, Marshall, we never had no children.
Speaker 4 (19:47):
No, we wanted to jum.
Speaker 7 (19:49):
When the war came along, Maggie went in as a nurse.
She saw a lot of the boys die, and each
one would just like.
Speaker 10 (19:55):
Her own, and she just never got over it. And
so that's what can I do, Marshall. You see, you've
got to stop. I've tried to tell Meggie, but she
just won't.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
Listen to me. I'll tell you what you can do, Jim.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
You can climb me a six members think the way
you do, and have them meet me by the main
tent right away.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
Now, do you men understand what I want you to do?
Speaker 10 (20:31):
Yeah, they got it, Marshall. They cut the rope when
you give the word that Gud's getting meaner every minute.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
Yeah, all right, then you men go on before it's
too late.
Speaker 8 (20:39):
What do you want me do them?
Speaker 4 (20:41):
You just follow me and do what I thought?
Speaker 6 (20:42):
Well, where are you going in there?
Speaker 10 (20:44):
H I'll go to Marshall.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
Well, that's the start of it. Come on Chester, all right,
look for me. That's the America a round from here.
Speaker 6 (21:07):
Everybody don't know.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
I'll sho you keep out of this when they.
Speaker 6 (21:18):
Started the trouble. That's not everybody.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
I've got ventationed around outside this tent.
Speaker 10 (21:24):
If any man leaves the safe before the show.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
And drummer, I'll I haven't cut the ropes and dropped
the tent wall.
Speaker 6 (21:30):
No him buffle on you.
Speaker 4 (21:31):
He wouldn't tell Haggy, I will if you'll make me.
Speaker 10 (21:34):
It's that flag upfair that's causing all this trouble.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
I'm gonna bring you down. No, Jim, you fall. Who's doing?
Speaker 8 (21:42):
Looked at him climbing, damn Jim crying Jim, please please, Jim.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
You can't climb no more. I'm sorted. Maggie.
Speaker 11 (21:54):
Look here, Maggie, I got it.
Speaker 6 (21:58):
I got your flag. Maggie.
Speaker 11 (22:00):
The Wi the wi O.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
Fell. Mister John, stand back, chunter. Now you take it easy, Champ.
It's all right now.
Speaker 6 (22:19):
Jim, Jim, oh my boy, Jim, Why did you try?
Speaker 7 (22:26):
Maggie?
Speaker 4 (22:27):
I I had to. You wouldn't let the war end.
Speaker 6 (22:33):
But I will. A jam don't die.
Speaker 12 (22:36):
I will I promise I'd never put the flag of
a kitten.
Speaker 10 (22:40):
Jim Mage, I'm sorry.
Speaker 5 (22:46):
I uh.
Speaker 6 (22:52):
Oh, Maggie, I lost the last of my boy's march.
Jim was the last of him.
Speaker 8 (23:05):
Would you lay him out gently?
Speaker 4 (23:10):
Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 6 (23:12):
Chester and Marshall, you can bury the flag with him.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
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Speaker 2 (24:55):
Latest news follows then Mitch Miller on the CBS Radio
Network
Around Dodge City and in the territory on West. There
is just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers.
And that's where the US Marshal and The Smell of
Guns Smoke Guns, starring William Conrad, The story of the
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violence that moved west with young America and the story
of a man who moved with it.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
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 watch
a little man.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Oh hi, Matt, Sam said, you were waiting to see me.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Yea, So maybe I could buy you a beer, kittie
h on.
Speaker 5 (01:35):
A hot day like this, I'd go pretty good, you said,
still mad, I'll.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
Get it all right.
Speaker 6 (01:41):
What's justin?
Speaker 4 (01:43):
Oh? He was hanging around Dona Mars Grimix.
Speaker 5 (01:46):
I brought a picture for for you just in casey yah,
thank you. Dog days maw could days like this? I
wish I was back in Kansas City.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
Just as bad there. Well, at least.
Speaker 5 (02:01):
There's something happening to keep your mind off of.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
It's really quick.
Speaker 6 (02:06):
Came here.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
Well, what is it Chester?
Speaker 6 (02:08):
They's a olephened out here in the street.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Oh oh, all right.
Speaker 6 (02:12):
All right here on the plaza.
Speaker 5 (02:15):
I could use an elephant in the street today.
Speaker 6 (02:16):
Man, you're the thing that you learn doing tricks and everything.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
Chester.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
When you get in out of the sun, he's gone,
you know, Chester sees things even on a good day.
Speaker 6 (02:28):
Oh, hey, that you in here?
Speaker 4 (02:31):
Yeah, Doc, I'm in here.
Speaker 6 (02:34):
That's sudden, so bright out there. I can hardly see you.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
Man. Well i'm in here at doc. Man, what do
you want where?
Speaker 6 (02:40):
I thought it was mercy around here.
Speaker 7 (02:42):
You'd be interested in knowing that there's an elephant out
on the street.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Yeah, so I hear it.
Speaker 6 (02:49):
But it's true, It's really true.
Speaker 8 (02:51):
I can't stand it any longer.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
I neither can I kiddy. All right, Doc, what's it really?
All of it?
Speaker 4 (02:57):
You see that?
Speaker 6 (02:58):
You think?
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Well, I'll be my golly, you're right, doctor. Is an
elephant out here.
Speaker 6 (03:08):
Yeah, he's advertising the searchus there.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
See him there, see him, see him him there, see him? Go?
Speaker 6 (03:15):
Why I can't hardly wait doing that?
Speaker 9 (03:17):
Man with Jenny there, give me his Handbill, Jenny, Yeah,
that's the elephant, Jenny, And let me see the handbeild.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Bannock's Grand International Circus and Menagerie banner.
Speaker 6 (03:31):
The show is going to be here tomorrow, mister doing
two o'clock.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
I'll be back in a minute, mister matters him mischiefs.
I'd like to talk to you me uh huh oh
for it in all Jenny, salute to Marshall trunk top.
Speaker 10 (03:54):
Yeah, it's the girl.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
That's very fine, very good. I Jim Conger, Marshall.
Speaker 10 (04:01):
Maybe you heard me.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
I used to be building a human fly.
Speaker 10 (04:05):
I could find anything anywhere, but I got too old
for it.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Now I'm the best bull man there is. Mister Conger.
Are you with the Bannock Show? Yes, sir, Now you're
planning to play here in Dodge.
Speaker 10 (04:18):
Yeah, tomorrow, Raid ten Show two. Of course, no tickets
needed for the law.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
You have to have a permit to play in Dodge
and we.
Speaker 10 (04:27):
Know that, Marshall. You wasn't in your office when I
came looking for one.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Mister Conger, I'm responsible for the peace in Dodge City
and I'm not going to sign a permit for this
circus to play here.
Speaker 10 (04:38):
Well, why is that, Marshall?
Speaker 4 (04:40):
You know as well as I do. Why for what.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Happened in Hayes City and a few other towns where
that shows played I don't want any riots.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
Here in Dodge. Oh you know about them things. Two
people were killed in Hayes when I reckon show.
Speaker 10 (04:56):
But Marshall, I don't see it happen here.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
I can't take that chance. Now, you go on back
to your boss and you tell him that I won't
let you play Dodge.
Speaker 10 (05:04):
Oh I can't do that, Marshall.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
Why not? She wouldn't listen to me.
Speaker 10 (05:10):
He's a strong woman. She Yeah, Maggie Bannock. She my wife,
Maggie is. She used to be known as dainty Margherita,
the strongest woman in the world. Where Marshall, she could
lift five men at one time when she was younger. Luck,
mister Conger, I I'd rather not have to tell her
what you said.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
All right, mister Conger, You show me where I can
find Maggie Bannock and I'll tell her.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
You know, mister known. When I was back in Texas
and the weather.
Speaker 9 (05:57):
Got extra dry and it was hot, people begun getting
on each other's touch bones more than you know?
Speaker 4 (06:04):
What happened?
Speaker 8 (06:06):
Oh what well, sir, Just when it seemed like everything
else had gone wrong.
Speaker 10 (06:12):
The circus had come to town.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Oh Chester, what are you trying? To say.
Speaker 9 (06:22):
Well, back in Texas, after the circus had came and went,
everything was different.
Speaker 8 (06:29):
It was Oh, yes, sir, somehow it didn't seem.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
Near so hot.
Speaker 8 (06:33):
Nurse the dry and you even forgot what you was
fighting with your friends about.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
That's the way it works in Texas. Yes it did. Chester.
I know it's been hot and Dodge has been pretty dull.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
But this particular circus isn't gonna help any Oh why
because there's trouble connected with this show. What kind of
trouble I don't really know, Chester, but two people got
killed over in a haze, and there's been trouble in
other places.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
Yes, sure, they are down to the creek.
Speaker 10 (07:04):
Oh look at that spring old wagon, will you with?
Speaker 4 (07:10):
Hey looks me like one of them is stuck in
the creek bed. Come on, let's get down there.
Speaker 11 (07:21):
Come for me, hight.
Speaker 6 (07:32):
Where God visitors a stranger?
Speaker 12 (07:38):
How I'm I'm magabiner partner, I'm.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
I doing from DoD Cilly. Glad to know you, Dylan.
Speaker 6 (07:47):
You look like that other team we've been needing to
move this wagon? You live large, won't you sure? How
have I fought sat there?
Speaker 4 (07:54):
St Chester? Chirk? Come on, give us a high. Tell
we don't use you.
Speaker 6 (08:00):
What's in that wagon? Don't let that lion worry. That's
all terrible Tom. He hasn't got a tooth in his name.
Say what are you dealing to, Marshall?
Speaker 4 (08:11):
Yes, ma'am, that's right boy.
Speaker 6 (08:13):
We made the big time. I told you we would.
Come on, Marshall, let's get that poll came.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
Out of that water, all right, ma'am, Come on, tester.
Speaker 11 (08:31):
All right, laugh whit mart Now I got Maggie, come
on by your shoulder.
Speaker 6 (08:39):
Now I thought we could do it.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
We can, ma'am. Tesser. Let me have that corner. Huh,
you're watching me?
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Yeah, he'll be more help where you can't see him.
Get over there, I said, all.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
Right, Maggie, here we go again. Well time, never.
Speaker 6 (09:21):
Thought that need. I Yankie Marshall, but I guess you
can't help being what you are.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
Thanks, Maggie.
Speaker 6 (09:32):
You are leaving Dodge are you?
Speaker 8 (09:33):
We're gonna put on the show there tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
That's what I came to talk to you about. Well,
then talk, Maggie. You can't bring your show to Dodge City.
Speaker 8 (09:44):
Hey, you are a big time Marshall, aren't you.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
Your performance in Hayes left two people dead.
Speaker 12 (09:52):
They came looking for trouble and they got it. Marshall,
I'll get out of my way. I'm hidding for don
it started the trouble, Maggie, I told you who started it.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Over and Kinsley too, and Atchison. It seems like trouble
follows your show, Maggie.
Speaker 8 (10:09):
Now why you got a big badge on you?
Speaker 4 (10:11):
Marshall?
Speaker 8 (10:12):
Why don't you figure it out for yourself?
Speaker 2 (10:16):
That's god boy, Maggie. You're not gonna play dodge, all right, Marshall.
Speaker 8 (10:26):
We won't play dodge. That make you feel better? Man,
seems like.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
An awfull, determined lady with yeah, and I guess you
have to be the runner circus, Joseph.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
All right, come on, let's get back to tom history.
Speaker 9 (11:10):
Ideas wearing mister Billings's you pray that's where he'll just
have himself.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
A fit on where's Matt miss kidding? He slept in
this morning.
Speaker 9 (11:21):
I just ain't got the heart to wake him to
this preads where he's gonna have a conniption fit when
he sees that lady's planning to go ahead.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Of her circuit.
Speaker 5 (11:31):
Well that I don't wake him, I'm gonna let else die.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
Kick.
Speaker 6 (11:40):
Where's the kill jaw on this heart?
Speaker 4 (11:43):
You mean? Matt says that he's still slay sleep, but
with this.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Parade going by into his snowmow, I need it, fine, doc,
he gets fine.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
Look at the spray of you. You look like three
crubby kit. I didn't no use of Why did that start? Chest?
Speaker 10 (12:00):
Oh well, fifteen minutes ago he did.
Speaker 8 (12:05):
Gy just went by with a big sign on our
backsand circus had two a plot.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
Why didn't you come and wake me up?
Speaker 8 (12:12):
Well?
Speaker 4 (12:12):
I just o, mister Jillen. You kind of go to
pieces around a circus, don't you?
Speaker 8 (12:19):
Chal most people?
Speaker 4 (12:20):
Doom Man.
Speaker 6 (12:21):
It looks to me like you didn't scare that circus owner.
Too bad, nag and I don't mind admitting that.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
I and black out of door, Little Anderson entertainment for
change Henderson doc of the circus takes place.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
All the entertainment you're gonna get'll be mending ahead.
Speaker 5 (12:35):
Oh man, look at all the people on the street work,
but all the county ty that people come miles around
for this?
Speaker 6 (12:44):
Why would they make trouble?
Speaker 4 (12:46):
I don't know, Kenny, but there must be something that
said them off. It's happened too many times the dog,
the dog.
Speaker 8 (12:54):
Look at that clown. Why he's coming right out of
the hue and then work, Yeah, guess what?
Speaker 6 (13:01):
Look what's on the horse?
Speaker 4 (13:03):
Everything like that and tight before well I do you
should do?
Speaker 6 (13:12):
It's good, rid blood and funny. Oh look at those people.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
You man, Doc, I have to look at there's some
money flying about her on the music and seeing those animals.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
On the clowns. Are you sharing the clowns? Look at
that man?
Speaker 7 (13:27):
If you do, only's standing on four horses at one way,
I'm gonna try the.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
Day you have enough trouble with one hard well.
Speaker 8 (13:33):
I defare I feel like I could do it this kidding.
Speaker 6 (13:36):
They are magsy. There's the magicums here.
Speaker 8 (13:40):
I cut you all like cat.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
You can company ride four horses and if he ever
does or not doesn't make any difference at all. Yeah, sure, doc,
Now you're gonna take that away from the hard working
people of this county.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
Doc, I like a circus as much as any about it.
Speaker 6 (13:54):
But improve it.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
Don't try to stop it. You're not changing my mind.
Speaker 6 (13:57):
Oh stuffing, that's what you are.
Speaker 4 (13:59):
I'm the way I.
Speaker 6 (14:02):
See it, Matt. You will have a red on your
hands if.
Speaker 9 (14:05):
You do stop mister, don't look coming around the corner,
Missus Bannet riding a big white horse, did you oh?
Speaker 4 (14:11):
Looking there? What he's got?
Speaker 6 (14:14):
She's carrying a Confederate flag.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
So that says me, that's where the trouble starts.
Speaker 6 (14:21):
What are you gonna do?
Speaker 11 (14:22):
Matter one, Marshal kind the circus, isn't it?
Speaker 4 (14:30):
Hold up, Maggie, I want to talk to you. I
hold up.
Speaker 6 (14:34):
Let go that bridle, Marshal.
Speaker 12 (14:36):
There's no law says we can't have the circus outside
the town limits.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
That's not what's bothering me now, Maggie. It's that flag, ah.
Speaker 6 (14:46):
All, that even bothers the law dode.
Speaker 4 (14:49):
That's not what I mean.
Speaker 12 (14:51):
This flag is all I got left, Marshall. My son's
died holding it high. Since then, I swaar, I'd hold
it father.
Speaker 8 (15:01):
No yankee yet has told me I had to burnt.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
Are you going to I'm not telling you to burn it.
I'm just saying you're shooting paraded through cancer.
Speaker 12 (15:10):
I do what I want, Marshall, whether it dogs, did
it changes or Atlanta, Georgia.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Let go of that bridle, all right, But if you
keep showing that flag, I can't be responsible for what
happens to you or your men.
Speaker 6 (15:27):
We take care of ourselves.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
Marshall.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
How what are you gonna do about it? Mister John,
I hope I'm wrong Chester. It's about all I can
do right now.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
Well, another hour and the circus.
Speaker 8 (15:54):
Will be starting.
Speaker 6 (15:55):
Yeah, there's one thing in your favorite mate.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
No, I'm glad to hear that. What is it?
Speaker 8 (16:01):
We've been in the Long.
Speaker 6 (16:02):
Branch almost an hour, and I don't think more than
ten or twelve men have been in for a drink.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
That'll help some with Chester. Oh, I imagine he's watering
the elephant right now.
Speaker 5 (16:15):
Matt. Why don't you deputize ten or fifteen men and
take him out out of the circus.
Speaker 8 (16:20):
Stop the trouble, the footst I.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
Thought of that. Ke anybody won't work. Why not do
I put guns in the hands of fifteen Yankees? Are
fifteen Southerner?
Speaker 10 (16:31):
Last chance?
Speaker 4 (16:32):
Where did you run?
Speaker 5 (16:33):
Ye?
Speaker 8 (16:36):
Hey, Barkie, I've had some service here.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
We're in a hurry. We got something to do. Ay,
we're born. You stay here, Kelly to him, Yeah, boy,
a circuits lover hisself. I don't know why you're dressed
that way.
Speaker 8 (16:55):
It's a little Confederate cove Marshall, what.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
Doy you care? I've never seen you wear any part
of your uniform before.
Speaker 8 (17:01):
He had reason to wear it since the war ended?
Speaker 4 (17:04):
And why did they?
Speaker 8 (17:05):
Ain't you heard?
Speaker 1 (17:06):
This is my passport to the circus, all us Johnny Ribs,
Maggie lets us in free.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
As long as we got a piece of old uniform
on a pace of the uniform and a gun. It's
not sure take it to the circus. Marshal.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
You're making the big thing out of this. We just
come in for some drink, long branches, clothes box. Since
when sons, Justina the boys have had enough to drink.
Just drinking our way out to the circus. Marshal, You
ain't gonna try to kill that one too, are you?
Speaker 4 (17:32):
And what is that supposed to mean? Why the whole
town knows.
Speaker 10 (17:35):
How you try to keep the circus from playing.
Speaker 8 (17:37):
People are saying you're stepping outside your duties, Marshal.
Speaker 10 (17:40):
Ain't that right?
Speaker 4 (17:40):
Boy? You saying a chow box? Yeah, I'm saying it too.
Only difference is I'm saying it this way. If anybody
else want to try me get in for it's just
another dangle. I go do that. The next man I
(18:03):
make some move, I'll shoot him on my leg, all right,
start walking all of this walking? Where to jail, Marshall.
You can't lock ushlf.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
We're going to search now you're not. You're going to
jail for what. We ain't done nothing, Doc, he's been
luck drunk to me?
Speaker 4 (18:22):
What do you think?
Speaker 8 (18:23):
Never seen anything worse?
Speaker 4 (18:24):
What are you talking? All right? Your mamma doctor says
you're drunk. I'll start walking.
Speaker 10 (18:43):
Hey, Jenny, you want a piece of this apple?
Speaker 4 (18:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 10 (18:51):
You hear that, Jenny? That was my music from a
climbing act back in the old days.
Speaker 7 (18:56):
Yes, sir, I go in there and climb that twenty
fool faster than any in the business. That fucking Jimmy,
you're the only woman I ever loved outside of Meggie. Yeah,
that's some more apple man.
Speaker 10 (19:09):
Come on and Jim, Oh, how did marsha You didn't
know anyone was around? Suppose you heard me talking to
Jenny here? Yeah, I heard the jim She should probably
think I'm kind.
Speaker 4 (19:21):
Of crazy, you know, I got, jim, Look, I need
your help. That crops got the mailing there, and.
Speaker 7 (19:26):
I got a slump down, and I know Marshall, he
hangs that flag off the top of that Trni Poli man,
they fight the war all over again. Maybe if Maggie
had sons in the war, she would have let it
in proper.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
Like huh uh. She told me her sons died.
Speaker 10 (19:42):
But no, no, no, Marshall, we never had no children.
Speaker 4 (19:47):
No, we wanted to jum.
Speaker 7 (19:49):
When the war came along, Maggie went in as a nurse.
She saw a lot of the boys die, and each
one would just like.
Speaker 10 (19:55):
Her own, and she just never got over it. And
so that's what can I do, Marshall. You see, you've
got to stop. I've tried to tell Meggie, but she
just won't.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
Listen to me. I'll tell you what you can do, Jim.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
You can climb me a six members think the way
you do, and have them meet me by the main
tent right away.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
Now, do you men understand what I want you to do?
Speaker 10 (20:31):
Yeah, they got it, Marshall. They cut the rope when
you give the word that Gud's getting meaner every minute.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
Yeah, all right, then you men go on before it's
too late.
Speaker 8 (20:39):
What do you want me do them?
Speaker 4 (20:41):
You just follow me and do what I thought?
Speaker 6 (20:42):
Well, where are you going in there?
Speaker 10 (20:44):
H I'll go to Marshall.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
Well, that's the start of it. Come on Chester, all right,
look for me. That's the America a round from here.
Speaker 6 (21:07):
Everybody don't know.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
I'll sho you keep out of this when they.
Speaker 6 (21:18):
Started the trouble. That's not everybody.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
I've got ventationed around outside this tent.
Speaker 10 (21:24):
If any man leaves the safe before the show.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
And drummer, I'll I haven't cut the ropes and dropped
the tent wall.
Speaker 6 (21:30):
No him buffle on you.
Speaker 4 (21:31):
He wouldn't tell Haggy, I will if you'll make me.
Speaker 10 (21:34):
It's that flag upfair that's causing all this trouble.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
I'm gonna bring you down. No, Jim, you fall. Who's doing?
Speaker 8 (21:42):
Looked at him climbing, damn Jim crying Jim, please please, Jim.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
You can't climb no more. I'm sorted. Maggie.
Speaker 11 (21:54):
Look here, Maggie, I got it.
Speaker 6 (21:58):
I got your flag. Maggie.
Speaker 11 (22:00):
The Wi the wi O.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
Fell. Mister John, stand back, chunter. Now you take it easy, Champ.
It's all right now.
Speaker 6 (22:19):
Jim, Jim, oh my boy, Jim, Why did you try?
Speaker 7 (22:26):
Maggie?
Speaker 4 (22:27):
I I had to. You wouldn't let the war end.
Speaker 6 (22:33):
But I will. A jam don't die.
Speaker 12 (22:36):
I will I promise I'd never put the flag of
a kitten.
Speaker 10 (22:40):
Jim Mage, I'm sorry.
Speaker 5 (22:46):
I uh.
Speaker 6 (22:52):
Oh, Maggie, I lost the last of my boy's march.
Jim was the last of him.
Speaker 8 (23:05):
Would you lay him out gently?
Speaker 4 (23:10):
Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 6 (23:12):
Chester and Marshall, you can bury the flag with him.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
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