November 23, 2022 • 31 mins
The Story of Wyatt Earp the American lawman and gambler in the American West.
Original Air Date: December 05, 1954
Host: Andrew Rhynes
Show: Western Stories
Phone: (707) 98 OTRDW (6-8739)
Stars:
• Parley Baer
• Herb Vigran
• Lawrence Dobkin
• Harry Bartell
• Joseph Kearns
• Paul Dubov
• Paul Frees
Host:
• Lionel Barrymore
Producer:
• William Froug
Writer:
• Frank Burt
Exit music from: Roundup on the Prairie by Aaron Kenny https://bit.ly/3kTj0kK
Original Air Date: December 05, 1954
Host: Andrew Rhynes
Show: Western Stories
Phone: (707) 98 OTRDW (6-8739)
Stars:
• Parley Baer
• Herb Vigran
• Lawrence Dobkin
• Harry Bartell
• Joseph Kearns
• Paul Dubov
• Paul Frees
Host:
• Lionel Barrymore
Producer:
• William Froug
Writer:
• Frank Burt
Exit music from: Roundup on the Prairie by Aaron Kenny https://bit.ly/3kTj0kK
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(00:13):
Welcome to the Old time Radio Westerns. I'm your host Andrew Ryans, and
let's get into this episode. Thisepisode is gonna be Western stories. This
story comes from Hallmark Hall of Fame. Original airdate is December fifth, nineteen
fifty four. This story is aboutWide Earth. Hope you enjoy Indian Thanks
for listening. Remember a Hallmark cardwhen you carry enough to send the very
(00:38):
best from Hollywood. The makers ofHallmark Card bring you a true story from
the life of Wide Earth on theHallmark Hall of Fame. And here is
(01:11):
our distinguished host, Edward Arnold.Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, and
welcome to the Hallmark Hall of Fame. Tonight. Our true story is transcribed
from the life of one of America'smost fabulous and courageous law enforcement officers,
(01:36):
the famous Marshall and Sheriff of theearly West. Wyad Up now wyad Up
was more than a Western gunslinger,more than a fast man on the drawer.
He was directly responsible, perhaps morethan any other person, for bringing
law and order to the West.And our story tonight will tell you how
it all began. Here is FrankUs as the Christmas season coaches, one
(02:00):
of the most enjoyable prospects is thesending of Hallmark Christmas cards, to be
chosen with pleasure and mailed with pride. For in Hallmark cards of any price,
you'll find me in herem quality andcraftsmanship you want in your personal greeting
to your friends, and the familiarhallmarking crown on the back of the card.
Chose two that you carry enough tosend the very best, And now
(02:23):
mister Arnold brings you our true storyfrom the life of Wyatt Earp on the
Hallmark Hall of Fame. Wyat Earthwas born on March the nineteenth, eighteen
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forty eight, at mon month ofthe Man. In eighteen sixty four,
his family migrated further with and youngWyatt became first a stagecoach driver, then
part owner of a wagon freight,next to guide for a government surveying bother,
and finally, in the early eighteenseventies, a successful buffalo hunter.
One evening in the spring of eighteenseventy three, White and his partner Brad
(03:12):
Evan returned to their camp where theypegged out the skins from the day's kill
to drive Big Fellow with me,Yeah, skin like this might bring five
dollars bad. We ain't got morelike him. Oh we've done all right,
bred, Oh, sure we have. Cho we had not as good
(03:32):
as last year, though I've beendoing some figuring. We're everything about four
animals a day less. Let's goround for us. Next year will probably
be better, I expect. There'sup and downs in buffalo killing like everything
else. They won't be any nextyear, Brad leastways not for me.
Huh. Other herds are thun andout, and they're a lot harder to
(03:54):
find too. Next fall, mustof the hunters will lose money alfter that
well, won't be very long beforethe animals are as scarce as hens.
Tea. Oh they are always beBuffalo. Why why we've seen him to
the thousands. They couldn't just bewiped off the face of the earth,
no matter what. Maybe not Brandon, Maybe that's how I see it.
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Well, if you ain't gonna Buffalo, what are you gonna do? No?
I don't know. Now, you'renot gonna do nothing fools like get
yourself married and start raising a family. I've been married. What Oh,
we weren't together very long? Therewas the typhus epidemic. Why I just
(04:46):
never thought that, Oh, don'tseem like the Marrian type to me.
I'm not not now anyhow. Youeverythink of going back to stage driving or
all. Oh that was all rightwhen I was a kid, before the
railroads came true. Now, butthe time we sell these skins are going
(05:08):
to be worth a couple of thousanddollars. Now, there's lots of money
being made in cattle these days.Folks driving a herds up from Texas,
Will you just take my advice andstay away from them Kansas cattle towns right
now? What do you mean youget mixed up with them cowboys and them
wide open bergs. The first thingyou know, you'll be using that six
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gun you're. Oh, I'm notdenying that you're mighty handy with it.
If you ain't got the temperament tobe a gunfighter. Now, Brad,
I got no intention of being agun fighter. Will you get the hanging
out where they hang out, andit'll rub off? Sure as fate,
it'll rub off on you. Now, man's got to do something. He's
got to go somewhere. We don'thave to go to them Kansas cattle town
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all right, Brad, Since it'sso concerned when I go east, I
won't wear my guns. I oughtto cut down much. Chances are getting
into trouble. Yeah, you willput him on fastness, mark my word.
While you'll put him on. Ashort time later, Wider drifted into
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the town of Ellsworth, Kansas.At the time, Ellsworth was one of
the northern shipping centers for the Texascattle herds, and over one hundred and
fifty thousand head grazed on nearby prairieswhile awaiting shipment. Further east with the
cattle were a thousand impatients swaggering gunfeltedcowboys. On the afternoon of August eighteenth,
(06:38):
is Wiat slowly crossed the Plaza.He was met by Ben Thompson,
one of the leaders of the TexasContingent. Men, carried a loaded shotgun
and with him with some ten ortwelve commend me where you think you're gone
(06:59):
anywhere? I'm mind too, Yeah, well might be. We've got a
mind to tell you. Hey,it's wire, ain't wire, that's right.
Yeah, what you're doing around here, I'll just pass him through,
you know him, Ben, Yeah, he's a friend of mine. They'll
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go ahead, wife, going aboutyour business. It's all right with me.
I didn't ask you whether it wasall right or not. Then I
don't know any reason one I shouldat doors closed for the day, mister
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come back tomorrow. That's pretty earlyto be closing up to them. It's
my business. Ain't sure you mighttell me what's going on out there?
I just ask your friend Ben Thompson. I met up with Ben here and
the airplane cards with him, butdoesn't make him my friend. He said
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you was I heard him say so. You didn't hear me say so?
You mean you ain't from pictures California? And I might have figured you wasn't.
No cowboys eat as how you werebear hipped sure to apologize for the
mistake. Mister herb wyat her Oh, my name's Bob. Ben shot the
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sheriff or Ben's kid, brother Bill. There was an argument over at Brennan
Slow Thompson's and a father. Theywere playing poker with Sheriff Whitney tried to
quiet him and Bill Thompson cut himdown point blank. I ain't heard yet.
Where did Bill go? Oh?He high tailed it out of town.
Ben took a shotgun to cover him, and he's been standing out there
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ever since they'ren somebody to go afterBill. Oh, them follows out there.
They're just looking for an excuse totree Elsworth, the way they've treed
all the other cartowns. He nevershould have put in that plate glass.
I noted one, I ordered it. Well, I guess I'll be moving
on. You got any special placeto go from? No, no special
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place where if you'd like to earna little change, you can give me
a hand. Here I'm making upsome burying boxes. I'll pay you two
bits of box. All that soundslike a fair place. How many you
want? As many as you canmake the list pile of lumber gives out
anyway, you'll need them before theday's out. I tell you we will
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need them. In just a moment, we'll bring you the second act of
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the Hallmark Hall of Fame. Asyou know, Hallmark has always offered a
beautiful array of religious Christmas cards,and this year the collection is larger than
ever. As you will see whenyou visit one of the fine stores that
features Hallmark cards. Seeing this collectionis almost like visiting a gallery of religious
art. There are Hallmark Christmas cardswhich reproduce world famous religious paintings and there
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are cards designed by modern day artistswho treat the subject of the First Christmas
with a freshness and simplicity that's inspiring. The messages, too, reflect this
mood of reverence. There are Hallmarkcards with a Christmas prayer inside, and
a whole series is that feature thestirring words of Doctor Norman Vincent Peel.
Doctor Peal has written these beautiful andinspiring Christmas messages exclusively for Hallmark cards,
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and you will find his moving wordson each of the twelve Christmas cards contained
in the Hallmark Doctor Peel box,as well as on individual Hallmark Christmas cards.
And remember, as always, it'sHallmark Cards when you will carry enough
to send the very best. AndNow, Edward Arnold brings you the second
act of our true story from theLife of Wyatt Earth for the next time.
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How Ben Thompson rolled up and downPlaza showering frets and to find Ncian
citizens of Ellsworth. No one wouldget attempted to charm him and his cowboy
allies. Hey what are you waitingfor? Come on, somebody give must
a little target Friday, he decidedto store wide open George Baby were joined
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by Mayor Jim Miller, Deputy MarshallHappy Jack Marco, a hired Indian fighter
and a six gun expert. I'mnot gonna put up with this nonsense any
longer. Jack. Now you goout there and you lay down the log.
Why they shoot me down before Igot the moth open. A man
be plumb local to set a footoutside that door. I walked past Thompson
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a little while ago. He didn'tbother me. Well, you ain't a
Deputy Marshall, that's true. I'mnot Jack. I'm tired of arguing with
and I'm tired of listening. Youwant to arrest Ben Thompson. Arrest him
yourself? All right, I guessI'll ask to I just don't seem to
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be anybody else to do it.Don't stand in front of the window,
game, Ben, this is amayor. I'll be mayor. Ben.
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Now I'm ordering you to lay downthat gun. Ben, I'm I'm ordering
you now to submit to rest.He wants me to submit. Get away
from the window, Jim, mistermayor, here's what we think you your
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ardor look out for the blank glass. I asked you to get away from
my window. Will you stop yammeringabout that, George, you could have
killed me just then if he don'twanted to. You do a lot of
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talk, mister. That's about allanybody's doing, isn't. Who are you
anyway? Doesn't bystand him? Myname's wider, never heard of it,
but he knows. Ben Thompson stoodup to him too before you got here.
Jim stood up to him right outthere in the street. It's as
big as life. That's so.I guess he wasn't taking much of a
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risk, seeing as how he ain'twearing a gun. I don't see where
your gun's been much of Jack.Now, just give them cowboys a few
hours to get some of the devilmentsout of their bones, and by morning
everything will be peaceful again. Maybe, but that won't stop him from killing
your next sheriff anytime they got amind too. How would you go about
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stopping him? Hurt and arrest him? Or I'd kill him? Okay,
go ahead, what do you thinkyou're pulling, Jim? He ain't got
the right to arrest nobody. I'mthe deputy marshal. Oh you're fired more,
Go get my badge handed over?Well all right, Jim, But
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who's gonna wear it? After herbgets himself killed. That, ain't you
worry? Well, I'll be aroundback when you walk. All right,
mister erb, here's your badge.You hear the marshal now, and I'm
ordering you to arrest Ben Thompson.George picks him up with some guns right
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over here, son, Yeah,I'll take your pick at their pair in
front of brand who was supposed tobe the finest set ever to come this
way? You got any secondhand?Forty five? Oh? Yeah? Yeah?
Yeah, this this pair here,but trigger dog has been filed on
him. Ain't certain about that.Here's the second it seems old to have.
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Sure to works more? Can Itrumph? Sure? Huh? Hey
yeah yeah, they'll do all right. Here's some cartridges? Oh thank you.
Um, i'll need a belt too, sure? Sure? Sicking about?
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Well? Listen maybe a mit large? Oh that that's fine. It
must be something bigger than you.Look what else y'all said? Yeah?
Where do you want me to bringhim? Thompson? Where where do you
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want him? Oh? Where?I yes, Judge Josburne's court, that's
right around the corner. Yeah,you better bring him there if you're resting.
Okay, h yeah, good luck? Thank you. Oh wait a
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minute, John, Huh, heain't going out there that way with your
guns and them hosters. Oh,I swear I usually wear my guns.
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Ben Ben over hare Ben? WhatYeah? I told you to go about
your business, wife, and Iwant to talk to you. Talk.
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You're looking for trouble. I'm lookingfor you. You're under arrest, Bend.
Let me take you last day whereyou are. Then I'm gonna arrest
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you or I'm gonna kill you.I told you to stay where you was,
rodwn your gun? Why, dude, at least fifteen of us here
wouldn't be enough left to you.The bother burying. I might manage to
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take a little company with me.You Ben, I take you along,
Are you too? Cat? Ifigure on including you. Come on,
man, we'll back you up.Yo out here, Shut up all right,
her, make your play. Igot no play to make. I'm
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just putting you under arrest. Goon, I tell you, go for
your guns. I'll go for himwhen I need him. Now, either
you use that shotgun or you throwit down. Throw it down, Betton,
Did I do fellers over in thestore? Cut me down? If
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I try that, they'll have toshoot it out with me first, not
drop it? Okay, you whatyou're calling the turf? All right?
There, you stay out of this. I want your six guns to Ben
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are sure? Thank you? Allright? The judge is waiting. Let's
god order absolutely impossible to conduct youhere. And when that mom out time
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and unless some swin's order can berestored, I'll be obliged to a journey's
court of your judge. Judge,will you hold on a minute? All
right? Don't try it, dad, listen, Ben's gonna stay in jail.
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Tell he's how to trial. Anybodywho doesn't like the ideas welcome to
join him the trial or yeah,I said, a trial. You're making
too much noise, so start moving, I said, start moving very well,
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listen, dignity has been restored.We can proceeded. What's the charges?
All right? Speak up? What'sthe charges? Oh, your honor?
I uh, I guess taking partin the murderer. I guess that's
the charge says for you to homicide. Is that what you mean? Mister?
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Uh? Oh? Yes, sir? Right now? Who the witses?
I'm coming out of wis Did anybodysee this crime? Oh? Well,
mister IRB did you see it?Uh? No, sir, I
didn't see it, but I wastold. What you were told is not
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evidence, mister Irban, you're ronny. Yes, mister mayor, I think
I mean the circumstances. Well,since it was Ben's brother who did the
actual shooting night, I think thecharges ought to be, say, disturbing
the piece. Very well, manmilire, charge of accessory to a homicide
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is dismissed, accused his found guiltyof disturbing the piece, and is here
by fine twenty five dollars. Whatabout my window and is ordered to play
mister b be the cost of oneplate glass window. Court's adjourned at all.
Well, well, then here's yourtwenty five dollars. I'll take care
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of it, top I sure,I say, what about my guns?
Don't I get them back? Yeah? Certainly marshal will return him to be
Yes, that's the lawyer. Whena man's bad is fine, gets his
property back. Oh all right,Ben? Thanks? What? Oh just
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a minute? Yeah, don't putthem on in here? Law? No,
law, don't put them on anduntil you're out of my side or
sure no, uh, I'm sorryyou had so much trouble her For twenty
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five dollars. It don't hardly seemwhat. Well, I won't be needing
this batge any longer. Oh nah, nah, Hold on earth. You
mustn't think we don't appreciate what you'vedone. But after all, he really
wasn't guilty and murdered. Sure onething, though he really proved yourself.
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We all want you to stay onHere is Marshall permanently. That's rider if
you're a man, that's mighty kindof your gentleman. As a matter of
fact, this business today is sortof decided things for me. Up until
now, I didn't know just whatI wanted to do for a living.
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But well now I sort of thinkI might like the idea of being a
lawman. A friend of mine toldme i'd be putting on my guns,
but I don't think he'd mind.This way, everything's gonna work out fine.
The only thing is I wouldn't careto enforce the law here in elseworth
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Oh I don't understand will opinion andin dollars a month. While the salaries
all right for a live sheriff,But your folks seem to figure a dead
sheriff's only worth twenty five dollars nine. I figur're different and I guess maybe
I can find other towns that agreewith me. So on and so Wider
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refused the job of Marshal of Osworth, but he had chosen his career,
and he soon found law enforcement jobshe was willing to accept. Deputy Marshal
of which dockenzis, Marshal of God'sCity, Deputy Sheriff of Tombstone, and
Deputy United States Marshal No Sheriff ofthe Years who successfully brought law and order
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to the towns and states he servedlong after the notorious outlaws he had outshine
are outwitted with forgotten wild up.At the age of eighty one, died
peacefully in his home, but hehad left behind a clear road for America,
a trail leading west. Mister Arnoldwill return in just a moment.
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One of the wonderful things about theChristmas season is that it's a time of
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Well, tonight he told a dramaticmoment of the history of the Old
West. Incidentally, wide Up wasplayed by William Conrad, who stars in
the famous radio series Gunsmoke as MattDillon. Next week we travel to England
and to the eighteenth century on theHallmark Hall of Fame. It'll be a
true story from the life of oneof England's greatest actresses, Sarah Siddons.
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And our star will be the charmingand brilliant Miss Helen Hayes. And the
following week is another special event.I believe that's right, Frank. On
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Welcome to the Old time Radio Westerns. I'm your host Andrew Ryans, and
let's get into this episode. Thisepisode is gonna be Western stories. This
story comes from Hallmark Hall of Fame. Original airdate is December fifth, nineteen
fifty four. This story is aboutWide Earth. Hope you enjoy Indian Thanks
for listening. Remember a Hallmark cardwhen you carry enough to send the very
(00:38):
best from Hollywood. The makers ofHallmark Card bring you a true story from
the life of Wide Earth on theHallmark Hall of Fame. And here is
(01:11):
our distinguished host, Edward Arnold.Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, and
welcome to the Hallmark Hall of Fame. Tonight. Our true story is transcribed
from the life of one of America'smost fabulous and courageous law enforcement officers,
(01:36):
the famous Marshall and Sheriff of theearly West. Wyad Up now wyad Up
was more than a Western gunslinger,more than a fast man on the drawer.
He was directly responsible, perhaps morethan any other person, for bringing
law and order to the West.And our story tonight will tell you how
it all began. Here is FrankUs as the Christmas season coaches, one
(02:00):
of the most enjoyable prospects is thesending of Hallmark Christmas cards, to be
chosen with pleasure and mailed with pride. For in Hallmark cards of any price,
you'll find me in herem quality andcraftsmanship you want in your personal greeting
to your friends, and the familiarhallmarking crown on the back of the card.
Chose two that you carry enough tosend the very best, And now
(02:23):
mister Arnold brings you our true storyfrom the life of Wyatt Earp on the
Hallmark Hall of Fame. Wyat Earthwas born on March the nineteenth, eighteen
(02:47):
forty eight, at mon month ofthe Man. In eighteen sixty four,
his family migrated further with and youngWyatt became first a stagecoach driver, then
part owner of a wagon freight,next to guide for a government surveying bother,
and finally, in the early eighteenseventies, a successful buffalo hunter.
One evening in the spring of eighteenseventy three, White and his partner Brad
(03:12):
Evan returned to their camp where theypegged out the skins from the day's kill
to drive Big Fellow with me,Yeah, skin like this might bring five
dollars bad. We ain't got morelike him. Oh we've done all right,
bred, Oh, sure we have. Cho we had not as good
(03:32):
as last year, though I've beendoing some figuring. We're everything about four
animals a day less. Let's goround for us. Next year will probably
be better, I expect. There'sup and downs in buffalo killing like everything
else. They won't be any nextyear, Brad leastways not for me.
Huh. Other herds are thun andout, and they're a lot harder to
(03:54):
find too. Next fall, mustof the hunters will lose money alfter that
well, won't be very long beforethe animals are as scarce as hens.
Tea. Oh they are always beBuffalo. Why why we've seen him to
the thousands. They couldn't just bewiped off the face of the earth,
no matter what. Maybe not Brandon, Maybe that's how I see it.
(04:16):
Well, if you ain't gonna Buffalo, what are you gonna do? No?
I don't know. Now, you'renot gonna do nothing fools like get
yourself married and start raising a family. I've been married. What Oh,
we weren't together very long? Therewas the typhus epidemic. Why I just
(04:46):
never thought that, Oh, don'tseem like the Marrian type to me.
I'm not not now anyhow. Youeverythink of going back to stage driving or
all. Oh that was all rightwhen I was a kid, before the
railroads came true. Now, butthe time we sell these skins are going
(05:08):
to be worth a couple of thousanddollars. Now, there's lots of money
being made in cattle these days.Folks driving a herds up from Texas,
Will you just take my advice andstay away from them Kansas cattle towns right
now? What do you mean youget mixed up with them cowboys and them
wide open bergs. The first thingyou know, you'll be using that six
(05:28):
gun you're. Oh, I'm notdenying that you're mighty handy with it.
If you ain't got the temperament tobe a gunfighter. Now, Brad,
I got no intention of being agun fighter. Will you get the hanging
out where they hang out, andit'll rub off? Sure as fate,
it'll rub off on you. Now, man's got to do something. He's
got to go somewhere. We don'thave to go to them Kansas cattle town
(05:51):
all right, Brad, Since it'sso concerned when I go east, I
won't wear my guns. I oughtto cut down much. Chances are getting
into trouble. Yeah, you willput him on fastness, mark my word.
While you'll put him on. Ashort time later, Wider drifted into
(06:17):
the town of Ellsworth, Kansas.At the time, Ellsworth was one of
the northern shipping centers for the Texascattle herds, and over one hundred and
fifty thousand head grazed on nearby prairieswhile awaiting shipment. Further east with the
cattle were a thousand impatients swaggering gunfeltedcowboys. On the afternoon of August eighteenth,
(06:38):
is Wiat slowly crossed the Plaza.He was met by Ben Thompson,
one of the leaders of the TexasContingent. Men, carried a loaded shotgun
and with him with some ten ortwelve commend me where you think you're gone
(06:59):
anywhere? I'm mind too, Yeah, well might be. We've got a
mind to tell you. Hey,it's wire, ain't wire, that's right.
Yeah, what you're doing around here, I'll just pass him through,
you know him, Ben, Yeah, he's a friend of mine. They'll
(07:23):
go ahead, wife, going aboutyour business. It's all right with me.
I didn't ask you whether it wasall right or not. Then I
don't know any reason one I shouldat doors closed for the day, mister
(07:53):
come back tomorrow. That's pretty earlyto be closing up to them. It's
my business. Ain't sure you mighttell me what's going on out there?
I just ask your friend Ben Thompson. I met up with Ben here and
the airplane cards with him, butdoesn't make him my friend. He said
(08:15):
you was I heard him say so. You didn't hear me say so?
You mean you ain't from pictures California? And I might have figured you wasn't.
No cowboys eat as how you werebear hipped sure to apologize for the
mistake. Mister herb wyat her Oh, my name's Bob. Ben shot the
(08:37):
sheriff or Ben's kid, brother Bill. There was an argument over at Brennan
Slow Thompson's and a father. Theywere playing poker with Sheriff Whitney tried to
quiet him and Bill Thompson cut himdown point blank. I ain't heard yet.
Where did Bill go? Oh?He high tailed it out of town.
Ben took a shotgun to cover him, and he's been standing out there
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ever since they'ren somebody to go afterBill. Oh, them follows out there.
They're just looking for an excuse totree Elsworth, the way they've treed
all the other cartowns. He nevershould have put in that plate glass.
I noted one, I ordered it. Well, I guess I'll be moving
on. You got any special placeto go from? No, no special
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place where if you'd like to earna little change, you can give me
a hand. Here I'm making upsome burying boxes. I'll pay you two
bits of box. All that soundslike a fair place. How many you
want? As many as you canmake the list pile of lumber gives out
anyway, you'll need them before theday's out. I tell you we will
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need them. In just a moment, we'll bring you the second act of
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the Hallmark Hall of Fame. Asyou know, Hallmark has always offered a
beautiful array of religious Christmas cards,and this year the collection is larger than
ever. As you will see whenyou visit one of the fine stores that
features Hallmark cards. Seeing this collectionis almost like visiting a gallery of religious
art. There are Hallmark Christmas cardswhich reproduce world famous religious paintings and there
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are cards designed by modern day artistswho treat the subject of the First Christmas
with a freshness and simplicity that's inspiring. The messages, too, reflect this
mood of reverence. There are Hallmarkcards with a Christmas prayer inside, and
a whole series is that feature thestirring words of Doctor Norman Vincent Peel.
Doctor Peal has written these beautiful andinspiring Christmas messages exclusively for Hallmark cards,
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and you will find his moving wordson each of the twelve Christmas cards contained
in the Hallmark Doctor Peel box,as well as on individual Hallmark Christmas cards.
And remember, as always, it'sHallmark Cards when you will carry enough
to send the very best. AndNow, Edward Arnold brings you the second
act of our true story from theLife of Wyatt Earth for the next time.
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How Ben Thompson rolled up and downPlaza showering frets and to find Ncian
citizens of Ellsworth. No one wouldget attempted to charm him and his cowboy
allies. Hey what are you waitingfor? Come on, somebody give must
a little target Friday, he decidedto store wide open George Baby were joined
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by Mayor Jim Miller, Deputy MarshallHappy Jack Marco, a hired Indian fighter
and a six gun expert. I'mnot gonna put up with this nonsense any
longer. Jack. Now you goout there and you lay down the log.
Why they shoot me down before Igot the moth open. A man
be plumb local to set a footoutside that door. I walked past Thompson
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a little while ago. He didn'tbother me. Well, you ain't a
Deputy Marshall, that's true. I'mnot Jack. I'm tired of arguing with
and I'm tired of listening. Youwant to arrest Ben Thompson. Arrest him
yourself? All right, I guessI'll ask to I just don't seem to
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be anybody else to do it.Don't stand in front of the window,
game, Ben, this is amayor. I'll be mayor. Ben.
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Now I'm ordering you to lay downthat gun. Ben, I'm I'm ordering
you now to submit to rest.He wants me to submit. Get away
from the window, Jim, mistermayor, here's what we think you your
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ardor look out for the blank glass. I asked you to get away from
my window. Will you stop yammeringabout that, George, you could have
killed me just then if he don'twanted to. You do a lot of
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talk, mister. That's about allanybody's doing, isn't. Who are you
anyway? Doesn't bystand him? Myname's wider, never heard of it,
but he knows. Ben Thompson stoodup to him too before you got here.
Jim stood up to him right outthere in the street. It's as
big as life. That's so.I guess he wasn't taking much of a
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risk, seeing as how he ain'twearing a gun. I don't see where
your gun's been much of Jack.Now, just give them cowboys a few
hours to get some of the devilmentsout of their bones, and by morning
everything will be peaceful again. Maybe, but that won't stop him from killing
your next sheriff anytime they got amind too. How would you go about
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stopping him? Hurt and arrest him? Or I'd kill him? Okay,
go ahead, what do you thinkyou're pulling, Jim? He ain't got
the right to arrest nobody. I'mthe deputy marshal. Oh you're fired more,
Go get my badge handed over?Well all right, Jim, But
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who's gonna wear it? After herbgets himself killed. That, ain't you
worry? Well, I'll be aroundback when you walk. All right,
mister erb, here's your badge.You hear the marshal now, and I'm
ordering you to arrest Ben Thompson.George picks him up with some guns right
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over here, son, Yeah,I'll take your pick at their pair in
front of brand who was supposed tobe the finest set ever to come this
way? You got any secondhand?Forty five? Oh? Yeah? Yeah?
Yeah, this this pair here,but trigger dog has been filed on
him. Ain't certain about that.Here's the second it seems old to have.
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Sure to works more? Can Itrumph? Sure? Huh? Hey
yeah yeah, they'll do all right. Here's some cartridges? Oh thank you.
Um, i'll need a belt too, sure? Sure? Sicking about?
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Well? Listen maybe a mit large? Oh that that's fine. It
must be something bigger than you.Look what else y'all said? Yeah?
Where do you want me to bringhim? Thompson? Where where do you
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want him? Oh? Where?I yes, Judge Josburne's court, that's
right around the corner. Yeah,you better bring him there if you're resting.
Okay, h yeah, good luck? Thank you. Oh wait a
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minute, John, Huh, heain't going out there that way with your
guns and them hosters. Oh,I swear I usually wear my guns.
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Ben Ben over hare Ben? WhatYeah? I told you to go about
your business, wife, and Iwant to talk to you. Talk.
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You're looking for trouble. I'm lookingfor you. You're under arrest, Bend.
Let me take you last day whereyou are. Then I'm gonna arrest
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you or I'm gonna kill you.I told you to stay where you was,
rodwn your gun? Why, dude, at least fifteen of us here
wouldn't be enough left to you.The bother burying. I might manage to
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take a little company with me.You Ben, I take you along,
Are you too? Cat? Ifigure on including you. Come on,
man, we'll back you up.Yo out here, Shut up all right,
her, make your play. Igot no play to make. I'm
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just putting you under arrest. Goon, I tell you, go for
your guns. I'll go for himwhen I need him. Now, either
you use that shotgun or you throwit down. Throw it down, Betton,
Did I do fellers over in thestore? Cut me down? If
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I try that, they'll have toshoot it out with me first, not
drop it? Okay, you whatyou're calling the turf? All right?
There, you stay out of this. I want your six guns to Ben
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are sure? Thank you? Allright? The judge is waiting. Let's
god order absolutely impossible to conduct youhere. And when that mom out time
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and unless some swin's order can berestored, I'll be obliged to a journey's
court of your judge. Judge,will you hold on a minute? All
right? Don't try it, dad, listen, Ben's gonna stay in jail.
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Tell he's how to trial. Anybodywho doesn't like the ideas welcome to
join him the trial or yeah,I said, a trial. You're making
too much noise, so start moving, I said, start moving very well,
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listen, dignity has been restored.We can proceeded. What's the charges?
All right? Speak up? What'sthe charges? Oh, your honor?
I uh, I guess taking partin the murderer. I guess that's
the charge says for you to homicide. Is that what you mean? Mister?
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Uh? Oh? Yes, sir? Right now? Who the witses?
I'm coming out of wis Did anybodysee this crime? Oh? Well,
mister IRB did you see it?Uh? No, sir, I
didn't see it, but I wastold. What you were told is not
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evidence, mister Irban, you're ronny. Yes, mister mayor, I think
I mean the circumstances. Well,since it was Ben's brother who did the
actual shooting night, I think thecharges ought to be, say, disturbing
the piece. Very well, manmilire, charge of accessory to a homicide
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is dismissed, accused his found guiltyof disturbing the piece, and is here
by fine twenty five dollars. Whatabout my window and is ordered to play
mister b be the cost of oneplate glass window. Court's adjourned at all.
Well, well, then here's yourtwenty five dollars. I'll take care
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of it, top I sure,I say, what about my guns?
Don't I get them back? Yeah? Certainly marshal will return him to be
Yes, that's the lawyer. Whena man's bad is fine, gets his
property back. Oh all right,Ben? Thanks? What? Oh just
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a minute? Yeah, don't putthem on in here? Law? No,
law, don't put them on anduntil you're out of my side or
sure no, uh, I'm sorryyou had so much trouble her For twenty
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five dollars. It don't hardly seemwhat. Well, I won't be needing
this batge any longer. Oh nah, nah, Hold on earth. You
mustn't think we don't appreciate what you'vedone. But after all, he really
wasn't guilty and murdered. Sure onething, though he really proved yourself.
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We all want you to stay onHere is Marshall permanently. That's rider if
you're a man, that's mighty kindof your gentleman. As a matter of
fact, this business today is sortof decided things for me. Up until
now, I didn't know just whatI wanted to do for a living.
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But well now I sort of thinkI might like the idea of being a
lawman. A friend of mine toldme i'd be putting on my guns,
but I don't think he'd mind.This way, everything's gonna work out fine.
The only thing is I wouldn't careto enforce the law here in elseworth
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Oh I don't understand will opinion andin dollars a month. While the salaries
all right for a live sheriff,But your folks seem to figure a dead
sheriff's only worth twenty five dollars nine. I figur're different and I guess maybe
I can find other towns that agreewith me. So on and so Wider
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refused the job of Marshal of Osworth, but he had chosen his career,
and he soon found law enforcement jobshe was willing to accept. Deputy Marshal
of which dockenzis, Marshal of God'sCity, Deputy Sheriff of Tombstone, and
Deputy United States Marshal No Sheriff ofthe Years who successfully brought law and order
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to the towns and states he servedlong after the notorious outlaws he had outshine
are outwitted with forgotten wild up.At the age of eighty one, died
peacefully in his home, but hehad left behind a clear road for America,
a trail leading west. Mister Arnoldwill return in just a moment.
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One of the wonderful things about theChristmas season is that it's a time of
expressing good wishes to all our friends. But there are so many people you
like to greet that you may bewondering how you can remember them all and
yet stay within your Christmas budget.Well, Hallmark Cards has the answer for
you. Or even though Hallmark cardsare always recognized for their high quality,
that doesn't mean they need to beexpensive. In fact, there's a very
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attractive selection of Hallmark cards in boxesor even the title on the box tells
you what a bargain they are,like the Hallmark Big Value Box and the
Hallmark Thrifty Box. These contain twentyfive different Hallmark cards and cost only one
dollar a box. There are alsoothers which have twenty five Christmas cards,
all with the same design, andthey two are only one dollar for the
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box of twenty five. So yousee, by sending Hallmark cards, it's
really easy to give all your friendsthe compliment of showing you carry enough to
send the very best. Now here'sEdward Donald. Yes, rank those Hallmark
box selections and all the other HallmarkChristmas cards surely do make it easy for
everyone to send greetings to all oftheir friends at this season of the year.
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Well, tonight he told a dramaticmoment of the history of the Old
West. Incidentally, wide Up wasplayed by William Conrad, who stars in
the famous radio series Gunsmoke as MattDillon. Next week we travel to England
and to the eighteenth century on theHallmark Hall of Fame. It'll be a
true story from the life of oneof England's greatest actresses, Sarah Siddons.
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And our star will be the charmingand brilliant Miss Helen Hayes. And the
following week is another special event.I believe that's right, Frank. On
December and nineteenth we will be proudto bring just as he performed it on
the Hallmark Hall of Fame Lionel Barnmorein his famous portrayal of Scrooge in Charles
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Dickens Christmas Carol, You are indeedon it to help continue this beloved Christmas
tradition. This is Edward Arnold sayinggood night until next week. Won't you
join us? Then? Look forHallmark cards that are sold only in stars
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that have been carefully selected to giveyou expert and friendly service. Remember a
Hallmark card when you carry enough tosend the ferry bets. The Hallmark Hall
of Fame is produced and directed byWilliam Proud. The Night's Transcribe script by
Frank Burke input it in our castwhere Polly Bear, Herb Bigran, Lawrence
Dopkin, Harry Bartell, Joseph Kerns, Paul Dubob and Paul Frees. William
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Conrad has heard every Saturday on Gunsmokeover CDs Radio. Walt to You by
Ellen M. Piller Cigarettes. Thisis Frank Goss saying good night to you
until next week at the same time, when you will hear a true story
from the life of Sarah Siddons starringMiss Helen Hayes on the Hallmark Hall of
Fame. This is the CBS Radionarc This has been a presentation of OTR
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