August 31, 2025 • 23 mins
Follow the thrilling cases of "Yours Truly Johnny Dollar," an insurance investigator with a knack for solving complex crimes. Perfect for fans of detective stories and classic radio dramas.
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Speaker 1 (00:12):
Around Dodd 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 Marshall and The Smell of
Guns Smoke Guns, starring William Conrad, the story of the
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violin that moved west with Young America and the story
of a man.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Who moved with it.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
I'm that man, Matt dyllon United States Marshall, the first
man they look for and the less they want to meet.
It's a chance, a job that makes a man watchful,
that a little lonely.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
You know, mister John man can get mighty hungry when
he don't eat.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
A thirty more miles and we'll be in Dodge Chester.
Then you can eat to your heart's content, yes, sir.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
And the wind comes up again and freezes us to death.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
And that doesn't freeze us to death last time.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
Well, I was just cause we were lucky enough to
find that side buster shack. I couldn'tder stood another two
days of wind and cold like that.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
It aged me something awful aged you. I freezing's supposed
to keep you the way you are.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Huh, I'm too war out to joke.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Well, I'll admit that was about the worst blizzard I
ever saw. But it's behind us now we can forget
about it.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Forget him mind still starving?
Speaker 5 (01:58):
Man?
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Hey, what is doing?
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Yeah? Looks like a hunter's camp.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
Kind of stoga wagon, couple of horses ticketed by them.
Trees don't see much same of life though, No, but
with them horses there, there's gotta be somebody rhymed.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
That's been twenty below for three nights now. They cut
a frozen to that.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
So they had a fire built over there.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Yeah, these ashes weren't made today or yesterday either.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
I ain't. There's so little here's doing.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
And maybe they got caught out on the prairie when
the blizzard is or.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
It does look that way.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
I don't know how that team is still alive with
nothing with that wagon for protection.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
Oh, things don't look none too lively.
Speaker 5 (03:13):
You can't blame you get your hands out, full fullhat.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
You better do what the old man says.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
He must have been hiding in the way.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Come over here, furs.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
I stopped right there.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
It's your camp, mister.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
Portect my camp. Now you two drop them guns so.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
We got our hands up. That's enough.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
You do what I say. I ain't taking no chances.
I ain't gonna get left here again. But you're gonna
hitch up that team and you're gonna take.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Me in a dodge.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
You ain't running off like Jed Warner.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Who's Jad Warner?
Speaker 4 (03:52):
He's my skinner.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Why do he leave you?
Speaker 6 (03:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (03:55):
He's seen this blizzard coming and didn't want to take
any chances, so I rode off. He's probably been in
Dodge all the time, warm and cozy.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Oh why didn't you go with him?
Speaker 4 (04:04):
Well? I twisted my leg and my foot shoulder. I
couldn't ride a horse. That's why Larner figured driving a
wagon beat too slow.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
You mean he left you out here to freeze kill.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
Me when I find him? Well, i'll tinue you too
if you don't drive me into Dodge. He's a US Marshall, mister,
he ain't gonna leave you here, Marshall.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Now, why don't you put down that rifle and tell
us who you are?
Speaker 1 (04:26):
All right?
Speaker 4 (04:29):
My name's Ayre Pucket Marshall. I'm usually up north following
the Republican herd, but I come south this year. I'm
getting old and I sought to be warmer down here.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
You sure made a mistake. About that. You will get
me in the dodge, won't you. Yeah, of course we will.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
But I twisted. I don't feel nothing in it must
be froze. It could be uh killed jedge Larner for this.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Forget it, Pucket.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
I'm not taking you back to Dodge just so you
can hang.
Speaker 6 (04:58):
And I'll forget it till I find him.
Speaker 7 (05:17):
Oh, hello, Matt, come in, come in?
Speaker 2 (05:21):
How was he doctor? H Pucket?
Speaker 5 (05:25):
I don't hear be eyed? Man in time? Oh?
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Than his foot wasn't so bad after all. Huh.
Speaker 5 (05:29):
He didn't have much foot left when I got through.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Him.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
He be able to walk with a cane. But his
buffalo hunting days are over.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Uh huh Uh does he know that I told him?
You know, Iowa.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
Pucket's a proud man, Matt.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
He's a little too proud, now, what do you mean?
Speaker 5 (05:50):
Well? Uh? What he hated most about his Jadlarner leaving
him on the prairie wasn't the fact that he might
have died, but that he was helpless. Man like Pucket
can't stand being helpless, I see, and now crippled up.
He he's a bitter man.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Man.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Well, he'll get over it, man, he'll get used to
most anything.
Speaker 5 (06:09):
At the time, I got my doubts about Pucket. He
won't even admit the howl.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Yeah, well what you guess.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
Uh, well he's past heaven anyway.
Speaker 6 (06:21):
Uh he's in the back room, man matter.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
If you want a cigar, right, I'll come with you. Hello, Pucket, Marshall,
how you feeling?
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Doc tells you what he done to me.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Yeah, he ruined my foot.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
I saved your life, Pocket, and I ain't sure. I'm grateful.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
Doctor.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
You're gonna be alright, Pucket. He'll be able to get around.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
Yeah, like an over woman. What am I gonna do
for a living? I ain't one of you city people.
I live off the country I always have. I'm a man,
not a dude.
Speaker 5 (06:58):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
He'll get used to town life. And you will find
men here too.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
What kind of men walking around all slickered up, parting
the hair in the middle, bowing to the ladies? Was
there eat one of them gonna do half the things
I done?
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Well?
Speaker 4 (07:13):
I was living with Tamanches when most of them were
sniveling in their mother's eperns.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
I know, but you'll find something to do. I'll help you.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
You will sure, then help me find Jed Loarner bring
him in here so that I can kill him with
my bare hands.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
What does he look like?
Speaker 4 (07:29):
Oh, he's tall, black hair, you got a big scar
run across one eye and halfway down his right cheek.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Good.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
I'll try to find him, and if I do, I'll
run him out of town before you get to him.
Speaker 6 (07:44):
Huh.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
I can't even trust you.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Cannot not when you want to murder a man Arab.
I told you I didn't bring you in so you
could be hung chester Chester.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
You're gonna run that.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
Ruin?
Speaker 5 (08:19):
What well?
Speaker 2 (08:20):
That stick of water?
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Of course you're gonna wreck it banging it on the
stove that way.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
Well, it's too bad that it don't fit.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Well, why don't you forget about it? It's too hot
in the air anyway.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
Ye's true.
Speaker 5 (08:34):
Stove, you know, mister John.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
I was thinking, yeah, what well, with a whole.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
New year starting it, it might be we could maybe
get a new stove, you know, like one of them
I showed you in the Granger catalog last week. Oh,
just think how fine it'd be to have a stove
that don't smoke.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Have you ever took that great down? Maybe this one
wouldn't shake the.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
Mister Dylan, I carried the ashes out just this morning.
Speaker 6 (09:08):
Oh, mister pucket, I want to talk to you.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Marshall, sure, all right, come on and said, don.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
Shitting down ain't gonna help nothing. The eight rest is
gonna toughen his foot up. I can talk standing anyways,
all right, stand now, word Jed Warner, I rah.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Aren't you ever gonna forget about him?
Speaker 6 (09:27):
Not likely?
Speaker 4 (09:28):
Might as well. He ain't been sauce and we brought
you in here six weeks ago. If you're any kind
of a man, you go find him for me. Would
you like me to cut his soap for you too?
Don't you make fun of me?
Speaker 2 (09:39):
I calm down.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
I don't nobody's making fun of you.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
I was twenty years younger. I'd give him a real tushop.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
I expect you would.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
I get good enough, I'll do it. Yet, no, gone it.
We're only trying to help you.
Speaker 5 (09:50):
Pucket.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
Well, I don't need any help. Not make sure gonna
help me find Jed Larner.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
I'm not gonna do that.
Speaker 6 (09:57):
Man shouldn't have expected her from a note.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
Dang lord, man, I'll find him myself. You wait and see.
M gracious, Well, he sure did get upset, didn't.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
He he's got a lot of pride Chester.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
And that's gonna get him into trouble yet.
Speaker 7 (10:18):
Uh oh, this is a great way to start the
new year.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Man. Oh oh, what do you mean, kiddy?
Speaker 7 (10:39):
Well, oh, last year I was hoping maybe i'd be
in San Francisco by now.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
San Francisco.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Yeah, but you never told me.
Speaker 7 (10:49):
What would you have done about it?
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Well?
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Uh uh, nothing, I guess, But uh why san Francisco.
Speaker 7 (10:59):
No blizzard, no dust, no.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
Cowboy Ah, but they got fogg and all those sailors
and miners aren't any gentler than these cowboys.
Speaker 7 (11:09):
Yeah, I know, but imagine going to dinner in the carriage,
you know, the table car dancing on our hardwood floor.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
You're spoiled, kitty.
Speaker 7 (11:21):
Now, how could I get spoiled here in Dodge City?
Speaker 3 (11:25):
Oh well, I'll tell you what.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
You'll save your money. You'll get to California some day.
Speaker 5 (11:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Sure, I walk and a lot of people have gone
that way.
Speaker 7 (11:34):
Who do you think I am?
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Back at your wire? Ah? Now there was a woman.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Yeah you know, I always had what's memory that man
at the bar just turned around? Which man one with
a scar down his cheeks? H Yeah, I'll be back kidding.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
H m uh, evening, Marshall, pity room before you staring
at me?
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Marshall, your name Jed Lerner? Water for it? How long
you been in town?
Speaker 5 (12:19):
Runner?
Speaker 2 (12:21):
About a hour? Something wrong, Marshall?
Speaker 3 (12:26):
You uh you remember the big blizzard we had?
Speaker 4 (12:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Six or seven weeks back? Oh don't have we all do?
Speaker 3 (12:35):
I guess, especially Irah Pucket, especially boy?
Speaker 2 (12:42):
He didn't die Runner, Well.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
That's fine. I I went back looking for him.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
I wondered where he got to. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
I assure you did. Well. It's true.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Buckets here and Dodge Learner is and if he finds you,
he'll kill you. But he isn't gonna find you because
you're leaving right now and don't show up anywhere around
here again. I wait, my I can't arrest you, I
can't put you in jail, but I'll tell you what
I can do for Suppose I just let everybody here
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know that you're the man who ran off and left.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Ira Pucket to die. Oh no, no, they tear you apart.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Liner, No, don't say nothing. He set you on Fire'll
tell him.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Uh, I leave, Marshall, Yeah, I leave right now. What you.
Speaker 7 (13:43):
Well you got rid of him in a hurry.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Yeah, just saved him from being shot and Ira Pucket
from hanging for it.
Speaker 7 (13:51):
My god, Hm, that was Jaed Larning. He's the one
that ought to hang.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Uh. He didn't mean the kill the old man kiddy.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
What's the difference, Well, legally there's something.
Speaker 7 (14:05):
Enough to give his foot back.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
I'm kind of hard to argue with, aren't you?
Speaker 7 (14:11):
Why? Because I think straight?
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Why don't we talk about San Francisco?
Speaker 5 (14:18):
No?
Speaker 7 (14:18):
I changed my mind. I think I'll go to New York.
I I'm dead.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
I got to talk to you.
Speaker 7 (14:26):
Looks alf from man. Good thing he isn't on.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
You can always find a gun.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
You've done at Marshall.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
It was you, wasn't it You saw Jed Lerner?
Speaker 5 (14:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (14:35):
She come ton his harsh rode out of town before
after stop him. When I had to stand there and walk,
I didn't even have a rock so at him. Why'd
you do it? Marshall? What'd you run him off for?
Speaker 2 (14:44):
To save you from hanging?
Speaker 4 (14:46):
I'd rather hang and live this way. I wasn't born
to become a helpless old man. Least you could have
done was let me fight my own battle, like all
did on the planes.
Speaker 6 (14:55):
And you took my men who'd away from me? Marcia?
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Right, you're living in town now among people. Well, why
don't you get used to it?
Speaker 6 (15:03):
All right?
Speaker 4 (15:06):
All right away, I'll start living like you town people.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
How are you going to get a job?
Speaker 4 (15:12):
You bedtime to going to? I sure am, he's gonna
pay me a lot of money too. What do you
mean you will find out, Marshall when it's too late,
good morning that it was villing.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Oh thanks for that. When we had last night.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
Well it kept me away, uh huh all night.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
Say I wouldn't say that, not all night. Hey, we'll
go there for the bank and better I re pucket.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
Yeah, that's the first time he's had his team and wagon.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
Out where you suppose he's going right.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Now, he's going under the bank.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
What to carry that, Junyn for He can't go hunting
in the bank any.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Yes he can Chester.
Speaker 4 (16:02):
Mm, come on, mall Land, you don't mean to say, oh,
like it's gonna hold up that bank. It's done.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
He said last night.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
He's gonna start living like town people, get a job,
make a lot of money. Well this could be his
idea of how to do it.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
M and he Joe couldn't have no other.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
You can carry that shot.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
Gun in there? She you going in after?
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (16:30):
What mister Dune, he's got a shot.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
Gun, I know, bug Chester, take his team and wagon
off somewhere.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Lead him around back of the bank, out of sight.
Speaker 5 (16:40):
They do.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
We can handle this without a shooting can shoot? Hurry
it up, Chester, he's coming out.
Speaker 5 (16:51):
That's right, I'm long gone.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
It's done here.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Oh oh, Marshall, come on out, bucket.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
I'm not stopping you.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
You better not try it. I can shoot with one hand, Marshall. Sure,
don't you try to follow me neither? Hey wait, wait,
wait a minute, Hey, where where's my wedding?
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Where's my team?
Speaker 2 (17:27):
You're in a bad fix.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
Somebody told him. Why can't you get away without any team?
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Oh? You can? So you might as well give up,
you dune it.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
You're behind this, Marshall.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
How you gonna shoot me?
Speaker 1 (17:39):
I shouldn't die because you're in enough trouble already and
shooting me.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Want to help a bit?
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Your trap, pucket? There's nothing you can do about it,
So why don't you use your head?
Speaker 4 (17:51):
All right? Here, there's your money. Now you bring my
outfit back. I ain't going to tell your Marshall.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Like I said, if Bucket shooting me isn't gonna help you,
and I'm not gonna do a thing about your outfit.
Speaker 5 (18:05):
You can't.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
You've out smart at me, don't you.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Why don't you give it up? Bucket? You're licked?
Speaker 5 (18:10):
Yeah you think?
Speaker 6 (18:11):
I uh I, I just can't shoot you.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
Marshall here, take the gun.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Good and and just to help the show.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
A fool can't even rob a bank propper.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
I'm not sure you really wanted to Pucket.
Speaker 5 (18:30):
Huh.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
All you wanted was to prove something about that manhood
you think has been taken away from him.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
But you sure picked a foolish way to do it.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
Yeah, I reckon, I did.
Speaker 5 (18:43):
Me.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
I thought you wouldn't.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Never give up. He didn't have much choice to him.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
I went in the back door and told the people
in the bank to keep out the way. You want
me to take me over the jail now? Oh? Oh, no, no, no,
I I can't stand jail.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Please Marshall lock him up, Chester, I'll return this money
and I have a talk with mister Buckan.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
I'll be over later. I thought I told you to
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lock him up Chester.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
Oh, I started to mister don but I just couldn't
stand the look on his face after I put him
in cellf.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
You know, I rush. Seems to me everybody treats you
pretty well.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
Everybody but get learning.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
That's true.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
But Chester and I bring you in. Doc saves your life.
I keep you from hanging. And if I hadn't not
smarted you at the bank, it'd probably be lying dead somewhere. Now.
It seems to me that everybody's gone to a lot
of trouble for an old man full of a lot
of foolish pride.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
How what do you think?
Speaker 4 (20:01):
Yeah, I've been thinking, Marshall, sitting here thinking, and you
know what, You're right, But I'm fraid it's too late now.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
No, it's not all right.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
I explained everything to mister Buckkan at the bank, and
he's willing to drop any charges against your butt on
one condition. What's that, To be honest with you, It
was my idea, but mister Budkin agreed. You got a
job here and you quit being some dog on honery.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
Otherwise you're gonna go to jail.
Speaker 6 (20:31):
Oh but what can I do with this creple foot.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Of sing your handy with a shotgun? I think Jim
buck might hire you. The right messenger, on the stage.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
You think so?
Speaker 2 (20:41):
He told me he would.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
You went and show him and.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
It doesn't take any walking. I right, how about it?
Speaker 6 (20:46):
Fine?
Speaker 5 (20:47):
I never had a job like that.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
It is it's doing forbo stage already pull out? Yeah,
and look you there, old bucket stitting up there on.
Speaker 6 (21:08):
The box, proud of the bank rooster.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Oh, I am Marshall's you's got a business with me.
Jeff just came down to see. Uh you'bout ready to park?
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Yeah, just as soon as I check your harness and
that lead or hell there, Marshall, Oh fuckhead, first time.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
I ever a little shot gotten the whole life. I
sure hope we.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Get held out. I hope you don't. For the outlaw's sake.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
That's pretty they're shutting then you got there, pucket. Don't
go shooting just anybody.
Speaker 7 (21:32):
Now, I know what I'm doing.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
We're off, Marshall, get tripped him?
Speaker 4 (21:37):
Thank you? Now you're set, bucket, I sure, am, say Marshall,
you know something?
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Oh what's that?
Speaker 4 (21:49):
This ain't a bad way to start the new year.
No man's gotta make a change once in a while. Sure, Oh,
I am behold right behind schedule already our bucket here
we go.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
He Gun Smoke for Houston, Directed in Hollywood by Norman McDonald,
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stars William Conrad as Matt Dylan Us Marshall. The story
was especially written for gun Smoke by John Medan. Harley
Bear is Chester, Howard mcneer is Doc, and Georgia Hawkins
is kidding. This is George Walsh inviting you to join
us again next week when CBS Radio presents another story
on gun smoke
Around Dodd 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 Marshall and The Smell of
Guns Smoke Guns, starring William Conrad, the story of the
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violin that moved west with Young America and the story
of a man.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Who moved with it.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
I'm that man, Matt dyllon United States Marshall, the first
man they look for and the less they want to meet.
It's a chance, a job that makes a man watchful,
that a little lonely.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
You know, mister John man can get mighty hungry when
he don't eat.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
A thirty more miles and we'll be in Dodge Chester.
Then you can eat to your heart's content, yes, sir.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
And the wind comes up again and freezes us to death.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
And that doesn't freeze us to death last time.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
Well, I was just cause we were lucky enough to
find that side buster shack. I couldn'tder stood another two
days of wind and cold like that.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
It aged me something awful aged you. I freezing's supposed
to keep you the way you are.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Huh, I'm too war out to joke.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Well, I'll admit that was about the worst blizzard I
ever saw. But it's behind us now we can forget
about it.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Forget him mind still starving?
Speaker 5 (01:58):
Man?
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Hey, what is doing?
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Yeah? Looks like a hunter's camp.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
Kind of stoga wagon, couple of horses ticketed by them.
Trees don't see much same of life though, No, but
with them horses there, there's gotta be somebody rhymed.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
That's been twenty below for three nights now. They cut
a frozen to that.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
So they had a fire built over there.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Yeah, these ashes weren't made today or yesterday either.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
I ain't. There's so little here's doing.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
And maybe they got caught out on the prairie when
the blizzard is or.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
It does look that way.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
I don't know how that team is still alive with
nothing with that wagon for protection.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
Oh, things don't look none too lively.
Speaker 5 (03:13):
You can't blame you get your hands out, full fullhat.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
You better do what the old man says.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
He must have been hiding in the way.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Come over here, furs.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
I stopped right there.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
It's your camp, mister.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
Portect my camp. Now you two drop them guns so.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
We got our hands up. That's enough.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
You do what I say. I ain't taking no chances.
I ain't gonna get left here again. But you're gonna
hitch up that team and you're gonna take.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Me in a dodge.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
You ain't running off like Jed Warner.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Who's Jad Warner?
Speaker 4 (03:52):
He's my skinner.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Why do he leave you?
Speaker 6 (03:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (03:55):
He's seen this blizzard coming and didn't want to take
any chances, so I rode off. He's probably been in
Dodge all the time, warm and cozy.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Oh why didn't you go with him?
Speaker 4 (04:04):
Well? I twisted my leg and my foot shoulder. I
couldn't ride a horse. That's why Larner figured driving a
wagon beat too slow.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
You mean he left you out here to freeze kill.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
Me when I find him? Well, i'll tinue you too
if you don't drive me into Dodge. He's a US Marshall, mister,
he ain't gonna leave you here, Marshall.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Now, why don't you put down that rifle and tell
us who you are?
Speaker 1 (04:26):
All right?
Speaker 4 (04:29):
My name's Ayre Pucket Marshall. I'm usually up north following
the Republican herd, but I come south this year. I'm
getting old and I sought to be warmer down here.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
You sure made a mistake. About that. You will get
me in the dodge, won't you. Yeah, of course we will.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
But I twisted. I don't feel nothing in it must
be froze. It could be uh killed jedge Larner for this.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Forget it, Pucket.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
I'm not taking you back to Dodge just so you
can hang.
Speaker 6 (04:58):
And I'll forget it till I find him.
Speaker 7 (05:17):
Oh, hello, Matt, come in, come in?
Speaker 2 (05:21):
How was he doctor? H Pucket?
Speaker 5 (05:25):
I don't hear be eyed? Man in time? Oh?
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Than his foot wasn't so bad after all. Huh.
Speaker 5 (05:29):
He didn't have much foot left when I got through.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Him.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
He be able to walk with a cane. But his
buffalo hunting days are over.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Uh huh Uh does he know that I told him?
You know, Iowa.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
Pucket's a proud man, Matt.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
He's a little too proud, now, what do you mean?
Speaker 5 (05:50):
Well? Uh? What he hated most about his Jadlarner leaving
him on the prairie wasn't the fact that he might
have died, but that he was helpless. Man like Pucket
can't stand being helpless, I see, and now crippled up.
He he's a bitter man.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Man.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Well, he'll get over it, man, he'll get used to
most anything.
Speaker 5 (06:09):
At the time, I got my doubts about Pucket. He
won't even admit the howl.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Yeah, well what you guess.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
Uh, well he's past heaven anyway.
Speaker 6 (06:21):
Uh he's in the back room, man matter.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
If you want a cigar, right, I'll come with you. Hello, Pucket, Marshall,
how you feeling?
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Doc tells you what he done to me.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Yeah, he ruined my foot.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
I saved your life, Pocket, and I ain't sure. I'm grateful.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
Doctor.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
You're gonna be alright, Pucket. He'll be able to get around.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
Yeah, like an over woman. What am I gonna do
for a living? I ain't one of you city people.
I live off the country I always have. I'm a man,
not a dude.
Speaker 5 (06:58):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
He'll get used to town life. And you will find
men here too.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
What kind of men walking around all slickered up, parting
the hair in the middle, bowing to the ladies? Was
there eat one of them gonna do half the things
I done?
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Well?
Speaker 4 (07:13):
I was living with Tamanches when most of them were
sniveling in their mother's eperns.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
I know, but you'll find something to do. I'll help you.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
You will sure, then help me find Jed Loarner bring
him in here so that I can kill him with
my bare hands.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
What does he look like?
Speaker 4 (07:29):
Oh, he's tall, black hair, you got a big scar
run across one eye and halfway down his right cheek.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Good.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
I'll try to find him, and if I do, I'll
run him out of town before you get to him.
Speaker 6 (07:44):
Huh.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
I can't even trust you.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Cannot not when you want to murder a man Arab.
I told you I didn't bring you in so you
could be hung chester Chester.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
You're gonna run that.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
Ruin?
Speaker 5 (08:19):
What well?
Speaker 2 (08:20):
That stick of water?
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Of course you're gonna wreck it banging it on the
stove that way.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
Well, it's too bad that it don't fit.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Well, why don't you forget about it? It's too hot
in the air anyway.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
Ye's true.
Speaker 5 (08:34):
Stove, you know, mister John.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
I was thinking, yeah, what well, with a whole.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
New year starting it, it might be we could maybe
get a new stove, you know, like one of them
I showed you in the Granger catalog last week. Oh,
just think how fine it'd be to have a stove
that don't smoke.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Have you ever took that great down? Maybe this one
wouldn't shake the.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
Mister Dylan, I carried the ashes out just this morning.
Speaker 6 (09:08):
Oh, mister pucket, I want to talk to you.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Marshall, sure, all right, come on and said, don.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
Shitting down ain't gonna help nothing. The eight rest is
gonna toughen his foot up. I can talk standing anyways,
all right, stand now, word Jed Warner, I rah.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Aren't you ever gonna forget about him?
Speaker 6 (09:27):
Not likely?
Speaker 4 (09:28):
Might as well. He ain't been sauce and we brought
you in here six weeks ago. If you're any kind
of a man, you go find him for me. Would
you like me to cut his soap for you too?
Don't you make fun of me?
Speaker 2 (09:39):
I calm down.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
I don't nobody's making fun of you.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
I was twenty years younger. I'd give him a real tushop.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
I expect you would.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
I get good enough, I'll do it. Yet, no, gone it.
We're only trying to help you.
Speaker 5 (09:50):
Pucket.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
Well, I don't need any help. Not make sure gonna
help me find Jed Larner.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
I'm not gonna do that.
Speaker 6 (09:57):
Man shouldn't have expected her from a note.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
Dang lord, man, I'll find him myself. You wait and see.
M gracious, Well, he sure did get upset, didn't.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
He he's got a lot of pride Chester.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
And that's gonna get him into trouble yet.
Speaker 7 (10:18):
Uh oh, this is a great way to start the
new year.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Man. Oh oh, what do you mean, kiddy?
Speaker 7 (10:39):
Well, oh, last year I was hoping maybe i'd be
in San Francisco by now.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
San Francisco.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Yeah, but you never told me.
Speaker 7 (10:49):
What would you have done about it?
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Well?
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Uh uh, nothing, I guess, But uh why san Francisco.
Speaker 7 (10:59):
No blizzard, no dust, no.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
Cowboy Ah, but they got fogg and all those sailors
and miners aren't any gentler than these cowboys.
Speaker 7 (11:09):
Yeah, I know, but imagine going to dinner in the carriage,
you know, the table car dancing on our hardwood floor.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
You're spoiled, kitty.
Speaker 7 (11:21):
Now, how could I get spoiled here in Dodge City?
Speaker 3 (11:25):
Oh well, I'll tell you what.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
You'll save your money. You'll get to California some day.
Speaker 5 (11:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Sure, I walk and a lot of people have gone
that way.
Speaker 7 (11:34):
Who do you think I am?
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Back at your wire? Ah? Now there was a woman.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Yeah you know, I always had what's memory that man
at the bar just turned around? Which man one with
a scar down his cheeks? H Yeah, I'll be back kidding.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
H m uh, evening, Marshall, pity room before you staring
at me?
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Marshall, your name Jed Lerner? Water for it? How long
you been in town?
Speaker 5 (12:19):
Runner?
Speaker 2 (12:21):
About a hour? Something wrong, Marshall?
Speaker 3 (12:26):
You uh you remember the big blizzard we had?
Speaker 4 (12:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Six or seven weeks back? Oh don't have we all do?
Speaker 3 (12:35):
I guess, especially Irah Pucket, especially boy?
Speaker 2 (12:42):
He didn't die Runner, Well.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
That's fine. I I went back looking for him.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
I wondered where he got to. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
I assure you did. Well. It's true.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Buckets here and Dodge Learner is and if he finds you,
he'll kill you. But he isn't gonna find you because
you're leaving right now and don't show up anywhere around
here again. I wait, my I can't arrest you, I
can't put you in jail, but I'll tell you what
I can do for Suppose I just let everybody here
(13:16):
know that you're the man who ran off and left.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Ira Pucket to die. Oh no, no, they tear you apart.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Liner, No, don't say nothing. He set you on Fire'll
tell him.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Uh, I leave, Marshall, Yeah, I leave right now. What you.
Speaker 7 (13:43):
Well you got rid of him in a hurry.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Yeah, just saved him from being shot and Ira Pucket
from hanging for it.
Speaker 7 (13:51):
My god, Hm, that was Jaed Larning. He's the one
that ought to hang.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Uh. He didn't mean the kill the old man kiddy.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
What's the difference, Well, legally there's something.
Speaker 7 (14:05):
Enough to give his foot back.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
I'm kind of hard to argue with, aren't you?
Speaker 7 (14:11):
Why? Because I think straight?
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Why don't we talk about San Francisco?
Speaker 5 (14:18):
No?
Speaker 7 (14:18):
I changed my mind. I think I'll go to New York.
I I'm dead.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
I got to talk to you.
Speaker 7 (14:26):
Looks alf from man. Good thing he isn't on.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
You can always find a gun.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
You've done at Marshall.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
It was you, wasn't it You saw Jed Lerner?
Speaker 5 (14:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (14:35):
She come ton his harsh rode out of town before
after stop him. When I had to stand there and walk,
I didn't even have a rock so at him. Why'd
you do it? Marshall? What'd you run him off for?
Speaker 2 (14:44):
To save you from hanging?
Speaker 4 (14:46):
I'd rather hang and live this way. I wasn't born
to become a helpless old man. Least you could have
done was let me fight my own battle, like all
did on the planes.
Speaker 6 (14:55):
And you took my men who'd away from me? Marcia?
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Right, you're living in town now among people. Well, why
don't you get used to it?
Speaker 6 (15:03):
All right?
Speaker 4 (15:06):
All right away, I'll start living like you town people.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
How are you going to get a job?
Speaker 4 (15:12):
You bedtime to going to? I sure am, he's gonna
pay me a lot of money too. What do you
mean you will find out, Marshall when it's too late,
good morning that it was villing.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Oh thanks for that. When we had last night.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
Well it kept me away, uh huh all night.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
Say I wouldn't say that, not all night. Hey, we'll
go there for the bank and better I re pucket.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
Yeah, that's the first time he's had his team and wagon.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
Out where you suppose he's going right.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Now, he's going under the bank.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
What to carry that, Junyn for He can't go hunting
in the bank any.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Yes he can Chester.
Speaker 4 (16:02):
Mm, come on, mall Land, you don't mean to say, oh,
like it's gonna hold up that bank. It's done.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
He said last night.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
He's gonna start living like town people, get a job,
make a lot of money. Well this could be his
idea of how to do it.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
M and he Joe couldn't have no other.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
You can carry that shot.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
Gun in there? She you going in after?
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (16:30):
What mister Dune, he's got a shot.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
Gun, I know, bug Chester, take his team and wagon
off somewhere.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Lead him around back of the bank, out of sight.
Speaker 5 (16:40):
They do.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
We can handle this without a shooting can shoot? Hurry
it up, Chester, he's coming out.
Speaker 5 (16:51):
That's right, I'm long gone.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
It's done here.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Oh oh, Marshall, come on out, bucket.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
I'm not stopping you.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
You better not try it. I can shoot with one hand, Marshall. Sure,
don't you try to follow me neither? Hey wait, wait,
wait a minute, Hey, where where's my wedding?
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Where's my team?
Speaker 2 (17:27):
You're in a bad fix.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
Somebody told him. Why can't you get away without any team?
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Oh? You can? So you might as well give up,
you dune it.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
You're behind this, Marshall.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
How you gonna shoot me?
Speaker 1 (17:39):
I shouldn't die because you're in enough trouble already and
shooting me.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Want to help a bit?
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Your trap, pucket? There's nothing you can do about it,
So why don't you use your head?
Speaker 4 (17:51):
All right? Here, there's your money. Now you bring my
outfit back. I ain't going to tell your Marshall.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Like I said, if Bucket shooting me isn't gonna help you,
and I'm not gonna do a thing about your outfit.
Speaker 5 (18:05):
You can't.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
You've out smart at me, don't you.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Why don't you give it up? Bucket? You're licked?
Speaker 5 (18:10):
Yeah you think?
Speaker 6 (18:11):
I uh I, I just can't shoot you.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
Marshall here, take the gun.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Good and and just to help the show.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
A fool can't even rob a bank propper.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
I'm not sure you really wanted to Pucket.
Speaker 5 (18:30):
Huh.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
All you wanted was to prove something about that manhood
you think has been taken away from him.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
But you sure picked a foolish way to do it.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
Yeah, I reckon, I did.
Speaker 5 (18:43):
Me.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
I thought you wouldn't.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Never give up. He didn't have much choice to him.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
I went in the back door and told the people
in the bank to keep out the way. You want
me to take me over the jail now? Oh? Oh, no, no, no,
I I can't stand jail.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Please Marshall lock him up, Chester, I'll return this money
and I have a talk with mister Buckan.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
I'll be over later. I thought I told you to
(19:26):
lock him up Chester.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
Oh, I started to mister don but I just couldn't
stand the look on his face after I put him
in cellf.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
You know, I rush. Seems to me everybody treats you
pretty well.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
Everybody but get learning.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
That's true.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
But Chester and I bring you in. Doc saves your life.
I keep you from hanging. And if I hadn't not
smarted you at the bank, it'd probably be lying dead somewhere. Now.
It seems to me that everybody's gone to a lot
of trouble for an old man full of a lot
of foolish pride.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
How what do you think?
Speaker 4 (20:01):
Yeah, I've been thinking, Marshall, sitting here thinking, and you
know what, You're right, But I'm fraid it's too late now.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
No, it's not all right.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
I explained everything to mister Buckkan at the bank, and
he's willing to drop any charges against your butt on
one condition. What's that, To be honest with you, It
was my idea, but mister Budkin agreed. You got a
job here and you quit being some dog on honery.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
Otherwise you're gonna go to jail.
Speaker 6 (20:31):
Oh but what can I do with this creple foot.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Of sing your handy with a shotgun? I think Jim
buck might hire you. The right messenger, on the stage.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
You think so?
Speaker 2 (20:41):
He told me he would.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
You went and show him and.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
It doesn't take any walking. I right, how about it?
Speaker 6 (20:46):
Fine?
Speaker 5 (20:47):
I never had a job like that.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
It is it's doing forbo stage already pull out? Yeah,
and look you there, old bucket stitting up there on.
Speaker 6 (21:08):
The box, proud of the bank rooster.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Oh, I am Marshall's you's got a business with me.
Jeff just came down to see. Uh you'bout ready to park?
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Yeah, just as soon as I check your harness and
that lead or hell there, Marshall, Oh fuckhead, first time.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
I ever a little shot gotten the whole life. I
sure hope we.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Get held out. I hope you don't. For the outlaw's sake.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
That's pretty they're shutting then you got there, pucket. Don't
go shooting just anybody.
Speaker 7 (21:32):
Now, I know what I'm doing.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
We're off, Marshall, get tripped him?
Speaker 4 (21:37):
Thank you? Now you're set, bucket, I sure, am, say Marshall,
you know something?
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Oh what's that?
Speaker 4 (21:49):
This ain't a bad way to start the new year.
No man's gotta make a change once in a while. Sure, Oh,
I am behold right behind schedule already our bucket here
we go.
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stars William Conrad as Matt Dylan Us Marshall. The story
was especially written for gun Smoke by John Medan. Harley
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