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August 18, 2025 • 23 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:12):
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violence that moved west with.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
Young America and the story of a man who moved
with it.

Speaker 3 (00:51):
I'm that man, Matt Dillon, United States Marshall, the first
man they looked for and the last they want to meet.
It's a chance a job, and that makes a man
watchful and a little lonely.

Speaker 4 (01:06):
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Speaker 3 (02:19):
Today, most people think a Dutch city here in the
eighteen seventies is a wild, lawless town, slumped with exciting
women and.

Speaker 2 (02:40):
Strong, daring men. And then they picture as fighters, the
kind who stand up for almost no reason at all
and gone each other down with as little regard for
their own lives as they have for their opponents.

Speaker 3 (02:54):
Men whose courage is as raw and harsh as the prairies.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
It's bred on style. This is the.

Speaker 3 (03:01):
Picture, but it isn't quite complete. But we've got our
share of cowards too, Like the one whose work I
run into the night, I found a note on my doors.

Speaker 2 (03:12):
I come up to dock at himself ite as fast
as I could.

Speaker 3 (03:25):
Do the back room doing such a trouble Chester, and
we've got Jack Messy in there.

Speaker 2 (03:29):
Jack Messy, you know that cowboys who look you up.

Speaker 5 (03:32):
Whenever he comes to town.

Speaker 1 (03:33):
You remember him.

Speaker 5 (03:34):
He always comes in the office and sat turn around
and talk.

Speaker 2 (03:37):
All you're the right out of Tell me what's he
doing up here? Was wrong?

Speaker 5 (03:42):
He's document?

Speaker 2 (03:43):
Asked him? I love Matt, doc Well he's dead.

Speaker 6 (03:53):
Or as soon as I saw him, I knew he
couldn't make it, not for.

Speaker 2 (03:57):
The hole like them.

Speaker 6 (03:58):
So what happens that somebody's shot him? At?

Speaker 2 (04:02):
Oh, we don't know.

Speaker 5 (04:04):
I was coming down street, mister young, and I heard
a shot and I run in found him laying him for.

Speaker 3 (04:10):
A right where he fell out of the chair at
a what chair your mine?

Speaker 2 (04:16):
Yes, sir, down in the office.

Speaker 6 (04:18):
He was waiting for you, I guess.

Speaker 5 (04:20):
And somebody must have sneaked in the back way and
shot him.

Speaker 2 (04:24):
Why he was shot in.

Speaker 6 (04:26):
The back so, well, he was sitting in your chair,
and we noticed he was wearing a.

Speaker 2 (04:33):
Hat just like the one you wear.

Speaker 7 (04:35):
And also he's about the same size as you. Somebody's
out to kill you, Matt, to kill you the easy way?

Speaker 2 (05:02):
Oh about?

Speaker 8 (05:07):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (05:09):
Thanks?

Speaker 8 (05:12):
Well, what brings you into the long Branch this time
and night?

Speaker 2 (05:15):
Not just looking around there?

Speaker 8 (05:18):
There's a lot of men at the bar over there.
I think you can pick him out. Why the man
who thought he shot you the night?

Speaker 2 (05:27):
Oh? The news travels fast, and.

Speaker 8 (05:31):
I heard somebody was asking you two days ago?

Speaker 2 (05:35):
You did I think it is to talk?

Speaker 8 (05:38):
Didn't anybody tell you about it?

Speaker 3 (05:40):
That? I haven't been around much the last couple of days, kiddy,
But even so, it doesn't the kind of talk people.

Speaker 2 (05:45):
Feel easy about passing on and for me that is anyway?
You know?

Speaker 7 (05:52):
Said, so he did see coming this way?

Speaker 3 (06:00):
I said, he, what's he done in the d gott
to drop around more often?

Speaker 8 (06:04):
That he's been banking? Sell here three or four days?

Speaker 2 (06:08):
But it's Sam and Harry.

Speaker 8 (06:09):
Yeah, I've been doing fine too.

Speaker 3 (06:12):
Maybe always was a smart camel. Hello, Marshall, you mind
if I sit down?

Speaker 2 (06:22):
Go ahead? Thanks.

Speaker 3 (06:26):
I've been meaning to come to see you, Marshall.

Speaker 2 (06:29):
Oh does that so? Yeah? I heard about the shooting
the night.

Speaker 3 (06:35):
It seems most everybody has I know something about it, Marshall,
would you like to hear it? Tell me? Well, a
couple of nights ago, I went out back to breathe
a little fresh air. I was standing out there in
the dark around the corner in the alley, and I
heard a couple of men come out.

Speaker 2 (06:54):
They couldn't see me.

Speaker 3 (06:55):
I couldn't see them, but I heard one of them
tell the other he was going.

Speaker 2 (06:59):
To shoot more so bill him shoot him any way
he could. That's all in your heart all.

Speaker 3 (07:05):
They said something else, but I couldn't understand it. Then
they went back in. You got no idea it was.

Speaker 2 (07:18):
I didn't dare take a look, Marshallly, it killed me.

Speaker 3 (07:21):
Sure you're a little late telling me this a you
mean I don't exactly owe you any favors, mon.

Speaker 2 (07:30):
Why did you bother to tell me at all?

Speaker 3 (07:32):
I don't like killing. That's why I hate killing. Well
dos everything I know? Marshall going now?

Speaker 2 (07:43):
Like Kitty?

Speaker 8 (07:46):
Is that all about that?

Speaker 3 (07:50):
It's between you and I knew him out in Santa
Fe one time, Kitty, he was bullying a man. I
showed him up to be a coward. A lot of
people witnessed it and even never forgave me.

Speaker 8 (08:08):
Maybe so I was alive. Maybe he's the one who.

Speaker 6 (08:11):
Do the shooting.

Speaker 3 (08:12):
I don't think Edybe has the guts to shoot a
man even in the back.

Speaker 2 (08:18):
Who is this then?

Speaker 8 (08:19):
Haven't say any ideas?

Speaker 2 (08:20):
Now, A lot of men I'd like to see me
said kidding.

Speaker 1 (08:27):
I know.

Speaker 3 (08:28):
I'm always willing to take my chances with anybody who
will face me. It's the man who shoots out of
the dug I'm afraid of.

Speaker 1 (08:52):
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Speaker 3 (10:04):
Nobody wants to die, But it's even worse without a
chance to fight back.

Speaker 2 (10:11):
That's what always made me feel, especially with that about.

Speaker 3 (10:13):
A man who broke his neck falling out of his saddle,
or maybe disappeared in front of a stampede of buffalo
who liked Jack Massey's sitting at my desk had to
take a bullet in the back.

Speaker 2 (10:30):
It's not dying, it's.

Speaker 3 (10:32):
Being slaughtered like a hog in a pen. It robs
a man of everything he's lived for. We'll see.

Speaker 5 (10:44):
I tell you, if I was in your boot, Michgain,
I'd hie me out onto the cray.

Speaker 2 (10:50):
First time he would, And you bet I would out there.
You didn't see a man coming to my arm. You
know he wouldn't like that, just.

Speaker 9 (11:00):
A right.

Speaker 5 (11:01):
She wouldn't never follow you out in the open, knock
him or them.

Speaker 2 (11:07):
You think there might be more than the world, It
might be Donald, mister doone. Why don't you hire some
men to hang around as sort of a bodyguard? Boy,
Then nobody wouldn't there. If I am the better, they
try the better. Chester. Get it over with, one way
or the other. And I always size it was cool
about it to use my cool tester. And I'm mad.

Speaker 5 (11:29):
I'm sure he's got a funny ways going it.

Speaker 9 (11:30):
Now.

Speaker 2 (11:30):
If it mad, i'd be hopping around like a bone
of the bar under tail, I'd be a.

Speaker 6 (11:35):
Spauns and a slavering a oom on my mouth and blood.

Speaker 5 (11:44):
He's up there, Natalie.

Speaker 2 (11:45):
Yeah, I'm going after it, and I'm going with you.

Speaker 3 (11:47):
Now.

Speaker 2 (11:47):
You stay here.

Speaker 3 (11:55):
Start shooting, mister, start shooting while you got a chance.

Speaker 6 (12:00):
I sure will.

Speaker 2 (12:03):
I'll shoot it. I suck a good samaduce s all right,
dropped a gun.

Speaker 6 (12:17):
You walk right up to him, mister doner.

Speaker 1 (12:19):
He had a gord in his hand, his drug.

Speaker 2 (12:21):
Chester, you know, come out. I hit him hard enough.
Come on, let's get him up the ducks.

Speaker 3 (12:26):
It'll sober him up and find out what this is
all about. Here's your coffee. Don't put that cup down
here thought not before you drink him.

Speaker 1 (12:48):
We'll drop a.

Speaker 2 (12:49):
Coffee in it and I'm drowning in coffee, Duck. I'm drinking.

Speaker 6 (13:00):
No more, doctor, No, I'm sober now not we can
talk straight enough now.

Speaker 2 (13:11):
It's about time, all right, must have what's your name?
Nah Ma Swann.

Speaker 3 (13:22):
But I didn't mean nothing, Marshall. I didn't know what
I was doing, honest, think it. But I'll tell you.
You were trying to kill me.

Speaker 2 (13:28):
What you No, don't don't get me. We don't get me. Yeah,
you're a real cower.

Speaker 3 (13:40):
An't just one may But I showed me in my
backyard to take on a lord of whiskey. I ain't
got nothing against you, Marshalling. I come to town, heard
all that talk, thought I could get the name for
myself if I had done the shoot. Ain't no more
throat than that, no more truth than never mind, Duck,

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you know something, my believious one.

Speaker 2 (14:04):
You do It's true, honest, be sure it's true.

Speaker 3 (14:09):
There are a lot of other drunken, brainless bombs gonna
try for the same reason. They've heard somebody's that's a
murder me, and they got to thinking, why shouldn't they
do it and get that credit for themselves?

Speaker 6 (14:20):
Oh man, it's not that bad.

Speaker 3 (14:21):
Already started duck there all the others, lots of them,
as long as I last.

Speaker 9 (14:35):
Do you know about the little white childress in the
Little Greed? Perfectly just to wait before the moment when
you need them to bring your last in the jesting
under control sums are the little white childress in the

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Little Greed in post ro chum so to come see
you in a really quicker can you ever get for
anything at Keep on handing in the pocket roll, keep
your Tommy under Tommy control.

Speaker 1 (15:19):
Always keep thumbs by your bed, don't let acid indigestions
for your sleep.

Speaker 4 (15:23):
Nothing but Tom's work.

Speaker 1 (15:24):
So fast to make you feel so good, so long,
get see you and as Tom tenfance three rolls, pack
a quarter or get the new Tom six roll pack
with free metal carrier.

Speaker 2 (15:34):
Only forty nine.

Speaker 3 (15:35):
Then Chester and I rode Matt Swan down the lay
ar Kansas and told him to get his.

Speaker 2 (15:53):
Horse across and keep going. I guess he thought I
was about to shoot him away. He rode off. I'll
punk it up the saddle, trying to look small, and
I was.

Speaker 3 (16:03):
Pretty sure he'd never show up and dodge again. There
was one less glory hunt to deal with, but the
thought of how many.

Speaker 2 (16:14):
Were left waving in the alleys, hiding.

Speaker 3 (16:17):
In the shutters, and made me jumping. I didn't realize
how bad off I was until we got back to town.
Right into the stable, we put our horses under their stalls,
and we were walking toward the.

Speaker 10 (16:32):
Door, baring cruns, Miss Dune.

Speaker 2 (16:39):
I was laid Chester. Everybody's get a drunk or in bed.

Speaker 5 (16:41):
But there's somebody whom.

Speaker 2 (16:48):
He doing? That rifle stuck into that stall. He's all
I dropped the rifle. Mister likely drop it. I say, no,
he's gonna shoot. You can stay access, don't shoot. Don't

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shoot against Chester. I got his rifle, I got the
last two.

Speaker 3 (17:26):
Mischief put a bullet my lung.

Speaker 2 (17:32):
So I am I never seen him before? Or do
you care who I am? You're gone kill me, that's
what you're doing. Why were you asking me? Somebody hire you?
I come on, tell him. You shoot a man down
and you try to blame it on him, you should

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do me. He weren't after you wasn't after nobody just
come from my horses.

Speaker 5 (18:00):
I think he's telling the truth, mister doing din.

Speaker 3 (18:05):
Marsh.

Speaker 2 (18:07):
I would just think I was I heard talk. Somebody
was out to shoot you.

Speaker 6 (18:14):
On me.

Speaker 2 (18:16):
I was just trying to get home to Texas. I
ain't gonna make it ow. But I heard drid whoever
that rifle? Mister, you were about to shoot? It's thought
I was being held up.

Speaker 10 (18:34):
Oh you hollered at me, knowing he ain't got nothing
to do with me. Of course I ain't, was I you, Marshall?
There was talk about somebody after me.

Speaker 2 (18:50):
I found out who was making talk. I wouldn't go
out before I'm shooting innocent food. Somebody got you out, smart,
Well he'll get you at the box, myster. He don't
take care of you.

Speaker 10 (19:03):
No, no, dude, don't bear I mean no bank at Marshall,
fix me a box, would you promise?

Speaker 3 (19:13):
Fix me a box?

Speaker 2 (19:15):
Yeah? I got them. I can't swallow no more.

Speaker 7 (19:22):
Go.

Speaker 2 (19:27):
That'ster Tess Carrid. I just killed an innocent man. Well,
he'd a shot you if you hadn't. I don't even

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know his name. We'll find him a box. We'll fix
him up, a real good one. Yes, gonna do something else.
He said, what I've been not smart? That he was right.
But I know what I'm doing now. He's not kidding.

Speaker 3 (20:31):
Trouble. Now that that was over, soon will be very
surprise that there was. If I kitting cowards don't carry
guns and yeah, Longrshall, Dylan, you're gonna try your luck.

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My luck ran out about an hour ago, even what
I shot and killed an innocent man. What are you
telling me about, Marshall? You were too cheap to hire
somebody to get me evy, and too much of a coward.

Speaker 2 (21:05):
To try it yourself. I don't like that word your
story about over here in that talk. I'm back. You
spread it around hoping it would give some brainless fool
the idea to try himself. That's a lot of two
men tried it. It made me said jumping. I just
killed him and as I was trying it.

Speaker 1 (21:18):
Again, and I feel pretty bad about Eddie b I've
got nothing to do with it. You told me the
story thinking of to make you look into and well
you are smart at me. Ebe for a little while,
but you can't putlenty.

Speaker 3 (21:31):
I don't have to not come on you kind of
wrest me now, but I'm going to lock you up
and tomorrow I'm going to run you right out of
town to into some men at that because of your
coward is is maybe I wish I could hang you
for it.

Speaker 2 (21:45):
Call me a coward. You're the worst coward I ever had.
I'm saying you're doing.

Speaker 3 (21:50):
Just what you did Santa Fame.

Speaker 2 (21:52):
I tell you I'm not a coward.

Speaker 3 (21:54):
I won't call me that anymore.

Speaker 2 (21:56):
I hand out of your pocket.

Speaker 3 (21:57):
I got a gun in here. I'll kill you, mysel.

Speaker 2 (22:00):
I want you. I gotta draw that. Oh, yes, I
am not you Lee. Oh they just keep talking. He
just keep talking out.

Speaker 8 (22:08):
Piot how to write.

Speaker 2 (22:19):
I think he wanted me to kill and I think
he'd rather be dead than face everybody knowing what a
cowardy is. And he's got his punishment coming and the
rest of his life.

Speaker 1 (22:51):
Gun Smoke produced them, directed by Norman McDonald sorry William
Conrad as Matt villen Us Marshall. The story was to
be written for Gun's Vote by John Weston. Featured in
the cast were Joseph Kerns, Jack Moyles, and Lawrence Dobtons Harley.
There is Chester, Howard mcneer is doctor, and Georgia Ellis
is kidding. This is George Walks inviting you to join

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us again next week for another story on guns.

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