June 15, 2025 • 49 mins
The film was released in 1949. This Lux Radio Theatre series version starred mostly the same cast, and first aired on March 12, 1951.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hudson River Radio dot Com, your local Rockland County station.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Lux presents Hollywood.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Leaf Brothers Company, the makers of Lux Flakes, bring you
the Lux Radio Theater starring John Wayne, mel Ferrer and
Mala Powers in She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, Ladies and Gentlemen,
Your producer, mister William.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
Keeley tweetings from Hollywood. Ladies and Gentlemen. The history of
the United States Cavalry is one of daring, accomplishment and romance,
and in our play Tonight, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon,
we present a colorful drama from its glorious past. As
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our stars of the r KAO screen success, we present
one of the most popular actors today, John Wayne, and
co starring with him is a very versatile artist, Melferrair
and one of the most beautiful young actresses in Hollywood,
Mala Powers. We wish to congratulate John Wayne on receiving
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the Photoplay Gold Medal Award as the most Popular Actor
of the Year, and hope you'll continue to appear in
such fine American pictures as John Ford's great production of
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon.
Speaker 5 (01:29):
We know the ladies have been always been color conscious,
whether it was yellow ribbons in their hair, or gay
flowered handkerchiefs in their pockets. And they've always depended on
lux flakes to preserve these colors. And now lux with
color freshener is more wonderful than ever. Here she wore
a yellow ribbon.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
Adapted from the famous story by James Warner Bella, starring
John Wayne as Captain Brittle's, Melfarrer as Lieutenant co Hill,
and Mala Powers as Olivia Dandridge.
Speaker 6 (02:14):
It is eighteen seventy six. Custer is dead. Custer and
over two hundred men of the seventh Cavalry. It's more
than just a victory for the Indians. It is a
signal to unite Kiowa, Comanche, Arappa, Host, Sioux, and Apache
united in common war against the United States Cavalry. Our
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post is far to the south of the Little Big Horn,
Fort Stark, isolated, kind of lonely for some, I guess. Anyway,
this day started, like a thousand others before it, with
Sergeant Quinn Cannon standing in the doorway of my cabin.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
Good morning, sir By forty two, sir By forty one,
and lovely morning. It is Captain Dollon courtled in blazes
nose as follow sir. Missus Jamison had her baby. The
stage coach run from here to sud Rose Wells has
been discontinued, and there's a dispatch rider in from the
desert patrol well. Private Mackenzie got himself shot.
Speaker 6 (03:18):
Sir, boy or a girl from Missus Jamison.
Speaker 7 (03:22):
Her little super Sir?
Speaker 6 (03:24):
When does the stage stop running?
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Finish?
Speaker 6 (03:26):
Sir? No more stage coach, Sir Mackenzie. Is he bad off? No, sir,
good Man Quinn Cannon, you'll make corporal in five or
six years, yes, sir, Well scratch another day off that calendar.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
Just six more days, Captain Dolan, six more days and
you're retired.
Speaker 6 (03:45):
So I am well aware of that, Gwinn Cannon.
Speaker 7 (03:48):
The Army will never be the same without you, sir.
Speaker 6 (03:50):
The army is always the same. The sun and the
moon change, but the army has no seasons.
Speaker 5 (03:55):
But here you are in your prime, sir, and they're
turning out to pasture. That's a wilful of abuse of
the taxpayer's money, sir.
Speaker 6 (04:01):
The only text you ever worried about was on whiskey.
I beg your pardon, sir. I guess you have a
reason for busting in, mister Colehill, Sir, Sergeant Tyree's just
entered the post. He's got half the paradise of a
patrol with him, Sir, and the paymaster's coach. Keep talking, mister.
All the Paymaster's dead, Sir, gunshot wounds dead when Tyree
found himwhere near red beauty, said sir? The money box
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is gone? Gunshot boom, Yes, sir, though the coach is
stuck full of arrows too. We'll tell Sergeant Tyreed to
report at once to Major Allshard's quarters take over morning inspection, Lieutenant, Yes, sir,
and tell Tyree to bring one of those arrows with him.
Speaker 5 (04:39):
Let me look at that arrow again. M sure it's
not Kyle Kaptain.
Speaker 6 (04:44):
No, and it's not Command Sheen or a Rappah either. Major.
Not with those color.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
Bands with your permission, all right, Tyree put in your
two cents worth well, sir, These airs were a yellow,
white and red bands are the signs of the Southern shine.
Speaker 6 (04:59):
And I've seen annos and snakes with the same color.
Speaker 5 (05:01):
Yes, sir, But looking at the clan mark is mark
right here, it's the sign of the dog.
Speaker 6 (05:07):
Then tell me what in blazes would cheyenne be doing
this far south?
Speaker 5 (05:10):
That ain't my departmentship? Alert the pools, yes, and get
some risks, thank you, sir, Well Ethan, any ideas.
Speaker 6 (05:18):
I'll go out in the morning, pick up the patrols
and drive those cheyenne back where they belong, and.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
Let me think on it, Ethan. And it's your new leader,
they war on.
Speaker 6 (05:32):
Now, life within a post isn't all spitting polish. Take
Lieutenant Panel, for instance, and the major's niece. Panel's got
a buck board and it's a fine day for a drive,
only he's having a little trouble at the gates. You
heard me, mister Panell. The post is on alert. Nobody's
leaving the ground.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Oh no, wait a minute, Cole.
Speaker 6 (05:52):
Hill, you heard me. Sorry to spoil your riding, Miss Dandridge.
Speaker 8 (05:55):
Sorry indeed, because I wouldn't trust you to take me
on a picnic last Sunday.
Speaker 5 (05:59):
Now you're hazing Panell.
Speaker 9 (06:00):
You just drive right on through Ross.
Speaker 8 (06:02):
If you don't, I will.
Speaker 6 (06:04):
You touch those reins and I'll slap you in the guardhouse.
You wouldn't dare someone placing you under arrest, Miss Dandridge.
Speaker 8 (06:10):
It's Lieutenant co Hill, Captain, he suddenly decided that he
can order me around.
Speaker 6 (06:14):
Sir, I was merely following. I believe you interrupted the lady,
mister cole Hill. He certainly did.
Speaker 8 (06:19):
Now, I don't want to make a scene, Captain, but
first Lieutenant cole Hill is made up his mind that
second Lieutenant Panel hasn't rank enough to be seen in
my company, Sir.
Speaker 6 (06:28):
If I you're interrupting, yes, sir, any further complaint, Miss Dandridge.
Speaker 9 (06:33):
Complaint. Oh, I'm not complaining, Captain.
Speaker 6 (06:36):
Ah ha, mister Cohill, wipe that grin off your face
and state your case. Sir. I've denied mister Panell permission
to leave the post. And for what purpose did you
wish to leave the post, mister Panell? Picnickings are picnicking,
Miss Dandridge? Where in Saint Louis.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
No, sir, just up with a waterfall, sir.
Speaker 6 (06:54):
But I'm sorry to apologize, mister. It is a sign
of weakness, mister cole Hill. I see no reason why
mister Panell should not go picnicking. Very good, sir, Thank you, Captain.
But miss Dandridge, mister Cohill was quite right in denying
you permission to leave under the present emergency. If you
will be so kind as to get out of the buckboard.
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Oh but really, your arm man. Thank you, mister Panell.
You may proceed with your picnic this way, Miss Dandridge,
ask Lieutenant Panell here, sir, where'd you say you were
holding your picnic?
Speaker 2 (07:27):
I'll tell you where.
Speaker 10 (07:28):
A Telemonico's in New York about two months from now,
with olivery, you see. And I won't be wearing any
blue suit either, Bob get it.
Speaker 6 (07:39):
The major sent for me early that evening. He had
made up his mind.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
I guess there's no other course to take. Nathan, find
those shy hands and push them back. Oh well, by
the way, he's the last report on Custom's outfit. Two
hundred and twelve men, Nathan head Corners expects are hurt
and blet. He went him sitting bull preaching off Holy war.
I want you to take every precaution.
Speaker 6 (08:03):
These names, George Armstrong, Custer, Tom Custer, Boston Custer, Calhoun.
Speaker 5 (08:12):
Cook, Yes, I expect you new motion.
Speaker 6 (08:15):
I expect I did Harrington Keyo, Miles Keya, Yes, Mac
a hard and bloody winter.
Speaker 5 (08:24):
Oh, Nathan, those flowers over there, Abby picked him, she thought,
maybe for Mary's green.
Speaker 6 (08:30):
Oh, I was figuring to stop by there now.
Speaker 5 (08:33):
And yes, I know, never miss a knee, do you.
Speaker 6 (08:36):
Oh, thank her for me, William Mac. They're real pretty flowers.
Nine years Mac, nine years last month, the flowers here
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Abby here from Mary. She raised them. Well, only six
more days to go, and your old Nathan will be
out of the army. Haven't decided what I'll do yet.
Somehow I just can't picture myself back there on the
banks of the Lobbys, rocking on the front porch. Oh.
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I've been thinking that maybe i'd push on west to
the new settlements in California. Anyway, I'm taking the troops
out in the morning. Some shy hands around, so I
pick up the patrols and drive them back north. My
last mission, Mary, hard to believe in it, my last
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I hope. I'm not a truly well I know, Ma'm
not at all.
Speaker 11 (09:43):
I was just I know I've watched you come out
here so many times. I'm sorry I made such a
fool of myself this morning.
Speaker 6 (09:51):
You made a fool out of a couple of young lieutenants.
That's never against army regulations.
Speaker 9 (09:56):
That I'm forgiven.
Speaker 6 (09:57):
You're forgiven.
Speaker 9 (09:59):
Thank you, Captain, good night.
Speaker 6 (10:01):
Good night, Miss Danvidge. She's a nice girl, Mary. She
reminds me of you. At dawn, the troop was mounted
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and ready to leave until Sergeant Quinn Cannon came up
driving a wagon. Just what do you think you're up to,
Quinn Cannon? Get out of that wagon?
Speaker 5 (10:35):
Begging your pardon, Captain Dodd, And it's orders orders, Yes, sir, Yes, sir,
I'd best be seeing about them.
Speaker 7 (10:41):
Site saddles, jesu, sight saddles?
Speaker 6 (10:43):
Are you trying to tell me? I'll be at Major
al Shard's quarters? All right, all right, hold on, hold on,
I know what blazes does this means? Side saddles A
covered wagon filled with women's junk. I can't hamper this
patrol with a wagon, particularly this patrol.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
And I'm sending my wife a niche with you there.
Go as far as Shodro's Wells and take the stage
east from there. This is an order that I want
to protest. That order I expected you would. This penant
paper shall put it in writing.
Speaker 6 (11:11):
I intend to.
Speaker 5 (11:13):
I set up half the night with this, Nathan. I
can't keep Olivia here. She ain't army, I'll say she ain't.
For the following, Rason wants some coffee.
Speaker 6 (11:22):
No, yes, one, there is a party of Cheyenne writing
this territory. I have a feeling that every woman will
how many ours are there in territory too?
Speaker 5 (11:31):
Oh yeah, use your coffee, poor Abby, she says, everyone
who thinks she's running away? And what about me? I'll
be a bachelor.
Speaker 6 (11:41):
And in conclusion, I respectfully protest the decision of my
commanding officer to saddle this troop with his female relations
one l in relation at this critical hour sign Nathan
briddles and so forth. It sounds very good, Nathan, I'll
be glad to file it.
Speaker 5 (11:59):
Leave me. I hate to hamstring you this way, but
you will take your riprecaution.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Of course, he will, dare.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
And how did marching through Georgia take the idea of
old iron Pants riding with him?
Speaker 5 (12:12):
Under protest?
Speaker 6 (12:13):
Damby written protest Abby? Of course, it's always my pleasure
to escord old iron Pants. Well, as long as you're
going along with us, Abby, that is the dad blamed
ust out fit. I ever did see Quinn Cannon's old
bretches a little.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Baggy, I suppose, Nathan, But they'll do for the trail.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
Where's Olivia? She ready?
Speaker 1 (12:33):
You'd been ready for an hour. She's probably outside with
one of your lieutenants.
Speaker 6 (12:37):
Well, kiss the old man of yours and say goodbye.
Time we get out of here.
Speaker 8 (12:44):
And I hope you approve of my uniform, mister cole Hills.
Speaker 6 (12:47):
It's very becoming, ma'am. And I notice you're wearing a
yellow ribbon well for panel? Huh?
Speaker 9 (12:53):
How do you know it isn't for you?
Speaker 12 (12:54):
Mister?
Speaker 6 (12:54):
I'd be very happy if it were for me, very happy. Indeed,
morning two, Pid Dandridge reporting, sir, well, and a proper
trooper too, and rite pretty, don't you think, mister cale Hill,
I do indeed, Sir an a yellow ribbon? Miss Dandridge?
Do you know what that means in the cavalry? A sweetheart,
it does. Who's it for?
Speaker 9 (13:13):
Why for you, captain?
Speaker 5 (13:14):
Of course for me?
Speaker 6 (13:15):
Huh. I'll make these young bucks jealous.
Speaker 10 (13:19):
Yet I wrote your mount Olivia, I help you, thank you.
I hope you're wearing that yellow ribbon for me, ma'am.
Speaker 9 (13:26):
Why who else would it be for?
Speaker 6 (13:29):
Hurry up, at Abby, they'll be leading without us. So
we left the post, just another routine mission. Oaks waving
goodbye kids, yelling, dog's barking. Only one thing in particular
caught my eye. As we rode past the store, I
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saw mister Rinders, the suttler, in the back of the stable.
He was hitching up his buckboard some hours on the.
Speaker 5 (14:00):
Trail, talking tyree, reporting, sir heat he's tyree, Well, like.
Speaker 6 (14:10):
You told me, sir, I took cover till riders left post.
Have been trailing him ever sin, he went southeast, kem
about a mile below the painted pole. There's two men
waiting for him in a wagon. You recognize him, no, sir.
Speaker 5 (14:24):
And it didn't seem prudent to him.
Speaker 6 (14:25):
Quire now, what do you suppose they were doing that
far south? And why did mister Rinders leave the post
in the first place. He's a store keeper, sir, that's right,
licensed to sell merchandise to folks all over this territory.
Only the post was on alert, mister Tyree. So I
ask you again, what do you suppose mister Rinders and
two strangers were doing that far south?
Speaker 5 (14:47):
Well, sir, I reckon, that ain't my department, sir.
Speaker 6 (14:51):
Take a point, Tyree. We'll probably pick him up on the.
Speaker 13 (14:54):
Next go round.
Speaker 6 (15:01):
Romantic isn't miss dandridge guide ons gaily fluttering bronze men,
lustily singing, horses prancing and bunions aching.
Speaker 9 (15:09):
Must you always be so vulgar, mister cole Hill, The.
Speaker 6 (15:11):
Cavalry doesn't go in for refinements, Miss Dandridge Cavalry.
Speaker 8 (15:14):
This ridiculous business of dismounting and walking every hour or so.
Speaker 5 (15:17):
You might as well be in the infantry.
Speaker 6 (15:19):
We soon would be if we didn't need these mounts.
Why don't you ride in the wagon with missus allshap no.
Speaker 8 (15:23):
Thank you, And if you don't moan mine, I'd like
permission to ride back along the line right, if you
must know, I'd rather share the dust back there with
mister Penell.
Speaker 6 (15:32):
Haven't you already thrown enough dust in Panell's eyes? Why
don't you give him a chance, mister cole Hill, Yes, sir, really,
mister Panell with a rare guard, Yes, sir, everything under
control here.
Speaker 8 (15:44):
Miss thank you, captain, Everything's just fine.
Speaker 6 (15:53):
An hour later, Tyree found something he wanted me to see.
I told Coal Hill, Panel and the bugler to tag along.
Far off against the hills, a long, low cloud of
dust was rising gravel in the same direction we are
ser towards Sudro's whale. Can you make them out, Sergeant
looks lack rappoles field glasses, mister Panel, Yes, sir.
Speaker 5 (16:14):
Then moving the whole village, wagons, lodgings and loans.
Speaker 6 (16:18):
Yeah, Tiree. I don't know where you got your brains,
but God must have given you that pair of eyes.
There are rapper hose all right heading the same way
we are. Now, why would they be moving on Sudro's wells.
Speaker 5 (16:30):
My mother didn't raise no sons to be making guesses
in front of a Yankee. Captain s mmmm, well, I'd
soon find out if there's no use even thinking about it.
We can't risk it with these women a rapper hose, yes,
mister cole Hill.
Speaker 6 (16:45):
And I don't like it, so we'll turn east. Gentlemen,
give him a wide birth, but we'll lose half a
day that way, sir. Ladies may miss the stage, so
would you rather that they missed their scalp? Sir? Get
back to the column, both of you.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Yes, sir, Yes, sir, I'm sorry, sir.
Speaker 6 (16:58):
Oh shut up. By late afternoon we reached the canyon
country with any luck we'd did Sudros well. By morning,
I thought you didn't like the wagon, Miss Dandridge do.
Speaker 9 (17:13):
You don't need to shout, mister Cohugh, My aunt's trying
to take a nap.
Speaker 6 (17:16):
Well, I've only got one thing to say to you.
Why don't you take your hooks out of Ross Panel.
He's got the makings of a good officer.
Speaker 9 (17:21):
You are not his guardian nor mine, mister coche.
Speaker 6 (17:23):
Well, I'm telling you just the same. Ross is a
spoiled rich kid. In the army's his only chance. So
if you can't take the army, leave him alone. Just
before dusk, we reached the rim of a valley, and
down below is a site that I likes, of which
I hadn't seen in years. Why why they're buffalo, sir?
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I admire your intelligence, mister cole Hill. First time the
herd's been this far south since the summer sixty eighth.
That right, Quinn Cannon corrects her.
Speaker 5 (17:55):
Looks just like the good old Jason Buffalo meat and whiskey,
fifty cents the gallanser.
Speaker 6 (18:00):
You ever see a buffalo, mister Pennell, No, sir, all
I doubt if the ladies have either. You may escort
them as far as those rocks of you might please them.
Thank you, sir, And what's your thinking, mister tyree, and
don't tell me it ain't in your department.
Speaker 5 (18:16):
Well, Kevin, if I was a young, hot blood like
red Shirt anxious to show off before them shining dog soldiers,
I'd be walking in front of one of them, council Forest,
and I'd tell them that I was the one that
made the medicine that brought back a buffalo. I'd tell
them how all us engines should stick together now, quit quarreling,
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and drive out the rest of them a Yankee soldier,
That's what I tell them, cap'n. So, of course I'm
just guessing you understanding.
Speaker 6 (18:44):
Yeah, Well, of course no, I'm just guessing too, Sergeant.
But if I was an Indian agent, maybe a licensed
suttler with the name of Rinders, if I'd met up
with a couple of men near a painted posts who
might be gun runners, I'm guessing I'd be mighty close
to the council fire of red Shirts, ready to do
a land office business and repeating rivals, How good is
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that man of yours?
Speaker 5 (19:06):
Tiree best in the troop, sir.
Speaker 6 (19:08):
Make for the Paradise River, pick up the rest of
the patrol there, then proceed at your best pace to
Sudro's Wells. Have them hold the stage for the ladies, yes,
and tell them that I have been delayed. If we
kept moving all night, we'd reach Sudro Wells by dawn.
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Just before daylight, we saw a strange glare in the horizon.
That's no sunrise, Captain, that's a fire. It's the settlement, Sir,
Sudro's Wells is over there. Shut up the lot of
you ladies to the rear. Quinn Cannon, Yes, sir, first
two sets of force forward you. We rode in Sudros
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Wells at top speed. All it was left was a
huddle of survivors and a pile of ices. We'd come to.
Speaker 14 (20:08):
Lake and just a moment, our stars will continue with
Act two of She Wore a Yellow Ribbon.
Speaker 15 (20:24):
This is Hudson River Radio dot Com.
Speaker 6 (20:27):
Now here's mister Keeley, our producer.
Speaker 5 (20:29):
Act two of She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, starring John
Wayne as Captain, Brittle's mel Ferrer as Lieutenant co Hill,
and Mala Powers as Olivia.
Speaker 6 (20:53):
Along the survivors at Sudros Wells were seven men from
the Paradise River Patrol under Corporal Quaane. Queen had been
badly wounded.
Speaker 7 (21:03):
A rapper hole. So they jumped us at sundown yesterday's Yeah.
Speaker 6 (21:07):
Well your report can wait, queen doctor over here.
Speaker 7 (21:12):
I better give it to you while I can ser
they had us ringed at night.
Speaker 16 (21:18):
We got away, We made it to the relief points.
So but you weren't there just Sogeant Tyree.
Speaker 6 (21:25):
A lot I wanted to be there, Corporal.
Speaker 16 (21:27):
We got here before midnight and then they closed in.
Speaker 6 (21:31):
Thank you a good clear report, Corporal, show up in
your record when you come up for that extra stripe
in two or three years. Thank you, sir. Who are they, Tyree?
Speaker 5 (21:43):
Giant dog parting about thirty rapper holes?
Speaker 6 (21:46):
William.
Speaker 5 (21:47):
They've banded up under reds here.
Speaker 6 (21:49):
M m, well that blows the lid, doesn't it. How
many dead here?
Speaker 5 (21:54):
Five sir, Ma and Paulseudro, one other woman, two men
children see it? No, Sir found him hiding in the smokehouse, Harry.
Speaker 6 (22:02):
I think it's about time I did retire, sir.
Speaker 5 (22:07):
One of the deadest troopers Smith Smith wasn't for him, Sir.
There's a lot more of us been gone Smith. I
served under him for more thy years willerness campaign.
Speaker 6 (22:19):
Oh yes, I know, mister Cahill. Where are the women,
they've rounded up the children. They are getting him quite
a downcer a sign of burial party, Mister Cole Hill.
Then I want this column moving again within an hour.
There is a storm coming up. Or who shall believe
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it in me shall never die. I commend to your keeping, sir,
the souls of John Sudro and his wife Martha, Albert
Bridges and his wife Annie, and also the soul of
Rome Clay, late Brigadier General Confederate Stone, known to his comrades.
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Here is Trooper John Smith, United States Cavalry, a gallant
soldier and a Christian gentleman. Amen, we buried the dead
and made ready for the journey back to Fort Start.
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Captain brids you will go to the rear, Miss Dandridge,
where you belong.
Speaker 15 (23:29):
Yes, Sir, I'll go.
Speaker 11 (23:31):
But I want you to know that I'm well aware
that all of this is because of me, because I
wanted to see the west, because I wasn't army enough
to stay the winter.
Speaker 6 (23:40):
You are not quite army yet, miss Or. You'd know.
Never to apologize. It's a sign of weakness. For what's happened.
Only the man who commands can be blamed. Press on
me mission failure. Yeah, we sure missed the stage, Miss Dandridge,
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that's the word.
Speaker 5 (24:06):
Queen's doing fine?
Speaker 9 (24:09):
What are they talking about, mister Cohill?
Speaker 6 (24:11):
Corporal Quain, the doc says he'll be all right.
Speaker 9 (24:13):
Oh, I'm so glad.
Speaker 6 (24:15):
Why he's just another dog based soldier in dirty shirt blue?
What's he mean to you? Did you ever dance with
him at the port? Did you ever speak to him? No,
of course you didn't. Queen's not a gentleman.
Speaker 11 (24:26):
I've been finding that some lieutenant's bars are no guarantee
of a gentleman either.
Speaker 6 (24:29):
You're glad about Quain, sure, but only because it puts
the happy end of the story you'll take back east
to your tea parties. Well, now you can tell him
you I've seen it all, a real Indian fight, a
man with an arrow sticking on his chest? Why do
you have? I should make your tour just about perfect,
if you don't mind, Miss Dandridge. Yes, missus aushard is
a rough time in that wagon helping with Quain and all?
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Would you spell her for a while?
Speaker 9 (24:52):
Certainly, Captain, thank you.
Speaker 6 (24:55):
Mister cole Hill. Did anyone ever take down your breeches?
And ten year? All right?
Speaker 8 (25:01):
No?
Speaker 6 (25:01):
Sir. That is yes, sir, my father sir with a strap. Well,
I'm just old enough to be your father, Bob. I'll
get out of here. Take a point.
Speaker 16 (25:13):
Ah.
Speaker 5 (25:13):
They'll make a fine boisterous couple, Captain donned with their barrels.
Speaker 6 (25:16):
When I want your opinion, Quinn Cannon now, sir.
Speaker 5 (25:19):
Yes, sir, any time or do all.
Speaker 6 (25:27):
Brain let up? That afternoon at dusk, I called a halt.
We'd stop a while and rest. We needed it, all
of us. I wouldn't go any further if I were you.
Speaker 9 (25:42):
Captain Briddle said we'd be here for two hours.
Speaker 6 (25:44):
I didn't hear him say anything about taking a walk.
There's probably a hundred hostiles out there. You think that's
a whipper? Will come on, Olivia, let's go back. I
can walk along, Thank you, Olivia. Please, The old man says,
don't ever apologize. It's a sign of weakness. But I'm
sorry for everything I've said and done. Oh honey, you
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know how I feel about.
Speaker 9 (26:06):
You, Flint Flint.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
If you'd only all right, Coal Hill, let's get her
over with.
Speaker 6 (26:11):
Pull your blouse, you crazy mister, pull rank on me.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
You've been green eyed ever since you put that yellow ribbon.
Speaker 6 (26:17):
On hudding up that shirt. Mister.
Speaker 10 (26:18):
You can sneer all your water, but you keep your
paws off my girl.
Speaker 6 (26:21):
All right, mister, I'll accommodate you just now, now button
your shirt. Mister Panell, I thought better of you, four
years out here and still acting like a wedder kdad
on Hudson. What is this all about, mister cole Hill, Sir,
I must decline to answer respectfully. Mister cole Hill. It
is a bitter thing, indeed, to learn that an officer
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who has had nine years experience in the cavalry, the
officer to whom I am surrendering command of this troop
in two more days, should have so little grasp of
leadership as to allow himself to be chivvied into a
go at fisticuff. Well, taps have barely sounded over a
brave man's grave. God help this troop when I'm gone, sir.
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It was my florid attention, mister.
Speaker 9 (27:08):
Panell, misunderstanding.
Speaker 6 (27:10):
You'll oblige Miss Dandridge by getting back to troop area. Yes, sir,
mister cole Hill, you will have the men build their
squad fires higher, make the fullest show of bedding down
here for the night. Then we're sneaking out heading for
the river. Is that clear, mister coy Hill, Yes, sir,
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I'm sorry, Ross, sorry Flint. As usual I had sent
Sergeant tire Read a scout up ahead, and as usual,
his eyesight hadn't failed him.
Speaker 5 (27:48):
A style, sir, hold up in a ravine about three
miles north of here. Only that ain't all well. They
got visitors. Our old friend Randers, right, smart aiden, going
on right now, Rip feet.
Speaker 6 (28:02):
And rifle, mister Rinders, eh oh, pass the word to
mister Panell. Three of us are going up to that ravine.
The darkness helped us. We got to within maybe one
hundred yards of the Indian encampment. They'd built a big
council fire. There was Rinders and his friends bargaining with
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Red Shirt over the rifles and the wagon.
Speaker 5 (28:31):
Well, what's the argument now, same thing Rinders.
Speaker 6 (28:33):
Richard keeps saying that fifty dollars a pieces too much,
too much.
Speaker 17 (28:38):
Tell that grandson of a horse tap that I know
he's got the money because he stole it from the
paymaster's coat. Tell him I know he killed him too,
That it's fifty dollars or no.
Speaker 6 (28:48):
Right, we saw red shirt raise his hand. In a
flash of knives, they dragged the white men still living
and threw them on the fire. Join me in a
cho of.
Speaker 5 (29:04):
Tobacco, sergeant. No, sir, I don't Joe, and I don't
play cards, Sean.
Speaker 6 (29:09):
Tobacco is a nasty have it and on to turn
a man's stomach. Mister Panell, I'll take a chaw if
you please, sir. Here now let's go. You're still figuring
on resigning, mister Panell, No, sir. When we got back
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to the column, I called a meeting of the officers
and sergeants, all present, sir. Any time between now and daylight, gentlemen,
we can expect an attack. That means the case the
main column is leaving here right now. We will leave
a rear guard under one officer.
Speaker 5 (29:50):
Sir.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
I'd considered a privilege.
Speaker 6 (29:51):
I thank you, mister Panell. Your offered a volunteer will
go on your record if you still wish to make
a record, mister Cahill, two squad gods will remain behind.
You will be in command. I have the first and second, sir.
The second squad has too many old married men. First
and fifth, sir, you will cover our crossing and dig in, yes, sir,
and pass the word and let's start movie. Jennifanel reporting, sir,
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the main column is safely across the river.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
All but you and miss Standards.
Speaker 6 (30:26):
Sir stand by, Miss Colehill. As you know, this is
the only crossing within twenty miles. So you've got to
buy me some time. You've got to buy me a
long day. Then we'll do it, sir. I know you will.
Flint Flint take you nine years to call me that, sir,
and it was well worth waiting for you. We'll get
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you out of here, son, Just hang on. We'll get
you out of this pocket by noon tomorrow. Aren't your horse?
Miss Dandridge?
Speaker 9 (30:55):
Flint Flint?
Speaker 6 (30:56):
Wait well, hal off and kisser blast Ye got all night?
Yes sir, thank you, sir. I'll be back man, I'll
be back, I promise you. Oh what are you waiting for?
Mister panell escort the lady across the river? If you'll
follow me.
Speaker 9 (31:13):
Ross, I'm sorry, Ross, and I guess that's how it is.
Speaker 5 (31:19):
You and Flint.
Speaker 6 (31:20):
Yeah, sure, good luck Flint.
Speaker 5 (31:31):
You are out needing the report? Can we to let him?
Speaker 2 (31:34):
Just?
Speaker 5 (31:34):
Thank heaven? So many of you got safely banking to pool.
Speaker 6 (31:37):
It is my duty to report major all shard mission
of failure.
Speaker 9 (31:41):
Oh fiddlesticks, it was our fault.
Speaker 5 (31:45):
You did everything.
Speaker 6 (31:46):
And I have never worn a coat of white boish yet, Abby,
and I won't start now. I failed at Sue Drose,
I failed to keep renders rifles from the tribes, and
I've failed at everything. I leave the army failure. Now
stop it.
Speaker 5 (32:02):
You're just running yourself down because blast.
Speaker 6 (32:04):
It, Mac, hasn't he told you? I left flint Cohill
with two squads back at the paradise and a sound
military moves. So with your permission, I'll start back. I'll
have Co Hill out of that pocket by noon tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (32:13):
No, Nathan troops can't leave till morning morning.
Speaker 6 (32:16):
They ought to pull out a hair before midnight.
Speaker 5 (32:18):
And I agree. If you were leading him with Banella
need all the daylight. He can find hell.
Speaker 6 (32:22):
That babe in the wood fording a river against a
swarm of hostiles with Winchester eath.
Speaker 5 (32:28):
And aren't you forgetting something? You retire from the Army tomorrow.
Speaker 6 (32:32):
Tomorrow is all I need. I can't leave Cohill facing
those devils.
Speaker 5 (32:35):
This no one day mission.
Speaker 6 (32:37):
This could go on for a week, all right, then
I'll volunteer as a civilian scout, interpret or anything.
Speaker 5 (32:42):
And I thought you were fond of cool Hill, fond
of him. Every time co Hill gave an autumn would
turn around and look at you, wondering if he was
doing the right thing. You want to ruin the boy? Oh,
I know, Banell's got to run his chances too. We
ran him, Nathan. That's whatpe we get paid for.
Speaker 6 (33:00):
Yeah, I guess you're right, Mac. I guess you're right. Well,
with your permission, then I'll quit the post tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (33:12):
Permission granted. Needon, where will you go, Captain go?
Speaker 6 (33:16):
I don't know, Miss West, I guess California, New Settlements,
old soldiers, Miss Dandridge. Someday you'll learn how they hate
to give up. Captain of a troop. One day and
every man's face turned towards you, lieutenants jump when I
growl and now tomorrow, I'll be glad if the blacksmith
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asked me to shoe a horse.
Speaker 5 (33:43):
Blast your eyes?
Speaker 15 (33:44):
Have you?
Speaker 5 (33:44):
If you start sniffling now and ask for you, young lady.
Speaker 9 (33:48):
I'm not crying. I I'd like to stand up and cheer.
Speaker 6 (34:00):
At dawn the next morning I reviewed the Troops my
last review. They had a present for me, watching chain
solid silver bruts in special Saint Louis.
Speaker 5 (34:15):
It's it's engraved on the backs Captain Briddles from Sea Troop.
Speaker 6 (34:21):
Lest we forget that's true, forget.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
We had hoped to hold a dance in your honor, sir,
But under the circus.
Speaker 6 (34:27):
Thank you, thank you, thank you all you will do
me one last flavor, mister Panell. Take your troop and
proceed on your mission. Yes, sir, Lord, good luck, Sea Troop,
good luck.
Speaker 5 (34:51):
Worry Nathan, they'll get Coolhill out of the end.
Speaker 6 (34:53):
But that's not enough. Visit Mac. Within a week, those
hostiles will be here on your doorsteps. Then what care
of him? Yeah, well, I'll say goodbye. Oh, I left
my other saddle in the cabin. Give it, Tabby. It'll
be easier on her disposition. Say goodbye to her for me. Mac.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
He'll do no such thing, Nathan Riddles. Goodbye is a
word we don't use in the cavalry. I'll come here, yes, ma'am,
until our next post.
Speaker 6 (35:26):
Dear, thank you. Hebby once sort of side of the post.
I swung east toward the Paradise River. I had a plan.
I had witnessed Rinder's murder, but I had seen more
than that among the Indians around that council fire. I'd
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seen an old man pony that Walks. I had known
him from years before. Yes, I had a plan.
Speaker 4 (36:07):
And now a brief intermission before our stars return with
Act three of She Wore a Yellow Ribbon.
Speaker 14 (36:13):
We pause now for station identification. This is CBS, the
Columbia Broadcasting.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
System, streaming live from stream Point.
Speaker 11 (36:23):
This is utsonover Radio dot Com, the local Rockland County station.
Speaker 5 (36:49):
The curtain rises on Act three of She Wore a
Yellow Ribbon, starring John Wayne as Captain, Brittles mel Ferrer
as Lieutenant co Hill, and Mala Powers as Olivia.
Speaker 6 (37:13):
I was backed with a troop by nightfall, Panel, to
my surprise, had affected the relief of coal Hill's men
without incident. So far, the Indians had failed to make
a move. There's a reason they've held Officer. We've scotted
them all day. They're concentrating forces. How many miss Coal
he goes to, one thousand, Sir Arappa hose Kiawa's comanches
and those Shyan dog soldiers. How much time have we got?
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What's your guess have no time at all, sir, because
we've got to hit them first. I'm glad the major censure, Captain.
The men will feel a lot better about it. Now
send me, mister cole Hill. I am not on duty. Then.
The orders haven't been changed. Orders are orders, sir, but
for the next four hours. According to my brand new
silver watch in chain, I am still an officer in
the United States, Gallery, Flint. If I gave you a
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written order, would you obey? I don't need a written order, sir. Nevertheless,
you're going to get it. It might come in handy
in our court martial, Sergeant Tyree. Yes, sir, I am
ordering you to volunteer again. Yes, you and me are
going to ride out of here, sergeant, just as soon
as I write mister cole Hill's orders. It's just a pencil, Flint,
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but I'm using all official phrases. Yes, sir, you will
remain here in your command and don't force any action
until I return. But if I don't, then read this
piece of paper for your orders. Put it in your pocket.
I understand, sir. And now, mister Tyree, if you will
find me a fresh horse, we will take a little
ride out towards those.
Speaker 5 (38:47):
Not that it's any of my business, sir, But may
I ask where we're going?
Speaker 6 (38:51):
That's the foolish question, Sergeant. You know as well as
I do.
Speaker 5 (38:55):
Yes, sir, to the Indian in camp. You aim in
the power wow with Red Shirt.
Speaker 6 (39:01):
Yet I'm not that crazy. No, there is a chief
who might listen to us. Pony that walks. Ever hear
of him, Yes, but he's a whole man. That makes
two of us who've seen enough of war.
Speaker 5 (39:14):
Yes, in case you don't know it, sir, that ain't
a bird.
Speaker 6 (39:20):
Walk your horse, Sergeant, hold up your right hand's peace signal.
Let's hope they'll see it.
Speaker 5 (39:26):
Just over that ridge, cam.
Speaker 6 (39:28):
Yeah, Ever been scared, mister tyree?
Speaker 5 (39:32):
Yes, up to and including right now.
Speaker 6 (39:42):
We reached the crest and rode past their guards. They
swarmed in on every side, warriors in full paint, crazy
for blood. We forced our way through to the council fire.
Their leaders have a dozen of them stood in front
of us. Then Red Shirt fired narrow at my feet.
We come in peace. This Red Shirt knows he answers
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with an arrow before we can talk. I take his
arrow from the ground. I break the arrow of Red
Shirt I spit on his arrow. I will speak with
pony that walks on.
Speaker 5 (40:17):
I am Christian, Hellelujah, old friend, me long time, long.
Speaker 6 (40:22):
Time, I have come in peace. Pony that walk take salt,
not on, take salt. Was plain that the old Indian
was tolerated in the council only because of his years.
Red Shirt was the leader of this army and nobody else.
Red Shirt very angry lily, She saba kill kill much blood.
Speaker 18 (40:42):
Not on, old friend, smoke pipe, meton, smoke good.
Speaker 6 (40:47):
I smoke your pipe. But my heart is sad at
what I see your young men painted for war. The medicine,
drums talking. It is a bad thing. Many men will die.
Speaker 2 (40:59):
My young men, you young.
Speaker 5 (41:01):
Men, no good.
Speaker 6 (41:02):
We must stop this war. Young men do not listen
to me.
Speaker 18 (41:05):
They listen to big medicine, yellow hair, Custer dead, buffalo
come back great sign.
Speaker 5 (41:12):
Too late, Not on.
Speaker 13 (41:13):
You come with me.
Speaker 2 (41:14):
We hunt buffalo together and smoke many pipes.
Speaker 6 (41:17):
We are too old for warm, Yes, we are too
old for war. But all men should stop warm.
Speaker 5 (41:22):
Too late, too late soon.
Speaker 6 (41:25):
Many squalls sing death songs.
Speaker 2 (41:27):
Many ludge is empty.
Speaker 6 (41:28):
You come with me, We hunt buffalo, get drunk together.
Speaker 5 (41:32):
Hallelujah.
Speaker 6 (41:33):
No friend, I must go, I go far away.
Speaker 2 (41:38):
You will go in peace, not on.
Speaker 6 (41:40):
I put man atour round neck.
Speaker 18 (41:43):
No harm washkeola, washcola, washkeola.
Speaker 6 (42:00):
You have fears there caring us loose camp. It's not enough, Sergeant.
I had hopes of coming to terms, sir, with them.
One more failure to add to my there's something wrong? No,
nothing wrong. Just glance at your left there, kind of
casual like, sergeant.
Speaker 5 (42:18):
Yes, sir, Oh the ponies hunter.
Speaker 6 (42:22):
Hundreds of ponies in a gully. Well, they can't wander off.
But if something was to stampede those ponies, sam pete, Yes, sir.
Back to camp, mister Tyree on the double, Lieutenant co
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Hill reporting, sir. Troops ready to move her. They know
their assignments, Yes, sir, the column in single file leading months.
We are to follow you, surproceeding with the utmost quiet.
There's a creek at the near end of that gully.
We'll stop there and form ranks. Meantime, sir. Meantime, mister
Cole'll just pray that the moon stays behind those.
Speaker 12 (43:07):
True Paul, pass the word halt and pass the word
mister Cole Hill, can you read the time by my
brand new silver watch and chain.
Speaker 6 (43:19):
Uh yes, sir, twelve minutes to midnight, sir, Like all
lies straight ahead of us on signal, we'll gallop through
that draw on the stanbed. They heard out the other
end into their encampment. Questions, mister cole Hill, No question, sir, mountain,
pass the word mountain.
Speaker 5 (43:37):
Pass the word mountain.
Speaker 6 (43:41):
You blurt a count of three and sound the charge.
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Sound reycall, sound, recall any wounded, mister Cahill. No casualty, sir,
No casualties, no Indian war, no court martial. You will
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have a time rounding up those hostiles, mister Cohill, but
they will not get very far on foot. They come
back to the poster. No back to the reservation. Have
your soldiers follow them all away, stay about a mile
behind them. Walking hurts their pride, and you're watching all
heard worse. Yes, sir, can you read what time it
is by my brand new silver watch in Chaine? Two
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minutes past midnight, sir, h I've been a civilian for
two minutes. It's hard to believe it's your army, mister
cole hilp good luck.
Speaker 5 (45:38):
Captain Bridgles just just said goodbye. And rode away said it,
mister cool Hill. Yes, Major, we got the hostiles on
the trail, sir. Then I left Lieutenant Banal in charge
and returned here to report, sir, so Nathan's finished with
the army. Well, the army isn't finished with him. Who's
your best riding, mister cool Hill? By Sergeant Tyraser and
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tell Sergeant Tyree want to see him right away, ole Hirie,
been half a week running you down.
Speaker 6 (46:12):
If you think you're going to California.
Speaker 5 (46:15):
Mister Tyree, you're just bringing a message for you, sir,
h huh from a Yankee war department by way of
Major Old Chine.
Speaker 6 (46:22):
Know it, Dad blasted iron, know it?
Speaker 9 (46:25):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (46:25):
Where's my spectacles? Every time a man? Tyree? Look look
what it says. It's my appointment chief of Scouts with
a rank of loutenant colonel. And will you look at
those endorsements? Bill Sheridan william To comes to Sherman and
you Lissa Simpson Grant President of the United States of America.
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There's three aces for.
Speaker 5 (46:51):
You, boy, Yes, sir, I kind of wish you'd been
holding a full hand.
Speaker 6 (46:55):
Full hand. What do you mean full hand?
Speaker 5 (46:57):
Robert E.
Speaker 6 (46:58):
Lee oh, well, it wouldn't have been bad.
Speaker 13 (47:01):
Let's get back boy.
Speaker 5 (47:13):
Here he has major, Sir, he's covered up the steps.
Now open the door, Quinn Cannon. Yes, sir, ladies and gentlemen.
Lieutenant Colonel Brittles.
Speaker 6 (47:24):
What's going on here? Anyway?
Speaker 5 (47:26):
Goes to dance and your honor sir to welcome you back,
and the man add you kept us waiting for some time.
Speaker 6 (47:31):
But well, I'm sorry, I'm late, Mac, but I didn't
even know.
Speaker 9 (47:34):
Apologize, colonel. It's a mark of weakness.
Speaker 5 (47:37):
Bandmaster for seed.
Speaker 1 (47:45):
Old iron Pants has a request to make your arm.
Speaker 6 (47:49):
Nathan, Thank you, Abby, and Sir Sir asked mister Carhill,
be surprised to know that Miss dandild and I are
gonna be Why son, I know it all the time.
Everybody in the most know it above the rank of
a second lieutenant, right, mister Panell.
Speaker 2 (48:04):
There come a time, sir when I'll be a first lieutenant.
Speaker 7 (48:07):
Yeah, well years when you stay for the dance.
Speaker 6 (48:11):
Colonel, Well, if you will excuse me, Miss Danige, I
I've got to make.
Speaker 9 (48:16):
My report first colonel wait here, please take these with you.
Speaker 6 (48:21):
Oh I am obliged, ma'am. Well, thank you, ladies, and gentlemen,
thank you report and your flowers. You gave him your flowers.
Speaker 9 (48:36):
I think they'll make someone else even happier.
Speaker 15 (48:38):
Donald his girl.
Speaker 4 (48:53):
So ends the story of Captain Brittle's and the troops
he laid. The dog faced soldiers, the fifty cents a
day professional writing the outpost of a nation. From Fort
Reno to Fort Apache, from Sheridan to Stockton, men in
dirty shirt blue, and only a cold page in the
history books to mark their passing. But wherever they rode
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and whatever they fought for, that place became the United States.
Speaker 15 (49:36):
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Speaker 3 (00:16):
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Mala Powers in She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, Ladies and Gentlemen,
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Speaker 4 (00:30):
Keeley tweetings from Hollywood. Ladies and Gentlemen. The history of
the United States Cavalry is one of daring, accomplishment and romance,
and in our play Tonight, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon,
we present a colorful drama from its glorious past. As
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She Wore a Yellow Ribbon.
Speaker 5 (01:29):
We know the ladies have been always been color conscious,
whether it was yellow ribbons in their hair, or gay
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Speaker 4 (01:47):
Adapted from the famous story by James Warner Bella, starring
John Wayne as Captain Brittle's, Melfarrer as Lieutenant co Hill,
and Mala Powers as Olivia Dandridge.
Speaker 6 (02:14):
It is eighteen seventy six. Custer is dead. Custer and
over two hundred men of the seventh Cavalry. It's more
than just a victory for the Indians. It is a
signal to unite Kiowa, Comanche, Arappa, Host, Sioux, and Apache
united in common war against the United States Cavalry. Our
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post is far to the south of the Little Big Horn,
Fort Stark, isolated, kind of lonely for some, I guess. Anyway,
this day started, like a thousand others before it, with
Sergeant Quinn Cannon standing in the doorway of my cabin.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
Good morning, sir By forty two, sir By forty one,
and lovely morning. It is Captain Dollon courtled in blazes
nose as follow sir. Missus Jamison had her baby. The
stage coach run from here to sud Rose Wells has
been discontinued, and there's a dispatch rider in from the
desert patrol well. Private Mackenzie got himself shot.
Speaker 6 (03:18):
Sir, boy or a girl from Missus Jamison.
Speaker 7 (03:22):
Her little super Sir?
Speaker 6 (03:24):
When does the stage stop running?
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Finish?
Speaker 6 (03:26):
Sir? No more stage coach, Sir Mackenzie. Is he bad off? No, sir,
good Man Quinn Cannon, you'll make corporal in five or
six years, yes, sir, Well scratch another day off that calendar.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
Just six more days, Captain Dolan, six more days and
you're retired.
Speaker 6 (03:45):
So I am well aware of that, Gwinn Cannon.
Speaker 7 (03:48):
The Army will never be the same without you, sir.
Speaker 6 (03:50):
The army is always the same. The sun and the
moon change, but the army has no seasons.
Speaker 5 (03:55):
But here you are in your prime, sir, and they're
turning out to pasture. That's a wilful of abuse of
the taxpayer's money, sir.
Speaker 6 (04:01):
The only text you ever worried about was on whiskey.
I beg your pardon, sir. I guess you have a
reason for busting in, mister Colehill, Sir, Sergeant Tyree's just
entered the post. He's got half the paradise of a
patrol with him, Sir, and the paymaster's coach. Keep talking, mister.
All the Paymaster's dead, Sir, gunshot wounds dead when Tyree
found himwhere near red beauty, said sir? The money box
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is gone? Gunshot boom, Yes, sir, though the coach is
stuck full of arrows too. We'll tell Sergeant Tyreed to
report at once to Major Allshard's quarters take over morning inspection, Lieutenant, Yes, sir,
and tell Tyree to bring one of those arrows with him.
Speaker 5 (04:39):
Let me look at that arrow again. M sure it's
not Kyle Kaptain.
Speaker 6 (04:44):
No, and it's not Command Sheen or a Rappah either. Major.
Not with those color.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
Bands with your permission, all right, Tyree put in your
two cents worth well, sir, These airs were a yellow,
white and red bands are the signs of the Southern shine.
Speaker 6 (04:59):
And I've seen annos and snakes with the same color.
Speaker 5 (05:01):
Yes, sir, But looking at the clan mark is mark
right here, it's the sign of the dog.
Speaker 6 (05:07):
Then tell me what in blazes would cheyenne be doing
this far south?
Speaker 5 (05:10):
That ain't my departmentship? Alert the pools, yes, and get
some risks, thank you, sir, Well Ethan, any ideas.
Speaker 6 (05:18):
I'll go out in the morning, pick up the patrols
and drive those cheyenne back where they belong, and.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
Let me think on it, Ethan. And it's your new leader,
they war on.
Speaker 6 (05:32):
Now, life within a post isn't all spitting polish. Take
Lieutenant Panel, for instance, and the major's niece. Panel's got
a buck board and it's a fine day for a drive,
only he's having a little trouble at the gates. You
heard me, mister Panell. The post is on alert. Nobody's
leaving the ground.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Oh no, wait a minute, Cole.
Speaker 6 (05:52):
Hill, you heard me. Sorry to spoil your riding, Miss Dandridge.
Speaker 8 (05:55):
Sorry indeed, because I wouldn't trust you to take me
on a picnic last Sunday.
Speaker 5 (05:59):
Now you're hazing Panell.
Speaker 9 (06:00):
You just drive right on through Ross.
Speaker 8 (06:02):
If you don't, I will.
Speaker 6 (06:04):
You touch those reins and I'll slap you in the guardhouse.
You wouldn't dare someone placing you under arrest, Miss Dandridge.
Speaker 8 (06:10):
It's Lieutenant co Hill, Captain, he suddenly decided that he
can order me around.
Speaker 6 (06:14):
Sir, I was merely following. I believe you interrupted the lady,
mister cole Hill. He certainly did.
Speaker 8 (06:19):
Now, I don't want to make a scene, Captain, but
first Lieutenant cole Hill is made up his mind that
second Lieutenant Panel hasn't rank enough to be seen in
my company, Sir.
Speaker 6 (06:28):
If I you're interrupting, yes, sir, any further complaint, Miss Dandridge.
Speaker 9 (06:33):
Complaint. Oh, I'm not complaining, Captain.
Speaker 6 (06:36):
Ah ha, mister Cohill, wipe that grin off your face
and state your case. Sir. I've denied mister Panell permission
to leave the post. And for what purpose did you
wish to leave the post, mister Panell? Picnickings are picnicking,
Miss Dandridge? Where in Saint Louis.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
No, sir, just up with a waterfall, sir.
Speaker 6 (06:54):
But I'm sorry to apologize, mister. It is a sign
of weakness, mister cole Hill. I see no reason why
mister Panell should not go picnicking. Very good, sir, Thank you, Captain.
But miss Dandridge, mister Cohill was quite right in denying
you permission to leave under the present emergency. If you
will be so kind as to get out of the buckboard.
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Oh but really, your arm man. Thank you, mister Panell.
You may proceed with your picnic this way, Miss Dandridge,
ask Lieutenant Panell here, sir, where'd you say you were
holding your picnic?
Speaker 2 (07:27):
I'll tell you where.
Speaker 10 (07:28):
A Telemonico's in New York about two months from now,
with olivery, you see. And I won't be wearing any
blue suit either, Bob get it.
Speaker 6 (07:39):
The major sent for me early that evening. He had
made up his mind.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
I guess there's no other course to take. Nathan, find
those shy hands and push them back. Oh well, by
the way, he's the last report on Custom's outfit. Two
hundred and twelve men, Nathan head Corners expects are hurt
and blet. He went him sitting bull preaching off Holy war.
I want you to take every precaution.
Speaker 6 (08:03):
These names, George Armstrong, Custer, Tom Custer, Boston Custer, Calhoun.
Speaker 5 (08:12):
Cook, Yes, I expect you new motion.
Speaker 6 (08:15):
I expect I did Harrington Keyo, Miles Keya, Yes, Mac
a hard and bloody winter.
Speaker 5 (08:24):
Oh, Nathan, those flowers over there, Abby picked him, she thought,
maybe for Mary's green.
Speaker 6 (08:30):
Oh, I was figuring to stop by there now.
Speaker 5 (08:33):
And yes, I know, never miss a knee, do you.
Speaker 6 (08:36):
Oh, thank her for me, William Mac. They're real pretty flowers.
Nine years Mac, nine years last month, the flowers here
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Abby here from Mary. She raised them. Well, only six
more days to go, and your old Nathan will be
out of the army. Haven't decided what I'll do yet.
Somehow I just can't picture myself back there on the
banks of the Lobbys, rocking on the front porch. Oh.
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I've been thinking that maybe i'd push on west to
the new settlements in California. Anyway, I'm taking the troops
out in the morning. Some shy hands around, so I
pick up the patrols and drive them back north. My
last mission, Mary, hard to believe in it, my last
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I hope. I'm not a truly well I know, Ma'm
not at all.
Speaker 11 (09:43):
I was just I know I've watched you come out
here so many times. I'm sorry I made such a
fool of myself this morning.
Speaker 6 (09:51):
You made a fool out of a couple of young lieutenants.
That's never against army regulations.
Speaker 9 (09:56):
That I'm forgiven.
Speaker 6 (09:57):
You're forgiven.
Speaker 9 (09:59):
Thank you, Captain, good night.
Speaker 6 (10:01):
Good night, Miss Danvidge. She's a nice girl, Mary. She
reminds me of you. At dawn, the troop was mounted
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and ready to leave until Sergeant Quinn Cannon came up
driving a wagon. Just what do you think you're up to,
Quinn Cannon? Get out of that wagon?
Speaker 5 (10:35):
Begging your pardon, Captain Dodd, And it's orders orders, Yes, sir, Yes, sir,
I'd best be seeing about them.
Speaker 7 (10:41):
Site saddles, jesu, sight saddles?
Speaker 6 (10:43):
Are you trying to tell me? I'll be at Major
al Shard's quarters? All right, all right, hold on, hold on,
I know what blazes does this means? Side saddles A
covered wagon filled with women's junk. I can't hamper this
patrol with a wagon, particularly this patrol.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
And I'm sending my wife a niche with you there.
Go as far as Shodro's Wells and take the stage
east from there. This is an order that I want
to protest. That order I expected you would. This penant
paper shall put it in writing.
Speaker 6 (11:11):
I intend to.
Speaker 5 (11:13):
I set up half the night with this, Nathan. I
can't keep Olivia here. She ain't army, I'll say she ain't.
For the following, Rason wants some coffee.
Speaker 6 (11:22):
No, yes, one, there is a party of Cheyenne writing
this territory. I have a feeling that every woman will
how many ours are there in territory too?
Speaker 5 (11:31):
Oh yeah, use your coffee, poor Abby, she says, everyone
who thinks she's running away? And what about me? I'll
be a bachelor.
Speaker 6 (11:41):
And in conclusion, I respectfully protest the decision of my
commanding officer to saddle this troop with his female relations
one l in relation at this critical hour sign Nathan
briddles and so forth. It sounds very good, Nathan, I'll
be glad to file it.
Speaker 5 (11:59):
Leave me. I hate to hamstring you this way, but
you will take your riprecaution.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Of course, he will, dare.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
And how did marching through Georgia take the idea of
old iron Pants riding with him?
Speaker 5 (12:12):
Under protest?
Speaker 6 (12:13):
Damby written protest Abby? Of course, it's always my pleasure
to escord old iron Pants. Well, as long as you're
going along with us, Abby, that is the dad blamed
ust out fit. I ever did see Quinn Cannon's old
bretches a little.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Baggy, I suppose, Nathan, But they'll do for the trail.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
Where's Olivia? She ready?
Speaker 1 (12:33):
You'd been ready for an hour. She's probably outside with
one of your lieutenants.
Speaker 6 (12:37):
Well, kiss the old man of yours and say goodbye.
Time we get out of here.
Speaker 8 (12:44):
And I hope you approve of my uniform, mister cole Hills.
Speaker 6 (12:47):
It's very becoming, ma'am. And I notice you're wearing a
yellow ribbon well for panel? Huh?
Speaker 9 (12:53):
How do you know it isn't for you?
Speaker 12 (12:54):
Mister?
Speaker 6 (12:54):
I'd be very happy if it were for me, very happy. Indeed,
morning two, Pid Dandridge reporting, sir, well, and a proper
trooper too, and rite pretty, don't you think, mister cale Hill,
I do indeed, Sir an a yellow ribbon? Miss Dandridge?
Do you know what that means in the cavalry? A sweetheart,
it does. Who's it for?
Speaker 9 (13:13):
Why for you, captain?
Speaker 5 (13:14):
Of course for me?
Speaker 6 (13:15):
Huh. I'll make these young bucks jealous.
Speaker 10 (13:19):
Yet I wrote your mount Olivia, I help you, thank you.
I hope you're wearing that yellow ribbon for me, ma'am.
Speaker 9 (13:26):
Why who else would it be for?
Speaker 6 (13:29):
Hurry up, at Abby, they'll be leading without us. So
we left the post, just another routine mission. Oaks waving
goodbye kids, yelling, dog's barking. Only one thing in particular
caught my eye. As we rode past the store, I
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saw mister Rinders, the suttler, in the back of the stable.
He was hitching up his buckboard some hours on the.
Speaker 5 (14:00):
Trail, talking tyree, reporting, sir heat he's tyree, Well, like.
Speaker 6 (14:10):
You told me, sir, I took cover till riders left post.
Have been trailing him ever sin, he went southeast, kem
about a mile below the painted pole. There's two men
waiting for him in a wagon. You recognize him, no, sir.
Speaker 5 (14:24):
And it didn't seem prudent to him.
Speaker 6 (14:25):
Quire now, what do you suppose they were doing that
far south? And why did mister Rinders leave the post
in the first place. He's a store keeper, sir, that's right,
licensed to sell merchandise to folks all over this territory.
Only the post was on alert, mister Tyree. So I
ask you again, what do you suppose mister Rinders and
two strangers were doing that far south?
Speaker 5 (14:47):
Well, sir, I reckon, that ain't my department, sir.
Speaker 6 (14:51):
Take a point, Tyree. We'll probably pick him up on the.
Speaker 13 (14:54):
Next go round.
Speaker 6 (15:01):
Romantic isn't miss dandridge guide ons gaily fluttering bronze men,
lustily singing, horses prancing and bunions aching.
Speaker 9 (15:09):
Must you always be so vulgar, mister cole Hill, The.
Speaker 6 (15:11):
Cavalry doesn't go in for refinements, Miss Dandridge Cavalry.
Speaker 8 (15:14):
This ridiculous business of dismounting and walking every hour or so.
Speaker 5 (15:17):
You might as well be in the infantry.
Speaker 6 (15:19):
We soon would be if we didn't need these mounts.
Why don't you ride in the wagon with missus allshap no.
Speaker 8 (15:23):
Thank you, And if you don't moan mine, I'd like
permission to ride back along the line right, if you
must know, I'd rather share the dust back there with
mister Penell.
Speaker 6 (15:32):
Haven't you already thrown enough dust in Panell's eyes? Why
don't you give him a chance, mister cole Hill, Yes, sir, really,
mister Panell with a rare guard, Yes, sir, everything under
control here.
Speaker 8 (15:44):
Miss thank you, captain, Everything's just fine.
Speaker 6 (15:53):
An hour later, Tyree found something he wanted me to see.
I told Coal Hill, Panel and the bugler to tag along.
Far off against the hills, a long, low cloud of
dust was rising gravel in the same direction we are
ser towards Sudro's whale. Can you make them out, Sergeant
looks lack rappoles field glasses, mister Panel, Yes, sir.
Speaker 5 (16:14):
Then moving the whole village, wagons, lodgings and loans.
Speaker 6 (16:18):
Yeah, Tiree. I don't know where you got your brains,
but God must have given you that pair of eyes.
There are rapper hose all right heading the same way
we are. Now, why would they be moving on Sudro's wells.
Speaker 5 (16:30):
My mother didn't raise no sons to be making guesses
in front of a Yankee. Captain s mmmm, well, I'd
soon find out if there's no use even thinking about it.
We can't risk it with these women a rapper hose, yes,
mister cole Hill.
Speaker 6 (16:45):
And I don't like it, so we'll turn east. Gentlemen,
give him a wide birth, but we'll lose half a
day that way, sir. Ladies may miss the stage, so
would you rather that they missed their scalp? Sir? Get
back to the column, both of you.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Yes, sir, Yes, sir, I'm sorry, sir.
Speaker 6 (16:58):
Oh shut up. By late afternoon we reached the canyon
country with any luck we'd did Sudros well. By morning,
I thought you didn't like the wagon, Miss Dandridge do.
Speaker 9 (17:13):
You don't need to shout, mister Cohugh, My aunt's trying
to take a nap.
Speaker 6 (17:16):
Well, I've only got one thing to say to you.
Why don't you take your hooks out of Ross Panel.
He's got the makings of a good officer.
Speaker 9 (17:21):
You are not his guardian nor mine, mister coche.
Speaker 6 (17:23):
Well, I'm telling you just the same. Ross is a
spoiled rich kid. In the army's his only chance. So
if you can't take the army, leave him alone. Just
before dusk, we reached the rim of a valley, and
down below is a site that I likes, of which
I hadn't seen in years. Why why they're buffalo, sir?
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I admire your intelligence, mister cole Hill. First time the
herd's been this far south since the summer sixty eighth.
That right, Quinn Cannon corrects her.
Speaker 5 (17:55):
Looks just like the good old Jason Buffalo meat and whiskey,
fifty cents the gallanser.
Speaker 6 (18:00):
You ever see a buffalo, mister Pennell, No, sir, all
I doubt if the ladies have either. You may escort
them as far as those rocks of you might please them.
Thank you, sir, And what's your thinking, mister tyree, and
don't tell me it ain't in your department.
Speaker 5 (18:16):
Well, Kevin, if I was a young, hot blood like
red Shirt anxious to show off before them shining dog soldiers,
I'd be walking in front of one of them, council Forest,
and I'd tell them that I was the one that
made the medicine that brought back a buffalo. I'd tell
them how all us engines should stick together now, quit quarreling,
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and drive out the rest of them a Yankee soldier,
That's what I tell them, cap'n. So, of course I'm
just guessing you understanding.
Speaker 6 (18:44):
Yeah, Well, of course no, I'm just guessing too, Sergeant.
But if I was an Indian agent, maybe a licensed
suttler with the name of Rinders, if I'd met up
with a couple of men near a painted posts who
might be gun runners, I'm guessing I'd be mighty close
to the council fire of red Shirts, ready to do
a land office business and repeating rivals, How good is
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that man of yours?
Speaker 5 (19:06):
Tiree best in the troop, sir.
Speaker 6 (19:08):
Make for the Paradise River, pick up the rest of
the patrol there, then proceed at your best pace to
Sudro's Wells. Have them hold the stage for the ladies, yes,
and tell them that I have been delayed. If we
kept moving all night, we'd reach Sudro Wells by dawn.
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Just before daylight, we saw a strange glare in the horizon.
That's no sunrise, Captain, that's a fire. It's the settlement, Sir,
Sudro's Wells is over there. Shut up the lot of
you ladies to the rear. Quinn Cannon, Yes, sir, first
two sets of force forward you. We rode in Sudros
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Wells at top speed. All it was left was a
huddle of survivors and a pile of ices. We'd come to.
Speaker 14 (20:08):
Lake and just a moment, our stars will continue with
Act two of She Wore a Yellow Ribbon.
Speaker 15 (20:24):
This is Hudson River Radio dot Com.
Speaker 6 (20:27):
Now here's mister Keeley, our producer.
Speaker 5 (20:29):
Act two of She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, starring John
Wayne as Captain, Brittle's mel Ferrer as Lieutenant co Hill,
and Mala Powers as Olivia.
Speaker 6 (20:53):
Along the survivors at Sudros Wells were seven men from
the Paradise River Patrol under Corporal Quaane. Queen had been
badly wounded.
Speaker 7 (21:03):
A rapper hole. So they jumped us at sundown yesterday's Yeah.
Speaker 6 (21:07):
Well your report can wait, queen doctor over here.
Speaker 7 (21:12):
I better give it to you while I can ser
they had us ringed at night.
Speaker 16 (21:18):
We got away, We made it to the relief points.
So but you weren't there just Sogeant Tyree.
Speaker 6 (21:25):
A lot I wanted to be there, Corporal.
Speaker 16 (21:27):
We got here before midnight and then they closed in.
Speaker 6 (21:31):
Thank you a good clear report, Corporal, show up in
your record when you come up for that extra stripe
in two or three years. Thank you, sir. Who are they, Tyree?
Speaker 5 (21:43):
Giant dog parting about thirty rapper holes?
Speaker 6 (21:46):
William.
Speaker 5 (21:47):
They've banded up under reds here.
Speaker 6 (21:49):
M m, well that blows the lid, doesn't it. How
many dead here?
Speaker 5 (21:54):
Five sir, Ma and Paulseudro, one other woman, two men
children see it? No, Sir found him hiding in the smokehouse, Harry.
Speaker 6 (22:02):
I think it's about time I did retire, sir.
Speaker 5 (22:07):
One of the deadest troopers Smith Smith wasn't for him, Sir.
There's a lot more of us been gone Smith. I
served under him for more thy years willerness campaign.
Speaker 6 (22:19):
Oh yes, I know, mister Cahill. Where are the women,
they've rounded up the children. They are getting him quite
a downcer a sign of burial party, Mister Cole Hill.
Then I want this column moving again within an hour.
There is a storm coming up. Or who shall believe
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it in me shall never die. I commend to your keeping, sir,
the souls of John Sudro and his wife Martha, Albert
Bridges and his wife Annie, and also the soul of
Rome Clay, late Brigadier General Confederate Stone, known to his comrades.
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Here is Trooper John Smith, United States Cavalry, a gallant
soldier and a Christian gentleman. Amen, we buried the dead
and made ready for the journey back to Fort Start.
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Captain brids you will go to the rear, Miss Dandridge,
where you belong.
Speaker 15 (23:29):
Yes, Sir, I'll go.
Speaker 11 (23:31):
But I want you to know that I'm well aware
that all of this is because of me, because I
wanted to see the west, because I wasn't army enough
to stay the winter.
Speaker 6 (23:40):
You are not quite army yet, miss Or. You'd know.
Never to apologize. It's a sign of weakness. For what's happened.
Only the man who commands can be blamed. Press on
me mission failure. Yeah, we sure missed the stage, Miss Dandridge,
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that's the word.
Speaker 5 (24:06):
Queen's doing fine?
Speaker 9 (24:09):
What are they talking about, mister Cohill?
Speaker 6 (24:11):
Corporal Quain, the doc says he'll be all right.
Speaker 9 (24:13):
Oh, I'm so glad.
Speaker 6 (24:15):
Why he's just another dog based soldier in dirty shirt blue?
What's he mean to you? Did you ever dance with
him at the port? Did you ever speak to him? No,
of course you didn't. Queen's not a gentleman.
Speaker 11 (24:26):
I've been finding that some lieutenant's bars are no guarantee
of a gentleman either.
Speaker 6 (24:29):
You're glad about Quain, sure, but only because it puts
the happy end of the story you'll take back east
to your tea parties. Well, now you can tell him
you I've seen it all, a real Indian fight, a
man with an arrow sticking on his chest? Why do
you have? I should make your tour just about perfect,
if you don't mind, Miss Dandridge. Yes, missus aushard is
a rough time in that wagon helping with Quain and all?
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Would you spell her for a while?
Speaker 9 (24:52):
Certainly, Captain, thank you.
Speaker 6 (24:55):
Mister cole Hill. Did anyone ever take down your breeches?
And ten year? All right?
Speaker 8 (25:01):
No?
Speaker 6 (25:01):
Sir. That is yes, sir, my father sir with a strap. Well,
I'm just old enough to be your father, Bob. I'll
get out of here. Take a point.
Speaker 16 (25:13):
Ah.
Speaker 5 (25:13):
They'll make a fine boisterous couple, Captain donned with their barrels.
Speaker 6 (25:16):
When I want your opinion, Quinn Cannon now, sir.
Speaker 5 (25:19):
Yes, sir, any time or do all.
Speaker 6 (25:27):
Brain let up? That afternoon at dusk, I called a halt.
We'd stop a while and rest. We needed it, all
of us. I wouldn't go any further if I were you.
Speaker 9 (25:42):
Captain Briddle said we'd be here for two hours.
Speaker 6 (25:44):
I didn't hear him say anything about taking a walk.
There's probably a hundred hostiles out there. You think that's
a whipper? Will come on, Olivia, let's go back. I
can walk along, Thank you, Olivia. Please, The old man says,
don't ever apologize. It's a sign of weakness. But I'm
sorry for everything I've said and done. Oh honey, you
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know how I feel about.
Speaker 9 (26:06):
You, Flint Flint.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
If you'd only all right, Coal Hill, let's get her
over with.
Speaker 6 (26:11):
Pull your blouse, you crazy mister, pull rank on me.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
You've been green eyed ever since you put that yellow ribbon.
Speaker 6 (26:17):
On hudding up that shirt. Mister.
Speaker 10 (26:18):
You can sneer all your water, but you keep your
paws off my girl.
Speaker 6 (26:21):
All right, mister, I'll accommodate you just now, now button
your shirt. Mister Panell, I thought better of you, four
years out here and still acting like a wedder kdad
on Hudson. What is this all about, mister cole Hill, Sir,
I must decline to answer respectfully. Mister cole Hill. It
is a bitter thing, indeed, to learn that an officer
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who has had nine years experience in the cavalry, the
officer to whom I am surrendering command of this troop
in two more days, should have so little grasp of
leadership as to allow himself to be chivvied into a
go at fisticuff. Well, taps have barely sounded over a
brave man's grave. God help this troop when I'm gone, sir.
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It was my florid attention, mister.
Speaker 9 (27:08):
Panell, misunderstanding.
Speaker 6 (27:10):
You'll oblige Miss Dandridge by getting back to troop area. Yes, sir,
mister cole Hill, you will have the men build their
squad fires higher, make the fullest show of bedding down
here for the night. Then we're sneaking out heading for
the river. Is that clear, mister coy Hill, Yes, sir,
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I'm sorry, Ross, sorry Flint. As usual I had sent
Sergeant tire Read a scout up ahead, and as usual,
his eyesight hadn't failed him.
Speaker 5 (27:48):
A style, sir, hold up in a ravine about three
miles north of here. Only that ain't all well. They
got visitors. Our old friend Randers, right, smart aiden, going
on right now, Rip feet.
Speaker 6 (28:02):
And rifle, mister Rinders, eh oh, pass the word to
mister Panell. Three of us are going up to that ravine.
The darkness helped us. We got to within maybe one
hundred yards of the Indian encampment. They'd built a big
council fire. There was Rinders and his friends bargaining with
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Red Shirt over the rifles and the wagon.
Speaker 5 (28:31):
Well, what's the argument now, same thing Rinders.
Speaker 6 (28:33):
Richard keeps saying that fifty dollars a pieces too much,
too much.
Speaker 17 (28:38):
Tell that grandson of a horse tap that I know
he's got the money because he stole it from the
paymaster's coat. Tell him I know he killed him too,
That it's fifty dollars or no.
Speaker 6 (28:48):
Right, we saw red shirt raise his hand. In a
flash of knives, they dragged the white men still living
and threw them on the fire. Join me in a
cho of.
Speaker 5 (29:04):
Tobacco, sergeant. No, sir, I don't Joe, and I don't
play cards, Sean.
Speaker 6 (29:09):
Tobacco is a nasty have it and on to turn
a man's stomach. Mister Panell, I'll take a chaw if
you please, sir. Here now let's go. You're still figuring
on resigning, mister Panell, No, sir. When we got back
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to the column, I called a meeting of the officers
and sergeants, all present, sir. Any time between now and daylight, gentlemen,
we can expect an attack. That means the case the
main column is leaving here right now. We will leave
a rear guard under one officer.
Speaker 5 (29:50):
Sir.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
I'd considered a privilege.
Speaker 6 (29:51):
I thank you, mister Panell. Your offered a volunteer will
go on your record if you still wish to make
a record, mister Cahill, two squad gods will remain behind.
You will be in command. I have the first and second, sir.
The second squad has too many old married men. First
and fifth, sir, you will cover our crossing and dig in, yes, sir,
and pass the word and let's start movie. Jennifanel reporting, sir,
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the main column is safely across the river.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
All but you and miss Standards.
Speaker 6 (30:26):
Sir stand by, Miss Colehill. As you know, this is
the only crossing within twenty miles. So you've got to
buy me some time. You've got to buy me a
long day. Then we'll do it, sir. I know you will.
Flint Flint take you nine years to call me that, sir,
and it was well worth waiting for you. We'll get
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you out of here, son, Just hang on. We'll get
you out of this pocket by noon tomorrow. Aren't your horse?
Miss Dandridge?
Speaker 9 (30:55):
Flint Flint?
Speaker 6 (30:56):
Wait well, hal off and kisser blast Ye got all night?
Yes sir, thank you, sir. I'll be back man, I'll
be back, I promise you. Oh what are you waiting for?
Mister panell escort the lady across the river? If you'll
follow me.
Speaker 9 (31:13):
Ross, I'm sorry, Ross, and I guess that's how it is.
Speaker 5 (31:19):
You and Flint.
Speaker 6 (31:20):
Yeah, sure, good luck Flint.
Speaker 5 (31:31):
You are out needing the report? Can we to let him?
Speaker 2 (31:34):
Just?
Speaker 5 (31:34):
Thank heaven? So many of you got safely banking to pool.
Speaker 6 (31:37):
It is my duty to report major all shard mission
of failure.
Speaker 9 (31:41):
Oh fiddlesticks, it was our fault.
Speaker 5 (31:45):
You did everything.
Speaker 6 (31:46):
And I have never worn a coat of white boish yet, Abby,
and I won't start now. I failed at Sue Drose,
I failed to keep renders rifles from the tribes, and
I've failed at everything. I leave the army failure. Now
stop it.
Speaker 5 (32:02):
You're just running yourself down because blast.
Speaker 6 (32:04):
It, Mac, hasn't he told you? I left flint Cohill
with two squads back at the paradise and a sound
military moves. So with your permission, I'll start back. I'll
have Co Hill out of that pocket by noon tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (32:13):
No, Nathan troops can't leave till morning morning.
Speaker 6 (32:16):
They ought to pull out a hair before midnight.
Speaker 5 (32:18):
And I agree. If you were leading him with Banella
need all the daylight. He can find hell.
Speaker 6 (32:22):
That babe in the wood fording a river against a
swarm of hostiles with Winchester eath.
Speaker 5 (32:28):
And aren't you forgetting something? You retire from the Army tomorrow.
Speaker 6 (32:32):
Tomorrow is all I need. I can't leave Cohill facing
those devils.
Speaker 5 (32:35):
This no one day mission.
Speaker 6 (32:37):
This could go on for a week, all right, then
I'll volunteer as a civilian scout, interpret or anything.
Speaker 5 (32:42):
And I thought you were fond of cool Hill, fond
of him. Every time co Hill gave an autumn would
turn around and look at you, wondering if he was
doing the right thing. You want to ruin the boy? Oh,
I know, Banell's got to run his chances too. We
ran him, Nathan. That's whatpe we get paid for.
Speaker 6 (33:00):
Yeah, I guess you're right, Mac. I guess you're right. Well,
with your permission, then I'll quit the post tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (33:12):
Permission granted. Needon, where will you go, Captain go?
Speaker 6 (33:16):
I don't know, Miss West, I guess California, New Settlements,
old soldiers, Miss Dandridge. Someday you'll learn how they hate
to give up. Captain of a troop. One day and
every man's face turned towards you, lieutenants jump when I
growl and now tomorrow, I'll be glad if the blacksmith
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asked me to shoe a horse.
Speaker 5 (33:43):
Blast your eyes?
Speaker 15 (33:44):
Have you?
Speaker 5 (33:44):
If you start sniffling now and ask for you, young lady.
Speaker 9 (33:48):
I'm not crying. I I'd like to stand up and cheer.
Speaker 6 (34:00):
At dawn the next morning I reviewed the Troops my
last review. They had a present for me, watching chain
solid silver bruts in special Saint Louis.
Speaker 5 (34:15):
It's it's engraved on the backs Captain Briddles from Sea Troop.
Speaker 6 (34:21):
Lest we forget that's true, forget.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
We had hoped to hold a dance in your honor, sir,
But under the circus.
Speaker 6 (34:27):
Thank you, thank you, thank you all you will do
me one last flavor, mister Panell. Take your troop and
proceed on your mission. Yes, sir, Lord, good luck, Sea Troop,
good luck.
Speaker 5 (34:51):
Worry Nathan, they'll get Coolhill out of the end.
Speaker 6 (34:53):
But that's not enough. Visit Mac. Within a week, those
hostiles will be here on your doorsteps. Then what care
of him? Yeah, well, I'll say goodbye. Oh, I left
my other saddle in the cabin. Give it, Tabby. It'll
be easier on her disposition. Say goodbye to her for me. Mac.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
He'll do no such thing, Nathan Riddles. Goodbye is a
word we don't use in the cavalry. I'll come here, yes, ma'am,
until our next post.
Speaker 6 (35:26):
Dear, thank you. Hebby once sort of side of the post.
I swung east toward the Paradise River. I had a plan.
I had witnessed Rinder's murder, but I had seen more
than that among the Indians around that council fire. I'd
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seen an old man pony that Walks. I had known
him from years before. Yes, I had a plan.
Speaker 4 (36:07):
And now a brief intermission before our stars return with
Act three of She Wore a Yellow Ribbon.
Speaker 14 (36:13):
We pause now for station identification. This is CBS, the
Columbia Broadcasting.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
System, streaming live from stream Point.
Speaker 11 (36:23):
This is utsonover Radio dot Com, the local Rockland County station.
Speaker 5 (36:49):
The curtain rises on Act three of She Wore a
Yellow Ribbon, starring John Wayne as Captain, Brittles mel Ferrer
as Lieutenant co Hill, and Mala Powers as Olivia.
Speaker 6 (37:13):
I was backed with a troop by nightfall, Panel, to
my surprise, had affected the relief of coal Hill's men
without incident. So far, the Indians had failed to make
a move. There's a reason they've held Officer. We've scotted
them all day. They're concentrating forces. How many miss Coal
he goes to, one thousand, Sir Arappa hose Kiawa's comanches
and those Shyan dog soldiers. How much time have we got?
(37:35):
What's your guess have no time at all, sir, because
we've got to hit them first. I'm glad the major censure, Captain.
The men will feel a lot better about it. Now
send me, mister cole Hill. I am not on duty. Then.
The orders haven't been changed. Orders are orders, sir, but
for the next four hours. According to my brand new
silver watch in chain, I am still an officer in
the United States, Gallery, Flint. If I gave you a
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written order, would you obey? I don't need a written order, sir. Nevertheless,
you're going to get it. It might come in handy
in our court martial, Sergeant Tyree. Yes, sir, I am
ordering you to volunteer again. Yes, you and me are
going to ride out of here, sergeant, just as soon
as I write mister cole Hill's orders. It's just a pencil, Flint,
(38:19):
but I'm using all official phrases. Yes, sir, you will
remain here in your command and don't force any action
until I return. But if I don't, then read this
piece of paper for your orders. Put it in your pocket.
I understand, sir. And now, mister Tyree, if you will
find me a fresh horse, we will take a little
ride out towards those.
Speaker 5 (38:47):
Not that it's any of my business, sir, But may
I ask where we're going?
Speaker 6 (38:51):
That's the foolish question, Sergeant. You know as well as
I do.
Speaker 5 (38:55):
Yes, sir, to the Indian in camp. You aim in
the power wow with Red Shirt.
Speaker 6 (39:01):
Yet I'm not that crazy. No, there is a chief
who might listen to us. Pony that walks. Ever hear
of him, Yes, but he's a whole man. That makes
two of us who've seen enough of war.
Speaker 5 (39:14):
Yes, in case you don't know it, sir, that ain't
a bird.
Speaker 6 (39:20):
Walk your horse, Sergeant, hold up your right hand's peace signal.
Let's hope they'll see it.
Speaker 5 (39:26):
Just over that ridge, cam.
Speaker 6 (39:28):
Yeah, Ever been scared, mister tyree?
Speaker 5 (39:32):
Yes, up to and including right now.
Speaker 6 (39:42):
We reached the crest and rode past their guards. They
swarmed in on every side, warriors in full paint, crazy
for blood. We forced our way through to the council fire.
Their leaders have a dozen of them stood in front
of us. Then Red Shirt fired narrow at my feet.
We come in peace. This Red Shirt knows he answers
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with an arrow before we can talk. I take his
arrow from the ground. I break the arrow of Red
Shirt I spit on his arrow. I will speak with
pony that walks on.
Speaker 5 (40:17):
I am Christian, Hellelujah, old friend, me long time, long.
Speaker 6 (40:22):
Time, I have come in peace. Pony that walk take salt,
not on, take salt. Was plain that the old Indian
was tolerated in the council only because of his years.
Red Shirt was the leader of this army and nobody else.
Red Shirt very angry lily, She saba kill kill much blood.
Speaker 18 (40:42):
Not on, old friend, smoke pipe, meton, smoke good.
Speaker 6 (40:47):
I smoke your pipe. But my heart is sad at
what I see your young men painted for war. The medicine,
drums talking. It is a bad thing. Many men will die.
Speaker 2 (40:59):
My young men, you young.
Speaker 5 (41:01):
Men, no good.
Speaker 6 (41:02):
We must stop this war. Young men do not listen
to me.
Speaker 18 (41:05):
They listen to big medicine, yellow hair, Custer dead, buffalo
come back great sign.
Speaker 5 (41:12):
Too late, Not on.
Speaker 13 (41:13):
You come with me.
Speaker 2 (41:14):
We hunt buffalo together and smoke many pipes.
Speaker 6 (41:17):
We are too old for warm, Yes, we are too
old for war. But all men should stop warm.
Speaker 5 (41:22):
Too late, too late soon.
Speaker 6 (41:25):
Many squalls sing death songs.
Speaker 2 (41:27):
Many ludge is empty.
Speaker 6 (41:28):
You come with me, We hunt buffalo, get drunk together.
Speaker 5 (41:32):
Hallelujah.
Speaker 6 (41:33):
No friend, I must go, I go far away.
Speaker 2 (41:38):
You will go in peace, not on.
Speaker 6 (41:40):
I put man atour round neck.
Speaker 18 (41:43):
No harm washkeola, washcola, washkeola.
Speaker 6 (42:00):
You have fears there caring us loose camp. It's not enough, Sergeant.
I had hopes of coming to terms, sir, with them.
One more failure to add to my there's something wrong? No,
nothing wrong. Just glance at your left there, kind of
casual like, sergeant.
Speaker 5 (42:18):
Yes, sir, Oh the ponies hunter.
Speaker 6 (42:22):
Hundreds of ponies in a gully. Well, they can't wander off.
But if something was to stampede those ponies, sam pete, Yes, sir.
Back to camp, mister Tyree on the double, Lieutenant co
(42:43):
Hill reporting, sir. Troops ready to move her. They know
their assignments, Yes, sir, the column in single file leading months.
We are to follow you, surproceeding with the utmost quiet.
There's a creek at the near end of that gully.
We'll stop there and form ranks. Meantime, sir. Meantime, mister
Cole'll just pray that the moon stays behind those.
Speaker 12 (43:07):
True Paul, pass the word halt and pass the word
mister Cole Hill, can you read the time by my
brand new silver watch and chain.
Speaker 6 (43:19):
Uh yes, sir, twelve minutes to midnight, sir, Like all
lies straight ahead of us on signal, we'll gallop through
that draw on the stanbed. They heard out the other
end into their encampment. Questions, mister cole Hill, No question, sir, mountain,
pass the word mountain.
Speaker 5 (43:37):
Pass the word mountain.
Speaker 6 (43:41):
You blurt a count of three and sound the charge.
(44:30):
Sound reycall, sound, recall any wounded, mister Cahill. No casualty, sir,
No casualties, no Indian war, no court martial. You will
(44:50):
have a time rounding up those hostiles, mister Cohill, but
they will not get very far on foot. They come
back to the poster. No back to the reservation. Have
your soldiers follow them all away, stay about a mile
behind them. Walking hurts their pride, and you're watching all
heard worse. Yes, sir, can you read what time it
is by my brand new silver watch in Chaine? Two
(45:14):
minutes past midnight, sir, h I've been a civilian for
two minutes. It's hard to believe it's your army, mister
cole hilp good luck.
Speaker 5 (45:38):
Captain Bridgles just just said goodbye. And rode away said it,
mister cool Hill. Yes, Major, we got the hostiles on
the trail, sir. Then I left Lieutenant Banal in charge
and returned here to report, sir, so Nathan's finished with
the army. Well, the army isn't finished with him. Who's
your best riding, mister cool Hill? By Sergeant Tyraser and
(45:58):
tell Sergeant Tyree want to see him right away, ole Hirie,
been half a week running you down.
Speaker 6 (46:12):
If you think you're going to California.
Speaker 5 (46:15):
Mister Tyree, you're just bringing a message for you, sir,
h huh from a Yankee war department by way of
Major Old Chine.
Speaker 6 (46:22):
Know it, Dad blasted iron, know it?
Speaker 9 (46:25):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (46:25):
Where's my spectacles? Every time a man? Tyree? Look look
what it says. It's my appointment chief of Scouts with
a rank of loutenant colonel. And will you look at
those endorsements? Bill Sheridan william To comes to Sherman and
you Lissa Simpson Grant President of the United States of America.
(46:49):
There's three aces for.
Speaker 5 (46:51):
You, boy, Yes, sir, I kind of wish you'd been
holding a full hand.
Speaker 6 (46:55):
Full hand. What do you mean full hand?
Speaker 5 (46:57):
Robert E.
Speaker 6 (46:58):
Lee oh, well, it wouldn't have been bad.
Speaker 13 (47:01):
Let's get back boy.
Speaker 5 (47:13):
Here he has major, Sir, he's covered up the steps.
Now open the door, Quinn Cannon. Yes, sir, ladies and gentlemen.
Lieutenant Colonel Brittles.
Speaker 6 (47:24):
What's going on here? Anyway?
Speaker 5 (47:26):
Goes to dance and your honor sir to welcome you back,
and the man add you kept us waiting for some time.
Speaker 6 (47:31):
But well, I'm sorry, I'm late, Mac, but I didn't
even know.
Speaker 9 (47:34):
Apologize, colonel. It's a mark of weakness.
Speaker 5 (47:37):
Bandmaster for seed.
Speaker 1 (47:45):
Old iron Pants has a request to make your arm.
Speaker 6 (47:49):
Nathan, Thank you, Abby, and Sir Sir asked mister Carhill,
be surprised to know that Miss dandild and I are
gonna be Why son, I know it all the time.
Everybody in the most know it above the rank of
a second lieutenant, right, mister Panell.
Speaker 2 (48:04):
There come a time, sir when I'll be a first lieutenant.
Speaker 7 (48:07):
Yeah, well years when you stay for the dance.
Speaker 6 (48:11):
Colonel, Well, if you will excuse me, Miss Danige, I
I've got to make.
Speaker 9 (48:16):
My report first colonel wait here, please take these with you.
Speaker 6 (48:21):
Oh I am obliged, ma'am. Well, thank you, ladies, and gentlemen,
thank you report and your flowers. You gave him your flowers.
Speaker 9 (48:36):
I think they'll make someone else even happier.
Speaker 15 (48:38):
Donald his girl.
Speaker 4 (48:53):
So ends the story of Captain Brittle's and the troops
he laid. The dog faced soldiers, the fifty cents a
day professional writing the outpost of a nation. From Fort
Reno to Fort Apache, from Sheridan to Stockton, men in
dirty shirt blue, and only a cold page in the
history books to mark their passing. But wherever they rode
(49:13):
and whatever they fought for, that place became the United States.
Speaker 15 (49:36):
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