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Gunsmoke - "Alarm At Pleasant Valley" (Old Time Radio, 1955) · Gunsmoke | Old Time Radio

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: An attack on the Claiborne homestead leaves Pleasant Valley unsettled,
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: and Marshal Matt Dillon and Chester ride out to investigate
• 0:08
  Speaker 1: the burned ranch. It is Gunsmoke, Alarm at Pleasant Valley,
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  Speaker 1: Episode 178, originally broadcast by CBS on September 10, 1955.
• 0:21
  Speaker 1: William Conrad stars as Dillon, with Parley Bear as Chester.
• 0:27
  Speaker 1: John Dunkel wrote the script, and Norman MacDonald produced and directed.
• 0:32
  Speaker 1: As Sam Fraser considers leaving the territory, the troubles facing
• 0:37
  Speaker 1: the settlers draw Dillon and Chester deeper into Pleasant Valley.
• 0:41
  Speaker 1: The date also marked Gunsmoke's television premiere. We now take
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  Speaker 1: you back to the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: Around Dodge City and in the Territory on West, there's
• 1:03
  Speaker 2: just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers,
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  Speaker 2: and that's with a U.S. Marshal and the smell of Gunsmoke.
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  Speaker 2: Gunsmoke Gunsmoke, starring William Conrad. The transcribed story of the
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  Speaker 2: violence that moved west with young America. And the story
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  Speaker 2: of a man who moved with it.
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  Speaker 3: I'm that man. Matt Dillon, United States Marshal. The first
• 1:43
  Speaker 3: man they look for and the last they want to meet.
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  Speaker 3: It's a chancy job. And it makes a man watchful.
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  Speaker 4: And a little lonely.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, me. How was that for it, Chester?
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  Speaker 6: Oh, I don't know.
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  Speaker 7: I just wanted to make a noise, I guess. It's
• 2:27
  Speaker 7: so bling quiet out here on the prairie.
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  Speaker 8: You've been mighty quiet yourself.
• 2:32
  Speaker 7: I guess I run plumb out of conversation back a
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  Speaker 7: couple hours ago. It ain't I'm unsociable, Mr.
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  Speaker 9: Jones.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, I know, Chester. It's been a long ride. Yeah,
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  Speaker 8: but we'll be in Dodge by dark.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 7: This ain't time to go to bed.
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  Speaker 8: You didn't have anything better to do, did you?
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  Speaker 6: I guess not.
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  Speaker 7: Game of checkers with Doc, maybe. Oh, that man plays
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  Speaker 7: the doggonest, craziest game of checkers.
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  Speaker 6: Hey, Chester.
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  Speaker 8: Over there.
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  Speaker 4: What?
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  Speaker 7: Well, that's smoke, Mr.
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  Speaker 6: Dillon.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: Must be a.
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  Speaker 6: Grass fire, huh?
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  Speaker 8: Well, when smoke got black.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, what is it then?
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  Speaker 8: Isn't there a ranch over in that direction?
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  Speaker 7: Well, now, yes, there is.
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  Speaker 6: Not far, neither.
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  Speaker 7: A fellow named Claiborne, as I remember. Come here from
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  Speaker 7: Indiana about four years ago. Him and his wife did.
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  Speaker 7: Awful nice fellow.
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  Speaker 9: Come on, Chester.
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  Speaker 7: Planted corn the first year, but it didn't turn out
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  Speaker 7: very well.
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  Speaker 8: Come on, Chester. We better take a look.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, my gracious, Mr.
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  Speaker 10: Jones.
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  Speaker 7: The house, barn, everything.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, there's not much left, is there?
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  Speaker 7: What do you suppose could have happened?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, there's one thing for sure. It wasn't an accident.
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  Speaker 10: Hmm?
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  Speaker 8: Look at the tracks, horses, all milling around.
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  Speaker 9: I'm sure a lot of them.
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  Speaker 7: Well, I don't understand either.
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  Speaker 6: Where is Mr.
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  Speaker 8: Claiborne?
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  Speaker 7: Here's his house not hardly burnt to the ground yet.
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  Speaker 8: Take a look over there, Chester.
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  Speaker 9: Mr.
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  Speaker 6: Dillon.
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  Speaker 9: Come on.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, no.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, he should have stayed in Indiana. And his wife, too. And....
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  Speaker 7: I didn't even know they had a little Mr.
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  Speaker 9: Dillon.
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  Speaker 7: It's like they were... Time for covering that little creek
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  Speaker 7: bed there.
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  Speaker 3: Well, we can only do one thing for them now.
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  Speaker 8: Maybe there's a shovel left back there.
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  Speaker 9: Mr.
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  Speaker 7: Dillon, who could have did a thing like that?
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  Speaker 8: That's plain enough, isn't it?
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  Speaker 7: Yes, but I didn't hear no Indian trouble right now.
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  Speaker 8: I didn't either.
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  Speaker 4: Mr.
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  Speaker 7: Jones?
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  Speaker 9: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: If them Indians were just here not very long ago,
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  Speaker 7: they couldn't have gone far.
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  Speaker 8: That's right, Chester, they couldn't.
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  Speaker 3: All right, come on, let's look to that shovel.
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  Speaker 9: Oh, Mr. Claiborne. Look out there, Mr. Dillon. What?
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  Speaker 7: Planted corn again, and it's doing.
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  Speaker 9: Real well, too. Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: Now, wait a minute, Chester. Listen.
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  Speaker 9: Horses. A lot of them. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: You think it could be them Indians coming back?
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  Speaker 8: That could be.
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  Speaker 3: Get the rifles and we'll try a run for the
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  Speaker 3: creek that day.
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  Speaker 7: Too late, Mr.
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  Speaker 9: Dillon.
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  Speaker 7: They're coming over the rise. Well, Mr. Dillon, it ain't Indians.
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  Speaker 8: It's the Bluecoats.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: The patrol, a whole company of them.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, my.
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  Speaker 7: Ain't they a welcome sight?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: Come on. Let's go meet them.
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  Speaker 6: What are you doing out here, Marshal?
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  Speaker 8: We were riding in from Pawnee and we saw the smoke, Lieutenant.
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  Speaker 9: We were a little too late.
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  Speaker 8: Ah, so I see.
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  Speaker 4: Where are they?
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  Speaker 9: Over there. All three of them.
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  Speaker 8: They're pretty close on their trail now.
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  Speaker 6: Maybe we can get them before they find another ranch.
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  Speaker 8: Well, from the prints, I figured them for Kyle. But
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  Speaker 8: I didn't know there was any trouble.
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  Speaker 9: There isn't.
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  Speaker 8: For the tribe, these are just renegades. Not more than
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  Speaker 8: eight or ten of them. That all fired up and
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  Speaker 8: jumped the agency.
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  Speaker 7: Fired up with cheap whiskey.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe.
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  Speaker 6: But we can't be more than about half an hour
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  Speaker 6: behind them now.
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  Speaker 8: With luck, we'll get.
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  Speaker 9: Them before nightfall.
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  Speaker 7: I sure hope so.
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  Speaker 8: Marshal, we'll take over here for you. The horses need
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  Speaker 8: a few minutes rest.
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  Speaker 6: Then we'll go on.
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  Speaker 8: All right, Lieutenant. We'll head on into Dodge.
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  Speaker 6: Keep your eyes open, Marshal, on the way.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, we will.
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  Speaker 9: All right.
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  Speaker 6: You know, Mr.
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  Speaker 7: Dillon, it's a cussed, crying shame. Them Indians can be
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  Speaker 7: as peaceful as anything, and then some ornery white man
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  Speaker 7: comes along and sells them some of that red eye,
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  Speaker 7: and they just go hog crazy.
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  Speaker 3: Chester, an Indian's no different from anybody else with too
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  Speaker 3: much to drink. Now, the problem's deeper than that.
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  Speaker 9: What do you mean?
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  Speaker 8: Well, the Indians are lost a lot. They're a conquered people.
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  Speaker 3: That doesn't sit well with any man, Chester.
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  Speaker 8: There are times when it makes him mad.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, sir, that's so. I guess maybe you can't blame
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  Speaker 7: him entirely.
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  Speaker 8: Not entirely.
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  Speaker 7: Well, see now.
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  Speaker 8: That's a pretty little valley.
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  Speaker 7: Hey, look, there's somebody down there.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, looks like settlers.
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  Speaker 7: They do indeed with that Conestoga wagon. They build them
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  Speaker 7: a sod hut, too. Well, looks like we got neighbors
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  Speaker 7: we didn't know we had, Mr.
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  Speaker 1: Dillon.
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  Speaker 8: Or maybe we're losing them before we get to know them.
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  Speaker 7: Hmm?
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  Speaker 8: They seem to be packing the wagon.
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  Speaker 7: Maybe they heard about the Indians.
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  Speaker 9: That's likely.
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  Speaker 8: Now, come on. We'll ride down and say hello.
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  Speaker 4: Afternoon.
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  Speaker 2: Howdy.
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  Speaker 8: I'm Matt Dillon, U.S. Marshal out of Dodge. This is
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  Speaker 8: Chester Proudfoot.
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  Speaker 6: I'm Sam Fraser. This is my ma.
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  Speaker 9: Sam.
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  Speaker 8: This is my wife, Alice.
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  Speaker 7: Hello.
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  Speaker 4: How do you do?
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  Speaker 6: This is Tad, my kid brother.
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  Speaker 7: Pleased to meet you.
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  Speaker 9: Hello.
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  Speaker 6: We're headed for Dodge ourselves.
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  Speaker 8: Looks like you got settled here.
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  Speaker 6: Well, we ain't staying, Marshal. We're going on west.
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  Speaker 7: Chasing rainbows, Marshal.
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  Speaker 6: Farm folks like us.
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  Speaker 9: Now, Ma.
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  Speaker 10: Don't you now, Ma, me, Sam Fraser.
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  Speaker 7: If your pa was still.
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  Speaker 6: Alive, he wouldn't be leaving. Well, he ain't.
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  Speaker 11: And it's up to me to do the deciding now.
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  Speaker 11: If you'll excuse me, Marshal, I'll get back to loading up.
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  Speaker 8: Justin, I can give you a hand.
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  Speaker 7: No, thanks.
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  Speaker 6: Tad and me will manage.
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  Speaker 7: That's a real nice sod hut, Miss Frazier. It's kind
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  Speaker 7: of too bad to go off and leave it.
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  Speaker 6: My husband built it.
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  Speaker 10: Not him.
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  Speaker 6: Now, Ma, stand help.
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  Speaker 10: Marshal, what do you think of a son that goes
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  Speaker 10: against his father's wishes and him not hardly cold in
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  Speaker 10: his grave?
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  Speaker 6: Ma, please. Three days now, Marshal.
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  Speaker 10: He's buried right over there under that cottonwood.
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  Speaker 9: I'm sorry, ma'am.
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  Speaker 6: He hadn't been here more than a week.
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  Speaker 10: Come all the way from Ohio. Looking for a spot
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  Speaker 10: of good ground to till. Looking for a home, Marshal.
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  Speaker 7: And he found it here. It sure is a pretty
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  Speaker 7: little place. Samuel called it Pleasant Valley.
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  Speaker 10: Said he'd be grateful to settle here.
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  Speaker 7: And spend his days. Only the Lord didn't leave him
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  Speaker 7: any days.
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  Speaker 10: Denied him like Moses come to the promised land.
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  Speaker 8: It would make a nice homestead for you folks.
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  Speaker 6: It would? But some folks has ideas. Oh, my layoff.
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  Speaker 9: Mr.
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  Speaker 8: Fraser.
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  Speaker 5: What?
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  Speaker 8: Look, I know it's none of my business, but.
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  Speaker 3: Is there some reason why you want to give up
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  Speaker 3: this land and go on?
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  Speaker 6: Reason enough.
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  Speaker 8: It's because of me, Marshal.
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  Speaker 7: Now, Alice, you ain't to blame.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, I am.
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  Speaker 8: It's because Sam is worried about me, Marshal.
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  Speaker 10: No Indians would scare him off if it was just
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  Speaker 10: these folks, but it's me he's scared for.
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  Speaker 9: Me and.
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  Speaker 6: And the one coming. And what better reason?
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  Speaker 11: You think I want my wife and my child living
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  Speaker 11: in danger of murdering savages?
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  Speaker 8: Now, Mr. Fraser, there's just a bunch of renegades. The
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  Speaker 8: cavalry will get them soon, and the danger will be over.
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  Speaker 11: Who's to say what they'll do before the cavalry gets them?
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  Speaker 6: No, Marshal, my family's going to grow up in a
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  Speaker 6: safe place.
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  Speaker 10: My ma born me in the middle of the Ohio woods,
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  Speaker 10: thick with Indians as fleas on a hound. We was
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  Speaker 10: made us Turner stuff in them days.
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  Speaker 6: Maybe, but my wife ain't going to live like that. Now,
• 11:50
  Speaker 6: come on, Ted. Hand that up. We're losing time.
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  Speaker 8: You going on west?
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  Speaker 10: Aye, to California, he says. Might even look for gold
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  Speaker 10: instead of farming, he says.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, my.
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  Speaker 7: I reckon most of that gold out there is already clean.
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  Speaker 7: Twenty years or more. Of course, you might have luck.
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  Speaker 6: We can always find a piece of land.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, maybe you can, but nothing better than this.
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  Speaker 6: Nothing half as good. This dirt's richer than molasses in
• 12:18
  Speaker 6: the cook pot. If it was me, I.
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  Speaker 8: Well, it ain't. Now, hoist.
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  Speaker 6: If I was just a few years old.
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  Speaker 10: I said hoist.
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  Speaker 7: You see how it is, Marshal.
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  Speaker 9: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe he's right. California might work out fine. Only it's
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  Speaker 3: a long way. With Miss Fraser expecting, it's going to be...
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  Speaker 3: Kind of a hard trip.
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  Speaker 11: I know all that, Marshal. We'll stay in Dodge till
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  Speaker 11: the baby's born. It won't be long now, and then
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  Speaker 11: we'll go on.
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  Speaker 8: I just want to say one thing, Mr.
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  Speaker 9: Fraser, as a lawman in this territory.
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  Speaker 3: We have some troubles now and then, sure, but it's
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  Speaker 3: not as bad as you think.
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  Speaker 8: And in a few years, it'll be as safe.
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  Speaker 3: Here as it is in, well, Ohio right now, or California.
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  Speaker 3: And it's going to be a prosperous country.
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  Speaker 6: My mind's made up, Marshal.
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  Speaker 8: Well, all right.
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  Speaker 3: We better help you get loaded, then, and see you
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  Speaker 3: safe in the Dodge. The worst place to be right
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  Speaker 3: now is out on the open prairie.
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  Speaker 5: All right, that's it. Now, one more shot. Good.
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  Speaker 6: That should ride easy.
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  Speaker 4: Well, that's the last.
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  Speaker 6: All right, then. We're all ready. Might as well get started.
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  Speaker 6: It's getting late. You got them all hitched, Ted? They're ready.
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  Speaker 6: Where's Ma? She's over by the cottonwood.
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  Speaker 4: Oh.
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  Speaker 6: Crying, I suppose, to shame me.
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  Speaker 10: Sam.
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  Speaker 6: Well, tears don't.
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  Speaker 4: Do no good.
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  Speaker 7: She ain't crying.
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  Speaker 6: She's just standing, staring. I tried to get her to
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  Speaker 6: come away, but she wouldn't.
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  Speaker 8: Marshal, maybe if you were to talk to her. You know,
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  Speaker 8: a stranger.
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  Speaker 9: All right. Well, sure, ma'am. Uh, Miss Fraser.
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  Speaker 7: He's there, Marshal.
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  Speaker 6: Right there.
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  Speaker 7: We fixed up a cross.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, ma'am.
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  Speaker 7: Maybe if you was to pass by this way again,
• 14:54
  Speaker 7: you'd just take a look.
• 14:57
  Speaker 9: See the marker still standing? Why, sure I.
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  Speaker 6: Will, ma'am.
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  Speaker 7: 25 years, Marshal. And all I ever asked was to
• 15:05
  Speaker 7: lie there beside him. A lonely place.
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  Speaker 9: Mm-hmm. But it's no lonelier than any other, Miss Fraser.
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  Speaker 3: Why, in the springtime, this whole meadow's covered with a
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  Speaker 3: blanket of sunflowers.
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  Speaker 9: Pretty as you ever saw.
• 15:31
  Speaker 7: Thank you, Marshal. I can go now.
• 15:39
  Speaker 9: Come on. Ma, I'm sorry.
• 15:47
  Speaker 6: No need, boy. We all do what we have to do.
• 15:49
  Speaker 7: You're no different. Just help me up.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, here, Ma.
• 15:55
  Speaker 5: All right.
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  Speaker 10: Now let's get this girl into town.
• 15:58
  Speaker 7: Her time's almost come.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, Ma.
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  Speaker 9: Hey!
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  Speaker 8: All right, come on, Chester.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, ma'am.
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  Speaker 8: I want you to ride the point. Keep a good
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  Speaker 8: watch ahead and to the north, huh?
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  Speaker 7: All right, sir.
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  Speaker 3: I'll cut up to the top of that hill and
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: take a look, and then I'll ride south flank, cover
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: that side and behind.
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  Speaker 9: Well, Mr.
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  Speaker 7: Dillon, it sure does.
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  Speaker 6: Seem a shame.
• 16:27
  Speaker 10: Wait a minute, Chester.
• 16:29
  Speaker 7: Oh, my gracious, coming over the hill?
• 16:31
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Them ain't blue coats.
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  Speaker 8: No, they're not, Chester.
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  Speaker 9: Thank you.
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  Speaker 4: Frazier!
• 17:04
  Speaker 6: Frazier, turn around!
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: Go back!
• 17:06
  Speaker 9: What?
• 17:06
  Speaker 8: Look up there!
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  Speaker 2: Get back to the.
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  Speaker 9: Hut!
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  Speaker 8: Use your rifle, Chester. It was too far to hit him.
• 17:18
  Speaker 8: It'll let him know they got a fight.
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  Speaker 9: Yes, sir.
• 17:26
  Speaker 6: Now they've turned off. I thought they would. All right,
• 17:28
  Speaker 6: let's get back to the Frazier's. Come on.
• 17:41
  Speaker 8: All right, hurry it up. Let's get those women into
• 17:43
  Speaker 8: the hut.
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  Speaker 6: We're trying, Marshal, but Alice got choked up some with
• 17:46
  Speaker 6: us going so fast.
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  Speaker 8: Well, we'll carry her.
• 17:47
  Speaker 6: Come on.
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  Speaker 8: You all right, Marshal? Sure you will, ma'am.
• 17:50
  Speaker 9: Hang on now.
• 17:54
  Speaker 8: There we go.
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  Speaker 7: Over here. Right here, Marshal.
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  Speaker 6: Put her down gently.
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  Speaker 8: Yes, ma'am.
• 18:08
  Speaker 6: Alice.
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  Speaker 8: Now, Sam, don't you worry.
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: I'll be all right.
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  Speaker 4: You go on.
• 18:14
  Speaker 8: Do what needs to be done.
• 18:17
  Speaker 10: I'll be all right.
• 18:18
  Speaker 6: But, Alice... Go on, boy.
• 18:20
  Speaker 9: Come on, Sam.
• 18:28
  Speaker 8: You got a rifle, Sam?
• 18:30
  Speaker 6: Yeah. Yeah, a sharps in the wagon.
• 18:31
  Speaker 8: Well, that'll give us three.
• 18:33
  Speaker 6: I ain't got one, Marshal, but I can load for you.
• 18:35
  Speaker 8: All right, son. There'll be plenty to do.
• 18:37
  Speaker 7: They're still up there, Mr.
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  Speaker 10: Dillon.
• 18:39
  Speaker 7: Having a powwow, it looks like.
• 18:41
  Speaker 6: You figure they'll rush us, Marshal?
• 18:42
  Speaker 9: No.
• 18:43
  Speaker 8: They know we got rifles. There are only eight or
• 18:46
  Speaker 8: nine of them, and the ground's too open.
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: They'll either go on and leave us alone, or they'll
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: wait till the sun goes down and come in in
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: the dusk.
• 18:52
  Speaker 6: There's nothing to do but wait.
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: We can use the time to unload part of the
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: wagon and adjust the things they'll need in there, though.
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: Then we'll drive it off and cut the horses loose.
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: We don't want them milling around in case of a fight.
• 19:05
  Speaker 9: Sam!
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: Sam!
• 19:07
  Speaker 6: What, Ma? Get water from the creek.
• 19:09
  Speaker 5: Make a fire, quick.
• 19:10
  Speaker 6: Ma. Don't stand there.
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: You heard me.
• 19:13
  Speaker 6: Get moving.
• 19:20
  Speaker 5: Yes, ma.
• 19:29
  Speaker 8: Relax, Fraser.
• 19:31
  Speaker 9: She's going to be all right.
• 19:32
  Speaker 6: Sure. She's out here in nowhere with them up there.
• 19:36
  Speaker 6: This is just what I was afraid of.
• 19:38
  Speaker 8: Well, plenty have been born this way. You might have
• 19:42
  Speaker 8: been yourself, you know.
• 19:43
  Speaker 6: I know, but... Tad, where you going? Down to the creek.
• 19:47
  Speaker 6: Ma wants more water.
• 19:49
  Speaker 8: You better go with him, Chester.
• 19:50
  Speaker 6: Yes, sir. I should have gone two days ago. I
• 19:55
  Speaker 6: wanted her to have the best. Nothing but the best.
• 19:58
  Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, I know.
• 20:00
  Speaker 6: That's why I talked about hunting gold in California.
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: You know something, Sam? A man can waste a lifetime
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: looking for gold. But it's right in front of his eyes.
• 20:14
  Speaker 9: Where?
• 20:16
  Speaker 8: You're looking at it.
• 20:18
  Speaker 9: There's wealth here for a man, too.
• 20:19
  Speaker 6: I know it, Marshall.
• 20:23
  Speaker 9: Tad! Yeah, come on.
• 20:28
  Speaker 6: Tad.
• 20:29
  Speaker 7: You all right, Mr.
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: Dillon?
• 20:30
  Speaker 10: Yes, Nick.
• 20:31
  Speaker 7: One of them snuck up close as I chased him off.
• 20:33
  Speaker 8: Tad.
• 20:34
  Speaker 6: I'm all right, Sam. Just a crease in my arm.
• 20:36
  Speaker 9: What is it?
• 20:37
  Speaker 8: We'll fix it when we get him back to the hut.
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: There we go.
• 20:56
  Speaker 9: Is it tight enough, son?
• 20:58
  Speaker 6: Sure, Marshal. It's okay. How's Alice? I don't know. Ma
• 21:04
  Speaker 6: chased me away. I'm worried, Marshal.
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: And I'm more worried about those Indians. It's going to
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: be dark soon.
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: Mr.
• 21:12
  Speaker 7: Dillon, that patrol ought to be around here somewhere.
• 21:14
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I know.
• 21:15
  Speaker 9: I was hoping they'd show up.
• 21:16
  Speaker 7: Well, they can't be far. They was on the trail.
• 21:20
  Speaker 7: Maybe if I was to ride out.
• 21:21
  Speaker 8: Now, there's a better way, Chester. Signal them.
• 21:25
  Speaker 6: How?
• 21:25
  Speaker 9: Have a sign they've been looking for and hoping not
• 21:28
  Speaker 9: to see. Smoke.
• 21:30
  Speaker 6: You mean set the grass afire?
• 21:32
  Speaker 8: No, that'd smoke us out, too. No, the wagon.
• 21:36
  Speaker 6: Oh, but Marshal.
• 21:37
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I know, Fraser. It's like burning your bridges behind you,
• 21:40
  Speaker 8: but it's the only thing we've got. All right.
• 21:46
  Speaker 6: All right, we'll burn it. All right.
• 22:02
  Speaker 9: That's almost out.
• 22:03
  Speaker 7: But it sure sent up a lot of smoke while
• 22:05
  Speaker 7: it lasted.
• 22:06
  Speaker 6: You reckon the.
• 22:07
  Speaker 8: Calvary saw it, Mr.
• 22:08
  Speaker 10: Dillon?
• 22:08
  Speaker 8: That's hard to say, Chester.
• 22:10
  Speaker 7: But they did.
• 22:10
  Speaker 9: I hope they're hurrying.
• 22:12
  Speaker 7: Sun's most gone, all but the tops of the hills.
• 22:14
  Speaker 7: This valley's getting mighty shadowy.
• 22:17
  Speaker 8: We better set in a circle.
• 22:19
  Speaker 9: Each one watch his side.
• 22:20
  Speaker 6: Marshal!
• 22:21
  Speaker 8: Out there!
• 22:22
  Speaker 6: What's that?
• 22:23
  Speaker 9: What? No, just one of the horses, son. But you
• 22:29
  Speaker 9: keep looking.
• 22:30
  Speaker 6: Marshall, Marshall, listen. Look, up there, it's the Bluecoats.
• 22:35
  Speaker 8: They're here.
• 22:35
  Speaker 6: Oh, ain't that a welcome sight?
• 22:38
  Speaker 8: They're charging the engines. Run them off.
• 22:40
  Speaker 6: Marshall, we're going to be all right.
• 22:42
  Speaker 8: Yeah, Fraser. They'll get them now. Maybe if we.
• 22:45
  Speaker 6: Sam, get in here.
• 22:53
  Speaker 8: Alice.
• 22:54
  Speaker 10: Well, what are you staring at? But I'd think you'd
• 22:58
  Speaker 10: never seen a strapping, healthy baby boy before.
• 23:02
  Speaker 6: Alice?
• 23:03
  Speaker 7: I'm all right, darling.
• 23:04
  Speaker 9: We're both all right. I told you you didn't need
• 23:09
  Speaker 9: to worry about us.
• 23:11
  Speaker 10: All right, now, you menfolk, get on out of here.
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: Go on, skedaddle.
• 23:14
  Speaker 9: Yes, ma'am.
• 23:16
  Speaker 6: You too, Sam Fraser.
• 23:17
  Speaker 7: Well, I be quick.
• 23:26
  Speaker 8: Well, Sam, uh.
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: Chester and I'll be getting on in the Dodge. We'll
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: send a wagon out for you.
• 23:34
  Speaker 6: I reckon we won't be needing the wagon, Marshal. Sam,
• 23:39
  Speaker 6: you mean we're staying?
• 23:40
  Speaker 11: Well, we buried one here. And we born one here.
• 23:47
  Speaker 11: And we shed Fraser blood in this dirt. And it
• 23:54
  Speaker 11: is good dirt, Marshal. And it is a pleasant place.
• 23:58
  Speaker 9: Yes, it is.
• 24:01
  Speaker 6: You'll be welcome here any time.
• 24:04
  Speaker 9: Both of you. Thank you, Mr.
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: Fraser.
• 24:11
  Speaker 9: Welcome to Kansas.
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: Gunsmoke, produced and directed by Norman McDonald, stars William Conrad
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: as Matt.
• 24:51
  Speaker 9: Dillon, U.S. Marshal.
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: The special music for Gunsmoke was composed and conducted by
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: Rex Corey. Sound patterns by Bill James and Ray Kemper.
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: Featured in the cast were Vic Perrin, Helen Cleave, Eleanor Tannen,
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: Sam Edwards, and John Daner. Harley Bear is Chester.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: This concludes our presentation of Gunsmoke, Alarm at Pleasant Valley.
• 25:19
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