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Homesteader Jeb Martin [episode 800], Broadcast 3/14/1938 · The Lone Ranger | Old Time Radio

• 0:21
  Speaker 1: A fiery horse with a speed of light, a cloud
• 0:23
  Speaker 1: of dust, and a hearty hi old silver.
• 0:25
  Speaker 2: A lone ranger sat.
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  Speaker 3: At the.
• 2:03
  Speaker 1: Western plains and prairies of the United States, thrilled to
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  Speaker 1: the heroic deeds of an unknown writer, a masked man
• 2:09
  Speaker 1: who rode in the cause of justice. People of seven
• 2:12
  Speaker 1: States felt the influence of his courageous deeds. Stories have
• 2:15
  Speaker 1: been handed down through the years of his many adventures
• 2:17
  Speaker 1: in the newly established American territory. Even today, the cowboys
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  Speaker 1: relate tales of his stirring exploits. Listen to those silver
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  Speaker 1: shod hoops as they race over the hard packed road
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  Speaker 1: beds of yesteryear, the lone Ranger rides again.
• 2:32
  Speaker 4: Come on, silver boy, will in the mountains of the
• 2:36
  Speaker 4: US Help me from table are your shells?
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  Speaker 1: When the government opened California to homesteaders, unexpected trouble arose.
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  Speaker 1: The Spanish had granted huge tracts of land their countrymen,
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  Speaker 1: and these grants were in direct conflict with the titles
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  Speaker 1: of the incoming homesteaders. Both factions claimed ownership and were
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  Speaker 1: ready to defend their claims with six guns and bullets.
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  Speaker 1: Tragedy such as the West had never known before threatened the.
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  Speaker 3: Peace of two nations.
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  Speaker 1: At this disturbed period in our nation's history, we find
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  Speaker 1: the lone Ranger and his faithful Indian companion Tanto, arriving
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  Speaker 1: at the top of the hill in the southern Sierra Nevadas.
• 3:34
  Speaker 4: No, no, we see far ahead and tot by someone
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  Speaker 4: in trouble.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, wagon we broke, and.
• 3:43
  Speaker 4: Those people are a long way from the nearest water.
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  Speaker 4: Come on silver, I can come from me. Probably some
• 3:51
  Speaker 4: homesteaders come on silver, and how wrong way? That's so
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  Speaker 4: the wagons coming from the west.
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  Speaker 3: It's the same kind of wagon that all the eastern
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  Speaker 3: has used me.
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  Speaker 4: Soon hang out a right, hyranger.
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  Speaker 3: Can you will help a man in trouble? Broken wheel? Huh,
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  Speaker 3: that ain't the main trouble.
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  Speaker 5: I can fix that given time. But we need water.
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  Speaker 3: We have plenty.
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  Speaker 6: H I wouldn't ask no man for water this far
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  Speaker 6: from the spring. But I got my wife and young
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  Speaker 6: and inside the wagon. Then kid ain't very well.
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  Speaker 3: Take a look at them tother, oh me me giving water?
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  Speaker 5: Respect?
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  Speaker 6: You're an outlaw wearing a mask. But I got precious
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  Speaker 6: a little worth stealing, so I ain't afeared.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not an outlaw away, are you? Heading east?
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  Speaker 5: Well, other way should I be heading?
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  Speaker 3: Didn't you come from the east?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, And I'm getting back there as quick as the
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  Speaker 6: good Lord to let me if.
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  Speaker 5: If I can make it.
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  Speaker 6: Why had a home there, not much of a place,
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  Speaker 6: but better than nothing, sold it and sold most of
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  Speaker 6: what else we had.
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  Speaker 5: We staked their.
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  Speaker 6: Everything on the stories of California, land of promise, land
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  Speaker 6: of sunshine, a place where a man could settle down
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  Speaker 6: and bring up his family, where a man could live
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  Speaker 6: in peace and security.
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  Speaker 3: Didn't you find that to be true?
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  Speaker 5: The government gave me the land.
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  Speaker 6: They didn't tell me I'd have to stand up and
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  Speaker 6: shoot down a couple of dozen men to hold it.
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  Speaker 6: What do you mean just that? What's more, the only
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  Speaker 6: one that's having trouble. I'm going back. But there's a
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  Speaker 6: plenty of stay and fight it out if there ain't.
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  Speaker 5: Bloodshed on or take this place. My name in Jeb Martin.
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  Speaker 3: Jeb, Jeb.
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  Speaker 7: Who's the engine?
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  Speaker 3: He's a friend of mine.
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  Speaker 5: What's Madam Marthy?
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  Speaker 8: He gave Billy and me a drink of water, and
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  Speaker 8: I's talking to little Billy inside the wagon.
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  Speaker 7: There Billy is smiling for the first time in two weeks.
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  Speaker 6: Then that engine is my friend, stranger. I don't suppose
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  Speaker 6: you know what it means to have a sick youngster.
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  Speaker 3: Now I can do more for him than most doctors.
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  Speaker 7: The drink and water will help him some.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, Jeb, don't you want water to have?
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  Speaker 6: You got a plenty? Yes, bloody, thank you, mister, much obliged.
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  Speaker 6: I am a feared billy. Wouldn't never stand the trip east.
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  Speaker 6: And now that we're marooned here, I get that wagon
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  Speaker 6: wheel fixed. There ain't no telling what the hot sun
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  Speaker 6: will do to the lad boy.
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  Speaker 3: Get well, heap soon?
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  Speaker 5: What's that?
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  Speaker 3: Are you sure? Uh? Unto no fever? Give him little color,
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  Speaker 3: good medicine.
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  Speaker 7: Is he going to be all right?
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  Speaker 4: Uh?
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  Speaker 3: If Todder says that he may be sure, it's right.
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  Speaker 6: Water and my boy's life, stranger. There was only some
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  Speaker 6: way I could pay. Well, I got some cash.
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  Speaker 3: I might ask a favor of you. Jem.
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  Speaker 5: It's done.
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  Speaker 3: Tell me more about the Ortega ranch.
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  Speaker 6: Well, it seems that a couple one hundred thousand acres
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  Speaker 6: of land was given Ortega's Paul by the Spanish governor.
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  Speaker 6: That is, before the United States took over the territory. Yes,
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  Speaker 6: Ortega still holds land and if ever there was an
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  Speaker 6: ornery coyote, he's it, got it from his paw and
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  Speaker 6: won't give way one inch to the folks that's been
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  Speaker 6: given the same land by our own government.
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  Speaker 3: There have been other situations of that.
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  Speaker 7: Sort, and they've all ended in fighting.
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  Speaker 4: There've been some troubles, but they've generally been settled to
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  Speaker 4: everyone's satisfaction.
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  Speaker 7: But not Ortaga.
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  Speaker 5: Gosh.
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  Speaker 6: No, there's twenty or thirty wagons pulled up just beyond
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  Speaker 6: the river that bounds his ranch on the.
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  Speaker 3: South, wagons belonging the Paneer.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, with a government swore that they can settle on
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  Speaker 6: Ortaker's land. They tried every way to make that critter
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  Speaker 6: come to terms, but he won't talk any language but
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  Speaker 6: the language of the six gun and rifle.
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  Speaker 3: What are those people planned to do?
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  Speaker 5: Wait till they get some more folks there and take
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  Speaker 5: the land by force.
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  Speaker 8: Well, we ain't joining them. Even if they did drive
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  Speaker 8: or takeing his men off the land, it wouldn't be permanent.
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  Speaker 3: No, they're quite right.
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  Speaker 8: It could just be the starting of a war that
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  Speaker 8: would last till everyone was wiped out.
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  Speaker 7: I'd sooner take the risk ahead and back east.
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  Speaker 3: California is one of the grandest parts.
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  Speaker 5: Of the whole world, and it ain't for us, Stranger.
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to see those menh a camp near the oh,
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  Speaker 3: take a ranch.
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  Speaker 5: You'll see them, all right enough.
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  Speaker 6: Just follow the Mahrvey River and you'll see them camp
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  Speaker 6: to the south of where it beings.
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  Speaker 4: Yep, you ready, Tuller, huh be ready. I'm going to
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  Speaker 4: make another request of you. Yeah, when your wheel is fixed,
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  Speaker 4: go back to California, go back stream unless you're a quitter.
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  Speaker 4: Of course, there's no room in California for quitters. But
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  Speaker 4: I don't think men without courage would have undertaken this
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  Speaker 4: trip in the first place.
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  Speaker 7: You mean we should go fight or taga.
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  Speaker 3: No, go back and see what happens.
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  Speaker 5: But what schooner happened.
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  Speaker 7: The only law in the region is the law TAGA makes.
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  Speaker 6: The government double crossed us. They should have sent troops
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  Speaker 6: to make sure we got what was promised us.
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  Speaker 4: There are other laws, and those laws will be enforced. However,
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  Speaker 4: I've made my second request. Do what you please about
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  Speaker 4: granting it.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, them A caution was that, man, I don't know, Marthy.
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  Speaker 6: We can't go back there, honey, I'm afeared. We can't
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  Speaker 6: do nothing else.
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  Speaker 7: You're going back.
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  Speaker 6: The mask man gave us water. The engine helped our son.
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  Speaker 6: I told him I do whatever he wanted.
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  Speaker 5: Martha. As soon as that their wheel is fixed, we're
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  Speaker 5: going back.
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  Speaker 1: It was nearly sundown when the Lone Ranger and Tonto
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  Speaker 1: came within sight of the Ortega ranch. The homesteaders denied
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  Speaker 1: their rights by Ortaga had made camp near the boundary line,
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  Speaker 1: and there the masked man paused to verify the statements
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  Speaker 1: of Jeb Martin. Meanwhile, the United States Marshal was in
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  Speaker 1: Ortega's ranch house, trying to persuade the stubborn landowner to
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  Speaker 1: act fairly.
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  Speaker 4: You can be fair about it, or tiger. You've got
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  Speaker 4: over a hundred thousand acres of land here. It is mine,
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  Speaker 4: all mine. I will not give it up.
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  Speaker 3: But oh, you're using is about ten thousand acres. The
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  Speaker 3: rest just goes to waste. It is mine to do
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  Speaker 3: with as I choose. I will not change my mind. Now.
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  Speaker 3: Look at it this way.
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  Speaker 4: If you persist in keeping these pioneers off the land,
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  Speaker 4: you won't gain anything but ill will and hard feelings.
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  Speaker 3: All others in your position have been fair about it.
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  Speaker 3: The folks in the east that have come here, have
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  Speaker 3: done a heap of good. No, now let me show
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  Speaker 3: you why. Here.
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  Speaker 4: Here's a man of this section. Here's the river. You see,
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  Speaker 4: I see my land begins here. If the river is
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  Speaker 4: the shide bindery, and it bends to form the boundary
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  Speaker 4: on the west.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and your.
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  Speaker 4: Land runs all the way back here, miles of land,
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  Speaker 4: all the way to the line markers.
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  Speaker 5: See.
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  Speaker 3: Now, if you let those settlers.
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  Speaker 4: Take that land a way back here near the line,
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  Speaker 4: you'd make everyone satisfied. And then, on our recommendation, the
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  Speaker 4: government would be sure. You'd keep the rest of the
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  Speaker 4: land for your room.
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  Speaker 3: High own holiday land. It is mine. I will hold
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  Speaker 3: a day. I have men.
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  Speaker 4: Here, men whose fathers live here on my land before them,
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  Speaker 4: men who fight for me, and weat me.
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  Speaker 3: We don't want no fighting.
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  Speaker 4: I hold what is mine at all costs, all the
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  Speaker 4: way from the river to the line markers. That is right,
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  Speaker 4: all the way from the river to the line markers.
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  Speaker 4: You make things downright hard for me. Oh, why should
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  Speaker 4: I care, because there'll be trouble. Still, I do not care.
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  Speaker 4: I'm sorry that any man put foot on the side
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  Speaker 4: of the river. You shall prespas for pastpass two face bullets, Samuel,
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  Speaker 4: I call you not to distrubt me.
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  Speaker 3: Then your two men cross the river. What it is true?
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  Speaker 3: They come this way. One is mass ye that I
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  Speaker 3: do not allow. I have warned. I'll see here. There
• 11:47
  Speaker 3: need to be no gun play. I have nothing to say.
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  Speaker 3: Look at them, Sanel. You'll see them.
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  Speaker 4: I see I call the other yes, call them sho
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  Speaker 4: these intruders. I won't let just talk fight on my land.
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  Speaker 4: You have nothing to say. Well God to see these
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  Speaker 4: mass man.
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  Speaker 3: You'll stand where you are.
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  Speaker 4: I'm speak with you.
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  Speaker 5: How many men they are ready?
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  Speaker 3: At your watch and you are well? You see what
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  Speaker 3: the man wants? Go back? How do we fire?
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  Speaker 4: You'll not fire on me because.
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  Speaker 3: You want to hear what I have to say.
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  Speaker 4: I sure you were you watch that law man.
• 12:27
  Speaker 3: I'm my soel. Foretake with fire.
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  Speaker 4: You don't know anything to hit me or taga simply
• 12:34
  Speaker 4: trying to fight me away.
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  Speaker 3: That wasn't warning. The next shot way be closer.
• 12:40
  Speaker 4: You're tighten your finger on that figger for another shot.
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  Speaker 4: I'm glass that gun. Come your hands.
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  Speaker 3: I show you. I won't know anyone you shoot of
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  Speaker 3: the same brother. The other man that tried to shoot me.
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  Speaker 3: I was too careful. Wait, yes, you stand on the bullet.
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  Speaker 3: You can't touch me, only my god ranger. Never in
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  Speaker 3: all my life if I've seen a man drawn fire.
• 13:01
  Speaker 4: Like, that's you, a United States Marshal. I am, And
• 13:04
  Speaker 4: why don't you insist with oh? Take and make a
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  Speaker 4: fair deal with those people beyond the river?
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  Speaker 3: I've tried. What is my own? A sheep? This land
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  Speaker 3: is mine?
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  Speaker 4: Half of it would be three times as much as
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  Speaker 4: you can never use or.
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  Speaker 3: Taken if he's manly less mine.
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  Speaker 4: According to the laws under which this state is governed,
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  Speaker 4: none of this land is yours. You can, however, retain
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  Speaker 4: plenty for your needs by making a fair agreement. You
• 13:26
  Speaker 4: want to warn all the land from that river a
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  Speaker 4: quarter mile ahead to the line miles north of here,
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  Speaker 4: All land between the river and the line is mine?
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  Speaker 4: Is that the way the land is described in your deed?
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  Speaker 3: It is? Is that true? Marshall?
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  Speaker 4: Here? The worst of it is strangers things stand right now.
• 13:41
  Speaker 4: The course is so mixed up they can't decide on
• 13:43
  Speaker 4: deeds and things. And that's true, I said it was.
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  Speaker 4: But how is it you put on a mask to
• 13:47
  Speaker 4: come here a raid or taker? Send men across the
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  Speaker 4: river to get you be seen your face. I represent
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  Speaker 4: the man across the river, but I'm not with him.
• 13:54
  Speaker 4: But of what this man has said about.
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  Speaker 3: His deed is true. It is true. What of it
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  Speaker 3: I'll take you. You'd have one chance, you're threatened, one chance?
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  Speaker 4: Will you make an agreement with the pioneers who need
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  Speaker 4: land which you will never be able to use.
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  Speaker 3: No again, I say no, very well, and stand by
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  Speaker 3: the deed you hold. You'll find it of little value
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  Speaker 3: to you.
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  Speaker 1: I the curtain falls on the first act of tonight's
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: Throwning Lone Ranger drama. Before the next exciting scenes, please
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  Speaker 1: prim minister pause for just a few moments.
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  Speaker 3: Now will continue our story. You will recall it.
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: In the first act of Tonight's Lone Ranger drama, the
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  Speaker 1: masked man learned from the homesteader Jeff Martin that or
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: Take of the ranch owner was refusing to recognize the
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: land grants of the federal government. The settlers from the east,
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: held at bay by the guns of Ortega's men, were
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: camped beside the Mohave River, the southern boundary of Ortaga's ranch.
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: The Lone Ranger visited Ortaga made certain that the stories
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: he'd heard were true, then warned the landowner that he
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: would find his title worthless. The following morning, the United
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  Speaker 1: States Marshall stopped at the office of the sheriff not
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  Speaker 1: far from the ranch. We hear him as he tells
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  Speaker 1: the Sheriff, Ben Burton, of his useless attempt to reason
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  Speaker 1: with Ortega.
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  Speaker 3: The critter is even more ornery than you, said, Burton.
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  Speaker 4: I can get along with almost every man I ever met,
• 16:27
  Speaker 4: but not with Ortager.
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  Speaker 3: I can understand that he liked the dog and the manger.
• 16:32
  Speaker 4: There he sits with men starving because he ain't no
• 16:34
  Speaker 4: land to settle on and grow crops, and him with
• 16:37
  Speaker 4: ninety thousand acres he don't need.
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: I wish I could save that mask. Man. It's a
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: curious thing. I wish I had known what he meant
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: by what he said to or Tager.
• 16:46
  Speaker 4: I wish he'd been there to see him. He read
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  Speaker 4: up with both his six guns holsted. The time it
• 16:51
  Speaker 4: took Ortager to draw the trigger, he snatched the gun
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  Speaker 4: and fired his bullet, knocked or Take's.
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  Speaker 3: Gun ten feet away. Gosh, never my life. So I
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: think equally. Hey, I wonder, by.
• 17:03
  Speaker 5: Any chance did he ride a white horse?
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah? Call the critter silver, Why I heard of a
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: man like that? Where who is he is?
• 17:12
  Speaker 4: He? Never?
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: Law? You do know who he is? Wanted by the law.
• 17:16
  Speaker 5: You know who he is?
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: And then what's he go mask for? I don't know
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: that either. Then, blessed all, what do you know?
• 17:21
  Speaker 4: Just one thing, Marshall. If that man's a man I
• 17:24
  Speaker 4: think he is. He meant just what he said. But
• 17:28
  Speaker 4: ord Taga finding he didn't have as much.
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: As he thought he did.
• 17:32
  Speaker 5: Why the law taga?
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  Speaker 3: See? So I think there would be the fight? If
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: there is, that will not be.
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  Speaker 5: No.
• 17:45
  Speaker 4: Those men already they have gone. Let's see. I leave
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: the morning at daybreak.
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: Where they go? That I do not know. I do
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: not care. I leave with all that wagons and horses.
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: Gosh, the poor critters you'll never get back where they
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: come from alive. And there ain't no other free land
• 18:07
  Speaker 4: inside one hundred miles a year, I know it, Say Artigue,
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: when'd you come here for?
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: Go?
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  Speaker 4: See what you want? Don't want nothing you got? What's more,
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: I don't even wanna.
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: See you again.
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: It goes for me too, you honer, kylete I write
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  Speaker 4: all his wife for nothing. I don't know why you're
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: rid this way, but I don't want you. You'll send
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: for me like fun I did. You'll do your sandy
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: not I have it here. I sent you a note,
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: say it?
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: What's it say?
• 18:38
  Speaker 5: Marshall must be a mistake.
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: I never read this note. When is it? Is it?
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: If he wants to make sure he'll keep his land
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: to report here this morning?
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: What the ranger?
• 18:53
  Speaker 5: That's what it is.
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: You need all that done on us, Stranger naming.
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: The shoot that's gonna take No chense you say you
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: wrote that note. I didn't tell thenor Tager to be
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: here to see me. Yes, I want to take it
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: to stake before witnesses. Just what land he claimed?
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: I have already said, get more witnesses.
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: Yeah, all right, stranger, I'll do just that. You aint
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: right here now.
• 19:15
  Speaker 5: I don't know what you're up to, but I'm willing.
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: To find out. Hey, Lamb, get Jim Brisbane come in
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: my office? All right? You too, Lanny yours? Yes? What's
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: the big idea Stranger? It seems to be a lot
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: of argument about what land or take you own. I
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: have proof of what I own. I know.
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: I show the deed to any who wishes to see
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  Speaker 4: it well or take it.
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: There'll be some men here in just the moments you
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: wish to see. The need.
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: Or taker showed the deed to his rands to the
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: witnesses called by the lone ranger. It clearly establish it's
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: his claim to all the land between the river and
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: the boundary stakes miles to the north. Then satisfied that
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: he'd proved his point or take a return to his home.
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: As he rode to his ranch, he passed the deserted
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: camp of the homesteaders, but he did not know that
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: Tonto would lead them back that same night.
• 20:18
  Speaker 6: Shit corne dark, I can't see a thing that good.
• 20:21
  Speaker 6: I don't Sammy, what your scheme is?
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: Scheme not mine? Well, your friends, scheme is you do
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: what Tonto saying? Well, here dig in ground?
• 20:34
  Speaker 5: What should we do?
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: Make big holes and make other hole, make plenty hole?
• 20:41
  Speaker 5: Who's this coming?
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: In a way? That friend the work started? Ah, I
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: know that voice as your son, Jeb Trader.
• 20:50
  Speaker 6: Thanks to you and your partner the engine release most
• 20:53
  Speaker 6: well already good.
• 20:54
  Speaker 5: I come back like you said, I know you did.
• 20:57
  Speaker 6: I was just in time to hear the men talking
• 20:59
  Speaker 6: about how you met up with him in camp and
• 21:02
  Speaker 6: moved them away from where.
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: They was, we hadn't much time to talk, Jim. There's
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: a lot of work to be done between now and daybreak.
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: Good enough, I'm ready to work. Big hole here. The
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: kegs are in the wagon tunnel.
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: Not good.
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: After Ortegas stated his claims, I talked with the sheriff
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: in the United States. Marshall you helm scheme, yes, and
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: they will help us.
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: That good. Now, get the other.
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: Men started digging, and then you and I will place
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: the kegs.
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: The homesteaders labored with all their energy under the direction
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: of the lone ranger. One pit after another was dug,
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: and at daybreak the holes extended from the dry bed
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: of an old stream to a point where they met
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: the river, which formed the boundary line to Ortega's land.
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: We're almost finished with this of our work, Teto huh.
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: You'll stay here and take care of things well. I
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: ride to see or take a man from right and
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: remember and just the time we decided on do your
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: parts hunt ho doom a stranger, Yes, Jef, the boys
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: are plumbing more off from working to steady.
• 22:15
  Speaker 5: Ain't quitting.
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: They're not quitters.
• 22:17
  Speaker 6: It's just one thing they crave to know. Yes, just
• 22:20
  Speaker 6: what's all this digging to do with getting the land
• 22:23
  Speaker 6: to settle on.
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: You'll see when Tanah gives you the word come to
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: or takea's home, shoot, you'll not need to come shooting, jem.
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: There'll be no gunplay. Here's Hobie. When you come, come
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: to claim your land and settle down.
• 22:36
  Speaker 5: Yep.
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: The mask man left the homesteaders and rode beyond the
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: river towards the Ortega rants house. His approach was noted
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: by two mounted men, the sheriff and the United States Marshall.
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: There he comes, MARKO wonder if his scheme will work.
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: At least we can do is follow his instructions and
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: find out. There he goes cutting for the house. Let's
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: get moving now.
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: Farewell, one call your master o Taga. There is no
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: need same here. There's no use trying to persuade you
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: to be fair or Taga. What is my own? I
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: keep all the land between the river and the marked line.
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: See there, you go from here and stay away.
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: You're not planning to make a grab for that gun,
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: are you?
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: No exud You hear that explosion?
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: That's Quaker could not it's under It was a blast
• 24:06
  Speaker 4: Ortaga that will change everything around here. Many years ago
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: that river flowed through a different bed. The arroyo is
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: quite away north of here, not far from the northern
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: boundary of your land. What of that the river happened
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: to change its course Ortega and flow in its original bed.
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: The old land would be reduced to less than one
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: thousand acres.
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: So it could never happen. Perhaps you're wrong.
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: No, No, since my father came here, the river has
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: always been the same. Nevertheless, the river is your boundary lane,
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: your southern and western boundary. And if the river does
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: change its course, all the lands south of the old
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: arroyo would no longer.
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: Belong to you.
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: Not even this house would be your past for your
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: stables or corral or your cultivated fields.
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: And you'll come here only to talk, I will, I please.
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: I'm not here to simply talk or takea I'm here
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: to show you your mistake.
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: What you It looks like they're gonna lose some land
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: or chang. He is on that trick. It's all talk.
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: If you think it's just talk right over and see
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: how the water's going down in the river. Yeah, we
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: head word that the river has flown through a new course,
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: an old corse shedw it's original bed.
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah, the old royal I will not believe.
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: You'll have to believe when you'll say for yourself that
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: blast was arranged by the pioneers who came.
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: To settle here. Cannot do that sort of thing.
• 25:25
  Speaker 4: The land you own, the land you've declared before witnesses
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: is yours.
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: Is bounded by the river and the marked line.
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: North of the river. Soon there will be less than
• 25:34
  Speaker 4: a thousand acres there. The land is poor for crops
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: and worse for grazing. This land is not yours now, Marshall,
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: tell them here's wrong, Tell them he ain't wrong, or
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: taking he's dead right.
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: What's more, you better vacate this house and get off lamb.
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: That ain't yours, it is mine.
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: He needs only till the last of the water runs
• 25:52
  Speaker 4: through that riverbed. Then you're moving out. And they ain't
• 25:55
  Speaker 4: A long court in the state of California would give
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: you any claim to this land. Not when they see
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: how your property is described and the deed.
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: Mmmm.
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: Saw, I am trick, oh tager, You're a selfish, unreasonable man.
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: Of all the people who were here when California became
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: one of the United States, you're the only landowner who
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: hasn't come to terms with the government.
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: So are you're going to pay her?
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: Wait, sheriff if Otaga wants to keep his house, his stables,
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: and his other buildings, the land he's using for crops
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: and grazing, and all the land he actually needs. Perhaps
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: he'd take a new deed in exchange for his old one.
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: Now make your choice, and make it fast.
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: I make my choice. Ha, I have no choice. Light
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: take what you will give me. I must be content.
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: You will find, o Tega, that California will be fair
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: with you.
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: Downside, more fair than you've been with California. All right,
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: those others. Let him have the land I do not use.
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: Only let me keep my house in the land around it.
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: Now you're talking since the dead, at your selfish height.
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: It took the lone ranger to make your talk. Say
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: one question, saying you're the mask. Yes, tell me, did
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: you know when you planned to change the river that
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: my father did that years ago?
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: What do you mean? The land is it?
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: Now? Is?
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: Is what was granted my father?
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: He it was he changed the river to run far
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: in the house, to gain many thousand acres.
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: Of the land.
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: Yes, I knew well, dog gone it so you got
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: your landmass window in the first place.
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: Come on, s wrong boy, trouble on the cattle coupry,
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: follow us, cycle us. I know
• 29:33
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• 29:35
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