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Gunsmoke — Drop Dead [episode 22], Broadcast 9/20/1952 (Western Radio Drama) · Gunsmoke | Old Time Radio

• 0:09
  Speaker 1: Around Dodge City and the territory on West. There's just
• 0:13
  Speaker 1: one way to handle the killers, miss spoilers, and that's
• 0:16
  Speaker 1: with the US Marshall and the Spell of Gun Smoke,
• 0:38
  Speaker 1: Guns Smoke, starring William Conrad, The transcribed story of the
• 0:43
  Speaker 1: violence that moved West with Young America, The story of a.
• 0:47
  Speaker 2: Man who moved with it.
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  Speaker 1: Matt Dillon, United States Marshall.
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  Speaker 3: H here's the river, mister, Jason. Dryer's a boom our
• 1:18
  Speaker 3: last hoop of water for the hurry.
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  Speaker 4: I quite peck us gotten one pond is just over
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  Speaker 4: the rise ahead of us.
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  Speaker 3: Be rid me be drying.
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  Speaker 2: Who bet they haven't hear a ring on the prairie
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  Speaker 2: for six months? It won't be drive.
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  Speaker 4: I've been brying cattle up here to God's City for
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  Speaker 4: twelve years. Rout the no drought.
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  Speaker 2: The ponds always had water.
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  Speaker 3: Get better than here.
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  Speaker 2: We're losing fifteen hit an hour. Now keep pushing much further.
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  Speaker 2: They have bee water with luck.
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  Speaker 4: The railroad's got the cars for us. Wait and start
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  Speaker 4: loading this afternoon. By this time, chunge like the boy
• 2:00
  Speaker 4: he's up my head, run und or something. Yeah, come on,
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  Speaker 4: here's a pund. Vega's plenty of water. I guess you
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  Speaker 4: were right. I wonder why the herd's patting up. You
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  Speaker 4: ought to be stampeding for that pun you think, Captain,
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  Speaker 4: hold up.
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  Speaker 3: Peggan a farm ware fence. Somebody's fans talk, the pond,
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  Speaker 3: the jackson. It looks like we've got a fight on
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  Speaker 3: our hands. I don't like it. Duck, it's too quiet.
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  Speaker 3: Things got too quiet, and dodge it always means a
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  Speaker 3: blow up's coming.
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  Speaker 4: Just sit down, Matt.
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  Speaker 5: You're just getting yourself for casing ners. You've been aloftter
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  Speaker 5: too long, shot at.
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  Speaker 6: You many time.
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  Speaker 5: You ain't getting so you just act like a spooky
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  Speaker 5: old horse. You're jumping your gun, shy and hamming those forceps.
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  Speaker 3: From Oh yeah you mean us? Thank you? Now you
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  Speaker 3: take me, mat I.
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  Speaker 7: I don't rant and rail against fate.
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  Speaker 8: I just sit back and take what comes.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah I should.
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  Speaker 5: If I get a patient, fine, I steal in blind.
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  Speaker 5: And if I don't, then I keep my hand in
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  Speaker 5: setting a broken leg on a dog. Yeah, that's slent
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  Speaker 5: out a hole emity. Matter of fact, I could use
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  Speaker 5: a fear too. Not planning to shoot anybody.
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  Speaker 8: Are you?
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  Speaker 9: Man?
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  Speaker 3: If this drought doesn't break, I'm in the mood to
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  Speaker 3: shoot myself.
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  Speaker 4: That's a bad one all.
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  Speaker 8: I don't think i've ever seen the prairies driseres this year.
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  Speaker 3: Oh there you are.
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  Speaker 10: Mister Dillon.
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  Speaker 3: Well come on then, Chester.
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  Speaker 10: I've been looking all over for you. We've got trouble,
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  Speaker 10: mister Dylon. Huh, trouble. Old man Howard gets h a
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  Speaker 10: rider in the trail drives pulled in from the Big Bend.
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  Speaker 10: They're threatening to cut his spencers so they can water
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  Speaker 10: the cattle.
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  Speaker 2: At Cottonwood Pong.
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  Speaker 11: Well, as you blow up, Matt, a real head on,
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  Speaker 11: smash a thirsty herd against that skin flint, Howard, that
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  Speaker 11: I could get myself a few fees off of this
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  Speaker 11: before it's over.
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  Speaker 3: Good old Doc, always hoping for the best. Now, come on, Chester,
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  Speaker 3: let's ride out to cottonwoodd.
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  Speaker 4: Like Howard had no call to fence that pond, mister Dillon.
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  Speaker 4: There's enough water there for all the trail herds in
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  Speaker 4: the next ten years.
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  Speaker 3: That's on his ranch. Chester. He's got a right to
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  Speaker 3: fence his own range.
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  Speaker 4: Got a right, maybe, but no decent ranger would take
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  Speaker 4: advantage of it.
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  Speaker 3: Howard's meed just down right. I think it's more than
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  Speaker 3: that Chester. It's the old business. I'm making two dollars
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  Speaker 3: grow where one dollar grew before. I think Howard figured
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  Speaker 3: on something like this when he strung that fence last month.
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  Speaker 3: The trouble is looking to mister Dylon.
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  Speaker 4: Huh must be fifty or sixt year ride heers facing
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  Speaker 4: each other across that fence.
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  Speaker 3: Looks like a couple of armies. That wouldn't be the
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  Speaker 3: first range war that started over water rights.
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  Speaker 12: Come on, all right, boy, I put away the guns.
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  Speaker 3: The party's over. Who says Almester?
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  Speaker 8: I do?
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  Speaker 3: Who are you? Tell him? Us? Martial much my show?
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  Speaker 7: That man is kang a threat of the break for
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  Speaker 7: my princes. I trustas on my property. I demand the
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  Speaker 7: protection of the law.
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  Speaker 3: You'll get it hard. You're the owner.
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  Speaker 4: That's hurd, that's right, Marshall jack Jackson from the circle
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  Speaker 4: Z spread down in the big ben.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe you can make.
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  Speaker 3: This fellowsy reason.
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  Speaker 4: I gotta herd of cattle here that's dying like flies
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  Speaker 4: for lack of water over there one hundred yards. There's
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  Speaker 4: plenty of water on this sneak and crook is fizzed in.
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  Speaker 2: How about it?
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  Speaker 3: Martin? His line, Jackson, the law gives him the right
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  Speaker 3: to fence.
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  Speaker 2: It wall right.
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  Speaker 4: Everything I got in the world's tied up, and I'd
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  Speaker 4: heard there's twenty five trail riders there in the satellite
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  Speaker 4: can't even pay wages to if.
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  Speaker 2: I lose these cattle.
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  Speaker 4: There's a low pole pushing a man against the wall
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  Speaker 4: and wiping him out.
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  Speaker 3: It wasn't intended to hard. Whyn't you right up here
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  Speaker 3: to the fence and talk? Huh?
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  Speaker 12: I sure my shoe?
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  Speaker 7: Oh chickens and offense in it?
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  Speaker 3: How nobody's doubting it? Now? Look? Is there any reason
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  Speaker 3: why you can't get together with this man and let
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  Speaker 3: him take that hurt in and water it. I made
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  Speaker 3: him an.
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  Speaker 4: Off Uh, he turned him off a dollar I had
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  Speaker 4: a day for water or by the hurt himself for
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  Speaker 4: three dollars ahead.
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  Speaker 7: It's a pretty stiff terms, howard better than losing everything
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  Speaker 7: like he's gonna do?
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  Speaker 2: Are you dirty?
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  Speaker 9: I luck?
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  Speaker 3: If he's any gun sling and starts, I'm gonna be
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  Speaker 3: in on it too, You understand? How would I just
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  Speaker 3: don't understand you? Most people out here on the frontier
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  Speaker 3: stick together when trouble starts. They don't kick a man
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  Speaker 3: when he's down, and they don't look on a draft
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  Speaker 3: or a blizzard as a chance to make a personal cleaning.
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  Speaker 7: A just a minute, Dylan, you call yourself a log dodge?
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  Speaker 12: All right?
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  Speaker 3: Does a law?
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  Speaker 7: Say I convince in my own land it does. And
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  Speaker 7: never mind your opinions, Marshall. All I want out of
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  Speaker 7: you is enforcement of the law.
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  Speaker 3: All right, Howard, you'll get it, and that's all you'll get. Jackson,
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  Speaker 3: you better have your boys start to hurd circling.
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  Speaker 2: This means you're backing him off.
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  Speaker 9: Marshall.
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  Speaker 3: I'm backing up the law, that's all Jackson.
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  Speaker 4: And I don't think much of your laws up here.
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  Speaker 3: I only enforce him. I don't make him. Now you
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  Speaker 3: better sickle that herd.
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  Speaker 7: I say you better. I'm ordering my boys to shoot
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  Speaker 7: the first man of steel that comes through that fence.
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  Speaker 3: Yes to you, cover Howard, Yes, you're mister Dilon. If
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  Speaker 3: he orders any of his men to fire a shot.
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  Speaker 4: Kill him, do you pleasure, mister Dillon?
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  Speaker 7: What's the idea, mar you wanted the law enforced?
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  Speaker 3: I'll right, you're getting it, but I'm gonna do the enforcing, Howard,
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  Speaker 3: not you. So if you're smart, you won't give any
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  Speaker 3: orders about shooting, all right, mister.
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  Speaker 2: Dylan, you got a tough job. I guess you're trying
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  Speaker 2: to do it fair and square.
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  Speaker 3: Man does what he has to do.
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  Speaker 4: Jackson, I know black with me that herd of mine
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  Speaker 4: beds down without water.
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  Speaker 2: Most of them won't get off the ground in the morning.
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  Speaker 4: So law, no law.
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  Speaker 2: We're going through that fence tonight, Matt.
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  Speaker 6: Bad liquor or busted?
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  Speaker 3: How are you eager?
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  Speaker 6: But you've probably noticed that before. Serious though, what's wrong?
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  Speaker 13: Plenty?
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  Speaker 3: One of the bloodiest little range wars you ever saw
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  Speaker 3: is just about to break.
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  Speaker 6: At a cottonwood pond. I heard about it.
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  Speaker 3: You're here too that I'm back in the wrong side.
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  Speaker 6: Here, Paula still up to the bar, Harry, you drink from?
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  Speaker 3: Mister Jallon, No thanks. I can't stay kidding. I gotta
• 9:47
  Speaker 3: try to round up some deputies and tries. Probably about
• 9:50
  Speaker 3: as far as I'm gonna get. Old Ton will be
• 9:53
  Speaker 3: siding with the Texas Boys against Howard and against me.
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  Speaker 6: Maybe you ought which sides?
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  Speaker 9: Man?
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  Speaker 3: Oh? Sure, sure, I order, I know, but I can't.
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  Speaker 3: I started making my own rules. That mean the end
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  Speaker 3: of law and order in Dodge City. Yeah, I just
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  Speaker 3: can't do it. Kitty, which as i'd.
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  Speaker 6: Like to, Well, not for me to say, you're the
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  Speaker 6: oneer has to decide.
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  Speaker 3: Chester, what'd you find out, mister high tower down the railroad?
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  Speaker 3: Default check clear through the Topeka.
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  Speaker 4: They can't get enough cattle cars here to load that
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  Speaker 4: heurd out before day after.
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  Speaker 3: That's that it's an outside chance anyway. I just can't
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  Speaker 3: do it, Kitty, Which as I'd like to.
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  Speaker 6: Well, not for me to say, you're the oneer has to.
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  Speaker 3: Decide, Chester, what'd you find out, mister high tower down
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  Speaker 3: railroad default check clear through the Topeka.
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  Speaker 4: They can't get enough cattle cars here to load that
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  Speaker 4: heard out before day after?
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  Speaker 3: That's that it's an outside chance anyway. So he might
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  Speaker 3: load him up fast, kiddy, and run him up to
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  Speaker 3: the Walnut Creek.
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  Speaker 13: It's still got a little water in it.
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  Speaker 6: Matt, there's something wrong with the law that help pulls
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  Speaker 6: a lowdown scheme like this.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, what Howard's doing is wrong morally, but it's right legally.
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  Speaker 3: I got to find a legal way to stop him.
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  Speaker 6: I that a lawyer could find a way of some kind.
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  Speaker 6: Too bad this town doesn't happen just the same matter.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, what is it? My name is spent Range, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I know you work for Dike Howard. Well what's on
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  Speaker 3: your mind?
• 11:38
  Speaker 1: Well, mister Howard figures you ought to be arranged and
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  Speaker 1: to protect his property.
• 11:43
  Speaker 3: Jackson gave me his word he'd lay off until nine tonight.
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  Speaker 10: It's words, sure would, mister Howard figures would be a
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  Speaker 10: good idea if you deputize his right.
• 11:51
  Speaker 3: Is get up? Wait a second morning, I want get up? Well,
• 11:57
  Speaker 3: I want Howard's advice. I'll ask for it. I go
• 12:00
  Speaker 3: tell him that. Well, yeah, but go on, get up, move.
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  Speaker 13: Deputize his writers.
• 12:18
  Speaker 3: Sure like that?
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  Speaker 10: Well, it just may come to that, mister Dylan, and
• 12:22
  Speaker 10: I couldn't get anybody else.
• 12:25
  Speaker 3: You know, I ought to throw this badge away and
• 12:27
  Speaker 3: go out there and help Jackson cut that fence.
• 12:29
  Speaker 6: Man, I.
• 12:31
  Speaker 3: Know, I know. I ought to get a lawyer. Well, Kenny,
• 12:33
  Speaker 3: the only lawyer Dodge City ever saw was that young
• 12:35
  Speaker 3: fellow from Boston who died here last year. What is it,
• 12:41
  Speaker 3: man Chester? What happened to those books is?
• 12:44
  Speaker 10: Well, nobody never claimed him. They're still in the back
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  Speaker 10: of the jail there.
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  Speaker 3: Sound it's a long shot, but Kitty, I love you.
• 12:53
  Speaker 3: Come on, Chester, let's find those books. I don't know, Chester,
• 13:12
  Speaker 3: take amount of year just to learn what.
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  Speaker 13: These words mean.
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  Speaker 10: Well, I sure can't help you, mister Dylan. Look you there,
• 13:20
  Speaker 10: tort replevin statutory malfees ants.
• 13:29
  Speaker 3: Why don't they write the laws out in English? There
• 13:31
  Speaker 3: be no work for lawyers, and the only thing that
• 13:35
  Speaker 3: might do it is this one. I'm not too sure
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  Speaker 3: what it means. Oh, Doc, come on in here, will you?
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  Speaker 9: Figured I'll bring you.
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  Speaker 5: A little courage for the battle might.
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  Speaker 8: Be snakes out at Cotton Pon.
• 13:52
  Speaker 3: It's very thoughtful, Yes, Calamo.
• 13:54
  Speaker 8: And Irish whiskey.
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  Speaker 5: No doctor west of the Mississippi.
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  Speaker 11: Ought to be without him.
• 13:59
  Speaker 8: Calum's for thetand yeah, sure of course about Jameson might
• 14:04
  Speaker 8: not cure a patient, but it sure makes him enjoys.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Look, Doc, you've been to school at least I
• 14:12
  Speaker 3: guess you had. Oh well, I browsed through a copy. Well,
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  Speaker 3: listen to this and tell me what you think about
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  Speaker 3: this paragraph right here.
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  Speaker 8: Well, let's say a Schedule of Territorial Ordinances and Judicial
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  Speaker 8: Presidents Handbook for Local Administrators.
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  Speaker 3: Well I didn't go to law school, no, no, but
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  Speaker 3: you've but read books and you know big words.
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  Speaker 13: I listen to this.
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  Speaker 3: The local administrator or other July constituted authority in a
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  Speaker 3: territorial division is hereby empowered to declare a state of
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  Speaker 3: acute emergency in case a riot, rebellion, or any natural
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  Speaker 3: catastrophe which threatens a general welfare. Now, Doc, would you
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  Speaker 3: say I'm a July constituted authority?
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  Speaker 8: Huh, Well, Dodd City, I guess you're about the only authority.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. No, would you say this droughtwere heaven is a
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  Speaker 3: threat to the general welfare?
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  Speaker 8: I've never seen a worse one.
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  Speaker 3: But all right, I listen to this. During the period
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  Speaker 3: of such emergency, the officer in charge is authorized to seize, confiscate, allocate,
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  Speaker 3: or otherwise administer critical materials and facilities in accordance with
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  Speaker 3: a common need and his own discretion.
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  Speaker 8: Alright, Matt, water is a material. Yeah, And as far
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  Speaker 8: as keeping cattle lives concerned, cottonwood pond is a facility.
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  Speaker 3: That's all I wanted to know.
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  Speaker 5: I don't see how I'll I help you, though, Matt
• 15:33
  Speaker 5: Howard will never stand for it.
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  Speaker 8: You're still going to have a pitched battle in your hands.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe so, Doc, but at least I'll be fighting in
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  Speaker 3: the way I want to fight. Oh, come on, just
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  Speaker 3: let's go. It's eight o'clock.
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  Speaker 1: We will return for the second act of gun smoke
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  Speaker 1: in just a moment. But first, you personally can help
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  Speaker 1: to make sure America has an impregnable fence against invaders
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  Speaker 1: along all its borders by volunteering as a ground observer
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: to watch the skies for unidentified planes. Men and women
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  Speaker 1: from teenage up rider phone your nearest civil defense center.
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  Speaker 3: Now the second act of gun smoke as dark now
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: must be pushing nine o'clock. Hope they don't jump the
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  Speaker 3: gun on us Chester.
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  Speaker 10: I figure Jack will stick by his word.
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  Speaker 3: Mister Dylon. If Howard letsigon, you know, we might get
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: a break.
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  Speaker 2: And this trows of that storm.
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: Comes this way. Let's say it's only heat, lightning, all
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  Speaker 3: thunder and no rain.
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  Speaker 4: Well, if it goes on a few more weeks, this
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  Speaker 4: prail will be dried right down to the number.
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  Speaker 3: Hold it, pull up them horses.
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  Speaker 10: He's right there with the fence, mister Dillan, Yeah.
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: I see who's there, speaker. I usually answer bush wheckers
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  Speaker 3: with a six gun. This is your lucky knight Fenton. Oh, Marshall,
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: I didn't know where's your boss?
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  Speaker 7: All right here, Tyler, not time you got here and
• 17:32
  Speaker 7: my may trying to rush the fench CENTI minute now.
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  Speaker 4: Not yet, Howard, I said, nine o'clock. You got five
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  Speaker 4: minutes yet.
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  Speaker 3: Come on over here, Jackson. I want you to hear
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  Speaker 3: this too.
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  Speaker 2: I kind of.
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  Speaker 4: Wish you'd stayed out of it, Marshall, rather than not
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  Speaker 4: have thought.
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  Speaker 3: I guess you never mind, mister hard By the authority
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: vested in me as a US Marshall, and under the
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: territorial laws and Ordinances of the UNI United States, I'm
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: hereby declaring the state of acute emergency due to the drought.
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  Speaker 7: What are you talking about, Dylan?
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: The US Territorial Ordinance Schedule of eighteen fifty eight, Section
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  Speaker 3: seven twenty one CE. What are you trying to say?
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  Speaker 3: Just this, for the duration of the emergency, I am
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: taking charge of Cottonwood Pond in the name of the
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: United States Government, and I'm allocating use of it to
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: mister Jackson.
• 18:22
  Speaker 9: Here.
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: The water is heard. If you want to try to
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: make a deal with him, he got five minutes before
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: I cut the wire and open the fence.
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: I've never bought water before. I'll gave you ten cents ahead, Howard,
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: how about it.
• 18:38
  Speaker 7: I'll see it dead first I'll truck did myself before
• 18:42
  Speaker 7: I see one head of your stock on my property. Dylan,
• 18:46
  Speaker 7: I don't know what's be heard this move. Maybe you
• 18:48
  Speaker 7: have so loud medideali rule.
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: He's a howard.
• 18:51
  Speaker 7: If not that, then you've lost your mind.
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: You five minutes are running out. Now what are you
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: gonna do? Fight? What do you think I'm gonna do?
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: Gonna resist the law?
• 19:00
  Speaker 12: You call it the law?
• 19:01
  Speaker 7: I don't, Dylan, lum give my boys orders. I shoot
• 19:04
  Speaker 7: any man lays a hand on this fence.
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: And that goes for you. Listen to me, Howard. You
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  Speaker 3: got a chance to do something that costs you nothing
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: and means life or death to somebody else, and you're
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: refusing to do it. Well, I'm sorry to see it
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: that way, but in any case, this hurd gets water,
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: maybe they will. All right, boys, you hurt it? Cheat
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: that fence cover, Jackson, I guess I'm gonna need some deputies.
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: Well, I got twenty five men here, marshall, are yours
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: if you want them?
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: All right? Boys? Well, you all raise your right hands.
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: Do you swear to up hold the Constitution, Ordinances, and
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: by laws of the United States to the best of
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: your ability? So I help you I do all right,
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: you're all temporary Deputy Marshalls acting under my orders. Now.
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: A bunch of the cattle in this way and got
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: them through the fence as soon as I open the wire.
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: They won't need much starting, Marshall. They've been smelling that
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: water for hour.
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: Don't shoot unless you're fired on. If you are, protect
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: yourselves and your hurt. All right, let's.
• 20:10
  Speaker 14: Go because kay, boss Blankers closing my man towards the opening.
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: Here they crown on that fence. Elf cut themselves to rebel.
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: Right, brush over this, Chester, come here, man, Yes, you
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: got the war cutters.
• 20:33
  Speaker 10: You're your arms to Dylan. You know, I think we
• 20:36
  Speaker 10: gotta fight on our hands.
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: I guess, all right, keep me covered.
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: I'll watch the left over here, all right, mister Jackson.
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: Well there's one string they're cooking up. Thanks, mister hard
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: all right, fired the flesh. Yes, Oh my gracious, I
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: wish there was a moon. There's one more strand I
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: spotted him. Here's the last one.
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: Alright, boys, the fence is open, ring up through.
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: Heads up, Chester. They won't give in this season. You
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: can hear him out there, but you can't see for
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: the dun Yeah, Win's coming up on that clock. Oh,
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: come on, let's try to find Howard. I'm gonna take
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: him in for attempted murder.
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: Last time I heard him, he was down along the
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: fence here, Summers.
• 21:39
  Speaker 12: Why wants it?
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: Look look at him, torches, mister.
• 21:45
  Speaker 10: Dillon, There is satin fire in the grass.
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: Yeah, destris it as they will step the whole prairie place, Jackson,
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: get your hurt to the fence. They're trying to stampede it.
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: It'll take more than fire to turn those cattle away
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: from water.
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: I guess you're right, but send as many as your
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: voice as you canna help me.
• 22:03
  Speaker 9: We gotta get that fire stopped and fast.
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: I don't know, mister Dylan.
• 22:20
  Speaker 11: I don't know we're winning or losing.
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: I don't if that backfire holes that we're we're winning Chester.
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: Otherwise it couldn't have been a worse time.
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: The prairie's dry, gun powdy not.
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: At least the herd's safe. They wouldn't leave that fond
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: of the whole world. Cut any orders for the boys,
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: mister Dylan. Yeah, I just haven't keep working along the
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: edge of the backfire. Pacers beat out on any sparks
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: that get across, right.
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: Marshall, I got you.
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: Have you seen anything of the Howard gang? We're not
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: a sign.
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: I guess they figured they'd done all they could.
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe, mister Dylan, and I'd swear a storm's gonna break.
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: I can halfway smell rain about that Chester, and it's
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: doing one thing. It won't help us. What do you mean?
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: Look the wind shifting starting to drive those flames across
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: the backfire.
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: Well, if it catches there again, it'll get clear away
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: from sure.
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: Well, now come on, let's grab some of the boys
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: and start working behind him. Yes, Zilan, Well Fenton, I
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: figured you'd be halfway to the Mexican border by now,
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: But you figured it wrong. You keep your hands still,
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: both of you. One movement at your last one. That's
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: about the way you planned it. Anyway, It isn't it.
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: You wipe us out, Dylan. Backfire took the ranch house
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: in the barns. That's the first you know a drift.
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: Only first drop the gun. Your under arrest.
• 23:40
  Speaker 12: I'm dropping you.
• 23:49
  Speaker 10: Well you warned in, mister Dylan.
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: That doesn't matter much.
• 23:55
  Speaker 10: Well, Chester, Yes, sir, he's jumped the backfire.
• 23:59
  Speaker 7: With that wind driving it, it'll burn the whole prairie
• 24:01
  Speaker 7: from here, Clark.
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: The river, and Dodge setting along with it. Not a
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: way in the world.
• 24:06
  Speaker 7: Is stopping it either, Shot Marshall, You're right.
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: I'm sick of my stomach. That's all godd said. He's
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: gonna burn Jackson and there's nothing we can do.
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: I sure didn't figure on this. I let him have
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: her drading.
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: Oh it's my fault. I should have jumped in first.
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: The man does what he has to Marshall.
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: I don't think that's your way.
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: Oh maybe my way the wrong way when it leads
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: to burning ten thousand acres a prairie in a whole town.
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: They must be something rushing down?
• 24:34
  Speaker 9: What is it?
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: Chest I to Yeah, I holy, I could smell it,
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: smell what what the devil?
• 24:40
  Speaker 13: He rain?
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: Yes, sure, my heaven's just stopping the ring by heaven
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: may be the right expression.
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: Well, I don't know about that, but I know it's
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: the only thing I can save. Dods.
• 24:56
  Speaker 12: We come on red faster, got loosen rain, Will you
• 25:02
  Speaker 12: haven't doing and this and never look at it?
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: And people down on that far.
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: Right chess, you know, out here on the front or
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: sometimes when a thing like this happens makes you wonder
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: if maybe well, I don't know. Come on, Chester, let's
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: find our horse.
• 25:48
  Speaker 12: It.
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: You're not letting nothing, mister Billy.
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: No, it was still quite a way from Tom. Let's
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: swing over along the bluff, Chester and find a place
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: to wait it out for a while. Huh.
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: That's what I was hoping, you say.
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: Come on, And it took a long time to break loose,
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: but it sure may get up for a lock.
• 26:06
  Speaker 13: Wow.
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: I never saw a lightning in this before. Usually let's
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: up once the rain starts. I guess it's just a
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: freak storm anywhere. Off your horse just to fly on
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: the ground.
• 26:22
  Speaker 10: I saw a flash, mister Dillon. It come from that
• 26:25
  Speaker 10: lone cottonwood tree.
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a bad spot. He's got covered and we haven't.
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: And I guess we've found out what happened to mister Howard.
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: All right, Howard, come on, put your hands up, your
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: honor arrest. Why do you get diner?
• 26:47
  Speaker 13: You're going to flipper shot at the tree?
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: Chester, roll away sside fire? All right, smart, that's what.
• 27:03
  Speaker 13: That one was close. There's enough light for him to see.
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: He's got all the odds. It keeps it up.
• 27:10
  Speaker 13: He will get us. Sure, maybe we might just well
• 27:13
  Speaker 13: rest you've mister Dylan. We haven't got much to lose
• 27:16
  Speaker 13: as an outside chance just there and he's bound to
• 27:20
  Speaker 13: get one of us.
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but this way it's both.
• 27:23
  Speaker 13: Yeah, I know, alright, we'll go in on the kind
• 27:28
  Speaker 13: of tree and not move fast. Yes, and good Lechester,
• 27:36
  Speaker 13: see you, mister donne alright, one, it's cool.
• 27:43
  Speaker 10: Three mister Dylon.
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: W what happened?
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: It was like ruck the tree. I think Howard's lying
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: over there on the ground. Come on, yeah, he's done
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: all right.
• 28:17
  Speaker 4: He said he'd be struck dead before he'd ever give in.
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: Well he was.
• 28:25
  Speaker 13: By heaven. No, no, no, second time the night You're
• 28:34
  Speaker 13: not Chester. I think I'm gonna change my ways.
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: Guns Smoke transcribed under the direction of Norman MacDonald, stars
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: William Conrad as Matt Dylan US Marshall. Tonight's story was
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: specially written for Gun Smoke by Les Crutchfield, with music
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: composed and conducted by Rex Cory. Featured in the cast
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: were Harry Bartel and Lou Krugman, with Joe Devall, Barney
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: Phillips and Georgie Ellis. Parley Bears Chester and Howard mcneer
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: is doc join us again next week as Matt Dylan
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: US Marshall fights to bring law and order out of
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: the wild violence of the West. In gun Smoke, where
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: there's crime afoot, look for Gangbusters tonight