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The Lone Ranger - "Ghost Town" (Old Time Radio, 1942) · The Lone Ranger | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: Fran Stryker wrote this May 22, 1942, broadcast of The
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  Speaker 1: Lone Ranger, episode 1456, Ghost Town. Brace Beamer is the
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  Speaker 1: Lone Ranger, with John Todd as Tonto, as the pair
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  Speaker 1: ride into Oliphant, a western town apparently left without its men.
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  Speaker 2: There, Mrs.
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  Speaker 1: Peters mistakes the masked rider for her son, and the
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  Speaker 1: search for an explanation leads the two friends toward questions
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  Speaker 1: surrounding Dave Peters and an old family connection. From the
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  Speaker 1: early Blue Network years of The Lone Ranger, with General
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  Speaker 1: Mills' kicks as sponsor, here is the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: The End.
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  Speaker 1: The fiery horse with the speed of light, the cloud
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  Speaker 1: of dust, and a hearty hi-yo silver.
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  Speaker 3: The Lone Ranger.
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  Speaker 4: The Lone Ranger.
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  Speaker 5: THE END.
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  Speaker 6: THE END.
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  Speaker 1: With his faithful Indian companion, Tonto, the masked rider of
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  Speaker 1: the plains led the fight for law and order in
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  Speaker 1: the early western United States. The stories of his strength
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  Speaker 1: and courage, his daring and resourcefulness have come down to
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  Speaker 1: us through the generations. And nowhere in the pages of
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  Speaker 1: history can one find a greater champion of justice. Return
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  Speaker 1: with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear. From
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  Speaker 1: out of the past come the thundering hoofbeats of the
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  Speaker 1: great horse Silver. The Lone Ranger rides again.
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  Speaker 2: Come on, Silver. We're heading for elephant.
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  Speaker 7: Go, Silver.
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  Speaker 2: Go.
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  Speaker 1: Oliphant had become a ghost town. The buildings were falling
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  Speaker 1: apart from neglect and decay. After the rumors of gold
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  Speaker 1: in the nearby hills had been exploded, the town that
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  Speaker 1: had so suddenly boomed was empty. It looked bleak and
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  Speaker 1: desolate as the Lone Ranger and Tonto rode through the
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  Speaker 1: dusty path that had once been the street.
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  Speaker 2: Hurry up, Tonto. I want to look this town over.
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  Speaker 2: It is over.
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  Speaker 6: What's that to see now? Town all fall down.
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  Speaker 2: That's a short time ago, Kimisabe. This was a boom town.
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  Speaker 2: There's life and activity on every side.
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  Speaker 6: That's right. I don't remember.
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  Speaker 2: Now look at it. Doesn't look as if anyone has
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  Speaker 2: been here in ages, does it? Any big fella?
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  Speaker 6: That's right. And why you stop here?
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  Speaker 2: Let's look around a little bit. See if you can
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  Speaker 2: find any sign that anyone has been here.
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  Speaker 6: I don't see sign of people.
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  Speaker 2: Anyone has been here recently. There should be some evidence
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  Speaker 2: of it near the well. Let's take a look.
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  Speaker 3: Ah.
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  Speaker 2: Does it appear as if water had been drawn lately? No.
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  Speaker 6: Well, not used for plenty long time. Then what did.
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  Speaker 2: The people who came here do? There were a lot
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  Speaker 2: of them. They've all disappeared. Since then, one or two
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  Speaker 2: others have come to the ghost town of Oliphant. Never
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  Speaker 2: been heard of again. What is the answer, Tonto? Where
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  Speaker 2: are they?
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  Speaker 6: Wait. Tonto, wrong. You look here.
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  Speaker 3: What's that?
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  Speaker 6: That water.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I see it. Tonto, this water couldn't have been
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  Speaker 2: spilled very long ago.
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  Speaker 6: That's right. Some dry water.
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  Speaker 2: Yes. Water was spilled. Someone spilled it. Someone was here.
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  Speaker 2: There should be footprints.
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  Speaker 6: There, Prince.
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  Speaker 2: You see a trail? Ah.
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  Speaker 6: He thinks maybe it'd go that way.
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  Speaker 2: Not very plain.
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  Speaker 6: Time to follow it.
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  Speaker 2: And come. We lead the horses.
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  Speaker 6: Ah. Hear more water.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I wonder.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, no.
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  Speaker 2: Watch out. Someone's shooting at us.
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  Speaker 6: He'll not come close.
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  Speaker 2: Sounded to me as if that shot came from over there.
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  Speaker 3: We go see?
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 6: This way.
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  Speaker 1: Again.
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  Speaker 6: Didn't keep that shot.
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  Speaker 2: It came from that house, all right. Tunnel to the saddle.
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  Speaker 7: Steady, Silver.
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  Speaker 2: Someone doesn't want us here, Kimo Sabe. Follow me. I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to find out who it is. Come on, Silver.
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  Speaker 2: Get him up, Scout. You're right up from the side
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  Speaker 2: that has no windows. That's right.
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  Speaker 6: Get him up, Scout.
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  Speaker 7: Get him up. All right, Tunnel.
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  Speaker 3: Pull up.
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  Speaker 8: Steady, Silver.
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  Speaker 3: Steady.
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  Speaker 2: Tunnel, I'm going in there and I'm going in fast.
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  Speaker 6: Tunnel, go too.
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  Speaker 2: Stay out of the line of fire. Come on.
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  Speaker 7: Reach, you too, and reach for the sky.
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  Speaker 2: A woman.
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  Speaker 7: Why, why, you're Dave. Dave, you come home at last.
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  Speaker 9: Oh, lad, I've been waiting for you so long. Come in, son.
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  Speaker 9: Come in and fetch your friend.
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  Speaker 2: Donna, she's mistaken me for her son.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, David.
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  Speaker 7: David.
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  Speaker 10: It took you so long to get back from the claim.
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  Speaker 10: What delayed you, son? What was it, darn it? Tell
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  Speaker 10: your ma all about it. Sit down, son, and tell
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  Speaker 10: your old ma all what happened.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Just a minute while I speak to my friend. I wonder,
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  Speaker 2: could you get us some water?
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  Speaker 9: Right away.
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  Speaker 7: Right away, I'll get it.
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  Speaker 9: I just now brought a fresh pail pool from the well.
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  Speaker 2: Tonto, this old woman is ill.
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  Speaker 8: No.
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  Speaker 6: Sea mask? She not see Tonto as Indian?
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  Speaker 2: Looks to me as if she hadn't been getting enough
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  Speaker 2: to eat.
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  Speaker 6: What we do?
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  Speaker 2: Bring some food from the saddlebags. After that, she must
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  Speaker 2: be questioned.
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  Speaker 8: Ah.
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  Speaker 2: Perhaps she can tell us what we want to know
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  Speaker 2: about the missing men of Oliphant.
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  Speaker 1: While Tonto prepared a meal in the home of the
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  Speaker 1: white-haired old woman, other events were taking place not far away.
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  Speaker 1: In a tunnel that penetrated the side of a hill
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  Speaker 1: just half a mile outside of town, a score of
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  Speaker 1: rough-looking men were gathered. The tunnel had been converted into
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  Speaker 1: living quarters and showed signs of having been occupied for
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  Speaker 1: some time. The man who seemed to be the leader
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  Speaker 1: addressed his companions.
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  Speaker 11: Fellas, every one of you here deserves a living.
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  Speaker 4: The country owes it to you. You've been trying to
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  Speaker 4: get by on your own for years, and where are
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  Speaker 4: you now? Ain't got nothing to show for it.
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  Speaker 3: Just so.
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  Speaker 4: Been stealing enough grub here and there.
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  Speaker 2: To make out, and that's all. Ain't a leader in
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  Speaker 2: the lot of you.
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  Speaker 11: Just a pack of spineless Norcans.
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  Speaker 4: Here, Snake.
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  Speaker 6: You can't talk to us like that.
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  Speaker 2: No? No, you can't.
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  Speaker 4: I'll show you what I can do and what I can't.
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  Speaker 4: You asking for more? Oh, I didn't mean it, Snake.
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  Speaker 4: I was just talking. Don't hit me again. Well, I
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  Speaker 4: reckon that'll show you who's boss.
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  Speaker 11: And if any of you got doubts, I'm telling you
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  Speaker 11: right now, me and my two parts here are equal
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  Speaker 11: to the whole bunch of you.
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  Speaker 2: We don't take nothing from nobody.
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  Speaker 11: Now, if you got that straight, I'll I'm telling you
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  Speaker 11: my plan is to show this part of the country.
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  Speaker 6: A real outlaw.
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  Speaker 4: I need men.
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  Speaker 7: Can't you go a little fast, Snake? How do you
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  Speaker 7: know we want to turn outlaw? And if we did,
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  Speaker 7: how do you know we want to follow you?
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  Speaker 4: Turn outlaws?
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  Speaker 2: You're all outlaws right now. You've all stole cattle. You're
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  Speaker 2: all wanted by the law.
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  Speaker 7: We only took what we had to have to keep alive.
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  Speaker 2: You're outlaws anyhow.
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  Speaker 4: You're all slated to hang for cattle stealing. And what's more.
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  Speaker 11: Your blame for a half dozen killings, some stage holdups,
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  Speaker 11: and the shooting up of them towns down south.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, now, Snake, no one would blame us for all
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  Speaker 7: those things. We're not bad men. We're willing to work.
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  Speaker 7: We don't ask more than a chance to make enough
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  Speaker 7: to live.
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  Speaker 9: That's right.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, is that so?
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  Speaker 7: Sure it is.
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  Speaker 4: Well, that's where you're mighty mistaken. I don't say that.
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  Speaker 11: There was a few men killed in a certain cattle
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  Speaker 11: stealing over near Amaranthi.
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  Speaker 4: What did you know about that robbery? Heard of it, huh?
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  Speaker 2: Sure.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I planned it.
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  Speaker 2: You play.
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  Speaker 4: I happen to know just.
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  Speaker 11: What the law needs to make a few arrests for
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  Speaker 11: that job. I can arrange things so you and your
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  Speaker 11: men will be charged with it.
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  Speaker 4: Kid, you hear that?
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  Speaker 11: Once more, the Butterfield stage has been held up three
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  Speaker 11: times in the past few months.
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  Speaker 4: I'm always sure doggone anxious to find the critters that
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  Speaker 4: did that.
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  Speaker 3: You did it.
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  Speaker 2: Sure.
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  Speaker 4: But the law can't prove it.
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  Speaker 11: I'm only telling about it to explain that I wouldn't
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  Speaker 11: have much trouble fastening that job on you and your
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  Speaker 11: pals here.
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  Speaker 4: So you better join up, or else.
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  Speaker 2: Well, there ain't no choice.
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  Speaker 11: You're doggone right. Well, and I got just one thing
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  Speaker 11: more to say. First man to disobey me gets a
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  Speaker 11: taste of the bullwhip. And if it happens a second time, well,
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  Speaker 11: I reckon he'll be begging for a bullet to put
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  Speaker 11: him out of his misery. Now, you fellas just keep
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  Speaker 11: that in mind.
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  Speaker 1: After the Lone Ranger had persuaded the old woman to
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  Speaker 1: eat some food and rest for a while, her mind cleared.
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  Speaker 12: I don't know what's the matter with me, stranger. There's
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  Speaker 12: times when my brain just won't work right.
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  Speaker 9: First off, seeing you come here... Thought you was an outlaw.
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  Speaker 2: And you fired at me.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 12: And then when you come closer, I had the idea
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  Speaker 12: you was Dave, my son.
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  Speaker 9: But you ain't. You ain't Dave.
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  Speaker 2: No, Mrs. Peters, I'm not.
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  Speaker 9: How come you didn't know my name?
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  Speaker 2: I've heard of your son. He filed the first claim
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  Speaker 2: in this section. He started the rush. That's right.
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  Speaker 9: And after he filed on that claim, he was killed
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  Speaker 9: in an accident.
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  Speaker 2: But his friends, the others who came here, Where did
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  Speaker 2: they go? Do you know?
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  Speaker 9: No, I don't know.
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  Speaker 12: They all tried to find the place Dave located, but
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  Speaker 12: they couldn't. And they all disappeared.
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  Speaker 9: Ain't been none of them back around here.
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  Speaker 2: Those men have been accused of many crimes.
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  Speaker 9: I don't care what they say about them. They were
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  Speaker 9: all honest men. Stranger. Someone's coming.
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  Speaker 6: Don't go not hear him. Quiet.
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  Speaker 4: There he is.
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  Speaker 9: There's a man.
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  Speaker 6: Not under here. A man outside.
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  Speaker 4: He's coming in.
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  Speaker 9: Maybe he'll know about Dave's friends.
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  Speaker 4: I'll go open the.
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  Speaker 2: Door for him. I don't know who it can be.
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  Speaker 6: Wait, Tonto.
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  Speaker 2: Step back here. Hello, old lady.
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  Speaker 6: I don't like you.
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  Speaker 4: I've never seen you before, but I don't like your look.
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  Speaker 4: Shut up and listen to what I'm telling you.
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  Speaker 7: No, you get away.
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  Speaker 9: This is my house. It's all Dave left me, but
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  Speaker 9: nobody can come in here.
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  Speaker 11: Shut up!
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  Speaker 2: You've got to get out of this town.
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  Speaker 11: I aim to make it my headquarters and fetch in
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  Speaker 11: the boys and build it and use it.
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  Speaker 6: We don't want no woman around.
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  Speaker 9: You're a gunman. You're an outlaw. I know a killer
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  Speaker 9: when I see him.
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  Speaker 2: You're getting out of here.
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  Speaker 6: No, please.
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  Speaker 9: I'm just an old woman.
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  Speaker 12: I'm not doing any harm and I haven't any place
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  Speaker 12: else to go.
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  Speaker 3: Let's bet it.
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  Speaker 6: Maybe I'll let you stay on after all, in one condition.
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  Speaker 6: What's that? That you cook for my outfit.
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  Speaker 2: We can use somebody to cook for us. You willing?
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  Speaker 9: You don't give me no choice.
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  Speaker 2: That's the way to talk. That's settled then.
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  Speaker 11: I reckon I'll have a look around and see if
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  Speaker 11: this won't make a good place for the boys to eat.
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  Speaker 2: Otto, you stay here to give that woman protection. But
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  Speaker 2: don't show yourself unless it's necessary.
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  Speaker 6: Now, what do you do?
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to ride to the county seats and see
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  Speaker 2: what I can learn about David Peters and the men
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  Speaker 2: who followed him to Oliphant.
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  Speaker 1: Oliphant Ben Davidson, the sheriff at the county seat, looked
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  Speaker 1: up in surprise when the door of his office burst
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  Speaker 1: open and revealed a tall, broad-shouldered masked man.
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  Speaker 3: What the.
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  Speaker 2: You don't need that gun, Sheriff.
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  Speaker 3: Who are you?
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  Speaker 2: I came to talk to you.
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  Speaker 3: Take off that mask.
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  Speaker 2: The mask stays on. Sheriff, have you ever heard of
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  Speaker 2: a man known as Snake Fenner?
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  Speaker 7: Heard of him?
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  Speaker 3: Mister, he's a murdering coyote. Kill at least ten fellas
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  Speaker 3: if he's killed one.
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  Speaker 2: Haven't you often wondered what became of the men who
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  Speaker 2: settled the town of Elephant?
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  Speaker 4: No. No?
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  Speaker 13: No, I know about them poor fellas. They went to
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  Speaker 13: find gold, but didn't. They knew there wasn't a living
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  Speaker 13: back here for them, so they stayed there. Yeah, they're
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  Speaker 13: living in a cave near Elephant.
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  Speaker 2: How did you know that?
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  Speaker 6: Oh, I'm no fool.
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  Speaker 13: I've heard how they stole a beef or so to
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  Speaker 13: keep living. They ain't bad fellas. They'll give up looking
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  Speaker 13: for that gold one of these days.
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  Speaker 2: What if Snake Fenner persuaded those men to follow him?
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  Speaker 13: I know he's tried to get those boys blamed for
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  Speaker 13: a lot of things he's done, but I wasn't taken
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  Speaker 13: in by it.
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  Speaker 2: Sheriff, Snake is in Elephant right now.
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  Speaker 6: He is?
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  Speaker 3: Yes. And them two sidekicks is with him?
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  Speaker 12: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Well, then, by thunder, I'm getting a posse going after
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  Speaker 3: them hombres. How'd you locate the skunk?
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  Speaker 2: Hey, wait. Hold on.
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  Speaker 11: Sure.
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  Speaker 2: Bring plenty of men.
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  Speaker 3: Now, stand where you are. Don't dread him. Well, I'll
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  Speaker 3: find him again, and when I do, I'll see to
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  Speaker 3: it he talks.
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  Speaker 1: During the following three days, Snake Fenner and his newly
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  Speaker 1: organized band made themselves at home in the house belonging
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  Speaker 1: to old Mrs.
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  Speaker 6: Peters.
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  Speaker 1: Tonto had not yet been discovered, and the men were
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  Speaker 1: gathered about the table where they had been eating.
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  Speaker 6: Snake was speaking.
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  Speaker 11: Well, fellas, it won't be long now till I have
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  Speaker 11: you all rich. I've already figured out half a dozen
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  Speaker 11: places where a gang this size can make good hoes.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, you old woman, get some more grub here and hurry.
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  Speaker 9: I'm so tired.
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  Speaker 8: Quiet!
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  Speaker 11: If you can't keep us fed, then you'll have to
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  Speaker 11: get out of here.
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  Speaker 2: I don't like this. What's that you said? What's that?
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  Speaker 2: Speak up so I can hear.
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  Speaker 7: Snake, I say you're being too hard on that old woman.
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  Speaker 7: I was a friend of Dave's, and she his ma.
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  Speaker 3: You aim to argue with me?
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  Speaker 6: Why, you little undersized... You leave.
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  Speaker 2: Come go. Hey, you redskin, leave go my arm. Where
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  Speaker 2: in the hell did you come from?
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  Speaker 6: Eat your gun. You're not shooting.
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  Speaker 2: Anybody see where the engine come from? Grab the critter,
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  Speaker 2: grab him. Here's your gun, Snake.
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  Speaker 3: Well.
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  Speaker 4: Looks like this fella's been hiding right here in the house.
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  Speaker 4: I reckon I'll just have some fun with this engine.
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  Speaker 6: Time's tight, boys.
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  Speaker 11: When I get around to it, we'll see just how
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  Speaker 11: much a redskin can stand, huh?
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  Speaker 1: The curtain falls on the first act of our thrilling
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  Speaker 1: Lone Ranger story. Before the next exciting scenes, please permit
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  Speaker 1: us to pause for just a few moments.
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  Speaker 5: The End THE END.
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  Speaker 1: Now to continue our story. When Tonto was overpowered after
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  Speaker 1: having wrested Snake's gun away from the outlaw leader, the
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  Speaker 1: men in Snake's gang swiftly bound his legs and arms
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  Speaker 1: with sturdy ropes. When the process was finished, Snake said, Now, Injun.
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  Speaker 11: You can stand there till I get done eating.
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  Speaker 4: Then, by golly, I'll make you sorry you.
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  Speaker 2: Was ever born. Sit down, fellas, and we'll finish up. Snake,
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  Speaker 2: I don't feel much like eating anymore. Tony Eller, I.
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  Speaker 11: Ain't got no use for a man that ain't got
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  Speaker 11: the nerve to do what I want. You'll eat right
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  Speaker 11: now or I'll have that grub stuffed down your throat.
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  Speaker 2: Just a moment.
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  Speaker 1: You come.
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  Speaker 7: Hey, grab that umbrella with the mask.
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: Stand back. Stand back, every one of you.
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: Stop that. Why are you.
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: Quiet, Snake. Sheriff is on his way here to get you.
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: Let him come.
• 17:23
  Speaker 4: I'll welcome any lawman with sizzling bullets.
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: Boys, the sheriff is coming.
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: Well, that's great.
• 17:28
  Speaker 11: We'll use him to show other folks that we ain't
• 17:30
  Speaker 11: to be fought against. Now, stranger, you put them guns
• 17:32
  Speaker 11: down or else you.
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: I'll lower one gun so that I can cut this
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: Indian's ropes. But don't any of you make a move.
• 17:37
  Speaker 6: And a good thing you come. Townsend got plenty to
• 17:39
  Speaker 6: tell you.
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: Fine. Steady there, you at the end. Watch yourself. All right, Tonto,
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: out the door and to the horses. Snake, the only
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: thing I'm hoping you'll do is to stay here and
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: defy the sheriff.
• 17:48
  Speaker 7: If he comes here, I'll get him and I'll get
• 17:49
  Speaker 7: his posse.
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: And one of these days, I'll get you.
• 17:52
  Speaker 11: All right, fellas, they're going out that door.
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: Let them have it.
• 17:54
  Speaker 7: Shoot them down.
• 17:55
  Speaker 6: Shoot, get him.
• 18:04
  Speaker 7: They're getting away, dropping from their saddles. Get them!
• 18:07
  Speaker 8: Get them!
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: With bullets flying thickly about them, the masked men and
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: Tonto race to safety, their powerful stallions thundering down the
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: dusty street. Later, having escaped pursuit, reached a secure hiding place,
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: they paused and dismounted.
• 18:40
  Speaker 6: Let me hide and watch out for all day. At night,
• 18:46
  Speaker 6: when men sleep, come to look over town. Look in
• 18:49
  Speaker 6: hill around town.
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: The sheriff and a posse are coming here to get
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: Snake Fenner.
• 18:53
  Speaker 6: Maybe Snake shoot. Him got big gang now.
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: But only two of those men are really outlaws. The
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: rest of them turned to him only because they felt
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: they must in order to survive.
• 19:01
  Speaker 6: That's right.
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: They'll have to be turned against Snake. There's a way
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: to do it. A way to get them on the
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: side of the law.
• 19:06
  Speaker 6: How?
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: The sheriff isn't convinced that they've sided with Snake. He
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: doesn't understand the hardships these men have suffered. He's coming
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: here with just a small posse, thinking that he'll have
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: to deal only with Snake and his two friends. Otto,
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: you and I are going to pretend that we found
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: Dave Peters' lost gold mine. We'll call the men. Tell
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: them to stake their claims. Make them think that at
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: last the gold has been found. You know all this section,
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: don't you?
• 19:26
  Speaker 6: I don't know it good.
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: Well, during the night, dig into a hill. Make it
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: look as if you've uncovered the lost mine. In the morning,
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: the posse will be here. And we'll see what we
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: can do. Now listen, and I'll tell you what I
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: have in mind.
• 19:42
  Speaker 5: THE END.
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: With darkness, Tonto and the Lone Ranger started digging.
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: I don't know how much of a tunnel we can make, Tonto.
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: We'll do the best we can.
• 20:03
  Speaker 6: It'd take plenty long time to make much of a
• 20:05
  Speaker 6: tunnel in Hill.
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: Plenty, many... Dig many weeks and.
• 20:09
  Speaker 6: Make good tunnels.
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: We can just go far enough to give the right impression.
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: Perhaps our plan will work. We'll have to try and
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: keep the men from examining this too closely.
• 20:17
  Speaker 6: That right.
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: After an hour of steady work, the Lone Ranger turned
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: to Tonto as he put down his spade.
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: I'll be back in a few minutes. I'm going to
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: make sure Snake and his men stay in town.
• 20:39
  Speaker 6: Here, Silver.
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: You rest a little. I'll be back as soon as
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: I can, steady big fella.
• 20:44
  Speaker 8: Come on, Silver!
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: Tonto, not me dress. Keep on taking.
• 20:52
  Speaker 9: Tonto!
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: Steadily, rhythmically, Tonto continued the work, with ears tuned to
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: catch the sound of the masked man's return. And suddenly,
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: his spade broke through to an open space beyond where
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: he was working.
• 21:16
  Speaker 6: Ah, that's plenty strange. Seems like a hole in the ground.
• 21:21
  Speaker 6: Let me take a look.
• 21:23
  Speaker 8: Oh!
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: The Indian made a discovery, one that might prove important.
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: There really was a sort of tunnel in the hill,
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: a tunnel that had been hidden by a cave-in at
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: the mouth. When the lone ranger returned, he too was
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: pleased by what he found. The two men worked till daybreak,
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: widening the opening and clearing away the dirt. Then at daybreak,
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: they heard the sound of hoofbeats.
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: Hello, it's the sheriff. It's just time for us to act.
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: Here, Silver.
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: There's only a half dozen men in that posse. Maybe
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: a big fellow, that half dozen will be enough.
• 21:59
  Speaker 9: Steady.
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: Here we go. Silver, we're heading to Ma Peter's house.
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: Come on, big fella, come.
• 22:04
  Speaker 5: On!
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: Down the grade and into the ghost town swept the
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: masked man.
• 22:11
  Speaker 6: And his great horse. Near east was once Oliphant's main street.
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: The lone ranger drew one of his heavy guns from
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: its holster and sent shots into the air as rapidly
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: as he could thumb the hammer.
• 22:22
  Speaker 7: All right, Silver.
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: Here we are. Whoa, boy.
• 22:24
  Speaker 7: Whoa, Silver.
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: Get him.
• 22:26
  Speaker 7: What's he doing? What's all the gunplay for?
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: Stand back. Stand back, all of you. I think the
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: lost gold mine has been found. Grab this, hombre. Hold on, Snake.
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: I'm the only man who knows where it is. The
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: rest of you want to stake claims near it, follow me.
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: That's all we've been waiting for. Let's get going. Hurry, then.
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: Come on, Silver. What do we do? Let's follow. I'm going.
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: I want to stake a claim. Hold on. Stop. Hold on.
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: Listen to me.
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: We ain't stopping, Snake. We're on our way.
• 22:47
  Speaker 8: Come on.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: The frenzied men, once more at fever heat with a
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: desire for gold, set out to follow the masked men
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: on foot. Snake could not halt them. Finally, the outlaw
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: leader with his two partners joined the others. With their departure,
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: Maggie came out of the house. When she glimpsed Tonto
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: had been waiting... Is it true, Tonto?
• 23:12
  Speaker 9: Has Dave's mind been found?
• 23:14
  Speaker 6: You come. Tonto, take you.
• 23:16
  Speaker 9: Oh, I've waited so long for this.
• 23:18
  Speaker 6: You look. There comes Sheriff. Him come after outlaw fellas.
• 23:21
  Speaker 7: The Sheriff will be killed.
• 23:23
  Speaker 6: You come with Tonto.
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: It was toward the excavation on the side of a
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: hill that Lone Ranger rode. And it was here that
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: all the men assembled. Each was frantically hopeful of staking
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: his claim nearest to the original discovery.
• 23:46
  Speaker 7: Here's Rob's staking line. I knew the line would be located.
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: That's enough for all of you. Take your time.
• 23:56
  Speaker 5: What's it?
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: Boys, it's the sheriff.
• 23:58
  Speaker 7: Shoot it out.
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: Get him.
• 23:59
  Speaker 7: Hold on.
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: Listen to me. Ben, the choice is up to you.
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: Sheriff is here only for Snake and his real partners.
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: The rest of you can go clear. Become outlaws by
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: siding with Snake. I'm your boss, Tence. Help me. I
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: don't want to be an outlaw. Yeah, why should we be?
• 24:16
  Speaker 7: We found the gold.
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: We're rich. We'll all be rich. What's that? You're turning
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: on me. You're letting me down.
• 24:22
  Speaker 7: You're a pack of cowards.
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: I guess these men have decided, Sheriff. Make your arrest.
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: Smoking them two gents beside him is all I want.
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: Boys, put ropes on him.
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: I'll help you, Sheriff.
• 24:31
  Speaker 7: Me too.
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: Be glad to.
• 24:32
  Speaker 6: Count me in. A gold mine's better than jail any day.
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: The Lone Ranger's plan worked perfectly. Snake and his two
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: companions were no match for the law. Meekly, they surrendered.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: They were stripped of their guns and led away by
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: the posse. After they were gone, Kit stepped to the
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: masked man's side.
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: Stranger. Well?
• 25:05
  Speaker 7: Look, mister, you told us this is where Dave's mine was.
• 25:08
  Speaker 7: Maybe so, but we'd like to have it proved to us.
• 25:12
  Speaker 7: I don't see no digging.
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: Hold on, hold on one moment. Don't you men realize
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: it yet? You've been given something far more precious than gold.
• 25:19
  Speaker 6: Huh?
• 25:20
  Speaker 7: What kind of lingo is that?
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: It's straight talk. A snake fenner is about to die
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: with a noose around his neck. He'll be willing to
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: give up every gold mine that was ever discovered in
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: exchange for his life and his freedom. I don't savvy
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: what you mean.
• 25:32
  Speaker 11: Wait.
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: You men still have your life and your freedom. Those
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: are things you can't really appreciate until they're almost taken
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: away from you.
• 25:39
  Speaker 6: Hey, hold on there. Yes? Just what are you getting at?
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: Ain't there no gold here?
• 25:44
  Speaker 7: Is that what you've been trying to tell us?
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: After all, it was only a rumor that Dave struck
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: it rich.
• 25:51
  Speaker 7: You fool, if that's what you did. Played us for
• 25:53
  Speaker 7: a lot of loco buffalo. Stampeded us to some place
• 25:55
  Speaker 7: where there was no gold at all.
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: We come here for nothing. It was just a trick.
• 25:58
  Speaker 9: I want to see it.
• 26:00
  Speaker 10: Dave's gold mine.
• 26:05
  Speaker 7: Where is it?
• 26:06
  Speaker 9: Where's my boy's gold mine?
• 26:08
  Speaker 7: There.
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: There, gold mine.
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: Here.
• 26:10
  Speaker 9: Is that it?
• 26:11
  Speaker 6: Ah, you look inside.
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: But, uh, Kimo Sabe.
• 26:15
  Speaker 6: What matter?
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: Aren't you... Are you sure you know what you're saying?
• 26:18
  Speaker 6: Ah, Tonto, not make mistake.
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: Then you mean you found the real mine after all?
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: This is it?
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: Uh-huh.
• 26:24
  Speaker 6: Time to find it.
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: Time to find you.
• 26:27
  Speaker 6: Find it after you leave. Me find real mine.
• 26:29
  Speaker 7: Well, I'll be doggone. Masked man, then what you started
• 26:33
  Speaker 7: out to do as pure bluff turned out to be
• 26:34
  Speaker 7: real after all.
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: Well, it looks that way, kid.
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: Boys, we're in luck.
• 26:37
  Speaker 6: Yippee!
• 26:38
  Speaker 7: Give me for a coyote, we'll all be rich again.
• 26:40
  Speaker 6: You look, you find ore.
• 26:42
  Speaker 7: Hey, fellas, them claims are good. I'm heading for town
• 26:46
  Speaker 7: right now to register my claim. There ain't nobody gonna
• 26:48
  Speaker 7: beat me to it.
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: Well, Tonto, thanks to you, it looks as if this
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: town is going to boom again. It's no more a
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: ghost town.
• 27:00
  Speaker 6: And that heap good, huh?
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: And you fooled me completely.
• 27:04
  Speaker 6: Me want to make surprise.
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: You surprised everybody in sight. Mister, I... Yes? Yes, Mrs.
• 27:10
  Speaker 6: Peters?
• 27:11
  Speaker 12: I reckon Dave will rest a lot easier now that
• 27:14
  Speaker 12: he knows I'm provided for.
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: Yes, Mrs. Peters, this is your mind now. You'll have
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: more than enough to care for you for as long
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: as you live.
• 27:22
  Speaker 9: Dave helped a lot of folks besides me, too.
• 27:25
  Speaker 6: That's right.
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: Even though he's gone, he put Oliphant back on the map.
• 27:31
  Speaker 12: Somehow that makes me feel better. Ever since Dave died
• 27:36
  Speaker 12: in that accident, I've been sorry I didn't have enough
• 27:40
  Speaker 12: money to to build him a monument, a real nice monument.
• 27:46
  Speaker 9: But now, now I ain't sorry. And I won't.
• 27:51
  Speaker 12: Miss him so much, because every time I look around
• 27:55
  Speaker 12: this town and see how happy and prosperous everybody is, why, well,
• 28:05
  Speaker 12: I reckon that's a monument to his memory.
• 28:09
  Speaker 9: A monument a mother can be proud of.
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: Get him up, Scoundrel!
• 28:13
  Speaker 7: I'll settle it!
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: Hooray!
• 28:16
  Speaker 6: Hooray!
• 28:47
  Speaker 5: THE END.
• 29:14
  Speaker 8: THE END.
• 29:32
  Speaker 5: The story you have just heard is a copyrighted feature
• 29:45
  Speaker 5: of the Lone Ranger Incorporated. The Lone Ranger.
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: Incorporated Our presentation of the Lone Ranger, Ghost Town, now
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: comes to a close. Good night, and may the trail
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: ahead be a safe one.