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Gunsmoke - "The Wolfer" (Old Time Radio, 1959) · Gunsmoke | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: The January 11th, 1959 installment of CBS Radio's Gunsmoke was
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  Speaker 1: episode 353, The Wolfer. In John Dunkel's story, Wolfer Webb,
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  Speaker 1: a solitary hunter, refuses to leave land claimed by Nate Guthrie,
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  Speaker 1: while a large white wolf is blamed for killing Guthrie's horses.
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  Speaker 1: The dispute deepens into a dangerous pursuit, with William Conrad
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  Speaker 1: as Marshal Matt Dillon and Parley Bear, Georgia Ellis, and
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  Speaker 1: Howard McNair as Chester, Kitty, and Doc. Norman McDonald produced
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  Speaker 1: the broadcast with Lawrence Dobkin and Vic Perrin in the
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  Speaker 1: guest cast. Ladies and gentlemen, we now take you back
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  Speaker 1: to the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: Around Dodge City and in the Territory on West, there's
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  Speaker 2: just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers,
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  Speaker 2: and that's with a U.S. Marshal and the smell of Gunsmoke.
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  Speaker 2: Gunsmoke Gunsmoke, starring William Conrad. The story of the violence
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  Speaker 2: that moved west with young America. And the story of
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  Speaker 2: a man who moved with it.
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  Speaker 3: I'm that man. Matt Dillon, United States Marshal. The first
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  Speaker 3: man they look for and the last they want to meet.
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  Speaker 3: It's a chancy job. But it makes a man watchful.
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  Speaker 4: And a little lonely.
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  Speaker 5: Hold it, Mark.
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  Speaker 6: Hold it, Victor.
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  Speaker 7: Hey, web, don't shoot.
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  Speaker 4: It's me, Nate Guthrie.
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  Speaker 8: Now.
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  Speaker 5: 20.
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  Speaker 7: I had a hard time finding you, Webb.
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  Speaker 4: Nothing but a dugout.
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  Speaker 6: In the snow. Finally seen your smoke.
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  Speaker 4: Now, can I come in?
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  Speaker 8: I ain't stopping you.
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  Speaker 6: At least it's some warmer. That's about all I can
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  Speaker 6: say for it.
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  Speaker 8: What you doing way out here anyway, Guthrie?
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  Speaker 7: Come pay a call on my hired hand, that's all. Well,
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  Speaker 7: ain't you even gonna ask me to set or offer
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  Speaker 7: me some coffee?
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  Speaker 4: Here's a pot.
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  Speaker 6: Help yourself. You live alone like this too long, Whip.
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  Speaker 4: You got no manners.
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  Speaker 6: But then I never seen.
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  Speaker 4: A wolfer that did. Yeah, pigs, all of you.
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  Speaker 6: Want some? I've finished feeding. Feeding, just like a pig.
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  Speaker 4: Neither there.
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  Speaker 6: Must be below freezing, even in the sun.
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  Speaker 7: Now, you didn't leave no warm ranch house just to
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  Speaker 7: come be sociable with a wolf or Guthrie?
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  Speaker 4: No, not dang likely.
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  Speaker 6: You got some bone to pick with me, start picking.
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  Speaker 6: All right. Webb, what am I hiring you for? Clean
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  Speaker 6: the wolves off me land?
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  Speaker 9: Right.
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  Speaker 6: And I see you got pelts and all. You got
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  Speaker 6: muskrat and bobcat.
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  Speaker 4: And you got badger. You got everything but wolves.
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  Speaker 6: I turn in plenty of wolf skin already. You seen it.
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  Speaker 4: That's just what I mean.
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  Speaker 6: I shot a raft of wolves for you. I was
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  Speaker 6: here two months. Seemed like maybe you got most all
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  Speaker 6: of them around. Told you I would. Yeah, that's right.
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  Speaker 4: You lived up to your reputation.
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  Speaker 6: Best wolf around the plains.
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  Speaker 7: Only if you got them all, how come there's five
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  Speaker 7: of my best colts laying.
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  Speaker 6: Out there with their bellies ripped?
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  Speaker 1: You tell me that?
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  Speaker 6: I've seen them.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I bet you did.
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  Speaker 7: All right, if it wasn't wolves done that, maybe you
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  Speaker 7: can tell me what it was.
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  Speaker 6: It was a wolf, right now.
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  Speaker 4: A wolf?
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  Speaker 6: More than likely a whole pack.
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 6: No, just one. A big one. With a splayed foot.
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  Speaker 4: You trying to tell me one wolf done all that?
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  Speaker 4: He's big, Guthrie.
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  Speaker 8: Maybe the biggest I've seen in all my years.
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  Speaker 6: Well, if you've seen him, why don't you get him?
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  Speaker 4: Well, he ain't easy. He's big.
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  Speaker 6: And smart.
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  Speaker 8: And that That splayed foot, he'd been trapped before.
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  Speaker 4: There's other ways to take a wolf.
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  Speaker 8: Mean one to track, too. You don't get but a glimpse.
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  Speaker 8: Not enough for a sure shot.
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  Speaker 6: What are you trying to tell me?
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  Speaker 4: There's a wolf that you can't catch? Maybe. This one's white, Guthrie. White?
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  Speaker 6: What's that mean? Science say.
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  Speaker 4: Oh.
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  Speaker 6: Science say the white one's his big medicine spirit. Oh,
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  Speaker 6: dang engine talk.
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  Speaker 7: I'm sure you're being raised by the engines 20 years
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  Speaker 7: with your more.
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  Speaker 6: Engine than white. Maybe. Maybe you're dreaming this wolf up.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe that's it. What do you mean?
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  Speaker 7: It's almighty suspicious you clean out every wolf but this one.
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  Speaker 3: And he kills might near as much as all others do.
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  Speaker 4: Say it out, Guthrie.
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  Speaker 6: All right, just one wolf. But you've got to stay
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  Speaker 6: and hunt him till he's caught.
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  Speaker 7: And pocket my money and eat my grub. And for
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  Speaker 7: one lone wolf, it ain't a bad way to spend
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  Speaker 7: a cold winter, is it? You saying I let him
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  Speaker 7: live on purpose?
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  Speaker 6: I'm saying maybe.
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  Speaker 4: There ain't no wolf. Maybe it ain't a wolf at.
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  Speaker 6: All ripping up my coats. Man could do that, a
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  Speaker 6: man like you.
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  Speaker 4: Cold-eyed, half-breathing, got no feelings.
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  Speaker 7: You get out of my camp, Guthrie.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, no.
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  Speaker 9: No, it ain't me.
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  Speaker 6: It's you that's getting out, William.
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  Speaker 7: Off in my land and right now. You can't run
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  Speaker 7: me off, Guthrie. This here's free land. Not for no killers,
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  Speaker 7: it ain't. I seen your kind before. It's easy for
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  Speaker 7: you to kill her. It don't matter, wolf or cold.
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  Speaker 6: Or man.
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  Speaker 8: Ain't killed me one for time, Guthrie.
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  Speaker 6: But it won't go very hard. You better get along now.
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  Speaker 7: I'm warning you, Webb. You get off of my land.
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  Speaker 7: Not till I finish what I come for.
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  Speaker 6: I'll have you run off.
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  Speaker 9: How?
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  Speaker 6: I'll send the dodge for the marshal, you'll see. And
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  Speaker 6: if you stay, you'll end up dead, Webb. Somebody will.
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  Speaker 6: That's for sure.
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  Speaker 9: Matt, you know that this is the first time we've
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  Speaker 9: had a chance to eat dinner quietly.
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  Speaker 4: And quietly spent.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I guess it is.
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  Speaker 9: Do you ever think you'd like to be somewhere else?
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  Speaker 9: You know, just travel somewhere.
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  Speaker 6: Travel?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 9: Places like Philadelphia, Washington, Baltimore.
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  Speaker 4: Why would I want to be there?
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  Speaker 9: Well, I should think you'd like to see something besides
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  Speaker 9: Fort Dodge and Fort Wallace, James Cross and Fort Larned.
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  Speaker 9: Prairie and army camps get pretty dull, don't they?
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  Speaker 4: What would I do in Washington? Call on President Grant?
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  Speaker 6: Why not? You're a famous man. Oh, sure.
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  Speaker 4: I couldn't wear the clothes, that's why.
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  Speaker 9: Ah, I bet you'd look handsome.
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  Speaker 4: I'll dude it up like that.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, Bill Cody does real fine.
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  Speaker 3: Look, Kitty, I know what you're after, but I'm not
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  Speaker 3: going anywhere.
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  Speaker 9: I would, if I had anyone to go with.
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  Speaker 3: You'd be safe enough traveling by yourself.
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  Speaker 9: Well, now, that isn't what I meant.
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  Speaker 4: I know what you meant.
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  Speaker 3: You want an excuse to go, and you'd like for
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  Speaker 3: me to chaperone you.
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  Speaker 6: That's it, isn't it?
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  Speaker 9: Matt, you haven't had a vacation in years. Besides, there
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  Speaker 9: are worse things than being my escort.
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  Speaker 6: I guess there are.
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  Speaker 9: Oh. Well, I knew it wouldn't last.
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  Speaker 10: What?
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  Speaker 4: What you doing, Miss Kitty?
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  Speaker 3: Sit down, Chester.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, thank you.
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  Speaker 10: You all finished eating?
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  Speaker 6: It looks that way, doesn't it, Chester? Had stew, huh?
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  Speaker 4: That was good. Antelope or rabbit?
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  Speaker 6: Antelope. With potato and red apple?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, Chester, either order it or stop talking about it.
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  Speaker 3: I just finished a big meal and I don't even
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  Speaker 3: want to think about food.
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  Speaker 6: I just said, too, Mr. Dillon, with Mr. Hightower down
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  Speaker 6: at the depot. That's fine.
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  Speaker 4: Buffalo State. That's fine.
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  Speaker 9: You know, Mr.
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  Speaker 10: Dillon, I sure do wish I was going to Wichita
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  Speaker 10: on the train.
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  Speaker 6: Everybody wants to go somewhere.
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  Speaker 4: What?
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  Speaker 9: Matt's been ouchy all during dinner, never mind him. Now,
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  Speaker 9: why do you want to go to Wichita?
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  Speaker 3: Well, Mr.
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  Speaker 10: Hightower was telling me about them new cars that are
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  Speaker 10: going to start running. Do you know you can eat
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  Speaker 10: right there on the train right while you're moving along?
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  Speaker 9: Now, what's that got to do with Wichita?
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  Speaker 6: Well, that's where the cars is going to run to.
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  Speaker 6: I see.
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  Speaker 10: And then there's this fellow right there in Wichita that's
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  Speaker 10: got a place you can eat right spang in the
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  Speaker 10: railroad depot.
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  Speaker 9: Sounds pretty fancy.
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  Speaker 8: Mr.
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  Speaker 10: Hightower says this fellow's going to have them all over
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  Speaker 10: the country before he's through.
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  Speaker 9: There you see, Matt?
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  Speaker 6: Travel wouldn't be so rough after all.
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  Speaker 4: Not for Chester, anyway.
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  Speaker 3: Food before he starts, while he travels, and more when
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  Speaker 3: he gets there.
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  Speaker 8: Where are you going to go, Mr. Dillon?
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  Speaker 4: I'm not going anywhere, Chester. Oh.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, say, I near forgot.
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  Speaker 10: There's somebody waiting in the office to see you. I
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  Speaker 10: seen him when I come by.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, who? That Mr.
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  Speaker 10: Guthrie that cut that big spray ad out north of
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  Speaker 10: Ford County.
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  Speaker 6: Did he say what he wanted? No, he didn't, except
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  Speaker 6: he wants to see you.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, you tell him I'll be along in a few minutes, huh?
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  Speaker 8: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 4: I'll go tell him right.
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  Speaker 9: Now. Well, we almost made it, Matt.
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  Speaker 6: What, Kitty?
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  Speaker 9: I thought for once we'd get clean through a meal
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  Speaker 9: without you being hauled away.
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  Speaker 4: We did pretty good. I might have weakened you, though.
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  Speaker 3: I might have agreed to take a train somewhere.
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  Speaker 4: Come on, I'll walk you back.
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  Speaker 9: No, thanks, Matt. I'll just sit here and finish my coffee.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, I'll see you later. I tell you, he's a
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  Speaker 6: bad one, Marshal.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe so, Mr.
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  Speaker 6: Guthrie. Now, now, just think of that. Whib Edmonds killing
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  Speaker 6: them coals.
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  Speaker 3: Now, we're not sure about that, Chester. You have any
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  Speaker 3: proof it's Whib and not a wolf killing your.
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  Speaker 4: Stock, Guthrie?
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  Speaker 6: Well, I don't need no proof. Marshal.
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  Speaker 4: Just you go take one.
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  Speaker 7: Look at that half-breed there in his stinking dugout.
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  Speaker 6: You'll see what he is.
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  Speaker 3: Now, look, Guthrie, just because a man doesn't keep clean
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  Speaker 3: or live in a house, that.
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  Speaker 6: Doesn't make him a killer.
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  Speaker 7: But this man is, Marshal. You can see it right
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  Speaker 7: in his eyes. They're cold. They're wide open.
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  Speaker 6: It's like a snake's.
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  Speaker 4: You think you're just looking to measure you for your grave?
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  Speaker 4: I need proof, Mr.
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  Speaker 6: Guthrie.
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  Speaker 3: Unless you can prove that Whib has broken some law,
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  Speaker 3: there's nothing.
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  Speaker 6: I can do. Well, you can run him off of
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  Speaker 6: my land.
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  Speaker 3: You're using that land, Guthrie, but it's not yours.
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  Speaker 4: It's open range.
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  Speaker 3: Whib has every right to camp there if he wants to.
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  Speaker 7: I'm warning you, Marshal. You better run him off before
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  Speaker 7: there's trouble.
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  Speaker 3: And if you're thinking of getting up a party to
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  Speaker 3: run him off.
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  Speaker 6: It ain't that, Marshal.
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  Speaker 7: You can bet my neighbors would be glad to cooperate.
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  Speaker 4: They've been losing stock, too.
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  Speaker 10: Well, everybody has, Mr.
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  Speaker 6: Guthrie.
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  Speaker 10: It's been an awful bad year for Wolfe.
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  Speaker 3: You ought to thank Webb for cutting your losses.
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  Speaker 6: All right.
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  Speaker 5: All right.
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  Speaker 6: But it'll be on your head, Marshal. Don't say I
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  Speaker 6: didn't warn you.
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  Speaker 4: About what, Guthrie?
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  Speaker 6: That man hates me, Marshal. He's threatened me.
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  Speaker 7: He even said it was just as easy to kill
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  Speaker 7: a man as a wolf. Now, you think I'm going
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  Speaker 7: to wait for that half-breed to come shoot me in
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  Speaker 7: the back?
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  Speaker 6: That's murder you're talking about, Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Guthrie.
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  Speaker 7: I'm talking about self-protection, Marshal. Now, if you don't want trouble,
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  Speaker 7: you get him off my left. Reason or no reason,
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  Speaker 7: just get him off.
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  Speaker 8: All right.
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  Speaker 4: Now, there's a riled up man, Mr.
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  Speaker 9: Dillon.
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  Speaker 6: He might just do it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, he might.
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  Speaker 6: Say, is it really true about Whib being Park's high end?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I know he doesn't look it, Chester, but it's true.
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  Speaker 3: He lived with him until he was about 20.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe he should have stayed with him.
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  Speaker 3: Well, any man wants to get back to his own people.
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  Speaker 10: You ask me, Whib Edmonds don't quite fit in with
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  Speaker 10: any people, white or Indian.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I'll admit being a woofer isn't a very fancy
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  Speaker 3: way to make a living, no matter what, man.
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  Speaker 4: Anyway, we better ride out and have a talk with him.
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  Speaker 6: In this weather?
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  Speaker 3: Would you rather wait till somebody's murdered, Chester?
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  Speaker 6: All right, come on.
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  Speaker 10: Do we have to ride up along here, Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Dillon?
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  Speaker 3: Down in the draw, we'd at least be.
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  Speaker 6: Out of the wind.
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  Speaker 3: It's harder on the horses down there, Chester.
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  Speaker 4: The snow's a lot deeper. Well, not so.
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  Speaker 6: And I guess we can see further up here, too.
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  Speaker 10: Not that there's anything to see. I'll bet we've missed
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  Speaker 10: his dugout already.
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  Speaker 6: I don't think so.
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  Speaker 4: We've come an awful long ways.
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  Speaker 10: That old gutter sure claims a parcel of.
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  Speaker 4: Land, don't he?
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  Speaker 9: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Now, look there. Why, it's a horse.
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  Speaker 6: It's a colt. Sure-standing funny, ain't it?
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  Speaker 4: It's staked out, Chester. Staked out? Out here in this weather, what.
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  Speaker 5: Are they for?
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  Speaker 4: Bait. Wolf bait.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, my goodness, that poor critter.
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  Speaker 8: Get out, Chester.
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  Speaker 4: Get out. Whip! Hold your fire. It's Marshal Dillon.
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  Speaker 6: Now you put down that rifle and show yourself.
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  Speaker 4: We're coming to talk to you.
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  Speaker 7: You hear me?
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  Speaker 5: I hear you.
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  Speaker 4: You stay away from that horse of mine, Marshal. Why?
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  Speaker 4: You spoiled my track. You ain't no race.
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  Speaker 6: I don't see no track.
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  Speaker 4: Take one there, all the same.
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  Speaker 5: All right.
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  Speaker 4: He was heading right for us, Marshal.
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  Speaker 6: So you tried to shoot.
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  Speaker 8: Us, huh?
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  Speaker 4: I only wanted....
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  Speaker 6: I wanted to down you, I could have, easy enough.
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  Speaker 8: If man smell around a trap, it's important.
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  Speaker 10: Well, you don't have much trouble with that, do you, Webb?
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  Speaker 6: That may be, Chester.
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  Speaker 8: I don't care much for man smell myself now, there's...
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  Speaker 8: I didn't ask you to come here.
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  Speaker 4: I came to talk to you, Wilbur.
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  Speaker 6: You can talk. That's all.
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  Speaker 4: The dugout's over the crest. Follow me.
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  Speaker 7: You gonna leave that poor colt tied up to get at?
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  Speaker 6: He won't get hurt if the trap works.
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  Speaker 4: You can, uh... sit on a log there.
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  Speaker 6: And outfitted for socializing.
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  Speaker 4: Now, this will do fine.
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  Speaker 6: There's, uh.
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  Speaker 4: There's coffee.
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  Speaker 6: Meat in the pot, if you want it.
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  Speaker 4: Well, say, now.
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  Speaker 6: Muskrat meat. Muskrat meat.
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  Speaker 4: Coffee, Mr.
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  Speaker 9: Dillon?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, thanks, Chester. Speak your piece, Marshal.
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  Speaker 8: I can tell you right now, I ain't leaving.
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  Speaker 3: You're off Guthrie's payroll, Webb. You won't get anything more
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  Speaker 3: from him. I want nothing from him. Well, then why
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  Speaker 3: stay here? There are plenty of other ranchers that pay
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  Speaker 3: you to hunt wolves.
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  Speaker 8: Well?
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  Speaker 6: You're doing the talking, Marshal.
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  Speaker 3: I'm only trying to find out why you want to
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  Speaker 3: stay in this place. That wouldn't be that you're planning
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  Speaker 3: to get Guthrie with it.
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  Speaker 8: You think I kill his colts, Marshal?
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  Speaker 3: You got one of them out there right now for bait.
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  Speaker 6: It's different. It's the only thing that'll tempt this bigfoot wolf.
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  Speaker 4: Is that the wolf you told Guthrie about?
• 18:05
  Speaker 6: Yeah. Yeah, and I'm gonna take him this time, Marshal.
• 18:10
  Speaker 6: If you didn't.
• 18:10
  Speaker 4: Spoil the trap, I... Webb, are you sure that's the
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: only reason you want to stay?
• 18:16
  Speaker 6: I gotta finish what I started.
• 18:19
  Speaker 8: I gotta get that big wolf, Marshal. Then Guthrie better
• 18:23
  Speaker 8: hadn't tried to stop me neither.
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: You mean you'd kill a man just because of a wolf?
• 18:27
  Speaker 6: This one is different. He's white and big.
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: I don't care how big or what color he is,
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: he's not worth a human life.
• 18:37
  Speaker 6: You don't understand.
• 18:38
  Speaker 8: This one is special, Marshal. This is the most important
• 18:44
  Speaker 8: wolf of.
• 18:45
  Speaker 6: My whole life.
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: But why?
• 18:48
  Speaker 6: He's white.
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: That's why.
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: Well, isn't a white wolf big medicine to the Indians?
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: I mean, aren't they superstitious, afraid to kill them?
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: Huh? Look, Webb, maybe you've lived.
• 19:07
  Speaker 6: Alone too long. Maybe you need a change.
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: I'm all right, Marshal.
• 19:12
  Speaker 6: I never thought things clearer.
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: Any man needs to be around other men some. Maybe
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: I've got no use for men, Marshal. Sure, they got
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: none for me. You don't get much chance, Webb. Even
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: before you became a woofer, when you were killing buffalo,
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: you wanted a loan, always.
• 19:29
  Speaker 6: Sure, I did. Maybe someday I'll tell you why, Marshal.
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: But right now, all.
• 19:37
  Speaker 6: I got to say is I ain't leaving here.
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: And if you stay, there'll be a killing. Now, we'll
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: spend the night here, Whib. And in the morning, you're
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: coming back to dodge with us.
• 20:11
  Speaker 6: Mr.
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: Jones?
• 20:12
  Speaker 8: Huh?
• 20:13
  Speaker 9: Mr.
• 20:13
  Speaker 6: Jones, wake up. What?
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: What is it, Chester?
• 20:15
  Speaker 8: He's gone.
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: What? Whib's gone.
• 20:18
  Speaker 6: I don't know how it happened.
• 20:19
  Speaker 10: I just closed my eyes for a minute, and when
• 20:21
  Speaker 10: I looked.
• 20:21
  Speaker 6: Up, he was gone.
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: Well, when was this? Just a couple of minutes ago.
• 20:24
  Speaker 6: I didn't fall asleep. I swear I didn't. He just
• 20:26
  Speaker 6: slipped out.
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: All right, all right, all right, Chester.
• 20:29
  Speaker 6: Chester.
• 20:30
  Speaker 7: I don't know.
• 20:30
  Speaker 6: Maybe you should have took both watches, Mr.
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: Gunn.
• 20:33
  Speaker 6: It's all right.
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: He can't have gotten too far. Well, there.
• 20:43
  Speaker 10: Are our horses. At least he didn't take them.
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: Wait a minute. Oh, there. You just take it easy, boy.
• 20:56
  Speaker 6: Take it easy.
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: They have to dance.
• 20:58
  Speaker 9: The....
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: Now that's it, a wolf. Come on, Chester.
• 21:03
  Speaker 6: Where are we going? You just follow me. Couldn't be
• 21:06
  Speaker 6: too hard a spot, Webb.
• 21:08
  Speaker 10: This moonlight on the snow makes it most as bright
• 21:10
  Speaker 10: as day.
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: Just be quiet, though.
• 21:14
  Speaker 5: Wait a minute.
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: What is it? Over there.
• 21:25
  Speaker 6: That's Webb.
• 21:26
  Speaker 10: Going down to that trap he is.
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 21:29
  Speaker 6: You reckon maybe he's caught that wolf?
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 21:33
  Speaker 6: Come on.
• 21:33
  Speaker 8: There's the colt.
• 21:42
  Speaker 6: He's still all right.
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: Yeah, listen to that. That's a wolf.
• 21:49
  Speaker 6: Where is he?
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: In that pit in front of the colt.
• 21:52
  Speaker 6: The wolf's in it?
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's to be the way the colt's acting. Yeah,
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: listen to him.
• 21:58
  Speaker 10: When he's trying to jump out.
• 22:00
  Speaker 6: So he might have near made it, too.
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: Come on, let's move up closer.
• 22:03
  Speaker 6: Look.
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: He's got a rifle.
• 22:07
  Speaker 6: Why doesn't he use it? Shoot him, Webb. Shoot him. Oh,
• 22:12
  Speaker 6: he's just standing there.
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: What's the matter with you?
• 22:16
  Speaker 5: Shoot him.
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: You got a rifle?
• 22:17
  Speaker 7: Use it.
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: Yeah, we should have brought.
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: Ours. He's out.
• 22:22
  Speaker 6: The wolf's got him.
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: Stay back, Chester. I'm going over there with a six-gun.
• 22:26
  Speaker 5: What's this?
• 22:38
  Speaker 9: You got him, Mr.
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: Dillon.
• 22:40
  Speaker 6: He's down for good. Yeah. And so is Whib. Goodness,
• 22:47
  Speaker 6: he's bleeding like a stuck hog.
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: Whib.
• 22:54
  Speaker 6: Whib. If it's all over, I killed him.
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: Well, then, Mr.
• 22:59
  Speaker 6: Dillon, that will tore him up something fierce.
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 23:02
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 23:04
  Speaker 6: I'm done for, Marshal.
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: Why didn't you shoot him, Webb? You were standing right
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: there with your rifle. White wolf. It's big medicine. What
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: did that have to do with it?
• 23:18
  Speaker 6: 20 years with Cheyenne. Tried to go back being a
• 23:24
  Speaker 6: white man.
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: Never could.
• 23:28
  Speaker 6: Stayed on here to kill the white wolf.
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: You mean you wanted to kill that wolf to prove
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: to yourself that you'd stop thinking like an Indian?
• 23:38
  Speaker 8: This Cheyenne never killed a white wolf. A white wolf
• 23:45
  Speaker 8: is strong medicine.
• 23:49
  Speaker 6: I couldn't shoot.
• 23:51
  Speaker 8: I couldn't act like a white man.
• 23:56
  Speaker 6: And then.
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: Poor devil.
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: Chester, you remember how you said Whib didn't fit in
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: with any people, white or Indian?
• 24:19
  Speaker 10: Well, then I didn't know what he was up against, Mr.
• 24:22
  Speaker 6: Dunn.
• 24:24
  Speaker 8: No.
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: Well, he didn't fit in then.
• 24:29
  Speaker 6: Not until tonight, he didn't. What do you mean?
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: Tonight he found his people. Webb was born with Cheyenne.
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: And tonight he died like a Cheyenne.
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: Gunsmoke.
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: Produced and directed by Norman McDonald, stars William Conrad as
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: Matt Dillon, U.S.
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: Marshal.
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: Harley Bear as Chester, Howard McNair as Doc, and Georgia
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: Ellis as Kitty.
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: Our presentation of Gunsmoke, The Wolfer, now comes to a close.
• 25:28
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