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Gunsmoke - "Drop Dead" (Old Time Radio, 1952) · Gunsmoke | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: A punishing Kansas drought has brought cattleman Jack Jackson and
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: his weakening herd to Cottonwood Pond, where rancher Dyke Howard
• 0:08
  Speaker 1: has fenced off the water. Armed writers gather on both
• 0:12
  Speaker 1: sides as Marshal Matt Dillon faces a dispute between property
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  Speaker 1: rights and a desperate need for water from CBS. This
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  Speaker 1: is Gunsmoke, Episode twenty two, Drop Dead, first heard on
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  Speaker 1: September twentieth, nineteen fifty two. William Conrad stars as Dylan,
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  Speaker 1: with Parley Bear as Chester, Howard mcneer as Doc, and
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  Speaker 1: Georgia Ellis as Kitty Les. Crutchfield wrote the script and
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  Speaker 1: Norman MacDonald directed. Ladies and Gentlemen from Dodge City and
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  Speaker 1: the drought stricken Prairie gun Smoke And now we return
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  Speaker 1: to the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: Around Dot and the territory on West. There's just one
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  Speaker 2: way to handle the killers, the spoilers, and that's with
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  Speaker 2: the US Marshall and the spell.
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  Speaker 3: Of gun Smoke.
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  Speaker 2: Guns Smoke, starring William Conrad, The transcribed story of the
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  Speaker 2: violence that moved West with Young America, the story of
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  Speaker 2: a man who moved with it.
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  Speaker 3: Matt Dillon, United States Marshall.
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  Speaker 4: H here's the river, mister Jason, dryer's a boom our
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  Speaker 4: last hoop of water for the hurry.
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  Speaker 5: I quite peck us. Cotton wood pond is just over
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  Speaker 5: the rise.
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  Speaker 3: Ahead of it.
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  Speaker 6: When you rid me be drying.
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  Speaker 4: Who bet they haven't hear a ring in the prairie
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  Speaker 4: for six months.
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  Speaker 3: It will be dry.
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  Speaker 5: I've been bringing cattle up here to God's City for
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  Speaker 5: twelve years.
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  Speaker 3: Rout the no drought.
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  Speaker 5: The pond's always had water.
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  Speaker 3: Get better here.
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  Speaker 4: We're losing fifteen hit an hour now. Can't pushing much
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  Speaker 4: further theah by water.
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  Speaker 5: With luck, the railroads got the cars for us. Wait
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  Speaker 5: and start loading this afternoon.
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  Speaker 4: By this time, chums like the boy's uprom head one
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  Speaker 4: or something.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, come on, there's a pond, pickers plenty of water.
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  Speaker 3: I guess you were right.
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  Speaker 5: I wonder why the herd's piled up. You ought to
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  Speaker 5: be stampeding for that pun you think hold up hegan.
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  Speaker 3: A farm ware fence.
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  Speaker 4: Somebody's fans talk upon detection. It looks like we've got
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  Speaker 4: a fight on our hands.
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  Speaker 3: I don't like it. Duck, it's too quiet. Things got
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  Speaker 3: too quiet. And dodge it always means a blow up's coming.
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  Speaker 7: Just sit down, mate, you're just getting your affo kissing nerves.
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  Speaker 2: You've been aloft, too long.
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  Speaker 8: Shot at too many times.
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  Speaker 9: You ain't getting so you just act like.
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  Speaker 7: A spooky old horse, jumping your gun, shy hamming those forceps.
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  Speaker 3: Ah yah, you mean us, Thank you? Now you take me, man.
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  Speaker 7: I don't rant and rail against fate. I just sit
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  Speaker 7: back and take what comes.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I should.
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  Speaker 7: If I get a pigeon, fine, I steal in blind.
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  Speaker 6: And if I don't, then I keep my hand in.
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  Speaker 7: Setting a broken leg on a dog. Yeah, that's not
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  Speaker 7: out of whole emity, man, the fact I could use
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  Speaker 7: a fear too.
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  Speaker 8: Not trying to shoot anybody, are you?
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  Speaker 10: Man?
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  Speaker 3: If this drop doesn't break, I'm in the mood to
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  Speaker 3: shoot myself.
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  Speaker 8: That's a bad one on.
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  Speaker 7: I don't think I've ever seen the Prairies DRIs Is
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  Speaker 7: this year.
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  Speaker 8: Oh there you are, mister Dillon.
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  Speaker 3: Well come on in Chester.
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  Speaker 8: I've been looking all over for you. We've got trouble,
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  Speaker 8: mister Dillon.
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  Speaker 3: Huh trouble.
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  Speaker 11: Old man Howard gets in a rider in the trail
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  Speaker 11: drives pulled in from the big Bend. They're threatening to
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  Speaker 11: cut his fencers so they can water the cattle at
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  Speaker 11: Cottonwood Pong.
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  Speaker 7: Well as you blow up matt a rear head on
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  Speaker 7: smash a thirsty herd against that skin flint.
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  Speaker 9: Howard that I could get myself a few fees out.
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  Speaker 3: Of this before it's over. Good old Doc, always hoping
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  Speaker 3: for the best. Now, come on, Chester, let's ride after
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  Speaker 3: Cottonwood Dyke.
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  Speaker 11: Howard had no call to fence that pond, mister Dylan.
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  Speaker 11: There's enough water there for all the trail herds in
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  Speaker 11: the next ten years.
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  Speaker 3: That's on his ranch. Chester. He's got a right to
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  Speaker 3: fence his own range.
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  Speaker 11: Got a right, maybe, but no decent rancher would take
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  Speaker 11: advantage of it.
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  Speaker 8: Howard's means just down right.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's more than that, Chester. It's the old business.
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  Speaker 3: I'm making two dollars grow where one dollar grew before.
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  Speaker 3: I think Howard figured on something like this when he
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  Speaker 3: strung that fence last month. The trouble is looking to
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  Speaker 3: mister Dillon, huh.
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  Speaker 11: Must be fifty or sixty riders facing each other across
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  Speaker 11: that fence.
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  Speaker 8: Looks like a couple of armies.
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  Speaker 3: That wouldn't be the first range war that started over
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  Speaker 3: water rights. Come on, all right, boy, I put away
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  Speaker 3: the guns. The party's over.
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  Speaker 7: Who says, so, master, I do?
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  Speaker 3: Who are you tell him us? Marshal out of dodge?
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  Speaker 7: A sure that man is dang. I threatened to break
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  Speaker 7: through my princes. I trustas on my property. I demand
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  Speaker 7: the protection of the law.
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  Speaker 3: You'll get it hard, you the owner.
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  Speaker 5: That's herd, that's right, Marshall Jack Jackson, from the circles
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  Speaker 5: spread down in the big ben. Maybe you can make
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  Speaker 5: this fellowsy reason. I got a herd of cattle here
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  Speaker 5: that's dying like flies for lack of water. Over there
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  Speaker 5: one hundred yards there's plenty of water. All this sneaking
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  Speaker 5: crook is fizzed in.
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  Speaker 3: How about it? Mart his line Jackson? The law gives
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  Speaker 3: him the right to fence it wall.
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  Speaker 6: Right.
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  Speaker 5: Everything I got in the world's tied up.
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  Speaker 6: And I'd heard there's twenty five trail.
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  Speaker 5: Riders there in the satellite can't even pay wages to if.
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  Speaker 8: I lose these cattle.
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  Speaker 12: There's a long pole.
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  Speaker 5: Pushing a man against the wall and wiping him out.
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  Speaker 3: It wasn't intended to hard. W aren't you right up
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  Speaker 3: here to the fence and talk? Huh?
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  Speaker 13: I show him my shoe, oh chickens it off my.
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  Speaker 7: Fence in it?
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  Speaker 3: How nobody's stopping it? Now? Look, is there any reason
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  Speaker 3: why you can't get together with this man and let
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  Speaker 3: him take that herd in and water it. I'm made
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  Speaker 3: him and off.
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  Speaker 5: Uh off a dollar ahead a day for water, or
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  Speaker 5: by the hurt himself for three dollars ahead.
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  Speaker 3: It's a pretty stiff terms hard better than losing everything
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  Speaker 3: like he's gonna do.
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  Speaker 6: Are you dirty?
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  Speaker 3: All right? Bother you? I look, if he's any gun
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  Speaker 3: sling and starts, I'm gonna be in on it too,
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  Speaker 3: You understand? How would I just don't understand you. Most
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  Speaker 3: people out here on the frontier stick together when trouble starts.
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  Speaker 3: They don't kick a man when he's down, and they
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  Speaker 3: don't look on a draft or a blizzard as a
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  Speaker 3: chance to make a personal cleaning.
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  Speaker 7: A just a minute, Dan, you call yourself the law dodge,
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  Speaker 7: all right?
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  Speaker 3: Does a law?
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  Speaker 11: Say?
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  Speaker 3: I convince in my own land it does.
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  Speaker 6: And never mind your opinions, Marshall.
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  Speaker 7: All I want out of you is enforcement of the.
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  Speaker 3: Law, all right, Howard, You'll get it, and that's all
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  Speaker 3: you'll get. Jackson, you better have your boys start to
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  Speaker 3: hurd circling.
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  Speaker 5: Do this mean you're backing him off, Marshall.
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  Speaker 3: I'm backing up the law, that's all, Jackson, and I.
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  Speaker 5: Don't think much of your laws up here.
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  Speaker 3: I only enforce him. I don't make him. Now, you
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  Speaker 3: better sickle that herd. I say you better.
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  Speaker 7: I'm ordering my voice to shoot the first man of
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  Speaker 7: steel that comes through that fence.
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  Speaker 3: Yes to you, cover Howard?
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  Speaker 8: Yes, you're mister Dilon.
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  Speaker 13: If he orders any of his men to fire a shot,
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  Speaker 13: kill him. Do you pleasure?
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  Speaker 8: Mister Dillon, what's your idea?
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  Speaker 3: You wanted the law enforced? All right, you're getting it.
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  Speaker 3: But I'm gonna do the enforcing Howard, not you. If
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  Speaker 3: you smart, you won't give any orders about shooting.
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  Speaker 13: All right, mister.
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  Speaker 3: Dylan, you got a tough job.
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  Speaker 5: I guess you're trying to do it fair and square.
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  Speaker 3: Man does what he has to do.
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  Speaker 8: Jackson, I know black with.
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  Speaker 5: Me that herd of mine beds down without water. Most
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  Speaker 5: of them won't get off the ground in the morning.
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  Speaker 8: So law, no law. We're going through that fence tonight.
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  Speaker 9: Matt bad liquor or busted?
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  Speaker 3: How are you eager?
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  Speaker 9: But you've probably noticed that before here what's wrong plenty.
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  Speaker 3: One of the bloodiest little range wars you ever saw
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  Speaker 3: is just.
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  Speaker 9: About to break at a cottonwood pond. I heard about it.
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  Speaker 3: You're here too that I'm back in the wrong side here,
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  Speaker 3: Paul still much to the bar, Harry doink for mister Jallon,
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  Speaker 3: No thanks, I can't stay kidding. I got to try
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  Speaker 3: to round up some deputies and try. It's probably about
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  Speaker 3: as far as I'm gonna get. Old Ton will be
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  Speaker 3: siding with the Texas Boys against Howard and against me.
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  Speaker 9: Maybe you ought to switch sides, man, Oh sure, sure, I.
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  Speaker 3: Ordered, I know, but I can't. I started making my
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  Speaker 3: own rules that me in the end of law and
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  Speaker 3: order in dark City. I just can't do it, Kitty, which,
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  Speaker 3: as I'd liked, well.
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  Speaker 9: Not for me to say you're the one to has
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  Speaker 9: to be side Chester.
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  Speaker 3: What'd you find out, mister high Tower?
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  Speaker 8: Down the railroad default check clear through the Topeka.
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  Speaker 11: They can't get enough cattle cars here to load that
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  Speaker 11: heurd out before day after.
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  Speaker 3: That's that it's an outside chance anyway. Yeah, I just
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  Speaker 3: can't do it, Kitty, which, as I'd like to.
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  Speaker 9: Well, not for me to say you're the one to
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  Speaker 9: have to be side Chester.
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  Speaker 3: What'd you find out, mister high Tower down railroad?
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  Speaker 8: Defaut check clear through the Topeka.
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  Speaker 11: They can't get enough cattle cars here to load that
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  Speaker 11: herd out before day after.
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  Speaker 3: That's that it's an outside chance. Anyway, I thought we
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  Speaker 3: might load them up fast, kiddy and run him up
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  Speaker 3: to the Wallnut Creek. It's still cut a little water
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  Speaker 3: in it.
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  Speaker 9: But Matt, there's something wrong with the law that help
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  Speaker 9: pulls a load down scheme like this.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, what Howard's doing is wrong morally, but it's right legally.
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  Speaker 3: I got to find a legal way to stop him.
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  Speaker 9: Howbout a lawyer could find a way of some kind.
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  Speaker 9: Too bad this town doesn't happen just the same matter.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, what is it? My name is Spent, I'm ranged. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I know you work for Dike Howard. Well what's on
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  Speaker 3: your mind?
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  Speaker 5: Well, mister Howard figures you ought to be arranged and
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  Speaker 5: to protect his property.
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  Speaker 3: Jackson gave me his word he'd lay off until nine tonight,
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  Speaker 3: his words.
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  Speaker 2: Sure, But mister Howard figures would be a good idea
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  Speaker 2: if you deputize his right.
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  Speaker 3: Is get up, wait a second morning, go on, get up.
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  Speaker 3: I want Howard's advice. I'll ask for it. I go
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  Speaker 3: tell him that. Well, yeah, but go on, get up,
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  Speaker 3: move deputize his writers? Sure like that?
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  Speaker 8: Well it just may come to that, mister Dylan, And
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  Speaker 8: I couldn't get anybody else.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I ought to throw this badge away and
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  Speaker 3: go out there and help Jackson cut that fence.
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  Speaker 5: Man.
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  Speaker 3: I know, I know, I would have got a lawyer. Well, Kenny,
• 13:23
  Speaker 3: the only lawyer Dodge said he ever saw was that
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  Speaker 3: young fellow from Boston who died here last year. What
• 13:30
  Speaker 3: is it, man Chester?
• 13:32
  Speaker 11: What happened to those books is well, nobody never claimed him.
• 13:36
  Speaker 11: They're still in the back of the jailers.
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  Speaker 3: It's a long shot, but Kitty, I love you. Come on, Chester,
• 13:43
  Speaker 3: let's find those books. I don't know, Chester, take amount
• 14:03
  Speaker 3: of a year just to learn what these words mean?
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  Speaker 8: Well, I sure can't help you, mister Dylan. Look you there, tort.
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  Speaker 11: Replevin, statuetory, mal fees ants.
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  Speaker 8: Why don't they write the laws out in English?
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  Speaker 3: It be no work for lawyers. And the only thing
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  Speaker 3: that might do it is this one. I'm not too
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  Speaker 3: sure what it means. Oh, Doc, come on in here, will.
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  Speaker 7: You figured I'll bring you a little courage for the
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  Speaker 7: battle might be.
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  Speaker 6: Snakes out at cotton with pan.
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  Speaker 3: It's very thoughtful.
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  Speaker 7: He is a Calamo and Irish whiskey. No doctor west
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  Speaker 7: of the Mississippi ought to be without him.
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  Speaker 6: Calamel's for the women.
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  Speaker 3: You understand.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, sure, of course a bottle Jameson might not cure
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  Speaker 7: a patient, but it sure makes him enjoys.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Look, Doc, you've been school at least.
• 15:01
  Speaker 13: I guess you had.
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  Speaker 3: Oh well, I browsed through a co Well, listen to
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  Speaker 3: this and tell me what you think about this paragraph
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  Speaker 3: right here.
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  Speaker 7: Well, let's say a Schedule of Territorial Ordinances and Judicial
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  Speaker 7: Presidents Handbook for Local Administrators.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I didn't go to law school. No, no, but
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  Speaker 3: you're but read books and you know big words. Now
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  Speaker 3: I listen to this. The local administrator or other duly
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  Speaker 3: constituted authority in a territorial division is hereby empowered to
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  Speaker 3: declare a state of acute emergency in case a riot, rebellion,
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  Speaker 3: or any natural catastrophe which threatens a general welfare. Now, Doc,
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  Speaker 3: would you say I'm a july constituted authority?
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  Speaker 7: Huh, well, DoD City, I guess you're about to be
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  Speaker 7: only yeah.
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  Speaker 3: No, no, would you say this drought we're heaven is
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  Speaker 3: a threat to the general welfare. I've never seen a
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  Speaker 3: worse one, But all right, I listened to this. During
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  Speaker 3: the period of such emergency, the officer in charge is
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  Speaker 3: authorized to seize, confiscate, allocate, or otherwise administer critical materials
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  Speaker 3: and facilities in accordance with a common need and his
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  Speaker 3: own discretion. Alright, Matt, water is a material.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, And as far as keeping cattle lives concerned, cottonwood
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  Speaker 7: pond is a facility.
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  Speaker 3: That's all I wanted to know.
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  Speaker 6: I don't see.
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  Speaker 8: How'll I help you? Though, Matt Howard will never stand
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  Speaker 8: for it.
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  Speaker 4: You're still going to have a pitched battle in your hands.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe so Duc, but at least I'll be fighting in
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  Speaker 3: the way I want to fight. Oh, come on, just
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  Speaker 3: let us go. It's eight o'clock. That's dark now, must
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: be pushing nine o'clock. I hope they don't jump the
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  Speaker 3: gun on us. Chester.
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  Speaker 8: I figured Jack no stick by his word.
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  Speaker 3: Mister Dylan Howard, letsio, you know we might get a
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  Speaker 3: break in this drowse. Of that storm comes this way,
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: I'd say it's only a heat, lightning, all thunder and
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  Speaker 3: no rain.
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  Speaker 11: Well, if it goes on a few more weeks, this
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  Speaker 11: prairie will be dried right down to the number.
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  Speaker 3: Hold it, pull up the horses.
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  Speaker 8: He's right there with the fence, mister Dillon.
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I see it. Who's there? Well? Speak up? I
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: usually answer bush Whickers with a six gun. This is
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: your lucky night, Fenton Marshall. I didn't know where's your boss?
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  Speaker 6: All right here, Dylan, I'm tired.
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  Speaker 7: You got here, and mam may try to rush the
• 17:43
  Speaker 7: fench cent a minute now.
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  Speaker 6: Not yet, Hoard, I.
• 17:47
  Speaker 5: Said, nine o'clock. You got five minutes yet.
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  Speaker 3: Come on over here, Jackson. I want you to hear
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  Speaker 3: this too.
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  Speaker 5: I kind of wish you'd stayed out of it, Marshall,
• 17:58
  Speaker 5: rather than I have thought.
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  Speaker 3: I guess your mind, mister hard By the authority vested
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  Speaker 3: in me as a US Marshal, and under the Territorial
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  Speaker 3: laws and Ordinances of the United States, I'm hereby declaring
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  Speaker 3: the state of acute emergency due to the drought.
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  Speaker 6: What are you talking about, Dylan?
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  Speaker 3: The US Territorial Ordinance Schedule of eighteen fifty eight, Section
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  Speaker 3: seven twenty one C.
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  Speaker 6: What are you trying to say?
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  Speaker 3: Just this for the duration of the emergency. I am
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  Speaker 3: taking charge of Cottonwood Pond in the name of the
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  Speaker 3: United States Government, and I'm allocating use of it to
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: mister Jackson. Here the water is heard. If you want
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: to try to make a deal with him, he got
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  Speaker 3: five minutes before I cut the wire and open the fence.
• 18:41
  Speaker 5: I've never bought water before. Now I gave you ten
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  Speaker 5: cents ahead, Howard, how about it.
• 18:47
  Speaker 7: I'll see it dead first, and I'll be struck dead
• 18:50
  Speaker 7: myself before I see one head of your stock onto
• 18:52
  Speaker 7: my property. Dylan, I don't know what's behind this move.
• 18:57
  Speaker 7: Maybe you have so loud, medidally reasy. If not ten,
• 19:01
  Speaker 7: then you've lost your month.
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: You five minutes are running out. Now what are you
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: gonna do? Fight?
• 19:06
  Speaker 6: What do you think I'm gonna do?
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: Gonna resist the law? You call it the law?
• 19:10
  Speaker 7: I don't, Dylan, Umki, my boys orders to shoot any
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  Speaker 7: man lays a hand on this fence, and that goes
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  Speaker 7: for you.
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: Listen to me, Howard. You got a chance to do
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: something that costs you nothing and means life or death
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: to somebody else, and you're refusing to do it. Well,
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry to see it that way, But in any case,
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: this hurd gets water.
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  Speaker 6: Maybe they will.
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: All right, boys, you hurt it cheap that fence cover Jackson.
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: I guess I'm gonna need some deputies.
• 19:46
  Speaker 5: Well, I got twenty five men here, Marshall, are yours
• 19:48
  Speaker 5: if you want them?
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: All right, boys, you all raise your right hands. Do
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: you swear to up hold the Constitution, ordinances, and by
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  Speaker 3: laws of you United States to the best of your ability?
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: So help you I do? All right? You're all temporary
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: Deputy Marshall's acting under my orders. Now, a bunch of
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: the kettle in this way and start them through the
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: fence as soon as I open the wire.
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  Speaker 5: They won't need much starting, Marshall. They been smelling that
• 20:14
  Speaker 5: water for hour.
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: I don't shoot unless you're fired on. If you are,
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: protect yourselves and your hurt.
• 20:19
  Speaker 12: All right, let's go, because of course, kay boss Blankers
• 20:32
  Speaker 12: closing my man toward the opening.
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: Here they crown on.
• 20:35
  Speaker 5: That vesself, cut themselves to reb.
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: Art marsh over this Chester, come here minute. Yes, you
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: got the work cutters.
• 20:42
  Speaker 8: You're your armis to Dylan.
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: You know I think we gotta fight.
• 20:46
  Speaker 8: On our hands.
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess all right, keep me covered.
• 20:50
  Speaker 5: I'll watch the left over here, all right, mister Jackson.
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: Well, there's one strand they're cutting up.
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  Speaker 6: Friends, Mister Hart's.
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  Speaker 3: All right, fired the flashes.
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  Speaker 8: Yes, Oh my gracious, I wish there was a moon.
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  Speaker 3: There's one more strand. I spotted him. Here's the last one. Alright, boys,
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: the fence is open way up.
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  Speaker 13: Through heads up Chester. They won't give in this season.
• 21:33
  Speaker 6: You can hear him out there, but you can't see
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  Speaker 6: for the dun.
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah, went's coming up on that clock. Oh, come on,
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: let's try to find Howard. I'm gonna take him in
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: for attempted murder.
• 21:44
  Speaker 11: Last time I heard of you was down along the
• 21:46
  Speaker 11: fence here, Summers.
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: Why look look at him torches.
• 21:54
  Speaker 7: Mister Dylan, there are settin fire in the grass.
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah, let's try as it as they will. Start the
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: whole prayer, Glason Jackson, get your hurt to the fence.
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: They're trying to stampede it.
• 22:05
  Speaker 5: It'll take more than fire to turn those cattle away
• 22:07
  Speaker 5: from water.
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: I guess you're right, but send as many as your
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: voice as you can to help me. We got to
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: get that fire stopped n fast.
• 22:27
  Speaker 5: I don't know, mister Dylan, I don't know if we're
• 22:30
  Speaker 5: winning or losing.
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: I look that backfire hose that we're we're winning Chester.
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: Otherwise it couldn't have been a worse time.
• 22:40
  Speaker 8: The prairies dry, gun powd not.
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: At least the herd's safe. They wouldn't leave that fond
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: of the whole world caught any orders for the boys,
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: mister Dylan. Yeah, I just haven't keep working along the
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: edge of the backfire pack us beat out any sparks
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: that get across. All right, Marshall, I got you. Have
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: you seen anything of the Howard gang. We're not a sign.
• 22:59
  Speaker 6: I guess they they done all they courted.
• 23:01
  Speaker 11: Yeah, maybe, mister Dylan, and I'd swear a storm's gonna break.
• 23:06
  Speaker 5: I can halfway smell of rain.
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: I don't know about that Chester, and it's doing one thing.
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: It won't help us. What do you mean? Look the
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: wind shifting starting to drive those flames across the backfire broll.
• 23:17
  Speaker 11: If they catch us there again, it'll get clear away
• 23:20
  Speaker 11: from that.
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: Sure. Well, Now, come on, let's scraped some of the
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: boys and start working behind it. Yes, Zylan, Well, Fenton,
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: I figured you'd be halfway to the Mexican border by now.
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: Were you figured wrong? You keep your hands still, both
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: of you one moment at your last one. That's about
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: the way you planned it anyway, isn't it. You wipe
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: this out, Dylan, backfire took the ranch house in the barns.
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: That's the first dona a drift. Only first drop the gun.
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: You're under arrest. I'm dropping you.
• 23:53
  Speaker 8: L Well you warned in, mister Dylon.
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: That doesn't matter much. Look Cheston, yes, sir, he needs
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: jump the backfire.
• 24:08
  Speaker 11: With that wind driving it, it'll burn the whole prairie
• 24:11
  Speaker 11: from here, Clark.
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: The river and Dodge setting along with it. Not a
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: way in the world is stopping it either, shot Marshall,
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: you all right, I'm sick of my stomach's God said
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: he's gonna burn Jackson him. There's nothing we can do.
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: I sure didn't figure on this.
• 24:26
  Speaker 5: I let him have her drading.
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: No, it's my faulte. I should have jumped in first.
• 24:31
  Speaker 5: The man does what he has to Marshall.
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: I don't think that's your way. Oh maybe my way
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: so wrong way When it leads to burning ten thousand
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: acres a prairie in a whole town. There must be something,
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: Rosher Dillon, what is it? Chest I tol yeah, I toly,
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: I could smell it smell? What what the devil?
• 24:50
  Speaker 6: He rain?
• 24:54
  Speaker 5: Yes, sure, my heavens is stopping the ring by heaven
• 24:58
  Speaker 5: may be the right expression.
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: Well, I don't know about that, but I know it's
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: the only thing I can save dods. What come on,
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: raid fast, can't loosen?
• 25:10
  Speaker 5: Raid will you're doing?
• 25:12
  Speaker 6: And mister Dellan, look at it. People down on that far.
• 25:18
  Speaker 10: Right chess, you know, out here on the front or
• 25:27
  Speaker 10: sometimes when a thing like this happens, makes you wonder
• 25:32
  Speaker 10: if it's maybe.
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: Well, I don't know. Come on, Chester, let's find our horse.
• 25:57
  Speaker 8: It's you're not letting nothing, he's mister Dylan.
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: Nah, it was stoke quite away from Tom. Let's swing
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: over along the bluff, Chester and find a place to
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: wait it out for a while. Huh.
• 26:07
  Speaker 8: That's what I was hoping, you'd say.
• 26:10
  Speaker 5: Come on, And it took a long time to break loose,
• 26:14
  Speaker 5: but he's sure they got up for lock.
• 26:16
  Speaker 6: Wow.
• 26:17
  Speaker 8: I never saw a lightning in this.
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: Usually let's up once the rain starts. I guess it's
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: just a freak storm. Anyway, your horse has to flat
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: on the ground.
• 26:32
  Speaker 8: I saw a flash, mister Dylan. It come from that
• 26:34
  Speaker 8: lone caught wood tree.
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a bad spot. He's got covered and we haven't.
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: And I guess we've found out what happened to mister Howard.
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: All right, Howard, come on with your hands up. You're
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: houn her arrest.
• 26:54
  Speaker 6: Why don't you come yet?
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: When the flipper shot at the tree, Chester, roll away
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: soon as I fire.
• 27:00
  Speaker 6: Yes, all right, smart not smart enough?
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: That was close. There's enough light for him to see.
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: He's got all the odds. He keeps it up, he
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: will get us shut. Maybe we might just well rest
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: you've mischie doing. We haven't gotten much to lose as
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: an outside chance, just there that he's bound to get
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: one of us.
• 27:30
  Speaker 8: Yeah, but this way it's both.
• 27:32
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I know.
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: All right. We'll go in on the kind of tree
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: and I'll move fast. Yes, and good Lechester, see you do,
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: mister you all right? One cool?
• 27:53
  Speaker 8: Sweet mister Dylon. What happened?
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: It was like struck the tree. I think Howard's lying
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: over there on the ground. Come on, Yeah, he's done
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: all right.
• 28:27
  Speaker 8: He said he'd be struck dead before he'd ever give in.
• 28:31
  Speaker 6: Well he was.
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: By heaven. No, no, no, second time to night. You're
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: not Chester. I think I'm gonna change my ways.
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: Gun Smoke, transcribed under the direction of Norman MacDonald, stars
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: William Conrad as Matt Dylan US Marshall. Tonight's story was
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: specially written for Gun Smoke by Les Crutfield, with music
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: composed and conducted by Rex Cory. Featured in the cast
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: were Harry Bartel and Lou Krugman, with Joe Devaal, Barney
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: Phillips and Georgie Ellis. Parley bears Chester and Howard mcneer
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: is Doc join us again next week as Matt Dylan
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: US Marshall fights to bring law and order out of
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: the wild violence of the West in Gun Smoke.
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