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Gunsmoke - "Gunsmuggler" (Old Time Radio, 1954) · Gunsmoke | Old Time Radio

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Speaker 1: Written by John Meston, with Norman MacDonald directing and producing,
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Speaker 1: this CBS drama stars William Conrad as Marshal Matt Dillon.
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Speaker 1: On January 30th, 1954, Gunsmoke presented episode 93, Gunsmuggler, with
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Speaker 1: Parley Bear as Chester, Georgia Ellis as Kitty, Howard McNear
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Speaker 1: as Doc, and John Diener, Lawrence Dobkin, Harry Bartell, Barney Phillips,
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Speaker 1: and Jack Edwards also heard. After a homesteading family is
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Speaker 1: killed by rifles traced to Pawnee raiders, Dillon finds evidence
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Speaker 1: of a white man supplying illegal arms. With Chester and
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Speaker 1: an indigenous scout, the marshal follows the trail before the
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Speaker 1: violence spreads further. Here is 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.
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Speaker 3: Marshal and the smell of gun smoke.
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Speaker 2: Gunsmoke, starring William Conrad. The story of the violence that
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Speaker 2: moved west with young America. The story of a man
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Speaker 2: who moved with it. Matt Dillon, United States Marshal.
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Speaker 5: Gunsmoke Come over here, Matt.
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Speaker 3: Take a look at these. Huh? Which do you think's prettiest?
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Speaker 6: I don't wear galluses, Kitty. Not like those, anyway.
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Speaker 7: Oh, Matt.
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Speaker 3: Mr. Jonas ordered them all the way from New York.
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Speaker 3: We've got to encourage him. The store will never stock
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Speaker 3: anything but beans and ammunition.
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Speaker 6: Well, I can use beans and ammunition, but I won't
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Speaker 6: wear those.
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Speaker 3: They're lovely. You'd look nice in a pair of bright suspenders.
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Speaker 8: Galluses.
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Speaker 5: All right, galluses.
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Speaker 3: You like the purple ones? No.
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Speaker 9: But they're not as bad as those pink and orange ones.
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Speaker 9: But what is that they got stitched on them, anyway?
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Speaker 3: Chickens? Don't be silly.
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Speaker 6: They're parrots.
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Speaker 3: They're fancy, Matt.
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Speaker 6: They sure are.
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Speaker 3: I'll buy them for you.
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Speaker 6: No, you won't.
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Speaker 7: Please, Matt.
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Speaker 9: Give them to Chester if you want. They're more his
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Speaker 9: style than mine.
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Speaker 5: All right, I will.
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Speaker 3: You refuse to be elegant.
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Speaker 10: I refuse.
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Speaker 9: And if Chester has any sense, he will, too. Or
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Speaker 9: are those people who think he's a whiskey drummer or
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Speaker 9: a barber?
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Speaker 3: That beat's looking like a buffalo, Hunter.
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Speaker 11: Mr.
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Speaker 8: Dillon?
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Speaker 3: Oh, you looking for me, Chester? Yes, sir. Hello, Miss Kitty.
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Speaker 3: Good morning, Chester. Uh, Mr. Dillon, there's a sergeant from
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Speaker 3: Fort Dodge over at the office. Major Evans sent him in.
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Speaker 6: Oh, what does he want?
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Speaker 3: He says the Major... Gracious alive, look at them galaxies.
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Speaker 9: My.
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Speaker 6: What does he want, Chester?
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Speaker 3: He says the Major wants to talk to you.
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Speaker 7: Oh.
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Speaker 3: Right away, he said. Chicken.
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Speaker 6: Well, where is the Major?
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Speaker 12: Hmm? The Major.
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Speaker 3: Oh, out at Fort Dodge, I guess.
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Speaker 9: Oh, Chester, you tell the Sergeant I might ride out
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Speaker 9: sometime tomorrow if I'm not busy.
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Speaker 8: Yes, sir.
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Speaker 3: Well, it's only five miles, Matt. Might be important. I know.
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Speaker 6: But I've dealt with Major Evans before, Kitty. Was there
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Speaker 6: any mail.
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Speaker 3: This noon, Chester? No, sir, not a thing. For three
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Speaker 3: days now.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, that's much less trouble. Uh-oh.
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Speaker 3: Here comes some trouble crossing the plaza.
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Speaker 6: Now what?
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Speaker 3: Major Evans.
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Speaker 6: Huh? Well, I guess he really does want to see me.
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Speaker 8: Sure looks like it.
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Speaker 3: Good afternoon, Marshal.
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Speaker 6: Well, how are you, Major? Why don't you sit down?
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Speaker 3: No, thanks.
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Speaker 8: Hello, Major Evans.
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Speaker 3: Hello, Chester. Marshal, I sent Sergeant Bowers after you this morning.
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Speaker 6: Well, I was figuring on maybe riding out tomorrow, Major.
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Speaker 3: I prefer not to wait another day. Oh, what's the trouble?
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Speaker 3: Pawnees are raiding again.
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Speaker 6: I hadn't heard that.
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Speaker 3: Well, it's an Army matter. Except for one thing.
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Speaker 8: Oh?
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Speaker 3: They've been supplied with rifles, Marshal, and I'm convinced those
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Speaker 3: rifles come out of Dodge.
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Speaker 1: Why?
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Speaker 3: Well, it's the closest source of supply, and I want
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Speaker 3: you to stop it.
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Speaker 9: I'll gladly stop it, Major. If it's true, we can
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Speaker 9: find that out easily enough.
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Speaker 8: How?
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Speaker 9: We'll go over and see Mr. Jonas right across the
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Speaker 9: street there. I'll be back shortly, Chester.
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Speaker 8: Okay, Chester.
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Speaker 6: Come along.
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Speaker 3: Who is this Jonas, Marshal?
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Speaker 6: He's the only man in Dodge who sells rifles.
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Speaker 3: Oh, I see.
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Speaker 6: If anybody's been buying lately, he'll know.
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Speaker 3: Can he be trusted?
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Speaker 6: I trust him.
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Speaker 3: Well, somebody's been buying rifles here, and they might have
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Speaker 3: paid this Jonas to keep it quiet.
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Speaker 6: He isn't that kind of a man, Major.
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Speaker 3: Well.
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Speaker 13: I hope you're going to buy something this time, Marshal.
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Speaker 6: Well, I'm afraid not, Mr. Jonas, but I want you
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Speaker 6: to meet Major Evans from Fort Dodge.
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Speaker 3: How do you do, Major? Mr. Jonas? What can I
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Speaker 3: do for you?
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Speaker 9: We'd like to know if anybody's been buying rifles in
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Speaker 9: quantity lately.
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Speaker 3: Indian trouble, huh? Yeah, I told you, Marshal. Told him what?
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Speaker 3: That you've been selling rifles to some gun smuggler. No, Major,
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Speaker 3: I don't believe I have. Now do you know whether
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Speaker 3: you have or not? Anybody can walk in here. Sure
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Speaker 3: they can.
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Speaker 13: But if I didn't know them, and they bought up
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Speaker 13: a wagon load of rifles on the sudden, I'd tell
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Speaker 13: the marshal about it right off. The only men who've
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Speaker 13: ever been in here are buffalo hunters, and they only buy.
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Speaker 3: Two or three rifles at the most. Well, Major, those
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Speaker 3: rifles are coming from Dodge somehow. I know they are.
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Speaker 3: And I'll stop it if I have to search every
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Speaker 3: wagon that leaves here.
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Speaker 6: You mean you'd use soldiers for that? Yes. That'd be trouble.
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Speaker 9: Sooner or later, they'd try to stop some hardhead who'd
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Speaker 9: start shooting.
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Speaker 3: Soldiers are trained to shoot back, Marshal.
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Speaker 6: I don't want innocent men shot down for no reason
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Speaker 6: at all, Major.
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Speaker 3: The Pawnees raided a ranch down on Crooked Creek just
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Speaker 3: this morning, Marshal, 50 miles from here. They did?
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Speaker 6: How come nobody's heard about it?
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Speaker 3: The man and the woman can't be moved, and their
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Speaker 3: two boys were killed at once. The cavalry patrol found
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Speaker 3: them this morning and sent a messenger to the fort.
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Speaker 6: Why didn't you tell me this before? We've got to
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Speaker 6: get dark down there.
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Speaker 3: I'm on my way there myself. We'll give you an escort, Marshal.
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Speaker 13: Good.
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Speaker 6: If you can keep up with us.
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Speaker 2: We will return for the second act of Gunsmoke in
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Speaker 2: just a moment. But first, there is a definite betting
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Speaker 2: pattern that overtakes a community when the gamblers move in.
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Speaker 2: Here are the facts, plain, unvarnished. In the words of
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Speaker 2: those actually involved, tomorrow, when CBS Radio's hard-hitting Department of
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Speaker 2: Public Affairs offers a full-hour documentary expose titled The Gamblers. Remember,
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Speaker 2: it's tomorrow on most of these same stations. Don Hollenbeck narrates,
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Speaker 2: and the brazen facts speak for themselves. Now the second
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Speaker 2: act of Gunsmoke.
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Speaker 9: Gunsmoke We rode hard, but it was nearly dawn when
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Speaker 9: we reached what was left of the ranch on Crooked Creek.
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Speaker 6: It had been burned, of course, and the stock destroyed.
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Speaker 9: Half a dozen men of the Cavalry Patrol were standing
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Speaker 9: on all-night watch while their Indian scout Tobiel slept peacefully
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Speaker 9: in his blanket.
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Speaker 6: The lieutenant in charge informed us.
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Speaker 9: That the man and the woman had both died soon
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Speaker 9: after he dispatched his messenger to Fort Dodge. But Doc
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Speaker 9: wanted to have a look at him anyway, so... Major
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Speaker 9: Evans and Chester and I went to the fire.
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Speaker 6: Had a cup of coffee.
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Speaker 3: I don't know anything I'd rather have right now than
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Speaker 3: this coffee.
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Speaker 6: You ought to join the army, Chester.
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Speaker 3: The army doesn't usually serve coffee all night, and I
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Speaker 3: don't approve of this fire.
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Speaker 9: Major, look at Tabeel over there. If he thought the
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Speaker 9: Pawnees would be back, he'd have put the fire out himself.
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Speaker 9: Sound asleep. I suppose you're right, Marshal. After all, he's
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Speaker 9: an Indian himself. He's a good scout, too.
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Speaker 6: I've known Tabeel a long time.
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Speaker 3: He's rather undisciplined, but valuable.
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Speaker 6: I bet he is. On both counts. How about that? Well?
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Speaker 8: All the usual things, man.
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Speaker 3: And a few new ones.
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Speaker 10: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: Chester, get Doc some coffee, will you?
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Speaker 3: Oh, sure. Scalped, I suppose.
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Speaker 6: For a start, Major.
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Speaker 3: Worse than that?
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Speaker 1: How that man lived as long as he did, I
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Speaker 1: don't know.
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Speaker 3: Savage devils.
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Speaker 6: But I think the woman was unconscious during most of it.
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Speaker 3: The man must have.
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Speaker 6: Tried to kill her and only grazed her head. How
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Speaker 6: do you know, Doc? Here's your coffee, Doc.
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Speaker 3: Oh, thank you. Thank you, Chester.
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Speaker 6: The groove across her head was too.
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Speaker 3: Narrow for a rifle bullet, Matt.
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Speaker 6: And I don't think those Pawnees had pistols.
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Speaker 3: No, but they certainly had rifles.
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Speaker 6: Oh, that reminds me again. I dug a bullet out
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Speaker 6: of a man, Matt. Here it.
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Speaker 5: Is.
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Speaker 3: Huh.
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Speaker 10: Huh.
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Speaker 6: That's funny.
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Speaker 3: What is it?
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Speaker 6: This is a. 44 caliber. You don't see many of
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Speaker 6: them anymore. Here, take a look, Major.
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Speaker 3: Yes, I believe you're right. What do you make of it, Marshal?
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Speaker 6: Major, I think I can find this gun smuggler.
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Speaker 3: You do?
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Speaker 10: Yeah.
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Speaker 9: I'd like to borrow Tobiel over there to help me.
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Speaker 3: My scout? What for?
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Speaker 9: Well, those Pawnees have a day's start on us, but
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Speaker 9: with Tobiel's help, I think I can catch up with them.
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Speaker 3: Oh, no, no, no. I'm afraid that'll bring out the
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Speaker 3: old crime. No, I'll run this war party down myself
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Speaker 3: as soon as their supply of arms is cut off.
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Speaker 9: Well, there'll just be Tobiel and Chester and me, Major.
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Speaker 9: It's the gun smuggler I'm after, not the Indians.
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Speaker 3: Then I'll go with you.
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Speaker 9: Now, they'd spot a troop of cavalry, but three of
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Speaker 9: us can get through the country without their knowing it,
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Speaker 9: if we have any luck at all.
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Speaker 3: Just what do you have in mind, Marshalman?
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Speaker 6: I'll tell you later if it works.
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Speaker 3: Well, I guess I can't stop you.
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Speaker 6: No, you can't. Then I'll go without Tabeel if I
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Speaker 6: have to. Yes, you would.
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Speaker 3: All right, Marshal.
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Speaker 6: Take him. Thanks.
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Speaker 3: I just hope you know what you're doing.
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Speaker 6: Major, does a man ever know? For sure.
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Speaker 7: Go on, E, ride slow.
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Speaker 3: They don't think we follow. Well, I just hope they
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Speaker 3: don't find out, Tobio. Too bad they find out.
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Speaker 7: Maybe 34-knee war party.
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Speaker 3: They kill us very easy. We better breathe our horses
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Speaker 3: a little. Let's stop here. Right now, I wish I
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Speaker 3: was in the army. I'd feel a whole lot safer. Marshal,
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Speaker 3: why we follow four knees?
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: I'd feel better if I knew myself. Maybe.
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Speaker 9: Well, I'll tell you. First of all, that was a.
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Speaker 9: 44 caliber bullet Doc found in that rancher's body.
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Speaker 12: Only a Henry rifle shoot.
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Speaker 10: 44, huh?
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Speaker 6: Yeah, that's right, Tobiel.
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Speaker 3: My, I ain't seen a. 44 Henry since I can remember.
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Speaker 6: No, most of the buffalo hunters around here use a. 45.
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Speaker 6: Or if they use a Sharps or a Remington, that's a.
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Speaker 8: 50.
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Speaker 6: You just don't see many.
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Speaker 8: 44s.
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Speaker 3: Army, they have all Springfield.
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Speaker 8: 45s.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, but somebody's cornered a bunch of them Henry.
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Speaker 3: 44s and sold them to the Pawnees. Is that what
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Speaker 3: you figured?
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Speaker 6: Yeah, that's right, Chester. But whoever it is didn't think
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Speaker 6: far enough ahead.
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Speaker 3: What do you mean?
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Speaker 9: Well, he sold his rifles, all right, but his customers
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Speaker 9: are going to have to come back to him for ammunition.
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Speaker 6: I can't get it anyplace else. And the market's all his.
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Speaker 1: Sounds to me like he's created a pretty good business.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, too good. Now those Pawnees will be looking for him.
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Speaker 6: And him alone.
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Speaker 12: Marshal Wright. Most Indians only need rifles. Steel ammunition all over.
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Speaker 12: One place, other place. Hmm.
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Speaker 3: Pawnee, no fine. 44 bullet, no place.
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Speaker 6: So they'll go back to this man. They have to
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Speaker 6: find him.
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Speaker 9: If we can keep on their trail long enough, we'll
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Speaker 9: just naturally find him, too.
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Speaker 12: 34 knee on Warpath.
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Speaker 3: All armed with good rifles.
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Speaker 12: Maybe find us before we find them.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. I guess it could work both ways.
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Speaker 6: Well, nobody's gonna find anybody.
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Speaker 3: If we sit here.
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Speaker 6: All right, let's get moving.
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Speaker 9: The Pawnee Trail led south in a straight line, as
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Speaker 9: though they.
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Speaker 6: Knew exactly where they were going.
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Speaker 3: We followed them for.
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Speaker 9: Two days, and on the third, Tobiel informed us that
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Speaker 9: the war party.
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Speaker 6: Had been joined by another one of about equal strength.
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Speaker 9: A band of Indians this large had protected itself with
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Speaker 9: a ring of Scots, so we were... forced to drop
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Speaker 9: back and follow him more slowly. Then they turned to
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Speaker 9: the east. And on the fourth day, we began to wonder.
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Speaker 6: If we were wrong about their trying to find the
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Speaker 6: gun smuggler.
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Speaker 9: Maybe they were just going to lose themselves in Oklahoma territory.
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Speaker 7: Hey, country marshal.
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Speaker 12: For me, maybe blow.
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Speaker 3: Apart like sand.
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Speaker 6: You mean they might separate and wait a while before
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Speaker 6: raiding back into Kansas?
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Speaker 3: Sometimes do. Mr. Dillon, look. Yonder comes a rider. What?
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Speaker 3: White man. Cowboy.
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: He's riding pretty hard.
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Speaker 12: Ride like man afraid.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, let's wait here for him. Cowboy. Hello. Hello. You're
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Speaker 3: headed in the wrong direction.
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Speaker 6: Oh, why?
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Speaker 3: You men are smart. Go turn around and ride. This
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Speaker 3: country's alive with Pawnee.
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Speaker 6: You see any?
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Speaker 3: If I had, I probably wouldn't be here to tell
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Speaker 3: you about it. But I've seen plenty of sign. And
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Speaker 3: the worst kind of sign, too. What do you mean?
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Speaker 3: They had a powwow of some sort about 20 miles
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Speaker 3: back from me, mister. They left a white man there. How?
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Speaker 6: Was he dead?
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Speaker 3: Just about. Did you talk to him? I talked to him.
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Speaker 3: But he didn't have much to say. Not with no tongue.
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Speaker 6: You left him there?
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Speaker 3: That's not all I done to him. But he could
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Speaker 3: still use one hand. I give him my six-gun.
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Speaker 6: Ah, I see.
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Speaker 3: It's a funny thing, though. There was wagon tracks leading
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Speaker 3: into that camp and leading out of it, too. Can't
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Speaker 3: figure it no how. For me, we'll probably not keep wagon, Marshal. Marshal?
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Speaker 3: You're chasing them engines? No.
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Speaker 9: It's the wagon we're after. And whoever's driving it. Well,
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Speaker 9: your business, Marshal.
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Speaker 3: But I'm riding all the way to Dodge, and I'm
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Speaker 3: going to stay there.
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Speaker 6: Maybe we'll see you when we get back.
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Speaker 3: I'll be there. But I wouldn't gamble on seeing you.
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Speaker 3: So long.
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Speaker 6: So long.
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Speaker 3: Well, what do you make of it, Mr.
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Speaker 5: Dillon?
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Speaker 9: Well, as Tobiel says, the Pawnees wouldn't fool around with
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Speaker 9: a wagon.
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Speaker 6: There must have been more than one white man.
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Speaker 12: We find the wagon, I think, maybe five, six hours.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, but it'll be dark soon. Tobiel, track wagon, and duck.
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Speaker 9: They're going to have to move fast to be out
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Speaker 9: of this country by daylight.
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Speaker 6: We move.
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Speaker 5: We move.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, that's the wagon.
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Speaker 6: But I only see one man there, Toby. One man.
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Speaker 3: Big fire.
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Speaker 6: Full white man fire. We've crawled close enough. Let's stop here. There.
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Speaker 6: We gonna rush him, Mr.
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Speaker 8: Dillon?
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Speaker 6: If he starts shooting, Chester, we'll have the Pawnees down
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Speaker 6: on us. Wait for sleep. Tobiel.
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Speaker 3: Crawl up. Cut throat.
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Speaker 6: Now. Now, Tobiel.
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Speaker 8: Tobiel.
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Speaker 6: I've got to be sure this is the right man. Yeah,
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Speaker 6: but how are you going to find out? Well, bluff him.
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Speaker 9: Look, Chester, you and Tobie will stay here. I'm going
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Speaker 9: to walk up to that fire.
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Speaker 6: You're taking an awful chance, Mr.
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Speaker 3: Dillon.
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Speaker 12: Me on me.
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Speaker 6: Thanks.
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Speaker 8: Stop where you are. Get your hands up.
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Speaker 11: No.
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Speaker 6: I'll kill you.
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Speaker 9: And my friends out there will kill you.
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Speaker 10: What friends?
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Speaker 6: Put your gun away, mister. You haven't got a chance.
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Speaker 3: Who are you anyway? What are you doing here?
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Speaker 6: Put up your gun. They might get nervous.
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Speaker 3: How do I know anybody's out there?
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Speaker 6: All right, then shoot, and you'll find out.
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Speaker 7: Well, go ahead.
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Speaker 3: You must be crazy.
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Speaker 6: All right, I'll put it up. There. All right, now
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Speaker 6: tell me about you and the Pawnees.
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Speaker 3: Pawnees? What are you talking about?
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Speaker 9: I want to know where you got those rifles you
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Speaker 9: sold them.
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Speaker 6: Those Henry 44s. You're a law man. Don't try it, mister.
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Speaker 6: You can't outdraw me. Maybe not. But I can sure
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Speaker 6: bring them Indians down on you fast. Bet you won't
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Speaker 6: live to see them.
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Speaker 3: I won't hang either.
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Speaker 9: You won't hang. You'll get about ten years in prison.
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Speaker 9: It's not enough, but that's all you'll get.
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Speaker 3: What are you, a sheriff or something?
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Speaker 6: A U.S. Marshal.
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Speaker 11: No, Marshal, all I gotta do is shoot or make
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Speaker 11: you shoot.
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Speaker 6: And them Pawnees will take care of the rest.
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Speaker 3: So....
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Speaker 6: I'll make you a deal. I don't make deals, mister.
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Speaker 3: Well, you have to make this one if you want
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Speaker 3: to live. Because I've decided I'd just as soon die
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Speaker 3: right here. I spent ten years in prison.
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Speaker 6: Well, what about your partner?
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Speaker 3: My partner?
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Speaker 7: You know everything, don't you?
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Speaker 6: Just about. You can't touch him.
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Speaker 3: He's with the Pawnees.
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Speaker 11: They keep him as sort of a hostage till I
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Speaker 11: get back from Tascosa with more ammunition.
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Speaker 6: You buy the rifles in Tascosa?
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Speaker 3: Sure.
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Speaker 11: But them Indians is kind of mad about not finding.
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Speaker 11: 44 caliber bullets real handy. We foxed him good.
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Speaker 6: You're not very bright, mister. How do you suppose I
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Speaker 6: know about your partner?
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Speaker 3: How did you?
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Speaker 6: We found him where you met the Pawnees. He was dead.
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Speaker 3: Dead? Yeah.
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Speaker 6: You want me to.
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Speaker 3: Tell you about it? Well, what's there to tell?
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Speaker 6: They got mad and killed him. He died slow, mister.
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Speaker 6: Real slow.
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Speaker 3: Nick, don't you.
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Speaker 6: That's right. He wasn't very pretty when we found him.
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Speaker 3: I don't want to hear about it.
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Speaker 6: He was your partner. Might happen to you too. I
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Speaker 6: said I don't want to hear about it. Well, I'm
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Speaker 6: going to tell you about it anyway.
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Speaker 3: First of all, they... No, don't tell me.
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Speaker 6: I can't stand that. I hate that. All right, then
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Speaker 6: listen to me.
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Speaker 9: If you start shooting, I'm not going to kill you
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Speaker 9: and neither are my friends. But the Pawnees will come
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Speaker 9: and they'll think you tried to fool them. They'll do
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Speaker 9: worse things to you than they did to him.
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Speaker 3: I couldn't go through that.
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Speaker 6: We'll see what they do. All right, give me your gun.
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Speaker 3: Come on, take it. I don't care what happens as
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Speaker 3: long as they don't get me. All right.
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Speaker 6: Now go get your horse, mister. And hurry. Or none
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Speaker 6: of us will get out of here.
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Speaker 3: Marshal.
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Speaker 2: and Jack Edwards. Harley Bear as Chester, Howard McNair as Doc,
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Speaker 3: Marshal, fights to.
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