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The Lone Ranger - "Reign of Terror in Selena County" (Old Time Radio, 1939) · The Lone Ranger | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: A violent feud between the Kimball and Bowman ranches has
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  Speaker 1: brought Salina County to a halt, leaving its sheriff unable
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  Speaker 1: to find support. Into that troubled range country ride, the
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  Speaker 1: Lone Ranger and Tonto, investigating before another clash, worsens the conflict.
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  Speaker 1: From October 27th, 1939, this is The Lone Ranger, episode 1054,
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  Speaker 1: Reign of Terror in Salina County, with Earl Grazer as
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  Speaker 1: the Lone Ranger and John Todd as Tonto. From the
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  Speaker 1: Mutual Broadcasting System's Bond Bread period, here is the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: Hello, Silver, how are you?
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  Speaker 3: A fiery horse with a speed of light. A cloud
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  Speaker 3: of dust and a hearty high old silver.
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  Speaker 4: The Lone Ranger. The Lone Ranger.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 4: THE END.
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  Speaker 2: In the early days of the western United States.
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  Speaker 5: The pioneers had.
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  Speaker 2: To fight Indians and outlaws to protect their lives and property,
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  Speaker 2: even when the frontier became more civilized.
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  Speaker 5: Gun law still ruled the range country. And it was
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  Speaker 5: not until the masked rider of the plains started his
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  Speaker 5: great fight for justice that the local sheriffs were able
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  Speaker 5: to preserve.
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  Speaker 4: Law and order.
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  Speaker 3: Return with us now to those thrilling days when the
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  Speaker 3: West was young. From out of the past come the
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  Speaker 3: thundering hoofbeats of the great horse Silver. The Lone Ranger
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  Speaker 3: rides again.
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  Speaker 4: Come on, Silver! We're heading for Salina County!
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  Speaker 2: Howdy-o, Silver!
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  Speaker 6: Howdy!
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  Speaker 5: The worst reign of terror the district had ever known
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  Speaker 5: had come to Salina County. What had started as a
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  Speaker 5: minor quarrel between the owners of two great ranches had
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  Speaker 5: developed swiftly into a feud, dividing the county into two
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  Speaker 5: armed camps. Business in Salina City, the county's seat was paralyzed.
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  Speaker 5: Few men dared to ride the open range alone. Fear
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  Speaker 5: and hatred had destroyed the normal life of the community.
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  Speaker 5: And in the face of this, the law was helpless.
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  Speaker 7: The Cuban's just shot Clay Bowman!
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  Speaker 4: Sheriff! Fire! Come around here!
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  Speaker 5: Fire!
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  Speaker 4: Stay where you are! Fire! Hold on! Hurry, Sheriff! We
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  Speaker 4: can't wait! Come on, boys! Let's go! Get up there!
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  Speaker 4: Get up there!
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  Speaker 7: I won't force you to follow them fellas! I'm swearing
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  Speaker 7: in everybody here! You ain't swearing me in, Sheriff! I'm
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  Speaker 7: staying out of this!
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  Speaker 4: Me too!
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  Speaker 8: You want them fellas, Sheriff? Go get them yourselves! You're
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  Speaker 8: a bunch of spineless cowards! We're looking out for our health!
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  Speaker 8: And you better tend to Clay! There he is, laying
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  Speaker 8: in front of the feed store! Someone must have tipped
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  Speaker 8: off the Kindles. He's coming to town today.
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  Speaker 4: Bad hurt, Clayton. Where'd they get you? My shoulder, Tim.
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  Speaker 4: Bullet range clean through it. Clayton, you shouldn't have come
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  Speaker 4: to town.
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  Speaker 7: Was there a trick this time, Sheriff?
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  Speaker 4: But it'll be our turn next.
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  Speaker 7: One day we're going to plant every blasted Kimble six
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  Speaker 7: feet under.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, give me a hand on my feet.
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  Speaker 5: Brought to Salina County by news of the feud raging there,
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  Speaker 5: the Lone Ranger and his faithful Indian companion, Tonto, entered
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  Speaker 5: the district by the north trail. Suddenly, a band of
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  Speaker 5: riders rounded a turn in the trail and.
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  Speaker 4: Come on, man, with the red skin. What's your handle, mister?
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  Speaker 4: That's my business. Yeah? Well, I'm making it mine. I'm
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  Speaker 4: Duke Kimball. He's here, some of my men. Yes?
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  Speaker 7: Everybody comes into Salini County is either for us or
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  Speaker 7: against us.
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  Speaker 4: Which are you? I'm not against you. You'd better not.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm not for you. You looking for trouble? If
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  Speaker 3: I am, it seems as though I came to the
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  Speaker 3: right place to find it. I don't like the way
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  Speaker 3: you talk.
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  Speaker 7: I don't like the way you dress, nor the mask
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  Speaker 7: you wear, nor the engine you travel with. Fact is,
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  Speaker 7: I don't see nothing about you like... Hey, you want
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  Speaker 7: to make something out of that?
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  Speaker 4: Right. Watch out! Get him with you! You're coming with me!
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  Speaker 9: Your men fire, they'll have you for a target!
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  Speaker 4: Follow me, Tonto! Get him up, Scully! Come on, Silver!
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  Speaker 4: One side! Out of the way! One side against Pebble!
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  Speaker 4: Stop him, fellas! Make him let go of me! Shoot,
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  Speaker 4: you fools!
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  Speaker 7: Blast him!
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  Speaker 4: We can't! You're in the way! Come on! Come on!
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  Speaker 4: That won't be in the air. You'll pay for this.
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  Speaker 4: You'll pay. Quiet.
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  Speaker 1: Hurry, old fellow.
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  Speaker 4: Get him up, scoundrel. Get him up. Let go of me.
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  Speaker 4: Let me go, I say. There.
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  Speaker 9: Now get down. Maybe this will teach you a lesson.
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  Speaker 9: Go back and join your men. Tell them the next
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  Speaker 9: time we meet on the trail to stay out of
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  Speaker 9: our way.
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  Speaker 4: I'll tell them to shoot you on sight. But there's
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  Speaker 4: a game two can play at. Come on, boy. I'll
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  Speaker 4: get you. I'll get the both of you.
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  Speaker 9: Wait.
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  Speaker 4: Just wait and see if I don't.
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  Speaker 5: That night, Salina County's discouraged sheriff came to a decision.
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  Speaker 5: He stepped to the door of his office, opened it,
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  Speaker 5: and called outside to his chief deputy.
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  Speaker 4: Ray, come in here. Want me, Sheriff? Come inside. What's up?
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  Speaker 10: I made up my mind or something, Ray, and I
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  Speaker 10: want you to be the fellow to know it first.
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  Speaker 10: Most likely, you'll be chosen to fill my boots.
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  Speaker 4: Huh? Fill your boots?
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  Speaker 3: What are you talking about? Hey, what are you taking
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  Speaker 3: your badge off for?
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  Speaker 4: There she is. I'm resigning.
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  Speaker 11: What?
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  Speaker 10: The job's got too big for me, or else I
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  Speaker 10: just ain't the man to handle it. I've thought it
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  Speaker 10: all out. This ain't gonna be an easy thing for
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  Speaker 10: me to do, but it's all there is to do.
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  Speaker 4: I gotta make way for another man. Sheriff, you can't
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  Speaker 4: blame yourself. Why not? Somebody's to blame, ain't they? I'm
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  Speaker 4: the law here.
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  Speaker 6: Well, I'm supposed to be.
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  Speaker 4: If I ain't to blame, then who is? The Kimballs
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  Speaker 4: and the Bowmans. Which same I ought to be able
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  Speaker 4: to keep in line. You're staying in office, Sheriff.
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  Speaker 6: What?
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  Speaker 4: And bring a mask back. There's no need to reach
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  Speaker 4: for your guns. I'm not an outlaw. Came here to
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  Speaker 4: have a little talk with you, Sheriff. What about? The
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  Speaker 4: feud between the Kimbles and the Bowmans. Are they taking
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  Speaker 4: the hiring gunmen? I don't know. Are they? Ain't you one?
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  Speaker 4: I'm not. What are you wearing?
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  Speaker 9: I heard part of what was said in here before
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  Speaker 9: I came inside. Sheriff, I heard you say that you
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  Speaker 9: were resigning. I see that you've taken off your badge.
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  Speaker 9: I hope that you'll take it back.
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  Speaker 6: That's funny talk.
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  Speaker 9: Your deputy's right. You can't blame yourself for conditions in
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  Speaker 9: your county. When almost everyone has taken sides, there's not
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  Speaker 9: enough of the public left to enforce law and order.
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  Speaker 9: Without the public behind it, the law can do little.
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  Speaker 4: Sure, that's just the point I was trying to make.
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  Speaker 4: Let's see. Why would a masked fellow like you talk
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  Speaker 4: like that? I want to help the sheriff. Ah, help me.
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  Speaker 9: Who's in the right in this fight? Who started it?
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  Speaker 9: Who's responsible for keeping it up?
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  Speaker 7: Why.
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  Speaker 10: I guess when you come right down to it, both
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  Speaker 10: sides started it. You see, old man Kimball got into
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  Speaker 10: an argument with Steve Bowman. And after the fur had
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  Speaker 10: quit flying, things was a mess.
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  Speaker 4: Sure, but it's Duke that's made things as bad as
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  Speaker 4: they are. Duke?
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  Speaker 3: I believe I met him today. He's old man Kimball's nephew.
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  Speaker 3: When the old man's gone, the place will be his.
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  Speaker 4: What's he been doing?
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  Speaker 3: Well, the sheriff don't believe it. But I'm here to
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  Speaker 3: say that Duke wants a few to go on. I
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  Speaker 3: don't know why, but it's the only thing that explains
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  Speaker 3: some of the things he's done... Well, just last month,
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  Speaker 3: we might have got Steve Bowman and old man Kimmel
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  Speaker 3: to talk things over peaceable if it hadn't been for him.
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  Speaker 3: And it was he that started the fighting in town, too.
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  Speaker 3: For a while, Salina City was sort of a neutral ground,
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  Speaker 3: you might say. The fight was done outside.
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  Speaker 4: I see.
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  Speaker 3: Remember what I told you, Cheryl. Stay in office. The
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  Speaker 3: situation may get better. You'll learn later on. We ride
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  Speaker 3: to the Kimball place, Tudor.
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  Speaker 4: What's we do there? Remember that fellow who tried to
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  Speaker 4: cause us trouble on the trail today? Ah, him, that fellow.
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  Speaker 4: His name's Duke Kimball. Come on.
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  Speaker 9: Get him up, scoundrel.
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  Speaker 2: Come on. Come on.
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  Speaker 5: Although Duke acted as his uncle's foreman and lived with
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  Speaker 5: him in the great Kimball ranch house, he preferred to
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  Speaker 5: spend his time in the company of the crew. That evening,
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  Speaker 5: he was talking with them in the bunkhouse and.
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  Speaker 7: Duke, I ain't asked you yet about that fellow you
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  Speaker 7: met up with on the trail today, the mask fellow.
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  Speaker 4: The boy's been telling me he kind of made monkeys
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  Speaker 4: out of them.
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  Speaker 7: That won't happen a second time. He sure savvied how
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  Speaker 7: to handle himself.
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  Speaker 4: Who was he? Somebody working for the Bowman's? I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: We never found out. Most likely wasn't. We'd have heard
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  Speaker 4: if he was.
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  Speaker 7: Not him and the engine are strangers, I reckon. If
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  Speaker 7: they got any sense at all, they'll head back where
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  Speaker 7: they came from. They'll find getting off to the start
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  Speaker 7: they did in Salina County ain't exactly healthy.
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  Speaker 4: Seen your uncle since you was in town? Was he
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  Speaker 4: asking for me? You might call it that. Between cusses.
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  Speaker 4: He was right mad. Because we shot Clay Bowman? I reckon.
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  Speaker 7: I've got a notion he'd like to find some way
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  Speaker 7: to call the whole thing off, Duke.
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  Speaker 4: I think it's getting him some way. Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: Well, we don't call off nothing till every last Bowman's
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  Speaker 7: been run out of the county. There's room for just
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  Speaker 7: one top outfit here, and it's gonna be us.
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  Speaker 4: Well, here's your chance to tell him how you feel, Duke. Huh?
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  Speaker 4: He's coming here. I've just seen him pass in the window.
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  Speaker 4: He don't scare me. Come on.
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  Speaker 6: Come on.
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  Speaker 4: Come on. Come on.
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  Speaker 3: Duke.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah? Hey, buddy.
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  Speaker 6: I want to talk to you.
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  Speaker 4: Sure. I'll be back before you turn in, fellas. Well?
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  Speaker 4: Why didn't you come to see me when you got
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  Speaker 4: back from town?
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  Speaker 7: Huh?
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  Speaker 4: What for? Something you wanted me to do?
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  Speaker 6: I want an explanation for what happened there.
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  Speaker 4: You mean Clay, huh? I do. Boy, shucks, it weren't nothing.
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  Speaker 4: None of the boys got hurt.
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  Speaker 6: Johnson rode by this evening. He says Clay Bowman might die.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah? Whatever.
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  Speaker 3: This has gone far enough, Duke. I'll admit I'm to
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  Speaker 3: blame in part for all that's happened. I'll admit it
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  Speaker 3: was Steve Bowman and me that was the cause of it.
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  Speaker 3: But it can't go on. Somehow this fighting's got to
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  Speaker 3: be stopped.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, it's to be stopped, is it?
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 7: How about the fellas drawing Kimball Pay that would kill
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  Speaker 7: fighting for us? We're to forget them? We're to go
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  Speaker 7: to the Bowmans and say, well, you murdered friends of ours,
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  Speaker 7: but that don't matter. Just pass it off. We ain't
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  Speaker 7: holding grudges. Kill some more if.
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  Speaker 4: You're a mind to. We ain't backing them up.
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  Speaker 6: Huh.
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  Speaker 4: You'd make us out a pack of cowards.
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  Speaker 6: Good men have died on both sides.
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  Speaker 4: There ain't half enough died yet on the other side.
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  Speaker 4: You came telling you... How am I finished? Those men
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  Speaker 4: in here in the bunkhouse.
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  Speaker 7: Expect me to face them and tell them we're coming
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  Speaker 7: to terms with the Bowmans and all the fighting they've
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  Speaker 7: done is wasted?
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  Speaker 4: Huh? You tell them that. You tell them that those
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  Speaker 4: of them that died, died for just nothing at all.
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  Speaker 4: I dare you.
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  Speaker 7: You figure it's just our fight? If you do, you're crazy.
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  Speaker 7: It's got to where it's their fight just as much
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  Speaker 7: as ours.
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  Speaker 6: Well, I see there's no use talking to you.
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  Speaker 4: You bet there ain't. You seem to forget I'm the
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  Speaker 4: owner here. Forget? I ain't forgetting nothing. You're doing that.
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  Speaker 7: You're forgetting that paying wages don't give you the right
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  Speaker 7: to tell men to act like yellow coyotes.
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  Speaker 4: Duke!
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  Speaker 3: You're like most the others around here. You've done so
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  Speaker 3: much killing that you've lost the power to see things straight.
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  Speaker 3: You've got the whole thing twisted in your mind. And
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  Speaker 3: all the time you're getting worse.
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  Speaker 4: I got my own opinion about that.
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  Speaker 6: Well, I'm sorry we can't see things the same way.
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  Speaker 6: I'm going back to the house. Better come along pretty quick.
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  Speaker 6: And think it over tonight. Maybe tomorrow you'll see where
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  Speaker 6: I'm right.
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  Speaker 4: Good night. Maura won't be no different from today. Old
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  Speaker 4: fool trying to tell me what to do. Heard the conversation, Duke.
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  Speaker 4: Talked right up to your uncle, didn't you?
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  Speaker 7: Said he didn't scare me, didn't I? Maybe you better
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  Speaker 7: be scared. Might show more sense.
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  Speaker 4: He don't have to leave you.
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  Speaker 6: The ranch, you know.
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  Speaker 4: No?
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  Speaker 7: Say, I savvy him like the palm of my hand.
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  Speaker 7: He'd no more think of leaving a place to anybody
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  Speaker 7: but me than... Well, then he'd think of shooting his settle.
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  Speaker 7: That don't worry me none.
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  Speaker 6: So the fighting keeps on, huh?
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  Speaker 7: Till the last bowman's gone and the Kimball's boss of
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  Speaker 7: the county. Maybe I ain't real smart, Bill. But just
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  Speaker 7: what good is he gonna do you? Like your uncle said,
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  Speaker 7: he's still the owner.
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  Speaker 4: For now. After him, I am. Well, you got plenty
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  Speaker 4: long to wait. He's good for another 30 years anyhow. Maybe.
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  Speaker 6: Meaning?
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  Speaker 7: Meaning that maybe it won't be so long till I
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  Speaker 7: own the place as some folks think.
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  Speaker 4: What do you think? I've said all I'm going to.
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  Speaker 4: Just think it over. Maybe you'd better think it over, Duke.
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  Speaker 4: What the... Who's the run-in to trouble you didn't expect? Duke. Duke,
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  Speaker 4: it's the mask man. Come on, tell me. He was
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  Speaker 4: listening to us. All right. And he said I'd run
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  Speaker 4: into trouble, huh?
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  Speaker 7: Well, let me get my hands on that fella and
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  Speaker 7: anything comes my way won't be a patch on what
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  Speaker 7: I'll do to him.
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  Speaker 5: The curtain falls on the first act of our Lone
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  Speaker 5: Ranger story. Before the next exciting scenes, please permit us
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  Speaker 5: to pause for just a few moments.
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  Speaker 2: THE END THE END.
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  Speaker 4: Now to continue our story.
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  Speaker 5: It was late in the afternoon of the next day
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  Speaker 5: that a rider approached the Bowman Ranch house by a
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  Speaker 5: roundabout route. Keeping the ranch house between himself and the
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  Speaker 5: corrals beyond, he finally reined in, dismounted swiftly, and took
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  Speaker 5: the steps leading to the front.
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  Speaker 4: Porch two at a time. Judd, get in here.
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  Speaker 6: Who's around?
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  Speaker 4: Nobody.
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  Speaker 6: Jenny's in with Clayton.
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  Speaker 4: Anybody see you come here?
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  Speaker 12: I don't think so.
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  Speaker 4: I rode up from the south.
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  Speaker 12: I only got a minute because Duke will be expecting
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  Speaker 12: me at the bunkhouse before dark.
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  Speaker 6: He don't suspicion you're working for me, does he?
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  Speaker 4: Think I'd be alive to tell it if he did?
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  Speaker 12: No, I've got him convinced I'm just about his right
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  Speaker 12: hand man.
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  Speaker 4: You got news you wouldn't have come here.
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  Speaker 6: What's up?
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  Speaker 4: Look, Mr. Bowman, Mr. Kimball would like to see this
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  Speaker 4: fight stopped.
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  Speaker 6: That don't surprise me.
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  Speaker 4: He's no fool. But it won't. Because Duke's got plans
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  Speaker 4: of his own. Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: In the first place, he aims to be top dog
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  Speaker 7: around here. He can never be there as long as
• 17:38
  Speaker 7: you and Clayton are in the same county.
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  Speaker 4: He figures he's got to run you out. Only we
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  Speaker 4: don't run. Well, that ain't all.
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  Speaker 7: I got a notion from some things he's handed that
• 17:47
  Speaker 7: he's scheming something against his uncle besides. I got a
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  Speaker 7: notion just as soon as he gets you licked, his.
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  Speaker 4: Uncle ain't gonna have long to live. Get us licked? Why,
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  Speaker 4: that dirty.
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  Speaker 7: I'm just telling it to you the way he's got
• 17:58
  Speaker 7: it figured. But there's more news still.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 7: He's gonna ride here with every man he can get together.
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  Speaker 12: He's going to try to finish you off or chase
• 18:05
  Speaker 12: you out once and for all.
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  Speaker 4: You sure of that?
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  Speaker 12: He was talking about it this morning. How many men
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  Speaker 12: can he get?
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  Speaker 4: Close to 50.
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  Speaker 12: You got that many, Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Bowman? Not over 30.
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  Speaker 11: He even figured on the Circle O out for it
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  Speaker 11: to fight on our side.
• 18:16
  Speaker 12: Well, at least you got warning.
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: When's he planning to do all this? Come all night late.
• 18:21
  Speaker 7: They're hoping to take you by surprise. Once they run
• 18:23
  Speaker 7: you off, they figure to fire your buildings.
• 18:25
  Speaker 11: Well, we'll be waiting for them. And I can tell
• 18:28
  Speaker 11: you now, they won't have the walkover they're scheming.
• 18:31
  Speaker 6: Then I got to be going. Yeah, tail seems to
• 18:35
  Speaker 6: be clear. Don't see nobody. Hey, Mr.
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: Bowman, whose white horse is that just yonder? I don't know.
• 18:41
  Speaker 12: Mine.
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: What? The mass mannequin. Careful.
• 18:44
  Speaker 6: Keep your hands from your holsters.
• 18:46
  Speaker 9: I followed you here, Judd. I thought perhaps Duke had
• 18:48
  Speaker 9: sent you to make an attempt on Bowman's life. Judd
• 18:50
  Speaker 9: works for me.
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: So I found out. That's all the better.
• 18:54
  Speaker 7: Stranger, who are you? What's your stake in this? First
• 18:57
  Speaker 7: I thought you was again, Duke, but now I can't seem...
• 18:59
  Speaker 7: I told Duke the truth that day on the trail.
• 19:01
  Speaker 7: I'm not for either side.
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: Then what.
• 19:03
  Speaker 9: All I want is to see this fighting brought to
• 19:05
  Speaker 9: an end before more men are killed.
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: Bowman. Well? Kimball wants peace. From all I can gather,
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: you do also. On fair terms.
• 19:13
  Speaker 9: Kimball can't control his men because Duke has them convinced
• 19:16
  Speaker 9: they're fighting as much for themselves as they are for
• 19:18
  Speaker 9: the outfit that employs them.
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: Judge told me as much. How about your men?
• 19:22
  Speaker 6: Well, the boys think.
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: A heap of clit. More than they do of me.
• 19:26
  Speaker 12: They won't never host to their shootin' eyes till they
• 19:29
  Speaker 12: paid the Kimbles back.
• 19:30
  Speaker 6: Not even if I asked them to.
• 19:32
  Speaker 9: They were shown this entire fight was engineered just for
• 19:34
  Speaker 9: the sake of one man's ambition.
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: The ambition of a man who would murder. Huh? What
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: do you mean? You're referring to Duke. Right.
• 19:42
  Speaker 9: You know as well as I, Judd. This fight reached
• 19:44
  Speaker 9: the proportions it did for just one reason. Because Duke
• 19:47
  Speaker 9: plans first to make the Kimball outfit the most powerful
• 19:49
  Speaker 9: ranch in the county. And second, to become the owner
• 19:52
  Speaker 9: of the Kimball ranch. Even if it means murder.
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: Sure, I know it.
• 19:56
  Speaker 11: And if the crews knew it, Duke would be lucky
• 19:58
  Speaker 11: to get out of the county alive.
• 20:00
  Speaker 12: But even if you accused him to his face, he'd
• 20:02
  Speaker 12: just deny it.
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: Of course. Well, then what do you... Would you admit
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: if it were proved, the fighting would be brought to
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: an end? Well, I should smile. It would. Then the
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: fighting will end. Take my word for it, Bowman.
• 20:11
  Speaker 9: The feud between your outfit and Kimball's will be finished
• 20:14
  Speaker 9: tomorrow night.
• 20:15
  Speaker 5: The masked man explained the plan he had in mind.
• 20:30
  Speaker 5: And when he finished, Judd left the Bowman ranch house,
• 20:33
  Speaker 5: mounted and returned to the Kimball place. After unsaddling and
• 20:37
  Speaker 5: turning his mount into the corral, he found Duke and
• 20:40
  Speaker 5: quietly suggested they work together in the future.
• 20:42
  Speaker 7: That you're quicker on the uptake than I'd even figured you.
• 20:47
  Speaker 7: I got a notion you're gonna be a real good
• 20:50
  Speaker 7: man to have around.
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: Shucks, it was plain enough what you was hinting last night, Duke.
• 20:54
  Speaker 7: And I don't mind saying you're the kind of hombre
• 20:57
  Speaker 7: I'd like.
• 20:57
  Speaker 6: To tie to.
• 20:58
  Speaker 12: When you know what you want, you go out and
• 21:00
  Speaker 12: get it.
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: Hell, that's my style. We could, uh, make a team.
• 21:04
  Speaker 6: Ha, ha, ha.
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: I can't if I don't think so, too.
• 21:08
  Speaker 7: There's plenty of reason why as long as you figure
• 21:10
  Speaker 7: to get your uncle out of the way anyhow.
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: Now's the time to do it. Well... Just figure it
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: for yourself.
• 21:17
  Speaker 7: After tomorrow night, if everything goes according to plan, the Bowmans.
• 21:20
  Speaker 6: Will be finished.
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: You bet they will. All right.
• 21:23
  Speaker 7: When that's done, then the fighting's over. And if your
• 21:26
  Speaker 7: uncle's still alive after the fighting... It's going to be
• 21:29
  Speaker 7: harder to get rid of them later on without questions
• 21:31
  Speaker 7: being asked.
• 21:32
  Speaker 6: Uh-huh.
• 21:32
  Speaker 12: Finish them off now. They can be blamed on the Bowmans.
• 21:36
  Speaker 6: It's just what folks would expect.
• 21:38
  Speaker 12: Just be part of the trouble that's gone before.
• 21:40
  Speaker 6: That's so.
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: Then you'd be owner of the ranch right now.
• 21:48
  Speaker 6: If your uncle was killed and the Bowmans blamed for it.
• 21:50
  Speaker 7: then the men are going to raid tomorrow night more
• 21:52
  Speaker 7: willing than ever.
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: They'd be riding to get even.
• 21:55
  Speaker 7: If they was outnumbered two to one, which they won't be...
• 21:58
  Speaker 7: they'd still be fighting mad raring to pay the Bowmans off.
• 22:02
  Speaker 6: Don't that make sense?
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: It does.
• 22:06
  Speaker 7: Well, then, that's what we do. And even you ain't
• 22:09
  Speaker 7: seen one good reason for it, Judd.
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: What's that? If he was to see us getting ready
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: to leave tomorrow... And to.
• 22:15
  Speaker 7: Be bound to, he'd do his best to try and
• 22:18
  Speaker 7: stop us. Might get some of the boys to think him.
• 22:21
  Speaker 7: This way, he won't be there to meddle, and anything
• 22:24
  Speaker 7: I order will go without question.
• 22:26
  Speaker 6: Yes, sir.
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: But how? Leave that to me, Duke.
• 22:33
  Speaker 6: I got it all figured out.
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: Just leave it to me.
• 22:44
  Speaker 5: Late the following evening, Duke was sitting with his uncle
• 22:47
  Speaker 5: in the living room of the ranch house. Suddenly he rose,
• 22:50
  Speaker 5: walked to the hook where his gun belt and holsters
• 22:52
  Speaker 5: were hanging, and lifted them down. His uncle watched him
• 22:57
  Speaker 5: for a moment, and then... Duke, where do you think
• 23:00
  Speaker 5: you're up to?
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: Oh, just stepping over to the bunkhouse. Then so, what
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: are you strapping them guns on for? They won't be needed. Well,
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: wear them if I want to. Duke, you're planning something. Yeah?
• 23:11
  Speaker 6: The mortuary all evening. Been acting nervous as a cat.
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: Now, what's this about? Don't interfere.
• 23:18
  Speaker 6: I've noticed the men. Even they've been acting like something's up.
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: You've been noticing too much. Duke, you ain't going out.
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: You're going to stay. You fool.
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: I've been too easy with you. I've let you go
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: too far on your own. You got around the way
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: you think you're the boss of the place.
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: Instead of me, I.
• 23:34
  Speaker 5: Duke.
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: Duke, put that gun back. Shut up.
• 23:36
  Speaker 6: Duke, no.
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: Now, what are you doing?
• 23:38
  Speaker 7: I'm setting things here and now. I'm coming out in
• 23:40
  Speaker 7: the open and showing you just where I stand. I'm
• 23:43
  Speaker 7: the boss here. You're finished.
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: You're done with.
• 23:46
  Speaker 10: No, Duke, no.
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: And you ain't standing in my way no longer. No.
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: Take it. Where'd them shots come from? Sounded like they'd
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: come from the house. What's happened? Maybe it's a raid. Boys! Hi, boys!
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: Where's Duke? Hey, Duke! Who fired them shots? Somebody shoot
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: at you. What's the trouble? It was him. I seen him.
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: He fired through an open window. Killed my uncle. Which
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: way did the skunk go?
• 24:16
  Speaker 7: Will you take after him and string him up?
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: Come on, fellas. Get to your horses. See to your guns. Wait, fellas. Wait! Wait, wait, wait.
• 24:23
  Speaker 7: We won't waste our time chasing him. We'll ride straight
• 24:26
  Speaker 7: to his ranch. We'll clean out the whole pack of
• 24:28
  Speaker 7: sneaking killers to once.
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: Every one of them will pay for this. Come on, men.
• 24:33
  Speaker 7: Saddle up and grab your gun belts. Tonight, we don't
• 24:37
  Speaker 7: leave a bowman alive.
• 24:39
  Speaker 6: Come on.
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: Two hours later, with Duke in the lead, the crew
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: from the Kimball Ranch thundered down upon the dark and
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: silent buildings of the Bowman outfit. Duke shouted an order
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: at them.
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: Fellas!
• 25:01
  Speaker 7: Fellas, ride down on them, yelling for all you're worth!
• 25:04
  Speaker 7: Make it sound like there's a thousand of us! And
• 25:06
  Speaker 7: start shooting the minute they stick out their heads!
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: Come on, let's go! Get up there! Hey, you!
• 25:15
  Speaker 7: Why?
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: There's something wrong. They ain't showing themselves. That don't look
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: like anybody's here. I was just noticing the same thing.
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: What the... Brain up! Brain up, fellas! Oh, boy!
• 25:24
  Speaker 8: Oh, boy!
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: This is doggone funny. Wait, wait, shut up. Keep still,
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: all of you.
• 25:34
  Speaker 8: Nothing.
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: Not a single sound. You think they got warning and
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: cleared out? I don't know what to think. If there
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: was anybody here, they'd have showed themselves before now. Showed themselves?
• 25:45
  Speaker 4: They'd have been throwing lead so fast as they could
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: pull the triggers. I don't like it.
• 25:49
  Speaker 6: It looks funny to me.
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: Me too.
• 25:51
  Speaker 7: Climb out of your saddles and search them out. The
• 25:54
  Speaker 7: buildings are empty. We'll burn them down anyhow. But, Duke,
• 25:56
  Speaker 7: what if it's a trick? What if this is just
• 25:58
  Speaker 7: something to catch us off guard?
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: Shut up and do like I say. Get out of
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: the saddle. A mass man. Men, shoot him down.
• 26:09
  Speaker 9: One shot and I take you with me. And look
• 26:11
  Speaker 9: around you. You're surrounded.
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: There's a rifle trained on every man here.
• 26:15
  Speaker 7: There's somebody by them trees. There's somebody else over by
• 26:18
  Speaker 7: the pub.
• 26:18
  Speaker 9: They're behind you and in front of you and on
• 26:20
  Speaker 9: each side. You rode into a trap, men. You rode
• 26:23
  Speaker 9: into a trap led by Duke Kimball.
• 26:25
  Speaker 7: The blazers were the trap, fellas. There ain't as many
• 26:28
  Speaker 7: of them as there is of us. Come on, we'll
• 26:30
  Speaker 7: bust right through it.
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: Don't make a move. You'll do nothing.
• 26:33
  Speaker 9: These men aren't fools enough to fight for a schemer
• 26:35
  Speaker 9: who'd try to kill his own uncle, put the blame
• 26:37
  Speaker 9: on someone else.
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: You're a liar.
• 26:39
  Speaker 9: Men, listen to me. The shots you heard at the
• 26:42
  Speaker 9: ranch were fired by Duke. When he claimed he'd seen
• 26:44
  Speaker 9: Steve Bowman, he was lying. Duke's behind all the trouble
• 26:48
  Speaker 9: there's been. He's used you for.
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: His own purpose.
• 26:51
  Speaker 9: When the Bowman's destroyed and his uncle dead, he'd rule
• 26:54
  Speaker 9: the county. Lies, a pack of lies. What are you
• 26:57
  Speaker 9: listening to him for, man? Come on, follow me. If
• 26:59
  Speaker 9: I'm lying, Duke, we'll see what your uncle has to say. Sheriff, Kimball, Bowman.
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: Come here. He's like Kimball's dad. He was murdered back
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: to the ranch. Ask Duke, he... Well, I'll be... my uncle.
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: And if Chuck here hadn't put blanks in your guns, Duke,
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: you'd have killed me just as you schemed.
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: And I'm here and now arresting Duke for attempted murder.
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: Is this true, Duke? Did you try to drill your
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: uncle and tell us a lying story about him? Well, I...
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: Of course he did. Ain't my word proof enough? Any
• 27:28
  Speaker 4: of you men ever know me to lie to you?
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: Duke ought to be strung up.
• 27:31
  Speaker 7: Master, man's right then. Duke was just using us. Men,
• 27:34
  Speaker 7: are we going to let the polecat get away with it?
• 27:36
  Speaker 7: Then grab him.
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: Somebody get a rope. Let's bring him up right here.
• 27:40
  Speaker 5: Hold on.
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: Stand back.
• 27:43
  Speaker 9: There's been enough lawlessness in this county. The sheriff's here.
• 27:46
  Speaker 9: He's arrested Duke. Duke will get his punishment from the law.
• 27:50
  Speaker 4: Leave it at that.
• 27:50
  Speaker 7: He'll get his meetings, fellas. You won't have to worry
• 27:53
  Speaker 7: about that. But we owe him plenty.
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: And he'll get plenty. Don't argue, men. The law's taking
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: over and making it stick. It's all right with me,
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: just so Duke gets his.
• 28:02
  Speaker 6: Let's go.
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: Kimball and Bowman would have called off this fight a
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: long time ago if they could have. But now it's over,
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: and peace is here to stay. Is that right, Kimball?
• 28:11
  Speaker 8: It is.
• 28:11
  Speaker 7: Bowman?
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: You bet.
• 28:12
  Speaker 7: You're responsible for this, Judd. It was your idea, you
• 28:16
  Speaker 7: dirty double-crosser. Then you went and put blanks in my gun. Duke,
• 28:19
  Speaker 7: all I did was get you to try now what
• 28:21
  Speaker 7: you plan to do later anyhow.
• 28:23
  Speaker 6: Yeah, but.
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: And besides, you're all wrong about the whole thing. It
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: wasn't my idea at all. All I did was help.
• 28:29
  Speaker 12: There's a fellow you can thank for getting found out, Duke.
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: The Masked Man.
• 28:33
  Speaker 7: I'm still behind!
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: I'm still behind!
• 29:02
  Speaker 10: THE END.
• 29:31
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• 30:07
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• 30:29
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• 30:32
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