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The Lone Ranger - "Ghost Dance" (Old Time Radio, 1944) · The Lone Ranger | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: Against the crisis surrounding the ghost dance movement, Walking Wolf
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  Speaker 1: and two white outlaws become part of a conflict that
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  Speaker 1: reaches from the plains country to the events surrounding Sitting
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  Speaker 1: Bull and Wounded Knee. From September 15th, 1944, this is
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  Speaker 1: The Lone Ranger, episode 1,819, Ghost Dance. Brace Beamer is
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  Speaker 1: the Lone Ranger, with John Todd as Tonto in the
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  Speaker 1: concluding chapter of a four-part historical story. Their trail leads
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  Speaker 1: into a chapter of late 19th century history far removed
• 0:38
  Speaker 1: from an ordinary frontier case. And now, our story begins.
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  Speaker 2: The Lone Ranger.
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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 howl, Silver, the Lone Ranger.
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  Speaker 4: THE LONE RANGER.
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  Speaker 5: THE END.
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  Speaker 2: THE END.
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  Speaker 6: With his faithful Indian companion Tonto.
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  Speaker 5: The Masked Rider of the Plains led the fight for
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  Speaker 5: law and order in the early western United States.
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  Speaker 7: Nowhere in the pages of history can one find a
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  Speaker 7: greater champion of justice. Return with us now to those
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  Speaker 7: thrilling days of yesteryear. From out of the past and
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  Speaker 7: the thundering hoofbeats of the great horse Silver, the Lone
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  Speaker 7: Ranger rides again.
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  Speaker 5: Come on, Silver!
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  Speaker 4: Very big fellow!
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  Speaker 1: Come on, Silver!
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  Speaker 4: Come on!
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  Speaker 7: It was just past sundown of a crisp fall day
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  Speaker 7: in 1890... when a United States soldier stationed at the
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  Speaker 7: Darlington Agency... in their Wounded Knee Reservation in South Dakota...
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  Speaker 7: knocked on the door of his commanding officer's quarters.
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  Speaker 4: Come in. Lieutenant Wheeler, sir. At ease, Corporal.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you, sir.
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  Speaker 8: What's the trouble?
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  Speaker 9: Oh, no trouble, Lieutenant. And maybe I'm making a lot
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  Speaker 9: out of nothing, but... I can't help worrying.
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  Speaker 8: About what?
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  Speaker 9: I just came by the reservation. They've started that ghost
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  Speaker 9: dance again. It's been going on every night for the
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  Speaker 9: past month.
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  Speaker 5: Ghost dance?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 9: If you listen to it a while, it kind of
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  Speaker 9: gets under your skin. I can't help thinking maybe that... Wait,
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  Speaker 9: you can hear it from here.
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  Speaker 4: Do you mind if I open the door, sir? Not
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  Speaker 4: at all, corporal. Hear it?
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  Speaker 8: I'm surprised at you, corporal.
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  Speaker 10: You've seen enough service here in the West around Indians
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  Speaker 10: not to get excited about an ordinary medicine dance.
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  Speaker 9: That's what I mean. This isn't an ordinary shindig. All
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  Speaker 9: the braves are wearing long white robes. They'll keep dancing
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  Speaker 9: till sunrise, then start again the morning night.
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  Speaker 8: Probably some part of a native religious ceremony.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, but listen to the rhythm of those drums. I've
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  Speaker 9: never heard it sound like that before. Like a fever
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  Speaker 9: that keeps on.
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  Speaker 4: Growing and growing and growing.
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  Speaker 8: Orville, you need a good night's sleep.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe.
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  Speaker 9: I'm sorry, sir, if I've disturbed you by talking this way.
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  Speaker 8: That's all right. I can assure you there's no need
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  Speaker 8: to be alarmed about the Indians.
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  Speaker 10: As you know, Army regulations specifically state that we're not
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  Speaker 10: to interfere in any way with their religious ceremonies.
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  Speaker 9: I know, but this ghost dance is different. I was
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  Speaker 9: talking to one of the braves today.
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  Speaker 8: And what did he say?
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  Speaker 9: He claims they're dancing because at the finish of it,
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  Speaker 9: the great ghost is coming down and set all Indians free.
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  Speaker 10: Corporal, you amaze me. A grown man and a soldier
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  Speaker 10: believing myths.
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  Speaker 9: Oh, I don't believe that part about the great ghost.
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  Speaker 9: But like you say, sir, I have been around Indians
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  Speaker 9: for a good many years. And I never heard drums
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  Speaker 9: sound like this.
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  Speaker 4: Forget it.
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  Speaker 8: It's nothing for us to worry about.
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  Speaker 5: Good night, Corporal.
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  Speaker 9: Good night, sir.
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  Speaker 5: Good night.
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  Speaker 7: But Lieutenant Wheeler was wrong. The ghost dance on the
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  Speaker 7: Sioux Reservation in South Dakota had been.
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  Speaker 5: In the making many weeks.
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  Speaker 7: It had its inception in the office of a wholesale
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  Speaker 7: commission firm in St.
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  Speaker 4: Louis, Missouri.
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  Speaker 2: Morning, Deke.
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  Speaker 4: Hello, Brent. Those dockhands got the riverboat loaded? Loaded and
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  Speaker 4: ready to shove off.
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  Speaker 5: Here.
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  Speaker 4: Want to sign the bill of lading?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Let's see. Here.
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  Speaker 11: 4,000 pounds of flour. That for the Darlington agency?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 12: The boys packed all the barrels as usual. Half flour,
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  Speaker 12: half sand.
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  Speaker 5: Good.
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  Speaker 12: And I made a good buy on that carload of
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  Speaker 12: bacon that's going north this trip. The packing plant threw
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  Speaker 12: it out for spoilage. But those redskins will never know
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  Speaker 12: the difference.
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  Speaker 5: Nah.
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  Speaker 11: Say, did a shipment of dry goods reach the warehouse yet?
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  Speaker 11: I'm expecting it in from New York.
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  Speaker 4: Dry goods? Yeah. Yeah. 10,000 yards of white mussels.
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  Speaker 5: Dick, are you gone loco?
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  Speaker 12: We've got government contracts to supply Indian agencies with food.
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  Speaker 4: But not... Don't worry. I know what I'm doing. What 10,000 yards?
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  Speaker 4: As soon as Walkin' Wolf comes down river for a palaver,
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  Speaker 4: I'll explain... Walkin' Wolf?
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  Speaker 12: There's an Indian waiting outside to see you now, but I.
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  Speaker 4: A young buck? Tall, kind of squint-eyed? Yeah. Well, that's him.
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  Speaker 4: Tell my Asian friend to come in. Ain't he the
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  Speaker 4: one who... Never mind who he is. Send him in.
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  Speaker 4: We're partners in this business, Steak.
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  Speaker 5: I got a right to know.
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  Speaker 4: Sure, sure, we're partners.
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  Speaker 11: But I do the thinking and I make the deals.
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  Speaker 4: Now tell Walkenwolf to come in. All right, Dick.
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  Speaker 13: Right in here, Indy, and Dick will talk to you now.
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  Speaker 4: Well, sit down, Walkenwolf. Take a load off your feet.
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  Speaker 4: Me stand.
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  Speaker 11: Suit yourself. Well, I think we're just about set now.
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  Speaker 11: I ordered the muslin for the robes, and as soon
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  Speaker 11: as it's delivered, I'll have them made up. And you
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  Speaker 11: can start on a tour of all the reservations in
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  Speaker 11: the West. Talk to all the medicine men. Make them
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  Speaker 11: believe it's a real thing. When the blow-off comes, you'll
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  Speaker 11: get your share just like I promised.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe a plan not so easy. What do you mean?
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  Speaker 11: Every Indian in the country is mad about the food
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  Speaker 11: he's getting from the government? They'll listen to anything. Last week,
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  Speaker 11: me make plenty talk. Arapaho reservation. They don't believe. They
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  Speaker 11: say this fix them.
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  Speaker 4: What's that? Just a piece of paper? You look. See
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  Speaker 4: picture on the other side. That sign of buffalo head. Sure,
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  Speaker 4: I see. Piece of paper with a head of a
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  Speaker 4: buffalo on it.
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  Speaker 5: Now, what's it mean?
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  Speaker 4: Many Indian, some big chiefs, have same sign on arm.
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  Speaker 5: What of it?
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  Speaker 4: Long time now, this sign plenty big medicine. Red man,
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  Speaker 4: trust him. Ah, what do we care? That won't interfere
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  Speaker 4: with us. Maybe not Cheyenne, Comanche, Kiowa, Paiute, Navajo, but Sue.
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  Speaker 4: Won't Papa Sue always listen to counsel of Sitting Bull?
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  Speaker 11: Why, Sitting Bull isn't even in the country. He's up
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  Speaker 11: in Canada someplace. So don't you worry about him. After
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  Speaker 11: what he and Crazy Horse did to Custer at the
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  Speaker 11: Little Bighorn, he'll never come back to this country.
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  Speaker 5: All right.
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  Speaker 4: But sitting bull have buffalo sign like this. Maybe bad
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  Speaker 4: medicine for us.
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  Speaker 5: Welcome, Wolf.
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  Speaker 11: I tell you, we have nothing to worry about. Now,
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  Speaker 11: you stay around St. Louis for a few days.
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  Speaker 4: As soon as those robes are ready, you can start
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  Speaker 4: being an evangelist.
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  Speaker 5: Oh.
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  Speaker 4: Oh.
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  Speaker 7: And so began the mysterious ghost dance. Within a few weeks,
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  Speaker 7: on every Indian reservation in the West, from Wounded Knee
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  Speaker 7: in the Black Hills of South Dakota to the arid
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  Speaker 7: plains of San Carlos in Arizona Territory, red-skinned braves wearing long,
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  Speaker 7: white muslin robes danced in an ever-increasing frenzy. The Lone
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  Speaker 7: Ranger and Tonto noticed what was happening as they rode
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  Speaker 7: northward toward Cheyenne.
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  Speaker 14: This ghost dancing, Tonto. It's been on every reservation we've
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  Speaker 14: passed since we left Yankton, South Dakota, two weeks ago.
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  Speaker 14: There's something wrong.
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  Speaker 5: Ah.
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  Speaker 15: They talk with funny brave. Him say all Indian dance
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  Speaker 15: till great ghosts come from sky. Red man feel plenty sad.
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  Speaker 15: Buffalo all gone from plane. White man make him stay
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  Speaker 15: on reservation. Give him bad food. Oh, I know that, Tonto.
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  Speaker 15: Not the government's fault. Must be crooked contractors who supply
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  Speaker 15: the agencies.
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  Speaker 5: Ah.
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  Speaker 4: But that's hard to prove because I.
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  Speaker 5: What matter?
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  Speaker 14: I was just thinking, supplies for the Sioux reservations in
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  Speaker 14: Dakota are probably freighted by wagon through Cheyenne.
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  Speaker 5: Ah. Well, we'll keep our eyes open when we get there.
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  Speaker 5: Come on, Silver. Get him up to the car.
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  Speaker 8: Come on.
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  Speaker 2: Why do I have to go clear out to Cheyenne, D?
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  Speaker 4: It's almost Christmas, and I was figuring on spending.
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  Speaker 11: There's no other way to reach that dumb red-skinned walking wolf.
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  Speaker 11: There's no use in writing letters to an embryo who
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  Speaker 11: can't read. But I was going to spend it with that.
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  Speaker 5: Ah, stop your beefing.
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  Speaker 11: If we don't put this deal over, there won't be
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  Speaker 11: any Santa Claus.
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  Speaker 4: For either of us.
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  Speaker 11: Now get on that boat. You can take the steam
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  Speaker 11: train west of Mona.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, all right.
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  Speaker 11: Remember, the date for the blow-off is the 29th of
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  Speaker 11: this month. I'll be sure that our last load of
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  Speaker 11: supplies is freighted out of Cheyenne before that time.
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  Speaker 4: You understand? Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: All right. Get going.
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  Speaker 4: Whoa, whoa, Silver.
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  Speaker 5: Whoa, fella. Whoa, fella.
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  Speaker 14: We'll leave our horses here at the edge of town, Otto.
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  Speaker 14: I don't think we'll be noticed at this time of
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  Speaker 14: night if we keep off Main Street. First thing I
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  Speaker 14: want to do is find the wagon yard of the
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  Speaker 14: freight depot.
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  Speaker 5: See if there are any loads headed north.
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  Speaker 4: All right, come on. Hey, Barkeep, give us another drink.
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  Speaker 4: Two more.
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  Speaker 5: Sorry, mister.
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  Speaker 15: I can serve you, but I can't sell any more
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  Speaker 15: liquor to the Indians.
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  Speaker 5: Never should have sold the first one.
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  Speaker 4: What do you mean?
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  Speaker 12: This noble red man's walking wolf, my friend. And I
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  Speaker 12: am print clerk at Thompson and Clark, St.
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  Speaker 5: Louis, Missouri.
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  Speaker 15: Don't care who you are. I'm not selling any more
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  Speaker 15: liquor to Indians.
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  Speaker 12: That's an insult, walking wolf. If you won't give us
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  Speaker 12: a drink here, I know where we can find one.
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  Speaker 12: Drivers in our freight wagons always have a bottle stashed
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  Speaker 12: away under the seat.
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  Speaker 4: Come on, let's go.
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  Speaker 14: All of these wagons must belong to the same train, Tonto.
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  Speaker 14: They're loaded and ready to pull out first thing in
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  Speaker 14: the morning. I'd like to see what's underneath the canvas.
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  Speaker 14: Let's climb up on top.
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  Speaker 4: Let me get up there.
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  Speaker 5: Break loose the lashing on that side. We can... There.
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  Speaker 4: Plenty of boxes and barrels. Better match, Tonto. Here.
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  Speaker 14: The shipping labels say Darlington Indian Agency, South Dakota.
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  Speaker 5: Flour, bacon.
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  Speaker 4: Everything seems all right, unless.
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  Speaker 4: This is the heaviest barrel of flour I ever lifted.
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  Speaker 5: Timo Sambi, somebody come. Cut the light.
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  Speaker 14: I'll keep this barrel balanced on the edge of the wagon.
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  Speaker 14: If we're quiet, they may not see us.
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  Speaker 13: What are you worrying about sipping bull for? Dick told
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  Speaker 13: you how to keep the old buzzard quiet. He paid
• 13:42
  Speaker 13: the Sioux chief, named Yellowbird. He must say, maybe send
• 13:46
  Speaker 13: young brave to Chippewa camp in North. Maybe talk with
• 13:50
  Speaker 13: sitting bull. Tell him more reason why you.
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  Speaker 4: Ought to do what Dick told you to.
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  Speaker 5: Well.
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  Speaker 4: Walking Wolf Dooley.
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  Speaker 13: Now, just as soon as I rustle a bottle in
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  Speaker 13: one of these wagons, we'll have a.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, the canvas is off of this one. Somebody on top.
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  Speaker 4: You got your gun, Walking Wolf?
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  Speaker 5: Huh.
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  Speaker 12: Keep it handy till I find out whether this.
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  Speaker 4: Hey.
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  Speaker 5: Anybody up there?
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to let this barrel fall, Tonto. So jump
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  Speaker 4: off the other side. Yeah, there's somebody there, all right.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe a little little shot.
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  Speaker 4: Watch out, Walking Wolf!
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  Speaker 5: That barrel's... Look!
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  Speaker 4: You see him?
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  Speaker 14: There's no other way, Tonto.
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  Speaker 5: We'll have to shoot it out.
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  Speaker 7: The Lone Ranger and Tonto are facing the guns of
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  Speaker 7: Prince Clark and Walking Wolf. Can they shoot their way out?
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  Speaker 7: We'll continue our story in just a moment.
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  Speaker 4: THE END.
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  Speaker 5: Now to continue our story.
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  Speaker 7: Discovered while they're examining a loaded freight wagon, the Lone
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  Speaker 7: Ranger and Tata were forced to shoot in self-defense.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, I'm hit.
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  Speaker 4: I got a slug in the arm.
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  Speaker 2: Keep shooting, Indian. Nail those buzzards.
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  Speaker 4: This will bring the whole town down here. Over the
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  Speaker 4: side tunnel and... Oh, wait, cover me.
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  Speaker 5: I'm going this way. Keep my job to you. I've
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  Speaker 5: got what I want.
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  Speaker 4: Come on, let's run for.
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  Speaker 12: It.
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  Speaker 2: Get the sheriff.
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  Speaker 4: Send him over here right away.
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  Speaker 5: I'm the sheriff. What's the trouble?
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  Speaker 4: Well, a couple of thieves tried to break into one
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  Speaker 4: of my freight wagons.
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  Speaker 5: Steal anything?
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  Speaker 4: I don't know. I haven't checked over the load.
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  Speaker 5: Penny thieves won't be hard to trail.
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  Speaker 11: Say, what's this white stuff all over the ground?
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  Speaker 4: That's a barrel of flour. They threw it off the wagon.
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  Speaker 5: A barrel.
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  Speaker 3: It's a funny kind of flower. Looks more like sand
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  Speaker 3: to me. Well, maybe it is sand. We freight a
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  Speaker 3: lot of stuff for private shippers. My partner in St.
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  Speaker 3: Louis makes out all the bills of lading. I don't
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  Speaker 3: know much about it.
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  Speaker 5: I still can't.
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  Speaker 3: Figure why anybody would want to ship a barrel of
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  Speaker 3: sand out to this country.
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  Speaker 4: Well, ain't you going to trail those thieves?
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  Speaker 9: One of them was a tall hombre.
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  Speaker 3: He was wearing a mask. And I think there was
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  Speaker 3: an Indian with him. Sure, I'll trail him as soon
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  Speaker 3: as you figure out what they stole.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'll let you know later.
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  Speaker 3: First thing I got to do is send a telegram
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  Speaker 3: and get my partner to come out here.
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  Speaker 4: Where's the telegraph office here in Cheyenne?
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  Speaker 5: Down at the railroad station.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks. Come on, walk and walk. Sand and flour. That
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  Speaker 4: don't make sense. Steady, big fella. The name on that
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  Speaker 4: freight wagon was Thompson.
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  Speaker 5: And Clark, wasn't it, Tonto? That's right.
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  Speaker 14: It may have nothing to do with the ghost dance,
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  Speaker 14: but I think my friend Colonel Forsythe will be interested
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  Speaker 14: in this handful of sand I scooped up.
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  Speaker 11: Ah.
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  Speaker 14: Sand that's being shipped to the Indians in a barrel
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  Speaker 14: labeled flour.
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  Speaker 5: Come on, Silver.
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  Speaker 4: Get him up. It was three days later.
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  Speaker 7: The Lone Ranger and Tonto were camped near Fort Gates,
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  Speaker 7: waiting to see Colonel Forsythe of the 7th Cavalry, who
• 17:59
  Speaker 7: was out on maneuvers. Meanwhile, far to the northward, Sitting Bull,
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  Speaker 7: exiled chieftain of the mighty Sioux Nation, talked with the
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  Speaker 7: warrior Walking Wolf in a small Chippewa Indian reservation.
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  Speaker 6: I fought when there was fighting to be done. That
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  Speaker 6: day has passed. It passed with the Battle of the
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  Speaker 6: Little Bighorn.
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  Speaker 4: Age has weakened you, Sitting Bull.
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  Speaker 5: It has brought me wisdom.
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  Speaker 4: But not enough to lend your support to the Ghost Dance.
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  Speaker 5: No.
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  Speaker 6: And I warn you, if it comes to pass, it
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  Speaker 6: will cause many deaths among my people.
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  Speaker 4: Why do you say this?
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  Speaker 5: Because I have heard.
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  Speaker 6: Many things, Walking Wolf. I have heard it was you
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  Speaker 6: who proposed the Ghost Dance. But I know the robes
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  Speaker 6: for it were supplied by white men.
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  Speaker 5: How could you... I even know the names of those men.
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  Speaker 6: And the dishonest business by which they cheat their own
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  Speaker 6: brothers bring discontent among my people.
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  Speaker 4: But I.
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  Speaker 4: What you've heard is not true.
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  Speaker 5: Perhaps.
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  Speaker 4: My journey has been useless. I bid you farewell, Sitting Bull.
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  Speaker 5: Farewell.
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  Speaker 4: I will return to the Sioux and say.
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  Speaker 5: That gun doesn't frighten me, Walking Wolf. Put it away.
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: I wanted to make sure you didn't... A gun barrel
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  Speaker 4: against his head makes the great sitting bull fall like
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: a woman. And the white man's army will pay big
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: bounty for his return to American soil. I came to
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: see you for a special reason, Colonel Forsythe.
• 19:32
  Speaker 5: Good.
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: What is it?
• 19:33
  Speaker 5: This.
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: A handful of desert sand? Where'd you pick it up?
• 19:38
  Speaker 14: A barrel that was labeled flour. Part of a large
• 19:41
  Speaker 14: shipment headed for the Sioux Reservation at Wounded Knee.
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: Special dispatch, Colonel. They just came in.
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: Oh, thank you, Sergeant. Excuse me, I.
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: Say, here's a bit of good news.
• 19:54
  Speaker 5: Oh, is that so?
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: Lieutenant Wheeler at the Darlington Agency reports that he has
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: Sitting Bull in custody.
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: Sitting Bull?
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: He was brought in by a Sioux Indian who received
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: the bounty money. Isn't that good news?
• 20:05
  Speaker 14: No, not in my opinion, Colonel. Sitting Bull is one
• 20:08
  Speaker 14: of the wisest Indians alive today. The government should have
• 20:11
  Speaker 14: used his influence with his people instead of exiling him
• 20:13
  Speaker 14: to Canada.
• 20:14
  Speaker 5: Maybe you're right.
• 20:16
  Speaker 14: Colonel, do you mind if I follow through my suspicions
• 20:19
  Speaker 14: about the ghost dance?
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: Why, not at all.
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: In fact, I'd appreciate your help.
• 20:22
  Speaker 5: Good.
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: And if you find anything definite, let me know.
• 20:25
  Speaker 5: I will. Adios, Colonel. Adios.
• 20:35
  Speaker 7: It was much later in the day when the Lone
• 20:36
  Speaker 7: Ranger and Tonto pulled their horses to a halt not
• 20:38
  Speaker 7: far from Wounded Knee.
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: Oh, who's over there?
• 20:40
  Speaker 5: Oh, it's got two fellows. Anyway, fellow.
• 20:42
  Speaker 14: As long as it's daylight, Tonto, we can wait here
• 20:45
  Speaker 14: in this grove of trees until dusk.
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: What's happening?
• 20:48
  Speaker 5: Oh, what's wrong?
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: You see three fellow walk a trail this way?
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: Yes, I do.
• 20:53
  Speaker 15: One fellow own wagon we see in Cheyenne. That same
• 20:56
  Speaker 15: Sioux Indian with them.
• 20:58
  Speaker 5: You're right, Tonto.
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: They're heading right for this spot. Bring the horses.
• 21:01
  Speaker 5: Let's go. Out of sight.
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: Come, Philbert.
• 21:03
  Speaker 5: Come, Scout.
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: You think Yellow Bird will do it? Him plenty mad.
• 21:12
  Speaker 5: When?
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: Yellow Bird say one son. You mean tomorrow?
• 21:16
  Speaker 12: Say, Dick, you and me don't want to be here
• 21:18
  Speaker 12: if there's going to be any fighting.
• 21:20
  Speaker 11: Oh, there won't be any fight to it. When 3,000
• 21:22
  Speaker 11: Indians open up on Lieutenant Wheeler's tin soldiers, it'll be
• 21:26
  Speaker 11: over for its time.
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: Yeah, but we don't want to.
• 21:28
  Speaker 11: When it spreads down south, things will be different. Maybe
• 21:31
  Speaker 11: the army can take care of that. But our worries
• 21:34
  Speaker 11: will be over and no chance of any kickback.
• 21:36
  Speaker 12: Did you get the balance of the money on our contract?
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: Got it right here in my pocket. Now, come on.
• 21:41
  Speaker 11: I want to get back and fix a bed in
• 21:43
  Speaker 11: one of the wagons before sundown.
• 21:48
  Speaker 5: That proves we were right, Tonto.
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: Steady, big fella. There isn't much time to reach Fort Yates.
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: Come on, Silver.
• 21:53
  Speaker 5: Get him up his coat.
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: This is a serious situation. I don't have enough men
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: here at the fort to handle it.
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: How many, Colonel?
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: Well, less than a hundred. Most of them are scouts,
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: not regular cavalry.
• 22:11
  Speaker 5: I don't know.
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: Doesn't your equipment include several of the new Hotchkiss guns?
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: You mean that rapid-firing artillery piece?
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: Yes. Otto and I'll help pack two of those guns.
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: We'll have them set up for your men when they
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: get there.
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: Maybe we can do it with 50 men. At least
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: we can try.
• 22:24
  Speaker 5: Good.
• 22:30
  Speaker 7: It was just before noon on the following day, December 29th, 1890.
• 22:34
  Speaker 7: To all outward appearances, the little Sioux village of Wounded
• 22:37
  Speaker 7: Knee was as sleepy as usual. Then, at a silent
• 22:41
  Speaker 7: signal from their chief, hundreds of Sioux warriors left their
• 22:43
  Speaker 7: teepees and gathered in a huge circle.
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: This is.
• 22:48
  Speaker 5: It.
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: The Sioux are going to ride to war.
• 22:54
  Speaker 11: Hey, that must be Wheeler's men. They won't have a chance. Hey,
• 23:04
  Speaker 11: what's that?
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: Guns that chatter fast like bark of fox. Hey, can't
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: see any soldiers. But look what those cannon are doing
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: to the Indians. Hey, they're on all sides of us.
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: We're right in the middle. White man's fast gun, bad medicine.
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: Walking won't go.
• 23:20
  Speaker 5: No, don't leave us. Hit it.
• 23:22
  Speaker 11: Hey, Britt and me can't get through these Indians without you.
• 23:24
  Speaker 5: Meek. Meek, what do we do? It won't last long, Toto.
• 23:34
  Speaker 14: What chance have ordinary rifles against a gun that fires
• 23:37
  Speaker 14: 50 shots a minute?
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: Ah, me think Kimusabe.
• 23:41
  Speaker 5: What is it, Toto?
• 23:41
  Speaker 6: Look.
• 23:42
  Speaker 5: See two white fellows by big wagon.
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: Deke Thompson and Prince Clark.
• 23:45
  Speaker 12: Ah.
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: The battle itself is between the Sioux and the Army.
• 23:48
  Speaker 5: Ah.
• 23:48
  Speaker 14: But those two renegades are our business.
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: Come on, Silver.
• 23:51
  Speaker 11: Come on.
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: They're trying to hide in the wagon.
• 23:53
  Speaker 5: You take that side, Toto.
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: Ah.
• 23:55
  Speaker 13: Hey, look.
• 23:55
  Speaker 5: Now go. Deke, it's the same one.
• 23:58
  Speaker 13: Oh, Silver.
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: Oh.
• 23:58
  Speaker 5: I'm out of that wagon.
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: Hey, you can't grab a gun with me like this.
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: If that's what you want, we'll give it to you.
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: No, no, no.
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: Don't shoot anymore. Put down those guns.
• 24:11
  Speaker 5: Stop yelling.
• 24:11
  Speaker 14: You don't deserve it because you've been traded to your
• 24:13
  Speaker 14: own race and to the Indians. I'm going to turn
• 24:16
  Speaker 14: you over to the army. No matter what penalty you pay,
• 24:18
  Speaker 14: it won't be enough. Now put your hands in the air.
• 24:21
  Speaker 5: Start walking.
• 24:27
  Speaker 7: A few minutes later, Deke Thompson and Prince Clark were
• 24:29
  Speaker 7: in the hands of military police. Then the Lone Ranger
• 24:32
  Speaker 7: and Tonto mounted their horses again.
• 24:34
  Speaker 5: Steady, Silver.
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: Easy, Scully.
• 24:35
  Speaker 5: Easy, brother.
• 24:36
  Speaker 14: The battle's just about over, Tonto. I think that we...
• 24:39
  Speaker 14: Wait a minute.
• 24:40
  Speaker 5: What matter?
• 24:41
  Speaker 14: I just remembered. Colonel Forsythe said Sitting Bull had been captured.
• 24:45
  Speaker 14: He's probably in a guardhouse near Wheeler's headquarters. The renegade
• 24:49
  Speaker 14: Sioux who brought him in for bounty knows that he'll...
• 24:51
  Speaker 14: Come on, Silver.
• 24:51
  Speaker 5: Get him out of this car.
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: I think this is the guardhouse, Tonto. Come on.
• 25:09
  Speaker 5: Sitting Bull. He's been shot. We've got to.
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: Who did it, Sitting Bull?
• 25:13
  Speaker 5: Just a short time ago. Walking Wolf. Walking Wolf? Who's he?
• 25:18
  Speaker 5: Indian friend of white man.
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: I thought so. Tonto, it's the Indian we saw with
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: Deke Thompson yesterday. The whole camp is surrounded.
• 25:25
  Speaker 5: He can't get away.
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: See if you can pick up his trail.
• 25:27
  Speaker 5: Me catch him.
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: Here, rest your head on my coat, Sitting Bull.
• 25:33
  Speaker 6: I heard the shots. Many foolish Sioux are dead.
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: I'm afraid so.
• 25:38
  Speaker 5: I warned them. No one would listen. Yes, I know.
• 25:42
  Speaker 14: You've been misunderstood by your people as well as my people,
• 25:45
  Speaker 14: Sitting Bull.
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: I know you to be a great leader. They too
• 25:49
  Speaker 4: will realize that someday.
• 25:51
  Speaker 5: I go now to happy hunting ground. But first, look.
• 25:58
  Speaker 5: See sign on sitting bull's arm.
• 26:00
  Speaker 6: Yes, I see it. It is the secret sign of
• 26:03
  Speaker 6: the buffalo head. Ah, sign of buffalo head. It means peace.
• 26:10
  Speaker 6: Always peace between white man and red man. You tell
• 26:15
  Speaker 6: young men of Indians, young men of your people... About
• 26:19
  Speaker 6: sign of buffalo head.
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: I promise, Sitting Bull.
• 26:23
  Speaker 6: Where they see sign of buffalo head, they find good friend.
• 26:30
  Speaker 5: Someday there be peace. I go now. A short time later,
• 26:49
  Speaker 5: at Colonel Forsythe's headquarters.
• 26:52
  Speaker 8: How'd you know it was going to happen, Colonel?
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: I was warned by a man who has proved himself
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: many times to be the Army's best friend.
• 27:00
  Speaker 8: You mean the Indian who brought in the man that
• 27:01
  Speaker 8: killed Sitting Bull?
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: No, he helped. But he isn't the man I mean. Oh,
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: if I'd only listened three days ago. Clamped down on
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: those two white renegades. The tragedy of Wounded Knee would
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: never have taken place. Well, maybe so.
• 27:15
  Speaker 10: I think our Indian trouble is almost over, Colonel.
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: And so do I. Thanks to the Lone Ranger.
• 27:22
  Speaker 5: I'll fill the hole! I'll fill the hole! THE END
• 28:01
  Speaker 5: THE END.
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: THE END.
• 29:08
  Speaker 7: The story you have just heard is a copyrighted feature
• 29:11
  Speaker 7: of the Lone Ranger Incorporated.
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: This concludes the Lone Ranger in Ghost Dance. This is
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: Victor Sterling. Until next time, good night. Follow the Lone
• 29:25
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