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Gunsmoke - "Sundown" (Old Time Radio, 1953) · Gunsmoke | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: After several days of cold, miserable weather, Marshal Matt Dillon
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  Speaker 1: and Chester find a gravely ill young Arapaho woman on
• 0:08
  Speaker 1: the plains and bring her into Dodge City. A gold
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  Speaker 1: wedding ring and other clues send Dillon toward Great Eagle,
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  Speaker 1: an Arapaho leader, as he works to keep fear and
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  Speaker 1: hostility in town from turning violent. This is Gunsmoke, Sundown,
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  Speaker 1: episode 59, first heard on CBS June 6, 1953, during
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  Speaker 1: the network's sustaining period, with William Conrad as Dylan, Parley
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  Speaker 1: Bear as Chester, and Howard McNair as Doc Adams. Conrad
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  Speaker 1: also wrote the script, an unusual early series credit, Norman
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  Speaker 1: MacDonald produced and directed. Here is the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: Around Dodge City and in the Territory on West, there's
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  Speaker 2: just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers,
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  Speaker 2: and that's with a U.S. Marshal and the spell of Gunsmoke.
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  Speaker 3: Gunsmoke Gunsmoke, starring William Conrad.
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  Speaker 2: The story of the violence that moved west with young America.
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  Speaker 4: The story of a man who.
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  Speaker 5: Moved with it.
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  Speaker 2: Matt Dillon, United States Marshal.
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  Speaker 6: Gunsmoke, starring William Conrad.
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  Speaker 7: I think it was the nastiest weather I'd ever seen.
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  Speaker 7: It wasn't that there'd been a big storm or anything.
• 2:00
  Speaker 5: It was just plain nasty.
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  Speaker 7: The sun hadn't shown for three and a half weeks.
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  Speaker 7: Nothing but huge banks of black clouds that filled the
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  Speaker 7: sky and never moved. And when it finally broke, it
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  Speaker 7: was a downpour of the coldest and dreariest rain you
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  Speaker 7: ever saw.
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  Speaker 5: For two days, Chester and I never went out of
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  Speaker 5: the office. We didn't need to.
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  Speaker 7: There was nothing going on in town. There wasn't a
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  Speaker 7: soul on the streets. Everybody just holed up.
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  Speaker 5: Chester and I kept the fire going on.
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  Speaker 7: The stove and tried to keep as warm as we could.
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  Speaker 7: And then on the morning of the third day.
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  Speaker 5: Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Dillon? Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Dillon?
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  Speaker 4: Wake up, Mr. Dillon.
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  Speaker 8: What?
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  Speaker 5: What is it, Chester? What's the matter?
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  Speaker 4: Come over here and look out the window. My goodness
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  Speaker 4: sakes alive. Oh, what's the matter?
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  Speaker 5: What's happened?
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  Speaker 9: Just look.
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  Speaker 4: It stopped raining.
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  Speaker 5: The clouds are beginning to blow away.
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  Speaker 4: I bet you we'll be seeing the sun before the
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  Speaker 4: day is over.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I hope you're right. We could use a little sunshine.
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  Speaker 4: We sure could. You know, Mr. Dillon, I've been so.
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  Speaker 10: Blue for the last couple of days, I... Oh, I
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  Speaker 10: boiled some coffee for you at Tom's stove.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, thank you, Chester.
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  Speaker 4: Like I was saying, I've been just awful low, Mr. Dillon.
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  Speaker 4: It's funny how the weather affects you.
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  Speaker 5: Isn't it? It does almost everybody, Chester. Ah, this coffee's good.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you, Chester.
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  Speaker 7: Chester, how'd you like to go for a little ride, huh?
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  Speaker 7: Make us feel good to get out in the open
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  Speaker 7: after being cooped up for the last couple of days.
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  Speaker 7: Why don't we ride down to old man Johnson's? I've
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  Speaker 7: been meaning to talk to him anyway.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I'll say that's a wonderful idea, Mr. Dillon. I'd
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  Speaker 4: be proud to go. Besides, Thurlow needs a good workout.
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  Speaker 10: I don't know of anything that's worse for a horse
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  Speaker 10: than just standing around.
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  Speaker 5: All right, all right, Chester.
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  Speaker 7: I'm going to take time to shave, and then we'll
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  Speaker 7: get some breakfast and ride out.
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  Speaker 5: Well, yes, sir, Mr. Dillon.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 4: You were right, Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Dillon.
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  Speaker 10: Nothing like a ride in real brisk weather to make
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  Speaker 10: you feel fitter than a fiddle.
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  Speaker 5: I'd say it's a little more than brisk, Chester. It's
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  Speaker 5: downright cold. This wind doesn't help much.
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  Speaker 4: Well, we haven't got much farther to go. How far
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  Speaker 4: would you say we've come?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, about 15 miles.
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  Speaker 4: Well, then we should be there pretty soon.
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  Speaker 1: There.
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  Speaker 4: Look at there, Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Dillon.
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  Speaker 4: Wanted to tell you?
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  Speaker 5: What?
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  Speaker 10: There's a patch of sunlight just come through.
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  Speaker 5: Over there to the right.
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  Speaker 8: See?
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  Speaker 4: My, isn't that pretty?
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  Speaker 5: Chester.
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  Speaker 7: Hmm?
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  Speaker 5: There by that hackberry tree. There in the sunlight. You see?
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  Speaker 5: What is that? Can you make it out? Where? Oh.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I do see something, but I can't... Come on.
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  Speaker 5: Let's ride over to it, huh?
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  Speaker 4: Well, Mr.
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  Speaker 10: Dillon, it looks like somebody all huddled up leaning against
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  Speaker 10: the tree.
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  Speaker 4: Why, it's an Indian.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, a woman. Hey, pull up here. Oh, oh. I
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  Speaker 5: don't think she's heard us. Hello there.
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  Speaker 4: Well, she didn't even look up, Mr. Dillon.
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  Speaker 5: Hello. Is something wrong?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, there sure must be.
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  Speaker 5: Let's walk up, Chester.
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  Speaker 7: Here.
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  Speaker 5: Can we help you, miss?
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  Speaker 4: She won't even lift her head.
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  Speaker 5: Miss, what's wrong?
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  Speaker 4: She looks sort of befogged, don't she?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah. Miss, here, look at me. No, I'm not going
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  Speaker 5: to hurt you. Chester, she's burning up with fever.
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  Speaker 4: Well, what in the world is she doing way out
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  Speaker 4: here in the middle of nowhere anyway? Being out here
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  Speaker 4: in all this weather, she's probably caught her death in
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  Speaker 4: a moment.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, you may be right, Chester. We're going to have
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  Speaker 7: to get her back to Dodge fast. She needs the
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  Speaker 7: dock real bad.
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  Speaker 5: Get the horses. We're going to have to hurry.
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  Speaker 8: Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Dillon.
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  Speaker 4: Did you notice what a pretty little girl she was?
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  Speaker 4: I declare I don't think I've ever seen a more
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  Speaker 4: beautiful woman.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And her hair. You know, I think Indian women have
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  Speaker 4: the prettiest hair in the whole world. It seems such
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  Speaker 4: a shame that such a pretty little thing has to
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  Speaker 4: be all.
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  Speaker 8: Max?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, hiya, Kelly.
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  Speaker 7: One of the boys at the Texas Trail told me
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  Speaker 7: he saw you and Chester riding up the street here
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  Speaker 7: to Doc's office and.
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  Speaker 5: That you were carrying an Indian girl in your arms.
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  Speaker 4: He said she looked like she was dead.
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  Speaker 7: What happened?
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  Speaker 5: Well, we found her out in the middle of the plains.
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  Speaker 4: That's right, Miss Kitty. She was just sitting under a
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  Speaker 4: big old hackberry tree. Well, what was wrong with her?
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  Speaker 5: I don't know. Exposure, I guess.
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  Speaker 4: Doc don't think there's much chance for her, Miss Kitty.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, that's too bad.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, Matt, you better come in.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah. Miss Kitty.
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  Speaker 4: Doc.
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  Speaker 5: How is she, Doc?
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  Speaker 4: I should just regain consciousness. I'm afraid I can't see
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  Speaker 4: how she's still alive.
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  Speaker 5: Well, you think I could talk to her? Well, you
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  Speaker 5: can try. It certainly won't hurt anything. But I'd like
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  Speaker 5: to find out who she is so that I can
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  Speaker 5: notify her people.
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  Speaker 4: Well, you better hurry.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah. Miss? Miss, can you hear me? Miss, listen to me.
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  Speaker 4: Go away.
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  Speaker 5: Please. Tell me who you are.
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  Speaker 6: Leave me alone.
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  Speaker 5: Won't you talk to me? Now, what's your name? I.
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  Speaker 5: I want to die. What happened? Why were you out
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  Speaker 5: on the plains all by yourself? Were you lost?
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  Speaker 7: I would.
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  Speaker 8: Die.
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  Speaker 4: I would die.
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  Speaker 5: I know. Miss, please. Won't you tell me who your
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  Speaker 5: people are? I want....
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  Speaker 4: Well?
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  Speaker 5: Doc, I'll be outside with Chester and Kitty. All right.
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  Speaker 7: When you come out, would you bring me her ring
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  Speaker 7: and that necklace she's wearing?
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  Speaker 4: All right, Matt, if you want.
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  Speaker 5: Just bring them to me, will you? Well, Matt? Yeah. Chester,
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  Speaker 5: we got a job on our hands.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, sir, Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Dillon? There's something wrong about this, and I'm going to
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  Speaker 5: find out what.
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  Speaker 4: What do you mean?
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  Speaker 5: She was wearing a gold wedding ring.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, but, Mr. Dillon, Indians don't use wedding rings.
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  Speaker 5: I know. Then you mean you think she was... married
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  Speaker 5: to a white man, Matt? Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: Here's a necklace, Matt.
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  Speaker 5: Thanks, Doc.
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  Speaker 7: Have any of you heard of anybody around town marrying
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  Speaker 7: an Indian girl in.
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  Speaker 5: The last year or so?
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  Speaker 8: No, no, Matt.
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  Speaker 7: No?
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  Speaker 5: No.
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  Speaker 4: Well, there ain't but one squaw man in the whole
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  Speaker 4: town that I know of, Jack Benson. And he married
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  Speaker 4: his squaw some eight or ten years ago.
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  Speaker 7: Well, then we're going to have to start from the
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  Speaker 7: other end. We've got to identify her. We'll have to find.
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  Speaker 5: Out what tribe she's from. She looks like an Arapaho, Matt,
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  Speaker 5: from her clothing. Well, I thought that too, Doc, but
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  Speaker 5: which camp? There are three Arapaho camps within 40 miles
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  Speaker 5: of here.
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  Speaker 4: Say, Mr. Dillon, maybe Great Eagle could help you.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah. He's camped down by Sandy Fork now, isn't he?
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  Speaker 4: He knows you. He's about the friendliest Indian around here
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  Speaker 4: these days.
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  Speaker 10: Say, Matt, don't you think this might cause trouble if
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  Speaker 10: you let them know that a white man is mixed
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  Speaker 10: up in this?
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  Speaker 5: What?
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  Speaker 4: Wouldn't it be better to just bury him?
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  Speaker 5: Do you think that's the right thing, Doc? Oh, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 5: I guess not.
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  Speaker 10: But I was talking to Colonel Jackson out at the
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  Speaker 10: fort the other day, and he said he was expecting
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  Speaker 10: us to have.
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  Speaker 5: Some real Indian trouble any day now.
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  Speaker 4: And this might start something.
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  Speaker 7: I know there's that possibility, Doc, but I also know
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  Speaker 7: that there was something behind this girl's death, and I
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  Speaker 7: think it's my duty to find out what. I'm sure
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  Speaker 7: I can talk to Great Eagle and get what information
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  Speaker 7: I need without stirring up anything.
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  Speaker 4: I hope you're right, Matt.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I hope I am, too. Chester?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, Mr. Dillon?
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  Speaker 5: Get our things ready. We'll start for Great Eagle's camp tonight.
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  Speaker 7: I figured it'd take us about five hours and I
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  Speaker 7: was pretty close to right. The sun had been up
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  Speaker 7: maybe 30 or 40 minutes and we came to the
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  Speaker 7: crest of a range of hills. And there spread out
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  Speaker 7: below us alongside the Sandy Fork was Great Eagle's camp.
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  Speaker 7: We were spotted a good while before we got there,
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  Speaker 7: and when we pulled up, all the squaws had disappeared,
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  Speaker 7: and we were greeted by what looked like the entire
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  Speaker 7: male population. They just stood and watched us sullenly as
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  Speaker 7: we dismounted.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think they're too happy to see us, Mr. Dillon.
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  Speaker 5: You may be right, Chester. I, uh... I've come to
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  Speaker 5: see your leader, Great Eagle.
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  Speaker 7: Tell him his friend Matt Dillon has written from Dodge
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  Speaker 7: City to see him.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe they don't understand.
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  Speaker 5: No, they understand, all right.
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  Speaker 7: Please tell Great Eagle it's of importance that I see him.
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  Speaker 5: You are not wanted here. Great Eagle will not see you.
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  Speaker 7: Why don't you let Great Eagle decide that? Now tell
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  Speaker 7: him I wish to see him.
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  Speaker 5: Great Eagle is ill, but I will tell him you
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  Speaker 5: are here.
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  Speaker 4: I thought for a minute there that we rode all
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  Speaker 4: this way for nothing, Mr. Dillon.
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  Speaker 5: We may have, Chester.
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  Speaker 4: I wouldn't say these fellas is very sociable, would you?
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  Speaker 5: No.
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  Speaker 10: Doc must have been right about trouble of brewing. By
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  Speaker 10: the last time I was out here, Great Eagle was
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  Speaker 10: real friendly. I swear, I don't know what we've done.
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  Speaker 4: To make them feel so good.
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  Speaker 5: You're talking too much. Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 3: Come.
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  Speaker 5: Come. Here, inside.
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  Speaker 8: Matt Dillon, it is good to see you once more.
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  Speaker 5: And you, Great Eagle. You wish to talk with me? Yes,
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  Speaker 5: I do. I'm in need of your help.
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  Speaker 8: To be able to return your many kindnesses pleases me.
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  Speaker 7: I would first like to explain to you that I
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  Speaker 7: am aware of the unrest between your people and mine.
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  Speaker 7: And it's my desire that what I tell you be
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  Speaker 7: as a confidence between friends. If it were known, it
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  Speaker 7: might cause further trouble.
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  Speaker 4: It will be as a confidence.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you. Well, yesterday we found a young girl on
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  Speaker 5: the plains.
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  Speaker 7: She suffered from exposure. So we took her back to
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  Speaker 7: Dodge City for medical attention as fast as we could.
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  Speaker 5: But we were too late. She was of your people.
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  Speaker 7: Her clothing told me that, so I came to you
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  Speaker 7: to help me identify her. I can't tell you why,
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  Speaker 7: but I feel that there was evil behind the death
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  Speaker 7: of this girl, and I must find out about it.
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  Speaker 7: You see, she was wearing a gold wedding ring, the
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  Speaker 7: ring of a white man.
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  Speaker 5: Can you describe the girl? Well, I can only tell
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  Speaker 5: you that she was of great beauty, and, well, here,
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  Speaker 5: she wore this, the.
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  Speaker 7: This necklace, it's unusual in design.
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  Speaker 5: I thought it might help in identifying her. Yes, it helps.
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  Speaker 5: Then she was from this camp? You knew her? Yes,
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  Speaker 5: I knew her. She was my daughter.
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  Speaker 6: The End.
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  Speaker 7: I looked at Great Eagle's face And all of a
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  Speaker 7: sudden Doc's warning came back to me I saw Chester
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  Speaker 7: out of the corner of my eye He looked exactly
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  Speaker 7: the way I felt That hopeless feeling.
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  Speaker 5: Of not knowing what to do I guess we must have.
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  Speaker 7: Stood for maybe a minute Nothing was said This man
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  Speaker 7: sitting before us This man.
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  Speaker 5: Of great dignity With.
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  Speaker 7: His bronze face showing no emotion Just staring into nothing
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  Speaker 7: holding the necklace in his huge hands.
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  Speaker 4: Grady Rupert, we had no idea.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you. I understand. I, uh... I'm sorry to have
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  Speaker 5: to ask this now, Grady Rupert. Do you know what
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  Speaker 5: might have happened? I know... nothing. Where is my daughter?
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  Speaker 5: She is at Dr. Adams' office in that setting. She
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  Speaker 5: will be buried here. I will come for her. You
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  Speaker 5: mean come into Dodge?
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  Speaker 8: I will be there before sundown of this day.
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  Speaker 7: Well, Great Eagle, with this unrest between our peoples, I
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  Speaker 7: don't think it would be but wise to come right
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  Speaker 7: into town.
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  Speaker 8: There are people there that might cause trouble. Before sundown,
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  Speaker 8: I will come for her.
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  Speaker 5: But isn't it.
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  Speaker 7: Running a chance unnecessarily with... We could arrange to meet
• 17:45
  Speaker 7: you on the other side of the river or maybe.
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  Speaker 8: Before sundown of this day, with my braves, I will
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  Speaker 8: come into Dodge City for my daughter.
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  Speaker 5: But you can't bring your braves right into... All right,
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  Speaker 5: great eagle. I'll do what I can to see that
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  Speaker 5: there's no trouble. Before sundown, then.
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  Speaker 6: Before sundown.
• 18:11
  Speaker 5: We rode hard to get back to Dodge. There was
• 18:14
  Speaker 5: a lot to be done.
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  Speaker 7: Chester didn't say anything, but I knew he was worried,
• 18:18
  Speaker 7: and he wasn't alone. If this thing wasn't handled properly,
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  Speaker 7: it might turn into the worst trouble that any of
• 18:24
  Speaker 7: us had ever seen.
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  Speaker 5: We got back into Dodge just before noon, and.
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  Speaker 7: I sent Chester off to spread the word about what
• 18:31
  Speaker 7: was going to happen. I figured it was better for
• 18:33
  Speaker 7: everybody to know about it as soon as possible than
• 18:36
  Speaker 7: if trouble did start.
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  Speaker 5: Maybe I could stop it before Great Eagle arrived. I
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  Speaker 5: went to the office, tried.
• 18:43
  Speaker 7: To finish some work. But I kept seeing the girl
• 18:48
  Speaker 7: in front of me. Her inner say, I want to die.
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  Speaker 5: I want to die.
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  Speaker 7: Must have been three hours later when Chester came in.
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  Speaker 7: Told me that the trouble had started. It was Black
• 19:02
  Speaker 7: Dawson down at the Alapraganza.
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  Speaker 9: If it isn't the.
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  Speaker 5: Big, brave U.S.
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  Speaker 4: Marshal himself. Look at him, look at him, boys.
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  Speaker 9: The man who's supposed to protect Dodge City.
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  Speaker 5: All right, Black. You've said enough.
• 19:30
  Speaker 9: When did you start deciding how much people can say.
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  Speaker 4: Huh, Marshal?
• 19:38
  Speaker 7: I'm taking this from you, Black, because I got enough
• 19:40
  Speaker 7: trouble right now, but don't say any more.
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  Speaker 5: Now come outside with me and simmer down.
• 19:45
  Speaker 7: Come outside and simmer down.
• 19:48
  Speaker 5: Why should I rest? to an Indian lover?
• 19:52
  Speaker 4: A man who's.
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  Speaker 9: Going to let those dirty, stinking Indians.
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: Come right into Dodge and take over.
• 20:03
  Speaker 8: All right.
• 20:05
  Speaker 5: All right.
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  Speaker 9: Shut up.
• 20:07
  Speaker 8: Shut up.
• 20:09
  Speaker 5: Now you listen to me.
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  Speaker 7: And that's good for all of you. I'll not tolerate
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  Speaker 7: any trouble. When Great Eagle gets here, I don't want
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  Speaker 7: one wrong move out of any of you. Anything that
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  Speaker 7: happens here today might start a whole uprising among the Indians.
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  Speaker 7: And if you're too stupid to see that, you're going
• 20:25
  Speaker 7: to be awful sorry. Now I'm telling you right now. Why,
• 20:31
  Speaker 7: Great Eagle's here. I'll kill the first man that starts trouble.
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  Speaker 5: An hour before sundown, the crowd started gathering along Front Street.
• 20:46
  Speaker 5: They were talking and laughing and being loud. Too loud.
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  Speaker 7: They were nervous and trying not to show it, but
• 20:53
  Speaker 7: they all wanted a front seat at the big show.
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  Speaker 5: They didn't want to miss anything. And then Black Dawson
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  Speaker 5: and his gang came out of the Alapraganza.
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  Speaker 7: and stood leaning up against a hitching rail. Finally, Chester
• 21:07
  Speaker 7: came down from Boot Hill where he'd been on lookout.
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  Speaker 5: and he told me that he'd spotted Great Eagle and
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  Speaker 5: his braves. They were coming. I looked around. Everybody started
• 21:18
  Speaker 5: to turn quiet. They knew. I told Chester to keep
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  Speaker 5: an eye on Dawson and I started down the street...
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  Speaker 5: I crossed the plaza and walked to the river.
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  Speaker 7: Before the Indians started to cross the bridge, I stopped them.
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  Speaker 7: Great Eagle, I can't let you bring all your braves in.
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  Speaker 7: You may bring two and that's all. You see all
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  Speaker 7: those people over there? They're just itching for trouble and
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  Speaker 7: I can't chance it.
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  Speaker 5: I'm sorry, but that's the way it is. I would
• 22:04
  Speaker 5: bring all my brave.
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  Speaker 7: I'm sorry, Great Eagle. But don't try it. I turned
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  Speaker 7: and walked back.
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  Speaker 5: Into the plaza... and stopped in front of Doc's office
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  Speaker 5: and stood... waiting. Great Eagle and his band didn't move.
• 22:25
  Speaker 5: They just sat there on their horses... looking into the plaza.
• 22:30
  Speaker 5: The crowd had stretched all.
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  Speaker 7: Along Front Street now and they had turned very quiet.
• 22:36
  Speaker 7: Even Dawson and his gang were just standing glowering across
• 22:39
  Speaker 7: at the bridge.
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  Speaker 5: I wasn't sure what was going to happen. And I waited.
• 22:48
  Speaker 7: Must have been five minutes before Great Eagle turned and
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  Speaker 7: said something to his men and started out.
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  Speaker 5: With two of his braves following.
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  Speaker 7: Nobody in the crowd along Front Street moved or said
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  Speaker 7: a word.
• 23:17
  Speaker 5: Where is she? In here? She's in there.
• 23:37
  Speaker 8: I want to talk.
• 23:39
  Speaker 5: Come in with me. All right.
• 23:49
  Speaker 8: Annoli. Her name means beautiful child.
• 23:58
  Speaker 5: Is she not beautiful? Yes. She is, Grady.
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  Speaker 8: Matt Dillon, I have done something today I have never
• 24:10
  Speaker 8: before done.
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  Speaker 5: I have always thought myself a man of honor. But
• 24:17
  Speaker 5: today I spoke a lie to you. To me? Yes.
• 24:23
  Speaker 5: I know of what happened to my daughter.
• 24:27
  Speaker 8: I must tell you to regain at least part of
• 24:29
  Speaker 8: my self-respect.
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: All of it I can never regain.
• 24:35
  Speaker 8: Many moons ago, my daughter disappeared. We searched for a
• 24:40
  Speaker 8: long time, not knowing what had happened to her. Four
• 24:45
  Speaker 8: days ago, she came back. She told me of her
• 24:49
  Speaker 8: marriage to a white man and how she was with child.
• 24:56
  Speaker 8: Of how she had met this man on the prairie
• 24:59
  Speaker 8: and had fallen in love with him. Of how they
• 25:02
  Speaker 8: had gone to Hay City. the great love they had
• 25:07
  Speaker 8: for each other. And she told me of the slow
• 25:12
  Speaker 8: change that came over him, when his fellow men began
• 25:17
  Speaker 8: to laugh at him and with derision call him Squaw Man,
• 25:22
  Speaker 8: and how the white man is ashamed of the Indian.
• 25:28
  Speaker 8: The white man has great pride. She told me how
• 25:34
  Speaker 8: he turned her away, told her to go back to
• 25:37
  Speaker 8: her own people where she belonged.
• 25:42
  Speaker 5: Crady got very sorry.
• 25:45
  Speaker 8: At that moment, I was with great anger and pride.
• 25:50
  Speaker 8: And for this, I will never again be a man
• 25:53
  Speaker 8: of honor. I told her to go back and live
• 25:57
  Speaker 8: with the white people in shame. That she was no
• 26:01
  Speaker 8: longer an Indian. But the Indian, too, is a proud people.
• 26:06
  Speaker 8: I am responsible for her death. I turned away from her.
• 26:16
  Speaker 8: You may do what punishment you like with me. I
• 26:20
  Speaker 8: killed my daughter.
• 26:27
  Speaker 7: No, great eagle, you. You didn't kill your daughter. She
• 26:34
  Speaker 7: died because of pride. Yours and the white man's. As
• 26:40
  Speaker 7: to your punishment, I think you're getting it right now.
• 26:46
  Speaker 7: Now take her and go.
• 26:54
  Speaker 5: As Great Eagle reached the bridge, the rest of his.
• 26:57
  Speaker 7: Braves turned and joined him and rode slowly off across
• 27:01
  Speaker 7: the prairie out of sight.
• 27:05
  Speaker 5: And along Front Street, the crowd started to break up
• 27:08
  Speaker 5: and head for the bars to get drunk and laugh
• 27:11
  Speaker 5: and brag about how brave they'd have been if anything
• 27:13
  Speaker 5: had happened.
• 27:18
  Speaker 7: Chester and I stood for a long time and the
• 27:21
  Speaker 7: streets were almost empty.
• 27:25
  Speaker 5: It was sundown.
• 27:29
  Speaker 8: Mr.
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: Dillon, I'd be right proud to buy a drink.
• 27:35
  Speaker 5: Chester, don't ever use the word proud in front of
• 27:38
  Speaker 5: me again.
• 27:41
  Speaker 10: Yes, sir.
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: I'm sorry, Mr. Dillon.
• 27:48
  Speaker 5: No, Chester, I'm sorry. Come on, I'll buy you a drink.
• 27:59
  Speaker 8: The End.
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: Gunsmoke, under the direction of Norman MacDonald, stars William Conrad
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: as Matt Dillon, U.S.
• 28:17
  Speaker 5: Marshal.
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  Speaker 2: Tonight's story was written for Gunsmoke by William Conrad, with
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: music composed and conducted by Rex Corey. Featured in the
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: cast were John McIntyre as Great Eagle, with Michael Ann Barrett,
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: Lawrence Dobkin, and John Daner. Parley Bear as Chester, Georgia
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: Ellis as Kitty, and Howard McNair as Doc. Join us
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: again next week as Matt Dillon, U.S. Marshal, fights to
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: bring law and order out of the wild violence of
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: the West in Gunsmoke.
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: This concludes Gunsmoke Sundown, the CBS broadcast of June 6, 1953.
• 28:55
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