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- 0:00Speaker 1: Marshal Matt Dillon and Chester are returning the prisoner Hobb
- 0:03Speaker 1: Cannon to Dodge City when they meet cavalrymen searching the
- 0:07Speaker 1: plains for Blue Horse, a native sub-chief who has left
- 0:11Speaker 1: the reservation. An accident on the dry prairie leaves Dillon
- 0:15Speaker 1: badly injured, and Chester must ride for help while the
- 0:19Speaker 1: Marshal remains with Cannon. Tonight's Gunsmoke is Blue Horse, episode 320,
- 0:27Speaker 1: first heard on CBS May 25th, 1958. William Conrad stars
- 0:33Speaker 1: as Matt Dillon, with Parley Bear as Chester, Marion Clark
- 0:38Speaker 1: wrote the script, and Norman MacDonald produced and directed. Ladies
- 0:43Speaker 1: and gentlemen, here is the original broadcast.
- 0:59Speaker 2: Around Dodge City and in the territory on west, there's
- 1:02Speaker 2: just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers,
- 1:05Speaker 2: and that's with a U.S. Marshal and the smell of
- 1:08Speaker 2: gun smoke.
- 1:09Speaker 3: © BF-WATCH TV 2021.
- 1:27Speaker 2: Gunsmoke, starring William Conrad. The story of the violence that
- 1:32Speaker 2: moved west with young America. And the story of a
- 1:35Speaker 2: man who moved with it.
- 1:37Speaker 3: I'm that man. Matt Dillon, United States Marshal. The first
- 1:42Speaker 3: man they look for and the last they want to meet.
- 1:45Speaker 3: It's a chancy job. And it makes a man watchful.
- 1:50Speaker 3: And a little lonely.
- 2:09Speaker 4: To me, this fella could have picked a better place
- 2:11Speaker 4: to get his self caught in.
- 2:12Speaker 5: Yeah, it's pretty dry, all right.
- 2:15Speaker 4: We still got a three-day ride. Seems to me that
- 2:19Speaker 4: sheriff could have brung him in without sending for us.
- 2:22Speaker 6: All the way to Dodge.
- 2:23Speaker 5: The sheriff probably didn't fancy the trip either, Chester.
- 2:27Speaker 6: This trip's too tough for you boys.
- 2:29Speaker 7: Too much for you to handle.
- 2:31Speaker 4: Well, now, we can have it, all right, Hob.
- 2:33Speaker 6: Don't you worry none about that.
- 2:35Speaker 7: Never did like to see a man bite off more
- 2:38Speaker 7: than he could chew.
- 2:38Speaker 4: All right, now, just a minute. Don't you go thinking
- 2:41Speaker 4: you're more than we can chew.
- 2:42Speaker 6: Can't a man take on so much?
- 2:43Speaker 4: Hey, what do you mean not?
- 2:44Speaker 5: It makes me feel bad.
- 2:46Speaker 6: Real bad.
- 2:47Speaker 5: All right, that's enough, Cannon.
- 2:50Speaker 6: Marshal, I was just.
- 2:51Speaker 4: Saying I'm sorry for the fix here.
- 2:53Speaker 5: There's only one thing about it that worries me.
- 2:56Speaker 6: What's that?
- 2:57Speaker 5: You're not worth it.
- 2:58Speaker 4: He sure ain't. It's a pure waste caring for a
- 3:02Speaker 4: murderer like him across these plains.
- 3:04Speaker 6: You're going to leave.
- 3:05Speaker 4: Him here for the cows.
- 3:08Speaker 5: Buzzards.
- 3:10Speaker 4: Buzzard bait, that's what he is.
- 3:12Speaker 6: Hey, look down, Mr.
- 3:14Speaker 5: Jones.
- 3:15Speaker 4: Some riders coming up over that rise there.
- 3:18Speaker 5: Yeah, I see them.
- 3:20Speaker 4: What they're doing way off here.
- 3:23Speaker 5: Troopers.
- 3:25Speaker 4: Flying over this way, looks like.
- 3:27Speaker 6: Now, let's hold up here.
- 3:44Speaker 5: Morning, Lieutenant.
- 3:44Speaker 6: Good morning.
- 3:46Speaker 5: Matt Dillon, U.S. Marshal out of Dodge City.
- 3:48Speaker 6: Lieutenant Elridge, 6th Cavalry. Ah.
- 3:52Speaker 5: You're a long way from a post, aren't you?
- 3:54Speaker 6: On our way from Fort Leavenworth to Fort Lyon. Ah.
- 3:57Speaker 4: Routine transfer, but we wouldn't mind catching up with a
- 4:00Speaker 4: certain runaway Indian while we're at it.
- 4:02Speaker 5: Did he break out of the stockade at the fort?
- 4:04Speaker 8: No.
- 4:05Speaker 4: The word is he escaped from a reservation down south.
- 4:07Speaker 6: He's heading back home to Nebraska.
- 4:09Speaker 5: What'd he do? Do? Did he kill somebody or rob
- 4:14Speaker 5: the stores?
- 4:15Speaker 4: No.
- 4:16Speaker 5: No, but if it became known that a sub chief
- 4:18Speaker 5: made a successful escape, it'd be.
- 4:21Speaker 6: Hard to keep any of them on the reservation.
- 4:23Speaker 5: I see.
- 4:23Speaker 4: I'd appreciate it if you'd keep an eye out for him, Marshal.
- 4:26Speaker 6: His name's Blue Horse.
- 4:28Speaker 5: Blue Horse, huh? Yeah, all right, Lieutenant. I'll keep an
- 4:32Speaker 5: eye out.
- 4:32Speaker 6: Thank you. Oh, uh, Marshal.
- 4:36Speaker 5: Uh-huh?
- 4:37Speaker 6: Mind riding over here for a minute? Sure.
- 4:39Speaker 9: Sure.
- 4:43Speaker 1: Marshal, this is my first time west of Fort Leavenworth.
- 4:47Speaker 6: Uh-huh.
- 4:49Speaker 5: Well, I kind of figured that. Yeah. Well, Marshal, I
- 4:55Speaker 5: have maps, of course. But you wonder if you're on
- 4:59Speaker 5: the right track, huh? Well, yes.
- 5:00Speaker 6: To tell the truth, I do.
- 5:03Speaker 5: Well, if I were you, Lieutenant, and this was my
- 5:05Speaker 5: first time out, I think I'd just drop on down
- 5:07Speaker 5: south to the Arkansas River. Yes, sir.
- 5:11Speaker 6: Well, that's all.
- 5:11Speaker 5: You just hit the Arkansas and follow it west. You
- 5:15Speaker 5: couldn't miss Fort Lyon if you tried.
- 5:17Speaker 6: Much obliged, Marshal. I'd have got there all right.
- 5:21Speaker 5: Oh, sure, sure.
- 5:22Speaker 6: I'm just giving you the easy way.
- 5:24Speaker 5: Yeah. Well, we'll be on our way.
- 5:26Speaker 9: Yeah. Company! Sir!
- 5:29Speaker 5: At the walk! Well, there's one thing for sure.
- 5:49Speaker 6: Yes, sir?
- 5:50Speaker 5: There's only one way for him to grow, and that's older.
- 5:53Speaker 9: Ah, come on.
- 5:55Speaker 5: Let's get going.
- 5:55Speaker 6: Come on.
- 6:14Speaker 4: Getting along toward sundown, Mr.
- 6:16Speaker 6: Jones.
- 6:16Speaker 5: Yeah, there'll be a watering place along here pretty soon.
- 6:19Speaker 5: We'll stop for the night, huh?
- 6:21Speaker 7: You mean you tough lawmen are going to stop and
- 6:24Speaker 7: sleep like ordinary folks?
- 6:26Speaker 4: Never you mind, Cannon. You'll be lucky we don't just
- 6:29Speaker 4: leave you tied on your horse all night.
- 6:31Speaker 6: We'd be better company. All right, now you listen here.
- 6:34Speaker 4: Yes, sir.
- 6:36Speaker 3: Yes, sir, Mr.
- 6:36Speaker 4: Jones?
- 6:37Speaker 5: Look, why don't we head for that bunch of trees
- 6:39Speaker 5: over there, huh? Come on.
- 6:41Speaker 1: Sure.
- 6:42Speaker 9: Hey!
- 6:54Speaker 6: Wait there, Mr.
- 6:54Speaker 9: Dillon.
- 6:55Speaker 6: I'll help.
- 7:00Speaker 9: You.
- 7:01Speaker 4: You hurt bad?
- 7:04Speaker 5: I don't know, sister. Where's Cannon?
- 7:09Speaker 4: He's right over there.
- 7:11Speaker 5: Well, get him off his horse.
- 7:12Speaker 4: Yes, we will. All right, you, Cannon, climb down off
- 7:15Speaker 4: that horse.
- 7:18Speaker 6: Don't you try nothing now. That'd be just plum mean,
- 7:23Speaker 6: wouldn't it? Marshal hurt and all.
- 7:27Speaker 5: I'm not hurt too bad to use a gun, Kenneth.
- 7:30Speaker 5: You remember that. Chester, see if you can get me
- 7:34Speaker 5: on my feet, huh?
- 7:35Speaker 4: I'm sure I will.
- 7:36Speaker 5: Now be careful. No, no, let me down.
- 7:42Speaker 6: Let me down.
- 7:46Speaker 5: Oh, I guess there's no use. The leg just won't
- 7:51Speaker 5: hold me. All right, help me get my boot off.
- 7:54Speaker 3: Then, huh?
- 7:56Speaker 5: Yes, sir.
- 7:57Speaker 6: I'll take it easy.
- 8:00Speaker 1: Looks to me.
- 8:05Speaker 4: Looks to me like it's broke, Mr.
- 8:08Speaker 6: Jones. Broke bad. Yeah.
- 8:14Speaker 5: Look at my horse.
- 8:16Speaker 8: Yeah.
- 8:16Speaker 4: I think he stepped in that hole and pitched all
- 8:20Speaker 4: the way over and landed on his neck. He's dead,
- 8:24Speaker 4: all right.
- 8:26Speaker 6: Well, we can't stay here. Maybe we can.
- 8:31Speaker 4: Get you over to those trees.
- 8:33Speaker 6: Come on, Cannon.
- 8:35Speaker 5: Wait a minute.
- 8:36Speaker 6: Wait a minute.
- 8:37Speaker 5: Wait a minute.
- 8:38Speaker 6: We better figure this out first. Now, look.
- 8:43Speaker 5: When you get me to the trees, you ride on, Chester,
- 8:46Speaker 5: and see if you can get help, huh? And if
- 8:49Speaker 5: you don't meet up with anybody, you... Bring a wagon
- 8:51Speaker 5: from Dodge, huh?
- 8:52Speaker 6: Well, I ain't gonna leave you here, Mr.
- 8:54Speaker 2: Dillon.
- 8:56Speaker 4: Go in all night. It'd still take me two days
- 8:58Speaker 4: to get back.
- 8:59Speaker 5: We got no choice.
- 9:00Speaker 4: Yeah, but what about him, Tom?
- 9:02Speaker 5: He stays with me.
- 9:03Speaker 6: But, Mr.
- 9:03Speaker 4: Dillon.
- 9:03Speaker 5: I'm gonna need somebody. And I got a gun.
- 9:06Speaker 4: Well, I.
- 9:08Speaker 5: Look, we haven't got any choice, Chester. Now, will you
- 9:10Speaker 5: get me over to the trees? All right, you can
- 9:13Speaker 5: tether his horse to me, and.
- 9:14Speaker 6: Then you get going, huh?
- 9:16Speaker 5: Well.
- 9:18Speaker 4: All right, if you say so, but I sure don't
- 9:20Speaker 4: feel good about this.
- 9:21Speaker 5: I don't feel good about anything.
- 9:24Speaker 6: Come on, let's go.
- 9:42Speaker 5: Next time you stay inside all the way, Cannon.
- 9:46Speaker 7: Just fill in your canteen at the creek, Marshal.
- 9:49Speaker 6: You just stay inside, that's all.
- 9:51Speaker 5: Marshal, a man with a leg like yours with a
- 9:54Speaker 5: fever coming up.
- 9:55Speaker 6: He ought to be glad of water no matter how
- 9:57Speaker 6: it comes.
- 9:58Speaker 5: I just want to be sure it does come. And
- 10:00Speaker 5: I'm still watching. Here, Marshal.
- 10:04Speaker 6: Have a sweet.
- 10:13Speaker 5: Thanks. That leg didn't improve.
- 10:17Speaker 6: None overnight, did it? Not much.
- 10:21Speaker 7: Lying around waiting like this through most of the day,
- 10:25Speaker 7: you're feeling pretty bad, ain't you, Marshal?
- 10:28Speaker 5: Don't you worry about it.
- 10:29Speaker 6: No, I ain't worrying, Marshal. I got time. I got
- 10:32Speaker 6: plenty of time.
- 10:34Speaker 5: Don't you count on me passing out before Chester gets back.
- 10:38Speaker 5: Or you might get hurt if you do. I ain't
- 10:41Speaker 5: counting on a thing, Marshal.
- 10:43Speaker 6: I'm just waiting.
- 10:46Speaker 1: That's all.
- 10:48Speaker 6: Just waiting.
- 11:04Speaker 5: Miss Kitty. Miss Kitty.
- 11:08Speaker 9: I didn't think you would do back for a day
- 11:10Speaker 9: or two.
- 11:10Speaker 4: Miss Kitty, have you saw Doc anywhere?
- 11:12Speaker 6: I've been up to his office and he ain't there.
- 11:13Speaker 9: Well, he just went into Delmonica's there to get his supper.
- 11:16Speaker 9: What's the matter, Chester?
- 11:17Speaker 4: I can't stop talking, Miss Kitty.
- 11:19Speaker 6: I got to get Doc.
- 11:19Speaker 5: It's about Mr. Dillon.
- 11:20Speaker 9: Well, what about him?
- 11:21Speaker 4: Well, he's hurt bad and way off there. Way off where?
- 11:25Speaker 9: Out on the ferry.
- 11:25Speaker 5: Two days ride, Doc.
- 11:27Speaker 4: Doc? Doc!
- 11:28Speaker 6: Well, when did you get back?
- 11:30Speaker 9: There's trouble, Doc.
- 11:30Speaker 4: Terrible trouble. What is it, Chester?
- 11:32Speaker 6: Where's Matt?
- 11:33Speaker 4: He's out there on the plains, Doc, with a busted leg.
- 11:35Speaker 6: Is he all alone?
- 11:36Speaker 4: There's nobody but that murdering hob cannon.
- 11:38Speaker 6: He's with him.
- 11:39Speaker 5: Well, we'd better get to him.
- 11:40Speaker 6: Now, can you take me there?
- 11:41Speaker 4: That's what I come for.
- 11:42Speaker 6: Well, you don't look too good yourself.
- 11:44Speaker 9: You all right all night, Chester?
- 11:45Speaker 4: Sure, I did, Miss Kitty.
- 11:46Speaker 5: Come on, Doc.
- 11:47Speaker 4: We ain't got no time to waste.
- 11:48Speaker 6: You sure you can make it back there, Chester? It's
- 11:50Speaker 6: rough sleeping in that rig of mine.
- 11:52Speaker 2: I could take somebody else.
- 11:52Speaker 4: Of course, I can make it back there.
- 11:54Speaker 6: Come on, Doc.
- 11:55Speaker 9: Come on.
- 11:55Speaker 6: All right, Chester.
- 11:56Speaker 5: All right.
- 11:58Speaker 6: Don't worry, Kitty. Matt's a strong man.
- 12:01Speaker 9: I know, but you hurry just the same.
- 12:13Speaker 5: Cannon? Is that you, Moon?
- 12:20Speaker 6: Cannon!
- 12:22Speaker 5: Here I am, Marshal. I'm right here. What are you
- 12:27Speaker 5: doing over here? You got on back of the fire.
- 12:31Speaker 6: You thought I'd have a look at your leg, Marshal.
- 12:34Speaker 5: Never mind my leg.
- 12:36Speaker 7: What?
- 12:38Speaker 6: Mighty dark, though.
- 12:40Speaker 7: I can't... Sorry I had to kick you that way, Marshal.
- 12:50Speaker 7: But I figured it was the only way to jolt
- 12:52Speaker 7: you loose from that gun.
- 12:53Speaker 5: I'll get you, Colonel. You'll never make it.
- 12:57Speaker 6: Oh, no.
- 12:58Speaker 5: You won't ever get me.
- 13:01Speaker 7: You're going to be just a corpse for that fool
- 13:03Speaker 7: Chester to take back to Dodge. I'm going to get
- 13:07Speaker 7: me onto that horse you've been hanging on to.
- 13:10Speaker 6: And I'm just going to kill you, Marshal. Ride right
- 13:13Speaker 6: out of here. Hold on. Stop. Drop gun. I will shoot.
- 13:25Speaker 5: What the devil are you doing here?
- 13:28Speaker 6: I am Blue Horse. Blue Horse?
- 13:31Speaker 7: Well, you're the runaway engine they're looking for.
- 13:33Speaker 6: Hello, Blue Horse. I have been watching.
- 13:37Speaker 5: Well, that's lucky for me.
- 13:38Speaker 6: Listen, Blue Horse, you don't want to help him.
- 13:40Speaker 5: He'll just turn you in. He was talking to Calvary
- 13:42Speaker 5: about you yesterday.
- 13:43Speaker 6: He is my friend. Well, he can't be your friend.
- 13:46Speaker 6: He's a lawman. He's got to turn you in.
- 13:48Speaker 8: One day, he cut the rope of the white hunters
- 13:51Speaker 8: from around my neck.
- 13:53Speaker 6: How's that?
- 13:54Speaker 5: Drunken hanging party.
- 13:56Speaker 6: Remember. I owe you a life. I do not forget.
- 14:00Speaker 6: Use your head, Injun. This is different. You help me,
- 14:04Speaker 6: I'll let you go. Never tell a soul. Or you'll
- 14:06Speaker 6: be scot-free. Too much talk. Well, I'm telling you. Build
- 14:09Speaker 6: up fire.
- 14:11Speaker 5: What?
- 14:12Speaker 6: Build up fire. Heat water.
- 14:14Speaker 5: What are you going to do, Blue Horse?
- 14:16Speaker 6: Fix leg. Woman, come out. She boils roots in water.
- 14:25Speaker 5: You going to pour that stuff down me?
- 14:28Speaker 9: No.
- 14:29Speaker 6: I will put it on leg. Draw fever out.
- 14:33Speaker 5: I'll be much obliged.
- 14:35Speaker 6: I give you your gun.
- 14:38Speaker 5: Thanks, Blue Horse. You want to tie Cannon up for me?
- 14:43Speaker 5: I'm awful weak.
- 14:45Speaker 6: You sleep. I will watch. You sleep well. The sun
- 15:13Speaker 6: has long been high.
- 15:15Speaker 9: Yeah. Yeah.
- 15:18Speaker 5: Oh, where's Cannon?
- 15:20Speaker 6: The prisoner is safe. Oh. Well, it's more than he deserves. Woman,
- 15:26Speaker 6: bring some food. Blue Horse, I want you to.
- 15:32Speaker 5: Thank her for me. I feel a lot better.
- 15:35Speaker 6: Yes, your leg will heal. The fever is gone. You
- 15:40Speaker 6: want water?
- 15:41Speaker 5: Oh, yeah, thanks. Ah, thanks, Blue Horse. Tell me, what
- 15:56Speaker 5: are you doing here? Why did you break out?
- 16:00Speaker 6: Blue Horse is going back to the land of his people.
- 16:04Speaker 5: Well, the army doesn't seem to want you to.
- 16:07Speaker 8: I cannot live on the hard land with the dry wind.
- 16:11Speaker 8: Blue Horse comes from the hunting people, the Pawnee.
- 16:14Speaker 5: So you just picked up your wife and left, huh?
- 16:17Speaker 6: It is for us... To live under the northern stars.
- 16:22Speaker 5: It's too bad the army doesn't see it that way.
- 16:24Speaker 8: The government of the white man does not care that
- 16:27Speaker 8: all Indians cannot live alike.
- 16:30Speaker 6: The South is no good for the pony.
- 16:33Speaker 5: I work for the government, Blue Horse.
- 16:38Speaker 6: A wagon coming across the distance.
- 16:41Speaker 3: Uh-huh.
- 16:42Speaker 5: Yeah, they're coming for me.
- 16:44Speaker 6: I'm glad the marshal will be safe.
- 16:49Speaker 8: Mr.
- 16:49Speaker 6: Dillon? Mr.
- 16:51Speaker 4: Dillon?
- 16:51Speaker 6: Over here, Chester. Hello, Doc.
- 16:55Speaker 5: Oh, well, hi, Matt.
- 16:58Speaker 6: Let me take a look at that leg.
- 17:00Speaker 5: All right. Ouch.
- 17:04Speaker 6: Doc.
- 17:06Speaker 4: Looks like you've had some help, Mr. Dillon. Glad to
- 17:09Speaker 4: see Cannon good and hog-tied over there.
- 17:11Speaker 5: Thanks to Blue Horse and the squad, I wouldn't be
- 17:14Speaker 5: here without them. Blue Horse? Well, Mr.
- 17:17Speaker 6: Dillon, the Army's looking for him. Yeah, I know.
- 17:19Speaker 5: Hey, take it easy, Doc.
- 17:23Speaker 8: Oh, sorry.
- 17:25Speaker 6: Hey, your leg looks pretty good, man.
- 17:27Speaker 5: Surprisingly good.
- 17:29Speaker 6: I don't think you're going to have any trouble.
- 17:31Speaker 5: Now, Blue Horse and his woman, Senator, just had some
- 17:34Speaker 5: good nursing.
- 17:35Speaker 6: Yeah, I can see that.
- 17:38Speaker 5: Blue Horse.
- 17:39Speaker 6: I am here.
- 17:41Speaker 5: You understand that I'm a man of the law.
- 17:45Speaker 6: I understand.
- 17:45Speaker 5: I want you to do just what I say. We'll
- 17:50Speaker 5: be leaving soon. You and your squad get on your horses.
- 17:54Speaker 6: You are taking us with you? No.
- 17:58Speaker 5: No, I'm sending you back. I want you to ride
- 18:02Speaker 5: right up there. That way.
- 18:05Speaker 6: Now, will you give me your word? You have the
- 18:09Speaker 6: word of Blue Horse.
- 18:10Speaker 5: All right, get going, then.
- 18:12Speaker 6: We will ride. Goodbye, Marshal.
- 18:20Speaker 8: Well, I've heard of ungrateful people in my time, but
- 18:24Speaker 8: this beats all.
- 18:26Speaker 4: You let him save your life, and then you send
- 18:29Speaker 4: him back to be cooped up.
- 18:30Speaker 6: On the reservation.
- 18:31Speaker 5: I did what I had to do, Doc.
- 18:33Speaker 4: Well, I could have done something else.
- 18:36Speaker 7: You pointing the way and making that Indian promise to
- 18:39Speaker 7: go there.
- 18:40Speaker 4: And you know he'll.
- 18:41Speaker 6: Keep his word. Yeah, I know he will.
- 18:44Speaker 4: Hey, wait a minute, Doc.
- 18:46Speaker 6: I just thought of it.
- 18:47Speaker 5: Mr.
- 18:48Speaker 6: Dillon pointed north.
- 18:49Speaker 4: That reservation's not north, it's south.
- 18:52Speaker 9: Huh?
- 18:54Speaker 6: Well, by golly.
- 18:55Speaker 5: Yeah, that's right.
- 18:58Speaker 6: You made a mistake, Mr.
- 18:59Speaker 4: Dillon.
- 19:02Speaker 5: Yeah, I... I guess I did, Chester.
- 19:08Speaker 9: Chester.
- 19:40Speaker 6: Gunsmoke.
- 20:04Speaker 2: Produced and directed by Norman McDonald.
- 20:07Speaker 1: Stars William Conrad as Matt Dillon, U.S.
- 20:09Speaker 5: Marshal.
- 20:11Speaker 2: Featured in the cast were Marley Bear as Chester, Howard
- 20:14Speaker 2: McNair as Doc, and Georgia Ellis as Kitty.
- 20:18Speaker 1: Gunsmoke Blue Horse has completed its journey across the plains.
- 20:22Speaker 6: Good night.