Daily Gunsmoke

Gunsmoke - Gun Shy

https://www.solgoodmedia.com - Listen to hundreds of audiobooks, thousands of short stories, and ambient sounds all ad free! Welcome to Daily Gunsmoke, your go-to podcast for diving into the legendary tales of Marshal Matt Dillon and the untamed landscape of Dodge City from the classic old-time radio series, "Gunsmoke." Join us every day as we explore a unique episode filled with high-stakes gunfights, complex moral issues, and the raw drama that cemented Gunsmoke's place as a cornerstone of American entertainment. Experience the adventures of Dillon, Miss Kitty, Doc Adams, and Chester Proudfoot as they navigate the challenges of life and law on the frontier. Don't miss a moment of these timeless stories—tune into Daily Gunsmoke for your daily dose of the Wild West.

Duration:: 27m
Broadcast on:: 19 Jul 2024
Audio Format:: mp3

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And that's where the US Marshal and the smell of gun smoke. Gun will smoke, starring William Conrad, the story of the violence that moved West with young America, and the story of a man who moved with it. I'm that man, Matt Dillon, United States Marshal, the first man they looked for and the last they want to meet. It's a chancey job, and it makes a man watchful at a little lonely. Hey, Ray, what are you shooting at? Something moving near the barn. I declare, Ray, I think you're beginning to see things. You were out here shooting about this time yesterday. Come on in and have yourself. I saw something. I tell you, I'm going down there. Not Ray. Your eyes are playing tricks on you in the twilight. You didn't find anything last night, did you? I didn't get a good look. You all had me back here like the engines was after you. A woman likes her supper at once she sets it on the table. Come on, Ray, you're probably getting cold. But one of these times, I'm going to get a good shot at it. Put that gun down and pull up to the table. You really think you could make somebody out? Somebody was there, all right. I got me a good idea who it was. I got me a good idea it's that worthless dude kid we had around here. Tom? You mean Tom? And I sure do. Now you wouldn't want to go and shoot him, would you? I'll shoot him sure if I find him on my land. He caught nothing but trouble, letting the hogs loose, tipping the land and in the lost, found her in my mare. He wasn't used to living on a ranch. Then he don't belong on one, especially not mine. I reckon he smiles away, but now you threw a bad scare into him the day you sent him packing. I meant to. And if I see him around here again, I'll send him packing again. Load of buckshot. Hey. Hold your cup up for you some more coffee. Boy, you here, boy? Yes, I'm here. So why ever did you come back, my route he gets at the side of you? Come on out here where I can see you. Come on out boy, I can't stand here all night, he might wake up. I can't move, too good, ma'am. You heard? It's my leg. Well, the ranch, I should say it is, it's all over blood. Yes, ma'am. You've been shot. You've been up to. Well, nothing, ma'am. Come on, boy, tell me the truth. I was just trying to get me some food. I was awful hungry. So you tried to steal somebody's chicken? Oh, ma'am. I wasn't trying to steal nothing. Now, why would anybody shoot you then? Well, ma'am, I don't rightly know. Well, I didn't exactly see you. Never mind that right now. Your leg needs to bind an up. Turn your head, boy. Man? Turn your head. Oh, it's not down. I don't have to do for a bind. The clear race, right about one thing. You don't bring nothing but trouble. It's where I don't know what to do about you. You're purely out of place on the prairie. You never should have left Baltimore in the first place. You hear me, boy? Yes, ma'am. I ain't much good out here. Well, now, don't fret. You know, just fix you up somehow. Now, let me see that leg. [MUSIC PLAYING] Now, just listen a minute. If you will, I've got a little story to tell you. Well, it's not so little. It's sort of a tall tale. It's about a legendary hero, a logan hero. You know, logan is a pretty important business. And this hero, Tony Beaver, was his name. Well, he gets most of the credit for making it what it is today. Now, Tony came from the Eel River country. It's kind of hard to figure out just where that is, because Georgia claims him in so does North Carolina. And then West Virginia says he's from there. But wherever it was, well, that's where they raised the greatest logger of them all. Seems Tony used to raise watermelons before he started lumbering. Biggest melons there ever was, too. They were so big they used the shells for bunkhouses. That's where the army got the idea for quantsotuts. Yes, sir. Well, it seems Tony was bringing in a load of these melons by flat car one day. And he was clipping along pretty fast when he hit a curve and dumped the whole load into the Eel River. Bouncing down the hill broke them all to smithereens. And the seeds, which were big enough to sit on, floated downstream and jammed up against a sawmill dam. Old Tony, he wasn't short on brains. He made a deal with a mill owner who took the seeds off his hands and sold them for a hardwood. And that's how Tony got started in the logging business. First thing you know, everybody was sloping their logs down rivers to the sawmills. Say, Miss Tony'd done with the melon seeds. Well, Tony was inventive, he was. The two-man saw was his idea, you know. Of course, he made that big saw with a handle on both ends, just for his own use, so he could clear more acreage of trees during a day's work. But a couple of his men got into a fight over his saw one day. And Wiley was a tugging back and forth, trying to get the saw away from one another. Why, they sawed clean through a big tree. Yes, sir. At two-handled saw worked real good for two men. Loggers are still teaming up with it today. At Tony Beaver, he was the heart and spirit of the logging country. Many is the tale, I could tell you. And you'd believe me too, wouldn't you? Say, isn't it nice being citizens of a country where you can laugh and talk about things free as a breeze and write and read and worship too? Yes, sir. Maybe you don't think about it much, but you should. [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] I'm right, Claire. That must be the sixth one I saw today. Hmm? I said, that must be the sixth one. Oh, excuse me, Mr. Del Nye. Didn't mean to disturb your reading of the paper. Oh, that's all right, Justin. How do you cotton, anyway? Ladies. I'm keeping track of the ladies all of a sudden. Well, no, sir, but it seems like today there's a lot of extra ones driving in a town. I must count as six, at least. Oh, what do you make of it? Oh, I know. Why are they here, all right? Is that doings that the church are getting ready for? Do us. Yes, sir. Supper or sociable or something like that. Anyway, they're bringing in all sorts of home-cooked food. No wonder you're so interested. I'm sure I would like to sink my teeth in some of it, and that's the fact. Well, maybe you can talk yourself into some. Looks like one of the ladies is heading this way. Oh, that's Rafe Mayfield's wife, ain't it? Yeah, I think it is. Hello, Marshall. Captain? I do, ma'am. Hello, Miss Mayfield. How are you and Rafe making out these days? It's tolerable, I guess. Marshall, can I speak to you for a few minutes in private life? Well, sure, Miss Mayfield. Let me help you down. Oh, thank you. There you are. Yeah, come on and start. Well, I guess I'll be going along. Oh, I don't mind you, Chester. You might even help. Well, now, thank you, ma'am. Chester, pull up that chair for Miss Mayfield, ain't it? Yes, sir. Here you are, ma'am. And now then, what's on your mind, ma'am? Well, Marshall, we've known each other for a long time, haven't we? Oh, yes, ma'am. I guess you know me well enough to know I wouldn't go behind Rafe's back is an ordinary way of doing things. Oh, yes, ma'am. I think I know that. I can't let him find out about this, though. Why, he'd drive that boy right off, hurt as he is. Boy, what boy? Well, that boy from Baltimore, the one we took on is a hand a few months ago. Oh, you mean that Wilson kid, huh? Well, Tom, isn't it? That's his name. Rafe ran him off the place two weeks ago. Oh, what'd he do? It's not so much what he'd done wrong. It's more that he's never done nothing right. He surely wasn't cut out to be on a ranch. Rafe says he's worthless, clean through, but I don't believe it. Well, he's a nice boy. Well, he's come back. Well, I found him out in the barn last night with a bullet hole in his leg. Well, what hole? Well, who shot him? No, I can't get it out of him. You just don't talk straight whenever I ask him about it, but he can't stay out there, Marshall. Rafe's sure to find out, and he won't stand for it. Well, we better go out there and bring him into town. That'd be much obliged. Rafe's away picking up a new mayor. If he could come today, he wouldn't have to know about it. We'd do that, Miss. May you feel that, Chester? Yeah, sure. Now, go down and get the loan to most gimmicks wagon. We're in, we'll bring him in the darks. All right, sure, thank you, Marshall. Oh, don't thank me, Miss. May you feel I'm kind of curious about that bullet hole. Now, I don't think a doctor's office could be a little hand here to get to, and always there. Oh, I'll make it all right. You hold the door, Chester, and I'll get it down. Oh, yes, sir. Well, what have we got here? Why don't you take a look at this leg, will you, Doc? Certainly, I'll get him up on the table then, Miss. Yeah. Yes. Oh, you see? That's fine, huh? I'll go see the wagon, Miss. All right, sir. Yeah. Let me see you now. Oh, yes, yeah. A bullet caused that, isn't it? Yes, you're dead. You're lucky, though. It's not too deep. Must have bled a lot, then, isn't it? Sure did, bleed. Yes, sir. That's a good thing, it cleans itself out for you. Probably kept you from getting locked, Joe. Is a bullet still in there, Doc? No, no, it isn't. He just creased down top of his leg. Funny thing. Doc! Oh, Doc! That's Ben and Tyler there. You up there? Now, tell him to hold his horses. Yeah, Doc. Hey, Doc. Doc's up here, Ben, but he's busy right now. He'll be with you in a minute. Oh, he can't be busy, Marshall. It's Lucy. It's her time. And I bet, calm down. I'll be there. Well, Doc, you know how she is. She don't waste no time once she gets started. All right, Ben. All right. This boy is OK, man. I've cleaned his leg out good. Just needs binding up again. I guess I can do that, Doc. Well, sure you can. Well, I better be moving him. This is Lucy's sixth. And like Ben says, she doesn't waste any time. But after this one, I don't know why she needs a doctor. Now, come on, will you, Doc? All right. You, boy, better take it kind of easy for there, too. And then you'll be as good as new. Thank you, Doc. Yeah, it's kind of painful, I guess. Oh, no, Marshall. It don't hurt hardly at all anymore. I wasn't thinking about you. I was thinking about Ben being a father. Oh, well, yeah, I guess so. You hold still now, all right. You'll find you up. Sure, it must have been a trick shot that got you. What do you mean, Marshall? Or else the gunman must have been 10 feet straight up above you. Why? Well, a bullet angle is really straight down. It's a pretty hard shot to make. Marshall? Seems to me that you couldn't help seeing who it was. It got that close enough to shoot you like that. Well-- But you didn't see anybody, did you, Tom? All right, Marshall, I guess you know. You did this yourself, didn't you? Yeah, Marshall, I did. Did you do it on purpose? Oh, no, I was trying to shoot me a rabbit. I was awful hungry. And I guess I shot a mite too soon. Well, it's usually a good idea to get your gun up before you pull a trigger you. You know, you should have spoken right out about this, Tom. I couldn't, Marshall. I just couldn't. But then I haven't done anything right since I run off from Baltimore. Maybe that was your first mistake, you know? Sure it all bong in the West, and that's a fact. But when you're so all fired, clumsy, you shoot yourself in your own leg. Where do you belong, Marshall? Yeah, there's lots of accidents with guns, Tom. That's no disgrace. You don't understand, Marshall. I had done nothing right. Besides, I'm scared of guns. Well, Tom, the man who isn't scared of guns is a fool. I tell you, Marshall, I never thought it would be like this. I didn't get scared when I was reading them stories and hearing folks tell their tales about the West. But once I got out here, well, nothing's been right. I shouldn't have come. Well, you can always go back, I guess. No, I can't. At least where he's not like this. You, uh, you got any folks? Would they send you any money? Oh, yes, or they'd send it, but I just can't ask for it. I can't go back with my tail between my legs. I can't go home while I'm yellow, while I'm afraid of a gun. Yeah, there you are. Hell, all right, you can climb down off a table now. Uh, can you bear any weight on that leg? Yes, sir, I think so. Well, if you do think so, I'll be able to work down as far as Delmonico's to get something to eat. Oh, oh, sure, Marshall, but thank you. [MUSIC PLAYING] This land is your land. This land is my land. This land was made for you and me. When I was a child, I used a little spelling game to remember Mississippi. M-I-S, S-I-S, S-I-P-P-I. Remember? Now, of course, I remember Mississippi in other ways, for other things. I remember Faulkner and Yochena Potofa County, the aristocratic old plantations of matches. Shrimp boats setting out from Biloxi. Many of you, too, must remember watching the oysterman off the shores of Pas Christiane, or cotton pickers in Greenville, attending the Delta Staple Cotton Festival in Clarksdale, padding the Spanish moss on the giant oaks. Mississippi stirs remembrances in most people, even those who have never visited the Magnolia State. For the history and the name of the state, and, yes, even the spelling game, make a stop to think and to ponder the wisdom behind the state motto, "By Valor and Arms." [MUSIC PLAYING] Hello, Max. Hello, Kitty. I was just on my way down to see you. Huh? Thought I might have a glass of beer. Come on, then. It'll be a pleasure. OK. Also, a novelty. Oh, oh, what do you mean? You haven't exactly been making our habit of coming around, I think. Well, I'm not a busy kitty. That's what I hear. I understand you've adopted a boy. Oh, I told you that. Isn't it true? Isn't that broken boy scan of you? Well, just until he gets himself enough money to go back to Baltimore. I never heard of you taking such an interest before, Matt. Uh, Kitty, he's got things pretty mixed up. Poor kid thinks he's no good. Uh-huh. And you think your figure is not so bad if the marshal will put up with him. Oh, not Kitty, I-- Sounds like Matt. I don't blame you. He seems like a nice boy. He waited on me yesterday, and Mr. June is still-- Well, another month, they've earned his train fair back home. Could he send by your lender? No, he won't take it, says he's going back on his own the same way he came. Sounds kind of proud and foolish to me. Well, yeah. Marshall, Marshall's dealing. Hey, yeah, Mr. Jonas. You better come quick. How was that? That boy? Tom, he tried to shoot it out with a holdup, man. What? I'm afraid he's dying. Kitty, go get Doc, will you? Oh, sure. Come on, Mr. John. Where is he? I carried him into the storeroom. Exactly what happened. Well, I was behind the counter. This man came in, held a gun on me. Yeah, you-- you tried to do anything about it? Oh, no, Marshall. I just put my hands up. You're getting enough money and dodge worth getting shot over. Then the boy rushed in. Yeah, he must have grabbed a gun off of the shelf. He stuck it in the man's back and fell a world and shot him. Boy, didn't even get a chance to pull the trigger. The man got away? Marshall, he got away. Yeah, well, I'm fine, all right. Right back here, Marshall. Tom, it's Matt Dolan. Marshall. Yeah, you get that fine, Tom. But I didn't get him, Marshall. Well, that doesn't matter. The thing is, you tried. Yes, sir, I sure try. I'm nobody can do more than that. Marshall wasn't afraid when I grabbed that gun. Does that count for anything? Counts for a lot, Tom. I don't have to be ashamed anymore. No, of course you don't. I can go home and face folks. You can face anybody, Tom. Then I guess I'm glad I come west after all. Tom, is he dead, Marshall? Yeah, he's dead. It's a shame, just a shame. I'll tell you what's the real shame, Mr. Jonas. There are a whole lot more, Tom's back in Baltimore and all through the east. Growing up with the idea that out here, a man's not a man without a gun. I'll tell you, Mr. Jonas, I hope the rest of them stay home. [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] This is the United States Armed Forces Radio and Television Service. [MUSIC PLAYING] Well, it sounds like the tenant hit your rental property sure know how to throw a great party. 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