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Gunsmoke - The Railroad rehearsalforced date to show in proper place

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Duration:: 28m
Broadcast on:: 26 Jun 2024
Audio Format:: mp3

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Call clickgranger.com or just stop buying. Granger for the ones who get it done. That's far enough, Mr. Williams. Ms. Sager. Mrs. Sager. Would you please put that rifle down? I came here without any guns, without any means of force whatsoever. You come here with force. Now, Mrs. Sager. Come here to force me out of my house, off my land. Mrs. Sager, please. Nobody shoves me off of my land, Mr. Williams. Nobody. This land is mine. It's free and clear every inch of it. I have no doubt it. My husband staked this land 25 years ago. He homesteaded it and raised cattle on it every year till he died. Every year till he died, he raised cattle on this land. I have every respect for you. And nobody takes me off this land, Mr. Williams. You are your filthy railroad or anybody else. My husband left me this land and he said, Libby, this is your land and you keep it. I said hard. I swear by everything decent. Nobody will ever take this land away from me. I solemn and the holy oath, Mr. Williams, to a dying man. Mrs. Sager, now, listen to me for just a minute. Well, know what you're going to say. Just a minute. One minute, Mrs. Sager. I said it 100 times if you said it one minute. Please, Mrs. Sager, just one minute. Well, go on, go on, talk then, talk and get it over with one minute. One minute. That's right. I represent the railroad. I know that. And we have reserved from the United States government a right of way of land across the United States for our railroad, Transcontinental Railroad, Mrs. Sager, Transcontinental. The United States government. United States government, I heard you. What do you want to do? Scare me or something? Transcontinental, it's progress, Mrs. Sager. You can't hold back the time. That's what you always say. You can't hold your back. Your land, Mrs. Sager, is directly in the right of way. Now, we're willing, more than willing, we're happy to pay you three times the worth of this land. I said, I wouldn't say, Mr. Williams, how many times I got to repeat it? It's not a matter of, Mrs. Sager, please, I wish you'd lower that carbine. It's making me nervous. I noticed you shaking. The minute's almost up. The point is, you've got to sell. You're on public land to be reconverted. Now, we sent you a check and a notice to get off the land. No, not us. The United States government, that makes it mandatory, compulsory. It's a free country. Progress, Mrs. Sager, for the common good. It's a free country. I can live where I want. And this is where I'm living. Let me tell you something, Mr. Williams. I'm staying right here. You could have orders from the president. I'm just as good a citizen as he is. Now, you just scoot off on this property. I'd hate to have to call the United States Marshal. Now, Mrs. Sager, I don't like to use force when reason will do. Get off this property, Mr. Williams, or I'm going to remember the United States government has a law about trespassing. Did you hear me? Scoot. You can't hold back the times. That's what I told her, Marshal. She held that rifle on me every second. It seems funny to you, I suppose. No, I didn't mean to laugh at you, Mr. Williams. Well, Libby Sager's quite a woman. I've known her long time. And you're husband. Anybody could be married. Now, what you've got to understand about Libby is, Mr. Williams, that Libby isn't an ordinary woman. That's sure. No, Libby is... Well, she's kind of like the West. Now, I mean, but that she's got her ways, and her ways are free. And she's hard to tame. Well, I'll tell you this, Marshal, in the railroad business, when we come to a mountain, if we can't go around it, we blast right through it. Yeah, well, I'm not so sure I'd try that with Libby. Marshal, I've tried talking to her. I've said her letters. I've tried everything. There's no movie. Yeah, I know, I know, but you've got to keep in mind that Libby's lived there for almost a quarter of a century. I've got a job to do. Look, can't you go around her land? Oh, fine, fine. A straight line track for a few hundred miles, and all of a sudden it juts out for a few little acres, and then back to another straight line for another hundred miles. I would break it up a little, wouldn't I? Marshal, I want you to get out there with this order. It's an order to vacate. Every time we send her a check, she sends it right back. So here's a check to go with the order. Look, Mr. William, she's not going to move. I know that woman, and she's not going to move. That's the United States government order, and you're the United States model. Oh, please, Mr. Williams, don't remind me of my duties. There's some things I don't like about this job. Eviction and seizure. Uh, Chester? Yes, sir, Mr. Dillon? Eviction, federal order. Libby Sager, yes, sir. You weren't listening at the door, were you, Chester? Oh, no, sir. My absolutely not, Mr. Dillon. It's just I am cursed with wonderful ears. It comes from so many nights out hunting. What, my whole family? Uh, yeah, all right, all right, Chester. Mr. Dillon, isn't there? Some way the railroad can go around that property. I purely hate to see that woman. He's maybe a villain when I'm just doing my job. Yeah, yeah. All right, Mr. Williams, I guess we all feel a little like that right now. Come on, Chester. [knocking on door] Listen, this you-- No, no, hold it, Libby. Saw you through the curtains. Well, I saw you peeking. Car, little railroad has to bring the marshal. Uh, Mr. Williams asked me-- I had to, Mr. Sager. I told you before that. I bet he did a railroad had to get the marshal. Now, Libby, Libby, I want you to put that carbine down and I want you to act like a human being. Don't you start anything with me, that kind of talk. Now, Matt Dillon, I knew you too long for that kind of talk. Libby, what would Howard have said if he could see you standing there holding a carbine on me? You can say what you got to say right here and right now. Just leave my poor dead husband out of this. You think he'd stand in the way of progress the way you are? Progress! That big, large, steamer, dirty thing of howling by black smoke, bringing in the trash from back east. You call that progress? Uh, I'll make a deal with you, Libby. You put down your gun and I'll send Mr. Williams and Chester back to town, huh? I got nothing to say to you, Marshall. Chester? Yes, Mr. Dillon. Take my gun, Chester. Endless. What? What are you doing, Mr. Dillon? You took off your star. Take it back to the office with you and take Mr. Williams with you too. Libby and I are going to talk. Yes. Come on, Mr. Williams. You can't hold back the times, Mr. Sager. Yes, he am off here! I should have better go, Mr. Williams. I'll see you back in town, Michael. Well, Libby, aren't you going to ask me in? I told you, Marshall. The name's still Matt, Libby. No star. See? How can I come in? Well, I suppose. Thank you. Hey, looks just about to sing. Yeah, I'm going to stay that way. Nothing's going to come a-steaming through this sitting room. Sit down, Matt. Libby. I'd give anything not to have to give you this order, but here. Well, Howard took me out here to this piece of land. You sticked it out here because it had a quick for the cat on some old grassland. We just got married. Took me out here and stood me right about where you're standing now. And he said, Libby, this is ours. Yours and mine. He built this place, Matt. Every board, he split with his own hands. Every board of it. Every nail in it. Yeah, I know. You don't know. Three days and three nights, just the two of us, a hunt that up-sought wagon caught up on the attack. All they'd have burned the house down. Well, we held them off. All of them engines. A hoop in a hard one until the second day they got him. Yeah. Well, that arrow must have been terrible inside him. It was like something in my own chest, Matt. I swear it. It couldn't have hurt no more. I held him in my arms. I was crying. I couldn't help it him. He looked like a little boy. I swear it seemed like he wasn't a man anymore. It's just a little boy in my arms there. He said, Libby, you've got to hang on to the land, Libby. It's all there is. And I said, I know it, Howard. He said, don't let nobody drive you off here. I said, Howard, I won't. And I didn't. I stayed there, no food, no water. Two days more. They're waiting. But they had gone. And the place was still mine. And Libby. Now, do you think I'm going to get off of this land now? Just because of a little piece of paper. Matt, you're going back till that railroad. I'm here for good. Dead or alive. Next time you better keep your guns. Marshall. What'd she say, Marshall? Talked didn't do any good, did it? I know it wouldn't. Mr Williams, you did your job. Now, why don't you go back to the hotel and we'll get in touch with you, huh? Sure. Marshall. Yeah. Are you sure you don't need me for anything? I'm sure. Okay. Well, hello, Mr Williams. Hello, Justin. Where is he going, Mr. Dillon? I sent him back to the hotel, Chester. I made that chamois there, would it? Yes. Here. Oh, thank you. Mr. Dillon, if she don't leave Peaceable, you're going to carry her out? Well, we'll see what happens, Chester. I mean, if she don't come out Peaceable. Look, Chester, that railroad's going to be here for a long time, a long time. Now, there's going to be a lot of people depending on it for for beef and for, well, for everything else. And Libby's just one person. Just one person. One person, yes, sir. That's right. That's right, Dillon. There. Mr. Dillon, I've never seen you like this before, Chester. I can't do it. All right. You gave her 10 days to give you an answer, Mr. Dillon, and the order come down almost a month ago. You did everything you could, if you asked me. You aren't in the field bad. You just got to do it, that's all. Never hurt anybody. Paid all her bills. Now we got a runner off our land. Well, it wasn't nobody's fault that Howard Sager homesteaded on what was going to be a railroad track. Wasn't his fault, and her fault, and her your fault. Wasn't even the railroad's fault. I know, you're right, Chester. You're right. And Mr. Dillon, she'll have enough money she can live anywhere? Yeah. Yeah, sure, sure. Anywhere except where she really wants to live? Well, I... Yeah, I know, Chester. Well, it's almost 10-30. We gave it all noon today. I guess we better get packing. I guess we better. Oh, well, I'll go. Well, sir, here's the gate. Go ahead, Chester. After you, Mr. Dillon. Matt Dillon? Love 'em. There she is, Mr. Dillon. On the porch. She's got her carbine. Yeah, I see her. Get off my property! Livy! Now, we gave you plenty of notice. You're off my property, marshall, or our chute. Now, you know me, Matt. I don't just talk. Livy, you got your check. Now, why don't you... I'm counting three. You're not starting off with this land, but the count of three, I'm going to shoot. I swear it, Matt. You're a perfect target. Now, I'm wanting you to... Livy, why? Two... three... Hey! Come on, Mr. Dillon. That big rock over there. Way over her head. Yeah, she meant it that way. Makes me feel a little silly, running cover from a woman. I got a decent respect for Livy's eye, Chester. Well, what do we do, Mr. Dillon? Well, we can't just stay here forever. Look, maybe we can sneak up from the other side. You think you could work your way around? I imagine so. All right. And Chester. Now, don't worry, Mr. Dillon. I'm not going to use no gun. All right. Now, if you can get in my house and get that rifle away from her, I'll just stay out here and try to keep her attention. Yeah, sure. Okay, good luck. Livy! I'm going to shoot to kill, Matt. Next man tries to get me out of here. I shoot to kill! Ow! Hot. That's right, Sam. Here's to you, Williams. Sure. I must be getting drunk even this stuff tastes good. Sam, I can't help but admire that woman. But then I'm always the one to boost the underdog. We got to start construction on the 18th to keep the schedule. You haven't even had a chance to start serving. One woman standing alone against the whole mess of us. Spikes, crew, rails. It's inspiring. Pies all creosodered. I'll get bounced sure. Let me tell you, Williams. She's one out of a million. Quite a woman. Quite a woman. Yeah. I said then and I say right now, nobody takes that woman off her land alive. Nobody. She's got more real stuff in her than you and me put together. You're drunk. Hanging on to the last breath, why it's wonderful. Woman like that can't hold back the progress of a whole nation. Absolutely not. Nobody can hold back the time. Time and tide wait for no man. If everybody felt like her, there wouldn't be any real ones. There wouldn't be any progress whatsoever. You need a drink. Maybe I do. Sam, I don't think that Marshall's doing the thing out there. I don't know. Boy, it is. There's a job to do. I think we ought to go out there and prod him. Well, you said he told you to stay in the hotel room. I know. No, that's what you said. Well, if you want to go down there, it's fine with me. But that's what you told me, he said. Well, how does it look? The railroad representative taking the afternoon off at a time like this, huh? And I'm a holster. Huh? Well, what do you want guns for? Well, I'll tell you what I think. I think the woman's a little demented holding herself up that way. The husband's death, years of a loan on that house. She's crazy. Phonatic. Yeah. Yeah. Here. Thanks. Fully loaded. It's a wonderful woman, though. Dead shot with that rifle of hers. I'm not going out there unprotected. I don't blame you a bit. I think I'll take my holster. Hey, one for the road, huh? No more. One for Libby? Or what do you say? All right. One for Libby. Two Libby Sager, the spirit of the Old West. Right. You know they'll write a song about her, how the track was built over her soul, and they'll write a song about us, too. Oh, stop it, you're drunk. How's it going, Marshall? Couldn't I tell you to stay back at the hotel? I brought Sam with me, thought maybe you could use some help. Sam? Huh? Hello, Marshall. You don't mind if we just stick around, do you? Well, stay back and keep quiet. Where's your friend? Trying to sneak in the back on the trouble of my stroke? Right here, Libby. I got my eye on that sidekick of yours. You either call him back or I'm going to have to shoot him. Chester? Oh, come on, Mr. Dillon. I'm sorry, Mr. Dillon. That's all right, Chester. It just didn't work yet, so. I declare I can't figure how she spotted me. You don't know how careful-- Yeah, I know. I know. I know. I thought there's only one thing to do. Let's go in after her. Now you're talking. Fine. Now you two just stay right where you are, and no guns, you understand? Sure. Libby. Libby, we're coming in. Now put your carbine up, Libby. How long, Marshall? Just come on. I am ready. Now let's go, Chester, and stay close to the ground. We can weave over to that rock over there, then behind the barn, maybe. Yeah, that's a good idea. Yeah, all right. You all right, Chester? Just scared. That's a lot of that crazy fool. What's the matter, Mr. Dillon? Surveyor. Sam, wait back right for the room. I'm just covering for you, Marshall. She hit him, Mr. Dillon. Oh, he's going to shoot back. Sam! Mr. Dillon. He got her, Mr. Dillon. Come on, Chester. Libby. It wasn't him, Ms. Sager. Lift up her head, Chester. It's better this way, Matt. It's much better this way. Marshall? Oh, I didn't mean to, Marshall. I told you to pull up that gun. I was trying to cover for you. When she got me in my shoulder, I didn't think I'd just... My head. You just lay quiet, Libby. We'll send for the dock. 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