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Duration:: 26m
Broadcast on:: 25 Jun 2024
Audio Format:: mp3

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And the story of a man who moved with it. I'm that man, Matt Dillon, United States Marshall, the first man they looked for and the last thing I want to meet. It's a chancey job and it makes a man watchful at a little lonely. [Music] Why do we take the day off tomorrow, Matt? See if we can shoot us a deer. Oh, that's not a bad idea, Doc. Looks like we might get a nice snooze in there. Make it easy to track him. You couldn't track a three-legged buffalo in a box canny. Oh, is that so? Let me ask you, who tracked that envelope we shot just before a Christmas? It wasn't an envelope, it was a deer. Yeah, well, that's nothing at all. You didn't track it, Chester did. Hey, you want to stop in the office for a while? No, no, no, no. Matt, I recommend that envelope. Just like it was yesterday. Deer, Doc, I'm more interested. Oh, dear, that fella's back there waiting to see him if you know what I was. Morning, Marshall. Hello, Burke. I thought you were back in Washington. I was. Coming on a train last night. Got a job for you, Marshall. Is that so? Yeah, it goes on. What you saying? You know, Doc, don't you, Burke? Yeah, we've met. Yes, you, isn't it? I've been warning him for years about that blast of temperatures. His mind's your own business. You're looking right now, you see veins swelling up on his neck, so he's getting rid of the beach. So help me talk to him back. Keep on like that, Burke, Craig, and one of these days I'll make a coroner's fee off of you. You mark my words. I didn't come here to listen to their half-baked opinions or some broken-down old quack. Right in the way, the minute. You just-- I'll love you a wait a minute. Doc, you quit trying to drum up business. What's the job, Burke? These papers ought to explain it pretty well. I don't want to see them. That's what I've been doing back in Washington. And I don't mind telling you, it gives me a lot of satisfaction when I finally got them to issue them papers. In order the United States, Marshall and Dodd-Silly Kansas for service of eviction, all this. Yeah, look at their second one, Marshall. It took me three years to get justice done. Eviction order from Federal Lands Commission, Washington, DC to one sloped Carson. Yeah, finally getting them off my guilty of illegal homesteading a portion of the Craiger Ranch located in section 246, Tom Schitt. And I see you. How are you? You sure that this is justice, Burke? You got the papers right there in your hand, Marshall. They was issued according to law. I was talking about justice, not law. You aiming to separate the two, right? How much range are you running now, Burke? Just over 30,000 acres. And slow Carson's got a measly 360 acres in that homestead. Is there going to break you to let him go on farming? Yeah, it's got nothing to do with it. The law decided to land mine. It's your job to get him off of it. You've been driving yourself for 10 years now, Burke, without a let up. It's a branch of land between Breyer Ridge and Walnut Creek, except for this piece of slopes living on. And I got it, too, now. Once you've served that order, why? What do you have to prove, Burke? It's what I have proved, Marshall, that I don't know the old valley someday. They're relaxed foot of it. And with sloped Carson out, I do them. I've gone along all these years, keeping the old name Blue Sage Valley. But now that I own it complete, I'm changing that name, Marshall. He's the crager ranch now, from here on out. Yeah, from here on out, won't be very long, if you open bust the blood vessel. For my son's name, Crager, two, I'll remind you. Burke. So let's put a lot of work into that place. He's sure you won't think it over. You got them papers, Marshall. And if you're a duty to serve. All right, I'll sell them. I got no choice. And I bid you all good day. Well, there is a downright mean man, if you don't know. Well, if he doesn't change his ways, he's going to be a good one. He may be a right, Doc. But not for the reason you'll think. Hmm? What do you mean? Sloped Carson's a peaceful man. That doesn't mean he'll take the being pushed off. I'd land to his. [MUSIC PLAYING] Hello, this is Marvin Miller with another page from your American Heritage Scratbook. It was a portrait of a French hero Lafayette painted in 1825 that marked the zenith of the artistic career of Samuel Finley Breeze Morse. Yes, the first dots and dashes ever wrought by Morse were blended in oil on a piece of canvas. But lack of funds forced him to abandon his art studies in London, and he accepted America's first professorship of fine arts at the University of New York City. While at the university, he lived in a tower garret, and it was there that he experimented with wires and batteries, hoping for an inventive success that would free him financially so he could contribute to the arts of America. Even while conducting his electrical experiments, Morse tried to make his art a paying proposition, but without success. In 1837, he put aside his brushes and constructed the first working model of his telegraph. Symbolically, he used one of his wooden canvas stretchers in the process. His promising career as an artist was sacrificed. Yet, he performed perhaps a gringer service to mankind in another way. Samuel Morse became one of the world's great inventors. [MUSIC PLAYING] [TIRES SCREECHING] And there's no smoke coming out of each him. Mr. Dillon, you reckon maybe he ain't the home? He's probably working out on the barn. Let's ride over there. It's just a cussied shame, that's what it is. It can't be a help, Chester. But Craig, you don't need this land no more. He needs a second head. He's got a devil on his back, Chester. Craig or Ratcher, the only three words in the world that mean anything to him. Oh, it's a mighty poor reason for putting a man off land. He's too deaf. Marshall, Chester! [INTERPOSING VOICES] Finding good to see both of you. Yeah, I've been up this way for quite a spell. Ah, mine gets caught up in things slow. First of all, it's time for me to check in. Yeah, that's the fact, all right. Come on up to the house, Charles, set the coffee on me. Ah. How you making on? Oh, tolerable. Crop wasn't too bad last year. Next year or so. The next year's going to be my best one yet. That's there in North AD, you know? Had to let it lay foul in the last two years. For lack of time. And by garlic, I got in there last fall plowed the whole darn thing for the snows hits. Slow ahead. Work 18 hours a day to do it. But now it'll be in shape to plant right when the thaws come. Catch the melt off in the spring rains. And slow ahead. I want a capper. Capper, Marshall. That's the best beef crop in the world. Been too dang much for seed, maybe. But in the long run, that'll pay out. Deep, deep, yeah, Marshall, you know, mighty serious for some cause, brother. Well, there's reason before it's slow. This isn't just a neighborly call. I'm making... Bert Kregher just got back from Washington yesterday. That's so, I guess you know what he was doing. Oh, same thing he's been trying to do three, four years now. Still my land away from me. Yeah. Well, he's finally done it. Well, I got an eviction notice with me. I'm in order from the land commission to serve it on you. Well, all right. I don't believe it. You're joking, much? I wish I was, slow. All right. I'm sorry. Nobody can grab a man's farm away from him. After he's put his sweat and blood, his whole heart in him. The order gives him a right, a prior occupancy. But he never run ahead of stock on this ground when I file on it. There's nothing I can do about it, slow. Don't them fellers back there even care about my side of it? Don't they even want to hear my story? And according to the order, they notified you by mail. Oh, I got some kind of papers through the post. I couldn't tell what they was all about it. You figured it was some more of Bert Kregher's shinen against some kind of bluff. It wasn't bluff, slow. And then two of them papers said come to a hearing in Washington. Now, where did I get the money to go to Washington? I don't know, slow, but the courts decided. Mr. Dylan, here come Bill Kregher's son, huh? Krawdy Kregher, come in here. Now, you just take it easy, slow. Morning, gentlemen. How are you, Krawdy? Thank you, Kregher's done enough when you come here for it. Now, maybe I come to undo some of it, Mr. Carson. If it ain't too late. I'm aiming to undo it myself, Krawdy. I'm figuring to use a gun. Now, wait a minute, slow. I ain't a man in the hunt of trouble, Marshall. You know that. You know it as well as anybody. But I ain't looking for years of my life get took from me without putting up a fight. Helen Bert Kregher won't change a legal decision to slow. What did you mean, Krawdy? If it ain't too late. You served that eviction notice yet, Marshall? No, not yet. The law say you got to do it today instead of tomorrow, maybe? No. And I'd like to talk to you, Mr. Carson. Why? I may be able to tell you something that'll save your farm for you. Well, listen to you, Krawdy, but I won't promise nothing. You don't have to. Marshall, I think it'd be better if you wasn't a party to this. Why are you doing this, Krawdy? What's your reason? You'd lived around my power your whole life. You wouldn't have to ask. Carson, could we walk into the barn? All right. Let me excuse it, Mike. Well, it looks like there won't be any bloodshed after all, Mr. Jones. And I'm out, Justin. I wouldn't count on it. [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] Another visit with Joe and Daphne Forsyth. Joe, honey. Uh-huh. Joe Dalling, put down the paper. I've got something important to ask you. OK. Joe. All right, all right. What? How many savings bonds do we have? What kind of a question is that? A good one. How many? I'm not sure. I'd have to count. And I'm reading the paper. Now, what do you want to know for? Have we got enough to make things comfortable for us? Very comfortable. That's why I buy on the payroll savings plan. Up on the month, we'll give us quite a mistake for the future. Enough for a college education? Eventually. But who's going to college? Our children, silly. We don't have any yet. Oh? What do you mean? Oh. Better buy some more bonds, honey. Daphne, you mean? We've got a new investment. How about that? [MUSIC PLAYING] [SIREN WAILING] - You getting them, Doc? - Mm-hmm. Oh, man. Where'd you get back? This afternoon. How come you're still sober? Oh, well, now, that's one distinction I hold, man. I mean, that'd be the best doctrine in the West. But I'm sober, isn't it? Well, then maybe if you took the drink and a little bit, you never did give a man credit for anything, isn't it? I guess I'm in a bad mood, Doc. Yeah? Evict, float-causing, did you? No, not yet. No, why not? Now, let's say, tomorrow is soon enough, though. It's too soon, Gasmid. - Have a beer. - No, thanks. I was just looking around. Have you seen Kitty? Well, she was here a while ago, but she went to bed. Since you had a headache. Oh. She didn't have a headache, though. I know, Kitty. She just wanted to get out of here for one night. I can't blame her much. Girl like Kitty ought to be married, Matt. Settle down, having children. Why don't you talk to her about it, Doc? I will. Yes, I'm gonna go anywhere. You should have studied for the ministry. You know, I thought about that, but the pay is bad. Now, there's a real Christian. I wouldn't talk by you, man, don't you? But at least I don't go around telling people how to live their lives. Oh, don't you? You know what I mean. Yeah, what do you mean? You know what you need, Doc? You need some old woman to rail out a nice, fat wife to take it out. Oh, no, you don't. You don't turn it on me like that? You know, there's widow Liffy that's got that house at the edge of town, you know? I've seen how she stares at you when you drive by. You might do yourself some good there. Oh, well, well, I'm not saying anything. I hear she's a good cook, too. Yeah, the only woman cooked the railroad over high till they found out she was a woman. Well, it took them six months. She got to admire her for that. Oh, sure, I admire her for that. All right, if you're gonna be stubborn about it. Ah, blow when it brings over the day comes, and I gotta take a woman that crops her hair, wears men's boots and men's hats. Oh, she needs the beard and the rifle, and she'd make a good buffalo hunter. The male charm sure wasted on you, darling. It rehearses, and, Mr. Jones-- Oh, yeah, what is it, Chester? Well, I figured I'd better bring these over to you right away. Judge Bent stopped by the jail, and went, whoa, doc. It is, yes, sir. What's this about, Judge, man? Well, he left these hair papers, and I thought you'd art no bottom. Yeah, let me see. You asked Marshall not to go on a junction. I got service of a fiction order number. Order in U.S. District Court, and joining one Burke Crager from attempting to assume possession of land parcel known as section 246, plaintiff, Slope Carson. Yeah, it looks like Slope's kindly out box. Oh, Craig, you're Mr. Jones. Yeah, sure does. Well, young Crawley's help. Well, Judge Bent says the land commission's only got jurisdiction in case nobody don't take it to court. He says Slope could keep this dragon on for years. Oh, Chester, it looks like we ride out tomorrow and serve papers on Burke Crager instead of Slope. They'll be troubled, sure. Yeah, they probably will. [MUSIC PLAYING] That means Marshall. Yes, sir. Thanks, Burke. Morning, sir. Maybe I can rush you up for the call. Ah, no, don't bother. We're not going to be here long. Well, I'll take you a minute. There it goes. Serve them papers on Slope Carson TV. No. What? Why not? The matter of fact, Burke, we're here to serve some papers on you. What the thunderation you talking about? John, I should do this late yesterday afternoon. You better take a look at it here. What, Shadow, fool, doin' popin' his nose into my business. What the... Pretty clear, if you read it. No, I don't have to read it. I know what it is. The only blasted way in the world. Carson could have beat me and he stumbled on it. In case you're interested, Judge Panhan had done our rolling at the same time to prevent me from serving the eviction of us. You know, I'll run them off. I'll take a gun to 'em. I wouldn't advise that you'd try that, Burke. Marshall? Chester? That's mine. How are you, Crowley? What's the trouble, pal? Trouble. Ten years? That's the trouble. For ten years, I've fought with this valley. A foot by foot. And when I get it right in my hand, the last square inch, you were at the crater ranch. His full, slow Carson blunders under the one way of blocking me. He didn't blunder onto it. I told him about it. You what? I told him about that loophole in the land commission's order. You mentioned it one time. You remember? Are you sneakin' young whips? Okay, now you know what Doc said about you gettin' mad. I'll have the hide off your back. I'll beat you 'til you scream to have a bullet put in your head. Burke, stand back, Marshall. Put down that horse. Oh, cut the daylights out of your heart, mate Burke. A little yellow curd, pump out. Oh, oh. Please, trigger. Oh. Oh, what's wrong? Here, wait a minute, Crowley. Let me have a look at it. What happened to him? We gotta get Doc out here right away. It's no use, Crowley. He's dead. Doc said it was gonna happen like that. If he did himself lose, he can't but he can't be dead. I didn't mean for this to happen. It wasn't your fault, Crowley. He was tryin' to do the right thing. It was your father who was doin' wrong. I can't even claim that excuse, Marshall. I didn't care what happened to Slope Carson. I was just tryin' to hit back at Paul for all years. He bullied me. I don't guess he was easy to live with. But I didn't mean to do this. I just didn't. I'll send Doc out when we get back to town and make out his coroner's report. I'll break this one chip and sell it off every foot on it. I guess we'll be frightened, Crowley. We go range. I'll block that name out if it's a last thing I ever do. Come on, buddy. We go range. I'll show 'em how long that name will last in two years. Nobody'll ever remember me. I'll show 'em how long that name will last in two years. A man sure don't live long after he's dead. Well, I guess that depends on how a man lived his life, Chester. [music] Oh, wow. What's the matter? My wife has a toothache. Your wife has a toothache and your moaning? Well, she hit me when I complained about her yelling. Why didn't she go to a dentist? Outside the United States, dental care is available for dependence at all uniformed services facilities on a space available basis. No kidding. What about inside the United States? It's available for medical or surgical conditions. And in an emergency to relieve undue pain and suffering. How are they on a broken jaw? [music] For more on Medicare, get the pamphlet dependence. Medical care program. [music] [music] Guns smoke. Produced and directed by Norman McDonald, stars William Conrad as Matt Dillon, U.S. Marshall. The music was composed and conducted by Rex Corey. Sound patterns were composed by Ray Kemper and Bill James. Featured in the cast were Parley Bear as Chester, Howard McNier as Doc, and Georgia Alice as Kitty. George Wall speaking. Join us again next week for another story of the western frontier of America in the 1870s on gun smoke. [music] This is the United States Armed Forces radio and television service. 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