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Gunsmoke 1955-10-16 Trouble in Kansas
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Gunsmoke 1955-10-16 Trouble in Kansas
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Matt Dillon, United States Marshal. The first man they look for and the last they want to meet. It's a chancy job and it makes a man watchful and a little lonely. Matt, got time for a drink? I'll go with you, Doc. Good, good. And the long branch is closest. Let's go in there. Okay. Some people say it doesn't look good for a doctor to be seen in a saloon, especially in the daytime. Then you believe it too? Oh, no, no, not me. Yet I look on doctors as almost human. Almost You? Oh, you're almost human. Well, that's mighty turtle of you. I'll think of that the next time you come crawling around with your throat hotter with a bullet in. You'll feel better when you get your drink done. Yeah, I'll feel better when I talk to Kitty. Hello, Doc. Matt. Hello, Kitty. It's a pleasure to see you, Kitty. It's a real pleasure. Well, thanks, Doc. Sam, a bottle and two glasses. Okay, Doc. I'm buying the lady a drink. You sure you haven't had enough already, dad? Oh, now, just because you're not used to men who act like gentlemen. I think he's talking about me, Kitty. Yeah, I figured that. What have you two been arguing about this time? We've only been working up to an argument, Kitty. Well, somebody else here seems to be doing that. Oh, that cowboy at the end of the bar. Oh, what about him? I heard him telling Sam he's got a pack horse outside loaded with ammunition. Well, there's no harm in that. Instead, it's to kill Kansans. Woodstock. What did he mean? Kitty never known that. But he's awful mad about something. I'll be back in a minute. Oh, no, no. Be careful. Careful. Hello. My name is Dylan. I'm the marshal here. My name is Jim Hoyt, and I wish I never heard of Kansas. Oh, where you from? Hoytina River. Texas. Huh? Texas. You staying here long? Long enough to finish this drink. And since you're so nosy, I'll tell you. I'm with nine other Texans. We got 2,000 head of cattle six days drive from here. They're branded Cross R and Jack Raven's trail boss. Anything else you want to know? Yeah, there's something else. Have all of the men in that outfit got their backs up like you have? Don't you worry none about us, Marshall. We'll handle things. All that ammunition they sent you for. What's going on down there anyway? Nothing a few Texans can't take care of. Why don't you want to tell me about it, Hoyt? Because I don't trust you no more than I trust any Kansan. Why don't you finish your drink? Because I'm gonna ride back with start smoking with a smile with Chester. Feel the cooler milder Chester feels. Put a smile in your smoking dust. Give them a try. Shelter feels best for you. They satisfy you. If you want tomorrow's better cigarette today. Next time you buy cigarettes, stop. Remember only Chesterfield is made the modern way with Accuray. You'll notice how fresh and good Chesterfield's made with Accuray tape. How smooth they are and how they satisfy. So buy Chesterfield today. Smoother, cooler. Best for you. Jim Hoyt didn't like it much, but I got Chester and we saddled up and rode south with him. Nobody said a word the whole day. And that night Chester and I spelled each other keeping awake so Hoyt wouldn't slip out on us. He knew what we were doing, and of course he just stretched out on the ground and enjoyed a good night's rest. It was late the next afternoon, soon after we crossed the Cimarron that we ran into the cross. Our herd bedding down for the night. They rode around it after the chuck wagon fire and dismounted. Jack Raven's a trail boss, marshal, and that's him leaning against that wagon. Study. Yeah. Let's go talk to him, sir. And you tell him how you got here so he'll know who to get mad at. I'll drill that horse the first red white said in the last 10 miles. I guess he's been saving his strength. What for? I don't know. Maybe the boss here will tell us. Yeah, if he don't shoot us, he looks down right unfailing to me. Jack Raven? That's me. My name's Matt Dillon. Ms. Chester Proudfoot. How you do? Howdy. I'm a U.S. marshal. Raven Dodge. Uh huh. This your first time up the trail? First time for any of us. Now Jim Hoyt didn't tell me much. He didn't want me down here at all. And why'd you come? I got curious about that ammunition you're sending the Dodge for. Some law against it. That depends on what you aim to use it for. We aim to kill kansans with it, Marshall. Uh huh. You got any particular Kansans in mind? I ain't particular. You told me that's your first trip up here. The first trip for any of you, huh? What's that got to do with it? You lost many cattle? I've lost all I'm going to. How many? Some 20, 30 head. Stampede two of them. How'd they get started, men? Men out there waving blankets they set fire to in the night. And there wasn't engines neither. Seen him, but we couldn't chase him or go shooting at him or we'd have lost the whole herd. Now why did you send Hoyt for ammunition? You gonna start shooting next time? We're short ammunition, Marshall. Next time it happens. We thought maybe we'd some of us take off a few days, do a little hunting. I see. I want to get this herd to dodge. Want to get it sold. Then we're riding back this way. And shoot anybody you come across, is that it? Like I said, I ain't particular, marshal. Not about kansans I ain't. Tell me something, Raven. You ever hear of jayhawkers? No. They're outlaws, Raven. They're murderers, criminals. They're men who started riding on the Missouri border during the war. And they got the taste of blood in their mouths. Now it's like they got no place to go. So they're out after anything in sight. They cause a lot of trouble. And why don't you stop them? Because we try. Don't forget the ordinary kansman hates jayhawkers as much as you do. But what do they want? What good does it do them to stampede my herd? You'll find out what they want. They'll let you know. I want to stay here to help you when they do. I don't know whether I trust you or Not. I guess you'll have to find that one out too, Raven. Yeah, I'll find it. Alone. I got work to do Now. I don't know if the cook will feed in the cans with men, but you can go ask him. What is it, Jester? It's almost daylight. Oh, yeah. I guess we better get up. I declare, I didn't hear a thing all night. I slept right through. Well, if it had been a stampede, you'd have heard it, Jester. Then Jayhawkers was quit. Maybe. Ms. Dylan. Yeah, what? Look down. You're riding that horse. That's Jeb Hoyt. Where's his clothes? Look, he's all bloodied up. They're having to help him get down off his horse. There's Jack Raven. Yeah. What in the world you supposed to happen? He didn't get those marks on his back from a fall. Take a look at Jim Hoyt, Marshall. Take a good look. Where'd they catch you, Hoyt? How come you know anybody caught me, Marshall? That's a good question. How do you know this has happened before? It's one of their methods. Filthy cans of Jayhawkers. Mighty fancy name for a bunch of murdering devils. You are on guard and they sneak up on you. That the way it happened? They stripped me and flogged me. Then they give him a message for me. They want money, huh? I got 2,000 head of cattle, Marshall. If I pay them Jayhawkers $2 ahead, they say they won't be no more trouble. By sundown, they want that money. By sundown, you're going to pay it ribbon. I'd rather lose a whole herd. We'll ride guard in pairs tonight. There won't be any more beefy. And I hope there's no shooting. Them cattle are ready to run most anything by now. We'd like to ride with you, Raven. I might trust you, Marshal. I don't know, but the men wouldn't. They'd never stand for us. All right, we're gonna be around. We're not leaving here. You better keep pretty close to camp. You might get yourself killed if you stray very far. How to have fun anytime, anywhere. 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Raven had his men standing guard by twos, all right, and he had the herd lying on a plane that apparently nobody could approach without being seen. A mile or so off, we scouted the land all dark. Just as the moon was coming up, we found what I'd been hoping for. A deep gully about a half a mile from the herd. The contour of the land made it difficult to see unless you were almost on top of it. And I picked it as the most likely approach the Jayhawkers had used. We hit our horses at the bottom and then climbed back out. Yeah. What in moral you supposed to happen? He didn't get those marks on his back from afar. Jayhawkers could ride out of it most anywhere for a mile or so. They could shut through. Right in here is where it's closest to the herd. We better lie down. You know, I've been thinking, Ms. Dillon. There's only two of us. Might go hard if we have to shoot it out. Maybe a dozen men. Well, I'm hoping there won't be any shooting at all. Almost half mile from that herd. That ought to bother him very much. It'd bother him Like Raven said, those cattle are ready to run at anything. Well, if we can't shoot, how are we going to stop them? Jayhawkers, most of the kind are cowards, Chester. If we surprise them, maybe we can scare them into dropping their guns. You be that, I'm gambling on it. Anyway, if we start a stampede by getting into a gun battle over here, those Texans aren't going to treat us any better than they would. The Jayhawkers. They sure are a hard headed lot, ain't they? Yeah, they got some cause today. Justice. Well, they got no cause. Listen, somebody in the gun. They're right down there, Mr. Jones. They'll come. Plan it out in a minute. Not if we're on top of them. Come on. Don't do any shooting unless I do, huh? No, I'm quiet now. That's. No, no. Too much moon to ride over there. So stamped him from here. All we got to do is spread out along this ghost and start shooting. It don't matter whether you hit cows or text me. Let's spread out a little. Guess it. We'll crawl right up on top of them. Come on. We're a long ways off. We set up enough rifle fire, them cattle stampede shore, they'll have a hand. So full of chasing them, won't have time to worry us. You better cover. Get your hands up. You better do what he says. We're all around you anyway. All right, Chester, get it to one of us getting away. Mr. Dillon, will we chase him? No, let him go, Chester. We got the other three. He sure did put up a fight, didn't he? Yeah, I kind of misjudged her being cowards and quitting. Listen, listen, listen. Yeah, it's the cattle. They started another stampede after all. Come on, you better go help. No, they're running the other way. We never get anywhere near them. It's going to be mighty near. Yeah, and mostly at us. They left the Jayhawkers right where they died. Rode slowly back to camp. Nobody was there but the cook. So we sat down and waited. We waited three or four hours before any riders showed up. And when they did, they weren't exactly friendly. They stood around at a distance and watched us as though they were guarding a couple of prisoners. Finally, Jim Hoyt walked over to us. It was you done all that shooting, Marshall? Some of it, yeah. I was shooting too. The men wants to hang you. How's that? So we seen you riding around, didn't know what you was up to. But we sure found out, didn't we? Man, all Right now you just look at here. Take it easy. Four of us here now. You gonna put up a fight? I don't blame you for being mad, Horton. Now the rest of you. But that's no excuse to be talking about lynching anymore. We ain't talking, Marshall. We gonna do it. Wouldn't you like to know why we were doing the shooting? We know all we need to do. No. Unbuckle them guns both. Use your head, Hoyt. It's Jack Raven. Raven ain't going to stop us. What's going on here? About to hang us a couple of kansons, Raven. That's what I figured. Don't aim to have no interference. All right, I don't give you any good. I want to tell you something first though. Say it out. I was kind of curious about it, so I rode over to where those who did all that shooting. You know what I found? Bunch of empty cartridges. I found three dead men, Hoyt, laying in a gully. What? Now I don't know what these here jayhawkers is supposed to look like. But them three men I found, that's how they oughta look. This for true, Reef? It's true. Well, I guess I've been a little hot headed. I didn't trust the Marshall either. Not at first. Well, Laney, you done our work for us. Marshall. It was you too Found them devils and faced them. Ah, forget it, Hoyt. It's over. I don't think you'll be bothered anymore. Say, Marshall, Me and Hoyt and the men. Well, we've had a bad trip. We get to Dodge, we'll maybe want to kick up our heels. A little short of gunplay, Raven. This is one outfit that can hurrah Dodge all at once. Want how well you get there? 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