Cows and Cribs {Anne Morrison}{reused script} | Gunsmoke (06-04-61)

Summary

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Podcast Summary:

Old Time Radio Westerns
Host: Andrew Rhynes
Episode: Cows and Cribs {Anne Morrison}{reused script} | Gunsmoke (06-04-61)
Release Date: November 29, 2025

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Episode Overview

This episode invites listeners into the digitally restored world of Gunsmoke with the classic 1961 story, “Cows and Cribs.” The narrative centers on hardship, compassion, and moral dilemmas in Dodge City, where Marshal Matt Dillon navigates the intersecting crises of a destitute frontier family, cattle theft, disease, and the fate of a vulnerable orphan. The drama explores how the community wrestles with empathy versus justice, and how small acts of kindness can offer hope, even in the harshest circumstances.

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Key Discussion Points and Story Breakdown

1. Crisis on the Prairie (03:30–08:13)

• Marshall Dillon learns about hardship:
  Marshal Dillon runs into Bowers and Kitty, discovering Doc Adams is tending to the Thorpes, neighbors who have contracted spotted fever.
• Ed Thorpe’s death and Nadlers’ predicament:
  Dillon visits the Nadlers—new, struggling settlers. Joe Nadler has slaughtered a calf from Bowers’ herd out of sheer desperation to feed his family:

  “We’re starving out here, Marshall. I had to kill that calf.”
  — Joe Nadler ([06:41])

• Sympathy for the struggling:
  Dillon refrains from arresting Joe, recognizing the gravity of their situation and instead offers help with supplies:

  “Next time you’re in Dodge, you come see me. I’ll see that you get some seed.”
  — Marshall Dillon ([07:57])

2. Tragedy and Guardianship (09:27–13:31)

• Consequences of illness:
  Dillon and Chester bring the fever-stricken Mrs. Thorpe and her baby back to Dodge, only for Mrs. Thorpe to die en route:

  “She’s not asleep, man…She’s dead now. She died on the way in, I guess. Now they’ve got a baby to take care of.”
  — Doc Adams ([10:33])

• Fate of the orphaned child:
  Mrs. Thorpe had entrusted her baby to Ma Smalley before dying.
• Nadler’s maternal longing:
  Mrs. Nadler expresses a desire to adopt the Thorpe child, but is concerned about her and Joe’s unstable situation.
• Dillon’s support:
  Dillon agrees to help, promising seeds and assistance:

  “Miss Nadler, you come by my office before you leave town. I’m gonna go into the store here and have a talk with Mr. Jonas right now.”
  — Marshall Dillon ([13:07])

3. The Morality of Survival: Nadlers and Rustling (13:31–17:19)

• Community opinion turns:
  Joe Nadler is found buying expensive new boots while the family is supposed to be struggling; he’s also been selling stolen beef to town eateries.
• Marshal Dillon’s warning:
  Dillon orders Nadler to use his money for seed instead of luxuries, threatening legal action:

  “Because of her, I’m telling you to take those boots off and buy some seed and whatever else you need to grow corn with.”
  — Marshall Dillon ([14:27])

• Bowers’ ultimatum:
  Bowers threatens violence if the cattle theft continues; Ma Smalley refuses to let the Thorpe baby go to a home “of a cow thief.”

  “Tell her I think she’s a good woman, but I just can’t let that baby go into the home of a cow thief.”
  — Ma Smalley ([16:38])

4. Justice and Its Price (18:39–22:41)

• Nadler’s crimes catch up:
  Marshal Dillon confronts Mrs. Nadler about Joe’s repeated theft, breaking the news that she cannot adopt the baby.
• Murder and the final confrontation:
  After Joe Nadler murders one of Bowers’ men during another cattle theft, he flees to Dodge, expecting his capture. Dillon and Chester find Nadler drunk at the saloon, leading to a deadly shootout:

  “Why, Naylor, why would I be after you?”
  — Dillon ([21:24])
  “You know all about it. You admit killing that rider… I knew when I shot him, I couldn’t get by with it.”
  — Joe Nadler ([21:29]) Nadler is killed in the exchange; Dillon is wounded.

5. Resolution and Compassion (22:41–23:37)

• Aftermath and new beginnings:
  Mrs. Nadler is left widowed, her hopes dashed. Ma Smalley, relenting, offers her home as refuge for Mrs. Nadler and the orphaned child:

  “I got an extra room at my house if she’ll help with the work…It’ll be her baby, Marshall. And tell her I won’t interfere none.”
  — Ma Smalley ([23:15])

• Marshal Dillon pledges support:

  “I sure will, Ma. I’ll tell her all that. I’ll go out first thing in the morning.”
  — Dillon ([23:23])

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On hardship and empathy:
  “We’re starving out here, Marshall. I had to kill that calf.”
  — Joe Nadler ([06:41])

• On hope amid tragedy:
  “I get a little corn up, I might even raise a few hogs. I work awful hard, Marshall. I promise I will.”
  — Mrs. Nadler ([12:53])

• On communal responsibility:
  “I got a trust put on me, Marshall.”
  — Ma Smalley, on why she can’t let the baby go to a cattle thief’s home ([16:53])

• On survival versus justice:
  “Because of her, I’m telling you to take those boots off and buy some seed and whatever else you need to grow corn with.”
  — Marshal Dillon ([14:27])

• On forgiveness and new beginnings:
  “It’ll be her baby, Marshall. And tell her I won’t interfere none.”
  — Ma Smalley ([23:17])

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Timestamps of Important Segments

• (03:30–08:13) – Discovery of Nadlers’ plight and Ed Thorpe’s death
• (09:27–13:31) – Bringing back Mrs. Thorpe; custody of her child; Mrs. Nadler wishes to adopt
• (13:31–17:19) – Joe Nadler exposed as cattle thief; community judgment
• (18:39–22:41) – Marshal confronts Mrs. Nadler; Joe’s murder of a cowboy; fatal showdown in the saloon
• (22:41–23:37) – Ma Smalley offers home and new hope for Mrs. Nadler and the Thorpe child

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Tone and Style

The episode captures the somber, practical, and compassionate tone characteristic of Gunsmoke and radio westerns, where hard choices must be made and small acts of goodness carry great weight. The language is direct, rural, and grounded in the realities of frontier life.

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Summary

“Cows and Cribs” is a tale of hardship, moral ambiguity, and community in the Old West. When compassion for a starving family collides with the law, Marshal Dillon must balance empathy and justice. Loss and hope intertwine as townsfolk decide a baby’s fate, culminating in tragedy and, ultimately, a gesture of human kindness. The episode revives these old-fashioned stories with crystal-clear audio, reminding modern listeners of the timeless struggles faced on the American frontier.

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Transcript

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[Narrator / Marshal Dillon]

Marshall Dillon. Hello, Bowers. How's the cattle business? Oh, shipped a thousand ahead out on the train this morning. Guess I can afford to buy you a drink. Oh, thanks, but I hear Doc Adams has been looking all over for me. I better go find him. Well, he was in here a while ago talking to Keith. Here she comes. Maybe she knows where he went.

[Miss Nadler]

Matt oh, hello, Ms. Bowers.

[Narrator / Marshal Dillon]

Hello, Kitty.

[Miss Nadler]

Doc had to leave, Matt. They called him up to Smith's place in an emergency, but he asked me to give him message. You know Ed Fulton's wife?

[Narrator / Marshal Dillon]

Yeah, sure I do. I got a little piece of land right on the south edge of my ranch. They're not doing very good, though.

[Miss Nadler]

He sure aren't. According to Doc, he was out there last night and he plans to go back for him today.

[Narrator / Marshal Dillon]

To go back for him, they have.

[Miss Nadler]

To be brought into town, Matt. They've got spotted fever. Both of them.

[Narrator / Marshal Dillon]

Gee, you got a little baby out there, too.

[Miss Nadler]

That's why Doc says somebody's got to fetch all three of them in a dodge where they can taken care of.

[Narrator / Marshal Dillon]

I'll find a wagon and go out after him tomorrow. He couldn't get back tonight anyway. He want some help. Marshall, I got a whole parcel of cowboys who ain't earning their feed. Oh, thanks, Bowers. The Chester I can manage. He might need help. What do you mean? Ed Thorp. Sick as he may be, he'll get a gun and fight before he lets you carry him off that place. I know him. Then he can stay there. But I'm going to bring his wife and that child in. All right. If you keep an eye on him, he can be a bad. Miss. Jones, this ain't Ed Thor's place. Yeah, I know, Chester, but I want to meet these people. They must be new. Come on, Christine. How do you know they're new? You ain't been out this way in over a year. All the more reason to meet them. I was walking around back. I thought I saw somebody there. Nothing but a sod hut and blow dirt. He must be living on nothing. Doesn't look like it, Chester. Well, you say he's butchering a calf. Now, where'd he get that? He sure didn't raise it on those weeds this woman's trying to hoe. Hello. What are you men doing here? And I'm Marshal Dillon from Dodge. This is Chester Proudfoot. Is something wrong, Marshal? No, except your hat's gonna get all bloody where you put it on this cab. You leave it be here. You'll get sunstroke without a hat. All right, so I was trying to cover up Emmett Bauer's brand. We're starving out here, Marshall. I had to kill that cat.

[Miss Nadler]

You. You ain't gonna arrest my husband, are you, Marshal?

[Narrator / Marshal Dillon]

No, ma'. Am. Not unless Emmett Bowers complains.

[Miss Nadler]

Joe. Joe had to do it, Marshall.

[Narrator / Marshal Dillon]

We.

[Miss Nadler]

This can't go on without something to eat. Look, look over there where I've been hoeing. I couldn't plant enough seed for hardly anything to come up. And we can't afford no more seed. Our credits run out and dodge the.

[Narrator / Marshal Dillon]

Ground doesn't even look plowed.

[Miss Nadler]

Well, I've done the best I could. It ain't easy.

[Narrator / Marshal Dillon]

No, not for a woman. But we're on our way to Ed Thorpe's. I guess you know that. They got spotted fever. I was there this morning. Ed Thorpe's dead. What? Died in the night, I guess.

[Miss Nadler]

Well, you didn't tell me that, Joe.

[Narrator / Marshal Dillon]

You mean you left Mrs. Thorpe alone with that baby? I ain't gonna chance catching no fever.

[Miss Nadler]

But Joe, the baby.

[Narrator / Marshal Dillon]

My woman here is always worrying about babies, so. Only because she can't have none. I guess she's like one of them there dry growers.

[Miss Nadler]

Don't, Joe. You're putting shame on me, Chester.

[Narrator / Marshal Dillon]

Is she? Come on, let's get out of here. Oh, Ms. Nadler.

[Miss Nadler]

Yes, Marshall?

[Narrator / Marshal Dillon]

Next time you're in Dodge, you come see me. I'll say that you got some seed.

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My goodness, doesn't. I thought we wouldn't never make Dodge tonight. How's the baby, Chuck? Well, it's asleep anyway. I guess I've been proving it right, huh? Yeah, just like a mother. Well, there's Doc waiting for us. Oh, you sit tight a minute, Chester. We'll help you with the baby, huh? Sure do hope it don't wake up. Where is Ed Thorp and his wife There. Ed died before we got there. Doc, Ms. Thorpe's lying down and back there. We covered her up good. She's been Asleep most of the way. Misses Thorpe? She's still asleep. Give me a hand up. Yeah, sure. Misses thorpe. Oh. Oh, my. What's the matter, Doctor? She's not asleep, man. What? She's dead now. She's died on the way in, I guess. Now they got a baby to take care of. You know, Doc, I think she knew she was gonna die. For what? Just before we left her place, she told me that if anything happened to her, the baby was to be put in Ma Smalley's care, and that Ma Smolley was to have complete charge over him. What she says goes. Well, Ma is a widow, and she's had kids herself. That was a good choice. Yeah, but she's too old to raise him herself, Matt. I don't have to worry about that. Later, Doc. Right now, let's get busy. You're onto the arm, Mr. John. Stand right in front of the store. Why wouldn't they come to the office, Justin? Well, you know how Ma Smiley is. She don't think it's ladylike to go to any man's office. What she's doing with Miss Nadler, she didn't say. You go on down to get the mail, Chester. I'll wait here for you. Thanks, sir. Hello, Ma.

[Miss Nadler]

Hello, Marshall.

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How have you been, Miss Naylor?

[Miss Nadler]

Pretty good, Marshall. Ain't everybody can send for the marshal and bring him on the run?

[Narrator / Marshal Dillon]

Now, Ma, you know your words always been law with me.

[Miss Nadler]

Oh, listen to him. Ain't He a terror, Mrs. Nadler?

[Narrator / Marshal Dillon]

Well, that's true, Ma.

[Miss Nadler]

Marshall, Mrs. Nadler wants to adopt the Thorpe baby.

[Narrator / Marshal Dillon]

Well, Miss Thorpe left the baby in your charge, Ma. It's all up to you.

[Miss Nadler]

I've had him over a week, Marshall, and I'm going to keep him a while longer so he'll be near Doc just in case. But Mrs. Nadler here seems like a mighty fine woman to me, and I'd let her take that baby, only I'm worried about one thing. I. I told her the truth, Marshall, and she thinks maybe Joe and I can't make a go of it out there. You remember what you said when you was leaving that day?

[Narrator / Marshal Dillon]

Yes. I said, come see me, and I'd help you get some seed to plant.

[Miss Nadler]

Now, that's all I need. I get a little corn up, I might even raise a few hogs. I work awful hard, Marshall. I promise I will. She gets started and she can have the baby. Marshall, I'll pay you back. I ain't begging. I'll pay you back every cent. Marshall.

[Narrator / Marshal Dillon]

Miss Nadler, you Come by my office before you leave town. I'm gonna go into the store here and have a talk with Mr. Jonas right now.

[Miss Nadler]

Oh, Marshall, I do thank you. I do thank you, Mrs. Nadler. You can look at him a little while longer.

[Narrator / Marshal Dillon]

Hello, Marshall. Hello, Jonas. What came to sell you today? Well, I came to see about Ms. Nadler. You know her, don't you? Of course I do. Joe Nadler's out back in the stock room right now. Oh, he is? Nadler, come in here. He's buying himself a new pair of boots. Marshall. I thought their credit had run out. Oh, Nadler's doing better now. He started bringing meat into Delmonico's and a couple other eating places. Paid up part of his bill already, ain't you, Nadler? I don't know as I like you talking about my private affairs, Jones. No harm. It's only Marshal Dillon. Hello, Naylor. How's your good looking boots? Well, they ought to be. Them's the best I stock. Them are $20 boots. $20, huh? Now that I'd buy a whole wagon load of seed. Naylor, you telling me how to spend my money? Does your wife know you've been doing better lately? Family matters ain't no concern of the law, all yours are. And if it weren't for your wife, I wouldn't bother just warning you, Naylor. But because of her, I'm telling you to take those boots off and buy some seed and whatever else you need to grow corn with. Now, look here, Marshall. I'm giving you a chance. Naylor, in three days from now, I'm going to be riding out to see what you've done with it. It's up to you whether or not you'll be riding back with. Well, Today is Thursday, Mr. Dunn, and we gonna ride out the Nadlers. We can wait another day. Chester, you know something? I don't think you want to go tall. Yeah, you're right. I don't. Marshall. Chester. Oh, Mr. Bowers. Hello, Bowers. I was just up with Delmonico's, Marshall. Had myself a feedback. Well, good. How was it? It was fine till I went out back and got a talking with a cook. No, Marshall. I reckon any man's got a right to complain when he goes to a restaurant and finds himself eating his own beef. Yeah, well, I know about that power. You do? Then why ain't you done nothing about it? Because of Ms. Nadler, I guess. Look, Marshall, I'm a rich man. I don't mind a nester slaughtering one of my calves. When he's starving. But nobody is going to start selling my beef. I'll kill him he keeps that up. I'll handle it, boys. I admire that woman of his, Marshal, but letting him get by with rustling ain't gonna help her. Oh, by the way, Ma Smalley brought some pies down to the kitchen while I was there. She's waiting outside here. She wants to talk to you. Hello, Ma.

[Miss Nadler]

You riding out to the neighborhood, Marshall?

[Narrator / Marshal Dillon]

That's right.

[Miss Nadler]

Then you tell her I'm sorry. Tell her I think she's a good woman, but I just can't let that baby go into the home of a cow thief.

[Narrator / Marshal Dillon]

That'll break her heart, Ma.

[Miss Nadler]

Well, I. I got a trust put on me, Marshall.

[Narrator / Marshal Dillon]

All right, I'll tell her.

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[Narrator / Marshal Dillon]

Hello, Ms. Neighbor.

[Miss Nadler]

Oh, Marshall. Hello, Chester.

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[Miss Nadler]

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[Narrator / Marshal Dillon]

Ms. Naylor, do you know that he's been slaughtering Emmett Bowers beef?

[Miss Nadler]

Oh, so he's complained about it. About that calf?

[Narrator / Marshal Dillon]

No, it's more than the one cat, Ms. Nadler. He's been selling meat around Dodge lately.

[Miss Nadler]

Oh, no.

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It's true.

[Miss Nadler]

So that's what he had in the wagon. He wouldn't let me look.

[Narrator / Marshal Dillon]

I know you've had nothing to do with it, Ms. Naylor, but I hate to tell you this, but Marse Molly isn't gonna let you have the baby.

[Miss Nadler]

Well, she. She's right, Marshall. It wouldn't be fitting.

[Narrator / Marshal Dillon]

We're still lookandered Samoth Bowers. Yeah. I'll be back, Miss Naylor. I'll go talk to him.

[Miss Nadler]

All right.

[Narrator / Marshal Dillon]

Come on, Chester. Hey, Mother. Must be riders of his. Yeah. I thought I might find you here more, Marshall. Something wrong, Bowers? One of my men's been murdered, that's all. What? We found him out yonder about five miles. He'd been left for dead, but he talked a little. What happened? He's gone now, Marshall, so you'll have to take our word for what he told us.

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You run across Joe Nadler slaughtering another steer a Naylor, shall he? That's what he said. Anything else? Only that neighbor got on his horse and headed for Dodge. I guess he figures he'll get caught. Might as well get drunk one more time. He'll get caught. I promise you that. Miss john. Finally found him. He's in there getting drunk at the bar. That's taken us long enough. Everybody in Thomas know I'm after him by now. He ain't been trying to hide. We just been looking in all the wrong places. See him? Yeah, I see him. Stop there, Marshall. Don't you come no closer. Put that gun away, Naylor. I saw Chester. I knew you'd be in here next. Why, Naylor, Why would I be after you? You don't fool me. You know all about it. You admit killing that rider. I knew when I shot him I couldn't get by with it. My horse's tracks were all over the place. Oh, don't make it any worse than it is. I told you not to come any close. Put your gun on the bar, Nadler. You watch what I'm gonna do with it. No, Nayler, don't. Why not? Hit you, didn't I? Now I'm gonna. There he goes. I knew you hurt bad, Ms. Dylan. Yes. Oh, he hit me in the arm. Chester. I'll be all right. You killed him.

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[Narrator / Marshal Dillon]

Do something with him, will you? I'm going over to the dogs. Yes, sir. I will.

[Miss Nadler]

Master Dylan.

[Narrator / Marshal Dillon]

What? Oh, you've been hurt. It's not bad, Ma.

[Miss Nadler]

What about Joe Needler?

[Narrator / Marshal Dillon]

He's dead.

[Miss Nadler]

Well, I figured he would be. I heard you was looking for him. That's why I followed you down.

[Narrator / Marshal Dillon]

Well, my arm's bleeding some, Ma. I better get on over to Doc's.

[Miss Nadler]

You hear me out first, Marshall.

[Narrator / Marshal Dillon]

Yeah, of course, Ma. Go ahead.

[Miss Nadler]

You'll be the one to tell Mrs. Needler about him, won't you?

[Narrator / Marshal Dillon]

I guess so.

[Miss Nadler]

Take a wagon with your marshal. What a woman can't live out there alone. I got an extra room at my house if she'll help with the work.

[Narrator / Marshal Dillon]

Well, what about the baby?

[Miss Nadler]

It'll be her baby, Marshall. And tell her I won't interfere none.

[Narrator / Marshal Dillon]

Yeah, I sure will, Ma. I'll tell her all that. I'll go out the first thing in the morning.

[Miss Nadler]

You won't go nowhere. You stand here gabbing all night by that odd bleeding Marshall, you ought to go get it fixed, you hear?

[Narrator / Marshal Dillon]

Yeah, you're right, Ma. But then you're pretty off on hire.

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