Indian White | Gunsmoke (09-24-55)

Summary

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Old Time Radio Westerns: "Indian White" | Gunsmoke (09-24-55)

Host: Andrew Rhynes
Original Air Date: September 24, 1955
Podcast Release: December 14, 2025

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Episode Overview

This episode of Gunsmoke, "Indian White," explores themes of identity, belonging, and prejudice in the American West. The story centers around a white boy, Dennis (also referred to as Viho Khan), who was stolen and raised by Cheyenne Indians. As tensions rise following a Cheyenne escape from Fort Dodge, Dennis struggles with his sense of belonging—caught between the world of the Cheyenne and the white settlers of Dodge City. Marshal Matt Dillon must navigate not only the threat of violence, but also the difficult truths and emotions that come with reintegrating a child with his birth culture.

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Key Discussion Points & Story Breakdown

Introduction to Dodge City & Dennis’s Predicament

• Matt Dillon (played by William Conrad) sets the tone:

  "I'm that man. 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 lone." (03:50)

• Chester humorously discusses lending his watch and the importance of time, setting a light-hearted mood before the tension begins.

• Dennis, the Boy in Question:
  Dennis, known as “Viho Khan” (meaning “white boy” in Cheyenne), is caught in town trying to buy ammunition for a Sharps rifle. Rumors and suspicion abound due to the recent Cheyenne escape.

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Rising Suspicion and Prejudice

• Community Tensions:
  Mr. Jonas (the storekeeper) expresses concern that Dennis is a danger, suspecting he may be supplying escaped Cheyenne.

  "What with them Cheyenne loose, it ain't safe having a boy like that around. You ought to lock him up." (07:20)

• Matt Dillon Defends Dennis:
  Dillon reiterates that Dennis was a victim, stolen as a child, and resists knee-jerk prejudice.

  "He's not supplying the Cheyenne, Jonas. And don't worry about them. Colonel Honeyman's got two troops out after him." (07:31)

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The Street Fight: Discrimination in Action

• Dennis in Trouble:
  Dennis gets into a street fight with a grown man who’s been harassing him.

  "Let him alone, Marshal... His kid's been asking for it. He started this." (08:32)

• Dillon intervenes, disarms the grown man, and takes Dennis home, showing his concern for the boy’s welfare.

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Identity Struggles at Home

• Dennis/Viho Khan’s Confusion:

  "Viho Khan had many Indian brothers... Mrs. Cullen talk hard at Viho Khan for fight no understand." (11:47, 12:02)

• Mrs. Cullen’s Heartbreaking Revelation:
  She confides to Dillon that Dennis isn’t actually her biological son; her son was taken, but she resolved to adopt Dennis and care for him as her own.

  "He's a white boy, anybody can see that. But he isn't mine, Marshal... No, he won't suffer for lack of a mother's love. I promise that." (13:35, 13:43)

• Dillon Warns of Growing Danger:
  With anti-Indian sentiment on the rise in Dodge, Dillon insists Dennis must stay at home for his own safety.

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The Army’s Inquiry and Dennis’s Dilemma

• Colonel Honeyman:
  Arrives seeking Dennis’s knowledge of the Cheyenne rendezvous point, hoping to intervene and prevent further violence.

  "Every man, woman and child of knows well in advance where that point is." (16:22)

• Dennis Resists:
  He refuses to betray the Cheyenne, illustrating his deep internal conflict and loyalty.

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Dennis Disappears

• While Matt, Chester, Doc, and Kitty visit with Mrs. Cullen (20:07), she discovers Dennis has run away, apparently to rejoin the Cheyenne:

  "He's gone to join the Cheyenne, Marshall, and you've got to go after him right now." (21:34)

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The Confrontation at the Rendezvous

• Matt Dillon and Chester Track Dennis:
  They find him in a canyon with a group of Cheyenne led by Little Wolf.

• Little Wolf and Matt Dillon’s Dialogue:
  Little Wolf insists Viho Khan must choose his own path.

  "Little Wolf say all men free. Viho Khan must make own choice." (26:32)

• Matt Pleads for Dennis:
  Dillon warns the boy of the likely tragedy if he stays:

  "If you stay with them, you know what'll happen... You'll die like an Indian too." (26:49, 26:57)

• Dennis’s Decision:
  Dennis (Viho Khan) chooses to stay with the Cheyenne, citing mistreatment by whites and feeling misunderstood:

  "White people treat Viho Khan bad. Kick, beat, call names. Mrs. Khan no understand. Viho Khan… Nobody understand." (27:15)

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Final Twists & Subtle Revelations

• Coded Goodbye from Little Wolf:

  "Medicine River Viho Khan" (28:31)—A key that reveals Dennis’s true identity.

• Chester and Dillon’s Discussion:
  Chester realizes that “Medicine River” is where Ms. Cullen lost her son, meaning Dennis is truly her boy after all. Dillon chooses not to tell her, sparing her further pain for the moment.

  Chester: "Ain't that where Ms. Cullen lost her son?" (28:54)
  Matt: "Yeah." (28:58)
  Chester: "Then he is her boy after all." (29:02)
  Matt: "No, I’m not gonna tell her." (29:14)

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Notable Quotes

• Matt Dillon: "It's a chancy job and it makes a man watchful and a little lone." (03:50)
• Mrs. Cullen: "No, he won't suffer for lack of a mother's love. I promise that." (13:43)
• Little Wolf: "Little Wolf say all men free. Viho Khan must make own choice." (26:32)
• Dennis/Viho Khan: "White people treat Viho Khan bad. Kick, beat, call names. Mrs. Khan no understand. Viho Khan… Nobody understand." (27:15)
• Matt Dillon: "No, I’m not gonna tell her." (29:14)
  (Choosing mercy over painful truth for Mrs. Cullen)

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Important Timestamps

• [03:50] – Matt Dillon’s iconic introduction
• [06:55] – Community suspicion over Dennis’s identity/loyalties
• [08:17] – Street fight between Dennis and a harasser
• [13:35] – Mrs. Cullen reveals Dennis is not her biological child
• [16:34] – The Army’s inquiry about the Cheyenne rendezvous
• [21:34] – Mrs. Cullen discovers Dennis has run away
• [24:25] – Dillon and Chester find Dennis at the Cheyenne rendezvous
• [26:32] – Little Wolf explains the necessity for Dennis to choose
• [27:15] – Dennis expresses feeling mistreated by society
• [28:54] – The final realization about Dennis's true identity

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Tone and Atmosphere

The episode is somber, reflective, and at times tense, filled with Western idiom and a subtle undercurrent of hope despite tragedy. Characters grapple with both social and personal dilemmas: prejudice, the meaning of family, and the pain of not belonging.

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Memorable Moment

The emotional climax occurs in the canyon, as both sides are forced to accept that Dennis—neither “fully” Cheyenne nor “fully” white—is left to make his own way, foreshadowing deeper questions of identity and the losses engendered by the frontier’s cultural collisions.

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Conclusion

“Indian White” is a powerful entry in the Gunsmoke series, using the backdrop of Dodge City and the Cheyenne conflict to explore timeless questions of identity, loyalty, prejudice, and belonging. Marshal Dillon’s restraint in revealing the painful truth about Dennis’s identity is striking—a quiet testament to compassion and the complexity of human relationships on the frontier.

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Transcript

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[Matt Dillon]

I'm that man. 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 lone. You got the time, Chester?

[Chester]

Why, Mr. Dillon, why, I'd just like.

[Matt Dillon]

To know what time it is, that's all.

[Chester]

Well, yes, sir, I figured that. But I wondered how important it is.

[Matt Dillon]

Well, it isn't this important, Chester, believe me.

[Chester]

Well, see, if it was, I could run over to Mr. Hightower's and find out. Mr. Hightower? Yes, sir. His watch broke down and he sent it to St. Louis to get fixed. So I give him the loan of mine, but I can still go in and look at it whenever I need to.

[Matt Dillon]

Oh, well, that's a very good arrangement, Chester.

[Chester]

Yes, sir. I figured time's a whole lot more important to a man like him than tis to me it ain't. But seldom it matters none one way or the other where I'm concerned. You understand.

[Matt Dillon]

Oh, I surely do. Yes, I do. I understand. Chester. Yeah?

[Chester]

Why did you Want to know, Mr. Dillon? I mean, about what time?

[Matt Dillon]

You're making me sorry I asked, Chester, but I'm supposed to meet a man at the dodge house at 2:00'. Clock.

[Chester]

Oh, well, it ain't nowhere as near 2:00 clock yet.

[Matt Dillon]

Well, how do you know?

[Chester]

The sun. It lacks 15 minutes of being two o'.

[Ms. Cullen]

Clock.

[Matt Dillon]

Chester.

[Chester]

Yes, sir?

[Matt Dillon]

Why don't you sell that watch to Mr. Hightower?

[Chester]

Oh, I wouldn't want to settle that watch. My Uncle Arthur gave me that watch, Mr. Dillon. He got it from a fellow. Get out. Stay out. Don't you come back in this store ever again.

[Ms. Cullen]

Mr. Jonas, don't talk back to me now.

[Matt Dillon]

And I just get.

[Chester]

What's that Indian kid up to now?

[Matt Dillon]

I told you, he's not an Indian. Hey boy.

[William Conrad]

Hey boy.

[Chester]

Oh, look at him go. He ain't waiting for nobody.

[Matt Dillon]

Look, Chester, there'll be a man called Davis waiting for me at the Dodge House. Will you go tell him I'll be along directly?

[Chester]

Yes, sir. Oh, hello, Marjorie. For a minute there, I thought it.

[Matt Dillon]

Was that Indian kid back he ran on down the street. Mr. Jonas.

[Chester]

You ought to do something about him, Marshall.

[Matt Dillon]

Oh, why?

[Chester]

Well, you heard about them Cheyenne busting out of Fort Dodge yesterday, didn't you?

[Matt Dillon]

Yeah, I heard.

[Chester]

Well, wait till they massacre some people around here. Then what'll folks think of that boy running loose?

[Matt Dillon]

Why should they think anything?

[Chester]

He's Injun, ain't he? He's a Cheyenne.

[Matt Dillon]

No. His name's Cullen and he's white.

[Chester]

The army found him with them Injuns, didn't they?

[Matt Dillon]

The Indians stole him from Ms. Cullen eight years ago down on the Medicine River. You know that.

[Chester]

I don't know it now. I hear it ain't her kid at all. He sure don't look like her.

[Matt Dillon]

Why did you throw him out of here, Mr. Jonas?

[Chester]

He was trying to buy ammunition for Sharps rifle.

[Matt Dillon]

What?

[Chester]

Said Ms. Cullen1. Now, you know that's a lie. I'm telling you, Marshal, what with them Cheyenne loose, it ain't safe having a boy like that around. You ought to lock him up.

[Matt Dillon]

He's not supplying the Cheyenne, Jonas. And don't worry about them. Colonel Honeyman's got two troops out after him.

[Chester]

You'll never catch him again. And I mean it about that boy, Marshal. You better lock him up before somebody knocks his brains out. Here's a lot of talk about him.

[Matt Dillon]

Well, I don't want to hear any more of it. That boy's got a hard enough time ahead of him as it is.

[Chester]

Mr. Dillon.

[Matt Dillon]

Yeah, what, Chester?

[Chester]

That Indian kid. He's starting to fight, mister.

[Ms. Cullen]

Some man.

[Chester]

What? Yes, sir. Right in front of the dodge house. And Mr. Dylan, that little boy's got a knife as long as his arm.

[Matt Dillon]

Who is that man?

[William Conrad]

Justice.

[Chester]

I never seen him before. But I hear he's been plaguing that boy lately.

[Matt Dillon]

So the boy came looking for him with a knife.

[Chester]

See, that man's got a knife out now.

[Matt Dillon]

All right, hold it, mister.

[Chester]

Let him alone, Mar.

[Matt Dillon]

Move aside there. All right, drop the knife, mister. Not hardly. Drop it. No.

[Chester]

His kid's been asking for it. He started this.

[Matt Dillon]

What's the matter with you? Fighting a boy seriously. Little savage. Grab the boy, Chester. All right, drop the knife. He cut me.

[Chester]

You saw him.

[Matt Dillon]

I'll open him up like a melon. No, you won't.

[Chester]

What's the matter with you, Marshall?

[Matt Dillon]

I'll keep this knife. And if you're hurt so bad, go see Doc.

[Chester]

You're gonna wish you hadn't mixed in this.

[Matt Dillon]

Am I? All right, I'll take the boys. Knife. Justin.

[Chester]

Here he is.

[Matt Dillon]

All right, son, you come with me. Gonna Take you home before you kill somebody.

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[Matt Dillon]

You want to talk about it, son?

[Chester]

Name?

[Ms. Cullen]

Viho Khan.

[Matt Dillon]

Viho Khan, huh? Does that mean something? The Cheyenne mean white boy. Ah, I see. Well, then, Viho Khan, you want to tell me why you fought that man?

[Ms. Cullen]

Man talked bad to me. Hit me in mouth, kick me different man. Give me big knife. Then I fight you. Stop. Or I'll kill him, make big coup.

[Matt Dillon]

You're not a brave, Hahn. You're not an Indian. You're white.

[Ms. Cullen]

You gotta remember that Heho Khan had many Indian brothers.

[Matt Dillon]

Ah, but you're home now. You're living among white men. You have a white mother. You gotta stop thinking like an Indian or you're gonna get into real trouble.

[Ms. Cullen]

Mrs. Cullen Talk hard at vho Khan for fight no understand.

[Matt Dillon]

Ah, she'll understand, all right. That's why I came home with you. Now let's go in and I'll tell her that it wasn't your fault.

[Ms. Cullen]

That you. Denny, where have you been? Oh, Marshall. Dylan, come in.

[Matt Dillon]

Hello, Ms. Cullen.

[Ms. Cullen]

Came home with Dennis named Vijo Kahn. No, Dennis, please. Dennis, let's don't argue that now. And look at you. Where are your shoes? Nowhere shoes. Your shirt. I've made you such nice shirts. You can't run around in nothing but a pair of pants. You'll be the death of me yet, Marshall. No do harm to you. I know that, Dennis. You just don't understand yet, do you? You go to your room now and put on those shoes the soldiers give you. And a shirt, too. A nice blue shirt. I go and take that arrow point out of your hair. Sit down, Marshall.

[Matt Dillon]

Oh, thank you, ma'.

[Ms. Cullen]

Am. It's not easy. A woman at 40, a widow raising a boy like that.

[Matt Dillon]

No, ma'.

[Ms. Cullen]

Am. I know, but I want to. I've got to.

[Little Wolf]

What?

[Matt Dillon]

What do you mean, Ms. Cullen?

[Ms. Cullen]

He's a white boy. Anybody can see that. But he isn't mine, Marshall.

[Matt Dillon]

What?

[Ms. Cullen]

I knew he wasn't the first day I went to Fort Dodge to see him. He's not my son. But he's the same age. And I give him the same name. And I treat him just like he was. No, he won't suffer for lack of a mother's love. I promise that.

[Matt Dillon]

I'm sure he won't, ma'. Am.

[Ms. Cullen]

Why did you bring him home, Marshall?

[Matt Dillon]

You heard about the Cheyennes? The band he was taking with?

[Ms. Cullen]

They'd broken out of Fort Dodge.

[Matt Dillon]

Hell, the boys heard it, too, Ms. Cullen.

[Ms. Cullen]

Why do you say that.

[Matt Dillon]

Ma'?

[Andrew Rines]

Am?

[Matt Dillon]

You own a Sharps rifle.

[Ms. Cullen]

Well, yes, it was Mr. Collins. Very one he died fighting with on the Medicine River.

[Chester]

But why?

[Matt Dillon]

Dennis tried to buy ammunition for it today.

[Ms. Cullen]

What?

[Matt Dillon]

Mr. Jonas thinks he's planning to help those Indians.

[Chester]

But how?

[Ms. Cullen]

What could he do?

[Matt Dillon]

I don't know. But until they're rounded up again, a lot of people in Dodge are going to be pretty jumpy. Some of them have already caused trouble for the boy.

[Ms. Cullen]

They have?

[Matt Dillon]

He got into a fight with a grown man today, and he cut him up some.

[Ms. Cullen]

No.

[Matt Dillon]

Wasn't his fault, Ms. Cullen. But that's the sort of thing that can happen more and more.

[Ms. Cullen]

If you're saying I should give him up, I won't. He needs his own people. He needs a mother, just like my own boy needs one. If he's still alive somewhere.

[Matt Dillon]

All I'm saying, ma', am, is that you gotta keep him here at the house till that scare about the Cheyenne is over. If you let him run around town, I'm gonna have to lock him up for his own protection.

[Chester]

Mr. Dillon. That's Chester.

[Ms. Cullen]

Come in, Chester.

[Chester]

Thank you.

[Ms. Cullen]

Why, Colonel Honeyman.

[Chester]

I'm sorry to intrude, ma'.

[Little Wolf]

Am.

[Chester]

Hello, Marshall. Colonel, I. I'd like to talk to the boy, Mrs. Cullen.

[Ms. Cullen]

Talk to him.

[Matt Dillon]

Was there something wrong, Colonel?

[Chester]

You know who Little Wolf is?

[Matt Dillon]

He's chief of the Cheyenne on the Darlington Reservation, isn't he?

[Chester]

They were. Darlington just had word they've broken out and are headed this way. 300 of them.

[Matt Dillon]

I see.

[Chester]

Obviously, they're coming to meet the Indians who escaped Fort Dodge yesterday.

[Ms. Cullen]

What does this have to do with your wanting to talk to Dennis, Colonel?

[Chester]

I want him to tell me where their Pointer rendezvous is.

[Ms. Cullen]

How would Dennis know?

[Chester]

Indians scatter when they're being pursued, Mrs. Cullen. They secretly regroup at a given point later. And every man, woman and child of knows well in advance where that point is.

[Ms. Cullen]

But Dennis isn't. I'll call him. Dennis. Dennis, you'll call. Vio Con. Please, sir. It's Dennis now. Come in here. Colonel Hunterman wants to talk to you.

[Chester]

Hello. Hello, boy.

[Ms. Cullen]

Soldier want talk with me?

[William Conrad]

Yes.

[Chester]

Tell me, do you know Little Wolf?

[Ms. Cullen]

Little Wolf? Chief.

[Chester]

Good chief he was, maybe. But he's done a bad thing now.

[Ms. Cullen]

No.

[Chester]

He left reservation. He's going to join Long Knife.

[Ms. Cullen]

Long Knife? My chief. Dennis, don't say that.

[Matt Dillon]

Let him talk, Ms. Cullen.

[Ms. Cullen]

Long knife escape?

[Chester]

Yes. He and the others you were with burned their barracks at Fort Dodge and killed three soldiers.

[Ms. Cullen]

See Hokan know.

[Chester]

I'm sure you do. And you also know where Long Knife is meeting Little Wolf and his people. If, if, if. If you tell me, you'll save lives, Viho Khan. Not only of those soldiers, but of. Of those of your people too.

[Ms. Cullen]

Kenya.

[Matt Dillon]

Please, Ms. Cullen.

[Chester]

Tell me. Vi hocon.

[Ms. Cullen]

Dennis. Not no meeting place.

[Matt Dillon]

Hell, you can't beat it out of him, Colonel.

[Chester]

No. Well, I'm sorry to have bothered you, Mrs. Cullen, by.

[Matt Dillon]

I'll go with you, Colonel. Ms. Cullen, will you remember what I said?

[Ms. Cullen]

I'll keep an eye on him, Marshall.

[Matt Dillon]

Fine.

[Chester]

Goodbye, Mr. Cullen.

[Ms. Cullen]

Chester.

[Chester]

That was a waste of time.

[Matt Dillon]

Well, what are your plans now, Colonel?

[Chester]

Plans?

[Little Wolf]

Marshall?

[Chester]

I was down to half strength when Long Knife broke out. And now with two troops after him, I haven't enough men left for the post fatigue detachments, let alone to scout the country.

[Matt Dillon]

You want civilian help?

[Chester]

No, no, it'd only end in a massacre of some kind. Well, I'll have to do the best I can.

[Matt Dillon]

Well, good luck.

[Chester]

Yeah, that boy could have helped you. Better keep a close watch on him, Marshall. Let's get back to the fort, Sergeant.

[Matt Dillon]

Yes, sir.

[Chester]

Mr. Dillon. Yeah, what, Chester, I've been thinking. If the army left them Indians alone in the first place, they wouldn't be in all this trouble.

[Matt Dillon]

Yeah, but that's not for us to decide. All right, let's go home.

[Chester]

Well, now, Kitty, how about you? More coffee?

[Ms. Cullen]

No, thanks, Doc.

[Chester]

Hey, you, Matt?

[Matt Dillon]

Yeah, I think I'll have some, Doc. Just a little.

[Ms. Cullen]

You know, that coffee is three parts chicory and one part lye.

[Chester]

And that's why it needs a little cream, Kitty. It softens it a bit.

[Ms. Cullen]

Kind of hard on the cream.

[Chester]

Yeah, we should have gone up to my office. I'd have made us some real coffee.

[Matt Dillon]

Now, why didn't you ask us up to supper, Doc?

[Chester]

Oh, so I said coffee, not a whole meal.

[Ms. Cullen]

Oh, I'd have cooked it, Doc.

[Chester]

Oh, yeah, on that stove of mine.

[Ms. Cullen]

You would have had. You know, I learned to cook on an open fire.

[Chester]

You did not.

[Ms. Cullen]

Out in the prairie in a fireplace. We couldn't afford a stove. In fact, we couldn't afford much of anything we couldn't pick up off the ground.

[Chester]

Well, you're rich now.

[Ms. Cullen]

Oh, sure. Marshall.

[Matt Dillon]

I'm Ms. Collins. What's the trouble?

[Ms. Cullen]

He's gone, Marshall.

[Matt Dillon]

What?

[Ms. Cullen]

Dennis. Dennis. He's gone.

[Matt Dillon]

Well, gone where?

[Ms. Cullen]

I don't know.

[Matt Dillon]

Well, where did you see him last?

[Ms. Cullen]

After supper, we ate early. And then I had a talk with him. I told him how much I love him and how I need him. And then I told him about how people in Dodge feel right now, and until things changed, he'd have to stay at home. Well, he didn't say much, but he went to his room, and I sat out on the porch for a while. Then I heard a noise out back, and when I looked, he was gone.

[Matt Dillon]

Maybe he's just wandering around somewhere.

[Ms. Cullen]

No, he's gone.

[Matt Dillon]

Well, how do you know that?

[Ms. Cullen]

Arrow Point. He always wants to tie in his hair. He took that, Marshall, so that is. No, he took his horse, too. He's gone to join the Cheyenne, Marshall, and you've got to go after him right now.

[William Conrad]

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[Matt Dillon]

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[William Conrad]

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[Matt Dillon]

There was no way to pick up the boy's trail that night. But next morning, Chester and I rode out after him. We tracked him all that day, all the next southeast, into the Gypsum Hills country. The land was different down there, dotted with buttes and cut by narrow, winding canyons. This was ambush country and ideal for what Colonel Honeyman called a rendezvous point. We traveled slowly, eyes open, ready for trouble. And then finally, the trail led down into a rocky canyon. And at the bottom, we found the boy crouched over a small fire.

[Chester]

He acts like he's waiting for us, Mr. Dylan.

[Matt Dillon]

I wish he'd waited somewhere more open. I don't like being boxed up out here.

[Chester]

I got kind of a spooky feeling too.

[Matt Dillon]

Yeah. All right, let's leave them here, Chester. All right?

[Chester]

Sure.

[Ms. Cullen]

Marshall. Make long ride. Catch V. Hakan.

[Matt Dillon]

How you travel fast, son.

[Ms. Cullen]

White lady send marshal.

[Matt Dillon]

Ms. Cullen's mighty worried about you, soldier.

[Ms. Cullen]

He worried too.

[Matt Dillon]

Now, Colonel Honeyman didn't send me.

[Ms. Cullen]

He follow?

[Matt Dillon]

No, he didn't follow.

[Ms. Cullen]

Cilaho Niyava.

[Chester]

What's he yelling about?

[Matt Dillon]

Look over there, Chester. Over what?

[Chester]

Oh, my goodness. Indians. Why, there must be 20 of them.

[Matt Dillon]

Don't move.

[Chester]

Oh, I ain't about to.

[Matt Dillon]

Yeah, they're warriors, every one of them.

[Little Wolf]

My name Little Wolf.

[Chester]

That's the chief. Colonel Honeyman said it was meetin him Cheyenne that busted out of Fort Dodge.

[Matt Dillon]

Yeah, and the boy knew where they were meeting all the time.

[Little Wolf]

You tell Viho Khan soldiers not follow.

[Matt Dillon]

The soldiers are hunting for you, Little Wolf. But they're not with us.

[Little Wolf]

Little Wolf can believe Marshal.

[Matt Dillon]

You can believe me. We came alone. We came to take the boy back home.

[Little Wolf]

Vi Ho Khan no like life with white men.

[Matt Dillon]

Ali'll get used to it. He belongs with his own people. Little Wolf.

[Little Wolf]

Little Wolf say all men free. Viha Khan must make own choice.

[Matt Dillon]

He's too young. He doesn't know what's best for him.

[Little Wolf]

If he make mistake is mistake. Boy never become man. Other people make choice for him.

[Matt Dillon]

Little Wolf, this boy's not an Indian. He's white. And if he stays with you and Long Knife, you know what'll happen to him.

[Little Wolf]

He live like Indian.

[Matt Dillon]

He'll die like an Indian too. The soldiers are after you. And sooner or later they'll find you. When they do, there'll be a big battle and many of your people will die. Perhaps the boy will die with him.

[Ms. Cullen]

Viho Khan not afraid.

[Matt Dillon]

You're white. Viho Khan. You're not an Indian. This is not your fight.

[Ms. Cullen]

White people treat Viho Khan bad. Kick, beat, call names. Mrs. Khan no understand. Viho Khan Nobody understand.

[Matt Dillon]

Well, it takes time. Viho Khan.

[Little Wolf]

Boy decide you want to come with Cheyenne. You no stop now.

[Matt Dillon]

We'd have a hard time. 2 against 20.

[Little Wolf]

If you fight, we kill you.

[Matt Dillon]

Look, son, before you decide, you remember these Indians are poorly armed. Probably a lot of them are sick. When winter comes, many will die. And the soldiers will get to rest.

[Ms. Cullen]

Soldier not like Indian. Soldier get tired, go back. Indian go north. Powder River. Home. Hunt, fish again. White people not my people. Phihokan stay with Indian.

[Little Wolf]

Viho Khan decide. Leave now. Maybe someday come back. Great Chief.

[Matt Dillon]

Not with the army chasing you.

[Little Wolf]

Medicine River Vihaan.

[Chester]

Did you hear what he said?

[Matt Dillon]

Yeah. Medicine River. Vij Khan. Medicine River. White boy.

[Chester]

Ain't that where Ms. Cullen lost her son?

[Matt Dillon]

Yeah.

[Chester]

Then he is her boy after all.

[Matt Dillon]

And she didn't recognize him. He must have changed a lot.

[Chester]

You gonna tell her?

[Matt Dillon]

No, justin. No, I'm not gonna tell her.

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[William Conrad]

Gunsmoke, produced and directed by norman McDonald stars william conrad as matt dillon, us marshal. The special music for gunsmoke was composed and conducted by rex corey. Sound patterns by bill james and ray kent. Featured in the cast were sam yog, virginia gregg, joseph kern, harry bartel, john dainer and ralph moody. Harley bear is chester, howard mcnear as doc and georgia ellis is kitty.

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[Chester]

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[Chester]

Uh, Limu is that guy with the binoculars watching us.

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[Matt Dillon]

They see us.

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