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Foreign welcome to the Old Time Radio Westerns. I'm your host Andrew Rines, and I'm excited to bring you another episode absolutely free. This is one of over 80 episodes released monthly for your enjoyment. Now let's get into this episode. A fiery horse with the speed of light, a cloud of dust and a hearty Heil Silver the Lone Ranger It's Sam.

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The men who built the Western United States were courageous pioneers, but the obstacles they faced might never have been surmounted if it had not been for the Masked Rider of the Plains. It was he who broke the power of the outlaw bands and the hostile Indian tribes. It was his knowledge of the country that rescued the settlers when the forces of nature seemed ready to overwhelm them. Return with us now to the stirring days when the west was young. From out of the past come the thundering hoof beats of the great horse. Silver. The Lone Ranger rides again. Hello, Silver. We're heading for Red River Valley. It's going to be trouble. Hello, Silver. Hawaii. Dan Parsons owned the bank in the little town of Sagebrush at the head of the Red River Valley. One day, he was sitting in the living room of his home when he heard a rider draw up out in front. Dan was expecting a caller. He rose from his chair, straightened his weary shoulders and turned to his wife. Well, reckon that's Brady, Marcy. Looks like more trouble. Now, don't you fret, Dan. Man's got to do what's right. Come in. Where's that husband of yours? I want him. Oh, there you are, possums. You want to see me, Brady? You're doggone right I do. And you know what? First, I haven't done anything I'm ashamed of. I ought to throw bullets through you, Parsons. Brady, you can't. I reckon you'd best go in the next room, Marcy. No. You're my husband, Dan Parsons. I'm not letting a gun in the next room, Marcy. Well, you just take care of yourself, Dan. I will. Now, get along. You hadn't want to bust in that way, Brady. It ain't right when there's women folk around. You don't never fight, do you, Parsons? I'm a banker, Brady. I'm a man a piece. You bought Costa's cattle, didn't you? I did. You paid 10 silver dollars ahead, didn't you, Brady? I calculate what I buy and what I pay for them is my business, not yours. If it so happens, I plan to go to the railroad with them cattle and sell them. That's my affair. Yeah. Gonna make a profit, ain't you? Maybe you will. Maybe nothing. A banker like you don't buy nothing when he figures on losing. Now, there ain't no friendship between me and the Carstairs outfit. And I'm too bad they ain't, huh? This here whole valley is owned by your outfit and by Carstairs. Just the two of you. You ain't forgetting you hold mortgages on both of us. That don't matter. What does matter is that you two hombres ought to stop battling each other. Tell that to Costa. I did. And he acts the same as you both bullheaded as loco steers. Why don't you get together, work together? The range land's drying up. The more you Two hombres fight, the less chance there is. Parsons, there's no use talking. Carstairs is a no good skunk. And I said the same about you. Sure, if I ever meet up with him face to face, there'll be plenty of gunsmoke. Savvy? But I didn't come here for that. I come to ask you. What about my cattle? I'm buying them, Brady. Sure, but for how much? 10 silver dollars a head. That's what I figured. Kind of, huh? Did you say 10? $10 ahead. But, Parsons, you. Same as I'm giving Carstairs Bill. What's your jaw dropping for? Can't you talk? Parsons, I. Them cattle of mine, they ain't worth that much. I'm paying it, ain't I? Well, they're thin and scrawny. Not much feed and the water's so scarce. I paid Carstairs 10. And I'm paying you the same. Now, take it or leave it. Pretty anxious, ain't you? Take it or leave it. I get it. Reckon you got inside knowledge that cattle is fetching a fancy price back east, ain't you? Even scrawny cattle, you ain't the kind of fella to do nothing for charity. You're entitled to your own opinion. Ten cartwheels ahead. Oh, God, it. You can't make much on that, Parsons. You ain't answered yet, Brady. Oh, I'll take it. I'll take it. When you plan to rile up the cow? As soon as it can be done. And when do I get paid? As soon as I get back from selling them. After you sell them? Why not before? Got any objections? I ain't never gone back on a debt so far. All right, Parsons. All right. Don't get your dander up. The cat'll be ready soon to go. Costairs. Hey, Car. Did you finish the count? Posse count. 825 Head in your herd that. Tell him your count. Yeah. When you come back. I collect 8,250 silver dollars. I'll be in your bank waiting. Better have the money processes. I'll have it. All right, you riders. Start these long horns moving. Get them on to prod. Well, Parsons, me and my boys counted up the cattle and come back to Sage Bush. I'll be expected. $9,060 as payment. You get it? BR. I see that I do. I'll be in your bank when you get back. Come on, boy. Him Cost is got tempers like a bull. Neither one of them trusts me. Furthering the ropes in. Dan. Dan, I'm Worried now, Martha Leave me do the work. But you can't positively get as much for these cattle as you promised to pay. $10 ahead. Ain't nobody going to pay that. I'll see you when I get back. Marty. Being scrawny cattle won't bring that much. Even in St. Joseph. You'll never be able to pay Carson Brady. What you promise. Martha don't want you to fret. I'll do it. You don't going to be a heap for trouble when you get back. I'll be back. And I'll take care of trouble. All right. Get these cows moving. We got a long trail to go. Get them moving, Martha. You can expect it back in two weeks after sell these your cattle. Two weeks? Come on. Come on. Here. That's Parson's outfit down below. His hunter. Ah. He's on his way back from selling those cattle. Kabi think he can get very much for them. That's right. That information you brought me from Sage Brush. You sure that Parsons promised to pay $10 a piece for those? He'll never be able to do it. He'll know that I can't understand it. In the first place. Parsons is a smart man. A good banker. Still, he paid much more for the cattle than they were worth. He what wrong? You must have it rain up. Listen. You hear that? Huh? One pony. Yes. Coming this way along the trail. We'll be heading for Sagemaris at this time of night. Him come from Parsons camp? Yes. Get back here. M want to see him as he goes past. Without him seeing us. Good enough. Now watch him. That was Parsons. Banker Parsons riding his horse in a hurry. Him you spare. He's heading for sagebrush, leaving his outfit behind. I bet he'll reach his home by early morning. You think something wrong? Kimasabi. We're going after him. T. Come on. Get him off the scout. We're going to find out why Parsons is acting so special strangely. We'll trail into town. Who's there? Who is there? I'm ordering you. I got a gun. Come around the back door this early in the morning. Tell me who you are. James D. Parsons. What on earth? Must get me in trouble. I wrote all night. You got back already. The boys in outfit will come in the regular way. They'll show up about sundown tonight. But I had to see you private. Marcia. I. I got to pay the money off to Brady and Carstairs. No. I promised to pay him $10 a head for them cattle. And all I could get was six. Dan. Dan. You mean you. What am I gonna do? I had to come and tell you, Martha. Come tomorrow morning, they'll be asking for their cash and I. I ain't got it. I ain't got it. Dan. Dan, you must be plum tuckered out. Here, sit down. I was just getting ready for breakfast. Cup of hot coffee will do you good. No, Marcia can't drink and I can't eat. My throat's as dry as this here Red River Valley. But I can't take nothing. What are we gonna do, Dean? Why'd you offer Brady and Car Stage so much for them cows? Why? Well, you see, you knew it wasn't worth that much. You knew it. Sure, Sure, I knew it. But that. But what? You're a banker, Dan. A businessman. What you done don't make sense. Martha, it makes sense to me. Leastways, it did up to now, huh? I. I never told you how I feel, Heather. About me being a banker for sagebrush in the valley. I never told you what it means to me being a banker, Martha. I always figured a banker had a duty to the people. Sure, I wanted to make money so as we could live comfortable. But I wanted to help others. Like Brady and Carstairs? Yeah, like them. In good times, they didn't need no help. I was doing all right. But then. Then the river dried up and the rangeland got burned. Cattle got scrawny thin, and they died off. So I give them mortgages on their outfits. Yeah, I figured maybe the river would come up again. There'd be rain and melting snow to bring the grass back. State of which, it got worse. Plenty worse. And this time, Well, I knew right well the Brady and Carstairs had to get $10 a head for the cattle. But they couldn't keep going. They'd go bust. You done all that cause you're a banker, Dan. A bank's got to help folks. It's got to. That's what I done it for. Only. Only now I tried too hard. I can't meet the promises I made. Greedy and costers are honest men, Dan, tell them. Tell them what? Do you think they'll believe me? No. No, I reckon not. They're honest, sure, but they're bullheaded and ornery. They'll think I'm trying to cheat them. You know how they'll act. Guns? Yeah, guns. I don't know what to do, Dan. We got a leaf. Sagebrush. Thirdly, nobody knows you're in town. We could bear move. Leave sagebrush. Leave what money you got for them cows. Leave the Bank. Dan, you gotta. We'll saddle up them horses to the wagon and by tomorrow morning we'll be long gone out of here. No, Marcy. We ain't going. Dan, I tell you, no. But Brady and car, they might kill you. It ain't honest to leave no Marthy. I'm staying no matter what. I'm gonna take my medicine. I'm staying. Marty from town center, pull up. You heard Parsons talking to his wife. We listen at window. Him good man. He's got courage. Tanto. He'd left Sagebrush. It would have been hard to blame him. But he's determined to stay no matter what happens. We help him, Kimosabe. I know. I have a plan. It's going to be dangerous because we'll have to ride into sagebrush in broad daylight and get out again. Here's what we do. All right. Parsons come back from selling them cows. Now hand over my money. Pay me first, Parsons. Oh, no, he don't. Costa. Brady, I don't like doing business with you in the same room. Then get out. Or maybe you'd like some gun fighting to make you get out. Now, hold your horses. This here's my bank. Remember that. He can't talk to me. I said shut up, both of you. For Pete's sake. Why can't you gents get together? You're the two biggest men in the valley. You could do a lot. Instead, you're at each other's throats like hungry coyotes. We do like we want to, Parsons. I'll fork over that money so I can get away. I don't relish being with Brady Long. And I can help. That goes double for me. Well, I. I got something to tell you, Jim. Sir. There's the money right on the table in them saddles bags, ain't it? Yeah, but. Trot it out and start divvying up Brady. Car stater. There's a little something. Now. What's the matter? Ain't you got the money? Well, for a matter of fact. You see, it's like. What, sir? A masked man? We came after that cat a whole lot. Take it, Tanner. Out to the horses. We get it. No, you don't. That's my money. I shot the gun from your hand, mister. The next one who tries may not be so lucky. We've got money. Good. The horses are outside. You hurry now.