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Yes, I heard him. Just. We gonna stop in for long, Brad? There's no reason to. It's late. It's too quiet for anything to be going on. Well, I was thinking I sure could do with some beer to go to bed on if anybody was buying. All right, come on. The place does sound kind of like a morgue tonight. Don't now that warrants the end of next month. When the trail herds start rolling in, you'll be lucky to get your foot inside. Been waiting for you, Marshall. Get your hands up. Yeah, sure, Red. I won't argue with a shotgun. That's what we figured. Take his gun, Red. Yeah, you. You don't mind, do you, Marshall? Go ahead. Do what Hack says. He's the one who gives the orders, the way I hear it. You shut up, Marshall. Neither one of us gives orders. Ah, I didn't know you boys were in this part of the country. That's far enough right there. Unless you want to see this little lady here get her pretty. Looks all spoiled, Matt. I tried to think of some way to get wood to you. That's all right, Kitty. Let's take it easy. That's the idea, Marshall. You too. Just take it easy. Everything'll be all right. You got what you came after, hack, or are you still trying to get it? We got it. We've been through all the boys pockets along with the safe and the cash box. Just fixing to leave when you stumbled in. We didn't have a chance, Mac. They walked in with the shotguns and said Kitty'd be the first one to go. Forget it, Doug. These boys, Tollett and Slade are wanted In a half a dozen states for bank robbery. Stage holdup. How come you were so quick to recognize us, Marshall? We ain't been around here before. Ah, but your pictures have. You must have slipped into Dodge pretty quiet, huh? That's right, Marshall. And gonna slip out the same way, I suppose. You line up over there with the rest of the targets. Go. Kind of expected more out of you, Marshall, from what I heard about you. Is that so? Reputation's mighty easy to come by sometimes. All right, all of you, we're riding out of here now. We don't aim to get followed. Red, take her arm. Here. What are you doing? Figure you boys won't be so likely to try nothing if you go along with us. A week, Matt. Do as they tell you. Kidding? You'll be all right. Anybody pokes his head out this door, next few minutes gets it shot off. Same thing will happen to the lady. You keep the boys in line, Marshall. Got a nice little town here. Been a pleasure to visit him. Let's go. Rick. What do you do? What are we gonna do, Mr. Dillman? Nothing, Chester. Oh, dang it, Matt. Let's get a posse going. Get something organized here. They took $14 off of me. You just gotta stand there. Hold it, Doc. And the rest of you, shut up. Simmer down now. Take it easy. And stay away from that door. Matt. We can't just let them ride out. Doc, they got Kitty with them and they're killers. One move from us and they'll do exactly what they said they'd do to her. Well, maybe they will anyway. We'll give her the best chance we're able. That's all we can do. Dog gone, and I just can't figure it. Mitch. Dumb. We spent from midnight last night until noon today checking every trail out of Dodge to Beal and his scouts have worked a river bottom for 10 miles each way. Whole countryside's on the lookout for them. Two men and a woman. They can't just disappear. Well, they sure done it so far. Yeah, they've sure done it so far. Come on, Chester. Let's walk up the street and get something to eat, huh? All right. First time in all my recollection I ain't had no appetite to speak of. Well, it won't help, Kitty. You need to starve yourself. I got kindly a bad feeling. Ain't nothing gonna help her, Mr. Jones. Why not? I figure they've had time now to get far enough away. They won't need her no longer. Why don't you shut up, Chester? I'm sorry. I didn't mean to talk to you like that. Reckon I understand. Yeah, I guess we both do. Well, good afternoon, man. New Chester. Did you find any trace of him? No, nothing. You want to have a bite to eat with us? Well, I just ate about an hour ago. But I might sit down with you for some pie and some coffee if Chester can spare a little. I ain't thinking much about food today, Doc. What was that, John? Well, Chester, if you ever reach my age, you'll realize confined, brimstone, chaos and calamity. The first thing a man better look out for is his stomach. Yes, sir. So as he starts going off his feed, he starts going downhill, you betcha. And when he starts to go down, I sure hope Kitty's all right. We all hope so, Doc. Hey, that was Kitty that was down the street there somewhere. Yeah. Come on. No wonder there was no trails. They never even left town. They planned a hole up for a night or two and then ride out after the search was all over. Miss Kitty must have broke loose for a minute, huh? Matthew. Matthew. Save it, Miles. There's trouble up the street. It's not up the street. It's right over there in my store. What? Upstairs in the storage loft. Goodbye. He's right, Mr. Dillon. There's a pane of glass broke out up there. Aye. Yeah. Is there another window in the back, Myles? Aye, same as the one in the front, I reckon. I see, miss. All right, Chester, you go cover that back window, huh? Yes. She's still alive. Yeah, so far. They're certainly mighty quiet up there, Matthew. Nothing to talk about. I guess they know they can't get out of there. No, Doc. And we can't get in. Matt, suppose we set fire to the building. Oh, no, you're not. You're not setting fire to my store. Not if they stay up there for the next year, you're not. They just didn't have Kelly up there with them. It'd be easy. Sure. Just wait for him to starve out or else burn the place down. Will you stop seeing that duck? Well, it's going to be dark before long, Matt. Yeah, I know. Why don't they give up? They know they haven't got a chance. They have as long as they got Kitty. Doc, I don't know. Maybe they're finally ready to talk. Hey, Red Hat. Careful, careful. Me now? You're beaten. You know it. Why don't you throw your guns out of that window and come on down? Suppose we throw the lady out instead, Marshal. Look, both of you if anything happens to her, you know what to expect. And if anything happens to us, she knows what to expect. Why don't you go on home, Marshall? Take that crowd of yokels with you. We can hold out a lot longer than you can up there. Maybe not longer than the lady can. Oh, so help me, if I get my hands on his. Suppose we get together and talk it over, huh? Maybe we can work something out. Get together? How? You aiming to come up here and visit us? Unless you want to meet down here in the street. You'd like that, wouldn't you? Well, what about it? Come by yourself without your gun. Yeah, sure. Anything you want. Wait a second. All right, Marshal, deal yourself in. You gone clean out of your mind, Matt. You know any other way I can get under that storage loft, Doc? Yeah, but without a gun. Why not? Matt, you're just a plain doggone fool. Maybe, but there's times when being a fool is about the wisest thing a man can do. You're saying this is one of the times? I don't know, Doc, but I. Sure, Sac. Take care of my gun. But. Yes. You ain't really going to do it, are you, miss? You sure he's going to do it, the bullheaded idiot. But them two's killers, Chester, you're supposed to be around there watching that back winter. I got Sam Noonan to take over. Mr. Dillon, listen to me now, you just can't. There's nothing else to do, Chester. Go. Dang it, Matthew. If it'd do any good, I'd say go ahead and burn the place. The stock up there in that loft isn't worth much anyhow. What is up there, Miles? Odds and ends, mostly. Stuff I don't need to get that often. The thing that's worth the Most is their 20 sacks of concentrates. What do you mean, concentrates? Black iron pyrites, powdered. I took them in trade from the Black Hawk mine. I've been aiming to ship them east to the smelter. They run pretty high in silver. Well, I don't guess Red and Hack will be very interested in sacks of concentrates. Marshall, you lose your nerve. I'll be right with you, Hack. They'll shoot you down before you get halfway across the street. Why, Chester, that's what they're figuring. They can do it a lot easier after having there, Mr. Dunan. Yeah? Never mind, Chester. Good luck, man. Thanks, Doctor. You make a mighty fine target down there, Marshall. I'll make a better one at 10ft, hack. If you can keep your Nerve that close. Listen to him, Reddy. Talks real brave, don't we? The stairs is over there to the side, Marshall. I know that. It's my town, Hack, remember? You don't run it too good, you know. Hurry up, Marshall, for one of your boys down there gets notion. Are you worried r you never see today? Shucks, he's like a little lamb in a loading machine. Matt shouldn't have done it. They're not going to let you out of here. Take it easy, Kitty. I'm sorry, Matt. You all right? You wouldn't have done a fool thing like this if it weren't for me being here. Sure I would have by my job, Kitty. Teaching boys like these a little respect for the law. Marshall, did you come up here to talk to me or this lady here? Why do you say me, hack? Doesn't Red even count? You know what I mean. Yeah, I know. I just wonder how long it's going to take Red to learn. What are you talking about? Oh, shut up, Red. He's just trying to start trouble. But no right. What does he mean, Learn what? You got your orders, didn't you, Red? Heck told you to shut up. I don't take orders from him or nobody else. Red, will you listen? Don't you see what he's trying to do? What? Trying to make bad feeling between clicks does. Talking a pack of lies. He's trying to start us fighting each other. Yeah. Yeah, sure he is. Sure you're easy to fool, aren't you, Red? You believe him? All right, that's enough now. Marshall, there's one more word like that'll blow you in half. You haven't got a chance. I thought you'd realize that. There's two shotguns against your bare hand says we got a chance. Yeah, but you can't use those guns up here, huh? Didn't you even bother to take a look at these sacks here? What are you doing there? Just hooking a spur in one of them and ripping it open. You could have done the same thing, Hack. Well, just some black dust of some kind here. Let's toss some up in the air. Don't you recognize him? Don't get there all full of that stuff. Did neither one of you ever work around a mine? Yeah, I did. Then take a closer look, Red. Don't you know black powder when you see it? Yes. Blasting powder. That's what it is. It's gunpowder. No. You better lay those shotguns down easy, boys. You pull a trigger and this whole place will go up in one big blast. You're right, Red. We can't shoot nobody in here. You'll stand a better chance going to trial. That's why you come up here without a gun. All right, Won't use my gun. But we're still two against one, Marshal. Come on, Red, Jump him. All right. Come on, Red. Stephen, now. And I'm gonna break your neck. No, no, no. Not me. You win, Marshall. All right, then help hack onto his feet. I'll take the shotguns along. All right, get moving, Red. Hey, you're holding that shotgun like you was gonna use it. Just in case you change your mind. What happened? What? Why didn't you jump him? R what's he doing with that gun? He can't use it no more than we could. Oh, not with all that poverty. Well, now, Miles, maybe it is gunpowder. What are you saying? I know it looks like gunpowder, but if it is, Miles got fooled. He bought it for concentrates black iron pyrites. It ain't gunpowder. He fooled us a liar. How about that? A lawman and cheese belayin. Yeah, I'm a liar, all right. I'll admit it. But it beats being what you were. All right, now get moving down those stairs. Go on. You know, on the frontier, you could tell what part of the country a man was from and how he made his living. From the saddle he rode center fire three quarter rig Cheyenne rule Mexican, California or McClellan. The only trouble was you still couldn't know whether he was out to kill you. Sam. Gun Smoke, produced and Directed by Norman McDonald. Stars William Conrad as Matt Dillon, US Marshall. Featured in the cast were Harley Bear as chapter, Howie McNear as Doc, and Georgia Ellis as Kitty. George Walt speaking. Join us again next week for another specially transcribed story on Gun Smoke. Sam.
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Podcast: Old Time Radio Westerns
Host: Andrew Rhynes
Episode Title: Spring Freshet | Gunsmoke (03-17-57)
Release Date: March 8, 2026
Restoration: Digitally enhanced classic radio drama playback
This episode of Old Time Radio Westerns transports listeners back to the golden age of radio drama with a digitally restored airing of a classic Gunsmoke episode titled "Spring Freshet." The central narrative follows Marshal Matt Dillon as he navigates a tense hostage situation in Dodge City involving two notorious outlaws and a beloved local, Miss Kitty. The episode unfolds as a riveting standoff, filled with suspense, negotiation, and a clever twist at the climax reflective of Gunsmoke’s signature style.
"Spring Freshet" exemplifies why Gunsmoke remains a gold standard of radio Westerns—smart writing, tense standoffs, and a hero whose strength lies as much in his wits as in his gun. Marshal Dillon’s quick thinking averts disaster using bluff and moral courage, reminding listeners that on the frontier, survival often belongs to those who can read a situation and improvise. The episode is both a nail-biting thriller and a tribute to the dangerous, unpredictable world of the American West.
For listeners seeking suspense, rich characterization, and clever twists—all delivered with vintage radio drama flair—this episode is a must-hear, especially in its beautifully enhanced form on Old Time Radio Westerns.