Trouble in Kansas | Gunsmoke (10-16-55)

Summary

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Old Time Radio Westerns: Gunsmoke – “Trouble in Kansas” (10-16-55)

Host: Andrew Rhynes
Original Air Date: October 16, 1955
Podcast Date: December 28, 2025
Episode Summary by ChatGPT

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Episode Overview

In this episode of Gunsmoke, Marshal Matt Dillon finds himself in the midst of growing tension between Texas cattlemen and Kansan locals as a cattle herd is threatened by violent outlaws. When a group of Texans brings their cattle to Kansas, they’re met with hostility, threats, and mysterious attacks, intensifying longstanding regional mistrust. Dillon steps in to untangle the truth, unravel the motives of all involved, and keep violence from spiraling out of control.

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Key Discussion Points & Story Breakdown

1. Tensions in Dodge – Texans vs. Kansans

Setting the Stage in Dodge City

• [04:44] – [06:15] Marshal Dillon is invited for a drink at the Long Branch Saloon by Doc Adams and is soon joined by Kitty. The casual atmosphere is disrupted when they learn of a Texan, Jim Hoyt, who is openly hostile and armed, claiming he’s “got a pack horse outside loaded with ammunition... to kill Kansans with.”
  • Quote (Kitty, [06:10]): "He said it’s to kill Kansans with, Doc."

Introducing the Conflict

• [06:31] – [07:23] Dillon approaches Hoyt, who reveals he’s with a group of Texas cattlemen, led by Jack Raven, and that they are in Kansas driving cattle. Their short tempers and mistrust of the “Kansans” foreshadow the fraught situation.

2. The Threat of the Jayhawkers

Texan Cattle Crew’s Ordeal

• [08:53] – [11:33] Dillon and Chester accompany Hoyt south to the cattle camp. Jack Raven, the trail boss, explains that outlaws have been stampeding their cattle at night, leading to losses and fear. He mentions sending for ammunition:
  • Quote (Jack Raven, [10:28]): "We aim to kill Kansans with it, marshal."

Explaining the Outlaws

• [11:33] – [12:13] Dillon educates Raven about the “Jayhawkers”—not Kansans at large, but criminal raiders from the Missouri border whose violence continues after the war:
  • Quote (Dillon, [11:37]): “They’re outlaws, Raven. They’re murderers... they cause a lot of trouble.”

3. Escalating Hostility and Blackmail

Attack on Jim Hoyt

• [13:20] – [14:25] The next morning, Jim Hoyt returns to camp battered and bloody, having been stripped, flogged, and delivered an ultimatum: pay $2 per head of cattle by sundown or face more violence.
  • Quote (Jim Hoyt, [14:14]): "If I pay them Jayhawkers $2 a head, they say there won't be no more trouble. By sundown. They want that money by sundown."
• Raven refuses to pay and orders increased security; mistrust between the cattlemen and Dillon remains palpable.

4. Marshal Dillon’s Stakeout and Ambush

Investigating the Jayhawkers

• [17:02] – [18:49] While Raven posts guards, Dillon and Chester scout a nearby gully, suspecting it’s the Jayhawkers' approach path. They decide to intercept the next attack, hoping to scare, not shoot, the outlaws to avoid a cattle stampede.
  • Quote (Dillon, [18:22]): “I'm hoping there won't be any shooting at all.”

Encounter with the Jayhawkers

• [19:08] – [20:43] As the Jayhawkers appear, Dillon and Chester surprise them, capturing three while one escapes. Unfortunately, the commotion starts a stampede anyway.
  • Quote (Chester, [20:29]): “He sure did put up a fight, didn't he?”
  • Quote (Dillon, [20:32]): “I kind of misjudged her being cowards and quitting.”

5. Texas Crew’s Suspicion and Resolution

Back at Camp – Accused of Treachery

• [21:28] – [22:19] On returning, Dillon and Chester are met with suspicion. The cattlemen, led by Hoyt, want to lynch them for the shooting, thinking they caused the stampede.
  • Quote (Jim Hoyt, [21:33]): "The men wants to hang you."
  • Quote (Dillon, [21:53]): "That's no excuse to be talking about lynching anymore."

The Truth Comes Out

• [22:26] – [23:31] Trail boss Jack Raven returns with evidence—dead Jayhawkers—proving Dillon and Chester’s actions saved the cattlemen from further attack. Realization dawns, and the Texans’ tension cools.
  • Quote (Jack Raven, [22:43]): "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."
  • Quote (Dillon, [23:31]): “Forget it, Hoyt. It's over. I don't think you'll be bothered anymore.”

Final Reconciliation and Comradery

• [23:36] – [24:15] Raven thanks Dillon, and in classic Western camaraderie, the trail boss offers Dillon a drink when they all get to Dodge:
  • Quote (Raven, [23:50]): “When we get to Dodge, we'll maybe want to kick up our heels a little.”
  • Quote (Dillon, [24:12]): “...this is one outfit that can hurrah Dodge all at once. When you get there, the first bottle's on me.”

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• "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 lonely."
  – Matt Dillon, iconic opening monologue [04:04]

• "We aim to kill Kansans with it, marshal."
  – Jack Raven, describing what the ammo's for [10:28]

• "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."
  – Matt Dillon, describing Jayhawkers [11:37]

• "If I pay them Jayhawkers $2 a head, they say there won't be no more trouble. By sundown. They want that money by sundown."
  – Jim Hoyt describing the extortion threat [14:14]

• "I kind of misjudged her being cowards and quitting."
  – Dillon, after the violent confrontation [20:32]

• "We ain't talking, Marshall. We gonna do it [lynch you]."
  – Jim Hoyt, highlighting the volatile atmosphere [22:00]

• "You done our work for us, Marshall. It was you too found them devils and faced them."
  – Jack Raven, granting Dillon respect [23:22]

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• [04:04] – Matt Dillon’s classic opening
• [06:10] – The Texan’s open threat in the saloon
• [08:53] – Dillon & Chester join the cattle drive
• [10:28] – Trail boss reveals intent to use ammo on Kansans
• [11:37] – Dillon educates on Jayhawkers
• [13:20] – Hoyt returns flogged, blackmail demand is revealed
• [17:54] – Dillon and Chester scout for Jayhawkers
• [19:08] – Jayhawkers’ approach and interruption
• [21:28] – Texans threaten to lynch Dillon & Chester
• [22:43] – Jack Raven reveals the bodies, clears Dillon and Chester
• [23:50] – Texans and lawmen reconcile over a drink

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Summary in the Show’s Tone

“Trouble in Kansas” embodies the grit and suspicion of the Western frontier, highlighting both the distrust between outsiders and locals as well as the importance of cooler heads in solving real threats. Marshal Dillon’s steady hand, wit, and courage once again keep Dodge—and the untamed prairie—just a little safer.

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Transcript

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[Old Time Radio Westerns Host (Andrew Hines)]

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[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

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 lonely.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal) / Various Male Characters]

Matt, got time for a drink?

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

Well, I'll go with you. Talk.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal) / Various Male Characters]

Good. Good. And the long branch is closest. Let's go in there.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

Okay.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal) / Various Male Characters]

Some people say it doesn't look good for a doctor to be seen in.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

A saloon, especially in the daytime.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal) / Various Male Characters]

Then you believe it, too?

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

Oh, no, no, not me. I look on doctors as almost human.

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[Matt Dillon (Marshal) / Various Male Characters]

Oh, almost human. Well, that's mighty charitable of you. I'll think of that the next time you come crawling around with your throat cut or with a bullet in you.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

You'll feel better when you get your drink, Doc.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal) / Various Male Characters]

Yeah, I'll feel better when I talk to Kitty. Hello, Doc.

[Kitty / Other Female Characters]

Matt.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

Hello, Kitty.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal) / Various Male Characters]

It's a pleasure to see you, Kitty. It's a real pleasure.

[Kitty / Other Female Characters]

Well, thanks, Doc.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal) / Various Male Characters]

Sam, a bottle and two glasses. Look here, doc, I'm buying the lady a drink.

[Kitty / Other Female Characters]

You sure you haven't had enough already, Doc?

[Matt Dillon (Marshal) / Various Male Characters]

Oh, now, just because you're not used to men who act like gentlemen.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

I think he's talking about me, Kitty.

[Kitty / Other Female Characters]

Yeah, figured that. What have you two been arguing about this time?

[Matt Dillon (Marshal) / Various Male Characters]

We don't have been working up to an argument, Kitty.

[Kitty / Other Female Characters]

There's somebody else here seems to be doing that. Oh, A cowboy at the end of the bar.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

Oh, what about him?

[Kitty / Other Female Characters]

I heard him telling Sam he's got a pack horse outside loaded with ammunition.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal) / Various Male Characters]

Well, there's no harm in that, is it?

[Kitty / Other Female Characters]

He said it's the kill Kansans with Doc.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

What did he mean, Kitty?

[Kitty / Other Female Characters]

I don't know, Matt, but he's awful mad about something.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

I'll be back in a minute.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal) / Various Male Characters]

Oh, no, no. Be careful. Careful. Hello.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

My name's Dylan. I'm the marshal Here.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal) / Various Male Characters]

My name is Jim Hoyt and I wish I never heard of Kansas.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

Oh, where you from, Hoyt?

[Matt Dillon (Marshal) / Various Male Characters]

Dino River.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

Texas. Huh?

[Matt Dillon (Marshal) / Various Male Characters]

Texas.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

You staying here long?

[Matt Dillon (Marshal) / Various Male Characters]

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?

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

Yeah, there's something else. Have all of the men in that outfit got their backs up like you have?

[Matt Dillon (Marshal) / Various Male Characters]

Don't you worry nothing about us, Marshall. We'll handle things.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

All that ammunition they sent you for. What's going on down there anyway?

[Matt Dillon (Marshal) / Various Male Characters]

Nothing a few Texans can't take care of.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

Why don't you want to tell me about it, Hoyt?

[Matt Dillon (Marshal) / Various Male Characters]

Because I don't trust you no more than I trust any Kansan.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

And why don't you finish your drink? Cause I'm gonna ride back with.

[Kitty / Other Female Characters]

Stop.

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[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

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 does. 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 R herd. Bedding down for the night. We rode around it up to the chuck wagon fire and dismounted.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal) / Various Male Characters]

Jack Raven's a trail boss, Marshall. And that's him leaning against that wagon studying.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

Now let's go talk to him.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal) / Various Male Characters]

And you tell him how you got here so he'll know who to get.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

I'll do that, Hoyt.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal) / Various Male Characters]

That was the first word Hoyt said in the last 10 miles.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

I guess he's been saving his strength.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal) / Various Male Characters]

What for?

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

I don't know. Maybe the boss here will tell us.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal) / Various Male Characters]

Yeah, if he don't shoot us first. He looks downright unfriendly to me.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

Jack Raven.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal) / Various Male Characters]

That's me.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

My name is Matt Dillon. This Chester Proudfoot.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal) / Various Male Characters]

I do howdy.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

I'm a U.S. marshal. Raven Dodge, huh? This your first time up the trail?

[Matt Dillon (Marshal) / Various Male Characters]

First time for any of it.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

Now Jim Hoyt didn't tell me much. He didn't want me down here at all.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal) / Various Male Characters]

And why'd you come?

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

I got curious about that ammunition you sent him to dodge for.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal) / Various Male Characters]

Some law against it?

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

That depends on what you aim to use it for.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal) / Various Male Characters]

We aim to kill Kansans with it, marshal. Uh huh.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

You got any particular cancels in mind, ay?

[Matt Dillon (Marshal) / Various Male Characters]

Particular?

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

You told me that's your first trip up here. The first trip for any of you, huh?

[Matt Dillon (Marshal) / Various Male Characters]

What's that got to do with it?

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

You lost many cattle?

[Matt Dillon (Marshal) / Various Male Characters]

I've lost all I'm going to.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

How many?

[Matt Dillon (Marshal) / Various Male Characters]

Some 20, 30 head. Centered two of them.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

How'd they get started, men?

[Matt Dillon (Marshal) / Various Male Characters]

Men out there waving blankets they set fire to in the night. And it wasn't engines neither. We seen them, but we couldn't chase them or go shooting at them or we'd have lost the whole herd.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

Now why did you send Hoyt for ammunition? You gonna start shooting next time?

[Matt Dillon (Marshal) / Various Male Characters]

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.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

I see.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal) / Various Male Characters]

I want to get this herd to dodge. Want to get it sold? Then we're riding back this way.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

And shoot anybody you come across, is that it?

[Matt Dillon (Marshal) / Various Male Characters]

Like I said, I ain't particular, marshal. Not about kansans I ain't.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

Tell me something, Raven. You ever hear of jayhawkers?

[Matt Dillon (Marshal) / Various Male Characters]

No.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

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.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal) / Various Male Characters]

And why don't you stop them?

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

We try. Don't forget the ordinary Kansan hates jayhawkers as much as you do.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal) / Various Male Characters]

But what do they want? What good does it do them to stampede my herd?

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

You'll find out what they want. They'll let you know. I want to stay here to help you when they do.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal) / Various Male Characters]

I don't know whether I trust you or not.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

I guess you'll have to find that one out too, Raven.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal) / Various Male Characters]

Yeah, I'll find it out. I got work to do now. I don't know if the cook will feed in the Kansas men, but you can go ask him. Mr. Dylan. Mr. Dillness.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

What what is it, Chester?

[Matt Dillon (Marshal) / Various Male Characters]

It's almost daylight. Oh, yeah.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

I guess we better get up.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal) / Various Male Characters]

I declare, I didn't hear a thing all night. I slept right through.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

Well, if it had been a stampede, you'd have heard it, Jester.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal) / Various Male Characters]

Them Jayhawkers just quit, Baby. Dylan.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

Yeah?

[Matt Dillon (Marshal) / Various Male Characters]

Look yonder riding that horse.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

That's Jim Hoyt.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal) / Various Male Characters]

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.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

Yeah.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal) / Various Male Characters]

What in the world you supposed happening?

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

He didn't get those marks on his back from a fall.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal) / Various Male Characters]

Take a look at Jim Hoyt, Marshall. Take a good look.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

Where'd they catch you, Hoyt?

[Matt Dillon (Marshal) / Various Male Characters]

How come you know anybody caught me, Marshall? That's a good question. How do you know this has happened before?

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

It's one of their methods. Filthy cans and Jayhawkers.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal) / Various Male Characters]

Mighty fancy name for a bunch of murdering devils.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

You were on guard and they sneaked up on you.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal) / Various Male Characters]

Is that the way it happened? They stripped me and flogged me. Then they give them a message for me.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

They want money, huh?

[Matt Dillon (Marshal) / Various Male Characters]

I got 2,000 head of cattle, Marshal. If I pay them Jayhawkers $2 a head, they say there won't be no more trouble. By sundown. They want that money by sundown.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

You gonna pay it, Raven?

[Matt Dillon (Marshal) / Various Male Characters]

I'd rather lose a whole herd. We'll ride guarding pairs tonight. There won't be any more beatings. I hope there's no shooting. Them cattle are ready to run most anything by now.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

We'd like to ride with you, Raven.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal) / Various Male Characters]

I might trust you, Marshall. I don't know, but the men wouldn't. They'd never stand for her.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

All right, we're gonna be around. We're not leaving here.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal) / Various Male Characters]

You better keep pretty close to camp. You might get yourself killed if you stray very far.

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[Matt Dillon (Marshal) / Various Male Characters]

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[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

I took Raven's advice and Chester and I stayed with a chuck wagon all that day. But when the herd was bedded down about dusk, we saddled up and rode out of camp. Raven had his men standing guard by twos, all right. And he had the herd lying in a plane that apparently nobody could approach without being seen. A mile or so off we scouted the land, all dark. And 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.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal) / Various Male Characters]

That's awful long gully, Mr. Dylan. Them Jayhawkers could ride out of it most anywhere for a mile or so.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

They could, Chester, but right in here is where it's closest to the herd. We better lie down.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal) / Various Male Characters]

You know, I've been thinking, Mr. Dillon. There's only two of us. Might go hard if we have to shoot it out with maybe a dozen men.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

And I'm hoping there won't be any shooting at all.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal) / Various Male Characters]

Almost half mile from that herd. Hadn't ought to bother him very much.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

It'd bother him. Like Raven said, those cattle are ready to run at anything.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal) / Various Male Characters]

Well, if we can't shoot, how are we gonna stop them Jayhawkers?

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

Most of the kind are cowards, Chester. We surprise them, maybe we can scare them into dropping their guns.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal) / Various Male Characters]

You believe that?

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

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.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal) / Various Male Characters]

They sure are a hard headed lot, ain't they?

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

They got some cause to be, Jesse.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal) / Various Male Characters]

Well, they got no cause to.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

Listen.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal) / Various Male Characters]

Somebody in the gulch. They're right down there, Mr. Dillon. They'll come Climb it out in a minute.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

Not if we're on top of them.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal) / Various Male Characters]

Come on.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

Don't do any shooting unless I do, huh?

[Matt Dillon (Marshal) / Various Male Characters]

No, I won't.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

Quiet now.

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[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

There we'll stampede them from here.

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All we gotta do is spread out.

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[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

Let's spread out a little. Joseph, we'll crawl right up on top of them. Come on. No, no, no. We're a long ways off. If we set up enough rifle fire.

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[Matt Dillon (Marshal) / Various Male Characters]

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[Matt Dillon (Marshal) / Various Male Characters]

One of them's getting away. Mr. Dylan, will we chase him?

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No, let him go, Chester. We got the other three.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal) / Various Male Characters]

He sure did put up a fight, didn't he?

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Yeah. I kind of misjudged her being cowards and quitting.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal) / Various Male Characters]

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[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

Yeah, it's the cattle. We started another stampede after all.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal) / Various Male Characters]

Come on, we better go help.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

No, they're running the other way. We never get anywhere near them.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal) / Various Male Characters]

Texans is going to be mighty mad.

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Yeah. And mostly at. 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.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal) / Various Male Characters]

It was you done all that shooting, Marshall?

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

Some of it, yeah.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal) / Various Male Characters]

I was shooting too. The men wants to hang you.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

Oh, is that something?

[Matt Dillon (Marshal) / Various Male Characters]

He 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.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

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[Matt Dillon (Marshal) / Various Male Characters]

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[Matt Dillon (Marshal) / Various Male Characters]

We ain't talking, Marshall. We gonna do it.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

Wouldn't you like to know why we were doing the shooting?

[Matt Dillon (Marshal) / Various Male Characters]

We know all we need to know. Unbuckle them guns both.

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[Matt Dillon (Marshal) / Various Male Characters]

It's Jack Raven. Raven ain't gonna stop us. What's going on here? About to hang us a couple of Kansans.

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Raven.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal) / Various Male Characters]

That's what I figured. Don't aim to have no interference. All right, I'll give you any.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

Good.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal) / Various Male Characters]

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 two 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.

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This for true, Reef?

[Matt Dillon (Marshal) / Various Male Characters]

It's true. Well, I guess I've been a little hot headed. I didn't trust the marshal either. Not at first. Well then you done our work for us, Marshall. It was you too found them devils and faced them.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal)]

Ah, forget it, Hoyt. It's over. I don't think he'll be bothered anymore.

[Matt Dillon (Marshal) / Various Male Characters]

See Marshall, me and Hoyt and the men. Well, we've had a bad trip. When we get to Dodge, we'll maybe want to kick up our heels a little.

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Short of gunplay, Raven, this is one outfit that can hurrah Dodge all at once. What do you get there? The first bottle's on me.

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