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young America and the story of a man who moved with it. 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.
Morning, Doc. Chester. Hello, Matt. We've been waiting for you, Mr. Dillon. Is there
something wrong? Yes, sir. It's Mr. Dobie. He's at the desk in the hotel there. He's
real upset about something. He wants to see you. All right. You both wait here for me.
I'll be right out. Yes, sir. All right. Marshal Dillon, I've sure been wanting to see you.
Oh, what's the trouble, Mr. Dobie? You got a riot in here or something? There'll be a
riot if you don't get them people out of here, Marshal. What people? The Daggits, that's
who. Well, who are the Daggits? Big Dan Daggety calls himself and he is big too, Marshal.
I never heard of him. He's only been in Dodge since yesterday. He's one of them mountain
men from on west. He's a hunter or something, one of them real hairy fellas. Shouldn't
be allowed around other white men. Oh, why not? What's he doing? He's sitting in my
hotel. I let him in before he told me. Before he told you what? It's better you see for
yourself, Marshal. Room's right at the top of the stairs there. Well, OK, Dobie, let's
go. It's true, ain't it, Marshal, that I don't have to let nobody stay in my hotel
I don't want. I guess so, if you got a good reason. I've got plenty of reasons. Three
men have moved out already. And it sounds to me like he must have a box of rattlesnakes
with him or something. Worse than that. This is room here. This is a double room, isn't
it? He needs it. He needs a whole dog on prairie. And that's where he's going. Now, you two
tell him, Marshal. Hello. I got the US Marshal with me this time, Daggett. Oh, I'm Marshal
Dylan Daggett. Dobie wanted me to come over here and meet you. Come on in. How you were
right about his being big, Dobie. Man can't help being big. It's no offense. It's all
right. There have been times I wished I was smaller. Not that I can't move as fast as
any man. I'm easier to see is the only bad part. Tell me, Daggett, what's the trouble
between you and Dobie here? It ain't my trouble, Marshal. All right, Dobie, I guess you better
explain. There's nothing wrong here that I can see. It ain't him. It's his wife. What?
You don't like my wife because she's an Indian, Marshal. That's a lie. What I care if she's
an Indian. I don't understand. Where is she, Daggett? Another room. Well, bring her in
here. Dobie, you know what I could do to you with the fingers of this one hand, just the
fingers. Don't forget I got the marshal with me. I use the other hand on him. He starts
ordering me around too. Now, wait a minute. This kind of talk isn't doing any good. You're
probably pretty good with that gun, Marshal, but I've killed mountain lion with his knife.
I ain't afraid of anything alive and not many ghosts. Ghosts. You even talk like a savvy.
All right, that's enough, Dobie. Daggett, I didn't come here for a fight. I came to see
what all the trouble is about. Now, if it's something that has to do with your wife, tell
me. It has to do with Dobie, not with my wife. That's a lie. Dan? There she is. Look, Marshal.
If it is me they are talking about, Dan, why didn't you call me? It's nothing to do with
you. He was trying to order me around. At least he was Dobie there. I only told you
to get her in here so the marshal could see her. Well, now he's seen her. Now, what's
all the fuss about? You're playing dumb, ain't you, Daggett? Wait a minute. I don't think
he is. Tell me something. Where did you and Miss Daggett meet? Near Denver. Near Denver?
I'm a mountain man, Marshal. Never been on the prairie before. What were you doing near
Denver, Miss Daggett? I was sent there four years ago to complete my education. My father
was a chief, Marshal. A chief? What chief? His name was Yellow Horse. Yellow Horse. That's
worse. That's the worst yet. I don't understand either of you men. What are you talking about?
Well, Dobie could tell that your wife was a Kiowa by the way she dressed. She got to
come from some tribe, don't she? Yeah, but being the daughter of Yellow Horse makes it
even worse. Why? Two years ago the Kiowas killed some 18 settlers on raids through the country
near here. Yellow Horse led them until he was killed. You never told me that. Is that
true? I only heard my father was dead. They told me nothing else. Well, what difference
does it make anyway? You wasn't on them raids. The feeling's still high against Kiowas around
here, Daggett, but you're right. She had nothing to do with them. A Kiowa's a Kiowa and we
won't stand for him and dodge. Don't be a fool, Dobie. How can you blame her for what
somebody else did? I blame that whole tribe and especially her father. And I won't stand
for her being here. She's probably as murdering as he was. Dobie. All right, hold it, Daggett.
I'd like to apologize to Miss Daggett for bothering her. Apologize? Let's get out of here, Dobie.
No. You come here to throw him out and you're going to do it. Dobie, I guess I'm a little
like Dan Daggett here. I don't like taking orders very well either. All right, Marshal.
If the law won't help me... The law won't help you. And don't you try anything else.
Now, come on, we're getting out of here.
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Mr. Dillon? Yeah, what is it, Justice? Well, would you mind stopping in Mr. Jones' store
here? It won't take but a minute or two. You're going to spend your bet money on clothes
again? No, sir. I mean, well, you see, Mr. Dillon, I need a little string tie for Sundays
kind of. They don't cost more than a quarter. All right, in that case, I'll go with you.
There's Miss Kitty. Hi, Miss Kitty. Hi, Chester. The ties is hanging back over there, Mr. Dillon.
I won't be long. All right, Chester. Well, you're as bad as Chester, Kitty. Always buying
clothes. As Chester? Matt, if Chester's always buying clothes, how come ever since I've known
him, he's worn that same pair of striped pants? Well, he's careful with them, I guess. You
never get some torn. You have to go to bed if he ever does. Where's Mr. Jones? Out back.
He's showing Dan Daggett and his wife something. Oh, are they here? Sure. He introduced me
to him. Big Dan Daggett. Like you said last night, Matt, he earned the name. He's a buffalo,
that man. Yeah, he sure is. His wife's name's Rose. Said you couldn't pronounce it in Indian,
so he made it English. She's a beautiful little thing. Ah, she's prettier than most women
around here. Thanks. Oh, now, Kitty. You're right. She really is. I guess Dan Daggett can't
be all brute or a girl like that would never have married him. Yeah, it's too bad Dobie
over at the Dodge house can't see it your way, Kitty. No, Dobie's just not thinking very
straight. Where's Jonas? He's out back, Roden. Oh, hello, Marshal. I didn't recognize you.
Oh, here he comes. What's that, Matt? His name's Roden. He works over at one of the stables.
Oh, that explains why he's too poor ever to come into the Long Branch. Jonas! Hey, Jonas!
I'll be right with you, Roden. Well, I'm in a hurry. Won't be but a minute. I ain't waiting
while you sell beads to her. Hey, wait a minute. What's she doing in here anyway? You stay
here, Kitty. He's got as much right to be here as you have, Roden. This Kiowa woman,
you gone crazy? No. Let's throw her out of here. All right, Will. The woman is my wife,
mister. Your wife? Your wife? You'll have to throw me out too. What? Now, look here,
I didn't mean nothing. If you don't mean nothing, then don't talk. Sure, sure. What do I care?
It's your business. I don't care. And even if you do care, you shouldn't say nothing about
it out loud. I ain't saying nothing. I gotta go now. I gotta go. Well, it looks like you
handled that pretty well, Daggett. Can't fight every man in the world. No, I guess you can't.
And I don't aim to, long as they don't push me too far. Is Dobie leaving you alone? Oh,
he's doing a lot of talking around. He's trying to stir up trouble. But before it comes, we'll
probably be gone. Back to Colorado in the mountains. But, Marshal, you come and see
us sometime the next day or so. Rose, I'd like that. Well, thank you, Daggett. It'll
be a pleasure. Where's Doc at this morning, Mr. Dillon? I've been up to his office twice
and he ain't there. Well, he was called up to the Duke place last night, Chester. Somebody
sick? Well, Doc doesn't get many social calls, you know. I was calling on him social. Oh,
well, he'll appreciate that, I'm sure. Well, I think I'll go up to the Dodge house and
make a call on Jim Dobie. More trouble, Mr. Dillon? Well, there will be if somebody doesn't
stop him. He's been talking to everybody who'll listen about Rose Daggett being the yellow
horse's daughter. How they ought to run her out of town. It's like he's looking for help,
ain't it? Yeah. He ought to know better than that, a man like Dobie. Now, that's what I'm
going to try to explain to him, Chester. Marshal. Hello, Daggett. Marshal, I'm kind of worried.
Why, what's the matter? It's Rose. I can't find her nowhere. You can't find her? No.
Well, maybe you and Chester will help look for her. I've been everywhere. Of course we'll
help you. Now, where did you see her last? Well, right in our room. Let me tell you, I woke
up real early. Couldn't get back to sleep. Didn't want to bother Rose, so I got dressed.
I went out in the street and I walked around. I wasn't gone more than one hour, Marshal.
I never left her. Did you ask them at the hotel that anybody see her leave? There wasn't
nobody at the hotel. Not when I went out, not when I come back. Nobody could have seen
her. Where could she have gone to that hour in the morning? She wouldn't have gone nowhere,
Chester, not Rose. What I can't understand. Well, all right, let's start looking for her.
I guess we'll start with the hotel. Sure do want to thank you for this, Marshal. You too,
Chester. We'll find her. Don't you worry. Hey, man. Yeah, sure. Look, he's got somebody
with him. That's Rose. That's Rose in that buggy. Rose. Rose, what are you doing there?
Hello, Dan. Well, get down. Here, I'll take you. You will have to carry me, Dan. Where
you been? What happened to your feet? Chester. What, Doc? Do me a favor. Take this buggy,
will you? Sure will. Let me get down here. And you, you must be Daggett. Yeah. Take Rose
into the Marshal's office. She shouldn't be on the street out here. We'll go. She told
me about her husband, Matt, but she didn't tell me that he was that big. Come on, let's
follow him. Yeah. Tell me, Doc, what was Rose doing with you? I found her out in the prairie,
about 10 miles east of here. What was she doing out there? I'll let her tell you that.
Just you stay and sit right there, Rose. I am all right there. Oh, Doctor, this is my
husband, Dan. I kind of gathered that, Rose. Glad to know you, Dan. Good thing you've
come along, Doc. You feel up to telling the whole story, Rose? I expect the Marshal here
will be interested, too. Yes, all right. Then I want you to come up to my office with me.
Yes, Doctor. Has she been hurt, Doc? Go ahead, Rose. Tell me. Well, early this morning, I
woke up when somebody tied a bandana over my face. You never should have left you alone.
Oh, that is foolish talk, Dan. It was not your fault. Go on, Rose. Well, it was two men.
They never said a word the whole time. They never talked once. But they carried me out
the back way, and then they tied me onto a horse and let it way out into the prairie.
They finally stopped and took me off and untied me. And then they took my shoes away and they
rode off. Finally got the blindfold off and I walked and walked till I saw the doctor's
buggy coming. I could not have walked much farther. Rose. Rose. Now, wait a minute, Dan.
Rose, you never saw these men. No. And you never heard their voices. No, but I heard
them walk. Everybody has a different walk. Or did you recognize either of them from hearing
them walk? No. It was not Dobie or that man in the store. We'll find them, Rose. We'll
sit on the street. We'll listen until we find them. When we do, I'll cut them. I'll cut
them awful before I kill them. No, Daggett. You let Rose find them as she can and then
I'll take them. They're mine, Marshal. They're just as much mine as Rose is mine. I wouldn't
let nobody else in the world touch them but me. That'd be murder. Is that what you call
it? Rose, Doc wants you in his office. You go along now and then we'll start listening.
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head down, her eyes half closed. Listening to the footsteps of hundreds of men as they
passed. And Daggett would stand at her side, his bowie knife in his belt, waiting with
animal patience for a sign from his wife. But it didn't come. And I began to hope that
for his sake the kidnappers had left the country and nothing had happened. And then the morning
of the third day Chester and I were loafing around on the porch of the General's store.
Where's the Daggots this morning Mr. Dillon? They ain't over there where they usually are.
I guess they haven't started yet Chester. I swear every man in Dodge must have walked
past there by now. Oh but two maybe.
Morning Marshal. Chester. Hello Mr. Dobie. Dobie. I'm looking for the Daggots Marshal.
You seen them? No I haven't Dobie. But Dan Daggett isn't taking things as easy as he
was. If I were you I'd stop looking right now. Doc told me what happened Marshal. Doc
did huh? Well he knew nobody else would so he took it on himself. What for? For my own
good the way he put it. Well did it do you any good? Made me mad. Mad at myself mostly.
Marshal I've been a fool. Hey Mr. Dillon there's Rose now. What? In the street there. She's
got a shotgun. Hey what's she doing? Looks like she's following those two men. Well she
sure is. Come on. She stopped them. She's gotten turned around. She's gonna shoot them.
Oh they ain't making any move. I didn't know it was us. What if it was? I guess you ain't
learned nothing. Maybe we'll have to do it again. Don't shoot Rose I'll take them. Alright
give me the shotgun Rose. It is empty Marshal. Why did you do it? I'd have arrested them.
Then we would have found a way to kill them even if you had. They're dead Mr. Dillon.
Both of them. Who are they Justice? I never saw them before in my life. Couple of strangers
I guess. Rose! I'll go get somebody to give me a hand. Rose! Was that them? Why didn't
you tell me? What did you run away for? Why'd you kill them? They are the ones Dan. How'd
you know? Where did you spot them? They walked past our table while we were eating breakfast.
You said you was going up to our room. I did go. Long enough to get the shotgun. Why didn't
you tell me? Why'd you have to kill them? I could not see you hang for what happened
to me Dan. I'd have gladly hung for it. Anything's better than your going to jail. I will not
mind Dan. It'll kill you. I won't let it happen. It ain't right. Don't try to take her Marshal.
Don't you try. I know how you feel Daggett. But I've got to arrest her. Rose has got to
stand trial. What'll they do to her? Well I don't think there's a judge in Kansas who'd
convict Rose for what she did under the circumstances. Marshal Dillon. Yes what Dobie? I got to say
something Marshal. All right say it. Them two men she killed. I just looked at them
and I don't know who they are. But I've seen them. So? I seen them the other day when I
was talking the way I was. They heard me. They was listening. Go ahead. Well I just had to
tell you that. I don't feel very proud. You're the one that ought to go to jail Dobie. That's
what I'm trying to tell you Marshal. It's mostly my fault. What happened to her and
this killing and all. Well you've learned something now anyway. Only there's nothing
I can do about it. Too late I feel like hiding. Mr. Dobie. Yes ma'am. Would you walk back
to the hotel with me and my husband? Thank you. I'd be proud to.
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Gunsmoke produced and directed by Norman McDonald stars William Conrad as Matt Dillon U.S. Marshal.
Our story was specially written for Gunsmoke by John Meston with music composed and conducted
by Rex Corey. Sound patterns by Tom Hanley and Ray Kemper. Featured in the cast were
Lawrence Dobkin, Harry Bartel, Lillian Byiff, Clayton Post and Joe Duval. Harley Bear is
Chester Howard McNair is Doc and Georgia Ellis is Kitty.
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