Gun smoke brought to you by L and M filters. This is it. L and M is best. Stands out from all the rest. Around Dodge City and in the territory on west, there's just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers, and that's with a U.S. Marshal and the smell of gun smoke. Gun smoke starring William Conrad, the transcribed story of the violence that moved west. With 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 chance a job and it makes a man watchful and a little lonely. You got the time, Chester? Why, Mr. Dillon? Why? I'd just like to know what time it is, that's all. Well, yes sir, I figured that, but I wondered how important it is. Well, it isn't this important, Chester, believe me. 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'd give him the loan of mine, but I can still go in and look at it whenever I need to. Oh, well that's a very good arrangement, Chester. Yes sir. I figured time's a whole lot more important to a man like him than it is to me. It ain't but seldom it matters none one way or the other where I'm concerned. You understand? Oh, I surely do. Yes, I do. I understand, Chester. Yeah. Why did you want to know, Mr. Dillon? I mean about what time it is. You're making me sorry, I ask, Chester, but I'm supposed to meet a man at the Dodge house at two o'clock. Oh, well, it ain't no where's near two o'clock yet. Well, how do you know? The sun. It lacks 15 minutes to be in two o'clock. Chester. Yes sir? Why don't you sell that watch to Mr. Hightower? Oh, I wouldn't want to sell that watch. My Uncle Arthur gave me that watch, Mr. Dillon. He got it from a fellow in the corner out of Anaconda. Get out and stay out. Don't you come back in this door ever again. Mr. Jonas. Well, lay off. Kneel. Don't talk back to me now. Now just get. What's that Indian kid up to now? I told you he's not an Indian. Hey, boy. Hey, boy. Oh, look at him go. He ain't waiting for nobody. 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? Yes, sir. Here. Hello, Marshal. For a minute there, I thought it was that Indian kid back. He ran on down the street, Mr. Jonas. You ought to do something about him, Marshal. Oh, why? Well, you heard about them Cheyenne busing out of Fort Dodge yesterday, didn't you? Yeah, I heard. Well, wait till they massacre some people around here. Then what'll folks think of that boy running loose? Why should they think anything? He's an Indian, ain't he? He's a Cheyenne? No. His name's Cullen and he's white. The Army found him with them engines, didn't they? The Indians stole him from Miss Cullen eight years ago down on the Madison River. You know that. I don't know it. Now I hear it ain't her kid at all. He sure don't look like her. Why did you throw him out of here, Mr. Jonas? He was trying to buy ammunition for his sharp rifle. What? Said Miss Cullen won. Now you know that's a lie. I'm telling you, Marshal, with them Cheyenne loose, it ain't safe having a boy like that around. You ought to lock him up. He's not supplying the Cheyenne, Jonas, and don't worry about them. Colonel Honeyman's got two troops out after him. 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. 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. Mr. Dillon? Yeah, what, Chester? That Indian kid, he's starting to fight with some man. What? Yes, sir. Right in front of the Dodge house. And Mr. Dillon, that little boy's got a knife as long as his arm. Who is that man, Chester? I never seen him before, but I hear he's been plaguing that boy lately. So the boy came looking for him with a knife. Hey, that man's got a knife out now. All right, hold him. Let him alone, Marshal. Move aside there. All right, drop the knife, mister. Not hardly. Drop it. His kid's been asking for it. He started this. What's the matter with you fighting a boy? You dirty little savage. Grab the boy, Chester. All right, drop the knife, mister. He cut me. You saw him. I'll open him up like a melon. No, you won't. What's the matter with you, Marshal? I'll keep this knife. And if you're hurt so bad, go see Doc. You're going to wish you hadn't mixed in this. Am I? All right, I'll take the boy's knife, Chester. Here he is. I'll take the boy's knife, Chester. I'll take the boy's knife, Chester. I'll take the boy's knife, Chester. Here he is. All right, son. Come with me. 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The man talked bad to me Hit me in the mouth, kick me Different men give me big knife Then I fight You stop or I'll kill him Make big guns, kill him You stop or I'll kill him Make big coups You're not a brave Vihokan You're not an Indian You're white You've got to remember that Vihokan have many Indian brothers But you're home now You're living among white men You have a white mother You've got to stop thinking like an Indian Or you're going to get into real trouble Mrs. Cullen talked hard at Vihokan for a fight You know, understand That's why I came home with you Now let's go in And I'll tell her that it wasn't your fault Is that you, Dennis? Where have you been? Oh, Marshal Dillon Come in Hello, Miss Cullen You came home with Dennis? Name Vihokan No, Dennis Please, Dennis, let's don't argue that now And look at you Where are your shoes? No wear shoes And 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, Marshal 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, hmm? I go And take that arrow point out of your hair Sit down, Marshal Oh, thank you, ma'am It's not easy A woman at forty A widow Raising a boy like that No, ma'am, I know But I want to And I've got to What? What do you mean, Miss Cullen? He's a white boy Anybody can see that But he isn't mine, Marshal What? 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've given 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 I'm sure he won't, ma'am Why did you bring him home, Marshal? You heard about the Cheyennes The band he was taken with They'd broken out of Fort Dodge Now the boys heard it too, Miss Cullen Why do you say that? Ma'am You own the Sharps rifle Yes It was Mr. Cullen's The very one he died fighting with on the Medicine River But why? Well, Dennis tried to buy ammunition for it today What? Mr. Jonas thinks he's planning to help those Indians But how? What could he do? 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 They have He got into a fight with a grown man today And he cut him up some No It wasn't his fault, Miss Cullen, but that's the sort of thing that can happen more and more If you're saying I should give him up I won't I know, ma'am He needs his own people He needs a mother Just like my own boy needs one If he's still alive somewhere The only thing I'm saying, ma'am, is that you've got to keep him here at the house till that scare about the Cheyenne is over If you let him run around town, I'm going to have to lock him up for his own protection Mr. Dillon? That's Chester Come in, Chester Thank you Colonel Hunnaman I'm sorry to intrude, ma'am Hello, Marshal I'd like to talk to the boy, Mrs. Cullen Talk to? Was there something wrong, Colonel? You know who Little Wolf is? He's chief of the Cheyenne on the Darlington reservation, didn't he? They were, Darlington I just had word they've broken out and are headed this way Three hundred of them Oh, I see Obviously they're coming to meet the Indians who escaped Port Dodge yesterday What does this have to do with you wanting to talk to Dennis, Colonel? I want him to tell me where their point of rendezvous is How would Dennis know? 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 But Dennis isn't... I'll call him Dennis? Dennis? You'll call V.O.C.H.R.N.? Please, son It's Dennis now Come in here, Colonel, Hunnaman wants to talk to you Hello, hello, boy Soldier? You want to talk with me? Yes Tell me, do you know Little Wolf? Little Wolf Chief Good Chief Good Chief He was maybe, but he's done a bad thing now No He left reservation, he's going to join Long Knife Long Knife, my Chief Dennis, don't say that Let him talk, Mrs. Cullen Long Knife escaped Yes, he and the others you were with burned their barracks at Fort Dodge and killed three soldiers Si, Hocan, no Sure you do, and you also know where Long Knife is meeting Little Wolf and his people If you tell me, you'll save lives, V.O.C.H.R.N.? Not only of those soldiers, but of those of your people too Can you? Please, Mrs. Cullen Tell me, V.O.C.H.R.N.? Dennis, not no meeting place Well, you can't beat it out of him, Colonel No, I'm sorry to have bothered you, Mrs. Cullen Goodbye I'll go with you, Colonel Mrs. Cullen, will you remember what I said? I'll keep an eye on him, Marshal Fine Goodbye, Mrs. Cullen Goodbye That was a waste of time Well, what are your plans now, Colonel? Plans? Marshal, 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 Ah, you want civilian help? No, no It'd only end in a massacre of some kind Well, I'll have to do the best I can Well, good luck Yeah, that boy could have helped You'd better keep a close watch on him, Marshal Well, let's get back to the fort, Sergeant Yes, sir Mr. Dillon? Yeah, what, Chester? I've been thinking If Army left them Indians alone in the first place, they wouldn't be in all this trouble Yeah That's not for us to decide All right, let's go Well, now, Kitty, how about you? More coffee? No, thanks, Tuck You, Matt? Yeah, I think I'll have some, Doc, just a little Good, good You know, that coffee's three parts chicory and one part lye That's why it needs a little cream, Kitty It softens it a bit It's kind of hard on the cream Yeah, we should have gone up to my office, I'd have made us some real coffee Oh, I didn't just get up to supper, Doc Oh, so I said coffee, not a whole meal Oh, I'd have cooked it, Doc Oh, on that stove of mine, you would have had Do you know I learned to cook on an open fire? You did? Not on 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 Well, you're rich now Oh, sure Oh, Mr. Marshall Mrs. Collins What's the trouble? He's gone, Marshall What? Dennis, he's gone When did you see him last? 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 that until things change 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 Maybe he just wandered around somewhere No He's gone Well, how do you know? That arrow point he always wants to tie in his hair He took that, Marshall So? 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No, Colonel Honeyman didn't send me He follow? No, he didn't follow Silojo, niyava What's he yelling about? Look over there Chester Oh my goodness Oh my goodness Oh my goodness Indians, oh there must be 20 of them Don't move Why are you about to? Yeah, they're warriors Every one of them My name Little Wolf That's the chief Colonel Honeyman said he was meeting him A Cheyenne that busted out of Fort Dodge Yeah, and the boy knew where they were He was in there all the time You tell Vihokan soldiers not follow The soldiers are hunting for you little wolf But they're not with us Daish layi, niyya Vihokan say Little Wolf can believe marshal You can believe me They came alone They came to take the boy back home Vihokan no like life with white man Well, he'll get used to it He belongs with his own people Little Wolf Little Wolf say all men free Vihokan must make own choice He's too young He doesn't know what's best for him If he make mistake His mistake Boy never become man Other people make choice for him Little Wolf, this boy's not an Indian He's white And if he stays with you and long knife You know what will happen to him He live like Indian He'll die like an Indian too The soldiers are after you And sooner or later they'll find you And when they do they'll be a big battle And many of your people will die Perhaps a boy will die with them Vihokan not afraid You're white Vihokan You're not an Indian This is not your fight Call names Mrs. Karno understand Vihokan Nobody understand Well, it Takes time Vihokan Boy decide You want to come with Cheyenne You know stop We have a hard time to against twenty If you fight We kill you 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 Soldier not like Indian Soldier get tired Go back Indian go north Powder river home Hunt, fish again And the soldiers Hunt, fish again White people not My people Vihokan stay with Indian Vihokan decide Leave now Maybe someday come back Great chief Not with the army Cheyenne Madison river Vihokan The other Did you hear what he said? Yeah Madison river Vihokan Madison river White boy Is that where Ms. Cullen lost her son? Yeah Then he is her boy after all And she didn't recognize him He must have changed a lot You gonna tell her? 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