Speaker 1: High sail, a fiery horse with the speed of light,
a cloud of dust, and a hardy hillow silver, A
lone rangers.
Speaker 2: To come from stock and the contact A d stop
stop stop at about um stop steps have lub steps
taste at the hip stop steps.
Speaker 1: When the Western United States was first open to settlers,
land was to be had for the asking, but peace
and security were not Outlaws robbed and killed, and the
local sheriffs elected to protect the honest people often worked
with the criminals. It was then that the masked rider
of the Plains rode in the cause of justice. It
was he, more than any other man, who brought law
and order to the frontier. And I'll return with us
to those thrilling days when the West was young. The
lone Ranger rides again.
Speaker 3: Come Silver, We're ready for the super hills.
Speaker 4: So where horse.
Speaker 5: S?
Speaker 1: The bar X trail herd had covered many difficult miles
and had survived a score of danger since first it
had left the home spread. Now, as it approached Big
Horn County, it was close to the halfway mark on
its journey. Our story opens shortly after sunrise. The trail crew,
under the watchful eyes of Walt Benson. Their leader is
busy getting the reluctant herd underway.
Speaker 4: In bomr recruiters kill on a flasher, Idaho, You calling
me boss over here?
Speaker 6: Come in, Get up the boy up? What do you
want wall to look over west? What do you make
of that rider?
Speaker 7: Ain't it? He looks like he's hidden this way.
Speaker 8: Maybe just somebody wanting to pass the time a day.
Speaker 7: Maybe I can make him out now. He's riding a
paint horse.
Speaker 8: He's waving his hand.
Speaker 7: Say that some horse. That fella's got his hand along
you sure he is, I'll be blowed. It's an engine.
Wonder what he wants that strain?
Speaker 5: I know, Hongo wanna make talk with you here? You
call Big Horn Counting.
Speaker 7: Sure we are.
Speaker 8: You ought to be there by noon or so.
Speaker 5: And he then placed low.
Speaker 7: He cook it there.
Speaker 9: Maybe he make you paid.
Speaker 5: And he's trouble.
Speaker 9: What do you mean the lord's cook it in Big
Horn County Sheriff and fella him make you pay?
Speaker 7: Hat shuts, redskin. You don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 10: I was through here at the bar extrail heard last year,
and the sheriff was a mighty fine fellow.
Speaker 9: Him got now sheriff. He caught a sheriff no more,
no sherif up named dout Parker. Now, hell, what if
it ain't the same sheriff. I don't mean nothing to us,
broken or not.
Speaker 8: I reckon, we can handle ourselves better.
Speaker 7: You not go there? And why did you say we'd
better go? You'll make circle go way round and lose
a week doing it.
Speaker 8: Engine we got cattle to deliver. You ain't got a
whole year to do it in either.
Speaker 10: If we circle around every blame place, he figured there
might be trouble, he'd never get.
Speaker 11: To the end of the trail unto one help you.
Speaker 7: Whoo you do it. But we've run into tough sheriff supports,
and none of them look so tough when we was true.
So I reckon, we'll just keep on the way we're going.
Speaker 11: You'll make keep bigness tape.
Speaker 5: I don't get so you'll keep on. Of course we are.
Speaker 8: We ain't scared so easy.
Speaker 5: Uh maybe Tondle's see you later.
Speaker 7: You're welcome to ride aways with us anyhow, redskin.
Speaker 8: Or hang around for glove right on?
Speaker 5: Uh we go, No hit him a paint park.
Speaker 7: Now, I wonder what that was all about. I don't
know if he was up to some trick.
Speaker 12: He didn't work it well, come on, don't matter now,
I guess, And we got us a job to do.
Speaker 7: Yeah, tell them flow us.
Speaker 12: Up ahead to keep them critters moving. We want to
reach water as soon as we can, and watch.
Speaker 7: Out for strange a boss, get up there, Get up.
Speaker 1: The sheriff of Big Horn count he had his office
in the town of Red Rock, John Barker, was a
heavy set man with small, shrewd eyes and a cruel mouth.
We see him seated in his office in conversation with
Martin Weaver, the county cattle inspector. The sheriff is speaking, Martin,
You and me have been doing right well for our
not bad, not bad.
Speaker 8: Tall.
Speaker 13: Let me see, we've been holding office for only about
ten months, and already we've made this close to ten.
Speaker 8: Thousand apiece, not counting what the county pays is eh,
that's the only chicken feed again the other and we've
made that cash during the slow months too.
Speaker 14: We'll be doing the heat better as soon as the
trail heards start coming through more often.
Speaker 7: Where's your deputy sid?
Speaker 13: I sent him out to ride up the trailer ways
and see if there's any herds heading this way.
Speaker 5: But he ought to be bagging for long.
Speaker 8: That looks like SID. Now yeah, and it looks like
maybe he's got good news any news, Sid.
Speaker 7: You're blaming rights news. Good Listen, the barreight's hurting Texas
is on the trail. I've seen him just outside of town.
Speaker 5: That's the best news. Shit that it always comes through
with a big herd.
Speaker 7: They got a real pick in this time.
Speaker 8: Well, Martin, I reckon that means you and me.
Speaker 5: Get busy again.
Speaker 15: I'm ready, Jeff, you want to actually get the rest
of the boys and right along with you, there won't.
Speaker 13: Be no need it beside. If it's just Martin and
me talks to him first, he'll look more legal.
Speaker 5: And I'm sure dead said, and everything being legal and
above board.
Speaker 15: Yeah, come one, wrung them around.
Speaker 8: If we ain't backing an hour, you might get the
boys and ride out that way. Said you say the
moss comes true that we hurt. They sure do, like
that's one of the biggest outfits in Texas.
Speaker 5: Steady the boy.
Speaker 14: Then the time they come to terms, we ought to
be a couple more thousand dollars to the good.
Speaker 13: You're blame right, we will, and there ain't nothing they
can do about it either.
Speaker 7: Get it.
Speaker 1: At noon, the great bar ex trail hurt must blow.
Within Big Horn County, the cattle were allowed to graze
while Walf Benson and his men gathered around the chuck
wagon for their new meal.
Speaker 8: Goy, And I was hungry enough to eat a whole
cow all by myself.
Speaker 5: You've never seen the time you weren't hungry.
Speaker 7: I don't hope.
Speaker 10: I don't hold the candle to you, shorty, say wal,
I'm right glad now the redskin didn't come along for grub.
Speaker 8: If he had, there been just that much less to
go loud.
Speaker 12: I've been wondering where that's all the trouble he was
saying we'd run into when we got the Big Horn County.
Speaker 5: What's that about trouble?
Speaker 12: Boss Ooh, I don't own he met up with a
redskin that said there was a crooked sheriff here.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, if he is crooked, you're likely to.
Speaker 8: Find that out right, son, meaning meaning there's a law
right in this way. Now you can see where the
sun hits a badger.
Speaker 7: His sheriff ain't riding alone.
Speaker 10: Another fellow with him, maybe that's who had the right
of it. You ain't scared of no sheriff for the
ten Star, are you walk?
Speaker 5: No, there's the trail boss for this outfit.
Speaker 7: That's me, Sheriff. What bisiness you got with me?
Speaker 5: Nothing that will take long to settle? I reckon if
you're a reasonable jims. Yeah, this here is Martin Weaver.
He's the inspector hired by this county.
Speaker 8: Hardy inspector. That's my job.
Speaker 7: What kind of an inspector would this county be needing?
Speaker 8: He's a Texas cattle anthy, I reckon?
Speaker 13: You know that we're mighty careful around these parts with
Texas cows coming through Fst.
Speaker 7: What are you getting at?
Speaker 8: What I mean is we don't want to know Texas
fever bothering our candles.
Speaker 7: Texas fever here are local? Are you trying to say
that this trail hurd might be bringing fever here?
Speaker 8: I told you we're mighty careful.
Speaker 5: Yes, so we'll have to inspect your cows before we
let you go on.
Speaker 8: Well, I'll be dog gone.
Speaker 7: This is your new and not me.
Speaker 8: It's the lord of the county and I'm here to
see it in force.
Speaker 12: Look here, Sheriff we still got a long ways to go.
We can't afford to be held up here too long.
Speaker 5: I can't help that.
Speaker 7: How long would it take?
Speaker 5: Well, it's up to the inspector.
Speaker 14: What do you think, Martin, Well, I'm right busy these days.
I can't promise when not get at it. All I
can say is I won't be no longer to have
to Yeah, it might be uh well, it might be
no more than a month before I could get around
to you.
Speaker 8: A month you are local, of course, that's just a guess.
It might be a week or two longer.
Speaker 14: And then besides, there's the actual inspecting to do. That'll
take quite a spell seeing the size of your herd.
Speaker 7: You can't do this us. We gotta keep traveling.
Speaker 8: As long as you're in Big Horn County.
Speaker 5: You'll abide by our laws.
Speaker 7: I ain't. There's something we can do so if we
won't have to wait.
Speaker 5: Well, there's a couple of things you might do.
Speaker 7: What's that?
Speaker 8: You might take your cows and go round by the
Sioux Hills.
Speaker 7: The Shoe Hills. That don't mean we'd have to cross
the White Water River, uh huh.
Speaker 8: But it's outside the county, so I could and stuff
you if you had a mind to There.
Speaker 7: Ain't no way to cross the river without losing half
our cows.
Speaker 13: Well is still another way. You couldn't expect us to
take the risk to Texas fever without getting some report.
Speaker 8: But you can keep right on going through the county
for only one cow and five. You know that ain't
so bad, is it?
Speaker 13: A fifty year cows is better than being held up
here for a month or two, And it's better in
trying to cross the white water.
Speaker 7: You load down skunk by golling.
Speaker 8: The engine was right when he said the law here
was crooked. Hold on there, you had better be turned carefully.
You talked to me careful?
Speaker 7: Why you rotten range? Rattle pole?
Speaker 8: Cat where we'd come from?
Speaker 10: Gents like you would make a hearty breakfast for a
tadpole or defying the law?
Speaker 8: Crooks?
Speaker 7: You mean sheriff.
Speaker 5: You'd better get why are you?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 13: I don't take on my shoulder, I'll take the sheriff.
Don't shout up with your hands reached.
Speaker 16: I'm rich if you two intact, but my shoulders for
the sky I only grave you. You'll pay for this
when I get my Timpany's house. Wat him having how wait,
it's the engine. We've seen the hall come you want
to talk with me?
Speaker 11: Uh you hear what Tonto say?
Speaker 14: Go ahead, Walt, the Redskin try to do us a
good turn. The first time me and Shorty watched these fellows.
Speaker 7: All right, red Skin, what have you got to say?
Speaker 5: Come back to you Tell these fellows don't let us go.
Speaker 7: You will stay right there for a spell. What you
got to save?
Speaker 11: You let sheriff go? Heah, you tell them wait, will
sen them? Then you make up my.
Speaker 7: Cameless sheriff to give us till morning to decide.
Speaker 11: That's right.
Speaker 12: Mark me got my friend him help you anybody that
can help us out of the fixed we're in.
Speaker 7: He's got to be smart.
Speaker 5: You do what Tonto's say.
Speaker 7: I reckon, I will. I've listened to you the first time.
We wouldn't have got in this trouble.
Speaker 11: You let Lorman go, then Tonto tell you plan.
Speaker 12: Come on, I'll send them cheap crooks on their way
and we'll talk this out.
Speaker 13: And not good?
Speaker 8: What did the red Skin have to say?
Speaker 7: Walt ain't heard all of it yet. Look here, we're
letting you go. You can come back in the morning
for your answer for what you.
Speaker 5: Turn, you're gonna pay twice as much to get through
the county.
Speaker 7: What then, climb on your horses.
Speaker 5: And if you know, hey, you'll either wai or go
by way of the river.
Speaker 8: Come on, chaff, let's get out of here.
Speaker 5: Well, fixies, fellers for this get.
Speaker 7: Who's there? A mass fellow him and the tontle?
Speaker 5: No you hear planned?
Speaker 1: The curtain falls on the first act of our thrilling
Lone Ranger drama. Before the next exciting scenes, please permit
us to pause for just a few moments.
Speaker 13: And.
Speaker 2: Must act.
Speaker 1: Now to continue our story. The morning after the sheriff
had told Walt Benson, trail boss or the bar X heard,
that he would have to surrender a fifth of his
cattle or leave Big Horn County, the lawman and a
number of his deputies headed for the bar X camp,
this time.
Speaker 5: In smart Carhaynes leave the pay a partake what's coming
to him.
Speaker 15: He should have let the rest of us come along
the last time, sheriff, and there wouldn't have been no
gun play.
Speaker 5: I wish there hadn't been.
Speaker 8: I wonder who that engine was?
Speaker 5: Never seen him before?
Speaker 8: Didn't he call hisself Tato?
Speaker 5: You might have what about.
Speaker 8: It just seemed to me I had heard that name
somewhere as afore.
Speaker 14: Maybe not, though I reckon you didn't wait pretty close
to the bar X outfit.
Speaker 8: You'll see him just as soon as we toub this rise.
Speaker 7: I can hear him.
Speaker 5: Was like, they're on the move, cully. If they're trying
to keep on going, I'll have their hides there they are.
Speaker 7: They ain't going on, they're heading back.
Speaker 8: I bet they decided to try the river.
Speaker 5: After all, it comes their trail.
Speaker 12: Boss.
Speaker 5: We'll soon find out. We don't look worried none. You
will be if he tries to get his cows across
the white water.
Speaker 8: Yeah, for more than one reason.
Speaker 5: Well, what are you gonna do?
Speaker 7: Hout he care? I see you got all your gunslingers
with you.
Speaker 13: That'll be enough out of you. All we want to
know is whether you're paying up or getting out.
Speaker 7: We're going by way in the hills.
Speaker 8: They're forgetting about the river, ain't you fella?
Speaker 7: No, don't let it fool you none.
Speaker 5: It ain't very.
Speaker 15: Wide, but it sure moves fast. You get half your
cars across, and you'll be doing blame good.
Speaker 7: We'll do our own worry.
Speaker 13: I'll go ahead We can't stop you as long as
you don't try to cross our county.
Speaker 5: But if you double back, you'll sure wish your head.
Speaker 8: Thanks for the advice, sho. That ain't advice, it's a
warm thanks, just the same.
Speaker 12: I gotta be getting back. The boys will be needing
my help. The faster you move out of here, the better.
Speaker 7: That's just the way we feel about it.
Speaker 8: Get up.
Speaker 7: Now, what sir?
Speaker 17: Just the same as always when named cow punchers, get stubborn.
We're riding to the six Hills, yep with masks. I
don't like that way of doing things.
Speaker 13: So well, let's worrying you. We've done it the four
and I reckon we can do it again myself.
Speaker 15: I like it this way better.
Speaker 7: That are just part of the herd.
Speaker 5: We get all of it.
Speaker 13: We'll lay home in the hills, wait till they're having
trouble crossing the river, then ride down the wipe the mouse.
Speaker 1: Eh.
Speaker 17: Taking big chances, but it's paying us big money. The
only thing is share. It ain't gonna be no sense selling.
I heard that size all at once.
Speaker 5: That will be the easiest part of it.
Speaker 17: Yeah, we'll drill them fellas, take their papers and sell
the cows to the same buyer they was going to.
Speaker 15: You figure we can.
Speaker 5: Why not nobody that far off?
Speaker 8: Can?
Speaker 5: We aid working for the.
Speaker 13: Barricks here, you'll go along, Chef will maybe as him
the rest of you.
Speaker 8: It wouldn't look right for me to be leaving the county.
We could handle it, but first we got to hit
them off by the river. We'll lead more men.
Speaker 5: We'll go back to town and get him right now.
Speaker 13: We'll load up on ammunition, and after we've met up
with them punchers again, there won't be a one of
them left to tell about it.
Speaker 8: That.
Speaker 1: When Tomto talked to Walt Benson, he not only outlined
the mask Man's plan to get the herd across the
river safely, but also repeated everything the lone Ranger and
he had learned about the tactics of the sheriff and
his men. Now we see the herd as it moves
through a narrow valley in the Sioux Hills leading to
the Whitewater River. Tonto is riding beside walk the Cowboy, Idaho.
Speaker 8: Sure your mass pud can do, like you said, Tannhau.
Speaker 7: That all right, it's a risky business.
Speaker 12: You not worry if the mask feller slips up. We're
gonna be in the worst fixtion we was afore.
Speaker 8: Especially if them polkats been trying to raid his life.
The mass man figure they.
Speaker 11: Would afraid, all right.
Speaker 12: Some dirty crooks. They ain't got the sleeper steam I
ever heard of. If they don't get paid for let
the cows.
Speaker 7: Whose county? They just make the herd go around where
it can be stowed easy.
Speaker 8: Maybe this is one they'll get fool I'm hoping for.
We should be getting the side of the river soon.
Speaker 12: Here comes Shorty. Maybe he's seen the river already. Yeah,
a mask fellow, doesn't a shore your mother. I seen
them for myself there in a beds drive. There ain't
enough water left them look to boil a mess.
Speaker 7: A find and there ain't nothing to keep the cattle
from crossing.
Speaker 8: And now we got to do the rest, like a
mass pella tole us.
Speaker 7: He's been right so far, and I'm with him all
the way. And somar, hey, brolly, get moment, w are
you you? I am fam goodness to stamp Beeton.
Speaker 8: You're sure they won't get away from us?
Speaker 12: Not my addurant thing. They can't scatter in this valley.
When they run out, we'll pick them up again.
Speaker 7: Then let's go. Oh more, you can you watch us
get up there.
Speaker 1: The sheriff and his men armed for the attack upon
the bar X trail herd, rode out from town and
made their way across country toward the Whitewater River. We
see them as they approached the spot from which they
planned to start their raid.
Speaker 5: We should be there just about time to meet the herd.
Speaker 8: Yes, there's good cover over there, Chef, I reckon.
Speaker 13: That'll do all right. Yes, so we ain't spotted a
poor ready for him. I'd sure hate to have anything
go wrong. That's up to you, fellas. All I gotta
say is this, after the way that smart Alex trail
horse acted, they made them pay for it, and I'll
see to you fellas are blamed. Sorry, we'll do I park,
you bet it. It means cash for all of us.
How's this place here good enough?
Speaker 8: Ain't no sign of them yet?
Speaker 5: Well, let's say he's better to be a little early
than the missing.
Speaker 8: We'll see him just as soon as they come around
the bend.
Speaker 15: And when they start the crossing the river, they'll shut
leaping cat face.
Speaker 14: Huh, what's a matter of sid look at the river
ry well, I'll be sheriff.
Speaker 8: What in blazers could have happened?
Speaker 7: Don't ask me because ben rains are plenty.
Speaker 5: It ain't like as though we had.
Speaker 7: A dry spell.
Speaker 8: It was raining only last week.
Speaker 7: I figured the river do worse than ever.
Speaker 13: Something's gone wrong, blasting well, it can't be helped non,
Now I'm got to fly out. What's done it? Wait here,
hold on, don't one of them call hands come along
while you're looking.
Speaker 5: You want them to see them spoil it all? Sorry,
cheff reckon, I wasn't thinking. Just stay right here, out
of sight.
Speaker 8: But have you seen the river like this before, Sheriff?
Speaker 13: No, I never heard tell of the white water running dry.
And all the time I've been in this part of
the country.
Speaker 8: It's a blame funny thing.
Speaker 14: Yeah, it means we ain't gonna have so easy a
time out when the herd gets here.
Speaker 5: Wait, huh, the herd's coming on.
Speaker 8: See it sounds like maybe they're stampeding.
Speaker 5: I bet that's just it.
Speaker 15: Maybe things are breaking our way after all, I difigure
that shuts. If the herd's got away from them, bar
x fellers, we can pick up the cows then come
back and clean out them puncher.
Speaker 5: Look over there, there they come, the whole herd. Can't
stump them out.
Speaker 7: Wonder where the punchers are must be coming up behind.
Look at the truders. Run to let him get by
before we can take out after him.
Speaker 8: I'm sure would you want to be in front of
a stampede like that?
Speaker 5: Away there, It won't take long for him to get by.
Speaker 7: You see the last of you.
Speaker 13: Now see, dear horses, We're all said, don't give them
work when the cot offs can.
Speaker 3: All right, pulse after him, get up in him, get
out of them country sights.
Speaker 4: We take care of them later.
Speaker 7: I can't more weekend long, they're across forever there. Won't
run that fast?
Speaker 12: Along?
Speaker 7: Keep your horse is moving, Yeah we should. What was
that something like blasting fo That's not the same.
Speaker 8: Come on, we're almost the river.
Speaker 7: But wait, come on, it's water a hole full of us.
They come right at us.
Speaker 3: We can't dodge to turn around. Hole more and more right,
yellow won't help. We just gotta hang out and hope
we don't get round.
Speaker 1: The water rushing in the great Blood from the hills
swept along the dry bed of the river.
Speaker 8: With the force and feet of an express train.
Speaker 1: The sheriff and his men were caught on the torrent,
carried helplessly along, then flung aside, bruised and battered.
Speaker 8: At the blood's initial force, Society.
Speaker 1: Walt Tonto and the bar X cowpunchers watched until the
time was ripe for action.
Speaker 3: Look at them cooks crawling up on the bank. They
won't do much fighting. Now let's take after him. There
comes Amasca and the US Marshall with ing, No, we
get them.
Speaker 7: Bat for blamed, right, we will come on back.
Speaker 8: We are out bad brooks.
Speaker 7: Just look at their white horses, right, even bec engines horse.
Come on, we'll get it. You'll let we want, Marshall
the chat get ready to fire.
Speaker 8: He's getting his men together.
Speaker 7: The bust.
Speaker 3: We can, but it won't be happy enough. They're shooting
now all right, let it. I ain't get off that
share now thrown we pulled him.
Speaker 7: Fire some more.
Speaker 3: Seed shout something been popping your suit line and raising
their hands.
Speaker 7: Give up, don't fight no more. You got followed on.
Speaker 4: I tell you can't fire on him.
Speaker 7: When they came up, whoa, whoa who.
Speaker 3: All right, Marshall, here's the man we shout out to
capture for you, sir, I'm taking you about away and
jail the whole lot of you.
Speaker 7: Wait, marshall, listen, I've seen what you've done. You can't
do this.
Speaker 18: We were just trying to fill. The mask fellow brought
me here and told me all about your scheme. Is
that what I hadn't swaptess?
Speaker 7: But it did?
Speaker 18: And he can thank the mask fellow for that too.
Speaker 7: Huh. He thought up the whole plan.
Speaker 18: First he used blasting powder to damn the river so
the cattle get get to get through. Then he used
more blasting powder and release the water and time to.
Speaker 7: Catch you had.
Speaker 18: I'm like to get my hands on him, sure, only
you're going to jail instead.
Speaker 12: I'll send some of my boys help you take him man,
while the rest of us wound up our cows.
Speaker 18: Good enough, where's the mask felling the engine? I want
to thank them for what they've done.
Speaker 7: I don't know here they are. Wait, it's too late.
Now they're thank him.
Speaker 8: They're gone for good.
Speaker 12: Well maybe they are, but they've done enough for us
of erse. I ain't never forgetting them all right, Let's
get these crooks to the jail.
Speaker 7: I said the h
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