Speaker 1: I can't believe I'm seeing you again. I buried our
love twelve years ago when they told me you were dead.
Speaker 2: Have gone.
Speaker 1: We'll Travel, starring mister John Dayner as Paladin, San Francisco,
eighteen seventy five, The Carlton Hotel, headquarters of a man
called Paladin.
Speaker 2: You want somebody stuff? Missa Hey boy? How could you
talk that way? For what I say?
Speaker 1: But you don't say? Do you want any more of
this stuff? You call it by its name?
Speaker 2: This is I'll hold you want some other this stuff? Yes?
I do often we get that, will you? Hey boy?
Oh that miss young is not come?
Speaker 1: Do you tell you your voice?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 1: I am here?
Speaker 2: What is it? Miss one?
Speaker 3: Very aig can come for you?
Speaker 2: All right there?
Speaker 3: Please special for you very.
Speaker 2: All right now, thank you, miss one.
Speaker 3: You say it's a.
Speaker 1: Long time coming, come so very far away?
Speaker 2: You want me to open it? Now? All right? Let
me see? Well you should not insist.
Speaker 1: That keep boy, I just deliver on message.
Speaker 2: MS. Are you sick?
Speaker 1: I can't believe it's new faith or white news?
Speaker 2: Oh boy? The stage that left this afternoon stops overnight
at Cove Canyon. Doesn't it where you saw Cold Kanyon?
Why Mesa Palady. I've got to get on that stage. Oh,
then you did get bad news. No, not exactly.
Speaker 1: It's just that I've heard from a friend, a woman
I thought had died twelve years ago.
Speaker 2: She's in Dakota Territory and needs me.
Speaker 3: Then it's good news to hear from a woman friend.
Speaker 2: Yes, Miss Wong, I think it's the best news I've
ever had.
Speaker 1: In the hills of South Dakota, a shrine of American
democracy has been carved five hundred feet above ground Mount Rushmore.
Giant faces of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and
Theodore Roosevelt look out of the surrounding countryside. Gutzon Borglum
began work on what is the world's largest sculpture in
the year nineteen twenty seven. He continued his efforts until
his death in nineteen forty one. The project was carried
to completion by Borglum's son, Lincoln, who had worked with
his father for fourteen years. The faces of the four
presidents are designed to the proportions of men who would
be four hundred sixty five feet tall. In spite of
their size, the continances are quite realistic in detail.
Speaker 2: And expression. Each month, thousands of visitors to.
Speaker 1: Mount Rushmore National Memorial remind us of the rich heritage
that as Americans we share and stand ready to defend.
Speaker 2: Oo. Ellen Stoneham had been a nurse in my.
Speaker 1: Outfit one hundred and twelfth Illinois. I'd once spent years.
Speaker 2: Looking for her.
Speaker 1: Now the telegram said I could reach her through an
Indian agent named Baxter at Fort Ramble, Dakota Territory. When
I arrived, they told me I could find him in
a wooden building.
Speaker 2: It was used to store government supplies.
Speaker 1: Inside was a man instructing three sullen Indians on the
finer points of loading a wagon.
Speaker 2: How are your todd sawdiers?
Speaker 4: Get that thing loaded and get it out of here?
Wagon will break down? Too much grain? Wagon, Dad, that's
not a good one. First time I ever heard an Indian, Tommy,
I was giving up too much grain. Wagon breakdown, two
big loads? Mate, Now the trip, ah, you're not coming
back here?
Speaker 2: Take it all now, engine. Now, what do you want? Stranger?
Speaker 1: My name is Palatin. I'm looking for mister Baxter. I'm
Wade Baxter.
Speaker 2: What do you want? Ellen Stoneham said you would direct
me to her?
Speaker 1: Stone, I don't own ay ellen Stonehem.
Speaker 4: Wait a minute, she a good run woman, light hair. Yes,
there might be her, but her name is Stoneham. It's
Ellen Carson, missus Carson. She used to work for me
keeping records. Now she teaches a m engine kids.
Speaker 2: Well where would I find this missus Carson.
Speaker 4: Probably up at the schoolhouse, that is, if she's got
any engine kids left to teach. What do you mean,
Oh yeah, there's been a lot of engine trouble here.
Red Cloud talked a bunch of them into leaving the reservation.
Speaker 2: Well that's all right with me. Makes my job that
much easier. Where do I find the schoolhouse?
Speaker 1: Ye're right out, two miles south of Fort Rynolds.
Speaker 2: Can't miss it. Thank you.
Speaker 1: All the way out to the schoolhouse, I kept hoping
that a mistake had been made. This missus Carson was
not ellen Stonem. If I could go back to mister Baxter,
we'd start all over again, and then he'd remember ellen Stonem.
Speaker 2: It wasn't to be.
Speaker 1: I found the schoolhouse with no difficulty, walked to the
door of the tiny logged building, and no white.
Speaker 5: Men realized that they couldn't be greased when they were
They crossed the Great Ocean.
Speaker 3: To come to the shores of America.
Speaker 5: Here they were able to worship, and they yes, Paladin
it children.
Speaker 3: You may leave, ma'am.
Speaker 5: Won't you come in.
Speaker 3: With Captain Paladen.
Speaker 2: Eh, it is not captain anymore.
Speaker 3: Ellen, No, of course not. I'm I'm sorry Ellen.
Speaker 2: They told me you were dead, that you had died
in the prison camp in Florida.
Speaker 3: It was another woman in the camp. They buried her,
thinking it was me.
Speaker 1: I refuse to believe you were dead. Asked for my
discharge in the South to look for you. Then I
when I came to the camp in Florida and there
was this grave with your name on it.
Speaker 2: After that, I went west, but.
Speaker 5: I finally escaped. I looked for you, Paladin, for the
longest time. I looked for you. I even went to
the Department of War. They told me that you were
missing in action in North Carolina.
Speaker 2: I was for a while. They never could keep their
records strong.
Speaker 3: I met mister Carson. He asked me to marry him.
Speaker 2: Tell him please, you don't have to explain. No, it's
not necessary.
Speaker 5: But I feel like a shameful woman, but I do.
Ever since I married, I've always had a feeling that
you were still alive.
Speaker 2: Well it's too late for us.
Speaker 1: Now you are married and there's nothing we can do
about it.
Speaker 2: Now, why did you send for me?
Speaker 3: It's my son. He's been taken by the Indians. I
want you to get him back.
Speaker 2: For me, your son. I'll do everything I can.
Speaker 3: I don't even know if he's alive.
Speaker 2: Well, now, ain't that interested? Wait, that's real interesting.
Speaker 4: Randall's full of soldiers waiting for an excuse to kill Engines,
but she don't tell them the Engines got her son.
She tells everybody is she sent the boy Baggie.
Speaker 3: It's because I don't want the soldiers to know.
Speaker 5: It would be a fight and the Indians would kill Jimmy.
Speaker 4: Oh don't, don't you worry, Ellen, Nothing will happen to Jimmy.
I'll get every able buddied man in this town and
the soldiers.
Speaker 2: We'll get him back.
Speaker 1: Don't you think that's up to missus Carson or her
husband husband?
Speaker 4: She ain't got her husband, Ah, Paladin.
Speaker 1: You're new here. You just let me worry about lul
Le Ellen.
Speaker 4: I've been watching out for her ever since Carson got
scalped the Engines two years ago.
Speaker 2: Now I'll get on out.
Speaker 3: Of the fight. Please don't hurt.
Speaker 2: Teach some engines.
Speaker 1: The lady said, not to go out there.
Speaker 4: You're gonna stop me if I have to, not if
I can help it.
Speaker 2: Right now, I'm sorry Ellen.
Speaker 1: When he wakes up, tell him I'm gone to talk
to the commanding.
Speaker 2: Officer at the fort.
Speaker 6: Although most men by nature don't feel in a combat
mood much of the time, there are some who just
can't get enough of a good fight, particularly if there
is good sound reason for it. In July nineteen hundred,
when American fighting men were protecting the rights and liberty
of their fellow countrymen during the Boxer Uprising.
Speaker 1: The battle was a furiously forught affair. Army Private Robert H.
Speaker 6: Von Schlick, serving with Company C of the ninth United
States Infantry Division, was in the thick of the frakas.
Although he had been wounded previously while carrying a wounded
comrade to a place of safety, he rejoined his command,
which partly occupied an exposed position on a dike. Private
von Schlick remained there after his company had been withdrawn, and,
in spite of the hail of bullets around him, single
handedly continued to fire into the enemy wres, oblivious to
the fact that he was a conspicuous target. He refused
to leave the fight until he was literally shot off
his position by the enemy. Private Robert von Schlick earned
the Medal of Honor for valiant devotion to duty and
added heroic background to the Code of Conduct of American
fighting men.
Speaker 1: I don't know, mister Peladon. If they've taken a white boy,
it's our duty to go after him. What good was
that to, Colonel? They'd kill a boy and you'd have
to kill a lot of Indians. But it breaks down
the moral of the settlers if we don't do something.
Speaker 2: Colonel, aren't you a little remiss in your duty already?
What do you mean? I mean?
Speaker 1: Red Cloud's been off the reservation for one two months.
Shouldn't you have gone after him before this? WHOA? Technically yes,
but my command was split. I had some of my
troops up north. We heard a rumor that Sitting Bull
was in the bad Lands.
Speaker 2: Sitting bulls in Canada, and you know it, Yes, yes,
you're right, Paladin.
Speaker 1: When I heard that the Red Cloud had left the reservation,
I sent two companies up north, ostensibly looking for sitting.
Speaker 2: Bull purposely splitting your command. You must have had a
good reason. I did.
Speaker 1: If i'd been Red Cloud, i'd have left the reservation too.
Why they were starving? Government policy, I guess. Seems we
make agreements with the Indians to get them on the reservation,
and after they're there, why we start cutting back. Baxter
gave them a million pounds less meat this year than last.
Speaker 2: Year, and he has government sanctioned for that. I assume
he does.
Speaker 1: I don't much care for the man, so I stay
out of his affairs and he stays out of mind.
Well that's fine, except that now Red Cloud has walked out,
and he's taken a white boy with him, and you're
going to track him down and kill a lot of
starving Indian. I don't have to track him. I know
right where he is. He joined up with crow Dog.
What he's out in Crosscut Canyon? The old devil's just
sitting out there, hasn't moved. I had to keep an
eye on him, no matter how I felt. Creonel let
me try something, William, Let me go out and talk
to Red Cloud.
Speaker 2: What good would that? Well?
Speaker 1: Did it ever occur to you that maybe he's just
sitting out there waiting for somebody to come out.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: The Todd will be up in arms when Baxter tells
about the boy. All right, you make your move, but
just hold off and let me go in first. If
I fail, well you can do what you have to do.
If anything happened to you, mister Paladin, I'll know if
it does, nobody will miss me.
Speaker 2: All right, but be careful. Thanks, Colonel.
Speaker 1: I'll leave right away. It was almost sundown when I
reached crosscutt Canyon. I didn't try to conceal myself coming
into Red Cloud's camp, with the result that upon my request, I.
Speaker 2: Was taken immediately to see the chief. Red Cloud taught long.
Speaker 1: He told me the whole history of himself and his tribe,
the Sioux, and.
Speaker 2: Even of his part of the battle with Custom.
Speaker 1: And he told him how afterwards he even lured to
the reservation with promises of grain, corn and meat. Promise
is fine, but not true. We get less and less
food for Indian Great Chief Red Cloud.
Speaker 2: This still gives you no right to take White Boy
and kill him.
Speaker 1: Not kill White Boy, take him. Wait for a long time. Now,
hold for bargain. Make Agent Baxter give full treaty rations
to Indian.
Speaker 2: Well, what does Baxter have to do with this?
Speaker 1: Baxter cheat chat Indian cheat his government. How he tell
government more Indians on reservation than we have, and he
get more supplies. But tell Indian government send less than
even ration. He keep the rest. Tell us hoggrout or
die we die?
Speaker 2: I see then he sells a surplus.
Speaker 1: Yeah, make much money for himself. Red Cloud will get
fair deal or white boy will die?
Speaker 2: No more talk all right, red Cloud, I will go.
He will take her time. No su mi lad more
say no.
Speaker 1: Oh. Paladin comes and talks of peace, but he does
not travel alone. You tell Colonel takes soldiers back to
Fort randall tonight, or.
Speaker 2: Boy be dead by morning. Let us have peace.
Speaker 1: These were the words spoken by General Ulysses asked Grant
when he accepted the nomination for the presidency in eighteen
sixty eight, and they are the words which are carried
over the entrance of Grant's tomb in New York City.
The interior of the memorial to the general who led
the Union forces to final victory in the Civil War
is somewhat like that of the tomb of another's skillful
military leader. Napoleon Bonaparte. But what a contrast there is
between the empire seeking little corporal and the American military
man who fought with distinction in the Mexican War and
the Civil War, but wanted only peace for his nation.
Each year, many visitors pay homage to Ulysses Granted his tomb,
which is circled by New York's busy Riverside Drive. The
memorial contains twin burial faults with the remains of the
general and his lady. Grant's tomb is a lasting reminder
of the rich heritage that as Americans we share and
stand ready to defend. I rode back to the colonel
and asked him to give me another day to get
the boy back without bloodshed.
Speaker 2: I told him I had a plan. He agreed, and
then I was able to go to Ellen and tell
her her son was still alive.
Speaker 3: Oh, Palae the night I knew you'd find him.
Speaker 2: But we haven't gotten him back yet. Ellen.
Speaker 3: But he's alive, and you will get him back.
Speaker 2: I'll try. Ellen. There's something I have to know. Yes,
you didn't tell me your husband was dead.
Speaker 5: Why I thought that it wasn't fair to tell you?
Speaker 3: When I learned where you were.
Speaker 5: I asked you to come here because I knew you
were the only man who would get Jimmy back, not
to pick up.
Speaker 3: Where we left all.
Speaker 2: You had no right to decide that.
Speaker 5: I didn't think you'd want me. After so long, I've
never stopped wanting you, Paladin. Mister Carson was one of
the finest men I've ever known. He wanted to help
the Indians when everyone else wanted to kill them. After
Custer was killed, a lot of people wanted to lead
to kotea territory. Not mister Carson. He vowed he'd never
leave the Coda no matter.
Speaker 2: What, Ellen, don't don't do this.
Speaker 5: I want you to know the kind of man he
was that I didn't just marry anyone. He went out
that day and he tried to talk to some Indians.
He saw he was alone, but some friends could see
him from a distance.
Speaker 3: Never got his body back. It was right after gust
It was two ten years ago.
Speaker 2: Ellen, Oh, Ellen, stop, Ellen, listen to me. Ellen. I've
always loved you, Ellenen, I still do that. It's true. Ellen.
I want you to go to San Francisco with me.
Speaker 3: Are you sure?
Speaker 2: Will you? Ellen?
Speaker 3: What about my son.
Speaker 2: Of course, he love San Francisco.
Speaker 3: We'll see when we get Jimmy Beck.
Speaker 2: All right, I'll have to work fast. Tell me, do
you know where Baxter keeps his government papers?
Speaker 3: Yes, they're in his warehouse.
Speaker 2: Why. Oh, he's been cheating the Indians. And if I
could only prove it.
Speaker 3: If we went down there before it got light. We
we Yes, I can, So you're right where the papers are.
Speaker 1: Finding evidence against Baxter was a simple matter. He had
been ordered to increase his allotments, not to cut them,
and he even received more goods.
Speaker 2: For what I plan to do, I.
Speaker 1: Needed the Colonel as a witness, so together we forced
Baxter to go with us to Red Cloud. There he
admitted having cheated the Indians. The Colonel promised a full
report to Washington and punishment for Baxter. The Chief was
satisfied and suddenly waved an arm towards one of his braves.
What's he doing now, Peladin, I'm not sure, colonel. Look,
well that's the boy. They're bringing him out, Pladin. Look
there's the white man with him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I see that man's been Why his scalp has
been lifted? K Mote Knakato Leima JOHNA gus.
Speaker 1: The boy is unharmed paladin.
Speaker 2: Yes, I see, then who is the white man with him?
Speaker 1: He is man found by crow dog two year ago,
almost dead. He was cut, his tongue taken out by
renegade Indians.
Speaker 2: We fixed him good.
Speaker 1: To work to get about, but he would not go
back to own people that way. The boy tell me
he would not leave without him.
Speaker 2: Boy has good.
Speaker 1: Heart well, and I believe that's yes, it is. That's Carson. Carson. Oh, no,
the boy's father. I barely recognize him, but I'm certain
you go now. Red Cloud will bring tribe back to reservation.
Speaker 2: H you'll go.
Speaker 1: The boy had not recognized his own father, but he
had persuaded Carson to come with him. A man should
be with his own kind, no matter what. The chief
provided horses and the colonel agreed to escort.
Speaker 2: Them home, while I rode on ahead.
Speaker 3: To tell Allen, you realize what this means, don't you?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 5: I can't leave him. I wouldn't even if I could.
He's my husband.
Speaker 2: I understand, Ellen.
Speaker 3: Do you?
Speaker 5: I wonder if you could possibly know how I feel.
You'll be leaving for San Francisco, now, won't you?
Speaker 2: Yes, I'll have to be getting back at him.
Speaker 3: Yes, of course, Well, Captain pallat't.
Speaker 5: I I'd better put myself together, hadn't I?
Speaker 3: My son and my husband are coming home.
Speaker 2: Yes, come in. Oh, mellow miss.
Speaker 3: Wanad you sit in dark room? See doing now everything?
Speaker 5: You come back from him?
Speaker 2: What are you doing, miss wan in dark room?
Speaker 3: Beautiful San Francisco. The outside, mister, let light in, Mitapoladan.
It's not good for you.
Speaker 2: No, I suppose you're right.
Speaker 3: I right?
Speaker 2: Hey boy, hey boy? Oh now what are you and
miss wan up to? Oh? Now you're me happy? Well?
What are you there? Hey boy? Happy? One on? Missa
Paladin Champagne.
Speaker 3: That's your one thing.
Speaker 2: That's the one thing, mister Taladin, God Lady Champagne.
Speaker 1: Yes, hey boy, And it's one thing. Mister Paladin will
always have plenty of Champagne. Have Gun Will Travel Created
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directed in Hollywood by Frank Parris and stars John Dayner
as Paladin, with Ben Wright as hey Boy and Virginia
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