Speaker 1: James Stewart as the six Shooter. The man in the
saddle is angular and long lead. His skin is sun
dried brown. The gun and his holster is gray steel
and rainbow, mother of curl handle and marked.
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Speaker 2: For the Public Schools. Two West forty fifth Street.
Speaker 1: New York, nineteen, New York now Act one of the
six Shooter starring James Stewart.
Speaker 3: It was hot that afternoon, a low, falling kind of
heat that seemed to be following us as we rode along.
The sun hadn't come out in the morning, but about
noon had pushed through the cloud about four o'clock, when
I should have been cooling off just and I we
still had about fifteen miles ago before we'd hit Lead Craig.
That be where I figured on getting a job helping
laid track on that new spur line of Salt Lake
Study and not scar On. I frankly headed down a
little gully. His ears pricked up and he jerked his head,
and I wasn't sure whether they'd heard something or just sensed.
You know, with a horse, it's pretty hard to tell
where hearing leads off and sense and begins. It's my boy,
and I heard it too. A wheeled scar off the
trail about twenty yards before I saw him. He was
lying in the shade of a yellow boulder and a
pump of mesked young fella, just lying there. He looked
comfortable and relaxed, like he was taking a siesta. But
he couldn't have been enjoying himself too much, not with
a big red stain like that across the front of
his shirt. Ah ah, what's the trouble?
Speaker 4: I had a little accent.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it looks that way. What happened?
Speaker 4: My horse threw me a couple hours ago, much landed
on my garness, went on. See he hadn't got any water?
Speaker 3: Sure? Sure? Uh oh, thanks lucky, lucky you came back.
Speaker 4: Mister, you're a stranger range.
Speaker 3: I'm just passing through. Yeah, not much of a start.
Maybe I can fix the bandage for you for the time. Then,
already fixed for.
Speaker 4: There's my shirt tail. Don't seem to be doing much good.
Speaker 3: Let me see if I can type it.
Speaker 5: Hold on now, Uh.
Speaker 3: You think you can ride? I don't know. You ain't
seen my pony.
Speaker 4: Uh, I don't know with a half.
Speaker 3: Moon on his leg. No, No, I can't say. I
have not run off, and I just don't worry about him.
My horse will get us into the lead Craig, Lead Craig. Yeah,
it's close to town, isn't it. Yeah, I guess it
is all right. Now, let me give you a hand here.
It ain't no use, miss, no, no, you gotta try it.
I just just lean your weight on me, make it okay, okay,
there's a cabin so west. I'm my labor right that. Why, oh,
that'd be better than stand here. Now. I'm I'm gonna
flift your feet out on that. Don't hurt plenty once
you're in the saddle, and you'll be all right here, y'all.
I'll take it real slow and I'll walk alongside the west.
Speaker 6: You said, yeah, I should you appreciate this, mister, I should.
Speaker 3: Over in the saddle, and I used to keep from
the sliding on. We started off. About fifteen minutes later,
I saw a cabin he's been talking about. It wasn't
much more on her shack, only two three rolls and
a couple of acres of fenced and pasture on a barn.
I lead scarf with the front stoop and left the
young collar off. He was still unconscious, which was all
of it good, of course. I carried him up to
the front door and gave it a couple of kicks,
and kicked again, and the front opened. My home. Oh,
and now you just lay there? Got to get some
rest all around where where he passed out again, covered
him with a blanket line across the foot of the cots.
The supper was on the kitchen stove, beef stew snow
pretty good. I opened the back door. I thought somebody
cutting up a pile of kindling over near the barn.
Whoever it was, she knew how to handle an act. Uh,
where'd you come from? Now? I'm sorry if I frightened you, ma'am.
I knocked on the front door, but I guess you
couldn't hear me. Huh. I ain't got no hand up
for tramps. Do on get out? Well, I'm not exactly
a tramp, ma'am, although I'm not blaming you for a
thinking that I've been riding.
Speaker 6: For quite a spell. Well what do you want? Uh?
Speaker 3: I run across the full a little while ago, and
a gully just eased to hear. He'd been shot up,
shot and he said his gun went off accidental. He
hurt pretty bad. And since this place her was was
the closest where is it? I put the liberty of
putting them in the cart inside there? So I hope
you don't like. She didn't wait even for me to finish.
She just marched past me like I wasn't even there.
I watched her a second that I followed he out
of the house. H I'd never run into a woman
exactly like her before. At first I thought she was
a man, you know, the pants and check her shirt
she was wearing. The boy she chopped up kindling, and
they fooled me. She walked like a man.
Speaker 5: Too, his stiff, square shoulders and.
Speaker 3: All right, they were a woman's eyes, all right, kind
of saw and young and frightened. Yeah, the rest of
her been pretty in her eyes. You do be a
fine little girl.
Speaker 5: Take that rag off while I fixed a new bandage.
Speaker 3: That's uh ah, it's a shame to tear up a
fancy petticoat like that. I got no need for petticoats.
Speaker 1: Can you turn him on his side?
Speaker 3: That's better.
Speaker 4: If I can just.
Speaker 3: Get the bleeding to stuff. You know him, ma'am?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 3: Why should have I just thought, since you was in
your neighborhood, not to postest by here.
Speaker 6: That don't mean I know him.
Speaker 3: I don't know you needed. Oh oh sorry, my name's
Ponset Brick ponset. I'm pretty use somewhere, haven't I. No, No,
not likely. The first time I've been around ed Craig.
Here get a pocket knife. Uh yeah, thanks, I enjoyed.
You're doing a real good job on him. You know
your your husband off somewhere today.
Speaker 1: I'm not married.
Speaker 3: Oh, I must get kind of lonely out here all
by yourself. Do I like being alone? I don't want
a lot of people around me. No, I can't say
I blame you. I never been much on congregating myself.
I always suld of like to Well, yeah, that's bleeding's
letting up of. Oh, I just help his off man
when I get into town. I'll find the doctor out here.
Speaker 6: No, no, you can't.
Speaker 3: What I mean, is there there is no doctor in
Lead Creek?
Speaker 5: Oh he moved away a couple of years ago.
Speaker 3: Well there must be a doctor somewhere, Robby. No, not
within one hundred miles.
Speaker 2: I have to take care of him myself.
Speaker 3: Well, maybe I can find somewhere to help you. You know,
since I brought him in here, I'd rather do it alone.
I'll manager right. Well, that's pretty decent of you, but
I him being a stranger. Ah, go on, mister. Yes, ma'am,
you won't.
Speaker 4: Tell the folks in counties here.
Speaker 3: M hmm. Well he's a stranger, like you said, he
don't concern them, and I don't want him laughing at me.
They'd say Jenny Garbs finally got her stuff am in
if he wasn't unconscious.
Speaker 6: He's never a manage So you won't tell him, will you.
Speaker 3: Well, I guy, don't suppose anybody will asks me about it?
All right? Easy, boys, easy, what are you looking at? Well,
I've just noticed on those horses over in the pasture
there though, we'll go yours. Yes, yes they are why
no reason? No tenth dog looks like go do animal
to them? What do you call them? Names?
Speaker 6: Moon? Because of the mocking on his flank looks like
a high moon.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I can say. Yeah. Well, I hope the
patient doesn't give you too much trouble.
Speaker 5: All right, the don went down, but it didn't cool
off much.
Speaker 3: Maybe when the moon came out there'd be a little breeze.
I've been riding for a couple of hours since I
left the cabin. They don't had five or six miles
go for a hip leg chick. Well, coming to a
nast canyon when I heard a little rustling down. The
first of talking about it is I breeze. I've been
waiting for the next thing.
Speaker 6: I know.
Speaker 3: I was behind the rock. I wasn't quite sure how
I got there. I guess my legs sort of took
over without me having to tell him what to do.
Speaker 6: You ain't got a chance next, well come out from
behind gold Roxton keeps your hands up. I'll be glad
to ablige, but I ain't nest whoever he is closing
that surf.
Speaker 5: Hmm.
Speaker 6: Oh well, it's like they made a little mistake.
Speaker 3: Boy. You are right, mister, and I was very damage.
Speaker 6: I guess I had to bother at you. What are
you doing out here?
Speaker 2: Anyway?
Speaker 3: I was heading for town. I heard there might be
some work on the new railroad, so I.
Speaker 6: Might sign up for a style. I guess they can
always use another man. My name's geort Urff.
Speaker 2: Jim York, I have place make your shaff.
Speaker 3: I'm Britt Ponted.
Speaker 6: Ponted.
Speaker 5: Some want to call sick shooter.
Speaker 2: I didn't know you were in these parts.
Speaker 6: Boys. Meet Britt Ponton, Brits. This is Sam Norvile, Tom Jackson,
Harry Potter alright, how Britt the man who brought him
the Phoenix kid kid had the drop on him too,
but he never got a chance full of trigger. At
least that's the way folks tell us.
Speaker 3: Between the dawn and the talon, you know, there's to
be some exaggeration.
Speaker 6: Well, anyway, I'm sure glad we run into you tonight.
That six gun of yours might come in handy. Oh yeah,
we're looking for net Landy. That's who we thought you
was at first.
Speaker 3: I figure something like that. I watched this landing enough.
Speaker 6: To trouble for the last three months, pulled up a
couple of shooting spreeze poke into Harry's bank last night.
Kill Harry's brother. I've taken a post. He asked him before,
but we always seemed to lose him in these hills.
We weren't getting to night though, picked up his trail
this morning, even spotted him for a minute or two
on the fire side the Devil's canon.
Speaker 2: Over the trees.
Speaker 6: I got off a shot, thought out hit him for sure,
but again heam was off anyway. He gave us the
slip again.
Speaker 3: What you look like?
Speaker 6: Oh he's young, about twenty three, I say, George wiry
white hair rides the pindle.
Speaker 2: You ain't seen him?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I guess I have.
Speaker 6: Yeah, where was it?
Speaker 3: I left another cabin about nine miles back, and your
aim was all right this morning the sheriff, he's kind
of bullet in his stich because he said he'd shot
himself by acting.
Speaker 6: The only cabin out.
Speaker 2: Just where is Jenny Garbs.
Speaker 3: That's that's the woman. That's the woman who lived there.
Speaker 2: Well, come on, boys, let's cool.
Speaker 3: You coming to b oh no, you want to need
any help. Shaft of land. He's not likely to last
line affore, you get him into town.
Speaker 6: And I was saying, well, we'll get him in all right,
will see to that the doc.
Speaker 3: But I understood what honey.
Speaker 6: Damn, here's the doctor. See that's what he's been claiming
for the past twenty years.
Speaker 3: Yeah, just waite a minute, shaft, Come on, you know
I've changed my mind.
Speaker 6: I think that that will ride a fair way.
Speaker 3: Here.
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Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: Act two of the six shooters, starring James Stewart, About
an hour and a half.
Speaker 3: After I met up with a sheriff. We came to
a little stream trickling down the hill, just off the trail.
I'd nursed when I passed five before. I hadn't there's
any water around, and scar hadn't smaller either. Air there's
the quiet and everything. And he pulled up together the horses.
Chance got a drink.
Speaker 6: Well, I guess ain't no rush.
Speaker 3: And that's the bad off.
Speaker 6: As you say, something funny, I was just thinking about
Jenny Garbage. Oh yep, she's finally got her help a man.
He's going to be real temporary. Can't take you there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And if he didn't have a bullet in him,
I bet he'd take off the first time he got
to look at her.
Speaker 6: Well, I said, Dick Wren, a bullet to keep me there?
Speaker 3: Me too, Jo The something wrong with Jenny, Well you
see the eurasi. Yeah. Well, well I guess she's no beauty.
Speaker 6: Now that's given her the benefit of the doubt. Now,
if you asked me, my horse is better looking.
Speaker 3: You know, Shaft and a lot of plain women seem
to get along all life. But I done some plenty
on't you know.
Speaker 2: Well, it ain't justice.
Speaker 6: Jenny's ugly but she's a darned awkward and big Why
even when she was a little girl living in town,
she was always a head tall in any boy parade,
and stronger too. I guess they've had enough.
Speaker 2: Everything was her post to procure about.
Speaker 6: Jenny wouldn't admit she was any different from the other girl.
You remember how they used to dress her, all those
fancy clothes with frills and ribbons. One made her looked
twice as who said she would have otherwise? You know
her father used to speak of the party to the
square dancers, but he was the only one whoever dance
with it. No, sir, I don't think a single boy
in town courted her, not one. You're you're forgetting Willie Franklin.
Oh sure, well Franklin, Yeah, he's quite a cut up
made of that one night with some of the fellas
and said he'd get Jenny to agree to marry him.
He took her out, and he's waggon and proposed. Of course,
she said yes, But I know that Willie's friends was
all hidden in the back of the wave. At leastwise
she didn't know it until they all busted out laughing.
Speaker 2: It was right after that folk jard wasn't here.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, that's when she bought this cabin about five
years ago. Come to think of us, So Jenny can't
be more than twenty five or six. Looks a whole
lot older, though, wouldn't you say so?
Speaker 3: Britt? Oh, I don't know. I'm not much good to
judging agees Bankfually a.
Speaker 2: Woman there's a place, got ahead, last lines must be up.
Sure she's up all right?
Speaker 6: First time she ever had a man within touching distancing?
Speaker 3: What's not?
Speaker 5: Yah?
Speaker 6: Better leave the horses here and go the rest away
on foot.
Speaker 3: Oh no, Liane's not after giving any trouble.
Speaker 6: Oh, you never can tell. You may be feeling better
by now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not that much.
Speaker 6: He's seen us.
Speaker 3: Didn't waste no time about him either.
Speaker 6: He wasn't sick, you thought, Rick or else? You made
a mighty fast recovery. You'll never hit him from down here?
Speaker 2: What are you suppose happened to Jenny? I don't know
nothing about her.
Speaker 6: He's probably got her half scared to death. Well we'll
have to rush him.
Speaker 2: Ain't gonna be easy, sheriff for this moon. He should
have spottedus.
Speaker 6: What's all we can do?
Speaker 3: Sam?
Speaker 6: You and Harry Seth who can make it up to
the fence over there?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 5: Okay, okay, how far twice?
Speaker 3: That'll be the signal to close in hold on a man.
Speaker 2: Yeah, just hold up there now.
Speaker 3: If we go plowing up in front of that cabin,
somebody's gonna get hurt.
Speaker 6: Well, what's a man of pot You've been shot at before?
Speaker 3: Well that doesn't mean exactly. I like the idea. And besides,
there's another way of getting in the door around back,
and there are a couple of trees back.
Speaker 2: Oh no, he'll be watching the back door.
Speaker 3: That's no fool, I know, but it's worth a try.
All right, I'll go with you, no way, Just let
me go along. One man may have to be so mean.
You just keep firing. And if I ain't back in
five minutes, so we'll take them your way.
Speaker 6: Huh, I been, I won't wait, No want.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I hunched down a long and I started circling
through the rear of the cabin and it was much
covered and just rocks a couple of scrub pines. Anyway,
nobody was shooting at me, yet still find nobody to
see me. I come up along the side of the barn,
and the back door was just just ahead. Now I
still had about twenty years to go. I ran forward
in my foot corf. I tripped over some of my
kindling Jenny stacked up there in the afternoon. I lay
I like quiet from it. I just waited. It sounded
to me like I made enough noise so they could
hear it down the lead Craig huh huh. Shooting wasn't
in my direction. So I got up on my knees
and I raced for the Cabins opened up the door.
I kept on going. When I got into the living
room life, I'm sorry. I figured Ride that was on
the cop just where I left him hadn't moved. It
was Jenny who was during the fire, and she swung around.
She pointed the revolver outd me. Her eyes weren't soft,
not anymore.
Speaker 6: You told him you brought him here. I would have
taken him away as soon as he was well enough.
Why couldn't you let us alone?
Speaker 3: I killed a man last night. I don't care.
Speaker 5: I don't care what he does.
Speaker 3: As long as he needs me, I'll stand by him
and help him. Neither to hide that. I must have
been staying here for some time, or his pony wouldn't
have had enough sense to come back here with zwing
a cord. I'm gonna start closing in, Jenny.
Speaker 6: You're not gonna take him away from me.
Speaker 2: I won't let net.
Speaker 3: Like he told me, he likes me, and he's the
first person who ever did, even if it isn't true,
even if he didn't really mean it.
Speaker 2: He didn't laugh at me like the others.
Speaker 3: He didn't mind my look. Even my mother said it.
Speaker 6: But I won't not now never thank me with it.
Speaker 3: You'll marry me.
Speaker 6: I know he Willand I can't let you take him away, no.
Speaker 3: Matter what, not even if I ever won't help him.
That the only way I can keep you. God to
stop you somehow, you and the others out there. Oh,
there's no way you can keep him, Johnny, He's dead.
I'll turn around, turn around looking. I'm not trying to
catch you off guard. Just turn around. Hadn't been breathing
up since I came in.
Speaker 5: He loved me, love me.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, I'm not.
Speaker 3: I might have known you take ar That was me
shure asked with you, huh your bullets from this afternoon.
I'll be done.
Speaker 5: I told you.
Speaker 6: I was sure I'd hit him, Remember Tom, I told you.
Speaker 2: And how come he was able to hold us off?
Speaker 6: Just now, Well, he was a tough one to kill.
He wouldn't give up the strain of shooting that as
much to finally finished him. Ain't that the way you figured,
brit something like that. What's the matter with her gun played, Bobby, Jimmy,
Come on, sure is funny how women are scared of gunfires. Everyone,
even Jinny. Well he just goes destoyer that underneath they're
all pretty much alike.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I guess there. Well that was very the
next day, and there was one bunch of flowers at
the funeral, wild daisies. Folks just couldn't figure out who son.
And you know that. They tell me that it was
right about then that Jenny Garver started acting different.
Speaker 5: Oh.
Speaker 3: I don't mean she got pretty or anything like that,
but she didn't seem more confident. She just seemed a
little more sure.
Speaker 6: For so.
Speaker 3: People said, if they didn't know about it, they'd swear
that a man had something to do with the way
she'd changed. But of course they all knew better.
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Speaker 1: Mister Stewart may currently be seen in the Universal International
picture thunder Bay. The Six Shooter is an NBC Radio
Network production in association with Review Production. It is based
on the character created by Frankfurt, and today's transcribed story
was written by him. Special music was by Basil Adlam and.
Speaker 6: Heard in the cast were d. J.
Speaker 2: Thompton, Jess Kirkpatrick, George Need, and Terry Parker.
Speaker 1: The entire production is under the direction of Jack Johnstone.
All characters and incidents were fictitious, and any resemblance to
actual characters or incidents is purely coincidental.
Speaker 3: Hell get me speaking