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Speaker 1: Slaughter's my name. Luke Slaughter. Cattle's my business. It's a

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tough business, it's a big business. I got a big

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stake in it. There's no man west of the area

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of grand big enough to take it from me.

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Speaker 2: Luke Slaughter of Tombstone. Luke Slaughter of Tombstone. Civil War

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cavalryman turned Arizona cattleman across the territory from Yuma to

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Fort Defiance, from Flagstaff to the Wachucas, and below the

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border through Chihuahua and Sonora. His name was recent spected

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or feared, depending on which side of the law you

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were on. Man of vision, man of legend. Luke Slaughter

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of Tombstone.

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Speaker 1: There's a long, hot ride to Laredo. The last day

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I pushed it hard, eating dust all the way. I

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didn't know if i'd be in time or not. When

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I rode up to the canteen in town and went inside,

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I saw I was barely in time. The two of

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them were sitting at a corner table. From the sound

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of it, the deal was just about close.

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Speaker 3: Me and my boys will bring that herd up across

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the border for you in good shape.

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Speaker 1: Hell, I hope so.

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Speaker 4: Hancock Association's pretty word about all the trouble we've had

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on these drives before.

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Speaker 1: Excuse me, tents Ben Wilkins, Why, yes, President of the

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Cattleman's Association. Yes, that's right. I don't think I know you.

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Speaker 3: Look, mister, we're talking business. That's why I'm here, Hancock,

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I'll come. You know my name, Wilkins.

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Speaker 1: I understand you're aiming to bring a herd of cattle

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up from Mexico into Texas. Well, what's that to you?

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You're missing a good bed. I don't you drive him

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west Arizona, Arizona. That's right. I have heard about the

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new mines opening up around Tombstone. Everybody and his brother's

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headed out there and they all got to eat. That

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means a good market for beef, a lot better price

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than you get around here.

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Speaker 3: He's crazy, Wilkins. That's too far to drive a herd.

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Speaker 4: He is sure too dangerous anyway, while those bandidos Russ loose,

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even Indians.

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Speaker 1: Maybe I took a herd out there last month. There

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wasn't near enough to take care of all those beef

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eating miners. I'll drive your herd out there for you

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for a percentage.

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Speaker 3: You just shut that big mouth of yours. Mister, whoever

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you are, I'm the one drives Wilkins herds wherever they go.

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Speaker 1: Oh, Wilkins, you can't afford Jess Hancock anymore. What do

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you mean the last turd he brought across the border

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for you? How many did he lose along the way?

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Speaker 5: Why?

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Speaker 1: Forty three head.

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Speaker 3: Could have happened to anyone. Bandidos, that's what it.

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Speaker 1: Was, Mexican bandits. Huh. Here's a bill of sale might

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interest you, Wilkins. Seems last week a rancher named Hollister

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bought forty three head, and good faith paid for him

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proper man who's seldom was Jess Hancock. That's a lie.

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Take a look, Wilkins, that Hancock's signature.

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Speaker 3: Why sure, nobody's gonna accuse me or wrestling.

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Speaker 1: You don't try it, Hancock. I can kick that gun

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out of your hand before you get it loose from

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their holster. You just try it, man, you convinced Hancock?

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Who are you, mister slaughter? Luke Slutter?

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Speaker 4: I've heard i'd be mister slaughter, but I didn't know

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you was in these parts.

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Speaker 1: You don't have to mister me. Wilkins. Just Slaughter's good enough.

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Speaker 4: Hancock Association's gonna hear about this if those are the

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same forty three. You got no prosy about that, Slaughter,

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you said, Arizona.

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Speaker 1: A lot of hungry miners and Tombstone big a price.

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Huh half again as much?

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Speaker 4: Beat me back here in an hour.

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Speaker 2: You got yourself a job.

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Speaker 1: I'll be here, Wilkins.

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Speaker 3: Uh you hear me, slaughter. I don't care what your

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reputation is. You ain't gonna beat me out of this.

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Speaker 1: I'll stop you here. I am Hancock, and now's as

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good a time as any. Go ahead.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you can talk mighty tall with my gun laying

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there on the floor.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you're gone there. It is Hancock. And I'm

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just as far from that table it's sitting on as

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you are. I'll go ahead.

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Speaker 4: His other ways, Slaughter, these other ways, alok, slaughter. When

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you signed for this job, you guaranteed me six good

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trail hands. I didn't know you were just gonna pick

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them cold out.

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Speaker 2: Of the bar.

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Speaker 1: Here. That's the difference, Welkins. They're not good hands now

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they will be by the time we get to Tombstone.

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I'll suit of that. I guess you will. How many

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you got so far. Two Mexican boys in other country

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pretty well, and a cook.

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Speaker 4: It still leaves your three shy.

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Speaker 1: I'll get them.

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Speaker 6: Say mister, your name, slaughter, Yeah, mine's rusty. And here

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you're looking for trail hands.

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Speaker 1: Maybe you ever been to Tombstone, not.

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Speaker 6: With the herd, didn't know anybody had. This will be

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the second that been almost every place else. You can

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take your herd. I guess God's city, shy hand, the panhandle,

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you name it?

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Speaker 1: All right, I'll take you.

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Speaker 3: Who's the one that's hiring.

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Speaker 1: Mister, that's right. You're look a little old for the

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drive I've got in mind. Tombstones a long way, don't

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worry about that. And none, I'll keep up. Bet your

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name they called me all all right, you're on. Got

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a room for one.

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Speaker 7: More, slaughter, Hell, your son name is Carson, Jim Carson.

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Speaker 1: Ever ridden trail before?

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Speaker 5: No?

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Speaker 7: But I don't figure it'd be too tough side slaughter,

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I come in handy when this trouble.

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Speaker 1: How about when this work?

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Speaker 7: I work? I need the money. I want to buy

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me a gun.

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Speaker 1: You already got a gun.

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Speaker 7: I want to get me another one.

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Speaker 1: All right, I'll put you on. Say your name was Jimmy.

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Speaker 7: It's not Jimmy, it's jim I don't like being called Jimmy.

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Speaker 1: Go get your stuff together, Jimmy.

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Speaker 7: I guess you didn't hear me, Slaughter, I said, I

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don't like being.

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Speaker 1: Want to come along, don't you?

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Speaker 7: I want to come?

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Speaker 1: Then get moving to me.

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Speaker 2: I don't like that one.

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Speaker 1: Slaughter. He's on the prot good by, Wilkins.

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Speaker 2: I take a chance with him.

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Speaker 4: Then, I don't want any trouble.

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Speaker 1: With this herd. Now just a minute, Wilkins. I didn't

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guarantee no trouble. Matter of fact, i'd be surprised if

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there wasn't. I guarantee just one thing to bring that

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herd through that you can count on.

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Speaker 5: I have seen young punks like him before Slaughter. They

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go run with a chip on their shoulder, trying to

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show how.

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Speaker 8: Tough they are.

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Speaker 5: He probably heard about you, what about me with you

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to oh no friends? You got a kind of reputation

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that's all punk like that. Sooner or later you probably

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want to find.

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Speaker 6: Out how to fe Maybe I heard him shooting off

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his mouth at the bar earlier about how he'd gonned

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down a couple of men here and there.

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Speaker 7: Oh I bet he's awful green on the trail, though.

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Speaker 1: You can show him the ropes restie. Maybe the trail

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takes some of the toughness out of him. Anyway, I

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need what men we can get. He goes with us.

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Speaker 6: You're the boss.

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Speaker 3: Where are we heading from here?

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Speaker 1: Del Gatta, little town below the border. That's where we

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pick up the herd when we're leaving. Since we sat

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eleven tonight, yeah, we should be able to hit the

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trail with the cattle tomorrow afternoon. Make a few miles

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toward Tombstone for dark.

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Speaker 3: What's a hurry?

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Speaker 1: There's a man named Jess Hancock. Couldn't mind making a

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little trouble for me. I want that HRD all in

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one piece to start with, anyway.

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Speaker 9: Pretty good looking herd rusty, yeah, but no herd's worth

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pounding leather like we did all the way down here

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to Dell Gotta.

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Speaker 8: Slaughter said he wanted to make it, but this afternoon

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he did.

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Speaker 7: Where is he anyway?

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Speaker 8: Sign the papers over there at the pinch.

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Speaker 7: I don't see why we can't hang around town tonight.

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Leave in the morning.

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Speaker 8: We'll why not take it up with the bosh here

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you come?

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Speaker 7: You think you're pretty funny, don't you wit?

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Speaker 8: You talk just once in a while.

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Speaker 1: Well, I guess we're already resty. How about the cook.

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Speaker 3: Oh he's got all the grub loaded in the chuck

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wagon ready to roll.

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Speaker 1: Good your slaughter. Yeah? Who are you?

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Speaker 10: I'm Carlotta and you're going to Arizona?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Tombstone? Why take me with you?

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Speaker 5: What?

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Speaker 10: I want to get away from this place? I want

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to go to Arizona. Please take me with you?

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Speaker 1: Sorry, what are you doing here, Carlina?

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Speaker 3: Come on back to the canteena.

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Speaker 1: Where you belong. Well, Jess Hancock, I'll come here down here, this.

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Speaker 3: Is my stamping ground, slaughter. I was, I ain't forgot.

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Speaker 1: I didn't figure I had first.

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Speaker 3: You take my job. Now you try to take my girl.

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Speaker 1: Just a minute, hencock, don't get things any more twisted

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up than you can help you get moving, Carlina, you

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leave me alone.

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Speaker 3: I hope you have a real pleasant trip to Tombstone, Slaughter.

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Speaker 1: I better have.

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Speaker 8: Getting pretty dark slaughter, don't you reckon?

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Speaker 3: We better get that herd better down.

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Speaker 5: For the night.

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Speaker 1: A little further.

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Speaker 5: You've been avoiding a regular trail, expecting trouble.

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Speaker 1: I usually do with it.

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Speaker 5: I've been watching you around horses, Slaughter, been thinking you

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was in the cavalry.

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Speaker 1: Oh.

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Speaker 5: I heard about a man named SLAUGHTERA once commanded a

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regimen from Millinois in the war.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, raiders, they was used to read across the line.

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This Slaughter I heard about.

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Speaker 5: He always used to come back leading a string of

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Confederate horses with their saddles empty.

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Speaker 8: I've been thinking you're the same, Slaughter.

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Speaker 1: And I've been thinking you're a pretty nosy old man.

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Speaker 10: Hip that's me.

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Speaker 1: Oh this is fine enough. Fast eke that down here, right,

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we'll you tell that chuck wagon of ours. I just

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saw the tarp move. There's somebody inside.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, I sure too.

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Speaker 1: All right, Carlotta get out of there.

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Speaker 10: Listen. I want to go to Tombstone.

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Speaker 1: You picked the wrong way.

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Speaker 10: But you don't send me back now. It's nice. It's

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white country. You wouldn't do that, would you.

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Speaker 1: You counted on that, didn't you. All right, you'll go

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with us, but you'll earn your way. You'll help the cook,

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you'll clean up after him, you'll wash the dishes.

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Speaker 10: Work me like a horse h or worse? Maybe do

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you let the horses better?

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Speaker 1: There's one big difference. I invited the horses. After we

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bettered down the herd, the cook wrestled up some grub.

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I thought it was plenty of sullen, but she worked.

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Jimmy kept eyeing her, so I figured I'd better put

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him one night. Heard I turned in around midnight. Everything

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was peaceful, but it didn't stay that way very long.

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Speaker 8: Slaughter, you hear that?

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Speaker 5: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Where they come from?

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Speaker 8: I don't know, but he's got the herd round up.

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Speaker 11: If there you go, they stamp Veeden. Slaughter there Stampeden.

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Speaker 2: In a moment, Luke Slaughter of Tombstone returns. Somebody ought

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to set Jack Benny straight about how to make a movie,

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on today, CBS Radio's Misguided matinee Idol will attempt his

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right there when he does for a hilarious example of

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how not to make a motion picture. Here the Jack

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Benny Show. Later today on most of these same stations,

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Henry Morgan and Mitch Miller will be around following Jack Benny.

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Henry Morgan, his host on The Fast and funny guessing game,

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says who his star studded pandel of experts spark one

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laugh after another as they try to identify memory teasing,

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mystery voices, and speaking of stars. You'll find an hour

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of fast and funny conversation with the biggest named stars

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of Hollywood and Broadway waiting for you on CBS Radio's

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Mitch Miller Show Tonight and now Act two of William N.

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Robeson's production of Luke Slaughter of Tombstone.

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Speaker 1: When you do turning in, we gotta get a turned out.

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Speaker 11: You're getting too close holiday resting your laugh. I can't

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turn the punch in the lead swaller, watch out, he'll

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run you down.

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Speaker 7: Yuck it out, hid the lead.

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Speaker 1: Stair right, you don't take the melon. That's it. Let's

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got up slop. Whoa, yeah, I was close with your tie.

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Speaker 8: I thought I've seen everything, Slaughter, But I guess what

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was wrong? What do you mean riding into.

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Speaker 5: That herd the way you did?

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Speaker 1: You know a better way to turn them?

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Speaker 8: You could have been run down.

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Speaker 1: Que to me, come out of here.

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Speaker 8: Look look slaughter up on the ridge.

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Speaker 1: Small fire could be Indians. We'll go up and take

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a look in a minute.

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Speaker 7: What do you want, slaughter?

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Speaker 1: There's two shots that started the stampede. Sounded like they

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came from over there. Way you were? You fire those

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shots to me? I said, did you fire those shots? Yeah? Why?

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Speaker 3: Why?

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Speaker 8: Thought?

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Speaker 7: I saw something moving in the dark near me.

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Speaker 2: Figured it could be trouble.

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Speaker 1: So you just hauled up and blasted away. Pretty spooky

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with that six gun of yours, aren't you?

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Speaker 7: I tell you, I thought someone was coming at you.

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Speaker 1: Almost cost us the whole herd. You want two of

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those guns, but one's too much for you. I'm taking

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your six gun, Jimmy, No, you ain't slaughter. I'll leave

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you you're rifle in case you're run into trouble in

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the way to tombstone. I can't take any more chances

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on that itchy trigger finger of yours. I hand it over.

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Speaker 7: Ain't nobody gonna take my gun away from me? How

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drawing you?

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Speaker 1: Fo? I let you? No, you won't.

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Speaker 7: Maybe you ain't heard about them. Two men are guns, slaughter.

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Speaker 1: He was shooting off your mouth about it in a saloon,

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But I don't believe it. Jimmy, you've never gunned the man,

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and you're not going to start now. I'll hand it over,

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But first let's have it. I'll get back to the herd.

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Speaker 5: You've taken a lot away from that kids, slaughter first,

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calling him Jimmy, now taking his.

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Speaker 1: Gun, had no choice even so you cut him up

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and he won't forget it. You're trying to be my

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conscience or something, Wichita.

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Speaker 8: Oh like you say, I'm just a nosy omen.

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Speaker 1: Then let's got those around that fire up on the ridge.

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There's some dirt on that fire, Wichita, get it out.

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Speaker 8: Nobody around here. You know this could be a signal fire.

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Think it was Indians at Lytch?

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Speaker 1: I doubt it. I think it was intended as a

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signal for Jess Hancock so he could locate the herd.

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Speaker 8: You subject somebody in our outfit, sure off.

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Speaker 1: The fire could being with your stampede.

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Speaker 8: We was all there.

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Speaker 1: Fire could have been lit just before the stampede.

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Speaker 8: You say, somebody in outfit that include me?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, right now? Which its ow. There's only one person

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in the outfit I'm sure.

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Speaker 7: Of who's there me.

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Speaker 10: I tell you I didn't start the fire, Slaughter. I

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wouldn't help Hancock. I told you I want to get

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away from him.

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Speaker 1: I know that's what you told me, Karlada, But you

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don't believe me.

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Speaker 10: You think I'm still Hancock's girl. Why don't you trust me?

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Why don't you been nice to me?

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Speaker 1: Maybe I could be your Sorry now, my job's riding

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hurt on cattle, not women.

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Speaker 10: Would you make me sick? You don't care about nobody

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about yourself? Is she right?

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Speaker 8: Slaughter?

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Speaker 1: Oh? Which I might have known you'd be listening?

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Speaker 9: Yep?

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Speaker 6: Well, slowly the herds quieted down. Two Mexican boys are

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keeping an eye on it. Did Carlotta admit anything? No,

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I wouldn't trust her any I.

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Speaker 1: Don't rest You want us for anything more? Or can

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we turn in in a minute? I want to lay

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out the plans for tomorrow. I think we're in for

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some trouble. How so, we've got two possible routes through

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the country ahead, resting through a narrow passer along the

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river bottom. The question is which way to take the herd.

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Speaker 7: You're expecting to be dry gulch.

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Speaker 1: That would be surprised to me.

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Speaker 6: That narrow pass would be the logical place for a

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bush waking. Why not take the herd through along the

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river bottom?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, there's one thing wrong with that resting It could

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be just what Hancock wants you to do, right. It

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might be trying to out figure me. There's a lot

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of willows and underbrush along that river bottom. He could

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be hold up there. That's why we're going to take

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the herd through the pass. We'll start right after sun up.

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I didn't know if my bluff at work or not.

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It was the only way I could find out who

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Hancock's spy was. I rode away from camp toward the herd.

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Whoever it was, I had to give him a chance

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to make a move, and it didn't take long. Pretty

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soon I heard muffled hooves moving away. I rode back

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to camp and took a look. It was Rusty. He

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was gone.

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Speaker 7: Carlota's going too slaughter.

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Speaker 1: I guess she wasn't so anxious to get away from

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Hancock as she let on so rush.

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Speaker 8: He's going to chet him that. We're bringing the herd.

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Speaker 2: Through the past.

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Speaker 1: It's just what I wanted him to do. Unless he

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knows this country a lot better than I do, he's

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going to lead me right to Hancock.

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Speaker 7: You're going after him?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they should give me the slip. We're going to

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be in for some trouble or you want us to do.

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Split the outfit in two, which take half the herd

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through the pass the other half through the river. About

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him be ready for trouble, especially in the past.

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Speaker 7: Let me take the pass.

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Speaker 1: Slaughter you you're sure you want to?

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Speaker 7: Yeah, real sure, And I think I can handle it.

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Speaker 1: I think he can too. Oh, and you might be

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needing that six gun of yours. Here it is Jim,

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Thanks Luke, slaughter'll do get moving its sun up, Join

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up on the other side and wait for me. I

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picked up Rusty his trail. He was headed for the

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ridge between the pass and the river bottom. He was

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getting light when I reached a short cut where I

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could gain some ground on him, but I gained too much.

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Just as I got back to the trail again, my

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horse came pounding around the bend, carrying Rusty in Carlotta.

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He pulled up when he spotted me himself Carlotta off.

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Then I saw I'd been holding a gun on her.

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His slug burned my shirt as I dove at him. Slaughter,

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you are right, Carlada, I think so.

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Speaker 10: Rusty made me go with and he was taking me

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back to Hancock.

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Speaker 1: Came from all those rocks up above there, take cover.

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Speaker 10: I can't walk. My ankle is twisted.

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Speaker 1: All right, I'll carry you. Get up behind this rock.

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You'd be all right there, said here, you'll be safe.

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Speaker 10: Now, what's wrong about your slaughter? What mean you do

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care about somebody beside yourself?

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Speaker 1: Yes, it's gotta be handcock up there in those rocks. Here,

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take my rifle and stay put. I'm gonna try and

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circle around behind him. It was a big shoulder of

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rock above me into my left I could get around that.

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I might be able to get behind Hancock if you

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didn't hear me coming there. He was twenty yards away,

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his back to me, his gun in the holster so

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he could get a better handhold as he edged his

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well along the rocks. I holsted my own gun and

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stepped out into the clear. Hancock slaughter, Yeah, yeah, I

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am man Cock. Now go ahead draw.

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Speaker 7: I don't like it with it all slaughter should have

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been here by now.

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Speaker 10: Here'll belong to Jim.

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Speaker 7: Well, maybe we ought to head up there and see

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if we can find him. He could be in trouble.

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Speaker 5: He shared weight for him here, even so many coming

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up the drawer call out it with him?

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Speaker 8: Ain't that Rusty's horse she's riding.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, and Slaughter is leading another one, uh.

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Speaker 8: Huh with an empty shadow.

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Speaker 1: All right, yeah, all in.

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Speaker 8: One piece, no trouble. But you looks like you had

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John a little and horser leading? Is it Hancock's it was?

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Speaker 7: I knew you could outdraw him.

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Speaker 1: Matter of fact, that Joe's about even. But how come you, Jim?

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You've got a couple of things to learn. Isn't getting

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your gun out of your holster that's the most important thing.

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It's what you do with it once it's out.

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Speaker 8: You figure Hancock was after the herd or after Carlotta.

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Speaker 1: I didn't take time to ask him which it.

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Speaker 2: Luke Slutter of Tombstone starring Sam Buffington, written by Robert Stanley,

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with editorial supervision by Tom Henley, and directed by William N.

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Speaker 1: Robeson.

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Speaker 2: Supporting mister Buffington and the first of this new Sir

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were Lillian Biaf, Edie mar Herb Vigrants, Sam Edwards, Junius Matthews,

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and Vic Perrin. Next week, at this time we returned with.

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Speaker 1: Slaughter's the name Luke Slaughter. When we met up again,

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you can call me that, Luke Slaughter