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Speaker 1: One of the prettiest women I have met in the West,

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was very nearly the cause of violence and carnage, and

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to this day I don't think she knows why a

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frontier gentlemen herewith an englishman's account of life and death

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in the West. As a reporter for the London Times,

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he writes his colorful and unusual stories. But as a

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man with a gun, he lives and becomes a part

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of the violent years in the New Territories. Now starring

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John Dayner, this is the story of J. B. Kendall,

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frontier gentleman. One of the first things I noticed in Laramie,

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Wyoming Territory was the intense rivalry between that town and

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Cheyenne on the other side of the Laramie Mountains. One

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read the bitter attacks and counterattacks in the opposition newspapers,

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one heard it on the streets. At the time I

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arrived in Laramie, gold had been discovered in the mountains

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to the south, and there was great rejoicing in this fact,

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which threatened to eclipse Chyenne's claim of superiority. In the

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interest of fair reporting, I decided to visit the mining

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area with the idea of making comparisons between it and

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that which I had seen in Montana. Ter three. It

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was about midday when I saw the sign by the

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side of the trail reading rotten head gulg. And a

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few minutes after that, when I arrived at a cluster

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of shacks which constituted said township, I noticed three men

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outside an edifice which bore the legend Dirty Charlie's Saloon.

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Ah afternoon, hardy clown's clothed.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, voting day.

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Speaker 1: Oh I see you voted yet? Uh well no, uh.

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Speaker 2: Buck, get out voting paper. Uh got it right here,

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jim right here, mister.

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Speaker 1: I had not a member of the community. And does

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that make a difference.

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Speaker 2: Well, you're a human man, that's all the difference we need. Ay,

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Sure to get off from the table let the trainer

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set comfortable like, ah, it's set, mister h make your

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mark or you can ride it out proper. And you

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know how at.

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Speaker 1: One small point, Uh, what am I voting for? Oh?

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Whom you're voting for?

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Speaker 2: The school? Mom? That's what? And who?

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Speaker 1: Oh? And do I vote yes or no?

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Speaker 2: Well you vote yes, mister, you vote no. You're liably

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end up line toes down. You ain't being simple for them.

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No good Goose Creek boys, have you No.

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Speaker 1: I have come from Larimy left there this morning.

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Speaker 2: That's all right?

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Speaker 1: Then look here it's it's nothing. I mind voting, but

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i'd like to know something about it.

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Speaker 2: Well he told you, man, that's your man's got a

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right to know. It's legal. Well, sir, now it's this way.

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We got a school mom Rottenhead Gulch. The school district

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Laramie give her and we aim.

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Speaker 1: The keep her. She's the prettiest thing you ever did.

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Speaker 2: Say, surety, I'm telling you now, humble your left. Well

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she is, ain't she bouck? Oh? Man? She is a

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cow bunny and that's for sure. Now, like I say,

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we aim to keep her and ain't no Goose Creek

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Kyler is going to get her. That's how come to vote.

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And the school district says, if Goose Creek gets more

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votes in Rottenhead Gulch, she's gonna be sent there.

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Speaker 1: No, I see, so you vote, yeah, but is it legal?

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Speaker 2: Woll sure it's legal. Course here I'm in charge of voting.

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I say it's legal. Anybody comes this here town on

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voting day as a citizen, are up and head golg

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honorable like Now as mayor, I make.

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Speaker 1: You a citizen.

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Speaker 2: Now you vote?

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Speaker 1: All right?

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Speaker 2: Hey, Buck, we're at the rot and quill. I know

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what do you mean? You don't know? We ain't had

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no voting since this morning. I guess maybe I left

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it in the saloon. We'll go get it, sure, Jim.

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Speaker 1: No, I'm rather surprised to find a school teacher out here.

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I mean, in the mining town as small as this.

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Uh are there many children?

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Speaker 2: Oh? Shucks, mister, there ain't no kids. They're as short

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here that one of these here days, that leaky mouthyorn

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is going to get you a case of slough.

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Speaker 1: Well it's a true, Jim. A school teacher with no

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children to teach, rather odd, isn't it? Well, now, sir,

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there ain't nothing not about it. We aim to get

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us some kids as soon as we get us some

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women to marry up with and.

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Speaker 2: Have a kid.

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Speaker 1: But how did the school district assign her here in

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the first place?

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Speaker 2: Ain't nobody asked to find out? They did? And she's here,

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she's gonna stay. She's been learning us. There's twenty of us.

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Goes to school every night after work's done. Ain't that

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so Jim that there's a fact. Mister. Now, maybe we

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ain't kid, but it ain't. But five of us can

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read and write, so as you could notice it. And

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we figured we got to write and learn as well

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as any kid.

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Speaker 1: Oh, I quite agree. But tell me where does unmeet

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this school teacher of yours?

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Speaker 2: Well, i'd seen her a while back down to the creek,

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Washington woman. Thing I found it, Jim, Right here, here's

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a writing quill where I think, Oh, you know something,

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I wanna tell you that there Buck my school ain't

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gonna do him no good. You know, he ain't got

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enough brains to start with.

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Speaker 1: Well, how many votes do you need to keep her here?

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Speaker 2: Morn Goose Creek, that's for sure. You see, we got

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twenty votes in Rottenhead Gooks Goose Creeks got maybe thirty.

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We just got to vote more than they do. So

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when the vote is counted, then we'll win.

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Speaker 1: Who counts the votes? Oh?

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Speaker 2: Back in Laramie. Well, as soon as the day's finished,

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we seal up the vote in boxes and we take

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them up to Laramie.

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Speaker 1: But won't they know that you've en lodged, you're voting.

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They must be a well of the population here, shack.

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It's no such thing.

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Speaker 2: We just got to be sure we got more assigned

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votes and goose quick, that's all.

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Speaker 1: How do you know that?

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Speaker 2: Well, right now it is kind of a problem, Jim,

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right here, thing there you going? Mister? Well? Now, good

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after miss Jones. Well no, ma'am, he's just rode in.

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Soon as he's finished his business, he's gonna be riding

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right out again, Missus.

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Speaker 1: Jones, isn't it? My name is Kendall, Miss Jones, JB. Kendall.

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Speaker 3: How do you do, mister Kendall.

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Speaker 1: I have been hearing quite a bit about you, miss Jones.

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I'd like very much to talk to you as soon

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as I've voted.

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Speaker 3: Voted, But you can't vote, James Ponder.

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Speaker 2: Oh no, ma'am. This here is man's work.

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Speaker 3: They not have a dishonest ballot. I told you that before.

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Speaker 2: Oh it ain't really dishonest, miss Jones. Jim made this

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fellow honorable citizen of Rotten Head, Gus, didn't you.

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Speaker 3: I'm very sorry, mister ken't know, but you cannot vote?

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Speaker 2: Well, ma'am, you just don't understand these here political things.

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Speaker 3: Understand the jaw trying to stuff about it? Box and

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I will not have it. Has everybody in town voted? Oh, yes, ma'am,

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he sure has, And in my presence, I want you

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to seal the box.

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Speaker 2: Oh, miss Jones, Oh look, we can't do that. Look

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here now, it ain't legal. Yeah, not till some doown

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It just ain't legal. That's what it says right here.

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And he's hearing instructions from the school district in Laramie.

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Now it just ain't legal, not till some does.

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Speaker 3: Everybody's voted, it's illegal.

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Speaker 2: Sealed the box, yes, ma'am.

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Speaker 1: That just don't seem right.

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Speaker 2: And and another fellows didn't get the vote. Can you

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help me steel up to hear nothing? Now, Miss Jones,

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why don't you take mister Kendley and show him the schoolhouse.

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I figured he'd like to see that.

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Speaker 3: And as a matter of fact, I would, all right,

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And no more voting. Is that understood, oh, miss Jones?

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Speaker 2: And I understand for sure it's way mister Kendall.

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Speaker 1: Are you a minor too, No, I'm a newspaper correspondent

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for the London Times.

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Speaker 3: Isn't that strange? I had a feeling, not exactly, but

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you're very much like my brother. He's a reporter and

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the Nebraska paper. That's strange. Gave me quite a start

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when I first.

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Speaker 1: Saw you, miss Jones. How long have you been here,

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not med coach?

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Speaker 3: Three months?

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Speaker 1: Weren't you surprised to find no children?

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Speaker 3: Yes, of course they kept it from me for almost

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two weeks.

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Speaker 1: I think I can understand.

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Speaker 3: Why can you really, mister kindle? Oh, I see you

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mean because they wanted to learn themselves.

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Speaker 1: Yes, you're right, and that's why you just how to stay.

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Speaker 3: Yes, before you could get curious that a woman devote

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her time to teaching twenty grown men.

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Speaker 1: Not curious, unusual for hands. This is the.

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Speaker 3: Schoolhouse with the kendall. The men built it. They built

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the desks, benches, everything. Would you like to come inside?

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Speaker 1: Very much?

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Speaker 3: They even built a wooden floorn at the candle. Wooden

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floors are quite rare in these mining towns.

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Speaker 1: I am impressed more than I can say, Miss Jones.

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Speaker 3: They have a great desire for education. I couldn't leave them,

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not after they worked so hard to build this and now,

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unfortunately word reached the people of Goose Creek that there

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was a school teacher here. They are a slightly larger

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community in Field. At the school district board should assign

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me to their town. Besides which there are two children

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in Goose Creek. I see the board decided to have

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it settled by a vote. If enough residents of Goose

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Creek require my services and outvote the men of Rockenhead, Gulch,

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I shall have to obey the decisions the bought.

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Speaker 1: Well, aren't there other teachers available?

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Speaker 3: Yes, that's the strange part of it. Neither town will

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accept anyone but me. Course, I'm flatted. I can't see

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that it really makes me difference, can you?

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Speaker 2: Well? Yes, well you see, yes, boys, your hands high now,

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we don't aim to hurtin miss June. You just come

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along with us and everything will be right.

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Speaker 1: Five mister Kendall, now look here, take carry him.

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Speaker 2: We'll do that claw.

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Speaker 1: In a moment, we returned to frontier. Gentlemen, another fascinating

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adventure is waiting for you on CBS Radio today, as

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most of these same stations present the FBI in Peace

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and War. Today, these law enforcers go after a pair

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of swindlers. You'll be amazed by the cleverness of this Windlers.

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You'll be thrilled to learn, however, that the FBI in

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peace and war is cleverer still. And now we return

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you to the Anthony Ellis production of Frontier Gentleman. I

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seem to remember a great roaring in my ears, which,

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as I awoke, turned out to be the voice of

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James Ponder. He was kneeling over me, and seeing my

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eyes open, redoubled his efforts to pour a great bullop

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of powl tasting whiskey down my throat.

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Speaker 2: I don't need it. What happened?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: What where? She can't help me up?

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Speaker 3: Where is she?

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Speaker 2: Heard horses? When we got here, there wasn't nobody except you. Yeah,

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there were.

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Speaker 1: There were three or four men masked. They'd taken her.

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Speaker 2: Who was he?

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Speaker 1: I don't know, except there was a father and son.

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The older man called the other Wes.

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Speaker 2: Where Jem, that's west over the Goose Creek stomp Peterson Wes.

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I might have noted you, reckon. They carried her off

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to beat the vote. That's what they're done.

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Speaker 1: What good would it do?

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Speaker 2: Well, I'll tell you what good. The figure they got

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more votes than we got. And even if we may

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be voted more times than them, they got her in

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Goose Creek, and by the time the school district gets

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around the eyeborn around maybe recount. It'll be two maybe

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three months. But then there's gonna be a new school

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district board in and the whole blame thing will have

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to start up again. Had no count stomp Peters. He's

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about its welcome as a rattler in a dog town.

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Dow her tongue, Shorty, I'll go fetch them other boys

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out of the hills. We gotta do something about this. Oh,

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we sure have, Jim. I tell you no goose Creek

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side wind They go on rustl our school on my arm,

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all right, hit the breeze, Shorty, and you two buck

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tell a voice to wear shooting lins. This here's gonna

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be a powder burning contest.

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Speaker 1: An hour later, twenty minutes, hot bitten miners, some of

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them young, others grizzled or armed the Tiefs than Duddy

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Charlie's salon. That mood was black, and it became blackers.

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Jim Ponder spoke to them.

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Speaker 2: Swat Peters. He's a no good boy, Windy Oili Brock.

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He'd come here looking for our school mom, and he

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snatches her clean out of rock. The head guard here Worr.

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He ain't gonna get away with. Of course, we're going

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over the Goose Creek and we're gonna shoot up that

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third place like you never seen. And we're gonna get

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miss Jones right back where she belongs. Yeah, here where

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he and where we get through a storm Peters and

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that thing bite son of HEAs. We're gonna use him

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to tremel tree. Yeah all right, now, get your horses, boys,

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and riding lost out of here. He's coming, miss Candle,

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Lord suddenly, likely they'll be shooting.

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Speaker 1: How far is it to this christ?

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Speaker 2: Oh? About half a mile that's gone.

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Speaker 1: Oh don't you imagine they'll be expecting you.

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Speaker 2: Sure they'll be expecting us. It's gonna be a real

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shoot up.

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Speaker 1: Wouldn't have been better to surprise them what for?

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Speaker 2: And know we'd be coming after him.

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Speaker 1: Supposing she gets hurt?

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Speaker 2: Well, now you know I didn't think of that. You

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figure maybe we're shooting. There's a chance boys, hear what

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Kendle here says, Well, we don't want the school mom hurt.

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Speaker 3: You.

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Speaker 2: What's where you're shooting? Out here?

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Speaker 3: Right now?

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Speaker 2: We're gonna take it really slow, just around the next turn. Yeah,

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be Kendle, you and me, we're gonna keep an eye

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out from Miss Jones. Either one of us eye balls

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her gets out of that frost here right there they are,

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and looking at that there candle right in the middle

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of the street, like to say, looks like they've been

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expecting us.

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Speaker 1: We came upon Goose Creek with abrupt suddenness. The trail

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rounded a bend and became an elongated clearing, lined on

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both sides with shocks, perhaps a half dozen more than

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existed in Rotten Head Gouch. Between the dwellings and in

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the middle of the street were piled boxes, barrows, and

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two overturned wagons. Behind this barricade we could see the

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figures of men and the reflection of sunlight. Un stealing.

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Up to this point, even with my headache, the affair

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had been rather difficult to take seriously, but the complexion

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had radically changed. When we were no more than twenty

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yards from the defenders, Jim Ponder held up his hands.

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Speaker 2: Oh, however, help stop painters, Ponder. We come to get

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miss Jones and take her back to her rightful home.

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He's in her rightful home. Guess where she is. You're

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a liar. I want to start trouble way and going

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back that school marm he ain't going back cause you'll

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be shaking hands with Saint Peter.

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Speaker 1: Let me talk to him.

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Speaker 2: They sain't no time for chewing the cud. Let's start

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throwing less order to shut your mouth with you get

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in a better position than we shucks. We could ride ride.

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Speaker 1: Over and if you live that long, it's your matter.

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Speaker 2: Boys afraid to take the big jump?

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Speaker 1: Come out, Peters. You can bring another man with you,

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Jim Ponder, and I'll meet you between the lines. Who

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are you the job? Who was with miss Jones?

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Speaker 2: I told you, I told you he wasn't good? All right?

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Speaker 1: You and Ponder get over your horses.

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Speaker 2: Come forward slowly? You watch it, Jim. Why don't you fresh? Ali? Boys,

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he start something, you go in finish it. Chere, let's

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go Ken.

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Speaker 1: What's your name, mister Kendall?

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Speaker 2: This here's my boy, Wes. We figured he killed you.

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I told you I didn't, Paul. What you gotta say?

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Resides's Jones in the schoolhouse we got built for It

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is all right? Sure she's all right. Nobody gonna hurt

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that pretty galony. No, sir, we a'm take her back.

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Storm Peters, you're off your mental reservation. If you think

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you can do it, Ponder, You ain't got no right

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to school, ma'am. Nohow were there any kid in that

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broken down Fleebittton County or I don't matter. We aim

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to get some by and by school district give it us.

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We just outvoted you. She's ours now the better SI

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you're gonna go on Stone Peters.

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Speaker 1: That what you want.

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Speaker 2: I'm willing raw.

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Speaker 1: No, wait, wait, that won't settle anything.

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Speaker 2: I've never seen a better way.

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Speaker 3: You can't hear.

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Speaker 2: Paul cut down to sir Kendel.

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Speaker 1: Fell young man, I owe you something for that clout

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on my head, but I have no desire to kill

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you now, both of you. Keep your hands in sight,

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you too, Jim.

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Speaker 2: Huh, Hey, what's telling you? Mister?

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Speaker 1: I'm on your side, then keep your I'm holster, there's

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no need for shooting. Peters. Tell one of your men

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to bring this Jones out here.

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Speaker 2: I ain't gonna do it.

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Speaker 1: Go get the school man, bring her out. Guess what

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you got in mind, Kendall, you'll see.

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Speaker 2: Well it better be good, of course, efing it ain't

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if a stump Peter's boys don't get your me or

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mine will ain't nobody pulls a gun on me and

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gets a way.

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Speaker 1: I think it's for the best.

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Speaker 2: What are you men doing well, I remama, we come

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to get you out of here, pest hole. Here we

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come to save you.

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Speaker 3: I've had enough of this snouncing. Please, I'm forced to

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accompany mister Peters against my will. Now your man are

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lined up waiting to kill each other. I will not

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have it.

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Speaker 2: Do you understand, yes, ma'am?

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Speaker 3: Put away that gun, all of them. Put Donald's down. Boy,

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I still obliged. You will escort me back to clarem

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Me Laramie.

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Speaker 2: You you're gonna go back to Laramie. Oh, she's gonna

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the larami.

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Speaker 3: Oh, Miss Jones, this is exact were you sat your child.

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Speaker 1: Miss Jones. G could I have a word with you

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in private?

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Speaker 3: I really don't see this that well.

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Speaker 1: I think you will, gentlemen, if you'll excuse us.

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Speaker 3: Oh, she said, what about the love you could have her?

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Speaker 2: Like? There ain't nobody gonna have her?

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Speaker 3: No more ttle grammar, double tripping legatives.

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Speaker 1: Miss Jones. There may be a solution if you're willing.

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Speaker 3: I don't see anyway. I really don't.

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Speaker 1: If they could share you share me? Oh, I mean

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you're teaching. The town's are only a half mile apart.

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It might be possible.

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Speaker 3: No, mister Kendall, my mind's made up today is the

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final stroke.

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Speaker 1: Miss Jones. Think of the school house in roten Head Gunks.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 1: Way.

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Speaker 3: It's rather touching. They built a school house for me,

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hearing Goose Creek as well. The floor is n't quite

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as good.

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Speaker 1: But they need you, Miss Jones, You think so, I do.

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Speaker 3: Look at them, they are like children, aren't pay very

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much like children. I think perhaps you're right in mister Kendall,

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But I wonder what the school district board will think.

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Speaker 1: Well, I imagine a joint petition from both towns off

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to settle the problem.

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Speaker 3: Yes, yes, very likely, all right if the man will agree.

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Speaker 1: To your plan, I'm sure they will.

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Speaker 2: All right, I'll.

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Speaker 3: Stay, mister Kendall.

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Speaker 1: Yes.

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Speaker 3: While I was being held captive, a rather terrible thought

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occurred to me. It is the education that I can

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give them, isn't it. I mean there are no baser

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thoughts involved, perhaps because I am a woman.

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Speaker 1: Miss Jones. Were it not for the fact that I

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have already completed myself school and university curricula, I should

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not hesitate to avail myself of the opportunity to better

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my education.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, mister Kender, you've relieved my mind.

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Speaker 1: The matter was settled most amicably, and readers of the

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London Times will be interested to know that an extraordinarily

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pretty woman by the name of Miss Annabella Jones is

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now entrusted with the education of some fifty three adults

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and two children in the mining towns of Goose Creek

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and Rottenhead Gulch in Wyoming Territory. Frontier Gentleman was written,

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produced and directed by Anthony Ellas and stars John Tayner

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as J. B. Kendall. Featured in the cast were Jack

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Krusian Virginia, Greg mc perrin, Jack Moyles, Harry Bartell, and

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Eddie Firestone. Today's tense episode of gun Smoke proves no

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gambling stakes were too high along the Frontier for a

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thrill upon thrill, hear what happens in the pioneer days

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of Dodge City when a man's life hangs upon the

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outcome of a horse race. That's on CBS Radio's gun

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Smoke later on today. Join us again next week for

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another report from the Frontier Gentleman. Dan Cobberly speaking