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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 big business. I got a big stake

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in it, and there's no man west of the Rio

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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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Port Defiance, from Flagstaff to the Wachukas, and below the

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border through Chihuahua and Sonora. His name was respected or feared,

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depending on which side of the law you were on.

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Man of vision, man of legend. Luke Slutter of Tombstone.

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Speaker 3: Man, I thought I've had about ten pounds of dust.

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Speaker 1: This last couple of weeks will be much longer, Jim.

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With luck, they'll be in Tombstone day after tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: Won't be none too soon for me.

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Speaker 3: Once I get out of this saddle, I'm gonna stay

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out of it a while.

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Speaker 1: You never been to Tombstone, Jim. A couple of things

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you ought to know, as such as what to be

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a pretty wild town. They got some peaceful law abiden

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citizens there, all right. They've also got some of the

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toughest drifters in the world. Gone swiners. Yeah, so remember

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you keep that itchy trigger finger of yours under control.

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Don't you worry not about me? Hold it?

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Speaker 4: What's your matter?

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Speaker 1: A little smoke coming out of that pressure over there, Jim,

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keep the herd headed straight. Come on with you to

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let's take a look.

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Speaker 5: Right, could be a campfire. Yeah, this is Indian country

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around here.

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Speaker 1: And it slaughter, Indian country, bandit country, wrestler country, you

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name it.

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Speaker 5: But as soon as we get up to the edge

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of the wars here we Yeah, there is little campfire

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down there, that clump of oak.

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Speaker 1: Till the fires up, still smoking.

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Speaker 6: No shine of life around.

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Speaker 1: You're reckon hold it. Movement back there in the mesquite.

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Speaker 7: All right?

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Speaker 1: Come on out of there, come out. I'm coming.

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Speaker 3: Don't you shoot now?

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Speaker 1: Who I am? My name's Ralston.

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Speaker 6: He's got a leg wound, slaughter.

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Speaker 1: What are you doing here? You a marshall?

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Speaker 8: No, I got into a scrape in Tombstone.

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Speaker 4: I had to get out.

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Speaker 6: With a souvenir in your leg.

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Speaker 1: Huh.

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Speaker 8: It's not bad, but it slows me down. My horse

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got away from me last night and I couldn't catch it.

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I had to hold up here kind of scrape where

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you're in. I didn't do nothing wrong me, sir, I'm innocent.

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Speaker 1: I didn't ask you about that. I asked what kind

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of scrape Florida? Yeah, I see him, two of them,

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rifles across their saddles.

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Speaker 5: You think this fellow was a decoy to get us

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into a trap.

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Speaker 1: No, No, that's not true.

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Speaker 6: One of them's wearing a bed.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I've seen him before. Taggart, Sir from Tombstone. All right, Roston,

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just hold the right where you are. Don't try nothing.

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That bad legga is serified. Doubt he's gonna try much. Fugitives.

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Speaker 6: I don't take no chances.

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Speaker 1: Stranger.

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Speaker 6: Thanks for rounding him up for me.

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Speaker 1: He's a fugitive. He sure he is.

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Speaker 6: Miame's Taggert. I'm the sheriff of Tombstone. It's my deputy Blackwell.

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Been trailing Ralston for two days.

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Speaker 4: Now.

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Speaker 1: What's a charge?

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Speaker 4: It' a lie.

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Speaker 9: You keep your mouth shut, Ralston. Everybody in Tombstone knows

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you did it.

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Speaker 6: Easy black Well. He ain't gonna make no trouble.

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Speaker 1: We'll see to that payroll.

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Speaker 6: Robbery is saying, yeah, one of the mines he was

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supposed to be guarding it.

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Speaker 1: Instead he took off with it. You've got any witnesses,

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He's got plenty of evidence. I asked you if you

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had any witnesses.

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Speaker 9: What business is it of yours?

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Speaker 1: A minute? Blackwell, I'm talking to Tiggert. Who are you, stranger,

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Luke slutter?

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Speaker 6: Slaughter? I heard of you supposed to be pretty fast

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with a gun, ain't you.

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Speaker 1: It's a matter of opinion, yes, me, much more opinion.

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I didn't ask you what your don You've got a

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warrant for Ralston's arrest, Taggart, Well, there's no time to

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get a warrant. It's funny. Last I heard there was

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a judge right there in Tombstone wouldn't have taken you

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very long. How about you busting right across the border

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without any papers or anything? Lauda.

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Speaker 6: You got a bad habit of being insulted.

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Speaker 1: That's a habit I'm gonna break. Now. Let's take him, Taggert, Can.

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Speaker 5: You take both of us, Black Whirl.

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Speaker 6: We've got the drop on.

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Speaker 1: You, Slaughter. That's a matter of opinion too, Taggard, meaning

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what those rifles of yours are pretty clumsy at close quarters.

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I don't think you've got the drop on me at all.

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Let's find out.

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Speaker 6: I'm here to take my prisoner back to Tombstone, not

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without a warrant.

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Speaker 1: You don't move that rifle unless you're gonna use it.

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Speaker 6: You got a herd out there, Slaughter, you're heading for Tombstone.

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Speaker 1: That's right, I'll see you in Tombstone. It's fine with me.

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Come black woman.

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Speaker 4: Thanks Slaughter, thanks a lot.

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Speaker 1: Get Rolson up behind you, witch your tongue. Let's get

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back to the herd. My sunset. Two days later we

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were in Tombstone, headed the cattle into the pens. Then

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we went to the Crystal Palace to collect our money

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from the cattle buyer Asra Canfield.

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Speaker 4: Well, i've checked them cattle over, Slaughter. He's in good

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condition considering the distance you brought him. Here's your money,

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Count it with your tom right. What are your plans now?

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Speaker 1: Heading right back to Mexico. Take up another herd, dud.

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Speaker 4: I got a lot of hungry miners here in Tombstone.

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Eat all the beef we can get now.

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Speaker 2: Don't tell me we gotta leave right away, Slaughter.

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Speaker 3: I'm wanna see the sights around here.

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Speaker 1: Kim Stone's not a very good town for you to

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be wandering around loose and Jim.

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Speaker 6: I promise y'all won't get no trouble slur.

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Speaker 3: I just want to do a little living for a change.

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Speaker 1: One. He's all here, all right, Jim. Take it back

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to the hotel room. Sit on it.

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Speaker 2: But what about seeing the sights?

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Speaker 1: Talk about that later.

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Speaker 3: I'll get moving a right dog on it.

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Speaker 4: Sounds like he's sure spoil this evening, slaughter.

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Speaker 1: And I think we can arrange for him to get

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a couple of breaths of night air around here before

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we take off.

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Speaker 4: Taggard just come in.

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Speaker 1: I see him.

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Speaker 6: Well, Canfield, look like you ain't too particular who you

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do business.

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Speaker 4: Well, here's nothing wrong with them cattle he sold me, Sheriff,

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I checked him a Saturday.

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Speaker 1: And what I meant, I'm.

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Speaker 6: Talking about slaughter here, obstructing justice, refusing to turn over

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a fugitive to me.

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Speaker 1: Where are you hiding? Ralston?

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Speaker 4: Now, slaughter?

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Speaker 1: You ought to know you're the sheriff.

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Speaker 6: What's that signify?

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Speaker 1: I had a little talk with Ralston on the trail.

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All he wanted was to be served, getting back here

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in one piece, to stand a fair trial. Turning himself

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into your night guard at the jail. You're bluffy, Well,

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that'll be an easy bluff to call. Why don't you

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go find out?

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Speaker 4: I aim to. He's a pretty poor excuse for sheriff Slaughter.

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But these all we got, what.

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Speaker 1: Do you expect? Who'd want the job? Tombstone's a rough town.

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Speaker 4: Not too rough for the right man. I think you

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could be the right man, Slaughter me. Yeah here, A

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lot of us around here would like to see law

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and order established once and for all. Slaughter. And we

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know about you. No, you can handle the worst of him.

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Speaker 1: You know that.

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Speaker 5: I'd be such bad idea if you ask me, nobody did.

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Speaker 1: What's your time? I'm sorry, Canfield, my business is cattle,

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not law enforcement.

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Speaker 4: In Tombstone, law enforcements everybody's business.

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Speaker 1: Get over.

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Speaker 5: So hey, if you wish to take the job, Slaughter,

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I'll bet Jim and be glad to be your deputy.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's all i'd need around here, and I'll probably

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start more fights than he'd stop.

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Speaker 5: Come on, Slaughter, I wonder about you sometimes. I wonder

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if you wasn't already a law man. Once.

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Speaker 1: I wonder about you too. It's a time I wonder

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if you were born with that big nose of yours.

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That did you grow it later handed?

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Speaker 5: As long as I can remember, Hey, training if I

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didn't know it ever too soon?

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Speaker 1: It isn't very heavy? Would last long?

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Speaker 6: Slaughter?

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Speaker 1: What is a ticket?

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Speaker 6: What kind of play is this?

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Speaker 1: I don't know what you're talking about.

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Speaker 6: Ralston is what I'm talking about.

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Speaker 1: I told you Ralston turned himself in. Eh, well he

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ain't in the jail.

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Speaker 6: Now that cell door is wide open, and once more

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my night guard's been festival. Looked like Ralston had a

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friend helped him to break out. You wouldn't know who

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that it'd be, would you?

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Speaker 1: No? I wouldn't.

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Speaker 9: Rus has been stolen from Wilkie's livery table. That's proudly

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how Ralston made his get away.

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Speaker 6: Looks like I got you to thank for this slaughter.

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Speaker 1: I think so. Yeah.

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Speaker 6: If I handle things my own way, this wouldn't have happened.

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Next time you crossed me, he's gonna be the last time.

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Speaker 1: Don't be too sure of that, Taggart.

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Speaker 5: You know, Slater, you got a natural talent for making enemies.

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Speaker 1: Man like Taggart. That isn't hide. Come on, let's get

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Speaker 5: I still don't get it, Slaughter. Why would Rawson have

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gave himself up and then busted out of.

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Speaker 1: Gee, some men you never know about till they make

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a move. Ralston didn't do it alone. He had have

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a friend.

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Speaker 5: Maybe's friend convinced him you wouldn't get a fair trial.

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Speaker 4: Maybe anyway, he schlaughter.

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Speaker 5: Look Jim on the floor.

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Speaker 1: He's been slugged. He's out cold.

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Speaker 7: The cattle money, yeah, it's gone.

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Speaker 2: In a moment, Luke Slaughter of Tombstone returns. Whatever significant

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events take place, you can count on CBS News to

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bring you first hand and well detailed descriptions of what

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is happening, often broadcast right from the scene of the event.

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You can count on CBS news men, too, to make

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certain that fact is emphasized and conjecture clearly labeled. Each

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correspondent on staff brings a fine background in reporting to

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his job, and in the tradition of the CBS newsroom,

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they all share an uncompromising respect for the truth. So

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why don't you let CBS News keep you as fully

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informed as an expert? 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: Jim Jim, come on with w that's it, Come on,

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come out.

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Speaker 5: Of it, all right, Jim, I guess.

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Speaker 1: So what happened, Jim? I don't rightly, no, Slaughter.

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Speaker 3: Heard a noise sounded like it come from outside the

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window on the balcony. I went over and stuck my

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head out to look something awful. Hard hit me on

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the side of the head. I went down, and then

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somebody climbed through the window into the room. I tried

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to get to my feet and he hit me again.

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That's the last I remember.

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Speaker 1: You got a good look at him, Jim. No, His

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hat was.

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Speaker 3: Pulled down a low and he had a band down

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over his face. I don't know he took the cattle

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money then? Yeh, fine, guard I turned out to be.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's too late to worry about that. Just be

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glad you have a hard head. Slaughter.

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Speaker 4: Yeah it was Rolston.

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Speaker 1: How do you figure.

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Speaker 5: Remember that ring he wore Mexican work looked like what about?

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It had a green stone set in it, carved like

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a snake's head.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I remember here it is.

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Speaker 6: I found it on the floor.

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Speaker 5: Must have been John Loose when he slugged him.

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Speaker 1: It's a stone, all right? Well it looks like Taggart

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was right after all.

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Speaker 6: Hell, well, so you finally wised up to Ralston's laughter

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too late, of.

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Speaker 1: Course, have you not, Taggert? Whit's your time. You got

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the grub ready and pack saddle bag.

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Speaker 6: Maybe next time you won't interfere when I'm trying to

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enforce the law.

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Speaker 1: How about the bedrolls which you're going after him? Huh

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what do you think?

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Speaker 6: I think there's a couple of things wrong with that idea,

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Like what in the first place, you got a poor

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chance of finding his trail at night.

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Speaker 1: In the rain. Rain's letting up, it'll stop soon. I

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want to be ready to start trailing as soon as

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it's light.

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Speaker 6: The second thing is wrong his law enforcement is my

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business lawder not yours.

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Speaker 1: That's my money you gotta Yeah, but there's still a.

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Speaker 6: Matter of that mind payroll he's got stashed away somewhere

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and looking slaughter In no sense. Our be in each

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other's throats all the time. You crossed me once. It

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riled me, but I'm willing to let it pass. I

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think everybody's entitled to one mistake. Depends on what the

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mistake is, doesn't it. The point is we both want Ralston.

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Now the smart thing to do is for us to

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trail him together. Mean, Blackwell, you and witch Dog, I

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bout it all right, take it good good. I'll get

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word to Blackwell right away. He's on his ranch out

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of town aways up near Crocker Mason.

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Speaker 5: Oh, he ain't a full time deputy.

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Speaker 6: His town can't afford one. I'll send word to him

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to meet us in the morning.

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Speaker 1: We'll be ready to sun up. That's keeping Blackwell ticket.

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Will you be long any minutes? Laughter?

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Speaker 5: It's been hour since Raine stopped. We're wasting time. That

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trailer is gonna get cold on us, even if we

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managed to pick it up in first place, and that

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ain't gonna.

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Speaker 1: Be easy easier, and you think maybe, what do you mean, tag?

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Speaker 6: I had to talk with Wilkee down the stable last night.

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Had stolen the horse, had thrown a shoe off of

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his left hind hoof. Wilkie didn't have a chance.

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Speaker 1: To put a new one on.

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Speaker 4: That'll help some, oh, he'd Blackwell.

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Speaker 9: Sorry, I'm l like gents busted a sin strap saddling

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up and I had to Rickinggno it for no arm, Blackwell.

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Speaker 1: Ten minutes.

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Speaker 6: It's gonna make much difference one way or another.

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Speaker 1: It does to me, all right, gentled down slaughter.

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Speaker 6: I figure Austin headed south out of town, towards the border.

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We'll cover that area first.

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Speaker 1: Let's get moving, jents. Looks like that was a bum

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hunch of yours about Ralston headed for the border. Take it.

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You've covered every trail leading south out of Tombstone.

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Speaker 6: Well, like I says lord, everybody in the title of

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One Mistake, God admit was logical. Reckon he'd beheaded straight south.

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Speaker 5: We covered most of the country west of town too.

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Speaker 1: Well, we just keep circling. Maybe he took off to

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the north. Hold up, what is it over there?

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Speaker 5: Tracks?

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Speaker 1: I'll take a closer look. What about it?

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Speaker 9: Blackwell, Yeah, this is the one we're looking for, all right.

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No shoe on the left hind hook.

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Speaker 5: Hidden straight west?

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Speaker 6: Eh, from the San Pedro River.

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Speaker 1: Let's move the tracks sleep right into the river.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, it's an old trick, but it still works. Probably

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rode up a downstream aways there out on the other side.

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His trail gonna be tough to find again. Over there,

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that's pretty rocky ground. So I see, and we do

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pick it up again. I bet it turns south. I

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still think he's heading for the border.

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Speaker 1: Let's cross and split up to upstream to downstream right.

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Speaker 6: Wherever.

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Speaker 1: Pick that tail on the other side. Fired too shot, right, dang, I.

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Speaker 5: Can figure fellow like rolvester out, Slaughter. I'm sure I

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never figure he'd take this way of paying it back

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for everything you've done for him.

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Speaker 1: Hold it here with your tore. What's matter but Taggard

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and Blackwell get out of side around that bend. Now,

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let's get back to the river bank.

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Speaker 4: I don't get it, Slaughter, and.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna look for tracks on the other side of

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the river. We're gonna look for him on this side.

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I know what you mean. Get off your horse and

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take a look a close look at those tracks we've

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been trailing, which it down.

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Speaker 5: Well, there's a little dry dirge in the bottom.

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Speaker 4: Of each one.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it was raining last night when Ralston supposed to

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have stolen our money in the horse and made his getaway.

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Speaker 5: Eh.

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Speaker 6: Rain stopped about an hour before SunUp, and.

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Speaker 1: These tracks were made after it stopped raining. That's why

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you see dry dirt with a hooves cut through the wet.

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Speaker 5: Wait a minute, you mean somebody rigged this trail to

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lead us on a wild goose chase.

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Speaker 1: It's just what we're gonna find out. We worked our

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way along the river bank. Half a mile upstream, we

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picked up the tracks coming back out of the river

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and circling. We followed them, headed northwest. Twenty minutes later

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we came over a rise and spotted a small ranch

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house in the hollow below. The only sign of life

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was a few buzzards clustered on a mound and a

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little gully behind the ranch. We left our horses concealed

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and worked our way down the slope under cover. Buzzards

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reluctantly took flight. We saw what had been buried in

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the mound, or what was left of it, Rawston's body.

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There was still a cattle. Money busted ralson out of jail,

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forced him out here, He killed him?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, questionnaires?

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Speaker 6: Who done it? Who's ranch?

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Speaker 3: Users?

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Speaker 1: See over that of the right, It's Crockers.

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Speaker 5: Mason Taggart said Blackwell had a ranch near Crockers Mesa.

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So who Blackwell's are? Men?

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Speaker 1: Looks like it. We better get back to.

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Speaker 5: That ranch house before Blackwell gets back.

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Speaker 1: It might be too late. If they figure we tumbled

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to the fake trail, they could circle back here to

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the ranch ahead of us. Hey, you mean Taggart to

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find out. Keep down as much as you can. We'll

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circle around the corral.

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Speaker 6: There's Taggart on the porch.

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Speaker 5: Where the rifle.

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Speaker 1: Get down. I don't see a question about Taggart. Sure, gosh,

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no doubt about it. They're in it together.

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Speaker 5: There he goes inside the house.

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Speaker 1: We gotta bust him out of that house somehow. Wait

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a minute, that wagon there beside the corral. When I

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get the word, we'll head for it. Get behind it now,

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who were Now The ground slopes down to the house

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from here. Let's get this wagon moving. He'll cover us.

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Ah shouts, Stay close behind it. You're ready to shoot

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when it hits stay low. Yeah, sure we'll.

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Speaker 6: There's your goes, come on fast. Yeah, there's black ball

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at the window.

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Speaker 1: I'll get it. I'll the taker drop your gun, drop it.

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Speaker 6: All right, slaughter, all right, don't try it.

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Speaker 2: In my mind.

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Speaker 6: He took a little convintion.

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Speaker 1: Where's the money, black bell? Where is it? Uh? Under

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loose board in the floor.

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Speaker 4: I got it.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, yeah, here's.

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Speaker 5: Our cattle money all right, and the mind payroll.

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Speaker 1: I guess that's that.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, you no slaughter, appears to me you was taking

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quite a chance just winging Blackwell and knocking out taggers.

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Did of gun them down? You don't know them, no favors.

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Speaker 1: I wasn't doing him any favor with it, an I

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was just saving him, saving him for what the citizens

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a Tombstone.

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Speaker 2: Luke Slaughter 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 were Junius Matthews, Sam Edwards, Vic Perrin,

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Lawrence Dobkin, Jack Moyles, and Frank girstaal next week. At

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this time we returned with.

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Speaker 1: Slaughter's the name Luke Slutter. We meet up again, you

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can call me that Luke Slutter.

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Speaker 2: Special score for Luke Slaughter was composed and conducted by

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Wilbur Hatch. Stay tuned now for Frontier Gentlemen following immediately

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