Speaker 1: A fiery horsele speed of light, a cloud of dust
in a hoty high o silver.
Speaker 2: All lone ranger.
Speaker 1: With his great horse Silver and his faithful Indian companions,
the masked Rider of the Plains fought crime and criminals
throughout the Western United States. His name has not come
down to us in the written pages of history. But
no man did more to bring law and order to
the frontier. The cry of Ohio Silver was the battle
cry of justice. Now return with us down the trail
of adventure, to those thrilling days of yesteryear. From out
of the past, come the thundering hoofs of silver. The
lone Ranger rides again.
Speaker 2: Come on Silver, the opening home, Server and the.
Speaker 3: Course.
Speaker 1: In the early days of the West, when land was
to be had for the asking, farmers came from Ohio, Iowa,
and Minnesota, and from the far eastern seaboard to the
new country. Government troops guarded the boundary of the territory,
waiting for the cannon signal that would start prairie schooners
into the newly opened homestead lands. As far as the
eye could see, wagons were lined up ready for the dash.
In the morning, the folks sang in groups around the campfires.
Inside their wagon, Aaron Stewart and his wife Mary are talking.
Speaker 4: Now, And don't you worry still about me. I'll be
all right as soon as we get set.
Speaker 3: Sure you will, honey. It's been a mighty hard trip
over land. It'll be worth it. Tom Granville and me
have a place all picked out. We're going to race
for as soon as the cannon fires, and we'll go partners.
Speaker 4: I wouldn't trust Tom Grenville too far if I was
you now, Mary, No, you think it's silly ofn't me.
But there's something about Tom Grenville that I don't like.
And that friend he is that he calls Keats is
even worse.
Speaker 3: You shouldn't see the like that, honey. Tom Granville's been
right friendly with me.
Speaker 4: He's been friendly, but he's never yet done anything that
he didn't get the.
Speaker 3: Best of it all, shucks. Half your sickness is just
from worry, maybe so.
Speaker 4: I've been expecting to see him try some underhanded scheme
ever since we left the.
Speaker 3: East, and he hasn't, so that all approve he's on
the level.
Speaker 4: I wish she hadn't told him about the place you've located.
When you rode on ahead to look around, but I.
Speaker 3: Had to tell him, shucks, I was out here long
before the wagon started. That's why I went all the
way back east again.
Speaker 4: Tom Grenville will do you out of that land there,
And if you don't watch.
Speaker 3: Your steps, don't see that, Huney.
Speaker 4: It's so he's had a grudge again, you ever since
I married you?
Speaker 3: Insteady here nonsense, honey, Well, don't you remember how I
had to argue with him to get him to come
out here with.
Speaker 4: Us, And that was because you wanted him to stake
it to the cage to get here.
Speaker 3: I know where the best trip of land in the
whole country is to be found. I know good water,
good timber right at the foot of the hill, and
good grazing. It's prime it.
Speaker 4: You can get it.
Speaker 3: I'll get it all right. We got the best team
of horses, the wagon all set to rod.
Speaker 4: If someone else gets there first and file.
Speaker 3: Keepers, they won't you Just wait and see.
Speaker 4: What if Tom Grenville get there first and decides that
he'll claim.
Speaker 3: It for his own shocks, there's plenty for two people there.
Speaker 4: Sure, hope you're right here, and that's all I can see.
I hope you're.
Speaker 3: Right, Everything's gonna be fine. I don't you worry, honey,
You'll just sort of let down from a long, hard trip.
Speaker 2: Hey there, Oh.
Speaker 3: There, that's Tom. Now we just stay right here and
try and get some sleep. Honey. I'll go see what
he wants.
Speaker 2: Hey, you and your wagon coming here, and I want
to talk to you. Who the business? Sure?
Speaker 3: What's on your mind?
Speaker 2: It's about that money? I load you?
Speaker 3: Oh that? Oh yeah? Step over here. Tom Marry's kind
of worried, nervous tonight, sho's me.
Speaker 2: I reckon, this is as good a place as any end.
Speaker 3: Now, what about the cash?
Speaker 2: I owe you two hundred dollars? I believe I got
your note here?
Speaker 3: Oh sure, I reckon.
Speaker 2: You can read it says it's payable on demand. If
you ain't got the cash to pay it, I can
levy and you're good.
Speaker 3: Well that's put with my paper.
Speaker 5: But you know time, I'm demanding a two hundred now, yeah,
yeh what if he ain't the cash, I'll take your horses.
Speaker 3: But you can't do that time. If you take them horses,
how'll I get to the land we're going after?
Speaker 2: I don't know how you will get there? I reckon,
I'll make it all right. You can tell him about it, Grandville.
Speaker 3: Yes, keets I told him, Skeetze can't.
Speaker 2: I told him he take his team instead of the
cash if he didn't have the cash. It's fair enough.
Speaker 3: You ought to be glad to sell that team of
horses for two hundred dollars. But you can't do that, Grendelle.
I located that land. I told you about. It's me
that found it. I'm the one that brought you out here.
Speaker 5: I don't reckon you'll have trouble finding another strip of
land for yourself.
Speaker 3: You're doing me out of the land. Grenville. You can't
get away with it.
Speaker 2: No, I don't know why I can't.
Speaker 3: You planned this all the time, your mute.
Speaker 2: Remember a few years back, Aaron, when you've done me
out of the girl I love?
Speaker 3: I didn't she chose me instead of you, That's all.
It was my fault.
Speaker 2: Here, your wind and but Mary's sick.
Speaker 3: You know she's sick. What'll I do if everyone goes
and leaves miss Brandon here?
Speaker 2: She's your wife, and your worry, not mine. O.
Speaker 3: Look here, Randall, I'll tell you what I'll do. You
go ahead, take the land, take it for yourself. Just
leave my horses here. I'll find some other land.
Speaker 2: You better find some way to head back east where
you come from. Aaron. That's the place for you.
Speaker 3: But I can't even get back there if you don't
leave me horse.
Speaker 2: That's too bad.
Speaker 5: I recommends the horses take down over yonder skeets. We'll
take them and lead them over next to you. All right,
too bad. We gotta do this. But it's all legal.
Here's your paper, Aaron.
Speaker 2: I'm marking it, paid in full, and now you don't
owe me nothing.
Speaker 3: Randall, listen with skeets. You can't do this. Wait a minute.
You can't think you stand it here.
Speaker 6: You can't do it.
Speaker 2: You don't marriage.
Speaker 5: You can't.
Speaker 1: When Tom Granville led his horses away, Aaron was desperate,
leaving his own wagon. He went from one family to another, asking, begging,
beseeching that they help him.
Speaker 3: But you've got four horses. If you can, let me
take a couple, Yarn, I need all four of mine.
Just let me take one, just one. I can't stay
stranded here. He ain't do it, got a heavy load,
don't need all more. But you gotta help me. My
wife is sick.
Speaker 2: Can't do it. Will we spit out the power.
Speaker 3: We never see you, but I'll give you my word.
I'll return the horse. I can't move from here without
some sort of horse an starting with the cannon in
the morning. It's every man for himself.
Speaker 2: We ain't a wagon train no more.
Speaker 3: We're all racing against one another to find a place
to settle on. You gotta help me. You've got to
do it for my wife's sake. I tell you she's sick.
Speaker 2: My husband got on the way over.
Speaker 3: But we gotta get horses. Sorry, he got none. Despair, clem,
you can help me. Let me hit my wagon on
the back of yours. You've got oxen. They can pull
two wagons. Sorry, and then take my wife on your wagon,
take your away and leave me here.
Speaker 2: My wagon's heavy, ups of the air and sorry, I've
got to have help.
Speaker 3: Well, we'll responded, I'm sorry, we got.
Speaker 2: Sorry.
Speaker 3: Yeah, mh bless you. I'm glad you're asleep. It makes
it some easier. You won't have to know it all morning.
I'm marry How can I ever tell you the time
Granville's double crossed us? Aaron, Marry you you're a week.
Speaker 4: I'm a weak eron I heard what Tom Grenville said
to you. I suspected something of the sort.
Speaker 3: All alone, Mary, what'll we do?
Speaker 4: He's never got over the happiness we've known since we
were married, Erin, that's why I did it. I'm kinda
glad he he did. Glad I knew all alone, he'd
do something to get even. That's his nature.
Speaker 3: Now he'll leave us alone.
Speaker 4: It might have been worse, but.
Speaker 3: Honey, it couldn't be no worse. In the morning, everyone
will be dashing out for the land, everyone but us.
I know they leave us here, we'll be stranded. Oh, Mary,
I've brought you all the way out here to let
you starve. Mary, what's the matter?
Speaker 4: Even look at the back of the wagon.
Speaker 2: Man, he's messed. Please, don't be afraid of me. And
who are you?
Speaker 7: You've been trying to borrow horses. Yes, I heard about
your trouble, but you are masked.
Speaker 3: You ain't one of us.
Speaker 7: No, I'm one of the people of this country. Erin,
don't lose heart. Let the others go ahead tomorrow, wait
here until they've all gone. Who are keep your hopes up?
Speaker 2: Erin.
Speaker 7: This is a great and glorious country, and there's lots
of land for every one. Let the others go on
without you, and keep your courage high.
Speaker 2: I'll be back erin. Who was that man?
Speaker 1: Early the next morning, an army bugo sounded a warning call,
and pioneers but their horses hitched, families and luggage safely, loaded.
Speaker 2: Whips and rains in hands. I'll wait at the cannon.
Speaker 1: Under The men leaned forward eagerly. They whipped, ready to
lash their horses into plantic speed at the signal to
break new land for homesteading.
Speaker 8: Then suddenly, molay you will away, come on at you
go down.
Speaker 4: They've gone, Mary, they've all gone, but us don't give
up hoping, don't give up hope yet.
Speaker 3: There's nothing to hope for now. Mary. The last night,
I don't take much talking what he said.
Speaker 2: But I do.
Speaker 4: There was something about the way he's spoken, and I
was right. Look they comes see him, and there's another rider.
Speaker 3: With him, but it don't seem possible. It's an engine
with him, and they're both riding white horses.
Speaker 2: Look at them.
Speaker 3: Come, I see them, but I don't.
Speaker 4: We're still alive, and while we're alive, we can still hope.
Speaker 2: We'll hit our horses to your wagon. Aaron and pull
him into the homestead land me doom.
Speaker 3: But it's too late, Stranger, No, it is.
Speaker 2: There's land that won't be claimed by anyone.
Speaker 3: It won't be clean. What do you mean, Stranger, That
just don't sound like sense.
Speaker 7: After you're settled there, we'll suggest to Tom Gray that
no one knows the secret that land holds. It isn't
desirable to look at, and everyone who passes by except
those who know the secrets.
Speaker 3: What is the secret?
Speaker 7: You'll find out when you get there. But he's kind
of We're taking Aaron and his wife to their new home.
Speaker 1: The curtain palls on the first act of our Lone
Ranger drama. Before the next exciting scenes, please permit us
to pause for just a few moments. Aaron and his
wife Mary were deprived of their horses on the eve
of the dash into newly opened homestead lands. Tom Granville
planned to claim for his own the land he and
Aaron had agreed to hold jointly. After the wagons had left,
the Lone Ranger and Tonto hitched their horses to Aaron's
wagon and drew it to the land that looked undesirable.
Speaker 2: It was a narrow strip at the foot of the hill.
Speaker 1: Aaron looked out of his wagon when the stop was
finally made and was surprised to see that it joined
the hillside land that Granville had claimed. Grandville approached the wagon, saying,
oh they got here.
Speaker 2: Eh, they help an engine and the mayor's gird.
Speaker 3: Lord hold on now, Grandville, Well you can take yourself off.
I don't aim to settle on your land.
Speaker 2: Well what are you doing here?
Speaker 3: Move on? You ain't claim this narrow strip at the
foot of the hill.
Speaker 2: Ain't enough room here to do anything with. Nevertheless, Aaron
Stewart is going to claim his acreage on the hill.
On the hill. The only part of the hill that
ain't been claimed is too steep to do anything with.
Speaker 3: Well, it's the only land that ain't been claimed. It's
the only land I can get in.
Speaker 2: It all right.
Speaker 7: And take the narrow strip where you are, the steep
slope above, and see that just tearing your own land.
Speaker 2: It skeets come here any time. What's the t airon?
Names are settle next to us? If he sets foot
on my land, shoot him. He'd better keep off an island.
You hear that, Aeron? See if you keep off.
Speaker 3: You sure turned on me all of a sudden, Grandville.
Speaker 2: Just how do you figure you can live on that here?
Speaker 3: I'm gonna dig myself a cave, a cave.
Speaker 2: It's a cunin.
Speaker 3: Keep the rain off on us and I'll be on
own lands either.
Speaker 2: Just stay there. And what's more, when your food runs out,
don't come around begging for me.
Speaker 4: Wait to the stove and aesca staate with you.
Speaker 7: Tom Grenville, come on, Skeech, let's go and leave these
blame fools to dig their cave.
Speaker 2: Remember what we told you, Aaron, some things are more
valuable than level water lands.
Speaker 3: I will stranger and a thousand things come on.
Speaker 1: In the fortnight that followed, Aaron dug a cave in
the hillside and made a shelter for himself and his wife. Meanwhile,
Granville and his partner's skeets kept close watch on everything
Aaron Stewart did. Saw I him take a shovelful of
earth from various parts of the hill, wash it, and
then carefully examine the dearth it remained. Meanwhile, the Lone
Ranger entitled camp nearby, and each evening Tanto reported Aaron
Stewart's progress to the.
Speaker 3: Mass rider ton don't watch him close.
Speaker 2: Is Aron doing what we told him?
Speaker 3: H him him do lenty good, digging dirt and washing
it and digging more dirt.
Speaker 7: Matt right, tell me Tata is the man who splendled him, watching.
Speaker 2: Him watch all time.
Speaker 7: If ever a man deserved justice, it's Aaron Stewart. And
if ever a man deserved punishment, it's Tom Granville, maybe
Aaron Tullner get even. I think tomorrow, Tonto, it'll be
a good idea for you to take this dust and
go to Granville's land while I ride for the.
Speaker 3: Government office at Pine Ridge on Tonto Goal. You know
what you're to do to know.
Speaker 7: I know mister Dixon at Pine Ridge, and I think
we can count on his help in this situation. I'll
deal with him while you go and call on Tom Granville.
Speaker 1: The next morning, when Granville and'skeets looked toward the foot
of the hill, they saw Totto industriously engaged in washing
out dirt that he'd taken from their land. Quickly, the
two made their way to him and watched him for
a while.
Speaker 2: Say you what are you doing here island? Neppy? You
let Indian have dirt? Huh, We don't let no one
have nothing.
Speaker 3: Now, get out of here.
Speaker 2: Me not want much. Hold on a minute, what do
you want that dirt for? Engine? You heal under too? No,
what do you want to over?
Speaker 6: Maybe you get fortune on land? You look look in
pan What do you mean me washing dirt? Look what
left you see? Small spanks, yellow stank.
Speaker 2: Jumpin snakes pod?
Speaker 3: It's cool?
Speaker 2: Cool, give me that pain agin, Now you give me dirt.
Mercy about this?
Speaker 3: Where did all this come from?
Speaker 2: Is it all around my land? It washed down from hill?
Maybe from the hill washed down? Then they must be steeps.
I gotta talk to you.
Speaker 3: Won't be too glad to see you, Grandville.
Speaker 2: No matter, I'm going out. Wait here, don't let this in.
You take anything off our land. I'll be back fut
enough you.
Speaker 3: Give tondo dirt.
Speaker 2: No, get out of here. Hey, wolves, beat it. I'm
not gonna stand having you around steal on my mind.
Speaker 3: There's Mary over here under now it s keets.
Speaker 2: I'll be right back. Mary. Hey there, what do you want?
Where's heron? I gotta talk to him. I don't want
nothing to say to you, but this is important. I
gotta speak to him. Where are your kids?
Speaker 5: I told you?
Speaker 2: Where do you go?
Speaker 8: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Life is not in the government office. That's where he
was hidden. For the government office. Yes, in pine On.
Speaker 3: Put sure you've got the only horses we had, skeets.
Speaker 2: I gotta hurry. If what I think is right, I
gotta go to the government office myself. Gets up a
horse quick.
Speaker 1: In the government office in pine Ridge, the agent looked
up from his desk and saw the lone ranger, his
face disguised framed in the doorway.
Speaker 2: Good morning, Dixon, you great scott man. I'm dad to
see you. You won't be glad when I tell you
what I came. I close the door.
Speaker 7: You want me to help you out on something exactly,
and it won't be pleasant for you, Dixon.
Speaker 2: What is it?
Speaker 7: First, I'm gonna tie and gag you want to put
you on the floor behind the counter.
Speaker 2: I guess you know what you're doing.
Speaker 3: It'll be all right. Here's my hands. I'll make it
easy for you. Good.
Speaker 2: It won't take long. What's up anyhow? I'd give a
lot to know, but I can guess one thing. Yes,
you want something here in the office, fix the way
it shouldn't be, and you want to save my skin.
I'll not tie you so tired. It'll hurt just loosely
like this there and now my feet. Yes, I'll have
to tie your ankles. But what's up?
Speaker 3: Can't you tell me yet?
Speaker 2: Not yet, you'll know later on.
Speaker 3: Now I'll do the gay. I don't need to.
Speaker 7: I hold open my trap very well. You can say
that you were threatened with death if you made a sound.
He comes a man I want to see now. He
just stepped from the wagon on the floor with you.
I'm gona take my mask on. I'm gone all right,
just in time.
Speaker 2: I'm Tom Brandville. Yes, here's the government manager. And what
else did you expect to find in this office? I
was just making sure, mister. Will you make a test
to this and tell me if it's really good? Those
tiny spanks?
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 2: There isn't enough here to test. You'll have to have more.
What to look like to you?
Speaker 7: You can tell something thatdway, can't you. I can't be sure,
but it's the same color as gold. Might very well
be the only place around here with the would be gold.
Those in the hills. Did this come from a hill?
Speaker 2: Well maybe so, maybe from level land. Are you saying
there's gold in the hills? Lots of men have found it.
There comes in pockets, margets, what's it?
Speaker 7: The way they find it is to dig in different
places in the hill and wash the sand and gravel
until they find pay dirt. And they worked each side
until they find dirt that no longer shows a trace
of gold.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Then they dig up the side of the hill and
the fan shape to the pocket. They make tests all
the time. The pocket may contain thousands of dollars worth
of gold and a single bushel of dirt. Gosh, how way,
if you found the gold on level land, it's probably
there enough to have been washed out of one of
those pockets.
Speaker 2: All right. Gosh, that's just what the airing was. One
that is a fill. I know we're just headway. How
much gold you say there was one of these pockets
and have taken out as much as one hundred thousand
dollars in a week's time. Thanks, mister, I'll be back.
I'll get more for you.
Speaker 3: Grandville. What you doing here?
Speaker 7: Hey, it's none of your business. I go right walter
without be in checkdown? Hello, ask do it back again
with more gold?
Speaker 3: Yep, I reckon, I'll hit the pocket no time now.
I got a couple hundred dollars worth me in this
here sack.
Speaker 7: He's gone.
Speaker 3: We're waiting outside to speak to you. Eron. Thank you'stranging?
Is he said all right to carry on as we planned?
Speaker 2: Is it ain'tly all right?
Speaker 3: Erin when you and he come back, and I'll be
gone fixing. The man in charge will take care of
you if it works out like you say it should,
I'll never be able to thank you enough. I'm downright
glad to see your face without a mask.
Speaker 7: It isn't my face that you see.
Speaker 3: Erin tyl to help me disguise myself here, take this.
It looks like money. He's watching through the wind. Ass
Now I'll leave here and whistle as you go. Look
as if you had no troubles at all. I'll do
just what you say. Mister.
Speaker 2: Hey, Aaron, I want to talk to you. Well, I've
been trying to see you. He's hard to say it.
I am served the way I've treated Jinny. I'd like
to square things.
Speaker 3: To fine time. Say that if we count on you,
we've been dead long time ago.
Speaker 2: I know it, Aaron, but you don't know.
Speaker 5: What it can do to a man to lose the
girl he loves. I've been trying to get up my
courage to see you a dozen times. Yeah, I just
went local for a while seeing you two marriage. Well,
i'd give you a pretty.
Speaker 2: Bad deal eron. Now, I'm willing to give you half
the land I've got.
Speaker 3: If you still go by that partnership thing we agreed
on half the land you got. Huh you mean the
land you swindled me out of.
Speaker 5: I did a pretty mean trick, and I reckon, we
need much more to say. Wait a minute, Aaron, you
don't say anything. I'm offering you the land you wanted
and surveyed and trade for the land you're on. Now
we could swap half in hand.
Speaker 3: I reckon, I'll hold on to what I got. If
I deal with you, you'll like it's not swindled me again. Sometimes.
Besides that, I got plans to get rich off of
my claim.
Speaker 2: But I found gold on mine. See here's some spekes
of it.
Speaker 3: Did the fella inside tell you it was gold? Who?
Speaker 2: Sure it is? But I got to get some more
of it to get a tested It's sure enough gold.
Speaker 3: Ever figured that there might be more my hill? What
do you think I claim the hill for?
Speaker 5: Then?
Speaker 2: How would you like to sell some of your land
to you.
Speaker 3: Sure, I don't appeal to me none. Less I have
to do with you, the better I like it. I'll
tell you what, though, if you get the idea that
you'd like the prospect for gold, I'll deal with you.
Oh well, prospect, and don't appeal to me much. It's
a little hard on Mary.
Speaker 2: What's your proposition?
Speaker 3: I like Farman and I want to be able to
grow things and live comfortable. If you want to swap
land just as it stands and throw in the house
you built and the horses from my hill and the cave,
I dog, why.
Speaker 2: You mean swamp? Even I have whatever I find.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right, but you're getting the best of it.
Speaker 2: Even so, it's done. It's a deal. You got your
papers with you, yep, I have you. Sure, come on
in with me and we'll get the gumination to fix
it up.
Speaker 3: Right now. It minds your Grandville. I ain't making no promises.
I don't guarantee you'll get rich on that hill.
Speaker 2: I'll take that chance. Come on in, say.
Speaker 1: It was late afternoon when Aaron finally returned to Mary,
and we find him laughing as Mary says.
Speaker 3: What happened at the office I wish you'd seen Granville's
face when he learned that the real government man had
been tied behind the counter. He made the delay, Yep,
he made it, and then found there was nothing but
fool golden nose sacks, and even that didn't come from
this hill. I don't know what you mean mean, honey,
It means we're taking over Granville's claim and he gets
this no count here. Oh that ain't all on. I
got his horses and wagon too, And if he tries
to move us off the land, he'll have the whole
US Army after him.
Speaker 4: And is what he's been living on.
Speaker 3: Sure, now we got to vacate this old cave so
Skeets and Granville will have a place to live from
now on. This is their property. How did it ever happen?
We have the Long Rangers to thank for that, Mary.
He's got us fixed up in great shape. We've got
the best section of land in the whole state, and
Tom Granville has the worst.
Speaker 7: Come on, several boys, probably big Man Conads, waiting on
the plane ahead.
Speaker 9: Of them at the under
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