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Speaker 1: In the mining country of Montana Territory. It seems that

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it's one thing to find gold and another to claim.

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Speaker 2: It as your own.

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Speaker 3: Front Tier Gentleman.

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Speaker 4: Herewith an Englishman's account of life and death in the West.

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As a reporter for the London Times, he writes his

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colorful and unusual stories, but as a man with a gun,

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he lives and becomes a part of the violent years

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in the New Territories. Now starring John Dayner, this is

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the story of J. B. Kendall Frontier Gentleman.

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Speaker 1: I've been traveling along the Mullen Wagon Road in Montana Territory,

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and I was looking forward to reaching Helena before dark.

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Speaker 2: When my horse began to.

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Speaker 1: Go lane and I realized I faced the prospect of

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camping out.

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Speaker 2: Was still one other night.

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Speaker 1: I had just rounded a bend in the trail when

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I saw the small figure plodding along on foot ahead

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of me.

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Speaker 2: He carried a.

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Speaker 1: Pack on his back, and as I drew nearer, I

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saw that he was no more than a boy seventeen

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or eighteen. A Hello, hell, yes, but I don't think

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i'll get there tonight. Horse has gone lane.

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Speaker 5: Oh yeah, right fore leg huh.

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Speaker 2: Yes, he slipped off a rut a mile or so

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further back.

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Speaker 6: Too bad, thought, mart, Get a ride with you. There's

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been many wagons along today.

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Speaker 2: Now how far have you walked?

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Speaker 5: Mostly from Ford Benon?

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Speaker 6: Got a couple of rides day four yesterday. See, you

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don't happen to have any food on you. I ain't

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got much, but I could pay a dollar or two.

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Speaker 2: I guess I've enough of the two of us. You

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better save your money.

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Speaker 1: Oh that's nas Keep your eyes open for a decent

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bit of brown and we'll make a camp. About half

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a mile beyond, we found a somewhat sheltered spot at

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a way off the trail. The youngster, his name was

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Bill Richmond, gathered wood.

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Speaker 2: And I prepared the food. It's almost dark by the

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time we had finished.

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Speaker 5: That was as fine a meal as I've ever eaten,

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mister Kendall.

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Speaker 2: And I'm glad you enjoyed it.

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Speaker 5: Bill, you smoke, no, sir, I have been the taste

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for it.

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Speaker 1: Yet you've got time take my advice when you do

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use a pipe, sir.

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Speaker 2: Where do you come from?

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Speaker 5: Kentucky?

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Speaker 6: The long way from home? It wasn't much of a place.

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I figured I was old.

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Speaker 2: Enough and you came out here for gold.

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Speaker 5: That's right. You make any strikes, mister Kendall.

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Speaker 1: Oh no, I another prospector. How did you get to

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Fort Bentonville?

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Speaker 6: I worked my way up one of them river boats.

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I sure learned plenty about gold mining from some of

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them fellas.

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Speaker 3: You know what this says.

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Speaker 6: There's places in this country where you can pick the

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gold right off the ground.

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Speaker 2: I imagine the trick is to find those places.

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Speaker 5: Oh, I will, of course. I don't mind digging something

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by half year.

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Speaker 2: I wish you liked them. Hello, sounds that we have visitors.

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Speaker 5: How are you mean my piles saw the light of

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your fire off of the trail.

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Speaker 3: You mine company?

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Speaker 2: No, not at all.

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Speaker 7: Oh, my name is Jack Himpton of this Here. This

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is Rod Goodall Hodey, and him with a long face.

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There it's Dauncy Abbitt, Hi JB.

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Speaker 2: Kendall.

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Speaker 1: The nipper is Bill Richmond Holley. I'd offer you some food,

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but I'm afraid we used the last.

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Speaker 2: Oh that's all right, we got our own grub.

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Speaker 5: But how's the firewood enough?

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Speaker 2: I think.

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Speaker 3: Dancy your return for the grub get going.

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Speaker 2: Nothing?

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Speaker 3: I hate worse.

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Speaker 7: He eats cooking like thunder but he sure knows how

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to make a sell of a gun. Stew Oh, no,

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that fire sure does feel good.

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Speaker 5: You and the kid have any luck find any traces

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around here?

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Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, mister Goodall, I haven't been looking.

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I'm on my way to Helena. No Bill is the

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prospect then?

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Speaker 6: Oh sure, boy, we just camping down for the night.

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I am to try my luck west to held him.

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Speaker 3: So huh, well, now, boy, how come you're waiting? Did

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he get there?

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Speaker 5: Tell a big stritch, that's how come? Mister.

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Speaker 7: Now you listen to me. Boy, the ain't no sense going.

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Everybody else goes for all.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 5: You're sitting on a bindser right now.

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Speaker 3: You're judging me? Yea rod right? Ain't that the true?

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Speaker 8: He could be sure it could listen I heard stranger

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all that pulling your leg build No, sure, no such

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a thing, mister, I would now listen here, me and

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the boys.

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Speaker 2: We was working deer Lodge country a year.

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Speaker 5: But Dauncy, you remember I remember why?

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Speaker 2: Sure?

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Speaker 7: Now, a couple of fellas right in the next camp

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to us, they got into shoot up. Next thing, you know,

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one of them bites the dust. Other fella he starts

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out to Bury, the poor son of a gun. He

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digs a grave right there in the camp. And what

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do you think, paid dirt lousy.

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Speaker 2: Will go, mister Hintons, you'd take first prize with that one.

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In a minute. You'd have me believe the.

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Speaker 5: Truth, though over seen stranger things from that, And that's

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a fact.

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Speaker 2: It was a pleasant way to pass the night.

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Speaker 1: Three prospectors, hard picking rough men, spinning one tail after another.

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They'd never find a better audience than Bill Richmond than

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they knew were. I could see him absorbing every word.

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It wasn't until the fire was getting low that he

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finally turned in. At first I thought I heard the

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shouting in my dreams, and then I knew that I

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was awake and it was beginning.

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Speaker 2: To grow light in the east.

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Speaker 5: I'm rich What are you talking about?

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Speaker 2: Bill?

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Speaker 5: Just like me said, here, I found it.

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Speaker 3: Found what the gold.

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Speaker 5: Was, mister mister hands luckier gold or not? I thought

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about what you told me, No, all them stars. I

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didn't even sleep for it. And this morning, this.

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Speaker 6: Morning I got about walk up a gulch and I

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found this out.

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Speaker 3: Let me see that.

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Speaker 5: Iron pyre ride?

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Speaker 2: So bet you ain't it gold?

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Speaker 5: Mister Kendall it is the fellas on the boat. They

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told me what to look for iron pirate rights.

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Speaker 3: Daunty, fetch me the hammer.

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Speaker 5: I got more in my buckets. Look at this.

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Speaker 3: Will you shut your mouth a minute?

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Speaker 5: Where'd you find it?

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Speaker 2: Surface?

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Speaker 6: No, no, kind of kind of sticking out of a

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rock in a gully.

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Speaker 5: I can show you. Well, I'm sure obliged to you,

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mister Hinton. Here's the hammer.

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Speaker 2: If you want my opinion, you're wasting your time. That's gold.

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Speaker 5: Sure it is, mister Kendall, it's it's soft.

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Speaker 2: No alloy me, She'll be a cop.

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Speaker 5: Look at the color, pure gold.

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Speaker 3: Show us where you found it.

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Speaker 5: Boy.

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Speaker 1: We followed the Bill into a couch which began no

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more than one hundred yards from campfire.

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Speaker 2: He turned into a shallow gully and stopped.

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Speaker 1: I could see where he had cut into the rocky

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bank with his pocket knife. And I could see something

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else too, in the faces of the men who stood

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over him, the guarded tones of voice Bill.

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Speaker 5: Bill, I would say that you've hit it. That's a fact.

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Speaker 6: Ain't no question in my mind, no telling how far

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that vein goes said. Don't think I'll forget you, Fels,

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because I won't I'm going to make a fine present

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to all of you.

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Speaker 5: That's mighty thoughtful, boy, mighty thoughtful.

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Speaker 1: I imagine one steaks out of claim now, isn't that so?

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Mister Hinton then registered in Helena.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, that sure is, Kindle.

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Speaker 7: That's the thing to do, Bill, Bill, I don't guess

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you'd mind if me and the boys take a look

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on up the gully aways, would you?

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Speaker 3: It should be bloody for all of us.

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Speaker 5: So you go right ahead. I ain't no hob Now

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I got all I need right here.

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Speaker 7: Good, good, and we will help you nyway, make out

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the claim all proper legal.

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Speaker 5: Well, that's fine, let's go boys.

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Speaker 6: Oh candle, are you coming in just a moment, mister Kendall, listen,

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how you planning picking me up?

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Speaker 5: Sharing your food with me? No, I'm cutting you in

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for a share of this.

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Speaker 1: Oh no, no, no, it's yours. If there's more here,

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I'll stake my own plane.

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Speaker 5: No, no, you don't have to. Now this here must

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be worth hundreds and thousands.

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Speaker 1: Listen to me, Bill, The most important thing is for

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you to register that claim, get title to it.

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Speaker 2: You understand, sure?

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Speaker 5: Sure?

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Speaker 2: All right? Have you got a gun?

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Speaker 5: No? I ain't got no gun.

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Speaker 1: Well you're not how to use one, oh, I guess,

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so I'd take it just in case of accidents.

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Speaker 2: I'm going with the others. Now, if any more strangers come,

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don't tell them what you found.

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Speaker 4: All right, mister Kendall, you better go back to camp

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now wait for.

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Speaker 1: Me there, Sure you say so. I stayed with the

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three prospectors almost the whole day. We found traces all right,

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low grade or but nothing really worth working. It was

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late afternoon when we retraced our steps to the camp.

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On the way we passed through the gully and the

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sight of Bill's claim. The sun had already fallen behind

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the mountains to the west, and there was a chill

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in the air.

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Speaker 7: Can't just figure it just the one vein.

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Speaker 1: Possibly it's a question of digging. Seems to be a

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number of gullies running off.

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Speaker 7: We looked around these parts couple of years back, remember Rod.

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Speaker 2: That's right.

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Speaker 6: I'd swear what the kid founds a freak might not

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go more in a foot or two than peter out.

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Speaker 7: No, don't look that way to me. I'd say she'd

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show better. And no, two thousand dollars a ton, lucky boy, Yeah, say, Kendall,

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you and the boy partners or something?

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Speaker 2: Oh no, I met him yesterday for the first time.

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Speaker 7: Oh man, Can I search your lifetime not find anything

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like that? Yeah? Kind of crazy? Ain't we telling stories?

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And he takes us up on it and finds this?

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I think that'd be worth a sharing the claim, wouldn't

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you sure were shooting?

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Speaker 5: Wouldn't have come looking if we hadn't given him the idea?

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Speaker 2: What do you think, Kendall?

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Speaker 1: I think, gentlemen, that this is Bill Richmond's claim and

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we better get it stacked out for him before dark?

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Speaker 2: Where you see it?

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Speaker 5: Huh?

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Speaker 2: Exactly that way? Well, might as well get on back

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to Ken.

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Speaker 1: Don't do you think it would be a good idea

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to help the boy to take out his claim before night?

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Speaker 5: No? No, Kendall, I'm contired right now. How about you?

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Speaker 2: I sure had enough for one deal.

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Speaker 7: It's been there a long time. Yes, you won't be

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moving tonight, Kendall. You know how to stake out acclaim?

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Speaker 2: Unfortunately?

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Speaker 5: No?

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Speaker 2: Oh huh, I guess it.

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Speaker 3: Can wait.

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Speaker 7: Do something about it in the morning, huh, because right

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now I sure could use some.

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Speaker 4: Grub In a moment. We returned to Frontier Gentleman, a

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suspense story starring Agnes Moorehead and the latest action packed

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adventure with insurance investigator Johnny Dollar are two of the

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exciting dramas waiting for you on CBS Radio today. If

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you like your listening on the thrilling side, don't miss

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Agnes Moorehead on Suspense, and don't miss Johnny Dollar's tense

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tangle with aspir Ring on most of these same stations today.

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And now we return you to Anthony Ellis production of

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Frontier Gentlemen.

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Speaker 1: In the camp Now, there was a very different atmosphere, sullen,

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I think is the.

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Speaker 2: Best word for it.

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Speaker 1: A subtle hostility had settled like a gray mist. I

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saw the men huddle together as Bill and I prepared

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the campfire, and I had a pretty good idea of

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what they were talking about.

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Speaker 5: She going fine.

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Speaker 2: Now standle listen to me. Bill.

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Speaker 1: I think we may be in for a bit of trouble,

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and no matter what happens, keep your head. No time

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to explain now you'll see.

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Speaker 9: Just don't lose your temper.

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Speaker 2: Bill.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, mister Hinton, Bill, me and the boy's been talking.

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Speaker 2: Now we figure.

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Speaker 5: While it's still light, you ought to get the claim staked.

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Speaker 3: Out all regular.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, that's fine with me, of course, doing you a

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service like that, seems how you nor Kendall know about

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such things?

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Speaker 5: We reckon?

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Speaker 2: It ought to be worth something to you.

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Speaker 5: Oh that's all right. I don't want something for nothing there,

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see see what I tell you?

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Speaker 2: Boy, he's a good kid, right. What do you think

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such services are worth? Mister Hinton?

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Speaker 7: Even shares all around cut you in two of course,

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even sit just a moment.

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Speaker 2: Bill, pretty expensive, isn't it. I imagine a lawyer wouldn't

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charge that much.

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Speaker 5: Ain't no lawyers around here?

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Speaker 3: Is it dat?

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Speaker 2: No, sir?

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Speaker 7: Now, Bill, It's kind of like protecting your rights, you see,

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because if anything happened and you didn't get to get

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your clean right dude, why the next feller comes along

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the whole thing belonged to him.

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Speaker 3: You see?

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Speaker 2: Rather awkward situation, isn't it.

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Speaker 5: H We're taking the gamble as much as you kid.

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Why heck that that vein might not be worth nothing?

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Speaker 2: The foot down.

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Speaker 1: I was under the impression you thought it would work

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out to about two thousand dollars in time.

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Speaker 3: Mister. We're doing that is with a boy, not with you.

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Speaker 1: I'm representing his interests that right, bill, Yes, sir, sue

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about the same time as.

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Speaker 2: He decided to help him register his claim. Mister good home,

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what's your deal with the kid?

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Speaker 7: Uh?

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Speaker 2: We have a gentleman's agreement. Pretty smart, and you come

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in for.

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Speaker 1: Half presuming that I did that still leaves him half,

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which is a lot better than a fifth share.

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Speaker 2: As it happens, I have no intentions of doing so.

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You believe this dude, kid?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I believe him.

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Speaker 7: Well, we ain't getting noise. Don't so much as well

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get going on the ground. I did it last night,

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we'll do it again. It ain't my turn.

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Speaker 3: Come over here, you too, Rob.

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Speaker 2: Have you got the gun on your bill?

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Speaker 5: Yeah? Stuck in my bill?

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Speaker 2: Here, I'll keep your jacket buttoned. Don't let them see it.

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Speaker 5: You figure they're gonna take my gold away from me.

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Speaker 2: Mister killer, I think they'll make a good try.

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Speaker 3: Well, I ain't gonna let them keep your voice down.

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Speaker 6: I'm sorry, sir. That sure gets me mad though. I

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heard about claim jumpers, but I have expected to run

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into him this quick.

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Speaker 2: The price of fame and fortune.

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Speaker 5: They're gonna have to kill me to get mine.

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Speaker 2: Well, let's hope it doesn't come to that. Ah, the

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conference is over.

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Speaker 1: I mean the boy's got an offer to make happy

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to listen to any offer.

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Speaker 3: You and the kid take fifty.

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Speaker 2: We take fifty percent.

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Speaker 1: Hmmm, I'll make you a counter offer. You take nothing,

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I take nothing, Bill takes.

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Speaker 7: Off you see, I told you now, Look, mister, you

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ain't no position to make an offer till that claim

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gets registered.

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Speaker 3: It don't belong to no one.

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Speaker 7: Now, if me and the boys decide to stake it

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out for ourselves, what are you gonna do about it?

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Speaker 2: I imagine there'd be some shooting, don't you.

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Speaker 5: You only got one gun?

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Speaker 2: We got three? Would you like to draw first?

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Speaker 7: No, I ain't no use that kind of talk. Now,

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nobody's talking about a shoot up. We just want what's

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rightfully ours.

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Speaker 3: We told the kid.

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Speaker 5: Where the look that makes us equal partner?

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Speaker 2: I don't think so, no, sir.

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Speaker 7: If the kid rides in to get someone out to

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stake that claim for him, you know we got the

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right to take over while he's gone.

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Speaker 2: If I let you it ain't your strike. He'll give

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me power of attorney and writing.

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Speaker 5: You bet ill will.

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Speaker 2: What's he talking about?

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Speaker 7: Are you a lawyer?

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Speaker 2: No?

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Speaker 7: Of course, maybe you're right to Helene leave him here,

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very doubtful, all right, And they see how it is.

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Speaker 5: We got all the grub, you got none. You can

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just sit it out and wait by and by you

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get some hunger, you'll sell us the whole thing for

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some meat.

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Speaker 1: And did you ever stop to consider that the wagon

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trail is not very far away?

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Speaker 2: All Bill has to do is to wait for someone

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to come along.

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't be surprised if there were one or two

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honest men who would give him a handsticking his claim.

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Speaker 2: I'd be happy to stay here while he's gone.

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Speaker 3: All right, all right, all right, Kendle, all right, all right,

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you in.

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Speaker 7: I guess we know. When we're licked, boy, we'll pull out.

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I'll come cut your mouth, don't see say we'll pull out.

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Speaker 3: Kendle.

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Speaker 7: Right, kid, found it his claim. And just to show you,

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mister Kendall, that there's no hard feelings, we'll leave you

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some of our grub.

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Speaker 2: How's that extremely kind?

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Speaker 5: Well, I'll pay for it him.

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Speaker 7: Well you figure, oh kid, it's a present to you

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make up for what we tried to do to you.

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Speaker 1: Sort of a conscience save Yeah, that's right.

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Speaker 3: Well, come on, boys, let's get moving.

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Speaker 1: I didn't have the heart to laugh at Hinton's clumsy

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attempt to put us off guard in fact their belongings,

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And within ten minutes we're riding off down toward the

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mullon Roe. At the same time, I had no illusions

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about our somewhat uncomfortable position.

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Speaker 5: You figured they'll come back.

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Speaker 2: I think there's no doubt of it.

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Speaker 5: I'm sure glad I got to see gun.

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Speaker 2: I hope you don't have to use it.

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Speaker 5: You'll want me to get started on the grub is

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you might as well.

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Speaker 6: Sure something of what happens to fellas when they get

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a sight of gold, ain't it.

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Speaker 1: History has a way of repeating itself. Bill, I went

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through something like this only a week ago and Fort Benton.

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Speaker 5: You know what I'm gonna do.

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Speaker 6: If that starts really worth something, I will sell out.

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You know, I'm going back to Kentucky. I'll fix things

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up just fine for my mom, Pauw.

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Speaker 2: And the kids, brothers and sisters.

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Speaker 6: Oh yeah, a whole slew them eight. That's one of

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the reasons I took off.

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Speaker 1: Well, the immediate problem seems to be our friends. If

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I send you to Helen and now they might be

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waiting for you. On the other hand, if I go,

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they could come back here.

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Speaker 5: I'm feared either way.

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Speaker 2: No doubt. But your claim won't be worth much to

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you if you're not alive to enjoy it.

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Speaker 6: Hm.

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Speaker 5: Mister Kendall, what are you doing in Montana? Oh?

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Speaker 2: Nothing much, really, Bill. I think the word is drifting.

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Speaker 1: I drift about do a little writing for a newspaper

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in London, London, England.

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Speaker 2: Mm hm.

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Speaker 5: So you know something I never did learn reading and writing.

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That's something else I'm going to do and I'll get back.

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Speaker 2: It's a good idea. But to make preparations to make

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sure you do go back.

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Speaker 1: As far as I could determine their most likely line

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of approach of the upper shallow draw, we packed everything

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we could find under our blankets to make it a pier,

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and we were to sleep in the clearing.

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Speaker 2: An hour passed the moon.

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Speaker 9: Rose, mister Kendall, Yes, yes, I heard it. Take out

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your gun, but don't shoot unless I tell you to.

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All right, sir, and keep down behind the brush.

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Speaker 10: Now, boy, well, and should not have done it.

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Speaker 7: Boys, No, wait a minute, it ain't them under the blankets.

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Speaker 3: It ain't just drop your gun.

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Speaker 2: Gentlemen, stand just where you are.

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Speaker 5: We was just coming back to see you was all right?

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Speaker 2: Your thoughtfulness shatters me. Told you it wouldn't work.

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Speaker 1: Pick up their guns, bills, gentlemen. We'll wait until it's

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light enough, and you are going to stake out a claim.

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There'll be in the name of William Richmond. Are there

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are there any objections?

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Speaker 2: Good?

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Speaker 1: All right, make yourselves comfortable, and then while we're waiting,

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perhaps you'd like to tell us some more stories. The

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next morning, bright and early, Bill's claim was properly marked off,

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and to doubly ensure that there would be no more

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different work, our dishonest friends were led well trust into

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the Sheriff's office at Helena.

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Speaker 2: Bill's strife didn't make him a great.

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Speaker 1: Fortune, but it was enough to take him home a

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richer man than he came out. I allowed him, under

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the circumstances, to reward me, and he did very fairly

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one thousand dollars.

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Speaker 4: Frontier Gentleman was written, produced, and directed by Anthony Ellis

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and stars John Dayner as JB.

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Speaker 2: Kendall.

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Speaker 4: Featured in the cast were Eddie Firestone, Larry Dobkin, Jack Moyles,

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and Vic Perrin. Music was composed and conducted by Wilbur

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Hatch right after the Ford Road Show, which follows immediately

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on most of these same stations. Stay tuned for the

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New York Philharmonic concert performance of Elektra, and join us

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again next week for another report from the frontier gentleman,

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John Wall Speaking. This is the CBS Radio Network