Speaker 1: A fiery horse was speeded light a cloud of dust
in a hockey high.
Speaker 2: Old silver, a lone ranger.
Speaker 1: The immense natural resources of the Western United States brought
well than security to many of the early settlers, but
to have was not always to hold outlaws robbed and plundered,
and no man's life or property was safe. It was
then that the masked rider of the Plains rode in
the cause of justice, and it was he, more than
anyone else, who finally brought law and order to the frontier.
Now return with us to those thrilling days when the
West was young. From out of the past. From the
thundering hoof beats of the great horse Silver, the lone
Ranger rides again.
Speaker 3: A silver from the ant corner.
Speaker 1: Old Ben Battle had been known for years as one
of the unluckiest prospectors in the West. It spent his
life sir for gold, but though unsuccessful, he remained cheerful
and active, his courage giving him youthful strength and hope.
One day, the citizens of the town of Five Corners
were startled to see Old Ben ride down their main street,
shouting at the top of his lung.
Speaker 4: I pounded pound.
Speaker 2: Thirty years I've been looking enough under at last, what's happening?
Speaker 5: Said?
Speaker 2: You're carrying Ben the striking Rich.
Speaker 6: I come on inside the cafe Fellers, and I'll tell
you all about.
Speaker 2: Let's don't want to know what it is right now.
Speaker 3: I'm the luckiest feller in the state. Every fellows, look here, gee,
what's the crowd for?
Speaker 5: On you?
Speaker 2: First?
Speaker 5: I struck at rich Bark he found a good cleaning
your eyes over this.
Speaker 4: It's all your That's a chunk from a bar of gold.
Speaker 2: It's been smelting when we've been get their fire down.
You ain't been holding anybody up? Have you been? Not me?
Speaker 3: Here?
Speaker 7: Look what's stamped on that goal?
Speaker 2: Let me see you? What's you say?
Speaker 6: Go on and tell achair barkeep looks to me like
it's got two keys stamped in it.
Speaker 8: You mean like initial. But I don't leave in Mavericks
te t preasure Trove. I'll bet them initiall stand for
the old treasure trove.
Speaker 6: Mine, yes, sir, that there's part of a goal shipment's
been lost for almost a year.
Speaker 2: I'd bet a.
Speaker 4: Thousand fellows to look for it without finding.
Speaker 2: It, and it took me to do it. I ain't
never heard of no treasure trove mine yay, gosh, barkeep.
I thought everybody knew about that. It was owned by
a fellow named Jake Adler.
Speaker 7: He used to smell his own arm and then send them.
Speaker 2: A mule train to the coat.
Speaker 8: Yeah, but once he sent a shipman that disappeared. No
one ever knew what become of it. It wouldn't figure
anything but maybe a landslide covering it up.
Speaker 7: Couldn't it have been injured? But there weren't no engine
around at the time.
Speaker 2: And nobody ever seen hiding the hair of anybody.
Speaker 4: That was with the goal, not even one of the mules.
Speaker 2: And that's the goal you found, man it.
Speaker 6: I would just come back over the old hill from Custerville.
Speaker 7: Man, was it hot?
Speaker 4: My horse just moves it along.
Speaker 7: Go go on your lazy hide, keep it going there.
I get off and walk to make it easier for you.
And you mose your long slow than ever.
Speaker 6: I'll get along, gotcha, and no back talk either. Stanna
see what you went and made me do? Yell he
broke a leg all on account?
Speaker 2: Whoa there, whoa, that's.
Speaker 7: A funny looking rock. I just stumbled on square sort
of shape. Now let me have a look at it,
host seal, won't you now whose hell? First?
Speaker 2: You want to stop?
Speaker 6: When I went to the travel? When I want to stop,
you want to travel? Let me pick up that rock? Yeah,
I wonder, Now where's that hammer?
Speaker 2: I had? Long? M here it is.
Speaker 7: I'll just chip off some of the dirt on the outside. Well, well,
i'll be jumping juniper a gold bar. Huh, what's it say?
Speaker 2: There? T t treasure trove.
Speaker 7: This is part of the gold from the treasure trove.
Speaker 6: Minor, I'll eat my pick and shovel. Now we're heading
for town and we're moving fast.
Speaker 9: Roll lamb based or blasted subbern hide, I get up there,
get along there, irby?
Speaker 2: Do Ben?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 6: Well, well, maybe I was a bit hasty when I
said I'd found the whole shipment. What I meant was
I found this here chunk of gold, and I'm during
sure the rest must be somewhere abound.
Speaker 2: Gold wouldn't belong to you anyhow would have been?
Speaker 6: And why wouldn't well this in a long time dead
He never had no ken poe.
Speaker 2: Or it'd be Ben's all right? But where do you
pick up this chump? Why?
Speaker 8: It was over by that cartol huh, don't be telling
somebody beat you to it.
Speaker 4: Kelly, I never followed, already said too much, come close
to it.
Speaker 7: Maybe, Cheff, I was all fired excited. I wasn't thinking,
but you.
Speaker 2: Said too much?
Speaker 4: Because now how you're gonna go back without being followed?
Speaker 10: Oh Sha, bring cook in the territories, be here to
watch the sheriff.
Speaker 6: I wish you'd take a hammer and pound some sense
in my head.
Speaker 7: I must have gone clean, Loco.
Speaker 8: Then you got a heart as big as a cow
and more dog gone with than any twenty other fellas.
But when he comes to playing your cards close to
your belt, you let every fellow.
Speaker 2: In the game read your hands. Oh this is awful.
Speaker 8: You wait when this news gets around, then you'll find
out just how bad it really is.
Speaker 2: Come on, Ben, tell us where.
Speaker 3: You're fine, got hold out your friend, and where was
your last trip?
Speaker 6: Then give us a tape man, Come on, come on,
I ain't saying a thing, and I camp right here
in town before I let some buzz it rap me
what I find.
Speaker 5: Don't.
Speaker 1: The sheriff had prophesied correctly. The news of Ben's discovery
spread like wildfire, attracting the attention of honest men and
outlaws alike. The Lone Ranger and his faithful Indian companion
Tanto also heard the reports. Then you Ben deserved whatever
good fortune came his way, and determined to help him
if they could. In the meantime, however, an outlaw known
as Smoky Joe had made certain plans. We see him
now riding with some of his men.
Speaker 2: This is the only thing we can do. Hawk had
old fool Ana stir out of town. As long as
he figures he'll be following the fog. He'll wait you.
It takes a year, but.
Speaker 4: I ain't.
Speaker 2: He'll talk when we get our hands. I mean, I
didn't want to do it this way, and we ain't
got no more time to waite you. Only trouble is
if we make him.
Speaker 11: Talk, we got to get rid of him and leave
him live to tell the sheriff who done it.
Speaker 4: That's what I mean.
Speaker 2: But it's worth doing something for world in cool Uh huh?
Why are you figuring keeping being? When you get him,
we'll take him to that old cabin back in the woods,
and if he does any yell, let nobody will hear him.
We're passing Ben Shag right now. They just ride down
to them trees, and he won't see us when he
comes out from town just about to do. Yeah, how's it.
Speaker 5: It's good enough, all right, fellas, ray up and keep
out of sight. Oh hey, guy, likely to hear the horses.
Speaker 2: With them riding as fast as he always does.
Speaker 7: There's somebody coming now they make him out.
Speaker 2: Heart's too blame talk. We'll know when sick. They quiet you, fellas.
Speaker 4: He seems woky, they said, chest a horse he rides.
Speaker 5: Riving palas. Hold on, now get the ring, joe hop y'all.
Then he brokes out of that way. Watch he's going
for his gun. I have heard of packing outlaws on
that gun. Yeah, high winged the imposs slasher, maybe a
count of he hurt.
Speaker 2: Much, smokey greazeous shoulder. Well live to get everyone of you.
We'll say about that horse. Let's get out of here.
Speaker 4: Maybe somebody heard the shock.
Speaker 2: They got us right high.
Speaker 3: He won't get away.
Speaker 1: The outlaws, with old Ben as their prisoner, raced to
the cabin in the forest throughout the.
Speaker 2: Entire rest of the night.
Speaker 1: They questioned him, but he refused to tell him anything.
They rested during the day, but the following evening the
brutal questioning began again.
Speaker 2: Talk, Ben Page, It'll be the word spray if you don't.
Where'd you find that chunk of gold?
Speaker 3: Where's the gold head?
Speaker 2: Where's that head?
Speaker 3: Blast you?
Speaker 2: Where's that head? Hoker?
Speaker 3: We'll beat it out of you.
Speaker 7: Talk and you're wasting your time, old fool.
Speaker 6: I'll see everyone that you're hung for our talk. I
wouldn't tell you nothing no matter what you did. You
can hit and you can beat me up. I won't talk,
and there's no way you can make me.
Speaker 2: Now, wait, Wash, what do you want with the old Maverick?
I'll find a way to fix him. Go ahead, I'm
riding back to town. Looks the most likely talking because
Ben ain't been around. Yeah huh. I'll take the rest
of the boys and show ourselves in the cafe so
we won't be suspare me and how can handle things?
We've been too easy on him, but we ain't gonna
be the longer.
Speaker 3: It won't be gone more in a couple hours. Get yourselves, fellows.
Speaker 2: Riding your house?
Speaker 11: All right, Ben, he's just three of us now, your
Dirtey's kunk.
Speaker 4: WASH's a mite squeeze Ishue. I ain't and you'll find
it out right soon.
Speaker 6: If I were into this chair a lot, wouldn't you?
I ain't say, young no more, but I'd show you
fellas a few tricks.
Speaker 7: Only it's us' is gonna show you a few.
Speaker 11: Things and giving you one more chance where you find
that chunk of gold.
Speaker 5: I ain't saying well of all the stubborn mavericks I
ever run up against us, fella takes a cake.
Speaker 4: We give him his chance.
Speaker 2: Get that poker.
Speaker 11: Yeah, kicking the fireplace so we'll get rid of hot
out do that. You're beginning to get the id ben you.
Speaker 2: Pay for all this?
Speaker 3: I fixed it, hot card?
Speaker 2: No, what was that somebody firing at us?
Speaker 3: There he is. It's a fellow on.
Speaker 2: A white horse. He's got to get him. Wow, hot
fam he's tried up. He going run away. And then
come on get your horse right everything.
Speaker 1: You're righty?
Speaker 3: Come on?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Get there?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 7: You all right?
Speaker 2: Who's there? Me? Come help you?
Speaker 7: Gosh, you're red skin.
Speaker 2: White friend. Get out of long way.
Speaker 4: Tonto, come get you.
Speaker 7: You'll have to cut these hair ropes. They got me
tied up like a calf for brandon.
Speaker 2: Me cut rope.
Speaker 10: You find me, Tonto follow trail fine where bad color
get you, then trail you here and there?
Speaker 2: Huh you free?
Speaker 7: Now.
Speaker 6: I don't know who you are, but by golly, you
and that friend of yours are sure parts of mine
from now on.
Speaker 2: You hurry, where are we going?
Speaker 4: Take you to fine gold?
Speaker 3: Outlaw?
Speaker 2: Not catch us here?
Speaker 7: Pay horse, Jimmy, We're gonna try and out from them crooks.
Speaker 2: Uh, paint horse plenty past you.
Speaker 6: You mouff them, my god, I'll chance it. It's the
only way I can ever get to that gold without being.
Speaker 4: Following right, Get them off horse, get them.
Speaker 3: Ups, got away?
Speaker 5: You know you look at that always look over there, fellow,
we was chasing.
Speaker 1: Afore the curtain falls on the first act of our
thrilling Lone Ranger drama. Before the next exciting scenes, please
permit us to pause for just a few moments.
Speaker 12: Hmmmmmmmmmmm.
Speaker 1: And now to continue our story, the Lone Ranger En Tanto,
accompanied by old Ben Battle, who had found the treasure
trove gold bar, left Hawk and his companion far behind.
At the cafe in town, Smoky Joe talked with an
Indian guide.
Speaker 2: Black Wolf. You're just a fella I need. I've heard
all about you I say you're the best engine trailer
in these parts. Me fullham trail any good? And from
what I've heard, you don't mind making yourself a little
cash any casion you give them me cash. It just
depends on you.
Speaker 10: What you want them.
Speaker 2: I reckon, you've heard the talk that's been going on
around town. Agent you mean talk them gold? Sure, and
I got a scheme to get that gold. M what
do you say you're throwing with me and my boys.
You can trail old ben Win leaves town to go
back to where he found that treasure trove stuff, and
we'll help ourselves to it and give you all the
protection you need. What you pay him, black Wolf, you'll
get your equal share with the rest of us. Well,
what do you say me?
Speaker 7: Not?
Speaker 2: No, you gotta just think of all the firewater he
could buy with your share of black Wolf, more than
you ever seen before. Black Wolf do them good? I
thought you would. Hey, what are you doing? Gone away?
Speaker 3: Blast?
Speaker 2: You keep your voice down? Say Ben ain't in the
cabin hall an engine and the mass public on you,
blasted fools. We couldn't help the man that I leave you.
Speaker 4: Everything goes wrong. They at to get me some.
Speaker 2: Fellows I can pad off, but even get up. We're
riding out to the cabin. Black Wolf, you come on
on after us. It looks to me like we can
put you to work before we figured out all the
blasts I ever seen. You fellows are the worst off.
But smoky, how is we to know there was a
redskin with that mass fallow? You didn't have to know it,
or you had to do is to stay with all
Ben like he was supposed to let be shot at.
I'm blamed, Sorry.
Speaker 6: You didn't hit you ain't nobody's seen nothing to bend
since he got away.
Speaker 2: Of course they ain't him and the mother two fellaws
hit right out for the gold. What are we gonna
do now, wolfh. We gotta get Ben back. But if
we don't, to me jail for us, Ben seeing us
all when he tells us sheriffoo, we are.
Speaker 4: We're done for.
Speaker 2: He could light out of here and let the gold go.
Speaker 3: That's pen and be and jailled.
Speaker 2: M h. I get a better notion, of course that
ever heard of? Black Wolf engine, that's the one. But
what about him? Redskin's as good as trailing as anybody
name your most trailer hawk. If you give him half
a chance. Wife.
Speaker 3: Where's he?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm waiting for him now. Oh yeah, I seen
him in town this morning, and that's where I got
the idea. Talked to him. Uh huh. I talked to
him and told him if he put in with us,
he'd get his pairs.
Speaker 3: Show what he says.
Speaker 2: What do you figure he'd say that Redskin would do
anything for golda buy firewater. And we still got a chance,
and I turned good one. Maybe that's him now, most
likely that's you, Black Wolf, walk right in. These are
my pods I was telling you about. Oh well, I
ain't no use standing around here. If you're ready to
start out, black Wolf, Black Wolf, ready and come on, fellas,
I mean you bring our horses around, and the rest
of us will show the Redskin in the march of
the horses. The mother fellaws was riding. All right, boss,
let's come this white black Wolf. He come take a
side of trailing to follows them tracks. Now, Black Wolf,
best brave all tribe, Black Wolf, see where other brave
blind over there is where we found the tracks of
the horse the mask fellow was riding. I kept the
boys away so they would be spoiled.
Speaker 10: Hey, you are black Wolf, I see him black wolf,
see like eagle.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you can follow tracks like them. Me follow wall,
We beat you, fetch them horses were they'll head after
Ben and a mass fellow without white and I'd like
to get my hands and I want to get my
hands on the gold. Steady there white wolf good, she says,
he is will do wolf, black wolf, not like pale
face him.
Speaker 10: Not speak big word, do little deed him speak little
too big deed.
Speaker 2: And now's your chance to prove it. Get up, get on.
Speaker 1: In the meantime Ben battle, the lone ranger in Tonto
had crossed the plains and entered the hills. We see
the old man in the Indian now in a sheltered
camp close to the spot where Ben had found the gold.
Ben is speaking, yes.
Speaker 7: Sirry Tonto, you and the mask fell I got anything.
Speaker 4: Beat ever sea.
Speaker 2: Why you think that?
Speaker 6: Well, first off, look at the way you fool them
crooks the nights.
Speaker 7: You found me at the cabin. Then take them horses
of yours. I ain't seen their ricos since I was knee.
Speaker 4: High to our grasshopper them plenty good, and he.
Speaker 6: Was the mask Fellaw's idea for you to go alone
after the blasting powder we needed.
Speaker 7: He figured nobody'd be curious about the redskin. Not right.
Speaker 6: Then, to top it all off, your part's gone back
to see if they've been followed.
Speaker 7: He don't take no chances.
Speaker 2: At all, not good take chance.
Speaker 6: You're two of the squares fellows I ever met up with.
Speaker 7: You even say you don't want none of the gold
for helping me out.
Speaker 2: You you'll not pay us. Well.
Speaker 6: I don't know anybody else to feel the same about it,
except maybe the sheriff.
Speaker 7: Him and me have been friends for close thirty years.
Speaker 10: Him, he good color, He is there.
Speaker 7: He do anything for me, and I do it.
Speaker 10: You'll look, huh, you'll look there it's smoke, white, friend,
send signal?
Speaker 7: You mean the mass fellaw's making that smoke?
Speaker 3: Not right?
Speaker 7: But what for what to say?
Speaker 2: Oh? Law, tell her follow you?
Speaker 7: We've been trailed? That right?
Speaker 6: Oh god, it just when I was thinking we had
things our own way.
Speaker 2: But them trailers and.
Speaker 7: There's close to a dozen of them and only three
of us.
Speaker 2: And that be all right? But what do we got?
Friend be here?
Speaker 7: What can he do? There ain't nothing left to do
but run for it.
Speaker 2: M make plan.
Speaker 7: But he's got a plan. You say that right, Well,
he's done a plenty so far.
Speaker 6: But if he's sort of a way for three fellers
to get the best of a dozen, then he's smarter
even than I.
Speaker 2: Had him figured.
Speaker 1: The lone ranger, having sight of the pursuing outlaws, built
signal fires to warn Ben and Tonto. Then he hastily
mounted Silver and raced to rejoin them. The outlaws, led
by a black wolf who had followed the trail with
uncanny skill, approached the spot where Ben and his friends
had made camp.
Speaker 2: We're getting closer, ain't we, black Wolf? What's fine?
Speaker 11: Now?
Speaker 2: Them not far cut? Even see the trail with Silver
for the last hour. So this is the trail and
modle trains used to take when Old Jake Candler set
his goal to the coast. Looks likely there was a
landslide somewheres around here that buried the whole shebang.
Speaker 11: Then had to have the fool luck to stumble onto
it after everybody else had hunted it for years.
Speaker 3: He didn't find the whole works, He just found.
Speaker 7: That shuck to go.
Speaker 11: Well much have been a piece that happened to come
and covered the rest. Bound to be somewhere, buddy, Yeah,
I reckonsall there camp, and someone's been here recent should
you can see the ashes?
Speaker 2: And there's Prince all about. Yeah, he's hoping we see
them before they see us. Hoops, who's that over there?
I see something? Look with a valley narrow That must
be a pat anybody wander. There's old Ben and what's
he doing right? Don't know? But he ain't dodging us
this time. Come on, get up there.
Speaker 4: He ain't seen this.
Speaker 2: He will in the second. Where's the injury to the mask?
Now I'm plagued with them. It's only Ben we got
to worry about. Get along, get you've seen this.
Speaker 3: We got your man, go run for it. I'm holding
my gun on you.
Speaker 2: Away. Let me be well.
Speaker 3: So you figured you got away? You know he's been
planting blasting power.
Speaker 4: It's ready to be lit.
Speaker 3: No, ain't that real?
Speaker 2: Nice?
Speaker 11: You?
Speaker 4: Ben?
Speaker 2: So the goal is under these rocks?
Speaker 7: No, no, it was only did you hear that?
Speaker 4: Fella?
Speaker 2: The gold ain't here, but he's setting all powder just
the same figures. He needs a practice. I reckon, he
listen to me, but he better do bolls that don't
take no figure. And as long as Ben's got the
blasting powder all set, we'll just let him light it first,
I won't. You can't make me just your Well, then
we know where the.
Speaker 6: Gold is now and I'm just take a look at
this shooting now.
Speaker 7: You wouldn't shoot me, would you?
Speaker 2: You'll shoot if you don't do like I say.
Speaker 7: I reckon, I ain't got no choice.
Speaker 2: You're sure.
Speaker 6: You'd better go all the way so as you won't
be hurt by the rocks when they fall.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll be watching, and if you'll try any tricks,
it'll be your last.
Speaker 7: Sammy.
Speaker 2: Come on, fellas, I'll be aiming at you all the time.
You gotta hurry.
Speaker 3: I've liked it right now.
Speaker 2: I'll bet he's a man, he could, blushed, explaining him
just when he was all ship to uncover the ball. Yeah,
and watch out.
Speaker 3: Tell us a flaster be going off any second.
Speaker 2: Now we're safe, you now let it come.
Speaker 1: The blast went off, and great masses of rock and
earth were torn from the side of the hill, blocking
a narrow pass. The Outlaws watched eagerly, and Hawk shouted.
Speaker 2: There ain't no fool there where. Men get to run
the other way. When he listen, fuse and we can't.
Speaker 5: Get back The way we come rock and we just
have to ride on and find the mine trading.
Speaker 2: Crime we've been trying. Man there.
Speaker 1: With the outlaws imprisoned in the canyon, Ben battled, grinned,
and sat down to wait for the mask man in tanto.
Finally they rode up with the sheriff this mounted and
walked over toward the old prospector.
Speaker 2: Are they all in there?
Speaker 7: Then?
Speaker 2: Can't you hear him?
Speaker 4: Share?
Speaker 2: I shug in and they don't sounds to blame.
Speaker 8: Happy smokey Joe, Keep still and listen.
Speaker 4: What do you gotta say?
Speaker 8: Just a few things I wanted you fellows to know about.
And the first is I got some deputies coming to
take you fellows to jail, and Ben and the masked
fella found the gold. Of all you fellows ever got here.
Ben just pretended to be blasting for the gold so
you could be caught.
Speaker 7: And maybe if you fellows.
Speaker 4: Ever get out of jail, your won't.
Speaker 8: Be so turned anxious to go again. The lone Ranger,
lone ranger he that for the mass pillories.
Speaker 3: You never heard telling any other armbre that could do.
Speaker 7: What he's done.
Speaker 2: You. Thank God. I want to talk to that, but
I reckon, you won't huh, what's it?
Speaker 6: Because he's on his way right now. That's how come
I know for sure he's a Lone Ranger. He does
what nobody else could do, and he never waits to
miss saying.
Speaker 2: Up.
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