1 00:00:02,839 --> 00:00:04,480 Speaker 1: Across the rugged Indian Territory. 2 00:00:04,559 --> 00:00:06,719 Speaker 2: Ride the tall young man on a mission of mercy, 3 00:00:07,120 --> 00:00:09,679 his medical bag strapped on one hip, his six shooter 4 00:00:09,800 --> 00:00:23,640 on the other. This is Doctor six Gun. A national 5 00:00:23,679 --> 00:00:50,320 broadcasting company brings you another across the Rugged Indian Territory. 6 00:00:50,399 --> 00:00:52,560 Ride the tall young man on a mission of mercy, 7 00:00:52,960 --> 00:00:55,359 his medical bag strapped on one hip, his six. 8 00:00:55,240 --> 00:00:58,399 Speaker 1: Shooter on the other. This is Doctor six Gun. 9 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:11,920 Speaker 2: A national broadcasting company brings you another episode in the 10 00:01:11,959 --> 00:01:13,400 exciting adventures series. 11 00:01:13,719 --> 00:01:31,480 Speaker 1: Doctor sex Gun Gray Madson, m D. 12 00:01:31,879 --> 00:01:34,519 Speaker 2: Was the gun toting frontier doctor who wrong the length and. 13 00:01:34,480 --> 00:01:37,640 Speaker 1: Breadth of the old Indian territory, friend. 14 00:01:37,439 --> 00:01:40,480 Speaker 2: And physician to white man and Indian alike, the symbol 15 00:01:40,480 --> 00:01:42,879 of justice and mercy in the lawless West of the. 16 00:01:42,840 --> 00:01:46,719 Speaker 1: Eighteen seventies, This legendary figure was known to all as 17 00:01:47,359 --> 00:01:48,640 Doctor sex Gun. 18 00:02:04,840 --> 00:02:08,800 Speaker 3: Many poets have written of the beautiful and romantic signs 19 00:02:08,840 --> 00:02:13,240 of the changing season, hauling lee, the dazzling snow, the 20 00:02:13,319 --> 00:02:17,680 baffodils of spring. Well, here in the territory we have 21 00:02:17,800 --> 00:02:20,840 our signs, but they are most often of a greamer, 22 00:02:20,919 --> 00:02:25,719 unless a beautiful nature. The bloated bodies of cattle drowned 23 00:02:25,719 --> 00:02:30,240 by spring floods, tongs blackened by thirst, in the summer drought, 24 00:02:30,879 --> 00:02:34,360 the howling of the twisters coming up from Texas, and 25 00:02:34,400 --> 00:02:38,319 in the fall, I am the sign of the season. 26 00:02:38,680 --> 00:02:42,240 Speaker 1: And when I Pablo the gypsy peddler. 27 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:48,280 Speaker 3: Hay and this sees my friend, he's a raven about me, 28 00:02:48,360 --> 00:02:53,360 he too is a sign all holland a drink. 29 00:02:53,919 --> 00:02:54,639 Speaker 2: You see. 30 00:02:55,520 --> 00:02:59,439 Speaker 3: Winter approaches, and I make my swing of the territory, 31 00:03:00,080 --> 00:03:03,599 pushing into the tree forks country and the bad land settlements, 32 00:03:03,800 --> 00:03:07,960 bringing a last chance to buy my estimable wares before 33 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:12,080 the snows and cold weather close the trails. Occasionally I 34 00:03:12,120 --> 00:03:14,960 am joined on my annual circuit by my good friend 35 00:03:15,120 --> 00:03:19,039 that six gone, a favor I do not usually return 36 00:03:19,560 --> 00:03:22,120 when he is forced to repeat the journey in less 37 00:03:22,120 --> 00:03:26,080 pleasant weathers. We were riding one evening looking for a 38 00:03:26,120 --> 00:03:35,199 sheltered place to camp, when suddenly that horse shi hurt. 39 00:03:36,240 --> 00:03:38,199 Speaker 1: Get my horse, four. 40 00:03:39,759 --> 00:03:42,680 Speaker 3: Boy? Hey, what's the matter with you? Are you will 41 00:03:42,759 --> 00:03:49,759 right doming broken? What's the matter with this crazy battlesnake. 42 00:03:49,360 --> 00:03:51,199 Speaker 1: That I think I see it? 43 00:03:51,319 --> 00:03:52,000 Speaker 2: Huh? 44 00:03:52,039 --> 00:03:58,599 Speaker 3: Look behind that rock, that tree, Oh, come on. 45 00:04:00,199 --> 00:04:00,719 Speaker 1: Fit to fight? 46 00:04:00,800 --> 00:04:03,199 Speaker 3: The horses can't see it from the trail. He must 47 00:04:03,199 --> 00:04:05,240 have smelled it had been the swinging back and forth. 48 00:04:05,319 --> 00:04:13,719 All Come on, and there is a tree with a 49 00:04:13,840 --> 00:04:17,319 bit of the crop. He's dead, all right, hang by 50 00:04:17,360 --> 00:04:20,079 the neck? Why not the choice did they have? 51 00:04:20,240 --> 00:04:22,399 Speaker 2: Give me your knife? 52 00:04:21,279 --> 00:04:24,319 Speaker 3: Yes, it's stiff. 53 00:04:27,680 --> 00:04:28,240 Speaker 1: Who is it? 54 00:04:28,639 --> 00:04:28,759 Speaker 3: Oh? 55 00:04:28,839 --> 00:04:32,639 Speaker 1: No, I did it clumsy? He strangled to death. 56 00:04:33,600 --> 00:04:36,480 Speaker 2: An Indian light thing hard to tell, just wearing jeans 57 00:04:36,519 --> 00:04:39,240 and a work shirt. It looks in you or a Mexican, 58 00:04:39,480 --> 00:04:41,439 or just a fellow with a sharp nose and dark skin. 59 00:04:42,360 --> 00:04:43,319 Speaker 3: Must have happened yesterday. 60 00:04:43,920 --> 00:04:46,399 Speaker 1: There are many horse droppings here in the clearing. 61 00:04:47,519 --> 00:04:51,319 Speaker 3: There were I would say a dozen horses. 62 00:04:51,360 --> 00:04:53,000 Speaker 1: That's about the usual odds. 63 00:04:53,160 --> 00:04:54,040 Speaker 3: What do you think happened? 64 00:04:54,319 --> 00:04:55,519 Speaker 1: I know a man was murdered. 65 00:04:56,319 --> 00:04:57,800 Speaker 2: Come on, there's a shovel in the pack. 66 00:05:12,199 --> 00:05:16,800 Speaker 1: Give me another stone. 67 00:05:16,639 --> 00:05:19,839 Speaker 3: That How long will three stones piled one on the 68 00:05:19,879 --> 00:05:21,160 other left on this tree? 69 00:05:21,319 --> 00:05:23,759 Speaker 1: You gotta do something. I think you ought to say 70 00:05:23,800 --> 00:05:24,759 something what. 71 00:05:25,399 --> 00:05:28,000 Speaker 2: I don't know what your words, which. 72 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:31,160 Speaker 3: Was we don't know who he was. A Mexican, would 73 00:05:31,160 --> 00:05:34,079 be a Catholic or an Indian who is a worshiper 74 00:05:34,079 --> 00:05:37,879 of the sun of the moon. That we caught him 75 00:05:37,920 --> 00:05:39,839 down buried in Marty's grave. 76 00:05:40,399 --> 00:05:43,639 Speaker 2: We have made that point. Maybe will to find out 77 00:05:43,639 --> 00:05:45,120 who he was when we get the three points. 78 00:05:45,319 --> 00:05:49,600 Speaker 1: Maybe we better get to sleep, ye why not? 79 00:05:50,639 --> 00:06:05,759 Speaker 3: Of course, why not? And so we hobbled the horses 80 00:06:06,160 --> 00:06:08,639 and built the fire and refilled our bottles at the 81 00:06:08,680 --> 00:06:12,879 nearby spring. It was a still night with a touch 82 00:06:12,920 --> 00:06:15,759 of rawness, and we sat by the fire with our 83 00:06:15,759 --> 00:06:20,560 blankets around our shoulders. 84 00:06:20,600 --> 00:06:24,199 Speaker 1: Lonely, isn't it? The trail is always lonely. 85 00:06:24,680 --> 00:06:29,000 Speaker 2: No, I mean, look look those stones, and a day 86 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:31,600 they'll fall over. The next fell along the trail, built 87 00:06:31,600 --> 00:06:33,240 his fire against him, and then kick him over in 88 00:06:33,240 --> 00:06:33,639 the morning. 89 00:06:34,600 --> 00:06:37,399 Speaker 1: That's the end of it. That death is the end 90 00:06:37,399 --> 00:06:38,360 of it for everyone. 91 00:06:38,959 --> 00:06:41,480 Speaker 3: What's the difference whether he's on the trail the three 92 00:06:41,560 --> 00:06:44,439 forks are behind the white peaked fence in some town. 93 00:06:44,720 --> 00:06:48,079 But when there's a gravestone and somebody knows where it 94 00:06:48,279 --> 00:06:51,519 is who cared, and it doesn't seem so lonely. 95 00:06:51,240 --> 00:06:53,000 Speaker 1: A dead man is a dead man. 96 00:06:53,600 --> 00:06:54,439 Speaker 2: I suppose you're right. 97 00:06:55,879 --> 00:06:57,279 Speaker 3: You think I get over the way I feel when 98 00:06:57,279 --> 00:06:58,160 I see somebody dead. 99 00:06:58,240 --> 00:07:01,240 Speaker 1: I've seen enough of them. Think a doctor for amps. 100 00:07:01,399 --> 00:07:03,759 Speaker 3: That is the least though accepted. 101 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:07,680 Speaker 2: Maybe, well, we better get to sleep. 102 00:07:19,399 --> 00:07:22,920 Speaker 3: And in the morning, when I awoke, Doc was standing 103 00:07:23,040 --> 00:07:24,399 over the pile of stones. 104 00:07:24,720 --> 00:07:28,480 Speaker 1: A parallel came here, waste a while, pile of plots 105 00:07:28,560 --> 00:07:32,879 in my back? Oh, what is it? 106 00:07:32,959 --> 00:07:35,160 Speaker 3: What is it? What? 107 00:07:35,720 --> 00:07:39,160 Speaker 1: The bowl came by the stone? What's in it? 108 00:07:39,439 --> 00:07:40,240 Speaker 2: I'm kind of corned? 109 00:07:40,279 --> 00:07:42,879 Speaker 3: Me is here? When I woke up? What's the clay 110 00:07:42,959 --> 00:07:46,000 bottle water? It was next to the bowl many tracks now, 111 00:07:46,639 --> 00:07:47,079 but it'll be. 112 00:07:47,120 --> 00:07:47,720 Speaker 1: Hard to tell him. 113 00:07:47,720 --> 00:07:48,519 Speaker 3: It turned earth. 114 00:07:48,560 --> 00:07:52,000 Speaker 1: We chatted it up and he could I didn't hear anything. Die, 115 00:07:52,959 --> 00:07:53,800 you were wrong, Doc. 116 00:07:54,720 --> 00:07:58,000 Speaker 3: Somebody who cares knows where the grave is, I guess, 117 00:07:58,079 --> 00:08:01,160 so I wonder who it could. 118 00:08:01,120 --> 00:08:03,120 Speaker 1: Still be, either Mexican or Indian. 119 00:08:03,399 --> 00:08:06,120 Speaker 3: I've seen food left at gravestones on the other side 120 00:08:06,160 --> 00:08:09,000 of the river in Texas, and the Apaches. 121 00:08:08,519 --> 00:08:09,519 Speaker 1: Leave grave offerings. 122 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:13,040 Speaker 3: So do the pilots and the shawnees. In strange I 123 00:08:13,120 --> 00:08:14,639 mean living food and water? 124 00:08:14,959 --> 00:08:21,839 Speaker 1: Why stranger than flowers? They cannot enjoy fragrance either. Well, 125 00:08:22,040 --> 00:08:23,959 we better get riding where they went to three forks. 126 00:08:23,959 --> 00:08:39,840 This afternoon we rode into three forks. I'm a tropolist, consisting. 127 00:08:39,279 --> 00:08:42,440 Speaker 3: Of a roll of sad huts, a few adobe buildings, 128 00:08:42,519 --> 00:08:46,159 and one frame house that contained the post office. So 129 00:08:46,279 --> 00:08:50,639 they are General's office, Sheriff's office, jail, and town hall. 130 00:08:50,960 --> 00:08:52,679 Speaker 1: All in four rooms in an attic. 131 00:08:53,720 --> 00:08:56,399 Speaker 3: Doc and I split up. I set up shop on 132 00:08:56,519 --> 00:08:59,720 the tailgate of a wagon opposite the brown clay building 133 00:08:59,799 --> 00:09:02,879 that house the saloon and dark set up chopped in 134 00:09:02,960 --> 00:09:05,519 the jail, which was the queenest place he could find. 135 00:09:06,519 --> 00:09:10,120 We met that evening in the canteen where the oil lamps, 136 00:09:10,440 --> 00:09:11,360 the dirt track. 137 00:09:11,200 --> 00:09:14,399 Speaker 1: Team from the street, and the customers. 138 00:09:14,399 --> 00:09:17,279 Speaker 3: Combined to give the place definitely the atmosphere. 139 00:09:19,159 --> 00:09:21,120 Speaker 2: You know, Pablo, every time I get into this place, 140 00:09:21,200 --> 00:09:23,519 the boat runs alone. Back at Frenchman Flor looks more 141 00:09:23,519 --> 00:09:24,360 and more like a palace.