Speaker 1: A fiery horse with a speed of light, a cloud
of dust, and a hardy, high old Silver, The Lone.
Speaker 2: Ranger At Compacts of contact, and the Doctor.
Speaker 3: And compact of thett.
Speaker 4: At.
Speaker 1: The history of the Western United States is also a
history of transportation. First prairie schooners, then the Pony Express,
and finally the railroad helped bring civilization to the new country.
It was the mass rider of the Plains, however, that
did most established law and order on the frontier. He
fought crime and criminals throughout the linth and breadth of
seven States, and the memory of his deeds will remain
as long as the memory of the early West itself.
Now return with us to those shrilling days of yesteryear,
from out of the past, From the thundering hoof beats
of the great horse Silver, the Lone Ranger rides again,
Tel Silver.
Speaker 5: We're riding east to the railroad. Total swelling for us,
Hello Silver.
Speaker 1: Hackett had once ranged cattle all the way from the
town of Hensdale, through Cedar Valley and beyond. In the
days of his prosperity, he had befriended numberless men and
women who had come to him starving or sick, or homeless.
With the end of the days of the open range,
Zeke's prosperity faded away, and with his prosperity the fair
weather friends who had taken advantage of his generosity.
Speaker 4: In the end, he'd been.
Speaker 1: Able to retain title only to Cedar Valley and a
small strip of land to the westward, and here grazed
the shrunken remnants of his once vast herds. We see
Zeke now sitting on the porch of his home with
his wife Martha, watching the approach of their nearest neighbor,
Duke Bradley, with two of his men.
Speaker 4: Well, there he comes, Marthy, riding up here, just as
bold as you please. And ten years ago i'd have
taken him a shoot nine and run him off the
place so fast he'd have scorched the air getting away.
Speaker 6: Times had changed, Zeke.
Speaker 4: Not for the better neither.
Speaker 6: Now when he gets here, you treat him just as
nice as you're able.
Speaker 4: It don't do to go looking for trouble, Martha, I
feel like to bust.
Speaker 6: Well, you can just hold in that temper, yours. There
ain't nobody else willing to give us cash for Cedar.
Speaker 4: Valley right now, just because Duke's got everybody's a blame.
Scared they're afraid to all for anything.
Speaker 6: I ain't saying that's not so.
Speaker 4: And if I could only prove my suspicions, I'd be
willing to bet every last penny I got the Dukes
a fellow to blame for them water holes in the
valley being pison.
Speaker 6: Now, Zeke, you have no reason to say that.
Speaker 4: Don't need no reason. All us could tell a crook
by the way my rheumatics act.
Speaker 7: Won't you ever get over that notion?
Speaker 4: Well, it's so I get within ten yards of a
crook and I get taken like somebody's use me for
a pin cushion?
Speaker 3: Have you just say that for forty years?
Speaker 4: No, I can feel it coming on right now. You
behave yourself out of yourself, didn't you hear me?
Speaker 3: Well? Are you ready to talk business? Seat?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 3: Something ailing you?
Speaker 4: It's them dog blasted rheumatics. Never did have them that afore?
Speaker 3: Well, no, I'm sorry to hear that. I didn't know
you was troubled that way.
Speaker 6: Any attention to him, mister Bradley. Zeke's just like a
big baby with his ailments.
Speaker 4: You keep sale, Marty so you come to make me
an offer for Cedar Valley again? Is that it?
Speaker 3: I heard? In turn you changed your mind about sailing.
Speaker 4: It wasn't because I wanted to know. But it ain't
no use trying to run cattle where they die off
like flies from pies and water.
Speaker 6: It's just terrible. We've lost half our critters already.
Speaker 3: I was afraid of that. A huge soul out to
me before it wouldn't have happened.
Speaker 4: How much you're offering, Well.
Speaker 8: Last time I said I'd give you three thousand. Wasn't
that It's so buck Yeah.
Speaker 3: That's why I recollected boss.
Speaker 4: Mm hmm, Well, tain't much, but I guess I'll.
Speaker 3: Wait a minute. Zeke cahn't ha had three thousands.
Speaker 8: For the valley and all the critters in it at
the time I made the offer. But of course you
wouldn't expect me to offer as much now, seeing in
half your critters have died off since.
Speaker 6: You you mean you won't give it a sea thousand?
Speaker 9: Even two thousand's my best price, my rheumatics is something
fierce Duke two thousands, the same as Robrey five years ago.
Speaker 4: I could have sold a valley in the cattle for
thirty thousand. This ain't five years ago, then, and make
it twenty five hundred.
Speaker 3: Nope, I just give you my first and last price order.
Speaker 4: I ought to tell you yet, don't.
Speaker 6: Say anything you'll be sorry for We need that money,
mighty bed.
Speaker 4: But marthy to have nothing left but that strip of
land over westward and a little handful of cash after
all we used to have.
Speaker 6: H It's hard, but we can't hold out longer.
Speaker 3: You're a real sensible woman, man.
Speaker 6: I just wished I wouldn't, but it are you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, honey, I'll take the offer, I reckon. That's fine, itch,
But I just wish I could figure out why you're
synxious to get the valley, Duke. Then water holes will
be pison no matter who's.
Speaker 8: Well you see, Zeke, I gotta figure this way. Most
likely it's something under seeping in and poisoning the springs.
Maybe in time it'll'll be washed away. Maybe you can't
afford to wait, of course, but I can.
Speaker 4: You're sure it ain't something else pies in the water.
Speaker 3: Meaning well, never.
Speaker 4: Mind, I said i'd sail, and having no choice, I'll
keep the bargain, all right. Your rheumatics ain't so bad.
Speaker 3: You can't get the term this afternoon to sign the papers, Addie.
Speaker 4: I reckon, I can make it.
Speaker 8: And come on, fellas, I'll be expecting a lawyer Winton's
office about three.
Speaker 4: I'll be there. Don't you forget the two thousands. All
these rumatics will be the death of me. Man, the
old fool in is rheumatic. All right, fellas, get to
your saddles. We're right in the town.
Speaker 10: Something underground pisoning in the springs, eh.
Speaker 4: See, can't prove no different, Canny.
Speaker 3: Shut your mouth or two.
Speaker 4: Come on, get there, get up.
Speaker 1: In the meantime, some distance to the east, rumors at
the railroad planned to extend its lines westward became a
practical certainty. A small group of surveyors started making their
way across country with chains and transits, and one day
the lone Ranger and his faithful Indian companion Toto, rode.
Speaker 4: Up to the crew.
Speaker 11: Hello there, outlaws, what do you want here?
Speaker 12: We're not outlaws, Jerry? You know my name, Jerry duncan
han't you?
Speaker 11: We never met a poor that I can recollect.
Speaker 13: Your superintendent told me about you, missus, Telly. Yes, I'll
come outlaws like you know him.
Speaker 12: I said, we aren't outlaws. Toto and I became acquainted
with him a long time ago.
Speaker 4: Mmm, we help him in him in plenty.
Speaker 12: Yeah, he told us the railroad would build, that you'd
be in charge of the surveying crew.
Speaker 11: Glass and he shouldn't have talked so much.
Speaker 12: He knew that anything he told us would be held
in confidence.
Speaker 11: The care stranger.
Speaker 13: If that information gets out, it's going to cut the
railroad of fortune to buy the land it needs.
Speaker 12: But we won't repeat what weight now. I'm afraid most
of the people through here suspect your purpose already.
Speaker 13: Maybe so, but they ain't a blame sure that they're
going to turn down a fair price for their land.
Speaker 12: Tella and I have been watching the route you're laying out.
From from what we've seen, you'll have to go through
Susedar Valley.
Speaker 13: Yeah, well that's a long ways off, yes, but it's
directly on the way to Hinsdale for all you know,
maybe we ain't going to Hinsdale, maybe we're going to
Perryvillelle Instead.
Speaker 12: Stanley said that Hinsdale had been definitely decided upon.
Speaker 13: Mister, you know, to blame much either, You're an awful
good friend the mister Stanley's or you've blackmailed him in
the saying a lot of things he shouldn't have.
Speaker 4: Which do you believe?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 11: I ain't so sure.
Speaker 13: You're wearing a mask like an outlaw, right enough, But
somehow I got a feeling you're different from what you
seem to be.
Speaker 4: Thanks, Gerry, I give you my word that we're to
be trusted.
Speaker 11: But what makes you so Where the railroad's going?
Speaker 12: Everybody is that's interested in that, but I particularly anyone
wanted it to go through seat on this fortune.
Speaker 11: You ain't pulling the wool over my eyes.
Speaker 14: Wait you pull cats Zeke put me through school when
I never had a cent to my name that gun,
I'm right now, I'm paying back part of what I own.
Man miss cut them off anyhow, I said CRUs all right,
all right, Ben, the ain't no use chasing them. We'll
settle them fellows. Later on.
Speaker 1: It sympathized with one mom's fortunes decline, and now learning
of Duke Bradley's action for the first time, they determined
to investigate. We see them at the end of their journey,
reining in their horse horses beside the corral. Where's the
z is standing.
Speaker 4: Z Well, you've done my heid. If it ain't the
mass fellow in Tondo for the long time we've meant to,
would blame long.
Speaker 3: Tonto.
Speaker 4: Glad see you well, Tonto, there ain't so many if
he that way anymore, I can recollect. When I had
more friends than I new knew what to do with,
which seems like when a feller's down, they sort of
forget about him. I know one who hasn't, Zeke. Yeah,
Jerry duncan Jerry say now, there's one of the finest
young fellows ever. Was met up with him when he
was just an orphan kid, all sort of felt taught
him like I would have if he'd been with a son.
And he thinks a lot of you your friends are his. No,
I'm afraid he thought us outlaws recollect when we first
met up. First, I figured it was outlaws myself. Then
when Ma Marou Mattics didn't get the aching, I says
to myself, Zeke, there's unknown water holes in the valley.
He must have. I can't prove it, but just as
sure as I'm standing here here, he did that very
thing and he can't be brought to justice. There's no
way at all. But there's something else that can be
brought to yes, and that's the business end of shooting.
Speaker 3: Ie.
Speaker 4: You stay here, wait, seek, listen to me. Perhaps there's
another way to punish him. I don't know what to be.
Oh golly, yes, thinking of that critters brought on them
pains again. You can't fight a man like do Bradley
with guns, the surest way I know knows. I have
still a better plan.
Speaker 12: Huh, And from what you've told me, I'm sure it
will work.
Speaker 4: Now listen to me.
Speaker 15: The curtain falls on the first act.
Speaker 1: Now to continue our story. A week after Duke Bradley
had bought Cedar Valley from Zeke Hackett for a fraction
of its true word, the rancher was talking with one
of his men.
Speaker 3: Well, then.
Speaker 8: Before the day's over, i'll be banking about forty or
fifty thousand dollars.
Speaker 4: It would be that soon, boss yep.
Speaker 8: I heard the day that the fellow of representing the
railroad would be in town to buy app lane. Good enough,
and Zeke, here's about it that I'll bet he'll be
fit to be tired.
Speaker 12: And just see him, he'll be yelping about his rheumatic,
so as he could be heard clear the next county.
Speaker 3: We ain't worrying about him wrecking the railroad.
Speaker 4: Will pay that much gas.
Speaker 8: He'll pay It had cost him ten times as much
to cut across the hills. Yeah, anyhow, that much, I'll
be making myself a nice profit. Two thousand of Zeke
for the valley and five hundred to pay that fellow
in the railroad office for telling us which way the
line's going to.
Speaker 4: Be built, CALLI and all the rest clear.
Speaker 8: The best part of it is we couldn't have lost
no matter which way the railroad was built. Now, huh,
if they decided to go to Perryville instead of Hensdale,
it had to cross that land over to the west,
as ze gohones through the what's that.
Speaker 10: The railroads changes plans local I at the railroad's not
coming to Hinsdale, all right, it's going to Perryville. Them
surveyors are on Zeke land western.
Speaker 11: Strip of his Yeah, you've seen him yourself.
Speaker 7: No, not exactly, but I heard it in town.
Speaker 3: It can't be. We ought to see for ourselves on
that's just what we're going to do.
Speaker 7: I never believed it at first, but even the sheriff
said he seen if.
Speaker 3: That's telling the railroad office double cross to me. He
might have figured you couldn't prove nothing.
Speaker 7: And figuring if you give out the wrong information.
Speaker 11: The railroad couldn't prove nothing either.
Speaker 3: You pay for it if he did. Steady there, bless you.
Speaker 11: Let's hurry.
Speaker 1: I'm ready, And almost the time the lone ranger rode
swiftly into town on his great horse Silver, rained in
them before the Sheriff's office and hurried inside.
Speaker 12: What don't go for your gun? Gun, sheriff, A mess man,
a wall of blaster. You're going to do what I say.
I'll explain later. There's no time to waste. Now you
will be jailed for theamps. But right now you're coming
with me.
Speaker 1: Duke Bradley led his men at the swift gallop toward
the narrow stretch of land, with Zeke Hackett still on.
As they approached their destination, Duke saw that the report
he had received was correct.
Speaker 3: You there calling me. You heard me, didn't you? I
heard you.
Speaker 11: I didn't care much about your style of calling either.
Speaker 4: Don't get smart, mister.
Speaker 3: I'll talk to this fellow now. What I want to
know is what you and your men are doing over here.
Speaker 11: What we're doing is our business.
Speaker 3: But I'm making in mine.
Speaker 10: Yeah, let me handle a boss. Maybe a little gun
weapon would do him some good.
Speaker 11: Anytime you fellas want to start, so that I'm willing.
Speaker 3: I thought the railroad was going through Cedar Valley.
Speaker 11: He did.
Speaker 3: It was supposed to be built to Hymnsdale. But this
is a way to Perryville.
Speaker 11: And what if it is just this?
Speaker 3: I own Cedar Valley.
Speaker 8: I paid good cash for it, but if the railroad's
going to Perryville. I won't be able to sell it.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 11: Now, ain't that just too bad? You Bradley, ain't you?
Speaker 3: That's me?
Speaker 13: I heard about the way you cheated old Zeke. He
thought you was gonna collect big money. But this is
Zeke's land, and now it's him it's going.
Speaker 3: To collect Ke.
Speaker 7: We ought to fill that fello in the railroad office
full of land. It was him to touch in this way.
Speaker 3: Serve you are right, but I.
Speaker 4: Get back on your horses.
Speaker 3: We ain't licked yet.
Speaker 1: Ever since the day a Zeke hack It had spoken
to the lone ranger, his bitter mooded past and his
puzzled wife frequently observed the old man chuckling to himself.
When questioned, he refused to give his reason, and Martha
found her curiosity increasing. We see the already couple in
the living room of their home.
Speaker 6: Sake, Zeke, could you laughing to yourself?
Speaker 4: I declare, sometimes I think you lose my little sense
you ever had, do you now I do?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 6: Now, Zeke, you tell me what it is you're keeping
to yourself this way. It hasn't got anything to do
with the vallet, has it.
Speaker 4: You will find out all good time.
Speaker 7: But why can't you tell me right now?
Speaker 4: All the talking and begging in the world won't make
me say a word. I give my promise of the
mask man, and I'm going back on it.
Speaker 6: You're still just as stubborn as when you was courting me.
Speaker 4: Uh huh. That's how I got you, wasn't it. Oh
heaven sakes, Zeke, Now just look outside ways do badly
with him?
Speaker 6: Two no count gun hands.
Speaker 4: His pole cats, I mean blast you. Oh oh, Emerald masks,
they're at it again.
Speaker 3: That changed my mind.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't want the valley no more. Dude want
the valley kind of late and deciding, ain't you maybe
but not too late.
Speaker 6: You you won't we should give you back the two
thousand you paid it.
Speaker 4: Well, if that's it, we can't do it. Most of
it's spent.
Speaker 3: I don't want the cash. I'm here to make a trade,
a trade.
Speaker 8: I got the papers here for you to sign and everything.
Lemon saw buckn be the witnesses.
Speaker 4: Why you ain't even said what you want in trade
for yet?
Speaker 3: I'll give you back the valley for the lanes you got.
Speaker 4: Over whist Oh, so that's it.
Speaker 3: You're getting all the best of.
Speaker 4: The like blazers. I am. You've seen them surveyors over there,
and you want that land to sell of the railroad. Well, Bradley,
you listen to me. That land's mine and I ain't
selling it or trading it or giving it away. And
that's flat.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Now you can get out here because we can't do business.
Speaker 3: I reckon, we.
Speaker 4: Will, I said, get out of here.
Speaker 6: Cleazy, don't fight with him.
Speaker 4: I hold it out. You shoved him, Flashy. You'll trade
me that, lamb.
Speaker 3: That's what you'll do.
Speaker 4: You can't make me, Yeah, that's what you think.
Speaker 3: Got the time to waste any like I did before.
So we're getting this over.
Speaker 7: With, right, now that land's mine and I'm keeping it.
Speaker 3: Maybe you'll change your mind after I tell you a
few things. You First off, how do you think them
water holes in the valley got pisoned?
Speaker 4: I gotta blame good notion.
Speaker 8: It was me and the boys done it. That was
when we figured it was the valley the railroad wanted you.
You be, Maybe they'll show you we ain't to be
fooled with.
Speaker 4: Go ahead and pison all the water holds your water.
That don't make no difference now it's.
Speaker 3: Too late for that. It wouldn't make no difference now
if we did. But there's other ways that change in
your mind.
Speaker 4: Ways you maybe wouldn't like kind afraid show them?
Speaker 7: Sobok, sure, oh you're almost.
Speaker 3: Stay where you are overhead, sobok.
Speaker 6: Oh my face the base I brought with me from
the east.
Speaker 8: Changing your mind yet, zeke, I'll have the long No
you won't. There's three of us and only two of you.
Speaker 3: I'll all have to take our word again yours.
Speaker 4: They might kill you. You you got the papers with you.
Speaker 12: You say, right here, give them to me.
Speaker 4: I'll sign.
Speaker 8: Now you're showing saints. You just put your name right there.
Fellows didn't I tell you we weren't through yet. No,
I reckon maybe next time, you believe me.
Speaker 1: At the point of a gun, Zeke was forced to
sign the papers, which returned him Cedar Valley in exchange
for the strip of land where the surveyors were active.
This done, he companied Duke and his men to town,
where the papers were notarized, but Zeke did not return
to his home. Instead, he remained in town until evening.
We see him now in the cafe, watching the approach
of Jerry Duncan and the second man.
Speaker 4: How did Jerry, I've been waiting for you.
Speaker 11: Gosh, she's good to see you again, Zie, she cares,
Missus Stanley.
Speaker 4: Glad to mean to Missus Stanley, it's a pleasure.
Speaker 11: Missus Stanley's our superintendent.
Speaker 4: Uh huh, I sit down, won't you. Eh?
Speaker 13: Look, see that's you, Bradley. Then too many he is.
They're right way, they can hear everything it's said.
Speaker 4: Let them that's what I want. I understand you are
the owner of Cedar Valley, mister Naggins that I am.
Would you be interested in selling? Not for no two
thousand dollars?
Speaker 11: That's all right, mister Stanley. It's just a little jokes.
Speaker 4: He Oh, you got any particular price in mind, mister Stanley,
I have it's fair. I believe thirty thousand dollars. Well,
now that's sorry.
Speaker 3: What's going on here?
Speaker 10: You're trying to put some kind of a slick heels
each Hey, these man or they're the fellows who own
Cedar Valley for a while, mister Stanley.
Speaker 3: But it win't for long. I think I've heard of them.
I ask a question. I will answer one moment.
Speaker 4: What business is this of yours?
Speaker 8: I'll tell you what business it is of mine. If
you're buying the valley for the rare road that.
Speaker 3: I've been cheated?
Speaker 4: Kate?
Speaker 3: Did you heard me? And buy that fella sitting right there?
Speaker 4: He's pinting at you.
Speaker 11: Jerry, I never cheated nobody.
Speaker 3: I suppose you didn't tell me the rare wad was
going to Perryville.
Speaker 4: Nope, I didn't.
Speaker 11: It was you said that. I just didn't bother to
put your eye you.
Speaker 7: I tricked, and we're stuck with that land. It ain't
no good to us.
Speaker 3: Well we won't be for long.
Speaker 4: Let me mighty careful, duke.
Speaker 3: You're sneaking, old fool, you ain't taking me like this.
Speaker 4: Out O now it sounds like you got the rheumatic
stew my hand. It's I just hit your gun.
Speaker 7: Show you want a gun fight?
Speaker 4: Huh, well, I heart hands.
Speaker 3: All of you keep jails.
Speaker 11: It's you. I'm Kalen Duke, you and your part.
Speaker 7: You ain't cut nothing on earth.
Speaker 4: That's where you're wrong. Go ahead, sheriff, jail You can't.
Speaker 3: Can't, got no reason.
Speaker 4: That's your own part. Going to jail, Duke. But she
and I were outside when you forced eat the trade back.
You made him except the valley at the point of
a gun.
Speaker 3: The mask man's telling the truth, Duke.
Speaker 14: I seen it all, but he told us not to
do nothing else, and you tried to make couple over this, Steve.
Speaker 3: It's a frame up.
Speaker 4: But you're getting exactly what you deserve. And it was
a mask fella that done it. It was him and
Tonto the god Jerry to bring his crew here to
survey that other land, so as you could think the
railroad had changed its past.
Speaker 13: The first time I met up in the mask fella,
I figured him to be an outlaw.
Speaker 11: I sure learned different. All right, do you fellas are
coming along with me?
Speaker 10: I got a sail already picked out for you if
I ever get out of you won't Duke.
Speaker 7: This is the worst luck I ever seen.
Speaker 10: To think that we forced Zeke to take back the
land he wanted all the time, and then on top
of that, they have to.
Speaker 7: Go to jail for beating ourselves out all that cash.
I don't care what you call it.
Speaker 16: That ain't justice, Tom Silver, We're heaven for the real front.
Speaker 5: At A.
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