 The Cavalcade of America starring Henry Fonda Tonight the DuPont company brings you Kansas Marshall starring Henry Fonda on the Cavalcade of America First here is Gain Whitman. Good evening There are plenty of new styles in this season's rainwear and many of these new good-looking raincoats being featured in stores throughout the country Are made of fabric treated with DuPont Z-Land durable water repellent Unlike ordinary water repellents the protection you get with Z-Land lasts through many washings or cleanings So be sure to look for the Z-Land tag when you buy Z-Land is one of the DuPont company's better things for better living through chemistry Now Kansas Marshall starring Henry Fonda as Wyatt Earp on the Cavalcade of America Zara they go again. Tain't safe for a person to cross the street no more I come out here to raise my family not to have them bullied and scared out of their wits Where's the law? Where's our peace officer? Law? There ain't no law. Unless it's a 45 caliber kind That was Wichita, Kansas in May 1874 the boom cow town that knew no law but that of the men who lived by guns and died by them and Out of this raw frontier and others like it have come stories of the peace officers who brought law and order There were men like Fat Masterson Pat Garrett and Wyatt Earp and around each there has sprung up a veil of truth and legend Strangely mixed difficult to separate but one thing stands clear through time They brought law and order in their own way This then is part of the story of Wyatt Earp late on a May evening 1874 Wyatt Earp rode into Wichita. It was quiet The cowboy who lounged at the end of the toll bridge and sang his song and watched as the lean figure approached Howdy, well, howdy. Yeah, it's the right pretty song. Yeah, rode it myself. Uh-huh Just come to Wichita. Yep Hotel close around well just down there. You follow your horse's nose much obliged not at all stranger Figuring on stay in a while. Maybe Fence see around. Yeah, I'll be around all right so long. Yeah When you travel down the road What's the odds against getting a room none easy to get By yourself sure Sign here. I want the inside or outside. Oh, no difference hmm Wyatt or Is that your name? Yep You know what that sound like don't say it mister All right Just let it go with that and see Wyatt Earp Earth Yeah, what's the matter? You use the same wide up that was Marshal of Ellsworth a piece back Reckon so least ways a pin the badge on me then use the same guy that buffalo been talking Buffalo the worst gun total in these parts. How about that room mister? Oh gone I know there's something familiar about that name You see tell me I came here to forget about that all I want to do is settle down and go into some kind of business Now I've got that room for me. Oh sure sure come on You know folks here just wouldn't believe it when you hear tell about how Ben Thompson got those in Calibre's He's a hopper. Tell me about it. Nope Yeah, here's your room. Oh, but this talking thing they say is how you much obliged for the room old towner They say is how Ben talking quick cold in you. Is that right? Tell you a little secret partner. Yeah. Oh, what is it? I'm sleepy Morning Wyatt all morning breakfast up yet. Sure. He is nine had mine yet though. I thought I'd Set a might we didn't maybe we could talk. It's hard to talk and eat at the same time. He nod for me Reckon not What do you got this morning eggs? Make it to look them straight up bacon with them sure thing. They chew up any bacon The chair table will be all right. You sure you're hungry. Sure. Well, why sure? That's what I figured Oh Dog gone he would have to come in here. Oh, that big cowboy. You know know him. No can't say as a how-do George Pesh hour. Oh that Pesh hour. Huh sure. Oh, you heard him, huh? Gunman yeah Poison plain ordinary As soon as we get around to a George now. Yeah, but it is still no order. Good. I'll take it Tell him to bring it over must be hungry. Huh George was you talking to me? Yep No, I take it easy board. I take it easy move over Listen George, I don't know trouble in here and don't ask for it. Now you me. Yeah Who do you think you are calling me George? I don't mind if you call me Wyatt. It's real friendly like Say You ain't looking for trouble. I know Wait a minute you said Wyatt didn't you yep like it last name erp. That's it Look boys don't I just got that new-looking glass in it and can you sit up? So you're Wyatt erp, huh? Uh-huh the marshal from elsewhere. I ain't marshal anymore. Just a plain citizen boys Come over here Boys meet Wyatt erp the marshal at Buffalo Ben Thompson. Howdy You ain't wearing a badge now, huh? Oh turn it in Figured on going into some kind of business for myself Couldn't be you turned the yellow after that play could it after one lucky day That wasn't nice George you don't like it. No Want to do something about it? I Well, no That's sensible of you Now you stay in Wichita as long as you feel like it, but don't pin no badge on here We don't like peace officers The day you pin on a badge is the day you call open season on yourself Understand it's pretty plain George You sure you're white erp if I ain't I shaved the wrong man this morning But he called the turn and you took it. Yep. Why you're wearing a pair of guns Sure, but you see pop I was looking straight at six nasty cow pokes. I don't mind playing against odds But that deck was a little cold. I heard tell you was the fastest on the draw of anybody. Maybe I'll tell you a little secret pop Why didn't draw yeah? Why I'm hungry You mean me are you What can I do for you mister? Oh, why it earth ain't you pierced to me a lot of people in this town like to ask me that Well, are you all right? I am you're gonna come with me to the mayor's office. Oh Maybe I don't want to see the mayor up. You're gonna come with me. I am deputy Marshall No, no, no, don't try no player you're better come peaceable like Ain't much else a man can do when he's looking smack bang in the end of a 45 Slow down your guns ain't weren't him this morning. Oh All right now get off of your horse and walk in front of me I'd kind of like to know what this is all about. You'll find out at the mayor's office. Let's go Sit down why it well, thanks mayor. Yes, you're wondering why I had you brought here Yep, what are your plans here in Wichita mayor? I've got $7,500 in my clothes Maybe I'm thinking of going into business then you wouldn't be interested in another job depends all right There's a Marshall's badge want to put it on I Hear that putting on one of these badges is declare an open season on yourself This town needs a peace officer bad. It looks like it. What do you say? well I was figuring on setting up in business. I'm pretty young mayor hope things look pretty good to me that Badge might slow me up Permanent look Wyatt Wichita has been backed into a corner by every gunman and bully and bad man that hits here They gang up and make every decent citizen afraid to stir out and open his mouth Peshaw as a head man in other words get rid of Peshaw and the things over will clear up a lot What do you say Wyatt? We'll pay 125 a month furnished guns and ammunition. I told you I got $7,500 in my clothes the salary don't mean anything you're turning this down then I didn't say so mr. Mayor Then what do you mean? If I took this job, it'd be for one thing It ain't the job or the badge and it ain't me personal It's something a lot bigger than you or me or Peshaw Maybe it's a country It ain't gonna grow if men like Peshaw keep shooting it down cause not you want that bunch cleaned out, huh? Well Wyatt. Yeah, what's the matter? Well, you see Wichita is a cow town We depend on the cowhands coming in from the trails to spend money here to bring their cattle here if we well If we play too heavy, they lose some other town. How are you gonna clean them out? That'll be your job Let's put it straight. How far can I go and enforce in ordinances ordinances? What ordinances no totem guns past a deadline I'll set up wait a minute. You can't put in an ordinance like that Why not they won't stand still for it mayor? I still ain't picked up that Marshall's badge Either I play it my way or I don't take a hand Well, how far can I go all right Wyatt the limit give me that badge Look at this by order of Marshall earth There will be no wearing a guns past the deadline set up. No gun tolton. What's he talking about? Who do you think he is and listen? There'll be no riding of horses in the barber shop stores or saloon. This guy ain't gonna last long Yeah, I got my guns on right now, and I'd like to see anybody make me take them off I'll wear off those guns cap oak. You're past the deadline Take them off Who do you think you are? I don't have to think much about it cap oak. Yeah, I see you ain't wearing guns Nope, if you was you wouldn't talk so big you're wearing them. I want to go for them Go ahead shorty. Give that big mouth what for please ma'am. Don't talk like that. It ain't lady love Why you you you big stuff? Ma'am, you're getting all red in the face shorty. You're gonna let him talk that way to me You ain't got a chance well, there's 20 of us here to look in the storefront shorty There's three deputies with shotguns ready to cut loose if there's any trouble Now take off those guns All right, but you're just asking for trouble sure Now that goes for everybody the next man I see wearing his guns inside the deadline. I'll bend a 45 over his head and put him in a Calabuce These ordinances are gonna be enforced And that means for all of you me too, mr. Marshall You too George George let him have it seems you're getting awful be sure Maybe so Peshawar depends on where you stand. I'm wearing my guns Yeah, well, maybe you ain't seen the ordinances yet. Maybe I have George you've been drinking a little for the bother That's the only reason I ain't been in something over your head right now You don't know what you're doing. Don't I You've got deputies with shotguns lined up and you ain't wearing guns mr. Marshall I think you're a yellow coward better shut up George what for I'm gonna speak my peace right now I told you when you come here that as long as you kept a badge off your shirt. It was all right Now you got one pinned on go away George. That's liquor talking. I said you're a coward Peshawar the next time I see you better not have guns on Or if you have you'd better be so Wait a minute. You can't walk away from this, but I am Turning my back on you Peshawar if you want to do anything about it. It's your play Go on George. Let the big four flush your hammer. Go on. Shut up This is my play Right now mr. Marshall erpes playing in luck But not for long You are listening to Kansas Marshall Starring Henry Fonda as Wyatt Earp on the cavalcade of America Sponsored by the Dupont Company maker of better things for better living through chemistry As the second part of our story opens It is several days after Wyatt's encounter with Peshawar and in the back room of one of the dance halls Sure is yellow. I called two turns on him already need picked up a car that right boys. That's right Well, I don't know George. Maybe he was just holding back. You're crazy Billy ain't nobody holds back when another man calls him a yellow coward Well, I I ain't seen him draw. Maybe he is as fast as they say listen This is your chance to make a name for yourself Get Wyatt Earp and there won't be a cowpoke a gunfighter or anybody else this side of the Rio Grande won't look up to you Yeah, but what if he ain't wearing his gun? It always does when he patrols a straight at night. Yeah, oh Maybe he ain't as fast as they say he's a foreflusher Billy Besides when you make you play have your gun out Soon as he goes for his let him have it. Well, I yeah, but his deputies What about them why they don't patrol with them at night? Now here Yeah Take my guns and remember About nine tonight Right outside here Howdy Mike even in Mrs. Windroom and making your patrol marshal yep kind of quiet tonight Maybe so up Marshall Don't reach for them guns. All right, son. I won't By Joe, they were right said you wouldn't make a play. Oh Who said that son never mind and stop calling me son? All right, what's the play mr. Don't come no closer. I just wanted to get a look at your face Say you're pretty young fellow to be toting heavy iron like that up I'm gonna kill you up got any reason for it. Yeah, because you're a foreflusher You got a pair of guns on you. Well Jerkham Son, I'm telling you to put that gun away. I won't say nothing about this if you go away peaceable It was right. You are scared to call a play. Go ahead. Erp Draw you got the drop on me son. You'd be liable to shoot for I could reach You know, I'm liking this a lot Marshall me I got the great Wyatt Earp tree and I'm listening to him yelp a little how's it feel erp? How's it feel, huh? Well, hi, you are a foreflusher a Drop the other guns son Pete get this kid to dock wind room. He just hit in the hand Sure, Peshaw put him up to it by and he had Peshaw's guns mr. Mayor Guess George figured that if that kid got me every peace officer in the territory'd be buffaloed you might have been killed Wyatt Maybe but I figured on letting the kid keep on talking. He was hopped up to it As long as he kept talking he wouldn't shoot Poor kid kept thinking what people say about him instead of watching for my draw. Well, what now Ed now Well appears to me like George and me got a play a little two-handed game. What are your plans? I don't rightly know yet mr. Mayor, but I gotta make sure when we do tangle that I settle Peshaw for good Maybe I'll think of something pretty soon Sure mr. Mayor excuse me ma'am Come on over to the side where what's the matter Peshaw or where riding in with a bunch of his boys They're coming in to get you Wyatt, and if they do this town won't be fit to live in ever Reconnats, right? He'll be here soon. Yes, sir. That all you can say get your guns Wyatt. Nope. Are you crazy? I figure this way Peshaw knows this is between me and him his boys know it He's head man only as long as his boys think he is I don't know what you're talking about Shooting him wouldn't do any good Making him look kind of foolish wood. What are you going to do? Peshaw is pretty fancy with his fists, ain't he Wyatt you are loco He's twice as big and fights dirty look at Pete out there Peshaw did that to Pete's face with his purse. Let's play it my way, huh? What? Oh, hey, hey, wait a minute No, can't keep a lady stand in the middle of the floor Thank you, ma'am. You do right. Well yourself. Oh, that's real nice You expected somebody mr You keep looking around Maybe you don't want to dance. Oh sure I do. I think we ought to have more of these dances. Don't you what the music stopped? Excuse me ma'am. I guess our company's come Evening George come to the dance. Yeah, I come to the dance Want to be my partner? That's right. Nice of you George, but you ain't pretty enough Real smart ain't you Marshall? I see you're wearing guns past the deadline George. Yeah, and I'm stone sober tonight, too So I see care to get your guns Marshall. Nope Just what I thought you're too yellow to wear them George if I were you I'd unhitch those guns and dance piece of a like. There's some real nice gals here You're a dirty card All right, George. I ain't wearing guns, but I got two fists and two legs. How about settling it that way you? You rough and tumble me Oh You don't mean that I never say anything. I don't mean fish are I'm calling the play either you back down or you pick up a hand Well, right? All my guns Come on. There's a room in the back. Let's go why I don't and why please make it easy mr. Mayor Let's go in Peshaw It's a pleasure Billy hit the music Better better call doc windroom for George. He's a might tired Billy I got a dance to finish hit the music I Howdy, well, howdy Leaving which tall Marshall, huh? That's still a pretty song. Yeah. Now. Where are you going now Marshall? Oh, maybe Dodge City. Mm-hmm. I heard tell they could stand a mighty house clean in there, too That's what I heard Well, so long cowboy so long Marshall. Good luck to you. Thanks. See you around sometime. Mm-hmm. 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