 city and in the territory on west there's just one way to handle the killers of the spoilers and that's with the u.s. Marshall and the smell of gun smoke in Conrad the story of the violence that moved away and the story of a man who moved with it I'm that man Matt Dillon the United States Marshall the first man they look for and the last they want to meet it's a chancey job and it makes a man watchful but a little lonely I can't wait to give it up as money looks like his friend I got $50 it says bull is right hey marketer I told you I want a bottle of the best this stuff ain't got now look here what's your name Frank Wilkins now you going back to your friend not you mister you little lady you know you're pretty bit of you had it mister my friend bull wants to talk to this little honey pot here why do you send a sidewinder like you that blow hard can talk to himself blow hard fella called you a blow hard is that right did you call me that yeah I caught a fight I ain't mad at you we got a difference of opinion is all eat him again bull here like the Marshall said no need to bust up the place go outside unless you're yellow it's all right miss Kitty you wait here come on everybody we can't wait around for him to buy the whiskey out it's about a Navy hero Alfred Bullrod Storm along with his name oh he was a legend he was where he was born doesn't matter but he was first heard of in Boston Harbor that was when he signed on as a member of the crew of a ship called the lady of the sea now old Storm along stood 30 feet tall and had muscles in his arms big as powder cakes and when the good captain got a look at him he said to the rest of the crew here's an able-bodied seaman for you then he entered Alfred Bullrod's name in the log as Storm along AB somebody realized that the AB could also stand for able-bodied and they sort of picked it up and for a long time seaman would put that AB after their own names meaning able-bodied seaman yes sir well old Storm along was a great sailor he was and it wasn't many a year for he captained his own ship the coarser it was one of the biggest afloat why it was so long from stem to stern it took a man on horseback 24 hours to make the trip the mass was hinge so to let the sun and the moon get by took a man a week to climb the rigging yes sir the coarser was a big and and Storm along skill as a sailing man became known throughout the seven seas one of his greatest feats was taken the coarser through the English Channel seems the channel was only about two inches wider than his ship at high tide but old Storm along was up to the problem he you bet he was he bought all the soap in Holland and he and his men greased down the sides of the coarser who well sir it slipped through that old channel as slick as a whistle didn't damage it one bit but so much of that soap rubbed off onto the English coast that to this day the clefts of Dover are white of course you believe me don't you say nice being citizens of a country where you can laugh and talk about things free as a breeze and write and read and worship to yes sir maybe you don't think about it much but you should I've been looking all over for you you found me Chester what is it Frank Wilkins he's dead he's what dad I was sitting with him just a few minutes ago yes sir but he's dead now but what happened when they told me he got into a fistfight with some buffalo hunter or it's long branch bow Hogan yes sir that's the name he went outside and that man clean beat prank to death with his face wait a minute Chester do you mean that all those people with a long branch stood and watched it and nobody stopped it well it don't make sense they must decide you know how they are when they supply I'm gonna have me a talk with those citizens well I already talked to some of them they swear up and down it was a fair fight Chester and a fistfight a man's beat along before he's beat to death and anybody not crazy for blood knows that I can understand it but one thing for sure Frank's dead doc examined him then had the body moved over to his office bow Hogan still at the long branch no she ain't he's gone they won't get far I'll see to that name freeze you better keep going Del when I come into Dodge City to have me a good time there's ain't no fun sneaking out here to the edge of town hiding in the dark ain't having me no fun at all it's better than being hung in it you killed that man I didn't mean to that'll make no difference he's dead he's stronger than you think you are I never seen a man hit so hard I I can swing faster and hit harder than any other man this time sorry I keep your voice down boy being strong won't do you no good at the end of a rope it was a fair fight that don't matter they need to hang your bull you didn't see how they was all looking at you cold like why if I hadn't made you leave that saloon when I did they'd have closed in on you then in there I'm the only friend you got bull going you ought to tell them that I didn't mean to do it that wouldn't do no good not now the only chance is to get out of town till they cool off now come on lucky I remembered seeing that old sod hot up river on the way it's a good place to hide you reckon I can find you go just like I told you you find it and I want no thanks for this bull I'm risking my neck to help you but that's what friends are for they're here in town and see how the wind blows tomorrow I'll write out and let you know bring some grub and a bottle sure I get going I ain't never run away from nothing before in my whole life you ain't running away boy you're being smart I ain't never try that before neither I hope it works knock down that hard yeah cracking the skull on something when it fell one thing if it was such a fair fight why did that cut the bull hoagin line out the fact I don't know just I don't know Matt did you find bull hoagin they left town kitty I'm gonna trail him in the morning Mr. Wilkins stopped in the same way you don't blame you now for what happened he's kidding I know just he was just real broken up about his son Matt did you know he's offered a thousand dollars rewards for bull hoagin yeah I wish he hadn't well see how he that delvin Casper's here he is Marshall how would I know the late eyes on bull hoagin till tonight I had no friend to hear left her together but we went separate way so I tailed it right on out of town me I just stepped out for a walk as a climate here didn't seem healthy it hasn't changed now look Marshall I didn't do nothing tonight except go along with the crowd for a little fun you got no cause to write me out of that fight cast well I didn't finish it bull hoagin done that I want to be some way to prove I'm no friend to hear tell me where he went if I knew I would I sure would I hear the father of that poor fellow bull killed is put up a thousand dollars reward for him is it true Marshall could I clear myself if I helped you trail bull you're going to be busy traveling remember you get out of here and if I see you again tonight I'll lock you up you be out of town at daybreak you're a hard man Marshall you ain't fair I said get off well you got rid of him that yeah that was a pleasure getting Casper just ain't no good at all I sure would hate to be laying help with some words and have him find me well the good way to put it just as real might is based on the technique of mass production which began with the manufacture of rifles by the United States Army in the 1820s Captain John Hall in 1819 designed a unique breech loading rifle and began production of the Federal Armory in Harpers Ferry, Virginia Captain Hall then designed and built machinery to mass produce the rifle with all parts interchangeable a revolutionary advance in manufacturing technology the United States Army they got a record of peacetime service you gave me real good directions Dylan what's the news you don't look good for you both they got a thousand dollar reward I know no I was a fair fight it ain't like I done murder they think you did the same thing you bring me something to eat no I thought about it I decided not to waste the money no what do you mean wasted what's that gun for Dylan when you said you was my only friend yes I was lying if you run that Dylan Casper out of town then we meet him right here heading back to the you tell him it's all right he says he got bullhogan he claims the reward and you just look at him and nods just say that money's all he is right now you think he really got bullhogan there's no doubt about it all we got to do now is get him Casper killed Frank he probably clubbed in with a pistol you know it's something you said to me that started me thinking in that direction yeah you said that you'd sure hate to be helpless and have Casper find you I'm sure now that that's what happened to Frank the problem is to prove it there's that thought he talked about yeah I didn't say his bull he wasn't shot in the back no but he might as well have been thrown with chance he hadn't well right down over the site place and borrow his shovel no bringing him in he's the strongest roughest man I ever tangled with what are you trying to say Martin we got bull here and sleep he's in the first cell go see for yourself a shot here you shot him all right only you didn't kill him I did I hit him right in the chest yeah it's one of them Indian charm bags in it that's right a leather pouch full of pebbles and sand and bones both a lonely superstitious man he was wearing this around his neck but he fell down he was dead good as no you're lying to me you're trying to take me out of my wall now you'll get what's coming to you Casper you know bulls got an idea that somebody club Frank Wilkins with a pistol while he was knocked out I'm gonna lock you in that cell with bowling with the two of you talk it over but me in with him why now you can't do that oh why not either one of you have a gun you'll just talk what could happen to you will go wake him up man yeah just to go wake him up all right come on Casper you're going in there with it no no I'm not that's not that maybe you'd rather tell me about it but I didn't do nothing I ain't going in there oh yes you want you're gonna tell that the bow Hogan face-to-face right now locked in no no I done it with my pistol you with me killed him you hear that just to be all right take his gun and Johnny I'll lock him up Chester then he is dead yeah he's dead I named Casper I hope he's waiting for you closed and conducted by Rex Corey down patterns were composed by Ray Kemper and Bill James featured in the cast were partly there as Chester Howard McNeer as Doc and Georgia Ellis is getting George Wall speaking join us again next week for another story of the Western frontier of America in the 1870s on gun smoke is the United States armed forces radio and television service