 Well, you're Fort Anderson. Government horses, huh? Yep. Now, Fort's about a mile west of here. But they keep the horses in this ranch. Now, these are the coyoses you were telling me about? Sure. Hey, ain't that risky business taking horses to the government fort? Sure. It would be if you tried to go in there and lead them out of the corral now. But that ain't what I got in mind. Well, what's your plan, Rusty? Listen, Lefty, you and me and the boys just came up from Texas. So we ain't likely to be well-known in these parts. Yeah? I've heard the troopers has been having plenty of trouble with the Redskins. Chief Blackbear is camped up on the Smoky River. And he's plenty mad because the Indian agents ain't delivered the supplies he was promised by the government. What's that got to do with these horses? Now, hold yourself there. Keep your shirt on. I'm coming to that. If we can stir up a fight between Blackbear and the troopers at Fort Anderson, it'll give us a chance to grab these horses. You mean we can sneak in while the troopers and the Indians are fighting somewhere else? Sure. But how are you going to make them fight? I get that all figured out. Look down now by the corral. There's only one sentry guarding them horses. Yeah? Well, this rifle I'm holding in that sentry is going to start the trouble. Come on, now. We'll circle back through the trees and come up on them from behind. Come on, eat a fire. Much of the trouble and much of the misunderstanding between the Indians and white men was stirred up by the outlaws and criminals who roamed the Old Western Plains. These unscrupulous men robbed and cheated the Indians. And it was only natural for the red men to blame the white settlers and troopers and seek revenge. The United States government built forts and army outposts throughout the Plains country to bring law and order to the frontier. Assisting the troopers and local peace officers were the fearless and courageous United States marshals. These thrilling and exciting days come back to us now in the adventures of United States Marshal Lightning Jim Whipple and his deputy, Widy Larsen. We join the Marshal outside Lightning Jim's office at Fort Anderson. What you want, Widy? Gally say you've taught my puppy how to sheath a stick. Oh, good. Well, look who's coming. Your ex-lillian, of course. Yeah. Howdy, son. Where you been? Down to see the new horses. New horses? Your day, you brought them horses in for the troopers, you know. Is that so? Well, I have to go down and take a look at them. Fine horses. Better than Indian ponies. If you get one for me, Lightning. Sure. Soon as you get big enough to ride one, son. Right now, I think that little Indian pony yours better for you. Oh, I think so too. Tim, all right. Why don't I want big horses? Well, we'll see about that, Johnny. Say, Widy says he's taught his dog how to fetch a stick. You may want to see him do that. Yeah, so do I, Johnny. Oh, you do. All right. He is smart to me. Come here, puppy. Come here. Yeah, I want one, too. He's plenty smart. He sure is. Here come Colonel Steele from far. Yes, seems like he's in a hurry, too. How do you like them, Gally? Colonel, doesn't time see Widy's dog before. Oh, I'm teaching her some tricks, you know. Well, that's fine, but I'm afraid I won't have time to watch now. Lightning, one of our troopers was just shot down by a red skin. Don't be near me, miss. Who was it, son? Private Jones. He was doing sentry duty out at the horse corral, and was on his way back to the fort when some barman picked him off of the rifle. That's too bad. What makes you think it was a red skin, son? Well, you know, we've been having plenty of trouble with those red devils lately. Some of the tribes are claiming that their agents are holding out on their supplies from the government. Any idea what tribe it might be? Could be, Chief Wolfpaw. Well, we cleaned out most of Wolfpaw's men. I heard that he'd gone north. Besides, Wolfpaw wouldn't be entitled to receive no supply from the Indian agents? Yes, that's right. The only tribe that's camped fairly close to Fort Anderson is Chief Black Bear's Omaha's. Yeah, but we ain't had no trouble from Black Bear for a long time. Not since we had that peace council with him at Marcus and Crick. Yes, I know. I know, but you can't trust those red skins. Know how? They make peace with you at their council fires, then go out the next day on a raid or a scouting party. Black Bear will be quiet as long as he gets what he wants. But if he's got the idea that we're holding back on his supplies, he's likely to do anything. I see. And you figure if it wasn't Wolfpaw, this murder might have been done with one of Black Bear's, brave man. Well, I don't know for sure, but that's what I'd like to have you find out, Lightning. All right, Colonel. Black Bear's always been kind of friendly to me. I think I can find out if he's mixed up in this business. I'll send some of the troopers with you if you say so. No, Colonel, if I went into Black Bear's camp with a trooper's soldiers, he'd be hard to deal with. Why do you mean you'll go up to the camp and I'll have a talk with the Chief? Well, that's fine. I'm planning to take some of the troopers in the supply train up to Fort Edwards, but I expect to be back tomorrow. Now, in the meantime, see what you can learn. And if Black Bear is riled up, tell him that we'll see that he gets supplies if they're coming to. I'll do that, Colonel. Now, I've got to get back to the fort. See you later, boys. Don't come back, Colonel. Yeah, Lightning looks like there's red skin trouble in here. Well, let's don't be sure it's red skin till we find out what's going on. Yeah, but who else would have shot down the trooper? Why do you find who the answer to that one? I'd arrest the guilty party right away. Come on, we get a horse and go up to Black Bear's camp. What do you mean? Yeah, what do you want, Johnny? Can I play with your dog? Oh, that's certainly you can. Come on, puppy. Ah! All right, puppy. Just there, here with Johnny, till me and Lightning come back. Ah! Yeah. See that son's candy's spooky. Yeah. Bless our mistaken, Woody. That Tom Tom means that somebody just died in Black Bear's camp. I think we better go back to the fort. Back to the fort, what fort? Well, I just don't want to go to the Redskins funeral, that's all. That's bad luck. Ah, Norton. We're going up and have a talk with Chief Black Bear. Well, maybe you better go up and talk to the chief, and I'll just wait for you down here by the river. You know, I think you'll begin to get soft, Whitey. No, no. All right then, all right, come on. Let's go, Thunder. Oh, no, Chief. Oh, no, Chief. Oh, Thunder. Oh, how did Chief Black Bear? Why, you come, Black Bear camp. Well, I heard you were camping up here on the Smoky River chief, so just thought I'd drop in for a little visit. Last time we met, I smoked a peas pipe at the council at Marcus and Crick, remember? Oh, yeah. Black Bear makes peas with white men. White men promise to give Black Bear cattle and food for land. That's right. White men tell Black Bear come to Fort Anderson, but Indian agent not give Black Bear what white men promise. What? You didn't get your supplies? Agents tell him Black Bear, White Father in Washington, not have more supplies for Black Bear. Braves come here long way after many moons pass. Now must go back till tribes, white men lie. You don't have to do that, Chief. I'm sure there must be some mistake somewhere. I'll see what I can find out about the supplies. That too late now. Black Bear show what white men do. Hey, Agie! Hey, Agie! Don't bring him any lightning. Don't dare. He was right. He'll bring in a dead fellow over here. Be quiet, Waddy. Let me do the talking. Well, don't waste any time like this. I want to get off there. He knows he. This, the body of running deer. Him, Black Bear's son. Him, died two days. I'm sorry, Chief. What happened to him? Running deer shot down by white soldier. What? You say a white soldier killed running deer? Turkey. Black Bear, no white soldier killed running deer. Steel gold charm of Black Bear tribe. Did you see him shot down? I know. Any of Braves see it happen? No. And how do you know it was a white soldier? Find this by running bear body on trail. By, yeah, at least that's a trooper's hat, all right. Yeah, and here's a man's name printed inside. So who was it? Private Jones. Private, you're there. You know trooper who killed running deer? Yes, Chief. The man who owned this hat was shot down and killed. Just like your son running deer. How white soldier be dead and killed running deer, too? Couldn't. When do you find running deer? Little well, go. Yeah, well, this trooper was killed early this morning. If white soldier dead, why his hat by running deer? Well, it could have both been shot down by the same man. Or there might have been shot down by two killers. That's what we've got to find out. Yeah, Black Bear, not believe what you say. Black Bear and Braves think white soldier killed him running deer. Black Bear think you are honest, but no, you tried to save soldiers. Now, hold on, Chief. I'm here to help you. Some hombre killed the trooper, and maybe it's the same one who shot down your son. Now, if we work together, we can catch them. No, no. That's too late now. White men lie to Black Bear. Kill them running deer. You leave Black Bear camp now. You say Black Bear not know what Braves will do. We make war on white soldiers. One, two, three, four. Come on, buddy. We've got to get back to Fort Anderson. Then I'm halfway there already. Let's go find them! Well, what if there's a trail going into Fort Anderson? So, and the sooner we get there, the quicker, by galley. Yeah. I taught them Redskins what's going to get us for sure. I told you we didn't have no business going into that camp in the first place. Well, just the same, what if we hadn't gone in there? Wouldn't know about Black Bear's son being killed. You wouldn't know that Black Bear intends to attack the troopers. Yeah, sure. You really think it was the same Jager who done boat shooting? Well, yes, why do you do? I've seen this happen before. Somebody's trying to stir up trouble between the troopers and the Indians. That would be a good way to do it. Have the troopers think the Indians killed the sentry and the Indians believe that the troopers killed Black Bear's son. You're but what good can anybody get off of that? Well, there's a reason, all right. It's our job to find out what it is. First, we've got to get back to Colonel Steele as soon as possible. Let's go find her. Come on, boys. Come on, sir. Well, you boys know how me and Lefty shot down the troopers. Yes, I told him. Well, I went up by Black Bear's camp. I seen one of them Redskins coming down the trail, and I let him have it. Then I rode up to make sure he was dead and put the trooper's hat on the ground beside the Redskins body. Trooper's hat? Yeah. When I picked off that sentry, I got his hat and took it along so as I could use it to make the Redskins think their brave was shot down by a trooper. I thought it was them. Well, I waited till some of that Redskins partners come along and found the body. You'd ought to have heard the yellin' that went up. Sounded like a bunch of calves gettin' brainwashed. And boys, here, look at this. What is it, Ruther? It was hangin' around that Redskins neck. It's made of gold, and I figured it was some kind of good luck charm. Maybe it'll bring us good luck when we go after them hostage. But wait, wait, that ain't all. I seen two white men goin' up to Black Bear's camp. Two white men? Yeah. But there wasn't far along. But he soon they went ridin' down the trail toward Fort Anderson. And I figure they hightailed it down to tell the troopers. Yeah, won't be long now. Are we goin' after them forces now? No, not yet. We gotta find out if the troopers are stayin' at the fort or goin' out on the trail after them Redskins. How you gonna be knowin' that? Nafti, that's your job. You ride into town and keep your mouth shut and your eyes and ears open. If the troopers leave the fort, try to find out which way they're headin' and then come back here so as we can go after them horses. Ha-ha-ha. Yeah. That troopers will have their hands full with them Redskins. And we can have them horses clean out of the country before they know what's happened. Now get goin', lefty. All right. Oh, boy, well done. Howdy, Lightning. Oh, hello, Johnny. We take good care of Doug, righty? See? Oh, that's fine. We go down to Fort and see soldiers leave on trail. Leave? And Colonel Steele and the supplied group have gone? Yes, they go one time and go. Lightning, what are we going to do now? We've got to go after them right away. You see Chief Black Bear? Yes, son. What's Black Bear saying? Well, Yannis, Chief Black Bear's plenty mad. I tell you that. Why, Black Bear mad? Because some Yeager shot them kill Black Bear's son, the Rodney deer. Oh, that's very bad. Come on, Whitey, we ain't got no time to waste. Yo, you looked after my puppy some more, Yannis, and we come back hurty soon. I do that. We go down and see horses again. Come on, puppy. Ruff, ruff, ruff! Will Lightning Jim and Whitey succeed in warning Colonel Steele and his troopers out on the trail before the Indians attack? You'll hear the thrilling climax in part two of this exciting Lightning Jim adventure, which follows immediately. And now for part two of the thrilling Lightning Jim adventure, Lightning Jim shows Black Bear the white man's trail. An outlaw band headed by Russell, Dan, and Lefty stirred up trouble between the Indians of Chief Black Bear's tribe and the troopers of Fort Anderson. The outlaws shot down and killed a soldier and the son of Chief Black Bear, hoping that the Indians and troopers would engage in a fight so that the outlaws could steal a herd of government horses. United States Marshal Lightning Jim and his deputy Whitey Larson went to Black Bear's camp and discovered that the Indians were ready to attack. They hurried back to Fort Anderson only to learn that Colonel Steele and the troopers had already gone out on the trail with the supply train. So now we join the Marshal and his deputy on the trail near Smoky River. Right, I think we ought to catch up with them troopers pretty soon. Yeah, the trail is so easy to follow, Whitey. Yeah, it's going to be dark pretty soon. I think they ought to be stopping the camp. Yeah, that's right. I figure they ought to be down close to Smoky River. Yeah. You see, there's the river right below us, right? No. Forever. Yeah, what you see, Whitey? Look at that ridge, Yonder. Just north of the river. Yeah. Jump in here, Whitey. That's Redskins. Right, look beyond them trees up the river bank. Yeah, they spoke. Sure, and that ought to be where the troopers is camping. Then those Redskins are going to attack the camp. Come on, Whitey. We've got to warn Colonel Steele. Let's go thunder. For them cottonwoods. Well, Redskins. Yeah. Folks like them Redskins just let them. Yeah, but they ain't through yet, Whitey. That's right, Lightning. They've probably retreated a safe distance to have a council on the next move. Yeah, they don't care much about fighting in the dark. My guess is they'll keep the camp surrounded and wait till dawn before they open up again. Right. If we only had some way of getting word back to the fort for reinforcements. How many troopers are back there, Colonel? 75 men. We need every one of them. All right, I'm going back and get them. But you can't do that, Lightning. Those Redskins will have sentries posted to watch every trail. Yeah, I know, but I'm counting on the dark and thunder speed to get me through. Yes, but you just came in on thunder now. He hasn't had time to rest for another hard run. Girl, you don't know thunder. Coming out here was just a warm up for him. You're right, Whitey. Yes, he can outrun 50 of them Indian ponies every day in a week and twice on Sunday. Come on, come on, come on here, Thunder. Come here, boy. Easy now. Got a hard ride ahead of us. Easy now, that's it. Well, be careful, Lightning. You're good like Lightning. I know you can get through all right. Thanks, Whitey. I'll have them troopers back here before morning. Let's go, Thunder! Let's go! What'd you find out, Lefty? Did where, Crosser? The troopers and the Redskins are fighting it out about Smoky River, by menacing rock. Well, let's go! Wait a minute, now, wait a minute. Are you sure about that, Lefty? Sure. When I went into town, I seen a kid talking to a couple of law badges. One of them was riding a big black horse. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, them law badges hightainted out of town fast. So I got to talking to the boy. And he said the troopers had gone out on the trail with a supply train. Yeah, and them two law badges must have been the homebodies I seen leaving Bear, like Bear's camp. But how do you know they're fighting? Well, I followed them two law badges to Smoky River. And I seen the Redskins open fire on the troopers' camp. Come on, boys. We're getting them government horses now. Come on! No, I like to be here when you guard horses. Well, you better get back to Fort Anderson, son. Someday I'll be soldered like you. Then I'll send our horses. Look! Huh? Johnny. Horses! What? When did this happen? Now! Well, I'm afraid we can't do much about them horses right now, Johnny. We need help to save William the troopers on Smoky River. Them horses in the gap till morning, and then we'll take them up to the rattlesnake canyon. Yes, sir. Hey, Ripper. Yeah, yeah. I just seen a horse go over that ridge. Where, lefty? Over there, with that couple cottonwoods. I don't see no horses. Yeah, he's seeing them. Yeah, come on, boys. We'll make camp in the gap. All righty, the sun will be up pretty soon. Oh, and that means more trouble with them Redskins. Yeah, I hope lightning got through. Boys, till they come in rings. Don't be him and look at them red devils, right? There, we'll hold on as best we can. It's like in him and the troopers. Well, lightning, we gave the Redskins a taste of their own medicine. Your van lightning and the troopers come up from behind. I had to tell you that Black Bear's brace was true. Girl, some of Black Bear's Indians was killed and some of them got away, but just one of them didn't. Well, our old friend Chief Black Bear. That's right, but this time I think Black Bear's got a little argument on his own side. What do you mean, Lighty? The body shot and killed Black Bear's son, running dear. When Black Bear's braves found the body, they found the troopers hat on the ground. What? Yeah, I saw the hat, Colonel, along to Private Jones. But he was shot down, too. Right. The Indian agents have been holed out on Black Bear's pride, and when his son was killed, both he and the braves blamed it on the white man. Hey, Chief, it's hot, it's hot. Who goes there? They want to see lightning, too. Right, get out of this, young man. Let him through, sentry. Come here, son. They take courses, the rails make gaps. What's he talking about, Lighty? Can you lead us there, son? Yes, we know where they take courses. Colonel, I got a hunch we're going to catch the varmints who shot down Jones and killed Black Bear's son. What? Get a trooper, your soldiers. You and me and Whitey and Black Bear are going to follow this boy, Pronto. Just through the gap. It's time we put a few miles between us and Fort Enderton. Yeah, sure, that's right. And then we'll show pretty horses, Huckers. Yeah, and they'll bring us a good price, too. We'll have them sold for them. The Coupers get through fighting Black Bear's Redskins. Thanks for the sky, you two. Where's the Lovage? I'll get him. Ow! Don't reach for that gun, mister. Don't shoot. I ain't slupping leather. Good work, Lightman. The boys will take care of the rest of the gang. This is that one and Fort Enderton. Take the gun, Whitey. Look through the pockets. Oh, sure, Lightman. Come here, Chief Black Bear. Ah, low man, plenty of good shot. Chief, I'm sure these are the men who killed the trooper and your son, so that they could steal these government horses. Ah. Well, they're not in this Yeager's pocket. Well, it says the other one. Oh, sure. But how did Johnny know about those outlaws? He was out at the grill and saw them shoot down another of your sentries before they drove off the herd. Why the low down critters? I'll see that they hang every one of them. Well, there wasn't anything and other one, except in this gold piece here. Huh, huh. That's running to your medicine shop. Yeah, kind of figured they'd have it. Yes, Chief, these are the men who killed your son, all right. Black Bear, do great wrong to lawmen and soldiers. Well, Chief, we can be thankful we found the real criminals before more lives was lost. We'll look into this business about the Indian agents holding out on your supplies, too. We want to be your friends, Chief. Chief Black Bear's tribe, one friendship of white brothers will go by a white man's trail of rising sun. And so ends another exciting adventure of lightning Jim Whipple and his deputy, Whitey Larson.