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With Young America and the story of a man who moved with it. I'm that man, Matt Dillon,
United States Marshal, the first man they look for and the last they want to meet. It's
a chance a job and it makes a man watchful and a little lonely.
You got the time, Chester?
Why, Mr. Dillon?
Why? I'd just like to know what time it is, that's all.
Well, yes sir, I figured that, but I wondered how important it is.
Well, it isn't this important, Chester, believe me.
Well, see, if it was, I could run over to Mr. Hightower's and find out.
Mr. Hightower?
Yes sir. His watch broke down and he sent it to St. Louis to get fixed, so I'd give him the loan
of mine, but I can still go in and look at it whenever I need to.
Oh, well that's a very good arrangement, Chester.
Yes sir. I figured time's a whole lot more important to a man like him than it is to me.
It ain't but seldom it matters none one way or the other where I'm concerned.
You understand?
Oh, I surely do. Yes, I do. I understand, Chester. Yeah.
Why did you want to know, Mr. Dillon? I mean about what time it is.
You're making me sorry, I ask, Chester, but I'm supposed to meet a man at the Dodge house at two
o'clock. Oh, well, it ain't no where's near two o'clock yet.
Well, how do you know?
The sun. It lacks 15 minutes to be in two o'clock.
Chester. Yes sir?
Why don't you sell that watch to Mr. Hightower?
Oh, I wouldn't want to sell that watch. My Uncle Arthur gave me that watch, Mr. Dillon.
He got it from a fellow in the corner out of Anaconda.
Get out and stay out. Don't you come back in this door ever again.
Mr. Jonas.
Well, lay off. Kneel.
Don't talk back to me now. Now just get.
What's that Indian kid up to now?
I told you he's not an Indian. Hey, boy. Hey, boy.
Oh, look at him go. He ain't waiting for nobody.
Look, Chester, there'll be a man called Davis waiting for me at the Dodge house.
Will you go tell him I'll be along directly?
Yes, sir.
Here.
Hello, Marshal. For a minute there, I thought it was that Indian kid back.
He ran on down the street, Mr. Jonas.
You ought to do something about him, Marshal.
Oh, why?
Well, you heard about them Cheyenne busing out of Fort Dodge yesterday, didn't you?
Yeah, I heard.
Well, wait till they massacre some people around here.
Then what'll folks think of that boy running loose?
Why should they think anything?
He's an Indian, ain't he? He's a Cheyenne?
No. His name's Cullen and he's white.
The Army found him with them engines, didn't they?
The Indians stole him from Miss Cullen eight years ago down on the Madison River. You know that.
I don't know it. Now I hear it ain't her kid at all. He sure don't look like her.
Why did you throw him out of here, Mr. Jonas?
He was trying to buy ammunition for his sharp rifle.
What?
Said Miss Cullen won. Now you know that's a lie.
I'm telling you, Marshal, with them Cheyenne loose, it ain't safe having a boy like that around.
You ought to lock him up.
He's not supplying the Cheyenne, Jonas, and don't worry about them.
Colonel Honeyman's got two troops out after him.
You'll never catch him again. And I mean it about that boy, Marshal.
You better lock him up before somebody knocks his brains out.
Here's a lot of talk about him.
Well, I don't want to hear any more of it. That boy's got a hard enough time ahead of him as it is.
Mr. Dillon?
Yeah, what, Chester?
That Indian kid, he's starting to fight with some man.
What?
Yes, sir. Right in front of the Dodge house.
And Mr. Dillon, that little boy's got a knife as long as his arm.
Who is that man, Chester?
I never seen him before, but I hear he's been plaguing that boy lately.
So the boy came looking for him with a knife.
Hey, that man's got a knife out now.
All right, hold him.
Let him alone, Marshal.
Move aside there.
All right, drop the knife, mister.
Not hardly.
Drop it.
His kid's been asking for it.
He started this.
What's the matter with you fighting a boy?
You dirty little savage.
Grab the boy, Chester.
All right, drop the knife, mister.
He cut me.
You saw him.
I'll open him up like a melon.
No, you won't.
What's the matter with you, Marshal?
I'll keep this knife.
And if you're hurt so bad, go see Doc.
You're going to wish you hadn't mixed in this.
Am I?
All right, I'll take the boy's knife, Chester.
Here he is.
I'll take the boy's knife, Chester.
Here he is.
All right, son.
Come with me.
I'm going to take you home before you kill somebody.
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You want to talk about it, son?
Name Vihokan
Vihokan, huh?
Does that mean something to Cheyenne?
I mean white boy
Oh, I see
Well, Vihokan
You want to tell me why you fought that man?
The man talked bad to me
Hit me in the mouth, kick me
Different men give me big knife
Then I fight
You stop or I'll kill him
Make big guns, kill him
You stop or I'll kill him
Make big coups
You're not a brave Vihokan
You're not an Indian
You're white
You've got to remember that
Vihokan have many Indian brothers
But you're home now
You're living among white men
You have a white mother
You've got to stop thinking like an Indian
Or you're going to get into real trouble
Mrs. Cullen talked hard at Vihokan for a fight
You know, understand
That's why I came home with you
Now let's go in
And I'll tell her that it wasn't your fault
Is that you, Dennis?
Where have you been?
Oh, Marshal Dillon
Come in
Hello, Miss Cullen
You came home with Dennis?
Name Vihokan
No, Dennis
Please, Dennis, let's don't argue that now
And look at you
Where are your shoes?
No wear shoes
And your shirt
I've made you such nice shirts
You can't run around in nothing but a pair of pants
You'll be the death of me yet, Marshal
No do harm to you
I know that, Dennis
You just don't understand yet, do you?
You go to your room now
And put on those shoes the soldiers give you
And a shirt too
A nice blue shirt, hmm?
I go
And take that arrow point out of your hair
Sit down, Marshal
Oh, thank you, ma'am
It's not easy
A woman at forty
A widow
Raising a boy like that
No, ma'am, I know
But I want to
And I've got to
What?
What do you mean, Miss Cullen?
He's a white boy
Anybody can see that
But he isn't mine, Marshal
What?
I knew he wasn't
The first day I went to Fort Dodge to see him
He's not my son
But he's the same age
And I've given him the same name
And I treat him just like he was
No, he won't suffer
For lack of a mother's love, I promise that
I'm sure he won't, ma'am
Why did you bring him home, Marshal?
You heard about the Cheyennes
The band he was taken with
They'd broken out of Fort Dodge
Now the boys heard it too, Miss Cullen
Why do you say that?
Ma'am
You own the Sharps rifle
Yes
It was Mr. Cullen's
The very one he died fighting with on the Medicine River
But why?
Well, Dennis tried to buy ammunition for it today
What?
Mr. Jonas thinks he's planning to help those Indians
But how? What could he do?
I don't know
But until they're rounded up again, a lot of people in Dodge are going to be pretty jumpy
Some of them have already caused trouble for the boy
They have
He got into a fight with a grown man today
And he cut him up some
No
It wasn't his fault, Miss Cullen, but that's the sort of thing that can happen more and more
If you're saying I should give him up
I won't
I know, ma'am
He needs his own people
He needs a mother
Just like my own boy needs one
If he's still alive somewhere
The only thing I'm saying, ma'am, is that you've got to keep him here at the house till that scare about the Cheyenne is over
If you let him run around town, I'm going to have to lock him up for his own protection
Mr. Dillon?
That's Chester
Come in, Chester
Thank you
Colonel Hunnaman
I'm sorry to intrude, ma'am
Hello, Marshal
I'd like to talk to the boy, Mrs. Cullen
Talk to?
Was there something wrong, Colonel?
You know who Little Wolf is?
He's chief of the Cheyenne on the Darlington reservation, didn't he?
They were, Darlington
I just had word they've broken out and are headed this way
Three hundred of them
Oh, I see
Obviously they're coming to meet the Indians who escaped Port Dodge yesterday
What does this have to do with you wanting to talk to Dennis, Colonel?
I want him to tell me where their point of rendezvous is
How would Dennis know?
Indians scatter when they're being pursued, Mrs. Cullen
They secretly regroup at a given point later
And every man, woman, and child of knows well in advance where that point is
But Dennis isn't...
I'll call him
Dennis?
You'll call V.O.C.H.R.N.?
Please, son
It's Dennis now
Come in here, Colonel, Hunnaman wants to talk to you
Hello, hello, boy
Soldier?
You want to talk with me?
Yes
Tell me, do you know Little Wolf?
Little Wolf Chief
Good Chief
He was maybe, but he's done a bad thing now
No
He left reservation, he's going to join Long Knife
Long Knife, my Chief
Dennis, don't say that
Let him talk, Mrs. Cullen
Long Knife escaped
Yes, he and the others you were with burned their barracks at Fort Dodge and killed three soldiers
Si, Hocan, no
Sure you do, and you also know where Long Knife is meeting Little Wolf and his people
If you tell me, you'll save lives, V.O.C.H.R.N.?
Not only of those soldiers, but of those of your people too
Can you?
Please, Mrs. Cullen
Tell me, V.O.C.H.R.N.?
Dennis, not no meeting place
Well, you can't beat it out of him, Colonel
No, I'm sorry to have bothered you, Mrs. Cullen
Goodbye
I'll go with you, Colonel
Mrs. Cullen, will you remember what I said?
I'll keep an eye on him, Marshal
Fine
Goodbye, Mrs. Cullen
Goodbye
That was a waste of time
Well, what are your plans now, Colonel?
Plans?
Marshal, I was down to half strength when Long Knife broke out
And now with two troops after him, I haven't enough men left for the post-fatigue detachments
Let alone to scout the country
Ah, you want civilian help?
No, no
It'd only end in a massacre of some kind
Well, I'll have to do the best I can
Well, good luck
Yeah, that boy could have helped
You'd better keep a close watch on him, Marshal
Well, let's get back to the fort, Sergeant
Yes, sir
Mr. Dillon?
Yeah, what, Chester?
I've been thinking
If Army left them Indians alone in the first place, they wouldn't be in all this trouble
Yeah
That's not for us to decide
All right, let's go
Well, now, Kitty, how about you? More coffee?
No, thanks, Tuck
You, Matt?
Yeah, I think I'll have some, Doc, just a little
Good, good
You know, that coffee's three parts chicory and one part lye
That's why it needs a little cream, Kitty
It softens it a bit
It's kind of hard on the cream
Yeah, we should have gone up to my office, I'd have made us some real coffee
Oh, I didn't just get up to supper, Doc
Oh, so I said coffee, not a whole meal
Oh, I'd have cooked it, Doc
Oh, on that stove of mine, you would have had
Do you know I learned to cook on an open fire?
You did?
Not on the prairie, in a fireplace
We couldn't afford a stove
In fact, we couldn't afford much of anything
We couldn't pick up off the ground
Well, you're rich now
Oh, sure
Oh, Mr. Marshall
Mrs. Collins
What's the trouble?
He's gone, Marshall
What?
Dennis, he's gone
When did you see him last?
After supper
We ate early and then I had a talk with him
I told him how much I love him
And how I need him
And then I told him about how people in Dodge feel right now
And that until things change
He'd have to stay at home
Well, he didn't say much, but he went to his room
And I sat out on the porch for a while
Then I heard a noise out back
And when I looked he was gone
Maybe he just wandered around somewhere
No
He's gone
Well, how do you know?
That arrow point he always wants to tie in his hair
He took that, Marshall
So?
That is now
He took his horse, too
He's gone to join the Cheyenne, Marshall
And you've got to go after him
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There was no way to pick up the boys' trail that night
But next morning Chester and I rode out after him
We tracked him all that day
All the next
Southeast into the gypsum hills country
The land was different down there
Dotted with buttes and cut by narrow wind and canyons
This was ambush country
And ideal for what Colonel Honeyman called
A rendezvous point
We traveled slowly
And we had a good time
We had a good time
We traveled slowly
Eyes open
Ready for trouble
And then finally the trail
Led down into a rocky canyon
And at the bottom
We found the boy
Crouched over a small fire
He acts like he's waiting for us Mr. Dillon
I wish he'd waited somewhere more open
I don't like being boxed up down here
I got kind of a spooky feeling too
Yeah
All right let's leave them here Chester
All right, sure
Marco make a long ride
Catch me off-com
Ah, you'd travel fast son
White lady send marshal
Miss Collins might be worried about you
Soldier
He worried too?
No, Colonel Honeyman didn't send me
He follow?
No, he didn't follow
Silojo, niyava
What's he yelling about?
Look over there Chester
Oh my goodness
Indians, oh there must be 20 of them
Don't move
Why are you about to?
Yeah, they're warriors
Every one of them
My name Little Wolf
That's the chief Colonel Honeyman said he was meeting him
A Cheyenne that busted out of Fort Dodge
Yeah, and the boy knew where they were
He was in there all the time
You tell Vihokan soldiers not follow
The soldiers are hunting for you little wolf
But they're not with us
Daish layi, niyya
Vihokan say
Little Wolf can believe marshal
You can believe me
They came alone
They came to take the boy back home
Vihokan no like life with white man
Well, he'll get used to it
He belongs with his own people
Little Wolf
Little Wolf say all men free
Vihokan must make own choice
He's too young
He doesn't know what's best for him
If he make mistake
His mistake
Boy never become man
Other people make choice for him
Little Wolf, this boy's not an Indian
He's white
And if he stays with you and long knife
You know what will happen to him
He live like Indian
He'll die like an Indian too
The soldiers are after you
And sooner or later they'll find you
And when they do they'll be a big battle
And many of your people will die
Perhaps a boy will die with them
Vihokan not afraid
You're white Vihokan
You're not an Indian
This is not your fight
Call names
Mrs. Karno understand Vihokan
Nobody understand
Well, it
Takes time Vihokan
Boy decide
You want to come with Cheyenne
You know stop
We have a hard time to against twenty
If you fight
We kill you
Look son
Before you decide
You remember these Indians
Are poorly armed
Probably a lot of them are sick
When winter comes many will die
And the soldiers will get to rest
Soldier not like Indian
Soldier get tired
Go back
Indian go north
Powder river home
Hunt, fish again
And the soldiers
Hunt, fish again
White people not
My people
Vihokan stay with Indian
Vihokan decide
Leave now
Maybe someday come back
Great chief
Not with the army Cheyenne
Madison river
Vihokan
The other
Did you hear what he said?
Yeah
Madison river Vihokan
Madison river
White boy
Is that where Ms. Cullen lost her son?
Yeah
Then he is her boy after all
And she didn't recognize him
He must have changed a lot
You gonna tell her?
No Chester
No
I'm not gonna tell her
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William Conrad
Thank you George
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Gunsmoke produced and directed by Norman McDonnell
Stars William Conrad as Matt Dillon
U.S. Marshal
Special music for Gunsmoke was composed and conducted by Rex Corley
Sound patterns by Bill James and Ray Kempner
Featured in the cast were Sammy Yogg, Virginia Gregg, Joseph Kerns, Harry Bartel, John Danaer and Ralph Moody
Harley Bear as Chester, Howard McNear as Doc and Georgia Ellis as Kitty
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