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It's a chancey job and it makes a man watchful and a little lonely.
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Hold it, Mark.
Hold it, Victor.
Hey, wait, don't shoot.
It's me, Nate Godfrey.
Oh, come on, Nate.
We're in a hard time finding you, Whip, nothing but a dugout in the snow.
Finally seen your smoke.
Now, can I come in?
I ain't stopping you.
At least it's some warmer.
That's about all I can say for it.
What you doing way out here anyway, Godfrey?
Can't pay a call on my hired hand, that's all.
Well, ain't you even gonna ask me to set or offer me some coffee?
Here's a pot.
Help yourself.
You live alone like this too long, Whip.
You got no manners.
But then I never seen a wolf for the dead.
Yeah, pigs, all of you.
Want some?
I've finished feeding.
It's like a pig.
I need a bed.
Must be below freezing even in the sun.
You didn't leave no warm ranch house just to come be sociable with a wolf, or Godfrey?
No, not dang likely.
You got some bone to pick with me, start picking.
Whip, what am I hiring you for?
Clean the wolves off your land?
Right.
And I see you got pelts and nothing, got muskrat and bobcat and you got badger, you got everything
but wolves.
I turn in plenty of wolf skin already.
You seen it?
That's just what I mean.
You shot a raft of wolves for you, it was here two months.
It seemed like maybe you got most all of them around.
Told you I would.
Yeah, that's right, you lived up to your reputation, best wolf on the plains.
Only if you got them all, how come there's five of my best colts laying out there with
their bellies ripped?
Can you tell me that?
I seen them.
Yeah, I bet you did.
All right, if it wasn't the wolves that done that, maybe you can tell me what it was.
Was a wolf right enough?
Oh wolf, more than likely a whole pack.
No, just one, big one, splayed foot.
You trying to tell me one wolf done all that?
He's big.
Got three.
Maybe the biggest I've seen in all my years.
Well if you seen him, why don't you get him?
He ain't easy.
He's big, he's smart.
That splayed foot, he been trapped before.
There's other ways to take a wolf.
Mean one to track too.
You don't get but a glimpse.
Not enough for sure shot.
Well if you trying to tell me there's a wolf but you can't catch.
Maybe.
This one's white Guthrie.
White, what's that mean?
Trying to say the white one's his big medicine spirit.
God damn engine talk.
I'm thinking you're being raised by the engines 20 years with your more engine than white.
Maybe.
Maybe you're dreaming this wolf up, maybe that's it.
What do you mean?
It's almighty suspicious you clean out every wolf but this one.
And he kills might near as much as all others did.
Say it out Guthrie.
Alright just one wolf but you got to stay and hunt him until he's caught.
In pocket my money and eat my grub.
And for one lone wolf it ain't a bad way to spend a cold winter is it?
You saying I let him live on purpose?
I'm saying maybe there ain't no wolf.
Maybe it ain't a wolf at all ripping up my coats.
Man could do that, a man like you.
I'm half breathing, got no feelings.
You get out of my camp Guthrie.
Oh no, no it ain't me it's you what's getting out William.
Off in my land and right now.
You can't run me off Guthrie.
This here's free land.
Not for no killers it ain't.
I seen your kind before it's easy for you to kill it.
It don't matter wolf or cold.
Oh man.
Ain't killed me once for time Guthrie but it won't go very hard.
You better get along now.
I'm warning you Ibb.
You get off of my land not till I finish what I come for.
I'll have you one or how.
I'll send a dodge for the marshal you'll see.
And if you stay you'll end up dead William.
Somebody will.
That's for sure.
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Matt, you know that this is the first time we've had a chance to eat dinner quietly and quiet as best.
Yeah, I guess it is.
Do you ever think you'd like to be somewhere else? You know, just travel.
Travel?
Places like Philadelphia, Washington, Baltimore.
Why would I want to be there?
Well, I should think you'd like to see something besides Fort Dodge and Fort Wallace, James Cross and Fort Lynyrd.
Prairie and Army camps get pretty dull, don't they?
What would I do in Washington? Call on President Grant?
Why not? You're a famous man.
Oh, sure. I couldn't wear the clothes, that's why.
Ah, I bet you'd look handsome.
I'll dood it up like that.
Well, Bill Cody does real fine.
Look, Kitty, I know what you're after, but I'm not going anywhere.
Why wouldn't you? If I had anyone to go with.
You'd be safe enough traveling by yourself.
Well, now that isn't what I meant.
I know what you meant. You want an excuse to go, and you'd like for me to chaperone you. That's it, isn't it?
Matt, you haven't had a vacation in years. Besides, there are worse things than being my escort.
I guess there are.
Well, I knew it wouldn't last.
What?
How's it going, Miss Kitty?
Sit down, Chester.
Oh, thank you.
You all finished eating?
It looks that way, doesn't it, Chester?
Had stew, huh?
And it was good.
And a loaf of bread.
And a loaf?
With potatoes and dried apples.
Oh, Chester, either order it or stop talking about it. I just finished a big meal, and I don't even want to think about food.
I just said, too, Mr. Dillon, who Mr. Hightower down at the depot.
That's fine.
Buffalo steak.
That's fine.
You know, Mr. Dillon, I sure do wish I was going to Wichita on a train.
Everybody wants to go somewhere.
What?
Mr. Dillon and Ochi all during dinner, never mind him.
Now, why do you want to go to Wichita?
Well, Mr. Hightower was telling me about them new cars that are going to start running.
Do you know you can eat right there on the train, right while you're moving along?
Now, what's that got to do with Wichita?
Well, that's where the cars is going to run to.
I see.
And then there's this fellow right there in Wichita that's got a place you can eat right spang in the railroad depot.
Sounds pretty fancy.
Mr. Hightower says this fellow is going to have them all over the country before he's through.
Well, you see, Matt, travel wouldn't be so rough after all.
Not for Chester, anyway.
Food before he starts while he travels and more when he gets there.
Where are you going, Mr. Dillon?
I'm not going anywhere at Chester.
Oh.
Oh, say, I near forgot.
There's somebody waiting in the office to see you.
I seen him when I come by.
Oh, who?
That Mr. Guthrie that cut that big spread out north of Ford County.
Did he say what he wanted?
Well, she didn't, except he wants to see you.
Oh, you'll tell him I'll be along in a few minutes, huh?
Yes, sir. I'll go tell him right now.
Well, we almost made it, Matt.
What, Kenny?
I thought for once we'd get clean through a meal without you being hauled away.
We did pretty good.
I'm not a weekend, you know. I might have agreed to take a train somewhere.
Oh.
Come on, I'll walk you back.
No, thanks, Matt. I'll just sit here and finish my coffee.
Okay, I'll see you later.
I tell you, he's a bad marshal.
Maybe so, Mr. Guthrie.
Now, just think of that. Web Edmonds killing them colds.
Now, we're not sure about that, Chester.
You have any proof it's Web and not a wolf killing your stock?
Well, I don't need no proof.
Marshal, just you go take one look at that half-breed there in his stinking dugout.
You'll see what he is.
Now, look, Guthrie, just because a man doesn't keep clean or live in a house, that doesn't make him a killer.
But this man is, Marshal. You can see it right in his eyes.
They're cold. They're wide open. It's like a snake's.
You think you're just looking to measure you for your grave.
I need proof, Mr. Guthrie.
Unless you can prove that Web has broken some law, there's nothing I can do.
Well, you can run them off of my land.
You're using that land, Guthrie, but it's not yours. It's open range.
Web has every right to camp there if he wants to.
I'm warning you, Marshal. You better run him off before there's trouble.
And if you're thinking of getting up a party to run him off...
That ain't that, Marshal. You can bet my neighbors will be glad to cooperate. They've been losing stock, too.
Well, everybody has, Mr. Guthrie. It's been an awful bad year for wolves.
You ought to thank Web for cutting your losses.
All right. All right. But it'll be on your head, Marshal.
Don't say I didn't warn you.
About what, Guthrie?
That man hates me, Marshal. He's threatened me.
He even said it was just as easy to kill a man as a wolf.
Now, you think I'm gonna wait for that half-breed to come shoot me in the back?
That's murder you're talking about, Mr. Guthrie.
I'm talking about self-protection, Marshal.
Now, if you don't want trouble, you get him off my land.
Reason or no reason, just get him off.
All right. Now, there's a riled up man, Mr. Lee. He might just do it.
Yeah, he might.
Say, is it really true about Web being part Cheyenne?
Well, I know he doesn't look it, Chester, but it's true.
He lived with him until he was about 20.
Maybe he should have stayed a while.
Well, any man wants to get back to his own people.
You ask me, you Web Edmonds don't quite fit in with any people, white or Indian.
Well, I'll admit being a woofer isn't a very fancy way to make a living, no matter what man.
Anyway, we better ride out and have a talk with him.
In this weather?
Would you rather wait till somebody's murdered, Chester?
All right, come on.
The
Do we have to ride up along here, Mr. Dillon? Down in the draw, we'd at least be out of the wind.
It's harder on the horses down there, Chester. The snow's a lot deeper.
Well, that's so. And I guess we can see further up here, too. Not that there's anything to see.
I'll bet we've missed his dugout already.
I don't think so.
We've come awful long ways.
That old gutter sure claims a parcel of land, don't he?
Yeah.
Now look there.
Why, it's a horse.
It's a colt.
Sure standing funny, ain't it?
It's staked out, Chester.
Staked out? Out here in this weather, whatever for?
Bait. Wolf bait.
Oh my goodness, that poor critter.
Get out, Chester.
Wind! Hold your fire! It's Marshal Dillon.
Now you put down that rifle and show yourself. We're coming to talk to you. You hear me?
I hear you.
You stay away from that horse of mine, Marshal.
Why?
You're spoiled by trap. You ain't got no race.
I don't see no trap.
Take one of the arrows and say.
All right.
Come on, Chester.
He was heading right for us, Marshal.
So you tried to shoot us, huh?
I only wanted...
I wanted to down you, I could have, easy enough.
You've manned smell around a trap at sport.
Well, you don't have much trouble with that, do you, Wib?
That may be, Chester.
I don't care much for manned smell myself nowadays.
I didn't ask you to come here.
We came to talk to you, Wib.
Well, you can talk.
That's all.
Dugouts over the crest. Follow me.
You gonna leave that poor colt tied up to get at him?
He won't get hurt if the trap works.
You can set on a log there and out fit it for socializing.
Now, this will do fine.
But he's coffee, meat in the pot, if you want to.
Well, saying I don't...
Muskrat meat.
Here's coffee.
What you doing?
Yeah, thanks, Chester.
Speak your piece, Marshal.
I can tell you right now I ain't leaving.
You're off Guthrie's payroll, Wib.
You won't get anything more from him.
I want nothing from him.
Well, then why stay here?
There are plenty of other ranchers that pay you to hunt wolves.
Well?
You're doing the talking, Marshal.
I'm only trying to find out why you want to stay in this place.
That wouldn't be that you're planning to get Guthrie with it.
You think I kill his colts, Marshal?
You got one of them out there right now for bait.
Well, it's different.
It's the only thing that'll tempt this bigfoot wolf.
Is that the wolf you told Guthrie about?
Yeah.
Yeah, and I'm going to take him this time, Marshal.
If you didn't spoil the trap, I...
Wib, are you sure that's the only reason you want to stay?
I got to finish what I started.
I got to get that big wolf, Marshal.
And Guthrie better hadn't tried to stop me, neither.
You mean you'd kill a man just because of a wolf?
This one is different.
He's white and big.
I don't care how big or what color he is.
He's not worth a human life.
You don't understand.
This one is special, Marshal.
This is the most important wolf of my whole life.
But why?
Well, he's white.
That's why.
Oh.
Wib, isn't a white wolf big medicine to the Indians?
I mean, aren't they superstitious afraid to kill him?
Huh?
Look, Wib, maybe you've lived alone too long.
Maybe you need a change.
I'm all right, Marshal.
I never thought things clearer.
Any man needs to be around other men some.
Maybe I got no use for men, Marshal.
It's sure they got none for me.
You don't get much chance, Wib, even before you became a woofer,
when you were killing buffalo, you wanted alone, always.
Sure I did.
Maybe someday I'll tell you why, Marshal.
But right now all I got to say is I ain't leaving here.
And if you stay, there'll be a killing.
Now, we'll spend the night here, Wib.
And in the morning you're coming back to dodge with us.
Mr. Young.
Huh?
Mr. Gellman, what's up?
What?
What is it, Chester?
He's gone.
What?
Wib's gone.
I don't know how it happened.
I just closed my eyes for a minute, and when I looked up he was gone.
Well, when was this?
Just a couple of minutes ago.
I didn't fall asleep.
I swear I didn't.
He just slipped out.
All right, all right, all right, Chester.
I don't know.
Maybe you should have took both watches, Mr. Young.
It's all right.
He can't have gotten too far.
Well, there are our horses.
At least he didn't take ten.
Wait a minute.
Oh, there.
You just take it easy, boy.
Take it easy.
Half to death.
Now, that's a wolf.
Come on, Chester.
Where are we going?
You just follow me.
Couldn't be too hard to spot, Wib.
It's moonlight on the snow.
Makes it most as bright as day.
You just be quiet, though.
I'm going to go.
Maybe he's caught that wolf.
I don't know.
Come on.
There's a colt.
He's still all right.
Yeah, listen to that.
That's a wolf.
Where is he?
In that pit in front of the colt.
The wolf's in there?
Yeah, that's to be the way the colt's acting.
Yeah, listen to him.
He's trying to jump out.
So he might have near made it too.
Come on, let's move up closer.
Look, there's a red edge up in there.
He's got a rifle.
Why doesn't he use it?
Don't get that animal jump.
He's gonna get it.
Shoot him, Webb.
Shoot him.
Oh, he's just standing there.
What's the matter with you?
Shoot him.
You got a rifle.
Use it.
We should have brought ours.
He's out.
The wolf's got him.
Stay back, Chester.
He's going over there with his six gun.
You got him, Mr. Dill.
He's down for good.
Yeah, and so is Webb.
Goodness, he's bleeding like a stuck colt.
Webb, Webb, if it's all over, I kill him.
Well, why don't you do that?
We'll tore him up something fierce.
Yeah.
I'm done for a marshal.
Why didn't you shoot him, Webb?
You were standing right there with your rifle.
Wait.
You know, this big medicine.
What did that have to do with it?
20 years.
With Cheyenne.
Tried to go back being a white man.
Never could.
I stayed on here to kill a white wolf.
You mean you wanted to kill that wolf
to prove to yourself that you'd stopped thinking like an Indian?
With Cheyenne.
Never kill a white wolf.
White wolf.
Never kill a white wolf.
White wolf, strong medicine.
I couldn't shoot.
I couldn't act like a white man.
Poor devil.
Chester, you remember how you said Webb didn't fit in
with any people, white or Indian.
No, but when I landed, I didn't know what he was up against, Mr. Young.
No.
Well, he didn't fit in then.
Not until tonight he didn't.
What do you mean?
Tonight he found his people.
Webb was born with Cheyenne.
And tonight he died like a Cheyenne.
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Gunsmoke, produced and directed by Norman McDonald, stars William Conrad as Matt Dillon, U.S. Marshal.
Harley Bair as Chester, Howard McNear as Doc, and Georgia Ellis as Kitty.
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