Barton Boy | Gunsmoke (10-01-55)
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Welcome to the Old Time Radio Westerns. I'm your host Andrew Rines, and let's get into this episode. This episode is going to be Gunsmoke. Original air dates October 1st, 1955, and the title is Barton Boy. Let's get into it, and thanks for listening.
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Gunsmoke. Brought to you by L&M Filters. Make today your Big Red Letter Day. Your L&M Red Letter Day. Change to L&M. Around Dodge City and in the Territory on West, there's just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers... And that's with a U.S. Marshal and the smell of Gunsmoke.
Gunsmoke, starring William Conrad. The transcribed story of the violence that moved west 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 chancy job. And it makes a man watchful.
And a little lonely. The End
What is the episode and storyline introduction for Gunsmoke 'Barton Boy'?
A Lonesome Town, Dodge City. A handful of sunburned buildings half lost in the empty prairie. With a few scrawny cottonwood trees along the plaza. And the river and the red clay bluffs to the south. A frontier town like all the others. Except for one difference. We're on the railroad. So about once a day when the train starts whistling off in the east, the folks in Dodge listen and remember that they're part of a bigger world outside. A different world beyond the plains. Well, just looky there, Mr. Dillon. A brand new record this time, pulling four coaches in a baggage car. Yeah, they keep getting longer all the time. In eight or ten years, I bet you'll see six and seven coach trains rolling in the Dodge.
It'd be more surprising if they'd ever get them in on time. Yeah, come on. Let's pick up that strong box and take it over to the bank, huh? Look at there. Dudes for the dozen. Fooling and all that around. Just look at them. Dressed fit to kill. Yeah, they'll get over it. Some of them at least. The rest of them will go back east. Well, there's one I sure hope don't. Huh? What? If you want to meet her, why don't you drop into Long Branch Saloon?
Is she going to work there? Do you know her, Mr. Dillon?
No, but she's got that look. Hey, Ed. It's Matt Dillon. Open up. You know, this is what I ought to be, Mr. Dillon. A baggage clerk. Just one run a week to Kansas City and back and collect your pay. That sounds pretty easy. Hey, Ed. He's probably sleeping. Nothing else to do the whole trip. Yeah, I suppose so. Let me get up there, Chester. Maybe I can see through the window.
See anything?
No, not much. This glass is so dirty that... Chester.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–3:58
2
What is the episode and storyline introduction for Gunsmoke 'Barton Boy'?
3:58–12:29
3
How is the train robbery and murder of the baggage clerk discovered?
12:29–23:41
4
Who is Billy Barton and what injuries and information does he provide?
23:41–33:43