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♪ Buffalo Bill, Junior ♪

♪ Buffalo Bill, Junior ♪

- [Narrator] Buffalo Bill, Junior.

With his little sister, Calamity.

Buffalo Bill, Junior brings you exciting action.

Thrills

and fun with

Judge Ben Fair and Square Wiley.

♪ Buffalo Bill ♪

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♪ Buffalo Bill, Junior ♪

These men fought and died

for the Seventh Cavalry.

They were young men, their commander George Armstrong Custer

was 22 when he graduated from West Point,

37 when he died under a flag and a gun

at the Little Big Horn.

The history of the west is filled with the names

of heroic men, young men

some of them forgotten in the dusty pages of time

but there's one young fella who's name

won't never be forgotten, not by me anyhow.

Because in a way I named him myself.

I found him after Indians attacked a wagon train

he was a mere child at the time.

Parents both killed in the massacre.

I found him wandering through the black hills,

with a baby safe in his arms wrapped in a buffalo robe.

The baby was his sister.

I adopted the homeless Bridger kids.

I named the girl Calamity, the boy

I called Buffalo Bill, Junior.

- Where's my sister Mister Bauer?

- How would I know?

- Well she came up here to get a lesson on the

telegraph key.

- I ain't got no time today to teach lessons.

Look out that window.

- Apache smoke signals.

That's why I'm here, those have been smoking since noon.

- So have these wires.

The army figures we're in for some trouble.

They've even hired a specialist.

- With soldiers on it?

- I don't know, all that army stuff

comes through in code.

So far, I've only been able to catch one word.

Geronimo.

- What time did my sister head back for town?

- She didn't, she rode off towards the Indian agents.

- Say, where's Mister Ford?

- Inside.

He'll be right out.

What's your hurry, kid?

- Nothing, my sister rode out this way alone.

Mister Ford.

- I said he'd be right out.

- Redding, cool off.

Your sister rode by here half an hour ago.

Fella she's with looked like an Apache.

- Well why didn't you stop her?

- Sky's full of smoke.

My job as an Indian Agent is to stop war,

not go chasing after some crazy kid.

- Billy.

Billy.

- No wonder the Judge called you Calamity.

You bring calamity to everybody.

How long you been tied next to that tree?

- I wasn't tied there at all.

Here's your rope and arrow, Jackilla.

I'm sorry about him.

He's something I just have to put up with.

He's my brother.

- And who's he?

- Jackilla?

He's my friend.

- Do all your friends make you stand next to a tree

while they shoot arrows at you?

- Don't be silly, Bill.

He was just showing me what the Apaches might do

if they caught me out here.

- He's an Apache himself.

- No, me Mescalero.

- The Mescalero hate Geronimo as much as we do.

- Have you seen the smoke signals?

Geronimo's on the war path.

- Geronimo's not on the war path.

He's been captured.

- He's been what?

- Ask Jackilla.

- Chief Geronimo at Fort Yuma now.

Soldiers soon take him to prison

in far away Florida,

on special train.

- That's fine.

I just stopped by Wiley Junction,

not even the telegraph has that.

- Sometime white man telegraph not so fast

as Indian smoke signal.

- Well I don't care what the smoke says,

the judge says if you don't hurry on home,

it'll be your britches that are smoking.

Here's your bow.

- White man ways

often primitive.

- Let's go around the back.

- Look, mister,

if this is a hold up you sure came to the wrong place.

I only got about $13 in the cash drawer.

- How much you got in your pockets?

- About six bucks.

I work for this railroad, I don't own it.

- I guess they don't pay you much.

How would you like to have $10,000 in your pocket?

- For doing what?

- For helping catch an Apache by the name of Geronimo.

- You're a little late, mister.

It's coming over the wire right now.

They already captured Geronimo.

- Yeah, I know.

And the government's paid $20,000 for him.

Now if Geronimo should get loose,

they'd have to pay that reward again,

maybe even double it.

- If Geronimo got loose.

- Well that's where you'd come in.

You see, we'd split the second reward.

How about a thousand in cash to bind the deal?

You interested?

- Shake a federal prisoner loose from the army?

- They're bringing Geronimo on a special train.

All you gotta do is listen to that key.

- Military orders come through in code.

I don't know the army code.

- No, but you know the railroad code.

All you gotta do is give me the schedule of a train.

A special train.

Routed east to Florida from Fort Yuma.

Interested?

- Mister, if this is a sample of a holdup,

I sure like holdups.

- Hurry up, Jed.

- Well you're Jed Ford.

- My money's still good, ain't it?

Get rid of that kid.

- I guess I'll have to take my next telegraph lesson

some other time, Mister Bauer.

My brother says I have to go straight home.

- Run along, I'm busy.

- We're both busy.

- Sure.

- Who was in there besides Bauer?

- Jed Ford, why?

- Well I saw Stan Redding out in the back

holding the horses.

- Stan Redding works for the Indian Agency.

If he had to wait for his boss,

isn't it natural he'd be holding the horses?

- Out front, maybe.

Not in the rocks in the back.

- Well, they both did act kind of nervous.

Besides,

it's not raining.

- What's rain got to do with it?

- Jed Ford was wearing a raincoat.

- A raincoat?

- And holding his Colt 44 inside his hat.

- Keep riding toward Indian Rocks.

Leave my horse.

Now.

- Why?

- Two reasons.

First, I say so.

Second, I wanna hear both horses.

- Why can't you take the horses and I'll go back?

- Two very good reasons.

First, you're my sister.

Second, because you're just a kid.

- I'm a kid, what do you think you are Bill Bridges?

- Look, all you gotta do is tell me

what time the special goes through Coyote Canyon.

I tell Geronimo's Apache, and his Apache stop the train.

- Yeah but it's sort of like double crossing

my own country.

- Oh, not at all.

After Stan and I collect the Apache bribe money,

we trail Geronimo,

tip off the soldiers where they can find him,

he gets caught again, the reward's paid again.

The government can afford the money so who gets hurt?

Only Geronimo.

- Yeah, I guess so.

- Was something wrong?

- You bet.

- What'll we do?

- First, we'll get you home.

Second, we'll tell the judge.

- [Judge Ben] So the Bridger kids started riding back

for Wiley Junction.

Meanwhile, I was waiting for 'em at this busy place

we call our hole, Wileyville General Store.

Judge Ben Fair and Square Wiley, that's me.

I'm also Justice of the Peace, Town Marshal,

Physician and Surgeon, Blacksmith.

And I give haircuts and legal advice by appointment only.

Right now, though, my court was in session.

This is a solemn court of law, legally constituted

by me and the voters of Wileyville.

Wipe that grin off your face, Danny Crockett,

or I'll fine you for contempt.

Hank Gillis, the court is ready to pronounce sentence.

You either speak now or forever hold your peace.

You said all that before,

don't waste the time of this court.

Missus Martin and Missus Ferguson

charge you with disturbing the peace.

They say you practice on that blasted old fiddle

until the roosters crow.

Missus Ferguson here says she couldn't sleep a wink

all night.

And the court's a witness to Missus Ferguson's charge.

The fiddle kept me awake, too.

Hank, Court fines you $50.

- You're known as Fair and Square, Judge,

now where is Hank Gillis gonna get $50?

- Shut up.

The Court waives the fine,

in fact, the Court will give you $50.

Here, go by yourself some music lessons, Hank.

That's all.

You'll have to conclude your case in my chambers.

- Where's your chambers?

- Out in the laundry yard.

The washing ain't dry yet so we'll have to

continue proceedings right here.

- Hey, they got Geronimo, dad.

- Bill and I had an idea.

- I had an idea.

- How many times do I have to tell you?

How many times do I have to tell you

this is a Court of Law?

And I'm listening to a case right now.

Besides, I got six more shirts to iron.

Is it a fact that you work for the railroad, Danny?

- You know I do, Judge, I'm the telegraph operator

at San Pedro Siding

- Then how come it's you refused to give telegraph lessons

to my adopted daughter.

- He said he was too busy.

- Is that a fact?

- Well look, Judge, the railroad pays me to

operate a telegraph, not to teach lessons to kids on it.

- Don't the railroad expect you to show a little

common courtesy to the public?

- Well sure, but this is.

- Then how come my little girl has to ride all the way

to Wiley Junction to take lessons from Sparks Bauer?

- You mind telling me what I'm on trial for, Judge?

- You are here to learn a lesson yourself, Danny.

No matter how hard a man works on the job,

he outta have time to be a gentleman, like Sparks Bauer.

- Sparks Bauer's no gentleman, he's a crook.

- Can we speak to you a minute, Judge?

- Bill says if we let the Apaches try to take him

off the train.

- Take who off of what train?

- Geronimo,

off a special army train.

- Can we speak to you a minute, Judge?

Alone?

- Danny,

the court summons you here to learn a lesson in

the milk of human kindness.

You can start now by going out in the backyard.

Now.

- For how long, Judge?

- Long enough to bring in the rest of my laundry

off of that wash line.

It's a Court Order, get the laundry.

(playful music)

Now, what's this about Geronimo?

- The special east bound just left Fort Yuma.

- Did it say who was on it?

- No, the rest of it's in army code.

But I think it says we got a prisoner on board.

- Long trip ahead of us, chief.

Sorry I have to keep the shade down.

It's an order when we conduct a Federal prisoner.

Nice big prison waiting for you in Florida.

Hope you like the climate back there, Mister Geronimo.

- This Court is now hearing a case behind closed doors.

Beat it, Danny.

- We gotta act fast, Judge.

That train's probably left Yuma already.

- I'll notify army headquarters.

- How?

- You hear of Samuel Morris?

He invented the telegraph.

- Well you can't send a wire.

- Why can't I?

- Because Bauer's in cahoots with Ford and Redding.

- And Mister Bauer runs the telegraph station himself.

- So, I'll send a wire from some other station.

- It won't make any difference.

- Listen to her, Judge.

She may be a dumb bunny in a lot of ways

but she knows the telegraph.

- No matter where you send a message from,

it goes over the railroad wires.

Anybody can hear it at any station, even Mister Bauer

at Wiley Junction.

- But don't you see, Judge, if you send a wire,

you'll be tipping off Bauer.

And that'll give him time to tip off Ford and Redding.

- The Court stands corrected by the argument

of the defense.

What do you kids have in mind?

- Well, we let the train go ahead.

In the meantime, Calamity will tell her friend, Jackilla.

Mescalero's hate Geronimo's Apaches as much as we do.

And they'll help us when the train gets to Coyote Canyon.

We'll catch everybody red handed.

- What do you think, Judge?

- The Court thinks you both better be in jail.

- In jail?

- If I leave you loose, you're liable to get yourself hurt

while I'm gone.

- Gone where?

- To Fort Yuma.

- How?

- If I can't use the telegraph,

I'll have to go up there and I'll ride.

- On that pokey old mule?

- You kids walk right out to that jail house.

You're sentenced to 48 hours protective custody.

Get.

Go, come on.

- He'll never get to Fort Yuma.

Not on old Nelly.

- He even took his medical case.

I bet you he plans on stopping at the Coleman Ranch

to see how Missus Coleman's getting along

with her hay fever.

- We gotta get outta here.

- You're not lying.

You tell me how.

This symbol, three eagle feathers means Chief

and this one, lightning arrows means Swifter.

So it's up to the Chief to get us out of here

with Swifter.

- Well those Indian signs on your shirt mean something, too.

The arrowhead means alertness.

And the thunderbird means bearer of happiness.

So get alert and bear some happiness and

figure out a way we can get out of this jail.

- I'm thinking.

- Yeah, and I'm waiting, too.

- Bill, how'd you manage to get that door open?

- Because it wasn't locked, you little pipsqueak.

- Why wasn't it locked?

- Well how should I know?

Let's roll.

Saddle up, ride straight to the Indian Reservation

and get your friend Jackilla and we'll all meet at

San Pedro Siding.

- That's wrong.

- What's wrong?

- You meant interrogation.

- You got me so mixed up I'm sending knots when I

oughta send dashes.

- Want me to run your key for you, Danny?

- Look kid, why don't you go back over to Wiley Junction

and get another lesson from Sparks Bauer?

- I don't need another lesson,

not to show you how to send interrogation.

It's a dash dot dot dot dot.

- Look kid, for the last time,

you're getting out of here, now march.

- Take your hands off my sister.

- He hit me, Bill.

- Well I never even.

- He did, Bill, he hit me right in the jaw.

- He did, huh?

Like this?

- Oh I hope you didn't hurt him, Bill.

He's really a very honest fellow.

- Yeah, well sometimes a fellow's so honest,

the only way you can get him to cooperate

is to knock him out.

Sit on him, Jackilla.

What's that thing saying?

- Special train still runs on military code.

- That means Geronimo's still on it.

What time will he get to Coyote Canyon?

- Mid morning, there's another train running ahead of it.

A mail train, only two cars.

Shall we use that one?

- If you really know how to run that thing,

now's your chance to prove it, sis.

Contact the Colonel in Fort Union.

- Say, here's a correction.

Not an army code, either, in straight Morse.

- Where's it from?

- How do I know where it's from.

I told you before, all these messages

come over the same wire.

But it said they're transferring the prisoner

to another train.

- What train?

- A mail train.

- The army's playing it smart.

- What time is the mail train due to go through

Coyote Canyon?

- About an hour before the special.

There's two cars on it.

- Doesn't make any difference what train we get

Geronimo off, just as long as we get him off.

You better go out and tell his Apache band to be

at Coyote Canyon an hour sooner.

- How do you like the way I handled the key, Bill?

- Say, you're great.

Jackilla,

tell your Mescalero if they wanna catch a lot of

Geronimo's men, to get out to Coyote Canyon pronto.

But tell them there's a lot of white men

on that train, also.

- Mescaleros have no war with white men.

We fight only Geronimo.

- Good.

You stay here, sis.

- Did I miss anything on the wires?

- No message came in, Danny.

Sorry my brother hit you so hard.

He was only trying to do the right thing.

- What are you doing here?

- I followed Jed Ford from Wiley Junction last night.

He's about half a mile over in those rocks.

Stan Redding just rode up.

Thought you'd like to know.

- Well that valley's full of Geronimo's Apaches.

- It's full of Jackilla's Indians, too.

Those men on the train, I wish there was some way

we could warn them of the attack.

- There is a way.

(gun firing)

- What was that shooting?

- There goes our Indians.

- They're somebody else's Indians.

How'd they get here?

- They sure don't look like Geronimo's Apaches.

- Sure ain't Geronimo's Apaches.

It's a second tribe, that's the Mescalero tribe.

- Yeah, we've been framed somehow.

- While the Indians are so busy fighting,

the train got away.

Come on, let's get out of here.

- Do you hear that whistle, it's the mail train.

It got through the canyon, we caught everybody red handed.

- All but one.

This my sister's not here to take lessons, Sparky.

She's here to give one.

- You can't believe everything you hear

on that Morse key, Mister Bauer.

- You kids ought to be spanked.

I rode all the way to Fort Yuma for nothing.

And it ain't easy on that mule.

- Ssh, Calamity's getting a message.

Both trains got safely through Coyote Canyon.

- You'll be in Florida in a nice,

cool Federal prison, Chief.

While us troopers down in Fort Yuma sweat out the summer

on a hot army post.

Be sure to write us a postcard, Mister Geronimo.

- The Court recognizes you kids did a fine job.

But you're under arrest for breaking jail.

- We didn't break jail, you left the door unlocked.

- Kinda careless of you, Judge.

- Careless?

Suppose there'd been a fire in that jail?

Suppose I carelessly left you kids locked in?

You get 10 days each for finding out

that door was unlocked.

- 10 days?

- In jail?

- Well, sentence suspended.

Let's go home, kids.

I didn't get to finish my ironing.