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in 1889

congress ratified an agreement with the

indians which allotted nearly 2 million

acres of land for homesteading

the oklahoma land rush was the biggest

stampede in history

50 000 settlers made the run to fire on

claims

at their heels came outlaws bringing

with them a wave of crime and violence

town sprang up overnight tough hard

settlements where the term law and order

was but mockery

such a town was red dust

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somebody take jack the doctor

and you can take him to the undertaker

all boys

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well jack was only winged but bill isn't

working for us anymore that's the fourth

gun fight this week

i'd almost be glad to see a sheriff

around here myself might be a good idea

say nick i'm expecting ben jordan on the

day of stage so business is going to

pick up again i usually does when he's

around

i'll be in the office tell me where i am

when he shows sure and get a hold of

that land office agent parker i want joe

to meet him okay friend

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um

where will i find clyde flint right down

the street white owns the saloon

thank you

thank you you can put my bags in a hotel

yes sir

i'm in

hello clyde

hello ben

glad to see you

sit down make yourself at home

yeah when i wrote you to set up the

headquarters and red dust i didn't

expect anything like this well why not

i picked this up for a song

it's a perfect front

how'd you do in east great i hit the

jackpot this is going to be the big

cleanup you and i have been talking

about you mean there won't be any hits

in opening the cherokee strip

not a chance president cleveland's

proclamation will be issued any day now

and the claims will be filed through the

red dust land office just like i figured

that's what parker's been telling me

who's parker the land agent here

can we get to him i've already got to

him

he likes to play roulette he now owes me

6 500

so he's been bucking that crooked wheel

of yours huh

oh man let's say out of bounds sounds

much nicer we'll see that you keep

parker out of balance

that's probably parker now look we can

talk in front of him he knows we got a

dealer

come in

shake hands with trent parker

this is ben joad how do you do mr joe

glad to know you parker

clyde has said some mighty fine things

about you well i'm glad to hear that

clyde and i get along fine i'll say we

do

parker

on clyde's recommendation

i'm going to let you in on one of the

biggest business deals we've had

together well i'm in favor of big deals

this is about the opening of the

cherokee strip isn't it

yes it involves a strip

this is the

proposition red dust is right here

approximately here is town side 20.

that's what we want and that's what

we've got to control

it'll cost a lot of money to buy that

town site from the settlers mr joad

we're not going to buy the town side

parker we're going to win it in the run

but suppose some other settlers file on

it first whether you're able assistance

we can invalidate those claims sit down

i want to show you something

why that's a land record book isn't it

yes

it's an exact duplicate of the books you

will use in the land office for

registering claims

in this book you will register all the

land in town site 20 to my men i'll give

you a list of their names later

what happens when the legitimate

settlers come in to file on that land

you file their claims in your own

original book when all the lots in town

side 20 have been taken up

you substitute this book then your man

will control town site 20.

that's right this duplicate record book

will substantiate their claims

well that's wholesale claim jumping

we'll dispense with that term parker

i prefer to call it land promotion but

where's the money for us in all this

all we have is a doubtful claim on

prairie land that may someday be a town

no we don't care if it never becomes a

town

the money comes from my connections in

the east the great eastern finance

company to be exact hmm that is a big

company the great eastern will loan my

pioneer development and trust companies

sufficient funds to construct a modern

settlement on town site twenty where's

their securities

the land claims recorded in your record

book to our men

exactly those claims will act as

collateral for the loans which we'll

divide

then the town will never be built not

unless somebody else built it

well it's big all right and it's

dangerous

all big operations are dangerous parker

in one way or another

it's also dangerous for a government

employee to lose 6 500 at roulette

i'm worried about that clyde you needn't

be that is

if you like joe's plan

i'm sure clyde is willing to write off

the 6 500 as a retainer it'll be much

more than that

all right

i'll go for it mr joan

as soon as you give me the names of the

men you want to file on that town site

i'll prepare the duplicate record book

you won't regret it parker

but remember there will be some

resentment when the settlers find my men

claiming their land

just be firm if you run into any real

trouble we'll protect you

don't worry about me mr jones

glad you're with us trent sure

we'll be seeing a lot of each other

bye

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can't we go any faster daddy

the wagon's pretty heavy [ __ ]

but don't worry jun will have the claims

take that when we get to the new town

site

june has all the fun why didn't you let

me ride in the race with her well you're

too young

honey daddy

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oh

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oh

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oh

so

so

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yeah

i think they're settled down now

that was quite a run what started it all

i did was this

honey put that gun down before you kill

somebody

thanks mister

my name is chad stevens i'm from topeka

i'm glad to know you chad my name is

william hardy and this is my daughter

midge how do you do mitch hello mr chad

say that runaway was a mighty costly one

if you figured on staking a claim well

no my other daughter june is making the

run with a fast horse

midge and i were just bringing up the

household things i see

say i'm a little confused

what direction would i take to get the

town site 20.

well the main body of the cherokee strip

lies over yonder i imagine that's where

you'll find it

daddy daddy look everything bounced out

of the way what

oh now we'll have to go back and pick

them all up i'll help you mrs hardy well

thanks chad that is if we don't delay

you no i was just riding through the

strip to see the excitement

get it

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so

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i guess we found about everything yep

wait a minute there's a kettle over

there

your accident was lucky after all mr

hardy

look at that

section three

nw

township 43

what does that mean well it's a section

marker put here when they surveyed the

territory for the land run well i see

now all you have to do is file on your

claim at the red dust land office

this farmland isn't of any use to me you

see i'm counting on my daughter june

getting me a business lot in town side

20.

better hold on to the bird in your hand

mr hardy that's a good idea but i have

to let you know where i am you stay

right here and put your cap on this

section i'll look for your daughter in

red dust and give her a message for you

if it won't put you out any or you won't

have any trouble recognizing her june is

just 20 and about as prettier girl as

you'll find this side of boston even if

she is my own daughter i'll find her

bye

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those settlers are getting pretty hot

under the collar i hope parker can stand

up under it i think he will money means

an awful lot to him it must i wouldn't

like to be in that land office right now

i tell you parker i filed my claim

according to regulation

this matt johnson is a claim jumper you

say you filed a claim

but i have no record of it in my book mr

green there it is in black and white the

lot that you say is yours is recorded by

mr matt johnson then this record book

don't tell the truth are you accusing me

of being crooked uh let me handle this

matter my friend i am a lawyer yes sir i

will get out a writ of habeas corpuscles

i will nully contended that man johnson

i'll handle my business my way oh jaz

you wish my friend as you wish good

morning your honor your honor some

scurviest load down thief has jumped my

lock claim i know your honor i wish to

have him duly evicted in order your

honor that i may take possession

considering the dew residue

or is it due residence that your honor

is inconsequential this locked claim was

registered and recorded under the name

of don quixote martin gayle esquire that

your honor is me

if so for short legal terminology for

ipso facto because i'm a lawyer

i am not interested in your pet names

read off your claim identification

numbers yes your honor lot 31 southwest

downside 20.

that lot uh has already been recorded to

uh

mr dick walters i object that is

inconsequential that is irrelevant

as a matter of fact that ain't so you

know that i filed on that claim this

morning

the only evidence i have is my record

book lot 31 southwest town side 20 sign

dick walters

my name is june hardy i believe my lot

was right next to yours oh i'm glad to

know you ma'am what is your claim

identification number lot number 33

southwest tom site 20.

oh i'm sorry miss hardy

that lot has already been recorded by mr

jake lippert

but you must remember me i was here this

morning

i never forget a pretty face like yours

but i don't remember ever seeing you

before hey by golly that fella green was

right now there is some crooked going on

around here if there is you settlers are

behind it

some of you who were disappointed in

staking claims could have gotten

together and framed a hoax how dare you

show content for the vox populous why

it's uh

deceptical in fact we didn't do no such

thing we're not getting anywhere arguing

let's go and see what the rest of the

settlers intend doing yeah and

deplorable to you my friend

well are you men gonna stand by and be

robbed

those suppliers aren't going to be easy

to handle

oh yes they are

we're playing right into our hands

parker's done his part now it's up to us

to do ours aren't the boys ready i have

been for the last hour

good i'll slip into the landows through

the back door and start things moving

most of us have put everything we've

owned into making this run

it's a cherokee strip for us or bust

i say let's get that record book

we're going to get our claims back

okay now just a minute boys what you

propose doing is illegal

men why don't you let me handle your

cases for you why i'll take them to the

supreme court yes sir i'll even take

them higher than that well that kind of

fighting won't do no good we want action

and we want those claim jumpers run out

of the country

hey miss hardy we got him to be a party

to this no it smells patience in office

or so

i don't care what it is we've been

swindled and i feel the same way they do

about it

don't let those wagon trams frighten you

parker

we're prepared for that i'm glad you're

here mr jode the situation is beyond me

i don't know how to handle it

i do

you've got half a leader in that man

green but i know how to take care of his

kind

let's go

miss hardy you and these women put this

wounded man in the wagon

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get back miss hardy

are you june hardy yes who are you chad

stevens is my name your father asked me

to look you up here in town what's this

all about our claims have been jumped

and we settlers are not going to take it

lying down getting killed in the

gunfight friend against you isn't going

to save your claims

whose covered wagon is this he's mine

we'll hop in and get out of town do your

fighting later when you're organized

then you'll have a chance that makes

sense

your father is take a homestead in

township 43 just north of here get out

there and take the settlers with you

i'll cover you

hey come on

come on cheddar

hurry

follow that wagon

get in your wagons man get out of town

you all agree that there's something

crooked in that red dust land office i

think you're right

but you people have put too much into

this run to give up now

well i guess we all feel that way

but it looks like we've been whipped out

well i was brought up to believe that

america is a free country

sometimes we have to fight to protect

that freedom

by working together there's still a

chance that you people can get your

claims

i like the way he talks

and so do i

you'll get plenty of support if you can

show us a good plan my plan's a very

simple one mr green

the first thing you have to have is a

place to live my father can give you

that you bet i can and will you know

folks my colleague here mr stevens is

proceeding along the right path

or is it road oh well don't make no

difference and furthermore i'm gonna

take this case to the united states

supreme court yes sir and even higher

mr hardy

i'd advise you to go into red dust and

file on this claim immediately protect

your rights from every angle mr stevens

is right dad yes sir mr stevens is right

and you miss hardy are also right this

land must be protected and will be

protected even if i have to resort to

havers corpuscles

i'll ride into red dust and see if i can

pick up some information

if you need me you can find me in the

lucky chance saloon

all right folks let's get unpacked and

start making camp that's a good idea

let's get going

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to use some fresh money in this game we

sure can

money at this table is getting worn out

being passed back and forth

whites are a dollar scale up to 10 for

the blues how much do you want

give me a hundred dollars

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boy

pay the attention

as candidate for sure i want all my

friends to enjoy the hospitality of the

house and we'll see that you are the

next sheriff clyde set him up

that's all

now that section is legally

yours uh do you mean that we're not

gonna have any more trouble trouble well

i don't know what you're talking about

well just the other day

uh it was a lovely day the other day oh

look they're gonna have a county

election next month that's right hey

oh oh oh say hardy why why that's one of

the fellas that was doing all the

shooting at us we can't let a man like

that get into office that we've got to

register right now i can register you mr

hardy and members of your family but you

martin gayle are not a legal resident of

the county and cannot vote and why not i

should like to know my dear sir

i am residing on the hardy claim along

with 50 others you are merely a guest of

mr hardy and that does not establish

legal residence

i can register you now if you wish sign

there say i resent this i resent this is

an infringement on my constitutional

right not to permit me to vote in this

election

well mr parker just explained that

you're not a legal resident in the

voting district but if we ever do get

this claim jumping straightened out

you'll be entitled to a vote yes but

hardly by that time the election will be

over with say hardy do you know

something oh don't answer i know you do

but you see that fellow flint well now i

think he's behind all this claim jumping

yes i do and i'm going out to tell the

people so the people my friend that's

populous my friend and you're one of

them come on marty come on

and boys

i want you all to understand

that after i'm elected

i work hand in glove with mr parker of

the federal land office who has so

generously given me his support

and between the two of us

we will see that your new property

rights are protected

i only hope that you men hearing red

deaths will avail yourselves the

opportunities that are going to be

offered in town site 20.

my good friend ben joad is prepared to

finance a building of a town there that

will be a monument to the cherokee strip

here he is boys

i hope i can measure up to all the

things clyde has said of me

as a matter of fact i've just received

some advice from my eastern bankers

which i'd like to discuss with clyde

personally if you gentlemen will excuse

us another one on me boys

see that fella with his back to us in

the poker game over there

yeah

isn't he the one that was so handy with

the gun when the settlers blew up on

parker yeah that's him

get in the game you might learn

something that's not a bad idea

time for a rest nick i'll take over

hey listen here i got something to say

to you mr candidate yes turn to

everybody else in this place that's

going to vote for this crook here who

are you calling crooks i'm calling you a

crook because i think you're involved in

this claim jumping yesterday that you're

just trying to be elected sheriff so

that you can protect your own land

thieves

take it easy

so

so

so

oh

oh

you certainly take your election

seriously though i most certainly do

that my friend is an american citizen's

unalienable right well come on after the

camp and you can make an election speech

all right mr hardy let's go

but this new county won't be fit for

decent folks to live in if flinting

these outlaws run it why don't we pull

up stakes and move on somewhere else we

might as well

we'll never get those lots back in town

side 20. no oh now wait just a minute

folks let's not make any hasty decisions

no sir we have got to deliberate these

things deliberately why you remember the

old proverb it's an ill wind that

gathers no morse

how's that again episode oh i just was

saying that it's an ill

now i'll explain this to you in another

way maybe we're not half as bad off as

we think we are we couldn't be worse off

why the men folks haven't even got a

vote yeah oh

and if we can prove our cases against

those claim jumpers then they will be

the illegal residents

in the meantime flint would be running

the new county as sheriff

if there was only some way these folks

could establish legal residence oh

yes but there isn't um i've just wrecked

or at least i've wrapped my brains to

try and think of something uh i've even

read one of my own law books

i've got an idea that might work well

let's have a chad

mr hardy has a legal claim on this

section

that's 640 acres a square mile

you men should be able to build quite a

town on that

well what do you mean

well if mr hardy is willing he can sell

you lots on the section then build your

own town on a cooperative basis why of

course i'm willing

are you sure all this is legal i'm

gambling that it is

tomorrow mr hardy let's head for the

land office

oh wait just a minute hardy say chad uh

just speaking x official but don't you

think i'd better go along just to well

sort of motive the operandi

pro 10 so to speak oh protein

the man's a legal genius

you know this might be a solution to our

troubles that's what i'm sure

well i'm sorry mr hardy

but i'm afraid what you settlers propose

to do is not legal

well doesn't section 541 of the land act

cover a situation just like this 541

oh yes i'd uh forgotten about that i'll

check it uh excuse me

you seem to know a lot about your land

laws

a wandering cowboy picks up a lot of

information

most of us worthless

and then they say that a rolling stone

gets absorbed

don't start that again please

this cowboy certainly knows these land

laws under section 541

they can petition the washington office

will washington grant the petition

i'm afraid so the government's anxious

to get this territory settled

have you got the petition forms yes i

have

and i have to give them out or they'll

become suspicious but stall hardy until

i can get around to the front office

right

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that explains the whole procedure mr

hardy

be careful to get the correct names and

former addresses of the petition

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how are you parker

how are you mr joad

uh mr joad this is mr hardy mr

martingale mr stevens gentlemen you

might be interested to know that they

are applying for a petition to establish

a town site on mr hardy's claim oh

really naturally i'm interested

why is that mr jones because i'm deeply

involved in financing town side 20

you'll be my competitors

by the way may i ask how you propose to

finance this new development oh we

haven't given that a thought yet perhaps

you'd be interested in financing us too

mr joe

no i don't think so mr stevens

however i will make you a good

proposition i'll give you ten dollars an

acre better than top price for that

section of yours and 43.

i couldn't take that mr jode i'll throw

in a corner business lot right here in

red dust

i couldn't do it that would be selling

out the rest of the settlers i do some

good business mr hardy let the other

sellers take care of themselves perhaps

mr hardy has a code that he'd like to

live up to

i'm talking business with mr hardy my

friend

call me stevens

i couldn't choose my name but i can

choose my friends

well let's get out of here mr hardy we

get all the supplies and financing we

need in carterville

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i don't like this joke it isn't going

the way we planned it don't be a

pessimist those supplies will never get

through

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so

there's one thousand dollar bonus all

the way around if even the horses that

outfit don't get through

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so

so

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well how was i to know that stephen's

and that jabby lawyer in the back of

that wagon

it was a mistake to underestimate that

cow puncher stevens well you better do

something about it if you don't the

settlers are going to make a go of that

town site no they won't not while we've

got parker you better watch him too he's

losing nerve don't worry i'll just use

him to bring hardy and that scarecrow

lawyer into town

i'll handle the rest of it

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foreign

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is shooting around here

midge

bridge you come here

yo you wait you give me that sleep shot

come you now listen here young lady

don't you know that it's unlawful

there's a misdemeanor in mayhem to carry

a weapon like that i didn't know oh they

could just put you in jail and lock that

big door and throw the key right away

for an act of vandalism

honest mistakes so i didn't mean to hit

you don't you ever do a thing like that

you deserve some awful important legal

matters i got in my mind midge

you mustn't bother mr martindale run

along and play dear all right june uh

say here uh did you know that uh daddy's

almost ready oh my goodness my my

briefcase

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here's your coat dad thanks honey

everything's going to be all right isn't

it well sure it is joan if so and i just

have to ride into red dust and sign some

forms

i'm probably making a mountain out of a

molehill well don't worry we'll be back

soon yeah goodbye june

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what's the matter june

nothing honey run along and play

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hi mitch

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mr chair

mr chair did you bring my surprise from

carterville

oh

golly i'm afraid i forgot it midge

mr chad you're teasing me

well um

as a matter of fact i think i do have a

package in my saddlebag

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there you are

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oh thank you mr chen

now you have a real western boyfriend

i'm not old enough

you will be real soon

so yeah where's your sister

she's in the tent

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mary mary look at mr chad rodney

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june

hello chad hello john were you

successful at cartersville yes you know

they're very anxious to see this

territory opened up

is your father around well no he went

into town with ipso to sign some papers

is that so

well what kind of papers were they i

don't know something about some

petitions mr parker asked them to come

in

was parker out here no he wrote that a

letter

did you see the letter

yes i did

there is something wrong isn't there

chad well i don't know but just to make

sure there isn't i'm gonna ride into red

dust

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there they are ben

i told you we could use parker when you

hear the shots you know what to do

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hello mr hardy mr martingale all right

mr parker you wanted to see me oh yeah

it's just a moment

mr joe wants you to sign this

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oh wait just a minute die object sir i

insisted my client be given a chance to

read this document before he attaches

his signature to it hardy never sign

anything especially a legal paper unless

you read it first

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what's the meaning of this

means that i want you to sign that deed

why this is the need to my section in

township 43 i'll not sign it oh yes you

will you haven't got enough money to buy

it and you certainly can't threaten me

and be giving it away you have two

lovely daughters mr hardy

does that land claim mean more to you

than they do

what do you mean

i mean if you don't sign that deed

you'll never see them again

well you couldn't do a thing like that

that isn't human protesting isn't going

to alter the situation any hardy sign it

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parker are you gonna stand here and be a

party to this there's nothing i can do

very well

outside it

remember joe you haven't heard the last

of this

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no joke not murder

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somebody's been shot

what happened mr hardy's been shot

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who shot him that lawyer martingale

why

they had an argument because mr hardy

sold me his claim

he sold you his claim yes i feel rather

guilty about it

martingale became furious when hardy

signed the deed and shot him claiming he

was selling out the settlers

what happened to martingale

i struck him with this weight fearing he

might turn on parker and me

yo

oh

oh

oh

oh

what the name of the continental

congress has happened you shot mr hardy

oh you were crazy done enough with that

already

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wait a minute he's still alive

we better get him to a doctor right away

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i'll go with you

come on

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a gun wound doctor there's still a

chance bring him in here

it's too late to clean house now parker

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don't do that

i don't want to shoot you

why

why what does this mean stevens hardy

talked he implicated you and job

but jode shot him

i didn't even know he was going to

that still makes you an accessory

but i tell you i didn't know anything

about it

i'll admit that i helped joe steal those

claims but that's all i did

how did you do it parker

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if i tell you that will you help me out

of this shooting scrape

i'll make you no promises

talk

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all right i'll tell you

we use a duplicate record book

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that's the

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original i'm sorry the man who brought

mr hardy's body here must have been

laboring under great excitement

mr hardy died the moment the bullet

struck him

that's all we want to know

you know what to do with the murderer

don't you flint frontier justice is the

only thing for him oh well now i didn't

do anything why i didn't even know

anything had happened i was your

evidence oh i didn't know what happened

even i didn't do anything now i'm

innocent i tell you now listen you can't

that's how it was done stevens

what was your price

flint canceled all my gambling debts

i was to get a thousand dollars for each

one of those claims that i forged

oh i know i was wrong to let the

settlers down but

i never shot anybody in my life

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it's all right parker

hardy's dead it doesn't make any

difference now jode

i just told steven's the truth

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truth about what parker

about how you killed hardy and try to

pin it on martingale

well i guess there isn't much more i can

say now

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all right flint bring him over here

there you go now boys i tell you i'm

innocent

get on that horse oh i wouldn't do a

thing like that

i said mock that horse

come on get him up there

okay bring him over here

take up the slack and tie it off

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go ahead joe

it's just the excuse i want to let you

have it

drop that gun

now we're going to square things for

martingale

get moving

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let's go

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all right get away from that horse

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get going

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take the rope off that man's neck

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make it snappy i've got the real

murderer here

and just who are you to be given orders

an investigator for the united states

land office

i've been trailing this man for three

years

now i've got him

for the murder of william hardy

all right boys turn that gabby lawyer

loose

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well looks like we almost made a mistake

mr flint your mistake was tying in with

ben joad

so

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so

foreign

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foreign

so

so

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