Family Theater: West of the Pecos

Family Theatre presents Peter Lofford and Walter Brennan. From Hollywood, the mutual network in cooperation with Family Theatre presents West of the Pecos, Sorrowing Peter Lofford. And now here is your host, Walter Brennan. Thank you, Tony Lefrano.

Family Theatre's only purpose is to bring to everyone's attention a practice that must become an important part of our lives if we are to win peace for ourselves, peace for our families and peace for the world.

Family theater urges you to pray. Pray together as a family. And now to our transcribed drama, West of the Pecos, starring Peter Lofford as Mr. Smythe. In September of 1949, Edgar McReady gave his foreman instructions on carrying for the ranch in his absence.

Hopped into his jeep with a Geiger counter and drove off in the direction of the hills to look for uranium in the hope of increasing and already considerable fortune. By September of 1956, Edgar MacReady had not returned.

There was only one conclusion. He has indubitably passed beyond this veil of tears. Dead? In a word? Dead. Yes. But I say, how does all this concern me, Mr. Tuppens? I am coming to that, old chap.

I have here before me this letter from Marcus and Shay. The turn is at law in a place called Flagstaff, Arizona. They informed me that the said Edgar McCready, having been declared legally dead, a careful search was made for any heirs he might have had.

It seems that you, Mr. Smythe, are the sole heir. I knew. But a cataratch? More much more than just a cataratch, Mr. Smythe. According to this, you should be quite a celebrity. It seems that you will be one of the few men in America who actually owns a village.