Wrong Man
Gunsmoke · May 8, 1960 · 24 min · 2,940 words
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In the town Dodge City and in the territory on West, there's just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers, and that's where the U.S. Marshal and the smell of gun smoke. Gun smoke, starring William Conrad, the 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 chance job, but it makes a man watchful. And a little lonely. Pa!
I ain't hiding. Come around back. I didn't know if he was to the house. Well, I ain't. Well, you lost by him, Dodge. Lost? Well, you know I wasn't lost. Pa, I've been there twice since we come here.
Well, what kept you? Well, I stopped off. And one of them saloons? You know I ain't never been in one of them places, Paul. You go in one, you just keep right on, riding through town, and don't never bother to come back home.
I know, Paul. What kept you? There was one of them medicine shows, Paul. A fellow with a magic act and a pretty girl. You were supposed to ride right home. I was thinking on you, Paul, with campaigns in your back.
back. This elixir some fellow was talking about. It would have fixed you up real good. You didn't buy none. Well you know I didn't have no money for a par. That's a good thing. Oh they was selling a lot of it and folks was drinking it down right there. You could see right away that they was feeling better. Did you get what
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