Tumbleweed
Gunsmoke · August 28, 1960 · 24 min · 2,634 words
The transcript of “Tumbleweed”, an episode of Gunsmoke first broadcast August 28, 1960. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Gunsmoke plays Gunsmoke free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.
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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. 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 chancey job, and it makes a man watchful and a little lonely don't I swear I never seen the likes of it oh it's my adjuster well boom wheels can only be self I opened the door and he won't budge out of there did you tell him I was releasing him today yes sir I did but
he claims he wants to stay well he asked me what I was picking for dinner what we gonna do yeah the trains and you go on down get the mail I'll have never seen a man who wanted to stay in jail.
I'm You like it here do you? It's the only It's home I ever had. I see. You and Chester have been good friends to me. Take the Chester. Is that why you keep getting drunk or So you Gotten Jew?
Friends. The roof over His head. Donnie Marshall. Alright come on Let's go. Here's that extra blanket chest. Try to keep it from touching the floor. Thanks, bud. You got back home now? I don't rightly know where home is at.
Well, pie, he'd run me off before I was old enough to know where we was living. That he couldn't feed me no more. No. Ever since then, I'm kind of like a tumbleweed going here and there.
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