The Open Range

It's National Wheaties Week. Yes, it's National Wheaties Week. And Wheaties present Joel McCray in Tails of the Texas Rangers. On stage tonight transcribed from Hollywood, another in the Wheaties Big Parade of exciting half-hour presentations.

The Texas Rangers starring Joel McCray as Ranger Pearson. Texas more than 260,000 square miles. And 50 men who make up the most famous and oldest law enforcement body in North America. Files of the Texas Rangers come these stories based on facts.

Only names, dates and places are fictitious for obvious reasons. The events themselves are a matter of records. Tonight's case, the open range. It is August 4, 1948. Morey Buckland, his son Dave, were driving across the ranch in a jeep, dropping off salt cakes for their cattle.

How's the last stop, Pa? There. Well, drop this one here. What's the matter, Pa? The last salt cake we dropped here is hardly touched. Look at it. Huh? Why, uh, no point in leaving another one.

Usually quite a few head around here. Wonder why they're not touching it. Suppose somebody could be running them off. The rustlers, Pa. It's kind of out of date, I'd say. Here. Hey, yeah. Maybe there's a brake and a fence down to the old road.

Yeah. Yep. Well, you better drive around the cotton woods and have a look. There's a brake. We can fix it right now. I'll have to go back and get horses, though, if I'm going to pick up the strays.

Yeah. We'll be able to see the fence now as soon as we get over this rise. Hey, Pa. Big truck down there. What's your man? Some of our stock. So that's what's been happening to him.