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- [Narrator] The spring of 1852 in San Francisco was marked

as the season when the city Marshall faced romance,

death, and marriage, respectively and in the order named.

All because the depredations of one

of the most notorious outlaws in the history of California,

Shafter Poe, a bandit who killed at the slightest excuse.

- Marshall Wayne, Commercial Bank's just been robbed.

All their cash.

- Anybody hurt?

- A teller, killed.

- Identify the killer?

- The witness says it was Shafter Poe.

- Sounds like Poe. You go ahead, I'll be right along.

(sighs)

- Why do crimes always have to happen just when I'm winning?

- He'll be heading from Monterey, he has a hide up there.

- Well, you're not going, Matt?

Monterey is out of your jurisdiction.

- A murder was committed in my jurisdiction.

- Well, I'm going with you. I have friends there.

- No, you stay here and mind the store.

And, no dealing from the middle.

- You know you're the only one I cheat.

(laughs)

* California

* California

- [Narrator] The Californians

* I've come to live where life is best *

* In the Golden West

* I'm gonna strike and get rich in *

* California

* California

(menacing music)

- Howdy folks. Marshall Wayne, San Francisco.

Any strangers around here recently?

- You'd be the first.

- Maybe Shafter Poe wouldn't be a stranger to you.

He has friends around here.

- I ain't one of 'em.

- Found his horse back there.

Broken leg. He didn't have the decency to even shoot him.

So I had to do it.

- I tell you I ain't seen Shafter Poe, nor nobody else.

- His trail leads here.

Strange. You living way out here

and not even having one horse in your corral.

Did you sell one recently?

To Shafter Poe, for instance?

- I ain't got no horses.

The bank took all our livestock for a loan.

Besides, what makes you think Shafter Poe would

buy a horse when he could steal it.

- He depends on people like you.

He pays for what he gets.

Do you mind emptying your pockets out?

- This ain't legal.

$100 bill.

Issued by the Commercial Bank.

That's the one that was robbed.

- Acer didn't steal that, he-

He sold our horse.

We was hungry, Marshall.

- Which way did Shafter ride?

- North.

- Thank you, ma'am.

- I gotta have that money.

(gunshot rings)

- He didn't kill me.

- He could and he didn't.

And he had a right.

He's a law man.

- Which bank took the rest of your livestock?

- The Commercial Bank.

- And this is their money.

I don't think they'd mind lending it to you for a while,

if I (indistinct).

- Now what kind of a law man is he?

(menacing music)

- Just what's the idea of stopping my horse, sir?

- Mine's lame, I'm going to saddle up yours.

- Why, you'd do no such thing.

- I'm in the habit of doing anything I want, little lady.

You ever hear of Shafter Poe?

- No. And I'm not pleased of making your acquaintance.

- Well, I'm sorry I ain't pleasing to you, little lady.

But maybe that's because you don't know me very well.

- And now, I don't want to.

- I'm in a kind of hurry

but maybe I got time to teach you a little manners.

- Oh, no.

(screaming)

(woman screaming and crying)

- Are you hurt?

- Go away, leave me alone.

- Come on, outta there.

- Leave me alone, I'll scream, I'll scream.

- Easy now, get ahold of yourself.

- Oh, I thought it was that man.

- Who?

- Shafter Poe.

He stole my horse.

Who are you?

- Marshall Wayne, San Francisco.

- Oh, well, my name's Madge Dorsett.

My uncle owns the Dorsett ranch north of here.

If you'll take me to him, he'll pay you well.

- Pleasure of your company would be pay enough for me.

The man I'm after is a killer and he might kill again.

I just don't have the time, ma'am.

- If you aren't gonna take me to my uncle,

what are you gonna do with me?

- Take you some place where you can get word to him.

- Well, how will we travel?

- On my horse.

He'll carry double.

- For a Westerner you aren't very smart, Marshall.

- All you have to do is hitch your horse

to my buggy and we can ride in comfort.

- Shafter Poe is not to stick to the road too long.

When he heads across country,

I want to be able to follow him.

- And take me with you after a murderer?

- Maybe we'll find some place you can stay

before anything happens.

- Well, I still don't see why we can't use the buck board

just for a little while?

- Ms. Dorsett, your comfort is important

but not nearly so important as the next man

Shafter Poe might kill.

Now are you coming with me?

- Well, it's better than staying here.

Don't you dare put your hands on me.

- It's the only way I know how to get a woman on a horse.

Well, I suppose you climb aboard by yourself.

- Well, I'll do just that.]

(gasps)

Now, don't you dare laugh at me.

Well, aren't you gonna help me up.

- I'm trying to figure out how without touching you.

- Will you please help me up?

- All right. One, two, three.

(gasps)

Hang on.

- Well, I'm gonna fall off.

- Not if you put your arms around me.

- I'll do no such thing.

- Suit yourself.

- You're hateful.

- Yes, ma'am.

(menacing music)

- Rough going back there?

- No. Well, yes.

- I suppose you can get off and stretch your legs.

- All right.

What are we gonna do?

- Find a place to spend the night.

- Oh, there's an inn near here?

- Not for miles.

We'll have to camp out.

- Us? Together?

Alone?

- If it'll make you feel any better,

we can sleep on separate mountains.

(mountain lion growling)

- What was that?

- Mountain lion.

A small one.

- A small? Now don't you dare leave me here alone.

It's cold. I'm hungry.

I never knew wild game could taste so good.

How could you see to shoot it in the dark?

- Its eyes gave it away.

- Your eyes give you away too.

You know that outside of Shafter Poe,

you're the only man who's ever been rude

to me in all my life.

- Was I rude?

- Well, let's say forceful, but it's comforting

for a woman to meet a man who knows his own mind.

- How long have you been in California, Ms. Dorsett?

- I came from Boston a month ago.

That's long enough for you to learn it isn't safe

for a woman to wander around the country like this alone.

- My uncle warned me about that.

- That Poe man is such a beast.

I never knew you could almost die from fright.

Then you came along and I'm not afraid anymore.

I've never been so safe and secure in all my life.

You know, I live what you might call a sheltered life.

Even at my uncle's ranch.

And this morning I was thrown on a horse

like a sack of potatoes, spent the rest

of the day with my arms around a man I've never seen before.

And the funny thing about it is

that I loved every minute of it.

Matt, are my eyes giving me away?

- They're lovely eyes.

(gun shot fires)

Go back in there.

(gun shot fires)

(suspenseful music)

- Are you all right?

- I'm all right but he's wounded.

Got away while I was reloading.

- Oh, what does it matter?

Let him go.

- He might kill somebody else.

- But, he might kill you.

- That's the risk I'll have to take.

- Oh, Matt, I don't want you to ever take a risk again.

I don't want us ever to be parted.

(peaceful music)

Good morning.

- Good morning.

- Have I been sleeping this way long?

- About two or three hours.

- Oh, what a wonderful way to wake up.

Yesterday, I was so bored, I couldn't stand it,

and today I wake up with my head

in the lap of the man I love.

Didn't you want me to say that I love you?

Don't you believe that it could happen in just a few hours?

- I guess it could.

- You do feel the same way, don't you?

Well, you kissed me.

Oh, Matt, you do love me don't you?

- Enough to make me forget for awhile

that I came here to kill a man or be killed by him.

- Oh, why do you have to kill him?

- Cause he won't allow himself to be taken alive.

- Then why take the risk of getting yourself killed?

- That's my job.

- You know, I've been thinking about that.

Why would a man like you want a Marshall's job anyway?

- Murderers and thieves were taking over San Francisco

and the citizens committee asked me to help fight them.

- Well, they'll have to get somebody else for the job

for awhile, at least.

I refuse to spend my honeymoon chasing Shafter Poe

over the mountains.

- Honeymoon?

- Well, I don't know how it is out here

but where I come from when a man and woman fall in love,

the next thing they do is get married.

- I suppose it's the same all over.

- Oh, my folks will be shocked to hear about it.

But when they learn the circumstances, they'll insist.

- Yes, they might at that.

- Oh Matt, I can't wait to show you

off to my friends in Boston.

- Boston.

- Well that's where we'll go on our honeymoon.

Matt, I have a confession to make to you.

The moment you put me on that horse,

I knew even then that I never wanted you to

let me go again.

(menacing music)

- You put the law on my trail?

- No, I didn't.

- God, if Wayne had gone straight to my place

in Monterey, he wouldn't have taken that side road.

I'll take care of you for that later.

Right now, get me a doctor. I've been shot.

If you ever want to hear her talk again, get going.

- I'll go.

- And don't tall the doc who sent for you.

Otherwise he won't come.

Tell him your old lady sick.

Cross me this time, Acer,

your lady is gonna be awful sick.

(menacing music)

- It's been a wonderful day, Matt.

Did you ever see the sky so blue?

- He's doubling back on his trail.

Heading south.

- Who?

- Shafter Poe.

- Can't you get him off your mind for a minute?

Must I always share your thoughts with that horrid man?

- Howdy, Marshall.

- Hello.

How are you Doctor Martin?

Where are you heading?

- Acer's wife is sick.

My old lady has got the misery something awful.

- Matt, this is the horse Shafter Poe stole from me.

- Where'd you get it, Acer?

- It strayed onto my property.

Last night, I wounded Shafter Poe.

Is that why you went and got the doctor?

- Shafter killed my son.

Are you taking me to him, Acer?

- No, I ain't.

I swear it.

- I think I'll go along and make sure.

- No, no, Marshall.

You can't.

Shafter is at my place.

He says he'll kill my old lady if I cross him again.

- Again?

- He knows we put you on to his trail.

- Don't you realize, he'll kill you no matter what you do?

Doctor, would Shafter Poe recognize you by say?

- No, why?

- I want you to change clothes with me.

- Why don't you wait here

until I can go back to town and get some help?

- Yes. For Heaven's sakes, Matt,

why do you have to do it all by yourself?

- Any further delay, Poe will get suspicious.

First thing he'll do is kill a woman.

- Yes, but he might kill you too.

- He might.

Can I have your glasses doctor?

Thanks.

Madge, do I look like a doctor?

- I see you've been thinking old lady,

got it figured out?

- I got to figure it out that after the doc fixes you,

you're gonna kill me and Acer.

- You hit it right on the nose.

- I might even have to kill the doc.

- The doc's needed.

If you kill him,

you'd be killing all the people he could save.

- Let 'em die.

Somebody's gonna kill me one of these days.

Probably some pasty faced kid laying

on his belly, in the bushes, hoping for the reward.

- And in all the wide world

there won't be anybody to have one good word for you.

- But they'll remember me, old lady.

For a long, long time.

They'll remember me.

- You wait here, I'll go in alone.

- I'd like to help.

But, I don't know how to handle a gun.

- Yeah, I ain't so good at it myself

but I'm sure enough gonna try.

- Let me have that pistol.

- It helped me more than anything you can do.

- Oh, Matt, please don't.

- Just give me something to talk about

if we ever get divorced.

- It's the last time you'll have a Marshall's job,

I'll see to that.

- It looks like the doc came alone.

I think your old man's in town starting up trouble for me.

(gun shots)

(suspenseful music)

(gun shot)

(gun shot)

- No good, Marshall. Pull up a chair, sit a while.

(gun shots)

(gun shots)

That was close, Marshall.

But here's one for you.

(gun firing)

(gun shot)

Drop the pistol, Marshall.

They hanging badges on some awful dumb people these days.

Do you know any better than to use up

all six of your bullets?

Me? I'm thrifty.

I saved one just for you.

(gun shot)

- Everything's all fixed, Marshall.

They'll send an outer rig from the delivery

stable first thing tomorrow.

- That's good.

- What's the matter, Matt?

You sound actually sorry you killed that man.

- I am.

I'm sorry I had to kill him.

- But, he was gonna kill you.

- Dog gone, this bad man since Marietta.

You'll be famous, Marshall.

- For killing?

There's no glory than that.

- Matt?

Matt, if you really love me,

you'll never take chances like this again.

(gentle music)

(knocking on door)

- Matt, darling.

- Wilma, will you do me a favor?

- Why, of course,

but not while you're standing in the doorway.

Come on in.

- Well, I've got a friend with me.

You see there wasn't a room to be had

in a decent hotel in town.

And I was wondering if-

- Of course, I'll put him up.

I have plenty of room.

- Come on in.

Madge.

Wilma. Mrs. Fansler meet Ms. Dorsett.

Madge.

- How do you do?

- Hello.

- Ms. Dorsett. Well, Madge and I, we-

- What Matt is trying to say is that I'm his fiancé.

We're planning to be married.

- I had a hunch something horrible was going

to happen to you on this trip.

Instead you bring back this lovely young lady.

- The girl was here.

Waited all afternoon.

Ms. Dorsett.

Said she's gonna be your misses.

She said she'd be back in an hour

or you can find her at the Eldorado.

- Look, tell her I've gone to Sacramento, Monterey.

You know, any place.

Tell her I've gone out of town on business.

- We've been in San Francisco a week.

My uncle's in town to meet him and I've hardly seen Matt.

Where is he now?

- Well, I understand he's leading a raid on a nest

of river pirates.

- Oh, couldn't that have waited?

- You don't raid river pirates by appointment.

- Matt's been acting so strangely.

He doesn't even wanna discuss the wedding.

Mrs. Fansler.

- Please, call me Wilma.

- Wilma, I'm worried about Matt.

I'm worried about us.

- I know my dear.

You're wondering if it's love

or the circumstance of being thrown together.

- Well, in a way.

- And you're wondering if the man who seems so irresistible

in tall timber, will wear well at a Boston tea table.

- I was wondering if he'd like my friends.

- And you also wondering if you can get Matt to resign

as Marshall and pick a job on your father's business.

- Well, naturally.

- Well, if you can get Matt within a hundred miles

of Boston, I'll be the most surprised gall

west of the Rocky's.

- His job seems more important to him than me.

- Well, he's not in love with his job,

but he considers it's his duty.

He's kind of dedicated to it

and a dedicated man doesn't make an ideal husband.

He has split loyalties.

- No husband of mine is going to have spent loyalties

If I don't come-

Matt, where have you been?

We're not married yet.

And already you're going away without kissing me goodbye,

or telling me where you're going or when you're coming back.

- Excuse me.

But I just remembered something I forgot.

- Oh, now, Matt wait a minute. Please.

(orchestral music)

- Wilma, I can't find Madge anywhere.

- Oh, she left you this note.

I can't imagine what it says.

- Dearest Matt,

Although I'm awfully fond of you,

I don't want to hurt your feelings

but I think it's best that we part.

- The shock must be terrible for you, my dear.

- Oh, it is.

Indeed, it is.

I don't suppose you could have had anything to do

with her sudden change in plans now, could you?

- I suppose you didn't have that possibility in mind

when you brought her here, did you?

- Of course not. - Of course not.

- Thanks.

* California

* Oh, I've traveled here

* I've traveled there

* I guess I've been almost everywhere *

* But I like where I am today

* And here is where I'll stay

* Now one thing I just can't endure is being broke *

* And being poor

* So I've come west to take the cure *

* And here is where I'll stay

* I've come to California

* California

* There's gold in them there hills in California *

* I've come to live where life is best *

* In the golden west

* I'm gonna strike it rich in California *

* California

* California

* There's gold in them there hills *

* In California

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