26min | Western, TV Series | Episode aired 15 October 1957
The newspaper editor of Wilcox asks the Rangers for help, and two of them are dispatched to the town. However, when they get there they find the editor has been lynched and is hanging from a tree.
Director: Reg Browne
Writer: Oliver Drake
Stars: Tristram Coffin, Kelo Henderson, Don Haggerty
The newspaper editor of Wilcox asks the Rangers for help, and two of them are dispatched to the town. However, when they get there they find the editor has been lynched and is hanging from a tree.
Director: Reg Browne
Writer: Oliver Drake
Stars: Tristram Coffin, Kelo Henderson, Don Haggerty
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00:00Saddle up! Saddle up! Saddle up! Saddle up! Saddle up!
00:08This is the story of 26 men who rode the Arizona Territory.
00:16High is the glory of 26 men whose courage helped to build the Territory.
00:2426 men who saddled up and then rode out to answer duty's call.
00:3126 men who lived to ride again and fight for the rights and the liberty of all.
00:39This is the story of 26 men enforcing law within the Territory.
00:46Praise be the glory of 26 men who rode the Arizona Territory.
00:53Ride on! Ride on! Ride on!
01:0126 men carefully chosen for their courage and ability formed the Arizona Rangers.
01:09Fame and public acclaim was not their objective.
01:12This is perhaps why the story of these 26 men has never been told until now.
01:16This was Arizona Territory at the turn of the century, a sparsely settled raw frontier.
01:22Terrorized by bands of desperadoes who operated in open defiance of local peace officers.
01:28♪♪
01:58Allison, you'll leave at once for Nogales.
02:00Report to Lieutenant Foster. He'll have your orders.
02:02Yes, Captain.
02:03What about the trouble in Wilcox, Captain Ryan?
02:05Just a moment, please.
02:06Ferguson, feud between the cattlemen and sheepmen has broken out again in Holbrook.
02:11Put a stop to it.
02:12Yes, Captain.
02:13We need help too, Captain.
02:15Are you going to send Rangers to Wilcox or aren't you?
02:17I don't have anyone available at the moment, Mr. Miller.
02:19But you just sent men to other districts.
02:21Those are critical points.
02:22The situation in Holbrook is critical.
02:24It's overrun by a power-crazed tyrant and his gunslingers.
02:27They've got a stranglehold on Wilcox and everything around it.
02:29But can't you businessmen get together and appoint a marshal?
02:32We did a couple of years ago.
02:34He lasted two weeks.
02:35I tried to arouse the people through my newspaper.
02:38It was blown up.
02:40Mr. Miller, the legislature gave me 26 men to patrol the entire territory.
02:45112 settlements.
02:46Miles of unprotected border.
02:48Right now I have only 12 men.
02:50Captain Briding, I'm a newspaper man.
02:52I know your reputation.
02:54You took on a job that nearly everyone thought was impossible.
02:57The bringing of law and order to this territory.
02:59You're succeeding.
03:01But I honestly believe that my town is just as important to this territory
03:04as any of the others.
03:05I agree with you, Mr. Miller.
03:07And I'll take care of the problem when I can.
03:10That may be too late, Captain.
03:15That may be too late, Captain.
03:45a. Something's
03:59got to be done corporate even if I have to go myself you mean about Wilcox
04:02Captain. I'm outside so you need to render. I want to join up
04:09why I had a little spread over near grandeur and I went broke I need
04:13a job you could find an easier one being a ranger is not as cracked up to be
04:18sometimes in the saddle forty eight hours no sleep bad food picked on by unhappy
04:23citizens and shot at by outlaws you furnish your own horse arms and equipment the
04:27enlistment is for four years and the pay is fifty dollars a month. In spite of
04:32that recommendation I'll take it my name's Clint Travis there are four major
04:36requirements honesty horsemanship a fast gun and the nerve to enforce the law
04:43without fear of prejudice. Come on I thought.
05:02What you can do.
05:13You're not joining
05:17a circus. What would you do if an outlaw bullet smashed into you while you were
05:21showing off like this.
05:23Corporal
05:40I'm leaving for Wilcox. I'll be gone three or four days. Rangers
05:46homes and webs come in transfer them to make oh yes.
06:04You want to be
06:04a ranger. Yes.
06:34Well. Look at those tracks.
06:59Blood. Is anything strange about these tracks.
07:04Nothing much several horses made about two hours ago and you're right. But the
07:10riders dismounted. One of them was dragged away look over there.
07:15Sam
07:30Miller.
07:30And
07:45it was on him now.
07:46One
07:56shell's been fired. One of the men who jumped him. Yes the man with
08:02a gunshot wound shouldn't be hard to trace get the horses.
08:46But
08:51the body on the porch.
09:16But. Sorry we're not open for business the bartenders and here you are
09:31a lot of Johnson that's right if you own this place you must know near everyone in
09:36town suppose so but why the question I want you to identify someone certainly if I
09:43can it's
09:43a body. It's
09:59Sam Miller I found him hanging from
10:01a tree just outside of town Sam should have known they'd get him after what happened
10:06to his newspaper who get it.
10:07I'm Captain Tom writing of the Arizona Rangers.
10:12If any of you people have information that will help this case don't be afraid to
10:15talk the law protects you. But never have any relatives a wife and two children
10:22that Johnson would you notify the widow.
10:37The.
11:00You're wasting your time pulling off those boards I don't think so you heard big
11:04read we don't want anybody putting into our business maybe you'd like to be the
11:08first to try and stop us. That's
11:13a good idea the more I think of it the better I like it.
11:25Look at him shake red he's got
11:26a fast gun and
11:27a big mouth but no guts to back him up.
11:45I'm notifying you that the laws of Wilcox to stay don't forget it that office will
11:50be boarded up before the weekend is out. All right really.
11:56I. Will never put your gun again unless you use it but I never
12:02drew on a man before I couldn't pull the trigger. Yeah I know it happens that way
12:07sometimes you'll get over it but the thought of killing a man you don't always have
12:11to. A man's mouth and smash an elbow if he's on foot. A bullet in the shoulder
12:17I'll knock him down and you can disarm him but don't ever fight with your fists you
12:22could cripple your gun hand.
12:27And every two bit gunslinger would choose you and you wouldn't have
12:29a chance.
12:52I guess after what happened outside I don't stand much chance of getting into the
12:55Rangers. Man's entitled to make
12:58a mistake provided it doesn't affect anyone but himself you do me
13:03an honor if you reconsider we'll talk about it later. Let's get this place cleaned
13:07up.
13:17Travis put the horses away and make arrangements for rooms at the hotel yes
13:21captain.
13:25.
13:36You don't seem to be enjoying yourself.
13:55Leave me and the others to take care of him.
14:19Neither of you have any idea who killed Miller?
14:24You had a pretty good motive, Monahan.
14:25Look, Captain, when I first rode into this town,
14:27it was nothing but a spot in the road.
14:29When my cattle outfit grew, so did Wilcox.
14:32There wouldn't be anything here if it wasn't for me.
14:34And you broke every small rancher in the valley
14:36you got in your way.
14:38Business is business.
14:40Not if it includes murder.
14:56One little friendly advice, Captain.
14:59Well, I'm always willing to listen.
15:00Then pull out of here.
15:02It may not be today or tomorrow, but they'll
15:03get you if you stay.
15:05Who do you mean, they?
15:09Miss Johnson, doesn't law and order mean anything to you?
15:14I'm getting along all right without it.
15:16What about the rest of the people?
15:18Do they have any churches, any schools for the children?
15:21No.
15:23I guess you don't care.
15:28As long as you're cash ready, if it keeps ringing.
15:31Well, hello, something I can do for you?
15:33Did you treat anyone today for a gunshot wound?
15:36Who are you?
15:38Captain Reining.
15:39I'm a local hustler.
15:40I'm here to take a look.
15:41You have a gun?
15:43I can't.
15:44I'm a fool.
15:45I'm a fool.
15:46I don't know a thing.
15:48I'm a fool.
15:49I don't know a thing.
15:51I'm a fool.
15:52I'm a fool.
15:53I'm a fool.
15:54I'm a fool.
15:55You're a fool.
15:56I'm a fool.
15:57I'm a fool.
15:59Captain writing. Arizona Rangers. I haven't had
16:03a patient in over a week back business is getting so bad I'm thinking of leaving.
16:10Nice quiet town yeah yeah that's it nice and quiet. Doc you're lying.
16:17I beg your pardon these instruments were used today. Who was it.
16:24I'm not as neat as I used to be.
16:29A. Room's got
16:34a right no I'm not the proprietor says we're all taking that's true big red reserve
16:40a lot for his men well then I reserve
16:42a couple on the front I can't do that I have to live here we'll be back in a little
16:46while for the keys. Come on let's get some food.
16:59We're sure popular around here. And things will be worse before the better. Well
17:04we'll have
17:05a home cooked meal out of some cans and wait for me to make the next move.
17:19But if I had done that this morning captain.
17:21Big red
17:28meant what he said. The showdown.
17:42You wait here you might get yourself killed the captain you have your orders.
17:45You. Had
17:51a good way. About the other one still at the hotel on the porch.
18:00Early. Maybe you'd enjoy handling this.
18:10You're
18:10a fool read you're not up against two men now you're fighting twenty six Rangers.
18:16I run this town Lola nobody's going to change it I suppose that's why Sam Miller
18:21was hanged was
18:22a troublemaker look red I've tolerated you in your gang because I figured money was
18:27money and I wasn't particular where it came from but no more still have some self
18:31respect left I'm not going to sit by when you commit another murder you have no
18:35choice. Get over the bar.
18:40And.
19:10The.
19:19Praise golly the rest of you stay where you are and don't turn around.
19:30Starting right now the emporium will be closed on wait
19:33a minute to close you down permanently if I'm on and you stay where you are. You
19:39are the man leave two at a time toss your guns on the corner table as you go out.
19:45From now on the carrying of firearms in city limits is prohibited and I'm warning
19:50you to behave peaceably my partners outside. That's
19:54a big help he's probably hiding under the porch.
20:09But.
20:27The money and. Over the table and drop your gun.
20:39And. I said drop your gun.
20:49That we are. At an accident. Horse fell with me.
21:03Outside.
21:10With stop at the doctor's office first Monahan. You got to come along to Miss
21:14Johnson I want to ask you some questions.
21:24Curly.
21:39I'm. Not Mr Monahan's going out of circulation now let's start all over.
21:50This the man you treated. He was shot he gave to my office just a few hours before
21:56you got into town so you had an accident. This empty shell came from Sam Miller's
22:02gun before he was hanged he wounded one of the men who grabbed him that man was
22:07you Mr Monahan you're under arrest and never hold me captain my mental tear this
22:12place apart. Miss Johnson do you know your legal status as
22:16an accessory to the commission of
22:17a crime just in case the meaning isn't too familiar let me explain anyone who aids
22:22in the bets of felony with intent to defeat justice is as guilty as a person who
22:27actually committed the crime I didn't know anything about it you know he was using
22:30your place to set me up as
22:31a clay pigeon but nothing I could do I'm not so sure you know Mr Monahan pretty
22:35well what if I did that doesn't prove anything and have
22:37a habit of confiding in their close friend maybe I used to be but no more Miller was
22:42fighting you through his newspaper you admitted to me you killed him you miserable.
22:48Captain writing we want to talk to you.
22:55Doc. Keep him covered.
23:05Turned big red loose but you're going to be minus
23:08a ranger. Drop them curly I don't want to have to shoot you in
23:16the back. You ain't shooting anybody these guns have hair triggers the slightest
23:23Charles set them off I'm going to swap you this yellow belly for big red step off
23:28the porch.
23:36Now for the other one.
24:00I did just as you told me to
24:02shut him in shoulder then disarmed him you're learning. I don't have to be.
24:13And write a letter to the governor. Tell him the trouble at Wilcox has been
24:17straightened out. Big Red Monahan and four of his men have been indicted for the
24:22murder of Sam Miller. Being transferred to the capital for trial.
24:27Never ends corporal. That he's on the war path right at the Great Western
24:32Compromise raids on the cattlemen near Bisbee.
24:40Travis. How soon can you be ready to travel again in about thirty minutes good
24:48get your horse ready the corporal have your orders ready by that time yes yes
24:52captain. Good luck thank you captain.
25:04This is the story of twenty six men who wrote the Arizona territory.
25:12I am the glory of twenty six men whose courage helped to build the territory.
25:18Twenty six men who saddled up and then rode off to answer duty's call.
25:26Twenty six men who lived to write again and fight for the rights and the liberty
25:32of all. This is a story of twenty six men enforcing law within the territory.
25:41Praise be the glory of twenty six men.
25:45Praise be the glory of twenty six men who wrote the Arizona territory.
25:52Ride on. Ride on. Ride on.