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.
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