WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:19.000 Ranger Bill, Warrior of the Woodland. 00:19.000 --> 00:22.000 Ranger Bill, Warrior of the Woodland. 00:22.000 --> 00:27.000 Struggling against extreme odds, traveling dangerous trails, fighting the many enemies 00:27.000 --> 00:28.000 of nature. 00:28.000 --> 00:32.000 This is the job of the guardian of the forest, Ranger Bill. 00:32.000 --> 00:39.000 Pouring rain, freezing cold, blistering heat, snow, floods, bears, rattlesnakes, mountain lions. 00:39.000 --> 00:55.000 Yes, all this in exchange for the satisfaction and pride of a job well done. 00:55.000 --> 00:59.000 Brethren, the Lord's given me a vision. 00:59.000 --> 01:04.000 The one wire fence is a tool of the devil. 01:04.000 --> 01:16.000 Brethren, it's our duty to see that young Bradshaw doesn't put that one wire fence up. 01:16.000 --> 01:20.000 Unfortunately, there are men still living in our modern world who have taken certain 01:20.000 --> 01:26.000 liberties with the Scriptures and interpret God's word according to their own liking. 01:26.000 --> 01:31.000 The voice you just heard is that of Jeremiah's sikes, self-appointed leader and prophet of 01:31.000 --> 01:34.000 an isolated area called Elk Mesa. 01:34.000 --> 01:38.000 It wasn't too many years ago that Jeremiah was the leader of one of the bloodiest ranged 01:38.000 --> 01:41.000 wars the West has ever seen. 01:41.000 --> 01:46.000 And he and his clan held off the invaders and retained control of Elk Mesa. 01:46.000 --> 01:52.000 But now Jeremiah has overlooked one thing, or two, youth and progress. 01:52.000 --> 01:58.000 The dreams of the young empower them to tackle obstacles that would floor an older man. 01:58.000 --> 02:03.000 Such was young Herb Bradshaw, son of Jack Thunder Bradshaw. 02:03.000 --> 02:06.000 Thunder Bradshaw got his name from the ranged war days. 02:06.000 --> 02:10.000 He said he could shout a man to death or thunder him down with his guns. 02:10.000 --> 02:16.000 Well, right now, Herb and his dad are out at the old Conklin spread on Elk Mesa. 02:16.000 --> 02:21.000 Let's find out what happens in the story, The One Wire Fence. 02:26.000 --> 02:30.000 Son, you mean to say that you want to start out on your own with this run-down ramshackled 02:30.000 --> 02:32.000 spread way up here in Elk Mesa? 02:32.000 --> 02:34.000 Yeah, that's what I want, Dad. 02:34.000 --> 02:36.000 I don't understand, son. 02:36.000 --> 02:39.000 Your dad's the richest rancher this side of Central City. 02:39.000 --> 02:42.000 And I'd be glad to start you out on a decent spread. 02:42.000 --> 02:44.000 How'd you start out, Dad? 02:44.000 --> 02:48.000 With bare land, the sweat of my brow, and the best gun hand in the valley. 02:48.000 --> 02:50.000 Well, that's the way I want to start. 02:50.000 --> 02:53.000 Maybe not with the best gun hand, but with nothing. 02:53.000 --> 02:55.000 Build it up just like you did. 02:55.000 --> 03:00.000 You sent me to college to learn scientific ranching and animal husbandry. 03:00.000 --> 03:03.000 Well, now I want to build my own cattle empire. 03:03.000 --> 03:08.000 Ah, well, I guess you wouldn't be Thunder Bradshaw's son if you didn't. 03:08.000 --> 03:11.000 I can't stop you because it's in your blood. 03:11.000 --> 03:16.000 I'll have my lawyer draw up the papers, and I'll settle the back taxes and buy the lease. 03:16.000 --> 03:18.000 And then you can start to work. 03:18.000 --> 03:20.000 Thanks, Dad. Thanks a lot. 03:20.000 --> 03:23.000 I should thank you, son, for making me so proud of you. 03:23.000 --> 03:26.000 There's just one thing about this place you ought to know. 03:26.000 --> 03:28.000 Jeremiah Sykes? 03:28.000 --> 03:30.000 That's it, son. 03:30.000 --> 03:33.000 There isn't any reason I should have trouble with him, is there? 03:33.000 --> 03:34.000 I hope not. 03:34.000 --> 03:38.000 The Range War's been over and done with almost 30 years now. 03:38.000 --> 03:43.000 You were just a wee smidgen when your old dad's guns and Jeremiah's guns thundered across this country. 03:43.000 --> 03:46.000 Well, there's no reason for a Range War today. 03:46.000 --> 03:50.000 Maybe so, but don't you underestimate Jeremiah Sykes and his clan. 03:50.000 --> 03:55.000 Jeremiah walks around with a Bible in his left hand and a sharp-shooting rifle in the other. 03:55.000 --> 04:07.000 I'll put a bullet through you one minute, then pray over you the next. 04:07.000 --> 04:10.000 What do you make of it, Pa? 04:10.000 --> 04:14.000 Looks like the Spirit of the Lord moved into the Conklin place. 04:14.000 --> 04:16.000 He's about to fix it up, youngin'. 04:16.000 --> 04:19.000 Yeah, sure looks that way, Pa. 04:19.000 --> 04:22.000 Who do you reckon it is beside the Spirit of the Lord? 04:22.000 --> 04:24.000 Mind your tongue, youngin'. 04:24.000 --> 04:28.000 In a few days, we'll drop in neighborly-like and have a look-see. 04:28.000 --> 04:31.000 I reckon we will if you say so, Pa. 04:31.000 --> 04:34.000 Let me have another look into them glasses. 04:34.000 --> 04:37.000 Here. 04:37.000 --> 04:40.000 Hey, Pa, I got news for you. 04:40.000 --> 04:43.000 All right, Luke, speak it out. 04:43.000 --> 04:46.000 You know who it is that bought the Conklin place? 04:46.000 --> 04:51.000 No, youngin', the Lord ain't given me no visions about that yet. 04:51.000 --> 04:54.000 I recognize him now. 04:54.000 --> 04:56.000 It's her Bradshaw. 04:56.000 --> 04:58.000 You sure about that? 04:58.000 --> 05:00.000 I sure am for certain. 05:00.000 --> 05:07.000 I can see him and Shorty Petscher ridin' in there with their horses and a lot of gear. 05:07.000 --> 05:09.000 What do you think of that, Pa? 05:09.000 --> 05:14.000 He ain't doin' no harm, but if and he does, 05:14.000 --> 05:29.000 the Spirit of the Lord will direct my pairs to destroy them and try us to move again us. 05:29.000 --> 05:32.000 How come we're takin' the long way back to town? 05:32.000 --> 05:35.000 I want to stop and see how her Bradshaw's makin' out, pal. 05:35.000 --> 05:36.000 Hey, that's right. 05:36.000 --> 05:39.000 He's got the old Conklin place now. 05:39.000 --> 05:41.000 He sure has, honey. 05:41.000 --> 05:46.000 Lock, stock, and barrel, and there ain't much lock, stock, nor barrel. 05:46.000 --> 05:48.000 I have to give the young fella credit, though. 05:48.000 --> 05:51.000 Thunder Bradshaw is a plenty wealthy man. 05:51.000 --> 05:55.000 Herb could have an easy life, but he's a chip off the old block. 05:55.000 --> 05:58.000 Only there's one chip I hope he hasn't acquired. 05:58.000 --> 06:00.000 You mean a fast gun and a straight shot? 06:00.000 --> 06:02.000 That's what he means, honey. 06:02.000 --> 06:06.000 I guess that range war was pretty bad, wasn't it? 06:06.000 --> 06:07.000 Plenty bad. 06:07.000 --> 06:09.000 Now there's Herb spreadin' out. 06:09.000 --> 06:12.000 Yep, looks like he's got company. 06:12.000 --> 06:15.000 I'll say, quite a bit of company. 06:15.000 --> 06:22.000 This my eyesight, feels me, that's Jeremiah Sykes and Thunder Bradshaw wavin' arms at each other. 06:22.000 --> 06:24.000 Your eyesight isn't failing, old timer. 06:24.000 --> 06:28.000 Let's ride up slow and easy, find out what's goin' on. 06:28.000 --> 06:46.000 The Spirit of the Lord will punish you for interferein' with our neighborly visit to your youngin's ranch, Thunder Bradshaw. 06:46.000 --> 06:49.000 Don't try and pull that stuff off on me, Jeremiah. 06:49.000 --> 06:52.000 You blame Almighty God for everything you do. 06:52.000 --> 06:55.000 Why don't you stop the fraud and act like a man once? 06:55.000 --> 06:59.000 Almighty God isn't gonna have anything to do with the likes of you. 06:59.000 --> 07:01.000 The Spirit of the Lord will take you to... 07:01.000 --> 07:06.000 Close your blasphemy and yap and listen to me once, will ya? 07:06.000 --> 07:08.000 All right, that's better. 07:08.000 --> 07:15.000 As for your neighborly visit, well, I think you're just nosin' around and you better vamoose outta here. 07:15.000 --> 07:18.000 We come here to visit your youngin, not you. 07:18.000 --> 07:23.000 Maybe I better leave, Jeremiah, before you and Dad get so riled up there's trouble. 07:23.000 --> 07:26.000 I reckon he's right, Paul. Let's get. 07:26.000 --> 07:31.000 There's too many Bradshaw cowpokes round here for us to whoop anyhow. 07:31.000 --> 07:33.000 All right, youngin. 07:33.000 --> 07:41.000 Don't you push me too far, Thunder, or there'll be some new graves in that cemetery of yon over yonder. 07:41.000 --> 07:43.000 Just a minute, Jeremiah. 07:43.000 --> 07:44.000 Hey, he comes on. 07:44.000 --> 07:49.000 All right, lads, you must have come right up outta the ground, Mr. Jefferson. 07:49.000 --> 07:50.000 Where'd you fellas come from? 07:50.000 --> 07:53.000 Not outta the ground, Herb. We just rode in quietly and listened. 07:53.000 --> 07:55.000 Well, welcome to my spread. 07:55.000 --> 07:59.000 Thanks. Jeremiah, I heard the threat you made. 07:59.000 --> 08:04.000 You heard her right. The Spirit of the Lord's given me a vision. 08:04.000 --> 08:08.000 Now, just a minute. You don't know the first thing about the Holy Spirit. 08:08.000 --> 08:14.000 If you would read your Bible the way it should be read, you'd find out that you're a blaspheming man, Jeremiah. 08:14.000 --> 08:15.000 Ha-ha, that's tellin' him, Bill. 08:15.000 --> 08:19.000 You hold your tongue, Thunder. Now, listen to me, both of you. 08:19.000 --> 08:22.000 There's not going to be any range war again. 08:22.000 --> 08:25.000 The first man that tries to start it'll have me to deal with. 08:25.000 --> 08:28.000 And that goes for the one who shoots back, too. 08:28.000 --> 08:32.000 There's still bad blood running here, but that's all it's going to do, run. 08:32.000 --> 08:37.000 First drop that's spilled will bring the strong arm of the law down into your necks like the plague. 08:37.000 --> 08:38.000 Is that plain enough? 08:38.000 --> 08:43.000 Yes, sir, it is. Come on, young'un, let's go. 08:43.000 --> 08:49.000 All right, fall. 08:49.000 --> 08:52.000 Thunder, you have every right to visit your son's spread. 08:52.000 --> 08:56.000 You'd better not let me catch you irritating Jeremiah and his clan, you understand? 08:56.000 --> 09:00.000 Yep. Let's go, boys. I'll see you in a few days, son. 09:00.000 --> 09:02.000 Okay, Dad. Come on up as soon as you can. 09:02.000 --> 09:09.000 Let's go. 09:09.000 --> 09:27.000 I'm sorry I had to get tough, Herb, but I could see the old war blood beginning to boil and I don't like it. 09:27.000 --> 09:31.000 Boss, you sure got yourself an idea here. 09:31.000 --> 09:33.000 Glad you like it, Shorty. 09:33.000 --> 09:38.000 I didn't say I liked it. I said you sure got yourself an idea. 09:38.000 --> 09:40.000 What's that supposed to mean? 09:40.000 --> 09:42.000 Here, have some water. 09:42.000 --> 09:43.000 Thanks. 09:43.000 --> 09:53.000 What in the name of common sense are you going to do with all this twisted and tangled barbed wire fence after we get through ripping it out of the ground? 09:53.000 --> 09:56.000 You'd like to spend your free evening straightening it out. 09:56.000 --> 10:03.000 Me? Why, Herb, you know I spend my evenings carting the winter smith. 10:03.000 --> 10:05.000 All the way from Elk Mesa. 10:05.000 --> 10:11.000 Well, maybe not every evening, but tell me, will ya, what's with this fence ripping? 10:11.000 --> 10:14.000 I'm going to put a new one in, Shorty. 10:14.000 --> 10:18.000 Now there's a logical answer if I ever heard one. 10:18.000 --> 10:21.000 Why do you got to tear out the good fence posts then? 10:21.000 --> 10:24.000 Can't we replace the rotten ones, string new wire? 10:24.000 --> 10:28.000 I want to use steel posts and just one wire. 10:28.000 --> 10:33.000 Better let me have that canteen back. There must be something in it besides water. 10:33.000 --> 10:35.000 No, it's just water, Shorty. 10:35.000 --> 10:38.000 You said you were putting up just one wire fence. 10:38.000 --> 10:40.000 That's right, just one wire. 10:40.000 --> 10:43.000 Poor fellow, so young to go off his trolley. 10:43.000 --> 10:45.000 Think you never heard of a one wire fence? 10:45.000 --> 10:48.000 No, but that isn't what disturbs me most. 10:48.000 --> 10:51.000 No, what does disturb you most? 10:51.000 --> 10:55.000 Who ever heard of a one wire fence that would hold a stear or a horse? 10:55.000 --> 11:00.000 The fellow's got troubles keeping some of them in with six strands of barbed wire. 11:00.000 --> 11:03.000 This one wire will hold them all right, Shorty. 11:03.000 --> 11:06.000 I've got it. Why didn't I think of it before? 11:06.000 --> 11:08.000 Think of what? 11:08.000 --> 11:12.000 You're going to get your herd from that cowpoke university you went to. 11:12.000 --> 11:14.000 They got education. 11:14.000 --> 11:18.000 They know they ain't supposed to go over or under a one wire fence. 11:26.000 --> 11:27.000 Paul? 11:27.000 --> 11:29.000 Yes, youngin'. 11:29.000 --> 11:32.000 Now, what's that Herb Bradshaw up to? 11:32.000 --> 11:36.000 Why, he done tore up all the fence posts on his spread. 11:36.000 --> 11:39.000 Maybe he's done been took with the fits. 11:39.000 --> 11:45.000 The spirit of the Lord told me there'd be strange things for our eyes to see. 11:45.000 --> 11:48.000 Of course, that was a crumbled down fence. 11:48.000 --> 11:50.000 Well, maybe he just... 11:50.000 --> 11:51.000 Mind your tongue. 11:51.000 --> 11:52.000 Okay. 11:52.000 --> 11:54.000 Let me figure this out. 11:54.000 --> 11:56.000 All right, Paul, but I know one thing for sure. 11:56.000 --> 11:57.000 What's that? 11:57.000 --> 12:00.000 Well, I know Herb went to the university, 12:00.000 --> 12:05.000 and he's going to run that spread real scientific-like. 12:05.000 --> 12:09.000 I've seen some of the beef they have over there at the university, 12:09.000 --> 12:13.000 and you've never seen such beautiful critters in your life. 12:13.000 --> 12:17.000 Well, honest, Paul, and I figure Herb's going to have some the same way. 12:17.000 --> 12:18.000 Now, you wait and see. 12:18.000 --> 12:30.000 He ain't going to have them long unless he gets some fence lined up, youngin'. 12:30.000 --> 12:35.000 Herb, I've had it. 12:35.000 --> 12:39.000 This cowpoke is plum water off frazzle. 12:39.000 --> 12:41.000 Me too. 12:41.000 --> 12:45.000 Guess you won't be courtin' the widow's smith this evening, eh, shorty? 12:45.000 --> 12:47.000 Who said it, boss? 12:47.000 --> 12:50.000 I'm courtin' a good supper and then relax. 12:50.000 --> 12:55.000 When I get through relaxin', I'm gonna sleep. 12:55.000 --> 13:00.000 When I get tired of sleepin', I'm gonna turn over and sleep some more. 13:00.000 --> 13:02.000 Me too, buddy. 13:02.000 --> 13:06.000 Yeah, in the mornin', I'll tow the rest of this stuff over to the junk pound. 13:06.000 --> 13:09.000 Store it there until I can figure out how to get rid of it. 13:09.000 --> 13:14.000 I still can't get over that one wire fence and them education critters. 13:14.000 --> 13:15.000 Shorty? 13:15.000 --> 13:19.000 Don't tell me you haven't ever heard of a one-wire fence, electric fence. 13:19.000 --> 13:21.000 A what? 13:21.000 --> 13:22.000 An electric fence. 13:22.000 --> 13:26.000 With honest to goodness electricity juice in it? 13:26.000 --> 13:27.000 Yeah. 13:27.000 --> 13:32.000 You're gonna raise a big hurt if you fry all the critters on the hot wire. 13:32.000 --> 13:34.000 Nah, it won't be hot enough to fry a grasshopper. 13:34.000 --> 13:37.000 Just enough to scare them as soon as they touch it. 13:37.000 --> 13:41.000 Is that the truth, boss? 13:41.000 --> 13:42.000 Sure. 13:42.000 --> 13:44.000 I don't want to electrocute anyone, man or beast. 13:44.000 --> 13:50.000 I don't think you would, but you say you're gonna hang the one wire on steel posts? 13:50.000 --> 13:51.000 That's right. 13:51.000 --> 13:52.000 With insulators. 13:52.000 --> 13:55.000 Steel posts are easy to move and strong. 13:55.000 --> 13:57.000 They don't rot. 13:57.000 --> 14:01.000 You know, boss, maybe you're not as crazy as you act after all. 14:01.000 --> 14:03.000 Well, thank you, Shorty. 14:03.000 --> 14:06.000 Barbed wire has hurt many a good dogie real bad. 14:06.000 --> 14:09.000 And torn a good host of shreds. 14:09.000 --> 14:13.000 Will them critters ever go near the one-wire fence after they once touched it? 14:13.000 --> 14:14.000 Not usually. 14:14.000 --> 14:15.000 That's another advantage. 14:15.000 --> 14:16.000 I understand. 14:16.000 --> 14:18.000 You get messed up a lot like Christy, Juice. 14:18.000 --> 14:20.000 I won't go near it either. 14:20.000 --> 14:23.000 It isn't that strong. 14:23.000 --> 14:24.000 That's hit the hay. 14:24.000 --> 14:26.000 I've got to go to the end of the town in the morning. 14:26.000 --> 14:29.000 Get that one-wire fence at the freight depot. 14:29.000 --> 14:44.000 Oh, Herb, I heard you've taken over the old Concom place. 14:44.000 --> 14:45.000 Yeah, that's right, Cy. 14:45.000 --> 14:47.000 See, you know my fence didn't come in yesterday like it was promised? 14:47.000 --> 14:49.000 Sure did, boy. 14:49.000 --> 14:52.000 How come you ain't got no barbed wire fence over there, huh? 14:52.000 --> 14:53.000 I won't need it, Cy. 14:53.000 --> 14:55.000 This is an electric fence. 14:55.000 --> 14:56.000 Oh, why, sure. 14:56.000 --> 14:57.000 I wasn't thinking. 14:57.000 --> 15:02.000 I should have known that these electric control boxes and smooth wires for an electric fence, 15:02.000 --> 15:03.000 it's all piled on the ramp. 15:03.000 --> 15:08.000 You can back your truck around to it and have yourself a bale of fun. 15:08.000 --> 15:09.000 Hey, get that, boy. 15:09.000 --> 15:12.000 A bale of wire, a bale of fun. 15:12.000 --> 15:14.000 Yeah, I got it, Cy. 15:14.000 --> 15:15.000 Here's my check to cover the bill. 15:15.000 --> 15:17.000 I've got to get busy now. 15:17.000 --> 15:18.000 See you later. 15:18.000 --> 15:19.000 Sure thing. 15:19.000 --> 15:21.000 Oh, as the youngsters say, see you later, alligator. 15:21.000 --> 15:23.000 After a while, crocodile. 15:23.000 --> 15:24.000 Huh? 15:24.000 --> 15:27.000 Oh, yeah. 15:54.000 --> 15:56.000 Well, some fellas have all the fun in life. 15:56.000 --> 15:57.000 Oh, hi, Bill. 15:57.000 --> 15:58.000 I didn't hear you walk up. 15:58.000 --> 15:59.000 How are you? 15:59.000 --> 16:00.000 Busy, happy. 16:00.000 --> 16:05.000 Let's see, someone has the courage to start using an electric fence up in Elk Mesa. 16:05.000 --> 16:06.000 Say, do you really mean that? 16:06.000 --> 16:07.000 Of course I do. 16:07.000 --> 16:11.000 Many valuable animals have been lost in the barbed wire. 16:11.000 --> 16:13.000 You know Pete Jones, don't you? 16:13.000 --> 16:17.000 Yeah, he's a dairy farmer over at Junction Cityway, isn't he? 16:17.000 --> 16:18.000 Big operator? 16:18.000 --> 16:19.000 Right. 16:19.000 --> 16:23.000 Well, he lost a fine brown Swiss cow because she got her tail caught in a barbed wire fence. 16:23.000 --> 16:25.000 And of course, she tried to get free. 16:25.000 --> 16:31.000 She got free all right by pulling the switch off her tail and all the vertebrae in her back out of line. 16:31.000 --> 16:32.000 No kidding. 16:32.000 --> 16:34.000 She had total loss? 16:34.000 --> 16:35.000 Yeah. 16:35.000 --> 16:37.000 Shipped her out to the canners for little or nothing. 16:37.000 --> 16:41.000 Pete figured he lost $30,000 in that barbed wire fence. 16:41.000 --> 16:44.000 $30,000 on one cow? 16:44.000 --> 16:45.000 Mm-hmm. 16:45.000 --> 16:51.000 By the time you add in the milk production he lost, pure bred calves, she would have given birth to, and milk from them. 16:51.000 --> 16:53.000 That is milk from the heifer calves. 16:53.000 --> 16:57.000 Pure blooded bull calves would have sold for a nice price at Wheaties Top. 16:57.000 --> 16:58.000 That's right. 16:58.000 --> 17:01.000 I'm sure glad it wasn't me that that happened to. 17:01.000 --> 17:03.000 Hey, give you a hand loading the fence. 17:03.000 --> 17:04.000 Well, thanks. 17:04.000 --> 17:05.000 Two can do it quicker than one. 17:05.000 --> 17:06.000 Let's go. 17:06.000 --> 17:09.000 Boss, this machine beats digging post holes all the pieces. 17:09.000 --> 17:11.000 I'll say it does, Shorty. 17:11.000 --> 17:17.000 What's more, to take the steel posts out of the ground, all you have to do is use this post jack and hoist them right up. 17:17.000 --> 17:19.000 How about that? 17:19.000 --> 17:24.000 Maybe I'll have more time to court the Witter Smith than I figured with all this work. 17:24.000 --> 17:27.000 I'm sure you'll be able to get a good deal out of it. 17:27.000 --> 17:29.000 I'm sure you'll be able to get a good deal out of it. 17:29.000 --> 17:31.000 I'm sure you'll be able to get a good deal out of it. 17:31.000 --> 17:33.000 I'm sure you'll be able to get a good deal out of it. 17:33.000 --> 17:40.000 I'm sure you'll be able to get a good deal out of it. 17:40.000 --> 17:44.000 To court the Witter Smith than I figured with all this modern and scientific ransom. 17:44.000 --> 17:45.000 Sure you will. 17:45.000 --> 17:50.000 I'll have you washing windows and painting the fence. 17:50.000 --> 17:54.000 Boss, you take all the hope out of an old bachelor when you say that. 17:54.000 --> 18:01.000 We better pound steel posts, hop on them til sunset so I don't have to watch the windows and paint fences. 18:01.000 --> 18:04.200 I suppose old Jeremiah and his boys are gonna say 18:04.200 --> 18:08.400 when they see this one wire fence full of electricity juice. 18:08.400 --> 18:09.320 Nothing. 18:09.320 --> 18:10.840 What can they say? 18:10.840 --> 18:12.920 It's my fence, it's on my property. 18:12.920 --> 18:15.480 Yeah, I hope you're right. 18:15.480 --> 18:17.640 Even though I'm gonna be a bachelor, 18:17.640 --> 18:31.560 I sure would like to live to be an old one. 18:31.560 --> 18:35.280 What kind of a fence is that herb putting up, Paul? 18:35.280 --> 18:38.400 Appears to be a fool's fence, youngin'. 18:38.400 --> 18:42.440 How's he spec'd to hold beasts with one wire? 18:42.440 --> 18:45.840 Hey, Paul, why, that's a smooth wire, too. 18:45.840 --> 18:52.400 What? Give me them glasses. 18:52.400 --> 18:54.440 You're right, youngin'. 18:54.440 --> 18:58.040 What kind of a devil's tool's that? 18:58.040 --> 19:00.280 Let's us go take a look at it. 19:00.280 --> 19:03.000 Come the dark of night, we will. 19:03.000 --> 19:15.720 We surely will. 19:15.720 --> 19:17.440 Here's the fence, Paul. 19:17.440 --> 19:20.120 I can see it with my own eyes, youngin'. 19:20.120 --> 19:22.400 Why, it is a smooth wire, all right. 19:22.400 --> 19:24.480 It's real smooth. 19:24.480 --> 19:28.240 I'm gonna touch it and find out what he's got on that wire 19:28.240 --> 19:30.360 to make them critters stay back. 19:30.360 --> 19:31.320 Ah! 19:31.320 --> 19:32.160 I'm tangled up! 19:32.160 --> 19:33.360 Luke, what's wrong? 19:33.360 --> 19:36.200 You got the devil fits? 19:36.200 --> 19:37.600 Paul, look, let's go. 19:37.600 --> 19:39.680 There's evil spirits in that wire. 19:39.680 --> 19:44.440 The spirit of the Lord told me no good was to come of this. 19:44.440 --> 19:46.680 As his servant and prophet, 19:46.680 --> 19:50.120 I'm gonna destroy this tool of the devil. 19:50.120 --> 19:51.760 Don't touch it, Paul. 19:51.760 --> 19:55.200 The evil spirits will make you jump and holler. 19:55.200 --> 19:57.240 They sure are mean spirits. 19:57.240 --> 19:59.000 You're right, Luke. 19:59.000 --> 20:00.960 Well, there's a box at the end. 20:00.960 --> 20:03.960 Maybe that's where them evil spirits come from. 20:03.960 --> 20:05.680 Maybe so, youngin'. 20:05.680 --> 20:10.000 I'll shoot the box and kill them evil spirits. 20:10.000 --> 20:17.000 Hey, boss, what was that? 20:24.200 --> 20:26.480 Sounded like rifle shots. 20:26.480 --> 20:28.800 Seems like I can hear them, too. 20:28.800 --> 20:30.240 Yeah, thought I was dreaming there for a minute. 20:30.240 --> 20:31.800 There's no dream, Herbie. 20:31.800 --> 20:34.200 Sonar's running out of spread. 20:34.200 --> 20:36.240 Let's get out there and find out what's going on. 20:36.240 --> 20:38.240 You son of a... Where did I load my rifle? 20:38.240 --> 20:39.400 No rifle. 20:39.400 --> 20:39.920 Boss! 20:39.920 --> 20:41.000 You heard me. 20:41.000 --> 20:42.200 No rifle. 20:42.200 --> 20:49.200 Let's go. 20:51.120 --> 20:53.920 Are you sure the shots came from this direction? 20:53.920 --> 20:55.760 No, but I think so. 20:55.760 --> 20:57.800 Hey, there's the new fence. 20:57.800 --> 21:00.920 Hey, wait a minute. 21:00.920 --> 21:03.760 That control box, he shot to pieces. 21:03.760 --> 21:05.040 Little pieces. 21:05.040 --> 21:07.800 That's the understatement of the year. 21:07.800 --> 21:10.600 Let me have a light over here. 21:10.600 --> 21:14.720 Sure. Hey, the wire's torn off the post. 21:14.720 --> 21:18.320 Yeah, somebody must have gotten nosy and touched the fence. 21:18.320 --> 21:20.360 I'll say they did. Touched it real hard. 21:20.360 --> 21:23.680 Hear the prophet of the Lord. 21:23.680 --> 21:29.480 The spirit of the Lord has given me a vision of a tool of the devil. 21:29.480 --> 21:32.240 And it's on your land. 21:32.240 --> 21:35.400 Hear the prophet of the Lord. 21:35.400 --> 21:42.400 Destroy the one wire fence, or you will be destroyed. 21:55.360 --> 21:57.720 That big blowhard. 21:57.720 --> 22:01.720 What does he think he is? Why don't you send for your dad? 22:01.720 --> 22:03.080 No, I don't mean bloodshed. 22:03.080 --> 22:04.800 Maybe it wouldn't be so bad. 22:04.800 --> 22:07.200 We'd get rid of that nut up there in the hills. 22:07.200 --> 22:10.600 Shorty, don't you ever talk like that again. 22:10.600 --> 22:12.800 There ain't gonna be no range war if I can help it. 22:12.800 --> 22:19.200 Ah, sure. I'll make some coffee. 22:19.200 --> 22:20.280 Boss? 22:20.280 --> 22:21.000 Yeah? 22:21.000 --> 22:23.400 You better call Bill Jefferson. 22:23.400 --> 22:27.000 He said the guy that fired the first shot goes head first into the cooler. 22:27.000 --> 22:30.400 No, Shorty. You just don't understand the problem. 22:30.400 --> 22:31.800 Yeah, sure I do. 22:31.800 --> 22:34.200 That stupid old geezer up there in the hills 22:34.200 --> 22:36.000 is trying to run you off your spread. 22:36.000 --> 22:38.000 You're right to a point. 22:38.000 --> 22:40.000 Jeremiah's not stupid. 22:40.000 --> 22:43.000 Ignorant, yes. Backward, yeah. 22:43.000 --> 22:44.800 He's not stupid. 22:44.800 --> 22:47.800 They saw us put up the one wire fence. 22:47.800 --> 22:50.600 They came down at night to investigate. 22:50.600 --> 22:54.400 Then one of them grabbed a hold of the wire and the fun began. 22:54.400 --> 22:58.200 I thought I heard somebody yelling and carrying on out there. 22:58.200 --> 22:59.800 It could have been Luke. 22:59.800 --> 23:01.000 Possibly. 23:01.000 --> 23:02.800 Doesn't really matter who it was. 23:02.800 --> 23:07.800 Fact is that they just didn't understand what happened when they touched the wire. 23:07.800 --> 23:12.200 Isn't that strong a joke, but they let their imaginations run away with it. 23:12.200 --> 23:14.400 You can say that again. 23:16.400 --> 23:21.800 I sure would have liked to see old Luke tangoing with that fence. 23:21.800 --> 23:26.400 He sure must have hopped around like a frog on a hot rock. 23:28.000 --> 23:32.200 Say, what are you gonna do in the morning, boss? 23:32.200 --> 23:34.200 Go out and put the fence back up. 23:43.600 --> 23:48.000 Stumpy, I have a strong premonition about Herb's one wire fence. 23:48.000 --> 23:55.200 How about you and Grey Wolf riding out that way and sort of easing yourselves close into Elk Mesa without being seen? 23:55.200 --> 23:57.600 Yep, easy to do. 23:57.600 --> 24:00.400 Take the portable radio and stay there all day. 24:00.400 --> 24:02.200 If any trouble starts, call me. 24:02.200 --> 24:06.000 I'll hop out in the computer and settle those fellas down for good this time. 24:18.600 --> 24:23.000 How dare you defy the prophet of the Lord. 24:23.000 --> 24:26.400 Destroy that tool of the devil. 24:26.400 --> 24:28.800 It's full of evil spirits. 24:28.800 --> 24:31.200 This is no tool of the devil. 24:31.200 --> 24:34.000 It's an electric fence. It's perfectly harmless. 24:34.000 --> 24:39.000 You will listen to the prophet of the Lord or you'll die. 24:39.000 --> 24:42.200 You are gonna tell me what to do on my own land, Jeremiah. 24:42.200 --> 24:46.200 You kill me and you'll be executed for murder. You'll also start a range war. 24:46.200 --> 24:49.800 I, the prophet of the Lord, have spoken. 24:49.800 --> 24:52.800 Yeah? I have spoken too. 24:52.800 --> 24:54.400 Hand me that roll of wire, Shorty. 24:54.400 --> 24:58.800 I don't know if I should, boss. That old crackpot's just liable to shoot you down. 24:58.800 --> 25:00.200 You heard me. 25:00.200 --> 25:02.400 Yeah, here it is. 25:02.400 --> 25:04.000 You get back. 25:04.000 --> 25:06.400 If they shoot me down, you go get Bill. 25:06.400 --> 25:07.800 He'll take over from there. 25:16.600 --> 25:18.600 Thunder, Thunder, where are you? 25:18.600 --> 25:20.200 Right here. Are they shooting that herb? 25:20.200 --> 25:23.000 Yeah. I watched like you said. 25:23.000 --> 25:26.200 They wrecked the fence last night and Herb's trying to rebuild it. 25:26.200 --> 25:27.600 Now they're giving him hot lead. 25:27.600 --> 25:30.200 Come on up, boys. We're riding up to Elf Mesa. 25:30.200 --> 25:32.800 That old fool wants another range war. We'll give it to him. 25:32.800 --> 25:34.200 Let's go. Come on. 25:34.200 --> 25:35.600 Let's keep going out here. 25:35.600 --> 25:37.600 No, let's go out here. 25:52.200 --> 25:54.800 Slim, take ten men and hit them from the right flank. 25:54.800 --> 25:55.400 You bet. 25:55.400 --> 25:57.600 Al, you take ten men and hit them from the left flank. 25:57.600 --> 25:58.000 Please. 25:58.000 --> 26:00.400 The rest of you, come with me and wait for my signal. 26:00.400 --> 26:02.200 Jeremiah wants war. He'll get it. 26:02.200 --> 26:04.800 I'm not called Thunder Branch or for the fun of it. 26:13.200 --> 26:16.400 Boss, here comes your old dad in his old outfit. 26:16.400 --> 26:18.800 Oh, no. How'd he get wind of this? 26:18.800 --> 26:20.200 I don't know, but he did. 26:23.800 --> 26:26.600 Dismount, scatter and fight on foot. Away from my signal. 26:29.400 --> 26:31.000 No, dad. No, this is wrong. 26:31.000 --> 26:32.200 Out of my way, son. 26:32.200 --> 26:34.800 We're going to finish off Jeremiah and his clan for good this time. 26:34.800 --> 26:37.000 You do and I'll be ashamed to call you my father. 26:37.000 --> 26:39.200 What? Why, you ungrateful whelp. 26:40.200 --> 26:42.200 Well, get out of here. Are you ready, boys? 26:42.600 --> 26:43.800 Yeah, let's go then. 26:44.600 --> 26:47.400 Hey, there's a helicopter coming into the mesa. 26:56.800 --> 26:59.200 Put down your rifles. 26:59.200 --> 27:07.400 Jeremiah, Thunder, put down your rifles and meet me at the one wire fence. 27:07.800 --> 27:09.800 This is Bill Jefferson. 27:10.200 --> 27:15.000 Put down your rifles and meet me at the one wire fence. 27:15.000 --> 27:31.000 Any man that doesn't obey my order goes to jail if he doesn't get shot first. 27:32.000 --> 27:35.000 And that's the story of the one wire fence, Jeremiah. 27:35.000 --> 27:37.000 Safer for a livestock and it's harmless. 27:37.000 --> 27:39.000 Here, let me grab a hold of you. 27:39.000 --> 27:42.000 Look out there. Them evil spirits will grab you like they did me. 27:42.000 --> 27:46.000 You're talking about the low power electrical impulses, Luke. 27:46.000 --> 27:49.000 They're absolutely harmless. I can feel them just a little bit. 27:49.000 --> 27:53.000 It appears our actions were born out of ignorance, hub. 27:53.000 --> 27:58.000 I'll say they were. Not only your actions, but Thunder's action too. 27:58.000 --> 28:00.000 He's right, isn't he, dad? 28:00.000 --> 28:02.000 Yeah, he's right, son. 28:02.000 --> 28:05.000 I'm sorry for the smash I gave you in the face. 28:05.000 --> 28:08.000 It didn't hurt a bit, dad. Honest. 28:08.000 --> 28:13.000 I reckon we'd better be getting for home, Luke. 28:13.000 --> 28:17.000 Now, just a minute, Jeremiah. You too, Thunder. 28:17.000 --> 28:19.000 Jeremiah, you got your Bible with you? 28:19.000 --> 28:23.000 Of course. I always got my Bible with me. 28:23.000 --> 28:28.000 Good. Because you and I and Thunder are going to sit down and I'll read it to the both of you. 28:28.000 --> 28:37.000 And if it takes until Doomsday, you're going to know and understand what God's word has to say about sin and salvation and Christian love. 28:37.000 --> 28:40.000 And also about false prophets. 28:40.000 --> 28:47.000 You know, Bill, I think maybe my one-wire offense is good for more than Jotun Livestock into staying inside where they belong. 28:47.000 --> 29:03.000 And it certainly was, boys and girls. Jeremiah and Thunder took quite a while to shake hands, but they did. 29:03.000 --> 29:11.000 And now there's peace and quiet over a troubled land once more. All started and ended with the one-wire fence. 29:11.000 --> 29:14.000 See you next week for more Adventure with... 29:14.000 --> 29:41.000 Adventure Fails! 29:44.000 --> 29:50.000 Adventure Fails!