WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:04.960 How you doing there folks? This is Ken Maynard with another tale from the Diamond Cave. 00:04.960 --> 00:08.960 You know it's mighty nice to make new friends and kind of visit with the old ones too. 00:09.840 --> 00:12.400 Tarzan would like to say hello too wouldn't you boy? 00:18.800 --> 00:22.800 You know that is a way of inviting you to visit with us for the next 15 minutes. 00:23.520 --> 00:26.640 I've got a little yarn to tell you about a friend of mine, 00:26.640 --> 00:32.080 old rusty Bill used to hunt and scout along the river Colorado way out there in the Indian country. 00:33.280 --> 00:37.440 Well sir, the tack room door is open so why don't you all come right on in. 00:37.440 --> 00:42.240 From the tack room of Ken Maynard's Diamond Cave Ranch, we're bringing you transcribed stories of 00:42.240 --> 00:47.760 adventures, stories of circus life, fascinating tales of the old west where cowboys still follow 00:47.760 --> 00:53.440 the cattle trails, stories of rodeos and parades, colorful legends of the red man, 00:53.440 --> 00:59.360 hidden gold and buried treasure. The exciting tales from the Diamond Cave are told by Hollywood's 00:59.360 --> 01:06.560 champion of western stars, internationally famous Ken Maynard. Now when you meet a champion like Ken, 01:06.560 --> 01:13.760 you just know he's full of adventurous stories, real life stories too. For did you know Ken Maynard 01:13.760 --> 01:20.240 holds the world's championship for trick riding and Ken's hunted for gold himself. Stunt ridden 01:20.240 --> 01:25.440 in the circus, made scores of movies in Hollywood and so on. So naturally his stories are just 01:25.440 --> 01:32.320 loaded with thrills and kids you can have some of those stories for your very own to hear anytime 01:32.320 --> 01:37.600 you want. I'm talking about Ken's exciting Diamond Cave album of phonograph records and listen, 01:37.600 --> 01:43.040 these stories were made especially for you. Ken opens the stories with a personal message for you 01:43.040 --> 01:52.480 and he'll call you by name like hello George or Dawn or Sally. Ken will speak right to you alone 01:52.480 --> 02:01.040 on your set of Ken Maynard records. Now can you tie that partner? No siree and you can't beat the 02:01.040 --> 02:08.320 value either. Here's what you get, a beautiful full color record album with a thrilling picture of Ken 02:08.320 --> 02:15.360 and Tarzan on the front and inside are four sides. That's two complete Wild West stories that start 02:15.360 --> 02:22.320 out by Ken talking personally to you. The two big eight inch unbreakable pure vinyl light records 02:22.320 --> 02:28.240 are standard 78 rpm speed for the regular familiar kind of phonograph and they have pictures of Ken 02:28.240 --> 02:34.960 and Tarzan right on the records. And it's so easy to get them. All you do is send your name and address 02:34.960 --> 02:42.960 to Ken Maynard in care of this station and enclose a one dollar bill. Just one that's all. Just a one 02:42.960 --> 02:49.440 dollar bill for ages of fun and enjoyment. Now don't forget you can't buy these records in any store 02:49.440 --> 02:56.800 because Ken makes them just for you and he calls you by name right on the record. Now don't you 02:56.800 --> 03:01.200 wait to get your Diamond Cave record album. The sooner you write Ken the sooner you get your 03:01.200 --> 03:08.880 personalized album. So right now to Ken Maynard and close a one dollar bill and your name and address 03:08.880 --> 03:14.240 and send it to this station. Now let's hear the exciting story Ken has for us today. Ken? 03:15.440 --> 03:20.320 Well folks we're going to get on with our story now. You know when I was a youngster just starting 03:20.320 --> 03:26.880 to ride the cattle trails I met an old crapper an Indian scout his name was Rusty Bill. We were 03:26.880 --> 03:32.560 sitting around a chuck wagon just before child time my first trip on a cattle roundup. Old Rusty 03:32.560 --> 03:38.240 said to me that I'm going to give you a piece of advice young fella. Maybe it won't mean much now 03:38.240 --> 03:42.240 but in years to come while you're riding through life it might keep the trails open for you. 03:43.120 --> 03:47.760 Well I never forgot what he said and so I kind of like to pass it on to you youngsters because 03:47.760 --> 03:53.920 it kind of pertains to everything we do. Rusty Bill said keep your eyes on the trail sometimes 03:53.920 --> 03:58.560 it twists and turns. Remember the water holes because there's always someone passing by. 03:59.200 --> 04:04.000 When you're not climbing the hills remember it's rest not speed that gets you to the top. 04:05.040 --> 04:10.480 Watch the trees they always bend with the wind and when you're lost don't keep pushing on. It's 04:10.480 --> 04:16.800 not too much trouble to go back and start all over again. Well sir and then on I spent much 04:16.800 --> 04:21.600 time as I could with old Rusty. He taught me a goody about horses guns and men. 04:21.600 --> 04:25.680 I wasn't very old when I made my first trip from Colorado across the mountains and down into 04:25.680 --> 04:30.560 eastern Arizona. We were trailing a string of ponies. It was about the middle of the summer 04:30.560 --> 04:36.000 and we were camping a small ravine somewhere near the little Colorado River. Old Rusty was frying 04:36.000 --> 04:41.120 a pan of bacon that smelled mighty sweet in the early evening there. I was sitting on a dead log 04:41.120 --> 04:46.960 alongside the mountain stream watching the chipmunks darting out among the rocks. Then I heard 04:46.960 --> 04:53.280 old Rusty's voice call me Ken boy come on over here. I reckon this is the prettiest country you 04:53.280 --> 04:59.360 ever saw huh. Now take this very spot we're camping on nothing like it nowhere else in the world he 04:59.360 --> 05:03.920 said. I've been following this trail back and forth and hunting and trapping for years. 05:04.640 --> 05:09.840 Most every time I've camped in this very spot you can see the ashes and burnt rock all around come 05:09.840 --> 05:15.360 over here. I got up from the log and followed him to a big stone a dozen feet away. He looked 05:15.360 --> 05:20.160 at me his wrinkled old face lit up with pride. See that stone with the writing on it son? 05:20.640 --> 05:26.800 Well sir I fixed that myself in 1901 got my name and party I was taking through. 05:27.360 --> 05:32.480 Then he looked around the hills and said I know where the rock and tree stream along this here old 05:32.480 --> 05:39.680 trail clean into southern Arizona. Look down the ridge Ken you see that old cabin. I couldn't be 05:39.680 --> 05:45.920 lonesome as long as I saw that once a year. You see I helped build it Rusty said. Mighty funny how 05:45.920 --> 05:51.840 it all come about. It's a strange story. Mighty strange. Don't get me talking now there's work to 05:51.840 --> 05:58.080 be done. Better check up on a horse or son. It was hard for me to leave then. Old Rusty was a great 05:58.080 --> 06:03.440 storyteller but he was the boss. As I checked the hobbles on the last horse to see if they'd be 06:03.440 --> 06:08.400 all right for the night I happened to look down the ridge and what I thought I saw almost made 06:08.400 --> 06:16.720 my heart stop beating. I started to camp calling for Rusty. Rusty, Rusty, hey Bill. Well he dropped 06:16.720 --> 06:21.920 the frying pan came running to meet me. I said Rusty use your glasses quick look down that ridge. 06:22.640 --> 06:27.440 You see that big rock in front of the cabin? Old Rusty looked at me in a kind of disgusted way then 06:27.440 --> 06:33.440 he grunted. Of course I see it. I've been seeing it for a good many years. What is there about that 06:33.440 --> 06:39.840 rock that got you so all fired excited? I pointed again at the rock and my voice must have quivers. 06:39.840 --> 06:45.360 I said well there's a girl an Indian girl dressed in white buckskin stand on that rock. 06:45.840 --> 06:54.080 Is she real or am I seeing things? Say kids you enjoy my story? Hope so because it's always been a 06:54.080 --> 06:58.560 favorite of mine. Let me just wove here for a minute and catch my thoughts while I tell you about 06:58.560 --> 07:03.920 another favorite of mine. It's this little old K-shirt of mine that I wear every day. Have you 07:03.920 --> 07:08.880 heard about my K-shirt? Well in case you haven't it's kind of like a t-shirt but made especially 07:08.880 --> 07:14.080 for me in soft cotton about the color of the desert sand. And right smack in front is a big 07:14.080 --> 07:20.320 diamond K brand from my ranch in flaming red. And Tarzan and me are on the K-shirt too saying howdy. 07:21.040 --> 07:26.400 Well I kind of like the colors and the way it fits and everything. I thought you might like one too. 07:26.400 --> 07:31.360 Some of the kids around the neighborhood where I live asked me to get them some and I did. 07:31.920 --> 07:37.600 They're made buckaroo size of course in two four six eight ten and twelve. And if you figure you'd 07:37.600 --> 07:42.800 like a K-shirt for yourself like I wear when I'm practicing stunt riding and tricks around my ranch 07:43.360 --> 07:48.000 well you can have one. Let me know your name and address and on account of the fellow that 07:48.000 --> 07:52.400 makes the man a millionaire he says would you enclose a one dollar bill so he can make the 07:52.400 --> 07:58.720 shirt up special for you. Sounds kind of simple like so if you want a real western K-shirt like mine 07:58.720 --> 08:04.320 send your name and address and a dollar to this station. Well it may be pay a whole lot more than 08:04.320 --> 08:10.880 that for the ones I wear so it sounds like a mighty big value to me. Now quit gabbing get on the story. 08:12.720 --> 08:17.920 Well sir as Rusty Bill raised his glasses to look where I told him there was an Indian girl standing 08:17.920 --> 08:23.120 on the rock. He looked at me kind of strange like for a minute then he focused on the spot and 08:23.120 --> 08:27.760 sort of a quiver ran up and down his back. Then he finally turned to me and he said 08:28.320 --> 08:33.920 the Shoshone's must be going north again. He didn't talk for a while after that just started 08:33.920 --> 08:38.080 puttering around the campfire doing little things and trying to prove to me that there was nothing 08:38.080 --> 08:41.920 unusual about an Indian girl standing on the rock as straight and still as a statue. 08:41.920 --> 08:46.640 Finally the motion for me to put a couple of chunks of pine on the fire. Say you'd like to see 08:46.640 --> 08:52.560 it blaze up a little so it makes shadows among the trees. Then he said now Ken can you bring that old 08:52.560 --> 08:57.440 stump of wood over here so I can lean my back again. I knew what was coming old Rusty Bill decided 08:57.440 --> 09:03.200 it was time to do a little talking about the Indian girl he said. Her name was Painted Flower 09:03.200 --> 09:08.320 and she was the daughter of Chief Whitehorse leader of the Shoshone band. Rusty Bill was 09:08.320 --> 09:14.240 the leader of the Shoshone band. Rusty Bill went on to tell me that Painted Flower fell in love 09:14.960 --> 09:20.160 with Jim Rankin, gentleman soldier and scout who rode the hills when the first white man moved in. 09:21.040 --> 09:25.360 This fellow Jim had been all over was a great one to fall in love with any woman as long as she was 09:25.360 --> 09:31.200 beautiful and Painted Flower was sure beautiful. The big chief like Jim so much he allowed them to 09:31.200 --> 09:36.000 marry and they had an Indian wedding on the banks of the river Colorado. Rusty pointed towards the 09:36.000 --> 09:39.680 trail and said he'd come through there in the summer with a band of ponies when Jim and his 09:39.680 --> 09:45.840 squall Painted Flower were building the cabin and they'd just seen him down the ridge. Well Rusty 09:45.840 --> 09:50.880 stayed with them and helped Jim build the cabin. One day Jim said to Rusty why don't you marry one 09:50.880 --> 09:57.040 of these Indian gals and settle down there's room for another cabin. Oh Rusty Bill snorted, no sirree. 09:57.600 --> 10:02.560 He was hitting the trail pronto. Then Rusty Bill told me he looked at Jim and his voice was dead 10:02.560 --> 10:08.800 serious. Two bloods like this will never mix. Well Jim laughed at that and said Rusty was crazy 10:08.800 --> 10:12.720 when he came this way again next year he would find a hearty welcome in the cabin in the hills. 10:14.000 --> 10:19.040 Rusty pushed on spent the winter out in the desert. He didn't do so well as soon as the trails broke 10:19.040 --> 10:24.320 he started back across the mountain. It was about two months before he made it back to where we were 10:24.320 --> 10:30.320 now Cam. When he rode in he said the sun had just gone down. He looked across the ridge and there 10:30.320 --> 10:37.040 stood Painted Flower on that rock. Rusty said he sure was mighty glad to get back and wave to Painted 10:37.040 --> 10:41.920 Flower but he guessed she didn't see him. So he took the rope of the lead mule and started down the 10:41.920 --> 10:46.720 trail. He called her as he went but still she didn't answer and looked kind of funny standing there so 10:46.720 --> 10:52.320 still. So he started to run down the trail calling but still she didn't answer. When he got there he 10:52.320 --> 10:59.120 was plumb out of breath. Where's Jim he said. She didn't move and they puzzled looked him over her 10:59.120 --> 11:07.520 face. Where's Jim he repeated. Her body's stiff and her black eyes were expressionless. He go, he go. 11:08.320 --> 11:13.920 That's all she said. Rusty Bill stopped telling his story. I looked over at him as he poked at 11:13.920 --> 11:18.640 the bright red coals in the campfire. Then he straightened up and walked a few steps from camp 11:18.640 --> 11:25.360 and called to me. Come here Cam old boy what do you see down there. Well sir there were hundreds of 11:25.360 --> 11:31.760 small fires that lit up the whole valley. Kind of spotted like stars on a bright night. Rusty Bill 11:31.760 --> 11:37.680 spoke he kept his eyes on the valley below. That's the show showing camp he said. Once every year at 11:37.680 --> 11:42.720 about the same time of evening you could see Painted Flower standing on that rock looking for Jim 11:43.360 --> 11:50.960 but he never came back. You see son like I always said two bloods like that will never never mix. 11:50.960 --> 11:56.960 There's a story folks. The day Jim Rankin disappeared no white man was ever allowed in the valley and 11:56.960 --> 12:02.960 believe me they didn't dare go. And long after the Shoshones were driven from their land this Indian 12:02.960 --> 12:08.960 legend was remembered. And many who disbelieved lost their lives mysteriously in the valley of 12:08.960 --> 12:16.160 Painted Flower. Gosh Ken that was some story. I could listen to that one again and again. And 12:16.160 --> 12:22.320 again and speaking of stories kids wouldn't you like to be able to hear some of Ken's famous 12:22.320 --> 12:30.240 stories whenever you wanted. Well you can with Ken Maynard's exciting Diamond K album of Wild West 12:30.240 --> 12:37.040 records you can play them again and again for yourself and for your friends. They're terrific 12:37.040 --> 12:44.240 stories. Tales of cowboys and Indians lost gold and desperadoes. Stories just packed full of 12:44.240 --> 12:51.280 excitement and best of all these Ken Maynard records are personalized made just for you 12:51.920 --> 12:58.400 and you alone with a message from Ken. When you put the needle down on the record the first thing 12:58.400 --> 13:06.160 you'll hear is hello Teddy. Say it Ken. Hello Teddy. Hello Barbara or whatever your name is. Ken will 13:06.160 --> 13:13.040 say hello to you personally and tell you some of his favorite stories. Remember you get an album 13:13.040 --> 13:21.760 with four sides two records of standard 78 rpm speed and all you do is send your name and address 13:21.760 --> 13:28.080 and enclose a one dollar bill and send it to this station. Do it now Buccaroo's because the faster you 13:28.080 --> 13:34.240 write the faster you'll get your album. Now here's Ken to tell you about his next story. 13:35.280 --> 13:39.920 Well folks this is Ken Maynard in Tarzan closing the door of the Diamond K Ranch pack room till 13:39.920 --> 13:45.920 next time we meet and I'll tell you a mighty fascinating story then called the Oklahoma Kid. 13:45.920 --> 13:51.120 In the meantime be sure to get your one dollar bills in the mail for some real western fun. 13:51.120 --> 13:55.200 You've been listening to Tales from the Diamond K told by Ken Maynard internationally famous 13:55.200 --> 14:00.080 cowboy and Hollywood's champion of western stars. Tales from the Diamond K was transcribed and 14:00.080 --> 14:11.120 produced in Hollywood.