WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:02.500 Dear friends, this is Ken Maynard in Tarzan. 00:02.500 --> 00:06.500 ["Tarzan Roar"] 00:06.500 --> 00:09.500 Bringing you another 15 minutes of Western Adventure. 00:09.500 --> 00:14.500 You know, we're never too busy here at the Diamond K Ranch to stop and visit with you awhile. 00:14.500 --> 00:19.500 Say, you know I got a letter from some folks the other day wanting to know what a tack room was. 00:19.500 --> 00:24.000 They said they'd heard some talk about it, about mine here at the Diamond K Ranch. 00:24.000 --> 00:29.500 Well sir, I'm going to tell you right now that a tack room is a sort of a hangout where the cowboys just sit around and relax. 00:29.500 --> 00:36.000 They keep their saddles, bridles, and chaps, and well all the riding gear and souvenirs and everything else in it. 00:36.000 --> 00:39.500 It's a sort of a bunk room, a living room rolled all into one. 00:39.500 --> 00:44.500 And I'll tell you this much, it's a mighty cozy place to do some storytelling. 00:44.500 --> 00:48.500 I've got a little yarn for you this time called the Lost Fortune. 00:48.500 --> 00:54.000 From the tack room of Ken Maynard's Diamond K Ranch, we're bringing you stories of adventure, stories of circus life, 00:54.000 --> 00:59.500 fascinating transcribed tales of the Old West where cowboys still follow the cattle trails, 00:59.500 --> 01:05.500 stories of rodeos and parades, colorful legends of the Red Man, hidden gold and buried treasure. 01:05.500 --> 01:13.500 The exciting tales in the Diamond K are told by Hollywood's champion of western stars, internationally famous Ken Maynard. 01:13.500 --> 01:17.500 And Ken's got a real thriller and story for you today, buckaroos. 01:17.500 --> 01:25.500 Speaking of thrills, just imagine Ken coming right into your living room and saying hello to you personally. 01:25.500 --> 01:28.000 Boy, what a thrill, and that's not all. No, sir. 01:28.000 --> 01:34.000 After Ken speaks directly to you, he'll tell you two of his favorite stories about the Wild West. 01:34.000 --> 01:40.500 Now of course you know I'm talking about the Ken Maynard personalized record album that you can have for your very own. 01:40.500 --> 01:46.000 You can't buy it in any store because this is Ken's own Diamond K brand record album. 01:46.000 --> 01:50.500 It's all in color with a big picture of Ken and Tarzan right on the front, 01:50.500 --> 01:57.500 and inside are two big eight-inch unbreakable phonograph records made of expensive pure vinylite. 01:57.500 --> 02:02.500 Ken and Tarzan's picture is right on the record too, and here's the best part of all. 02:02.500 --> 02:08.000 When you put the record on your phonograph, you'll hear Ken talking right to you with a personalized message. 02:08.000 --> 02:13.500 He'll say, hello Susie, hello Raymond, or whatever your name is. 02:13.500 --> 02:18.000 Now this Ken Maynard album will be your very own and nobody else's. 02:18.000 --> 02:25.000 Here's all you do. Just put a dollar bill and your name and address in an envelope and send it to Records and Care of this station. 02:25.000 --> 02:34.000 Isn't that amazing? You get two wonderful records with two real Western stories all in a beautifully colored album for only a dollar. 02:34.000 --> 02:42.000 Send in right now kids and just wait till you see how surprised your friends will be when you play the records and Ken speaks to you. 02:42.000 --> 02:51.000 Now they're standard 78 RPM speed records. You can ask mom and dad about it to play on the regular kind of phonograph that everybody's used for years. 02:51.000 --> 02:57.000 So send your name and address now to Records and Care of this station and enclose just a one dollar bill. 02:57.000 --> 03:05.000 Be the first in your neighborhood to own a real Ken Maynard personalized record album. Now Ken. 03:05.000 --> 03:11.000 Say have any of you folks ever had someone come up to you and ask a strange question without any reason at all? 03:11.000 --> 03:15.000 Well sure it happened to me once in Butte, Montana a number of years ago. 03:15.000 --> 03:20.000 Targe and I were out with old Colonel Rockwell's Wild West Show in Indian Congress. 03:20.000 --> 03:23.000 It was one afternoon three or four hours before show time. 03:23.000 --> 03:30.000 I was sitting on the front porch of the Copperstone Hotel, a favorite place for some of the cowboys to drop in for a bite to eat. 03:30.000 --> 03:35.000 Well that afternoon an old timer sat down with me and whispered a deep raspy voice. 03:35.000 --> 03:39.000 You're Ken Maynard, the cowboy actor of this Wild West Show, ain't you? 03:39.000 --> 03:44.000 I nodded my head and he said, how would you like to have a hundred thousand dollars? 03:44.000 --> 03:48.000 Well for a minute I didn't know whether to laugh or get suspicious. 03:48.000 --> 03:52.000 From the way he sounded I was afraid he might try to sell me the whole town of Butte. 03:52.000 --> 03:57.000 I edged towards the end of the seat but he followed me, talking a blue streak. 03:57.000 --> 04:01.000 You know Mr. Maynard, he said, I've been around these parts for a good many years. 04:01.000 --> 04:05.000 Sam Telley's the name. I've seen a lot and I've heard a lot. 04:05.000 --> 04:12.000 I ain't one to do much talking but if you've got a few minutes to spare I'll tell you something that'll make you a rich man. 04:12.000 --> 04:15.000 There was a young fellow by the name of Mark Dawson. 04:15.000 --> 04:18.000 He was born and raised right here in this neighborhood. 04:18.000 --> 04:24.000 In fact if you was of mine too you could go out and see the old Dawson home right down the block. 04:24.000 --> 04:30.000 Well Mr. Maynard, when young Mark finished school he went into the newspaper business with his dad but he didn't cotton to it. 04:30.000 --> 04:34.000 I reckon the only thing the boy thought about was money. 04:34.000 --> 04:41.000 So he planned a stage during bank robbery right here in town and before anyone realized what had happened he was miles away from Butte, 04:41.000 --> 04:44.000 heading for a little ghost town south of Cripple Creek. 04:44.000 --> 04:54.000 He had a mighty good reason for going there too because while he was making his plans to rob the bank he'd been statching away provisions in one of the empty buildings in the old ghost town. 04:54.000 --> 04:58.000 Well he hid out in the top room of the Gooseneck Hotel. 04:58.000 --> 05:04.000 Sam Tully looked over at me while he was catching his breath and shook his scrawny finger in my face as he said, 05:04.000 --> 05:08.000 You know Mr. Maynard, that young Mark Dawson was a pretty smart boy. 05:08.000 --> 05:11.000 He didn't miss a trick when he was planning all this. 05:11.000 --> 05:17.000 That old hotel was the only building in the ghost town where you could see anybody coming into the town from either direction. 05:17.000 --> 05:23.000 Months passed by and loneliness and melancholy of the deserted old mining camp began to affect young Dawson. 05:23.000 --> 05:25.000 He had to get back to civilization. 05:25.000 --> 05:28.000 As the days went by the loneliness became unbearable. 05:28.000 --> 05:33.000 Night after night he sat looking at the money he couldn't spend and his food was almost gone. 05:33.000 --> 05:35.000 He had to go into town. 05:35.000 --> 05:40.000 As the sky grew light the next morning he sat on his horse and started for Cripple Creek. 05:40.000 --> 05:44.000 The town was almost deserted as he pulled up in front of the general store. 05:44.000 --> 05:51.000 A tired packed mule was tied to the hitching post across the street and a shaggy old dog laying in the warm sun wagged his tail in a friendly greeting. 05:51.000 --> 05:55.000 Mark Dawson felt good then like a man who was free. 05:55.000 --> 05:58.000 He went inside and a storekeeper smiled at him and said, 05:58.000 --> 06:01.000 What can I do for you young fellow? 06:01.000 --> 06:05.000 Then as Dawson looked up at the stock on the shelves he saw it. 06:05.000 --> 06:08.000 He wanted signed with his picture and underneath it said, 06:08.000 --> 06:14.000 Five thousand dollars reward for the capture of Mark Dawson wanted in Butte Montana for bank robbery. 06:14.000 --> 06:17.000 Well Mr. Maynard this kind of stopped the young fellow. 06:17.000 --> 06:23.000 He tried to keep his face down as he ordered his supplies but this only made him look all the more suspicious. 06:23.000 --> 06:27.000 He saw the storekeeper eye on him and he heard him say, 06:27.000 --> 06:31.000 Hey there son haven't I seen you someplace before? 06:31.000 --> 06:38.000 Mark Dawson's face turned ashen gray and he reached for the counter to steady himself as the storekeeper started toward him. 06:38.000 --> 06:43.000 Well telling this story sure gets me excited. 06:43.000 --> 06:48.000 While we rest here just a minute let me interrupt the story to tell you about something I'm mighty, mighty proud of. 06:48.000 --> 06:51.000 Have you heard about my K-shirt? 06:51.000 --> 06:55.000 It's a real western shirt that a friend of mine designed especially for me. 06:55.000 --> 06:59.000 It started like a T-shirt you know in nice cotton but the color of the desert sand. 06:59.000 --> 07:02.000 The flaming red diamond K-brand centered on the front. 07:02.000 --> 07:05.000 It's got our picture on it too, me and Tarzan. 07:05.000 --> 07:09.000 Well the kids in my neighborhood took a fancy to it and one one liked it. 07:09.000 --> 07:11.000 So my friend made them up special. 07:11.000 --> 07:15.000 Kid said I would tell you about them so that's what I'm doing. 07:15.000 --> 07:20.000 If you figure you'd like to have a K-shirt like I wear when I'm practicing tricks and fooling around, 07:20.000 --> 07:22.000 I'll see that you get one if you drop me a note. 07:22.000 --> 07:25.000 Full of setting to fix you up, one for only a dollar. 07:25.000 --> 07:27.000 Not sure surprise me. 07:27.000 --> 07:32.000 Just name your sizes, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 or 12. 07:32.000 --> 07:37.000 And if you want a K-shirt like mine just send me your name and address and the size 07:37.000 --> 07:43.000 and slip a dollar bill in the envelope too and send it to K-shirt and carry of this station. 07:43.000 --> 07:49.000 Well so let's get back to the Copperstone Hotel in Butte and hear the rest of Mark Dawson's story. 07:49.000 --> 07:54.000 It was getting kind of close to showtime but I wanted to hear the end of old Sam Tully's story. 07:54.000 --> 07:57.000 He was getting a little excited now. 07:57.000 --> 07:59.000 He got off of his seat and walked to the porch rail. 07:59.000 --> 08:04.000 Then he said you know Mr. Maynard as a storekeeper started toward young Dawson. 08:04.000 --> 08:07.000 Mark forgot all about his supplies and ran out of store. 08:07.000 --> 08:10.000 Jumped on his horse and high-tailed back toward Ghost Town. 08:10.000 --> 08:15.000 Well as soon as the storekeeper watched him ride away he scratched his head and sort of mumbled himself. 08:15.000 --> 08:19.000 Now what would make a feller act like that? I wonder. 08:19.000 --> 08:22.000 Then turning back the counter he saw the picture tacked on the wall. 08:22.000 --> 08:25.000 Five thousand dollars reward. 08:25.000 --> 08:27.000 Now it all made sense. 08:27.000 --> 08:30.000 Well it didn't take long to get the sheriff and the posse together. 08:30.000 --> 08:35.000 There was no trouble to follow Dawson's trail back to the old Ghost Town mining camp. 08:35.000 --> 08:39.000 As Mark Dawson hurried up the steps of the Goose Deck Hotel he was trembling with fear. 08:39.000 --> 08:42.000 He knew now he'd have to find another hiding place. 08:42.000 --> 08:47.000 With a sack of stolen money clenched in his hand he started for the hills east of the camp. 08:47.000 --> 08:51.000 As he stumbled over the rocks and bushes he heard the sound of horses in the distance. 08:51.000 --> 08:57.000 He forced his way up the side of the steep rocky mountain with the voices of the posse echoing in the narrow valley below. 08:57.000 --> 09:01.000 Well sir, Sam Telley stopped talking then and I looked over to see what was the matter. 09:01.000 --> 09:06.000 He was looking out across the mountains in a direction where I imagine Cripple Creek must have been. 09:06.000 --> 09:09.000 But before I had a chance to ask him he said, 09:09.000 --> 09:12.000 Maynard, it's mighty strange how things work out. 09:12.000 --> 09:17.000 When a man is backed up against the wall and it looks like there's no chance to escape something always turns up. 09:17.000 --> 09:20.000 And it sure did for young Dawson. 09:20.000 --> 09:23.000 Right there beside him was a narrow opening in the rocks. 09:23.000 --> 09:27.000 Looked like it might have been the entrance to an old mine or cavern of some kind. 09:27.000 --> 09:31.000 It was pretty well filled in but still there was room for Mark to squeeze through. 09:31.000 --> 09:38.000 It was dark and damp inside and as he crawled along his hands and knees he could feel the soft moist earth give away under him. 09:38.000 --> 09:45.000 Frantically he clasped at the walls of the cavern, the rocks dirt crumble like shale covering his feet and legs. 09:45.000 --> 09:47.000 Slowly he dug himself free. 09:47.000 --> 09:53.000 And as he forced himself back toward the opening he heard it thunders crash and the cavern closed in about him. 09:53.000 --> 09:59.000 Well Maynard tell you said, the posse passed right by the old cavern but no one heard Dawson's cries. 09:59.000 --> 10:05.000 One of the riders asked the sheriff, didn't you hear someone or something call out a few minutes ago? 10:05.000 --> 10:12.000 Sheriff shook his head, there ain't no one around here but Dawson is dead certain he's not going to call out and attract your attention. 10:12.000 --> 10:14.000 You're just hearing things. 10:14.000 --> 10:16.000 That's the way it is in a ghost town. 10:16.000 --> 10:19.000 I reckon if you listen right close you'd hear a lot of voices. 10:19.000 --> 10:23.000 Then the sheriff chuckled, maybe some ghost voices huh? 10:23.000 --> 10:29.000 Well sir the posse rode them hills for weeks but never found a trace of Dawson or the money stolen from the bank. 10:29.000 --> 10:33.000 Some had gone down when old Sam Tully finished his story. 10:33.000 --> 10:39.000 I looked at the old fellow for a minute and some didn't just ring exactly right. 10:39.000 --> 10:41.000 Then I headed. 10:41.000 --> 10:46.000 I said to him, say old timer, how come you know so much about this fellow Dawson? 10:46.000 --> 10:49.000 Well sir his eyes dropped for a second. 10:49.000 --> 10:53.000 Then he said, well I see it's no use Maynard might as well tell you. 10:53.000 --> 10:55.000 I'm Dawson. 10:55.000 --> 10:58.000 You see I finally clawed my way free after a few days. 10:58.000 --> 11:03.000 But I was so weak I could hardly walk so I left a heavy sack of money in the cavern. 11:03.000 --> 11:06.000 I figured I could easily find it whenever I wanted it. 11:06.000 --> 11:07.000 But I never did. 11:07.000 --> 11:11.000 Well sir I gave myself up then, I wanted a chance to go straight. 11:11.000 --> 11:16.000 I served twenty years in the pen and ever since then I've been looking for the money. 11:16.000 --> 11:25.000 When I saw you I thought if I could get this western stranger to help me I could find the place again and restore my good name before I die. 11:25.000 --> 11:31.000 Now if you're looking for a little excitement Mr. Maynard we could ride out that way tomorrow. 11:31.000 --> 11:37.000 Well sir I stopped him then and pointed down toward the arena where a few floodlights were flashing on. 11:37.000 --> 11:40.000 Colonel Rockwell would soon be ready to start the big show. 11:40.000 --> 11:47.000 Then I said to him, if you're looking for some excitement Mr. Tully here's a complimentary ticket. 11:47.000 --> 11:52.000 Tarzan and I will do our best to see you don't go away disappointed. 11:52.000 --> 11:55.000 Gee Willikins can. 11:55.000 --> 12:01.000 You know that was a humdinger of a story and I felt like I was really right there doing all that excitement. 12:01.000 --> 12:06.000 And say kids how would you like to have Ken really there right in your living room anytime you want. 12:06.000 --> 12:12.000 Why it's just like having Ken in person when you own one of his wonderful Diamond K record albums made especially for you. 12:12.000 --> 12:14.000 Remember what I told you earlier? 12:14.000 --> 12:21.000 You got a whole record album with two complete Ken Maynard western stories and a beautiful album for only one dollar. 12:21.000 --> 12:26.000 Both album and records have colored pictures of Ken and Tarzan blazing right across the front. 12:26.000 --> 12:32.000 And don't forget these records are personalized with a message from Ken just for you and he'll call you by name. 12:32.000 --> 12:38.000 Now they're real high quality records too made from pure vinyl light the finest material that money can buy. 12:38.000 --> 12:43.000 And it's impossible to break one of these records and you can play them over and over as many times as you want. 12:43.000 --> 12:49.000 So be sure to send in your name and address right now to records and care of the station and close the dollar bill. 12:49.000 --> 12:54.000 The records in the album will be sent to you postage prepaid from Hollywood. 12:54.000 --> 13:00.000 Hurry now the quicker you write the sooner you'll have your western record album to hear and enjoy. 13:00.000 --> 13:02.000 Now let's get back to Ken. 13:02.000 --> 13:06.000 Well folks it's time to bring our story round up to a close. 13:06.000 --> 13:08.000 This is Ken Maynard and Tarzan. 13:08.000 --> 13:20.000 Closing up our tack room with the Diamond K. Ranch till I see you next time when I'll tell you the story about the Devil's Kitchen. 13:20.000 --> 13:26.000 We'll be looking for you and in the meantime get your one dollar bills in the mail now for some real western fun. 13:26.000 --> 13:28.000 So long. 13:28.000 --> 13:30.000 You've been listening to Tales from the Diamond K. 13:30.000 --> 13:36.000 Stories of adventure told by Ken Maynard and the nationally famous cowboy and Hollywood's champion of western stars. 13:36.000 --> 13:40.000 Tales from the Diamond K. was produced and transcribed in Hollywood.