WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:05.000 Hi there everybody, this is Ken Maynard and Tarzan. 00:05.000 --> 00:14.000 Inviting you once again to join us at the old Diamond Cay Ranch for a real story of the West. 00:14.000 --> 00:19.000 Tarzan especially likes our story today because he had quite a bit to do with it, as you will see. 00:19.000 --> 00:23.000 I'm not going to tell you what the secret of the Three Horn Ranch is until the very end, 00:23.000 --> 00:27.000 but I think you'll find it surprising and worth waiting for. 00:27.000 --> 00:31.000 So why don't you make yourself comfortable in that old stuffed chair over there and listen. 00:31.000 --> 00:32.000 How about it, huh? 00:32.000 --> 00:34.000 See, I'll do just that, Ken. 00:34.000 --> 00:39.000 And while we're waiting for you to tell the story, I want to tell the folks that from the tack room of Ken Maynard's Diamond Cay Ranch, 00:39.000 --> 00:45.000 we're bringing you stories of adventure, stories of circus life, fascinating transcribed tales of the Old West 00:45.000 --> 00:48.000 where cowboys still follow the cattle trails. 00:48.000 --> 00:53.000 There's stories of rodeos and parades, colorful legends of the Red Man, hidden gold and buried treasure. 00:53.000 --> 01:00.000 The exciting tales from the Diamond Cay are told by Hollywood's champion of western stars, internationally famous Ken Maynard. 01:00.000 --> 01:06.000 Now while Ken's getting ready to spin his newest Wild West yarn, here's something to think about, buckaroos. 01:06.000 --> 01:10.000 Do you know what every cowboy's favorite pastime is? 01:10.000 --> 01:14.000 Well, after the chores are done, whether it's watering the horses or pitching hay around and up the cattle, 01:14.000 --> 01:16.000 the boys just kind of drift together to chat a bit. 01:16.000 --> 01:19.000 And the first thing you know, one of them is telling a story. 01:19.000 --> 01:26.000 Cowboys just love a good story, and that's why we think you'll get a big kick out of having a set of real western stories 01:26.000 --> 01:29.000 to hear any time you have your chores done. 01:29.000 --> 01:33.000 I'm talking about the exciting record album of Ken Maynard's Wild West stories. 01:33.000 --> 01:38.000 They're made just for you and with a personal message from Ken to you right on the record. 01:38.000 --> 01:41.000 When you put the needle down on the record, you'll hear Ken say, 01:41.000 --> 01:45.000 Hello there, Jimmy. This is Ken Maynard with a story just for you. 01:45.000 --> 01:52.000 Yes, sir, Ken will call you by name, whatever your name is, and he'll tell you two complete exciting stories. 01:52.000 --> 01:55.000 Why, you'll be the talk of your neighborhood, buckaroos. 01:55.000 --> 01:58.000 And you know how you can get this Diamond K record album? 01:58.000 --> 02:03.000 Just send your name and address with a dollar to records in care of this station. 02:03.000 --> 02:10.000 Now these records are standard 78 RPM speed for the regular kind of record player that everybody's been using for years. 02:10.000 --> 02:14.000 And say you'll play your records over and over again. 02:14.000 --> 02:18.000 So send yours now. Well, here's Ken. 02:18.000 --> 02:23.000 Well, Tarzan and I were out riding one morning in the north range of the Diamond K. 02:23.000 --> 02:29.000 It was a clear bright day. I could see a small pile of dust coming towards me from several miles away. 02:29.000 --> 02:34.000 Tarzan went and looked around at me as if to say, Don't worry, I'm always on guard. 02:34.000 --> 02:40.000 In a few minutes the rider came close enough for me to recognize old Jim Badger of the Three Horn Ranch next to mine. 02:40.000 --> 02:44.000 I waved a greeting and he thundered up puffing and panting and rained on his horse. 02:44.000 --> 02:47.000 Sure glad I found you, Ken, he said, when he got his breath. 02:47.000 --> 02:51.000 We're having trouble over at the Three Horn, and I want you to come as fast as you can. 02:51.000 --> 02:55.000 There's nobody but you can help us. Let's go, I said, and off we went. 02:55.000 --> 03:01.000 Tarzan loves a good gallop, but Jim's horse, Star, was so tired I held Tarzan down so he could keep up. 03:01.000 --> 03:04.000 What's the trouble at the Three Horn, I called to Jim as we rode along? 03:04.000 --> 03:08.000 Ken is pretty bad. You know my foreman, Bart Wangler? 03:08.000 --> 03:13.000 Well, he came to me two years ago with a bad reputation, but I took him because I was short-handed. 03:13.000 --> 03:16.000 He worked out fine, as far as I could tell. 03:16.000 --> 03:19.000 He's tough but fair, and he could keep the rest of the men in line. 03:19.000 --> 03:22.000 Lately I took to missing a few cows out of the west herd. 03:22.000 --> 03:25.000 Not many, just a few at a time. 03:25.000 --> 03:27.000 I thought for a while they'd strayed. 03:27.000 --> 03:30.000 Then they kept disappearing regularly, and I knew something was up. 03:30.000 --> 03:33.000 Then last night a funny thing happened. 03:33.000 --> 03:39.000 Bart came into the ranch office about sundown after making sure no one was listening, told me he knew what was happening to my cows. 03:39.000 --> 03:42.000 He said, you were rustling them, Ken. 03:42.000 --> 03:45.000 Well, that's where he made his mistake. I know you better than that. 03:45.000 --> 03:51.000 So I asked him how he knew this, and he said one of the boys was chasing a yearling and ran a few miles over into the Diamond Caye, 03:51.000 --> 03:55.000 and he saw some of my bran hidden in an aroya in the south Badlands. 03:55.000 --> 03:58.000 I told him to keep quiet about it, and I'd handle it myself. 03:58.000 --> 04:00.000 Now you see why I need you. 04:00.000 --> 04:03.000 What do you think is going on, Ken? 04:03.000 --> 04:06.000 Well, Jim's story sure stopped me for a minute. 04:06.000 --> 04:09.000 First time I'd ever been accused of cattle rustling. 04:09.000 --> 04:11.000 But the whole thing was clear to me. 04:11.000 --> 04:16.000 This Bart Wanger had been systematically rustling Jim's cattle for some time and hiding them on the Diamond Caye 04:16.000 --> 04:21.000 so that he could change bran to something else and move them to his own place or ship them out. 04:21.000 --> 04:26.000 It did puzzle me why. If his scheme was working so well, he suddenly told Jim I was behind it. 04:26.000 --> 04:29.000 There must be a deeper plot here than I thought. 04:29.000 --> 04:32.000 I'd never met Bart, but I'd heard of his reputation as a gunfighter, 04:32.000 --> 04:36.000 and after what he said about me, I was mighty anxious to meet the gentlemen. 04:36.000 --> 04:42.000 Leave it to me, Jim, I said. If Bart Wanger needs a lesson, then between the two of us, I think we can give it to him. 04:42.000 --> 04:46.000 We reached the Three Horn Ranch house a little afternoon and sat down to a hearty lunch. 04:46.000 --> 04:49.000 About an hour later, three horsemen rode up to the ranch house. 04:49.000 --> 04:51.000 One of them, Jim, said it was Bart. 04:51.000 --> 04:54.000 The other two he didn't know, and I'd never seen them before either. 04:54.000 --> 04:58.000 Bart came out the porch and didn't look at me but spoke to Jim. 04:58.000 --> 05:01.000 He was respectful and looked so sorry all this had happened. 05:01.000 --> 05:04.000 Mr. Badger, he said, taking off his hat, 05:04.000 --> 05:08.000 I know you and Mr. Merritt have been friends for a long time. It's too bad. 05:08.000 --> 05:12.000 I knew you wouldn't believe me, so I went and got a couple of witnesses. 05:12.000 --> 05:17.000 You tell them, boys. The two men were standing on the steps looking rather sheepish and half scared. 05:17.000 --> 05:20.000 Well, Mr. Badger, it's like this, said one of them. 05:20.000 --> 05:23.000 Me and Joe was riding along Dry Creek Road last Thursday night, 05:23.000 --> 05:26.000 and we seen some of the Diamond K boys running some cattle 05:26.000 --> 05:29.000 across there about a mile from the Big Butte. 05:29.000 --> 05:32.000 There was a moon, and we swear they was running three-horn stock. 05:32.000 --> 05:36.000 We thought it kind of funny, but guess they knew what they was doing. 05:36.000 --> 05:40.000 When Mr. Wangler come to town today and ask around if anybody's seen any Diamond K boys 05:40.000 --> 05:43.000 mucking around with three-horn cattle, we spoke up. 05:43.000 --> 05:45.000 That's about all, yes. 05:45.000 --> 05:50.000 Well, Jim didn't say anything, and Bart looked at me for the first time with a half sneer on his face. 05:50.000 --> 05:53.000 What do you got to say now, Mr. Maynard? 05:53.000 --> 05:56.000 Jim was looking at me too, sort of puzzled. 05:56.000 --> 06:01.000 I got up and stood so I could watch the two so-called witnesses in Bart's hands in case he made a move. 06:01.000 --> 06:07.000 The Diamond K ranch boys haven't been rustling with or without my knowledge a new north, Bart. 06:07.000 --> 06:10.000 In the first place, you can't change the three-horn brand to a Diamond K, 06:10.000 --> 06:14.000 and in the second place, nobody who really wanted them cows would leave them in the badlands 06:14.000 --> 06:16.000 without grass or water enough to live on. 06:16.000 --> 06:22.000 I think you're trying to make trouble between the three-horn and Diamond K boys for some reason of your own. 06:22.000 --> 06:27.000 My advice to you is to tell the truth before you get trouble started that you can't stop. 06:27.000 --> 06:30.000 Bart put on a hurt look for Jim's benefit and said, 06:30.000 --> 06:33.000 Well, Mr. Maynard, it's my duty to protect my employer's stock. 06:33.000 --> 06:37.000 We know three-horn herds are on the Diamond K after disappearing from here, 06:37.000 --> 06:40.000 and I got two witnesses who saw it being done. 06:40.000 --> 06:46.000 The one that caused trouble was going to be mighty hard to keep my boys from raising a ruckus when the word gets around. 06:46.000 --> 06:49.000 With that, he stalked away, followed by his two prized witnesses. 06:49.000 --> 06:53.000 As I told Jim, if Bart had been telling the truth, he'd have brought the sheriff 06:53.000 --> 06:56.000 because he had enough circumstantial evidence to make a case, 06:56.000 --> 06:59.000 but he was only trying to make trouble for some reason of his own, 06:59.000 --> 07:03.000 and before we got through, he'd made plenty. 07:03.000 --> 07:06.000 Well, folks, you'll just have to excuse me for my story for a minute, 07:06.000 --> 07:11.000 because I want to sit back and get comfortable and tell you about another favorite subject of mine. 07:11.000 --> 07:17.000 Speaking of comfort, you know, if a man doesn't feel comfortable, he just can't do his best at work or at play. 07:17.000 --> 07:21.000 And just for your information, I feel my best when I'm dressed comfortably. 07:21.000 --> 07:27.000 And you know, my favorite outfit, whether I'm working or just loafing around, is my K-shirt and a pair of jeans. 07:27.000 --> 07:30.000 You'd be surprised how many buckaroos are agreeing with me. 07:30.000 --> 07:34.000 Kids all across the country are writing in and asking me for a K-shirt like mine. 07:34.000 --> 07:36.000 I've told you about it before. 07:36.000 --> 07:40.000 It's a comfortable cotton shirt made like a T-shirt in the color of desert sand 07:40.000 --> 07:46.000 with my own Diamond K brand in bright red on the front and Tarzan me looking right at you. 07:46.000 --> 07:50.000 If you want to join the fellows and girls that are wearing my own private K-shirt, 07:50.000 --> 07:52.000 all you've got to do is send me your name and address. 07:52.000 --> 08:00.000 Tell me what size you wear, size of 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, or 12, and then close a $1 bill for the fellow that makes them. 08:00.000 --> 08:02.000 Pretty fancy shirt for just a dollar. 08:02.000 --> 08:06.000 And you'll get a lot of wear out of your K-shirt, too, because it's a fine-clothed cotton, 08:06.000 --> 08:10.000 and the blazing colors are put on by the special hand-screen process. 08:10.000 --> 08:15.000 So, send a day. Be sure to send your name and your address and your size to K-shirt. 08:15.000 --> 08:19.000 Care of this station and slip in that little old $1 bill. 08:19.000 --> 08:22.000 Your shirt will be sent post-it prepaid from Hollywood. 08:22.000 --> 08:25.000 Now, back to the story. 08:25.000 --> 08:30.000 Well, Sir Jim round up a few of these boys that he knew he could trust, and we all headed back to Diamond K. 08:30.000 --> 08:35.000 I told him not to believe anything they were told about my boys doing a little rustling on the side. 08:35.000 --> 08:39.000 It was a stick by Jim, and we'd get to the bottom of the strange business. 08:39.000 --> 08:41.000 I found out they didn't like Bart at all, but were afraid of him. 08:41.000 --> 08:44.000 He had a bad temper and played favorites too much. 08:44.000 --> 08:49.000 Also, they said lately he'd taken to going away by himself and staying all day somewhere. 08:49.000 --> 08:51.000 Since then, he'd been meaner than ever. 08:51.000 --> 08:55.000 Well, it took us most of the night to find the three-horned herd, but we found them, 08:55.000 --> 09:00.000 half-starved, huddled in a blind canyon, just where Bart said they were, and we drove them home. 09:00.000 --> 09:04.000 I told Jim he ought to get rid of Bart as fast as he could, but Jim said if he did that, 09:04.000 --> 09:10.000 he'd never find out the reason behind Bart's funny doings, so he'd keep him a while and watch him close. 09:10.000 --> 09:14.000 I didn't go for that idea, and I was right, because Bart kept on spreading lies, 09:14.000 --> 09:18.000 saying my boys had been caught squirrely and I had stepped in and covered up for them. 09:18.000 --> 09:22.000 Got so when three-horned and diamond-k boys would meet in town, there'd be angry words. 09:22.000 --> 09:25.000 I knew if something wasn't done, there'd be gunplay before long. 09:25.000 --> 09:28.000 Then more trouble comes, plague poor old Jim. 09:28.000 --> 09:31.000 A bunch of his best dogs took sick and died. 09:31.000 --> 09:35.000 The windmills kept breaking down, and one night that ranch house burned completely, 09:35.000 --> 09:37.000 Jim just barely getting out in time. 09:37.000 --> 09:42.000 None of this could be traced to Bart directly, but I knew it all tied in together. 09:42.000 --> 09:45.000 Jim was getting discouraged, and about this time, they came and offered to buy the ranch 09:45.000 --> 09:48.000 from some fellow named Dixon in the next county. 09:48.000 --> 09:50.000 We didn't know. 09:50.000 --> 09:51.000 Well, sir, that did it. 09:51.000 --> 09:53.000 I knew then what was going on. 09:53.000 --> 09:56.000 Either Bart or somebody acting through him was trying to run Jim off. 09:56.000 --> 10:00.000 I dropped everything I was doing and went to stay with him in the temporary shack he was using 10:00.000 --> 10:02.000 until the house could be rebuilt. 10:02.000 --> 10:06.000 I asked the cook if Bart had been going off like he used to. 10:06.000 --> 10:08.000 The cook said, no, not in about a week. 10:08.000 --> 10:11.000 I asked him if Bart took food with him the times he went. 10:11.000 --> 10:15.000 The cook said, sure, I always pack some grub for him. 10:15.000 --> 10:20.000 I swore the cook to sick or sick and told him to let me know the minute Bart asked for another grub pack. 10:20.000 --> 10:24.000 I waited several days while Jim was supposed to be thinking over the offer to buy. 10:24.000 --> 10:28.000 Then one night the cook wrapped on my door and whispered that Bart had asked him to pack up 10:28.000 --> 10:33.000 a bag of food because he was going to be gone maybe two days checking water holes in the North Range. 10:33.000 --> 10:35.000 This was what I was waiting for. 10:35.000 --> 10:39.000 Next morning I let him get his start and Tarzan and I started out after. 10:39.000 --> 10:45.000 It wasn't easy trailing him without him knowing it, but Tarzan is an expert in taking cover and following the tracks. 10:45.000 --> 10:51.000 We followed him four or five hours into the wild range of hills until he disappeared behind a big overhanging cliff. 10:51.000 --> 10:54.000 I hid Tarzan and told him to wait for a live whistle. 10:54.000 --> 10:59.000 After I crept forward a few hundred yards I could see Bart busy with picks and shovel and hammer 10:59.000 --> 11:04.000 following the gray vein along the canyon wall, occasionally putting a sample in the sack. 11:04.000 --> 11:08.000 I let him work until he got tired and started back without ever seeing me. 11:08.000 --> 11:11.000 Then I went and got a few samples of that rock myself. 11:11.000 --> 11:16.000 I gave him a head start and going around another way Tarzan beat him in by a good hour. 11:16.000 --> 11:19.000 Then I showed Jim the samples and told him how I got them. 11:19.000 --> 11:23.000 He nearly hit the ceiling in excitement and was all for shooting Bart down the minute he laid eyes on him. 11:23.000 --> 11:28.000 But I calmed him down and told him his troubles were over and the mystery was solved. 11:28.000 --> 11:32.000 Bart had been trying to cause a range war in the hope Jim would get killed 11:32.000 --> 11:37.000 and trying to scare him every other way so he'd sell out because Bart wanted that ranch and wanted it bad. 11:37.000 --> 11:42.000 But now Jim had to do was to show him these samples and tell him to get going fast. 11:42.000 --> 11:48.000 If there was any trouble I'd be right pleased to help because you see those samples were pure silver 11:48.000 --> 11:53.000 and the now famous Badger Mine was the ticket to the Three Horn Ranch. 11:53.000 --> 12:00.000 You know Ken, that was really a new twist on a story and believe me I was interested every minute. 12:00.000 --> 12:03.000 Now I bet you young buckaroos listening feel a lot like I do. 12:03.000 --> 12:05.000 You never get enough of hearing good stories. 12:05.000 --> 12:11.000 That's why I think if you haven't already ordered your Diamond K record album of exciting Ken Maynard stories 12:11.000 --> 12:14.000 you're losing time that you could be enjoying them. 12:14.000 --> 12:17.000 You know this beautiful colored album contains four sides of stories, 12:17.000 --> 12:25.000 two complete big eight inch pure vinyl light absolutely unbreakable records of regular 78 rpm speed. 12:25.000 --> 12:32.000 And don't forget they're made just for you with a personal message from Ken Maynard, Hollywood's champion of western stars. 12:32.000 --> 12:35.000 Now just wait till you hear Ken call you by name. 12:35.000 --> 12:39.000 He'll say, hello George this is Ken Maynard with a story just for you. 12:39.000 --> 12:46.000 Yes Ken will call you by name no matter what your name is and he'll say it right on the record. 12:46.000 --> 12:48.000 Now they're personalized just for you. 12:48.000 --> 12:51.000 It's the biggest value I know of for just a dollar. 12:51.000 --> 12:55.000 Now send your name and address and a dollar bill to Records and Care of this Station 12:55.000 --> 12:59.000 and your album will be mailed postage prepaid right from Hollywood. 12:59.000 --> 13:03.000 Be sure your name is in the letter so Ken can say hello to you. 13:03.000 --> 13:06.000 Now don't wait any longer to get in on all this fun. 13:06.000 --> 13:10.000 Now here's Ken to tell you about his next exciting story. 13:10.000 --> 13:13.000 Well folks it's time to bring our story round up to a close. 13:13.000 --> 13:15.000 This is Ken Maynard and Tarzan. 13:15.000 --> 13:23.000 Closing up the tack room at the Diamond Cay Ranch till I see you next time 13:23.000 --> 13:26.000 when I'll tell you the story of the lost city of the Incas. 13:26.000 --> 13:30.000 We'll be looking for you and in the meantime get your one dollar bill as a mail now 13:30.000 --> 13:33.000 for some real western fun. So long. 13:33.000 --> 13:35.000 You've been listening to Tales from the Diamond Cay, 13:35.000 --> 13:39.000 stories of adventure told by Ken Maynard, internationally famous cowboy 13:39.000 --> 13:42.000 and Hollywood's champion of western stars. 13:42.000 --> 13:46.000 Tales from the Diamond Cay was produced and transcribed in Hollywood.