WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:02.000 Well hi there buckaroos. 00:02.000 --> 00:05.000 Nice so many of you could join us here in the tack room. 00:05.000 --> 00:07.000 That right Tarzan? 00:07.000 --> 00:12.000 It sure is. 00:12.000 --> 00:17.000 You know that pot of gold that everyone seems to be searching for, at least so they say. 00:17.000 --> 00:22.000 Well I've got a story for you about a pot of gold, but this one happens to be a bean pot. 00:22.000 --> 00:25.000 I'll have more to tell you about it in just a moment. 00:25.000 --> 00:29.000 From the tack room of Ken Maynard's Diamond C. Ranch we're bringing you stories of adventure. 00:29.000 --> 00:35.000 Stories of rodeo life, fascinating transcribed tales of the old west where cowboys still follow the cattle trails. 00:35.000 --> 00:41.000 Stories of rodeos and parades, colorful legends of the red man, hidden gold and buried treasure. 00:41.000 --> 00:48.000 The exciting tales from the Diamond K. are told by Hollywood's champion of western stars, internationally famous Ken Maynard. 00:48.000 --> 00:54.000 Now when you meet a champion like Ken you just know he's full of adventure stories, real life stories too. 00:54.000 --> 00:59.000 For did you know that Ken Maynard holds the world's championship for trick riding? 00:59.000 --> 01:04.000 And Ken's hunted for gold himself. Stunt ridden in the circus, made scores of movies in Hollywood, 01:04.000 --> 01:08.000 and he still rides ropes and shoots in many rodeos every year. 01:08.000 --> 01:11.000 So naturally his stories are just loaded with thrills. 01:11.000 --> 01:17.000 And kids you can have two of these stories for your very own anytime you want to hear them. 01:17.000 --> 01:21.000 I'm talking about Ken's exciting Diamond K. album of phonograph records. 01:21.000 --> 01:24.000 And listen, these stories are made especially for you. 01:24.000 --> 01:29.000 Ken begins the stories with a personal message for you and he'll call you by name like, 01:29.000 --> 01:33.000 Hi Bob, hello Becky, or whatever your name is. 01:33.000 --> 01:37.000 Ken will speak to you alone on your set of Ken Maynard records. 01:37.000 --> 01:41.000 Now can you tie that partner? No siree and you can't beat the value either. 01:41.000 --> 01:48.000 Listen to this, you'll get a beautiful full color record album with a thrilling picture of Ken and Tarzan right on the front. 01:48.000 --> 01:53.000 And inside are two complete Wild West stories that start out with Ken talking personally to you. 01:53.000 --> 01:58.000 The two big 8 inch unbreakable pure vinylite records of standard 78 RPM speed 01:58.000 --> 02:02.000 for the regular familiar kind of phonograph or record player. 02:02.000 --> 02:05.000 And they have pictures of Ken and Tarzan on them too. 02:05.000 --> 02:10.000 Remember these records are made of pure vinylite, the finest most expensive material that money can buy. 02:10.000 --> 02:12.000 And this album is so easy to get. 02:12.000 --> 02:17.000 All you do is send your name and address to records in care of this station and enclose a dollar bill. 02:17.000 --> 02:21.000 Just one, that's all, for ages of fun and enjoyment. 02:21.000 --> 02:26.000 Now because these records are such high quality you can play them over and over again as often as you want. 02:26.000 --> 02:33.000 And don't forget, you can't buy these records in any store because Ken makes them just for you. 02:33.000 --> 02:36.000 Remember Ken calls you by name right on the record. 02:36.000 --> 02:44.000 Now don't wait to get your personalized record album right now or have your mom and dad write for you to records in care of this station. 02:44.000 --> 02:50.000 Enclose a dollar bill and your name and address and be sure your name is included, your first name, 02:50.000 --> 02:53.000 so Ken will have your name right on the record. 02:53.000 --> 02:57.000 Now let's listen to the exciting story Ken has for us today. 02:57.000 --> 03:04.000 You know buckaroos, I just hope we never get so modern as to forget that good old custom of doing a good turn for someone. 03:04.000 --> 03:06.000 That's what most cowboy pictures are based on. 03:06.000 --> 03:12.000 Some drifting cowpoke quick on the draw, fish alike with his fist, comes across the gallon distress. 03:12.000 --> 03:17.000 For a town bucking a bunch of bad armories and he goes out of his way to do a good turn. 03:17.000 --> 03:20.000 It's a mighty fine habit to get into buckaroos. 03:20.000 --> 03:29.000 And that goes for Tarzan too because in his way he's done plenty of good turns himself. 03:29.000 --> 03:35.000 Now while our story concerns a pot of gold, you'll all start with a fellow doing another a good turn. 03:35.000 --> 03:40.000 It seems that Pope James Jackson and his pal were on their way to the Pecos to get a job. 03:40.000 --> 03:43.000 It was round up time and they figured they'd have a better chance than usual. 03:43.000 --> 03:48.000 They were just loafing along at an easy jog when a shot made them wheel up right pronto. 03:48.000 --> 03:51.000 Seems to come from down the river said Jackson. 03:51.000 --> 03:53.000 Hey, let's give it a look. 03:53.000 --> 03:57.000 So he and his pal took off at a galloping sure enough down by the river they found a man. 03:57.000 --> 04:01.000 He had a bullet hole in his head and was in a bad way. 04:01.000 --> 04:06.000 Jackson sent his pal to get a doctor while he began pressing on an artery to stop the flow of blood. 04:06.000 --> 04:11.000 You know buckaroos, knowing a bit about first aid has saved many a life out on the range. 04:11.000 --> 04:17.000 But you have to know what to do and when to do it because doing the wrong thing is worse than doing nothing. 04:17.000 --> 04:21.000 Well, Jackson made this fellow comfortable as he could under the circumstances. 04:21.000 --> 04:24.000 Then it became just a question of waiting for the doctor. 04:24.000 --> 04:26.000 The wounded man was mighty restless. 04:26.000 --> 04:28.000 He kept turning and tossing. 04:28.000 --> 04:33.000 Seemed to be very worried about something that didn't seem to be the hole in his head that was bothering him the most. 04:33.000 --> 04:37.000 Jackson tried to quiet him and he didn't do a bad job of it. 04:37.000 --> 04:43.000 But as the hours went by, awfully slowly, I guess the man started to realize he was a garnet. 04:43.000 --> 04:47.000 He'd lost a lot of blood in spite of Jackson's holding that artery. 04:47.000 --> 04:50.000 Then he began to get restless again and Jackson couldn't do a thing with him. 04:50.000 --> 04:54.000 Seemed the dying man just had to get something off his chest. 04:54.000 --> 04:59.000 Well, they say confession is good for souls and that poor ombre sure did a lot of confessing. 04:59.000 --> 05:05.000 Seems that he and five others had held up a bank down in Mexico, in Monterrey I believe it was. 05:05.000 --> 05:08.000 They'd got away with about $50,000 in gold. 05:08.000 --> 05:10.000 Two of the bandits got shot in the holdup. 05:10.000 --> 05:15.000 And the ruralies, those are the Mexican Rangers, accounted for their two others. 05:15.000 --> 05:19.000 Of course, it was mighty considered of the law to cut the split from six ways down to two. 05:19.000 --> 05:24.000 But those two armors were too busy with the ruralies down their necks to think much about it. 05:24.000 --> 05:31.000 When they got around to it, the temptation was great for each of these last two to want the whole thing for himself. 05:31.000 --> 05:36.000 So they began to watch each other like hawks, not even daring to sleep at night, 05:36.000 --> 05:40.000 until it happened that one partner got a mite more sleepy than the other. 05:40.000 --> 05:46.000 So then there was just one left with the whole $50,000. 05:46.000 --> 05:49.000 That was a fellow lying there with a hole in his head. 05:49.000 --> 05:52.000 Things looked pretty rosy, but there's something about money, 05:52.000 --> 05:56.000 doesn't matter who's, that attracts folks like bees to a pot of honey. 05:56.000 --> 06:01.000 This bandit fellow, he didn't tell Jackson his name, thought he was in for a really easy time of it, 06:01.000 --> 06:03.000 until people started picking up his trail. 06:03.000 --> 06:08.000 Not the law, just other bad armors with a hunger for that taste of gold. 06:08.000 --> 06:13.000 Now let me just wove for a minute here and catch my thoughts while I tell you about another favorite of mine. 06:13.000 --> 06:17.000 It's this little old K-shirt of mine that I wear every day. 06:17.000 --> 06:19.000 Have you heard about my K-shirts? 06:19.000 --> 06:26.000 Well in case you haven't, it's kind of like a T-shirt, but made especially for me in cotton about the color of desert sand. 06:26.000 --> 06:31.000 And right smack in front is a big Diamond Cave brand from my ranch in flaming red. 06:31.000 --> 06:35.000 Tarzan and I are on the K-shirts too, saying hi. 06:35.000 --> 06:40.000 Well, I kind of like the colors and the way it fits and everything, and I thought you might like one too. 06:40.000 --> 06:44.000 Kids I know asked me to get them one like it, so I did. 06:44.000 --> 06:50.000 They're made buckaroo size of course, in sizes 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, and 12. 06:50.000 --> 06:57.000 And if you figure you'd like to have a K-shirt for yourself like I wear when I'm practicing stunt riding and tricks around the ranch, 06:57.000 --> 06:59.000 well you can have one. 06:59.000 --> 07:01.000 Let me know your name and address and size. 07:01.000 --> 07:04.000 And on account of the fellow that makes them, I ain't a millionaire, 07:04.000 --> 07:08.000 he says would you slip in a one dollar bill and he'll make the shirt special for you. 07:08.000 --> 07:10.000 Sounds kind of simple like. 07:10.000 --> 07:18.000 So if you want a real Western K-shirt like mine, send your name, address, size, and one dollar bill to K-shirt care of this station. 07:18.000 --> 07:23.000 The fellow made me pay a lot more than that for the ones I wear, so it sounds like a mighty big value to me. 07:23.000 --> 07:26.000 So if I were you, I'd send them right away. 07:26.000 --> 07:30.000 Now I'll quit gabbing and get on with my story. 07:30.000 --> 07:39.000 Well, buckaroos, I was telling you about that bandit who narrated his buddies down to himself until a whole flock of bad ombres camped on his trail. 07:39.000 --> 07:42.000 Now this fellow might have been able to stay awake longer than his ex-partner, 07:42.000 --> 07:48.000 but he was finding it mighty hard to outsmart the human buzzards who were always waiting to pounce on him when his guard was down. 07:48.000 --> 07:53.000 So he decided to bury the 50,000, and just in time too. 07:53.000 --> 07:59.000 For that shot Jackson and his pals heard at the start of this story came from the gun of one of those buzzards. 07:59.000 --> 08:02.000 Of course this armory was mighty angry when he didn't find the money. 08:02.000 --> 08:07.000 Besides putting a hole in the fellow's head, he used the butt of the gun, and that didn't do him much good either. 08:07.000 --> 08:12.000 Which sort of brings things to the time when Jackson arrived and sent his pal for the doctor. 08:12.000 --> 08:16.000 The most important part of his story, the dying bandit saved for the last. 08:16.000 --> 08:19.000 He wanted to make certain he was really going to die, I guess. 08:19.000 --> 08:23.000 Anyway, he said he wanted Jackson to have the money because he'd done him a good turn. 08:23.000 --> 08:30.000 And for a moment it seemed he'd waited a bit too long, for Jackson thought he'd never get to telling him where he'd buried the gold. 08:30.000 --> 08:35.000 Anyway, he managed to gulp out that there was a map in his saddlebag. 08:35.000 --> 08:39.000 And then he died. Jackson felt right sorry for the dead one. 08:39.000 --> 08:45.000 And though he couldn't think, it must have stayed he did manage to get out some sort of a prayer, something suitable for the occasion. 08:45.000 --> 08:49.000 It was while he was trying to think of something else that the sheriff arrived. 08:49.000 --> 08:53.000 The doctor was the one who was really needed, but the sheriff got there first. 08:53.000 --> 08:59.000 The lawman was sort of officious and taking charge of things without showing fitting respect, Jackson thought. 08:59.000 --> 09:02.000 Jackson told the sheriff the bandit left him his belongings. 09:02.000 --> 09:06.000 But the sheriff got sort of nasty, saying that was for the law to decide. 09:06.000 --> 09:11.000 And being the law, he was going to take the dead man's horse and dudge back to town. 09:11.000 --> 09:14.000 Well, buckaroos, you can imagine the position that placed Jackson in. 09:14.000 --> 09:19.000 Knowing the key to all that gold, the map was hidden in the dead man's saddlebag. 09:19.000 --> 09:22.000 Then the doctor and Jackson's pal arrived. 09:22.000 --> 09:27.000 So much time was lost burying the corpse, the boys finally decided to camp there for the night. 09:27.000 --> 09:33.000 This came as quite a relief to Jackson, who had been trying to slip away and have a look at the saddle without success. 09:33.000 --> 09:40.000 Late that night when the boys were snoring in three different keys, Jackson slipped away and got the map. 09:40.000 --> 09:44.000 But it wasn't until some time later that he had the chance to do anything about it. 09:44.000 --> 09:48.000 There was a full description on the map that ran something like this. 09:48.000 --> 09:57.000 One mile from Fort Belknap, 256 steps north of a little creek, 86 steps west of a prickly pear-marked swallow fork. 09:57.000 --> 10:05.000 The $50,000 is in a bean pot, over which is a 42-inch wagon rod with half of its ring sticking out of the ground 10:05.000 --> 10:09.000 and three small rocks piled around the ring. 10:09.000 --> 10:12.000 Well, Jackson didn't have too much trouble finding the location. 10:12.000 --> 10:16.000 He was just about to dig when a horseman came in sight. 10:16.000 --> 10:19.000 Jackson kicked the ring with his boot and covered it up best he could. 10:19.000 --> 10:25.000 The rider turned out to be the owner of the ranch and he made no bones about ordering Jackson off his land. 10:25.000 --> 10:30.000 Jackson was back in a couple of days though, but he couldn't locate the wagon rod he'd covered up. 10:30.000 --> 10:33.000 He came again by daylight and he still couldn't find it. 10:33.000 --> 10:35.000 And then he began to wonder about the whole thing. 10:35.000 --> 10:42.000 So he checked the records and found that there had been a bank robbery at Monterey with $50,000 stolen in gold, 10:42.000 --> 10:45.000 which made the whole situation harder to stomach than ever. 10:45.000 --> 10:50.000 And what's more, buckaroos, he hasn't found it yet. No one has. 10:50.000 --> 10:58.000 So somewhere within a mile of Fort Belknap, 256 steps north of a little creek, 86 steps west of a prickly pear, 10:58.000 --> 11:02.000 that's no longer there, they had some bad years, the cattle couldn't be too choosy. 11:02.000 --> 11:07.000 Down at the base of a 42-inch wagon rod is an old chuck wagon bean pot, 11:07.000 --> 11:13.000 in which for years $50,000 worth of gold has been baking in the sun-warmed ground. 11:13.000 --> 11:17.000 The bank robber willed it to Jackson for the good turn he did. 11:17.000 --> 11:23.000 And Jackson has willed it all to you folks for the good turn you have done, and those you will do. 11:23.000 --> 11:27.000 So saddle pals, make sure you earn the right to that fortune. 11:27.000 --> 11:30.000 That tar's in there, I hope someday you'll find. 11:30.000 --> 11:33.000 Well, say Ken, that was some story. 11:33.000 --> 11:39.000 You know, I don't suppose it really is very easy to find a saddle ring just way out there in all sagebrush. 11:39.000 --> 11:45.000 You know, I could listen to that story about that saddle ring and that 42-inch wagon tongue and all that over and over again. 11:45.000 --> 11:50.000 And speaking of stories, kids, wouldn't you like to be able to hear some of Ken's famous stories whenever you want? 11:50.000 --> 11:55.000 Well, you can, with Ken Meenard's exciting Diamond K album of Wild West records. 11:55.000 --> 11:59.000 You can play them again and again for yourself and for your friends. 11:59.000 --> 12:06.000 They're terrific stories about Ken and Tarzan and the exciting West, stories that are really packed full of excitement. 12:06.000 --> 12:09.000 And best of all, these Ken Meenard records are personalized. 12:09.000 --> 12:14.000 They're made just for you and you alone with a message from Ken. 12:14.000 --> 12:17.000 When you put the needle down on the record, the first thing you'll hear is, 12:17.000 --> 12:21.000 Hello, Johnny, this is Ken Meenard with a story just for you. 12:21.000 --> 12:26.000 Ken will say hello to you and call you by name no matter what your name is. 12:26.000 --> 12:30.000 And he'll tell you two of his favorite stories, stories you've never heard before. 12:30.000 --> 12:34.000 You'll get two records in the album, two complete stories. 12:34.000 --> 12:38.000 These records are made of the finest and most expensive materials that money can buy. 12:38.000 --> 12:42.000 They're unbreakable and you can play them over and over again as often as you want. 12:42.000 --> 12:49.000 They're regular 78 RPM speed, the regular speed that's been used for all record players and phonographs for years. 12:49.000 --> 12:54.000 Now all you do to get your album with the two big eight-inch records and your personalized message 12:54.000 --> 12:59.000 is to send your name and address on a dollar bill to records in care of this radio station. 12:59.000 --> 13:03.000 Do it now, buckaroos. The sooner you write, the sooner you'll get your album. 13:03.000 --> 13:07.000 Now here's Ken to tell you about his next story. 13:07.000 --> 13:12.000 Well, you heard what my ranch hand Charlie said, and I sure hope you'll give it heed. 13:12.000 --> 13:15.000 Those personalized records are something I know you'll enjoy, 13:15.000 --> 13:20.000 and the K-shirt is something you boys and girls will enjoy wearing so much 13:20.000 --> 13:24.000 you'll just hate the time you'll have to be separated while it's being washed. 13:24.000 --> 13:35.000 Say, Tarzan's got the answer to that. Better get two of them. Smart horse, that Tarzan. 13:35.000 --> 13:40.000 Well, until next time when I'll tell you the story of the skeleton in the well, 13:40.000 --> 13:45.000 this is Ken Maynard and Tarzan, saying so long from the packed room of the Diamond Cay Ranch. 13:45.000 --> 13:47.000 So long, folks. So long. 13:47.000 --> 13:52.000 You've been listening to Tales from the Diamond Cay, stories of adventure told by Ken Maynard, 13:52.000 --> 13:56.000 internationally famous cowboy and Hollywood's champion of western stars. 13:56.000 --> 14:23.000 Tales from the Diamond Cay was produced and transcribed in Hollywood.