WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:03.000 Hello there, buckaroos. This is Ken Maynard and Tarzan. 00:03.000 --> 00:09.000 In the tack room at the Diamond Cay. 00:09.000 --> 00:12.000 Tarzan, will you stop nibbling at my cay shirt? 00:12.000 --> 00:17.000 I've already told you that as soon as they can knit one big enough for you, you're going to have one of your own. 00:17.000 --> 00:20.000 Won't that be a picture, buckaroos? 00:23.000 --> 00:25.000 No offense, Tarzan. 00:25.000 --> 00:31.000 Well, buckaroos, considering the number of years folks have been scratching and sifting the old earth's surface for easy wealth, 00:31.000 --> 00:34.000 you'd think there wouldn't be anything left except gravel. 00:34.000 --> 00:37.000 How would you like to have lived back in the days of El Dorado? 00:37.000 --> 00:39.000 There was real adventure and action. 00:39.000 --> 00:44.000 In those days, and I'll tell you more about it right quick like, in just a minute. 00:44.000 --> 00:48.000 From the tack room of Ken Maynard's Diamond Cay Ranch, we're bringing you stories of adventure. 00:48.000 --> 00:54.000 Stories of circus life, fascinating transcribed tales of the old west where cowboys still follow the cattle trails. 00:54.000 --> 00:59.000 Stories of rodeos and parades, colorful legends of the red man, hidden gold and buried treasure. 00:59.000 --> 01:06.000 The exciting tales from the Diamond Cay are told by Hollywood's champion of western stars, internationally famous Ken Maynard. 01:06.000 --> 01:13.000 Now while Ken's kind of getting you visitors all comfortable here in the tack room, I just want to put in my dollars worth for a minute. 01:13.000 --> 01:20.000 You must have guessed I'm talking about the dollars and dollars worth of entertainment you get with a Diamond Cay record album of western stories, 01:20.000 --> 01:27.000 told by that champion of Hollywood's western stars, Ken Maynard, and told only as Ken can tell them. 01:27.000 --> 01:33.000 But all you have to do is send one dollar to get your very own personalized Diamond Cay record album. 01:33.000 --> 01:35.000 Now that's a pretty big value buckaroos. 01:35.000 --> 01:45.000 You get two complete Wild West stories and a beautiful full color album with pictures of Ken and Tarzan right on the front and pictures and a story about Ken on the back. 01:45.000 --> 01:51.000 Now you can't buy this album in any store because Ken only sends these to his friends of the Diamond Cay. 01:51.000 --> 01:57.000 So for some real western fun, send your name and address and a dollar bill to Records in care of this radio station. 01:57.000 --> 02:02.000 And wait till you hear Ken say hello to you personally right on the record and call you by name. 02:02.000 --> 02:07.000 He'll say, hello Tom, this is Ken Maynard with a story just for you. 02:07.000 --> 02:09.000 And your record is personalized. 02:09.000 --> 02:15.000 These are fine records too, made of pure vinylite, the finest most expensive material that money can buy. 02:15.000 --> 02:21.000 That's so that you can't break them and you can play them over and over again and you won't wear them out. 02:21.000 --> 02:26.000 And it's just as easy as falling off a corral fence to get one buckaroos. 02:26.000 --> 02:31.000 Simply send your name and address and a dollar bill to Records in care of this radio station. 02:31.000 --> 02:37.000 But be sure to send your name so Ken can call you by name and send right away. 02:37.000 --> 02:39.000 And your album will be mail postage prepaid. 02:39.000 --> 02:43.000 That's right, we'll pay the postage from here in Hollywood. 02:43.000 --> 02:47.000 Now here's Ken to tell you about the lure of the El Dorado. 02:47.000 --> 02:51.000 El Dorado, that's the name they gave the gilded king. 02:51.000 --> 02:54.000 The fellow must have had a great dislike for clothes. 02:54.000 --> 02:59.000 Anyway as the story goes, every morning he had a special lot of servants put oil on his skin. 02:59.000 --> 03:04.000 Then these fellows would take a barrel of gold dust and just blow the stuff all over the king's body. 03:04.000 --> 03:07.000 Until he had a farm fitting suit made out of solid gold. 03:07.000 --> 03:09.000 Now this king was mighty particular. 03:09.000 --> 03:12.000 He'd never wear the same suit longer than one day. 03:12.000 --> 03:15.000 At night he'd take a bath in his own private lake and go to bed. 03:15.000 --> 03:19.000 Next morning they repeated the whole thing, spraying on a new coat of gold. 03:19.000 --> 03:26.000 Now this had been going on for years and years, each king repeating the custom of his predecessors, those fellows that came before. 03:26.000 --> 03:30.000 You can right well imagine that a heap of gold must have washed down at the bottom of that lake. 03:30.000 --> 03:36.000 Considering the size and stature of the average man, because kings were supposed to be bigger than all other men. 03:36.000 --> 03:42.000 The royal dignists certainly needed an inexhaustible supply of gold to keep their king decently dressed. 03:42.000 --> 03:45.000 There wasn't much work for the royal tailors thereabouts. 03:45.000 --> 03:49.000 And I'll bet more than once they thought of picketing the castle, be that as it may. 03:49.000 --> 03:54.000 Stories of the El Dorado fellow made folks set up and take notice all over the world. 03:54.000 --> 04:02.000 And adventurous souls from England, Spain, Holland, and many other places were racing each other across the sea to see who'd find this fabulous kingdom first. 04:02.000 --> 04:10.000 Of course, very few people take to mind, especially those with a taste for gold, an adventure that maybe this gilded king was quite content with things the way they were. 04:10.000 --> 04:14.000 And he certainly didn't want to miss a stranger's coming in on him and peeling his clothes off. 04:14.000 --> 04:19.000 It would prove downright embarrassing, even though they say a king can do no wrong. 04:19.000 --> 04:27.000 Now, don't let that fool you. A king can catch cold just like anybody else, and having to run around without any clothes on is a quick way of doing it. 04:27.000 --> 04:32.000 I don't know what it is that makes people think they have a right to kill and steal to get what they want. 04:32.000 --> 04:41.000 Remember right in your hometown, the cop on the beat of the sheriff is doing or trying to do his job to keep someone from running off with something of yours. 04:41.000 --> 04:48.000 One thing you notice in common about these fabulous cities and golden kings, no one knows right well exactly where they are. 04:48.000 --> 04:55.000 And the stories about them would continue telling why sometimes a fellow can't rightly tell where to begin hunting them through the years. 04:55.000 --> 05:02.000 And as things go nowadays, bad times come along, and those who once had plenty of the gleaming stuff probably have nothing left. 05:02.000 --> 05:08.000 An aldorado may have found things so tough that he had to go around dressed and cast off silver. 05:08.000 --> 05:12.000 Anyway, all this is a sort of a roundabout way of getting to the real heart of our story. 05:12.000 --> 05:19.000 Give a listen for a moment or two to something I'm mighty proud to be associated with, then I'll go on with our story. 05:19.000 --> 05:26.000 But now let me tell you about something that you don't need to wonder about. I'll only take a minute and then I'll finish the story. 05:26.000 --> 05:30.000 You don't have to wonder whether you're getting your money's worth when you stand in for a K-shirt. 05:30.000 --> 05:36.000 Now maybe you think that sounds conceited, but I'm not the fellow that makes them. I just wear them because they're made special for me. 05:36.000 --> 05:44.000 And I honestly think they're a real big value for only a dollar. I think you young buckaroos will really like a K-shirt, the colors and the way they fit. 05:44.000 --> 05:49.000 And I'm sure Mama will like the way they wash and need no ironing unless she wants to. 05:49.000 --> 05:56.000 The K-shirt, like I wear, is made buckaroo size for you in 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, or 12, whatever size you wear. 05:56.000 --> 06:02.000 Awfully easy to get one, too. Just send me your name and address and size and I'll see that one's mailed right out to you. 06:02.000 --> 06:08.000 Send your name, address, and size to K-shirt and care of this radio station. Send right away. 06:08.000 --> 06:11.000 Now let's get back to our story. 06:11.000 --> 06:18.000 Well, buckaroos, when no one was able to locate the hide or dust, gold dust that is, of this El Dorado fellow, 06:18.000 --> 06:23.000 the name El Dorado became associated with all mythical stories of unattainable wealth. 06:23.000 --> 06:30.000 And for hundreds of years searching parties marched from one end of the country to the other, cleared the tip of South America, and that's sure covering territory. 06:30.000 --> 06:37.000 Could be this golden king lived in Mexico. Montezuma was real enough, and he surely packed a heap of wealth. 06:37.000 --> 06:44.000 It kept that fellow Cartes busy for a long time just hauling the stuff to his boats on the Gulf of Mexico to be shipped back to Spain. 06:44.000 --> 06:48.000 And the wrecks of those treasured galleons are spread along the coast clear to New England. 06:48.000 --> 06:58.000 Now maybe this El Dorado fellow lived down in Peru where an Inca named Atahualpa filled a room some 22 by 17 feet with gold to the height of 9 feet. 06:58.000 --> 07:09.000 And all this is a ransom to that Pizerro conquistador, as they call those adventurous chaps from Spain who'd come across the ocean to relieve any unlikely candidate of some or all of his wealth. 07:09.000 --> 07:16.000 Getting nearer our times, the gold strike in California, and the discovery of silver in Nevada was a farm of treasure hunting. 07:16.000 --> 07:25.000 In fact, getting right down to brass tacks, the reason most of us do any work at all, outside of wanting to keep our stomachs full and some reason we find we can close our own backs, 07:25.000 --> 07:34.000 they don't have to be made of gold dust, the reason we do any work at all is to accumulate our own personal treasure that we bank somewhere and possibly sit back and enjoy some time. 07:34.000 --> 07:41.000 There are many who will say it's just a waste of time to let yourself go daydreaming about El Dorado and such, but the fellows who built this country, 07:41.000 --> 07:48.000 those rugged boys who had the stamina to get out and do some prospecting, not necessarily for gold or silver, were most of them dreamers. 07:48.000 --> 07:53.000 They were the boys who explored the vast wastes where no one had been before. 07:53.000 --> 08:00.000 They were men who built the railroads, dug the oil wells, and did so many other things that helped make this country what it is today. 08:00.000 --> 08:05.000 The world can use all kinds of people, those with imagination. 08:05.000 --> 08:13.000 They blast away for fellows who follow with their wives, the merchants who supply their needs, the men who have patience and skill to build the towns and the industries, 08:13.000 --> 08:16.000 while the pioneers shove on for new frontiers to conquer. 08:16.000 --> 08:22.000 So buckaroos, do your jobs, and do them well, but take a little time for dreaming too. 08:22.000 --> 08:27.000 It won't do you any harm and may keep that brain of yours more active. 08:27.000 --> 08:33.000 You know, I had a letter the other day from a boy down in Texas, Mission, Texas. It was my hometown. 08:33.000 --> 08:41.000 This young pope was bemoaning the fact that there's nothing left to do. Everything's been invented and discovered. He said there's no West to pioneer. 08:41.000 --> 08:49.000 Why, buckaroos, there's so much left for you all to do. There'll always be frontiers. 08:49.000 --> 08:54.000 Maybe I've been going off the deep end, am I? But I think El Dorado is being discovered every day. 08:54.000 --> 09:00.000 Flights are through the air in a streaking jet, and the high tails are through the stratosphere in the atomic-powered spaceships of the future. 09:00.000 --> 09:08.000 There's more buried treasure to be found today with all our accumulated learning than was ever to be found, even back in the days of the gilded king. 09:08.000 --> 09:16.000 Dreaming, buckaroos, doesn't always mean letting your eyes spray away from the textbook in class to that squirrel in the tree outside the window, 09:16.000 --> 09:23.000 or to that cloud that looks just like a mountain at the base of which the treasure lies buried, according to X on the map. 09:23.000 --> 09:28.000 Six paces north of Rustler Spring, the real treasure is to be found in the textbook. 09:28.000 --> 09:34.000 And if you'll do a might-of-concentrated digging, you'll find your El Dorado for sure. 09:34.000 --> 09:39.000 Oh, well, Ken, that was certainly a different kind of story. 09:39.000 --> 09:44.000 And folks, Ken will be back in just a minute to tell you about his next exciting diamond-k tale. 09:44.000 --> 09:50.000 But first, I'd like to tell you, buckaroos, about another story I'm sure you won't want to miss. 09:50.000 --> 09:52.000 Now, you know what I mean. 09:52.000 --> 09:57.000 The stories Ken tells you in his album of Diamond K. record album of Weston Tales. 09:57.000 --> 10:03.000 And most important is the thrill of Ken calling you by name right on the record. 10:03.000 --> 10:10.000 That's right. Everybody will know that it's your album, because Ken will begin the story by saying, 10:10.000 --> 10:18.000 Hello, Jess, or whatever your name is. Yes, Ken will say, Hello, Jess, this is Ken Maynard with a story just for you. 10:18.000 --> 10:24.000 And Ken will tell you two Wild West stories, stories that you haven't heard on this series. 10:24.000 --> 10:28.000 They're special stories written especially for your Diamond K. album. 10:28.000 --> 10:33.000 There's one on each of the big eight-inch pure vinyl-like unbreakable records. 10:33.000 --> 10:38.000 Why, you'll have more fun than a three-ring circus playing them for your friends. 10:38.000 --> 10:45.000 And I'll bet mom and dad will listen in too and say, When your friends hear Ken Maynard talking to you personally, 10:45.000 --> 10:49.000 boy, you'll be the envy of the entire neighborhood. 10:49.000 --> 10:51.000 Now, you know how to get this album, don't you? 10:51.000 --> 10:56.000 Just send your name, address, and the dollar bill to records in care of this radio station. 10:56.000 --> 10:59.000 Why, it's the biggest value in records that I've ever heard of. 10:59.000 --> 11:07.000 Two big, wonderful eight-inch records with pictures of Ken and Tarzan right on the front and pictures on the album too. 11:07.000 --> 11:09.000 And it's all in full color. 11:09.000 --> 11:12.000 Now, these records are absolutely unbreakable. 11:12.000 --> 11:17.000 They're high-quality records made of pure vinylite, the finest material that money can buy. 11:17.000 --> 11:22.000 You can play these records year in and year out, buckaroos, and don't worry about wearing them out. 11:22.000 --> 11:26.000 So if you haven't already sent for your Diamond K. album, do it today. 11:26.000 --> 11:32.000 But be sure to send your name too so Ken can call you by name right on the record. 11:32.000 --> 11:36.000 Send your name, an address, and the dollar bill to records in care of this station. 11:36.000 --> 11:39.000 Now, here's Ken to tell you about his next story. 11:39.000 --> 11:43.000 Well, buckaroos, I sort of got carried away, I guess, by yarn spinning today. 11:43.000 --> 11:47.000 But that letter from Tex Wilson down in Mason sent me to thinking, 11:47.000 --> 11:50.000 would you write and tell me if you got something out of it? 11:50.000 --> 11:52.000 I'd be glad to hear from you. 11:52.000 --> 11:55.000 You just write me, Ken Maynard, in care of the station you're listening to, 11:55.000 --> 12:00.000 and they'll see the letter gets into the mailbox by the road at the Diamond K. Ranch. 12:00.000 --> 12:04.000 You might also tell me how you like your personalized records in those K-shirts of mine. 12:04.000 --> 12:06.000 Are your pals asking you where you got them? 12:06.000 --> 12:11.000 If you pass along the information, Tarzan and I will consider it a personal favor. 12:11.000 --> 12:14.000 Say, Tarzan, what did you think of our story today? 12:14.000 --> 12:16.000 Does it make horse sense to you? 12:16.000 --> 12:18.000 Horses whinny 12:18.000 --> 12:20.000 Horses whinny 12:20.000 --> 12:23.000 Well, he's nodding his head, so I'll take his word for it. 12:23.000 --> 12:25.000 Tarzan always was a smart horse. 12:25.000 --> 12:31.000 Getting along about that time now, so until next time when I tell you the story of Yankee Dan. 12:31.000 --> 12:33.000 So long, buckaroos. 12:33.000 --> 12:35.000 Horses whinny 12:35.000 --> 12:37.000 Horses whinny 12:37.000 --> 12:39.000 Horses whinny 12:39.000 --> 12:43.000 You've been listening to Tales from the Diamond K. 12:43.000 --> 12:47.000 Stories of adventure told by Ken Maynard in the nationally famous cowboy 12:47.000 --> 12:50.000 and Hollywood's champion of western stars. 12:50.000 --> 12:53.000 We hope you're one of the regular visitors to Ken's tack room. 12:53.000 --> 12:58.000 The door is always open here at the Diamond K. Ranch every weekday at the same time. 12:58.000 --> 13:03.000 Invite your friends to come along for a trip into the adventures of the wild, wild west. 13:03.000 --> 13:06.000 And we bet that mom and dad will enjoy these stories too. 13:06.000 --> 13:11.000 You know, Ken's a real, ridin', ropin', shootin' cowboy who's traveled all over the world, 13:11.000 --> 13:17.000 looking for excitement and lost treasure, starring in circuses and rodeos and motion pictures. 13:17.000 --> 13:21.000 And he's just chock full of rootin', tootin' stories. 13:21.000 --> 13:23.000 Ken will be lookin' for ya. 13:23.000 --> 13:25.000 Will you be with us? 13:25.000 --> 13:28.000 Tales from the Diamond K. was transcribed and produced in Hollywood.