Pat Conway, to quote you, with a scared town, Tombstone Territory, 1957

Added: 2026-05-23

[00:00:00]As the days clocked off, the town showed its fear more and more. Tombstone wasn't as tough as it thought it was.

[00:00:06]Not yet, anyway.

[00:00:07]>> [music] [music] >> November 16, 1881 saw Link Thompson ride into town to get the [music] word.

[00:00:25]>> [music] >> And the word was on its way to Sam Brewster.

[00:00:33]How far behind you think Brewster is?

[00:00:35]Couple of days, Charlie. No more.

[00:00:40]There's only one way to handle this, Clay. Yeah, Charlie? Tombstone's scared, Clay. I've never seen them like this.

[00:00:47]Well, they've never had to face anything like this before.

[00:00:50]You were saying there's a way, Charlie?

[00:00:52]The way I look at it, Link Thompson's the key.

[00:00:54]>> Thompson?

[00:00:56]Yeah, he was almost smiling when he rode out of here. Smelled a big gunfight. Why stop him? Brewster won't ride in, you know that.

[00:01:04]>> Oh, whoa. Well, I think you're crossing the wrong stream.

[00:01:08]Brewster's running the show. Well, maybe maybe not.

[00:01:13]Here's a partial rundown on Mr. Link Thompson.

[00:01:16]Some of the peace officers I wired came back with answers.

[00:01:19]Judging from these, he's as mean as he talks. Let's just say he's a killer.

[00:01:24]Well, I could tell he was a tough old lion, but with this, we're wasting time, Clay.

[00:01:31]It's my job. I'm going after Thompson.

[00:01:33]>> Oh, oh, and catch a rifle bullet? Look, Charlie, be smart. Don't you realize that Link isn't going to let you close enough to catch him before he gets the news back to Brewster? He's just aching for a brawl. Are you trying to say that Brewster'd back down if it weren't for his gunslinger?

[00:01:46]Well, knowing Sam, I doubt it.

[00:01:48]>> Well, then I don't understand.

[00:01:49]>> But anyway, Link will keep Sam so riled that even if we had a chance to reason with him, we can't now. Well, then Charlie's right.

[00:01:58]You should have stopped Thompson from leaving when he rode in.

[00:02:00]>> On what grounds?

[00:02:02]Well, what about these?

[00:02:04]Well, the only problem with that is they've never been able to prove that it wasn't self-defense.

[00:02:12]Well, then we're right back where we were.

[00:02:15]That's right, Harris.

[00:02:17]To quote you, with a scared town.

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