Bonanza features the life and connection of the Cartwrights within their family and community through its weekly hour-long episodes. Cutthroat Junction, written by Nat Tanchuck, was first aired on March 18, 1961. This episode became the fifty-eighth episode of Bonanza and the last-minute replacement for the episode “The Gift,” broadcasted the following week.

The Cartwrights accompany troubleshooter Jed Trask (Robert Lansing) to a town called Cut Throat Junction. Trask’s freight company assigned him to round up a gang of thieves disrupting the delivery of goods and mail, giving him the freedom to accomplish the task by all means.

However, Trask suddenly gets fired in the middle of his mission. Disgruntled by the change of events, Trask switches sides, joining the thieves in their efforts to hijack vital shipments heading for Virginia City.

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Main Cast

Cutthroat Junction, Bonanza’s twenty-sixth episode for its second season, stars the following cast:

• Lorne Greene as Ben Cartwright
• Pernell Roberts as Adam Cartwright
• Dan Blocker as Eric ‘Hoss’ Cartwright
• Michael Landon as Joseph ‘Little Joe’ Cartwright
• Robert Lansing as Jed Trask
• Shirley Ballard as Belle Trask
• Dick Wessel as Big Mike Campbell (as Richard Wessel)
• John Harmon as Weasel
• J. Edward McKinley as Walker
• Dan White as Simms
• Robert Anderson as Thorn (as Bob Anderson)
• Jim Hayward as Jose McCorkland
• Robert Adler as Stage Driver
• Bob Miles as Gang Member
• John Barton as Townsman (uncredited)
• Chet Brandenburg as Bartender (uncredited)
• John Breen as Townsman (uncredited)
• Bill Clark as Gang Member (uncredited)
• Jaye Durkus as Gang Member (uncredited)
• Chuck Hamilton as Townsman (uncredited)
• Ethan Laidlaw as Townsman (uncredited)
• Bob LaWandt as Townsman (uncredited)
• Cactus Mack as Gang Member (uncredited)
• Rod McGaughy as Gang Member (uncredited)
• John Rice as Townsman (uncredited)
• Jack Tornek as Townsman (uncredited)

Full Story Line for Cutthroat Junction

Sierra Freight and Stage Lines, a freight company, sends a troubleshooter, Jed Trask, to handle what’s interrupting the arrival of mail and supplies in Virginia City for six weeks. The company gives Jed and his wife, Belle Trask, all the means to get Sierra on schedule again, even if it requires them to kill someone.

The Cartwrights, led by Ben, join the Trasks as they head to the Latigo (Cutthroat Junction), which, according to Ben, is a town full of killers.

Jed and Ben visit the private office of the duly appointed division superintendent of the Sierra. At the same time, the Cartwright boys go to the livery stable. Jed orders Big Mike to leave town, then straightens up the depot. However, Big Mike has other plans to handle Jed. Joe comes to the office, informing Jed and Ben about the mail and supplies stocked at a barn in town.

Jed and the Cartwrights discover the barn loaded with supplies not only for Virginia City but for half the West. Joe suggests they start moving some of it through the stage by the end of the week. Jed agrees, then assures them he’ll send a message to the home office to load the rest of the stuff.

Big Mike sets an ambush, severely injuring Jed. The Cartwrights retaliated immediately, but Big Mike managed to escape.

Jed wakes up in bed, then tells Belle he needs to continue his assignment. However, when he tried to stand up, the pain hit him. Belle assures Jed that the Cartwrights are taking care of everything, but Jed doubts they know how even to manage a stage line. He thanks Belle for asking the Cartwrights to stay and run the depot. Jed insists on running down Big Mike and putting fear into everybody to accomplish his task. Belle worries Jed will only get hurt doing so, but Jed assures her that he’s doing this for her.

The following day, the stagecoach for Virginia City arrives in Latigo. The driver has a letter for Jed. Ben and Jed think it’s a paycheck. However, Jed’s mood turns bitter upon reading the content. He asks Ben to assist him on the wheelchair Belle brought, then they go outside, reminding the people he’s still in the town.

The Cartwrights recognize Jed’s loyalty to the Sierra, but Ben thinks he’s more of a fanatic.

Belle noticed that the letter had been bothering Jed for a while. Jed tells her it’s company business, but Belle insists it’s more than that. Jed reveals that the company has fired him, devastated that they kicked him out after serving them for ten years. Belle assures Jed that he’ll find other jobs, but he doesn’t like the idea. Instead, he plans to ruin Sierra no matter what it takes.

Jed visits the gang of thieves, offering them a setup that can bring them more money. They initially hesitate since they know Jed’s a loyal company man but agree later.

Jed and his gang of thieves find Big Mike’s camp. He ruthlessly kills him, then guides the crew to raid every Sierra freight shipment. Jed does all this behind the Cartwrights, who still believe he’s recovering from his injuries.

Ben reports to Jed that another freighter hasn’t arrived. Jed tells Ben it’s Big Mike, but Ben believes someone else is behind the overdue, someone who knows the shipment reports and schedules.

Later, one of the town citizens brought Big Mike’s dead body to town. Ben realizes it is Jed’s doing, which Jed confirms by standing up and claiming the place is his now.

The Cartwright set forth to get the Sierra back in business, so Virginia City and the Ponderosa receive their supplies immediately. They confront Jed in the town bar, along with a few honest citizens in Latigo who believe it’s time for Jed and his men to leave.

Jed and his gang of thieves set camp outside the town. He plans to return to town, burn the barn and the people in it, and kill anyone running out. Belle refuses to support Jed, especially in his plan to shoot the Cartwrights in cold blood. However, blinded by anger, he slaps her to the ground.

The Cartwrights and a few townsmen are busy arranging the supplies for the next stagecoach. Belle enters the barn with a rifle to escort the Cartwrights out of town. Hoss manages to stop her, and she begins sobbing. Belle reveals that Jed is planning to burn them out, with the Sierra firing him taking a massive toll on his life.

Later that evening, Jed and his gang arrive as they planned. However, the Cartwrights and the townspeople were ready for their arrival, so they started firing at them before they could set the barn on fire. Jed and his gang immediately took cover inside. Ben warns them to surrender or they’ll burn out. Terrified, his gang members yield on their own, leaving him alone in the barn.

Ben approaches Jed to talk to him. However, Jed starts shooting Ben. In the end, Jed leaves the barn, then falls to the ground to his death.

The shipment finally returns to its normal state in Virginia City, except for the rate increase. Meanwhile, Belle Trask has a show in Comstock Hotel as the world’s greatest woman trick shot. The Cartwrights decide to have dinner at the hotel and watch their friend’s show.

Full Script and Dialogue of Cutthroat Junction

[Music]
hey i see what i tell you no stage or
meal today or any other day
well now the sierra is doing the best it
can we've been cut off for mail and
supplies for six weeks now
let's tear down the plan for just a
minute hold it there
hold it now just a minute and look when
you asked me to head up this committee
you said we'd work out some kind of
peaceful plan to get the stage back on
schedule we'd begin to act like a mob
then we business man are fighting for
our lives the sierra's pushing us to the
wall
we're beginning to feel the same pinch
of lack of male and supplies out in the
ponderosa too that doesn't mean we have
to
lose our heads and become violent about
it you ranchers don't have to pay 30
a sack for flour or 50 cents a pound for
potatoes
else pays right here in virginia city
now let's all just settle down and
let's talk to sims about it oh well i
wrote a letter to the head office
they're sending out a troubleshooter
good by the time he gets here we'll all
be broke yeah the sierra is responsible
for the high prices around here
making things scarce and hard to get and
sims is the sierra in this town
i say let's run
go ahead tear up the sierra and run me
out of town now go ahead mr walker
sam's you get these citizens of sierra
property yes sir hold on sims
and what gives you the authority to come
in here and threaten us with a gun
mister there are 26 men have questioned
my authority
now they're all dead i thought it wasn't
enough for you
how about that
[Music]
so
[Music]
you won't have any more trouble sims i'm
on my way to latigo to get the sierra
running on schedule again
latigo just contrast that town's poison
yeah i got the antidote right here well
i understand that
every no good gunman in the west is held
up in latigo yeah that's right
they're using it as a base to burn and
plunder our stages and our freight
wagons
oh one man and one gun won't stand much
of a chance against a whole town of
killers
that's my job i'm paid to do it
of course if there are any volunteers to
help me clean out latigo
well now you can't count on them fellers
out there they've all got their
businesses to take care of
what businesses if this era ever stops
running through here this will be a
ghost town
oh it never fails you scratch a citizen
with talk of volunteering his gun and he
runs like a whip
dog ain't that the truth honey
sure is jed mr crasque
i agree to head up this committee and
not backing down from it
yeah well you might want to reconsider
if anything happens to you the sierra
won't pay for as much as a pine box
you know this era is far more important
to us than it is to itself
as far as your company's concerned it's
only so much profits
as far as we're concerned the sierra is
our lifeline to the outside world
all right be ready to leave it set up
ronnie looks like we bought ourselves
another gun oh you're wrong
you bought yourself four more guns my
sons will go alone
the quicker this is settled the better
we'll all like it good
[Music]
i want one thing understood my first
concern is the sierra
when we get to latigo you'll all take
orders from me
that's agreeable crask as long as you
remember that we're not hired gunman
look let's get things straight
i'm tired of people thinking of me as a
hired gun i bring law and order
to the sierra wherever it needs it all
right now it needs it allowed to go
well we're we're all for law and order
to ask
just want you to know that we we don't
intend to
shoot first and ask questions later and
i don't intend to wind up on boot hill
with a bullet in my back this is the
only kind of law those kind of men will
understand
well ladies doesn't sound like any
picnic ground
maybe ought to send mrs trask back to
virginia city
bill adam cartwright's worried about you
he thinks maybe i ought to send you back
you're my man jed
when you tell me to go back i'll go
[Music]
ah
that's another one of our wagons
only a half a day out of latigo
[Music]
ah
[Music]
oh
[Music]
you know on a town like this the
undertaker's leading citizen
[Music]
i'll have them heat some water for your
bath jet probably about an hour
well you can still back out if you want
to
we have no intention of backing out why
don't you suit yourself
i'll be over the sierra it's right
across the street
[Applause]
peaceful place
let's get the horses delivery stick
plenty of cash in this and big mike uh
look look at them greenbacks
did trash who's in for you
mike campbell you're through get out
tender's me to everett all right try
some melt in your mouth
maybe you didn't hear me i said you're
through
trash you're invading the private office
of the duly appointed division
superintendent of the sierra
mike you've got one hour to get out of
town
well if i'm gonna leave town i might as
well travel on a full stomach
mike you forgot something
[Applause]
all right you too come on me well see ya
i
i was only one hour
all right now that we got rid of big
mike we can get started straightening up
this dude
look chad you're not gonna let them ride
off scot-free they must be prosecuted
prosecuted with what there isn't any law
in this town first things first ben
i work for the sierra jet when i came
along
you came along you promised you'd take
orders from me
look ben latigo is like a snake
you cut off its head and the rest of it
will die
after an hour he only give us an hour
that's time enough for you to go round
up gold baker and his partner meet me in
there
anybody finds out he took over you got
no business in this town look you just
do like i say i'll take a
jet track
this has been a lot to go on a little
while longer big mike would have owned
virginia city
he's never that smart man there's some
more records to check
hey come on take a look at the barn it's
full of mail and supplies
hey paul take a look at this it's where
all the mail's been
closest i ever got to virginia city well
there's enough stuff here to keep the
town happy for a couple of months
you know there must be supplies and mail
out here for half the west
take us a month of sunday straighten all
this out now there's a stage coming in
the end of the week we can start moving
some of it out then
hey you know for young when you're real
smart jeff
yeah you know we're gonna need
half a dozen wagons and teams to load
this stuff up well there'll be a courier
through here
i'll send the message to the home office
i'll go back to the stage depot right
now and write it out
come supper time i'll see y'all i'll buy
the drinks
all right i may misjudge that one
yeah he's gotta admit one thing he sure
knows his business
that's for sure seems like this town's
already fighter just since he's been
here
well this mail isn't gonna load itself
come on let's get to work
yeah yeah
you're on my way boy you're in my way
mister
trash said how are you giving me this up
i'm gonna enjoy watching you die
we're out of here you vulture
he's hardly breathing he'll be all right
joe
get the doctor right
you wanted to be part of this well now
you are
which one of you was going to kill mike
campbell
boys let's get him upstairs
bill bell
i'm here jed i'm here
i can't stay trust up like this i got a
job to do
you're not getting out of this bed until
the doctor says so come on you stop
mother hunting me
i'm in shape right now to get back on
the job oh
there you see
chad quit worrying the cartwrights are
down at the station right now
now they're taking care of everything
what are the codewords know about
running a stage line
thought you'd be happy knowing they were
staying on well i'm not
in much shape right now to jump for joy
just the same i'm glad that he asked you
to stay on and run the depot all i have
to do now is figure out a way of running
down big mike
leave well enough b jed big mike has run
like a whip dog
well enough won't leave me be
i can't let a man put a bullet hole in
me and get away with it every two-bit
gunman in the west would want to try the
same thing
everybody knows he tricked you you have
nothing to gain tracking him down like a
hired killer
don't you call me a hired killer
i didn't i didn't
honey i've got a job to do
to do that job right i've got to put the
fear of jed trask into everybody and
keep it there
fear jet of respect it's the same thing
bill
my gun got me my job and my gun is going
to keep it
if i let big mike stay alive everybody
would say the sand was running out of my
craw
ted i just can't stand seeing you get
hurt again
i thought you understood something there
are only two things in my life
my work and you
my work is the only way i know to get
you the things i want for you
[Music]
ah
hey all right stay from virginia city
very much accepts the mail and stuff
from his home office
well we'll have plenty of letters for
you to deliver to virginia city tell
adam and has to start loading
right
don't see big mike around no i guess you
won't either
jed crass relieved him of his job my
name is carter my sons and i are helping
him out
judd dress huh yeah i heard the
company's making some changes here
didn't figure they'd send out a task
why's a good troubleshooter trouble with
some troubleshooters
they're sometimes bigger trouble they're
sent out here to cure
is that what you think about trask i do
so do a lot of others at the home office
wrecking trashcan want these letters and
weight bills and this one's for
impersonal
oh you want me to deliver it no siree
this is one pleasure i want for myself
i've waited a long time to deliver this
letter
i don't know it's getting so they're
running a stage is going to need a man
who can read and write
better than he can handle a gun or hitch
a team of horses
all right there it is there's a rundown
on all of the freight that is due here
in the next
few weeks hey you know by the time
the time we get through our end of
things here everything should be back to
normal
looks like the driver had a letter for
you did he give it to you
yeah it's right there might be a
paycheck
it's about time
[Applause]
[Music]
hey
more trouble
nothing i can't handle
hey hey here let me help you thank you
there we go how'd you get that at the
undertaker's
the undertaker he's also the local
carpenter chairs tables and coffins are
his specialty
well you can take it back i don't want
it i don't care what you want you're
going to use it
you'll just get well that much sooner
don't you agree mr cartwright
yes i think i do agree all right all
right
what's this letter you keep your hands
away from that
[Music]
oh i'm sorry
being cooped up in this room has made me
kind of shaky
maybe you're right about the chair at
least i can get around a little bit
well you know keeping busy is certainly
better medicine than just
sitting around in here and even in a
wheelchair there are plenty of things to
for you to take care of down at the
depot well something i'm a lot more
anxious to take care of than the depo
that's mike campbell now look traskier
you're in no condition to go riding
after mike campbell
i'm not gonna ride after big mike
i'm gonna sit in that chair in front of
this hotel and sooner or later big mike
is going to get brave enough to come
looking for me
when he does
this will be the last thing he'll ever
see well trashcan
you're taking an awful chance and well
in that wheelchair
you're sitting duck i've been taking
chances for the sierra for 10 years
maybe it's become a habit
yeah honey i'm real glad you thought
about that chair
then while you're here you want to give
me a hand into the chair
all right all right all right all right
i'll help you yeah
[Music]
yeah that's better
i just wanted to know i'm still around
are you sure this is what you want i
know what i'm doing cartwright
well i hope so we crossed away the depot
i can see that the stage gets up to
virginia city
[Music]
oh i know this food ain't got hopsin's
touch but at least keep you from
starving that
what are you doing i was making a bid
for a second helping
what's bothering you bob
oh nothing really trask
he's a pretty hard man to figure it i
don't trust him
me neither a strange job i picked a
strange man to handle it
certainly no denying his loyalty to the
sierra
loyally seems he's dedicated his whole
life to it
well that's a pointless favor wouldn't
you say
maybe what do you mean well he's
he's more than just loyal he's become
almost fanatic about it
and i've learned it's pretty hard to
trust a fanatic
no matter how good his intentions are
jet what's the matter
why don't you let me help you into bed
stay up and think for a while
that letter must be mighty important for
you to lose sleep over it letter is
company business
you don't have to worry about it
what's in it i told you it's company
business
it's more than that but don't try this
you jumped at me the first time i asked
you about it now you're jumping at me
again
i know when something's troubling you
i've been fired bill
[Music]
this can't be true candid
there's always been somebody in sierra
management after my hide somebody who
didn't
like my methods
ten years of my life i spent building
that stage line
ten years
now fired just kicked out like that
it's only a job honey there are plenty
of jobs for a man like you
jed trask doesn't go around begging for
jobs and he's no saddle [ __ ] or fool
kid to get kicked around either
jed we've got to face things as they
come
honey we've been through worse things
than this together
that time that mustangs have opened up
your scalp
bloody massacre in the apache country
don't tell me tell them tell the sierra
it was my blood and sweat that marked
that stage line all up and down the
country mine
they supplied the equipment and the
money and i supplied the guts wherever
that line started to fall apart who held
it together me
jed trask shed the sierra is only a
pinpoint in this world
we can go someplace where you'd really
run out are you telling me to run out
i know
[Music]
no after i get rid of big mike
i'm gonna make this our town bill
i'm gonna bust the sierra so wide open
there won't be a trace of their mark
left on this territory darling sit down
you'll hurt yourself oh
i don't need that chair i've been hit
with since a dozen times chad will you
sit down you're in no shape to be
walking around
yeah that's right
sure everybody in town has seen me in
that chair
i know i can't walk i don't know what
you're thinking jed but
i am not gonna stand here and watch you
get into trouble
yeah yeah everybody in town knows i'm
tied to this chair
oh oh boy that's funny that's real
funny i didn't want this chair to begin
with but
now that i got it i'm going to make it
work for
chad me can't do this what about the
cartwrights
what about them i don't know them
anything they came along because
virginia city was in trouble not because
of me ted they came here as part of a
committee to see that the stage gets
through
look you're not going to fool them for
long they're bound to find out
do you think they're just going to stand
here and and watch you ruin the sierra
all over again
well that's up to them honey
but they just better not get in my way
[Music]
squeeze them lock it
lock it
come around front weasel get where i can
see i don't care for anybody behind my
back
sit down
now i want big mike where is he
you left town you ought to know that
thorne you helped me find him
i'll make it with you for a while big
mike set us up
covered for us now you expect us to turn
on him
you'd turn on your own mother if there
was enough money in it for you
you tie up with me and there will be
enough what are your tickets for trash
babes in the woods
you don't work for sierra anymore the
driver told us
we didn't tell anybody else i already
made sure of that
so what are you trying to prove trask
look though and i can set you boys up
better than big mike ever did
what's in it for you money for one thing
satisfaction for another i spent
10 years building up that stageline
thorn
i know their schedules i know every
shipment that comes
through here
i can show you boys how to make more
money than you ever dreamed of
you were always known as a pretty loyal
company man
how do we know you're not setting us up
for a double cross
i've taken you or anybody else as easy
as this in the past few days
[Music]
[Applause]
so
drinking together
good now you help me find big mike
yeah i'll find him what about those four
men you brought from virginia city
the card rides
i can handle them as easy as this
[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
[Applause]
you want me to handle this task
oh no this is a pleasure i've been
saving for myself
stay here boys
[Music]
so
[Music]
you should have shot a lot straighter
mike uh just a minute trash
thorn weasel stop him
[Applause]
all right now we can get back to more
important things
sierra
[Applause]
oh
[Music]
[Applause]
hello
dad how you feeling well i'd feel a lot
better if i could get out of this
blasted wheelchair
you just stay there until you're ready
to get out
[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
good morning cartwright not such a good
morning
another freighter overdue oh yeah
a big mike is sure working overtime
well somebody is sure working overtime
that's got to be mike he's the only one
who has to know how to pull off those
raids
then he has second sight
every wagon that was hit had been cargo
aboard it was almost as if they were
receiving the shipment reports and
schedules quicker than we did
i sure wish i was back on my feet ben
i'd like to give you a hand
well i know you do jada we could sure
use another hand
this is still my responsibility ben i
won't shirk it
jade i know how you feel look
couldn't we round up the few honest
citizens left here and
get all those gunmen and run them out of
town
honest citizens then these guys are
their best
customers they'd rather run you out of
town you're me
well there must be a few honest citizens
left with a little bit of pride in
latigo
then you're not gonna find one citizen
who's willing to risk his life in order
to clean the scum out of this town
hey everybody look what i got it's big
mike
[Music]
look what i ran across the rainbow
canyon
[Music]
it's a big mic all right paul
[Music]
that's right ben
i can walk fine
and this is my town now
[Music]
it figures
i tell you that man is an outnut fanatic
he'd fight just as hard to smash the
sierra as he
went to build it up well i'll guarantee
you i wasn't about to try to stop him
out there he had
had too many guns with him yeah well how
many minutes backing him but he's got
enough
well most of the people in this town
seem scared to death you think we can
count on any of them
i don't know but we'll have to without
that stage virginia city is no better
than the ghost town the ponderosa is no
better off
how do you think we got to go about it
bob well we
talked everybody in town see we can
count on
no i still ain't going to be many well
let's hope it's enough
[Music]
jed i guess there are a few honest
citizens left in latigo
and they've decided it's time for you
and your boys to leave
oh now ben there's no call for you and
me to have any trouble fact is i was
just on my way to see you
i wanted to offer you and your boys a
deal
no trouble and no deals
just leave
well with all those brave citizens
standing behind you i guess i'd be kind
of foolish to make this a showdown
wouldn't it then
whose side are you gonna be on when i
come back
[Music]
if they come back we'll be ready for
them
now we'll get the supplies and mail
ready for virginia city
until the sierra sends out another man
my sons and i will ride
shotgun in the wagons uh cochlear night
appreciate very much if you'd run the
depot well mr clark right
you think we're going about this in the
right way
mr corkland if you like living in a
in a state of fear we're going at it all
wrong
if you have any regard for yourself or
your family
we have no choice
[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
[Applause]
all right joe take one of them in find
some wagons
we're gonna need them if we're gonna
load the supplies nice hey corker give
[Music]
me
[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
how did it go no trouble at all i
sneaked right up to the barn
everybody was so busy worrying about you
coming back they never did see me
what about the card ride well wait i
figure they mean business
looks like they kind of took charge you
know take things over
all right and we'll give them some
business
we'll wait until dusk we'll circle back
into town they'll still be in that barn
working
they'll burn them out when they come
running it'll be like a turkey shoot for
us ted
let's murder your planet you hold your
time all right maybe you got a reason to
fight the sierra
but that's no reason to shoot down the
cartwrights in cold blood i told you you
just shut up
now that's 20 pounds good there'll be a
six-man guard on the next wagon that
draws out of here
oh say i want you to pass the word
around every man will be on duty from
now on
12 hours on 12 hours off now starting
tonight
turn around
your cart writes outside i'm escorting
you out a lot ago
so trask is sending a woman to do his
work huh i'm trying to save your lives
ben and please don't make me shoot how
bella
don't don't use that rifle then up put
it down
what was this all about
chad he's coming out after
dark to burn you out
then you've got to try to understand
sierra was his life when they fired him
it was as if
this if they tore out his heart
well thank you bill for coming to warn
us it
must have been a difficult thing for you
to do he never killed
in cold blood only defending himself
or the sierra
take her to the hotel paul yeah come on
bill
i guess we better get ready for trask
[Music]
not yet
[Music]
[Music]
hold it 45. come on
[Music]
[Music]
all right a couple of them are hit
somebody help him
ask you and the others
come on out with your hands high i will
burn you out
crashing on a count to ten
one two
only eight to go i'm getting out of here
shut up
oh don't shoot don't shoot i'm coming
out
five six
i don't understand fight it
get over there
he's alive he's inside the barn but not
for long time's up let's burn him out
look i never had any intention of
burning anybody
out you're not figuring on taking him
alone i'd like to talk to him
we're going in with you look if we all
go in he'll start shooting somebody'll
get hurt
i think i can reason with him trask
i'd like to come in and talk to you but
come ahead man
what's your proposition i'm willing to
listen
careful bob
[Music]
grasp
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get i want to talk to you
dead
jed
let's go
well
[Music]
oh
these sims where'd you learn to spell
there's no a in freighters
see here sims i'm not about to pay these
freight bills uh what kind of bone you
got to take now
the sierra's robbing us blind these
rates are sky high i won't pay them
well don't blame me mr walker i don't
make the rates the standard for
everybody
now go on inside i'll show you all right
[Music]
hey pop don't trask
i sure like to see those potatoes they
must be going way down in price to be
using them for targets
oh i've had enough shooting to last me a
lifetime particularly with somebody with
the name of trask at the butt end of a
gun
however since she is a friend of ours uh
when we stop off at the cops dog have
dinner and see the show
hey good idea
[Music]
you

Behind the Scenes of Cutthroat Junction

The episode shows different usage of the Sierra company’s name. In the beginning, the sign reads “Sierra Freight & Stage Lines Virginia City.” However, the chalkboard at the stage office presents “Sierra Mail & Stage Lines.” Later in the episode, the office in Latigo shows “Sierra Freight & Stage Lines.” By the end, Virginia City’s branch office’s chalkboard reads “Sierra Mail & Stage Lines.”

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