About this episode

The episode explores the violence that accompanied the westward expansion of America through the story of U.S. Marshall Matt Dillon.

"The story of the violence that moved west with young America, and the story of a man that moved with it, U.S. Marshall Matt Dillon, played by William Conrad." Gunsmoke- “Home Surgery,” aired on September 13, 1952.

Topics covered

• violence in the West
• U.S. Marshall
• American history
• fictional storytelling
• character study

Keywords

• Gunsmoke
• Matt Dillon
• William Conrad
• home surgery
• western
• violence
• American history

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Gunsmoke

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