Gunsmoke ran for more 635 episodes, so obviously the body count was fairly high. Gary Busey had the honor of being the last to die on the series, he perishes at the end of "The Busters," the third-to-last episode in the run. He dies after riding a wild horse.
Gunsmoke: The radio series ran from 1952 to 1961, The TV series ran from September 10, 1955, to March 31, 1975, on CBS, "Gunsmoke is routinely placed among the best shows of any kind and any time. The television series ran for 20 seasons from 1955 to 1975, lasting for 635 episodes. The television series was the longest-running, primetime, live-action series on television (tied with Law & Order with 20 seasons each) until September 2019, when the 21st-season premiere of Law & Order Special Victims Unit.
From 1955 to 1961, Gunsmoke was a half-hour show. It then went to an hour-long format. Gunsmoke was TV's number-one-ranked show from 1957 to 1961 before slipping into a decline after expanding to an hour. In 1967 The series was retitled Gun Law in the UK. There was one spin off, Dirty Sally was a humorous western television series about a hard-drinking cantankerous old woman and a young former outlaw traveling to the California gold fields in a wagon pulled by a mule named Worthless. All four senior officers from 'Star Trek' appeared on the show. Yep, you can spot Kirk, Spock, Bones and Scotty in various episodes of Gunsmoke.
Matt Dillon had one onscreen kiss throughout the tv series, Dillon got his one silver screen kiss in the episode "Matt's Love Story" with Michael Learned,
US Marshal Matt Dillon: James Arness
Kathleen "Kitty" Russell: Amanda Blake openly a madame on the radio show
Festus Haggen: Ken Curtis Deputy
Chester B. Goode: Dennis Weaver
Dr. Galen "Doc" Adams MD: Milburn Stone
Sam Noonan: Bert Rumsey/Glenn Strange bartender
Clem: Clem Fuller bartender
Quint Asper: Burt Reynolds blacksmith
There were five TV movies
Gunsmoke: Return to Dodge (1987), Gunsmoke: The Last Apache (1990), Gunsmoke: To the Last Man (1992), Gunsmoke: The Long Ride (1993), and Gunsmoke: One Man's Justice (1994). Arness showed up as Matt Dillon for every single one.
About the Cache
This is a letterbox, the coordinates put you in the middle of the trail. The cache is about 30 feet off the trail, towards the river/Train tracks. at the back of the wood pile.
Congratulations to soxfan0915 for the first to find and second to find to both Team Bullis & peramblator57.