Belle Siddons' Encore

Once again I met a lady named Bell and learned about a gentleman named Archie McLaughlin. This, taking place in Deadwood, Dakota Territory. From tier gentlemen, here with an Englishman's account of life and death in the West.

As a reporter for the London Times, he writes his colorful and unusual stories. But as a man with a gun, he lives and becomes a part of the violent years in the new territories. In just a moment we will bring you this latest report from the Frontier Gentlemen.

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Join us on CBS Radio regularly, as most of the stations bring you the business news reported by Walter Cronkite or Bill Downs. Starring John Dana, this is the story of J.B. Kendall, frontier gentleman. The tent had been set up on Main Street in the heart of what is known as Deadwood's Badlands District.

The last time I had seen it was two months earlier in Cheyenne, it was a gambling establishment belonging to a rather extraordinary woman who called herself Madame Burdie, to be exact L'iline Monty Burdie. Owing to the fact that during the war she had been a Confederate spy, she no longer used her real name, which I knew to be Belle Sitners.

It was mid-morning, a comparatively quiet hour in Deadwood as I strode toward the tent. Off to one side I saw the wagon that had been converted into a type of omnibus, which served as Miss Siddin's living quarters, complete with lace curtains and satin cushions.