Gold Digger

In the black hills of Dakota territory, I'm at a love-sick miner and got bitten by the gold bug. M-Dear Gentlemen, herewith 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.

Seven Nights a Week on CBS Radio, most of these stations present the world tonight. On the World Tonight, a CBS Newsman broadcast direct from where the news is developing, along with well-detailed eyewitness reports on current events.

The World Tonight brings you lively interviews with people in the news. When big things are happening in London, Moscow, Paris, Tokyo, or Rome, they're all within in speaking distance on the world tonight. Now starring John Dana, this is the story of J.B. Kendall, frontier gentleman.

The town of Deathwood is built between a Kenyan wall and a river. As with so many other products of a gold rush, it is attracted the best and the worst of humanity. The enticements being many and varied from opium dens to gambling halls and saloons.

Morning and night the long main street fairly roars. The sound carries many a mile into the black hills. It'd be heard by some half-starve grizzled prospector down on his luck. I had gone into the same hills in order to write my impressions of gold mining in this area.

It was the evening of my second day when I wandered into the camp of two men. Their diggings were in a hillside a few yards from their fire. Here's a mister. Good evening. Any luck?