49-xx-xx ep09 The Opening of Tioga Reserve

Frontier Town, the saga of the roaring west. Frontier Town, El Paso, Cheyenne, Calgary, Tombstone. Frontier Town. Here is the adventurous story of the early west, the tamed and the untamed. From the Pecos to Powder River, Dodge City to Poker Flat, these are the towns they fought to live in and lived to fight for.

Teaming crucibles of pioneer freedom. From Tier Town! Not too far below the continental divide, nested in the narrow valley between the red and the white rivers,

lies the boisterous brawling frontier town called Dos Rios. That's where I come from. The little shingle hanging outside my office above the livery stable reads Chad Remington, attorney at law. Now that you know who I am, maybe you're thinking of saddle-stopped loyal leads are pretty dull and humdrum-like.

But don't you ever believe it. No sir, with the few good folks we have and the few bad ones out my way, life is pretty raw most of the time. Well, just take what happened to me about a month ago.

Cherokee O'Bannon, who owns the livery stable, now that he's reformed from peddling his rattlesnake oil, came hot footing up the rickety wooden steps which lead to my office, a copy of our weekly newspaper, clutched in his hands.

Ted, just wait. Just wait here, my boy. You see this. Oh, what have you got there, Cherokee? A new formula for a patent medicine that is absolutely guaranteed to cure bad livers called shivers, saw withers and heaves?

Nothing of the sort? Nothing of the sort. Just read this right here in this box at the front page. Okay, let me have it. Federal government throwing Tuyoga National Forest Reserve open for homesteading. Well, opening up the Tioga Reserve means turning over about 6,000 square miles for settlement.