The Virginian

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Good evening ladies and gentlemen. This is James Hilton tonight on our whole mark playhouse We present a classic story of the Old West, O Inwisters the Virginian. In 1875, when this story took place around Cheyenne, Wyoming, it was wild and populated by cow punchers whose lives were full of primitive joys and dangers.

Today if you visited there, you'd see their descendants, sons of the horsemen, the cow puncher, who was one of the great romantic figures of our American past. For he was romantic. Whatever he did, he did with all his might.

The bread he earned was earned hard. The wages he squandered were squandered hard. Well, to this American hero, we dedicate tonight's play. And for our starting role, Jeff, the Virginian, we are fortunate to have McDonald Kerry.

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