xx-xx-xx ep019 Thunder To The Rescue

Now for the adventures of Lightning Jim. There's the bridge just ahead, Bill.

We make that. We're safe. Yeah, if we make it. And if we deliver this gold to the bank, we've got the first patreons passed the bandits in a long time. That's him. Get down behind your animals, men.

They're coming to shoot it out with them. They'll kill the rest of you to try to hold out any longer. Arquish, all right, Charlie. and murder and cowl, and hold it, then hold it! No period in history has more dramatically lent itself to romance than the years during which the frontiers of our country

were being pushed farther and farther toward the Pacific coast. Westward, the star of empire took its way, but the story of its ascendancy is not one of romance alone. Wild disorder and bold recklessness rode the plains and hills of the Old West, and hard on the heels of these ran the worlds of banditry and murder.

To battle this lawlessness, Uncle Sam deputized only men of proved courage and integrity. And of all those who appear large upon the fading picture of heroism, none can claim greater stature than United States Marshal Lightning Jim Whipple and his faithful deputy, Whitey Lauten.

In tonight's story, we find these two fearless agents of justice investigating a series of baffling hold-up which have occurred with alarming frequency near the thriving little city of painted rock. Lightning Jim and Whitey are in the midst of an interview with the president of the local bank.

And you say, Jeff, there's all these robberies have taken place in that gorge. Just before you get to the bridge. That's the spotlight, man. And it's a perfect setup for the man as to. Dang, bluel, that's their own rehind.