Wild Bill Hickok: The Road Agents of Red Rock

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It took civilization a long time to reach the little old western town of Red Rock. And the last hundred miles was the toughest. That's where the rugged trail ran through raw bone gouch, up over rattlesnake ridge and down across the Hila River into Mohawk Valley.

It was that same trail which led United States Marshal Wild Bill Hickock and his faithful deputy jingles into Red Rock one evening about sundown on their way west. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. He's born in the house.

Good grub and hot biscuits any time. That sure sounds good, Bill. Yeah, and it'll be a pleasure to see Bill again. Well, it will if she can still cook like she used to. Is that the only reason, jingles?

Seems I remember Bill kind of took to you. Oh, now Bill, don't you start getting me in trouble with her. You know, every time a gal starts making calf eyes at me, Well, I get goose pebbles all over.

Well, watch out for Belle. Let's go in. Hickok and Jingle. Hello, Belle. Even in this bell. Oh, no, if you're doing the sight for sore eyes. Jingle, I haven't seen you for almost six years.

Yes, ma'am. Hey, you sure have plumped up some. Oh, I've just got to give you a big hug of welcome. Oh, still, Jingle. Oh, oh, now Miss Belle, I ain't much use to that. Oh, well, a big comfortable man like you should get used to it.

You'll find jingles a little bridal-shy, man. I know how to fix that. You sit down here by the window and I'll get you a good supper. Now, what do you want? Well, what have you got, man?

We've been on the trail so long. I worked up an appetite that it did put a bear to shame. Well, I got some ham, some lamb, pork rose, pickle pigs' feet, short ribs, prime ribs, sea bone steak, goulash, potatoes, boiled and fried, onions, boiled and fried, turnips, tomatoes, and two kinds of pie.

Now what do you have? Oh, why, that'll be fine, ma'am. What'll be fine, Jinkles? Well, just what you said. Oh, I declared, Jinkles, you haven't changed the bit. All right, just cool your heels a minute, and I'll bring it all.

Oh. Oh. Oh. That was a mighty fine spread, Bill. Yes, ma'am, it sure was. Thank you, boys. Now, what brings you two all the way out here to Red Rock? We're just passing through on our way west, Bill.

Passing through, is it? Well then I'll bet my new mail or address there's trouble to the west of here. Yes ma'am, anywhere while Bill Hickock goes you can bet on trouble. Yeah I know. How are things going in Red Rock?

Oh not too good Mr. Hickock. That is I wish you'd stay around here for a while instead of moving on. Why? You got some trouble around here Bill? Oh, have we? We've got a bunch of gold thieves nobody can catch.

Gold thieves? That's what I said. You mean they don't steal nothing but gold? Well ain't that enough when half the folks around Red Rock depend on the high pocket goldmine for their living? How long has this been going on, Bill?

About three months and that's too long. Mr. Hickock, I'm pleading with you. Stay around Red Rock and see if you can help us. Oh, don't you do it, Bill. We gotta get done. You have shopped, Jingle.

Yes, ma'am. Please, Mr. Hickock. If there's any man in the West who can smoke these varmints out and open, it's wild Bill Hickock. Alright, Bill. Maybe we can kill two birds with one stone. Two birds? What do you mean, Bill? I know that.

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Bill and Jingles run out to see their horses disappearing up the dark street. Why those aren't rape-hole caps? Hold your fingers. Hold your fire. They're out of range. How dog on it? We can't catch them on foot.

Oh, now that's a shame. What are you gonna do, Mr. Hickok? I'll have to borrow some horses and get to see. What's all the right? I just missed a Hickok. What are you doing? All that shooting.

You ding dong right we were, Mr. Some low-down pack rats just stole our horses. Horse, these in Red Rock? That's right, Mr. You don't happen to have a couple of fast months we could borrow, do you?

I'll do better than that, Hickok. Hey, doggy, come on. A couple of jaspards just rustled the Marshall's horses. Take some of the boys and round them up. OK, Mr. Taggard, we'll be in a bit.

Now that's right nice to you, Mr. Taggard. All right, nothing at all. Rest easy, Marshall. Boys, I'll have your horses back before you know it. Well, thank you. I see you know who I am.

This is my partner in deputy jingles. Taggard's my name, race Taggard Hickard. I own the hotel and saloon across the street. When you've got nothing else to do, drop over to my office. We'll have a little talk.

Maybe I'll do that, Mr. Taggart. I've been told there's trouble in Red Rock. Now it seems I'm in the middle of it. Well, Jingle's, we might as well get a little sleep. We can start looking around tomorrow.

Man, now you're talking, Bill. You know I'm getting so sleepy, my eye. Let's feel like window shutters. I declare I look up, Bill! You all right, Jingle's? Yeah, Bill. Them coyotes were shooting at us.

Look that way. Turn near woke me up. Oh, who do you reckon they were, Bill? I don't know. I couldn't get a good look at them, Jingle's. Maybe we better go see race tagger tonight after all.

What for? He just might have some facts that would help us figure out what's going on around here. Hey, Gog, I didn't know you were headed for these parts, but I've been thinking about sending for you for some time now.

That's all? What was your reason, Mr. Taggett? Well, somebody's been stealing the gold we hold down from the high-pocket mine. Well, I built that just the same thing that... Jangles? Let's just listen to Mr. Taggett.

Hey, you heard this before, Hickok? Well, just a rumor. Well, it's true. Mike McGinty, he's our wagon driver, has been held up four times in the last three months. We've lost over $40,000 in gold.

$40,000? Why, that had by me half the land in New Mexico. Who's pulling these stick-ups, Mr. Taggart? If I knew that, I'd have plugged him along before now. I own half the high pockets. It's my gold they're taking off that wagon.

A half of it anyway. You own half the mine? That's right. The other half is owned by my two partners. Shad, Martin, and Al Jackson. Well, do you trust him? Now, Jingle, that's right. As a matter of fact, Hickok, Jingle's might not be thrown too wide a loop at that.

Shad's all right, but I've been watching Jackson for some time. Mr. Hickok, Mr. Hickok, Mike McGinney's just come in from the mine road. He's been robbed again of all the gold. Holy horn toads, Bill, while we've been sitting here chatting like a couple of silly chipmunks, somebody's gone and robbed McGinney.

Hey, Bill, look at the bullet holes in this house. the side of that wagon. Yeah, Jingle's. Let's see what the driver has to say. Sure, here he is. You're the driver of this wagon, mister? Yeah, that I am, Bo. I'm lucky to be here to tell you so. Mike McGittie's the name. Who be you? Hickock's my name,

United States Marshal. Be either one they call Wild Bill Hickock. Some folks do. And then if you're all fired wild, why weren't you on hand with them bushwacken howl who tailed me up and took my strongbox with the gold? Now just a minute here, pop. Watch Watch out who you're talking to like,

question. Yes, go sit on a horse you nail. Don't come at that little warthog can't talk to me like I'm I how many men held you up? I don't know could have been two or twenty. It was dark. Where did stop you? About three miles out of town to the north near the camel humps. First a burst of

gunfire and the boy says hold the wagon and the horse must ring to his stop. Men what? Men and another boy she yells out throw off the strong box with the gold. Man that does. Then the first I'll get them tires, he's moving.

He doesn't, but these bar mitts shooting up the wagon as I went. And we got close enough for him to see even his shadow of him. This has happened to you before I hear. Yeah, it's a bad burn off when I'm getting to expect it.

You got no idea of who's pulling these pickups? Nope. You mean you have no idea or you just won't tell? Yeah, sometimes a man keeps his hide by keeping his mouth shut. And sometimes a man goes to jail for the same thing.

I'll see you later, McGinny. I'll see you later, McGinney. Right now, I've got a few things to catch up on. Well, let's get over to the hotel and get some sleep. Well, I want to see Ray's target for a minute, then we'll go up and hit the head.

Well, that's hurry. I'm plum sleepy. Jingle's at waggle. Get out of the way, Bill! That's a runaway! Well, that runaway teen during near goddess. That was no runaway jingles. That man was driving those horses.

He wanted to... you mean he was trying to run us down? That's just what I mean, partner. That makes twice tonight somebody's tried to get us. You know Bill, I'm getting the idea somebody around here don't like him.

You know you could be right. Come on, we'll go see Taggart and Jingles. Don't say anything about that wagon. I'd rather figure that one out by myself. Hey, hey, Coggin. Did you talk to McGinty?

Yeah, I talked to McGinty and I'm inclined to think he's a pretty smart boy. What do you mean by that, here, Coggin? He's smart enough to throw down a strong box full of gold instead of getting a stomach full of lead.

Hmm, and he's smart enough to keep his mouth shut. I guess that's the way he lives so long. Well now if you ask... I didn't, Jingle's. Oh. Nothing more you can tell us about those gold robbers, is there?

No, Hickok. I just know they're driving us out of business. I've been out of town a good deal so I don't get all the dirt. But then being a detective is not in my line. I leave that to men like you.

Well, in the morning I'll write out to the spot where McGinney was held up just to nose her on a little. See you when I get back. Come on, Jingle's, let's get some sleep. Now that's what I like to hear.

Feather bed here, I come. Bill, you're getting harder and harder to figure out. First you tell me I'm going up the bed. Then we go right out the back way, get on our horses and start riding again.

I'm getting more saddle sores at my horse. Ooh, ooh, ooh. There's a spot, Jingle's. There's a camel hump, McGinney was talking about. What are we doing out here in the middle of the night? Jingle's, would you recognize your horses tracks among a lot of others?

Well, sure sure I would. By the way, he throws his right front foot. Then look around for some of them. Break off a piece of that juniper bush and light a torch. Okay. Yeah, that's it.

Now we look for horse tracks. But Bill, that's silly. What would our horses be doing out here and up? Uh oh, uh oh, Bill, I found them. I thought you would. Hey, here they are, your horses in mind.

Hey, they've been here before. But we haven't. Of course we have a... Now we know our horses were stolen to keep us in town while somebody robbed McGinney. We do? Yes. Back in Taggart's office you gave me an idea as to why that somebody wants gold.

I gave you an idea? Oh yeah, I remember. I said that, well I was... What did I say Bill? You said that $40,000 was enough to buy half the land in New Mexico. That's right, I did.

What you didn't know was that it's up for sale. And that somebody is buying it with gold. You don't save. Then you figured maybe there's a tie-up between this gold steel in here in Red Rock and the buying up of all the land in New Mexico.

There might just be, Jingle. Bill, I want to ask you just one thing. What's that? Well, why were we going on through Red Rock head and west? Well, I got a letter from a friend of mine asking me to come out and investigate some land buying scheme.

In New Mexico? In New Mexico. Well, all the hogtites and flea, and we just stumbled saddle over apple cart on to... Quick, Chingles! Back up in the rocks. We've got company. That's what I expected, but not so soon.

Well, our horses be all right, Phil. See how they back off the road. I'll stop here. Who do you think it is? Be quiet and keep down. Oh, why didn't I take up farming? Let him, son, bake raditors.

If I can find the gold, I'll make them squirm. You shouldn't be for a target and threatening me with lead poison if I talk. Bill, Bill, that sounds like McGinnish. Shh. He's coming this way.

No, he stopped and looking around. Bill, I gotta move. I'm getting cramp. Why are jingles? Oh, I'm sorry, Bill. I didn't mean to step on your foot. You didn't step on my foot? I did.

Then who's is it? What are you talking about? A foot. Why do I feel around here? Now, Bill, there's a... Oh, there's two feet. No, there's three. Bill, somebody's in here. Who's up here? Come on, aren't you yellow, Farmer?

It's a gun. Go, go. McGinney, don't shoot. That trigger-happy tree-tot-all blast him out. Hey, who is that to know me? Speak up, speak up or I'll blow you out of them rocks. It's Wild Bill Hickok and me, jingles you lop-eared loon.

Put away that hog like now. Are you hurt somebody? Yeah, I'm sure. But what are you doing out here? Looking for you, that's what. You dump that there, gold yourself, and come back. Shut up now, shut up both of you.

Now listen. Hey, hey, more company. You know, it's getting as crowded here as a squared answer on Saturday night. Just stay down and listen. Be ready with your guns. I'm ready. McGenny won peep out of you and all of you sit on you.

Oh, I'm quiet. You big water buffalo. All right now, man out and pick up anything you left here earlier. Hip-tocks coming out here in the morning. Wait, wait, wait, wait. It's them. Come back for their gold.

Stand aside, Marshall. I got me a scoldish that'll. Quiet, McGenny. Not yet. Come on, Toby, we'll get the storm by later. Bill, did you hear that? Yeah. Yeah, sounds like I'm in all right. All right, let's jump on then.

What are we waiting on? For one thing, we need the evidence. We'll get the gold, and we'll follow them, and catch the big fish. Well, for another thing, there's ten of them, or I lost count.

All right, we got the gold. Now let's get out of here and head for the old mill. Hey, they're getting away. Quiet, you. What's this? Somebody's lost rocks. Right out there. Let's go get out.

Oh, yeah. Now, now, why is that this bill? Well, let them go, Jingle. Are you a mocho, Hickok? Not yet. Not Jingle's quite a match. Well, all right, but I don't see it. Holy horn toads, I plumb forgot about them.

Two dead ones are left behind me. All right, McGinney. Take a look. Who are those two men? Hmm. Them Shad Martin and Al Jackson, Marshall. Aah! You know, there are two things I like about this Wild Bill Hickok show.

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Let's hustle on back the show. Tingles has just struck a match, and while Bill asks McGinty to identify the two dead men lying beside them in the rocks, McGinty takes one look and says that they erase Taggart's partners in the high pocket's mine company, Chad Martin and Al Jackson.

Why didn't you tell me about them back in town, McGinty? I didn't know about them, Marshall. You're lying, McGinty. Never mind, Tingles. I don't know if I'd have told you then they'd have shot me too, Hickok.

Alright, I'll give you one more chance. Can you take us to the mill without being seen in the moonlight? Just as safe and sure as a woodchuck, Marshall. I'll just follow close behind me and we'll be there before you can say Mother McGinty's goat.

Here's the mill, Marshall. Bill, they're in there, alright. Yeah, listen. Just about the time we got the goldest guy yells back up in the rocks. You're the lame friends. I told you before to be careful.

This guy, Hickok's no fool. There you sit. And Hickot's hot on our trail. What do you think I had your steelers horses? Just to cover this thing tonight, it was a payoff. Now we'll have to lay low until he leaves.

Then we can all go to New Mexico and live like kings. The mines played up, we've got all the gold. We've got Martin and Jackson out of the way. Now take care of you all from here on.

Not from where you're going, race, you won't take care of them. Wait, Hickot, shoot him, you fool! No, let's don't anybody lose their heads. I got an awful itch in my trigger, fam. And I'll get Hickok myself!

That was your last bid, race. Reckon you and your boys can load those boxes of gold on your horses and pack it back into town for us. Yeah, and then we can pack you all off to the Caliboos!

Oh, turned out right fine. Now, I suppose you'll be heading on again, Mr. Hickok. Yes, Bill. We've got to hit the trail. Well, do you have to take jingles with you? I'd be right proud to look after him.

Well, now Miss Bell, that's right! Right, nice of you, but then, well, who'd look after Wild Bill? Why, he looks like he could look after himself, but you jingles. Why, you're just like a young coach.

You said yourself, you wanted to settle down. Well, no, no, no, man. At least when he's not till the rest of the farm is like race tagger to put away in jail like he is.

Now, come on, Bill, let's get to riding before I get talked into something I just can't talk my way out of. And now, here are the stars of Wild Bill Hickock, Guy Madison, and Andy Devine.

We're mighty glad you could be with us today, folks, and we hope to see you around the diggens next week. Yeah, and if there's any digging to do, you know who'll have to do it.

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So long. See you next week! Yes, sir, be sure to listen next week at the same time on this same station when Kellogg's Corn Pops brings you transcribed another exciting story of wild Bill Ikkok starring Guy Madison and Andy Devine in person.

Today's cast included Virginia Gregg, Forrest Lewis, Lou Krugman, Barney Phillips and Jack Moyles. Our director is Paul Pierce, music by Dick O'Rant. This is a David Hire production. This is Charlie Lyon reminding you kids love pops, moms love pops, pops love pops, Kellogg's Corn Pops.