The Cowboy: Frontier Gentleman (May 25, 1958)

“The Cowboy” is an episode of Frontier Gentleman, the old-time radio show, first broadcast May 25, 1958. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Kendall, a newspaper correspondent from England, meets Slim, a lean cowboy heading to Laramie. They ride together and hear gunshots from the hills, discovering a settler named Theodore Belding has been killed and his wife Clara taken captive by four Indians who burned their wagon. Slim and Kendall decide to pursue the raiders up the canyon.

The American frontier near Laramie, Wyoming, moving through hills and canyons in the late afternoon and evening.

Characters: Kendall, Slim, Theodore Belding, Clara Belding, Jack McCall

Listen for: The description of frontier life from an outsider's perspective, Slim's tracking skills and knowledge of the land, and the escalating danger as they pursue the Indian raiders.

Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.