Miguel's Daughter: Gunsmoke (August 3, 1958)

“Miguel's Daughter” is an episode of Gunsmoke, the old-time radio show, first broadcast August 3, 1958. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

A young Mexican girl named Josephina comes to Dodge City with her father Miguel, who has taken over a farm outside town. When two rough men harass Josephina in the saloon, Marshal Dillon helps her and arranges for Kitty to drive her home. However, Miguel, protective and worried about his daughter's safety in a foreign land, mistakes Dillon's intentions and confronts him with a gun when Dillon and Kitty bring Josephina back to the farm.

Dodge City, Kansas and a farm outside town, 1880s

Characters: Marshal Matt Dillon, Kitty, Chester, Josephina Ramirez, Miguel Ramirez, Tom, Jonah

Listen for: The tension between a father's protective instincts and the Marshal's attempts to help; the struggles of Mexican immigrants trying to build a new life in the frontier.

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.