Solomon River: Gunsmoke (April 17, 1960)

“Solomon River” is an episode of Gunsmoke, the old-time radio show, first broadcast April 17, 1960. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Marshal Matt Dillon is transporting a prisoner named Ben Crown along the Solomon River when he, Chester, and Crown discover a dying woman named Letty trying to dig a grave for her dead husband Luther. The three men stop to help the starving and exhausted woman, finding Luther has been dead for three days.

Along the Solomon River in Kansas Territory, at a remote cabin by the water

Characters: Matt Dillon, Chester, Ben Crown, Letty

Listen for: The emotional encounter between the marshal's party and the desperate woman trying to bury her husband alone in the wilderness

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.