The Squaw: Gunsmoke (April 27, 1958)

“The Squaw” is an episode of Gunsmoke, the old-time radio show, first broadcast April 27, 1958. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Matt Dillon investigates trouble brewing between Cully Tate and his father Hardeman. The young man is angry and resentful, and a fight breaks out in town. Matt learns that Cully is upset over his father's recent marriage to an Indian woman, which he views as a disgrace to the family and his late mother's memory.

Dodge City and the surrounding Kansas territory, including a ranch and the saloon

Characters: Matt Dillon, Chester, Hardeman Tate, Cully Tate, Ambrose, Sam

Listen for: A tense family conflict over cultural attitudes and a son's inability to accept his widowed father's new marriage to a Native American woman, with Matt Dillon attempting to mediate the situation.

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.