Little Guns: Have Gun, Will Travel (July 17, 1960)

“Little Guns” is an episode of Have Gun, Will Travel, the old-time radio show, first broadcast July 17, 1960. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Paladin arrives in Preston, Arizona at the request of Mayor Jim Ellis, a former confidence man turned politician. Two feuding ranchers, Marsh Jordan and Jack Sanders, are on the brink of a gunfight over water rights, threatening to plunge the entire valley into a destructive range war that could ruin the town.

Preston, Arizona, 1875. The Carlton Hotel and a local saloon in the town of Preston.

Characters: Paladin, Jim Ellis, Mayor of Preston, Marsh Jordan, Jack Sanders, Hey Boy

Listen for: The tense confrontation between the two ranchers in the saloon, and Paladin's attempt to defuse the situation by questioning whether violence is the answer.

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.