What happens
Judge Roy Bean rules the rough frontier town west of the Pecos, where cattlemen and homesteaders fight over land. A drifter named Cole Harden is brought before the judge for allegedly stealing a horse. Jane Ellen Matthews, a homesteader's daughter, challenges the judge's harsh courtroom and speaks out against his rule. This is the Lux Radio Theatre production of The Westerner, the Lux Radio Theatre's 1940 broadcast starring Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan and Doris Davenport, original air date September 23, 1940.
The frontier town of Vinegaroon, west of the Pecos, in Texas after the Civil War.
Characters: Cole Harden, Judge Roy Bean, Jane Ellen Matthews, Chicken Foot, Black Jack, Evans, Wade Matthews, Lily Langtry
Listen for: Judge Bean's makeshift courtroom in the barroom, and the verdict on the horse thief Cole Harden.
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.