What happens
Ranger Bill meets a discouraged young rancher named Bob Benfelt and takes him to visit Myron Benfelt, an older rancher on the Double Box M range. Myron tells the story of how he and his wife Hazel first arrived at a run-down property decades earlier, with little money and a small child. They took on a young ex-convict named Hub as a hired hand, and Myron later tried unusual methods such as a tractor, grain storage ventilation and growing his own feed. Through hardship and faith, the ranch grew, and Myron offers Bob a lesson about trusting the Lord when discouraged.
A small western town and the Double Box M ranch, a large cattle ranch in the valley, in an earlier era with horses, wagons and a freight depot.
Characters: Ranger Bill, Bob Benfelt, Myron, Hazel, Mark, Hub, Parson Whitcomb, Buck
Listen for: Myron's account of how the ranch was built through hard years, and his closing advice to Bob about relying on the Lord when his bootstraps break.
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.