Alabam Is Hurt While Riding Red: Red Horse Ranch

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“Alabam Is Hurt While Riding Red” is an episode of Red Horse Ranch, the old-time radio show that aired in 1950. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

Red Horse Ranch foreman Alabam, who has been checking on rumors of rustling on the neighboring Ward D range, has not returned to the ranch. Carter, the owner, and his riders grow uneasy, and Cheyenne in particular senses trouble. Red, Alabam's horse, comes back to the yard without his rider, and the men set out at once to search for him. Miss Rose and Cheyenne ride with them, while the rest of the crew is left behind to wait at the ranch house. Eventually Red brings Alabam home, badly hurt, and the men ask what happened to him.

The Red Horse Ranch in Wyoming, with its bunkhouse, chuck house and corrals, and the nearby Ward D range.

Characters: Alabam, Carter, Cheyenne, Miss Rose, Bob, Red, Cookie, Steve Bradford

Listen for: Red coming home without Alabam, the men riding out to search, and Alabam being brought into the house badly hurt.

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.