ep34 The Sale Of The Herd Will Help The Ranch: Red Horse Ranch

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“ep34 The Sale Of The Herd Will Help The Ranch” 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 follows the crew of the Red Horse outfit. Dad Carter has told the boys that selling the Red Horse herd will carry the ranch through another year. Alabama suspects oil may lie beneath the ranch and keeps a close watch on the roan horse Red, which has been slipping out at night. Tenderfoot is assigned to shadow Red after the moon rises. Meanwhile the bunkhouse hands sing and joke about courting Rose and about a wild Arkansas mule. The episode ends with Alabama and Tenderfoot setting out to follow the horse into the hills.

The Red Horse Ranch, its bunkhouse, corral and the surrounding hills

Characters: Dad Carter, Alabama, Tenderfoot, Cheyenne, Arizona, Tex Owens, Idaho, Rose

Listen for: Alabama's suspicion about oil on the ranch and the bunkhouse songs

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.