Cheyenne Express: The Six Shooter (March 7, 1954)

“Cheyenne Express” is an episode of The Six Shooter, the old-time radio show, first broadcast March 7, 1954. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Britt Ponset, the Six Shooter, discovers a recently extinguished campfire on the trail and investigates. He encounters a desperate man named Wilbur English who mistakes him for someone called Russ and opens fire. After a tense gunfight, Ponset wounds English and learns the truth about his identity and his fear of being hunted by Russ Winter.

A dark canyon trail in the Western territories, near Yellow Mason, with an abandoned campsite.

Characters: Britt Ponset, Wilbur English, Floyd Winters, Russ Winter

Listen for: A tense nighttime confrontation between two strangers on the trail, a case of mistaken identity, and the revelation of a man fleeing for his life.

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.