Hiram's Gold Strike: The Six Shooter (January 10, 1954)

“Hiram's Gold Strike” is an episode of The Six Shooter, the old-time radio show, first broadcast January 10, 1954. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Britt Ponce rides into Clay City after encountering his old acquaintance Hiram, who claims to have struck gold after forty-five years of prospecting. Hiram carries bags of gold samples he plans to have assayed by the local assayer Enoch Wilson, though he expresses distrust in Wilson's honesty. As Britt settles in for the night at the hotel, trouble seems to be brewing in town.

Clay City in the western territories, starting on the trail and moving to a hotel in town

Characters: Britt Ponce, Hiram, Enoch Wilson, Scar (Britt's horse)

Listen for: Hiram's discovery of gold and his plans to file a claim, the question of whether Enoch Wilson can be trusted with the assay, and the mysterious shots fired outside Britt's hotel window late at night

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.