A Land Office Business: Wild Bill Hickok (October 2, 1953)

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“A Land Office Business” is an episode of Wild Bill Hickok, the old-time radio show, first broadcast October 2, 1953. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

Wild Bill Hickok and his deputy Jingles investigate a land office in Bear Valley, where a gold strike has drawn hundreds of new settlers. Bill suspects that Bull Carson, who is buying up mining claims, is cheating prospectors. When Bill refuses to hand over claim papers, Carson fights him, and the lawmen begin probing the miners' contracts. Radio series: Wild Bill Hickok, broadcast October 2, 1953, starring Guy Madison and Andy Devine.

Bear Valley, a gold-rush town in the old West

Characters: Wild Bill Hickok, Jingles, Charlie, Bull Carson, Red

Listen for: Bill and Jingles uncover Bull Carson's claim-buying scheme and the attacks on the miners.

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.