What happens
Wild Bill Hickok and his deputy Jingles ride to Brownsville, where the governor is to investigate a dispute between cattlemen and small farmers over state land. Hickok and Jingles are asked to escort the governor, and the telegraph news spreads quickly through town. Later, a newspaper reports the governor's coach has been held up and Hickok and Jingles were caught off guard. Wild Bill Hickok, a United States Marshal, works through the confusion in Brownsville, where the townsfolk are angry and suspicious. Wild Bill Hickok is a Western adventure radio series, first broadcast on October 1, 1952, starring Guy Madison and Andy Devine.
The Western frontier town of Brownsville and the surrounding countryside, with stagecoach routes and telegraph offices.
Characters: Wild Bill Hickok, Jingles, Governor, Ross Mylan, Tom Brown, Bill Harp, Charlie Snail, Jake
Listen for: The telegraph message about the governor and the newspaper headline that reports the holdup.
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.