Aunt Sarahs Gunfight: Wild Bill Hickok (October 16, 1953)

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“Aunt Sarahs Gunfight” is an episode of Wild Bill Hickok, the old-time radio show, first broadcast October 16, 1953. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

Wild Bill Hickok and his deputy Jingles meet Aunt Sarah at the train station in Santa Fe, where she announces she has bought a hotel in the rough town of Red Dog. Todd Blake, who claims the town, confronts them at the hotel and warns Aunt Sarah to leave. Bill soon discovers that the hotel shelters several wanted outlaws, and he and Jingles move to arrest them. Blake and his sidekick Slash then plan to take Aunt Sarah hostage to force Hickok's hand, setting up a gunfight over the jail and the hotel.

Santa Fe and the rough frontier town of Red Dog, New Mexico, in the Old West

Characters: Wild Bill Hickok, Jingles, Aunt Sarah, Todd Blake, Slash, Rex Dawson

Listen for: Aunt Sarah's determination when she confronts Todd Blake and the gunfight at the hotel

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.