Battle At Bear Creek: Wild Bill Hickok (March 19, 1952)

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“Battle At Bear Creek” is an episode of Wild Bill Hickok, the old-time radio show, first broadcast March 19, 1952. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

Wild Bill Hickok and his deputy Jingles, United States marshals, track down rustlers who have been stealing young cattle from Angus Gordon's ranch in New Mexico. Their search takes them to the shipping town of Sibley, where a gunman fires at them from the dark valley. Bill and Jingles then visit Tory Macon's Bear Creek Ranch, where Macon reacts angrily to their questions about the young steers being loaded there. The series, originally aired on March 19, 1952, stars Guy Madison as Wild Bill and Andy Devine as Jingles.

New Mexico, the open range and the shipping town of Sibley, in the 1800s American West

Characters: Wild Bill Hickok, Jingles, Angus Gordon, Speed Racker, Tory Macon, Sheriff

Listen for: The gunman in the valley, the young steers being loaded at Bear Creek Ranch, and Tory Macon's sudden anger when Bill asks about them

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.