Bullets At Iron Mountain: Wild Bill Hickok (November 20, 1953)

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“Bullets At Iron Mountain” is an episode of Wild Bill Hickok, the old-time radio show, first broadcast November 20, 1953. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

Wild Bill Hickok and his deputy Jingles arrive at Peabody Junction, where a conductor and a rude stationmaster make the trip hard going. They are headed for Iron Mountain to help their old friend Jim Carlin, a newspaper editor who plans to publish a special election edition exposing the corrupt mayor, Slick Randall, and his allies. Randall's gunmen try to drive the marshals out of town, and a fight breaks out. The Wild Bill Hickok series aired in 1953 with Guy Madison as Wild Bill and Andy Devine as Jingles. The episode is titled Bullets at Iron Mountain.

The Old West: a railroad line to Peabody Junction, then the frontier town of Iron Mountain

Characters: Wild Bill Hickok, Jingles Jones, Jim Carlin, Slick Randall, Elias J. Peabody

Listen for: How the marshals and Jim Carlin get the newspaper to the voters of Iron Mountain despite Randall's gunmen

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.