What happens
Wild Bill Hickok and his deputy Jingles ride toward the Triple X ranch after a shootout on the trail. Jim Jackson, a prospector, has left a bag of gold dust with Uncle Joe, a kindly rancher, for safekeeping, and a mysterious bushwhacker has been stalking the gold. The lawmen aim to protect Uncle Joe and recover the gold before the outlaw can strike again. This is an episode of the Wild Bill Hickok radio series, transcribed in Hollywood, with Guy Madison as Wild Bill and Andy Devine as Jingles. Its original air date was December 6, 1954.
The Old West, on the cattle ranch of the Triple X and the trails and hills around it.
Characters: Wild Bill Hickok, Jingles, Uncle Joe, Jim Jackson, McLean
Listen for: Uncle Joe's refusal to hand over the gold to the bushwhacker, and Wild Bill and Jingles racing to the ranch after the shots.
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.