Log Thief: Wild Bill Hickok (May 12, 1954)

“Log Thief” is an episode of Wild Bill Hickok, the old-time radio show, first broadcast May 12, 1954. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Marshal Wild Bill Hickok and his deputy Jingles ride into the Colorado timber country and hear a man cry out beneath a fallen tree. They rush to help, but the armed lumberjack Jumbo and his partner Starky seem hostile, and a fight breaks out. Wild Bill, the deputy and a local timber owner, Timber Johnson, soon find themselves chasing log thieves along a river. This is the Wild Bill Hickok series, first broadcast on May 12, 1954, with Guy Madison and Andy Devine in the lead roles.

Timber country in Colorado, along a river and a sawmill

Characters: Wild Bill Hickok, Jingles, Jumbo, Starky, Timber Johnson

Listen for: The sudden clash between Wild Bill and the lumberjacks, and the chase along the river toward the sawmill

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.