Shotgun Swindler: Wild Bill Hickok (May 23, 1952)

“Shotgun Swindler” is an episode of Wild Bill Hickok, the old-time radio show, first broadcast May 23, 1952. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Wild Bill Hickok and his deputy Jingles arrive in Beetle Bend and meet banker Clancy Wright, who has been told of a gold strike ten miles away by two prospectors, Sunday and Grundy. Clancy plans to invest bank money in the claim and asks Bill and Jingles to keep quiet. Bill, suspicious of the strangers, decides to follow the group the next morning. Based on the premise, the series is Wild Bill Hickok, the episode aired on 1952-05-23, and Guy Madison and Andy Devine star as Hickok and Jingles.

Beetle Bend, a small frontier town near the Wyoming trail, and a nearby rocky area with a supposed gold strike

Characters: Wild Bill Hickok, Jingles, Clancy Wright, Sunday, Grundy

Listen for: Bill's suspicion of the prospectors and his decision to trail Clancy to the gold claim the next morning

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.