What happens
Marshal Wild Bill Hickok and his deputy Jingles stop for lunch under a tree known as Hangman's Tree when a stranger named Horace Fineweather rides up. Fineweather claims to be a local snooper who knows who has been killing ranchers in the San Valley, and he arranges a meeting there. Soon the two lawmen are fired on from ambush. This is an episode of the Wild Bill Hickok radio series, first broadcast on November 26, 1954, with Guy Madison as Hickok and Andy Divine as Jingles. The account here covers only the first part of the episode.
The San Valley and the town of Sand City in the American West
Characters: Wild Bill Hickok, Jingles, Horace Fineweather, Si Gerd, Mr. Blaine
Listen for: Horace Fineweather's claims to know who has been doing the killing, and the ambush at Hangman's Tree
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.