What happens
Wild Bill Hickok and his deputy Jingles ride toward the Chickasaw village after Chief Big Grin sends for them, fearing land grabbers are seizing government land set aside for the Indians. Along the way they are surrounded by warriors and then meet the land-grabber Bat Scanlon, who is hostile toward Hickok. Hickok begins looking into Scanlon's land claims at the county office and the homesteads in the valley, where the details of a suspicious deed start to raise questions. The series is Wild Bill Hickok, and this episode first aired on June 3, 1953, starring Guy Madison as Hickok and Andy Devine as Jingles.
The American West, in the territory around Chickasaw land and a nearby town, where government land is set aside for the Indians.
Characters: Wild Bill Hickok, Jingles, Chief Big Grin, Bat Scanlon, Gore Freeman, Ira Tanny
Listen for: Listen for Bat Scanlon's hostility toward Hickok and the suspicious deed at the homestead, which Hickok starts to question.
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.