Boom Town | Frontier Town (1949)

Summary

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Podcast Information

• Title: Old Time Radio Westerns
• Host: Andrew Rhines
• Episode: Boom Town | Frontier Town (1949)
• Release Date: February 3, 2025

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Introduction

In this episode of the Old Time Radio Westerns podcast, host Andrew Rines introduces listeners to "Frontier Town," originally aired in 1949. "Frontier Town" immerses audiences in the vibrant and tumultuous life of a booming Western mining town, Scott's Diggings, showcasing the challenges and adventures of its eclectic inhabitants.

Arrival in Scott's Diggings

Timestamp: [05:23]

The story unfolds with Chad Remington, a frontier lawyer, and his partner, Cherokee O'Bannon, arriving at Scott's Diggings—a prosperous boomtown established by the successful prospector Pack Rat Scott. Chad narrates their journey:

Chad Remington: "Hello there, friends. I come from a frontier town, and I'm a frontier lawyer by the name of Chad Remington."
[05:23]

Cherokee expresses his discontent with Pack Rat Scott, whom he believes owes him an interest in the newly discovered mine:

Cherokee O'Bannon: "You know something, Chad? Packrat Scott has one shred of honor or decency. Not alone will he return the grubstake I gave him 12 years ago."
[06:58]

The duo soon encounters Pack Rat Scott, elated by his gold strike but dissatisfied with the lack of recognition for his town:

Pack Rat Scott: "Well, blow me down and call me tummoe jerky. If I ain't the happiest man in the world."
[08:30]

Formation of the Chamber of Commerce

Timestamp: [09:23]

Determined to elevate Scott's Diggings to the stature of renowned mining towns like Virginia City, Chad suggests forming a Chamber of Commerce and hiring a publicity man. Cherokee introduces Jerry Berry, a seasoned publicity expert:

Chad Remington: "Well, if that's all that's bothering you, pack rat publicizing your name for the sake of austerity then what you ought to do is to create a local chamber of commerce and engage a publicity man."
[09:23]

Jerry Berry arrives with grand plans to catapult the town into national fame, proposing strategies to attract notable figures like Mark Twain and Evelyn Billingsgate to promote Scott's Diggings.

Conflict with High Grade Hattie

Timestamp: [15:47]

As the Chamber of Commerce meeting commences, tensions arise with High Grade Hattie, the saloon owner, who opposes the publicity efforts:

High Grade Hattie: "I think you're all a lot of crackpots. What difference does it make if Scott's Diggins is known in New York?"
[16:10]

Her skepticism leads to a heated altercation when Jerry Berry tries to steer the meeting back on track, resulting in physical confrontation:

Chad Remington: "Mister, I don't know who you are... But if you think you can get away with slapping a man half your size and twice your age, you just don't think."
[16:52]

Unveiling the Scheme

Timestamp: [27:43]

Chad Remington develops a theory that Moon Showalter, a local figure, orchestrated a fake holdup to discredit the Chamber's efforts. He confronts Jerry Berry and Pack Rat Scott with this suspicion:

Chad Remington: "I believe Moon Show Walter took advantage of a fake holdup to engineer one of his own."
[27:56]

Their investigation leads them to High Grade Hattie, who is found with stolen money, confirming Chad's suspicions of an inside job.

Climactic Confrontation and Resolution

Timestamp: [29:57]

The climax peaks as the characters discover High Grade Hattie's office on fire, with evidence pointing to her involvement in the theft:

Chad Remington: "We're looking. Show Walter. And all I can see is the money you stole from high grade Hetty."
[29:32]

In a dramatic showdown, the protagonists manage to subdue the culprits, restoring peace to Scott's Diggings. The episode concludes with the town's Chamber of Commerce regaining control and setting the stage for future prosperity.

Notable Quotes

• Chad Remington on Human Nature:
  "Ah, the frailties of human nature."
  [07:35]

• Jerry Berry on Publicity Ambitions:
  "Scott's Diggings is going to more familiar at the average American breakfast table."
  [11:59]

• Evelyn Billingsgate on the Town's Potential:
  "I can see it all now. You shall be the hero of my novel."
  [24:25]

• Chad Remington on Strategy:
  "If it takes fire to fight fire, and it takes one wild idea to fight another wild idea."
  [27:43]

Conclusion

"Boom Town | Frontier Town (1949)" masterfully captures the essence of Western frontier life, blending adventure, conflict, and camaraderie. Through richly developed characters and a gripping plot, the episode highlights the challenges of establishing and maintaining prosperity in a burgeoning mining town. Andrew Rines' presentation ensures that both longtime fans and new listeners are thoroughly engaged, offering a vivid auditory journey into the heart of the Wild West.

Listeners are encouraged to revisit this classic tale and explore more episodes on otrwesterns.com, where digitally restored radio dramas continue to preserve and enhance the legacy of old-time Western storytelling.

Transcript

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[Chad Remington]

Foreign.

[Andrew Rines]

Welcome to the Old Time Radio Westerns. I'm your host, Andrew Rines, and let's get into this episode. This episode is going to be Frontier Town, originally aired in 1949 and the title is Boomtown. Let's get into It. And again, thanks for listening.

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[Narrator]

Town the Saga of the Roaring West Frontier El Paso, Cheyenne, Calgary, Tombstone Frontier Town Here is the adventurous story of the early west, the tamed and the untamed. From the Pecos to Powder River, Dodge City to Poker Flat, these are the towns they fought to live in and lived to fight for teeming crucibles of pioneer freedom. Frontier Town.

[Chad Remington]

Hello there, friends. I come from a frontier town, and I'm a frontier lawyer by the name of Chad Remington. Now, I guess everyone knows that the Frontier is a section of the country that's set apart not alone by geographical differences, but by the differences in temperaments and the character of the people who come to the frontier, some to live on it, some to infest it. Yes, no matter which way you square it, it adds up to one thing. Trouble. And most of the time that's spelled gun trouble. Now, what law office I have is located over Cherokee O'Bannon's livery stable. And Cherokee, I might add, is one of the many characters who infest the frontier. Except that Cherokee is reformed, having given up his alleged profession of medicine man. Well, as like attracts like, so Cherokee had attracted a lot of strange and offbeat characters to him in years gone by, one of whom was an old prospector known as Packrat Scott. After many years of grub staking and moving around, Pack Rat Scott finally hit it rich, and the town of Scott's Diggings rose virtually overnight, a lusty, boisterous, typically bonanza frontier town having grubstake Pack Rat. Once upon a time, Cherokee talked me into riding from Dos Reiss up into the hills where Scott's Diggings was located. It was a tough ride, but a pleasant one, or so it seemed as we neared the little boom town.

[Cherokee O'Bannon]

You know something, Chad? Packrat Scott has one shred of honor or decency. Not alone will he return the grubstake I gave him 12 years ago. But he'll give me an interest in that mine of his.

[Chad Remington]

Oh, sure, Cherokee. After all, you and Packrat were good friends.

[Cherokee O'Bannon]

The best of friends. Why, was practically a mother or a father to Packrat Scott. It would be a pretty poor commentary on the frailies of human nature if he didn't make me part owner of his mind.

[Chad Remington]

It would indeed.

[Cherokee O'Bannon]

Of course, now that he's rich, he probably won't even look at his old friend.

[Chad Remington]

That's happened before, Cherokee.

[Cherokee O'Bannon]

Yeah, the very idea. Turning me down, Refusing me after all I did for him.

[Chad Remington]

Ah, the frailties of human nature.

[Cherokee O'Bannon]

You know what I'm gonna do when I meet Pack Rack? I'm gonna walk right up to him, look him squarely in the eye and tell him I wouldn't take 5 cents worth of his filthy gold mine.

[Chad Remington]

Well, if we're lost out here in this desert and didn't know where Scott's diggings is, we wouldn't have much trouble finding it.

[Cherokee O'Bannon]

Look at them racing up and down the main street, shooting off their guns. This is a wide open town, Chad.

[Chad Remington]

And let's hope it doesn't open up wide enough to swallow us both and keep us here for good. Well, after the excitement died down, we found it was just a bunch of the boys celebrating a new strike. And when they'd been swallowed up into one of the seven saloons in town, Cherokee and I had no trouble in locating the founder of Scott's diggings. Pack Rat Scott himself.

[Pack Rat Scott]

Well, blow me down and call me tummoe jerky. If I ain't the happiest man in the world.

[Chad Remington]

You've got reason to be. Packrat folks say your strike essay's close to 10,000 to the ton.

[Pack Rat Scott]

Closer to 20,000, boy. But that ain't what makes me so dagnabbit high of lootin. Overjoyed. It's the fact that this here town has got my name on it. Yes, siree, Bob. The name of Pack Rat Scott and Scott's Diggings is a going down in the pages of history.

[Cherokee O'Bannon]

I always knew you'd strike it, Pack Rat. I don't mind saying I'm mighty glad for you.

[Pack Rat Scott]

There's only one thing I ain't completely happy about.

[Chad Remington]

And what's that?

[Pack Rat Scott]

Well, there's so many dad busted boom towns hereabout lately that Struts Diggings ain't a rail well known. And before I die, which ain't gonna be too long, I wish there's some way of Making Scotch Diggins as well knowed as well Virginia City.

[Chad Remington]

Well, if that's all that's bothering you, pack rat publicizing your name for the sake of austerity then what you ought to do is to create a local chamber of commerce and engage a publicity man.

[Pack Rat Scott]

Dog is ding dust and delirious. That's about the best idea I ever heard of. A chamber of commerce and a Buzz Liston ad. Yes, sir, I believe that'll do it.

[Cherokee O'Bannon]

Now, just you leave it to Chad. He's about as smart. Billy Blue Blazes. Chad, I know a publicity man.

[Chad Remington]

Is there any type of character you don't know? Cherokee.

[Pack Rat Scott]

Who is he? Cherokee? What's his name?

[Cherokee O'Bannon]

I knew him several years ago when he was an advanced man for a medicine show I was traveling with. Left the show in Denver and went to San Francisco to work for a newspaper.

[Pack Rat Scott]

I know, I know. But can you get hold of him and what's his name?

[Cherokee O'Bannon]

Well, if you got a telegraph line in this mining camp to yours I'll bet you I can get him down.

[Pack Rat Scott]

Here on the next stagecoach, no object. What'd you say his name was again?

[Cherokee O'Bannon]

Well, I didn't. Jerry Barry.

[Chad Remington]

Jerry Barry. Is he related to Harry Carey?

[Cherokee O'Bannon]

Chad, I'll thank you not to be facetious. Jerome K. Barry is perhaps the best publicity man in the entire business. And with a little luck and the proper salary, I'll have him here the day after tomorrow.

[Chad Remington]

Well, it took more than a little luck to keep Cherokee out of the various parlors of entertainment and Scott's Diggings while we were waiting for Jerry Berry to arrive. Hardly had I dragged Cherokee out of the last chance than he'd show up in the Bella Union. Once safely out of there, he'd sneak away and end up in the Golden Gaboon. Yes, I've said it before, but I'll say it again. Scott's Diggings was a wide open town and Cherokee O'Bannon had an appetite for strong waters to match. But two days and three hangovers later, Cherokee's friend Jerry Barry arrived in town and we had a hasty meeting and pack rats hotel suite in the local hostelry.

[Jerry Berry]

Boys, you don't know how lucky you are that you sent for Jerry Berry. Yes, siri. Not alone am I going to put this little town on the map but I'm going to make it a household word from Antioch to Amsterdam, from Paris to Punjab. Yes, sir. Scott's Diggings is going to be more familiar at the average American breakfast table. And oatmeal. Why, this town will have so much publicity you're going to need clubs to keep people out of it. And back alley lots will be selling for $5,000 a front foot.

[Chad Remington]

That talks real nice, Jerry.

[Pack Rat Scott]

By cinders. If you can do that, son, you're on my payroll for $1,000 a month.

[Jerry Berry]

A thousand dollars a month? Why, by the time I get through, you'll be willing to pay me $1,000 a day.

[Cherokee O'Bannon]

Diane. Don't forget, Jerry, my boy, that Cherokee Oband had recommended you for this position of trust.

[Jerry Berry]

Terry Barry never forgets anyone. Now then, the first thing I think we ought to do is to organize a live wire. Chamber of Commerce.

[Cherokee O'Bannon]

Why, that was Chad's suggestion.

[Jerry Berry]

Yeah, that's what I say. We've all got to work together to make this thing quick. Now, do you think you can get a meeting together, Mr. Scott, so that we can get this Chamber of Commerce organized?

[Pack Rat Scott]

If they don't come, I possum. They shoot their ears off. But if we get this Chamber of Commerce. What are you aiming to do?

[Jerry Berry]

Get busy, that's what. Get the name of Scott's Diggins on the city desk of every newspaper in the world.

[Chad Remington]

Well, there shouldn't be anything to that. You know what they say, it's a small world after all.

[Jerry Berry]

You bet your boots. Now here's what we'll do. Do you know who's the best known miner who ever prospected out west? Never mind, I'll tell you. Samuel Clemens. Mark Twain. So what do we do? I'll tell you that too. We invite Mark Twain to come out here to visit us. And when he sees the wheels of industry.

[Chad Remington]

Industry? What industry?

[Jerry Berry]

Now I'm glad you asked that question, friend. When he sees this hustling, bustling, riotous little town that we have here, why, he'll write dispatches about it, stories about it, novels about Scott's digging.

[Pack Rat Scott]

By top it, that there's a crackerjack idea.

[Chad Remington]

Yep, a great idea. Except for one thing. If any of you have been reading the papers lately, you'll know that Mr. Clemens is almost fatally ill. Well, we'll.

[Jerry Berry]

Get him out here anyhow. Why, this dry des air, this God given climate, the cool breezes sweeping down.

[Chad Remington]

Jerry, your idea is a good one. But in the case of Mark Twain, it isn't going to work.

[Jerry Berry]

All right. And who's Mark Twain to stop Jerry Berry? Why, he's just small potatoes anyway. Yes, sir, when I get an idea, I get a big idea. And this time, ho ho, I've got a world buster. You know who will get down here to Visit our town instead of Mark Twain. Never mind, I'll tell you. Evelyn Billingsgate.

[Chad Remington]

Evelyn Billingsgate? You mean the English woman who just wrote that sensational novel?

[Jerry Berry]

Absolutely. The greatest, the hottest novel since the Songs of Solomon. Ah, Ecstasy's Fortnight. Ah, what a book. Why, the whole world is talking about it.

[Cherokee O'Bannon]

Jerry, you're becoming a big disappointment. How are you going to get an English authoress all the way over here from England?

[Jerry Berry]

Well, now, it just so happens that she's in San Francisco. She says that Ecstasy's Fortnight was an expose of the slums and the nightlife of Paris. And that her next book is going to be against the flaming canvas of the wild and woolly West. And where will she find a wilder and woolier west than right here in Scott's Digging Well?

[Pack Rat Scott]

I dunno.

[Jerry Berry]

You don't have to know, Mr. Scott. You just get the businessmen and the miners around this town into a place where I can talk to them and the Scots Digging Chamber of Commerce will be born in full panoply. Now let's go. All right, all right, all right. Gentlemen, Gentlemen. All right, gentlemen. And you too, lady.

[Pack Rat Scott]

Why you sort of.

[Jerry Berry]

Don't you go around giving me a bad name, calling me a lady.

[Pack Rat Scott]

That's high grade Hattie, the slickest poker player that ever run a table in a mining camp.

[Advertiser]

Yeah, you're blamed right.

[Jerry Berry]

And I have grubstick pat rack Scott more times than you clean your teeth, you little squirt.

[Chad Remington]

All right, all right. Look, folks, suppose we leave personalities out of this and get right down to business.

[High Grade Hattie]

What do you mean, business? You get us all here away from our business and try to sell us some sort of gold brick. What do you take us for? A bunch of underage idiots?

[Pack Rat Scott]

Moon, you got no right to talk that way. Because if we can form a Chamber of commerce and get Evelyn's Billingsgate down here to ride us up, why, that saloon and gambling joint of yours will do 10 times the business you're doing now.

[Cherokee O'Bannon]

And I'll be willing to help make good that promise.

[High Grade Hattie]

I think you're all a lot of crackpots. What difference does it make if Scott's Diggins is known in New York? They know all about Virginia City, Carson, Goldfield and where are they now? Ghost town? I say let's make what we can make out of this dump and move on.

[Pack Rat Scott]

God bless you, Moonsho. Walter, I ain't gonna have nobody calling. Scott's digging the dump. Now you take that back.

[High Grade Hattie]

Ah, go dry up when you. You talk as if you'd Made this town. All you did was to suddenly get lucky and run into a vein that wasn't just sand.

[Pack Rat Scott]

No, you. You apologize. You take that back.

[High Grade Hattie]

Why, you shot up Riddle.

[Chad Remington]

Mister, I don't know who you are. I've never seen you before and I don't care if I ever see you again. But if you think you can get away with slapping a man half your size and twice your age, you just don't think.

[High Grade Hattie]

Well, now, you ain't half my age. And how do you like this?

[Jerry Berry]

That's it, Chad. Now knock him over this way so I can get his picture. Man, oh man, what a picture this is going to make.

[Chad Remington]

Yes, and what a picture we're all going to make stretched out in some undertaking parlor unless we break this up. All right, boys, all right. The organization meeting of the Scots Diggings Chamber of Commerce stands adjourned.

[Narrator]

We'll return to the second act of Boomtown, our exciting frontier town adventure in just a few moments. And now, frontier town.

[Chad Remington]

Quite a shambles, wasn't it? And even if I'd thought that Pack Rat Scott and Jerry Berry were weird and strange characters, the best was yet to come. Yes, Packrat and Jerry were just kind of ordinary folks compared to the renowned authoress Evelyn Billingsgate. And I must say that even though the idea of having her at Scott Diggings originated with Jerry, once she received the floridly worded telegram inviting her, well, there was just no keeping her away. In fact, she arrived so quickly that the Chamber of Commerce was left with scarcely enough time to organize despite Moon Showalter's hot headed objections.

[Pack Rat Scott]

Come on now, folks, come on, come on. Button up your lips and be quiet. Quiet down. Let Mr. Barry here finish, won't you?

[Narrator]

Thank you.

[Jerry Berry]

Thank you, Pack Rat Scott. Now friends, all I want to say is this. Ms. Billingsgate is scheduled to arrive on the 2:00 coach and we got a heck of a lot of organizing left to do. Oh, well then stop flapping your jaws.

[Evelyn Billingsgate]

Let's get down to bass tax.

[Jerry Berry]

Brass tacks, woman in Scotch digging is nothing but solid gold tax. I guess that's John now. All right, now to go over it again. Quickly. Now we're not taking any chances that Scott's diggings will look too tame for Ms. Billingsgate. So we're going to put on a little show for her that'll make Custer's last stand look like a Sunday school picnic. Now, we've already got a group to give her a thrill when the coach arrives. But who is going to take charge and organize the bunch who are going to hold her up at her hotel.

[High Grade Hattie]

Well, since nobody else is volunteering, I will.

[Cherokee O'Bannon]

You won.

[Pack Rat Scott]

I thought you was dead against this.

[High Grade Hattie]

Well, since nothing I can do can stop it, I reckon the sooner we get it over with the better.

[Jerry Berry]

And you aren't just talking through your hat, mister. We've got a. Hey. Why, it's almost 1:00 now. Now we've got to get busy. Showalter. I haven't got time to go over all the details of the holdup with you, but you look like a man of imagination, so I'm going to leave it all up to you.

[High Grade Hattie]

And brother, you're not making a mistake.

[Jerry Berry]

Good. All right, let's break this up. You fellas and the stage coach.

[High Grade Hattie]

Hold up.

[Jerry Berry]

You come with me. Evelyn Billings Gates coach is arriving in town in less than 1.

[Chad Remington]

It sounds funny now when you look back on it, but as you'll see, comedy ends and melodrama starts with a line too fine to discern. At 2 o'clock promptly, the Concord coach bearing Evelyn Billingsgate drove onto the main street and slowed down for the stage depot. Just before the horses stopped, there was a blood curdling Comanche yell. Men dressed as Indians swarmed around the coach for a moment. Then guns blaze. And then, just as Evelyn Billingsgate was convinced she was about to be scalped and burned at the stake, a band of clean hearted Westerners came racing down the street to the rescue. Saved from the red man. Saved from a fate worse than even death itself. Packrat, Jerry, Cherokee and I gallantly repaired with Ms. Billingsgate to her rococo hotel room for a respite.

[Jerry Berry]

Here, Ms. Billingsgate, I think you'd better have another glass of champagne.

[Evelyn Billingsgate]

Oh, you dear boy. You dear, dear boy.

[Jerry Berry]

Ah, yes, ma'am, that's me.

[Evelyn Billingsgate]

I don't know what I would ever have done without you, Mr. Berry. And that champagne you so miraculously. Mr. O'Bannon, I don't mind your drinking my champagne, but I simply will not tolerate your drinking it out of the bottle.

[Cherokee O'Bannon]

That is to say, my lovely lady, my pretty little powder pigeon. I was afraid, withdrawing the cork, that a bit of the glass might have chipped from around the neck of the bottle. And I was merely getting rid of it for you.

[Chad Remington]

And the champagne along with it. All right, put it on. Cherokee and Jerry, you'd better get Ms. Billingsgate a fresh bottle.

[High Grade Hattie]

You bet your boots.

[Jerry Berry]

And we got 60 fresh bottles already on ice.

[Chad Remington]

The folks around Scott's Diggings think a lot of you're coming to visit them, Ms. Billingsgate. And as soon as you feel up to it, there's a delegation waiting to call on you downstairs in the dining room. They're. They're giving you a dinner to commemorate this memorable day.

[Evelyn Billingsgate]

Oh, how excruciatingly exciting. And I presume the menu will be made up of, oh, now, whatever do you may call it?

[High Grade Hattie]

Oh, yes.

[Evelyn Billingsgate]

Biscuits of acidulated dough.

[Cherokee O'Bannon]

Acidulated biscuits of acid? Oh, you must mean sour dough.

[Chad Remington]

Well, I'm afraid that Ms. Billingsgate's in for a surprise. Because with millions of dollars being taken out of the diggings around here, tough and crude though these men may be, they demand and can afford the best.

[Evelyn Billingsgate]

Oh, truly. Oh, how significant. What a fascinating background for the book. I just know I should be compelled to write about Scott's digging. Indians and cowboys. A frontier lawyer in broadcloth. Like you, Mr. Remington, I can see it all now. You shall be the hero of my novel.

[Cherokee O'Bannon]

And High Grade Hattie the heroine, I suppose.

[Evelyn Billingsgate]

High Grade Hattie.

[Chad Remington]

You know, I'm afraid we're trying to give you too much all at once, Ms. Billingsgate. So, as they say in the best of circles, while you repair your toilet, we men folks will give you some privacy. But we'll meet you in the dining room in 30 minutes for the big celebration.

[Evelyn Billingsgate]

Oh, this is just too, too exotic.

[Cherokee O'Bannon]

How about some more champagne?

[Jerry Berry]

Hey, you big knothead, lay off. We've only got a few more.

[Pack Rat Scott]

In.

[Evelyn Billingsgate]

The name of Bonnie Prince Charlie. What was that?

[High Grade Hattie]

I'll tell you what this is, lady. This is a stick up. Oh, we want that jewelry and them diamonds you're wearing.

[Jerry Berry]

Hey, that moon show Walter looks like the real thing, doesn't he?

[High Grade Hattie]

Come on now, lady. You want to turn that stuff over to us or do you want us to yank it off your neck?

[Evelyn Billingsgate]

I never heard.

[Cherokee O'Bannon]

Billy Blue Blazes chat. What was that?

[Chad Remington]

I don't know what that was, Cherokee, but that was no fake. That was the real thing. Come on.

[Pack Rat Scott]

You see? Sounds to me like someone's a blowing High grade had it safe next door.

[Cherokee O'Bannon]

Pulling a safe. Well, let's not stand here. Let's get out and get after that.

[Chad Remington]

Well, whatever humor there had been. And the situation vanished fast as we all piled out into the street and saw the wall of what had been High Grade Hattie's Poker and Entertainment Parlor shattered in a cloud of smoke. Not 200 yards away, just vanishing around a turn in the street, were three men riding heels over leather for the hills. And in less time than it takes to tell the chamber of commerce was on Their own horses and streaking after the bandits wide open. But the chase was futile and we reined up at Moonshot Walter's command.

[High Grade Hattie]

Hold it, boys.

[Cherokee O'Bannon]

Hold it.

[High Grade Hattie]

No use running these horses to death.

[Cherokee O'Bannon]

What in thunder's wrong with you anyhow, Showalter? I can still see the dust. Those thieves horses made so they must be somewhere around here.

[Chad Remington]

Hold it, Cherokee. Don't forget we're just visitors in Scott's diggings. And if Mr. Showalter says there's no chance of catching the crooks, well, that's that.

[High Grade Hattie]

Well, I don't think we can catch them just by riding around.

[Chad Remington]

No, Showalter. And I don't think we can catch them either riding around out here. All right. Come on, Cherokee. You and I had better go back to town and put on our thinking caps.

[Jerry Berry]

Remington, I want to tell you that as a publicity man, I have had some pretty wild ideas in my life. But this idea of yours of setting fire to Showalter's saloon is the wildest one I have ever heard.

[Chad Remington]

If it takes fire to fight fire, and it takes one wild idea to fight another wild idea.

[Pack Rat Scott]

What do you mean, Chad boy?

[Chad Remington]

I mean that I believe Moon Show Walter took advantage of a fake holdup to engineer one of his own.

[Cherokee O'Bannon]

But why Showalter?

[Chad Remington]

Because he was the only man who knew exactly when he was going to come into the dining room and fake trying to steal Ms. Billingsgate's jewelry.

[Cherokee O'Bannon]

Blue blazes, Chad, I do believe you're right.

[Chad Remington]

Well, then, if you want to get High Grade Hattie's money back for her before they're safely out of the county, you better gather up some greasewood and matches and let's go.

[High Grade Hattie]

Are you serious, Remington? You really think High Grade Hattie framed that robbery on her shelf?

[Chad Remington]

Well, show Walter. I wouldn't go that far, but I do think it was an inside job.

[High Grade Hattie]

My place is on fire.

[Cherokee O'Bannon]

Where? Back there in the corner.

[Pack Rat Scott]

It's your office. Your private office.

[High Grade Hattie]

My office? Suffer and joke. Come on, give me a hand, Cherokee.

[Chad Remington]

Come on, bust that door down.

[Cherokee O'Bannon]

It's too late now.

[Chad Remington]

What do you want us to get out first for you? Show Walter the state?

[Pack Rat Scott]

No, no, no.

[High Grade Hattie]

My desk, it's got some. I mean, all my private papers are in it.

[Jerry Berry]

Chad, you were right.

[Chad Remington]

All right, come on, boys. Grab hold of this desk. All right, Cherokee, up. End it.

[High Grade Hattie]

Over she goes. You Jasper Jloco or something? Look at that. Everything in my desk spilled on the floor. And the place is burning down.

[Chad Remington]

We're looking. Show Walter. And all I can see is the money you stole from high grade Hetty. All right, pick it up, Cherokee.

[High Grade Hattie]

Keep your dirty hands off that.

[Chad Remington]

Oh no you don't. And you're going to end up on the floor right along with the money.

[Jerry Berry]

Sweet suffering, suffering. Aya show Alder won't come to for.

[Pack Rat Scott]

An hour in sure won't. Say, don't you think we better put out the fire?

[Cherokee O'Bannon]

But there's no water.

[Jerry Berry]

Who needs water? We still got 20 cases of champagne.

[Cherokee O'Bannon]

Champagne? Then never mind this joint. Let's take care of me.

[Jerry Berry]

Let's douse the champagne on Showalter, huh? After all, with the way Chad beat him up, he's the one who looks as if he'd been kicked by Mrs. O'Leary's mule.

[Narrator]

Frontier Town starring Reed Hadley and featuring Wade Crosby as a Bruce Ells. Production, supervision and direction by Paul Franklin. Music written and played by Ivan Ditmar. Be sure to be with us again same time next week for another fine action adventure story with your favorite young western star, Reed Hadley. Now this is Bill Foreman telling you that Frontier Town comes to you from Hollywood.

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