Lightning Jim Meets Deadwood Dick | Lightning Jim (1952)

Summary

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Episode Overview

Episode Title: Lightning Jim Meets Deadwood Dick | Lightning Jim (1952)
Podcast: Old Time Radio Westerns
Host: Andrew Rhynes
Release Date: July 17, 2026

This episode, a remastered classic 1952 radio drama, drops listeners into Deadwood during the Gold Rush for a rollicking adventure with United States Marshal Lightning Jim Whipple and his comedic deputy, Whitey Larson. Tasked with investigating a string of stagecoach holdups, Lightning Jim encounters the legendary Deadwood Dick, roving photographer Chicago Charlie, and a pair of sly outlaws, Hard Rock Ike and Bummer Dan. The episode mixes mystery, old west camaraderie, and sharp comic timing, all delivered with the crackle and energy of classic radio storytelling.

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Key Discussion Points & Plot Highlights

1. Arrival in Deadwood and Local Color

• Lightning Jim and Deputy Whitey enter Deadwood, reflecting on its wild reputation and recent gold strikes. They immediately observe prospectors and the economic frenzy of the region.
  • "Yes, Whitey, that’s Deadwood down there below us." — Lightning Jim (04:20)
  • "Where there’s gold, there’s always trouble." — Lightning Jim (04:59)

2. The Camera Gag: Chicago Charlie’s Introduction

• Chicago Charlie appears with his “picture box” (camera), an object of both fascination and comic misunderstanding.
• The classic Western trope of “charging for a photo” is played up, culminating in a tongue-in-cheek extortion scenario:
  • "We usually charge a hundred dollar for letting folks take our pictures." — Lightning Jim (07:48)
  • "You mean you want me to pay you $50 for taking your picture?" — Chicago Charlie (08:25)

3. Sheriff and Deadwood Dick – Local Legends and Lawmen

• Sheriff Edward Dick, known locally as “Deadwood Dick,” joins the scene, clarifying his reputation as a crack shot and highlighting the partnership between the law’s various facets (U.S. Marshal, town sheriff, stagecoach guards).
• Banter flows freely, accentuating the camaraderie and humor of Old Time Radio Westerns.

4. Outlaw Schemes and Beans: The Hard Rock Ike and Bummer Dan Plot

• Hard Rock Ike and Bummer Dan plot another stage holdup, while posing as unassuming miners. Their true intentions become clear as they discuss blending in, then resolving to rob the money stage and “lay low.”
• Whitey and Charlie stumble into their shack, lured by the smell of beans, only to be caught and, in a turnabout punishment, forced at gunpoint to eat all the beans as retribution for trespassing.
  • "Start eating them beans. And don’t stop till every last bean is gone." — Hard Rock Ike (16:43)
  • "No, no, we can't eat all them beans." — Chicago Charlie (16:54)

5. Comic Relief and Clues

• The aftermath of the bean-eating ordeal provides comic relief, with Charlie’s photographic ambitions undiminished and Whitey swearing revenge for his overfilled stomach.

  • "Oh, my, I got a stomach ache. And to think I wasted a perfectly good picture on those cutthroats." — Chicago Charlie (20:09)

• A crucial clue emerges: Charlie’s photograph of Hard Rock Ike and Bummer Dan becomes pivotal in identifying the outlaws responsible for the recent stagecoach robberies.

6. Setting Up the Fake Holdup (and the Real Plot)

• The lawmen (Lightning Jim, Whitey, and Sheriff Dick) hatch a plan to stage a fake hold-up for Chicago Charlie to photograph, giving him the “shot” he craves and a chance for Lightning Jim to monitor the crooks.
  • "Charlie's been pestering me to ride on the money stage...let’s see that he gets that picture, huh?" — Hard Rock Ike (21:43)
• The plan is executed with both humor and suspense, blending mock drama with real danger as the outlaws double-cross the town.

7. The Real Showdown and Justice Served (with More Beans)

• The real outlaws attempt to rob a decoy stage, only to discover there’s no actual money. When Lightning Jim and Sheriff Dick catch up, Whitey turns the tables, having staked out Hard Rock Ike and Bummer Dan's shack.
• In a final twist, Whitey dishes out poetic justice: forcing the outlaws to eat beans as payback for their earlier humiliation.
  • "You keep eating them beans, or I bust you on the snoot. You ain't through till you eat every last bean in that tent, regardless." — Whitey Larson (28:25)
  • "Help me, Sheriff. I'm dying." — Hard Rock Ike (28:36)

8. Resolution and Closing Jokes

• Gold is recovered, outlaws apprehended, and the town’s peace is restored.
• Charlie laments his lost photo but finds laughter in the retelling of his misadventures.

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• On Western Danger:
  • "Where there’s gold, there’s always trouble." — Lightning Jim (04:59)
• Comic Photo Blackmail:
  • "We usually charge a hundred dollar for letting folks take our pictures." — Lightning Jim (07:48)
  • "Get it? Picture." — Chicago Charlie (08:37)
• On Poetic Justice:
  • "You fellas keep eating them beans, or I bust you on the snoot. You ain't through till you eat every last bean..." — Whitey Larson (28:25)
  • "Help me, Sheriff. I'm dying." — Hard Rock Ike (30:02)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• [04:20] — Lightning Jim’s narration: gold fever and arrival in Deadwood
• [07:06] — Camera scene and humorous banter between Charlie, Jim, and the miners
• [09:08] — Sheriff Dick's (Deadwood Dick) entrance and jurisdiction humor
• [16:43 – 18:24] — Whitey and Charlie forced to eat all the beans
• [21:01] — Charlie’s desire for a real hold-up photo
• [22:59] — Fake holdup scheme set in motion
• [24:21 – 26:09] — The staged holdup and ensuing confusion
• [28:00 – 29:50] — Final confrontation, outlaws forced to eat beans, justice served

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Tone & Language

This episode preserves the playful, energetic, and tongue-in-cheek spirit of classic radio Westerns. Characters exchange deadpan barbs, exaggerated threats, and underlying warmth, all woven together with the brisk pacing and folksy narrative style that defined the golden age of radio. The storytelling prioritizes fun and camaraderie, punctuated by quick reversals and recurring bean-eating gags.

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Summary for New Listeners

This episode is a high-spirited ride through the lawless Old West, full of sharp comic lines, mistaken identities, and frontier justice served up with heaps of beans—all delivered in the style of golden age radio. With its vivid characters (from Marshal Lightning Jim and his hungry deputy to the legendary Deadwood Dick and the hapless Chicago Charlie) and a twisty plot moving from high jinks with a camera to stagecoach ambushes and poetic payback, it provides a rich, nostalgic Western escape. The newly restored audio brings every creak, gunshot, and belly laugh to life for listeners both new to the genre and seasoned fans of old-time adventures.

Transcript

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[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 Lightning Gem Original air dates from 1952 and the title is Lightning Gem meets Deadwood Dick.

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[Sheriff Edward Dick]

I don't get along, you little note. You know that the fairy will be your new home.

[Whitey Larson]

It.

[Lightning Jim Whipple]

And now for the thrilling adventures of Lightning Jim. One of the most exciting events of the old west was the discovery of gold in Deadwood Gulch in the Black Hills region of the old Dakota territory. It was the colorful era of Deadwood Dick, a shotgun guard who helped protect the early shipments of gold by stagecoach, and a national hero among the boys of his generation. Into the gold mad country came United States Marshall Lightning Jim Whipple and his deputy, Whitey Larson. Yes, Whitey, that's Deadwood dunks down there below us.

[Whitey Larson]

You're Lightning. I'm certainly glad to come out there. I hear so much about all the gold they get in here. Now maybe I get the chance to see some of it.

[Lightning Jim Whipple]

Yeah, I reckon you will, Whitey. Where there's gold, there's always trouble.

[Whitey Larson]

Your lightning. Maybe we see some of that, too.

[Lightning Jim Whipple]

Yeah, there's been a few holdups lately, and we're heading into Deadwood to see what we can find out about them. I know the sheriff in Deadwood, of course.

[Whitey Larson]

That's all.

[Lightning Jim Whipple]

Yeah, Seth Martin. Came up here from Kansas. What you looking at, Whitey?

[Whitey Larson]

Them two Yeagers down there on the chase.

[Lightning Jim Whipple]

Well, what about them?

[Whitey Larson]

Look how slow they are working. They ain't going to get rich working that way.

[Lightning Jim Whipple]

No, we ain't going to get into Deadwood if we mosey along like this either. Come on, Thunder.

[Hard Rock Ike]

Ah, this claim is washed out then.

[Lightning Jim Whipple]

Yeah, but that's a pretty slick idea

[Chicago Charlie]

you had, Ike, taking this claim and

[Lightning Jim Whipple]

working it so the boys wouldn't catch

[Hard Rock Ike]

on when we hold up the stages. Yeah, but it ain't gonna last forever, Danny. Hey, there's a money stage going out tomorrow. I figure we can take it, come back here and lay low for a few days and mosey out quiet like.

[Chicago Charlie]

Yeah, if we wish to clear out

[Lightning Jim Whipple]

the same day as the holdup, they'd have a posse hut on our trail.

[Chicago Charlie]

Well, well, well, well. Howdy, boy. Nice weather we're having.

[Hard Rock Ike]

Well, well, if it ain't Chicago Charlie. What do you want up there?

[Chicago Charlie]

Well, nothing in particular. Just thought I'd drop in and see how you were.

[Hard Rock Ike]

And we don't like visitors, mister. That's that box you're carrying.

[Chicago Charlie]

This? Well, that's a camera, that's all.

[Hard Rock Ike]

A what?

[Chicago Charlie]

A camera. Haven't you ever seen a camera before?

[Hard Rock Ike]

What do you do with it?

[Chicago Charlie]

Why, we take pictures.

[Lightning Jim Whipple]

Oh, oh, yeah, yeah, I heard about them picture boxes.

[Chicago Charlie]

Don't point that thing at me. It won't hurt you. It don't shoot nothing but pictures.

[Hard Rock Ike]

Well, this gun of mine does. Get moving and take that picture contraption, will you?

[Chicago Charlie]

Hey, sure, sure. Well, howdy, strangers.

[Lightning Jim Whipple]

Howdy.

[Chicago Charlie]

Hey, no, no, wait a minute. Don't get down yet.

[Lightning Jim Whipple]

Why not?

[Chicago Charlie]

I want to get your picture. Hold it a minute. All right, candidate.

[Whitey Larson]

He's got one of them pictures of me.

[Lightning Jim Whipple]

Yeah.

[Chicago Charlie]

Hold still now. There much surprise.

[Lightning Jim Whipple]

That's all right, mister.

[Chicago Charlie]

Hey, that's the biggest black horse I've ever seen. What's his name?

[Lightning Jim Whipple]

Thunder.

[Chicago Charlie]

Oh, Thunder, eh? Then your name ought to be Lightning. Thunder and Lightning.

[Whitey Larson]

Get it? You will get it. Thunder and Lightning. That's a good one.

[Lightning Jim Whipple]

Yeah, it's kind of interesting. Is it?

[Whitey Larson]

You think they run up all by yourself?

[Chicago Charlie]

Why, sure, Charlie Char is my name. Boys around here call me Chicago Charlie.

[Lightning Jim Whipple]

Chicago Charlie? That's me, Whitey. We usually charge a hundred dollar for letting folks take our pictures, but.

[Chicago Charlie]

Oh, you're short a hundred dollars.

[Lightning Jim Whipple]

Yeah, but seeing as how you're a Chicago Charlie.

[Chicago Charlie]

Oh, have you heard of me before?

[Lightning Jim Whipple]

Oh, sure. Everybody on the plains has heard of Chicago Charlie. Say, having you take our picture is a real honor.

[Chicago Charlie]

Well, say, that's mighty nice of you to say so, mister.

[Lightning Jim Whipple]

That's all right. Seeing his holly queue. I reckon we only charge you $50 for taking a picture.

[Chicago Charlie]

What?

[Lightning Jim Whipple]

How about it, Whitey?

[Whitey Larson]

That suits me.

[Chicago Charlie]

You mean you want me to pay

[Whitey Larson]

you $50 for taking your picture?

[Hard Rock Ike]

That's right.

[Lightning Jim Whipple]

That's a bargain. And you better take it before we change our $50. Yeah.

[Chicago Charlie]

Hey, that's a good one. For a minute I thought you really meant it. Can you picture that? Get it? Picture.

[Whitey Larson]

Yeah, Y. He gets it.

[Lightning Jim Whipple]

I'm sorry, Charlie. But after that, when the price goes back to a hundred dollars. Come on, pay up.

[Chicago Charlie]

Oh, yeah. Seriously.

[Whitey Larson]

Why, you bet you are. I'm. It's into you. You can't shoot me for just taking all your execution. That's a hundred dollars sore.

[Chicago Charlie]

Oh, now wait, don't you hold it, Whitey.

[Lightning Jim Whipple]

Here comes the sheriff and another fella.

[Sheriff Edward Dick]

Hey, what's going on here?

[Chicago Charlie]

Well, look who is sheriff. I only took their pictures. They said I couldn't. Now they say I got to pay them $100.

[Lightning Jim Whipple]

That's right. We aim to collect too.

[Chicago Charlie]

Now you arrest them, Sheriff. They threaten to shoot me. They're dangerous Characters, that's what they are.

[Sheriff Edward Dick]

Now, now, hold your horses, Charlie. Seem to me these armed races got an honest complaint.

[Hard Rock Ike]

Why do they have s who are the ass?

[Chicago Charlie]

Honest? Why I never paid nobody for taking that picture.

[Lightning Jim Whipple]

Well, you've been getting away with a graph, that's all. Any picture of me belongs to me and I got a right to charge for it.

[Hard Rock Ike]

Hmm, sounds reasonable to me.

[Chicago Charlie]

You keep your nose out of this deadwood, Dick.

[Hard Rock Ike]

Well Charlie, I've been telling you that picture machine was gonna get you into trouble. Feels like it has.

[Chicago Charlie]

Well, I'm not paying a hundred dollars to nobody.

[Hard Rock Ike]

No.

[Lightning Jim Whipple]

Well, I reckon you better lock him up, Sheriff. I prefer the Chargers.

[Hard Rock Ike]

Yep, taking a picture and not paying for it is most as bad as stealing a horse. And hustlein is a hanging offense.

[Sheriff Edward Dick]

Well, I reckon you oughta get a trial anyway.

[Whitey Larson]

No, no, no.

[Hard Rock Ike]

No use bothering with a trial. Hang em now and get it over with.

[Chicago Charlie]

Hey, wait a minute.

[Sheriff Edward Dick]

Come on, Carty, I gotta take you to jail.

[Chicago Charlie]

I'll pay if you let me go.

[Sheriff Edward Dick]

Well, that's it too, mister.

[Lightning Jim Whipple]

Well, reckon we hadn't ought to be too hard on him. Tenderfoot, ain't he?

[Sheriff Edward Dick]

Yeah, the only thing really bad about him is that he runs all over town taking pictures.

[Lightning Jim Whipple]

I see. Well, give me the cat cash, Charlie, and I'll drop the charges.

[Chicago Charlie]

Now that's a hold up, that's what it is. Here, there's the cash and griddle places.

[Lightning Jim Whipple]

You're getting off cheap, Charlie. That picture's worth a thousand in anybody's.

[Whitey Larson]

Oh yeah?

[Chicago Charlie]

Well, here's the fight. And here's what I think it's worth.

[Sheriff Edward Dick]

Now, now, careful there. Get going Charlie, before I slap you in jail for this orderly conduct.

[Chicago Charlie]

Don't worry, Sheriff, I'm going.

[Sheriff Edward Dick]

Well, I'll teach him a lesson all right. Well, Lightning Jim, you old horse face,

[Lightning Jim Whipple]

I sure am glad to see you. Well, I'm sure glad to see you, Sheriff. You remember Whitey?

[Sheriff Edward Dick]

Why, sure do.

[Hard Rock Ike]

I'll be running along, Sheriff.

[Sheriff Edward Dick]

Oh, now, now, hold on. I want you to meet two old friends of mine. You heard of Lightning Jim Whipple, United States Marshal?

[Lightning Jim Whipple]

Sure have. Well, this is him.

[Sheriff Edward Dick]

And Lightning, this is Edward Dick.

[Lightning Jim Whipple]

Edward Dick. I'm mighty glad to know you, Dick.

[Hard Rock Ike]

Well, the same goes for me, my good.

[Lightning Jim Whipple]

This is my partner, Whitey Lawton.

[Sheriff Edward Dick]

Big cigar on the money coach that travels between Deadwood and Sydney.

[Lightning Jim Whipple]

I see you been in them hold ups we've been hearing about.

[Hard Rock Ike]

No, no, no, I've been lucky that way. They ain't tried to hold up My stage yet.

[Sheriff Edward Dick]

Well, reckon them road agents knows better. Dick's one of the best shots in the country. Come on, boys. Let's move you over to my office where we can talk.

[Lightning Jim Whipple]

All right, Sheriff. Wait a second, Whitey.

[Chicago Charlie]

Hey, Y.

[Lightning Jim Whipple]

See if you can find that Chicago church.

[Whitey Larson]

You call this darling.

[Lightning Jim Whipple]

Yeah. Take this cash you gave me and give it back to him.

[Hard Rock Ike]

But Marshal, key.

[Lightning Jim Whipple]

But it'll teach him a lesson. He's had his lesson, I reckon.

[Hard Rock Ike]

Go on, Whitey.

[Lightning Jim Whipple]

We'll see you at the sheriff's office.

[Chicago Charlie]

Oh, it's you again, huh? Well, don't come near me. I don't want nothing to do with you. You blame Highway.

[Whitey Larson]

Take it easy, not Charlie.

[Chicago Charlie]

Take it easy. Your partner stole a hundred dollars from me.

[Whitey Larson]

No, he didn't. Ever so near you.

[Chicago Charlie]

Oh, a joke, huh? Well, I can't see anything funny about that.

[Whitey Larson]

Well, I wouldn't let you like to have your money back.

[Chicago Charlie]

Oh, I don't like me laugh.

[Whitey Larson]

Listen, Lightning.

[Chicago Charlie]

Did you say his name was Lightning? Jim.

[Whitey Larson]

You're Lightning himself. Christina says Marshall.

[Chicago Charlie]

Oh, suffer and Catholic. Why can't we?

[Whitey Larson]

No, but that is Lightning was just have a little fun with you. Has your money now, what you think?

[Chicago Charlie]

That's a good one. I gotta remember that to tell the boys back in Chicago. I'd have known he was only joking. Imagine charging me a hundred dollars.

[Whitey Larson]

Wait a minute. He mean that our picture is worth a hundred dollars?

[Chicago Charlie]

No, not now. Wait. I said not now. I broke the plate. So there ain't any picture. And if there ain't any picture, it ain't worth anything.

[Whitey Larson]

Get it? That's too worth it.

[Chicago Charlie]

Vatsport that much fool George was. Say, I lost a screw off my camera.

[Whitey Larson]

Sure that you lose it?

[Chicago Charlie]

Well, I'm not sure, but I think it was up in the Gulf away. I was taking their pictures there with Ike and Dan's plane. Woohoo.

[Whitey Larson]

Shakes and bends.

[Chicago Charlie]

Oh, Hard Rock Ike and Bummer Dan. The boys call them a couple of prospects.

[Lightning Jim Whipple]

Hello.

[Chicago Charlie]

Have you ever seen a panel for gold?

[Whitey Larson]

Well, no, not a little close up.

[Chicago Charlie]

Well, come along with me and I'll show you how it's done. Maybe we can find a screw for that camera.

[Whitey Larson]

Oh, I do that good.

[Chicago Charlie]

Say, you know, that was a good

[Whitey Larson]

joke I pulled on you finder.

[Chicago Charlie]

That's funny. Don't seem to be nobody around.

[Whitey Larson]

Well, it's just a place for them to. You just leave you a talking about.

[Chicago Charlie]

Yeah, this is like a dance claim. All right, this is our set. Hey.

[Whitey Larson]

Hey, D. Nobody home.

[Chicago Charlie]

Yeah, now good. That's me hungry. You're Me too. We better go inside then. Something's happened to us. Yo.

[Whitey Larson]

Let's open up the door.

[Chicago Charlie]

Oh, hey, dear. Hey. Put your honest stove.

[Whitey Larson]

Well, well. A big pot of beans.

[Chicago Charlie]

You smell good. They look good too.

[Whitey Larson]

I wonder if they are too cooking

[Chicago Charlie]

so here's a spoon. You try them.

[Sheriff Edward Dick]

Yo.

[Chicago Charlie]

Boy, oh, boy. Good, huh? Yo, let me take some too. Give me some more.

[Whitey Larson]

Get yellow and spoon.

[Lightning Jim Whipple]

Sure.

[Chicago Charlie]

Here on the table.

[Whitey Larson]

Boy, golly.

[Chicago Charlie]

Never did a life. I'm damn personal. I gotta hand it to.

[Whitey Larson]

Wouldn't you be surprised to see you there?

[Chicago Charlie]

Wouldn't we be surprised if they walked in right now?

[Whitey Larson]

Howdy.

[Hard Rock Ike]

I did.

[Chicago Charlie]

Hello there. What right you got coming in here? Now, take it easy, boys.

[Sheriff Edward Dick]

I can explain everything about explaining.

[Chicago Charlie]

You see, it works this way. You remember I was out there taking pictures? Yes, and we told you not to come back.

[Whitey Larson]

Put that gun down, dad.

[Lightning Jim Whipple]

He took.

[Chicago Charlie]

Sure. Well, when I got back to town, I discovered that I lost a screw for my camera. So me and my friend come up to look for it, see?

[Hard Rock Ike]

No, I don't see.

[Chicago Charlie]

Oh, that don't explain what you're doing in here. Well, we thought something might have happened to you, that you might have been sick or something, you know, so well, we came up and the beans smelled so good. You know how it feels when you're hungry and you smell beans cooking. We didn't mean no harm. We'd be glad to pay for the bean.

[Whitey Larson]

We all sure did care for them.

[Chicago Charlie]

We ain't interested in what you think of the beans. You're on private property. We got a right to shoot you down. Oh, now, you wouldn't do that. You wouldn't shoot us for eating a few measly old beans.

[Hard Rock Ike]

A few measly old beans. Thought you said they was good beans.

[Chicago Charlie]

Oh, of course they're good. You could try em yourself. Here, I'll get you some.

[Hard Rock Ike]

No, you don't. Stay right where you are. Take that Jasper's gun, Dan.

[Chicago Charlie]

That imperach shoots your head off. Get on.

[Hard Rock Ike]

You know.

[Chicago Charlie]

Listen, boy, let's see that way about it. All right?

[Hard Rock Ike]

Now, you boys like beans, huh?

[Chicago Charlie]

Sure, if they're cooked right, I do.

[Hard Rock Ike]

But you do like these beans?

[Chicago Charlie]

Oh, yes, indeed.

[Hard Rock Ike]

And we ought to shoot you for being such a pest with that picture machine and for coming in here. But I got a better idea.

[Lightning Jim Whipple]

What are you gonna do, Ike?

[Hard Rock Ike]

Bring that pot of beans over here, Dan.

[Sheriff Edward Dick]

God.

[Hard Rock Ike]

Put it on the table between these two ombre. Both of you start eating them beans. And don't Stop till every last bean is gone.

[Chicago Charlie]

No, no, we can't eat all them beans.

[Hard Rock Ike]

Make your choice. Either you eat or we drill you. And when you get through with this pot, we'll have some more ready for you.

[Lightning Jim Whipple]

Well, this is one time when White is going to get a free meal on the house. All the beans he can eat and then some. What happens to Whitey and Charlie? And the plan of I can Dan to rob the money stage will be told in part two, which follows immediately.

[Hard Rock Ike]

Sa.

[Lightning Jim Whipple]

And now for part two of the thrilling exploits of United States marshal Lightning Jim Whipple and his deputy, Whitey Larson. We have heard how they went to Deadwood dulc to investigate holdups of the money stagecoaches that carried gold to the railroad. They met Deadwood Dick and Chicago Charlie, who spent most of his time taking pictures of the famous Deadwood characters. But Whitey and Charlie got into trouble when they visited the shack of Hard Rock Ike and Bummer Dan. At the point of a gun, Ike and Dan forced Whitey and Charlie to eat a pot full of beans.

[Hard Rock Ike]

Come on, you two. There's still some more beans in that pan.

[Chicago Charlie]

Hey, I. I can't eat no more.

[Whitey Larson]

You and me, I'm going to bust.

[Hard Rock Ike]

Come on, eat. And don't talk so much.

[Chicago Charlie]

Yeah, that's all.

[Whitey Larson]

Yo. The beach is going and I am too.

[Chicago Charlie]

Let. Let me out of here.

[Whitey Larson]

You're Me too.

[Chicago Charlie]

All right, get out and don't come back again.

[Hard Rock Ike]

Go on, bumos.

[Chicago Charlie]

And you regret this gentleman.

[Hard Rock Ike]

Yes. Make him dance, Danny.

[Chicago Charlie]

Yeah, look at them run. Yeah, that'll take them a lesson.

[Hard Rock Ike]

I reckon that's enough money business. We got serious business to do now.

[Chicago Charlie]

Yeah, we got to figure out about

[Hard Rock Ike]

holding up the money stage. Yeah. Well, now, here's what we'll do.

[Sheriff Edward Dick]

That's a good one.

[Hard Rock Ike]

I'm sure sorry. I miss seeing you boys eat them be.

[Chicago Charlie]

I don't see nothing funny.

[Whitey Larson]

No, sir. Me neither. I like to see two of you. You see. Too pot to be.

[Chicago Charlie]

Oh, my, I got a stomach ache. And to think I wasted a perfectly good picture on those cutthroat.

[Lightning Jim Whipple]

You took a picture of them?

[Chicago Charlie]

Sure. Here it is in my pocket.

[Lightning Jim Whipple]

Let me see it. Scarlet.

[Chicago Charlie]

There you are. The one on the left is Hard Rock Ice and the other cusp is Bummer Dan.

[Lightning Jim Whipple]

Well, that's interesting.

[Whitey Larson]

Oh, you seen them before? 19.

[Lightning Jim Whipple]

Don't know for sure, Whitey, but seems like their faces are kind of familiar.

[Sheriff Edward Dick]

Why, them are the chaps who come in here a couple of months ago and bought out Old Mike's claim. Up the Goat away.

[Hard Rock Ike]

Yes, I heard about Mike selling his plane, but I ain't met up with his hombre.

[Sheriff Edward Dick]

Well, they ain't been in town much, but they appear like hard working miners to me. Kind of sociable and quiet like.

[Whitey Larson]

Oh, there plenty sociable when it comes to handing out pinks, I tell you.

[Chicago Charlie]

Well, believe me, the way I feel right now, I take the first stage out of Deadwood and head back to Chicago.

[Hard Rock Ike]

That's the first sensible thing I've heard you say, Charlie. Why can't you do that?

[Chicago Charlie]

Well, I promised the boys back in Chicago I'd show them a picture of a real hold up a stagecoach hold up.

[Hard Rock Ike]

So that's what's eating you. You want to get a picture of

[Lightning Jim Whipple]

a real holder of.

[Chicago Charlie]

Is it me? Why, I'd give my right arm for a picture like that.

[Lightning Jim Whipple]

Take it easy, Charlie. You might live to regret that.

[Chicago Charlie]

Not me. Good luck. Charlie is my name. See you later, boy.

[Sheriff Edward Dick]

Crazy galoot. He's going to fuss around with somebody butts that picture machine over his head.

[Chicago Charlie]

Get him in trouble.

[Whitey Larson]

All right.

[Hard Rock Ike]

Dang, boys, I got an idea. Well, Charlie says he'll go back to Chicago as soon as he gets a

[Lightning Jim Whipple]

picture of a wheel stage coach hold up.

[Hard Rock Ike]

All right, let's see that he gets that picture, huh?

[Sheriff Edward Dick]

Yeah, but how are we going to do it?

[Whitey Larson]

Why, that's easy. Easy.

[Hard Rock Ike]

Charlie's been pestering me to ride on the money stage for a long time. Figured he might be on hand for a hold up.

[Whitey Larson]

Oh, say, that's a good one.

[Sheriff Edward Dick]

Well, dog gone, he's got more nerve than see.

[Hard Rock Ike]

That's what I told him.

[Lightning Jim Whipple]

What's your idea?

[Hard Rock Ike]

Oh, I just got a laughter ring down.

[Sheriff Edward Dick]

Now come on, get to the point.

[Hard Rock Ike]

I do. The regular stage is due to go out of deadwood at 9 o'. Clock. Now I'll fix it with the boys to hold up the regular stage and I'll take out another stage instead.

[Sheriff Edward Dick]

Yeah, but where does Charlie come into the earth?

[Hard Rock Ike]

I'm getting to that. I'll tell Charlie I'm making a special trip and he'll be sure to ask

[Lightning Jim Whipple]

me if he can go along.

[Hard Rock Ike]

Now here's where you boys come in. Pick up some mass, get your horses and sneak out the stage trail a few miles and wait for the stage. So that's it.

[Sheriff Edward Dick]

You want us to pull a fake holder.

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[Hard Rock Ike]

Hey, Charlie, get your pictures, then we get rid of Charlie.

[Lightning Jim Whipple]

What do you say? Well, this business of running down the criminal kind of serious most of the time. And I reckon we hadn't ought to pass up a chance for a laugh once in a while. You can count me in more.

[Sheriff Edward Dick]

I see.

[Hard Rock Ike]

Now it's. It's almost eight now. Now it gives us an hour to get ready. Come on. Date is going to be rich.

[Lightning Jim Whipple]

What trouble, Whitey? You look kind of pale.

[Whitey Larson]

Well, I was just thinking about them trip to Samara's. Eat champions by jealous. I'm going to get even with them if it's the last thing I do.

[Lightning Jim Whipple]

Whoa, whoa. Easy there, girls.

[Sheriff Edward Dick]

Easy now.

[Chicago Charlie]

Come on, Vic. Just this one.

[Hard Rock Ike]

Well, I don't know, Charlie.

[Whitey Larson]

Suppose.

[Hard Rock Ike]

And we was to run into some road agents and they was to hold up the stage boss.

[Chicago Charlie]

Hey, that'd be wonderful. I've got my camera right here. You let me go along and I'll give you this watch that I bought in Chicago. See, it's almost new.

[Hard Rock Ike]

Yes, well, all right. Give me the watch and jump in.

[Chicago Charlie]

Oh, thanks, Dick. You're a real pack. All right.

[Hard Rock Ike]

Come on, get in.

[Chicago Charlie]

Good. Hey, where's the money box?

[Hard Rock Ike]

Money bar right there on the floor. Yeah. Now if there's any shooting, keep down low.

[Chicago Charlie]

Well, I hope there is a hold up so I can get my pictures. Get up there.

[Sheriff Edward Dick]

Come on, girl.

[Lightning Jim Whipple]

Well, Jeff, we've been waiting here behind this boulder for half an hour. Seems like deadwood, Dick. And the stage ought to be along pretty soon.

[Sheriff Edward Dick]

Yeah, I can see the trail quite a ways down and there ain't no sign of the seed coming. Maybe Charlie wouldn't go.

[Lightning Jim Whipple]

Yeah, maybe so. Anyway, we might as well wait a little longer.

[Sheriff Edward Dick]

Yeah, see, I meant to ask you, where'd.

[Hard Rock Ike]

Why he go?

[Lightning Jim Whipple]

Well, he had a little business he wanted to look after. And I told him we could handle this job ourselves.

[Sheriff Edward Dick]

Yeah, we sure can. It'll be worth a year's salary to see the look on Charlie's face.

[Lightning Jim Whipple]

Hold on, Jeff. See dust racing over the trail back yonder.

[Chicago Charlie]

Yep.

[Sheriff Edward Dick]

Here comes the ski. Just but a mile ago before they get here. Come on. I let's ride down me.

[Lightning Jim Whipple]

Come on, Thunder.

[Hard Rock Ike]

I ain't moving, mister.

[Sheriff Edward Dick]

Hold on.

[Hard Rock Ike]

You're going to be quick about it. Sure.

[Chicago Charlie]

All right, driver, come on down here.

[Hard Rock Ike]

You're wasting your time, Mister.

[Chicago Charlie]

Yeah?

[Hard Rock Ike]

Where's that money box? Inside the coat. Open the door and get the box, mister. Won't do you no good. Let's pull him around and drag that box out here.

[Sheriff Edward Dick]

Sure.

[Whitey Larson]

Don't shoot me.

[Chicago Charlie]

Take the box. Don't shoot me. Well, I'll be.

[Hard Rock Ike]

Hey, what is this? What are you doing in there?

[Chicago Charlie]

Well, I. I was. I was just Taking a ride, that's all.

[Hard Rock Ike]

Let that box out him and hurry up.

[Chicago Charlie]

Lord, mister. Here it is. I got it. Why the lid ain't locked, Mc.

[Hard Rock Ike]

What's the idea, mister? I told you you were wasting your time. This ain't the regular money stage. I was just taking Charlie out for

[Lightning Jim Whipple]

a little fresh air.

[Chicago Charlie]

Hey, here comes two riders heading this way.

[Hard Rock Ike]

Yeah, let's clear out of here.

[Sheriff Edward Dick]

Come on.

[Chicago Charlie]

Stay where you are, mister, and don't try to follow us. I'm not going to follow you. That was a close one all right.

[Hard Rock Ike]

Yes, closer than you know, Jimmy.

[Chicago Charlie]

Say, do you suppose those two chaps coming to hold up men too?

[Hard Rock Ike]

No.

[Chicago Charlie]

Well, how do you know? Grab your gun, Dick. Hey, where's my camera?

[Hard Rock Ike]

Forget. Forget the camera. You won't need it.

[Chicago Charlie]

Why, it's lightning. Gentleman's terror.

[Lightning Jim Whipple]

Yeah, after shooting and figured something was wrong. Where are them jaspers, Dick?

[Hard Rock Ike]

You know, lightning. They rode out from these rocks and held us up thinking it was a regular stage.

[Sheriff Edward Dick]

Yeah, we see them up the trail.

[Hard Rock Ike]

Yes. Kind of double crosses, huh?

[Lightning Jim Whipple]

Yeah.

[Chicago Charlie]

Hey, it was a good thing you fellas come along when you did.

[Sheriff Edward Dick]

Yeah, we hadn't been so blamed far up the trail, we'd have caught them critters.

[Lightning Jim Whipple]

Ain't too late yet, Sheriff. Which way's ahead, Dick?

[Hard Rock Ike]

Down the canyon toward the creek.

[Lightning Jim Whipple]

Come on, Sheriff, have some fun.

[Sheriff Edward Dick]

Get out there.

[Hard Rock Ike]

Go on, get back in the coach, Tommy.

[Chicago Charlie]

Hey, how come there was no money in the box? What do you mean telling those bandits this wasn't a regular state?

[Hard Rock Ike]

Long story, Charlie. I'll tell you about it when we get back to town.

[Chicago Charlie]

Well, anyway, it was lucky I came along with you. I sure hope the picture I took turns out good. Imagine getting a picture of a real hold up.

[Hard Rock Ike]

Yeah, imagine.

[Lightning Jim Whipple]

Well, Jeff, looks like the end of the trail right ahead of us.

[Sheriff Edward Dick]

Yep, them hoof beats heat up. You suffering n that I can damn sure.

[Lightning Jim Whipple]

Yeah, come on. The horses are still battled.

[Sheriff Edward Dick]

Yeah, there's smoke coming out.

[Lightning Jim Whipple]

The king. Yes, smells like cooking there. You two in there, come out with your hands in the air. Reach for the sky.

[Whitey Larson]

Howdy, boy.

[Chicago Charlie]

Why, it's wa.

[Lightning Jim Whipple]

I can dance.

[Chicago Charlie]

Oh, they're right there. Come on in.

[Sheriff Edward Dick]

Hey, what in blaze going on here?

[Whitey Larson]

Well, Sheriff, you are looking at two honest miners eating a nice big mess of the finest beans that was ever cooked in Deadwood.

[Hard Rock Ike]

I ain't spitting the money, but.

[Chicago Charlie]

I can't eat them.

[Whitey Larson]

Well, sir, you keep eating them beans, sir, I bust you on a snoot. You ain't true until you eat Every last bean in that tent, regardless.

[Hard Rock Ike]

Help me. Help me, Sheriff. Oh, I'm dying.

[Sheriff Edward Dick]

Well, Sheriff, you're right, Dan. Looks like Whitey's getting eaten with you for what you done to him and Charlie.

[Whitey Larson]

You're that too bad. Surely ain't hurt to get a picture, don't you?

[Sheriff Edward Dick]

Hey, did you know why you're coming here like?

[Lightning Jim Whipple]

Yes, Sheriff. When I saw that picture Charlie took of Ike and Dan, I thought the faces were kind of familiar. Wasn't sure where I'd seen them, but I figured they might bear watching. So I told White he'd come up here and keep an eye on them.

[Whitey Larson]

Your sir are you fellas without giving sor safe course, Right. I come up here and found out that I can then was out somewhere. Hey, keep eating them beans, sir, will you? Well, I see there was a good chance to get even with them. And I cook this beans and wait for them to come back.

[Sheriff Edward Dick]

Well, maybe you don't know it, Whitey, but these hombres held up the stick.

[Lightning Jim Whipple]

That's right. And the sheriff and me trailed them back here.

[Whitey Larson]

When they come back here, I heard them talking about getting the cash they took from the estate. Caught hold of it.

[Sheriff Edward Dick]

Ah, so they were the qu. Unnamed job.

[Whitey Larson]

You already had it buried under some rocks outside. And when they dug it up, I got the drop on them and I brought them into this Nice top.

[Chicago Charlie]

Perhaps.

[Whitey Larson]

Well, just all the cash in that box on the floor.

[Lightning Jim Whipple]

Good work, Wedding.

[Whitey Larson]

Here you fell. Ain't TR them their be.

[Hard Rock Ike]

Oh, help me. Oh, help me, Sheriff. I'm dying.

[Sheriff Edward Dick]

And I'm sorry, Dan, but this is one time I'm not interfering. And when Whitey gets through, I'm taking it again.

[Whitey Larson]

You're sheriff. And you'd be sure that three times a day you give them plenty of beans.

[Lightning Jim Whipple]

And so ends another thrilling chapter in the lives of United States Marshal Lightning Jim Whipple and his deputy, Whitey Larson. Sam,

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