The Green Valley Feud | Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok (09-25-53)

Summary

Old Time Radio Westerns: The Green Valley Feud

Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok (09-25-53)
Host: Andrew Rhynes
Release Date: August 30, 2025

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Episode Overview

In this restored classic Western drama, Wild Bill Hickok and his trusty deputy Jingles ride into Green Valley, only to find themselves thrust into the heart of a violent feud. The story centers on the escalating conflict between homesteading farmers and entrenched cattle ranchers, who violently resist the changing landscape of the frontier as the farmers put down roots and build new lives. As threats and arson escalate, Bill and Jingles must act quickly to prevent a full-blown range war and guide both sides toward peace before disaster strikes.

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Key Discussion Points & Episode Breakdown

The Return to Green Valley and Tensions Erupt (05:00–10:15)

• A Changing Valley:
  Hickok and Jingles observe that Green Valley, once open range, now boasts established farms—a sign of progress resented by local cattlemen.

  • "Green Valley's changed, hasn't it, partner?" — Wild Bill Hickok (05:00)
  • Jingles’ humorous take: "Farming's fine for those that like it, but I grew up driving a team and pitching hay. Too much work to suit me." (05:13)

• Immediate Danger:
  Gunfire and a burning barn prompt Bill and Jingles to action, where they’re nearly mistaken for enemies by Effie Davis, a determined farm wife who holds them at gunpoint until their identities are revealed.

  • "Now get down and help me put it out or I'll put a bullet right through both of you." — Effie Davis (06:56)

• Backdrop of Hostility:
  Effie explains the root of the fight: ranchers oppose "dirt farmers" fencing land they see as open range, despite homesteaders' legal rights.

Personal Stakes and Confrontations (10:15–15:29)

• The Cattlemen Confrontation:
  Ranchers led by Matt Bar arrive, threatening the Davises, and escalation appears imminent, but Bill stands firm.
  • "You gents are on private property and you're not wanted. Just pile on your horses and ride." — Wild Bill Hickok (09:55)
• Tense Standoff:
  When Matt Bar makes a threatening move, Bill’s quick draw ends the challenge, sending the ranchers off for now.
• Ranchers Plot Revenge:
  Away from the farm, Matt Bar vows the feud isn't over, scheming to burn more barns under the cover of night.

The Cycle of Retaliation (15:29–20:43)

• Ongoing Attacks:
  The barn-burnings continue, exhausting the homesteaders and sparking calls for armed retaliatory action.
• Hickok’s Plea for Peace:
  Bill urges restraint among the homesteaders, warning against "fighting fire with fire," but Lim insists on fighting back.
  • "Just because the ranchers are breaking the law, don't you folks start it too." — Wild Bill Hickok (17:10)
• Attempt at Diplomacy:
  Bill and Jingles attempt to negotiate with the ranchers. The ranchers remain unyielding, escalating verbal threats to violence.

The Firestorm and Turning Point (23:40–27:27)

• Catastrophe Strikes:
  Another barn-burning spirals out of control as drought and high winds drive the flames across the valley, threatening all—homes, farms, and cattle alike.
  • "With this wind, the whole Blaine valley will burn. That fire will keep going for two days." — Jingles (24:31)
• Mutual Defeat:
  Ranchers realize that their own livelihoods are destroyed by the blaze they've set; they surrender without resistance.
  • "That's right. We just put ourselves out of the ranching business." — Matt Bar (25:28)
• A Solution Through Cooperation:
  Wild Bill proposes using the communal irrigation ditch to stop the fire. Former enemies, ranchers and farmers, agree to fight the blaze together.
• Resolution and Reconciliation:
  The crisis unites both sides, ending the feud. They pledge to rebuild together.
  • "Not only that, we get together and build a bigger and better barn for everyone we burned down." — Matt Bar (26:53)

Epilogue and Comic Relief (27:27–28:54)

• Festive Aftermath:
  Effie cooks for ranchers and farmers celebrating together. Jingles, hovering by the stove, accidentally catches his shirt on fire in a classic comedic moment.
  • "You ought to know by now, partner, the people who start fires get themselves into trouble." — Wild Bill Hickok (28:25)
• The episode end highlights the underlying message of community and cooperation.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Wild Bill’s Steadfast Justice:
  "I meant what I said. You and the rest of the cow men call off the war against the homesteaders." — Wild Bill Hickok (13:53)

• Jingles' Humor Even in Crisis:
  "Just be my luck to get shot by a woman." — Jingles (07:46)
  "Spend most of the week chasing fires, and one of them just up and catches me." — Jingles (28:54)

• Effie Davis’ Grit:
  "Get down and help me put it out or I'll put a bullet right through both of you!" — Effie Davis (06:56)

• Moment of Self-Realization:
  "We end up running ourselves out." — Matt Bar (25:41)

• Call for Unity:
  "Because this is no time to be fighting among yourselves." — Wild Bill Hickok (26:42)

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Important Timestamps

• Start of main adventure: 05:00
• Effie Davis holds Bill & Jingles at gunpoint: 06:46
• Ranchers’ first confrontation with Bill: 09:55
• Ranchers vow continued violence: 15:29
• Homesteaders plan retaliation: 17:00
• Face-off with ranchers, no deal: 19:14
• Barn fire threatens entire valley: 24:00
• Ranchers surrender, propose unity: 25:28
• Collective response to the fire—resolution: 26:53
• Jingles’ comic relief (shirt catches fire): 27:52

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Tone and Style

The episode maintains a mix of frontier tension and classic Western bravado, blending drama with good-natured humor typified by Jingles. Hickok’s leadership, the farmers’ and ranchers’ stubbornness, and ultimately their capacity for cooperation, all shine in snappy, period-authentic dialogue and rousing set pieces.

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Summary

The Green Valley Feud is a vivid OTR Western drama showing how law, quick thinking, and courage can turn enemies into allies—a timeless message dressed in classic shootout-and-stampede style. Wild Bill's blend of firmness and fairness, together with Jingles’ comic relief, makes for a satisfying, action-packed, and heartwarming tale of the Old West brought back to life by the Old Time Radio Westerns Podcast.

Transcript

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[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

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[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

Green Valley's changed, hasn't it, partner?

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

It sure has, Bill. You know, two years ago when we came through here, it was all open rains. Now look at it.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

Yep, the farmers are taking it over now. Some real good plowland here, too.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

Awful pretty farms, too. Well, I wish them luck. Farming's fine for those that like it, but I grew up driving a team and pitching hay. Too much work to suit me.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

Everybody isn't like you, Jingle. Some people like to work.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

Well, that's just fine. If anybody else likes to work, they can have it all. I just like to.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

Hey, listen.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

There's somebody shooting down there.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

Sounds like a war's going on. Come on, let's look into it. Hop that buckshot.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

Move on, Joker. Move on.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

Those shots are coming from that first farm, Jingles.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

Yeah, and look. Smoke's coming from the barn.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

Looks like somebody set fire to it.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

Stretch out that buckshot, Bill. There goes a couple of jaspers running for their horses. Suppose they're the ones?

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

Can't tell. But somebody behind the barn sure pouring lead at them. Come on, let's give them a hand.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

Maybe we can scare them away from their horses till we get there and find out what this is all about.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

No good Partner, they're too far away.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

Yeah. There they go. Shall we chase them?

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

Let's turn in here and talk to the farmer first.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

Sure. Get around, Joker. Hey. Hey. He's shooting at us.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

I see him, Jingles.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

Hey, there. Hold your fire. We're friends now. Cut that off. Doggone it, he ain't gonna have no friends if he keep pulling that trigger.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

Get your hands up high, Jingles. Maybe that'll do it.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

Yeah. That'll just make me a better target for the gent with the rifle.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

It's no gent, Jingles. It's a lady. You see her now?

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

Where? Oh, yeah. Well, she sure is a good shot for a woman. Like the part in my hand.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

Throw down that buckshot.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

Easy, Joker.

[Effie Davis]

That's far enough. Pull up and keep your hands high.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

Better do what she says.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

Oh, Joker. Lady, your barn's burning down.

[Effie Davis]

Of course it is. You ranchers keep setting fire to it. Now get down and help me put it out or I'll put a bullet right through both of you.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

Pile on, Jingles.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

All we wanted to do was help her put out her fire.

[Effie Davis]

There's a couple of buckets there by the horse trough.

[Matt Bar]

I.

[Effie Davis]

Get a move on before I plug you.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

Yes, ma'.

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[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

We're moving. Act like a lady.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

You reckon she's mad about her bone?

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

Work fast, Bill. There's just a chance we can save it before it all goes up in smoke. Well, we got the fire out now. Where's the lady that was threatening to shoot us?

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

Right over there on her back porch with a rifle in her hand.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

Hope she's cooled down a little. Just be my luck to get shot by a woman. Howdy, man. Didn't have time for no introductions when we first met.

[Effie Davis]

I don't care who you are.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

Oh.

[Effie Davis]

Now that you got that fire out, get off our farm and tell them other ranchers that I'll put a bullet in the first one that comes back here.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

I think you've got us wrong, ma'. Am. We're lawmen, not ranchers.

[Effie Davis]

Lawmen?

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

That's right. This here is Wild Bill Hickok.

[Effie Davis]

Wild Bill Hickok?

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

Yes, ma'. Am. And I'm his deputy, Jingles. Jingles. Pete Jones.

[Effie Davis]

Well, I declare. I was just about ready to pull a trigger on both of you. This goes to show how upset a body can get with all this shooting and burning and carrying on.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

Yes, ma'. Am. Maybe you ought to tell us all about it, huh?

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

You said something about the ranchers, ma'? Am.

[Effie Davis]

That's right. The cattlemen. They don't like dirt farmers plowing up the open range and running fences. But we homesteaded the land all proper. And we got a right to raise our crops on our own soil. There's plenty of government land for the cattle.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

You're absolutely right, ma'. Am. But it's tough to get the cow men to see it your way.

[Effie Davis]

Well, you two represent the law. Can't you do something about it?

[Lem Davis]

We'll sure try.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

Effie.

[Lamb Davis]

Who you talking to out there, Lamb?

[Effie Davis]

Davies, you get right back in bed till we get a doctor to take that bullet out of your shoulder.

[Lamb Davis]

Who are these two gents?

[Effie Davis]

Effie, this is Wild Bill Hickok and Jingle Limb. But you get back to bed.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

Wild Bill and Jingle.

[Lamb Davis]

Well, my glad to see you two. I'm Lem Davis, Miss. My wife, Effie.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

Glad to know you, Lamb.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

You'd better do what your wife says if you got a bullet in your shoulder.

[Lamb Davis]

All right. But if I do, will you gents hit the trail after them barn burning cattle pushers?

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

Well, maybe that's what we'll have to do. Look what's coming through the gate.

[Effie Davis]

My stars. Five of them ranchers. Where's my rifle?

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

Hold on, Mrs. Davis. Let me have a talk with her.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

You know, when Bill talks to Jaspers like these, they usually listen pretty good.

[Lem Davis]

Well, boys, looks like the Davises don't know when they ain't wanted. Guess we'll have to make it a little plainer.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

You gents are on private property and you're not wanted. Just pile on your horses and ride.

[Lem Davis]

Back the way you came.

[Matt Bar]

Hey, this stranger talks real rough, don't he, Matt?

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

Yeah, and he can back it up too, if you don't do what he says.

[Lem Davis]

I don't know who dealt you two drifters cards in this game, but if.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

You want to stay alive, I'd advise.

[Lem Davis]

You to fool right now.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

I think we'll just stay and play out the hand.

[Lem Davis]

Looks like a showdown. Then how's this?

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[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

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[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

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[Lamb Davis]

Hold up a minute, Charlie.

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When Wild Bill Hickok challenged the angry cattlemen, their leader told him to stay out of their game. And when Bill refused, Matt made a lightning draw and fired.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

All right, all right. Now hold it, all of you. Don't nobody else try what he just tried my lands.

[Effie Davis]

I didn't see either one of them draw.

[Matt Bar]

Just who are you, stranger?

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

He ain't no stranger. He's Wild Bill Hickok, that's who he is. And I'm Jingle.

[Lem Davis]

No wonder I lost my gun.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

You're lucky you didn't lose your whole gun hand along with it.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

I meant what I said. You and the rest of the cow men call off the war against the homesteaders.

[Lem Davis]

You can shoot Hickok, but you don't make much sense when you talk.

[Matt Bar]

This war ain't stopping till every last one of these nesters has run out of Green Valley.

[Lem Davis]

We've been running cows on this range for 10 years. And we ain't having no dirt farmers come in here with potato patches and barbed wire.

[Lamb Davis]

You ain't moving us, Matt Bar. We homesteaded here. All legal. This land is ours.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

Now, hold on. Hold on, all of you. The law's on the side of the homesteaders. Bill represents the law. He told you ranchers to call off the war, so don't argue about it. Call it off.

[Matt Bar]

We'll call off the war when every last nester leaves a valley night before. Big Boy, now that we got the.

[Effie Davis]

Law here to back us up, we'll never leave.

[Lem Davis]

All right, so you got the law standing there with guns in their hand. Get on your horses, boys.

[Matt Bar]

What for, Matt? Are we letting them bluff us?

[Lem Davis]

Hickok ain't bluffing, Jake, and he's got us covered. Let's go.

[Matt Bar]

Well, I don't like the idea.

[Lamb Davis]

When you get back home, you better think it over. Looks like you ranchers have lost the war.

[Lem Davis]

We just lost one battle, Lem. But there's more coming. And, Hickok, if you and your big partner try to stop us, these nesters will ship you both back home in pine boxes.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

You through talking, Matt?

[Lem Davis]

Yeah.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

Then get out and stay out.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

That's telling him, Bill.

[Lem Davis]

Get around. Yeah.

[Matt Bar]

You got the answer now, Matt. Working at night like this, that meddling Hickok won't know where we're gonna hit next.

[Lem Davis]

Yeah, and I figure these nesters will scare easy in the dark too. Pull up here.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

Who?

[Lem Davis]

Now?

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

Oh, boy.

[Matt Bar]

Oh, now what?

[Lem Davis]

Nothing. We just wait here till we see the flames out at the barn and we ride on in, whooping and shooting.

[Matt Bar]

Good. Got a nice warm night for it. But I don't like that wind.

[Lem Davis]

Neither do I. It's been blowing for a week. It's got the rain to dryer in a desert haystack.

[Matt Bar]

Wait a minute. There's a light at the pond. There's another.

[Lem Davis]

That's the boys with their torches.

[Matt Bar]

There goes the hay.

[Lem Davis]

Starting to burn. Good. Let's go.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

Yup. Yupo. Let's go. Look at that fire already.

[Lem Davis]

I told you everything was dry from that wind. There's a light in the house.

[Matt Bar]

They're shooting at the boys.

[Lem Davis]

We'll stop that.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

Open up on them.

[Lamb Davis]

That Just about does it. Two barns burned in two nights. First the Jensens, then last night the Smiths.

[Effie Davis]

Body never knows where they'll hit next. We work hard all day on our farms then have to sit up all night to guard them against them raiders.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

Yeah, we've been riding the valley every night but they always manage to pick the place where we ain't.

[Lamb Davis]

Well, it ain't gonna be that way from now on. This is going to be a two sided war from here on out. There's going to be some shooting from the other side. We'll fight fire with fire.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

Hang on to that temper, Lim. Just because the ranchers are breaking the law, don't you folks start at 2.

[Lamb Davis]

We all talked it over and we're riding tonight. We're going to find those local ranchers and teach them a lesson.

[Effie Davis]

Lamb, you're not going with that bullet hole in your shoulder.

[Lamb Davis]

I sure am. I can be some use. I'll have all the able bodied farmers in the valley riding with me with their guns in their hands.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

You'd better see if you can stop those farmers.

[Lamb Davis]

Lim afraid I can't do that, Bill. We all homesteaded here about the same time. We got together and built a dam in the hills and dug the irrigation ditches to our farms. We've always worked together for the things we had to have. And now we're going to fight together to keep them.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

Well, I can't argue with that speech, Lamb. You know that's the way this country got where it is today. But I sure wish you'd give us a little more time before you start an all out war here in the valley.

[Lamb Davis]

Can't do it, Jingles. Tonight's the night.

[Lem Davis]

Well, pardon.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

We better hit the trail.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

Where are we going?

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

Over to talk to the other side.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

You mean Matt Barr?

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

That's right, Bill.

[Effie Davis]

Remember he said he'd kill you if you didn't keep out of this.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

I've heard some other critters say that too, Effie, but Bill's still walking around and some of them ain't. Come on Bill, let's go. There's the ranch over there, Bill. Hey, there's two Jaspers riding out to meet us.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

Yeah, I see them. Looks like Bar and that big punch of his called Jake.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

That's who it is. All right, they've seen us.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

Might as well talk to them. Here, pull up and pile off.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

Keep your guns handy, Bill.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

They're gonna stay in their holsters. And don't you draw unless they start something.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

Oh, all right, but I'm so mad about this whole thing that I hope they do start something.

[Lem Davis]

Well, Hickok still around?

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

That's right.

[Matt Bar]

Don't seem to me there's any work for a law man around here.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

Seems to me there's a bunch of barn burning coyotes here that ought to be in jail. If that ain't work for a law man, I don't know what is.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

Take it easy, Jingle.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

Easy nothing.

[Lem Davis]

What are you doing here, Hickok? Coming to argue for the poor homesteaders that moved in on our rangeland?

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

I came to tell you and the rest of the ranchers that there had better not be any more fires tonight.

[Matt Bar]

Now, what do you figure to do about it?

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

I figured to stay right here in Green Valley till every one of you is in jail. Or till you decide to leave the farmers alone.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

And if I was you, Bar, I'd call a meeting.

[Lem Davis]

Hickok, I can't talk sense to you. Maybe I can hammer something to you.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

Maybe that's what you need, too. You stand right where you are, funny face. This ain't your fight.

[Matt Bar]

I ain't doing nothing.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

Well done. I'll tear your head off.

[Lem Davis]

Maybe.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

But I don't think so.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

Well, you gonna get up or you just gonna lie there all afternoon?

[Lem Davis]

I can't win against you. But we're winning our fight with those nesters. And we're going right ahead with it. Come on, Jake.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

You may not be winning that fight either, Bar. If there's a fire tonight, you and your men had better be ready for trouble.

[Lem Davis]

We're always ready for trouble. And we can hand it out, too.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

Yeah, well, what do we do now, Bill?

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

You've been through range wars before, Jingles. You ought to know what to do.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

Yeah, I guess so. Load both guns, lay in the supply of ammunition, and stay out of the line of fire.

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[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

I'm a witch and witch.

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[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

Well, I wish the homesteaders had let us ride with them, Bill.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

It's better this way, Jingles. If we see a fire, maybe we can get there before they do and stop a fight.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

I wish we could stop the fire. With that big wind blowing, a fire could do a lot of damage.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

Yeah, that wind's been blowing for more than a week. Lim says even the tall grass on the range is dried out.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

Bill. Bill, there's a glow in the sky. Looks like a fire.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

It is a fire. And this time it's Lim Davis's barn.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

Hup. Watch up chop, Joker. Bill, there's nobody there. Effie's with all the other women over at the Jackson place. Lim's out riding with the man.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

They'll all get there in a hurry when they see that fire.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

Well, I bet we're closer Than they are.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

We're close enough this time, so maybe we can catch some of the men that started it.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

Now, I'd like to round up a few of those galoots and toss them in jail.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

That isn't just a barn either, Jingles. The wind's blowing the fire out on the range.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

Grass, Bill. With this wind, the whole Blaine valley will burn. That fire will keep going for two days.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

Looks like Matt Vaughn and the other ranchers got themselves into real trouble this time.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

Yeah, and speaking of them, you can see them moving around front of the fire. They haven't left.

[Lem Davis]

Yeah.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

Looks like we're in time, Porter.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

Let's go. One shot, Jack. Joker. Here we are, Bill. Watch out for flying lamp.

[Lem Davis]

I'm ready.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

All right, get your hand and drop.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

All out of you under arrest.

[Matt Bar]

So what?

[Lem Davis]

You don't have to keep us covered, Hickok. We won't give you any fight.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

You sure have changed your tune since this afternoon, Matt. What happened to you?

[Lem Davis]

What's the matter? You blind? Look at that fire moving across the valley.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

I can see that you're the ones that started it.

[Lem Davis]

That's right. We just put ourselves out of the ranching business. That fire will burn out all the feed in the valley. Worse than that, it'll kill a few thousand head of cattle. We're through. We know it. You might as well take us to jail.

[Matt Bar]

Yeah, we started out to drive them nesters off. We end up running ourselves out.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

Bill, here comes the farmers storming down the road. Maybe if we could get them to help, we could all fight that fire.

[Lem Davis]

That chance of them helping us. Besides, it's moving too fast.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

There might be a chance of stopping it if we could start a back fire and burn off a strip ahead of it. Lamb, you and your men hold your fire. The ranchers are giving up without a fight.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

They licked themselves with that grass fire.

[Lamb Davis]

Well, they outsmarted themselves this time, didn't they? There won't be no range or no cattle left when this burns out.

[Lem Davis]

We know it, Lem. Looks like you nesters win.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

Seems like an awful way to win, though, Lem.

[Lamb Davis]

Yeah, but there's nothing we can do about it.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

Maybe there is. Doesn't jury irrigation ditch run right across the middle of the valley? Sure, but it's dry.

[Lamb Davis]

The fire will jump right over it.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

Couldn't you open the gates of the dam and fill it up?

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

Then we could flood the low part of the valley.

[Lamb Davis]

Well, that might stop the fire. But why should we do that? To help the ranches?

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

Because this is no time to be fighting among yourselves.

[Lem Davis]

After the way we fought them. I don't blame them, Bill. But if we could get water in that ditch, I'll bet the ranchers would never fight the farmers again.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

How about it, men?

[Matt Bar]

Not only that, we get together and build a bigger and better bond for everyone we burn down.

[Lamb Davis]

Well, how about it, men? Sounds all right to me.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

Come on, lamb. We got a big fire to fight. And if we all work together, we can lick it. Jeffy, if I told you two days ago that you'd be cooking for a big party for all the ranchers and farmers, you'd have told me I was low.

[Effie Davis]

I sure would have, Jingles. But I'm so happy now to have the whole thing settled for good that I just love everybody.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

Everybody else seems to have the same idea.

[Effie Davis]

Jingles, you gotta quit hanging around my stove.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

Why don't you move around? I don't want to. We. This is where the fried chicken is coming from. And this is where I'm a stick.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

I think maybe you are too close to the stove, Jingle.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

No, I'm not, Bill.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

Have it your own way, but your shirt tail's on fire.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

What? Hey, I'm burning up. Run for the horse Drop. Jingle like that. Grass.

[Lem Davis]

Fire.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

Water. I got to have water. Grab them and toss them in the water. Hey, hey, hey. What are you doing, Dog? Got it. The fire's out. But I'm darn near drowned.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

You ought to know by now, partner, the people who start fires get themselves into trouble.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

Yeah, and people that put them out get into trouble, too. But it is kind of funny at that. Spend most of the week chasing fires, and one of them just up and catches me.

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[Narrator]

And now, here are the stars of Wild Bill Hickok Guy Matheson and Andy Devine.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

Andy, we've got a wonderful story for Monday. Why don't you tell our friends about it?

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

Yes sir. Guy Monday's story will give you plenty of hard riding and gunfire, all because of a shot in the dark.

[Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok)]

So long kids.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

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[Effie Davis]

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[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

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[Narrator]

Kellogg's, the Greatest Name in Cereals has brought you another exciting story of Wild Bill Hickok, starring Guy Madison and Andrew Andy Devine in person. Today's cast included Virginia Gregg, Tyler McVeigh, Barney Phillips and Jim Nusser. Our story was written and directed by Paul Pierce, music by Dick Orant. This is a David Hire production Transcribed in Hollywood Now. This is Charlie Lyon speaking for Kellogg's the Greatest Name in Cereals reminding you to listen again Monday, same time, same station for another adventure of.

[Andy Devine (Jingles)]

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[Andrew Rines]

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