RINK LARKIN and NED LARSON'S REVENGE THE SIX SHOOTER W JIMMY STEWART
1001 Stories From the Old West
Release Date: 08/10/2025
FOR THE BIRDS and EAT CROW HAVE GUN WILL TRAVEL
1001 Stories From the Old West
Have Gun Will Travel was a popular American Western television series that aired on CBS from 1957 through 1963. It was the #4 show in the Nielsen ratings in its first year, and #3 for the next three years. It was one of the few television shows to spawn a successful radio version. The radio series debuted on November 23, 1958. The show followed the adventures of Paladin, a gentleman-turned-gunfighter played by John Dehner on radio, who preferred to settle problems without violence, yet, when forced to fight, excelled. Paladin lived in the Carlton Hotel in San Francisco, where he dressed in...
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DEADLINE and NELLIE WATSON'S BOY HAVE GUN WILL TRAVEL
1001 Stories From the Old West
Have Gun Will Travel was a popular American Western television series that aired on CBS from 1957 through 1963. It was the #4 show in the Nielsen ratings in its first year, and #3 for the next three years. It was one of the few television shows to spawn a successful radio version. The radio series debuted on November 23, 1958. The show followed the adventures of Paladin, a gentleman-turned-gunfighter played by John Dehner on radio, who preferred to settle problems without violence, yet, when forced to fight, excelled. Paladin lived in the Carlton Hotel in San Francisco, where he dressed in...
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BRINGING UP OLLIE and SAM CROW HAVE GUN , WILL TRAVEL
1001 Stories From the Old West
Have Gun Will Travel was a popular American Western television series that aired on CBS from 1957 through 1963. It was the #4 show in the Nielsen ratings in its first year, and #3 for the next three years. It was one of the few television shows to spawn a successful radio version. The radio series debuted on November 23, 1958. The show followed the adventures of Paladin, a gentleman-turned-gunfighter played by John Dehner on radio, who preferred to settle problems without violence, yet, when forced to fight, excelled. Paladin lived in the Carlton Hotel in San Francisco, where he dressed in...
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LITTLE GUNS and DELTA QUEEN HAVE GUN WILL TRAVEL
1001 Stories From the Old West
Have Gun Will Travel was a popular American Western television series that aired on CBS from 1957 through 1963. It was the #4 show in the Nielsen ratings in its first year, and #3 for the next three years. It was one of the few television shows to spawn a successful radio version. The radio series debuted on November 23, 1958. The show followed the adventures of Paladin, a gentleman-turned-gunfighter played by John Dehner on radio, who preferred to settle problems without violence, yet, when forced to fight, excelled. Paladin lived in the Carlton Hotel in San Francisco, where he dressed in...
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BLOW OFF and DEAD GIVEAWAY TALES OF THE TEXAS RANGERS
1001 Stories From the Old West
Try the new "Tales of Escape & Suspense"- links below!
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THE OUTLAW HENRY PLUMMER
1001 Stories From the Old West
For nearly three years Henry Plummer and his gang terrorized gold and silver miners in Montana and Oregon, killing over 100 innocent men. Plummer became a sheriff, his deputies were his hired killers, and Plummer wasn't suspected when he joined the vigilante committees, where he got the names of the men who were trying to bring law and order to that area. Finally- his end came-and this is his story.
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ROOM 114 and THE LUCKY DOLLAR TALES OF THE TEXAS RANGERS
1001 Stories From the Old West
Two great stories from the case files of the Texas Rangers
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THE GREAT OKLAHOMA LAND RUSH OF 1893 EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT
1001 Stories From the Old West
An eyewitness account of the great Oklahoma Land Rush of 1893 during which millions of acres of land was offered to homesteaders who could reach it and file on it first.. This is followed by a newspaper account of the same. There were 300,000 people trying for 22,000 possible parcels of land and it was a wild melee. the worst part of it was the cheaters- those who snuck onto the land ahead of time- their excuse being that others had done the same to them during the past land rush. Two famous terms arose fro
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WRONG MAN and HOW TO KILL A WOMAN GUNSMOKE
1001 Stories From the Old West
Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West. The radio version ran from 1952 to 1961 and is commonly regarded as one of the finest radio dramas of all time. The television version ran from 1955 to 1975 and is the longest running prime time drama and the second-longest running prime time fictional program in U.S. television history, its record surpassed only by the Disney anthology television series (which, though...
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PERSONAL REMINISCES OF FORT PHIL KEARNEY AND THE WAGON BOX FIGHT R.J SMYTH
1001 Stories From the Old West
When C.T . Brady wrote the first edition of 'Indian Fights & Fighters' he put out a request for additional material from those people who had personal experience pertaining to any of the stories he placed in that book. This incredible account came to Brady from a teamster named R.J. Smyth who came up the trail with the cavalry when they built Fort Kearney (where the Fetterman Massacre took place) and was also involved in the infamous Wagon Box Fight. For the two years of its existence Fort Phil Kearney was
info_outlineThe Six Shooter brought James Stewart to the NBC microphone on September 20, 1953, in a fine series of folksy Western adventures.
Stewart was never better on the air than in this drama of Britt Ponset, frontier drifter created by Frank Burt. The epigraph set it up nicely: "The man in the saddle is angular and long-legged: his skin is sun dyed brown. The gun in his holster is gray steel and rainbow mother-of-pearl. People call them both The Six Shooter." Ponset was a wanderer, an easy-going gentleman and -- when he had to be -- a gunfighter.
Stewart was right in character as the slow-talking maverick who usually blundered into other people's troubles and sometimes shot his way out. His experiences were broad, but The Six Shooter leaned more to comedy than other shows of its kind. Ponset took time out to play Hamlet with a crude road company. He ran for mayor and sheriff of the same town at the same time. He became involved in a delighful Western version of Cinderella, complete with grouchy stepmother, ugly sisters, and a shoe that didn't fit. And at Christmas he told a young runaway the story of A Christmas Carol, Substituting the original Dickens characters with Western heavies. Britt even had time to fall in love, but it was the age-old story of people from different worlds, and the romance was foredoomed despite their valiant efforts to save it.
So we got a cowboy-into-the-sunset ending for this series, truly one of the bright spots of radio. Unfortunately, it came too late, and lasted only one season.