GUN IN THE BACK MARRIAGE and DRESSED TO KILL HAVE GUN WILL TRAVEL
1001 Stories From the Old West
Release Date: 09/28/2025
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_outlineJohn Dehner began his career as an animation assistant at Walt Disney Studios, worked as an Army publicist during WWII and, as a Los Angeles radio news reporter, editor and announcer, netted his station a Peabody Award for his coverage of the first UN conference in San Francisco in the late 1940s. Dehner started acting in films in the mid-1940s, eventually appearing in over 100 features, mostly westerns or action films. As sheriff Pat Garrett, he proved a notable foil to Paul Newman's Billy the Kid in Arthur Penn's "The Left-Handed Gun" (1958).
Once voted "best radio voice" by "Radio Life Magazine," Dehner was a prolific radio performer during the 1950s, starring as J.B. Kendall, a Brit in the American West, on "Frontier Gentleman" and as Paladin on "Have Gun Will Travel." Throughout the 60s and 70s he made regular appearances on TV series including "The Westerner" (1960), "The Roaring Twenties" (1960-62), "The Don Knotts Show" (1970-71) "The Doris Day Show" (1971-73) and "Big Hawaii" (1977). Later roles included Secretary of State Dean Acheson in the miniseries "The Missiles of October" (1974); Admiral Ernest King in the miniseries "The Winds of War" (1983); Henry Luce in "The Right Stuff" (1983); and the judge in "Jagged Edge" (1985).