Lightning Jim | OTRWesterns.com
May 26, 2025 · 31 min · 12 segments
Original Air Date: 1952 Host: Andrew Rhynes Show: Lightning Jim Phone: (707) 98 OTRDW (6-8739) Exit music from: Roundup on the Prairie by Aaron Kenny https://bit.ly/3kTj0kK
And now for the thrilling adventures of Lightning Jim.
The discovery of gold in the Black Hills brought many prospectors and settlers into the region which had long been acknowledged as Indian territory.
And several chiefs of the Sioux tribe had taken their braves on a war path, opening hostilities whose zenith of horror was achieved a few years later in the hideous massacre of General Custer and his men.
Lightning Jim and Whitey are now on the trail of the local agent who is contacting the Indians and effecting the sale and delivery of forbidden firearms.
The mission is one of the most dangerous that the two marshals have ever attempted.
And as they ride across the rolling plains north from Fort Laramie.
Hey, Lightning, how long you figure that'll be before we hit hostile territory?
Well, according to the soldiers back at the fort, we done hit it, Whitey.
I tell you, Lightning, the further we go on this job, the lesser I like it, my darling.
Sure think a whole heap of that toe-headed scalp of yours, don't you, Whitey?
Oh, I certainly do think a lot of my scalp.
And my scalp's kind of attached to me, too, my darling.
Hey, Whitey, take a look at that skyline ahead.
Easy, son, easy for you.
No, Lightning.
A couple of reds just about a mile ahead.
And right on the trail,
too.
Might be just as well the very east of there till we get around.
Oh, no, we won't.
Don't go over that ridge to the east there.
We're more of a
gash.
Three of them directly west of the trail, too.
Looks like it's cloud enough for trouble, Whitey.
And now for the thrilling adventures of Lightning Jim.
The discovery of gold in the Black Hills brought many prospectors and settlers into the region which had long been acknowledged as Indian territory.
And several chiefs of the Sioux tribe had taken their braves on a war path, opening hostilities whose zenith of horror was achieved a few years later in the hideous massacre of General Custer and his men.
Lightning Jim and Whitey are now on the trail of the local agent who is contacting the Indians and effecting the sale and delivery of forbidden firearms.
The mission is one of the most dangerous that the two marshals have ever attempted.
And as they ride across the rolling plains north from Fort Laramie.
Hey, Lightning, how long you figure that'll be before we hit hostile territory?
Well, according to the soldiers back at the fort, we done hit it, Whitey.
I tell you, Lightning, the further we go on this job, the lesser I like it, my darling.
Sure think a whole heap of that toe-headed scalp of yours, don't you, Whitey?
Oh, I certainly do think a lot of my scalp.
And my scalp's kind of attached to me, too, my darling.
Hey, Whitey, take a look at that skyline ahead.
Easy, son, easy for you.
No, Lightning.
A couple of reds just about a mile ahead.
And right on the trail,
too.
Might be just as well the very east of there till we get around.
Oh, no, we won't.
Don't go over that ridge to the east there.
We're more of a
gash.
Three of them directly west of the trail, too.
Looks like it's cloud enough for trouble, Whitey.
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