 Why are you with the sweetenin' already on it? Kill him! It's what it took to drive the heavy freight wagons of the Old West over treacherous mountain trails. And the men who did were tough as raw hide, but they couldn't fight a mysterious jinx that brought death to every twist of the trail. And so it was that United States Marshal Wild Bill Hickok and his deputy Jingles came to String Canyon to investigate the red wagon jinx. You've done it, Bill. Don't it seem like trouble enough comes along without us riding all over creation, chasing after it? This is one done. I wish we'd been there before the trouble started. Yeah, I reckon if we had, Jeff Skinner'd be alive to meet us when we get to String Canyon. Jeff was a great old man. And tough. Why, Jeff could drive a wagon team over these mountain trails where no self-respecting Billy go-to-go. That's why I don't think his death was any accident. It seems like Jeff's freight line was having more than a share of accidents, like there was a jinx or something. A jinx? I wonder. But you figure it weren't just luck, huh, Bill? I mean to find out if these accidents were planned. And if you do, Bill, I reckon the ones that did the planning will need more than luck, huh? Whoa, boy. Whoa, whoa. Jingles, look below there. Coming around the rim of that canyon. It's a runaway wagon and it's on fire. Come on. We'll get through the pass and head it off. Oh, boy. Let's go. Down this way. I want you, Bill. Here comes a wagon burning like blazes. Get set. I'll make a trap for it. I'll help with the rain. This is away from the wagon. Right, Jingles. Now, mister, let's try and save your wagon. Hey. Hey, mister. What's wrong, Bill? Looks like the driver passed. I'll get him down off of there. What is it, Bill? The driver. He's a woman. Is she coming out of it, Jingles? Oh, sure. She's all right. Oh. There, there now, ma'am. Just take it easy. Poor little critter. Hey, real pretty, too. Even in the men's clothes she's wearing. Well... Well, me? Well, I... Hello, miss. Feeling better? Oh, I remember. I remember you now. You saved my life. Who are you, anyway? My name is Hickok, miss. Hickok? Are you the one they call Wild Bill? Some folks do, miss. This is my deputy, Jingles. Howdy, ma'am. Oh, I'm glad you're here. We need some men in String Canyon. You mean there ain't no men in town? They're all afraid. Afraid to drive my father's wagons. Afraid of the jinks. You must be Jeff Skinner's daughter. I am. We knew your dad, miss Skinner. I know. He talked of you often. Doggone. You know, I should have known you was Jeff Skinner's kin driving a wagon like that. Knowing dad, Mr. Hickok, you know why I had to keep the freight rolling through these mountains? Yeah, I reckon Jeff would want it that way. Yes, and how he tried to keep it that way. But one by one, he lost his wagons and accidents. His drivers quit to go to work for Sanchez. Sanchez? He runs the other freight line? Yes. But dad wouldn't sell out and neither will I. After he was killed, that left only me and Swede the blacksmith. Swede's got a bad arm, so I drove. Well, sorry we couldn't save the rig, ma'am. Horses are all right, though. On the ledge around the bend. Get down, miss. It's them. I'll come back to finish the job. I see them. Bill up there on top of that cliff. And on this ledge, can't get a shot at them. Bill, they're shoving that big boulder up the cliff. That thing will start an avalanche. It's moving. Come on, miss. We've got to make a run for it. Hear it now! Uncarnate. You know, your old pal, Panhandle Jim, gets a doggone worked up wondering how these stories are going to come out. I could bite a horseshoe nail in two. But since those Western horseshoe nails aren't very crispy or crunchy, I do it the easy way. I sit here in the edge of a chair and chomp up big, crunchy handfuls of Kellogg's corn pops. Yeah, right out of the box is the way I eat my corn pops, because the sweeteners already on them. Come sun up, though. I go for corn pops at breakfast in a bowl with milk. But, oh, there. Oh, the sugar partner. The sweeteners already on corn pops. And Kellogg's corn pops, delicious as they are, contain lots of things you need. B vitamins, vitamin D with important minerals and food energy, too. That means you can eat all you want of those golden hearts of corn puffed up big and crisp. Saying that silver-like bag inside the corn pops box is pure aluminum. Keeps Kellogg's corn pops fresh up to ten times longer. And your maw can use it to store things in the refrigerator or for wrapping sandwiches. But best of all, an already sweeten for you, are Kellogg's corn pops. You know who loves pops. Kids love pops. Moms love pops. And pops love pops. Right. Now, let's get back to Wild Bill and Jingle. After Wild Bill and Jingle's rescued Jeff Skinner's daughter in the narrow mountain pass, the band of masked men who had stampeded her wagon returned to finish the job. By loosening a huge boulder and avalanche can, and crashing down on the free to a trap on a ledge below. There. The worst of it's over now. This big rock saved our lives. You know, one of them rocks put a brand-new part in my hair. Well, Jingles, what do you think about those accidents now? I don't think I like them. What do you think, Mr. Hickock? I think you've got yourself a new driver, Miss. Bill, you ain't fixing to start driving these mountain trails. No, Jingles, but I think you are. Oh, well, then that's all right. Who me? Oh, no, Bill. Thank you, folks, thank you. Well, I ain't no speech-making man, but this here blowouts kind of a celebration, you know. You said it, Big Pete. Yes, sir, because today marks the first anniversary of the Sanchez Freight Line. Now, I ain't fixing to brag, but you know, in one year, Sanchez Freight has come to be the top line in these here parts. And that's how come this party. Yeah, yeah, we've been lucky. While some others ain't been so lucky. But out west here, it's the best man win. So now, let's put the feedback on, folks. All these fancy eats were hauled across these mountains by Sanchez Freight. So, soup's on, folks. Come and get it. Yeah, well, what's the matter, Swede, lost your appetite? I'm not hungry, Mr. Sanchez. I'm just worried sick over poor Miss Skinner, driving the rim-road all by herself. Maybe you figure the jinx has got her, huh, Swede? Tell you, Mr. Sanchez, any harm come to her, you have me to answer to. And I just don't mean maybe. You're a loco. Who do you think you're talking to? Quiet one shot. Oh, Swede, I'm surprised at you. You know I offered to buy her no good red wagon line and take it off her hand. Why, sure, Swede. Big Pete can't help it if she's stubborn. She wants to go on losing her jink wagons in accidents. Yo, I think you are jinx, Mr. Sanchez. I think you know when accidents come. You shut your trap, Swede, or I swear... Hold on one shot. Now, you're a mighty good blacksmith, Swede, and I got a job waiting for you any time you give up your crazy notions. But be careful who you go around accusing, Savvy. You got no witnesses. Don't be too sure of that, Sanchez. Who's that? Pick-Ox, her name, yours, Marshall. Pick-Ox. But it can't be where I saw him. Shut up, you fool. Today was no accident, Mr. Sanchez. Masked men met the wagon and set it on fire. If it hadn't been for Marshall... Well, now, don't that go to show I'm right, ma'am? You can't run that line. It's too plum risky. I'll take the risk from here on in, Sanchez. And the red wagon line is still in business. Thank you, friends. I know a lot of you have been afraid to ship by red wagon, afraid of what would happen to your loads, and I'll blame you. But it takes more than a jinx to stop the line that Jeff Skinner started here years ago. Hey! Hey! And we have law in String Canyon now, while Bill Hickock is here. Hey! Hey! If you ask me, there ain't no jinx on the red wagon line. Just plum bad management. Well, sure. Accidents don't happen when you know how to avoid them. I thought you folks wanted a reliable freight line. We'll let the folks decide what they want, Sanchez. Here's no affair of yours, Hickock. How come you're poking your nose in anyway? I poke it in wherever I please, friend. It's my nose. Oh, yeah? Well, I don't like it. It's heavy. No? Maybe you'd like to change it, mister. Sure, it's trouble you want, huh? Well, you're a big man, Hickock. But I think I can cut you down to size. Next time you pull a gun on me one shot, pull faster. Because next time I won't aim at the gun. Joe Bayi Yingo, you ain't just fighting women and broken down men like me, no more. All right, Hickock. This is my last offer. The little lady sells out now. Or if it's war, you what? Then it's war you'll get. That's the way it has to be, Sanchez. Then it's war. Your thumb time, too. Oh, that makes three round trips this week, sweet. Oh, and no sign of that old jinx. Hello, Yingo. Howdy, sweetheart. Howdy, Miss Laura. Good work, Jingle. Oh, he's coming, ma'am. Well, he's been sound and none the worse way. Oh, Godly, you are a sight for sore eyes, Ingalls. Well, we best get this team into the barn, sweet. Them horses are plum-tuckered. I will fix them, Yingo. You bet you. And I will do a good job, too. Yeah, and I'm gonna straddle out my weary bones somewhere and just take root, sweet. How many trips are we gonna let go through, Sanchez, before we stop them? You ain't never been much of a hand at poker one shot. You know, you gotta let the other fella win a few hands so he begins to feel easy. And that's when you crack down on them. Ah, savvy. But we don't stand a chance of pulling those stunts like when I drove old man Skinner's team off the trail. Not with Hickok scouting every inch of the road when the red wagons roll. Now, don't get excited one shot. We'll fix their little red wagon. And Hickok, too. There's lots of ways to skin a cat. You're a great one for sands, Big Pete, but I'm itching for action. Oh, look. Here comes Hickok now, right in the town. Whoa, whoa, boy. Whoa. He sure keeps his eye on them freight runs. Yeah. And Laura, she sure keeps her eye on him. Can I take your horse or something? Well, hello, Miss Laura. Well, no, ma'am. I guess I'll manage all right. You always do. Well, everything went well again, huh? Couldn't be better. Bill, next trip, I want to go along. Well, sure, Miss Laura, but why? Well, I want to do a little shopping for a real pretty dress. Well, all right, but I think that dress is pretty enough. Do you, Bill? Do you really? Howdy, Marshal. Howdy, ma'am. Well, looks like all's well it ends well, huh? I reckon you can't beat the proverbs, can you? No, Mr. Sanchez, you can't. And I have another one for you. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Well, that's true enough. And I'm, uh, plum sorry I got so horny the other day. Little competition's good for business. Why, sure. All it took was a strong man's hand to pull the red wagon line back in shape. Maybe so, but talking of proverbs, I don't cop my chickens until they're hatched. Come on, Bill, let's go. The great Tick-Ock. What a pretty target. Turns his back on me just as big as you please. Don't let it tempt you one shot, where I heard it while Bill's got eyes in the back of his head. No, I got a better way. Well, let's hear it. I'll get even with him for shooting that gun out of my hand if it's the last thing I do. And listening, you won't get hurt. You heard what she said just now? She's going along tomorrow. Well, tonight, you and the boys are heading out to Long Bridge. You're gonna work on them timbers till they're ready to go out. I gotcha. The bridge goes out when the wagon hits it. And if the fall doesn't finish him, the rapids will. Yeah. And when Tick-Ock rides down to help him, there'll be a nice little ambush waiting for him. He'll have his hands full. Yeah, I gotcha. I gotcha. He'll never know what hit him. Cupid cry. Oh, Tuesday! Does anyone ever tell you you have a lovely voice, Jimmels? Well, I come to think of it. I don't recall anyone ever seeing just that. But thank you, man. Thank you. You know, horses seem to like it. Those seems to make them want to run. Horses are just like people. Oh, sure. Oh, now I miss Laura. Now, take Nellie there. Now, she's a heap more than some folks I know. Nellie seems to be afraid of something. Yeah, come on now, Nellie. Dog on it. Just when I start bragging, she starts barking. Now, eat that just like a woman. She's frightened, Jingle. She's rearing up. Now, hold, Nellie. Easy, gal. That's Long Bridge just ahead. Yeah. Maybe them rapids have got old Nellie kind of skinny. Funny. Never acted that way before. Jingle, now I'm scared. Where's Bill? Oh, now, he's up in them mountains, ma'am. Keeping an eye on it now. Don't worry now. Here we go over the bridge. Well, the show's not even close to over, and I'm all out of corn pops. Here I've been telling you right along to load up on plenty of Kellogg's corn pops. Then your old pal, Panhandle Jim, runs clean out of corn pops himself. Well, that'll be a lesson to me and to you too. Remember to get plenty of Kellogg's corn pops. To Mar, sure. The new two-way cereal that's already sweeten for you. I said two-way cereal because that's the way you eat pops. Out of the box or out of the bowl. Dig in for a fistful any time of the day, but come breakfast. Pour on a little milk, and you're all set. And before you start for the sugar bowl, take a taste. You don't need sugar because corn pops are already sweeten for you. Say in your mouth, let's you eat all the corn pops you want to because they contain B vitamins, vitamin D with important minerals and food energy. Say and take a look at that silvery bag that holds the corn pops in the box. That bag keeps Kellogg's corn pops fresh up to 10 times longer. It's great for packing sandwiches in after all the corn pops are gone. And your mouth like it to store things in the refrigerator. Now let's get together here and tell the folks who loves pops. Kids love pops. Moms love pops. And pops love pops. Right. Now let's get rootin tootin back to the show. When the heavy freight wagon driven by jingles with Laura as passenger crossed long bridge, the timbers cut by one shop gave out, plunging horses, wagon and riders into the rapid spill-off. I suppose he's trying to do out there. I don't know. Jumping down up his horse. They're building a loop with his rope. Oh, I got it. He figures he'll drop the loop right over their heads when the current brings them down. That varmint never gives up. Well, one shot. You got yourself a target. Yes, inches. This is one time we can really say we got Wild Bill Hickok out on a limb. Well, go on. Plug him. Got him in my sights. Dead center. Wait, wait. Here comes the deputy in the gal like a couple of drowned rats. Get him to the falls fast. What do you mean, wait? What for? Yes, curious. Let's see if he really can drop that loop before you plug him. Oh, yeah, I got you. Now, look, there they go. He's lying flat in a tree limb. Got the rope swinging under him. He's dropping it. You're going to miss. He got him. Yeah. Roped him right in the edge of the falls. Right one shot now. Now, while he's wrapping that rope around the limb, kill him. Yeah. All right, Hickok. Good job, but not good enough. One shot. Your head. Are you a fool? Why'd you yell out? You tipped him off. Yeah, I've done for it. I didn't figure he could do it from out on a limb. I'm getting out of here. Come on, horse. Come on. I see you, Sanchez. Come back here. Come and get it, Hickok. I saved it for you. Yes, sir, Jingles. That's one of Skinner's red wagons making another safe trip. You know, since you got rid of Sanchez and his gang, they're all safe trips. With your old Jeff could see the way his wagons are rolling now. So do I. Well, I reckon Miss Laurel miss you, though. I think we'll ever go back to String Canyon. If there's trouble there, we'll go back. But there's a heap more trouble where we're going. Yeah, that's what they tell me. So let's make tracks. Up, boys. Up, ho, ho. Well, I ain't worried, partner, but I noticed there's one kind of trouble we're plumb scared of. What's that, Jingles? You know what I mean, Bill Hickok. A woman with a merry and look in her eye. While Bill Hickok, Guy Madison and Andy Devine Mighty glad you could be with us, folks. Hope you'll be with us when we tie up again next week. I'll say we end up in a mess of trouble as usual. Meanwhile, Andy and I also hope you'll remember to get Kellogg's corn pops. Right. It's the great new cereal with the sweetenin' already on it. You bet it is. Andy and I think corn pops are great. So long. See you next week. Yes, sir. Be sure to listen next week at the same time on this same station when Kellogg's corn pops brings you another exciting story of Wild Bill Hickok starring Guy Madison and Andy Devine in person. Today's cast included Ken Peters, Frank Gerstle, Joe Duvall, and Jean Bates. Our director is Paul Pierce, music by Dick Arant. This is a David Hire production. This is Charlie Lion reminding you kids love pops, moms love pops, pops love pops, Kellogg's corn pops.