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The Blue Roan Stallion

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A proud "half-breed", Dan Bowles unwittingly saves the life of ranch owner Hale Chalmer. In gratitude, he is hired as a ranch hand and life becomes complicated when he falls in love with the boss's daughter. Despite their differences, the lovers make plans to get married but things come to a head when the foreman challenges the cowboy to a gun-fight because of his mixed heritage. Chalmers saves Dan's life only to throw him a gun when he learns that the man he has just saved is a half-breed.

Dan Bowles, proud of his half-breed, Indian ancestry but not one to brag about it, saves ranch owner Hale Chalmers’ life, is hired as a ranch hand, and falls in love with Chalmers’ daughter, Mercy. They plan to get married until the ranch’s foreman learns about Bowles’ background and challenges the unarmed cowboy, whose life is saved by Chalmers. When Chalmers discovers that Bowles is a half-breed he himself tosses the cowboy a gun and orders him to shoot or be shot.

Dan Bowles, a man of mixed blood who takes pride in his heritage, accidentally rescues ranch owner Hale Chalmers. As a thank you, Chalmers gives Dan a job working on his ranch. Dan's life gets messy when he falls for his boss's daughter. Even though they come from different worlds, the couple decides to get married. But trouble starts when the ranch foreman wants to fight Dan with guns because of his mixed race. Chalmers steps in to save Dan's life, but when he finds out Dan is half-breed, he tosses him a gun to defend himself.

CBS Radio Mystery Theater is a radio drama series created by Himan Brown that was broadcast on CBS Radio Network affiliates from 1974 to 1982, and later in the early 2000s was repeated by the NPR satellite feed. In New York City it was not aired by the then all-news WCBS but by its originating station, WOR, which produced and announced it as simply Radio Mystery Theater.

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