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Six Shooter Britt Ponset rides into Clay City for a horseshoe and finds the Wells Fargo office robbed, a man dead, and a witness barely alive. He and Sheriff Ed Schofield trail the thief by a distinctive horseshoe print and blood, only to discover the mark matches Ed’s son Ben, turning the manhunt into a personal nightmare. The chase ends at an abandoned cabin where Ed’s guilt drives him into the open and he’s shot, leaving Britt to force a tense surrender. Britt then reveals the captured gunman isn’t Ben, exposing how fear and pride nearly cost the sheriff everything.

The Six Shooter is a United States Western old-time radio program starring James Stewart as a gunfighter. It was created by Frank Burt, who also wrote many of the episodes, and lasted only one season of 39 episodes on NBC. Initially, it was broadcast on Sundays at 9:30 pm Eastern Time, through October 11. Then it was heard at 8:30 pm for three weeks. Finally, on November 8, 1953, through March 21, 1954, it was broadcast Sundays at 8 pm; beginning April 1, 1954, through the final episode, it was on Thursdays at 8:30 pm. One old-time radio directory called the program "a last, desperate effort by a radio network (NBC) to maintain interest in adventure drama by employing a major Hollywood movie star in the leading role."

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