J.B. Kendall, an English writer for the London Times, arrives in the Montana town of South Sunday hoping to collect a remittance from England and observe frontier life. He finds the town governed by an unusual law: no one except the sheriff can carry guns. Kendall registers with Sheriff Clanton and settles into the Empire Hotel, where he meets Lila, a widow working at the saloon, who warns him about the tensions between the sheriff's authority and men like Deputy Farley who resent his control.

With J.B. Kendall, Sheriff Frank Clanton, Deputy Jake Farley, Lila, the express office clerk.

Listen for: The growing conflict between Sheriff Clanton's gun prohibition and the men of the town who chafe under his strict authority, and Kendall's complicated background that prevents him from returning to England.

First aired on January 29, 1958 on CBS Radio.

Episode notes written with AI from the recording itself; the audio is the original broadcast.

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