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This week's hour of radio drama begins with John Steele Adventurer.

We'll hear 3-2 from December 14th, 1954.

After that, it's the Molle Mystery Theater and the Bride War Black.

That story aired February 7, 1947.

This is John Steele, reporting on Adventure.

Thank you. I was going to title this yarn,

Girl of the Golden West,

but somebody else got there first with that label a long time ago.

Anyway, the story takes place in the desert of Australia.

It involves a redhead named Rosie,

a guy who tried to double cross her,

a million dollars in gold, and a dingo pack.

I call this transcribed yarn 3-2.

The metal of Australia represents one of the biggest and about the worst deserts on the face of this earth.

In texture, it's something like the big salt flats of Utah.

It was once a big inland sea.

Right after gold was found in California back in 1848, it was also discovered in Australia,

and they had their big bonanza just like ours. There's still a lot of gold there, and in parts

of Western Australia, you'll still find wooden sidewalks, swinging doors and miners and red shirts

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