Speaker 1: Company Fort Laramie. Fort Laramie, starring Raymond Bird as Captain
Speaker 1: lee Quins, especially transcribed tales of the dark and tragic
Speaker 1: ground of the wild Frontier, the saga of fighting Men
Speaker 1: who rode the rim of Empire, and the dramatic story
Speaker 1: of lee Quin's Captain of Cavalry.
Speaker 2: Captain Quaints Sergeant, Sergeant goth, how.
Speaker 3: It's sure good to see you, Captain. You look kind
Speaker 3: of funny though, what you mean I'm clothes mufty. Ain't
Speaker 3: used to you out of uniform.
Speaker 4: I'll be back in the uniform at midnight tonight, Sergeant.
Speaker 4: We'll stay in town till then. Man, you can buy
Speaker 4: me a drink me by. I thought you was going
Speaker 4: to get rich in Saint Louis.
Speaker 2: Did I say that?
Speaker 3: We get talked about nothing else before your leave come through.
Speaker 2: Just prove you shouldn't believe everything.
Speaker 3: You hear, Sergeant, Yes, sir, I'll try to remember that.
Speaker 2: See that you do.
Speaker 4: Then to really fool you, I may go back to
Speaker 4: Saint Louis with the army. Man can make money there, Sergeant.
Speaker 4: I don't mean gambling. I mean honestly in an honest business,
Speaker 4: buying things, selling.
Speaker 3: Them well, Sir, The army's sure no place for a
Speaker 3: man who wants to get rich. I'll say that.
Speaker 4: The army is no place for a man who wants
Speaker 4: to do any living at all. Turning black with a
Speaker 4: boredom of garrison, or you're riding hell bend into nowhere.
Speaker 3: That's sure enough, true, Captain.
Speaker 2: Come on, let's get our drink. I'll just be company sergeant.
Speaker 3: Company's fine, sir. Major Dagget's gonna be mighty glad to
Speaker 3: see you back at Fort Laramie. He isn't gonna see
Speaker 3: me till midnight. He'll be waiting up. Send me into
Speaker 3: town to tell you, huh something wrong?
Speaker 2: Yes, sir, well what.
Speaker 3: A rapp a hose they've been waiting for horses. Massacred
Speaker 3: a whole family over in the basin about ten days ago.
Speaker 3: I mean, I mean they jumped the reservation, not the
Speaker 3: whole tribe, just a few of them. I guess mister
Speaker 3: Cybertz took b company out last week, but he didn't
Speaker 3: have any luck.
Speaker 2: Why not?
Speaker 3: I don't know, Captain. I wasn't with him what I've
Speaker 3: been on sick list till two days ago.
Speaker 2: Sick clist.
Speaker 3: You yes, sir, hack you kicked me in the belly.
Speaker 2: Oh well, a little whiskey will cure that.
Speaker 4: Sh Here we are, mister Cyberts is feeling mighty bad
Speaker 4: about it.
Speaker 3: You're belly, Like I said, it's good to have your back, Captain.
Speaker 2: Uh bottle rine, two glasses and look at what came in?
Speaker 3: What's his trouble?
Speaker 2: Eight soldiers?
Speaker 4: I guess like a lot of people since Richmond, Yeah,
Speaker 4: too much war?
Speaker 3: Maybe, I guess everybody like to forget it now.
Speaker 2: We all like to forget it. There's the war still
Speaker 2: going on. You're right, sir.
Speaker 3: Who do they think stands between them and all the
Speaker 3: hostiles out there waiting to hack them to pieces? Who
Speaker 3: does all their dirty work for them?
Speaker 4: It isn't like people to be grateful for any favorite, sergeant, No, sir,
Speaker 4: I guess not. And I think of the troops aching
Speaker 4: for home while they sweat and freeze and spill their
Speaker 4: blood all over the frontier for fifty cents a day.
Speaker 2: It makes me mad.
Speaker 3: Tell me about Saint Louis Kevin.
Speaker 5: Here's your liquor, gentlemen, how are you all it?
Speaker 2: You know them? Sergeant? No, sir, what's your trouble? Mister?
Speaker 6: My namemate, mister it's Rudio. I ain't talking to you.
Speaker 6: I'm talking to the soldier.
Speaker 2: I'm with the soldier. You stay out of this. You
Speaker 2: know what's good for you.
Speaker 6: You tell him moiling, what.
Speaker 3: Do you want from me? And let me saw you
Speaker 3: before here.
Speaker 2: You won't want to see us again.
Speaker 7: After we threw it you.
Speaker 2: What's this all about?
Speaker 6: We don't like soldiers drinking.
Speaker 2: Where we drinking? Mister?
Speaker 6: They like to teach him a lesson? Now and then
Speaker 6: don't we moiling?
Speaker 3: And we do it too?
Speaker 8: Now?
Speaker 2: Just shut up, mister.
Speaker 6: What's the matter with you coming in here with a soldier?
Speaker 6: Gotta drink with him too, Rudi, don't.
Speaker 3: I just guess that.
Speaker 7: He ain't no better than no soldier himself.
Speaker 6: Just come floating with scum, That's what I call it.
Speaker 4: Well, okay, Sergeant Gorse, Yes, sir, you can have more
Speaker 4: than there, Thank you, sir.
Speaker 2: Move out.
Speaker 3: I'll buy you that drink now, Captain Quinch, you can
Speaker 3: buy the first one, Sergeant, Yes, sir.
Speaker 4: Half an hour late, Captain Quince, I was on the
Speaker 4: post at midnight.
Speaker 2: Major. I wanted to get back in the uniform before reporting.
Speaker 7: I'm glad of that anyway.
Speaker 2: I kind of figured you would be.
Speaker 7: You still think I'm too army, don't you le.
Speaker 4: We've known each other a long time, Major, since Vicksburg
Speaker 4: with Grant.
Speaker 2: I remember a night in Chattanooga you were in very army.
Speaker 2: I've forgotten the girl's name.
Speaker 7: Of course, Captain Quince, I trust Sergeant Gorse told you
Speaker 7: about the Arapo trouble.
Speaker 4: They're out raiding for horses. They've slaughtered a family over
Speaker 4: in the basin.
Speaker 7: It's got to be stopped. Settlers are beginning to wonder
Speaker 7: what the second cavalry's doing at Fort Laramie.
Speaker 2: If this goes on, there won't be any settlers.
Speaker 7: Hard enough homesteading this country without a man waiting for
Speaker 7: him and his family to be massacred by renegade Indians.
Speaker 4: I'll take a patrol out in a few days, have
Speaker 4: a look around.
Speaker 7: You'll take Bee Company out tomorrow morning.
Speaker 4: May I make a suggestion madeor Daggett if it's an order.
Speaker 4: Lieutenant Cyberts took Bee Company out and found nothing. Sure
Speaker 4: he's green, but if you were a wrappa, hole can
Speaker 4: hide easy from a whole troop of cavalry beating its
Speaker 4: way through this country. Give me twelve men. I'll scout
Speaker 4: those Indians. Get them set up, then I'll come back
Speaker 4: for the company.
Speaker 7: No, no, it's too slow, there isn't time.
Speaker 2: Better let me try it.
Speaker 4: Sir, I said, No, Captain, you haven't got very far
Speaker 4: your way. Major, you have your orders, yes, sir, Oh captain, Yes, sir,
Speaker 4: I heard you and Sergeant Gorse were in a brawl
Speaker 4: earlier this evening in town.
Speaker 2: Conduct and becoming an officer.
Speaker 7: You should learn to control your temper.
Speaker 2: Captain.
Speaker 4: I wonder what family the Arapahos are putting the knife
Speaker 4: to tonight made you.
Speaker 2: Daggett should never start this sort of thing with you.
Speaker 7: Take your patrol, yes, sir, any further orders may have
Speaker 7: Sergeant Gorse, some Lieutenant Cyberts, but no other officers and
Speaker 7: non commissioned officers. Right, bash you men through the main
Speaker 7: gates of the post half hour before Revellie. Any questions, no, sir,
Speaker 7: then move out.
Speaker 3: There's a captain just over this rise.
Speaker 4: Captain quince ah must be new mister Seyberts, Yes, sir,
Speaker 4: it is.
Speaker 3: A man and his family. He's he's raising horses.
Speaker 4: A man's a fool. There's just as good land a
Speaker 4: day's ride from the fort. You're right, sir, am I
Speaker 4: mister Seyberts.
Speaker 3: Of coursir.
Speaker 2: One. If the man likes it out here, away from
Speaker 2: people that make him a fool, no, sir, then I'm wrong.
Speaker 3: I'm afraid I don't understand, sir.
Speaker 4: You agree too easily, mister Seberts, better learn to think
Speaker 4: for yourself.
Speaker 2: Yes, sir, Now where is your cabin?
Speaker 3: Well you'll see it in a minute, sir.
Speaker 2: But there.
Speaker 4: No, look it's been burned, oh, Roger.
Speaker 3: So there's the rappa hose again, Captain, Yes, captain.
Speaker 2: Look down there, sergeant.
Speaker 9: M hm.
Speaker 4: Well the patrol out of scouts, sergeant, A thousand yards
Speaker 4: between men. There's any Indians around? I want to know it.
Speaker 4: The men will watch us at the cabin for arm signals, right,
Speaker 4: and then join mister Siberts and me down there, move out, yes, sir,
Speaker 4: Well follow me, mister Sabots.
Speaker 3: Looks as they slaughtered every one of.
Speaker 8: Them, man, woman, young boy.
Speaker 2: This the whole family, mister. That's all of them, sir,
Speaker 2: and thank God for that.
Speaker 3: Every one of them scalped looking the boy mm hm.
Speaker 4: At least they they went tortured, No, sir, tell me,
Speaker 4: tell me, mister Sabots, was the the other family like this.
Speaker 10: Oh, yes, sir, I see.
Speaker 3: They had quite a mess, inn't me.
Speaker 4: Take a good look, sergeant, m How many horses did
Speaker 4: this man have?
Speaker 3: Mister Cyberts about ten as I remember, sir, Well, sergeant,
Speaker 3: funny thing?
Speaker 2: What is well?
Speaker 3: Capn I don't know how them are? Rapper hose could
Speaker 3: have surprised him so fast?
Speaker 2: What makes you think they did?
Speaker 3: How many arrows are on? The man had had a
Speaker 3: chance to put up any fight at all, there'd be
Speaker 3: a lot of arrows.
Speaker 2: Is that all?
Speaker 3: Yes, sir?
Speaker 2: You sure well, yes, sir, Sergeant Gorse.
Speaker 4: I excuse mister Cyberts because of his lack of experience,
Speaker 4: but you you're a disgrace to the cavalry. Got to
Speaker 4: clean your sleeve and send you back to stable detail. Yes, sir,
Speaker 4: don't stand there gap and use your eyes. I'm looking
Speaker 4: look harder. There ain't no tracks, no tracks.
Speaker 3: Somebody dragged them out with a blank somebody.
Speaker 2: Why do you say, somebody, sergeant.
Speaker 3: I don't know, sir. There's something wrong here.
Speaker 2: Look how old that boy, sergeant?
Speaker 3: Maybe twelve thirteen, old enough.
Speaker 4: To be a brave in a couple of years if
Speaker 4: he was an Indian, Sir, don't a rapper holes usually
Speaker 4: keep a boy that age and try to make a
Speaker 4: warrior out of him.
Speaker 3: They always do. No wait in tracks, they wouldn't hide
Speaker 3: their tracks. Oh, they wouldn't, Captain. Yeah, I know why
Speaker 3: you got some man. I'm pretty made myself.
Speaker 4: Took you long enough, mister Seybert. A man wearing moccasins
Speaker 4: doesn't care about his tracks. He's got nothing to hide.
Speaker 4: Wasn't the rapper hose did this? Wasn't Indians at all?
Speaker 4: It was white men.
Speaker 3: Those places?
Speaker 4: This, Captain, Oh, Jake Steele and his wife, their daughter
Speaker 4: lives with them.
Speaker 3: Shouldn't their daughter live with them?
Speaker 4: Sir Ali's nineteen going on twenty. She had some school
Speaker 4: in back east.
Speaker 3: You mean she should be married.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 4: This country needs women, mister Sibots, but it doesn't need single.
Speaker 2: Women, Yes, sir. Patrol Oh, mister Sibots, Yes, Sir.
Speaker 4: Dismount and unsaddled dry the horses, turn them into the
Speaker 4: corral yonder cash. The saddles over in that brush so
Speaker 4: they can be seen. All other equipment the men will keep, yes, sir.
Speaker 4: Two men will stand by for escort duty.
Speaker 2: Move out, Yes, sir, it's captain queen'smiths steal.
Speaker 9: My captain. What are you and your troopers doing out here?
Speaker 2: I'll tell you if you ask me in?
Speaker 9: Oh, come in?
Speaker 2: Where's your family?
Speaker 9: They rode over to the Abbot place.
Speaker 2: It's a long ride.
Speaker 9: They're spending the night. They'll be back tomorrow. Why is
Speaker 9: there trouble? No, not for you, Holly, And what are
Speaker 9: you doing here?
Speaker 4: I came to borrow your ranch what I needed for
Speaker 4: a few days, maybe maybe a week. Now, Captain, you
Speaker 4: and your folks can stay with the Abbots for a while.
Speaker 4: I'll send for you when I'm through here.
Speaker 9: You seem to have it all figured out.
Speaker 3: I have, of course.
Speaker 9: Shall I leave right now?
Speaker 2: Captain Quinn's sooner the better. I'm sending an escort with you.
Speaker 9: Well, that's very kind of you can spare a couple
Speaker 9: of troopers and you'll move in here Sergeant Gors and me.
Speaker 9: Wouldn't you like for me to stay and cook for you?
Speaker 2: No? No, no, we couldn't do that.
Speaker 9: Why don't you think I'm a good cook?
Speaker 4: Maybe when this is over, I'll ride back sometime and
Speaker 4: find out.
Speaker 9: Captain Quince. Just because you and I've met once or
Speaker 9: twice at Fort Laramie dances.
Speaker 4: Just a minute, miss Holly, you don't understand, don't die.
Speaker 4: I should have explained there's there's going to be a
Speaker 4: fight here.
Speaker 9: Fight.
Speaker 4: I'm using this place for a trap, baiting it with
Speaker 4: a bunch of horses, and when the men I'm after
Speaker 4: come for them, well we'll be waiting. What men, men
Speaker 4: who've been stealing horses, murdering settler families, blaming it on
Speaker 4: their rapper hose.
Speaker 9: You mean it's it's white men who've been doing that.
Speaker 9: I do, Captain Quins beginning to understand that, being in
Speaker 9: the cavalry, you're accustomed to ordering people around and not explaining.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, Holly, I upset you.
Speaker 9: Now, if you'll wait outside while I get some things together,
Speaker 9: I'll ride up to the abbots with that escort you
Speaker 9: promised me. Good, oh, Captain, Yes, I hope you have
Speaker 9: a chance someday to find out about my cooking.
Speaker 2: What I mean is good luck, Thank you, Holly.
Speaker 9: Go on get out of here now.
Speaker 3: A well, it took me that long to do something.
Speaker 3: I'd get busted to a private.
Speaker 2: You can still get busted, sergeant, Yes, sir.
Speaker 4: Mister syrets right here. Captain, you'll take over the patrol.
Speaker 4: Mister Cybs, I want you to spot them in in
Speaker 4: a complete circle around this place half a mile out.
Speaker 4: They're to dig in, and when they think they're hidden,
Speaker 4: I'm gonna ride that circle, I understand, sir.
Speaker 2: Heaven help any trooper I can see.
Speaker 4: Yes, sir, they're to let those men through, but when
Speaker 4: they hear gunfire from the cabin here, they're to kill
Speaker 4: anything that tries to get back out.
Speaker 2: Any questions, no, sir, move out?
Speaker 4: Yes, sir, Well, sergeant, you and I are going to
Speaker 4: be sitting on the pan of this trap like poisoned meat.
Speaker 2: Maybe before we get off. You have to do that, Sergeant.
Speaker 3: I didn't join the army to be locked up in
Speaker 3: this coup for three days.
Speaker 4: Maybe you'd rather be sitting outside with the real men,
Speaker 4: half buried, afraid to move, with nothing but a canteen
Speaker 4: of water and a handful of jerky and no smoke,
Speaker 4: and no smokes.
Speaker 3: Captain Quin's I never had it so good, sir, Then
Speaker 3: shut up?
Speaker 2: Do God already good.
Speaker 3: Ain't the kind of men who'd attack even a woman.
Speaker 10: In the daylight?
Speaker 2: Oh I guess not. Of course. You lied to me.
Speaker 2: What no smokes?
Speaker 4: You tried to make me think you'd find it rough
Speaker 4: out there with the troopers because they can't smoke. Well
Speaker 4: you never smoked in your life, yepe, not with that
Speaker 4: quid a tobacco on your jaw day and night.
Speaker 2: What are you trying to give me?
Speaker 3: You need action, too, Captain, bad as I do, Yeah,
Speaker 3: I do. Three days of This is worse than a
Speaker 3: winter in garrison. You go to Saint Louis. I'm going
Speaker 3: with you, that easy money shunk.
Speaker 2: You wait, wait, come here?
Speaker 3: When is he horses?
Speaker 10: Listen?
Speaker 3: We got him kept, we got him.
Speaker 4: Okay, move fast, get out the back window, pump the
Speaker 4: off side of the cabin, but don't shoot till I
Speaker 4: get at least one of them inside here.
Speaker 3: Yes, sir, good hunting Captain.
Speaker 11: Same to you, Sergeant, Yeah, I'm pretty quid.
Speaker 5: That Hello, hello here, come on, open up. We want
Speaker 5: to have a little talk with you.
Speaker 10: Look out, Jim, you'll have a gun.
Speaker 5: Listen, mister, we ain't gonna hurt nobody. We got something
Speaker 5: to tell you, is all.
Speaker 10: Let's fix them and get out of here.
Speaker 5: Jim, we're just passing by. Mister, got some news for you.
Speaker 10: Maybe they'll meet nobody home.
Speaker 2: They wouldn't leave all them horses alone, would they.
Speaker 5: I'm coming in, mister, don't shoot now. Have your daughter
Speaker 5: like the lamp, mister, then we can talk.
Speaker 10: Jim, Jim, what happened?
Speaker 2: You're next, mister? You oka hunting?
Speaker 3: Yes, sir, we got two of them anyway.
Speaker 2: I didn't realize there were more than that.
Speaker 3: He was holding their horses.
Speaker 2: Well, the troopers will take care of him. They deserve
Speaker 2: a little action too, They sure do.
Speaker 3: Who are they do? You know? Strangers went inside dead.
Speaker 3: I didn't kill him, but he took an awful chance. Captain.
Speaker 2: It'll be worth it. Maybe we can find out what
Speaker 2: they did with all the horses they've stolen. Maybe we
Speaker 2: can take them.
Speaker 3: Back, Yes, sir, and these two families won't never get theirs.
Speaker 3: Hear that, Captain, mission accomplished. No more women and kids
Speaker 3: die and hard. It's kind of good, don't kid don it, sergeant?
Speaker 2: Yes, sir, feels a whole lot better than making money
Speaker 2: in Saint Louis.
Speaker 7: Fort.
Speaker 12: Laramie is produced and directed by Norman McDonald and stars
Speaker 12: Raymond Burr as Lee Quinn's captain of cavalry, with Vic
Speaker 12: Perrin as Sergeant Gorse. The The script was specially written
Speaker 12: for Fort Laramie by John Meston, with sound patterns by
Speaker 12: Bill James and Ray Kemper musical supervision by Amarigo Marino.
Speaker 12: Featured in the cast were Harry Bartel, Dan Riss, and
Speaker 12: Joyce McCluskey, with Lawrence Dobkin, Clayton Post, Paul Dubov and
Speaker 12: James Nussy. All Man Trouble takes it on the chin
Speaker 12: five nights a week when Bing begins to sing, which
Speaker 12: is just dandy for everybody else who's listening in. Since
Speaker 12: All Man Trouble has no great charm to speak of,
Speaker 12: and since Bing Crosby has an ear for melody, a
Speaker 12: cheery disposition, and many other charms as well, folks naturally
Speaker 12: prefer to spend their time with Bing for good company
Speaker 12: and easygoing songs. Hear the Bing Crosby Show Monday through
Speaker 12: Friday nights over most of these same stations.
Speaker 2: Company Tension Dismiss.
Speaker 12: Join us again next week for another Transcribe story of
Speaker 12: the Northwest Frontiers and the troopers who fought under lee
Speaker 12: Quin's Captain of Cavalry, Jo M.