Speaker 1: At the Gallery.
Speaker 2: Fort Laramie.
Speaker 3: Fort Laramie, starring Raymond Burr as Captain lee Quins, especially
Speaker 3: transcribed tales of the dark and tragic ground of the
Speaker 3: wild Frontier, the saga of fighting men who rode the
Speaker 3: rim of Empire, and the dramatic story of lee Quin's
Speaker 3: Captain of cavalry.
Speaker 2: Looks like they're about ready to pull out.
Speaker 1: Captain.
Speaker 2: Yeah, walk back with me, sergeant. I never did see
Speaker 2: such a mangy collection of stock. It's not a cavalry.
Speaker 2: I'm fit gorse. It sure ain't. Most of these wagon
Speaker 2: trains heading west get through one way or another. But
Speaker 2: I sure don't know how. I talked with mister Brown
Speaker 2: a couple of times. He seems like a good man.
Speaker 2: He is, But I wonder how much luck a Missouri
Speaker 2: farmer is going to have taken a couple of hundred
Speaker 2: women and children through Indian country. You'll make out, Captain,
Speaker 2: I hope.
Speaker 4: So, hello, sergeant, course.
Speaker 2: I beg your pardon, Miss.
Speaker 4: I was afraid we'd leave without seeing you again. Oh well,
Speaker 4: and I wanted to thank you for last night. Yeah sure, miss, goodbye, sergeant,
Speaker 4: and thank you.
Speaker 2: Still water runs deep? Course, how's that? Captain? Never mind.
Speaker 2: All I did was give her a little old knife.
Speaker 2: I bought it at the Suttlers. Never mind, it's all
Speaker 2: it was, Captain. I just give her a little old present.
Speaker 5: Sure, sergeant, keep them wagons in line and two abreast two,
Speaker 5: here's the river.
Speaker 2: You're late getting started, mister Brown. Hello, Captain Quinch, only
Speaker 2: about an hour wasting daylight and we're pulling out now, Captain,
Speaker 2: any of your men going to ride along with us? No,
Speaker 2: but you won't have any trouble. I like they say, captain,
Speaker 2: or they gonna bust you. Guarantee no trouble, captain out here.
Speaker 2: We don't guarantee anything, mister Brown. But you should at
Speaker 2: least get through the Salt Lake without trouble.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I hope you're right.
Speaker 2: It's mighty lonely out there once you're out of side
Speaker 2: of the port.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I know.
Speaker 2: Well, thanks the major for his hospitality, will you?
Speaker 7: No thanks necessary?
Speaker 8: Oh?
Speaker 1: Good luck?
Speaker 7: Thanks?
Speaker 1: She and Oregon trout that captain, all right?
Speaker 7: Job, well yours? What are you staring at?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 2: Nothing, Captain, just the train head and out. You've seen
Speaker 2: a few hundred of them before, Sergeant, Yes, sir, what's
Speaker 2: her name? Who the girl? Emily Emily mccutche going to
Speaker 2: Oregon with her Paul. She was put up real good.
Speaker 2: You're all cavalry, Gorse, Yes, sir, long way to Oregon.
Speaker 2: I hope they make it so here, come on, I
Speaker 2: miss coffee this morning. Let's find something. There's a rider
Speaker 2: coming in. Yeah, looks like a white man dressed in buckskin. Hunter.
Speaker 2: Maybe it's Will Granby.
Speaker 1: He's a squaw man.
Speaker 2: Yeah, lives with the Rappa hole. Captain Ali your horse,
Speaker 2: m Collible. Oh it's good to see you. You haven't
Speaker 2: been in and two or three years. You come for supplies,
Speaker 2: come to parley. Got a proposition? Uh, all right, come
Speaker 2: on in, will bludge, Sergeant Gorse. Will you have mister
Speaker 2: Granby's horse tabled? Yes, sir, come on, come on and
Speaker 2: will bludge. And now what is it? What's your proposition?
Speaker 9: I figured maybe to hire out to you.
Speaker 2: You want a job.
Speaker 9: Cavalry always needs couch.
Speaker 2: Maybe you saying you want the job?
Speaker 8: Why not?
Speaker 9: I know this country better than the hair, than my head,
Speaker 9: better than any man. Recept old gay Bridger. There's some
Speaker 9: few places I've been, even gabing.
Speaker 2: You're a mountain man. Will you lived wild and free?
Speaker 2: All your life? Why do you want to tie yourself down?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 9: Ain't like the old times no more, Captain, ain't pleasurable
Speaker 9: now it's hard. Maybe it's doing you cavalry fellers. Or
Speaker 9: maybe it's our own fault. Maybe we trapped too much,
Speaker 9: took too much buffalo. I don't know, but I got
Speaker 9: to the young squaw pretty you've ever seen. I figured
Speaker 9: if I was to work, hearn me eat regular.
Speaker 2: At least right now we have peace. We don't need
Speaker 2: any more scouts. I figure you do, Captain, tell me,
Speaker 2: will am I hard? I haven't got the authority to
Speaker 2: hire you. They don't have to come from the Major.
Speaker 9: No, I'd rather deal with you. I know you.
Speaker 2: I can't hire you, but if you've got information, I'll
Speaker 2: make you a promise. Least I feed you and send
Speaker 2: you back with meat.
Speaker 9: Meat I could carry, wouldn't last long, and we'll go
Speaker 9: see the Major.
Speaker 1: Wait.
Speaker 9: I'd rather tell you, But you got to promise me
Speaker 9: one thing. What's that? It'll be settled, peaceful. They're my people.
Speaker 2: Well, I'll do all I can.
Speaker 9: All right, there's going to be troubled. Tribes are getting restless,
Speaker 9: all of them. You're rapp a hole. Even government promised
Speaker 9: them if they'd go to the agencies, that'd get food meat,
Speaker 9: and that promise ain't been kept.
Speaker 2: No supply chain comes through now and then. But it's
Speaker 2: not enough.
Speaker 9: I know that rap a hole or starving captain eating
Speaker 9: bark and roots game on agencies played out. If they
Speaker 9: can't get food from the government or from the land,
Speaker 9: and they got to go looking for it wherever they can.
Speaker 9: They got to eat.
Speaker 2: Will have they left the agency.
Speaker 9: Or camped at Silver Spring that's on the Oregon Trail
Speaker 9: and they got to eat Captain? They went looking for buffalo,
Speaker 9: but there ain't no buffalo. So they'll get food where
Speaker 9: they can from the wagon trains.
Speaker 2: Will We got to talk to the major. I said
Speaker 2: I'd do all I could, and I will. There's not
Speaker 2: much time for talking. There's a wagon train headed for
Speaker 2: Silver Springs right now. Yeah, I know I saw it,
Speaker 2: all right, come on, we'll see the major. How do
Speaker 2: we know this man's telling the truth. I've known him
Speaker 2: for a long time. Majorie doesn't lie.
Speaker 6: Could be a trap.
Speaker 2: If it is a trap, then there's trouble for sure.
Speaker 6: I don't trust a man lives with Indians marries him.
Speaker 9: No, No, look curious.
Speaker 2: Major, there's a wagon train on the trail the Silver
Speaker 2: Springs right now.
Speaker 9: They got to be warned.
Speaker 2: I can still ride out with the detachment to turn
Speaker 2: him back.
Speaker 6: Captain Quin's. Our orders are to keep the trail open
Speaker 6: to Oregon and to keep the Indians on the agencies.
Speaker 6: If anything, we'll send a company to escort the train
Speaker 6: through and run those of Rappa Hole back where they belong.
Speaker 6: Couldn't do that without fighting, Major, That's one of the
Speaker 6: functions of the cavalry. In this case, there's no cause
Speaker 6: for it.
Speaker 2: The Arapa Hole have broken their treaty, Captain. The way
Speaker 2: they see it, we're the ones who broke the treaty
Speaker 2: by not keeping our promise about food. All I know
Speaker 2: is they're off the agency and they'll have to go back.
Speaker 2: If we go out and force, there's bound to be trouble.
Speaker 2: If I take a small detachment, maybe I can talk
Speaker 2: to him. This is a hostile action, Captain. It's got
Speaker 2: to be metas Sutton, Major.
Speaker 9: The Arapa Hole or starving. They gotta eat, mister Granby.
Speaker 6: I'm sorry that they're starving, but I can't do anything
Speaker 6: about it, at least not until the supplies come through
Speaker 6: to me. My orders are to keep the Arapa Hole
Speaker 6: on the agency, and I can do something about that.
Speaker 2: Those are people out there, major and they're hungry. They
Speaker 2: only want food.
Speaker 6: Captain Quince, you'll take Company B and escort the wagon
Speaker 6: train until you meet the Arapa Hole. You'll send the
Speaker 6: wagon train on and escort the Indians to the agency
Speaker 6: and use whatever measures are necessary.
Speaker 9: That's all, Captain, Yes.
Speaker 2: Sir, one thinks there, what is it if I your
Speaker 2: permission to hire Will grand Be is a scout. I
Speaker 2: don't see why it it's necessary, But if you want him,
Speaker 2: take him? Thank you, sir.
Speaker 9: What kind of a man is that?
Speaker 2: Uh? He's all right, Will, He's an officer, he's got
Speaker 2: his orders, He goes by the book. He understands the
Speaker 2: situation all right, but he can't admit it. Listen, can
Speaker 2: you be ready to move out in an hour?
Speaker 9: I can't ride with you, Captain or my people. Will.
Speaker 2: I said I'd do what I could. I need your help.
Speaker 9: Ride with me. You know what you're asking. You know
Speaker 9: what it might mean for me.
Speaker 2: If there's trouble, there won't be trouble if I can
Speaker 2: prevent it. I'm afraid you can't, Captain, but I'll go
Speaker 2: with you. We should see him just over this hill, cabin.
Speaker 2: If the rapper hole didn't see him first, you figured
Speaker 2: they'd attacked. I don't know, Sergeant, but I'll feel easier
Speaker 2: when we spot that wagon train.
Speaker 1: I was right, Captain. Here they are all right, Sergeant.
Speaker 1: Let's ride out company at the guard.
Speaker 10: They've seen us.
Speaker 1: They're pulling up. Sergeant's blind man wouldn't known we were here.
Speaker 11: Company.
Speaker 1: What's the matter, Captain?
Speaker 2: I want you to stop here, mister Brown, for the night.
Speaker 5: Why we figured the camp at Silver Springs just over
Speaker 5: the pass there, not more than two or three miles.
Speaker 2: We can make it easy before dark. This will make
Speaker 2: an all right camps, water and wood. If there's trouble, Captain,
Speaker 2: I want to know it may be nothing, mister Brown,
Speaker 2: but I want to find out. You're to camp here
Speaker 2: and stay here till I give you.
Speaker 1: The word to go on.
Speaker 9: It's Indians seen it.
Speaker 2: There is trouble, maybe maybe not, but there's no use
Speaker 2: worrying all your folks.
Speaker 1: You'll be safe here.
Speaker 2: I'm leaving most of my men to guard you.
Speaker 11: Well.
Speaker 2: Why can't you escort us over the past to Silver Spring?
Speaker 2: Because if there were to be trouble, it would happen
Speaker 2: there in the past, with the wagon trains all strung
Speaker 2: out and hard to defend. All right, Captain, whatever you say,
Speaker 2: I'll come back or send word back to Lieutenant Cybert
Speaker 2: as soon as I know it's safe for you to cross.
Speaker 2: Sergeant Gorse, Yes, sir, you and two men a company,
Speaker 2: mister Granby and myself pick them and fall out, mister Brown.
Speaker 2: Lieutenant Cybrids is in charge here till I get back.
Speaker 2: I don't see a talk on, Thank Captain, And I'll
Speaker 2: keep a sharp eye. Hope the troopers further out the flank.
Speaker 1: Yes, sir, thank you.
Speaker 10: I don't like you.
Speaker 9: Hear somewhere. I can feel it.
Speaker 2: They must have seen the train, will you the half,
Speaker 2: But they.
Speaker 9: Also saw the soldiers might be making tracks already, and
Speaker 9: you disappear pretty fast.
Speaker 2: I don't think they've had that much time. They'll probably
Speaker 2: stand for a fight.
Speaker 9: And Captain, what are you gonna do?
Speaker 2: Will a few miles back? Did you do you notice anything.
Speaker 9: On the trail? Sure?
Speaker 2: Buffalo signed right, the first I've seen this close to
Speaker 2: Laramie in a year.
Speaker 9: Big herd too across the trail going south.
Speaker 2: It'd make a lot of a rapper home meet. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it might work worth a try. Wait you see anything, will.
Speaker 9: Yeah, one of the scouts leave it to me. And
Speaker 9: you know you haven't seen her now, honey, da ain't no, no, yeah,
Speaker 9: all right, he'll take us in.
Speaker 2: This is the first Indian village I ever been in
Speaker 2: and wasn't full of barking dogs.
Speaker 9: They had to eat him. You notice how the ears captain, yeh, I.
Speaker 2: See, I'd say, they're not very happy to see us.
Speaker 2: I'm I'm sorry, will to turn them against you can't
Speaker 2: be helped. This is it.
Speaker 9: I don't you too.
Speaker 8: Why do you bring white soldiers to fight your people?
Speaker 9: They don't come to fight, Gray Feather. This Captain Queen
Speaker 9: te comes as a friend.
Speaker 8: White soldier is not a friend of a Rappahole. White
Speaker 8: soldiers break promise. They do not give meat.
Speaker 2: I think I can get you meat, Gray Feather. I
Speaker 2: think I can take your hunters to Buffalo. A big hurr.
Speaker 8: You think you do not know? Arapahole have rived from
Speaker 8: Agency in North Hunt Buffalo, all through White Valley nor Buffalo,
Speaker 8: Gray Feather ker.
Speaker 2: On my way here from Fort Laramie, I saw much
Speaker 2: buffalo sign. You hunted only the north side of the river.
Speaker 2: You haven't been south of the Platte I have. There
Speaker 2: are buffalo there to hunt.
Speaker 8: Take many days. Wagon train is here now.
Speaker 2: If you attacked that wagon train, it'll mean much fighting,
Speaker 2: many dead among the Arapaho, great mourning among the Arapahoe.
Speaker 8: There will be mourning for the white soldiers too.
Speaker 2: The army will keep on sending soldiers rifles until the
Speaker 2: Arapaho is no more.
Speaker 9: You know I speak the truth.
Speaker 8: My people are hungry.
Speaker 2: Then ride back towards the fort with me. I'll show
Speaker 2: you buffalo sign and you can track from there.
Speaker 8: Take many days.
Speaker 2: It's the only way you can be sure to find
Speaker 2: buffalo and food.
Speaker 8: If you find buffalo in two days, pray Feather does
Speaker 8: not tech wagon train.
Speaker 2: Two days isn't very long.
Speaker 8: Two days.
Speaker 2: If we do find buffalo, I want your promise to
Speaker 2: go peacefully back to the agency. If you find all right,
Speaker 2: your hunters will.
Speaker 9: Come with me.
Speaker 2: But meantime you must let the wagon train go through
Speaker 2: in peace.
Speaker 8: This one maybe not next one.
Speaker 2: It is agreed, then, Gray Feather.
Speaker 8: Are you not.
Speaker 9: Yep? Two days ain't very long. We got to be
Speaker 9: awful lucky.
Speaker 2: We don't have much choice.
Speaker 9: You know what will happen if we don't find buffalo. Yeah,
Speaker 9: and we just the five of us out there with
Speaker 9: the gray feathers hundred.
Speaker 2: Like I say, we don't have much choice. We got
Speaker 2: to guess where the buffalo will be. We don't have
Speaker 2: time to backtrack them, Sergeant Gorse Yes, sir, I'm sending
Speaker 2: you back to the wagon train with a message from
Speaker 2: misters Private Jenkins, Horses Fresher.
Speaker 9: Captain.
Speaker 2: I ain't been on no buffalo hunt in a long time,
Speaker 2: all right, tagine Jenkins Jenkins. You'll go back to the
Speaker 2: wagon train. Tell mister Cyberts to escort the train past
Speaker 2: Silver Springs, then return here in Bevueck. If I should
Speaker 2: not return, he used to get clear if he can
Speaker 2: and report to the fort for reinforcements.
Speaker 9: Move out.
Speaker 2: Well, we got forty eight hours. Will let's find those
Speaker 2: buffalo You see anything will not from Captain on that
Speaker 2: side and in this way either you can see a
Speaker 2: long way. I don't like to look up them back there,
Speaker 2: Gray feathers getting anxious. You know, I just don't understand it.
Speaker 2: Will it's not a sign.
Speaker 9: I've been thinking, Captain, And we're too far south. Buffalo
Speaker 9: headed south, maybe not as fast as far as we thought.
Speaker 2: Maybe they ved east.
Speaker 9: No, I've been thinking it's been hot and dry for
Speaker 9: these last few days and no wind. Buffalo don't travel
Speaker 9: much in the heat that you stand and graze and
Speaker 9: suffer with thirst. But there's wind now, Yeah, some from
Speaker 9: the southwest. But if there's up north here to bring
Speaker 9: them the smell of water from the Laramie River, yeah,
Speaker 9: yeahever's still high and they'd probably be craving for water
Speaker 9: about now, and they'd stick their notes into the wind,
Speaker 9: make a run for it like they do.
Speaker 2: It might be right.
Speaker 9: Well, so if we cut back northeast of the Laramie,
Speaker 9: we'll find them.
Speaker 2: They might be there. There's only one trouble. What look,
Speaker 2: who's coming, Captain?
Speaker 8: It is as great Feather spoke, you promise buffalo two
Speaker 8: days now, two days are gone. There is no buffalo. Yeah, promises,
Speaker 8: like all promises of white soldiers.
Speaker 2: We've been looking a long time, Gray Feather. But now
Speaker 2: we know where the buffalo arep.
Speaker 9: Didn't give much talk.
Speaker 8: We want buffalo, not talk.
Speaker 2: Gray Feather. My soldiers are at Silver Springs. If we
Speaker 2: do not return there, it will mean war for the Arapahole.
Speaker 8: Maybe you return, but he not.
Speaker 2: It is not yet evening of the second day.
Speaker 9: There is little time maybe, but enough.
Speaker 2: We're going to the waters of the Laramie and find
Speaker 2: your buffalo.
Speaker 9: On this next ride. We ought to be able to
Speaker 9: see and.
Speaker 2: Ride and will What if they ain't there, Captain? If not,
Speaker 2: maybe we can get to the river, find some cover,
Speaker 2: So stay close watch for my signal. Yes, sir, you
Speaker 2: you should have gone back to that wagon trains, Sergeant.
Speaker 2: I guess I'm much of a garrison soldier.
Speaker 1: All right, Look shop, captain.
Speaker 2: Ain't at the river. There's nothing.
Speaker 9: Wait, look there coming over the hills beyond running for
Speaker 9: the river.
Speaker 2: Look at him, thousands of noses in the wind and
Speaker 2: running bellyvant for breakfast. There go your buffalo, grat feather
Speaker 2: all you can eat.
Speaker 1: Well, go on get them.
Speaker 2: He sure was mighty hungry.
Speaker 9: Captain. Yeah, well, I guess her luck held.
Speaker 2: I guess it did.
Speaker 1: Well.
Speaker 2: Let's let's ride on down to the river. I could
Speaker 2: do with a drink.
Speaker 11: Comany talking gorse just missed the company, Yes, sir, howdy
Speaker 11: repaired this match.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well you're back, Yes, sir, Does you have any trouble, no, sir,
Speaker 2: no casualties either side.
Speaker 9: It took long enough.
Speaker 2: The Oregon trails still open. Major, the Rappahole are back
Speaker 2: on the agency.
Speaker 9: What took the time?
Speaker 2: Why?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 2: We we found some buffalo stopped the hunt. The Indians
Speaker 2: took enough meat back to the agency to keep them
Speaker 2: quiet all summer.
Speaker 6: And I see well that that was fortunate.
Speaker 2: It was mostly Will Granby's doing. He found the buffalo.
Speaker 6: Oh, maybe I was wrong about him, Lee, Maybe he
Speaker 6: can be useful to us.
Speaker 2: I think he can. I brought him back with us.
Speaker 2: His wife too. You you like to meet her?
Speaker 9: And a rapper?
Speaker 1: Ho?
Speaker 9: She's sure not?
Speaker 2: Saint louis.
Speaker 1: Sure?
Speaker 9: All right?
Speaker 8: Captain H. S.
Speaker 2: Granby?
Speaker 9: How do you major?
Speaker 2: This is Will's wife, major lark woman?
Speaker 9: How do you do?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Loyah uh, mister Granby, Yes, sir. If she's to stay
Speaker 6: around the post, she'll she'll have to wear something more
Speaker 6: than that.
Speaker 9: Huh. Oh, Yeah, she's got a shirt somewhere in the
Speaker 9: baggage she Wrappa Hole women aren't like Cheyenne or the
Speaker 9: shoe or crow. They don't wear much. That one's right cold.
Speaker 2: There are a lot of men on the post.
Speaker 9: Will huh oh, yes, sir, captain. Now I'll see to it.
Speaker 6: Oh and mister Gramby, Yes, sir, my compliments on your
Speaker 6: work with Captain Quins as if now you may consider
Speaker 6: yourself on the army payroll as a scout. It'll be
Speaker 6: in tomorrow's special order. Yes, sir, the quartermaster will house
Speaker 6: you large.
Speaker 9: Major.
Speaker 6: Come on, child, she's as jand of pretty, isn't she?
Speaker 9: Lee?
Speaker 2: Eh? They nature pretty good wives, too clean, quiet, hard working,
Speaker 2: nice people.
Speaker 6: You wouldn't be trying to soften me up, would you
Speaker 6: lea win me over to your way of thinking.
Speaker 2: I figure a man's got to make up his own
Speaker 2: mind about things. Major, Captain Quench is here. Don't get
Speaker 2: too smart, just be thankful.
Speaker 6: I don't ask how you happen to run into Buffalo
Speaker 6: and turn a serious police duty into a pleasure trip hunting.
Speaker 2: My strikers, coconips and buffalo steaks made you dag it?
Speaker 2: You like to come over in my quarters? And tries him?
Speaker 6: Sure, let's go lead.
Speaker 3: Fort Laramie is produced and directed by Norma McDonald and
Speaker 3: stars Raymond Burr as Lee, Quince Captain of Cavalry, with
Speaker 3: Vic Perrin as Sergeant Gorse. The script was specially written
Speaker 3: for Fort Laramie by John Duncle, with son patterns by
Speaker 3: Bill Jay James and Ray Kemper. Musical supervision by Amarigo Marino.
Speaker 3: Featured in the cast were Jack Moyles, Ralph Moody, Edgar Barrier,
Speaker 3: Frank Katie and Eleanor Tannan.
Speaker 1: Company. Tencent dismiss.
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