Speaker 1: Yes.
Speaker 2: At the Galla Fort Laramie.
Speaker 3: Fort Laramie, starring Raymond Burr as Captain lee Quins, especially
transcribed tales of the dark and tragic ground of the
wild Frontier, the saga of fighting men who rode the
rim of Empire, and the dramatic story of lee Quin's
captain of cavalry.
Speaker 4: How far you reckon it is to the north, platte Captain.
Speaker 2: Ten miles, Sergeant, no more than that. Lieutenant Seibert should
have the company bivouac there by. Now you aim to
follow the creek bed clean up there, sir. Not after
we water the horses. Ah, this spot's good enough, yes, sir,
Mobile point sergeant.
Speaker 5: Captain says, we'll take a break here, eas those cinches
and lead the mounts down to the stream there and
water all right, Chergan.
Speaker 4: After they're water they can fin grays. I'll mind them.
Speaker 2: Kind of peaceful any it's quiet, sit down, Gorse, more
comfortable than the McClelland.
Speaker 5: Yes, sir, the Shoshonees they got a way of wearing
you out. You think they're still running, Captain, they'll be back.
Speaker 2: They never run for long, not when they're hungry.
Speaker 5: I never heard of Shoshones as far east as the
Nebraska border before.
Speaker 2: You can find them as far east as Texas. Only
there we call them Comanches. They're offshoots of the same tribe.
Speaker 4: We sure don't talk this thing.
Speaker 2: Dialect's the only difference. They're a disorganized lot, the Shoshones.
I guess we can be glad for that.
Speaker 4: A little of them goes a long way. How about
the company, Captain.
Speaker 2: We'll know more when we rendezvous. Lieutenant Seyberts has orders
to make camp on the North Platte until the company's
accounted for.
Speaker 4: I think we held up.
Speaker 2: I hope so.
Speaker 4: I sure got it? Thirst Hold.
Speaker 2: You hear that.
Speaker 4: Like digging? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Up there top of.
Speaker 4: The rise, I don't see anybody, and do I yet?
Speaker 2: Come on and move small.
Speaker 4: She's awful little to be a man in that space.
Speaker 2: Man, she's not too handy with it. She must want
to hold Doug awful bad. That earth's like granite. Yeah,
let's go up shouting.
Speaker 4: It's like she's alone.
Speaker 2: Yeah, ma'am, you you cut out a big job for yourself.
Speaker 6: I I got no food, no coffee, nothing to offer
the army.
Speaker 2: We're not asking for anything.
Speaker 1: Could have come yesterday. Yesterday I could have stood it.
If you'd come, you.
Speaker 2: Will be all your life picking away at that heart.
Speaker 7: Pen.
Speaker 2: Haven't you got a man to do this for you?
Speaker 1: I had one yesterday. He's dead now. The man's got
a right to a grade.
Speaker 2: Sergeant, Yes, sir, get flint up here, tell him we
need a grave, Doug. Yes, Where where is your husband? Ma'am?
Speaker 6: In bed in the hut there?
Speaker 2: Wait?
Speaker 4: How horses to get up?
Speaker 8: H m.
Speaker 4: Hmm.
Speaker 2: Fowling here, Gang Green, he's ridden with it. Must have
taken him a long time to die. Yes, got a
broken leg. It's hard pain, kit looks hard. Gorse here.
Speaker 4: We'll wrap him in these bedclothes, right, tell me.
Speaker 6: Always take over this way when it's too late.
Speaker 2: It's best.
Speaker 4: He's out of here, ma'am ready course, yes, easy, Now.
Speaker 1: Don't bury him just yet, Graves not ready yet?
Speaker 2: Drinking missus Dennis. It's hot, that's all I can promise, a.
Speaker 6: Long time at it.
Speaker 2: It takes time. Drink it. Miss Dennis.
Speaker 6: Luther was a long time at it to the dying.
Speaker 1: I know all the things he's lived through out here,
Indian raids and blizzards and drought, starvation.
Speaker 6: It's never been food enough but a broken leg that
had to kill him.
Speaker 2: You're long way from help out here.
Speaker 6: Yesterday, just yesterday, and you come today.
Speaker 2: Yesterday would have been too late too, Missus Dennis.
Speaker 6: Always before I could do something, I freeze with him,
starve with him. When's the last time you watched the
man die, Captain?
Speaker 2: Yesterday?
Speaker 6: Did it take ten days? Ten days and ten nights.
Did you hear him scream with pain and beg for
you to go for help, and beg you not to
leave him?
Speaker 2: Missus Dennis, where would you go now? You got people somewhere?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 1: Sure, I have people, got parents in Philadelphia who never
wanted to see me again. Two years ago, when Luther
come back for me, they fought us all I could.
Speaker 6: They I meant to leave with him. They said, don't
come back.
Speaker 2: You can't stay here.
Speaker 6: The nearest to me is here. There's two dead babies
out there by where I'll set Luther down.
Speaker 2: You can't stay here alone. Isn't safe.
Speaker 6: I'm not used to feeling safe, Captain.
Speaker 4: It's already out there.
Speaker 6: Then you can go now.
Speaker 2: Missus Dennis. This is no country for a woman alone.
We'll take you to Fort Laramie. It's safe there. Leave
maybe it's not a brave thing staying on here. It's stupid.
Speaker 6: I mean to stay on with luc Why yet?
Speaker 2: All right, missus Dennis, let's get back to the horse's sergeant.
We're wasting time.
Speaker 4: She wasn't much grateful, why she Captain.
Speaker 2: Lea died a small thing. She'd no cause to be grateful, Flint.
She's no mind to be grateful for anything the West
gives her or takes away.
Speaker 5: Must have been a pretty little thing once, kind of dainty,
like how ol do you reckon?
Speaker 8: She is sick, early twenties, looks most half a lifetime
to meet captains all drawn tight mean.
Speaker 2: The West does that to a woman. They come here
as girls, and no time they're women, old past their years.
She's not mean, Flint. She's soft as a kitten. She's
born a lot, that's all. Oh you think that, sir,
I know that.
Speaker 5: You'd think she'd want to leave though, No use of
hanging on to the land. She can't prove it up
by herself.
Speaker 2: She'll get out once she thinks it's her own idea.
Right now, she thinks she can't face the thought of
leaving him there. He's got nowhere. She wants to go.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I wonder, wonder what will happen to her? I
mean alone like that, she can't fend for herself? Can
she captain?
Speaker 4: Those women I see out here to find him? A man?
Speaker 2: Any man marry again just to live. They hate the West.
Chances are they'd hate the man too, but they keep
marrying to live.
Speaker 4: Now this one's Captain. You seem pretty sure, Sargeant, just
a feeling.
Speaker 5: She go back east somewhere, leave her dead, go back
where she came from.
Speaker 4: She don't belong out here.
Speaker 2: She's got no wagon or a stock to pull it.
If she goes, you'll have to walk.
Speaker 4: Maybe she won't, sir, Maybe she won't come in. You
sent for me, Captain.
Speaker 2: Yeah, gos come in, Yes, sir, Sergeant Gors. Ever since
we got back from Horse Creek, the fort's been full
of stories that make the cavalry sound like a wet
nurse outfit. You know anything about them?
Speaker 4: What kind of story, sir?
Speaker 2: You know any troopers who are going around collecting money
to send missus Dennis back East Troopers?
Speaker 4: No, sir, I know.
Speaker 2: I've been kind of lucky at poker lately. Thought maybe
i'd share it with whoever's running the chair around here.
Speaker 5: I guess it would be me, sir, I guess it
would yeah, obliged, Captain.
Speaker 2: You're not gonna make this a habit, No, sir, you
taking the money to her? No, sir.
Speaker 5: Private Flint's leave starts tomorrow after first call. He'll do it,
that's all.
Speaker 2: Sergeant. Yes, sir, she reminds you of someone Gorse girls somewhere.
Speaker 4: No, Sir, it ain't that.
Speaker 5: Just she's so little and all kind of like astray.
She don't blong out here.
Speaker 2: Carry on, Sergeant, Captain Quint reporting, Sir, I'm afraid you
didn't do a very good job on the Shoshones. Captain.
We didn't wipe them out. Major, if that's what you mean.
Speaker 10: You met him near the Nebraska border before, isn't that right?
Speaker 4: And they were high tailing it into Nebraska the last
we saw.
Speaker 2: Those that lived, well, they're back lee and in numbers too.
They're hungry in numbers.
Speaker 10: I'm familiar with your charitable streak, Captain Quinch. I understand
it's spread the sergeant Gorse right on down to the ranks.
Speaker 2: There's no cause for worry. Major, It's not widespread enough
to be called an epidemic.
Speaker 10: All right, alrightly, the Shoshones are raiding homesteaders from our
side of the North Platte south along Horse Creek. I
understand there aren't many settlers along the creek.
Speaker 2: Oh, not many.
Speaker 10: They're not just hungry, Captain quinch. This time they're carrying
off women. Any questions, no, sir, Then move out.
Speaker 2: You smoke ahead, captain, I see there is. Mister Seyberts
might be able to surprise them. Just how do you
think we could manage that?
Speaker 4: Well, sir? At the fire still burning? Chances are that
maybe indians around somewhere.
Speaker 2: Look at that smoke again, mister Cybrids, Yes, sir, well
I still say it good for you. Then you see
the fire smoldering, not burning fresh?
Speaker 4: You think the Shoshanis have gone on, sir?
Speaker 2: They are not ones to sit around and admire their
work once they've struck. Ah, Sergeant, Yo, saf we can
find the captain are probably hours away by now. Whas
it's to trap mister Sabage, Yes, sir, sergeant. That's carpenter's
cabin ahead.
Speaker 4: Isn't it was? Sir?
Speaker 2: You and I'll ride in, Sergeant. Mister Sabage will move
the patrol to that, rise to the left and hold
the position. Two shots will be a signal to move in.
Mister sets Yes, sir.
Speaker 4: That's an old fire, Captain, smoldering cybrids.
Speaker 2: And I know that, Sergeant an he questions, mister seyberts no, sir,
then move out, Yesert, come on course.
Speaker 4: It's Carpenter there, Captain.
Speaker 2: He's cool. It is an old fire, Sergeant. Yes, and
it would be his wife's.
Speaker 4: Brother, brother Cabin. He's been here months, That's all there was.
Speaker 2: Carpenter is for brother.
Speaker 4: Just the three of them. Captain. I don't see her anywhere.
Rh It's not likely we will.
Speaker 5: You'd think it'd be enough just to kill a man,
wouldn't she camp.
Speaker 2: You'd think so, Gorse, come on.
Speaker 4: No sign of life, sir, No sign of life.
Speaker 2: Misters.
Speaker 4: I was wondering.
Speaker 2: I know what you're wondering, sergeant. What her place would
be northy here, sir, do north along the creek. Mister.
You'll take half the patrol and move along Horse Creek
to the south. Do you see those dots of smoke
on the horizon, I say them, sir, Well check them, yes,
Sergeant Gorse prepared to move the other half to the north. Yes, sir,
all right, I'm going north with door, mister Seberts. Well,
rendezvous the usual point in the north platte. First arrival,
makes camp and waits with pickets.
Speaker 4: Out right, Captain, I'll judge the fires better this time.
Speaker 2: You use your eyes, mister Siberts, then use your head.
Speaker 4: How long are you gonna wait? Captain? Nothing stirred up
there by her place.
Speaker 2: The troopers in position, yes, sir.
Speaker 5: Full circle, set back in the hills, all around the hut.
Likely she's gone by now. Flint would have been through
here with the money two three days ago.
Speaker 2: I'm going in, goes. You got a clear shot at
the door all the way. I didn't think we'd find
her hut still standing. Well, we'll see, sergeant.
Speaker 4: Hold your fire gorse that came from the hut, Sir.
Speaker 6: The army's not welcome here, Captain.
Speaker 4: You fire that again, ma'am. The whole patrol of move in.
You have some money to give me?
Speaker 2: Two captain, ah, I will, we'll talk inside. Missus DINNI,
no problem, sergeant.
Speaker 6: How many men, Captain?
Speaker 2: Six all around the hut.
Speaker 6: Six army men after one woman.
Speaker 2: Shoshoni is a raiding all along Horse Creek you're lucky
they missed you.
Speaker 6: Lucky.
Speaker 2: You can bring a few things, but not much. Let's
get them together.
Speaker 6: You didn't answer me, Captain. I asked you what you
come for.
Speaker 2: I told you to take you back.
Speaker 6: I was took in at first.
Speaker 1: I felt sort of kindly toward all the brave army
men who put by the money for me.
Speaker 2: Private Flint was here.
Speaker 1: Then that his name, That nice smiley one who dug
Luther's grave.
Speaker 6: Yeah, he was here clean till early this morning. He
was here. I don't figure out the army a thing now, Captain,
not a thing.
Speaker 2: Um, Sorry, missus Dennis.
Speaker 6: Oh he's too late, aren't you, Captain? Too late for everything?
Speaker 2: I I am sorry. I warned you it wasn't safe here.
Speaker 6: So your hands are clean, your conscience is clear.
Speaker 2: I didn't mean that.
Speaker 4: Oh you warned me, but.
Speaker 6: I hadn't mind. You was talking about Indians when you
said this was no country for.
Speaker 2: A woman alone, Indians or or any man who hasn't
seen a woman for a long time.
Speaker 6: Now you've come.
Speaker 2: Six you to force you to safety this time, ma'am.
Speaker 6: There's a safe place for a woman out.
Speaker 2: Here, Fort Laramie for the time being.
Speaker 6: Flint was from Fort Laramie.
Speaker 2: Private Flint isn't the whole cavalry, missus Dennis. You'll get
food there rest in a couple of days. There's a
stage out for.
Speaker 4: The East with cavalry protection.
Speaker 2: Not unless it's called for, ma'n.
Speaker 6: Go back home.
Speaker 7: I guess it till it's lived, Captain, and I had.
Speaker 2: I know how you feel, miss Dennis, but I just
want to tell you that you don't.
Speaker 6: You couldn't you coundnot I feel about anything.
Speaker 7: I'll forgetting my things now, the stage driver says, about
five minutes.
Speaker 6: I wondered if i'd see you again, Captain.
Speaker 2: I owed it to the sergeant, the troopers to see
their money got spent the way they meant it.
Speaker 6: I wondered if i'd find a feeling in me to
be grateful to you, any of them.
Speaker 2: No one's asking for any thanks, ma'am. No one expects any.
Speaker 6: Once I can forget, maybe I can be grateful.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're better off off leaving.
Speaker 1: Luther was a good man. I used to read all
he sent me about the West. He saw the good
of it, new and full of hope. That's how he
said it. I never saw that in it. Captain, I
never saw the good is not.
Speaker 2: All good, is not all bad either, But you're better
off back home reading about it.
Speaker 1: Well, i'd better be getting on the stage now.
Speaker 2: Safe journey to your men.
Speaker 6: Thank you, Captain, and I mean thank you.
Speaker 2: Goodbye, Missus Dennis.
Speaker 11: I'll set driver, Captain.
Speaker 4: He's in the saloon.
Speaker 2: You should feel right about things now, Gorse. You were
the first to know she didn't belong here.
Speaker 5: I won't feel right till he settled, Captain. But how
can he be now? Can't touch him without missus Dannis
tells her story.
Speaker 2: She's been through enough.
Speaker 4: How about him? Well, he'd a drawn time, plenty of
time for what he'd done to her.
Speaker 2: Don't worry about it, Gorse.
Speaker 4: When I wait, Captain, you can't do it that way.
I've seen you like this before. Captain. You'll kill it.
Speaker 2: I'll handle it, Gorse.
Speaker 4: You know what they do to you, Sir. Killing him
ain't worth that.
Speaker 2: I'm not going to kill him, but I am gonna
mark him up. Maybe he'll wish I had killed him.
Is he drunk? Not yet in uniform?
Speaker 11: No?
Speaker 4: Still on leave. You'll give me five minutes, emergency leave.
Just five minutes.
Speaker 2: You'll leave him be gorse. That's an order. Yes, over there,
camp I see him.
Speaker 4: You stay here, But Captain, that's an order of course.
Speaker 2: Yes, sir, Why Captain quince hello, set your glass down, Flint,
not on orders just yet, Captain, two more days of
my leave coming to me. Set it down. He's got
his rights, Captain. The saloon's not run by the army.
It is now clear. Everyone out of here. Barkeep now
you just wait clear the premises. Yes, sir, what is this?
Speaker 4: I don't know what you got in mind.
Speaker 11: I do.
Speaker 4: There's regulations on my side, Captain.
Speaker 2: I'm waiting to hear you say. It isn't true, Flint.
Speaker 8: Setting your saber side, taking off your tunic don't make
you lessen, officer.
Speaker 4: You can't lay a hand on me.
Speaker 2: There's regulations. I'm waiting, Flint.
Speaker 4: You touch me and I'll go over your head. I'll
tell my story to the major.
Speaker 2: You'll do that. He'll break you down to my size.
Speaker 4: Once I tell my story.
Speaker 2: You tell them, Flint, and tell it all, because I'll
be there to see you. Don't leave any of it out.
Speaker 4: Don't come any closer.
Speaker 9: I got every right to defend myself.
Speaker 2: You sure do. Put that chair down.
Speaker 11: I don't care who you are.
Speaker 2: I'm just like you now, Flint, I got every right
to defend myself. Your saloons looking kind of run down.
Back keep looks to me like it's due for some repairs. Yeah,
it sounded like it. But what about the customer. You're
just gonna leave him there? See he's taken to the infirmary, Sergeant, Yes, sir,
is he bad off?
Speaker 4: Captain.
Speaker 2: I'm not the best judge, Gorse. I'd say a good
army doctor could get him on his feet again and
six months.
Speaker 4: Maybe that's saloon brawl. I'm sure he is punishing stuff, sir.
Speaker 2: It's deadly, sergeant, But what about me my saloon? And
I'd watch who I let in there after this barkeep?
That man had a bad temper. Do one of you
had chairs at me?
Speaker 3: Fort Laramie is produced and directed by Norman McDonald and
stars Raymond Burr as lee Quin's captain of cavalry, with
Vic Perrin as Sergeant Gorse. The script was specially written
for Fort Laramie by Kathleen Hit, with sound patterns by
Bill James and ray Kemper. Musical supervision by Amarigo Marino.
Featured in the cast were Virginia Christine, John Dayner and
Barney Phillips. Jack Moyles is Major Diggett and Harry Bartel
is Lieutenant.
Speaker 12: Seyberts Company Tencent dismiss next week.
Speaker 3: Another transcribes story of the Northwest Frontier and the troopers
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