Speaker 1: At the Gallas.
Speaker 2: Fort Laramie, 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 3: Mister Sabits, Mister Sabit, yes, Captain, waste enough fire at
this range, past the word.
Speaker 4: Men at the flank the canyon dig in and hold their.
Speaker 5: Positions and their fire.
Speaker 4: Sir, cease fire.
Speaker 5: But they think we've quit, Sir.
Speaker 4: I hope they do, mister Sabots.
Speaker 5: Yes, sir, Captain, what about your like?
Speaker 4: It's fine, Pass the word, mister Sabits right away, Sir,
cease fire, gorse hundred gorse yo.
Speaker 5: I'm right here, Captain.
Speaker 4: Give me a hand behind that boulder, yes, sir?
Speaker 5: Can you bear weight on that lake?
Speaker 1: I can get.
Speaker 4: Behind that boulder?
Speaker 6: Are easy now, Sir, I don't know when I've been
more comfortable. If you're dry, I got part of a
canteen here, No, no, save it.
Speaker 7: You'll need it.
Speaker 4: Captain.
Speaker 6: There's a clearing about one hundred yards back. We got
the horses back there, Harrison and me together, get you there.
I'm fine here, Sergeant. You'd rest a might easier there, Sir.
Speaker 4: Maybe you ought to take up nursing, Gorse. You're developing
a fine manner for it.
Speaker 6: Well, sir, I reckon, it's all this easy living. It's
kind of got me soft.
Speaker 4: Go back to your positions, Sergeant, and dig in.
Speaker 6: Flying in the canyon this way you must be figuring
them engines will try another run through?
Speaker 7: No use.
Speaker 4: Forty men spreading thin against two three hundred a Rappa hole. Yes,
the one back, Gorse. Send Lieutenant Cyberts here, right, sir.
Speaker 6: Lieutenant Lieutenant Cyberts.
Speaker 5: You said for me, sir, men have their orders all
down the line.
Speaker 4: How about ammunition?
Speaker 5: We've enough, sir?
Speaker 4: What's enough? Well enough to lead the charge down the
canyon and run them off? No, I don't believe so
enough to hold our ground here and stand off in assault.
Speaker 5: That would depend on the size of the assault.
Speaker 4: Mister Cyberts. There are at least two hundred of Rappa
hole firing what's left of our camp down there. I
want to know if we can hold these positions.
Speaker 5: Not long, sir, not if they turn on his full force.
Speaker 4: And we don't have enough ammunition, do we, Misster Cyberts.
Speaker 5: No, Sir, I guess not. Uh what do we do?
Speaker 4: Captain sit here? Hope they think they wiped us out
and they're asked run through.
Speaker 5: That why you ordered the mend to hale their fire.
Speaker 7: That's why.
Speaker 5: They're riding off, Captain. Don't look like they counted.
Speaker 4: That's too important, Captain Quincy that the complaint Sergeant, No.
Speaker 8: Sir, I was born plain insignificant.
Speaker 7: I mean to stay that way.
Speaker 5: Help me get the captain back to the Clark Sergeant
is like need.
Speaker 4: Mister Sabits. We can't waste any more daylight. You have
six hours of good riding left before nightfall.
Speaker 5: Sir, you can't ride hard. You've lost a lot of blood.
Speaker 4: The patrols going back to the fort under your command,
mister Sabrits. Harrison and I will take it in easy stages.
Speaker 5: We can't leave you here, mister Cybrits.
Speaker 4: You'll reach Fort Laramie tomorrow night if you're lucky. Major
Daggont needs a full report as soon as possible.
Speaker 6: Captain Quince, Sir, we could strap you in your saddle.
Speaker 4: No need for that, Sergeant, I'd slow you up, and
Major Daggat needs that report. NA send Harrison to me.
Prepare to move out.
Speaker 5: I know this country better than Harrison.
Speaker 4: Mister Siberts will need you gorse. This will be good
experience for my orderly Yes, kim.
Speaker 5: Crow, report to the check your.
Speaker 4: Good luck, mister s Thank you clear now.
Speaker 5: Good luck to you, sir.
Speaker 1: You're all played out, aren't you, sir?
Speaker 4: There's fresh water ahead to the left there that clump
of trees.
Speaker 1: You can't go on, just water, Captain.
Speaker 4: Little help with the want of the horses too.
Speaker 9: Not much sunlight left. I hope we'd find a settler
where we could bid down for the night.
Speaker 4: This is a rappa hole country, Harrison. They routed out
most of the settlers.
Speaker 9: They sure got away acting like they own the place,
don't they running off white men?
Speaker 4: They were here first. I guess they got a funny
idea that makes it their land.
Speaker 9: If we'd have had the whole company back there, we'd
have run through them. Sure shoot them whose land is well?
Speaker 4: It would take an awful good company. Those were dog
soldiers leading that braid. Dog soldiers, toughest fighters in the tribes,
handpicked for the Darren Hole Tam inanio U house.
Speaker 8: Hepsen.
Speaker 4: That's the Shyan name for dog soldiers, but most plains
Indians have a select band like them. Soon the rappa hole.
Speaker 9: Oh, I guess we were smart. Take cover in that canyon, Captain.
Speaker 4: I guess we were in through the trees, Harrison, good
grass there by that mean.
Speaker 1: I'll be right there to lend a hand something.
Speaker 4: Stand stead of me? Is I come over on this lake?
Harrison won't bear weight?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 8: All right?
Speaker 7: Oh, I guess I said. I'm weaker than I thought.
Speaker 1: Don't you worry, Captain, I got bull strength here. Let
me help you.
Speaker 10: Now.
Speaker 1: You just set back against this tree there.
Speaker 4: How's that all right?
Speaker 7: Harrison?
Speaker 1: Thanks, I'll get you some fresh water.
Speaker 7: You're going all the way.
Speaker 4: I'm all right. Those cinches and lead the mounts down
to the stream water.
Speaker 2: Go on.
Speaker 4: I just need to catch my breath, rest a bit.
Speaker 9: I sure wish I could make you right comfortable, sir,
in bed with food and all.
Speaker 11: I know, mind the horses, yes, sir, Harrison, Harrison, you awake, sir.
Speaker 7: I you shouldn't have gone to sleep.
Speaker 1: You just didn't have no choice. Captain.
Speaker 9: Once you drank that cool water, you was plumbed through.
Speaker 7: What's that horses?
Speaker 1: No, they're not making a sound, Sir, I hobbled them
before I shut up.
Speaker 4: Wait a minute, his horses all right, sounds like they're
riding this way.
Speaker 1: I should hear a thing. Could be you got some fever,
Captain Gwin's some folks hear things when they got fever.
Speaker 7: You keep listening, you'll hear them.
Speaker 12: Yes.
Speaker 1: Well, what I was going to say was while you
was resting so easy, like, I set out and took
a look around. There's a cabins here, not not more
than a couple of hundred yards away.
Speaker 7: Coming from the north.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I can hear them now. Couldn't be cavalry, Captain.
They move south along ahead us.
Speaker 7: Not cavalry. Look look through the.
Speaker 1: Trees, Engines, O the soldiers, Captain. We better make for that, captain, No, no, no,
we're better off here.
Speaker 4: Trees will hide us. Let's say already know we're here,
life like Harrison. They start through the trees fire.
Speaker 1: Can you handle that, Carbines?
Speaker 7: Yeah I can't.
Speaker 1: They're making for us, sir, Sure we're seeing I.
Speaker 7: Wait them out.
Speaker 1: They're right at the tree, Cappy easy, I'm sure we're
not keen on them seeing me first.
Speaker 7: Got to Paris. They're riding right along the tree line,
going on south.
Speaker 1: I can't make him out anymore.
Speaker 7: You see him now they've gone on past the thicket.
I can't see him.
Speaker 1: Man, that was closer, still close.
Speaker 7: They stopped.
Speaker 1: You want I should get our horses, sirr I do not.
Speaker 7: Can you hear them?
Speaker 1: They ain't moving, as I can tell. I counted six, Captain, six.
Speaker 7: That cabin? Where is it near?
Speaker 1: As I can tell? That's where they are, sir. It's
that direction, not more than a couple hundred yards away.
I tell you, sir, that's a welcome sound.
Speaker 7: You were talking about a deserted cabin, Harrison.
Speaker 1: Not a living thing around, likely been that way for years.
Speaker 7: You'll you have to near carry me. I can't mount again.
Speaker 1: Just you do a worry yourself, Captain. I'll take right
good care of you. Not ten more steps you can
make it.
Speaker 7: I don't know, Harrison.
Speaker 1: You just lean heavy now we'll get there.
Speaker 9: You make I fine, Come no closer. Well, ma'am, there's
no cause for shooting. We're your kind, white folk.
Speaker 8: Our judge about this shoot?
Speaker 1: What are's him?
Speaker 9: He's all shut up and weak ma'am, I'm not even
asking for a hand, but I gotta put him down
inside uh me second cavalry fort Laramie, I think I
captain wins.
Speaker 1: Captain you all right?
Speaker 8: Is he dead?
Speaker 1: No, ma'am, not yet.
Speaker 9: Would you just try to help put that shotgun down
and help a body?
Speaker 8: How are your food?
Speaker 1: Oh? Ten of jerky?
Speaker 8: Maybe blankets?
Speaker 5: Shot?
Speaker 8: Ain't got anything?
Speaker 9: I got an awful sick captain here, ma'am. That's what I got,
and I'm lifting him up right now and taking him
in there.
Speaker 10: How much money you got, I don't know, a little
hand it over once we inside, I tell you.
Speaker 8: Son, i'd as soon shoot the both of you as
y'all this way. I want your money and your guns.
Speaker 1: I don't rightly know how you stand yourself.
Speaker 8: Here's money too.
Speaker 1: I'm bringing him inside now, Not.
Speaker 8: For long for this little bit of money.
Speaker 10: Over your store, farm, you're another week and my arm's
full of long sitting by the stove.
Speaker 8: And quit your whimpering soft bellies. A lot of you, Howsie,
ask him he's only pretending to sleep.
Speaker 7: Cap You can't fool her, Harrison. Don't you.
Speaker 1: Gave me a fright?
Speaker 8: Sir?
Speaker 1: I wasn't sure you was gonna come around.
Speaker 7: I'll be all right.
Speaker 1: She get the bullet, Yeah, yeah, she got it.
Speaker 8: I see new cubs are tougher, hide, captain.
Speaker 1: She took everything we had, jerky guns, money. What kind
of white woman is she?
Speaker 8: Best? Quiet him? I buried four husbands, twenty children, a
couple of strangers. Don't FaZe me.
Speaker 7: To get some sleep, Harris, And she says, you watched
me all night?
Speaker 1: You sure you all right?
Speaker 4: I'm fine, I go to sleep. That's an order, yes, sir,
four husbands.
Speaker 8: Man outlived them, but they was men. Regular men didn't
go around, sir, and every other man and man and
women folk they there, I mean, eh in did they were?
Isn't no call for the army in those days? Mister
Peffrey and me lived as peaceabird as could be with
the Indian folks. We come here peaceful, I mean, mister Pearffrey,
when was that in the thirties?
Speaker 7: Things are different then, no difference.
Speaker 8: And with mister Griffiths, mister Allbright, and later on with
mister Netherton. Yeah, there was lessons to learn in the
west them days. Eat the porridge, met your bliges, ma'am Hey,
how's that hatty? How do I say? Hadi perfery?
Speaker 5: I go by that.
Speaker 8: I can't abide being called ma'am. I lean toward Hattie.
Speaker 4: Ye, haddie, you live alone middle of a rapper hole country?
How did they manage come by your guns?
Speaker 8: Such little money you had? Sometimes it's food, Sometimes robes
take what I can get. It don't matter to me
if it's settlers or scouts, or army.
Speaker 4: Folks or a rapper hole.
Speaker 8: Folks don't find Hattie less than they lost are half dead.
You need open your eyes to see what they part with.
Speaker 4: You always greet him with a shot gun if need be.
Speaker 7: Before we came.
Speaker 4: Here last evening, a band of a rapper hole braves
stopped here.
Speaker 8: I got good errors, strong bows, rifles, even a couple
of buffalo guns off. A hunter broke his leg down
the canyon.
Speaker 4: They got a camp near here, the rapper hole.
Speaker 8: You got something more to give me, h Harrison says,
you cleaned us out. You're getting full measure.
Speaker 1: What's going on you my ring? Hey, you can't have that,
but I got it.
Speaker 8: I ain't had a pretty first spell, and that's a fact.
Speaker 1: Oh man, ain't safe sleep in here? I bought that
ring myself in Saint Louis.
Speaker 8: Oh it'll fit fine once I wrap some twine around it.
By these fingers thin with age.
Speaker 1: Next you be picking my bones. You'll buzz't it on?
Speaker 4: Give him his ring back, Hattie, not likely, Captain Quince.
Speaker 1: What says you can't hit old woman when she's so contrary?
Speaker 13: Oh?
Speaker 4: For one thing, she's got a shotgun.
Speaker 8: I'd soon use it as jar with you.
Speaker 4: You take his ring. You give us something, Hattie, I.
Speaker 8: Do my pretty clean forgot the bright feeling.
Speaker 4: They give you our guns for the ring, Hattie, that's fair.
Speaker 8: I come back. Your horses down the creek this morning.
They raising on my grass, swilling my water. The prettiest
to pay.
Speaker 1: For that, Captain, I better seating them, Mountain.
Speaker 8: You will stay with the sick of aalen. I'll seat
to the horses.
Speaker 7: You saying he can't leave the cabin not alive?
Speaker 8: He can't?
Speaker 4: Why you y?
Speaker 7: She means it, Harrison.
Speaker 8: I do that now. I've got tending to do outside.
Don't need peering around for your rifles whilst I'm gone.
Speaker 1: You won't find them, Captain Quench. We gotta move out
of here.
Speaker 7: We need the horses to do it here. He's steady me.
Speaker 1: You ain't fit to stand yet, just just stands to it.
Speaker 7: Yeah, we don't have to crawl once we're outside anyway.
I can managed to the door.
Speaker 1: Like it's not. She's crowds out there waiting for us.
Speaker 12: It's worth a chance. You're not get another Yes, sir,
get the door. Yeah, get on your belly.
Speaker 9: Move.
Speaker 7: We've small through this brush towards the streamer hm hm hm.
Speaker 14: Can you can you see her?
Speaker 1: No, sir, the stream?
Speaker 7: How far?
Speaker 1: Is it a good fifty yards? Maybe more?
Speaker 13: I don't see the horses, not yet, Flatten Merrison. It's
a rapper hole. She'd come out of those streets by
the water, sir. She's talking to them engines.
Speaker 14: Don't don't, don't even breeze. She's going back towards the trees.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but they ain't a sign of our horses, or.
Speaker 7: No sense trying to go it without them. We'll have
to go back to the cab out guns or horses.
We're no good out of here, Harrison.
Speaker 1: Come on, what do you reckon? She's done with them,
Captain that woman.
Speaker 7: She might have eaten them.
Speaker 1: I'll steady you for the walk.
Speaker 7: Sir, Oh, yeah, I give a lot for some of
her strengths.
Speaker 1: Right now, You think I could find them alone.
Speaker 7: Get yourself killed doing it? That's no good, Harrison. We'll
have to wait.
Speaker 8: It's about as foolish as can be. Ain't you crawling
around the brush out there? What'sidie? Fresh air has got
no guns, no food. There's a rapper hole all around.
You don't think too good of your hides, do you?
Speaker 7: Or the horses, Hattie?
Speaker 8: The colors coming back some, you heard the captain.
Speaker 1: What about the horses?
Speaker 8: They come right high in these parts, young, and I
could get me a passer of things treating horses.
Speaker 4: You're real friendly with the rapper hole, Hattie.
Speaker 8: They treat me good, of course they know, mister Peifferine
me come peaceable to their country, not to run them off.
What rightly is their land?
Speaker 1: You never seen them at the killing white women babies,
no matter to them.
Speaker 8: You ask yourself who started it all. I've seen it happen,
the whites and their guns moving in. It wasn't pretty work.
They did women children too.
Speaker 7: They let you live here.
Speaker 8: It's got to be a reason you come here like
you full of shot, hailen. What man's doing, mister Peafferine me.
We took him in tennedy. Here's a young chief. Then
Standing Bear never forgot, not in all these years. He's
just near to a relation I got.
Speaker 7: You're from another age, Hattie. You and Standing Bear?
Speaker 8: You got anyone a wife?
Speaker 7: No wife?
Speaker 8: Mother?
Speaker 7: Then I got her memory pair burr rings.
Speaker 1: It's all not on you.
Speaker 8: I'd have found him.
Speaker 7: They're back at Fort Laramie.
Speaker 8: Ooh, that's a pity. Yeah, that's a pity.
Speaker 7: H I think you can get the guns without wakening.
Speaker 1: I can't make out good with no light, but I
can fight an old woman in the dark.
Speaker 7: Not long till sunner. This may be our last chance.
Speaker 8: Easy now, now that's just close enough stealing up on
an old woman. What kind of men are you? I
don't mind shooting a bit.
Speaker 1: You're a wit, that's what you're seeing in the dark,
hearing you know? Kind of woman at all?
Speaker 8: Maybe not now, young, but I was onced more woman
than you could imagine.
Speaker 7: Shut up, both of you.
Speaker 8: Someone's coming come earlier than I said.
Speaker 1: It's probably them same engines again, captain.
Speaker 8: Yeah, now get back where you belong. Over there, Tea events.
Speaker 1: Welcome, Captain. I had my gun, I'd blow us all
up before i'd let him take us.
Speaker 7: Maybe that'd help you.
Speaker 1: She's out there right now trading for us.
Speaker 7: You know that. Get ready, someone's coming.
Speaker 13: Now.
Speaker 8: That'd sight of be for less be the winter, and
more gift for my friend standing bear for us, hoty. Now,
then you're worth a sight more than that.
Speaker 1: They're riding off, Captain.
Speaker 7: You sparing us?
Speaker 8: Had a for what sparing you?
Speaker 4: You didn't tell them about us, They didn't ask you.
Speaker 1: Happen humans so sudden like you have to be a
scaring us today.
Speaker 8: I ain't gonna miss this young enough. In fact, i'd
soon keep company with a ball in calf. I'll tell
your boon brittle.
Speaker 4: With you two around, we'd be glad to get out
of your way. Trade for guns, our horses, and cut
of your new beef.
Speaker 8: Been thinking about them here, bobs.
Speaker 7: I've been thinking about our guns.
Speaker 8: Under my bed, these two horses Saturday at the spring.
Now them here, bobs, they're.
Speaker 4: Back at Fort Larra.
Speaker 7: Me Hattie, you mean to ride back with us?
Speaker 8: I gotta watch who I'm seeing with.
Speaker 7: Yeah, well, and I might get back your way someday.
If I do well, I'll bring them to you.
Speaker 8: For these old years. Yeah, here, young and pretties ain't
for me, not no more.
Speaker 1: I'll take my ring, ma'am and thank you. But I
ain't even pretending to understand you.
Speaker 8: If you as regular men, you'd find yourself a woman.
Pretty don't belong on a man's hand locked up at
no fort. Now it's women folk. It It gives us
that that bright feeling having a pretty.
Speaker 2: 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 Gregg, Sam Edwards and
John Dayner.
Speaker 4: Company. Tension ismis.
Speaker 2: Next week, another transcribed story of the Northwest Frontier and
the troopers who fought under lee Quin's captain of cavalry.
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