Speaker 1: At the Gatherer Bow.
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: Of course, right below me, I see him.
Speaker 4: Wait, he's looking up this way.
Speaker 3: All right, now, you're gonna leave him here, Captain.
Speaker 4: Better hide him. No sense announcing ourselves to fleet Bear.
That ravine down there, his choked with brush anyway.
Speaker 5: Yes, sir, easy now then bru lais grow big guilty
this one did. Maybe too big to see a That's
why they had him stuck up here on lookout, dude.
Speaker 4: Maybe all right, the spots could not.
Speaker 3: The best piled some of this brush over him. Don't
want him finding him right off?
Speaker 4: At least it was quick killing. It beats Fleet Bear's.
Speaker 3: Way kind of evens the scorer and that woman we
found all staked out.
Speaker 4: You can't even scores like that, gorse. Well, now we
can watch this power how without being interrupted.
Speaker 3: You know, we got the best seat in the house, captain,
along as were the only ones that knows it.
Speaker 4: That's no war.
Speaker 6: Party down there.
Speaker 4: Too many lodgers tps. Fleet Bear must be using this
for his permanent camp.
Speaker 3: All his raids lately have been within striking distancing here, and.
Speaker 4: Those drums and war drums the more like a celebration
of some kind.
Speaker 3: He's got a lot of killing to celebrate.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I wish we had them men. We'd stop his
killing right now.
Speaker 3: They sure don't look like they're expecting any trouble.
Speaker 4: M's been a couple of thousand down there, Gorse, half
of them warriors. We got sixty men from Bee Company.
They're not gonna have any trouble from us.
Speaker 3: Fleet Bear. Is he really spotted tail son?
Speaker 4: And the old man looks on him like a son,
But he's a nephew.
Speaker 6: I think no more than that.
Speaker 3: Don't seem like they're the same breed of men. I
never heard of Spotted Tail killing wholesale stealing women.
Speaker 4: He could row them free when he was a young brave.
This was all Sioux country, no white settlers, no white
army that'd make a difference.
Speaker 3: Sure would.
Speaker 4: Ever think what you'd do, Gorse, Say you were Fleet Bear,
and the intruders came into your hunting grounds.
Speaker 3: It's one of my troubles. I know. Blame well what
I do. That's not excusing what they do to women.
Speaker 4: That's not excusing anything. But it makes you wonder where
men like Spottytale get their courage. Anyway, I call it courage.
Agreeing to give up your land, signing treaties, moving on
to a reservation.
Speaker 3: You call that courage? What do you call what we're doing?
Two of us sitting up on the rim of a
can you looking down at a couple thousand hostiles?
Speaker 4: I wouldn't call this courage. It's more stupid than anything.
Speaker 3: I'm getting kind of tired of them. Drums.
Speaker 4: Well, we can report a big power, all the makings
of a feast, but we sure can't tell the major
what they're celebrating unless unless what unless you want to
slide down there and ask fleetbear what all the commotions about?
Speaker 3: Like I said, I'm getting kind of tired of them.
Speaker 6: Drum Well.
Speaker 4: That being the case, we better get back to our
own canon.
Speaker 3: Captain Quincer, mister Seyberts, I hope it was successful. Reconnaissance, Sir,
I hope so too.
Speaker 7: We'll talk about it.
Speaker 8: I'll see to the horses, captain right, sergeant, Oh, a
captain as a runner here from Major Daggett.
Speaker 3: I think we have new orders.
Speaker 7: Don't you know?
Speaker 3: The packet's got your name.
Speaker 7: You were in charge of the camp while I was gone.
Speaker 9: I know that.
Speaker 7: How long has he been here?
Speaker 3: Since early this morning? I knew you'd be back, mister c.
Speaker 4: We found Fleet Bear's main camp two thousand brulets sous
half of the warriors along the Big Horn, about twenty
five miles north of here. That near we had to
kill a lookout so we could stay long enough to
get a good look. Might have been the other way around,
mister s I had have seen us first.
Speaker 3: Next time, when orders come, I'll open the cap right. Oh,
he's in your tenser.
Speaker 4: Come on in, mister sabag Oh, Captain Quinch, sir, orders
from Major Daggers Sir, as you were triple when'd you
leave Fort Laraming noon yesterday?
Speaker 6: Sir?
Speaker 4: And he sleeps since then?
Speaker 9: No, Sir, except just now I should begin to doze.
Speaker 4: All go find yourself a place to sleep, some food
if you need it. Thank you, Captain Lieutenant Cybert sort
of that will you be sending me.
Speaker 7: Back, sir?
Speaker 4: Not without a rest. We'll find you when we need you.
Speaker 6: Yes, sir, I don't believe this.
Speaker 4: What is it, sir, Major says, Spotted Tails beginning to
move Scout reports indicat he's moving his whole tribe off
the reservation.
Speaker 6: It's hard to believe.
Speaker 4: I'd have to see it first hand. Me that map
case with you.
Speaker 3: Yes, sir, Where's he supposed to be now?
Speaker 4: And we have to figure that ordinarily, as lodgers are
set up along here at Pleasant Valley Creek Rosebud Agency
in the Black Hills. Let's see, his report was a
day getting to us, two days before that getting to
the Major.
Speaker 3: Which way is he traveling, Kevin this way toward us
on the Bighorn.
Speaker 4: That's what the report says.
Speaker 3: H I wonder why.
Speaker 4: I don't know why, but we're going to get the
chance to find out. We're supposed to go after him.
Speaker 8: He's still an Indian country. We can't keep him from
moving around if he wants to.
Speaker 4: Spotted Tail's supposed to stay at the Rosebud Agency, Mister Seybits.
If he's going to move around, he's supposed to ask permission.
Speaker 3: You're not calling us a treaty violation.
Speaker 4: I'm not calling it anything, Yes, sir, but the major
major wants to know why Spotted Tail's moving. He has
the right to know.
Speaker 3: Yes, Sir, I suppose he does.
Speaker 4: This gonna go hard with you seeing Spotted Tail again, No, sir,
I want you to be sure about that, Mister.
Speaker 8: Sabots, I'm sure it doesn't take Spotted Tail to remind
me of his daughter. Captain not whether grave at Fort Laramie. Yeah,
and even if a Huapah's grave weren't there, I remember.
Speaker 4: I'll be doing some map work tonight, mister Sabots, I
could use a hand, Yes, sir.
Speaker 7: Tell Sergeant Gorst pass the word.
Speaker 3: We'll break camp at dawn, right, Captain, Oh uh, what
about the runner?
Speaker 4: You can start back to the fort when we break camp.
No needing them starting earlier. He needs the rest, Yes, sir, Oh,
mister Sebits, Yes, sir, Spotted Tail's my friend. All I
want to do is talk to him.
Speaker 3: This must have been their camp, Captain, It's likely.
Speaker 10: I wish I didn't think it was. How's that, sir,
Look all along here wagon tracks only deeper lodge poles.
Speaker 4: They make that kind of mark dragging behind ponies a campsite.
This Big Pony's trailing lodge Poles. That's gotta mean Spotted
Tails moving his whole tribe.
Speaker 3: He can't understand.
Speaker 4: There's no understanding unless we can talk to him. At
the rate he's moving, that might not be too easy.
Speaker 8: Captain Spotted Tails, like Red Cloud, he believe in the
treaty table.
Speaker 3: He's always kept the peace.
Speaker 4: You know, something's got his dander up.
Speaker 9: I guess he wouldn't go.
Speaker 4: Off the reservation without a good reason. It's the way
he's going off that bothers me.
Speaker 3: What do you mean now?
Speaker 4: He could have moved up north in the Dakota Territory,
could have cut off a corner of Wyoming, gone up
to Montana Country. There are lots of ways you could
a left if getting off the reservation was what he
had in mind.
Speaker 3: Well, from the Black Hills to the Little Powder. He's
taking a long way, all right.
Speaker 4: It'd be a direct way if you were heading for
the Big Horn and Fleet Bear.
Speaker 3: You don't think that, Captain, I don't want to.
Speaker 1: Could be some.
Speaker 4: Trouble and the Black Hills drove him out, But this
looks more deliberate to me. You think we can catch
up with him not standing here mister Sibittz, Sergeant Yo,
pass the word, prepared him out and move out.
Speaker 3: Prepared him out, Captain. If he were heading for Fleet Bear,
then what.
Speaker 4: That'd be something I'd want to find out from spotted tail,
mister Sibitts.
Speaker 11: I've been here since the treaty, Captain, I never saw
anything like it.
Speaker 7: They been gone about three hours.
Speaker 1: You say, just about.
Speaker 11: Talk about folding tents and silently stealing away.
Speaker 12: I read that in the book once.
Speaker 4: Now I read the same book.
Speaker 12: You're gonna wait here for reply, Ahie.
Speaker 4: I haven't much choice.
Speaker 12: That's what you want me to say to the major.
Speaker 7: Just put down.
Speaker 4: I'm waiting for order, yes, sir.
Speaker 13: When I bet it.
Speaker 11: Down last night, I was the only one on Rawhide
Creek as far as I knew. Woke up this morning
about a whole engine the village set at my front door.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you told me, ye, fires going, squaws turn up
pots of food.
Speaker 13: Patpoos is squalling, and.
Speaker 14: Darned if some of their braves went fishing right out
there in the raw Hide.
Speaker 12: That don't happen to me every morning, Captain.
Speaker 4: Patpoos is squalling.
Speaker 11: Yeah, if funny thing about that, no matter what color
high the young man has got.
Speaker 12: When they squall, they all sound and say.
Speaker 4: How long do you think it'll take to get an answer?
Speaker 12: That it'll be more up to your major than to me.
Speaker 4: You're quite a philosopher, aren't you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I am.
Speaker 11: It comes from having time to think alone a lot.
You know, once in a while, some of you soldier
boys or someone from the engine agents if they get lost.
Speaker 12: Toting the mail that come by.
Speaker 11: But like I say, I've been here since the treaty,
and I never saw anything like this.
Speaker 4: Talk about folding tents and silently stealing away.
Speaker 12: Oh yeah, you read that book too, didn't you?
Speaker 11: Well, sir, I know sure they got used to him,
cooking and squalling, fishing.
Speaker 12: He was gone like one minute they was there, and
then right away there wasn't Why can't.
Speaker 4: Say three times? You're not gonna say it?
Speaker 12: All right? You think they got win? You was trailing him.
Speaker 4: I think they did well.
Speaker 12: S Well, I won't say it again, but I'll tell
you it left its mark on me.
Speaker 4: It sure did that you get anything for me? I'll
be outside, Oh say captain, Yeah.
Speaker 13: Yeah, I got a couple of polls.
Speaker 14: Any soldiers, why they get some good fishing.
Speaker 7: Thanks, thanks very much. Maybe next time, Captain Quince.
Speaker 13: Yeah, hop on the block.
Speaker 3: Yeah he wouldn't come back to make a stand, Captain.
Speaker 4: I don't think so. We'd have more than we could
handle if he did.
Speaker 3: The runners coming down under a flake, sir, and.
Speaker 4: See the men hold their fireside guess, sir, hold your
powr like is not he wants a power?
Speaker 14: White Captain, I come from Spotted Tail. You have a message,
spotter Tails say you come, White Armies stay you come
alone up on the bluff, Spottertail, meet white Captain at
trees by water. Like White Captain, Spotted Tail, come alone.
Speaker 4: Get my horse, mister Sabots right away, Captain, and mister
Sabots while I'm gone.
Speaker 7: Orders may come from Major Daggett.
Speaker 3: I'll receive them, sir, Good corporal.
Speaker 4: You may tell your chief I will meet him at
the trees by the water.
Speaker 14: Spottertail. Send White captain ring to show good faith.
Speaker 4: Tell your chief I know him to be a man
of good faith. Tell him to keep his ring as
you say, White Captain.
Speaker 7: Greetings, Spotted Tail.
Speaker 13: White Captain, you are from Fort Laramie. I know your faith.
Speaker 4: It's been a long time since we've met Spotted Tail
many moons.
Speaker 13: I came to you then in sorrow, who put only
daughter Ahuapa in white Man's burial grounds?
Speaker 15: I remember she spoke of love for white Man. You no,
not me, Spotted Tail, young officer. He's with me back
there at the station, the place.
Speaker 13: Of her burial. It is still honored among you.
Speaker 4: She was our friend, as you are. Friendship is always
on it.
Speaker 13: The words you're well spoken, I too speak of honor.
White Captain, you follow me?
Speaker 6: Do you yes?
Speaker 7: For two days now?
Speaker 4: It is honor for a friend to track a friend.
I wanted to talk with you, to talk, or to
make questions, questions and answers, make talk.
Speaker 13: Spotted Tail, by terms of treaty, White Army, not belong
in land of Indian from Big Horn Mountains to Black Hills,
all land north of river which flows by your fort,
all this Indian hunting ground.
Speaker 4: By terms of treaty, Spotted Tail belongs on the agency
called Rosebud, not in the van of the Little Powder
or on the bluffs above Rawhide Creek.
Speaker 13: This is why you follow me. This is why if
I say my people want new hunting grounds, what does
White Captain say to that?
Speaker 4: I say you left the best hunting grounds in the
West when you left the Black Hills.
Speaker 13: See, we do not wear the paint of war. Our
mission is one of peace.
Speaker 4: I believe you do not want war, Spotted Tail.
Speaker 13: When Red men go to war, all who see can
tell he plans war. The head dress the paint of war.
All who look can see the White army wears shame
face that treaty table has on field of battle. Only
white army knows when White army plans war.
Speaker 4: The White army plans no war against Spotted Tail.
Speaker 13: You or only White army who follows.
Speaker 4: I think this is so.
Speaker 13: I ask what you know, not what you think.
Speaker 4: I can only tell you. I think, as far as
I know, we are the only White army to follow
Spotted Tail.
Speaker 13: My scouts count you small. I am told sixty soldiers
of White Father.
Speaker 4: That's no war party, Spotted Tail. You are moving all
your people many times, my sixty soldiers, all your lodges
have been moved, squaws, papoosas your old people, as well
as your warriors.
Speaker 13: I have told you our mission is one of peace.
Speaker 4: To leave the reservation without permission of the White Father
is to break the spirit of the treaty.
Speaker 13: No words in treaty, say, Spotted Tail must ask White
father to breathe. This is the land of my father's.
On it we hunt, fish, live, and breathe.
Speaker 4: Do you consider the valley of the Big Horn the
land of your fathers?
Speaker 13: My fathers have counted them many times. Have yours No,
Then it is more the land of my fathers than yours,
White Captain.
Speaker 4: The Big Horn River lies beyond the treaty limits. Spotted Tail.
If you go there, you break the treaty.
Speaker 13: I speak to you of peace, and you reply of
breaking treaties. It is you who first talks of the
Valley of the Big Horn, not Spotted Tail.
Speaker 7: Do you got a fleet bear?
Speaker 13: You know the son of my brother.
Speaker 4: I have seen his camp on the Big Horn. I
have seen his killing. He does much harm.
Speaker 13: He is young and has the feel of a warrior.
I have seen the killing of young white warriors. Three
burial grounds of Sioux squaws and papoosas stood once near
your fort, Laramie.
Speaker 6: I know that.
Speaker 13: So there is no good left in talk, White Captain.
The sun moves and Spotted Tail moves with it. One
last time I say to you, I speak with truth
and honor. Our mission is one of peace. If you
follow me, White, Captain, I cannot be sure of the piece.
Speaker 9: Hur uh.
Speaker 3: You do any good at your pow wow, Captain, he's
going to Fleet Bear.
Speaker 4: I know he is.
Speaker 9: Will tell you that.
Speaker 4: He told me everything but that. But that's where he's hidden.
Speaker 3: Well, they've moved off the bluff. They must be going on. Yeah,
he told me they would were going after.
Speaker 4: Him if we do we start a war.
Speaker 7: He told me that too.
Speaker 4: Now, where's mister Seybert.
Speaker 3: In the telegrapher's station? No orders, Captain. We're supposed to
return to Fort.
Speaker 4: Lowermie, and the Major has made my decision for me.
Following Spotted Tail might not be the best move now.
And this isn't the complete message, mister Simons.
Speaker 9: I know, sir.
Speaker 8: The telegrapher says the line must have been cut between
here and Fort Larmie.
Speaker 4: Returned to garrison immediately.
Speaker 6: Fleet Bear has.
Speaker 4: That's all it says.
Speaker 12: Fleet Bear is what.
Speaker 3: I don't know, sir, But it does say to return.
That's the important part.
Speaker 4: I wonder if it is mister Sibitts.
Speaker 9: You're convinced he was going to Fleet Bear.
Speaker 4: I'm convinced, but that doesn't do much good.
Speaker 9: Now, Captain, you can't help what's happened. Fleet Bear has
been asking for a fight for a long time. Major
Little came across the same encamp you did, only he
had enough men to lead a charge.
Speaker 4: My orders were reconnaissance. I know that, and I didn't
know Major Little and three companies of cavalry and two
of infantry were this side of California.
Speaker 9: Major Little's not in my command. I didn't know either.
Speaker 4: Tell that to Spotted Tale.
Speaker 9: Spotted Tail's an old chief. He knew any renegades were
open to attack.
Speaker 4: It was a quiet little scene. Major Spotted Tail and
me into the trees by a stream, talking peace.
Speaker 6: And Donna, you didn't kill Fleet Bear.
Speaker 4: Captain Spotted Tail was talking to the White army when
he talked to me, told me his mission was peaceful.
I told him mine was no war party. We believed
each other.
Speaker 9: Well, you were right, yours was no war party.
Speaker 4: His wasn't either. They could have wiped us out right
there at the raw Hide. Spotted Tail is going to
figure that he was talking peace with one white man
while another attacked and killed his nephew.
Speaker 9: You say you're convinced spot the Tailor was going to
Fleetbar to join him.
Speaker 4: I think it was more likely the other way around,
to persuade Fleetbear to join him on the reservation.
Speaker 9: But you don't know that.
Speaker 7: I don't know that.
Speaker 4: But I know Spotted Tail he signed the treaty. He's
kept it.
Speaker 8: That remains to be seen, Beggie captain outside the postgate,
Spotted Tail his whole tribe.
Speaker 9: Oh, we don't want any trouble. We'll meet him outside
the gates. You show great courage, Spotted Tail riding up
to the gates of Fort lower May without first sending
a runner.
Speaker 13: I have sent runner before to speak to a white army.
I have sent him with a ring to show good faith.
Speaker 4: That was before Major when we met on the raw Hide.
Speaker 13: I have now come to white army with oh faith.
Speaker 9: We didn't break faith with you, Spotted Tail, and we
broke downe with Fleetbear.
Speaker 13: The words faith, courage, honor come easy to the tongue,
for white man have no meaning to Spotted Tail unless
they are words of the heart.
Speaker 4: Fleetbear broke faith with us by his killing. I told
you that when we power out.
Speaker 13: There was not yet faith in him to break white
man is killed. Not only Fleetbear but the faith that
was not yet born in him.
Speaker 7: Is that why you were going to him?
Speaker 13: I have seen much good entreaty and counsel. Fleetbear young
had not seen this.
Speaker 9: You think he would have listened to your Spotted Tale.
Speaker 13: We will not know that answer. Now you have made
his ears forever deaf to the words of his father's brother.
I can say what is in my heart, and in
my heart I believe he would have listened.
Speaker 4: Why do you believe that you tried to talk to
him before you.
Speaker 13: Told me you saw his camp on the Big Horn?
If you saw and knew what you saw, and you
know he planned a feast of si.
Speaker 4: That's what I saw magw the feast.
Speaker 13: For his father's brother, Spotted Tail. We do not make
feast and talk war. That is not our way.
Speaker 9: We can't be sorry for Fleetbear, but we will count
at a loss. To lose your friendship, Spotted Tale.
Speaker 13: You have lost more than that. I am an old man.
My friendship has not long to last. For the young braves,
they will live on and remember you have lost the
hope in their hearts for peace and honor?
Speaker 4: Is that why you've come here to tell us that?
Speaker 13: No, I come only for what is mine the remains
of my daughter Ahuapa.
Speaker 9: She was buried in our cemetery at her request, Spotted Tale.
Her grave here at Fort Laramie has been honored.
Speaker 13: I am yet her father. She will return to the
land of her people. She lived in peace. She will
rest now and forever in the peace. Her father understands.
Speaker 9: Captain, help him any way you can.
Speaker 4: You can help me, just one way, for now, Spotted Tail,
I can lead you to her grave.
Speaker 2: Fort Laramie is produced and directed by Norman MacDonald 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 Sanpa Burns by
Bill James and ray Kemper musical supervision by Amerigo Marino.
Featured in the cast were Ralph Moody, John Dayner, Tim
Graham and Lou Krugman. Jack Moyles is Major Diggett, and
Harry Bartel is Lieutenant.
Speaker 1: Seyberts Company Tencent.
Speaker 2: Dismiss next week, another transcribed story of the Northwest Frontier
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