Speaker 1: At the cover Wow.
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 frontiers, the saga of fighting men who rode
the rim of Empire, and the dramatic story of lee
Quin's captain of cavalry.
Speaker 3: Is that.
Speaker 2: Your wrist back like?
Speaker 1: He'll watch me again? Then I see this. If you
just squeeze the trick again, hold steady on your target,
your wrist won't fly around.
Speaker 3: So but I'm not a cavalry lieutenant.
Speaker 4: I'm just as wild.
Speaker 5: I know.
Speaker 4: I didn't know anyone else was watching.
Speaker 5: Captain Quince as you were. Lieutenant. This is my wife Hester,
it's Captain quinns ma'am.
Speaker 3: How do you do Captain?
Speaker 1: Yes, don't you don't take to a pistol, But I'm
all I can.
Speaker 5: It's slow going.
Speaker 4: Teaching Blade teaching not learning. I was a schoolmar I'm
back home, Captain, and I must say, Blade doesn't take
to words any better than I take to a pistol.
Speaker 6: Well, then you're both teaching, not learning.
Speaker 3: But that's just it, just it.
Speaker 2: I try to tell them.
Speaker 1: Maybe she's got more need for pistol out here for
when words don't matter.
Speaker 4: Well, I just don't see the need, captain.
Speaker 5: It's too bad seeing it or not, there's need.
Speaker 4: Now you mean to tell me that your wife knows
about pistols and rifles and riding horses and all kinds
of men poke cans on.
Speaker 1: I should have warned your captain my hash, she riles.
Speaker 5: Easy, Well, I'm not.
Speaker 4: Rile blade stock. I'm asking, that's all.
Speaker 6: If I had a wife, ma'am, she'd know all I
know about living out here and pistols and rifles and
riding part of the living.
Speaker 1: And I try to tell a captain, I do.
Speaker 4: Try, I declare, I am not stupid.
Speaker 3: But everything you say it's not womanly.
Speaker 5: It's not womanly country.
Speaker 4: Meaning women folk don't belong out here.
Speaker 6: It depends on the women folks, ma'am. I'd say, you
have to want to belong afternoon to.
Speaker 1: You afternoon, captain.
Speaker 4: Well, I'm like that. Like you said, it's ma'am.
Speaker 7: You just can't get nowhere from horse hanging on with me.
Speaker 8: I got to hang on to something.
Speaker 7: Well, but you.
Speaker 8: Just don't ride side saddle sergeants.
Speaker 6: Now that's a fact. Oh, you looking for me, captain, Oh,
just passing by a sergeant afternoon?
Speaker 7: Is me?
Speaker 8: Good afternoon, Captain. I guess I'm quite a spectacle that I.
Speaker 5: Oh you look fine, ma'am.
Speaker 8: I'd like to believe that. I don't know who's getting
the worst of it, the horse or me or Sergeant Gorse.
Speaker 6: Seems to me you're all bearing up well.
Speaker 9: The captain's a site better teaching women folk to ride
than I am. Missus Mead, I tell you the truth,
I'm no hand at this side saddle business.
Speaker 5: I got business with the Major myself, or I'd sure.
Speaker 8: You'd sure think of some other reason to be moving out, wouldn't.
Speaker 5: You, Captain, Yes, ma'am, I guess it would.
Speaker 8: I don't blame you, either of you and sergeant. If
you can find some unsuspecting trooper and pass this duty
onto him, you have my leave and I won't be
the least bit offended.
Speaker 9: Oh no, ma'am, thanks just the same, You understand it.
It ain't you, missus me. You're just as willing as
can be.
Speaker 8: It's just my petticoats, that's what it is.
Speaker 6: Well now, ma'am, I guess the Major will wonder what's
become of me now?
Speaker 8: I've embarrassed. Help me down, Captain before I break the
post morale completely.
Speaker 6: Yes, ma'am, thank you, captain.
Speaker 5: Don't mention it.
Speaker 9: You dropped something there, man, not a petticoat.
Speaker 6: I hope this uh this pistol, Miss Meade, Oh, thank
you captain.
Speaker 5: You always carry it, oh.
Speaker 8: Jim and scalp me if I didn't, he should? I know,
and I'm a good shot too, Miss Meade.
Speaker 6: Have you met up with missus Stocker yet, Missus Stocker?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 8: Blade Stocker's why as you know her? Well, just to
speak to it the Sutters. I don't really know her.
She and the lieutenant moved onto the post just last week.
Speaker 6: If you ever do get to know her, you might
show her you carry a pistol and tell her why.
Speaker 8: She doesn't know why.
Speaker 5: And Blade's doing his best, but she don't see the need.
Speaker 8: I'll make it a point, Captain, but I can't understand Blade.
He was at Fort pild Corney.
Speaker 5: With us under fetterment.
Speaker 8: I thought she was there too, but maybe not though,
because the women at Karney saw the need fast.
Speaker 10: You want any of these boxes open, Missus stockersh Now,
don't you.
Speaker 2: Bother with that?
Speaker 3: Lieutenant Cyberts.
Speaker 7: Just moving them in for me is.
Speaker 8: A big help.
Speaker 4: Glad to do it, I declare you think they give
a body time to move into their quarters here, it
is less than a week, and Blade's already drawn Officer
of the day.
Speaker 10: That's the army for you, missus Stocker. You draw the duty,
you do it, that's all.
Speaker 4: Now you're not going to start letching me too, Lieutenant Cyberts.
Speaker 10: Sorry, ma'am, I didn't mean it to sound that way.
Speaker 4: Oh, don't mind me, Blade says, I rile easy, and
I guess I do. But it's all so new to me,
and folks from Captain Quinn's up and down have been
mighty free with their advice.
Speaker 10: Well, I am just trying to help.
Speaker 4: Well, I'm sure that, but there's help and help, if
you know what I mean.
Speaker 6: Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 4: Now you, Lieutenant Cyberts, helping me move my book and
belongings in.
Speaker 8: I can appreciate that.
Speaker 5: More works.
Speaker 3: Huh.
Speaker 10: No, one of those boxes is so happy my school books.
Speaker 4: I taught the grades back home before I married Blade.
Teaching was my whole life till him. I tell you,
I couldn't leave my books behind me.
Speaker 10: I just couldn't and understand that you can't. Yes, ma'am,
I brought a lot of books out myself from West Point.
I attended the Military Care.
Speaker 4: My goodness, a real west Point, I.
Speaker 8: Declare, missus Stock.
Speaker 10: Are there any more boxes of yours out there on
the wagon?
Speaker 4: Well, not exactly, I mean not on the wagon.
Speaker 10: But there are more boxes somewhere.
Speaker 4: Can you forgive me, Lieutenant Sibots? They're clear down at
the post office.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 4: I know you don't have the time to go all out.
Speaker 6: I'll be glad, ma'am.
Speaker 8: Well, I'll be more than grateful.
Speaker 4: I make the nicest cherry toots, Lieutenant. I'll see you
get some soon.
Speaker 5: I like that, ma'am.
Speaker 10: I won't be long.
Speaker 7: Anybody home?
Speaker 8: Oh why, yes, Oh, come in, won't you. I'm Liz
Mead two doors down.
Speaker 4: I've seen you at the Suttlers, haven't I?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 8: Oh, I'm Hess Stocker.
Speaker 4: I know.
Speaker 8: Is it all right to sit on one of these boxes?
Speaker 4: Well, I'm afraid they're all I have to offer right now.
Speaker 8: I feel like I know you. Weren't you at Fort
Corney with Blade? No, we've just been married a month.
Speaker 4: I've never been anywhere with Blade but here.
Speaker 8: Oh, well, my husband knew Blade better than I did.
But there's sort of a link between anyone who served there.
Speaker 3: Fort Connie.
Speaker 8: It's up on the old Bozeman Trail. It's closed now,
that's all Indian territory since the treaty.
Speaker 4: But I must be mistaken about Blade, missus mead. He's
never mentioned Fort Connie to me, but.
Speaker 8: I'm sure he was there. There were five I have
companies of infantry.
Speaker 4: Or your husband's an infantry officer.
Speaker 8: Uh huh, oh, well that explains it.
Speaker 4: Then you must be wrong about Blade.
Speaker 3: He's in the cavalry.
Speaker 8: There was a company of cavalry too, under Captain Fetterman.
Speaker 4: And it's not important, of course, But I know Blade
would have told me.
Speaker 8: Of course, I'm sure he would. And as you say it,
it's not important. Well, can I help you with anything? No,
thanks kindly, my goodness, I almost forgot. I brought you
a little present.
Speaker 3: Well, aren't you nice?
Speaker 8: I have a practical turn of mind. It's something no
army wife should be without.
Speaker 4: What, well, these are cartridges.
Speaker 8: I just assumed yours was a thirty eight like mine. Well,
I don't know. You know about Fox. The woman has
to out here.
Speaker 4: I don't understand a big post like Fort Laramie with
all these men here to protect us.
Speaker 8: But the men aren't always here, Missus Stoker, My husband
and most of the infantry are out now. These are
the facts of the West. Many of the Indians are
hostile and the fate of white women in their hands. Well,
it's best to know how to defend yourself. You've had
to defend yourself many times. At Carney. The women held
the fort in one Indian raid with less than a
dozen men to help. Any of the women killed, some,
some carried off by the Sioux dyings easier.
Speaker 4: I'm a school teacher, Missus Meade. I want to make
my way out here, teaching the young that you don't
have to kill to get along. I think schools are
more important than guns.
Speaker 8: We can use the schools, Missus Stocker. And there's not
a woman out here who won't want to help you
get them. But till you do, you have to live. Now.
Speaker 4: I guess I can defend myself if I have to.
Speaker 8: It isn't always a case of defending yourself. Sometimes a
woman has to make a choice, a quick choice of
living or dying, of living or enduring. Missus Starker, don't
you know what happens to a woman if a hostile
carries her off?
Speaker 4: I think maybe that would be something for Blade to
tell me.
Speaker 3: Missus Mead, Yes.
Speaker 8: Yes, you're right. And when he tells you that, maybe
he'll tell you what the pistol is for.
Speaker 11: Really, I talk to you meta assure.
Speaker 5: What's on your mind?
Speaker 1: Well, uh, Captain, maybe maybe just off the side here,
it's kind of personal, sir, all right?
Speaker 3: Good?
Speaker 1: Yeah, would you be willing to do some talking for me? Captain?
I just can't seem to get the job done with
Hess using firearms and all of me.
Speaker 6: You sure you're trying hard at it?
Speaker 1: I don't know what that means. I'm trying. I've been trying, Captain.
There's a lot I told her, and a lot of
times a lot you haven't told her. Well, looks like
a big fort Laramie. I just swear I wouldn't know
anyone here from the old days. Sure I didn't reckon
the running them as meet again.
Speaker 5: She told you, huh it's a secret you were at
Fort Kearney.
Speaker 1: No, not that is well, they're just hard words to
say to Hess. Capt'n it all hadn't kind of quick
like I'm marrying and moving out here. I know miss
me the name too, but she sure didn't do me
no good bringing up Carney to hiss its me.
Speaker 6: Didn't get very far with your wife, and I can't
talk to her about Fort Carney.
Speaker 1: I wasn't there, but we only been married a month.
We don't even know each other right good yet?
Speaker 4: Nah?
Speaker 1: Well, how are you gonna say to brand newbride that
she ain't the first? I mean, you was married before.
Speaker 6: I don't know that, But you're the one to tell
him if she's told Blade, what's the matter with you?
Speaker 5: There's a lot, I guess.
Speaker 6: First you say, will I talk to your wife about
her need for a pistol? Then you drag Fort Carney
into it. Now you're talking about you were married.
Speaker 1: Well, don't you see, Captain, They're all the same thing
in a way. It don't come easy to give Hesse
a pistol and tell her to use it on herself
if it looks like she's gonna get took by Indians. Captain,
I've done it before at Carne, and that wife had
to use that pistol on myself.
Speaker 5: I didn't know that, Blade, I don't think Missus Mead
knew it either. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: No, no, captain, No sorry is no matter. It's not
your fault, Captain. Can't you see I've done it once
and it don't set well for second time? It just
might could go hard with him. Ma'am you.
Speaker 5: Ever said it all out this way before? Blade? No, sir,
not out aloud. You might feel some better now it's said.
I reckon, I might.
Speaker 6: Obliged to you. Listener anyways, Captain Blade, Sir, you'll want
to say something to her tonight.
Speaker 5: Tonight we're moving out tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Excuse you?
Speaker 8: No? Why can't I do that?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 8: Missus Mead, do what mount like that? I'll bet you
were fewer petticoats that I do?
Speaker 4: Might be I do?
Speaker 8: Sergeant Gorse says, you ride beautifully. I know some about horses.
Well I'm learning. Mind if I ride with you this morning?
Speaker 4: Oh well, I'm going quite away, that is, I have
some business to tend to, all right.
Speaker 8: I just thought would Blade gone a week now? You
might be wanting some company. I hope you're carrying your pistol.
Speaker 4: I'm carrying it.
Speaker 8: That's good.
Speaker 4: Well, have a nice ride, I expect to missus Mead
I'm going over to the Indian Agency talk to the
agent about setting up a school.
Speaker 8: You're not writing to the agency alone.
Speaker 4: Now, don't start telling me the agency Indians are hostiles.
Blade told me different.
Speaker 8: But it's ten miles from Fort Laramine, and you don't
know what you're running into between here and there.
Speaker 4: I reckon, I can take care of myself, after all,
missus Meade, I'm carrying the pistol, not that I'll have
a minute need for it.
Speaker 3: I guess you could do with the water.
Speaker 4: More of a ride than I thought.
Speaker 8: Huh oh, no, Miss Docer, Miss Doctar, you all right.
Speaker 4: I'm fine, but for you coming on me this way?
Do you know, Harmonia, I came to pining on you.
Speaker 8: I've been trying to get with an earshot of you
all the way from the fort. It's a very stupid
thing riding off alone this way.
Speaker 4: I might have shot you. Seems to me you're the
stupid one.
Speaker 8: I suppose I am, But but you've got to realize
the dangers out here, Miss Doccer, at least with the
two of us were protection to wait. Huh waits over
there that brush near the trees.
Speaker 3: Something big?
Speaker 4: How can you tell?
Speaker 3: I don't see anything.
Speaker 8: It moves big timberwolf. Maybe we cat I hope not.
I hope that's all it is.
Speaker 3: You're just trying to frighten me.
Speaker 8: Hold your pistol steady toward that.
Speaker 3: Big tree and be quiet.
Speaker 8: Wow, it's an Indian. You're not afraid here. Pick up
your pistol and show him you're not afraid. I don't
let it stop. Stop where you are. We're not afraid
of you. If you have something to say, say it
and go away. You understand this pistol, go on, go away,
leave us alone. Er our fire. You understand.
Speaker 7: One any more.
Speaker 8: Step and no fire?
Speaker 1: Is he dead?
Speaker 7: Did you?
Speaker 8: Did you kill him? He's dead? You don't kill him. No,
it wouldn't hiss, not for a long time.
Speaker 3: Let's go.
Speaker 6: You reckon.
Speaker 9: She's heard somehow, Captain All.
Speaker 5: I don't see how.
Speaker 10: You want.
Speaker 6: I should go with you.
Speaker 5: I'd be proud to. Oh uh, I'll do it, Gorse,
it's my place.
Speaker 9: Yes, sir, I'm sure feel mighty bad for her. Yeah,
they're being so new here and not taking to the
life easy. I might just look in on.
Speaker 6: Her tomorrow laying a hand maybe, Yeah, yeah, you do that.
Speaker 5: Gorse will not Captain not gose, Let's stop her.
Speaker 4: Oh why Captain Queen's You're about the last person I
expected to see. I's Blade with you.
Speaker 5: Can I come in, ma'am?
Speaker 8: Of course you can't.
Speaker 3: Please come in.
Speaker 4: I don't know where my man is are. I guess
it was seeing you when if it was anyone, I
thought it would be Blade.
Speaker 5: You want to sit down, missus Tucker.
Speaker 4: You've come about Blade, haven't you. Something's happened to Blade.
Speaker 5: He's dead.
Speaker 3: He's dead.
Speaker 6: Sometimes it's better hearing it right out. You want to
sit down now, ma'am?
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, I think I do.
Speaker 6: Would you like a drink of something? Or do you
want to hear about it? I want to hear it
happened quickly. It's doctor, and if it's gotta happen, it's
best quick.
Speaker 3: He didn't know he didn't suffer.
Speaker 5: Oh man, one shot clean? That did it? I don't
know what did it mean? But Blade wou want it
just that way?
Speaker 3: I guess he would. Captain we didn't even know each
other yet. It hasn't been time.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he said that too.
Speaker 3: That night before he left, he kept trying to tell
me something.
Speaker 4: He'd try and then eat Fred awhile, and then he'd
try again. Finally he just threw that blame pistol on
the dresser and he said to me, take it has honey,
Know how much I love you. That's the last words
he said to me. I think he was trying to
tell me something, Captain.
Speaker 5: I think he told you something.
Speaker 3: Man, Know how much I love you? Oh blade play.
Speaker 5: Honey, Miss Tucker. If I can do anything, you can go.
Speaker 3: Leave me be now. I wanted that way for now.
Speaker 5: You'll be all right alone.
Speaker 3: I gotta find that out for myself.
Speaker 6: Captain, Yes, ma'am, I'm I'm right sorry, Miss Stockholm.
Speaker 8: Oh, Captain, yes, you brought him back?
Speaker 3: Did you back to the ford?
Speaker 5: We brought him back. I'm glad night, Miss Stockham.
Speaker 7: Captain, Captain Quince on morning, Sergeant.
Speaker 9: You heard about it, Captain missus Stockery.
Speaker 5: What about her?
Speaker 7: She's gone gone where? How?
Speaker 9: I went over there right after Raveley I got played
last night. I couldn't raise her, so I figured she
was sleeping heavy on her way back. The corporal of
the guard told me some woman rode through the main
gate not ten minutes ago.
Speaker 5: Why didn't he stop him?
Speaker 9: Well, he didn't know her or what's happened to her
or anything? Captain Quincy knew one thing. She was carrying
a pistol like she knew what to do with him.
You said ten minutes, Yes, sir, you're gonna find a captain,
m ma'am.
Speaker 3: I was too scared to fire before.
Speaker 5: You're all right, ma'am, I'm all right.
Speaker 3: I aim to use it, captain, turn it on myself.
I was too scared to do that too.
Speaker 4: No needing for that, no matter, I couldn't do it.
That's a pretty morning.
Speaker 3: It's got no right to be, but it's pretty.
Speaker 5: It's new.
Speaker 6: It's a beginning that's always pretty.
Speaker 4: We were beginnin blading me and I was beginning on
my own to get a feel like I belonged out here.
But you're right, Captain, it's not womanly country.
Speaker 5: It still depends on the woman.
Speaker 3: I'm a school, ma'am. Teaching was my life till blade
I reckon. It's my life again.
Speaker 6: Now you've still got a life. Or don't you see
the need need schools? We can use em out here
on the post, on the agency. Some one has to
start him. Some one has to want to.
Speaker 4: Someone who could do some learning while they were teaching
I might fit the bill, Captain, I got a lot
of learning ahead of mere.
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 sound patterns by
Bill James and Ray Kemper musical supervision by Amerigo Marino.
Featured in the cast were Harry Bartel as Lieutenant Siberts
with Gene Bates, Lynn Allen and Laurence Dobkin.
Speaker 7: Company Tensent.
Speaker 2: Dismiss next week, another transcribed story of the Northwest Frontier
and the troopers who fought under lee Quinn's Captain of Cavalry.
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