Speaker 1: At the Galla.
Speaker 2: 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 2: Easy boy, he goes, good doorm.
Speaker 4: What you got the old day, Harrison?
Speaker 5: I'm moving, Sergeant, that moutal chill and die of pneumonia.
You don't rub and brisk and get some elbow grease
behind it?
Speaker 6: Yes, sir, sergeant, Why you suppose he does it? Sergeant?
Speaker 4: Who does what?
Speaker 7: Captain Quince.
Speaker 4: Up for? Redly? He was an off and riding habit.
Speaker 5: Maybe it was a clean morning, had a feel to it,
riding off alone.
Speaker 4: I'd like that myself.
Speaker 8: Here's a touch of springing there, all right, Buffalo grass
as green as can be. I was down to corral
this morning, and even in the low water, the old
army was rippling along like it had a song in Harrison. Yes, sergeant,
you think you could manage to blanket that mount.
Speaker 5: Before you write your next poem? M I guess I'm
holding you up captain says he threw a nail. I
told him I'd see the ferry. You gotta look at it.
Speaker 8: Right four foot looks like I meant to see to it.
Speaker 4: I got business at the saddlery.
Speaker 5: Anyway, Sergeant, i'd sure admire some outdoor duty today, if
you could arrange it.
Speaker 4: Stable detailed sort of outdoors, Harrison in and out.
Speaker 8: I was thinking more like the hayyard, or lending a
hand in the post garden, or like that.
Speaker 7: I'd be obliged.
Speaker 4: Anything outdoors, anything at all, Sergeant. You see up there
on the bluff by the old.
Speaker 5: Cemetery, I'm looking that away that white patch top of
the rise.
Speaker 6: Oh sure I see that.
Speaker 4: Well, now that's a patch of wild daisies. Harrison.
Speaker 5: Anybody asks you, tell them you got my leave to
go up there and pick them.
Speaker 2: Oh, sergeant's outdoor work.
Speaker 8: I don't aim to get myself laughed right off this post.
Speaker 5: The useful service you was performing, Harrison officers are having
a fancy ball to nighted old bedlam. Well, they might
give a stripe or two to the trooper who sort
of their decorations.
Speaker 8: I'll tell you, Sergeant, I like this stable details just fine.
Speaker 2: More think of it more like it.
Speaker 4: Lad's oblige anytime, Harrison.
Speaker 8: Now get me three stripes someday, like it's not our
mosy over the post two on a fine spring day, I.
Speaker 4: Could make them daisies in order, Harrison.
Speaker 8: Why looking down there, Sergeant Gorse, he't got a stage
coming over the bridge.
Speaker 4: He is when he's riding on a flat wheel.
Speaker 8: Yeah, maybe that's why he's pulling into the fort this
time of day.
Speaker 5: Being the wheelwrights are near the smithy, in the saddlery.
I'll just mosey on down there and see what's going on.
Speaker 4: Give me that lead rope.
Speaker 5: Soldier here, get to your duty, daisy dog, Yes, sergeant.
Speaker 9: Well, what do you mean we'll have to put up
here for the night.
Speaker 1: This is an army post, now, Ophie, setting yourself this minute.
Speaker 9: There's nothing but men here.
Speaker 10: Now, ma'am. There ain't a stage built that'll run on
three wheels, but.
Speaker 9: An army post.
Speaker 1: Why we're women.
Speaker 2: I'll be that as it may.
Speaker 10: We we gotta put up here. It took all I
had and then some to bring us clean to the fort.
Now the wheel right tells me he can put us
on the trail by sun up and that's the level
best we can do.
Speaker 1: I declare, I don't know what Homer off there in
Virginia City waiting for.
Speaker 4: Opie and me.
Speaker 10: Well, you could maybe telegraph ahead. If you think your
husband will worry after you.
Speaker 9: Well, I don't know what to make of you. Of
course he'll worry.
Speaker 1: Homer's bound to worry his wife and baby girls spending
the night in the middle of nowhere at an army post, Ophie,
if you own mall me once more, I'll bang you
with my umbrella.
Speaker 9: But there's one coming right.
Speaker 4: Up to us.
Speaker 10: One what sold Oh, sergeant course stand right behind you.
Speaker 4: We are right, says you've got trouble Clay.
Speaker 10: Yeah, all kinds sergeants, or meet up with missus klein Exel,
her daughter, Miss Sophie.
Speaker 5: Sergeant Gorse, ma'am, Miss.
Speaker 9: Sophie, are you in charge here a young man?
Speaker 4: No, ma'am exactly.
Speaker 9: Then I demand to be taken to whoever it is.
I want to telegraph Homer.
Speaker 1: I want to see with my own eyes the quarters
for my daughter and.
Speaker 4: Me, Homer, ma'am.
Speaker 10: And that's mister klein Exel.
Speaker 2: He's in Virginia City.
Speaker 7: Oh are you listening to me?
Speaker 1: Young man.
Speaker 4: Why yes, ma'am, I clay clay where you're going?
Speaker 10: Well, I'm pretty sure that wheel Wright needs a hand,
I'm sure. Thank you for taking over this way, sergeant.
Speaker 7: Hey, I play.
Speaker 6: We had no food since breakfast, young man.
Speaker 9: That'll have to be taken care of.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 1: Those carpet bags over there are ours, and they were.
Speaker 9: Brand new when we left Omaha. So mind you, tender
and easy. Who did you say was in charge here?
Speaker 4: I didn't say, ma'am, but off hand i'd say you was.
Speaker 9: Ophy simmered down, and I.
Speaker 5: Just wondered if if you were in my position, what
would you do?
Speaker 2: Captain right?
Speaker 4: What would you do?
Speaker 2: I'm afraid I haven't been listening, mister Sabitson. Sorry, what
would I do about?
Speaker 4: What would you go alone?
Speaker 5: If you didn't have a young lady to escort.
Speaker 4: To the officer's ball tonight?
Speaker 2: Good lord, I'd forgotten about that.
Speaker 5: It's the first one since I've been here.
Speaker 2: If you're smart, you'll get a poker game. You did
play right here in my quarters if you want, well,
I was rather.
Speaker 5: Looking forward to the ball.
Speaker 2: I'd sooner ride into an ambush.
Speaker 5: You know, it's hard to picture in your mind. A
ball right here in old Bedlam. It doesn't seem part
of the West.
Speaker 2: Somehow it shouldn't be part of it. One of cigars habits.
Speaker 4: No, thank you, sir, Captain. You don't talk like you're
planning to attend this evening.
Speaker 2: I'm not you sure, mister sybrids. The last ball I
attended was on an order. Besides, I have some work
I want to do tonight. If I can get the
major's permission.
Speaker 5: Well, I don't know, and it's your business, all right, sir.
But she thinks you're going to the ball, miss Willer.
I was over at the Sutler's store this morning, and Planny,
mister Burgess, gave me his leave to ask Miss Willer
to the ball. Well, but she means to go with you, Captain.
Speaker 2: I don't know why I didn't ask him.
Speaker 5: She seems right sure you will low before the days
are Oh, she seems content just to wait for you.
Speaker 2: Miss Will is a pretty thing. She makes a mistake, though,
waiting for anyone.
Speaker 4: Captain.
Speaker 5: I wouldn't have asked her, but there aren't many single
ladies to choose from.
Speaker 2: I've got no claim on Miss Will and mister Savage,
if that's what you mean.
Speaker 5: No, it's more her claim I was thinking about.
Speaker 4: She's sat on you, Captain Quinn's.
Speaker 2: It's a pure waste, oh is it?
Speaker 11: Captain Quin's tennant Savage made as you were, gentlemen, this
isn't exactly official business.
Speaker 2: It's him.
Speaker 11: He just looked in the ballroom all the way up.
Looks like things are taking shape for the night.
Speaker 4: Yes they are.
Speaker 5: Missus Daggett and the other wives are doing a fine
job with the decorations.
Speaker 11: Well, they enjoy that sort of thing. It's time we
had some festivity around here.
Speaker 2: Yes, sir, that what you came to tell us. Major.
Speaker 11: I expect to see you both there, Captain Quinch.
Speaker 2: There's something I want to talk to you about.
Speaker 11: Both of you there. I don't know whether you've heard
yet or not, but we have some guests on the post,
Missus Klein Exel from Omaha and her daughter. The stage
broke down. They'll be with us overnight.
Speaker 5: The daughter, sir, what about her, mister Savage, Well, sir,
in the interest of showing fort Laramie's hospitality, what I
mean is, if she's not otherwise engaged, I'd be proud to.
Speaker 2: See her to the ball tonight.
Speaker 11: I think that's a good idea, Savage.
Speaker 2: I would like to discuss something major.
Speaker 11: Yes, so would I, Captain Quinch.
Speaker 5: Then, if you'll excuse me, Major, Captain mister Sabert.
Speaker 11: You will find the young lady in a mother quartered
next to the Sutler store.
Speaker 2: Yes, sir, welly, if we can forget that pink tea
a while.
Speaker 11: I told you Lee, I expect you at that ball tonight.
This is no mere whim of mine, and if I
have to order you to be there, I will.
Speaker 2: We're not gonna see eye to eye on that. Ever.
Speaker 11: You understand all about troop morale in the field. I
never knew an officer to show greater concern for his men.
But I think you owe something to your fellow officers. Captain,
What do you mean? It's such a thing as post
morale too. The junior officers admire you, they respect you.
It'll mean something to them to see you sharing their
off duty entertainment relaxation. You're a hard man toon, oldie,
especially in a ball I wouldn't insist if I didn't
think it was important.
Speaker 2: I've been trying to tell you what I think is
important every since you came in. All Right, yellow Horse.
He's still in the stockade.
Speaker 11: Yes, I know that, but I can't send him to
Levenworth till I receive orders from Washington. So far they
haven't come through.
Speaker 2: Can't you telegraph Washington.
Speaker 11: In an emergency?
Speaker 2: Is Renegate band of Sue is still marauding?
Speaker 11: Tell me does this have any connection with the fact
that you left the post alone before Revely?
Speaker 2: This morning, I rode out to the reservation, had a
long talk with eagle Wing.
Speaker 11: I hope he understood it was unofficial.
Speaker 2: Captain eagle Wing and I talked only as men interested
in peace.
Speaker 11: Well, at least he isn't a hostile and no great
friend of yellow Horse, as I remember.
Speaker 2: He says, a few of yellow Horses old band have
come onto the reservation in the last few weeks. That
could mean trouble.
Speaker 11: Major a few hostiles on a reservation of four thousand.
I don't think so, Captain.
Speaker 2: I'm not talking about a Sioux uprising. I'm talking about
maybe six hostiles thinking to set yellow Horse free.
Speaker 11: Eagle Wing said this, I said it could happen. I
suppose it could. I don't think it's likely.
Speaker 2: I do. This band has never had a leader like
yellow Horse never killed for gain or because the Whites
invaded his hunting grounds. He killed to kill, because he
loved to kill. He's there, their inspirational leader. They'll come after.
Speaker 11: Him, all right, Lee, what is it you want?
Speaker 2: Move yellow Horse?
Speaker 11: Move him?
Speaker 2: Yeah, over to Fort Carney, small details, starting at dusk.
I don't like it, Lee, He'd be that much closer
to leven words.
Speaker 11: No, No, I can't risk it. I'm on orders to
secure yellow Horse at Fort Laramie. I'd need more reason
than you'll give me to go against them.
Speaker 2: Then I've said my piece. Major Lee.
Speaker 11: You you feel pretty keenly about this.
Speaker 2: Why maybe it's not important. I asked you a question,
all right, call it a symbol. We could have killed
him when we took him, but we held something out
to the Indians, a fair trial, white man's justice. Yellow
Horse was tried fairly and sentenced fairly. The Indians know
that yellow Horse should pay for his killing legally if
an escape is arranged, even if he's killed in the attempt.
He's a martyr to every red Man because a white
man killed him. Sir, I don't disagree with any of that, Lee,
but your answer is still the same.
Speaker 11: It has to be. My orders are clear. I have
to respect them. I wish I could count on your understanding.
Speaker 2: I wish I could give it to you major.
Speaker 11: All right, cap'n. We both had our say. Now let's
forget it, like you to join my party this evening.
Speaker 2: That an invitation's er, that is an order, Captain, Yes, sir.
Speaker 12: Well, I wouldn't have believed it.
Speaker 1: It's a regular storm, I declare, mister Burgess. It's the
equal of anything.
Speaker 9: We have in Omaha.
Speaker 5: Oh yes, it is Chicago, New York, Boston, Pliny Burgess
bowls to no one when it comes to merchandise.
Speaker 1: Now this bowl of cloth, OPHI just look at the
quality those threads.
Speaker 4: Pure gold, madam, pure gold.
Speaker 9: Why there are no such things in color?
Speaker 4: I mean, yes, pure gold.
Speaker 1: Oh well, yes, I see they are, Ophy. Will you
stop clutching me?
Speaker 11: So it's a love.
Speaker 1: Oh my well, he's just another soldier. Hopey, you'd get
used to the side of them. They're all over out.
Speaker 6: Here, afternoon to your captain.
Speaker 2: Quint's miss willow around Flanny to.
Speaker 1: The back with the account books as usual, Captain, thank you.
Speaker 9: My six.
Speaker 1: He's a big one. Yeah, oh yes, you stop making
eyes this minute. You've been spoke for by that other one,
and he's Lieutenant lovely.
Speaker 2: Miss Willem.
Speaker 13: Yes, helloly, hello, come.
Speaker 2: Onie, if you're busy, way we can forget about it.
Speaker 13: Oh, you'll not get off that easy.
Speaker 14: I'm not busy, and I've been expecting you.
Speaker 2: You you shouldn't wait for me, will you know that?
Speaker 13: Sit down?
Speaker 10: Lee?
Speaker 2: Thanks?
Speaker 13: I don't wait for you, as you say. I know
better than that. I wait for Major Daggett.
Speaker 2: How's that?
Speaker 13: Sooner or later?
Speaker 14: He always orders you to attend the ball, and when
he does sooner or later, you decide you'd rather escort
me than dance with ranking officer's wives the entire evening.
Speaker 2: That's the way it is.
Speaker 13: I'm afraid so, but that's not a complaint. I'll be
ready at eight, all right. Don't look so Trappedly, you're not.
You know, I.
Speaker 2: Wasn't thinking about me.
Speaker 13: Don't worry about me. I understand. It's a lovely day.
It'll be a lovely eveningly.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it looks like mister Seyberts is going to have
a lovely evening too, Poor Ophy, poor Sybris. You could
have spared him that if it accepted him instead of
waiting around.
Speaker 13: For from major Daggett.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, from major daggots.
Speaker 6: What you're perfectly saying.
Speaker 11: Not do nothing, walk in store, do nothing.
Speaker 7: Will be careful, bare what's wrong out here?
Speaker 2: Awful?
Speaker 6: Get him out of here.
Speaker 2: Take the girl.
Speaker 13: I'm along, Opie, it's all right.
Speaker 6: Tell her it's all right, Captain, it's the engine. She's
not used to the sight.
Speaker 15: Of them, Captain, White woman, bad Spirit, no, white Bird.
Speaker 2: She's just frightened.
Speaker 4: White bird frightened too, him doing nothing.
Speaker 1: He walked in here, big as life. That's what he
did right in the storemind you like he was.
Speaker 2: A human being, Yes, like he.
Speaker 1: Was a human being.
Speaker 2: Is that all he did?
Speaker 7: Well?
Speaker 1: Yes, But if I hadn't cried the alarm, we'd have
all been massacred.
Speaker 9: That's what they do, you know.
Speaker 2: Whitebird go.
Speaker 15: Come later to trade.
Speaker 4: Well, now you bring silver, more blankets, whitebird.
Speaker 15: Trade for food, come back later when bad Spirit and
white woman go.
Speaker 9: Well, I never.
Speaker 4: You people dealing with him.
Speaker 2: Trading like he was. He's a reservation Indian, ma'am. He's
all right, Oh, yes, I would like to look at
what he has to offer.
Speaker 11: Captain.
Speaker 2: We'll go on into the storeroom. Make your trades. Go on.
It's all right, whitebird, of course, come on, come on,
white bird, come on and see you trade him fair pliny.
Speaker 4: Why I'm the soul of other.
Speaker 2: You feel better, ma'am, Well, you've.
Speaker 9: Done nothing to make me feel better.
Speaker 1: I see you're mighty solicitous about your savage in there,
and not so much as a kind word pro frightened
white woman.
Speaker 2: Sorry, ma'am. We know white Bird is our friend. We've
lived with him, but we've no mind to be unkind
to strangers.
Speaker 9: You mean to say that Indians have the run of
this fort.
Speaker 2: Young man, Some Indians, the ones we know and trust,
ones who trust us. You'll find that in the west.
Speaker 1: But what about all the killing, the massacres. That's all
you hear in o Mahan near all you read how
many whites the red savages are murdered.
Speaker 9: Now I say that's true or it isn't.
Speaker 2: Some of it is, ma'am. Indians are like us. There's
good and we've got a bad one on the post
yellow Horse. But he's in the stockade.
Speaker 9: That's as it should be.
Speaker 1: You think that, don't you.
Speaker 2: I think that.
Speaker 9: Well, it's a pretty You can't tell by looking.
Speaker 2: Oh you can sometimes if you know what to look for,
but that comes with known folks, white men or red men.
Speaker 4: Face value.
Speaker 1: It's a risky business, young man. Many's the time I've
been dead wrong and judging a body on first side
of me.
Speaker 9: Of course, I'm talking about white folks.
Speaker 2: You planning to live in the West.
Speaker 9: Ma'am Virginia City.
Speaker 1: Homer's out there now, Oh, me are going to him?
Speaker 4: Sikes.
Speaker 1: I guess I got a lot of learning hitting me,
a lot of learning, sergeant.
Speaker 2: Oh yes, sergeant, Oh yes, sir. Captain finished eating goys, Yes, sir.
Speaker 5: Eat plenty too, good thing. I got no bars on
my shoulders. I'd be right to stuffed to waltz tonight.
That's all fine, spring evening for a flock of fancy waltzes.
Speaker 2: Though, All right, sergeant, you're making your point, Yes, sir,
you get any plans for the night after tend two?
Speaker 5: Oh, I drew some duty, captain duty, kind of special
duty too. Orders come down from Major Dagget to double
the guard at the stark Kave.
Speaker 2: I figured you'd know that, No, Oh I didn't.
Speaker 5: Ain't They send a yellow horse out Elevenworth before long.
Speaker 2: That's up to Washington.
Speaker 5: Yeah, sure, got a lot of time back there, ain't
they Captain.
Speaker 2: Seems like it.
Speaker 4: Sometimes you have something you wanted me to do tonight.
Speaker 5: No, oh, nothing, Well, before I told you about the duty,
you asked about my plans.
Speaker 2: Captain, you answered my questions. Yes, sir, that's all.
Speaker 5: Sa If anything comes up at the stockade, I'll see
you hear.
Speaker 4: About it, sir.
Speaker 2: You will report to Major Daggett.
Speaker 4: Yes, sir, and that goes Captain.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a right smart sash you wear.
Speaker 2: Good night, guys, Yes, sir, she's.
Speaker 14: Been trying to get your attention for the last half
hourly who asked missus Kleinexe And you haven't even asked
her to dance yet either, I know, I know.
Speaker 2: But she she comes.
Speaker 1: Excuse me, you two, but I've got to have word
to this young man. I'm sending the lieutenant to dance
with you, dearie.
Speaker 14: Captain Quince was just on his way over to you,
missus Cleinexel.
Speaker 13: I'll find Lieutenant Cyberts will shall we.
Speaker 2: Captain proud to ma'am.
Speaker 1: I could waltz with a glass of water on my head.
Never spill a drop, That's what Homer always says.
Speaker 2: You tried with me, ma'am, you stand a chance at drowning.
Speaker 1: There's good humor in you, young man.
Speaker 2: I like that, Thank you. Oh, I'm sorry.
Speaker 9: I wanted to tell you.
Speaker 1: I went out on the baranda for a breath of
air a while back, and when I first saw them,
I came near to screaming, like I did this afternoon
with the other agent.
Speaker 2: You're developing a real life for Indians, ma'am.
Speaker 1: Yes, I am. I've been trying to recollect though I
don't believe he was wearing them in the store to.
Speaker 2: Day, Whitebird wearing what the feathers? No, ma'am, he wasn't
wearing feathers.
Speaker 9: I didn't think so.
Speaker 1: Now these Indians was well, maybe it suits their fancy.
Speaker 2: You're sure they were wearing feathers.
Speaker 9: I just told you there was five or six, I guess.
Speaker 2: Excuse me, ma'am. I have to speak to the major.
Speaker 6: Now, what's wrong with feathers?
Speaker 7: Ator Daggetar?
Speaker 6: Where those shots coming from?
Speaker 2: Kevin?
Speaker 7: That's a stockade? Me too, Siblets.
Speaker 2: Listen, let's go six of them all dead?
Speaker 4: Sergeant dead Engines, Captain good thing you doubled the guard. Major?
Speaker 11: What about yellow Horse?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 5: He was hoping for a while. I checked him. He's
got his health.
Speaker 11: All of it. Captain, Yes, sir, fall into detail. I
want yellow Horse and he's wait eleven worths. No later
than noon tomorrow. Any questions, just one, n What about Washington.
I'll telegraph Washington tonight. Oh, Captain, yes, major, thank you.
Speaker 3: Fort Laramie is produced and directed by Norman MacDonald and
stars Raymond Burr as lee Quince, Captain of Cavalry, with
Vic Perrin as Sergeant Gorse. The script was specially written
for Fort Laramie by Kathleen Hight, with sound patterns by
Bill James and ray Kemper musical supervision by Amarigo Marino.
Featured in the cast were Jeanette Nolan, Sam Edwards, Eleanor Tannon,
Harry Bartel, Jack Moyles, Shirley Mitchell, Howard mcneer, Frank Cady,
and Jack.
Speaker 7: Crushian Company tencent.
Speaker 3: Dismiss next week, another transcribed story of the Northwest Frontier
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