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 4: How long would you say you've known him, Patrick, I
had that proud on I guess eight ten years now.
Speaker 5: Of course, I ain't had the privilege of serving with
him since the war.
Speaker 4: I still don't see why you just don't go right
up to him and make stuff known.
Speaker 5: I wouldn't intrude on the Captain that way, Drury. He's
a busy man, tracking engines, planning battles. Besides, just because
I recollect him so well, don't mean he'd remember me.
Speaker 4: But he's a kindly man.
Speaker 5: Ah, the time will come, the just right time. I'll
acknowledge myself to Captain lee Quince.
Speaker 2: I'll bet you he'd.
Speaker 4: Be proud knowing you asked special to serve under him again.
Speaker 5: May be surprised even of course, I've only been with
the company a week now, But it seems to me
the man holding him right high in their thought.
Speaker 4: I ain't been here along myself, but it's not a
man I know wouldn't lay down his life for Captain
Quinch if need be.
Speaker 5: Well, now that's nice, I declare, that's real nice. Captain
ever talked much about the war any of his experiences.
Speaker 4: Well, like I say, I ain't been here along myself,
But the men say he's not much for talk about anything.
Speaker 5: He never was, even when he was younger, when most
men talk free. He was more for action than words.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Funny, ain't it how you can sense such so much
good feeling in a man without him talking much.
Speaker 5: That's a funny thing, all right.
Speaker 4: I like to draw duty with the Captain. I sure do.
Speaker 2: Always have a.
Speaker 4: Feeling that, no matter what he's been thinking ahead planning
for us, I feel safe riding with the captain.
Speaker 5: Of course, it's hard to tell what a man's thinking
if you don't make his thoughts known.
Speaker 4: Don't matter to me much what he's thinking, so long
as he's acting good.
Speaker 5: That's a big thing. Our man acts. This sure is
different country out here, different kind of fighting country too.
And how you mean we fought closer in the war,
like like they'd be a stream here, you see, ye
say it was a kind of clearing, you know. And
on one side the ribs would be cowering in the trees.
We'd be standing firm on the other side. As sooner
or later as somebody's got to make him move for
that water, the horses, and for theirselves. I tell you,
you get thirsty, you get so you care more about
water than living. Anybody's living.
Speaker 2: Mostly we're lucky out here.
Speaker 4: Seems like there's more tricks.
Speaker 5: Man, he's got a right to a drink when he's dry,
more than dry. Your insides get the feeling like sand
I know it's gonna crumble.
Speaker 2: Patchant.
Speaker 6: What's the matter with you?
Speaker 2: Patch it?
Speaker 4: H you say something, Gray, Ask if something was wrong?
Speaker 5: Wrong boy, No, no, nothing's wrong. I just get a
thirst sometime.
Speaker 2: You talk to yourself. Dry it ain't hot. We got
plenty of war.
Speaker 4: There's a stream not fifty yards from you.
Speaker 5: I know that.
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 4: You were saying about the fight and being different in
the war.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, like I said, we fought closer man a
man sometimes a man of dismount fixed his saber to
his cabbying, and such a bloody slashing away you never saw.
Speaker 4: I ain't seen nothing like that in the west.
Speaker 5: Odd here it seems like you do more chasing than
anything else. We've been tracking engines how long? Two days now?
I ain't drawing my sight sound one if you drew it?
Speaker 4: That ain't saying ain't here somewhere? Captain Gwince must think
they're around.
Speaker 5: Well you know I'm not saying that. Why they ain't
a man of monkey come less near to criticizing the
captain's judgment? Are you forgetting?
Speaker 6: Boy?
Speaker 5: I know better than any of you what a great
man he is.
Speaker 7: Looks like the campsite ahead, mister Sibits must have made
camp here last night.
Speaker 8: Yes, sir, we've been just about a day behind them
all the way, haven't we, Captain?
Speaker 7: And it looks like we're gonna stay that way. I'll
say one thing for him. They pick good camp sites, Captain.
Speaker 5: It's the end of the fourth day.
Speaker 8: Didn't Major dag Gets say if we could catch him
in four days, fine, If not, report back to Fort Laramie.
Speaker 2: Uh, those are the orders, mister Sybits.
Speaker 8: Seems like a waste somehow, all is riding only to
turn back one thing.
Speaker 2: You don't lose many men this way.
Speaker 7: That's true, Captain, he won't be the first Suho slipped
off the reservation got away with it.
Speaker 2: Targeant, go, we'll make camp ahead, correct, Yes, sir, I
guess we lost him, sir, so you never had him
to lose, Sergeant.
Speaker 5: No, sir, I declare, Captain, I'm real sorry about that.
Speaker 2: I don't know how I'm done. You better get on
with your job.
Speaker 5: Trooper passions the name. That's if you don't remember.
Speaker 2: I remember.
Speaker 5: I kept hoping i'd bump into your captain, Sir. Sure
enough I did.
Speaker 2: You've been with b company long.
Speaker 5: Just a week. I didn't want to bother you, seeing
you was heading up this big engine chasing operation. I
didn't see any engines myself, but the man keep telling
me there must be somewhere around that. Captain Clint wouldn't
be our chassem it.
Speaker 7: We're moving back to Fort Laramie starting tomorrow.
Speaker 2: When we get there, I'll see you get a transfer
to another company.
Speaker 9: Now.
Speaker 5: I'm sorry to hear you say that, Captain. I've been
looking forward to this reunion longer than I can tell.
Tell the truth, I thought you'd hold a higher rank
by now, seeing men like Custer and Mackenzie at generals,
and you're the equal. I could swear to that. I've
been telling you've got a job to do, Tripper, better
get on with it. Is that an order, Captain, sir?
Speaker 2: That's an order? Yes, sir, Oh, Captain, well.
Speaker 5: I thought maybe you'd want to know. It didn't just
happen by being in your company. I asked for this
duty specialist on account of us being such old friends,
I am.
Speaker 4: I guess you remember them all right, Captain?
Speaker 2: When was that Drury passion? Sir?
Speaker 4: He was worried for fear you might not remember who
he was. That's so I told him Now I.
Speaker 2: Knew you'd recollect.
Speaker 4: You're just not the kind of man to forget a friend.
Speaker 2: He's been talking to you a lot, Drury.
Speaker 4: And I'll put it this way, sir, I know you
a lot better since meeting up with Patching.
Speaker 2: I wonder I.
Speaker 4: Feel I do. The rest of the men they feel
like I do. We wasn't surprised to hear it exactly,
but we sure didn't know you map campaigns for General Sheridan,
General Cook too, and only acts of bravery when you
led there, Robert, Yes, sir.
Speaker 2: You got to do it with a message and right,
that's right, sir. Move out, yes, sir.
Speaker 10: Captain, Sir, what is it, guys? Camp's most betted down, Captain.
The pickets are out. He's on picket duty. It's our
last night out, sir. Corporal Jenkins used the rest of
the patrol.
Speaker 2: Who are they guys?
Speaker 5: Well, Sir?
Speaker 10: He put Vickers and cop up by the band over
the west, he got Steven's and Holt, then over south
Beal and patching.
Speaker 7: I told Corporal Jenkins, no picket duty for patching, and
I meant it, Captain, no picket duty for patching.
Speaker 2: That's an order, yes, sir.
Speaker 5: Captains mind if I say something.
Speaker 7: Sir, I mind if anybody says something, mister Sabots.
Speaker 5: I just want to ask you why.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't bother asking, mister Sibots.
Speaker 8: It's about the men, Captain. I have the right to
speak out about the men.
Speaker 2: You've got the right.
Speaker 8: They're tired, sir. They've ridden four days out, three days back.
We've been moving like someone was chasing us.
Speaker 7: Only no one is any other observations misters.
Speaker 8: Yes, sir, everyone stood his turn at picket duty. Everyone
but patches.
Speaker 2: You're getting awful close to asking why again mister siber.
Speaker 8: I'm sure you have a reason, Captain. I hope it's
a good one, because the men don't understand. I think
we've got a morale problem.
Speaker 2: We won't have it long. We'll be back at the
fort tomorrow, Captain, if you'd like to go tonight.
Speaker 7: Misters not all you have to say, Captain, And it's
clear I'm asking for Patching's transfer, but you won't say
why if you're talking about those forms you fill out
major put down for the good of company morale.
Speaker 11: I'm interested in company morale. I've watched I've listened to
Lieutenant Cyberts, I've talked to Sergeant Gorse.
Speaker 12: Now I'm gonna ask you, Captain.
Speaker 2: It's personal.
Speaker 11: We haven't got room for personal quarrels Lee. Oh, this
is so little like you. I don't even believe it.
Nobody who knows you believes it. You don't let these
things happen. We're gonna talk about that transfer. No, we're
gonna talk about morale. I suppose I transfer this man,
What good would that do? You've got a company out there.
They're gonna be here whether Patchin's transferred or not. They
watched this man get to you as nearly as I
can tell. He's been killing you with kindness.
Speaker 2: That's what he's trying to do. Why why he hates
my guts goes way back?
Speaker 12: No picket duty for patching.
Speaker 2: Why I like my camp safe when I'm in hostile territory.
Speaker 11: Major, It'll be a lot of trouble to get his
army record clear back to the war.
Speaker 12: But I'll go to that trouble. Lee. If you don't
tell me.
Speaker 7: I saved his life once, he's never forgiven me.
Speaker 12: That's an odd thing to say.
Speaker 7: It's the truth. I saved a lousy, gutless life. He
knows it is, he lives with it.
Speaker 12: He served under.
Speaker 2: You, I served under him.
Speaker 12: Patching was an officer.
Speaker 7: Captain Joseph Patching, New York Cavalry before I knew you, Major.
Remember the little wars us on one side of his stream,
them on the other.
Speaker 12: And both of you eating the water in between. Yeah,
I remember.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Five days and nights we sat there looking across at him, waiting,
just waiting.
Speaker 7: We had a little water we could have held out.
The men were doing fine. He ordered a charge, he
didn't order anything.
Speaker 2: We just split wide open.
Speaker 7: Crazy took off after that stream before anyone knew what
hit The man thought it was a charge him being
in command.
Speaker 2: We lost half a company.
Speaker 12: You hate his guts too, don't you.
Speaker 7: I every good man's got fear in him.
Speaker 2: I don't mind honest fear. I hate a coward. Major.
Speaker 12: You were commissioned on the field leave, was it there?
Speaker 2: He can't forget that either.
Speaker 12: Surely he was relieved of his command.
Speaker 2: Makes you dag it?
Speaker 9: Sir?
Speaker 10: Sergeant Gorse, corporal of the Guard, reports two deserted Sir,
it's patching and Drury.
Speaker 2: Thick Amend's sergeant fan out around the house. Check the barn, Yes, sir.
Speaker 4: Oh vikers cover the barn.
Speaker 2: You be topped the corral. Stevens Fredericks, afternoon to you, mister.
Speaker 13: They trample that young wheat the army alone me.
Speaker 7: We didn't come here to trample your crop. We're looking
for deserters.
Speaker 13: New kind of grain supposed to be special for the
high plains. I put a lot of money in that grain.
I wanted to come up.
Speaker 2: Two men, one just turned twenty, the other older. My
age are better.
Speaker 13: I thought the army was fighting Indians.
Speaker 12: You that up, didn't they?
Speaker 2: You need men to fight Indians mister, don't look at me.
Speaker 13: I got enough trouble trying to prove up land like
this and intend to ride off. I meant to stay
with horses. Thought I could raise him with enough grazing land. Well,
the Indians run the horses off. I'd get him grown
strong in the grass about that time. Here they'd come Indian.
Speaker 2: You don't keep horses now a couple. They're not extra.
Speaker 7: I'm going to have to look in your house, mister.
Speaker 2: Well, I suppose.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 13: I may just say he was looking for.
Speaker 12: Two.
Speaker 13: Quite a few soldiers along looking for two men. There's
some kind of penalty for hiding soldiers who take.
Speaker 2: A nose in the run. Yeah, I mean, don't take
kindly to it. Mister.
Speaker 13: Couldn't shoot a body, though, could you?
Speaker 2: You've seen him.
Speaker 13: You don't see many folks out this way. You and
your soldiers are more nice scene than months.
Speaker 2: How long since you've been in Laram village?
Speaker 13: A long time? I stay pretty closer and you wouldn't
find him here. Thought you want to see for yourself though.
Speaker 4: Captain, Wow, this is a shd but a barn.
Speaker 7: You prefer a cavalry saddle, mister, You might have to
find that out.
Speaker 5: He't used to it yet.
Speaker 2: Did it help if we knew which way they headed
when they left?
Speaker 13: To tell you the truth, It's hard for me to
think that was here though.
Speaker 2: Let's go course. Captain his boots.
Speaker 7: Sure he's wearing cavalry boots, owns a cavalry saddle, but
he hasn't seen anyone.
Speaker 2: You trample that, young wheat. I'll send the army of bill.
Speaker 10: You're going up to the house at all, Captain, talk
to him?
Speaker 2: Talking to him didn't do any good.
Speaker 10: Kind of a sniveling one kept wanting to know why
the captain herself didn't come to him ask the questions.
He took a real personal.
Speaker 7: Like the captain hisself's about through talking. I ain't come
up against any more crawley settlers, gurse. I'm apt to
start breaking a few necks.
Speaker 10: I'm feeling a little mean myself. Three plates of warm
grubs sitting on his table, him all alone in the house.
Speaker 5: He never heard of two deserted.
Speaker 2: You'll find him.
Speaker 10: Men want too awful bad for you, Captain. That'd be
some comfort.
Speaker 2: That'd be some comfort. I sure feel bad about Drury.
He was gonna make a good trooper.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I know, I thought sure patching would be out
here into the stream.
Speaker 2: He gets an awful thirst sometimes. Let's check that barn again.
Speaker 10: Yes, sir, it was only about two hours a daylight left.
Speaker 2: I hate to give him a night start.
Speaker 12: In this country.
Speaker 7: We're not going to Oh, captain, you are the captain.
Speak your mind, mister, We're busy. I like to talk
to you alone.
Speaker 10: I'll check the bond.
Speaker 2: See all right, talk.
Speaker 14: I've been sitting up in the house trying to remember.
I ain't sure, but it seems to me somewhere as
once that there was a reward for turning in deserters.
Speaker 2: Now did I just dream? Is it a twenty dollars reward?
Speaker 12: Mister?
Speaker 2: Only twenty dollars? Twenty dollars ain't very much, is it.
Speaker 14: I am don't suppose you're prepared to going to higher.
Speaker 2: I'm not prepared to go that high, mister. But the
army figures it's worth twenty dollars twenty dollars a piece.
That's it.
Speaker 14: Eight men looking for two men, and the total price
on their heads.
Speaker 12: Is forty dollars.
Speaker 2: Ain't no bargain, Kevin. It sure isn't.
Speaker 7: Total pay for the eight men looking is four dollars
a day fifty cents apiece?
Speaker 2: Is that all?
Speaker 7: And the price isn't just for their heads, mister, we'd
have to insist on the rest of them too.
Speaker 9: He was in the loss.
Speaker 2: He called down to me.
Speaker 10: Then he come down himself.
Speaker 2: Patching up there too. Boy knows he run.
Speaker 9: I don't know how far.
Speaker 2: I don't know how long ago, capn I don't know nothing.
You stay with him. I'm gonna find patching.
Speaker 4: Yes, no, Cavin, don't you leave you? You hear me?
Speaker 2: Will you please? Sergeant Carseile here you are.
Speaker 4: Pat Patchin's got everything, Kevin, He's got hisself every kind
of gun you ever saw, here's mine.
Speaker 2: Oh we could buy is steal. He's gonna be waiting
for you, Kevin. I hope he is. You gotta know
my shame.
Speaker 4: It don't seem nowh it gonna happened to me.
Speaker 2: He worked on me so slow.
Speaker 4: I didn't even know what was happening. But I know
now I feel all the ug ashame of it.
Speaker 2: Talking's not much good now, Dry.
Speaker 4: I ain't talking to save myself, Captain.
Speaker 2: I know that ain't right. I know it can't be.
Speaker 4: I'm talking to understand and for you to know. I'm
I'm crawling with the shame of it.
Speaker 2: The crawling's uglier than the shame.
Speaker 9: Boy, you come alone.
Speaker 2: Quince, I'm alone, Pageant, I'd be.
Speaker 5: All way, wouldn't it be?
Speaker 2: Grave alone? You must be the bravest man there is, Quins,
Come on down, Patching. I ain't coming down.
Speaker 9: I waited too long for this.
Speaker 2: I'm staying right here, and you're staying right there. You
got plenty of water, Understand. I ain't aiming for you, Quince.
I'm just trying out of my arsenal.
Speaker 9: That was my pistol.
Speaker 2: You're never gonna last without water, patching. I got two canteens,
mine and drays.
Speaker 7: You could hit me if you tried good. You got
a reason for not killing me. Patching that last was
my life.
Speaker 2: I got me a buffalo. Gun off the sett up.
Blow you clean away. You wouldn't even leave no spark, Quince,
Come on down. We're gonna do this slow, capt just
you and me.
Speaker 5: Maybe my shots will get a little closer to you
from time to time.
Speaker 2: We'll keep it slow. I want you to die a
long time, Quince. Five days and five nights of dying.
Speaker 7: Remember, Quince, I remember you want me to die, all right,
long time of dying. But you want the man to
kill me, Patchyn.
Speaker 2: You ain't coming after me. You ain't ten braid Quince.
Don't take a brave man to come after your patron.
Just takes a man. I hated you a long time.
If I happen to do I could hate you, Dad.
You hate yourself, Patching.
Speaker 7: Wouldn't feel good killing me and still have yourself.
Speaker 2: You're gonna kill me? That would You're coming to do?
Kill me?
Speaker 4: Please?
Speaker 5: Please don't kill me.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna kill you, pet wouldn't feel good killing
a coward. Get up.
Speaker 3: Fort Laramie is produced and directed by Norman MacDonnell and
stars Raymond Burr as Lee Quint'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 Sam Edwards, Paul Duboff, James Nusser,
and Herb Vigrn. Jack Moyles is Major Diggett, and Harry
Bartel is Lieutenant Siberts.
Speaker 1: Company tencent dismiss.
Speaker 3: Next week another transcribed story of the Northwest Frontier and
the troopers who fought under Lee Quince, Captain of Cavalry.
Each year new automobiles came equip with new and better
devices for safety and comfort. But there's one device for
comfort and safety that you'll have to manufacture for yourself,
no matter how advanced our technology becomes. And that device
is a smile, a sense of humor, and a friendly
attitude tow another drivers on the highway is sure to
earn courtesy and consideration in return, and courtesy and consideration
are big safety factors on the highway.
Speaker 5: Check the gas, the
Speaker 2: Oil, and make sure you rot along your smile