Speaker 1: At the Gallery.
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: I never seen the sense of it scrubbing day after day,
but you clean clothes.
Speaker 4: On the dirty army. It's way to earn or keep
m Ever, a woman marries, a man earns a keep
night and day.
Speaker 3: It's all earning.
Speaker 4: Not today is don't start on that talk again today.
Speaker 3: Now, I plum forgot about your delicate conditions.
Speaker 5: Della Merchant.
Speaker 6: Need be minding my manners more.
Speaker 3: It's just I ain't used to running into royalty on
soap SuDS roll honest, I ate.
Speaker 4: I didn't mean to start your offense.
Speaker 6: I'm sorry, sorry, are you well? You're sorry looking.
Speaker 3: I'll say that for you another day or two and
you won't be able to stand in the same room
with your washboard.
Speaker 7: All right, all right, it's a wash tub now you are.
Speaker 6: Couldn't you just be quiet?
Speaker 4: Think what you will, but keep it to yourself.
Speaker 1: Join yourself.
Speaker 8: Ladies having a fine social hour, are you?
Speaker 4: Oh, Fanny, it's her.
Speaker 7: Look at her?
Speaker 3: Can you tell by looking she's a regular queen.
Speaker 6: I'm doing the best I can.
Speaker 4: If you'd let me be, if you wouldn't go at
me so much.
Speaker 1: Listen to me, tell a merchant.
Speaker 4: And hear what I say. Fanny, don't don't.
Speaker 9: Shake, now do what need be.
Speaker 1: You're not earning your pay. Now you get some elbow
grease behind that scrubbing, or I'll.
Speaker 7: Send you packing with no pay for the month.
Speaker 4: You wouldn't do that, Fanny. We need the money with
the baby coming. We need every cent.
Speaker 6: Fanny can't earn it.
Speaker 1: Scrum that's the way you get plenty around here, Fanny, please, No,
she's going white, Fanny, nah, ninny.
Speaker 4: If I could just get some air, just a little.
Speaker 8: Air, well, now, a little air.
Speaker 9: That's what you laugh, Fanny, right afore our eyes.
Speaker 10: You don't get around here, all.
Speaker 1: Right, Stella, grab a holt one side this clothes basket.
You'll get all the air you need hanging clothes outside,
I said, grab a holt all right.
Speaker 6: Not quite fast, Fanny.
Speaker 1: Here you're moving like coal molasses. Now carry away, Stella.
Speaker 8: Oh, pity.
Speaker 1: They ain't some nice shade trees for you. Maybe a hammock?
Ain't you the shape for a hammock?
Speaker 10: Though?
Speaker 6: Oh maybe I shouldn't try.
Speaker 4: I thought I could work right up to the very
day the baby came.
Speaker 6: Other women do you? Ain't other women? You've no cause
to talk to me like you do. Fanny. You an
ass I never give you cause.
Speaker 8: You never give me nothing but an awful belly ache.
Calming and bathing and making pretty for the men.
Speaker 6: For my man, Fanny.
Speaker 8: That's it, is it? You're so full of lion's sweet talk.
You believe yourself.
Speaker 4: I thought we could all be friends out here, so
far from home, all of us. I thought we could
help each other.
Speaker 8: And you're along on help, ain't you? Everybody? Help everybody
be happy? Well, you'll be happy, Stella, like you're so
willing to tell anything to be near Billy, happy to
earn your keep washing filters, happy to Barry's young and
happy happy happy.
Speaker 6: I love Billy, Fanny love ha. You don't understand. You
really don't understand. I never realized that till now.
Speaker 8: It's the young as don't understand.
Speaker 4: Did you never love Luke even then when you were
young Did you never love him?
Speaker 6: Fanny?
Speaker 8: Hang the clothes.
Speaker 6: It would be awful if you didn't love.
Speaker 8: You'll get no pay for John and taking the air
like you are. You keep saying you need the money.
Speaker 11: We'll earn it.
Speaker 6: I will, Fanny, I will earn it and glad.
Speaker 8: To and see you keep that glad stuff to yourself,
You and your loving a life you feel kicking in you.
I buried more young uns than you'll ever have.
Speaker 6: I'm sorry, truly sorry, Fanny. Don't you never be sorry
for me.
Speaker 10: We followed the Laramie all the way till it cut
through the range. There we left it and went cross
country west and north to a point about here.
Speaker 12: It's almost to Medicine Bowl River.
Speaker 10: I think their main camps in the Medicine Bowl.
Speaker 12: But you ran into weather camps along the way.
Speaker 10: Mm hmmm old camps major.
Speaker 13: Yeah.
Speaker 14: The information you got from the settlers in the area
pointed to that no Cheyenne in their Vicinitatians last fall?
Speaker 5: Isn't that the word?
Speaker 10: And no army patrol since last fall? That follows to me?
It does the settlers have spent the winter in peace
since the Cheyenne ran off their horses last fall, the
cavalry sens out one small patrol in the late spring,
and the Cheyenne mysteriously reappear.
Speaker 12: But not in numbers.
Speaker 10: All right, Cheyenne scouts, eight of them.
Speaker 12: You could have killed them at any time.
Speaker 10: You were following them in just about only they were
leading this, Major. There's a difference.
Speaker 12: Only because you were willing to be led.
Speaker 10: It was our business reconnaissance. You don't kill eight scouts
who are leading you into a trap. Hmm.
Speaker 12: Course you don't if you're sure it's a trap.
Speaker 10: Look for two days. If we didn't keep pace with them,
they waited for us. Morning of the third day, they
cut off into a canyon that leads straight to the
medicine Bowl, like we were leading a charge behind them.
I know when I am when I see one.
Speaker 12: And you don't ride into them with ten men behind you.
Speaker 10: I don't ride into them with a company behind me.
All right, Captain, I'm I'm sorry. Major. We rode all night.
Speaker 12: You rode all night for three nights, and I know that.
Speaker 11: Lee.
Speaker 12: I want you to get some rest.
Speaker 10: I'd like to finish my report soon. I can wait
all morning, I don't think so.
Speaker 14: All right, Lee, let's get it all set. I don't
like it this way, but one of us has to
get a good night's sleep.
Speaker 10: I'll sleep fine, Major, I.
Speaker 14: Will too once this is over. Now, from your report,
you seem convinced the Cheyenne have their main camp in
the Medicine Bowt.
Speaker 12: I get the impression you think they're getting restless and.
Speaker 10: I have to move somewhere. That country had about one
winter's good hunting left in it. They've had that.
Speaker 14: If they haven't raided since fall. You're right, we could
stop them before they start.
Speaker 10: They'll move north, maybe as far north as the Montana territory.
Speaker 12: Why not south?
Speaker 10: Other tribes, Utes, Apaches, the Cheyenne would rather face the
white man.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 10: Now you're bleeding me pretty dry? Major, how's that? I
got a feeling I'm mapping a campaign I'm not going
to be part of.
Speaker 14: You just finished the toughest part of a campaign. A
lot of men can lead a charge. You can't do
successful reconnaissance, Major Islington. You're assigned at quarters to eight
o'clock tomorrow morning.
Speaker 10: Who's gonna replace me? Major? I am, and I be
a fool to question that choice.
Speaker 12: Yes you would, that's all.
Speaker 10: Captain dismiss yes him. Oh uh, Major, who's gonna replace you?
Speaker 4: Me?
Speaker 12: Yeah?
Speaker 10: Here is post commander. You are any questions, no, sir,
no questions.
Speaker 11: You can't see by that light. Stella.
Speaker 4: I'm fine enough for this little bit of hand stitchen, Billy.
Speaker 11: Best you rest yourself, Awhile, I don't want to sit
in the doorway with me in a while.
Speaker 6: Honey.
Speaker 12: It's a fine night, stellar.
Speaker 11: Slice of moon, nice bit of breeze off the sweet
clover m I.
Speaker 6: Can smell it from here.
Speaker 4: Back home, ain't it Billy's home?
Speaker 11: Still only one we ever had together? You ever think
of it? Maybe some engine in his score, sitting like
we are at night, looking out at the stars, talking
about the papoos. They're gonna have no time at all.
Speaker 6: Billy merchants? How you think of things like that?
Speaker 10: They come to me?
Speaker 11: Don't they come to you?
Speaker 4: You know they do. It's part of what we have together,
you and me.
Speaker 6: That's not a man thought.
Speaker 11: Is just see how you sound like Luke and Joe.
Speaker 10: Sweet Billy they call me.
Speaker 11: It's just because I noticed the sky or flower.
Speaker 6: Don't you mind them, Billy?
Speaker 11: You know I don't. I don't mind them like you
don't mind Fanning.
Speaker 4: Yes, why I said it that way, because that's.
Speaker 11: The way it is, still feeling folks like us, We
feel too much sometimes and we let folks get to
us and rub us wrong, maybe hurt as some.
Speaker 15: I love you, sure, I said we were feeling folks. Huh, billy, billy,
when you're going to have that baby?
Speaker 6: Still soon, honey, as soon as I can.
Speaker 11: It's a hard time for you. I know that.
Speaker 6: Not too hard, billy.
Speaker 11: You're fretting something.
Speaker 4: You've got some pain, not real pain like a cat,
you know, not often enough to matter.
Speaker 11: I wouldn't be right to lie to me, honey.
Speaker 6: I don't lie to you ever.
Speaker 11: Sometimes you don't tell me all the truth. Ain't that is?
Speaker 6: You're feeling folks too. You ought to know good as me.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you're fretting, some billy merchant, that's who's fretting around here.
Speaker 11: No man's gonna be your father has all right. I
do say some men take on worse than women, folks.
You know that stella swimming headed more than times like that.
Speaker 4: That ain't what's troubling you, No, No, it ain't.
Speaker 11: I sure ain't. How many times I asked you to
give up your work The laundry.
Speaker 6: You mean how many times today you ask me?
Speaker 11: Yeah, and always you tell me it's what you gotta do,
no matter what it is. Billy, it's the same with me, Stella.
I got my work to do, no matter what.
Speaker 4: Now, then, I ain't asked you to give up being
a trooper. I declare, I don't know what Bee Company
do without you.
Speaker 11: I ain't drawing nothing but Guesson duty for more than
a month now, I just ain't gonna last, Billy unstable
detailed to day. We were sure ready in those mounts
for something more than a preay ground, Stella.
Speaker 6: You got orders to move out, no, ma'am.
Speaker 11: No, but capt'n Quince's patrol come back on the post
to day, and when reconnaissance comes back, we just gotta
be moving out.
Speaker 4: Be nice.
Speaker 6: If you's wrong, Billy.
Speaker 11: We got a face up to it. Stella. Might just
gotta have that baby without me.
Speaker 4: I sure never plan that way if it had to be.
Speaker 11: Would you want to try to make it back home
to my mam? Sure?
Speaker 4: Why, Billy Merchant, I'd take every cent we owning then,
so I ain't thinking of that.
Speaker 6: Well, then you think about it right now. Only don't
take the bottle. If they was money, they ain't time.
Speaker 11: Stella. Still, I want to be with you more than
anything I could name, but I can't ask the favor
of a leave. You understand that.
Speaker 6: You got your work to do, Billy, no matter what.
Speaker 13: Come in, Captain quin Sir, Sergeant, I must have took
a wrong turn, Sir, I was told to report of
the office the post commander.
Speaker 10: Close the door, Sergeant, Yes, sir, Oh sit down, guys
and gorse anytime you want to get rid of that
stupid grin you can.
Speaker 13: Yes, sir, Well you look powerful big behind that desk. Yeah,
too big for the desk, maybe too small for the job.
Speaker 5: You will do what you gotta do. Captain.
Speaker 10: I was thinking more that we'd do what I gotta do, Gorse,
you was. Major Daggert tells me that Sergeant Pearson takes
a big load off him sitting at that desk outside, But.
Speaker 5: He ain't sitting out there now.
Speaker 10: And he's getting his equipment together fixing to move out
with Major Daggett after Reverly tomorrow morning.
Speaker 13: Captain Quinn, he'll need a good brief in, Sergeant Pearson.
Will Well, I'd like to volunteer to.
Speaker 10: Good that saves me in order Sergeant to go with.
Speaker 13: B company as a special scout, and when you've finished
briefing him, he can fill you in on the details
of his desk job.
Speaker 5: One of us. Ain't listening, Captain.
Speaker 10: It's a side of the army. We don't know much
about Gors time we did.
Speaker 13: You being in charge and all you think you could
arrange a quick transfer for us.
Speaker 5: Maybe the infantry.
Speaker 10: Better find Sergeant Pearson, tell them all you know.
Speaker 5: Yes, now that'd be my job, wouldn't it?
Speaker 10: Till we get swinging doors?
Speaker 13: Guess it is, Lieutenant Sybits, Sir, Sergeant Captain quin sir.
Speaker 10: Oh, come in, mister Sabots, your duty begins in an hour, Sergeant.
Speaker 16: Yes, sir, with Captain's permission, I'd like to offer congratulations, sir.
Speaker 10: You came here for a brief and mister Sabots.
Speaker 7: I understand that.
Speaker 10: Sit down, Yes, sir, you familiar with the Horseshoe Creek
carry him?
Speaker 11: Oh?
Speaker 7: Yes, sir, that map you're using.
Speaker 10: The map's wrong?
Speaker 7: Well I do that map, Captain.
Speaker 10: Then you're wrong. Horseshoe Creek does not feed from the medicine.
Speaker 7: Bowl ri No sirt from the Little Madison Bow.
Speaker 10: Not by twenty miles, mister Siberts, twenty miles of twisting
canyon through the Laramie Range. That's this line here, a
Horseshoe Creek is east of the range. Medicine Bow and
the Little Medicine Bow or to the west. They do
not join, well, they must have one, sir.
Speaker 7: It's like a river bed all through the floor of
that canyon.
Speaker 10: They didn't join last fall when you drew this map.
Speaker 7: You mean the waters didn't join the river beds.
Speaker 10: Did, mister Seyberts. A cavalry company moves with water, water points,
a course of travel, a campsite. I know that, sir,
Do you.
Speaker 7: Captain Quince.
Speaker 16: That's the first country I ever charted, the first map
I ever drew.
Speaker 5: Well, it's not an.
Speaker 10: Excuse, sir, sounds like one, mister sabbitts.
Speaker 16: What I mean seeing it was my first real attempt
at all. I never thought that we'd be using that
map to campaign by We're not.
Speaker 10: That's good, you bet it's good, mister Sibert's good and lucky.
I pulled this map out of the Major's files last
night to study it. I spent the rest of the
night drawing up a proper map here, mister Sbits, you
tear it up, thank you, Captain, don't thank me, remember it,
remember it good, and then forget it. Captain Quince, I've
already forgotten it, mister Sits.
Speaker 5: I can't see him now, Merchant, whatever it is, it's
gotta wait.
Speaker 11: Babies, don't wait, Sergeant.
Speaker 5: Trouble here man, No trouble, Captain, Captain quin Sir, that's enough.
Speaker 10: Trooper Company bees forming fours in the parade ground.
Speaker 7: Merchant, Yes, sir, Captain, but what I know?
Speaker 11: But's about it, Captain Quince, I respectfully request permission for
an it can't I please get a hearing.
Speaker 5: From you, sir, Captain, don't conduct no hearings this time
of date.
Speaker 10: Troopers. All right, guys, let's have it, Merchant and quick.
Speaker 11: Oblige sir anytime now, any little minute. I'm gonna have
a baby, Captain.
Speaker 10: Sergeant, my respects to Major Daggett telling trooper Merchant will
be on the parade ground in two minutes.
Speaker 11: Yes, Sir, I met my wife, Captain Stella. She's having
the baby.
Speaker 10: I'm glad to hear that, Merchant.
Speaker 11: Now, seeing it's her first, Sir, and her being alone.
I mean no kinfolk nearby to help lend a hand.
Speaker 10: I hope you are not asking me for leave, Trooper.
Speaker 11: No, no, no, sir, I mean to move out with
the company.
Speaker 10: You'll move out with a company. You'll have nothing on
your mind but the Cheyenne. I know what you mean, sir,
And all we got to settle is what you mean. Merchant.
Speaker 11: Well, sir, it pleased me to tell Stella that the
post surgeon was on hand to tend after her and
I and the baby too when it comes well that
that is her son. Sir, Well, it had eased me
some if you was pleased to tell me I was
telling Stella all the truth.
Speaker 10: The post surgeon is leaving with b company. Merchant. I see, sir,
your wife in your quarters now.
Speaker 11: No, sir, no, she's working in the laundry.
Speaker 10: Oh we're holding things up much, yes, sir, And thanks
for hearing me out e merchants. You know that I merchant,
women have babies every day.
Speaker 11: Yes, well, I'll sure try to look on it that way, sir.
Speaker 10: Good luck, Trooper.
Speaker 1: Look at that Luke never was a man so glad
to leave his woman.
Speaker 3: There one is glad right next to him, Joe Beemon
and smirking quits on my nerves sometimes seeing that brother
face engine arrows.
Speaker 1: And us and I agree, even none myself.
Speaker 8: Luke's been home a month.
Speaker 3: A good month, good and long.
Speaker 1: That's a fact.
Speaker 8: I know what you're thinking, as you sure you'll be
to yourself, fall to yourself.
Speaker 5: That's pure blessing.
Speaker 3: You know it is, Fanny.
Speaker 6: They haven't gone yet.
Speaker 4: I was most afraid they'd be gone.
Speaker 3: Will now look who's managing a brave little smile?
Speaker 6: She don't know enough.
Speaker 8: To laugh as hair.
Speaker 9: No mind, I don't see Billy.
Speaker 4: Could you just point out Billy to me?
Speaker 3: Use your young eyes. No matter you don't see him.
He couldn't stand a chance of missing you popping queen
into the parade grounds away.
Speaker 8: Yard hood, be your sweet.
Speaker 1: Billy's in trouble. He was late for formation and he
come out of headquarters with Captain Quince's.
Speaker 4: So you can't fret me, Fanny, see what you will
have told you.
Speaker 9: You can't fret me.
Speaker 4: Ain't nobody can frets me no more?
Speaker 9: There they go, only stir insightly.
Speaker 3: His bands are playing and playing the flyers manly.
Speaker 9: Then what wouldn't if you see him?
Speaker 6: Pint out Billy to me, I declare, I.
Speaker 9: Can't see him yet. Well, you're not likely to yet.
Speaker 1: These officers up front, Major Daggett, that Lieutenant Cyber, who's.
Speaker 3: That other and riding atwixt him?
Speaker 8: Well, I declared, that's major Trucks.
Speaker 1: I don't see him riding off every day. Wonder who's sit.
Speaker 3: In the hospital with him or going Who's who's Major Trucks?
Speaker 1: I mean, you don't know the post surgeon when you
see him, who's surgainly? Or you didn't think he'd stay
here to look after yours, now, did you?
Speaker 9: He must not have known, Billy wouldn't have said if
you didn't know, Billy, Billy, don't you worry none? Now, Billy,
not to worry.
Speaker 6: Here, Come on, ask for this?
Speaker 8: Turns my stomach good.
Speaker 5: I'll get the door for you. Captain.
Speaker 12: Sure this is where she lives.
Speaker 5: It's merchants, all right.
Speaker 10: Turn the dead down, gorse, yes, sir.
Speaker 5: Some mite stuffy in here. I'll get that weeding and
some water.
Speaker 10: Ghost. She's limp as a rag, yes, sir, just.
Speaker 5: Like I found a captain keeled over in the tracks, A.
Speaker 17: Little water on her face, maybe a little brightener. She's
breathing quiet enough to quiet, Captain. I don't think so, billy.
Speaker 4: Billy.
Speaker 5: She thinks you're her husband. Captain.
Speaker 10: Big mistake here, ma'am. You drink a little water, you
come around.
Speaker 9: I don't know you, no, ma'am, my quarters and I don't.
Speaker 6: I don't know you.
Speaker 5: No sense giving her a fright, Captain.
Speaker 10: I'll just go along me, Gorse, I'll throw you right
in the stockade.
Speaker 5: Yes, sir, oh.
Speaker 13: I take her hands, course, Oh, take her hands, hold them.
Speaker 5: Oh, yes, sir.
Speaker 7: Oh, I guess you know, baby like.
Speaker 16: Oh, I guess you're about as right as your kin be.
Speaker 5: Ma'am.
Speaker 18: Oh, Well, go ahead, captain, go ahead, and what hit it?
Speaker 10: Hit it?
Speaker 5: It's a girl, no matter, you're supposed to hit it.
One on it. Sit down.
Speaker 10: That's right. It's the first right move we made.
Speaker 5: No, no, don't cry, little girl. Don't you cry. You'll
wake your more.
Speaker 10: I don't worry, goes. I don't think I'm more man.
Speaker 2: Fort Laramie is produced and directed by Norman MacDonald and
stars Raymond Burr as Lee Quinn'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 Jack Moyles and Harry Bartel
with Virginia, Greg Dick, Crenna, Helen cleeb and Anne Morrison.
Speaker 10: Company tencent.
Speaker 2: Dismiss next week another transcribed story of the Northwest Frontier
and the troopers who fought under Lee Quince, Captain of Cavalry.
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