Speaker 1: Yes at the gallap Bow.
Speaker 2: Fort Laramie. Fort Laramie, starring Raymond Burr as Captain lee
Quinn's 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 dramatics story of
lee Quince captain of cavalry.
Speaker 3: Around her neck. She woreal ravenge, she wore it in
the winter.
Speaker 4: And the merriment me when the as eno enough lover
who was par her.
Speaker 5: Way farway far away, who worried for her lover, who
would par par away.
Speaker 3: There's a certain.
Speaker 6: Amount of spirit in Euphoene.
Speaker 7: I can't say it's anything I warmed to, but spirit
it is.
Speaker 3: And there's a certain amount of spirit in you too, Mary,
whether you've been driving them bottled of mine right right.
Speaker 6: There seems to me fortification phoene and uh ah.
Speaker 3: Defense you talk like you already joined up.
Speaker 6: Ah a gift of the creative mind. I see myself
riding forward with the troops, dodging an arrow, here, a
bullet there, guide ons flying death, defying.
Speaker 3: Have you ever been on a horse, mariwelling?
Speaker 6: You dare ask that of the man who played Richard
the Third for three one hundred and fourteen stirring performance,
not to say memorable.
Speaker 3: Just how many bottles of my snake potman have you in?
Speaker 8: He a horse?
Speaker 1: A horse? I think them for a horse?
Speaker 7: Ah, the remarkable alixa Phoene.
Speaker 6: You notice a new depth and resonance to my tone?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 3: I cust to her mind down in Colorado. Got a
brand new voice from drinking my mixture. Used to better,
like a calf said, took six bottles to turn the trick.
But today they call him whisper and ruggle.
Speaker 9: Ha, you're trying to alarm me.
Speaker 3: Cured his callouses too, at him clean off?
Speaker 9: Yep, Ah, cruel fortune. Did you see that, phoene? The
bottle slipped through my careless fingers.
Speaker 3: I seen you pitch it out. I don't think you're
brave enough for the army. Meriweather, whoa bosy woe girl?
He's too girl, that's the way. Now you're decided?
Speaker 10: Are you.
Speaker 9: Imposing sight? Young fortress?
Speaker 3: Once we cross that bridge into them gates, we're down.
The case is Merriwether, you ain't decided on army life.
You better climb down off in this wagon right.
Speaker 6: Now, country above heart, Phoene, The fire of the Patriot
burns bright within me.
Speaker 9: Drive on. I long to rejoin my old regiment.
Speaker 3: You long for a bell, a pull of food.
Speaker 9: Dislike me to the colors, Phoenie. Drive on, Get up.
Speaker 3: Pool, you girl at the gallop hole.
Speaker 1: If you can write, fill out the forms there.
Speaker 11: If you can't write, but you can talk, tell me
I'll fill them out. If you can't write or talk,
we don't need you.
Speaker 12: About my uniform colonel who said that I spoke quite
clearly and distinctly.
Speaker 9: I believe.
Speaker 6: You.
Speaker 11: What's your name, mister Grenville? Met you some kind of
funny man? Mister, I dare say.
Speaker 6: I'm not without humor, not to the point of buffoonery.
Mind you stand up, mister, Well.
Speaker 1: You want to make that?
Speaker 11: Yes, sergeant, why.
Speaker 9: Yes, sergeant, I believe I do.
Speaker 1: Now, what's your name?
Speaker 9: Granville?
Speaker 1: Marry your real name?
Speaker 9: Mister, I suppose I must.
Speaker 1: I'm waiting.
Speaker 6: It's a botkin, Sergeant, Arnie buck Arnie.
Speaker 3: Bunkin In boh No, Now that sets me up, Ernie
bunk Why don't know such your name? Arnie Buckin?
Speaker 1: You another funny man? Mister ain't near.
Speaker 9: As funny as he is I had done a little slatter.
Speaker 3: Hand in my time, but I never produced no Grandville marry,
whether out of an army, bucking army, bakiner.
Speaker 6: No sense us be subjected to this ridicule, I say, sir,
is this the.
Speaker 9: Reward of a patriot?
Speaker 6: You two together alas we are, but only in these
last dark days.
Speaker 3: Where it come from me having a hard goal. Sergeant,
I'll let him join my act, you might say, singing
he was down.
Speaker 9: On his Oh, distortion, pure distortion. Allow me, sir, you're in.
Speaker 11: Now, wait, just you wait, or I'll allow you a
sight more in my ear. I tell you we get
ourselves some strange ones in this army, But I swear
you two come right close to the limit.
Speaker 3: You ain't saying we can't get in?
Speaker 6: And has his right, sir, and pressures. Among them is
the right to heat his country's called warms. Stand to
the colors, man against all enemies, follow them to mess.
Speaker 11: You're gonna stop, mister well.
Speaker 6: I.
Speaker 11: Must say, uh, yes, yes, yes, all right. I will
do this one at a time. You what's your name,
peenie Phoenish fiend? Where you're from from?
Speaker 13: You got a home?
Speaker 3: It's right outside the door, Sergeant posing me. We got
this little way Regan. Wherever we light at sundown, that's home.
Speaker 9: Poesy, you married indeed or indeed?
Speaker 6: And may I say, sir, no couple whatever more ideally suited.
Speaker 9: Oh, I beg pardon, Sergeant.
Speaker 3: Pose, He's my horse. I used to work the river
boats Mississippi anywhere from Saint Louis and New Orleans, dance
and singing minstrel work. Since the war, I got itchy
feet to come west. The last four years I've been
over the most of it too.
Speaker 1: For down, you're a actor.
Speaker 6: I must protest in the name of the spoken word,
the ancient art.
Speaker 9: Call him what he is, but do not degrade my
honored profession.
Speaker 3: I run a little Madison show, Sergeant.
Speaker 10: Oh.
Speaker 3: I got pots and pans and calico, but mostly I
entertained folks into buying a little tonic I put together.
Speaker 6: If you must put a trade behind his name, inscribe
the words low comedy. But in deference to the drus
in the name of Edwin Booth and Morris, barrymore Ye
and Granville.
Speaker 3: You're spoiling for the guardhouse, mister.
Speaker 9: If best to serve my country more, then yes, Shackle
me cut from me my tongue.
Speaker 11: I'm toying with that idea, Captain, quincer.
Speaker 1: Sergeant, the idea. Who is rig that is outside a
horse and wagon? Captain?
Speaker 3: There's something wrong?
Speaker 10: Are they?
Speaker 1: Your horse is ailing? Better? Say to it?
Speaker 3: She ain't it? Not for too long?
Speaker 1: She ain't. The corporal of the guard will give you
a hand, show you where to move that rig. Now
go on, I.
Speaker 9: Sure will allow me to introduce myself.
Speaker 1: Go help your friends.
Speaker 6: Oh, I dare say he's equal to the task, while I,
on the other hand.
Speaker 14: Mhm exactly, Sergeant, what is that all about?
Speaker 1: Guys?
Speaker 11: I ain't that something they're answering?
Speaker 1: The call to the colors?
Speaker 9: Captain?
Speaker 11: There what well you could put another way?
Speaker 10: I guess there's stuff arbon had dead.
Speaker 5: How many new men out there, Captain and B Company twenty?
Speaker 1: Pretty sorry?
Speaker 3: Sight must have hit the bottom of the barrel a.
Speaker 1: Long time ago, made, Jim. After that we scraped it.
What you see out there is after scraping.
Speaker 8: Out one?
Speaker 6: What do what?
Speaker 3: Wow?
Speaker 1: They can't mount the sergeant time, Jim. Now I've seen
an up Captain.
Speaker 5: We've got plans to lay out, Yes, sir, what we
got out there leave pretty good.
Speaker 1: Cross section of what's coming into the army these days. Major,
it's still a question, what's that dregs, failures, fugitives, men
running from the law, from women, from work, men running
from themselves.
Speaker 5: Just before they blow their brains out they join the army.
Speaker 9: Is that what we've come to?
Speaker 1: They can still stop bullets and arrows.
Speaker 5: I don't expect talk like that from you, Captain.
Speaker 1: It's straight talk. I don't see that.
Speaker 5: We'll talk about it inside. Oh, sit down, Captain, Thank you, sir.
Men who can stop bull and arrows? Since when did
you start feeling that way about the army.
Speaker 1: I'm in the army. That's how I feel about it.
I didn't get here by accident, Major, I meant to
That's all. The Army is how men feel about it.
It's good or bad on that feeling.
Speaker 5: These new men, I didn't see any sergeant Gorses among them.
Speaker 1: Gors is a thirty year man. He's like me, doesn't
know any better or any worse. Now, what does that
mean any worse? It means we didn't try anything else
and fail. Some of your new army out in that
parade ground joined up out of plane hunger, their feeling
for the army is. It's a place to eat, get
clothes to wear, and cut the sleep on.
Speaker 5: Maybe the armies at fault. If this is all we
can to attract, we must be to blame.
Speaker 1: Fifty cents a day and all the jerky you can eat. Sure,
the armies at fault, but the kind of trooper you
want isn't up for a price. That feeling I was
talking about, it's not something you can buy.
Speaker 5: I hope it's something we can cultivate. We're gonna need
it soon.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Pete Hazen's report and the wind River area, Shoshone Ah
and the Sioux. Hazen says, crazy horse let a few
dog soldiers into the Shoshone encampment about a week ago.
It's all in the report, but they're power owing about something.
Speaker 1: You haven't had a patrol over there since early last
four They had a bad winter. Did the snows worse
than years now?
Speaker 5: They've melted those range peaks will be a lot more accessible.
Speaker 1: We shouldn't have any trouble with good scouting, and Pete's
the best there is.
Speaker 5: We'll have to do without him. He's been sent up
to Montana Country. Won't be back for at least a month.
You read his report and study the Wind River range maps.
We may have to move before the month's out.
Speaker 1: I hope they learned to mount by then. Have to
do the best week can captain against dog soldiers. Major,
we'll have to do better than we can.
Speaker 13: That mean making a camp on the Big Horn River.
Speaker 1: And that roots no good for us. Come in, you're busy, captain, Yeah,
I am, mister Sabats still with the maps. Huh, still
with him? Oh? What's that? More reports than Wind River?
Speaker 15: Oh no, sir, it's something I thought you want to
see though.
Speaker 1: Winter Garden Booth benefit for the Shakespeare's Statue from Friday evening,
November twenty fifth, eighteen sixty for Julius Caesar.
Speaker 15: I was there, Captain, you were, yes, sir, that's the playbell. Yeah,
I see, it is never forgotten it. He was here
before I went to West Point, but I had enough
sense to know that I was experiencing one of the
rare moments in the theater. M You see there Junius Booth
played Cassius, Edwin was Brutus.
Speaker 1: And John Wilkes Booth was Mark Anthony.
Speaker 15: Yes, sir, of course that was before he.
Speaker 6: All.
Speaker 1: It's very interesting, mister Sabots.
Speaker 15: But you don't know why I wanted to show.
Speaker 1: It to you yet.
Speaker 15: Look who played Kasker.
Speaker 1: Casker, mister Granville Merriweather.
Speaker 15: Well, well, well he's here, Captain. He's joined the army.
As a matter of fact, he's in B company.
Speaker 1: He's been in B company nearly three weeks now.
Speaker 15: Yes, sir, I know, except that I didn't realize he
was the Granville Merriweather. And a while ago I got
to looking through a bunch of old playbells and I
ran across this. Well, he's played nearly all the Shakespeare, Captain, he.
Speaker 1: Still can't mount a horse, mister Sibots, I know, and
I don't understand it.
Speaker 15: On the stage he moves with the greatest ease and grace,
for instance, and Duell's on the stage. Of course, I've
seen him shows. Oh you said you were busy, didn't you?
Speaker 1: I said I was.
Speaker 15: I wonder, Captain. Maybe if I work with mister Merriwether
on his horsemen.
Speaker 1: You make a trooper out of him, you do for
a middle Oh, tell him to make out his learning
for a part.
Speaker 15: That might be the best approach. Tell you the truth.
I'd like to meet him and talk to him anyway.
Speaker 1: Uh, you talk to him, ask him if he ever
played the part of Kit Carson, Kit Carson Captain. Yeah,
we could.
Speaker 16: Use a good guy, right he You know, poosey girl,
just stretchly good.
Speaker 3: You ain't up to more showing me a little huh.
Speaker 4: Well, it's not that I ain't please cosy girl, But
you got any idea what happened to me if they
found me out here this time of night.
Speaker 3: Matter of fact, they found you around here at all? Aden,
You work good?
Speaker 4: You come along now, I'll blanket you. There's oats and
water waiting. You need you taking cold girls. You need
this blanket a sight more than I do.
Speaker 10: Here.
Speaker 3: You go, now, get to your eating.
Speaker 4: I'll stand watch on you.
Speaker 11: You just don't learn much, do you, phoene do what?
Oh it's you, sergeant. I swear I'm just no hand
to see at night. You seem good enough to leave
posy around corral letters, straight, oats and water. You see
good at night, Phoene much blind if you're saying so, sergeant,
But you don't hear real good though night or day.
Speaker 3: Well, now there's where I have my real trouble, sergeant.
Here and oh, I sure hope I didn't miss nothing important.
Speaker 11: You miss tattoo again, Phoene. That's going on two weeks running.
You miss tattoos.
Speaker 3: Now, that's bad, I know it is.
Speaker 11: You missed hearing me tell you to get rid of posey.
You missed all them warnings about stealing oats and buying
stalled space from the stable.
Speaker 15: Detail with that tonic.
Speaker 1: Of your it?
Speaker 3: Do you think it's wax, sergeant, all clogged up there
in my ears? You think that's a cause?
Speaker 11: I just think one thing about it, PHOENI, I think
it's all behind you.
Speaker 1: You do one thing.
Speaker 11: We're moving out in the day or so now, if
you're out on patrol. I just don't see you stealing
back here every night ten.
Speaker 1: In the posy.
Speaker 3: That puts you a crimp in it?
Speaker 1: All right?
Speaker 11: Another thing between now and then, Your time's liably be
more occupied. You might even say confining. Do what you're
gonna be in the guardhouse?
Speaker 8: Still in Phoeni, Oh, ain't you gonna wash up?
Speaker 1: Merryweather?
Speaker 7: I am a saintly man, seenee, and cleanliness is only
next to godliness.
Speaker 3: And I've been next to you, You've been two days
in that McClellan. A little of this sweet water won't
hurt you.
Speaker 7: Now, sweet water, Your ignorance is boundless as always, Phoenee, Oh,
I ain't too smart.
Speaker 3: This is sweet water, every single drop of it.
Speaker 9: Sweetwater River.
Speaker 3: That's its name.
Speaker 7: What's in the name, oh body?
Speaker 1: Indeed, what's in a name?
Speaker 10: Ah?
Speaker 1: Cut right between the two ranges of Sweetwater?
Speaker 3: Does the Granite mountains to the north and down that
way green mountains?
Speaker 9: You travel with Lewis and Clark?
Speaker 3: I presume, well, I've been during there. Every place there
was me and Posey.
Speaker 6: We sold our little tonic all over, I say, Phoene
the elixir.
Speaker 9: You brought a few tankards with you.
Speaker 3: Oh it's all gone, Merriweather. What you didn't swell down?
What I didn't use to buy stall space? Why that
sergeant just plane took prisoner.
Speaker 9: But the formula you you you can make more.
Speaker 3: Formula you use the right base. You can add what
you will. It's no matter, Yes, sir Merriweather. We put
some riding in the last couple of days. We can't
be more in a day from the wind River rang
the right base corn liquor when I can get it
now to get to wind River they must figure on
cutting up the beaver creek, follow next to the little
poopo ad gean end of the basin from there at least,
Why is that what I do?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 6: Yes, now, but suppose I can't lay my hands on
the quantity of corn liquor as you call it.
Speaker 3: As everyone calls it, that's its name. But that being
the case, learn a lesson merriweather. Any fruit will ferment
left alone.
Speaker 9: A brilliant foemie, brilliant observation. I'll remember that.
Speaker 3: You go far enough up through that basin, you can
see cow elk and their young feeding on choke cherries.
And right alongside these have to be black bears drinking
from the stream, yes, sir. And where it's swampy like
is not, there'll be moose grazing.
Speaker 1: You know what you're talking about? Feenning, captain, sir, Yes, sir, captain,
you got a uniform feening, Yes.
Speaker 12: Sir, I sure have it. It's right over there, sir.
Put it on, Yes, sir, I'm glad you spoke out
that way, Captain. The man might chill merrywell. Then right here, sir,
report the sergeant Gorse.
Speaker 1: Tell him I said you were to stand pick of
duty tonight, yes, sir, and the rest of this duty.
All I want to hear out of you is yes, sir, Yes, sir,
move out. You'll draw extra guard duty when we get
back to Fort Laramie Phene. A man assigned to tether
horses isn't supposed to take a bath first?
Speaker 10: Yes?
Speaker 1: You know this country? Or were you just out? John Meriwether?
Speaker 3: Oh, I know it, sir, from the basin clean up
to the ice fields, travel it by horse? Did you
part time? Part time leading posy? The going steep? You
get up in the range.
Speaker 1: Itself, say I want to follow wind River to where
it joins the Green River.
Speaker 3: And then I beg, pardon captain, Well you can't do that.
What you said, Wind River don't join Green River?
Speaker 1: No worse? All right, you know this is shining.
Speaker 3: I traded with fair when it struck me to you
don't like them?
Speaker 9: Well, there are people, some it is rotten, and some
suits me.
Speaker 3: Fine. I traded fair with him that suits me.
Speaker 1: You joined the army to get back at the rotten ones?
Speaker 3: No, sure, that ain't one. Why then I joined the
army so as I could eat greg.
Speaker 1: I got some maps, some scout reports in my tenth,
PHOENI you've got a job of reading ahead tonight.
Speaker 3: Well, I ain't the best reader in the world, Captain.
Speaker 1: Then I'll read them to you. Nothing says an army
scout's got to know how to read you going by
map or instinct, Captain, by map instinct and feenie. If
he's right, we cut forty miles off our old course.
It's a heart pull on the horses. Posey made it
under full pack.
Speaker 3: He's your soul on, Phoenie, ain't you, Captain.
Speaker 1: Gotta be? He's as near to a scout I got.
We got a rondevous point with him over this ridge.
It's forage there and water, and that's by map instinct
and feinny, Yes, sir, how does it look to you,
Sergeant like Phoene knows his business? Captain. Now let's go down.
Speaker 11: There's a horse yonder, Captain, over by the stream, I said, Pheeny.
Speaker 3: My candy. I hoped I'll ask till you showed up.
Speaker 9: Captain.
Speaker 1: How bad is it, Phoenney.
Speaker 3: I'm full of hold and ripping. Ain't nothing you can
do except listen while I got the breath.
Speaker 1: I'm listening.
Speaker 3: It's a big camp captain must be a thousands shone, half.
Speaker 1: Of them wish Asians. Reports had crazy horse and dog
soldiers and more moving in from.
Speaker 3: The north all the time. That's a lot of soup.
If you need all the army, You've gotten them some.
Speaker 9: And my blouse, Captain, I'll get it.
Speaker 3: It's a mad.
Speaker 9: The best I could grow.
Speaker 3: They're in a box canyon. You can get them good
if they put.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Phoene. Pheney, you better stick around. We need
you real bad.
Speaker 3: Hey can't oblige your captain liked whom and I.
Speaker 1: You want something?
Speaker 13: Phenny, Yes, Mayweather, merry Weather, Phoenie.
Speaker 3: You stay tune, Captain, he'll need a witness. I'm willing
him something.
Speaker 9: You always get in trouble alone, Phoenie. Without me, you
bungle everything.
Speaker 3: You want to come along Merriweather.
Speaker 13: And dying.
Speaker 6: Uh comics don't die, Phoene. They don't know how, no
true sense of tragedy.
Speaker 3: You you get posey Merriweather. Treat good now. I won't
mm hmm.
Speaker 13: Mhm.
Speaker 1: Peenie, Peenie. He can't answer you now, a trooper.
Speaker 9: What kind of an exit line was that? You see?
I told you even on a curtain speech. M hm.
Speaker 8: Hm h m.
Speaker 9: I'm afraid this is my best performance.
Speaker 1: Maybe it is merry with him, maybe because you're not
play active.
Speaker 2: Fort Laramie is produced and directed by Norman MacDonald and
stars Raymond Burr as lee Quin's Captain of Cavalry, with
Vic Perlin as Sergeant Gorse. The script was specially written
for Fort Laramie by Kathleen Hite, with sound patterns by
Bill James and ray Kemper musical supervision by Amarigo Marino.
Featured in the cast were John Dayner and Parley Bear.
Jack Moyles is Major Diggett and Harry Bartel is Lieutenant Seyberts.
Speaker 1: Company Tension.
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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