Speaker 1: At the Galla.
Speaker 2: Fort Laramie.
Speaker 3: Fort Laramie, starring Raymond Burr as Captain lee Quin's specially
transcribed tales of the dark and tragic ground of the
wild Frontier, the Saga of whiting Man who rode the
rim of Empire, and the dramatic story of lee Quin's
Captain of Cavalry.
Speaker 2: He's in there.
Speaker 4: Red Horse is dying. Captain.
Speaker 2: He sent for me, and you have come.
Speaker 4: Red Horse alone believed you would come.
Speaker 2: He's an old friend. Is he alone?
Speaker 4: The great spirit Chief is near, but Red Horse is alone.
He waits for you.
Speaker 5: And Snowfoot, Yeah, my old friend.
Speaker 2: Come sit by me. Thank you, Red Horse.
Speaker 6: I knew you would come. There's a feel of the
heart between us. I sent for you and Snowfoot, my son,
and I knew you would come.
Speaker 2: Will Snowfoot come as a father?
Speaker 6: I hope he will as a man. I know he
will not. I cannot blame him. I can to come
to me is to come on to the reservation. Snowfoot
will never do that. He is young and certain of
many things.
Speaker 2: Snowfoot howl. Now about fifteen.
Speaker 6: The last leaves fall from the trees before the first snowfall.
My son will begin his sixteenth winterer. His mind moves quickly,
but he is yet too young for wisdom.
Speaker 2: If he is all you say, maybe the wisdom will come.
But he's heading for trouble. Red Horse, he in that
pack of young braves with him, so farther, content to
ride fast, make a lot of noise that won't last.
You know, Snowfoot has not killed, not yet as far
as we know. But he's wild. He'll be looking for
coop feathers you don't get them, running off horses and
firing empty cabins.
Speaker 7: These are my mistakes. He is making.
Speaker 2: You know better than that red horse, my good.
Speaker 6: Friend, Believe what I say. I know better in this
moment than I have ever known. It is the privilege
of the very old as well as the very young,
to be certain. And the years in between you are
living them. They are a time of learning and unlearning,
of being right and being wrong, of slow courage and
quick anger, years of growing.
Speaker 2: If it's in the man to grow, I.
Speaker 6: Put food in his mouth that he might grow strong
of body, and I've fed his mind on bitterness and hate.
I take credit for one, I must take blame for
the other.
Speaker 2: You're you're tired, Red Horse, I'll go now. Come another time,
my good friend. There can be no other time. You
and I have always shared wise counsel. You think a
fever speaks in me because you never saw the part
of Red Horse which neew hate and bitterness. But it
was there, and I knee and dislodge. Snowfoot learned to
distrust the white man. It's time he learned otherwise, it's
time he thought for himself.
Speaker 6: If he were at my side, I would tell him that.
Speaker 2: Would he listen?
Speaker 7: I am his father.
Speaker 2: You sent for him as his father. He's not here.
My heart knows that well, Red Horse. I came here
as your friend. I speak as your friend. If Snowfoot
finds trouble, it's his trouble, not yours. If I find him,
I'll deal with him as I find him, as Snowfoot,
not as a son of Red Horse.
Speaker 6: You prove you are my friend. You speak to me
now as you have always spoken. There are those who
promise empty words to a dying man. To do this
would be to dishonor our friendship.
Speaker 2: And when I find him.
Speaker 6: Tell him a chief stand straight among all people. Tell
him a man cannot stand straight when his mind is crooked.
Speaker 2: I can promise that Red Horse, you give me peace.
Speaker 6: Go now, my friend. You cannot hear him come, but
he is near. The great spirit Chief comes only for
a red horse.
Speaker 2: Red Horse, I have no fear.
Speaker 6: It is a gentle time, and I am ready.
Speaker 2: You are the one who sent for Snowfoot.
Speaker 4: I rode to his camp myself.
Speaker 2: Where is his camp on dry Fork.
Speaker 4: Near the joining waters of the Powder River. You think
he will come with you, Captain.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I told him Red Horse was dying. He called it
white man's trick to get him to come on the reservation.
I hope you'll reach him in time.
Speaker 2: It's too late for Red Horse. It may even be
too late for Snowfoot.
Speaker 8: Pickets are out, Sir. I just wrote a check on camp.
Speaker 2: Everything's quiet, too quiet for me, mister Sabats, as Sergeant
Gorse returned from the telegraphers.
Speaker 8: Not yet, cap'n. You expect trouble.
Speaker 2: I expect quiet. Patrolling. The reservation is quiet business death.
There's a quiet time, So too much quiet, mister Sabits.
Speaker 8: Your friend Red Horse is dead.
Speaker 2: Yes. Before I had reached the agent's house, the death
song had begun.
Speaker 8: Indian ways are primitive. I don't understand them.
Speaker 2: You understand funerals, funerals, anybody's funeral, white man, red man.
A man dies with dignity, but the mourner's wail music plays,
songs are sung.
Speaker 8: I guess you're right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I telegraph the major for new orders, mister Sabits.
If they come through, you'll be in charge of the
patrol here new orders, Captain. I want to go after Snowfoot.
Speaker 8: You know where he is.
Speaker 2: His camp's on Drive Fork, north of here, where it
joins the Powder River.
Speaker 8: Snowfoot's been quiet, Captain. He hasn't been rating lately unless
you have new information.
Speaker 2: If he's done nothing'll be easier to talk to.
Speaker 8: I don't see your sentimental side often.
Speaker 2: You think you see it now, mister Seberts.
Speaker 8: Red Horse was your friend. You're doing this for him,
aren't you.
Speaker 2: Red Horse is dead. I couldn't do anything for him
now if I wanted to. I'm sorry, Captain. I know
he meant a lot to you. I'll tell you what
means a lot to me, mister Siberts. I'd like to
be out of a job. I'd like the whole army
in the West to be out of a job. That'd
mean a lot to me.
Speaker 8: I don't understand when.
Speaker 2: They talk peace, real peace, the Red men and the
white men, they won't need an army out here. Snowfuts
a young Indian there's hoping him. If we can talk
to him now before he starts killing, if we can
get him and his young band to come on the reservation,
they they might help us write that piece.
Speaker 8: I can't imagine you out of the army, Captain quints.
Speaker 2: I might surprise you, mister saberts.
Speaker 8: Yes, sir, I think you might. Do you think the
Major feels like you do? I mean you think he'll
let you go after Snowfoot.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I telegraphed him from the Indian agents
this morning. I should have heard by now.
Speaker 8: I suppose the Major says, all right, go after Snowfoot.
Will Snowfoot listen to you?
Speaker 2: I think he'll listen. That doesn't mean he'll do as
I say.
Speaker 9: Oh, come in, sergeant, Captain, Lieutenant telegrapher, just got it, sir, eh,
turn up that lantern, mister Sabitz, Yes, sir, h we
have new orders, mister Sabots.
Speaker 8: We I mean all of.
Speaker 2: Us, all of us. We'll be joined by reinforcements to
bring us up to company strength in the morning. Our
orders are to move north against Black Eagle. Black Eagle,
he's a real savage. Miss Sergeant Gorez. Yes, sir, you've
heard the orders pass the word see we're ready to
break camp. Move out half an hour after Reverlely. Yes, sir.
Speaker 7: How far north were we going, Captain.
Speaker 2: To Potter River Sergeant near drive Fork?
Speaker 8: Yes, sir, Captain, that's where you said Snowfoot mikes his camp. Well,
mister Sibitts, then maybe it's Snowfoot we're after, not Black Eagle.
Speaker 2: The major's telegram says Black Eagle. Mister Sibits, Yes, sir.
Oh h.
Speaker 8: What about your request for new orders to go after.
Speaker 2: Snowfoot they were denied. We have a hard day of
riding ahead, mister Seyberts.
Speaker 8: Yes, sir, I think i'll turn in early.
Speaker 10: Good night, Captain, good night.
Speaker 2: This is drive Fork. That's right, mister Saberts. Water in
it looks like it.
Speaker 7: I guess it.
Speaker 8: Doesn't have to be dry, just because that's its name.
Speaker 2: Over easter here near the Black Hills country, there's a
scrawny little stream called Old Woman Creek, I say, what.
Speaker 8: You mean, Captain, Do you sure just because of his
name doesn't mean there's an old woman in it?
Speaker 2: It was the last time I saw it. You're Josh Lee, Captain,
hold Indian squassan the knee deep washing clothes. Yes, you
just can't tell, Yes, you just can't. Mister sabots.
Speaker 8: Black Graways, Captain, where we found those settlers butchers?
Speaker 10: That was Black Eagle's work.
Speaker 2: It looked like it.
Speaker 8: Why not Snowfoot all the way.
Speaker 2: It was done. It was a big raid, a lot
of horses. From all we know, Snowfoot has a small camp.
Not over twenty braves ride with him. It was Black
Eagle or someone like him with old enemies. Settlers were
all at least two of them were the two men
who weren't scalped. I wondered about that. Yeah, there's an
old belief among some Indians that an unscalped enemy suffers
after death. So if you're gotta be killed by an Indian,
mister Seyberts, make sure he hates your guts. I'll sure try, Captain.
About three hours the daylight left, we keep up this pace,
we should make our rendezvous by sundown.
Speaker 8: Gap made Saftris closed it from the eastern.
Speaker 2: Yeah, started over in Black Hills country. Mister Shibbert's near
old woman.
Speaker 10: Craig, wonderful old squaw, still at the laundry work.
Speaker 2: Maybe so, mister Sabitz, maybe so. Looks like sergeant course Captain. Yeah,
I wonder what happened to his scouting party company company. Oh,
Captain points, Sir, sergeant, just ahead over the rise near
the wash settler.
Speaker 7: He was a raid, sir, not too long ago.
Speaker 9: The fires fresh, Captain, and the settler still alive, Sir
cobeny cob.
Speaker 2: At the gallop, the galler. It doesn't look much like
the last settlers. Gorse, how much? How much at all?
I count six arrows, you count them all? Too one
shed fired? Cabin's all right? You look inside.
Speaker 9: Kneed in there, captain, and somebody give it good care.
It's been read up recently. Nobody in there, nobody. How
about the barn ice house?
Speaker 7: Nobody around, nothing torn up.
Speaker 9: Rode around the funniest kind of engine rate I ever heard, teo.
Speaker 2: Not many of them either. Judging from the hoofmarks, I'd
say they were riding west, Sergeant, bearing toward powder rivers.
Let's have a look at that settler.
Speaker 9: Lieutenant Cybert's been looking to his knees back there, captain
the other settlers engines was riding east.
Speaker 7: I know, yes, sir, it looks lucky.
Speaker 2: That's all I did.
Speaker 10: You.
Speaker 11: Uh, feeling better, mister, just telling a little here. None
the worse for wear, near as I can tell.
Speaker 2: Headwood cap head wound they know of a mister, Eh,
skin's broken a little. You got yourself good size not.
Speaker 11: There, feels like a boulder, but it don't hurt much.
Speaker 2: It will what they hit you with hit me.
Speaker 11: You're all bound and determined. I was hit, ain't you well, sir?
Speaker 2: I wasn't.
Speaker 11: I fell right over my big feet getting out of
their way. Cracked my head a good one against that
rock yonder and that's the size.
Speaker 2: Of it getting out of their way. Were they?
Speaker 11: They were the comanches, of course, comanches, well Indians, they're
all comanches to me. And these was beller inglike comanches,
you'd take my word, yeping and screaming. Didn't know what
I'd die of first, cracking.
Speaker 2: My head or the noise. For all the noise, they
didn't do much damage. Uh how many Indians, mister.
Speaker 11: Oh dozen? I'd say maybe more, But not many more,
mind you, I might have missed a few. Seeing they
was through here and gone like the wind.
Speaker 2: We're figuring they rode through here to the.
Speaker 11: West and right that way, yeah, yeah, west towards Powder River.
Oh there's something else you can figure on while you're
about it.
Speaker 2: And what's that?
Speaker 11: He was young, real young, in cause he'd have to
be bellering and nipple them that a way. Yes, indeed,
mighty young.
Speaker 8: Captain made will have to get a move on if
he expects to make camp with us before nightfall.
Speaker 2: Captain, Yeah, I thought he'd beat us here.
Speaker 8: You worried about Snowfootzer.
Speaker 2: Worried, mister Sebertz.
Speaker 8: His camp can't be far away, not far.
Speaker 2: It's less than ten miles to Powder River.
Speaker 8: Are you going after him?
Speaker 2: My orders are to engage black Eagle, mister Seyberts. I
know that if snowfoots I intend to follow my orders,
mister Siberts, Yes, sir, got a message for Captain Quince.
I'm Captain Quince, a.
Speaker 7: Message for Captain Meat.
Speaker 2: Sure, No, thank you, m mead engaged black eagle Porcupine
Creek trapped him.
Speaker 8: Was a route black Eagle?
Speaker 2: He's dead, turn, he replies, sure, my compliments to Captain
meat and tell him tell him well done? Yes, how
long since you ate? Soldier?
Speaker 7: Been a spell, sir since early morning?
Speaker 2: And Sergeant dorse, No, we'll see you get some hot food.
Soldier oblige.
Speaker 8: Sure what about our orders now, Captain?
Speaker 2: Our orders are clear, mister Siberts. Captain sergeantsy, this man
gets food and rest his horses. Tended to report back
to me in half an hour.
Speaker 7: Yes, sir, come on, soldier.
Speaker 8: Captain quint's about our orders.
Speaker 2: The company will start back to Fort Laramie in the morning.
Any questions, no, sir, I'll be in my tent, mister Sebberts.
Speaker 8: Yes, sir, you.
Speaker 2: I think I'm crazy.
Speaker 9: Gorz Maybe not crazy, but he's sure acting like a
man who wants to get himself captured.
Speaker 2: And suppose you wanted to talk to Snowfoot one man
to another, you know any better way than to go
to his camp balloon?
Speaker 9: The way you want to talk to him unificial like, No,
I don't know a better way. You want him to
hold top hand, don't you, cap? Yeah, he has to goes.
There ain't many engine camps. I'd walk into a lo
but if I had him a pick. I'd take snowfoots.
Speaker 2: You'll help mister Seyberts understand this, won't you, Sergeant, Now
that might be a lifetime job.
Speaker 7: Ken.
Speaker 2: It's gotta be between Snowfoot and me at the army
and a young Indian band if it's gonna do any good.
Speaker 7: He'll have scouts out, he said, to handle him.
Speaker 2: If I have to, I'd rather they captured me.
Speaker 9: Captain Quince, if you figured you was going to get
yourself killed.
Speaker 2: Not figuring that way, or I wouldn't do it, you
know that.
Speaker 9: Gorse, Yes, Sir, I do, or I'd have to tag
along one way or another.
Speaker 2: Snowfoot hasn't killed yet. I don't see him counting me
his first coup.
Speaker 7: Sure, wish you luck, Captain.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Gorse. See you're back at Fort Laramie.
Speaker 12: His trick, his white Man's trick. You see Snowfoot by morning,
white Man's Army come.
Speaker 13: Trick belongs to Snowfoot, Spotted dog. Go now call the
consul together. I will speak to them when I have
finished with white Captain Snowfok.
Speaker 10: Go now.
Speaker 2: That your whole band, Snowfoot.
Speaker 13: We have scouts out. We make up in young strength
what we lack in number, so we trick you, White captain.
You did raids of Snowfoot bring much fear to white man,
or a white captain would not be here.
Speaker 2: You're not thinking very straight, Snowfoot.
Speaker 13: I knew white man would come. I know you white
captain would come.
Speaker 2: Friend of my father, I have a message from your father.
Speaker 13: My father is dead.
Speaker 2: Before he died, he asked me to tell you that
a chief stands straight among all people. A man cannot
stand straight when his mind is crooked.
Speaker 13: He was an old man, my father, old man stoop
grow soft with the mind of a squaw. Old men
go to reservation to make friends with white man and
to die.
Speaker 2: Your father was a proud chief Snowfoot and a wise one.
Speaker 13: Before he made friends with white man.
Speaker 2: Yes, what do you want from the white man?
Speaker 13: My hunting grounds, the right to move in peace among
my own people, on my own lands.
Speaker 2: Do you think you'll get what you want? This way?
Speaker 13: It is the only way.
Speaker 2: You don't know what you're talking about. Your words are
like your raids, a lot of noise and not much meaning.
Speaker 13: My raids have brought White captain. White man now sees
the power of Snowfoot.
Speaker 2: You don't believe that yourself.
Speaker 13: White captain speaks big words for a captive.
Speaker 2: What do you do with your captive, Snowfoot.
Speaker 13: Snowfoot has his ways.
Speaker 2: Never captured a thing but a few horses. You never
killed a thing but game. That's why I think maybe
there's some hope for you.
Speaker 13: White captain is prisoner. Big coup for Snowfoot. Tomorrow, White
army men come talk terms with Snowfoot for release of
white captain.
Speaker 2: They won't come tomorrow, Snowfoot, because I'm not big enough,
and because you're not big enough. They will come if
I were a general, if you were sitting bull maybe,
but we're not. We're just a couple of men this
country could use. They will come a lot of young
braves like you are, hunting on the reservation and fishing
and sitting at council tables with white men.
Speaker 13: White men will come, bring consols with Snowfoot, make peace
on Snowfoot's terms.
Speaker 2: You'll see, Snowfoot, we're not big enough.
Speaker 13: White captain has said no white men come, and they
do not come. Spotted Dog, our scouts have seen them
move away.
Speaker 12: Two sons have gone, and I have watched you, Snowfoot.
Much power with white captain you grow weak on his words.
Speaker 13: You speak with a crooked mind, spotted dog. There is
room for strength in the mind as in the body.
Speaker 7: Now you speak as our fathers before us.
Speaker 13: We are our father's son, spotted.
Speaker 12: Dog, White captain, bad medicine.
Speaker 13: Then we will rid the camp of him.
Speaker 2: Kill.
Speaker 13: You will get white captain's horse, spotted dog. Now you
will go white captain. You will return to the white man.
Show them you knew no harm in Snowfoot's camp.
Speaker 2: Yes, I'll show them.
Speaker 13: They will see I am proud chief, worthy of counsel.
Speaker 2: Maybe they will. There's always counsel waiting for you on
the reservation.
Speaker 13: Snowfood reservation holds grave of my father, and I am
my father's son. You will go no White captain.
Speaker 2: Patrol.
Speaker 1: Oh, there's the habits.
Speaker 2: Good to see you.
Speaker 8: Good to see you, Captain.
Speaker 2: You all right, sir, I'm all right? Has made you
daggett uh?
Speaker 8: I guess he's fine, sir. He was worried about you.
Set me back with the patrol as soon as we
reached Fort Laramie. How far have you ridden, sir?
Speaker 2: Oh, ten twenty miles.
Speaker 7: Well it looks like you made out, Captain.
Speaker 2: I'll know better. Later on, sergeant. Anyways, they didn't kill you.
Oh they decided I wasn't important enough.
Speaker 8: Well, we're here to show them you, our captain. We'll
give them something to understand.
Speaker 2: What are your orders, mister Seyberts.
Speaker 8: Why to rescue you?
Speaker 4: Sir?
Speaker 2: Do I look like a prisoner to you? Mister Seberts, You.
Speaker 8: Look fine to me, Captain, But shouldn't. I mean, we
can't let him get by with what they did, sir.
Speaker 2: They did nothing. I rode into their camp, I rode
away unharmed.
Speaker 8: That's true enough.
Speaker 2: You were to secure my release and returned to Fort Laramie.
That right, mister Seyberts, That's exactly right, sir. I suggest
we follow those orders.
Speaker 8: But what about Snowfoot, Captain?
Speaker 2: He's Red Horse's son. I think we'll see him on
the reservation someday, I hope so.
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 Hit, with sound patterns by
Bill James and Ray Kemper, musical supervision by Amarigo Marino.
Featured in the cast were Harry Bartel, Jeffrey Silver, Ralph Moody,
Leigh Malar, Frank Cady, Lou Krugman, and Jack Moyles.
Speaker 2: Company Tencent.
Speaker 3: Dismiss next week another transcribed story of the Northwest Frontier
and the troopers who fought under lee Quin's captain of Cavalry.
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