Speaker 1: At the Galla Wow, Fort Loamie, 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.
Speaker 2: Men who rode the rim of Empire, and the dramatic
story of lee Quin's captain of cavalry.
Speaker 3: You see that month, I blew the top of his
head clean.
Speaker 4: Off beginning were right at.
Speaker 5: The eyebrows, slashed him just as clean. You figure that
killed him?
Speaker 6: Then?
Speaker 5: Oh, sure he's dead, and.
Speaker 7: I declare that makes a fair morning shooting Harrison. Let
me see now you killed Crazy Horse, black Leg and
American Horse just since I've been watching.
Speaker 5: You ain't forgetting roman nose. You shoot him too? Oh yeah,
the last one he was roman nose.
Speaker 4: But ain't that peculiar.
Speaker 8: I'd have swore he was killed at the room.
Speaker 5: You're too bad, No, I just now killed it. He
You think maybe they'll give me a stripe for that month?
Speaker 8: Oh I don't know.
Speaker 9: Boys, Then he's been dead that long.
Speaker 8: They might a lot of.
Speaker 5: Figure it's worth no strive. Yeah, you ain't practicing much, monk.
Speaker 7: Or didn't you know I was killed while back acrosst
I took the time to reload my springfield.
Speaker 5: Now I'll get me another.
Speaker 4: Who'd you get, boy?
Speaker 5: I missed the target.
Speaker 4: I guess I've been lying on my belly too long.
Speaker 5: Oh hey, it happens, don't it, Monk?
Speaker 4: What happened?
Speaker 3: Men get themselves killed on account of having to stop
and reload after every single shot.
Speaker 4: Sure it happens.
Speaker 3: My daddy used the springfield just like this, and in
the War between the States.
Speaker 5: Your daddy used one in the Civil War. Boy, Now
don't you start that up again. We both used them,
Yankees and rebels alike.
Speaker 7: Now, if you're saying this time we had a better
firearm than the Indians, you're just right, Harrison, You are
just right.
Speaker 5: You tried them, Spencer's monk.
Speaker 4: Sure we had them in the war.
Speaker 5: The load right behind the boar.
Speaker 7: Their shapes are all right, shorter, you know, make better carrying
for a trooper.
Speaker 8: But they ain't the answer.
Speaker 10: I'm sure myre to try one, Captain.
Speaker 7: Quince him and them other officers they got the answer, boy,
Henry rifles.
Speaker 5: Yeah, them repeaters.
Speaker 7: You ever ask yourself any questions, boy, there'd be a
good one for you.
Speaker 11: How's that?
Speaker 4: How come.
Speaker 7: The only ones that's got them new Henry rifles is
some of the officers and most of the Indians. I
don't ask myself questions like that, month make mighty interesting answers.
Speaker 4: Questions like them.
Speaker 3: Monk, you better hold your tongue. We ain't exactly a long.
Speaker 4: Oh boy, you ain't never alone in the army.
Speaker 12: So don't stop talking in my account. Man, I'm very
interested in what you're saying.
Speaker 5: You must be seeing you writing most of it down?
Speaker 12: Oh, just making a few notes. Go on about the rifles.
What's he talking about?
Speaker 5: You suppose you got some business here, mister?
Speaker 12: I have papers from Major Doggett giving me permission to
move freely about the post.
Speaker 9: When I ain't that nice of the Major sending us
a moving target to practice on you some kind of
spy coming around here in mufty, sneaking around a rifle
but writing down everything we say.
Speaker 12: I'm a correspondent for the New York Star. That's a newspaper.
Speaker 7: You want to buy a paper, Harrison?
Speaker 5: Who'd I get to read it to me?
Speaker 4: All right?
Speaker 12: Man, maybe you can point out Captain Quinch to me.
Speaker 9: Then you're facing that ray, Harrison, you point him out?
Speaker 5: He was a at the head of the line. Now,
I ain't saying he's there.
Speaker 12: Now, I think I can find him. He would be
the one carrying the Henry rifle, wouldn't.
Speaker 4: He, Harrison.
Speaker 7: I think I'm gonna pass that suggestion on to the Major.
I think we do a site better shooting a living target,
especially if he carried a notebook with him.
Speaker 4: Yes, Captain Quince, that's right.
Speaker 12: You're sure you are, Captain Quince.
Speaker 4: Something on your mind, mister.
Speaker 12: I'll just take your word for it. I don't think
I can walk anymore. Oh. My name is Harkness, David Hartness.
I'm a correspondent from the New York Star. That is
a newspaper.
Speaker 4: Yes, I know. Did you walk out from New York,
mister Harkness?
Speaker 8: It feels like it.
Speaker 12: I think I have just been initiated into the army,
captain initiated. The Major told me I would find you
on the firing range. I walked there. A sergeant said
you might be at the cavalry stables. I walked there.
From there, I walked to the saddlery on someone's advice,
then to the corral and the post office, and finally
here to Old What is it old old bedlam. I
think maybe your men wanted to be sure I had
a long walk.
Speaker 4: The man wanted to know who was listening in on
private conversations writing down what they said. I told them
who I was after you made your notes.
Speaker 12: That's right. The major gave me a free hand on
the post. I guess I used it a little too freely.
I didn't mean any harm.
Speaker 4: Captain, men will talk for you. Once they know you
and trust you.
Speaker 12: Well, then you don't have any objection of my talking
with the men.
Speaker 4: No, not if they don't.
Speaker 8: Captain.
Speaker 12: Quin's one thing I heard overheard bothers me. Can I
ask you about it?
Speaker 4: Go ahead?
Speaker 12: At target practice and the firing range, those men are
still using single shot springfields.
Speaker 4: Them and few spencer carbines.
Speaker 12: Now the men say they're outmoded.
Speaker 4: They are.
Speaker 12: The men are not issued Henry rifles.
Speaker 4: We don't have them tissue.
Speaker 12: But some of the officers have them.
Speaker 8: Am I right?
Speaker 4: Some of this?
Speaker 12: I have one, you have one, but your men have it.
Speaker 4: Mister Harkneys. My men make thirteen dollars a month. They
can't afford to buy Henry rifles.
Speaker 12: You mean to say you bought yours, Captain.
Speaker 4: Like the rest of the officers who have them at
this suppleerss store.
Speaker 12: Shouldn't the army equip itself with the best possible.
Speaker 4: Arm Of course it should. But guns cost money, mister Harkness.
So far we can't afford the kind of guns we need.
Speaker 12: Well now in Washington they talk of nothing but appropriations.
Speaker 13: For the army.
Speaker 4: In the West talk doesn't send us any guns.
Speaker 12: Well, these Henry rifles they are to be had, I mean,
providing the Army gets the money to pay for them.
They're not in short supply.
Speaker 4: A lot of the Indians have them, mister Harkness. I
heard that too.
Speaker 8: I couldn't believe it.
Speaker 4: I've seen it.
Speaker 8: How do the Indians get them?
Speaker 12: Who in the world would sell guns the army needs
to the Indians?
Speaker 4: Renegade whites, traders, kind of men who get rich in
other men's blood.
Speaker 12: I am a long way from home, Captain quinc It's
another world.
Speaker 4: I've got an awful lot to learn. You never stop
learning out here, mister.
Speaker 12: Well captain, I'm here for a month. Can I learn
enough in that time to give me a fair picture.
Speaker 4: You've got a good start. You admit you got a
lot to learn.
Speaker 8: You send for me, sir, Sit down, captain, Yeah, read this.
Speaker 4: Mm hmm.
Speaker 14: Well, I'm just assuming that the anonymous captain in mister Harkner's.
Speaker 8: Story is you.
Speaker 6: You.
Speaker 4: I talked to him.
Speaker 14: If that's what you mean, I'd say you did quite
a good job of talking, Captain. The men have outmoded equipment,
the officers by their own repeating rifles. The Indians have
little trouble coming by Henry rivals. You want that printed
in a large New York newspaper, do you? I emphatically
do not. It's the truth, of course, it's the truth.
That's not my point. I'd like to know your point, Ali,
I don't want our tempers involved in this. I'm questioning
your judgment and I want some answers.
Speaker 4: That's good. So do I You sent this Harkness looking
for me? Right?
Speaker 6: Yes?
Speaker 8: I sent him.
Speaker 4: You know he was a correspondent for a newspaper. You
gave him the run of the post. That means he
can ask questions and get answers. Right. Yes, that's right.
He asked me some questions. I answered him.
Speaker 8: I see you did.
Speaker 4: It's an army secret that we're short of equipment.
Speaker 14: I've sent the same information onto Washington for months.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 8: You know that, Captain, I requested, I've.
Speaker 4: Pleaded, I've bade, and nothing's happened.
Speaker 8: They're a long way from the problem.
Speaker 4: Lead.
Speaker 14: The need diminishes with the miles between. This kind of
newspaper article can stir a public opinion.
Speaker 8: Just wonder if it's wise.
Speaker 4: If plain facts stirs him into action. I don't say
it's unwise.
Speaker 8: The army moves its own way.
Speaker 14: I know you don't always agree with it, Captain, but
if this article causes trouble, it's my trouble, not yours.
Speaker 4: Then I'd say you'd better make up your mind. Major,
how's that Harkness? If he's got your leave to be
here and take a square look at things, ask questions,
get answers. You're going to get articles like that one
if you don't want them. Why kick him off the post?
Speaker 14: Did mister Harkness tell you how the people in the
east feel about the Indians?
Speaker 4: We talked about guns?
Speaker 14: As I understand him, we're the villains, Captain, the Army
and the Red Men are all peace loven hunters who
never kill or plunder or raid.
Speaker 4: Is that all, Major, No.
Speaker 8: That's not all Captain.
Speaker 14: The settlers along Fish Canyon have reported a rash of
small rage. Take a patrol out tomorrow morning. Bring me
a full report, right. I want you to take mister
Harkness along, Captain.
Speaker 4: It's not my job to mind what he sees, who
he talks to, what words he sets down.
Speaker 14: I want him to see all he can see and
write all he can write. So long as it's true.
Speaker 4: You'll tell him that.
Speaker 14: I'll tell him, he questions, Captain, No, sir, then move out.
Speaker 12: Now?
Speaker 4: How are you riding, mister Harkness?
Speaker 12: If I joined the army, Captain, I put in for
the infantry.
Speaker 4: The other day when you were walking, you wanted a horse.
Speaker 13: I'm hard to please.
Speaker 4: You're a human.
Speaker 15: How long will we be out, Captain, depends on what
we find and who we find. Major said, we were
going to talk to some settlers about Indian raids.
Speaker 12: And we might find Indians too.
Speaker 4: Yeah, or they might find us.
Speaker 6: I guess you'll never know. Do you you never know?
Speaker 13: Captain?
Speaker 12: Will you let me know when we're an Indian country.
Speaker 4: You're in it?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 12: Oh, well, the settlers I should think they'd want to
live near a fort Laramie for protection.
Speaker 4: We'll be coming on of some settlers.
Speaker 6: Soon ask them that was.
Speaker 4: A deserted cabinal on the creek.
Speaker 10: Captain, no Indian signs around?
Speaker 4: What about the calendar plays, mister Sabbitts, straight ahead, sir,
besh Kenyon straight ahead? How far, mister Sabits, I'd say
about two miles, sir. Fine, mister Callender is the one
I was telling you about. I remember, mister Sabits. Oh
do you know, mister Harkness we met last night.
Speaker 12: Lieutenant Cyberts was a big help, Captain.
Speaker 4: That's so.
Speaker 5: I didn't do much.
Speaker 12: Really, what do you mean, Lieutenant? Those diaries of yours
gave me a lot of valuable background diaries, mister Syberts.
Speaker 11: They're not much, sir. Well, it just gives me something
to do.
Speaker 5: Sometimes.
Speaker 8: I'd like to.
Speaker 12: Read yours sometime, Captain, i'd have to write it first.
You don't keep any written record of your experiences out here?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 12: Oh, I think there'd be a lot you'd want to remember, Captain.
Speaker 4: Well, there's more I want to forget. Two miles, mister Saberts,
two miles patrol. You want to meet a settler, mister Harkness, Oh,
I sure do. Yeah, climb down then, right. Oh, it
looks quiet enough here, mister seyberts, but keep an eye alert.
Yes it sergeant, you, sergeant, take Harrison and Monks. Circle
back by the bar and those sheds near the wash.
Check the area for Indian signs. Report back, yes, sir
Harrison you.
Speaker 12: Uh, this would be mister Calendar's place.
Speaker 4: That's right.
Speaker 12: Can't blame me for choosing this spot. Beautiful company.
Speaker 11: Access far as ago.
Speaker 4: No need for the rifle, mister Calendar.
Speaker 16: I'd be the judge of that. I have no use
for the army. Say so the last time.
Speaker 13: Say it again.
Speaker 12: Now get off my land.
Speaker 4: I guess you haven't been raided along here, reports that
you had there?
Speaker 11: So is your excuse in it?
Speaker 16: Come snooping around the man's property, claiming to look for Indians.
Speaker 4: Seen any Indians, mister Calendar.
Speaker 16: See nothing. You don't frighten me riding up in numbers.
I got my rights and your trestperson.
Speaker 4: You don't have any trouble with the Indians.
Speaker 16: Don't have no trouble with anyone. Say the army, that
one out there, young one, this horse apriud, Lieutenant sibits
the names no matter cart of here wakers so back
fired on him for snooping, sneaking up on a man's
own land.
Speaker 11: Hold him not to come back.
Speaker 16: I know that at one more bar you wear don't
make you any more welcome. They're telling army.
Speaker 4: Enough, mister Harkins, No, no, I haven't.
Speaker 12: The army is out here to protect people like you,
and mister callender, what have you got against that? I
tell you if you had too dambit too green, hont
and old, there was no trouble out here till the
army came.
Speaker 11: Red men are all right.
Speaker 16: You know how to deal with him.
Speaker 11: You better stop him.
Speaker 4: Where is that's fire enough?
Speaker 6: Sergeant?
Speaker 4: You all right? Capt'n you find anything, Sergeant.
Speaker 17: No damage, Captain, but a lot of horses was here
back by the corral.
Speaker 4: The fresh Mark, Sir got a lot of neighbors, have you,
mister Calendar already.
Speaker 12: We didn't come on any settlers on our way here, Captain.
Speaker 4: You heard him say it, mister Harkness. Red men are
all right, you know how to deal with them. I
guess maybe mister Calendar knows how.
Speaker 12: You're getting off my property now.
Speaker 4: Thanks for the help. Settler. You better eat something, mister Harkness.
Speaker 12: Oh Captain, I can't well there's too much that just
doesn't set well in my stomach and coffee.
Speaker 4: Then it goes down when nothing else will.
Speaker 8: Thank you? Where are we camped? Still in Fish Can?
Speaker 4: North? End of it? We did a good job at
covering the canyon today and tomorrow we'll head back to
Fort Laramie and report to Major Daggett.
Speaker 12: Five families slaughtered? And that that's your report, isn't it?
Speaker 4: It's about it?
Speaker 12: How do I do it?
Speaker 8: Captain?
Speaker 12: How do I show what I saw today to the
people back east?
Speaker 4: I I don't know your job, mister Harkins.
Speaker 12: I can write it just as I found it. Maybe
it'd a jar them out of their complacency. Persecuted, redmand
peaceful hundred. Oh they're nothing but savages.
Speaker 4: They're the butchers, these Indians. Yes, what do you mean?
And I'll tell you I I saw a slaughter once,
the remains of one eighty men, women and children huddled
beneath the flag that was supposed to give him immunity.
Speaker 12: But they were killed anyway.
Speaker 4: Ridden down, slaughtered, hacked shot.
Speaker 12: Indians don't put much value on human life, do they.
Speaker 4: This was white men's work, mister Harkness. White men's white
army men.
Speaker 12: You saw this happen.
Speaker 4: Some of us were sent out after it happened to
move the dead to burial grounds. Savage is a savage,
mister Harkness. Color of his skins, no matter.
Speaker 12: I'll try to remember that, Captain.
Speaker 4: Once you see it, you don't forget.
Speaker 12: What about a man like Calendar. Indians have been at
his place too, we think so. But he wasn't killed.
His cabin still stand.
Speaker 4: Could be he trades with him, horses, green Henry rifles
might be well if you thought he did, I have
to know he did, mister Harkness, you would, wouldn't you.
They're riding ahead you.
Speaker 10: You better get some sleep, Captain Quin Indians hop on
the bluff.
Speaker 13: Mount make for the rocks. Sergeant sergeant passed the word.
Speaker 4: Now you make for the rocks, mister sir Christ st here,
Captain Parkness in your time, No, sir, you better mount,
Sir Augness Augness Mouth, make.
Speaker 11: For the rocks, you said, mister Simon's ulcer.
Speaker 5: But he's on, Captain, he'd better be.
Speaker 6: Now let's go.
Speaker 13: Again again and fire.
Speaker 11: Give him a steady load of it. They're firing the cancer.
Speaker 8: You can have a camp.
Speaker 11: And he signed the huckness.
Speaker 6: Captain.
Speaker 4: I'm looking at Indians right now, mister sat.
Speaker 6: Wultr. Fireman, they're out of range.
Speaker 4: What let's see how we stood up, mister sebit right, Captain?
All right, Harrison, all.
Speaker 13: Right, Captain.
Speaker 11: I'd like to wake up this way every morning.
Speaker 5: That's the prettiest sight in the world. Indians riding away
from you.
Speaker 11: Ain't that right, Captain?
Speaker 4: Yeah, just right, monk. I'll look on ahead, mister Sabitt,
so you check the other way.
Speaker 11: Yes, Captain. Over here, it's man.
Speaker 4: You have never seen little blood before me stake, Captain.
Speaker 12: This man is hurt.
Speaker 17: They get your gys nick, that's all little nick and
shoulder like we had a thousand times, Captain.
Speaker 4: And let's have a look. Oh m hm, he's lost
a lot of blood.
Speaker 10: He's gonna make somebody a wonderful mother.
Speaker 8: Captain.
Speaker 4: I think you'll live, of course, I don't know.
Speaker 8: It's sure already.
Speaker 17: Get me a couple of days in the hospital, don't
you think a couple of days of sleeping, spoon feeding.
Speaker 8: Maybe you.
Speaker 4: You're gonna live till you get to the hospital.
Speaker 17: I can see. I better save my real suffering for
the medical offices.
Speaker 12: Well, captain, or what do you think of it?
Speaker 8: Captain?
Speaker 4: What's it supposed to be?
Speaker 12: Well, the account of the raid on our camp at
Fish Canyon.
Speaker 4: Reads like the Battle of bull Run with Indians. Well,
I colored it a little. You counted a hundred Indians,
mister Hackneys, I saw maybe twenty. Well I did that
on purpose, Captain, and Sergeant Gorse got a flesh wound
in the shoulder. He didn't die a hero's death like
the sergeant and your story.
Speaker 12: Here, don't you see, Captain?
Speaker 4: The people back east, the people in.
Speaker 12: New York and Washington, they've got to be blasted out
of their beliefs.
Speaker 4: If lies about a pitch battle that never happened.
Speaker 12: Well, you think I'll pay attention to the story as
it really happened. You think that'll get you the guns
and the equipment you need.
Speaker 4: I don't know, mister Harkness, I don't know your business.
When you came here, you said you wanted a fair
picture of the West. I still do. You're getting it.
We got settlers who get massacred. We well, like the
five families you saw in Fish Canyon. We get settlers
like mister Callender, who don't We got red men who
slaughter innocent whites, and we got red men who sit
down at treaty tables and try to make peace.
Speaker 12: Well, that all that doesn't make exciting reading, cat.
Speaker 4: It makes life and death out here.
Speaker 12: You're you're quite a realist, aren't you.
Speaker 4: I live here, mister Harkness.
Speaker 12: The Army is always right.
Speaker 4: Army is not always anything, not always right, not always wrong.
You tore up the story. I didn't.
Speaker 12: I'm right back where I started, Captain, I am.
Speaker 4: I've still got a lot to learn, and it's still
a good sign if you want it.
Speaker 2: Fort Laramie is produced and directed by Norman mc donald
and stars Raymond Burr as lee Quin'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 Lawrence Dobkin, Harry Bartel, Jack Moyles,
Sam Edwards, Parley Bear, and Lou Krugman.
Speaker 13: A Company Tencent's.
Speaker 2: Miss 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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