Speaker 1: At the Gatherer Wow.
Speaker 2: 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 men who rode
the rim of Empire, and the dramatic story of lee
Quin's captain of cavalry.
Speaker 3: This is as far as we go, mis toon.
Speaker 4: That's your line.
Speaker 3: The creek ahead you can want to use stuck there,
We'll wait for that and head back Wana. Whoa back there,
we're stopping a spell.
Speaker 5: This the end of the line for us, Captain.
Speaker 3: That's what the orders says Sogan. Yes, sir, tell them
in the dismountain unsaddleed ping, grays and water.
Speaker 5: Take your mount captain.
Speaker 3: Thanks. I want to talk to the driver.
Speaker 5: You've seen him then up on the rim.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're keeping their distance.
Speaker 6: Ain't every wagon train pushing west gets two escorts, cavalry
and the engines.
Speaker 3: Of course, I'll tell him.
Speaker 6: This mountain, unsaddle, em graves, water, this mouth, none.
Speaker 4: Mind your stock, don't take on water too fast.
Speaker 3: You're planning to stick to the Oregon Trail driver.
Speaker 4: I'd be a plain fool if I didn't for their
engines stirring me down from the top of the canyon.
Speaker 3: I don't think they'll bother in. They're not hungry. We
butchered some beef in the agency for him last week.
Speaker 4: Fancy we'd look too good to him trying to Mangie
looking out for it.
Speaker 3: Ain't we I've seen worse. You're all right, so long
as you don't get any ideas about the old Bozeman trail.
Speaker 4: Well, let's close now, ain't it.
Speaker 3: Yeah? By treaty. That's what's bothering our friends up there
in the rim.
Speaker 4: They think we aim to cut up to Montana country.
Speaker 3: Some of the wagons try it.
Speaker 4: Lots of gold up there, ain't the captain?
Speaker 3: Yeah, And lots of soup and lots of a rapper hole.
It's all Indian country. Bozeman Trails closed, forts and posts
are abandoned.
Speaker 4: I tell you the truth, Captain. I kind of had
my heart set and panning myself a fortune or two.
Speaker 3: You wouldn't get to the first turn in that trail.
Speaker 4: No, for wouldn't I know? It wouldn't well, had my
heart set and own plot of ground and Oregon too,
Sure you'll live longer. You were going up there to
the rim. Captain, talk to them engines, what for? Tell
them to leave us be.
Speaker 3: That's reservation land thereon. They'll leave you be long as
you're set straight along the Oregon trail. They haven't bothered
a wagon train since the treaty.
Speaker 4: Well, I can wait till I settle an Oregon, then
maybe drop down to the Motherlode country. If I want
gold bad enough.
Speaker 3: Yeah, if you want it bad enough, you.
Speaker 4: You don't have it? Do your captain?
Speaker 5: Have it?
Speaker 3: The itch?
Speaker 4: The fever that sits on a man makes them want
to find gold more than anything.
Speaker 3: That kind of fever can get you killed, mister, Yes, sir, I.
Speaker 4: Bet it can. Well, don't you worry yourself about me, Captain,
Me and this little wagon trainer is staying right smack
on the Oregon trail.
Speaker 7: Good.
Speaker 3: Oh, i'd watch my stock if I were you. There's
alkali in these streams.
Speaker 7: Do here.
Speaker 3: Won't kill them, but too much you'll make them sick.
Speaker 4: I'll keep an eye on them. Well, good luck to you, mister,
But thanks kindly, captain, for sure much obliged. You're road
this far with us, all right, we'll watch you out
of side. I'd like that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's if you get a move on, you're wasting
daylight at this right valuable stuff out here, mister.
Speaker 4: Kind of like gold, captain, Yeah, kind of like gold.
Speaker 8: Indians made no move to follow the train.
Speaker 3: Oh they left the rim in the canyon a little
before we did.
Speaker 8: I can't be sure they didn't ride on ahead intercept
the train when it was out of your sight.
Speaker 3: They weren't headed that way, But I can't be sure.
Speaker 8: I keep feeling like we're sitting on a powder keg lee,
slightest little jar blow up to a full scale war.
Speaker 3: It's got me edgy, You got company? You Red Cloud?
Why do you think those Indians were lining the rim
of that canyon?
Speaker 8: I guess they can't believe it either. It's not much
of a peace, Captain if we spend all our time
watching them just to find out they're watching back.
Speaker 3: Oh, major beats killing each other.
Speaker 8: You like Red Cloud, don't you leap?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 8: I like him. You trust him?
Speaker 3: He signed the treaty, hasn't broken it yet, then you
do trust him. I don't think he'll be the one
to break the treaty. If that's what you mean.
Speaker 8: You think we will say?
Speaker 7: No, not we?
Speaker 3: But I saw something in that wagon train driver that
breaks treaties. He called it a itch, a fever, fever
for gold.
Speaker 7: He told me.
Speaker 8: You warn him about going up the old Bozeman trail.
Speaker 3: I warned him. I don't think he'll try it, but
if he doesn't, someone with a fever will. If not
the Bozeman, then they'll break new trails up into the
Big Horn Range, over into Black Hills.
Speaker 8: That's all Indian territory.
Speaker 3: We've both read the treaty, Major.
Speaker 8: And Red Clouds signed it, so did we? Now what
do we have to do? Read it to every wagon
train that stops at Fort Laramie.
Speaker 3: You ask me if I trusted Red Cloud. I trust
him till the next white man goes into Indian country
looking for gold.
Speaker 8: I suppose you're right.
Speaker 3: He got what he wanted, Powder River Country, Black Hills
for hunting grounds. That covers everything to the north and
east of us, and we better stay out of it.
MM tell that to the men with a gold fever.
I do when I see him.
Speaker 8: Lee, if you were sitting in my chair, what would
you do if you had to translate this problem to Washington?
I dessert, Now you wouldn't you'd have a plan? What
would it be.
Speaker 3: About white men going into Indian country.
Speaker 8: We can't protect him.
Speaker 3: We'll have to try to keep him from going in.
Speaker 7: That's what I want to know.
Speaker 8: Can we stop them?
Speaker 3: We can try, maybe with official orders, we can keep
them from going in in numbers. If we catch them,
lock them up as treaty violators, and if they persist
for provoking an active war, I'd shoot them.
Speaker 8: I said, you'd have a plan, all right.
Speaker 3: I'd start by redoubling our patrols all along the north Platte.
Speaker 8: We don't have the manpower.
Speaker 3: Let the infantry secure the garrison. I'll take a patrol
out right now.
Speaker 7: Ah, you just got back.
Speaker 8: You're tired.
Speaker 3: I'm not tired.
Speaker 8: All right, the men are tired.
Speaker 3: Got another plan?
Speaker 8: What's that?
Speaker 3: I need a drink?
Speaker 8: Why don't you go on over Kevin? Maybe i'll join
you later.
Speaker 3: He is a major. Why Lee, I didn't know you
were back? Got back last night, Willa. He was a
barmaid here.
Speaker 6: Now dad's waiting on some trade in the store.
Speaker 5: Here, help yourself.
Speaker 3: I say, I wanted a drink.
Speaker 5: If you'd come to see me, you'd have come last night.
Speaker 7: It was.
Speaker 3: It was late last night. That sounded a lot like
an explanation. Lee, I guess I thought you wanted one
when you see me, it's because you want to see me.
That's a good thing to know. Yeah, maybe it is.
Are you finished with this? It's the matter you running
out of whiskey almost not planning. He doesn't run out,
not when he can still get his price.
Speaker 6: What isn't that?
Speaker 5: It's those men with him?
Speaker 7: What about him?
Speaker 3: But they're not drinking here, they're taking with them. Huh
where they're going?
Speaker 5: I don't know wherever it is. They must expect to
stay a long time.
Speaker 3: Isn't ten gallons of whiskey and awful Lotly? A couple
of drinks of this whiskey is an awful lot?
Speaker 6: Say?
Speaker 9: Will you recollect that last ship with the boots we
got in? I thought we'd put them in stock. But
I cannot lay my hands home.
Speaker 6: Aren't you going to speak to.
Speaker 3: Lead that he can't see me? Willer for the dollar
signs in his eyes?
Speaker 8: Oh well, good afternoon, you captain.
Speaker 3: His glass is empty. Will you offering me a drink
on the house? Pliny on the house?
Speaker 9: Oh well, I just didn't naturally supposed you were buying
you a drinks Captain, Dad.
Speaker 3: Of course credit is available.
Speaker 7: For an old friend like you.
Speaker 8: Captain, I trust you.
Speaker 3: That's your idea of a compliment, pliny. Oh boots, that was,
wasn't it?
Speaker 8: Of course boots.
Speaker 9: I can't back here to ask about the boots.
Speaker 3: I don't know how you could miss them.
Speaker 6: They're right next to the cash box.
Speaker 3: Oh my goodness, yes, of course they must be there.
Speaker 9: Then swim you go right ahead, Captain, Just buy yourself
another drink.
Speaker 8: I don't know what to do about him except love
him in spite of himself.
Speaker 3: You'll never be poor. William and Dowries are still in style. Lee,
maybe I ask for that.
Speaker 5: Are you going to have that other drink?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 3: Thanks, this one is on the house. Oh you don't
want to break his heart?
Speaker 5: You will?
Speaker 3: No, Well, I've had enough, I'll see, Yeah, surely.
Speaker 7: Sure he you?
Speaker 2: Hey?
Speaker 7: You you talking to me?
Speaker 3: Mister? Yeah?
Speaker 7: Gord you soldier, didn't they?
Speaker 3: This friend of yours planning?
Speaker 10: Well, he is spending quite a lot of money, Captain, Yeah,
I aim to spend a lot more, maybe with you,
soldier boy, I.
Speaker 3: Got nothing to sell, mister.
Speaker 9: Well, you could might give him some information, couldn't you, Captain?
Speaker 8: He's such a good customer.
Speaker 7: You want to quit bobbing around in front of me.
Speaker 9: I have a no offense though, not slats, but offense.
Speaker 8: Excuse me, that's better.
Speaker 7: You want to drink, soldier.
Speaker 3: I'm in a hurry, mister.
Speaker 10: You must know this country pretty good. I'm looking for horses, goodns.
You're no here news today.
Speaker 3: Most of the settlers around here have horses.
Speaker 7: I said, good horses.
Speaker 10: I've seen the crow bait they pass off for horses
over in Laramie Village. I mean goodnes strong. Take a
lot of riding, That's what I want.
Speaker 3: How many oh?
Speaker 7: For? Say?
Speaker 3: Well? The suitor ranch is about your best bet. It's
a good day's ride from here. Which way west? Due west?
You can see the ranch house from the Oregon Trail.
I ain't hidden west and south near Cheyenne. I ain't
heading south. I can't help you, mister.
Speaker 7: You're not trying too hard.
Speaker 3: Ah, your soldier hard enough plenty. You'd better get your
cash customer out of my way.
Speaker 7: Please, gentlemen, no rough housing.
Speaker 8: This is a respectful place of business.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 7: I told you quit bobbing in here every so often.
Speaker 3: I only meant to help.
Speaker 7: You.
Speaker 3: Got any more shoving around you want to do, mister, yeah.
Speaker 7: Kind of forget my money's reckon? You speak your piece better,
you get paid for it.
Speaker 3: What are you trying to buy a crack skull?
Speaker 7: All right? All right, I picked the wrong soldier. What's
he so sore about?
Speaker 8: Well, he just misunderstood you.
Speaker 3: Now here, I'll help you pick up your.
Speaker 7: Money, all right.
Speaker 10: If I sit next to your soldier, help your falcon.
You get used to the food and time.
Speaker 5: Do you eating free? Incher?
Speaker 7: It's free enough? You look like a smart man, Soldier,
I ain't. I ain't here better.
Speaker 6: You've been talking with somebody dumber and me, then Pliny Sutler.
He put your next to the free meal here in
the barracks. That'd be Pliny, him and me. We're dumb
in different ways.
Speaker 7: He says. You know all this to know about horses.
Speaker 5: I've ridden him eating a few. That's all I has
to know about him.
Speaker 7: We're the best horses around here.
Speaker 5: Soldier up in the cavalry stables, I'd.
Speaker 7: Like to lay my hands on for goodness.
Speaker 6: Well, now you could try, but you might get yourself
shot and trying.
Speaker 10: I'm talking about buying horses, not stealing them.
Speaker 5: I don't think the cavalry's got any horses for sale.
Speaker 7: Mister, are you trying to understand me? Soldier?
Speaker 4: I'm trying harder to eat.
Speaker 7: How much money you make a month? Where those three
stripes years?
Speaker 5: Now? That just plane took my appetite.
Speaker 10: Regular soldier makes fifty cents a day. I figure those
stripes give you a bit more.
Speaker 5: You want to raise my pay? Is that it?
Speaker 7: I want four good horses. You get them for me.
I'll see you get better in a raise.
Speaker 5: You just passing through? Are you mystery?
Speaker 7: That's all? Don't worry about the money. I got it.
Speaker 6: What are you figuring on using horses for riding? Four
horses for riding?
Speaker 7: There's two of us. It's hard riding. You won't get
the money just asking questions, Soldier.
Speaker 5: I guess i'd have to see that money.
Speaker 7: We're gonna do business, are we?
Speaker 5: You got a right price? We'll do business.
Speaker 7: This place. You'd get the horses, and they be near
the fort, near enough branch.
Speaker 5: If I told you about it, you will need me.
Speaker 6: I wouldn't collect that money you're talking about.
Speaker 7: You're not dumb, Soldier, You're not dumb a bit. Look here,
well you've seen the money.
Speaker 5: Now that ain't all money, mister.
Speaker 6: Mean, some of them pouches they just don't bulge right
for silver?
Speaker 7: You see real good? Don't you?
Speaker 6: Anybody tell you there's an assay office over.
Speaker 5: In Laraman Village?
Speaker 7: They might not if I'd have asked you want some advice? Mister,
I want some horses.
Speaker 6: You better not be finding Golden engine country.
Speaker 5: There's a treaty now says.
Speaker 3: You can't go in.
Speaker 7: There is not a fact.
Speaker 8: Listen.
Speaker 10: Of course you got permission from the engine soldier. I
got ten gallons of whiskey. That's a lot of permission,
providing I wanted it. Now, then, man, I took your advice.
You're gonna take my money.
Speaker 8: And a lot sooner take you? Mister?
Speaker 7: You're going along with me? Or ain't you?
Speaker 5: I'm going with you all the way?
Speaker 7: What's the idea?
Speaker 6: You just got yourself a military escort, mister clean through
the main gate of Ford Laramie.
Speaker 3: Well, of course, how'd you keep from roughing the mouth.
Speaker 5: The same way you did? I guess flying in.
Speaker 6: Miss Willis said you went plumb white keeping from hurting him.
Speaker 3: Yep, one of us should have busted him. He might
have stuck around to prefer a chargers.
Speaker 5: Not this one.
Speaker 6: You didn't want any trouble, just horses. Fed my way
out of stuffed him in the stockade last night instead
of thrown him off the post.
Speaker 3: He just says, you can't hold a man for what
you think he's going to do.
Speaker 5: He told him about it.
Speaker 3: Last night, after you told me that was gold in them.
Speaker 5: Pout as sure as anything. I didn't have to look inside.
Speaker 3: Yeah, sure it was gold, and it was picks and
shovels and pans. He bought it the sutlers. I got
that much out of plany last night, you know, forgetting
the whiskey, and I'm not forgetting like he's not. He's
got the horses by now too. We can't stop him
from getting horses. Sergeant, we just don't have to help him.
Speaker 7: You were.
Speaker 3: Smart to hear him out. I should have been a
little smarter.
Speaker 6: He'd stand to talk freer to me, saying I'd have
more need of money. I had to throw him out,
for he worked his way any further down the wage scale.
Speaker 3: I knew a trooper, once deserted, sold his mount saddled
everything up to his kertchier for one hundred dollars.
Speaker 6: It's the best part of a year's pay. You think
the Major stands still for us taking off after him?
Speaker 3: Mister Seybertz brings his patrol in tomorrow night. We're not
going anywhere until he's back. It sounds like an order
and Major Daggets can't prove anything going after him.
Speaker 6: Course cavalry patrol. Maybe it'd scare him off.
Speaker 3: A little oh man, that stupid doesn't scare. He'd rather
be scalped than be poor.
Speaker 6: If he goes in, we can all get scalped trying
to save his lousy hide.
Speaker 5: Sure like a better excuse to fight a war.
Speaker 3: We all would, Sergeant.
Speaker 11: Right about there, sir, they were following Rawhide Creek, moving north.
Speaker 3: How many men, mister Savage, two men, four horses, four mules.
Speaker 11: I couldn't tell enough through the glasses to describe what
they looked like.
Speaker 3: I know what one of them look like.
Speaker 8: We can't be sure of that, Captain, mister Saberts, you
say you fired a signal at them, Can you be sure.
Speaker 7: They heard it?
Speaker 5: They heard it, sir.
Speaker 11: I never took the glasses off them, and when we fired,
they stopped and looked at us. The whole patrol made
signs for them to come back.
Speaker 8: You think they saw you, understood your signs.
Speaker 11: I know they saw us. One of them had field
glasses too. Captain trained right on us as they started
moving north again.
Speaker 8: Is that all, Lieutenant? That completes your reports?
Speaker 11: That's all, sir, except but I wish I could have
stopped them from.
Speaker 7: Going in, sir.
Speaker 3: Oh, you did all you could, mister Sabags.
Speaker 8: Thank you, Captain every bit you could.
Speaker 3: Lieutenant.
Speaker 8: I go on, get some rest. That's an order, yes, sir,
made you, sir.
Speaker 3: Captain, Sir.
Speaker 8: All right, captain, what would you have done in his place?
Speaker 3: Exactly as he did?
Speaker 8: Glad to hear that. But now you want to go
after the prospectors.
Speaker 3: I want permission to go to Red Cloud to keep
him from being killed, to keep a war from starting.
The man I saw knows as chances everybody warned him.
I got no feeling for him. I want to think
about it, Captain. While you're thinking a runner could be
on his way to Red Cloud, I'm aware of that.
And while you're thinking Red Cloud could be on his
way here in paint.
Speaker 8: And war bonnets, if he is a runner, wouldn't stop him.
Speaker 3: He might I'd say that's the chance we got to take,
the only chance we have got.
Speaker 8: If the runner gets through and Red Cloud agrees to
powow with you, what.
Speaker 3: Then I'll ask him to let us find the prospectors
and deal with them our way, And if he's found
them first, I'll take their bodies off his hands. How
many men do you want, Captain, Sergeant Gorse?
Speaker 8: Just one man.
Speaker 3: I want to stop a war major, and not start one.
Red Cloud is not likely to consent to a full company.
Speaker 8: The runner will leave the post in an hour. When
can you and Sergeant Gorse leave?
Speaker 3: Tell your runner, We'll try hard not to get ahead
of them.
Speaker 6: That's Black Hill's country ahead, ain't it, Captain?
Speaker 3: Eh? If you can see it over the war bonnets.
Speaker 6: Red Cloud's not taking any chance, would you guys, now, sir,
I wouldn't. I just keep hoping they're getting an eye
full of this white flag I'm.
Speaker 5: Toting there in the hills.
Speaker 3: They got the best view. We just keep riding them
h as far as the stream. We'll drop our gun
belts when we get there and wait for Red Cloud.
Speaker 6: Yes, I guess if I'm going to die in the cavalry,
I just soon do it with you as anybody.
Speaker 3: Captain, you could be back at Fort Laramie getting rich
selling horses to prospectors.
Speaker 5: The air is cleaner out here, as long as it lasts.
Speaker 3: The gun belt goes.
Speaker 6: Oh, how could I forget a little madder like that?
Speaker 3: You spoke? Yeah, Red Cloud? All right? Two braves with him,
and a couple hundred in the hills, maybe a thousand.
As long as they stay up there, you honor our flag,
Red Cloud. We thank you.
Speaker 1: Where is honoring white man for treaty boundaries?
Speaker 3: It comes slow to some white men. I came to
ask your patients, Red Cloud.
Speaker 1: Patient stretchers in time like an old hiding breach.
Speaker 4: And he's no more.
Speaker 3: Since we smoked the pipe. We've handed over your renegades
to let your people deal with them.
Speaker 1: Bring white men here, you will deal with them how
they're alive. I did not come here to deliver dead men.
Speaker 3: Then they'll be put in the stockade and kept there.
Speaker 1: You have been our friend. Tell your people, Red Cloud
will not power again. Next time, warriors not stay in hills.
Next time, white men dead white men.
Speaker 3: I'll tell them Red Cloud. I hope they listen.
Speaker 2: Fort Laramie is produced and directed by Norman mac donald
and stars Raymond Byrr 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.
Speaker 5: Featured in the.
Speaker 2: Cast were Jack Moyles and Harry Bartel, with Frank Gersell,
Clayton Post, Howard mcner, Virginia Gregg and Ralph Moody.
Speaker 3: Company. Tension is miss.
Speaker 2: Next week, another transcribed story of the Northwest Frontier and
the troopers who fought under lee Quince Captain of Cavalry.
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