Speaker 1: At the Gallant.
Speaker 2: Fort Laramie.
Speaker 3: 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 wrote the
Rim of Empire, and the dramatic story of lee Quin's
Captain of Cavalry.
Speaker 4: You want enough piece of pie, won't you, Captain?
Speaker 2: Oh no, ma'am, I sure won't.
Speaker 4: Now, Captain Mary, just another little slipper.
Speaker 2: I thank your kindly, miss Dagged, but I've got no
more room.
Speaker 4: Why you hardly ate a thing?
Speaker 1: Mary?
Speaker 4: Oh my, I promised did an idea?
Speaker 5: You promised? Although why I thought you'd keep it as
beyond me.
Speaker 4: You see, Captain, I'm under orders too. When you come
to dinner, I'm not to urge more food upon you
than you voluntarily take.
Speaker 2: Was a fine dinner, ma'am.
Speaker 4: Thank you, But you see I've been guilty of smothering
you or mothering you.
Speaker 5: I can never remember with monster about the same thing,
doesn't it.
Speaker 2: I'm a neutral in this kind war, major.
Speaker 6: Smart neutral too. You got both sides looking out for
your best interests.
Speaker 4: I haven't finished telling you the rest of my orders,
Captain under the circumstances, I've really behaved with remarkable restraint
all evening. Yes, ma'am, I haven't once mentioned the name
Willa Burgess.
Speaker 5: At least you know I tried lee, but know that
her name.
Speaker 4: Has come up. I'd like to say that I think
she's a lovely person. Quite lovely in fact. To me,
Willa is an amazing combination of qualities.
Speaker 6: You should have taken another piece of piety and spared
yourself as well.
Speaker 4: Next time, I remember, she's warm, feminine, yet she's capable
with great strength of character. And if I were a man.
Speaker 6: But you're not, my dear, a fact which delights me
most of the time, but not now emphatically, not now.
Speaker 4: Well, then this must be the time for me to
remember the mending I must do. If you, gentlemen, will excuse.
Speaker 5: Me, let me help you.
Speaker 4: There doesn't look as if I can avoid it. Oh,
please come again, Captain. I'll probably be every bit as
bad next time, but I do enjoy having you.
Speaker 2: Oh it's my pleasure. Man.
Speaker 4: Oh, there's brandy and cigars in a living room. You'll
be glad to know. I don't care for any Good
night here, good night, Try not to miss me too much.
Speaker 5: She's improvingly. That's the fastest retreat she's ever staged.
Speaker 2: Oh she's all right, sir, Yes, yes she is, she said, Brandy.
Speaker 5: Brand Oh, yes, yes she did.
Speaker 2: Oh.
Speaker 5: I can remember how it was Lee.
Speaker 6: When I was a bachelor officer, I thought the worst
duty I could draw was a dinner invitation from a
ranking officer who was married.
Speaker 2: It depends on the officer and his wife. I didn't
suffer tonight.
Speaker 6: I'll make yourself comfortably sit on. If your belt's tight,
you're a blouse of your boots under them?
Speaker 2: M hm, much obliged.
Speaker 5: Cigars are in the humidor yep.
Speaker 2: Mmm, you're smoking better tobacco than you used to.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I am Brandy Lee.
Speaker 7: Thanks Cigar Major. Thanks, I have them made.
Speaker 8: Up special, do you.
Speaker 5: Oh a friend sends them to me.
Speaker 2: Must be a good friend. That's good tobacco. You remember
that night outside Richmond, Major was cold as sin. We
were billeted in that plantation. I remember.
Speaker 5: It's funny you think of Richmond just now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that is what was her name, Lee? I am
pretty little thing. Wouldn't pass the time with the rest
of us, I remember, But she kept worrying whether you
were going to be warm enough.
Speaker 5: That was a long time ago.
Speaker 2: It seems to me that was a tobacco plantations.
Speaker 5: Mary and I have been married for almost six years.
It's a good marriage.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it is.
Speaker 5: Mary wouldn't understand Richmond, you weren't married, then she still
wouldn't understand. Uhnah, he's a he's cigars.
Speaker 2: They're they're good cigars.
Speaker 5: Ah, yeah, the good cigars.
Speaker 6: Well, we go back quite away, as you and I since.
Speaker 2: The old days of the Third Cavalon the Battle of
bull Room, A lot of yearsly, a lot of life,
a lot of death. Major, I guess I know you
as well as you permit anyone to know you permit.
That's heavy talk and one brandy Major. Oh there's more
brandy and more talk or talk. Lee, you better brace yourself. Yeah,
I'm forty five.
Speaker 5: I took the last two patrols out for a purpose.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 8: I suppose that I wanted to prove.
Speaker 5: Something to myself. I think I have.
Speaker 6: You know, he's a different man when you're not around Lee,
who is Lieutenant Saberts?
Speaker 2: How different?
Speaker 6: He's still learning, but he's a good officer. He has judgment,
he takes responsibility, makes decisions, not the whole.
Speaker 5: They're good decisions.
Speaker 2: I don't remember passing judgment, and mister sabrits to you Major.
Speaker 5: You never have and I'm not asking you too.
Speaker 2: Now that's good.
Speaker 6: But I've watched him when you're around routine reports, strategy sessions.
Speaker 5: He freezes up. He acts stupid, bungling.
Speaker 8: And he isn't all right.
Speaker 2: He isn't.
Speaker 5: He's scared the death of you.
Speaker 8: You just have one, Brandy, Major, I.
Speaker 5: Know what I'm talking about. It isn't your rank.
Speaker 6: He has a respect for rank, but he doesn't fear it.
Speaker 5: It's Julie.
Speaker 2: As mister Cybert said, it was me.
Speaker 6: He hasn't said anything. I haven't asked him about it. Now,
these are my observations. I think they hold up.
Speaker 5: What do you think, I don't know. We'll think about it.
Speaker 2: Think about a man being scared to death of me.
Speaker 5: I don't know how. What do you think of Cybert's Frankly.
Speaker 2: I think he's very young?
Speaker 5: Come on, Lee, come on, where we both worked, men
of were younger.
Speaker 2: I thought you weren't going to ask me to pass
judgment on mister Sibots.
Speaker 5: That's right, I wasn't.
Speaker 8: I just as soon leave it there, Major, we can't
leave it there.
Speaker 2: You can't.
Speaker 5: We can't.
Speaker 6: You know what we're up against out here as well
as I do. An ineffective trooper is bad enough, but
an ineffective officer is dangerous and it's wasteful.
Speaker 2: You figure, and I can do something about, mister Siberts.
Speaker 6: Oh, leaving that up to you. I'm asking you to
think about it, asking for your help.
Speaker 2: I don't know that I'm the one to help, Major,
but I'll think about it.
Speaker 5: It might call for a change in your attitude to
himle It might.
Speaker 2: Of course, I'd have to find out first what my
attitude toward him is, wouldn't I?
Speaker 5: He steady into it, Flint, just you stay with him
a fire straight away.
Speaker 9: Next time, get closer to his head.
Speaker 2: Got some new recruit, sondeant morning, Captain, you talking about
the men or the horses?
Speaker 8: The horses there.
Speaker 9: New Flint's training them to stand fire.
Speaker 8: The horse knows that, does he?
Speaker 2: I keep saying, he does. Some take a little bit
more encouragement than others.
Speaker 8: You know, you talking about men or horses.
Speaker 2: Excuse me, Captain?
Speaker 9: All right, Flint, take him out now beyond the hayyard.
Ride him real good and try firing at the gallop
a while.
Speaker 2: Sure was ugly for a while, but Flint will make
a steady goer out of him. You can tell about horses, plungers, kickers, rears.
You work them enough, you can tell if it's in
him to be a steady goer.
Speaker 5: You know horses, you can tell.
Speaker 2: Be helpful if you could tell about a man as easy,
a man standing, fire man, standing anything, if you could
tell by the look, and that sure would be helpful.
Speaker 5: Captain.
Speaker 2: Now that horse flint's training, he's afraid of that pistol.
Now he's first afraid looking at it, but mostly it's
the sound that scares him.
Speaker 5: That's it, Sure it is.
Speaker 2: But we can look at that horse and no, he'll
train out of it. Is that because we know horses
or because we know what they're afraid of? I'd say
it was both, Captain, Maybe one thing or what's that? Well,
we can understand the horse would be afraid of the pistol.
Speaker 9: We figure him to be right.
Speaker 2: From the start. Yeah, yeah, I know. And he's afraid
to begin with. It's a lot to know. And then
two that horse is bound to find out he's got
nothing to fear.
Speaker 5: From that pistol.
Speaker 2: Once he finds out, he ain't afraid anymore, you send
the man ought to face up to his fears. I
was talking about horses. Yeah, sure, you what, But about
a man?
Speaker 9: He ought to face up to his fears.
Speaker 2: Well, maybe he can't, Maybe maybe he don't know what
they are. Well maybe knowing he don't understand them. That
way is fears got to face up to him. Seems
like there's one thing about it, Captain. Sooner or later
they gotta get together. Captain Quinn's you busy, mister sabergs
uh no, sir, I was just certainly not at all busy, Captain.
Mind if I come in, I wish you would.
Speaker 10: Habit chair?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I I you're you're sure you're not busy?
Speaker 1: Not busy? No, I wasn't.
Speaker 10: I please sit down, captain, all right, I guess it will. Well,
I I guess i'll just sit down too.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, make yourself at home, I will, thanks, I am.
I guess you were working there at your desk?
Speaker 9: Oh, nothing important?
Speaker 10: I well, I I keep a journal, captain, you know
what what happens day by day? Just a journal, you know, yeah,
I know, just to pass the time. Uh, you don't
keep on.
Speaker 2: Doing No, No, no, I don't No, I didn't think so. No,
it's it's all right though. I mean the man wants
to oh, he wants to set things down.
Speaker 8: Why you ought.
Speaker 2: To do it?
Speaker 10: I remember once you said that you didn't keep one
because there was a lot you wanted to forget.
Speaker 2: I probably said that.
Speaker 10: Well, I know, I just took from that you didn't
approve of journals?
Speaker 2: Did I say I didn't approve, mister Sebert, No, sir,
I just took from that what I thought. Wait a minute,
I I didn't mean to bark at you. Well, what
I mean is a lot of men keep journals. That's all.
It's it's man wants to do it. It's to him,
it's all right, yes, sir, mister Sibs. Do you drink?
Speaker 5: Drink?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I drink whiskey. You know whiskey.
Speaker 10: Sometimes I'm not sure I know what you're talking about, Captain.
Speaker 2: I'm talking about drinking, mister Sabots.
Speaker 11: You and me in a bottle of whiskey now right now,
I'd be proud to captain.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, me too, mister Sabage.
Speaker 9: I don't know.
Speaker 10: You gotta be a first time for everything, and that
would you say, a first time for everything?
Speaker 8: You hear it all the time.
Speaker 10: That's what I say too, the first time I ever
came over the liar in the village drink. I mean,
we're a fellow officers to drink.
Speaker 12: You do it a lot.
Speaker 2: Sometimes, you know, when it seems like a.
Speaker 10: Good idea, Well that's a good idea. When it seems
like a good idea. The best time, you know, when
I was a kid that at the point, a couple
of us upper classmen decided we want to go in
this little taver. It's across the Hudson River and where
we have to cross there is no bridge.
Speaker 8: It's kind of wet.
Speaker 2: Walker Yeah, yeah, yeah, it does.
Speaker 9: So we made these plebs.
Speaker 13: You know what pleaves are, Captain, Yeah, yeah, I ever
heard about it.
Speaker 2: Well, we made these plebs.
Speaker 9: Get an old barge for it.
Speaker 10: We crossed out whole lots of that night, like wash
in the crossing the Delaware.
Speaker 8: Yeah, sounds like a lot of fun.
Speaker 9: It was a lot of fun.
Speaker 2: We should enjoyed the Oh poor you drink?
Speaker 8: Oh sure, thanks?
Speaker 9: You know the way I'm.
Speaker 10: Talking, I guess I don't need one, except well I
do need one.
Speaker 9: Does that sound all right?
Speaker 8: You don't need one, but you do. Sounds all right
to me.
Speaker 10: Well, I'm glad.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I drink a little.
Speaker 10: Captain, I always get talking about West Point.
Speaker 2: I hope you don't mind. You talk about anything that
comes into your head. You mean that I said it.
Speaker 10: Oh, there's something I wanted to talk to you about
for a long time.
Speaker 2: Oh, this would be a good time to say it.
Speaker 9: It's clause of it.
Speaker 10: I've always wanted to discuss clause of its with you.
Speaker 2: It might be a very short discussion. Were you badim?
Of course?
Speaker 10: Carl Fon Klause Events is the Prussian I.
Speaker 2: Know you're talking about. He wrote a stack of books
hip hop about military strategy.
Speaker 10: Oh, I couldn't believe you wouldn't know about him. I
think I read every word he ever wrote, some of
it in the original German.
Speaker 2: Couswitz's field was artillery.
Speaker 9: That is true.
Speaker 2: That is true.
Speaker 10: But still most army man i've known feel that as
a strategist he was the greatest of them all.
Speaker 2: You can find army men who say he produced no
system of strategy at all.
Speaker 8: No system of strategy?
Speaker 2: What was it?
Speaker 10: Well, in his exposition of the philosophy of war. He
pointed out that all of the enemy men, women, children,
they were.
Speaker 2: All part of war. You call that a system of
strategy in total war?
Speaker 9: You be, I do.
Speaker 8: How about our wars here now?
Speaker 2: Well, don't apply naturally. Next time you fight a total war,
you follow clouds of wits to the letter. Don't you
worry a little bit? I will. You don't like clouds
of it. I can't use them. I'm in the cavalry.
I fight little wars.
Speaker 10: You don't like clouds of it. And I don't understand
it because you're a good.
Speaker 9: Man, quench a good man. Smart.
Speaker 10: Imagine me talking to you, Amanda man this, why imagine that?
Speaker 2: Don't have to imagine it. We're doing it. Ah, that
cause for a little oh my, Oh sorry, I guess
I knocked that over it.
Speaker 1: You knocked it over?
Speaker 11: Yeah, that funny, I thought I did. You drunk, captain,
drunk and disorderly.
Speaker 2: Mister drunk, that's wonderful.
Speaker 13: I don't think you know how wonderful that is.
Speaker 10: Don't you worry, Captain.
Speaker 13: I'll see that we get back to the Ford in
good shape.
Speaker 8: Well morning, mister Sabots.
Speaker 2: Morning, captain, you look very fit. I feel fine sir,
and you. I'm alive, mister Sabots, and that's your exaggeration.
Speaker 10: I doused my head in a cold basin a few
times made all the difference.
Speaker 2: I left my head in the basin about last night, Captain.
Speaker 10: If I said anything, sir out of line, well I
did have quite a bit to drink, and.
Speaker 2: So did I might have said a few things myself.
I enjoyed it, mister Sabots.
Speaker 9: It was my pleasure.
Speaker 10: You've seen the major yet, no, Sir, I thought we
ought to present a united front.
Speaker 5: Captain.
Speaker 2: Fine to do that, Captain Quinn's Lieutenant Sabats reporting Major.
Speaker 5: As you were, gentlemen. Shut on, thank you, sir.
Speaker 6: Strange bit of businesses come up. I think maybe you're
the men to take a patrol out and check into it.
Speaker 5: Have it been a part of a round.
Speaker 6: Up, Lieutenant, cattle, sir, No, I haven't not cattle. These
are wild horses.
Speaker 10: I didn't know you could round up wild horses.
Speaker 5: I don't say it's easy. But are you listening, Captain?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm listening. How many wild horses?
Speaker 5: The report says about fifty over near the mud Spring station.
Some settlers and some folks from a wagon train. Are
supposed to have them contained in a canyon near there.
Speaker 8: Who says they're wild?
Speaker 6: Until I know different, I'll have to go with a
telegraph message, Captain. It says they're wild. The settlers want
no part of them. They're stampeding off a lot of
their stock. I think we should get them if we can,
before any renegade sou capture him.
Speaker 9: Well, it's worth a try.
Speaker 2: So if we get any of them, were ahead of
the game.
Speaker 8: When do we leave?
Speaker 2: Major?
Speaker 5: As soon as you pick your men, take as many
as you need.
Speaker 10: I'd say it wasn't a question of how many majors,
so long as we pick the best riders.
Speaker 9: Don't you agree, Captain.
Speaker 8: Completely, mister Sabats, Ah.
Speaker 6: That's the case. Now look here, Lee, gentlemen. I'll want
reports regularly by telegraph and.
Speaker 5: Huh, move out.
Speaker 9: It's your plan we're working out here, Captain.
Speaker 8: Something wrong with the plan, sageant.
Speaker 5: I can't say it's wrong.
Speaker 9: It's working.
Speaker 8: Was mister Sibits with him?
Speaker 2: No, Sir, he's down there operating a lot like Napoleon,
like Clausa with sergeant who's that friend of mister Sabots.
Do you have any trouble bringing the Indians over from
the reservation.
Speaker 1: Out a bit.
Speaker 2: You know, they're kind of peaceful, like when you got
guns and they hain't good idea of bringing injines.
Speaker 9: Reckon, they know more about wild horses than we do.
Speaker 8: Reckon, they do.
Speaker 9: Captain, you right, sure this is your plan.
Speaker 2: Two Cyberts and I discussed it and agreed on it.
Any questions, Sergeant, No, certain, none, I'm ready to ask.
I'm riding down to the mouth of the canyon. Looks
like they're cutting them out of there at a good rate.
Speaker 8: You're coming.
Speaker 2: I was told to hold this position, Captain as a lookout.
Speaker 8: Yeah, see you keep a sharp eye.
Speaker 12: Sergeant, Yes, look.
Speaker 2: Good from a distance, mister Sibitz, nice Captain, Glad you
rode down. Let's even better close up. Eh, you got
some of them on lead ropes already.
Speaker 9: Barret a corral from the next ranch.
Speaker 10: Some of those Indians consider them already best natural riders
in the world, you know, Indians.
Speaker 2: That's what I understand. Look to me like you got
most of the fifty out of the canyon.
Speaker 10: Oh, we'll get back to forty with at least forty
of them.
Speaker 9: Captain.
Speaker 10: Of course, that's a few days off, but we got
what we came for.
Speaker 8: That's the important thing.
Speaker 10: Are you feeling better? Mm hmm your leg it doesn't
bother you anymore?
Speaker 2: Oh, oh, it's coming right along.
Speaker 8: Thanks. Who've done a good job, mister.
Speaker 2: Sabers, all of it.
Speaker 8: Mighty good job.
Speaker 9: Thank you, sir.
Speaker 6: It feels like I have, oh almost forgot. Brought you
some cigars, Captain, Thank you, Major, that's still good tobacco.
You come a long way from that smelly hod you
used to carry. I'm not the only one that's come
along with Lee. That's so Lieutenant Cyberts around.
Speaker 2: He left just a few minutes ago, went down to
the post office. They sent word a book he'd ordered
to come through, a book General McClellan's Book.
Speaker 6: On the Regulations and Instructions for the Cavalry and Time
of War.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I'll be.
Speaker 6: I don't know what you did, how you manage Lee,
but you work wonders with him.
Speaker 5: I want you to know I'm grateful.
Speaker 2: I'm no hand at that kind of thing. Major, if
the problem's not a problem anymore, you should thank mister Cyberts.
Speaker 6: He's a different man. That's all the thanks he needs.
It's a big change.
Speaker 5: Lee.
Speaker 6: We're welding a tight knit little force here, men who
fight together and live together.
Speaker 5: Now that you and cybris are friends.
Speaker 2: Just a minute, Major, I'm a soldier. If I can
help lick another soldier's problem, that's fine with me. You
were talking about friends.
Speaker 5: You don't like Cybers like him.
Speaker 2: Well, that's not my kind of word. Ask me once
what I thought of him. I told you he was
very young.
Speaker 5: I took it.
Speaker 2: You mean inexperienced, young inexperienced. I'm calling it immature. You
can get old with years, you can get experience, But
maturity that's something you earn. It's got to be in
you to earn it.
Speaker 6: Well, I don't believe in miracles. Captain, You and Cybrits
are night and day. Nothing will change now we're different men,
that's all. Cybrich has licked a big hurdle with your help.
Maybe that's the beginning of maturity. Maybe it is Major,
Maybe maybe it is.
Speaker 3: Fort Laramie is produced and directed by Norman MacDonell 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 Amarigo Marino.
Featured in the cast were Jack Moyles as Major Dgatt,
Harry Bartel as Lieutenant Siberts, and Helen Cleeb as Missus.
Speaker 1: Dgatt Company ten cent dismiss.
Speaker 3: Next week another transcribed story of the Northwest Frontier and
the troopers who fought under Lee Quinn's Captain of Cavalry.
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