Speaker 1: At the Gallery.
Speaker 2: Fort Loamie.
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 fighting men who rode the rim of Empire,
and the dramatic story of lee Quin's captain of cavalry.
Speaker 1: Oh, now, spikes on this side of the rail at all.
I'm out over there, mister Seyberts.
Speaker 4: I haven't run into one and twenty yards, Captain. They
sure weren't taking any chances.
Speaker 1: Worthy or telegraph pulls across the track, all the spikes
removed from the rails, and the track yanked off the roadbed.
I'd say they weren't taking much chance, mister Seyberts.
Speaker 2: Do you think it was shy? Answer?
Speaker 1: Well, that's Cheyenne country.
Speaker 2: Why'd they do it? The rail of train kill all
those innocent people? Oh? Fear. That's why most men kill,
the fear of what the trainmen were.
Speaker 4: I'm sure, But twenty of those dead back there are
women and children.
Speaker 1: The iron horse makes a lot of noise, mister Seyberts,
and puffs a lot of steam. If you saw it
cutting through your country, you might not stop to think
it was carrying women and children.
Speaker 4: They must think it'll discourage folks from coming west on
the railroads.
Speaker 1: If I was standing in the Omaha station waiting to
board a train, it might discourage me.
Speaker 2: Not you, Captain.
Speaker 4: Things don't seem to bother you.
Speaker 2: What things?
Speaker 4: Twenty women and children dead? You didn't bat an eye.
It's a lot of death, all piled together.
Speaker 2: Any death. There's a lot of death, mister Seyberts.
Speaker 4: You've seen more than I have. Maybe you've gotten used
to it. We have a job of burying to do
back there, sir. I can't go back just yet.
Speaker 1: Doesn't get any better waiting nor any easier.
Speaker 2: People die or they get killed. Either way, they got
to be buried.
Speaker 5: Yes, sir.
Speaker 1: And the trains got to be set right on the
tracks where it belongs. And the track's got to be
laid again and spike so the next train will stand
a chance of getting through.
Speaker 4: Captain, would they have said a better chance if the
army been riding with them.
Speaker 2: Wouldn't that make it safer?
Speaker 1: Misters? This train was derailed by Indians. It wasn't attacked,
nobody was massacred. If half a troop was riding with them,
we'd be burying them.
Speaker 2: I guess you're right.
Speaker 4: It's just not easy, is it?
Speaker 2: What drew you to the army?
Speaker 1: Mister sits The uniform sergeant.
Speaker 4: Of course, has the first car ride it, Sir.
Speaker 6: Yes, I see he has.
Speaker 1: Good work, Sergeant.
Speaker 5: It's a might easier telling them how it's done.
Speaker 2: You somebody has to do the telling. You got a
car back in the rails, didn't.
Speaker 5: Jim, Yeah, this Saint Cavalry worked.
Speaker 2: We're all that's here goes?
Speaker 1: You think you got them all out before you set
that car right, there's.
Speaker 2: No way of telling that, Captain till we look and see.
Speaker 4: If it's all right with you, Sir, I'll board that
car and say, if we got all the dead, it's.
Speaker 2: All right with me. Mister Simon, you.
Speaker 4: Need a hand, Lieutenant, I do, I'll call for it, Sergeant, Yes, sir.
Speaker 2: I guess there'll be no way of telling when this happened.
Speaker 7: Not from the bodies may been stiff as old hides
ever since we.
Speaker 2: Come on six or eight. We're throwing clear, isn't it right? Clear?
Just as dead, but clear? Get our amount, sergeant.
Speaker 1: We're gonna take a little ride, yes, and see if
the telegrapher has got a reply yet from Union Pacific. Yes,
need any help, mister Sabits, not a bet, sir.
Speaker 2: How many did you find? Three so far?
Speaker 1: I'm leaving you in charge, mister Sabad. Sergeant Gorse and
I are going to take a little ride. If anyone
lived through this, they might have made it to one
of the settlers. How could anyone live through this?
Speaker 2: I don't know. You want to come along and find out.
Speaker 4: I got a job to do here, Captain.
Speaker 2: That's right, mister Sabits, you have.
Speaker 8: Well. I ain't had much time to look around. Good,
just rode up myself a bit for you.
Speaker 2: Did How many horses did you you have, mister eighteen?
Speaker 8: Not counting when I was riding. I wonder how come
they lift the house standing, burned everything else.
Speaker 2: They didn't mean to do your favor, I'm.
Speaker 8: Sure of that. I thought you army boys had them
Cheyenne cooped up in.
Speaker 2: The reservation, most of them, not all of them.
Speaker 8: That's not good enough.
Speaker 2: Not near good enough.
Speaker 5: Nobody in the house, Captain.
Speaker 8: I could have told you that nobody heard all took
my woman down the crow creek near a week ago.
Now just come back.
Speaker 2: You left your stock untended all week.
Speaker 8: I got laid up down there, grip too aching to
come back sooner. Besides, I spoke to Nate before I left.
He said he'd mind them for me. Who's nate neighbor
over the rise there, Nate catter farms, a little keep
stock like me. Said he'd mind them for me, and
done for him.
Speaker 2: Could be he run your horses over there to feed.
Speaker 8: No, this is Indian work, like that train you told
me about.
Speaker 2: You used to trouble with the Gyanne.
Speaker 8: Yeah, ever since the railroad's peaceful enough for they had
to lay that track and send them steam engines puffing
across the land, scaring stock, scaring Indians too. They don't
like them iron horses. They don't like them at all.
Speaker 2: Mister we're burying near thirty dead. That says they don't
like him.
Speaker 8: Yeah, well, I got work to do, thinking I can't
help you none.
Speaker 2: We uh, we got a camp back near the railroad.
You're welcome to come with us.
Speaker 8: Leave my land, good lord man, that's all I got left. No,
I ain't believing.
Speaker 2: The Cotter place just over the rise.
Speaker 8: Yeah, two miles three. They're my neighbors, Nate and his missus.
Speaker 7: Nothing to chance here captain.
Speaker 2: Nothing and no one. That'd be Nate Cotter. H it'll
be a man on Nate Cotter's place.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yes, it's COTTERR.
Speaker 2: Crazy.
Speaker 7: Thought i'd get him time we find one like this.
Can't help wondering what they died of. First the gorse.
It doesn't make much difference those doesn't, But I get
the thought just the same. Well, I look around for
something to dig with, Captain. I guess there's no need
to look for his woman. They carried her off.
Speaker 2: Sure, yeah, hold the gorse? Something else, Captain, Yeah, I
thought I heard something. I sure don't listen Over there
where a clump of trees is something? Maybe only the
wind though.
Speaker 5: What I should come with you?
Speaker 1: No, no, just keep a sharp eye. So should be listen,
come out in the clearing where I can see it.
Speaker 9: I sure hope you don't need to shoot.
Speaker 2: No, I don't name too, I'm obliged, sir. What's your name? Boy?
Speaker 9: Jed?
Speaker 2: You belong here? Jed?
Speaker 9: You don't feel like it, it sure don't.
Speaker 2: How long you been here?
Speaker 9: Seems like a long time, mister, A long time.
Speaker 1: No cause to be afraid now, Jed. It's over the
burning everything, It's all over.
Speaker 9: Yes, sir, I'll see it is.
Speaker 7: Where is he from?
Speaker 2: Captain?
Speaker 9: Just the trees, that's all. I ain't done nothing.
Speaker 1: You better come back to camp with us, Jed, some
hot food or cot.
Speaker 2: You'll feel a sight better.
Speaker 9: You're armed, folks, ain't you?
Speaker 2: Yeah? This is Sergeant Gorse. I'm Captain Quint's hello. Boy.
My Paul was a sergeant, was he?
Speaker 9: You got somebody laying dead over there? Captain?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: You you got a mar Jed, sure, I got a mark.
You better come with us, boy. There's nothing for you here.
Speaker 9: Sure, ain't sure, ain't nothing.
Speaker 7: I just never seen a young one. Was such a fright, Captain.
You think he saw it all?
Speaker 2: Yeah, he saw it all.
Speaker 7: Sure would be a fright watching your park killed, your
mark carried off that way.
Speaker 2: You won't forget that soon, yours. He won't forget it
everh He.
Speaker 5: Aat like he was starving.
Speaker 2: I don't know it was hell sleep so funny thing.
Speaker 7: You talk to him, asking questions and the answers ain't answers.
Speaker 2: It tall just words. Send him back to me. I'll
bet him down here.
Speaker 1: Yes, sir, there's still no word from Union Pacific, no
more than we had.
Speaker 7: They're sending another crew out, but no one says when
they'll get here.
Speaker 2: They hear anything at the telegraphers tent. I want to
know it right away.
Speaker 7: Yes, sir, I'll get the boy.
Speaker 2: I'm just comment for you, Jed.
Speaker 5: Captain Quints want to see if I want to talk
to him. Young fellow wants to hear it.
Speaker 2: Captain. Come on in, Jed, let's sit down.
Speaker 9: Yes, sir, I thought maybe we could talk.
Speaker 2: Sergeant just leave him, Sir, I like him. I like
him fine, this cavalry sergeant. I know Papa was a sergeant. Yeah,
said that.
Speaker 9: I don't recollect it myself, but he told me lots
of times. He was a sergeant in the war. MA
says he never got.
Speaker 2: Over it the war.
Speaker 9: No, Sir, being a sergeant, she meant bossy, like you know,
you'd give orders to her, to me, horses everything.
Speaker 2: Just the three of you. You you're mon Pa.
Speaker 9: That's all my laiter at on as being a sergeant,
telling you what the toad, what the plant? How he
wanted things. Just so, I'm talking too.
Speaker 2: Much, oh, Jed. It's good sometimes talking too much, yes, sir.
Speaker 9: Now, sergeant, of course, he don't seem so bossy.
Speaker 8: To me.
Speaker 9: You're not in the cavalry, Jed, I'm a hand with horses.
Speaker 2: That's a start. You all alone, captain, How do you mean.
Speaker 9: You got nobody?
Speaker 10: Just you?
Speaker 2: I ain't got nobody.
Speaker 9: And sergeant Chorus, he's got nobody. It's a good life,
in't it for a man alone?
Speaker 2: Yeah? For man? Jed?
Speaker 9: You're going by my face, ain't you? I can't help
my face?
Speaker 1: Nothing wrong with your face, Just it looks awful, young Jed.
Speaker 9: I can't help that.
Speaker 2: Now. How old are you?
Speaker 9: I'm big enough, strong enough some of the men when
we was eating, I was bigger than them.
Speaker 2: How old are you?
Speaker 9: Eighteen eighteen near nineteen?
Speaker 7: Actual?
Speaker 2: Oh boy?
Speaker 1: That old it of recollect when his power was a
sergeant in the war.
Speaker 9: I can't help what I recollect, like I can't help
my face. You going by my face?
Speaker 7: That's all.
Speaker 9: I want to be in the army, captain, most particular,
I want to be a cavalry trooper.
Speaker 2: Well, you better get some sleep first.
Speaker 9: Don't set me by that way.
Speaker 8: Care.
Speaker 9: I can't give you no proof about me being as
old as I am. It was in the Bible with
all the rest them as didn't live in me. My
rid it their self.
Speaker 11: Now.
Speaker 9: You know I can't show you that bible, Captain.
Speaker 2: Easy, Jed, Easy, I know you can't.
Speaker 9: It's what's inside makes them man. My pause said that,
and I know it's true.
Speaker 5: Message from the telegraphers, Captain.
Speaker 1: M dagg it, Sergeant, you're sending laborers and our replacements
down from Fort Laramie as soon as we were relieved.
Our orders are in the return to the fort. Yes,
that might be sundown tomorrow, so pass the word.
Speaker 5: Yes, sir, you'll take me along.
Speaker 9: Captain, you wouldn't want to leave me for the engines, Jed.
Speaker 1: I'd say a lot depended on how soon you stretch
out there and go to sleep.
Speaker 9: I'm almost asleep now, Captain.
Speaker 7: We just had some idea of how many Cheyenne we're
up against.
Speaker 2: A few of them could have done it all.
Speaker 1: Doesn't take many to derail a train, pull the spikes
out of track. A few good riders can run horses
off a ranch, fire another, kill a settler carry off
a woman.
Speaker 7: You think it's a small band, then.
Speaker 2: I didn't see a single Chyanne. Major. What did the
scouts say?
Speaker 7: There's a last report, no sign of camps, No Chyanne
activity sent Pete Hayesen out yesterday morning.
Speaker 2: There's still shying in the west. People'll find him.
Speaker 7: When he does, we'd have to engage them, Captain.
Speaker 2: When he does, we will.
Speaker 7: That rail line has to stay open. Shipments of army
supplies have already left the east. It's a matter of
days till those trains crossed the same spot where this
last one was derailed.
Speaker 1: Any people on these trains major you mean troops, I
mean any kind of people. We left nearly thirty graves
by that road bed. It's a little fresh in my mind.
Speaker 7: You think I don't know that.
Speaker 2: I just know I know it. That's enough for me.
Speaker 7: We couldn't have stopped this last disaster Lee. There's no way.
Speaker 1: There's one way we could have been there in time.
What kind of scouts we got between here and Cheyenne,
poor ones? You know we can get some good scouts,
get some squaws off the reservation.
Speaker 2: You couldn't do worse. Alrightly, that's enough.
Speaker 7: Were the best scouts in the world. The Army's not
big enough to patrol every inch of rail line of
the coast.
Speaker 2: Remember when they were laying this track.
Speaker 1: I was on General August Staff the thirtieth Infantry, part
of the fourth part of the thirty sixth four companies
of Cavalry, four companies of Pawnee Scouts, just to protect
the grating and working party, and General Dodge.
Speaker 7: Was chief engineer of the road. I know that doesn't
change a thing.
Speaker 2: I see it doesn't.
Speaker 7: That's all, Shom, that's all Kevin, Oh, Captain, he's him.
Lieutenant Cybritch tells me you brought back a boy orphan.
Speaker 2: From one of the ranchers. That's Red Major. What do
you think of him? He's young, scared.
Speaker 7: Cybris thinks you make a good trooper, does he? I'm
asking what you think, Lee?
Speaker 1: I turned him over the sergeant gorse. There's any trooper
in him? He'll bring it out.
Speaker 7: Yes, yes he will, that's all.
Speaker 2: Kevin dismissed.
Speaker 5: Yes, you come closer, Captain, you get a real lifele.
Speaker 2: Jed's a good shot. Is he haven't fooled him yet?
Speaker 5: Started him on side arms.
Speaker 7: Worked up through springfield. Spencer's with a Henry rifle. He
just might stand off sitting bolting the whole crowd. He's
hiring himself about horses.
Speaker 2: How is he there?
Speaker 7: Voses and knows cavalry, saddles or something else.
Speaker 6: Again.
Speaker 7: Well, he's bright enough, Jed is, he'll master saddling and unsettled.
Speaker 2: He's a boy, Gorse. He's just a boy, White Cleans.
Speaker 5: He's near nineteen.
Speaker 2: He's a boy, you know he is.
Speaker 7: It's hard to tell what's boy and what's the shock
of what he's been through.
Speaker 1: Oh that's the fact, Gorse. You get him a uniform issue, not.
Speaker 7: Me, Captain, Lieutenant Cyberts. You didn't know, of course, I
didn't know what Captain Quinn's he was swore in this morning,
that Jed's in the army.
Speaker 5: Now, rendezvous point.
Speaker 6: Ahead, captain right, mister Sabrits.
Speaker 5: Just to quiet ride so far, sir.
Speaker 4: If Cap Maids infantries Captain old woman Creek, we'll be
able to attack to night.
Speaker 2: Is that your plan, mister Seberts.
Speaker 5: Well, not my plan, sir.
Speaker 4: I thought we could surprise them, and if we could,
it would be good, that's all.
Speaker 6: If we can surprise them, it'd be good.
Speaker 2: Yes, sir.
Speaker 1: You know this country, mister Seyberts, not this part of it, sir.
Make out those foothills just ahead, yes, sir, full of
rocks and crags.
Speaker 2: Maybe Cheyenne.
Speaker 1: Those hills are between us and me to infantry.
Speaker 4: But the scouts report put the Cheyenne on the other
side of all Woman Creek. But what I mean is
they're not supposed to be in those foothills.
Speaker 1: I hope the Cheyenne know that, mister Seyberts, Yes, sir,
one thing, Captain, this will be a good experience for
our young trooper.
Speaker 6: You mean Jed his first go.
Speaker 4: At Indian fighting. Learned a lot, but he's awful green.
Yet you know inexperienced.
Speaker 1: I know about inexperienced Jed. Something else, mister Seberts. He's
a boy, just a boy.
Speaker 4: Chyan ahead, Captain, breaking out of their porthills and making
straight for us.
Speaker 1: Left running the line from away at the gallafe.
Speaker 11: Who I meant to kill us? I meant to kill
us all. I don't like it here. I want to
get out. Once you consider around these rocks.
Speaker 2: You wanter man, you're a rifle and shut up trouble.
Speaker 11: I ain't gonna take that up again. I ain't shooting.
They ain't gonna get shot at, not anymore. It ain't right.
Speaker 4: You're all right, Jad, Just keep quiet, You're all right.
Speaker 11: They're staring around all around. That's quiet enough. I ain't
keeping quiet. I'm talking so I can hear I'm still alive.
Speaker 2: I said, shut up, trouble.
Speaker 11: You go right ahead and kill me your water. But
I gotta talk, can't you see?
Speaker 8: All I got is talk.
Speaker 11: I gotta hear I'm still alive.
Speaker 5: Or shut up, Captain Quinch.
Speaker 11: I want to go home, kept please, I want to
go home.
Speaker 2: Yes, and I know.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry cat Man your gun, mister Seyberts.
Speaker 9: She's here right here in the hospital, Mama.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and the couple of doors, Jed.
Speaker 9: But I thought, I mean, I don't rightly know how
she got here, Captain Well.
Speaker 2: A couple of Cheyenne braves brought her, thinking to collect
a reward.
Speaker 9: Jurance had my mom.
Speaker 2: Oh, she'll be all right, No cause to worry.
Speaker 8: You.
Speaker 2: You want me to go in first, Jed, or you
rather go in alone? You first? Captain? You awake, ma'am,
h missus Cotter, I'm awake.
Speaker 1: Jed's right outside, ma'am. Jed, your son, Missus Gotter, I.
Speaker 2: Got no son. Me and the mister we was alone.
Speaker 10: I got no son.
Speaker 9: I'm sorry, ma'am, truly, I'm sorry.
Speaker 10: Fine looking boy though, which she was mine. We could
have used the son, me and the mister.
Speaker 2: I was wrong. I mention no harm, no hurt, ma'am
no hurt.
Speaker 10: Left in mad Captain boy, yes'm you got no ma
your own.
Speaker 9: Yes'm I got a mar got a part too much
obliged for your asking them. You never asked me, Captain.
You never come right out and asked. I was scared
when you found me. You thought like I belonged there,
and I'll let you.
Speaker 2: Where do you belong Illinois?
Speaker 9: I ran away, worked a spell from my keep along
the way till I got to Omaha. Then I got
on that train, the one you found with all them dead.
Speaker 2: Did I? I don't believe you. Anything you say goes
down right hard.
Speaker 9: It was night when we hit. I was thrown clean
out of that train, Captain. I think I must lit running.
I never stopped till where you found me. I didn't lie, Captain.
You just took for granted.
Speaker 2: Your Paul was a sergeant.
Speaker 9: Don't you know who He was, ordering mand me around,
telling us what the toad, how to plan, how to
do everything?
Speaker 2: Just so.
Speaker 1: He told you something else, jed, Yes, sir, it's what's
inside makes a man.
Speaker 9: My Paul said that, and I know it's true.
Speaker 2: You better go home, boy.
Speaker 9: I mean to yes, Sir, I mean to do that
right away. I'm obliged, Captain. Most particular, I want to
be a cavalry trooper.
Speaker 2: You come back and say, five years.
Speaker 9: Jed when I madeen Atchel, it will.
Speaker 2: Be waiting for you.
Speaker 3: Fort Laramie is produced and directed by Norman mc donald
and stars Raymond Burr 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 Amerigo Marino.
Featured in the cast were Jack Moyles and Harry Bartel,
with Jeffrey Silver, Frank Katy and Eve mc veigh.
Speaker 2: Company Tencent.
Speaker 3: Dismiss 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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