August 29, 2025 • 24 mins
Set in a frontier military post, this series explores the lives and duties of cavalry soldiers. It portrays the challenges and camaraderie of life on the frontier.
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
As the Gallas.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Fort Laramie.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Fort Laramie, starring Raymond Burr as Captain lee Quits especially
transcribed tales of the dark and tragic ground of the
wild frontier, the saga of fight men who rode the
rim of Empire, and the dramatic story of lee Quin's
captain of cavalry.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
You all right, Jesse, I'm all right.
Speaker 5 (01:26):
Major Daggatt's been.
Speaker 6 (01:28):
A long walk up here.
Speaker 7 (01:29):
You'd like this shit. I want to stand.
Speaker 6 (01:31):
Thank you, Jesse. Whenever you're ready.
Speaker 7 (01:35):
Whenever you're ready, chaplain, speak your heart.
Speaker 6 (01:46):
He was my friend.
Speaker 8 (01:48):
Major Thaddeus Hale was first of all a friend to
all of us here, and we'll miss our friend. Beloved
is a man respected as an officer. Fort Laramaye will
be a different place without Thad, but a better place
for his having served here, lived among us vigorously and
(02:10):
fully for the past six years. All of us assembled
here at his grave can say of him he was
my friend. All save one Jesse Hale can say of him,
he was my love, my heart. There he lived, and
there he will always live. God comfort Jesse, God grant
(02:36):
Thad rest and peace and eternal love. Ashes to ashes,
dust to dust, in the name of the Father and
the Son and the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 6 (02:47):
Amen.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Amen, detail Ready aim fire a ready aim five ready aim.
Speaker 6 (03:16):
Five m.
Speaker 7 (04:05):
Major's flag, ma'am, Thank you, sergeant, thank you all of you.
Missus Hackton, look at the day. It's a beautiful day.
I'm so glad it's a beautiful day.
Speaker 6 (04:54):
I'm blasted.
Speaker 7 (05:01):
I'm here on the porch, Captain.
Speaker 9 (05:06):
It's kind of chilly out tonight. Miss Hale, Oh it.
Speaker 7 (05:09):
Seems so close inside. Sit down, won't you?
Speaker 9 (05:14):
Thanks? Miss Hale. Jesse, I'm no hand to put words together. Well,
I can't speak a piece about that.
Speaker 5 (05:29):
Don't tryly, there's no need.
Speaker 9 (05:31):
I'd liked him, and I'm sorry.
Speaker 7 (05:34):
I know I watched out on the walk stopping starting.
Speaker 5 (05:39):
He didn't want to come here tonight, And.
Speaker 7 (05:41):
I don't blame you.
Speaker 9 (05:42):
It wasn't the question of whatt Just what can a
man do? What can he say to a widow except
he's sorry.
Speaker 7 (05:52):
Sometimes I think it's harder on the friends who are left,
like you say, they want to do so much, say
the things. There's nothing to do, nothing to say. At
least you didn't bake a pie.
Speaker 6 (06:06):
I sure never thought of that.
Speaker 7 (06:08):
I want you to take some back to old Bedlama.
I'll see the rest get to the enlisted men tomorrow.
Speaker 10 (06:14):
Lee.
Speaker 7 (06:15):
This minute, in my kitchen there are fifteen pies and
three cakes.
Speaker 9 (06:20):
I guess women always going to make something at a
time like this.
Speaker 7 (06:23):
Oh, it's just that people have to do something and
there's nothing to do.
Speaker 5 (06:30):
Can I talk about that if you want to? Oh,
I want to. I need to.
Speaker 7 (06:35):
Every time I start, someone tries to stop me. I
think it'll make me sad to talk about him. Good
lordly that and I were happy.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
It doesn't make me sad to talk about happiness.
Speaker 6 (06:47):
You were happy.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
It showed thirty.
Speaker 7 (06:49):
Years next month, love and temper in the army, and
there wasn't a.
Speaker 5 (06:56):
Day of it. We didn't live.
Speaker 6 (06:59):
You were lot of like you and than.
Speaker 5 (07:01):
We were just.
Speaker 7 (07:02):
Alike too much, maybe, but we suited each other. When
I bellowed, he bellowed back, good loud, time of it
we'd have, and then we'd laugh, Then we'd love. I
think if I had it to do over, I wouldn't
change a thing, Lee, not even the bellowing.
Speaker 6 (07:23):
Oh, sad wouldn't either. I'd bet on that.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
Of course he wouldn't.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Lea.
Speaker 7 (07:31):
It was a dirty trick.
Speaker 6 (07:33):
Well he died. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (07:36):
Lived, threw every battle from Gettysburg to that skirmish way
Arapa Hole last month, cheated smallpox, scarlet fever, scurvy and
the infernal plains. Weather thrived on all that, and he
had to die off duty when lumber pilings fell on him.
Speaker 6 (07:57):
One good thing he never knew it. He'd have been
as mad as the devil.
Speaker 7 (08:02):
If he hadn't bellowed his head off.
Speaker 6 (08:04):
Man, you'd have bellowed right back.
Speaker 5 (08:07):
You bet, I would.
Speaker 6 (08:11):
Any idea what you're gonna do? Jesse live sure.
Speaker 7 (08:18):
If you're asking me, do I have a place to go?
I have. I have a sister back in Camden alone.
We can make a life together. It was my home
Camden a long time ago.
Speaker 6 (08:29):
It'll be a different life in Camden.
Speaker 7 (08:32):
Trade my pistol for needle point, my saddle for a
rocking chair, will be very differently.
Speaker 6 (08:38):
No rush about your leaving.
Speaker 7 (08:39):
Oh no, thank Heavin, Mary Daggett and the major rover
earlier said to stay on as long as I liked Glad.
They said that, Lee, there's one great favor.
Speaker 9 (08:54):
You can do me anything I can, Jesse take the
General Sad's.
Speaker 7 (09:00):
Mount Sad was your kind of army man, and the
General is your kind of horse.
Speaker 6 (09:05):
H you sitting right well yourself, but.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
Not in Camden Lee.
Speaker 7 (09:11):
Maybe sometimes, some special time you'll ride him with sad
and me.
Speaker 11 (09:18):
I'd be proud too, Jesse, watch it, Lieutenant, he's mean
this morning.
Speaker 12 (09:38):
I cannot have him to such a best. I give
you a hand, Sir, don't come here. He can't give
him his head?
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Can you better, Lieutenant, or you're gonna get it?
Speaker 13 (09:50):
Oh, thanks for the warning, sergeant.
Speaker 12 (09:59):
You hurt?
Speaker 13 (10:00):
That'll come later here. It's been a long time since
have I been unseated?
Speaker 12 (10:07):
Sergeant.
Speaker 14 (10:08):
They don't call him the general for nothing. Might be
he knows he outranks you, Lieutenant. I wonder how Major
Hale managed him. I don't know his secret, but he
got his way all right. And now look at that.
The Captain's got him mild as a kitten.
Speaker 6 (10:26):
That's bill, mister Sabits.
Speaker 12 (10:28):
I don't think so, Captain. It's happened pretty quick.
Speaker 6 (10:31):
Oh, he hasn't been ridden for a week. Any new
hand would have seemed strange to him.
Speaker 12 (10:35):
Yes, sir, are uh you're gonna try him out?
Speaker 9 (10:39):
Thought I would. The General and I got to get
used to each other. His hale asked me to care
for him.
Speaker 12 (10:47):
Oh, I'm sorry, sir. If I'd known that, I wouldn't
have tried to write him. I just thought that he
should be written.
Speaker 9 (10:53):
Oh, if you're all right, there's no harm done.
Speaker 6 (10:57):
Yes, it's my turn to try.
Speaker 14 (10:59):
Like I told the lieutenant, captain, that horse is mean
this morning. If it was me, i'd set this one out.
Speaker 6 (11:06):
H Well, see.
Speaker 12 (11:07):
Guys, you've got the touch, all right, sir.
Speaker 14 (11:12):
Yeah, but look at them eyes. He's thinking. He's thinking,
for sure, Captain.
Speaker 12 (11:20):
That's how it's done, Sir.
Speaker 6 (11:22):
I just don't trust that horse.
Speaker 13 (11:24):
The captain knows what he's doing. He always knows what
he's doing. I was him, I'd rather know what that
horse was thinking. He's got a plan, Lieutenant. The general's
got hisself a plan.
Speaker 12 (11:35):
I'm just not a horseman. That captain quincays.
Speaker 14 (11:37):
I wouldn't feel too bad about taking that spill. Wish
it hadn't happened in front of the captain, that's all.
Speaker 12 (11:44):
But got captain stick with him, sir, showing those boys.
Speaker 11 (11:48):
I swear, captain, if you don't take care, you're gonna
get thet.
Speaker 12 (11:53):
Oh come on, sorry, you kidding?
Speaker 6 (12:00):
Well, I took your advice. Course. How's that, sir, I
set this one out.
Speaker 13 (12:06):
You are right, sir, older and wiser, Lieutenant, I like pardon.
Speaker 6 (12:15):
He's a gift tours and I looked him square in
the mouth.
Speaker 12 (12:19):
Oh yes, sir.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Good morning.
Speaker 7 (12:24):
Plea. I forgot to tell you one little thing about
the general.
Speaker 6 (12:30):
Just one little thing, Jesse.
Speaker 5 (12:33):
Never try to mount him in the corral.
Speaker 6 (12:37):
I guess we can remember that. Wouldn't just say, Lieutenant.
Speaker 12 (12:40):
It's a lesson. I'll never forget, ma'am.
Speaker 6 (12:43):
Go fetch the general, Sergeant. See he's rubbed, fed and stable.
Speaker 7 (12:46):
Yes, oh, not just.
Speaker 5 (12:47):
Yet, sergeant. Just lead him out of the corral, tell
him there.
Speaker 7 (12:50):
I feel like riding this morning, Captain alone, Jesse alone.
I think both the General and I need work.
Speaker 13 (12:59):
Whatever you say, man, well, if you'll excuse me, missus hale, Captain,
I've got some staff due at the tento, Lieutenant, see
you later at mister Samonts.
Speaker 6 (13:14):
You making out.
Speaker 7 (13:16):
Jesse, making out day at a timely.
Speaker 6 (13:19):
Yes.
Speaker 7 (13:20):
I keep discovering things, just little things every day that
help the cemetery up there. I found out there's nothing
of fad there. I can look, I can go there.
Nothing we shared.
Speaker 5 (13:34):
Is buried there.
Speaker 6 (13:35):
Nothing you shared is buried anywhere. Jesse.
Speaker 5 (13:40):
It's a wonderful thing to learn to know.
Speaker 6 (13:44):
Got a good morning to.
Speaker 7 (13:46):
Ride crisp and Clean's good morning, Jessie.
Speaker 6 (13:51):
Yes you wait, made you dag it morning.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
Major, Good morning, Jesse. I went over to your quarters.
Someone had seen you coming this way doing your.
Speaker 5 (14:04):
Own courier duty. Major. I'm impressed.
Speaker 6 (14:07):
I wanted to be the one who told you I'll
leave you to your talk and on Lee, Jesse, you'll
need your help.
Speaker 5 (14:13):
Help.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
I wouldn't have had this happen for the world. I
had no idea we're in line for any transfers.
Speaker 7 (14:19):
But Jesse, I need my quarters, don't you.
Speaker 5 (14:22):
Major.
Speaker 6 (14:24):
I'm afraid we do well.
Speaker 5 (14:26):
My That isn't the end of the world.
Speaker 7 (14:27):
I didn't expect to stay on indefinitely.
Speaker 5 (14:30):
How much time can I have?
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Hell?
Speaker 4 (14:33):
There, they're here now, Jesse.
Speaker 9 (14:35):
I see you can manage makeshift arrangements for a while,
can't you, Major, Mary and I hope you'd come over
with us, Jesse, stay as long as you're.
Speaker 7 (14:43):
Liank you But no, Major, it's best this way. Really,
it's it's time I started my new life.
Speaker 6 (14:50):
That rather almost anything than this.
Speaker 7 (14:52):
You know that, Major, it's the army. I understand. I
will need your help.
Speaker 12 (14:57):
Oli, you have it.
Speaker 6 (15:00):
Go on, Jesse take your ride. Well, go on, that's
an order, Jesse. You and the general need to work,
like you said.
Speaker 7 (15:10):
Thanks Lee, Major.
Speaker 6 (15:18):
Some days I hate the Army.
Speaker 9 (15:20):
Don't let Jesse hear you say that. She's a thirty
years soldier, Thank heaven.
Speaker 5 (15:49):
I never was a hand to collect much.
Speaker 7 (15:50):
I learned that moving from post to post that and
I could clear out of a place in two hours
notice anytime.
Speaker 6 (15:56):
And did too. I'll bet oh you should have.
Speaker 7 (15:58):
Seen us when we arrived here from Fort Corney. Two rocksacks,
two saddles, and a pair of silver candlesticks, only wedding present.
Speaker 5 (16:06):
We had left.
Speaker 6 (16:07):
What about all this furniture yours? Isn't it?
Speaker 7 (16:10):
It was built right here by a fad striker and
a couple of other enlisted men.
Speaker 6 (16:16):
Don't you want any of it? Jesse?
Speaker 5 (16:18):
It belongs here.
Speaker 7 (16:20):
Well, I'd feel better knowing it was here, Lee.
Speaker 6 (16:24):
Sure, I'll take these bags out.
Speaker 5 (16:27):
I'll have the others ready right away.
Speaker 6 (16:28):
No, don't hurry, Jesse anymore than you feel.
Speaker 5 (16:31):
And don't you look so grim, Captain?
Speaker 7 (16:34):
I mean it there's a time to go lee, a
right time, and when it comes, it should happen quickly.
Speaker 6 (16:42):
Yeah, that's best.
Speaker 15 (16:49):
Oh, I was looking for Missus Hale.
Speaker 7 (16:52):
Or some name like that.
Speaker 6 (16:54):
Her name is Missus Hale. She's right inside.
Speaker 5 (17:00):
Hello.
Speaker 15 (17:01):
Oh, I was under the impression you'd be out of
here by now.
Speaker 7 (17:05):
Oh, I won't belong You're a Captain Winton's wife, Jennifer Winton.
Speaker 15 (17:12):
But all of this quaint furniture. I do hope it's yours,
because I certainly wouldn't want to.
Speaker 7 (17:18):
It belongs here. It was made here at Fort Laramie.
Speaker 15 (17:22):
I can believe that. I mean it. It looks so
well homemade and alle.
Speaker 7 (17:28):
If you don't want it, Missus Winton, have Captain Winton
take it up with the adjutant. Furniture's hard to come
by out here.
Speaker 5 (17:35):
Someone can use it.
Speaker 15 (17:38):
Now you're thinking I'm rude, and I don't mean to be.
You see, we have our own furniture. It's new and
quite lovely. I'm sorry, what are you sorry about? It
was just such a shock seeing all of this furniture.
I'm afraid I've not been quite tactful.
Speaker 7 (17:59):
You've been quite rude. As a matter of fact, you're
very young and spoiled, and I suspect a little foolish.
Speaker 15 (18:07):
I beg your pardon.
Speaker 5 (18:08):
You needn't this is your first army post, Missus Winton.
Speaker 7 (18:13):
Maybe it is, my dear, you have a very great
deal to learn.
Speaker 15 (18:18):
I'm sure I have, But I intend to learn it
in my own kind of surroundings, with.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
Your own new, quite lovely furniture.
Speaker 15 (18:26):
I intend to make a home here for my husband,
the kind of home we're both used to. Just because
he sent out to this desolate corner of nowhere, I
don't intend we should live like the rest of the savages. Well,
I wish you well, Missus Winton. Thank you, Missus Hale.
Speaker 7 (18:50):
By the way, where was your home, Missus Winton, Philadelphia?
Oh that's just across the river from Camden, isn't.
Speaker 15 (18:59):
It if you want to put it that way, Yes.
Speaker 10 (19:04):
I think I do want to put it just that way.
Speaker 9 (19:29):
Sergeant Gors took your bags over to the stage.
Speaker 6 (19:34):
You've still got a few minutes, Jesse.
Speaker 7 (19:36):
She can't be over twenty, not a day over twenty.
Speaker 6 (19:41):
Who can't be a day over twenty?
Speaker 5 (19:42):
But you saw her.
Speaker 7 (19:43):
She came just as you were taking my bags out.
Speaker 6 (19:45):
Oh that one, missus Wynton.
Speaker 5 (19:48):
She looked over twenty to you.
Speaker 6 (19:51):
I'm a better judge your horses.
Speaker 5 (19:52):
Jesse, Philadelphia girl.
Speaker 7 (19:56):
I wonder if I acted like that when I was
her age Camden just crossed the river, you know, I
remember standing so straight, like she was balancing a tea
cup on her head.
Speaker 5 (20:06):
Ramrod straight.
Speaker 7 (20:09):
Course and Camden it was books books? What was books
on your head?
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Jesse?
Speaker 7 (20:16):
Good heavensly, don't be so dense.
Speaker 5 (20:19):
We were taught to walk that way and sit that.
Speaker 7 (20:21):
Way with books in your head, keep me straight and balance.
Speaker 12 (20:26):
Course.
Speaker 7 (20:26):
Mostly it gave you a stiff neck, and I must
say it gave you a formidable bearing. Lee, fat girl,
scared to death?
Speaker 5 (20:36):
Why couldn't I see that?
Speaker 6 (20:39):
Ms Winton?
Speaker 7 (20:39):
And why wouldn't she be twenty years in one protected groove?
And then she marries and comes out here? Why she
isn't prepared for this life? How could she be?
Speaker 6 (20:48):
Nobody much is prepared for this life.
Speaker 7 (20:50):
That's exactly what I mean. And they're not going to
be as long as complacent old fools like me don't
have anything better to say to them, then, my dear,
you have a very great deal to learn.
Speaker 5 (21:01):
Lee, Is that cottage up.
Speaker 7 (21:02):
With the roothhouse still empty, I think so, Jesse, Well, sir.
Speaker 5 (21:06):
You can move my old furniture in there right away.
Speaker 7 (21:09):
I'm going to speak to Major Daggett.
Speaker 6 (21:11):
You're not going back to CAMPDA and be a civilian.
Speaker 7 (21:15):
Not when there's so much army work to do, Captain.
And if I've learned anything in thirty years, the Army
has taught me. It's time I started paying back a little.
And Missus Wynton's a good place to begin. That an order, Jesse,
That's an order, Captain, move out.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
Fort Laramie is produced and directed by Norman McDonald and
stars Raymond Burr as lee Quin's Captain of cap with
Vic Perron 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 Helen Cleve, Sammy Hill and
(22:15):
Parley Bear. Jack Moyles is Major Diggett and Harry Bartel
is Lieutenant.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Siberts Company Tension dismiss.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
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As the Gallas.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Fort Laramie.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Fort Laramie, starring Raymond Burr as Captain lee Quits especially
transcribed tales of the dark and tragic ground of the
wild frontier, the saga of fight men who rode the
rim of Empire, and the dramatic story of lee Quin's
captain of cavalry.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
You all right, Jesse, I'm all right.
Speaker 5 (01:26):
Major Daggatt's been.
Speaker 6 (01:28):
A long walk up here.
Speaker 7 (01:29):
You'd like this shit. I want to stand.
Speaker 6 (01:31):
Thank you, Jesse. Whenever you're ready.
Speaker 7 (01:35):
Whenever you're ready, chaplain, speak your heart.
Speaker 6 (01:46):
He was my friend.
Speaker 8 (01:48):
Major Thaddeus Hale was first of all a friend to
all of us here, and we'll miss our friend. Beloved
is a man respected as an officer. Fort Laramaye will
be a different place without Thad, but a better place
for his having served here, lived among us vigorously and
(02:10):
fully for the past six years. All of us assembled
here at his grave can say of him he was
my friend. All save one Jesse Hale can say of him,
he was my love, my heart. There he lived, and
there he will always live. God comfort Jesse, God grant
(02:36):
Thad rest and peace and eternal love. Ashes to ashes,
dust to dust, in the name of the Father and
the Son and the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 6 (02:47):
Amen.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Amen, detail Ready aim fire a ready aim five ready aim.
Speaker 6 (03:16):
Five m.
Speaker 7 (04:05):
Major's flag, ma'am, Thank you, sergeant, thank you all of you.
Missus Hackton, look at the day. It's a beautiful day.
I'm so glad it's a beautiful day.
Speaker 6 (04:54):
I'm blasted.
Speaker 7 (05:01):
I'm here on the porch, Captain.
Speaker 9 (05:06):
It's kind of chilly out tonight. Miss Hale, Oh it.
Speaker 7 (05:09):
Seems so close inside. Sit down, won't you?
Speaker 9 (05:14):
Thanks? Miss Hale. Jesse, I'm no hand to put words together. Well,
I can't speak a piece about that.
Speaker 5 (05:29):
Don't tryly, there's no need.
Speaker 9 (05:31):
I'd liked him, and I'm sorry.
Speaker 7 (05:34):
I know I watched out on the walk stopping starting.
Speaker 5 (05:39):
He didn't want to come here tonight, And.
Speaker 7 (05:41):
I don't blame you.
Speaker 9 (05:42):
It wasn't the question of whatt Just what can a
man do? What can he say to a widow except
he's sorry.
Speaker 7 (05:52):
Sometimes I think it's harder on the friends who are left,
like you say, they want to do so much, say
the things. There's nothing to do, nothing to say. At
least you didn't bake a pie.
Speaker 6 (06:06):
I sure never thought of that.
Speaker 7 (06:08):
I want you to take some back to old Bedlama.
I'll see the rest get to the enlisted men tomorrow.
Speaker 10 (06:14):
Lee.
Speaker 7 (06:15):
This minute, in my kitchen there are fifteen pies and
three cakes.
Speaker 9 (06:20):
I guess women always going to make something at a
time like this.
Speaker 7 (06:23):
Oh, it's just that people have to do something and
there's nothing to do.
Speaker 5 (06:30):
Can I talk about that if you want to? Oh,
I want to. I need to.
Speaker 7 (06:35):
Every time I start, someone tries to stop me. I
think it'll make me sad to talk about him. Good
lordly that and I were happy.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
It doesn't make me sad to talk about happiness.
Speaker 6 (06:47):
You were happy.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
It showed thirty.
Speaker 7 (06:49):
Years next month, love and temper in the army, and
there wasn't a.
Speaker 5 (06:56):
Day of it. We didn't live.
Speaker 6 (06:59):
You were lot of like you and than.
Speaker 5 (07:01):
We were just.
Speaker 7 (07:02):
Alike too much, maybe, but we suited each other. When
I bellowed, he bellowed back, good loud, time of it
we'd have, and then we'd laugh, Then we'd love. I
think if I had it to do over, I wouldn't
change a thing, Lee, not even the bellowing.
Speaker 6 (07:23):
Oh, sad wouldn't either. I'd bet on that.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
Of course he wouldn't.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Lea.
Speaker 7 (07:31):
It was a dirty trick.
Speaker 6 (07:33):
Well he died. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (07:36):
Lived, threw every battle from Gettysburg to that skirmish way
Arapa Hole last month, cheated smallpox, scarlet fever, scurvy and
the infernal plains. Weather thrived on all that, and he
had to die off duty when lumber pilings fell on him.
Speaker 6 (07:57):
One good thing he never knew it. He'd have been
as mad as the devil.
Speaker 7 (08:02):
If he hadn't bellowed his head off.
Speaker 6 (08:04):
Man, you'd have bellowed right back.
Speaker 5 (08:07):
You bet, I would.
Speaker 6 (08:11):
Any idea what you're gonna do? Jesse live sure.
Speaker 7 (08:18):
If you're asking me, do I have a place to go?
I have. I have a sister back in Camden alone.
We can make a life together. It was my home
Camden a long time ago.
Speaker 6 (08:29):
It'll be a different life in Camden.
Speaker 7 (08:32):
Trade my pistol for needle point, my saddle for a
rocking chair, will be very differently.
Speaker 6 (08:38):
No rush about your leaving.
Speaker 7 (08:39):
Oh no, thank Heavin, Mary Daggett and the major rover
earlier said to stay on as long as I liked Glad.
They said that, Lee, there's one great favor.
Speaker 9 (08:54):
You can do me anything I can, Jesse take the
General Sad's.
Speaker 7 (09:00):
Mount Sad was your kind of army man, and the
General is your kind of horse.
Speaker 6 (09:05):
H you sitting right well yourself, but.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
Not in Camden Lee.
Speaker 7 (09:11):
Maybe sometimes, some special time you'll ride him with sad
and me.
Speaker 11 (09:18):
I'd be proud too, Jesse, watch it, Lieutenant, he's mean
this morning.
Speaker 12 (09:38):
I cannot have him to such a best. I give
you a hand, Sir, don't come here. He can't give
him his head?
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Can you better, Lieutenant, or you're gonna get it?
Speaker 13 (09:50):
Oh, thanks for the warning, sergeant.
Speaker 12 (09:59):
You hurt?
Speaker 13 (10:00):
That'll come later here. It's been a long time since
have I been unseated?
Speaker 12 (10:07):
Sergeant.
Speaker 14 (10:08):
They don't call him the general for nothing. Might be
he knows he outranks you, Lieutenant. I wonder how Major
Hale managed him. I don't know his secret, but he
got his way all right. And now look at that.
The Captain's got him mild as a kitten.
Speaker 6 (10:26):
That's bill, mister Sabits.
Speaker 12 (10:28):
I don't think so, Captain. It's happened pretty quick.
Speaker 6 (10:31):
Oh, he hasn't been ridden for a week. Any new
hand would have seemed strange to him.
Speaker 12 (10:35):
Yes, sir, are uh you're gonna try him out?
Speaker 9 (10:39):
Thought I would. The General and I got to get
used to each other. His hale asked me to care
for him.
Speaker 12 (10:47):
Oh, I'm sorry, sir. If I'd known that, I wouldn't
have tried to write him. I just thought that he
should be written.
Speaker 9 (10:53):
Oh, if you're all right, there's no harm done.
Speaker 6 (10:57):
Yes, it's my turn to try.
Speaker 14 (10:59):
Like I told the lieutenant, captain, that horse is mean
this morning. If it was me, i'd set this one out.
Speaker 6 (11:06):
H Well, see.
Speaker 12 (11:07):
Guys, you've got the touch, all right, sir.
Speaker 14 (11:12):
Yeah, but look at them eyes. He's thinking. He's thinking,
for sure, Captain.
Speaker 12 (11:20):
That's how it's done, Sir.
Speaker 6 (11:22):
I just don't trust that horse.
Speaker 13 (11:24):
The captain knows what he's doing. He always knows what
he's doing. I was him, I'd rather know what that
horse was thinking. He's got a plan, Lieutenant. The general's
got hisself a plan.
Speaker 12 (11:35):
I'm just not a horseman. That captain quincays.
Speaker 14 (11:37):
I wouldn't feel too bad about taking that spill. Wish
it hadn't happened in front of the captain, that's all.
Speaker 12 (11:44):
But got captain stick with him, sir, showing those boys.
Speaker 11 (11:48):
I swear, captain, if you don't take care, you're gonna
get thet.
Speaker 12 (11:53):
Oh come on, sorry, you kidding?
Speaker 6 (12:00):
Well, I took your advice. Course. How's that, sir, I
set this one out.
Speaker 13 (12:06):
You are right, sir, older and wiser, Lieutenant, I like pardon.
Speaker 6 (12:15):
He's a gift tours and I looked him square in
the mouth.
Speaker 12 (12:19):
Oh yes, sir.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Good morning.
Speaker 7 (12:24):
Plea. I forgot to tell you one little thing about
the general.
Speaker 6 (12:30):
Just one little thing, Jesse.
Speaker 5 (12:33):
Never try to mount him in the corral.
Speaker 6 (12:37):
I guess we can remember that. Wouldn't just say, Lieutenant.
Speaker 12 (12:40):
It's a lesson. I'll never forget, ma'am.
Speaker 6 (12:43):
Go fetch the general, Sergeant. See he's rubbed, fed and stable.
Speaker 7 (12:46):
Yes, oh, not just.
Speaker 5 (12:47):
Yet, sergeant. Just lead him out of the corral, tell
him there.
Speaker 7 (12:50):
I feel like riding this morning, Captain alone, Jesse alone.
I think both the General and I need work.
Speaker 13 (12:59):
Whatever you say, man, well, if you'll excuse me, missus hale, Captain,
I've got some staff due at the tento, Lieutenant, see
you later at mister Samonts.
Speaker 6 (13:14):
You making out.
Speaker 7 (13:16):
Jesse, making out day at a timely.
Speaker 6 (13:19):
Yes.
Speaker 7 (13:20):
I keep discovering things, just little things every day that
help the cemetery up there. I found out there's nothing
of fad there. I can look, I can go there.
Nothing we shared.
Speaker 5 (13:34):
Is buried there.
Speaker 6 (13:35):
Nothing you shared is buried anywhere. Jesse.
Speaker 5 (13:40):
It's a wonderful thing to learn to know.
Speaker 6 (13:44):
Got a good morning to.
Speaker 7 (13:46):
Ride crisp and Clean's good morning, Jessie.
Speaker 6 (13:51):
Yes you wait, made you dag it morning.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
Major, Good morning, Jesse. I went over to your quarters.
Someone had seen you coming this way doing your.
Speaker 5 (14:04):
Own courier duty. Major. I'm impressed.
Speaker 6 (14:07):
I wanted to be the one who told you I'll
leave you to your talk and on Lee, Jesse, you'll
need your help.
Speaker 5 (14:13):
Help.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
I wouldn't have had this happen for the world. I
had no idea we're in line for any transfers.
Speaker 7 (14:19):
But Jesse, I need my quarters, don't you.
Speaker 5 (14:22):
Major.
Speaker 6 (14:24):
I'm afraid we do well.
Speaker 5 (14:26):
My That isn't the end of the world.
Speaker 7 (14:27):
I didn't expect to stay on indefinitely.
Speaker 5 (14:30):
How much time can I have?
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Hell?
Speaker 4 (14:33):
There, they're here now, Jesse.
Speaker 9 (14:35):
I see you can manage makeshift arrangements for a while,
can't you, Major, Mary and I hope you'd come over
with us, Jesse, stay as long as you're.
Speaker 7 (14:43):
Liank you But no, Major, it's best this way. Really,
it's it's time I started my new life.
Speaker 6 (14:50):
That rather almost anything than this.
Speaker 7 (14:52):
You know that, Major, it's the army. I understand. I
will need your help.
Speaker 12 (14:57):
Oli, you have it.
Speaker 6 (15:00):
Go on, Jesse take your ride. Well, go on, that's
an order, Jesse. You and the general need to work,
like you said.
Speaker 7 (15:10):
Thanks Lee, Major.
Speaker 6 (15:18):
Some days I hate the Army.
Speaker 9 (15:20):
Don't let Jesse hear you say that. She's a thirty
years soldier, Thank heaven.
Speaker 5 (15:49):
I never was a hand to collect much.
Speaker 7 (15:50):
I learned that moving from post to post that and
I could clear out of a place in two hours
notice anytime.
Speaker 6 (15:56):
And did too. I'll bet oh you should have.
Speaker 7 (15:58):
Seen us when we arrived here from Fort Corney. Two rocksacks,
two saddles, and a pair of silver candlesticks, only wedding present.
Speaker 5 (16:06):
We had left.
Speaker 6 (16:07):
What about all this furniture yours? Isn't it?
Speaker 7 (16:10):
It was built right here by a fad striker and
a couple of other enlisted men.
Speaker 6 (16:16):
Don't you want any of it? Jesse?
Speaker 5 (16:18):
It belongs here.
Speaker 7 (16:20):
Well, I'd feel better knowing it was here, Lee.
Speaker 6 (16:24):
Sure, I'll take these bags out.
Speaker 5 (16:27):
I'll have the others ready right away.
Speaker 6 (16:28):
No, don't hurry, Jesse anymore than you feel.
Speaker 5 (16:31):
And don't you look so grim, Captain?
Speaker 7 (16:34):
I mean it there's a time to go lee, a
right time, and when it comes, it should happen quickly.
Speaker 6 (16:42):
Yeah, that's best.
Speaker 15 (16:49):
Oh, I was looking for Missus Hale.
Speaker 7 (16:52):
Or some name like that.
Speaker 6 (16:54):
Her name is Missus Hale. She's right inside.
Speaker 5 (17:00):
Hello.
Speaker 15 (17:01):
Oh, I was under the impression you'd be out of
here by now.
Speaker 7 (17:05):
Oh, I won't belong You're a Captain Winton's wife, Jennifer Winton.
Speaker 15 (17:12):
But all of this quaint furniture. I do hope it's yours,
because I certainly wouldn't want to.
Speaker 7 (17:18):
It belongs here. It was made here at Fort Laramie.
Speaker 15 (17:22):
I can believe that. I mean it. It looks so
well homemade and alle.
Speaker 7 (17:28):
If you don't want it, Missus Winton, have Captain Winton
take it up with the adjutant. Furniture's hard to come
by out here.
Speaker 5 (17:35):
Someone can use it.
Speaker 15 (17:38):
Now you're thinking I'm rude, and I don't mean to be.
You see, we have our own furniture. It's new and
quite lovely. I'm sorry, what are you sorry about? It
was just such a shock seeing all of this furniture.
I'm afraid I've not been quite tactful.
Speaker 7 (17:59):
You've been quite rude. As a matter of fact, you're
very young and spoiled, and I suspect a little foolish.
Speaker 15 (18:07):
I beg your pardon.
Speaker 5 (18:08):
You needn't this is your first army post, Missus Winton.
Speaker 7 (18:13):
Maybe it is, my dear, you have a very great
deal to learn.
Speaker 15 (18:18):
I'm sure I have, But I intend to learn it
in my own kind of surroundings, with.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
Your own new, quite lovely furniture.
Speaker 15 (18:26):
I intend to make a home here for my husband,
the kind of home we're both used to. Just because
he sent out to this desolate corner of nowhere, I
don't intend we should live like the rest of the savages. Well,
I wish you well, Missus Winton. Thank you, Missus Hale.
Speaker 7 (18:50):
By the way, where was your home, Missus Winton, Philadelphia?
Oh that's just across the river from Camden, isn't.
Speaker 15 (18:59):
It if you want to put it that way, Yes.
Speaker 10 (19:04):
I think I do want to put it just that way.
Speaker 9 (19:29):
Sergeant Gors took your bags over to the stage.
Speaker 6 (19:34):
You've still got a few minutes, Jesse.
Speaker 7 (19:36):
She can't be over twenty, not a day over twenty.
Speaker 6 (19:41):
Who can't be a day over twenty?
Speaker 5 (19:42):
But you saw her.
Speaker 7 (19:43):
She came just as you were taking my bags out.
Speaker 6 (19:45):
Oh that one, missus Wynton.
Speaker 5 (19:48):
She looked over twenty to you.
Speaker 6 (19:51):
I'm a better judge your horses.
Speaker 5 (19:52):
Jesse, Philadelphia girl.
Speaker 7 (19:56):
I wonder if I acted like that when I was
her age Camden just crossed the river, you know, I
remember standing so straight, like she was balancing a tea
cup on her head.
Speaker 5 (20:06):
Ramrod straight.
Speaker 7 (20:09):
Course and Camden it was books books? What was books
on your head?
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Jesse?
Speaker 7 (20:16):
Good heavensly, don't be so dense.
Speaker 5 (20:19):
We were taught to walk that way and sit that.
Speaker 7 (20:21):
Way with books in your head, keep me straight and balance.
Speaker 12 (20:26):
Course.
Speaker 7 (20:26):
Mostly it gave you a stiff neck, and I must
say it gave you a formidable bearing. Lee, fat girl,
scared to death?
Speaker 5 (20:36):
Why couldn't I see that?
Speaker 6 (20:39):
Ms Winton?
Speaker 7 (20:39):
And why wouldn't she be twenty years in one protected groove?
And then she marries and comes out here? Why she
isn't prepared for this life? How could she be?
Speaker 6 (20:48):
Nobody much is prepared for this life.
Speaker 7 (20:50):
That's exactly what I mean. And they're not going to
be as long as complacent old fools like me don't
have anything better to say to them, then, my dear,
you have a very great deal to learn.
Speaker 5 (21:01):
Lee, Is that cottage up.
Speaker 7 (21:02):
With the roothhouse still empty, I think so, Jesse, Well, sir.
Speaker 5 (21:06):
You can move my old furniture in there right away.
Speaker 7 (21:09):
I'm going to speak to Major Daggett.
Speaker 6 (21:11):
You're not going back to CAMPDA and be a civilian.
Speaker 7 (21:15):
Not when there's so much army work to do, Captain.
And if I've learned anything in thirty years, the Army
has taught me. It's time I started paying back a little.
And Missus Wynton's a good place to begin. That an order, Jesse,
That's an order, Captain, move out.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
Fort Laramie is produced and directed by Norman McDonald and
stars Raymond Burr as lee Quin's Captain of cap with
Vic Perron 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 Helen Cleve, Sammy Hill and
(22:15):
Parley Bear. Jack Moyles is Major Diggett and Harry Bartel
is Lieutenant.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Siberts Company Tension dismiss.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
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and the troopers who fought under Lee Quince Captain of Cavalry.
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