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Speaker 1 (00:06):
At the gallup Wow.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Fort Laramie.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
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 4 (01:27):
All right, you man that I said, Eddie, what's the
caval were you going to do to win glory today?
Speaker 2 (01:34):
I'm glad you spoke up Southie.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
You in private, Plover there have just volunteered to make
mud bricks for the new powder magazine built.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
No Sergeant, me and floor were working at Adobey all
day yesterday, another month.
Speaker 5 (01:46):
You ought to be finished.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
I didn't join this army to make mud bricks.
Speaker 5 (01:56):
You refusing in order, Suthie, But your shoes on, Plover.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Let's get going.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
The rest of you man will finish cleaning this barracks
and fall out in ten minutes.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
I suppose you're taking them buffalo hunting.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Each man will go to supply and get a picker
of shovel.
Speaker 5 (02:10):
We're building road today. That's enough, I said.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Ten minutes you line up smiling and happy, or I'll
work you all night.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
I got your shoes on plover for sure, what I
need shoes for.
Speaker 6 (02:30):
I'll be on my hands and knees most of the time.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Ain't it a shamed men like us doing that kind
of work.
Speaker 7 (02:39):
I'm ready, sutie.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Let's go.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Ten minutes, soldiers, and don't forget them shovels.
Speaker 6 (02:54):
I reckon any out that's got to do sometime, and
garrison SHOOTI we've.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Been in garrison freemas. It's got me talking to myself.
Speaker 6 (03:02):
Well, least wise we ain't getting shot at by no
wild injury.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
What's a cavalry ferve? It ain't to get shot at
and to do a little shooting itself.
Speaker 6 (03:11):
All engines around here is peaceable, least wires has been
the last few months. Reservation engines them shine ought to
be ashamed of theirselves sitting around watching the women do
the work, waiting to be fed by the government.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Where's the gumption anyway?
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Wow?
Speaker 7 (03:30):
Good thing there is peaceable.
Speaker 6 (03:32):
I think damn engine's going a terror makes it bad
for everybody.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
They going to tear and get us out of the garrison.
Speaker 7 (03:40):
Well they ain't going, so you just might as well
face up to it.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
I could make them go, Clover.
Speaker 7 (03:46):
Oh, now, stop that tall.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
I've told you how I could make them go.
Speaker 7 (03:50):
Now look you here, Sultie, I ain't even gonna listen
to you.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
What you could be shot for. Just what you're thinking,
nobody never know? You know you're crazy, being stuck here
and a fort so long.
Speaker 7 (04:01):
It's driven you plump crazy.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Your mouse's getting offful big.
Speaker 7 (04:05):
Now don't get on the prod.
Speaker 6 (04:08):
Okay here, I'll tell you what Tonight, you and me
gonna sneak off the post and we'll go into town
and have us a drink.
Speaker 7 (04:14):
Use that guy you like.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
That Elebraiding? How about that.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Said, never you mind? Elebraiding? You called me crazy?
Speaker 4 (04:23):
Oh I didn't mean nothing, but I ain't crazy, and
I'll prove it to you.
Speaker 7 (04:28):
You put that knife away, Southie.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
You got a knife, Get it out, No, get it out.
I said, I'm gonna cut you, plover. I'll do it.
Speaker 7 (04:41):
All right, that's how you want it. Now, there's my knife.
Now you cut me, Southie. Come on, now, cut me.
Speaker 6 (04:53):
I'll lay your whole face something Sita all at you
man ptend of cybers.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
You don't mean nothing to me, cap quitch with Sudie.
Watch your fever, your belly over.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
You try that again, not that man. Put those knives away.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
It's a fair fight. You got now, rots, do.
Speaker 5 (05:09):
As I say, Sothie.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
You cut me, I'll put mine away.
Speaker 7 (05:12):
I can't quit a less than he does.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
All right, Susy, you too, plover.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
I know you're on edge being in garrison so long,
but that's part of soldiering, and so is keeping your temper.
I put those knives away before we all get in trouble.
Speaker 7 (05:27):
There's mind, all right, You here to Captain, Sothie.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
There's mine.
Speaker 5 (05:34):
You men on detail.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Making mud pies again, Captain.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Then get to it. If there's any more fighting, you'll
go to the guardhouse. That clear, Yes, sir, move out.
Those men are crazy enough to have stuck your captain
getting between them that way, one of them might have
stuck me, mister Sebert's not both of them. They need action, Captain.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
They're soldiers, not laborers.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
And they're even forgetting to think like soldiers. There's going
to be more trouble like this, mister seyberts a lot more,
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Captain Quince's reporting, sir.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
Heat ease, Captain. How's b company getting along well?
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Major Dagger, I guess b companies getting along about the
way you'd expect.
Speaker 8 (06:30):
Like those two men of yours last week who were
going at each other with knives. I didn't know you'd
heard about that, Major, I heard about it. I also
heard how you failed to punish him.
Speaker 5 (06:40):
With all due respect, Sir, it's.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
My company, and you know I never interfere on a
company level. I'd transfer out of here if you did.
Speaker 5 (06:50):
I'm sure you would. It isn't easy, is it, Lee,
H much more of this. I'll be looking for a
good fight myself.
Speaker 8 (07:03):
Enforced inactivity the bane of the cavalry that in the
salt pork diet.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Two more of my men came down with scurvy today. Major,
That's what I wanted to see you about.
Speaker 5 (07:14):
Lee.
Speaker 8 (07:15):
Oh, how'd you like to go on a buffalo hunt?
Speaker 5 (07:19):
Buffalo hunt? I thought we couldn't.
Speaker 8 (07:20):
Well, I know general orders are to avoid antagonizing the
Indians by hunting buffalo in their territory.
Speaker 5 (07:26):
And we're sitting right in the middle of their territory.
Speaker 8 (07:29):
Twenty two cases of scurvy are enough higher orders at
the hold Fort Laramie. With a full complement of cavalry.
Captain Quince, you think you can bring in some fresh
meat without starting.
Speaker 5 (07:42):
A new Indian war. I can try, sir. I'm depending
on you.
Speaker 8 (07:47):
Yes, Sir, you'll take fifteen men, two wagons, and six mules.
You'll leave one half hour after revely tomorrow morning. You'll
return Saturday by sundown without fail, exactly one week from today.
Speaker 5 (07:58):
Any questions, no, Sir.
Speaker 8 (08:00):
I hope you'll see fit to include those two men,
Soothie and Plover in your party.
Speaker 5 (08:05):
I intend to sir as skinners and move out.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Hey, Soothie, I feel not so good. Clover, I'm bleeding again,
or most to the fort.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
Here see the man.
Speaker 6 (08:37):
They're standing around waiting on it.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
That's what the captain said, Saturday by sundown. We made it.
Speaker 6 (08:45):
Yeah, some of us made it.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Eight of us, eight out of fifteen. The man killed.
We're done, all right, that can show. Hey, looky, there's
Chord Daggett.
Speaker 5 (08:58):
He's waiting too. You see.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
No, I can't see some good, Clover. My head hurts bad.
Everything's kind of swimming.
Speaker 5 (09:09):
You ain't gonna pass out.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Now, are you?
Speaker 4 (09:11):
The way you got me roped onto this saddle wouldn't
matter none if it did pass out.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
There's other boys hurt worse than you. I ain't compleaning.
Speaker 7 (09:20):
Bench up my head.
Speaker 6 (09:21):
There he passed out bout him tied belted down across
his saddle, and.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
I reckon, he's dead.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
We're hair soothing, We're back. I can't see nothing but
the forts. Oh my head hurts off.
Speaker 5 (09:45):
Albor Mercelle, you will remain with the wounded. They'll came
out and Todd the garth can DeCamp from the garrison
to help these men down. Get him to the hospital.
Rest of the stable.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
The horses trolled this miss. Yes, sir, to take my
horse to the stable for me, and certainly, Captain, I'd
better report to the major there. Yes, sir, if you
care to come by my quarters later, I'll I'll find
us a drink.
Speaker 5 (10:15):
Thank you, sir. Captain Quinch reporting's here here. Not hurt
Ley knows, sir. What what happened?
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Cheyenne? Over one hundred braves hit us dawn two days ago.
I had a guard posted, but they rode right over him.
Seven troopers killed in battle. Another died in the saddle.
About noon today, wagons mules lost my shan a scout
looking for you never found this?
Speaker 7 (10:45):
What is it?
Speaker 5 (10:46):
Major Yan jumped the reservation.
Speaker 8 (10:48):
Yeah, and nobody knows why they slipped out in the
middle of the night and disappeared.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
I can't figure it. Big Wolf's been as peaceful as
chief as I've known. Big Wolf's young son died a
couple of weeks ago. Maybe that got them started. I
think they go right out to the reservation tomorrow. Take
a look around. What for no particular reason, major, just curious, cap'n.
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I don't think them shying left a single thing out here.
Speaker 5 (11:30):
And they sure stripped the place, Gorse.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
I guess when you ain't got much, you don't leave
nothing behind it.
Speaker 5 (11:35):
Tall Uh.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Got them all them poles over there with the burying
platforms on him?
Speaker 5 (11:42):
What about him?
Speaker 1 (11:43):
They're all new, Captains, I mean they're empty. There's no
corpses laying on them.
Speaker 5 (11:47):
Can't be new. Must have taken they're dead with him, Sergeant.
I don't understand it. I ain't like him. Why would
they do that?
Speaker 1 (11:58):
They were in quite a hurry.
Speaker 5 (12:02):
What do you mean that grave over there? It's half
torn down. Yeah. Kind of spooky out here, ain't it. Eh.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
I will stop in town on the way back, Sergeant.
Now you're making this detail worthwhile, Captain, I got some
business at the post office, post office. But I'll meet
you at the saloon when i'm through.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
I'll be there.
Speaker 5 (12:24):
Captain, you can depend on me.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Of course we don't make much money, but well, soldiern's
an honorable profession. It's better than being a thief. I
hope I'm not intruding, Sergeant Gors Captain, Uh, Captain Quince.
Speaker 5 (12:53):
This here is Ella Braydon. How do you do Ellen,
Please to meet you, Captain.
Speaker 9 (12:58):
Don't you sit down?
Speaker 5 (13:00):
No thanks.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
I've been trying to explain to all of it. Soldiers
are just as good as civilians.
Speaker 9 (13:05):
I never said they weren't.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Sergeant Sergeant Gorse has been the cavalry twenty years. Ellen,
he's still trying to figure out.
Speaker 9 (13:13):
Why I think you're right.
Speaker 5 (13:15):
Captain.
Speaker 9 (13:16):
It's all he talks about now.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
That ain't so?
Speaker 9 (13:18):
I mean when you being a gentleman?
Speaker 5 (13:21):
Sergeant?
Speaker 9 (13:22):
Oh you know what he did a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 5 (13:25):
Okay, now, Eli, what'd you do? Ellen?
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Well?
Speaker 1 (13:29):
He nah, I'm too much.
Speaker 9 (13:33):
Of a lady to say it.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Thank goodness for that, ain't Hella of course gets out
of line just you whack him with a bottle. It's
the only kind of language he understands. Sometimes.
Speaker 9 (13:42):
Oh, I got something better to whack him with.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Captain.
Speaker 9 (13:45):
It's carved from solid bone. What yeah, I got it
in this sack. Brought it in to show to the barkeep.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Now, what in the world is that ella?
Speaker 5 (13:56):
Let me see that.
Speaker 9 (13:57):
It's an Indian souvenir of some kind.
Speaker 5 (14:00):
Where'd you get this? Ella?
Speaker 9 (14:02):
Kid at the fort gave it to me. He found
it somewhere.
Speaker 5 (14:05):
I guess who gave it to you.
Speaker 9 (14:07):
His name is Southie Soothie. Well, what's wrong, Captain?
Speaker 1 (14:13):
This is a Cheyenne totem mello. I'm gonna have to
keep it.
Speaker 9 (14:18):
Oh here, No, that's wine. You get a bue.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Sorry, you'll have to find another souvenir. This one's caused
enough trouble bought Captain Quince and then Major. I want
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to see Private Southie. Where's his bed at the far end?
Speaker 5 (14:47):
Captain? There where Sergeant Corse is. Thank you, Captain, guys,
he love Southee. Captain Quince, are you, sir? How are
(15:07):
you feeling? Southie? Oh?
Speaker 4 (15:09):
Pretty good, Captain, except for my head aching all the time.
Speaker 5 (15:13):
You'll get over it.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
I'm better. I can't stand at this way, Sir. I
wish they'd killed me if I got to go on like.
Speaker 5 (15:22):
This, Southie. You seen this before.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
I don't know, capt'n.
Speaker 7 (15:29):
What is it?
Speaker 5 (15:30):
You know what it is? Where'd you get it? I
can't help you, Captain.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
I'm sorry. Maybe later sometime.
Speaker 5 (15:37):
No, look, Southie, you know I won't take an answer
like that.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
What is it?
Speaker 5 (15:41):
Sergeant? Would you step over here a minute?
Speaker 7 (15:44):
Sir?
Speaker 5 (15:44):
All right? What do you want? Oh?
Speaker 1 (15:53):
I see that's old time, Southie. I won't bother you anymore.
I know all I need to anyway.
Speaker 5 (16:06):
I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Capt'n.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
I ought to hate you, Suthi, but I only feel
sorry for you what you've done. I'm going to try
to set right. But whether I can or not, you're
going to have to live with it the rest of
your life. I think I'm speaking for a lot of
good men who died because of you.
Speaker 5 (16:28):
Sergeant.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Meet you at the main gate in half an hour.
Have our horses saddled and packed with two days rations
move out. I find it's hard to believe Captain made.
Speaker 5 (16:50):
You dagg it.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
I I've always tried to think of every trooper in
my company as a real soldier. Somehow it makes me
feel less a one myself when I find out about
a man like Private SOUTHI.
Speaker 8 (17:05):
I can understand that, Captain Quinch, I sympathize with you, Yes, sir,
but what do you propose to do about it? There's
nothing short of suicide. I can't allow that.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
I'm meeting Sergeant Gorse at the main gate in a
few minutes. Major, I'm volunteering for this mission. He goes
with me, He'll have to volunteer too.
Speaker 8 (17:20):
Big Wolf and is Cheyenna or a mission for the
entire Second Cavalry, Captain, not for two men only.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
It was me those Cheyenne warriors hit. Major was my
men I watched die. This mission belongs to b company,
to me, not to the Second Cavalry.
Speaker 8 (17:41):
You're putting a terrible responsibility on me, Captain Quinch.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
As a volunteer. I don't see how Major, all right,
go ahead, thank you, sir.
Speaker 5 (17:50):
Ali. Yes, sir, I'll give you one order.
Speaker 8 (17:55):
You'd a return to Fort Laramie within two weeks without fail.
Speaker 5 (18:11):
Or coffee guards. I could sure use it. It's hot,
I can see that. Thanks kepn.
Speaker 8 (18:27):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (18:28):
This is better than Garrison and the sergeant. Oh it
sure is.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Nights full of stars. We had a good dinner, pork
and chick peas. There's coffees hot, there's plenty of it.
Speaker 5 (18:41):
Got a big.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Fire going here, lots of wood. There's nothing wrong with this, Keptain,
except for one little thing.
Speaker 5 (18:48):
Maybe what's that? Sergeant? Oh toddally worth mentioning? Oh, go ahead,
speak up?
Speaker 1 (18:56):
Well from all the sign we've seen today, I yes,
we're smack in the middle of about four shy and
war parties.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Oh.
Speaker 5 (19:05):
I think you're right, Sergeant.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Of course, I don't know for sure, but with this
bonfire we got going, I got a sneaky idea of
them engines just might catch on to our being here
sooner or later.
Speaker 7 (19:18):
A man.
Speaker 5 (19:21):
Sorry, you came along, Sergeant, Why volunteered? Interesting mission? You said? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (19:28):
I also said we we might get killed, didn't I?
Speaker 5 (19:32):
You didn't say how. I don't know how, Sergeant.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
I bet I could tell you not interested we get killed.
Speaker 5 (19:40):
This mission will be a failure. I say, I hadn't
thought of that. Now.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
That'd be a dog gone shame, wouldn't he cat it would?
I can just see all in generals back in Washington
sitting around a big shiny table saying that don fool Captain,
that don fool sergeant couldn't accomplish a simple little old mission.
Speaker 5 (20:00):
What's the cavalry comment to you? That's what they'll be seeing.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
Throw some wood on the fire, go us you're closest, sure,
Captain quaints, Yeah, they're here.
Speaker 5 (20:18):
All around us.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Step back to the fire real slow. If they can
see anything tall, they can see We ain't on. They
wouldn't show themselves this close if they didn't know that
they're coming in. Captain stand steady, Sergeant, no sudden movements.
Speaker 7 (20:46):
Sure, some fine way for the cavalry to go engine hunting.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
We found them, didn't we What happens now that's not
entirely up to us. Sergeant easy now sure.
Speaker 5 (21:02):
Z la hoo d now ye he hallo?
Speaker 7 (21:07):
Is you low?
Speaker 5 (21:08):
D ish la ya I j o undo? What's his saying?
Speaker 1 (21:17):
He says he'll take us to Big Wolf all right,
he says, the chief wouldn't want to miss the torture
before they kill us.
Speaker 5 (21:34):
You uh you wake gorse.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Who could do any sleeping tied up like this? And
he'll be done soon. I just ain't looking forward to today.
Speaker 7 (21:44):
Ki.
Speaker 5 (21:44):
At least we'll get out of this tepee.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
You know, this is the first time I was ever
inside one. I ain't missed the thing.
Speaker 5 (21:52):
Oh, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
TP can be pretty nice when you got a fire
going on, a buffalo robe to wrap up in, maybe
some antelope state for breakfast, jug of spring water, maybe
a woman to.
Speaker 5 (22:03):
Do all the work. You're spoiled, gorst rotten, spoiled. Well,
it ain't the frontier life, did it, Captain? I can
tell you that I never should have left home.
Speaker 10 (22:13):
Oh oh vahlaya, he says, they're ready for us, Sergeant,
oh Java, when was that Big Wolf hasn't returned.
Speaker 5 (22:28):
They've decided not to wait for him. But Captain, is
our only chance. I could have talked to Big Wolf.
Not these other warriors. Not even worth trying. Ishl honey,
he's gonna cut us loose. Why not with a half
hundred braves out there. We ain't going no place. They
can tie him, man up offul tire. I ain't even
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sure I can walk.
Speaker 11 (22:54):
A leah as all h huh. Let's go, sergeant, sure, sergeant,
what is it?
Speaker 5 (23:07):
Big Wolf? He's back? Thank Heaven for that. It's a
chance at least there he is.
Speaker 7 (23:15):
Say he looks like a chief doing here?
Speaker 1 (23:17):
He does, Captain quince, Hello, big Wolf. My people are
ready for your death. I know we allowed ourselves to
be captured, Big Wolf. This I do not understand.
Speaker 5 (23:39):
I wanted to see you. I wanted to bring you something.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
Quite soldier has brought shame and dishonor to my people.
Speaker 7 (23:49):
And to me.
Speaker 5 (23:52):
You're speaking of your son's grave.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
White soldier come at night, left my son's body on ground. Yes,
and he stole this from your son's grave, the Totem
totem of my clan.
Speaker 5 (24:13):
The white soldier did this to dishonor you, Big.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Wolf, Cheyenne recover honor in war and by killing you.
Let me say something first, Big Wolf, it was neither
of us did this thing. It was a soldier who
was weak and foolish and bad. This soldier has dishonored
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me as well as you.
Speaker 5 (24:41):
We do not want war with your people. Who is soldier.
His name's Suthie. Give him to me. No, I can't
do that. Then you must die.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
You have already killed eight soldiers, Big Wolf. Soon many
soldiers will come, more soldiers than you have Braves. Give
me Soothie so you can punish him. He must be punished.
He must die, Big Wolf. When you wake in the morning,
and step outside your lodge.
Speaker 5 (25:14):
What do you see? Tell me?
Speaker 1 (25:18):
I see the sun on the land, morning shadows, bright mountains,
And if you could not see all this, it would
not be good. The white soldier Soothie has already been
punished Big Wolf, by you. It is not enough, No,
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not by me, by your warriors in the fight. He
is blind, Big Wolf, blind blind for the rest of
his life. His punishment will never stop. You are brave
men to come here with the totem. There must be
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no war between our people. The thing is done. Seven
of my warriors died in fight. It is enough. We
ride back in peace. Yes, then we've won, Big Wolf,
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We've both won.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
Fort Laramie is produced and directed by Norman McDonald and
stars Raymond Byrr as lee Quin's captain of cavalry, with
Vic Perrin as Sergeant Gorse. The script was specially written
for Fort Laramie by John Master, with sound patterns by
Bill James and Ray Kemper musical supervision by Amarigo Marino.
Featured in the cast were Sam Edwards, Harry Bartel, Jack Moyles,
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Jack Krusian, Howard Culver, and Vivi Jaanas.
Speaker 5 (27:29):
Company Tension.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
Dismiss Next week, another transcribed story of the Northwest Frontier
and the troopers who fought under Lee Quince, Captain of Cavalry.
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