June 6, 2025 • 29 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):
At the Gatherer Who.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Fort Laramie.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Fort Laramie, starring Raymond Byrd as Captain lee Quin's specially
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 (01:24):
Patrol.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
What sugean God? Yes, sir, dismiss the patrol. I've got
to report the major daggon, Yes, and see that their
horses are babied right this time? Yes, sir, with math, yes,
math cad'n quinn's reporting, Sir. Oh, I'm sorry, sir, I
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thought you'd be alone.
Speaker 5 (01:52):
That's all right, cap'n oh, this is Major Barlow. Major,
my pleasure, Captain, Well, how did you patrol routines here?
Speaker 2 (02:01):
No sign of trouble?
Speaker 4 (02:02):
Good?
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Oh, sit down, quinc Thank you, sir.
Speaker 5 (02:07):
Major Barlow is here on orders from General's staff in Washington.
He's surveying all the posts in our department.
Speaker 6 (02:15):
I have only a few days here.
Speaker 7 (02:17):
Then I'm going on to.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Fort Dodge, General Custer's command.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
Yes, I'm looking forward to that.
Speaker 6 (02:23):
Read hundreds of reports, and certainly that seventh cavalry is
doing the best job of the hostiles that can be done.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
You haven't surveyed them yet, well, not personally.
Speaker 6 (02:32):
No, the record reads victory after victory. I wish we
could say the same about the second.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
The circumstances are a little different, Major, they're waging open
warfare from Fort Dodge.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
Here.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
We try to keep hostilities in a minimum, maintain peace. Captain,
how much firefight have we seen in the last month?
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Three or four skirmishes? Is all, Sir, mostly with dog
soldiers driven from the Fort Dodge section.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
Dog soldiers are.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
There are two kinds of shop. That's the tribe we've
been most interested in around here lately. Dog soldiers are
the warriors. They wear three feathers. The ones that don't
wear their feathers are the reservation, peaceful kind. We don't
bother either unless they make us well.
Speaker 6 (03:15):
Major's the belief of many members of the staff, including myself,
that a soft policy such as yours boundary to an uprising.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
I hope you're wrong, Sir.
Speaker 6 (03:24):
A hostile seat is a sign of weakness. The only
way to enforce peace with these savages is to maintain
constant pressure. Continual display of strength will we.
Speaker 5 (03:33):
Get a directive to that effect, Major, or is that
a private opinion?
Speaker 6 (03:39):
It's my opinion at the moment. I can assure you
all do everything I can to see a directive based
on it. Now, Captain, if you'll show me to your
troop area.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
Yes, Major Parloor will be attached to your troop during
its stay. You'll place yourself at his disposal to everything
possible to assist him in making his survey.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
It's an honor.
Speaker 6 (04:11):
First thing I want to do with Captain is make
a complete tour of the reservation camps. I want a
firsthand look at the natives, their condition, their attitudes instead
of their weapons.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
So on.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Camps are pretty well scattered, Major, It'll take some time
to cover all of them.
Speaker 6 (04:26):
These reservation people should be centralized.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
So they can be watched. They've lived in small village
bands for hundreds of generations. They kind of need stretching.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
Their prisoners of war, Captain.
Speaker 6 (04:38):
Prisoners of war live under imposed conditions, not their own.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Yes, Sir Captain quins, yes, Egeant at he is?
Speaker 4 (04:51):
What is it?
Speaker 2 (04:52):
He's a man waiting for you in the orderly room,
Sir ben coons What does he want? He says, his
step son was stole by the Cheyenne.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
What's that.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
We'll go in and find out. Thank you, Hodgen, I've
just heard about your son cons How that happened, I
don't I know.
Speaker 7 (05:19):
My place is only five miles outside of town, and
he was gone when I got home last night.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Look at this Chyanne scalping knight was stuck.
Speaker 7 (05:30):
In my door. I've had a Cheyenne large oath hanging
over my head for a year. That filthy devil finally
found a way to get to me.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
I mean someone in particular.
Speaker 7 (05:42):
One of the worst of the breed was Sire.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
I've heard of him quite a warrior.
Speaker 7 (05:49):
You say he's had a personal hatred for you, mister Cooles,
ever since last summer. I was scouting for the seventh
run across his camp on that big north swing of
the Sun, you know, Captain, just before it flows into
Grand Valley.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Yeah, I know, And I led the troopers into it.
Speaker 7 (06:06):
And during the fracas, Wassaiah's brother was killed. That's when
he took the oath to put me under do worse.
Now he's done it taken, Billy.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
I'm sorry about your son, Cones, But the way I
heard the story of that attack. Wassaiah's wife and eight
year old son were killed two by one of our scouts.
Speaker 7 (06:30):
I didn't have nothing to do with it. I I
did what I was paid to captain.
Speaker 6 (06:33):
The man's child's been kidnapped. I see no reason to
discuss anything else.
Speaker 7 (06:37):
The army's supports to protect the civilians.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
What makes you so sure it was Wassaiah?
Speaker 4 (06:43):
Real?
Speaker 7 (06:43):
He brought his band into the Laramie foothills two days ago,
put that in the knife, and he's oathed together and
no place else to look.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Where'd you hear he was in this part of the
country your.
Speaker 6 (06:55):
Breed scout Quanto got wind of I should think you
would have learned about it in your patrol.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Captain, No, we were working in the other direction.
Speaker 7 (07:02):
Major Oh, I heard this morning right away. I got
the feeling about what happened, and I started looking for
sign around my place. I found it right enough, wash
about a half mile away, tracks and nine ponies headed
south toward the hills. I want that Chyenne dog brought
in and hung up where I can see it.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Tajan gorse Yo, go look up Kwondo. He says, it's
a band of Cheyenne and the Laramie foothills. I want
to talk to their head man, find out where they are,
pick out ten good men for the patrol, including you.
Speaker 6 (07:39):
Yes, Sir, you'll make provision for me to go with you.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
Captain.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
There won't be much in the way of provision, Major,
but you're welcome, Sir. Coones, you go tell your story
to Major Daggett. As soon as I get word from him,
we'll move out. A Captain, Oh, Coons, how old is
your steps in?
Speaker 7 (08:02):
Nine years next month?
Speaker 4 (08:03):
If he's still.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Alive, same age with siah Son would have been well
if they're together, I don't think you have to worry
about Billy being anything but alive and well.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
You've got a.
Speaker 7 (08:16):
Lot to learn about Shyenne.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Captain, maybe you could teach me. You want to come along.
I'm gonna talk to the Major. He goes a man
with a bad conscience.
Speaker 6 (08:34):
What about your own?
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Captain?
Speaker 5 (08:36):
You seem to feel more sympathy for the savage than
you do for this poor man who's lost a child.
I hardly think your attitude right for a man in
your position.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
I suppose it won't look good in your survey report, sir,
But there's a popular idea out here. I've never been
able to swallow and keep down that whatever a white
man does to an Indian is all right, but whatever
an Indian does is all wrong.
Speaker 6 (08:59):
You and I are soldiers, Captain. We do not set policy.
We follow it, Yes, sir.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Fast Water Quarter. Talk about just around this bend, Captain
and I got some beautiful trout in that stretch that's
where their camp's supposed to be.
Speaker 6 (09:28):
Didn't you better order car beings at the ready the
show of preparedness, Captain.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
A little late for that, Major. They've had their eye
on us for at least an hour.
Speaker 6 (09:38):
Why do you bring a small force into a situation
like this. Surely you don't trust them not to catch
us in ambush.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
I don't trust them, Major, I know them. The best
place for ambush was about two miles back. We've gone
beyond the point of car beings at the ready. Hey
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you are, and drew up ahead waiting for us. Those
are dog soldiers, some of the best mounted fighters in
the world. We are well out numbered, Captain, We always are.
Now they'll come in to meet us at full run
and screaming like bansheese. That's their way. They didn't want
you to know whether they mean to be friendly or
to open your throat. If we had our carbines ready,
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their run wouldn't be exactly friendly.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Patrol, Oh, keep your hands away from your weapons.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Man, unless I tell you different. Stay relaxed the way
you do on the parade ground. When I want you
to be alert.
Speaker 6 (10:53):
I should have ordered out your full truth.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Captain, here they come, I see him gorse act like
this happens every day. Man, Just rest easy in your
saddles and talk to each other.
Speaker 6 (11:15):
Captain, order car beans at already that an order, Major,
it's common sense. Show them we'll fight.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Don't draw your pistol. Major, you'll spook them for sure.
Waving that thing around, they'd have opened up by now
if they were going to.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Bye.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Who is chief among you? Which of you is Withsiah?
Speaker 4 (11:52):
I must say, why do the soldiers come to us?
We have done no wrong.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
I brought you your scalping knife was high here?
Speaker 8 (12:03):
Where is the one called coons? The woman killer? The
child killer? Did he die of fear when he found
my shine? By that insolent beggar.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
He says that you came for vengeance and that you
stole his son.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
I have stolen no son.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
You were at his house and now the boy is missing.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
I have stolen no boy. Oh he's lying, Captain. What
does the high soldier say? I say you are lying? Major,
I speak true.
Speaker 6 (12:33):
We'll search your camp and find out how much truth.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
No, we want no soldiers in our camp.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
E there anyway you can stop? And you've ever been
able to stop me?
Speaker 5 (12:43):
Will I sure try our camp?
Speaker 4 (12:46):
There is trouble. We want no trouble. We are at peace.
You don't want us in your camp because you're lying.
Speaker 6 (12:54):
The search is going to be made, and if you'll
resist us, I'll see the whole second Cavalry out to
do the job well.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Patrol carving that already.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
Boots are karving. What that cat sari? Major? They're going
back to their camp.
Speaker 6 (13:09):
Oh those seem slut Well, at least I've seen a
prime example of what a soft policy brings about. The
hostiles move up here from the seventh Cavalry area. Undoubtedly
they rest, repair equipment and go back to take up
the attack again.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Some of them do, some of them don't. There are
good ones and bad ones with these people, same as
there are with whites.
Speaker 6 (13:30):
Well, until such time as a magician is attached to
the second who can distinguish between the two. Captain, pressure
should be exerted against all of them. We'll return to
the fort. I'm going to recommend that at least two
troops are assigned to this matter until let boys recover.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
With your permission, Sir, I'll stay here. Sergeant Gorse will
take command of the patrol and escort you.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
Why on earth stay here?
Speaker 6 (13:54):
I need your statement of the fort.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
You have plenty of other witnesses, Sir, before you come
back with two troops of cavalry. I'd sort of liked
to see what one man can do in that camp.
Speaker 6 (14:07):
You're thinking as an individual again, Captain, a hard habit
to break, Sir.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
If it doesn't work, it'll make a strong point in
your survey report. Very well.
Speaker 6 (14:22):
I trust you don't expect commendation on your stubbornness. I
do plan to make reference to your unmilitary behavior.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Be better if we could send old brash shoulders in alone.
Watch your manners, saget. Don't you want me to stay
with you? Thank you, Gorus, but I don't need you.
This may look crazy, but I don't think I'll run
any trouble. He's had young ands in there you will, sir. Yeah,
I don't figure he is. I've been thinking if I
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was with high and kidnapped the boy, I sure wouldn't
have left a knife to point the finger at me,
and I would have high tailed it out of these
parts a long time before this.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
Sure, hope you're right?
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Not far enough? What your man is go us?
Speaker 9 (15:14):
Yes, sir, good luck, easy, easy.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
Op soldier, you do not call it our term?
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Then come out here, whatsaiah? So we can talk without
being bothered by others.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
We talk about the sun I did not steal.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
I believe you. I believe that you didn't steal him.
Speaker 8 (16:06):
Your high soldier is blind. His words cut like flint.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
He's new to this country. He has much to learn.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
He went back. Does he bring more soldiers to attack us?
Speaker 2 (16:21):
That's what's in his mind. Now It'll take a day,
so you have time to move your camp.
Speaker 8 (16:26):
Strange words from a soldier. Why do you stand with me?
When the high soldier says, I.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Lie, I've heard much of you, wissiah. If you were
going to steal the sun, you do it better than this.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
I say this.
Speaker 8 (16:42):
The days are gone when the son brought only gladness
to his father Now the father looks to the day
when his son reaches manhood, and she's nothing but sadness
and hunger and fighting a war that will not be won. Night,
when sleep runs away from me, I think of my son,
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and I am happy that he is not with me
to share the trouble that follows Us.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
I would steal no sun. I have nothing to give him.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Do you truly want peace with Siah, a peace with honor.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
Yes, we are tired of fighting and running.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
This is a small thing, a missing child, when you
measure it against the bigness of the trouble that we're
all in, all the tribes, all the army units. But
it's a thing that could stir everything up again. Word
from the major could go to Washington.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
His words from his mind.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
They'd be believed, because no other words could go to
say they were wrong. I'd like to stop it with Siah.
Would you help me?
Speaker 4 (18:00):
How would a cheyenne help a soldier?
Speaker 2 (18:03):
If you and I could find the boy and take
him back, everyone would know that you were a man
of honor and truth, and that you lead a peaceful band.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
And the high soldier's work would be live.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
You'd be right, and he'd be wrong or that I
would help. But how have any other new bands moved
into this section that could have taken the boy?
Speaker 4 (18:29):
One shall show near and one from my tribe?
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Would you find out if they have him? H Will
you do it?
Speaker 4 (18:38):
I will.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
While you do that, I'll try and get a line
on him. Will you meet me in the wash near
Coon's place at sunrise tomorrow?
Speaker 8 (18:45):
Will you know what you asked me to? Do you
help the man who killed my son and my wife?
Speaker 2 (18:53):
I know Wisiah?
Speaker 8 (18:58):
We meet at sun ride? Soldier, Oh, I am here, soldier?
Speaker 2 (19:32):
You hide? Well? What did you learn?
Speaker 4 (19:37):
The boy is not with the Shoshones and not with
the Cheyron.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Then we have another way to go. He has an
uncle in the Rock River settlement. He's talked to some
of his young friends about going to live with him.
He told them the trail he'd take if I put
you on it. Would you pick up his sign and
follow it?
Speaker 4 (19:59):
A I have followed older shine, we'll go then? Wait?
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He fell here, all right?
Speaker 2 (20:42):
But there a piece of cloth? I'd say he has
twin clothing and so on?
Speaker 8 (20:52):
Nee he rested here? Flip I think see the glass
is pressed off.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
He's traveled a long way for an eight year old.
Speaker 8 (21:06):
I think not much farther than this. He started very
slow from here.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
There a soldier, Billy, Billy, we're going to take you home.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
No, I won't go back.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
It's all right, Billy. Who's he? His name is Wassiah.
He's a friend of mine.
Speaker 8 (21:56):
You are a good strong boy to come this far.
I had a son, I would hope he would be
so strong.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
You've got a nasty bruise on your face. Billy, you
must have taken a bad fall.
Speaker 4 (22:09):
He hit me?
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Who did my pauw? Who's stick hit me?
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Til I ran away?
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Yeah? Let's see end of your shirt?
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (22:22):
He sure did hit you, didn't he? I uncle back,
my paul hit me again? Come on, come on, stand up, Billy. Look,
I don't blame you for running away. I guess i'd
have done the same thing. I won't go back. If
you want to live with your uncle, I think we
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can work it out.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
Rock River.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Yeah, and instead of trying to get there all by yourself,
how would you like it if you could ride with
the cavalry by myself a horse, yes, horse, all your own. Now,
now you're ready to start back. I won't stay with
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my paw. You won't have to.
Speaker 8 (23:11):
Come here, boy, you ride with me on my pony.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
No, I don't want to. I assure you do. Billy,
think what you can tell your friends. I'll bet none
of them are ridden with a real Cheyenne warrior. Come on, now,
show him how brave you are.
Speaker 8 (23:27):
Come here, boy, Am I long enough to lift you up?
You don't know the feel of a white man on
his back?
Speaker 4 (23:42):
You all right?
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Billy?
Speaker 4 (23:44):
Does this by run ooh.
Speaker 8 (23:48):
Faster than Prairie fire, weak sholdier.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
They're forming the two troops for the big search.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
I go no further.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
I know how you feel, because I felt the same
way riding into your camp. But the Major from Washington
won't believe you had a part of this unless you're
ride in with me. You have my word that everything
will be all right.
Speaker 4 (24:31):
I go on your word.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Right up to the Major with syon cap'n Quinn's reporting, sirm, Well.
Speaker 6 (25:12):
The savage did steal the boy in spite of his surrender,
he's to be punished.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
This there is no surrender.
Speaker 6 (25:18):
Give me the details, Captain.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
I'd rather you ask the boys, sir, all right, son,
what did he do to you?
Speaker 4 (25:30):
He didn't steal me, He funned me.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
I ran away because my paw hit me with a stick.
Speaker 4 (25:35):
He does it lots of times, and I won't go back.
I just won't.
Speaker 6 (25:42):
Order the troops dismissed.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
Yes, sir, rep Mouth. Come on, Billy, we'll find you
something to eat. Was I. I'd stay out of the
seventh Cavalry territory for a while. The high Soldier is
going to be moving that way, very.
Speaker 8 (26:04):
Very far placed where there are many antelopes. I think
my people are hungry for Andreelope.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
My thanks go with you.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
Mine. Stay with you. You grow a strong boy.
Speaker 8 (26:20):
One day you can beat your stepfather. I leave my
vengeance with you.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
I come on, Billy. Yeah, here, guys, lions. I sure
don't want to admit there's such a thing as a
good engine DESI. He's a better soldier than we asked
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Sergeant why he operates strictly from the book. Maybe in
the next situation the book will be right.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
Fort Laramie is produced and directed by Norman McDonnell and
stars Raymond Burr as lee Quin's captain of Cavalry, with
Vic Perrin as Sergeant Gorse. The script was specially written
for Fort Laramie by Gildaud with Son patterns by Bill
James and Ray Kemper, musical supervision by Amarigo Marino. Featured
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in the cast were Lawrence Dobkin, Clayton Post, Ralph Moody,
Jack Moyle's and Richard Beale's.
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Speaker 2 (00:35):
Fort Laramie.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Fort Laramie, starring Raymond Byrd as Captain lee Quin's specially
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 (01:24):
Patrol.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
What sugean God? Yes, sir, dismiss the patrol. I've got
to report the major daggon, Yes, and see that their
horses are babied right this time? Yes, sir, with math, yes,
math cad'n quinn's reporting, Sir. Oh, I'm sorry, sir, I
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thought you'd be alone.
Speaker 5 (01:52):
That's all right, cap'n oh, this is Major Barlow. Major,
my pleasure, Captain, Well, how did you patrol routines here?
Speaker 2 (02:01):
No sign of trouble?
Speaker 4 (02:02):
Good?
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Oh, sit down, quinc Thank you, sir.
Speaker 5 (02:07):
Major Barlow is here on orders from General's staff in Washington.
He's surveying all the posts in our department.
Speaker 6 (02:15):
I have only a few days here.
Speaker 7 (02:17):
Then I'm going on to.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Fort Dodge, General Custer's command.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
Yes, I'm looking forward to that.
Speaker 6 (02:23):
Read hundreds of reports, and certainly that seventh cavalry is
doing the best job of the hostiles that can be done.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
You haven't surveyed them yet, well, not personally.
Speaker 6 (02:32):
No, the record reads victory after victory. I wish we
could say the same about the second.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
The circumstances are a little different, Major, they're waging open
warfare from Fort Dodge.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
Here.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
We try to keep hostilities in a minimum, maintain peace. Captain,
how much firefight have we seen in the last month?
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Three or four skirmishes? Is all, Sir, mostly with dog
soldiers driven from the Fort Dodge section.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
Dog soldiers are.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
There are two kinds of shop. That's the tribe we've
been most interested in around here lately. Dog soldiers are
the warriors. They wear three feathers. The ones that don't
wear their feathers are the reservation, peaceful kind. We don't
bother either unless they make us well.
Speaker 6 (03:15):
Major's the belief of many members of the staff, including myself,
that a soft policy such as yours boundary to an uprising.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
I hope you're wrong, Sir.
Speaker 6 (03:24):
A hostile seat is a sign of weakness. The only
way to enforce peace with these savages is to maintain
constant pressure. Continual display of strength will we.
Speaker 5 (03:33):
Get a directive to that effect, Major, or is that
a private opinion?
Speaker 6 (03:39):
It's my opinion at the moment. I can assure you
all do everything I can to see a directive based
on it. Now, Captain, if you'll show me to your
troop area.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
Yes, Major Parloor will be attached to your troop during
its stay. You'll place yourself at his disposal to everything
possible to assist him in making his survey.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
It's an honor.
Speaker 6 (04:11):
First thing I want to do with Captain is make
a complete tour of the reservation camps. I want a
firsthand look at the natives, their condition, their attitudes instead
of their weapons.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
So on.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Camps are pretty well scattered, Major, It'll take some time
to cover all of them.
Speaker 6 (04:26):
These reservation people should be centralized.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
So they can be watched. They've lived in small village
bands for hundreds of generations. They kind of need stretching.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
Their prisoners of war, Captain.
Speaker 6 (04:38):
Prisoners of war live under imposed conditions, not their own.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Yes, Sir Captain quins, yes, Egeant at he is?
Speaker 4 (04:51):
What is it?
Speaker 2 (04:52):
He's a man waiting for you in the orderly room,
Sir ben coons What does he want? He says, his
step son was stole by the Cheyenne.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
What's that.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
We'll go in and find out. Thank you, Hodgen, I've
just heard about your son cons How that happened, I
don't I know.
Speaker 7 (05:19):
My place is only five miles outside of town, and
he was gone when I got home last night.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Look at this Chyanne scalping knight was stuck.
Speaker 7 (05:30):
In my door. I've had a Cheyenne large oath hanging
over my head for a year. That filthy devil finally
found a way to get to me.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
I mean someone in particular.
Speaker 7 (05:42):
One of the worst of the breed was Sire.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
I've heard of him quite a warrior.
Speaker 7 (05:49):
You say he's had a personal hatred for you, mister Cooles,
ever since last summer. I was scouting for the seventh
run across his camp on that big north swing of
the Sun, you know, Captain, just before it flows into
Grand Valley.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Yeah, I know, And I led the troopers into it.
Speaker 7 (06:06):
And during the fracas, Wassaiah's brother was killed. That's when
he took the oath to put me under do worse.
Now he's done it taken, Billy.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
I'm sorry about your son, Cones, But the way I
heard the story of that attack. Wassaiah's wife and eight
year old son were killed two by one of our scouts.
Speaker 7 (06:30):
I didn't have nothing to do with it. I I
did what I was paid to captain.
Speaker 6 (06:33):
The man's child's been kidnapped. I see no reason to
discuss anything else.
Speaker 7 (06:37):
The army's supports to protect the civilians.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
What makes you so sure it was Wassaiah?
Speaker 4 (06:43):
Real?
Speaker 7 (06:43):
He brought his band into the Laramie foothills two days ago,
put that in the knife, and he's oathed together and
no place else to look.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Where'd you hear he was in this part of the
country your.
Speaker 6 (06:55):
Breed scout Quanto got wind of I should think you
would have learned about it in your patrol.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Captain, No, we were working in the other direction.
Speaker 7 (07:02):
Major Oh, I heard this morning right away. I got
the feeling about what happened, and I started looking for
sign around my place. I found it right enough, wash
about a half mile away, tracks and nine ponies headed
south toward the hills. I want that Chyenne dog brought
in and hung up where I can see it.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Tajan gorse Yo, go look up Kwondo. He says, it's
a band of Cheyenne and the Laramie foothills. I want
to talk to their head man, find out where they are,
pick out ten good men for the patrol, including you.
Speaker 6 (07:39):
Yes, Sir, you'll make provision for me to go with you.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
Captain.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
There won't be much in the way of provision, Major,
but you're welcome, Sir. Coones, you go tell your story
to Major Daggett. As soon as I get word from him,
we'll move out. A Captain, Oh, Coons, how old is
your steps in?
Speaker 7 (08:02):
Nine years next month?
Speaker 4 (08:03):
If he's still.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Alive, same age with siah Son would have been well
if they're together, I don't think you have to worry
about Billy being anything but alive and well.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
You've got a.
Speaker 7 (08:16):
Lot to learn about Shyenne.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Captain, maybe you could teach me. You want to come along.
I'm gonna talk to the Major. He goes a man
with a bad conscience.
Speaker 6 (08:34):
What about your own?
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Captain?
Speaker 5 (08:36):
You seem to feel more sympathy for the savage than
you do for this poor man who's lost a child.
I hardly think your attitude right for a man in
your position.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
I suppose it won't look good in your survey report, sir,
But there's a popular idea out here. I've never been
able to swallow and keep down that whatever a white
man does to an Indian is all right, but whatever
an Indian does is all wrong.
Speaker 6 (08:59):
You and I are soldiers, Captain. We do not set policy.
We follow it, Yes, sir.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Fast Water Quarter. Talk about just around this bend, Captain
and I got some beautiful trout in that stretch that's
where their camp's supposed to be.
Speaker 6 (09:28):
Didn't you better order car beings at the ready the
show of preparedness, Captain.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
A little late for that, Major. They've had their eye
on us for at least an hour.
Speaker 6 (09:38):
Why do you bring a small force into a situation
like this. Surely you don't trust them not to catch
us in ambush.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
I don't trust them, Major, I know them. The best
place for ambush was about two miles back. We've gone
beyond the point of car beings at the ready. Hey
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you are, and drew up ahead waiting for us. Those
are dog soldiers, some of the best mounted fighters in
the world. We are well out numbered, Captain, We always are.
Now they'll come in to meet us at full run
and screaming like bansheese. That's their way. They didn't want
you to know whether they mean to be friendly or
to open your throat. If we had our carbines ready,
(10:32):
their run wouldn't be exactly friendly.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Patrol, Oh, keep your hands away from your weapons.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Man, unless I tell you different. Stay relaxed the way
you do on the parade ground. When I want you
to be alert.
Speaker 6 (10:53):
I should have ordered out your full truth.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Captain, here they come, I see him gorse act like
this happens every day. Man, Just rest easy in your
saddles and talk to each other.
Speaker 6 (11:15):
Captain, order car beans at already that an order, Major,
it's common sense. Show them we'll fight.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Don't draw your pistol. Major, you'll spook them for sure.
Waving that thing around, they'd have opened up by now
if they were going to.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Bye.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Who is chief among you? Which of you is Withsiah?
Speaker 4 (11:52):
I must say, why do the soldiers come to us?
We have done no wrong.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
I brought you your scalping knife was high here?
Speaker 8 (12:03):
Where is the one called coons? The woman killer? The
child killer? Did he die of fear when he found
my shine? By that insolent beggar.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
He says that you came for vengeance and that you
stole his son.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
I have stolen no son.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
You were at his house and now the boy is missing.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
I have stolen no boy. Oh he's lying, Captain. What
does the high soldier say? I say you are lying? Major,
I speak true.
Speaker 6 (12:33):
We'll search your camp and find out how much truth.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
No, we want no soldiers in our camp.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
E there anyway you can stop? And you've ever been
able to stop me?
Speaker 5 (12:43):
Will I sure try our camp?
Speaker 4 (12:46):
There is trouble. We want no trouble. We are at peace.
You don't want us in your camp because you're lying.
Speaker 6 (12:54):
The search is going to be made, and if you'll
resist us, I'll see the whole second Cavalry out to
do the job well.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Patrol carving that already.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
Boots are karving. What that cat sari? Major? They're going
back to their camp.
Speaker 6 (13:09):
Oh those seem slut Well, at least I've seen a
prime example of what a soft policy brings about. The
hostiles move up here from the seventh Cavalry area. Undoubtedly
they rest, repair equipment and go back to take up
the attack again.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Some of them do, some of them don't. There are
good ones and bad ones with these people, same as
there are with whites.
Speaker 6 (13:30):
Well, until such time as a magician is attached to
the second who can distinguish between the two. Captain, pressure
should be exerted against all of them. We'll return to
the fort. I'm going to recommend that at least two
troops are assigned to this matter until let boys recover.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
With your permission, Sir, I'll stay here. Sergeant Gorse will
take command of the patrol and escort you.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
Why on earth stay here?
Speaker 6 (13:54):
I need your statement of the fort.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
You have plenty of other witnesses, Sir, before you come
back with two troops of cavalry. I'd sort of liked
to see what one man can do in that camp.
Speaker 6 (14:07):
You're thinking as an individual again, Captain, a hard habit
to break, Sir.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
If it doesn't work, it'll make a strong point in
your survey report. Very well.
Speaker 6 (14:22):
I trust you don't expect commendation on your stubbornness. I
do plan to make reference to your unmilitary behavior.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Be better if we could send old brash shoulders in alone.
Watch your manners, saget. Don't you want me to stay
with you? Thank you, Gorus, but I don't need you.
This may look crazy, but I don't think I'll run
any trouble. He's had young ands in there you will, sir. Yeah,
I don't figure he is. I've been thinking if I
(14:59):
was with high and kidnapped the boy, I sure wouldn't
have left a knife to point the finger at me,
and I would have high tailed it out of these
parts a long time before this.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
Sure, hope you're right?
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Not far enough? What your man is go us?
Speaker 9 (15:14):
Yes, sir, good luck, easy, easy.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
Op soldier, you do not call it our term?
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Then come out here, whatsaiah? So we can talk without
being bothered by others.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
We talk about the sun I did not steal.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
I believe you. I believe that you didn't steal him.
Speaker 8 (16:06):
Your high soldier is blind. His words cut like flint.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
He's new to this country. He has much to learn.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
He went back. Does he bring more soldiers to attack us?
Speaker 2 (16:21):
That's what's in his mind. Now It'll take a day,
so you have time to move your camp.
Speaker 8 (16:26):
Strange words from a soldier. Why do you stand with me?
When the high soldier says, I.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Lie, I've heard much of you, wissiah. If you were
going to steal the sun, you do it better than this.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
I say this.
Speaker 8 (16:42):
The days are gone when the son brought only gladness
to his father Now the father looks to the day
when his son reaches manhood, and she's nothing but sadness
and hunger and fighting a war that will not be won. Night,
when sleep runs away from me, I think of my son,
(17:06):
and I am happy that he is not with me
to share the trouble that follows Us.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
I would steal no sun. I have nothing to give him.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Do you truly want peace with Siah, a peace with honor.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
Yes, we are tired of fighting and running.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
This is a small thing, a missing child, when you
measure it against the bigness of the trouble that we're
all in, all the tribes, all the army units. But
it's a thing that could stir everything up again. Word
from the major could go to Washington.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
His words from his mind.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
They'd be believed, because no other words could go to
say they were wrong. I'd like to stop it with Siah.
Would you help me?
Speaker 4 (18:00):
How would a cheyenne help a soldier?
Speaker 2 (18:03):
If you and I could find the boy and take
him back, everyone would know that you were a man
of honor and truth, and that you lead a peaceful band.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
And the high soldier's work would be live.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
You'd be right, and he'd be wrong or that I
would help. But how have any other new bands moved
into this section that could have taken the boy?
Speaker 4 (18:29):
One shall show near and one from my tribe?
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Would you find out if they have him? H Will
you do it?
Speaker 4 (18:38):
I will.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
While you do that, I'll try and get a line
on him. Will you meet me in the wash near
Coon's place at sunrise tomorrow?
Speaker 8 (18:45):
Will you know what you asked me to? Do you
help the man who killed my son and my wife?
Speaker 2 (18:53):
I know Wisiah?
Speaker 8 (18:58):
We meet at sun ride? Soldier, Oh, I am here, soldier?
Speaker 2 (19:32):
You hide? Well? What did you learn?
Speaker 4 (19:37):
The boy is not with the Shoshones and not with
the Cheyron.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Then we have another way to go. He has an
uncle in the Rock River settlement. He's talked to some
of his young friends about going to live with him.
He told them the trail he'd take if I put
you on it. Would you pick up his sign and
follow it?
Speaker 4 (19:59):
A I have followed older shine, we'll go then? Wait?
(20:39):
He fell here, all right?
Speaker 2 (20:42):
But there a piece of cloth? I'd say he has
twin clothing and so on?
Speaker 8 (20:52):
Nee he rested here? Flip I think see the glass
is pressed off.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
He's traveled a long way for an eight year old.
Speaker 8 (21:06):
I think not much farther than this. He started very
slow from here.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
There a soldier, Billy, Billy, we're going to take you home.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
No, I won't go back.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
It's all right, Billy. Who's he? His name is Wassiah.
He's a friend of mine.
Speaker 8 (21:56):
You are a good strong boy to come this far.
I had a son, I would hope he would be
so strong.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
You've got a nasty bruise on your face. Billy, you
must have taken a bad fall.
Speaker 4 (22:09):
He hit me?
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Who did my pauw? Who's stick hit me?
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Til I ran away?
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Yeah? Let's see end of your shirt?
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (22:22):
He sure did hit you, didn't he? I uncle back,
my paul hit me again? Come on, come on, stand up, Billy. Look,
I don't blame you for running away. I guess i'd
have done the same thing. I won't go back. If
you want to live with your uncle, I think we
(22:44):
can work it out.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
Rock River.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Yeah, and instead of trying to get there all by yourself,
how would you like it if you could ride with
the cavalry by myself a horse, yes, horse, all your own. Now,
now you're ready to start back. I won't stay with
(23:09):
my paw. You won't have to.
Speaker 8 (23:11):
Come here, boy, you ride with me on my pony.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
No, I don't want to. I assure you do. Billy,
think what you can tell your friends. I'll bet none
of them are ridden with a real Cheyenne warrior. Come on, now,
show him how brave you are.
Speaker 8 (23:27):
Come here, boy, Am I long enough to lift you up?
You don't know the feel of a white man on
his back?
Speaker 4 (23:42):
You all right?
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Billy?
Speaker 4 (23:44):
Does this by run ooh.
Speaker 8 (23:48):
Faster than Prairie fire, weak sholdier.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
They're forming the two troops for the big search.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
I go no further.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
I know how you feel, because I felt the same
way riding into your camp. But the Major from Washington
won't believe you had a part of this unless you're
ride in with me. You have my word that everything
will be all right.
Speaker 4 (24:31):
I go on your word.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Right up to the Major with syon cap'n Quinn's reporting, sirm, Well.
Speaker 6 (25:12):
The savage did steal the boy in spite of his surrender,
he's to be punished.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
This there is no surrender.
Speaker 6 (25:18):
Give me the details, Captain.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
I'd rather you ask the boys, sir, all right, son,
what did he do to you?
Speaker 4 (25:30):
He didn't steal me, He funned me.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
I ran away because my paw hit me with a stick.
Speaker 4 (25:35):
He does it lots of times, and I won't go back.
I just won't.
Speaker 6 (25:42):
Order the troops dismissed.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
Yes, sir, rep Mouth. Come on, Billy, we'll find you
something to eat. Was I. I'd stay out of the
seventh Cavalry territory for a while. The high Soldier is
going to be moving that way, very.
Speaker 8 (26:04):
Very far placed where there are many antelopes. I think
my people are hungry for Andreelope.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
My thanks go with you.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
Mine. Stay with you. You grow a strong boy.
Speaker 8 (26:20):
One day you can beat your stepfather. I leave my
vengeance with you.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
I come on, Billy. Yeah, here, guys, lions. I sure
don't want to admit there's such a thing as a
good engine DESI. He's a better soldier than we asked
(26:49):
Sergeant why he operates strictly from the book. Maybe in
the next situation the book will be right.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
Fort Laramie is produced and directed by Norman McDonnell and
stars Raymond Burr as lee Quin's captain of Cavalry, with
Vic Perrin as Sergeant Gorse. The script was specially written
for Fort Laramie by Gildaud with Son patterns by Bill
James and Ray Kemper, musical supervision by Amarigo Marino. Featured
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in the cast were Lawrence Dobkin, Clayton Post, Ralph Moody,
Jack Moyle's and Richard Beale's.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
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Speaker 4 (28:01):
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Speaker 3 (28:16):
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