June 13, 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.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Fort loam Mee.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
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 (01:24):
How long would you say you've known him, Patrick, I
had that proud on I guess eight ten years now.
Speaker 5 (01:31):
Of course, I ain't had the privilege of serving with
him since the war.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
I still don't see why you just don't go right
up to.
Speaker 6 (01:38):
Him and make stuff known.
Speaker 5 (01:40):
I wouldn't intrude on the Captain that way, Drury. He's
a busy man, tracking engines, planning battles. Besides, just because
I recollect him so well, don't mean he'd remember me.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
But he's a kindly man.
Speaker 5 (01:53):
Ah, the time will come, the just right time, I'll
acknowledge myself to Captain lee Quince.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
I bet you he'll be proud knowing you asked special
to serve under him.
Speaker 5 (02:05):
Again, maybe surprised even of course, I've only been with
the company a week now, but it seems to me
the man holding him right high in the thought.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
I ain't been here along myself, But it's not a
man I know wouldn't lay down his life for Captain
Quinch if need be.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
Well, Now that's nice, I declare, that's real nice. Captain
ever talked much about the war, any of his experiences.
Speaker 7 (02:33):
Like I say, I ain't been here along myself, But
the men say he's not much for talk about anything.
Speaker 5 (02:40):
Never was even when he was younger, when most men
talk free. He was more for action than words.
Speaker 6 (02:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (02:48):
Funny, ain't it how you can sense such so much
good feeling in a man without him talking much.
Speaker 5 (02:57):
That's a funny thing, all right.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
I like to draw duty with the captain, I sure do.
Speaker 7 (03:03):
I always have a feeling that, no matter what he's
been thinking ahead planning for us, I feel safe riding
with the captain.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
Of course, it's hard to tell what a man's thinking
if you don't make his thoughts known.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
Don't matter to me much what he's thinking, so long
as he's acting good.
Speaker 5 (03:23):
That's a big thing. Our man acts this sure is
different country out here, different kind of fighting country too.
And how you mean we fought closer in the war,
like like they'd be a stream here you see, yeah,
(03:46):
say it was a kind of clearing, you know. And
on one side, the ribs would be cowering in the trees,
we'd be standing firm on the other side. As sooner
or later as somebody's got to make him move for
that water, the horses, and for theirselves. I tell you,
you get thirsty, you get so you care more about
(04:09):
water than living. Anybody's living.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Mostly we're lucky out here.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Seems like there's more tricks.
Speaker 5 (04:17):
Man, he's got a right to a drink when he's dry,
more than dry. Your insides get the feeling like sand
I know it's gonna crumble.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Patchant.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
What's the matter with you?
Speaker 8 (04:33):
Patch it?
Speaker 5 (04:35):
Huh? You say something?
Speaker 4 (04:37):
Gray, Ask if something was wrong?
Speaker 5 (04:41):
Wrong boy, No, no, nothing's wrong. I just get a
thirst sometime.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
You talk to yourself. Dry it ain't hot.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
We got plenty of war.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
There's a stream not fifty yards from you.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
I know that.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
I know.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
You were saying about the fight and being different in
the war.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
Yeah, yeah, like I said, we fought closer man a
man sometimes a man of dismount fixed his saber to
his cabbying, and such a bloody slashing away you never saw.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
I ain't seen nothing like that in the west.
Speaker 5 (05:18):
Odd here it seems like you do more chasing than
anything else. We've been tracking engines how long? Two days now?
I ain't drawing my sights on one.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
If you drew it.
Speaker 7 (05:29):
That ain't saying ain't here somewhere, Captain Gwince must think
they're around.
Speaker 5 (05:34):
Well you know I'm not saying that why they ain't
a man of monkey come less near to criticizing the
captain's judgment? Are you forgetting? Boy? I know better than
any of you what a great man he is.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Looks like the campsite ahead, mister Sibits must have made
camp here last night.
Speaker 9 (06:09):
Yes, sir, we've been just about a day behind them
all the way, haven't we, Captain?
Speaker 1 (06:14):
And it looks like we're gonna stay that way. I'll
say one thing for him. They pick good campsites.
Speaker 8 (06:23):
Captain.
Speaker 10 (06:23):
It's the end of the fourth day.
Speaker 9 (06:25):
Didn't Major Daget say if we could catch him in
four days, fine, If not, report back to Port Laramie.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Yuh, those are the orders, mister Sybits.
Speaker 9 (06:35):
Seems like a waste somehow, all this riding only to
turn back one thing.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
You don't lose many men. This way.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
That's true, Captain, they won't be the first suho slipped
off the reservation got away with it.
Speaker 8 (06:51):
Sergeant, So.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
We'll make camp ahead.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Correct, Yes, sir, I guess we lost him, sir, So
you never had him to lose, Sergeant, No, sir.
Speaker 10 (07:31):
I declare, Captain, I'm real sorry about that.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
I don't know how I'm done. You better get on
with your job.
Speaker 5 (07:40):
Trooper passions the name. That's if you don't remember.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
I remember.
Speaker 5 (07:46):
I kept hoping i'd bump into your captain, Sir. Sure
enough I did.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
You've been with B company long, just a week.
Speaker 5 (07:53):
I didn't want to bother you, seeing you was heading
up this big engine chasing operation. I didn't see any
engines myself, but the man keep telling me there must
be somewhere around that. Captain Clint wouldn't be our chasement.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
We're moving back to Fort Laramie starting tomorrow. When we
get there, I'll see you get a transfer to another company.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Now.
Speaker 5 (08:12):
I'm sorry to hear you say that, Captain. I've been
looking forward to this reunion longer than I can tell.
Tell the truth, I thought you'd hold a higher rank
by now, seeing men like Custer and Mackenzie at Generals,
and you're the equal. I could swear to that.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
I've been telling you got a job to do, Tripper,
better get on with it.
Speaker 5 (08:30):
Is that an order, Captain, sir?
Speaker 2 (08:31):
That's an order, yes, sir, Oh, Captain, well.
Speaker 5 (08:44):
I thought maybe you'd want to know. It didn't just
happen by being in your company. I asked for this
duty specialist on account of us being such old friends,
I am.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
I guess you remember them all right, Captain?
Speaker 2 (09:10):
When was that Drury.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
Passion?
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Sir?
Speaker 4 (09:14):
He was worried for fear you might not remember who
he was.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
That's so I told him.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
Now I knew you'd recollect. You're just not the kind
of man to forget a friend.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
He's been talking to you a lot, Drury.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
And I'll put it this way, sir, I know you
a lot better since meeting up with Patching.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
I wonder I feel I do.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
The rest of the men they feel like I do.
Speaker 7 (09:41):
We wasn't surprised to hear it exactly, but we sure
didn't know you map campaigns for General Sheridan, General Cook too,
and only acts of bravery when you led there, Robert, Yes.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Sir, you gotta do it with a message and right,
that's right, sir, move out, yes, sir, Captain, sir.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
All right, what is it, goss?
Speaker 11 (10:34):
The camp's most bedded down, Captain. The pickets are out,
he's on picket duty. It's our last night out, sir.
Corporal Jenkins used the rest of the patrol.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Who are they guys?
Speaker 5 (10:46):
Well, Sir?
Speaker 11 (10:47):
He put Vickers and Coup up by the band over
the west, he got Steven's and Holt and over south
beal and patching. I told Corporal Jenkins, no picket duty
for patching, and I meant it, captain, no picket duty
for patching.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
That's an order, yes, sir.
Speaker 5 (11:19):
Captains mind if I say something.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Sir, I mind if anybody says something, Mister Sabots.
Speaker 9 (11:34):
I just want to ask you why I wouldn't.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Bother asking, mister Sabots.
Speaker 9 (11:39):
It's about the men, Captain. I have the right to
speak out about the men.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
You've got the right.
Speaker 9 (11:44):
They're tired, sir. They've ridden four days out, three days back.
We've been moving like someone was chasing us.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Only no one is any other observations misters.
Speaker 9 (11:56):
Yes, sir, everyone stood his turn at picket duty. Everyone
but patches.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
You're getting awful close to asking why again, mister.
Speaker 9 (12:04):
Cyber I'm sure you have a reason, Captain. I hope
it's a good one, because the men don't understand. I
think we've got a morale problem.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
We won't have it long.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
We'll be back at the fort tomorrow, Captain, if you'd
like goodnight, misters. Not all you have to say, Captain,
(12:36):
And it's clear I'm asking for Patchen's transfer, but you
won't say why if you're talking about those forms you
fill out major put down for the good of company morale.
I'm interested in company morale. I've watched I've listened to
Lieutenant Cyberts, I've talked to Sergeant Gorse. Now I'm gonna ask.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
You, Captain. It's personal. We haven't got room for.
Speaker 12 (12:59):
Personal quarrels Lee.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Oh, this is so little like you. I don't even
believe it. Nobody who knows you believes it. You don't
let these things happen. We're gonna talk about that transfer. No,
we're gonna talk about morale. I suppose I transfer this man,
What good would that do? You've got a company out there.
They're gonna be here whether Patchin's transferred or not. They
watched this man get to you as nearly as I
(13:23):
can tell. He's been killing you with kindness. That's what
he's trying to do. Why why he hates my guts
goes way back?
Speaker 2 (13:32):
No picket duty for Patching.
Speaker 13 (13:34):
Why I like my camp safe when I'm in hostile territory.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Major, It'll be.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
A lot of trouble to get his army record clear
back to the war.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
But I'll go to that trouble. Lee. If you don't tell.
Speaker 13 (13:51):
Me I saved his life once, he's never forgiven me.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
That's an odd thing to say.
Speaker 14 (14:09):
It's the truth. I saved a lousy, gutless life. He
knows it is, he lives with it. He served under you,
I served under him.
Speaker 15 (14:24):
Patching was an officer, Captain Joseph Patchen, New York Cavalry
before I knew you, Major, Remember the little wars.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Us on one side of his stream, them on the other,
and both of you needing the water in between.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Yeah, I remember five days and nights we sat there
looking across.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
At him, waiting, just waiting. We had a.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Little water we could have held out. The men were
doing fine. He ordered a charge, He didn't order anything.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
We just split wide open.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Crazy took off after that stream before anyone knew what
hit A man thought it was a charge him being
in command. We lost half a company. You hate his
guts too, don't you.
Speaker 13 (15:09):
I every good man's got fear in them.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
I don't mind honest fear. I hate a coward. Major.
You were commissioned on the field leave, was it there?
You can't forget that either. Surely he was relieved of
his command.
Speaker 6 (15:37):
Makes you dage?
Speaker 16 (15:37):
Sir.
Speaker 11 (15:38):
Sergeant Gorse, corporal of the Guard, reports two desert it sir,
it's patching and drury.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
The amends. Sergeant Fan out around the house. Check the barn, Yes, sir.
Speaker 6 (16:04):
Oh, bakers cover the barn.
Speaker 11 (16:06):
You be chopped the corral Stevens and Fredericks.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Afternoon to you, mister.
Speaker 12 (16:16):
They trample that young wheat the army alone me.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
We didn't come here to trample your crop. We're looking
for deserters.
Speaker 12 (16:23):
New kind of grain supposed to be special for the
high plains. I put a lot of money in that grain.
I wanted to come up.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Two men, one just turned twenty, the other older. My
age are better.
Speaker 12 (16:33):
I thought the army was fighting Indians. You've that up,
didn't they?
Speaker 2 (16:38):
You need men to fight Indians. Mister, don't look at me.
Speaker 12 (16:41):
I got enough trouble trying to prove up land like this,
and intend to ride off. I meant to stay with horses.
Thought I could raise him with enough grazing land. Well,
the Indians run the horses off. I'd get him grown
strong in the grass about that time. Here they'd come.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Indian you don't keep horses now, a couple, you're not extra.
I'm going to have to look in your house, mister.
Speaker 12 (17:08):
Well, I suppose yeah. I may just say he was
looking for two or quite a few soldiers along looking
(17:30):
for two men. There's some kind of penalty for hiding
soldiers who take a nose in the run, you.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Know, I mean, don't take kindly to it. Mister.
Speaker 12 (17:44):
Couldn't shoot a body, though, could you?
Speaker 2 (17:49):
You've seen him.
Speaker 12 (17:53):
You don't see many folks out this way. You and
your soldiers are more nice seen than months.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
How long since you've been in Laram village for a
long time.
Speaker 12 (18:02):
I stay pretty closer. I knew you wouldn't find him here.
I thought you'd want to see for yourself though.
Speaker 6 (18:16):
Captain, Wow, this is a shit but a barn.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
You prefer a cavalry saddle?
Speaker 12 (18:25):
Mister, you might have to find that out. He't used
to it yet.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Did it help if we knew which way they headed
when they left?
Speaker 12 (18:36):
To tell you the truth, It's hard for me to
think that was here though.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Let's go course.
Speaker 5 (18:42):
Captain his boots.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Sure he's wearing cavalry boots, owns a cavalry saddle, but
he hasn't seen anyone.
Speaker 12 (18:54):
You trample that, young wheat, I'll send the army of bill.
Speaker 11 (19:15):
You're going up to the house at all, Captain, talk
to him?
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Talking to him didn't do any good. Kind of a
sniveling one.
Speaker 11 (19:24):
Kept wanting to know why the captain himself didn't come
to him ask the questions.
Speaker 6 (19:29):
He took a real personal.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Like the captain hisself's about through talking. I ain't come
up against any more crawley settlers, gurse. I'm apt to
start breaking a few necks.
Speaker 11 (19:40):
I'm feeling a little mean myself. Three plates of warm
grubs sitting on his table, him all alone in the house.
Speaker 5 (19:47):
He never heard it too deserted.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
You'll find him.
Speaker 11 (19:51):
Men want too awful bad for you, captain. That'd be
some comfort.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
That'd be some comfort us. I sure feel bad about Drury.
He was gonna make a good trooper.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Yeah, I know, I thought sure patching would be out
here into the stream. He gets an awful thirst sometimes.
Let's check that barn again.
Speaker 11 (20:15):
Yes, sir, it was only about two hours a daylight left.
I hate to give him a night start in this country.
We're not going to Oh, captain, you are the captain.
(20:38):
Speak your mind, mister, We're busy. I like to talk
to you alone. I'll check the bond.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
See all right, talk.
Speaker 17 (20:53):
I've been sitting up in the house trying to remember.
I ain't sure, but it seems to me somewhere as
once that there was a reward for turning in deserters.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Now did I just dream? Is it a twenty dollars reward? Mister?
Only twenty dollars? Twenty dollars ain't very much, is it.
Speaker 17 (21:17):
I am don't suppose you're prepared to going to higher.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
I'm not prepared to go that high, mister. But the
army figures it's worth twenty dollars.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Twenty dollars a piece. That's it.
Speaker 17 (21:35):
Eight men looking for two men, and the total price
on their.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Heads is forty dollars.
Speaker 17 (21:42):
Ain't no bargain, Kevin.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
It sure isn't total pay for the eight men looking
is four dollars a day? Fifty cents apiece?
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Is that all? And the price isn't just for their heads?
Speaker 1 (21:56):
Mister, We'd have to insist on the rest of them too.
Speaker 6 (22:12):
He was in the loss. He called down to me.
Speaker 11 (22:15):
Then he come down himself, Patching up there too.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
Boy knows he run.
Speaker 6 (22:20):
I don't know how far.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
I don't know how long ago.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Capn I don't know nothing. You stay with him. I'm
gonna find patching.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
Yes, no, Cavin, don't you leave you? You hear me out,
will you please?
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Sergeant Cartile, here you are.
Speaker 7 (22:33):
Pat Patchin's got everything, Kevin, He's got hisself every kind
of gun you ever saw, here's mine.
Speaker 4 (22:39):
All we could buy is steal.
Speaker 10 (22:41):
He's gonna be waiting for.
Speaker 8 (22:42):
You, Kevin.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
I hope he is.
Speaker 4 (22:44):
You gotta know my shame. It don't seem nowh it
gonna happened to me. He worked on me so slow.
Speaker 7 (22:51):
I didn't even know what was happening, But I know
now I feel all the ugly shame of it.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
Talking's not much good now, Drurie.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
I had talking to save myself.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Captain. I know that ain't right. I know it can't be.
Speaker 7 (23:05):
I'm talking to understand and for you to know I'm
I'm crawling with the shame of it.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
The crawling's uglier than the shame.
Speaker 16 (23:14):
Boy, you come alone.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Queens, I'm alone, pageant.
Speaker 5 (23:54):
That'd be all way, wouldn't it be?
Speaker 6 (23:58):
Rave alone?
Speaker 1 (24:00):
You must be the bravest man there is.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Quins, Come on down, Patching.
Speaker 8 (24:06):
I ain't coming down.
Speaker 6 (24:09):
I waited too long for this.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
I'm staying right here, and you're staying right there.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
You got plenty of water, Understand.
Speaker 6 (24:18):
I ain't aiming for you, Quince. I'm just trying out
of my arsenal.
Speaker 16 (24:24):
That was my pistol.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
You're never gonna last without water, patching, I got.
Speaker 6 (24:29):
Two canteens, mine and drawries.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
You could hit me if you tried. Good. You got
a reason for not killing me.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Patching that last was my rife.
Speaker 5 (24:45):
I got me a buffalo gun off the settle, blow
you clean away.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
You wouldn't even leave no spark. Quince, Come on down.
Speaker 6 (24:54):
We're gonna do this slowly, cappen, just you and me.
Speaker 5 (25:00):
Maybe my shots will get a little closer to you
from time to time.
Speaker 6 (25:12):
We'll keep it slow. I want you to die a
long time Quince.
Speaker 4 (25:19):
Five days and five nights of dying.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Remember, Quince, I remember you want me to die, all right,
long time of dying. But you want the man to
kill me, Patchyn.
Speaker 6 (25:40):
You ain't coming after me. You ain't tess paid Quince.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Don't take a brave man to come after your patron.
Just takes a man.
Speaker 10 (25:55):
I hated you a long time.
Speaker 6 (25:56):
If I happen to do I could hate you, Dad.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
You hate yourself, Patching. Wouldn't feel good killing me and
still have yourself.
Speaker 10 (26:11):
You're gonna kill me?
Speaker 6 (26:14):
That what you're coming to do?
Speaker 8 (26:17):
Kill me?
Speaker 6 (26:23):
Please?
Speaker 5 (26:25):
Please don't kill me.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
I'm not gonna kill you, pet wouldn't feel good killing
a coward. Get up.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
Fort Laramie is produced and directed by Norman MacDonnell and
stars Raymond Burr as Lee Quint's captain of cavalry, with
Vic Perrin as Sergeant Gorse. The script was specially written
for Fort Laramie by Kathleen Hit, with sound patterns by
Bill James and Ray Kemper musical supervision by Amarigo Marino.
Featured in the cast were Sam Edwards, Paul Dubof, James Nusser,
(27:26):
and Herb Vigrn. Jack Moyles is Major Diggett and Harry
Bartel is Lieutenant.
Speaker 8 (27:31):
Siberts Company Tensent dismiss.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
Next week another transcribed story of the Northwest Frontier and
the troopers who fought under Lee Quince, Captain of Cavalry.
(28:33):
Each year new automobiles can equipped with new and better
devices for safety and comfort. But there's one device for
comfort and safety that you'll have to manufacture for yourself,
no matter how advanced our technology becomes. And that device
is a smile, a sense of humor, and a friendly
attitude to another. Drivers on the highway is sure to
earn courtesy and consideration in return, and courtesy and consideration
(28:56):
are big safety factors on the highway. Check the gas,
the oil, and make sure you rot along your smile
At the Gatherer.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Fort loam Mee.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
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 (01:24):
How long would you say you've known him, Patrick, I
had that proud on I guess eight ten years now.
Speaker 5 (01:31):
Of course, I ain't had the privilege of serving with
him since the war.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
I still don't see why you just don't go right
up to.
Speaker 6 (01:38):
Him and make stuff known.
Speaker 5 (01:40):
I wouldn't intrude on the Captain that way, Drury. He's
a busy man, tracking engines, planning battles. Besides, just because
I recollect him so well, don't mean he'd remember me.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
But he's a kindly man.
Speaker 5 (01:53):
Ah, the time will come, the just right time, I'll
acknowledge myself to Captain lee Quince.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
I bet you he'll be proud knowing you asked special
to serve under him.
Speaker 5 (02:05):
Again, maybe surprised even of course, I've only been with
the company a week now, but it seems to me
the man holding him right high in the thought.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
I ain't been here along myself, But it's not a
man I know wouldn't lay down his life for Captain
Quinch if need be.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
Well, Now that's nice, I declare, that's real nice. Captain
ever talked much about the war, any of his experiences.
Speaker 7 (02:33):
Like I say, I ain't been here along myself, But
the men say he's not much for talk about anything.
Speaker 5 (02:40):
Never was even when he was younger, when most men
talk free. He was more for action than words.
Speaker 6 (02:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (02:48):
Funny, ain't it how you can sense such so much
good feeling in a man without him talking much.
Speaker 5 (02:57):
That's a funny thing, all right.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
I like to draw duty with the captain, I sure do.
Speaker 7 (03:03):
I always have a feeling that, no matter what he's
been thinking ahead planning for us, I feel safe riding
with the captain.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
Of course, it's hard to tell what a man's thinking
if you don't make his thoughts known.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
Don't matter to me much what he's thinking, so long
as he's acting good.
Speaker 5 (03:23):
That's a big thing. Our man acts this sure is
different country out here, different kind of fighting country too.
And how you mean we fought closer in the war,
like like they'd be a stream here you see, yeah,
(03:46):
say it was a kind of clearing, you know. And
on one side, the ribs would be cowering in the trees,
we'd be standing firm on the other side. As sooner
or later as somebody's got to make him move for
that water, the horses, and for theirselves. I tell you,
you get thirsty, you get so you care more about
(04:09):
water than living. Anybody's living.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Mostly we're lucky out here.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Seems like there's more tricks.
Speaker 5 (04:17):
Man, he's got a right to a drink when he's dry,
more than dry. Your insides get the feeling like sand
I know it's gonna crumble.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Patchant.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
What's the matter with you?
Speaker 8 (04:33):
Patch it?
Speaker 5 (04:35):
Huh? You say something?
Speaker 4 (04:37):
Gray, Ask if something was wrong?
Speaker 5 (04:41):
Wrong boy, No, no, nothing's wrong. I just get a
thirst sometime.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
You talk to yourself. Dry it ain't hot.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
We got plenty of war.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
There's a stream not fifty yards from you.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
I know that.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
I know.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
You were saying about the fight and being different in
the war.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
Yeah, yeah, like I said, we fought closer man a
man sometimes a man of dismount fixed his saber to
his cabbying, and such a bloody slashing away you never saw.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
I ain't seen nothing like that in the west.
Speaker 5 (05:18):
Odd here it seems like you do more chasing than
anything else. We've been tracking engines how long? Two days now?
I ain't drawing my sights on one.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
If you drew it.
Speaker 7 (05:29):
That ain't saying ain't here somewhere, Captain Gwince must think
they're around.
Speaker 5 (05:34):
Well you know I'm not saying that why they ain't
a man of monkey come less near to criticizing the
captain's judgment? Are you forgetting? Boy? I know better than
any of you what a great man he is.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Looks like the campsite ahead, mister Sibits must have made
camp here last night.
Speaker 9 (06:09):
Yes, sir, we've been just about a day behind them
all the way, haven't we, Captain?
Speaker 1 (06:14):
And it looks like we're gonna stay that way. I'll
say one thing for him. They pick good campsites.
Speaker 8 (06:23):
Captain.
Speaker 10 (06:23):
It's the end of the fourth day.
Speaker 9 (06:25):
Didn't Major Daget say if we could catch him in
four days, fine, If not, report back to Port Laramie.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Yuh, those are the orders, mister Sybits.
Speaker 9 (06:35):
Seems like a waste somehow, all this riding only to
turn back one thing.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
You don't lose many men. This way.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
That's true, Captain, they won't be the first suho slipped
off the reservation got away with it.
Speaker 8 (06:51):
Sergeant, So.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
We'll make camp ahead.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Correct, Yes, sir, I guess we lost him, sir, So
you never had him to lose, Sergeant, No, sir.
Speaker 10 (07:31):
I declare, Captain, I'm real sorry about that.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
I don't know how I'm done. You better get on
with your job.
Speaker 5 (07:40):
Trooper passions the name. That's if you don't remember.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
I remember.
Speaker 5 (07:46):
I kept hoping i'd bump into your captain, Sir. Sure
enough I did.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
You've been with B company long, just a week.
Speaker 5 (07:53):
I didn't want to bother you, seeing you was heading
up this big engine chasing operation. I didn't see any
engines myself, but the man keep telling me there must
be somewhere around that. Captain Clint wouldn't be our chasement.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
We're moving back to Fort Laramie starting tomorrow. When we
get there, I'll see you get a transfer to another company.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Now.
Speaker 5 (08:12):
I'm sorry to hear you say that, Captain. I've been
looking forward to this reunion longer than I can tell.
Tell the truth, I thought you'd hold a higher rank
by now, seeing men like Custer and Mackenzie at Generals,
and you're the equal. I could swear to that.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
I've been telling you got a job to do, Tripper,
better get on with it.
Speaker 5 (08:30):
Is that an order, Captain, sir?
Speaker 2 (08:31):
That's an order, yes, sir, Oh, Captain, well.
Speaker 5 (08:44):
I thought maybe you'd want to know. It didn't just
happen by being in your company. I asked for this
duty specialist on account of us being such old friends,
I am.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
I guess you remember them all right, Captain?
Speaker 2 (09:10):
When was that Drury.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
Passion?
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Sir?
Speaker 4 (09:14):
He was worried for fear you might not remember who
he was.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
That's so I told him.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
Now I knew you'd recollect. You're just not the kind
of man to forget a friend.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
He's been talking to you a lot, Drury.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
And I'll put it this way, sir, I know you
a lot better since meeting up with Patching.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
I wonder I feel I do.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
The rest of the men they feel like I do.
Speaker 7 (09:41):
We wasn't surprised to hear it exactly, but we sure
didn't know you map campaigns for General Sheridan, General Cook too,
and only acts of bravery when you led there, Robert, Yes.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Sir, you gotta do it with a message and right,
that's right, sir, move out, yes, sir, Captain, sir.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
All right, what is it, goss?
Speaker 11 (10:34):
The camp's most bedded down, Captain. The pickets are out,
he's on picket duty. It's our last night out, sir.
Corporal Jenkins used the rest of the patrol.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Who are they guys?
Speaker 5 (10:46):
Well, Sir?
Speaker 11 (10:47):
He put Vickers and Coup up by the band over
the west, he got Steven's and Holt and over south
beal and patching. I told Corporal Jenkins, no picket duty
for patching, and I meant it, captain, no picket duty
for patching.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
That's an order, yes, sir.
Speaker 5 (11:19):
Captains mind if I say something.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Sir, I mind if anybody says something, Mister Sabots.
Speaker 9 (11:34):
I just want to ask you why I wouldn't.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Bother asking, mister Sabots.
Speaker 9 (11:39):
It's about the men, Captain. I have the right to
speak out about the men.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
You've got the right.
Speaker 9 (11:44):
They're tired, sir. They've ridden four days out, three days back.
We've been moving like someone was chasing us.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Only no one is any other observations misters.
Speaker 9 (11:56):
Yes, sir, everyone stood his turn at picket duty. Everyone
but patches.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
You're getting awful close to asking why again, mister.
Speaker 9 (12:04):
Cyber I'm sure you have a reason, Captain. I hope
it's a good one, because the men don't understand. I
think we've got a morale problem.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
We won't have it long.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
We'll be back at the fort tomorrow, Captain, if you'd
like goodnight, misters. Not all you have to say, Captain,
(12:36):
And it's clear I'm asking for Patchen's transfer, but you
won't say why if you're talking about those forms you
fill out major put down for the good of company morale.
I'm interested in company morale. I've watched I've listened to
Lieutenant Cyberts, I've talked to Sergeant Gorse. Now I'm gonna ask.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
You, Captain. It's personal. We haven't got room for.
Speaker 12 (12:59):
Personal quarrels Lee.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Oh, this is so little like you. I don't even
believe it. Nobody who knows you believes it. You don't
let these things happen. We're gonna talk about that transfer. No,
we're gonna talk about morale. I suppose I transfer this man,
What good would that do? You've got a company out there.
They're gonna be here whether Patchin's transferred or not. They
watched this man get to you as nearly as I
(13:23):
can tell. He's been killing you with kindness. That's what
he's trying to do. Why why he hates my guts
goes way back?
Speaker 2 (13:32):
No picket duty for Patching.
Speaker 13 (13:34):
Why I like my camp safe when I'm in hostile territory.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Major, It'll be.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
A lot of trouble to get his army record clear
back to the war.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
But I'll go to that trouble. Lee. If you don't tell.
Speaker 13 (13:51):
Me I saved his life once, he's never forgiven me.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
That's an odd thing to say.
Speaker 14 (14:09):
It's the truth. I saved a lousy, gutless life. He
knows it is, he lives with it. He served under you,
I served under him.
Speaker 15 (14:24):
Patching was an officer, Captain Joseph Patchen, New York Cavalry
before I knew you, Major, Remember the little wars.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Us on one side of his stream, them on the other,
and both of you needing the water in between.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Yeah, I remember five days and nights we sat there
looking across.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
At him, waiting, just waiting. We had a.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Little water we could have held out. The men were
doing fine. He ordered a charge, He didn't order anything.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
We just split wide open.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Crazy took off after that stream before anyone knew what
hit A man thought it was a charge him being
in command. We lost half a company. You hate his
guts too, don't you.
Speaker 13 (15:09):
I every good man's got fear in them.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
I don't mind honest fear. I hate a coward. Major.
You were commissioned on the field leave, was it there?
You can't forget that either. Surely he was relieved of
his command.
Speaker 6 (15:37):
Makes you dage?
Speaker 16 (15:37):
Sir.
Speaker 11 (15:38):
Sergeant Gorse, corporal of the Guard, reports two desert it sir,
it's patching and drury.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
The amends. Sergeant Fan out around the house. Check the barn, Yes, sir.
Speaker 6 (16:04):
Oh, bakers cover the barn.
Speaker 11 (16:06):
You be chopped the corral Stevens and Fredericks.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Afternoon to you, mister.
Speaker 12 (16:16):
They trample that young wheat the army alone me.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
We didn't come here to trample your crop. We're looking
for deserters.
Speaker 12 (16:23):
New kind of grain supposed to be special for the
high plains. I put a lot of money in that grain.
I wanted to come up.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Two men, one just turned twenty, the other older. My
age are better.
Speaker 12 (16:33):
I thought the army was fighting Indians. You've that up,
didn't they?
Speaker 2 (16:38):
You need men to fight Indians. Mister, don't look at me.
Speaker 12 (16:41):
I got enough trouble trying to prove up land like this,
and intend to ride off. I meant to stay with horses.
Thought I could raise him with enough grazing land. Well,
the Indians run the horses off. I'd get him grown
strong in the grass about that time. Here they'd come.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Indian you don't keep horses now, a couple, you're not extra.
I'm going to have to look in your house, mister.
Speaker 12 (17:08):
Well, I suppose yeah. I may just say he was
looking for two or quite a few soldiers along looking
(17:30):
for two men. There's some kind of penalty for hiding
soldiers who take a nose in the run, you.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Know, I mean, don't take kindly to it. Mister.
Speaker 12 (17:44):
Couldn't shoot a body, though, could you?
Speaker 2 (17:49):
You've seen him.
Speaker 12 (17:53):
You don't see many folks out this way. You and
your soldiers are more nice seen than months.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
How long since you've been in Laram village for a
long time.
Speaker 12 (18:02):
I stay pretty closer. I knew you wouldn't find him here.
I thought you'd want to see for yourself though.
Speaker 6 (18:16):
Captain, Wow, this is a shit but a barn.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
You prefer a cavalry saddle?
Speaker 12 (18:25):
Mister, you might have to find that out. He't used
to it yet.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Did it help if we knew which way they headed
when they left?
Speaker 12 (18:36):
To tell you the truth, It's hard for me to
think that was here though.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Let's go course.
Speaker 5 (18:42):
Captain his boots.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Sure he's wearing cavalry boots, owns a cavalry saddle, but
he hasn't seen anyone.
Speaker 12 (18:54):
You trample that, young wheat, I'll send the army of bill.
Speaker 11 (19:15):
You're going up to the house at all, Captain, talk
to him?
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Talking to him didn't do any good. Kind of a
sniveling one.
Speaker 11 (19:24):
Kept wanting to know why the captain himself didn't come
to him ask the questions.
Speaker 6 (19:29):
He took a real personal.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Like the captain hisself's about through talking. I ain't come
up against any more crawley settlers, gurse. I'm apt to
start breaking a few necks.
Speaker 11 (19:40):
I'm feeling a little mean myself. Three plates of warm
grubs sitting on his table, him all alone in the house.
Speaker 5 (19:47):
He never heard it too deserted.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
You'll find him.
Speaker 11 (19:51):
Men want too awful bad for you, captain. That'd be
some comfort.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
That'd be some comfort us. I sure feel bad about Drury.
He was gonna make a good trooper.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Yeah, I know, I thought sure patching would be out
here into the stream. He gets an awful thirst sometimes.
Let's check that barn again.
Speaker 11 (20:15):
Yes, sir, it was only about two hours a daylight left.
I hate to give him a night start in this country.
We're not going to Oh, captain, you are the captain.
(20:38):
Speak your mind, mister, We're busy. I like to talk
to you alone. I'll check the bond.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
See all right, talk.
Speaker 17 (20:53):
I've been sitting up in the house trying to remember.
I ain't sure, but it seems to me somewhere as
once that there was a reward for turning in deserters.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Now did I just dream? Is it a twenty dollars reward? Mister?
Only twenty dollars? Twenty dollars ain't very much, is it.
Speaker 17 (21:17):
I am don't suppose you're prepared to going to higher.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
I'm not prepared to go that high, mister. But the
army figures it's worth twenty dollars.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Twenty dollars a piece. That's it.
Speaker 17 (21:35):
Eight men looking for two men, and the total price
on their.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Heads is forty dollars.
Speaker 17 (21:42):
Ain't no bargain, Kevin.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
It sure isn't total pay for the eight men looking
is four dollars a day? Fifty cents apiece?
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Is that all? And the price isn't just for their heads?
Speaker 1 (21:56):
Mister, We'd have to insist on the rest of them too.
Speaker 6 (22:12):
He was in the loss. He called down to me.
Speaker 11 (22:15):
Then he come down himself, Patching up there too.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
Boy knows he run.
Speaker 6 (22:20):
I don't know how far.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
I don't know how long ago.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Capn I don't know nothing. You stay with him. I'm
gonna find patching.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
Yes, no, Cavin, don't you leave you? You hear me out,
will you please?
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Sergeant Cartile, here you are.
Speaker 7 (22:33):
Pat Patchin's got everything, Kevin, He's got hisself every kind
of gun you ever saw, here's mine.
Speaker 4 (22:39):
All we could buy is steal.
Speaker 10 (22:41):
He's gonna be waiting for.
Speaker 8 (22:42):
You, Kevin.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
I hope he is.
Speaker 4 (22:44):
You gotta know my shame. It don't seem nowh it
gonna happened to me. He worked on me so slow.
Speaker 7 (22:51):
I didn't even know what was happening, But I know
now I feel all the ugly shame of it.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
Talking's not much good now, Drurie.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
I had talking to save myself.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Captain. I know that ain't right. I know it can't be.
Speaker 7 (23:05):
I'm talking to understand and for you to know I'm
I'm crawling with the shame of it.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
The crawling's uglier than the shame.
Speaker 16 (23:14):
Boy, you come alone.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Queens, I'm alone, pageant.
Speaker 5 (23:54):
That'd be all way, wouldn't it be?
Speaker 6 (23:58):
Rave alone?
Speaker 1 (24:00):
You must be the bravest man there is.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Quins, Come on down, Patching.
Speaker 8 (24:06):
I ain't coming down.
Speaker 6 (24:09):
I waited too long for this.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
I'm staying right here, and you're staying right there.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
You got plenty of water, Understand.
Speaker 6 (24:18):
I ain't aiming for you, Quince. I'm just trying out
of my arsenal.
Speaker 16 (24:24):
That was my pistol.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
You're never gonna last without water, patching, I got.
Speaker 6 (24:29):
Two canteens, mine and drawries.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
You could hit me if you tried. Good. You got
a reason for not killing me.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Patching that last was my rife.
Speaker 5 (24:45):
I got me a buffalo gun off the settle, blow
you clean away.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
You wouldn't even leave no spark. Quince, Come on down.
Speaker 6 (24:54):
We're gonna do this slowly, cappen, just you and me.
Speaker 5 (25:00):
Maybe my shots will get a little closer to you
from time to time.
Speaker 6 (25:12):
We'll keep it slow. I want you to die a
long time Quince.
Speaker 4 (25:19):
Five days and five nights of dying.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Remember, Quince, I remember you want me to die, all right,
long time of dying. But you want the man to
kill me, Patchyn.
Speaker 6 (25:40):
You ain't coming after me. You ain't tess paid Quince.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Don't take a brave man to come after your patron.
Just takes a man.
Speaker 10 (25:55):
I hated you a long time.
Speaker 6 (25:56):
If I happen to do I could hate you, Dad.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
You hate yourself, Patching. Wouldn't feel good killing me and
still have yourself.
Speaker 10 (26:11):
You're gonna kill me?
Speaker 6 (26:14):
That what you're coming to do?
Speaker 8 (26:17):
Kill me?
Speaker 6 (26:23):
Please?
Speaker 5 (26:25):
Please don't kill me.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
I'm not gonna kill you, pet wouldn't feel good killing
a coward. Get up.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
Fort Laramie is produced and directed by Norman MacDonnell and
stars Raymond Burr as Lee Quint's captain of cavalry, with
Vic Perrin as Sergeant Gorse. The script was specially written
for Fort Laramie by Kathleen Hit, with sound patterns by
Bill James and Ray Kemper musical supervision by Amarigo Marino.
Featured in the cast were Sam Edwards, Paul Dubof, James Nusser,
(27:26):
and Herb Vigrn. Jack Moyles is Major Diggett and Harry
Bartel is Lieutenant.
Speaker 8 (27:31):
Siberts Company Tensent dismiss.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
Next week another transcribed story of the Northwest Frontier and
the troopers who fought under Lee Quince, Captain of Cavalry.
(28:33):
Each year new automobiles can equipped with new and better
devices for safety and comfort. But there's one device for
comfort and safety that you'll have to manufacture for yourself,
no matter how advanced our technology becomes. And that device
is a smile, a sense of humor, and a friendly
attitude to another. Drivers on the highway is sure to
earn courtesy and consideration in return, and courtesy and consideration
(28:56):
are big safety factors on the highway. Check the gas,
the oil, and make sure you rot along your smile
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