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 (00:09):
At the Gallery Bow Fort Loamie.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
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 1 (01:24):
Well, I still don't understand it, Captain. I don't imagine
the War Department worries itself about what you and I think.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Course, what I mean is it only makes plain sense
that a troop of men ought to be called a troop,
not a company.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
What's wrong in company, Sergeant?
Speaker 3 (01:41):
I don't know, Captain, but it kind of makes us
out to be an infantry outfit.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
Don't it that bothers you.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
I joined the cavalry, not a bunch of road builders
and day laborers.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
I'm sure Captain Lawson and his men would like to
hear themselves call that.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Didn't exactly mean any disrespect to him, sir. I know
any frontier post ought to have some infantrytation on it,
and I just think somebody ought to get around are
changing the designation company.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
It's a good enough name. During the Civil War, I guess, soir, uh,
cheer up. Course may take them ten years, but sooner
or later they'll change it, and I'll be commanding a
troop instead of a company.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Yes, sir, I'll be a whole heap older by eighty five,
and I sure feel better by.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
All right, Sergeant, have Corporal Mercer make out some copies
of this, then post one at the side of the shop,
another at the AQM stores. Yes, sir, captain, what is it?
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Looks like Lieutenant Siberts and the men coming through the
main gate.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Now, sir, they're about seven hours late. Come on, I'll
go meet them.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
Platoon.
Speaker 6 (03:02):
Oh mam, this, ma'am.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
That's pretty ragged, Yes, sir, Sergeant Glasses take over.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
Dismissed the plataugans.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Have Lieutenant Sabas report to the orderly room as soon
as he's free. Yes, sir, well, captain, what is it?
Gorse set out?
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Lieutenant Cyberts is awful young, and he'd come here straight
from the point.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
I know that, Sergeant you uh you want me to
be patient with him? That is something like that, Sir.
This is Indian country, Gorse. There's not time for a
man to be young. I've been patient with him for
three months.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Now, Yes, sir, but there's something else this time. What's
that his call him out? There's one man short.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
I can see the empty saddle too, Sergeant. Just have
the lieutenant report to me.
Speaker 7 (03:59):
Yes, sir, Lieutenant Cybert reporting the Captain's order.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Standard these, mister Sabots, You've just completed the fairly routine mission.
Mister Sabats, that correct, Yes, sir, if I recall, your
orders were simply to take a platoon from Bee Company,
proceed along the wagon road to Fort Collins, except delivery
of sixty remounts from Garrison Quartermaster, and return to Fort Laramie.
Speaker 7 (04:39):
Yes, sir, that's correct.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
You were to hold strictly to the root of sign
to avoid all contact with Indian irregulars or any action
which might provoke hostilities or reprisals. Were those your orders
or not?
Speaker 7 (04:51):
Yes, sir, they were.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Were they clear? Did you understand them? Yes, sir, Just
ride to Fort Collins and bring back sixty horses. Those
were your orders? Why didn't you carry them out?
Speaker 7 (05:04):
I did, sir, until circumstances changed things.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Circumstances never changed an order. The most it can do
is alter the way you carry it out. All right,
let's take a look at the way you carried out
your orders, Sir. Up until last night when you bivouacked,
everything had been normal. Then during the night a band
of Indians jumped you and got away with thirty five
head of horses. Why because you'd already violated one order,
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a standing order applying to all night camps in Indian
country to use four sentries on the picket line and
four more out in the points. You had only posted
three altogether.
Speaker 7 (05:37):
We were only four hours from the fort, Sir, I thought.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Then you violated three more orders. You sent a detail
into the fort with the horses you had left, and
you led the rest of the column in pursuit of
the Indians. But Sir, and doing so, you left your
assigned roots. You made deliberate contact with the Indians, and
you committed an act you knew with provoke hostilities. In fact,
you did everything but tear up your orders and feed
them to your mount.
Speaker 7 (05:57):
But they'd stolen the horses, Sir, and those horses have
been placed in my charge. I couldn't let him get
away with them.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Why couldn't you? You're an officer of the United States Cavalry.
Mister Sibitz, you're not permitted the privilege of getting mad
and hitting back. We've got a job to do out here,
a tough one, to keep order over an area ten
thousand square miles, and to do it without men or
the guns we need.
Speaker 7 (06:18):
I know that, sir.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
We're sitting on a powder keg Lieutenant, every minute of
the day and night. And don't you ever forget it
just because some Indians strikes a match that gives you
no excuse to like one in return. That clear?
Speaker 7 (06:32):
Yes, sir, you.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
Brought back an empty saddle? How did it happen?
Speaker 7 (06:39):
We were ambushed, sir. Private Linley was killed in the
first volley. Corporal Dean and Private Wagoner were wounded. We
killed two of the hostels before withdrawing.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
Did you bring in Linley's body?
Speaker 7 (06:51):
I'm sorry, sir, we were unable to recover.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
All right, that's all, Lieutenant.
Speaker 7 (06:55):
Yes, Sir, Captain quince shall I expect a board of inquiry.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
That's up to the major, Sir.
Speaker 7 (07:12):
Won't he go by your recommendation?
Speaker 1 (07:14):
I can't be expected to cover up for every green
lieutenant who comes off the point. I'll give him the.
Speaker 7 (07:18):
Facts without recommendation.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
That'll be all mister Seberts.
Speaker 8 (07:25):
Yes, sir, just a minute, Captain.
Speaker 9 (07:45):
You can't expect to cover up for every green lieutenant
who comes off.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
The point, and I wouldn't attempt at Major, But I
still accept full responsibility for mister Sebert's.
Speaker 10 (07:53):
Actions actions the way I hear it.
Speaker 9 (07:56):
Unofficially, of course, he simply lost his head, violated his order.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Maybe I didn't make the orders clear to him, Sir,
clear to him.
Speaker 9 (08:03):
How could he possibly misunderstand a simple mission like that?
Speaker 1 (08:05):
He's young, Major, We do things different out here in
the frontier. It takes the wild ease into it.
Speaker 10 (08:11):
We haven't got a while.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
You'll realize that Sir.
Speaker 9 (08:15):
Left his root, attacked a band of Indians, and lord
knows what else.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Major Daggett. You asking me for a detailed report, Yes,
of course I'm asking for Oh no, no, by heaven,
you've already accepted responsibility. I don't want to know the details,
at least not officially. Whatever you want, sir, You mean
whatever you want, confounded Lee, You mother that troop of
yours like an old hen with a flock of chicks. Yes, sir,
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you'll take him out in the woods shed and wail
the daylights out of them yourself, but you'll be hanged
if you'll ever let the neighbors find it. Yes, sir,
all right, you've accepted responsibility, so I let it go
with that good, provided you also accept the responsibility for
pulling us out of the fire. A band of renegades,
whoever they were the cavalry column, stolen thirty five horses
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and killed a trooper. If they get away with it,
more Indians will jump reservation and join up with them.
I think we can prevent that, Major, with your permission, I'd.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
Like to have a try at it.
Speaker 10 (09:13):
What'll you need?
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Forty pick men from B Company, a second in command,
and half a dozen of the best Indian scouts at
the Fort Kwanto for one dancing fox and maybe will
grandb and Pete Hazen. All right, who will you take
as your second?
Speaker 8 (09:26):
Peterson?
Speaker 1 (09:27):
No, sir, Lieutenant Cyberts.
Speaker 10 (09:30):
You're handicapping yourself.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
I'd like to move out at one o'clock. That way,
a forrest marsh will put us at the side of
the ambush before dark.
Speaker 10 (09:40):
All right, Captain Quinch, make your arrangements.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Thank you, sir, Oh and Captain yes, sir, good luck,
Thank you, sir, Sergeant gore us. Yes, sir, just what
(10:03):
do you find so funny? But nothing, Captain, nothing at all.
Speaker 5 (10:19):
M A Love.
Speaker 6 (10:47):
Prepared to this mob, this mob.
Speaker 7 (11:03):
Lieutenant Cybert's reporting, Sir, we're ready.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
To move out on order, good, Sergeant gorse Yes, sir,
what other scouts say?
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Quanto talked with the scouts that were with the lieutenant
at the ambush. Sir, he's pretty sure there are a
bunch of Cheyenne bison plan with squaw dog leading squad dog.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
How many braves round? Thirty? Sir? And Quanto thinks they
won't be very far away. I agree with him. This
time of year, they're not likely to go north of
the Laramie Mountains or west of the Sweetwater Ridge. Ten
to one, they'll hold up somewhere in the Butte country,
this side of the Laramie Foothills. Well, that's what Quanta
thinks too, sir. All right, Sergeant, tell Quanta and the
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other scouts to move out. They can cut the sign
of the side of the ambush before the column arrives.
We'll be there at five, Yes.
Speaker 7 (11:50):
Sir, Why don't you and will Brandy move out?
Speaker 1 (11:54):
All right? Mister Saberts post.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
Column prepare to move well. The god has left.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Soldier scouts have moved out, sir. All right, doesn't you
good coffee this morning? Goreze Yes, sir, I'm glad. I
have a feeling that might be a spell before you
get any more, mister Hybrid. Yes, you will move out
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with a point. Once we clear the fort, you will
deploy the man as skirmishers by the column too is
left on the guard on.
Speaker 5 (12:49):
Ford.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Captain, what is it, gurs, I sure do like getting out.
Hope for there now and then. I just hope you
feel that way.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
Two days from now, I think I will, Sir, I
think I will.
Speaker 7 (13:43):
Lieutenant Cybert reporting, sir, Yes, Lieutenant, I've checked over the monster.
They're standing it well, all in good shape. Private Harrison's
mount has a stone, bro it's not serious.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Fine, you gotta match sybits, Yes, sir, they are, thanks.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
So yeah, rest your feet, thank you, sir. Captain.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
May I ask what the plans are. We'll let the
men rest here till midnight, then push on north following
the river unless Quanto or one of the other scouts
makes contact before then.
Speaker 7 (14:28):
And after that, sir, when we find squad Dog in
his man.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
No plans at least no detailed plans as a matter
of information, Lieutenant or instruction, as you might say, I'm
operating under one general order to get the horses back,
punish the Indians responsible for stealing them and for killing
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private linely, and do it without starting a blood feud.
Speaker 7 (14:57):
Your pardon my saying it, sir, sounds like difficult mission.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Most of the jobs the cavalry does out here are difficult.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
Lieutenant.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Time you'll realize that I'm beginning to sir, hope, so.
Speaker 5 (15:11):
We'll go there are about to be recognized.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Yet the quaints. It's quato, sir over here?
Speaker 4 (15:26):
Any luck?
Speaker 11 (15:27):
Quanto much luck? Fine squad dog where up river at
one a week? O fork one mile west, camp in
Butte on a.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Week go fork and the forced march. We can make
it before dawn. Corporal Mercer, get my horse. Yes, mister Seyberts,
I'm going to ride out with Quanto and get a
look at them. You'll take command of the column, Yes, sir,
and the men tie down their bridle chains, muffle all equipment,
stay by the river, but keep moving. Wait at the fork.
If I haven't rejoined you, Gorse knows where it is?
(16:01):
That clear now, Yes, sir, all right, Quanta lead out,
carry on, Lieutenant, Yes.
Speaker 7 (16:07):
Sir, yuggler, some butts and saddles, Sergeant Gorse, yes, sir,
we'll move out in ten minutes.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
That's sam all right, Lieutenant. If was anybody else appoint
flanker would have stopped him. I wonder what he plans
to do. I just wouldn't know, Sir. I never tried
to out guess the captain.
Speaker 7 (16:50):
It's a good officer, Sergeant Gorse.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
You couldn't find any better, Sir. When we got a
little time, I want to tell you something else about him.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Made good time, mister Siberts, Thank you, sir. Be full
down about half an hour. Things are working out fine.
There are about thirty of them camped in a narrow
ravine between those two buttes there to the west. Luxury
is with us, Captain. The ravine's about one hundred and
fifty yards long, only way outs at either end. Sides
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are too steep to climb. So here's what we'll do.
Sergeant Gorse will send four men to each of those
two buttes. They'll climb on foot, take positions on the
rim of the ravine looking down on squad Dog's camp. Understood. Yes, sir, Lieutenant,
you'll take twelve men circle south to come up on
the far side of the buttes. You'll approach on foot
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to establish a skirmish line to command the mouth of
the ravine. It's all broken ground, there's plenty of cover.
You'll have twenty minutes to get in position that Claire. Yes, sir,
I'll move in cover this end of the ravine. You'll
fire at will on your own discretion as soon as
you hear my guns open up, And with this point
in mind, don't kill a single end in unless you
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have to to keep from being overrun. But that's an order, Lieutenant.
This whole operation is just one purpose. I want squad
Dog to realize one thing fast, that he's trapped and
that we can kill him and every one of his
braves if we so choose. After that, we'll we'll just
see what happens. I clear to both of you. Yes, yes, sir,
(18:29):
all right, move out. It's twenty minutes now, Captain. Then
we'll assume cybrids is in place. All right, Sergeant, let's
wake them up, Yes, sir, prepare the fire.
Speaker 12 (18:57):
Ready far hit him again, Sagen ready, fire.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Ant already ho.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
All that I'll show him, and it will be a
little rough trying to come out this end. Ain't even
gonna try it, sir. Not one brave has shown up
at the end of that ravine. There you go, the
boys up on the rim. That'll give him something else
to think about. Well, you ought to run into sabots
down there at the far end any second.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Now, there he goes, Now we stopped firing. We've turned
him back.
Speaker 4 (19:52):
Now goes.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
I guess we can settle back now. And wait, what
do you figure squad dogs are going to do, sir?
Speaker 4 (19:59):
I know what I do.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
I'd high tailor out here and talk things over.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
You got a match, sergeant, No, not do we know.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
If squaw Dog wishes to say something to the captain,
let him get off his horse and speak the English
he learned in mission school, and let him hand me
his rifle.
Speaker 13 (20:44):
Squad Dog as why it is white man's soldier at
that piece for hunting party.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Is it possible squad Dog thinks I'm a fool or shy?
Speaker 13 (21:00):
No captain is wiser of all men.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Then is it possible that squaw Dog has lost his
eyesight and gone blind?
Speaker 4 (21:10):
What dog? She like? The ego? Then?
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Why can't he see thirty five horses in there in
that ravine with the mark of the white men's government
on their flanks? Or is it possible that some of
the chief's braves have made a fool of him a fool?
Could it be that some of them have stolen horses
and killed a soldier of the white man's army, and
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squaw Dog knows nothing about it. Could it be that
they've lied to you, told you they traded for the horses.
Are you a chief, squad Dog or a fool whose
men laugh at him behind his back?
Speaker 9 (21:48):
I am?
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Then? Why are you not able to control your men?
Why are they able to fool you so easily? Have
you lost your authority? I? If you were chief, you
would itentify the guilty men and punish them yourself. Why
is it necessary for the white Man's army to do
your job for you?
Speaker 4 (22:08):
I do not know who does this thing?
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Well, I'll give you five minutes to find out, and
if you can't, then we'll look for the guilty men
with bullets. And a bullet has no eye, squad Dog,
it can't tell the guilty from the innocent.
Speaker 4 (22:29):
How many brave you say do this thing?
Speaker 1 (22:33):
I don't know, but one trooper was killed. I'd say
it would take about four braves to kill a trooper.
Squad Dog go now, just five minutes, and when you
come out, leave the government horses in the ravine and
leave your rifles there too.
Speaker 13 (22:55):
We do not keep rifle.
Speaker 5 (22:57):
You do not.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
May help remind you to supervise your braves more closely
in the future. I'll get going for five minutes or
(23:21):
just about up.
Speaker 8 (23:22):
Captain.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
He decide to fight, but I was hoping he'd take
the bait.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
He took the bait.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
Captain m hm. Well, it's rough justice, but it's better
than the blood feud and the punitive campaign by.
Speaker 4 (23:45):
A full regiment.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Yeah, they come, sir, they're riding out all right. Let
mister Siberts know he can follow him through. Yes, sir, Hugler, sarycall.
We we shot the four rules. Probably, I have squad
Dog and his braves stand by till Lieutenant Siberts gets here.
(24:08):
He took a part in the action, he's the right
to share the surrendered.
Speaker 13 (24:12):
Yes, sir, guilty, brave are punish.
Speaker 4 (24:30):
Squad Dog is free to go now, Yes, you.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Have my permission. Oh, just one more thing, Squad Dog
every chief should have a rifle, but you have none. No,
I will permit you to have a rifle. Squad dog
here take this one, now go in peace. Peace boy, y'all.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
They have bloody old reprobate.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Revenge is the luxury out here on the frontier. Sergeant,
better this way in the long.
Speaker 7 (25:20):
Run, Captain, why'd you give him back his gun?
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Because that gun will break his back? Lieutenant, he took
that rifle off of Trooper Linley's dead body. I saw
the serial number that made him a big man with
the clans. Then weyd foxed and forced him into a
spot where he had to execute his own braves to
save his skin. And as a final gesture of contempt,
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I gave him back the gun.
Speaker 4 (25:50):
That'll break him.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
It'll save lives in the long run, they'll laugh him
off the reservation before the month's out.
Speaker 4 (25:58):
And that's wrong, Lieutenant, I.
Speaker 7 (26:04):
Caught a bullet, sir, one of the Indians the other
end of the ravine. It's not serious.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Why didn't you get attended to?
Speaker 4 (26:10):
All right?
Speaker 7 (26:12):
Well, I had direct orders to report to you at once.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
A bullet wounds an exceptional lieutenant. Go find Corporald Greyley
and get him to dress that. Yes, sir, all lieutenant, Yes, sir,
about that board of inquiry, I heard.
Speaker 7 (26:25):
About it, Sir who from Sergeant gor Sir.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Gorge, Captain.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
He's going to do all right. He'll make a good soldier.
He'll do better than that, sergeant. He'll make a good cavalryman.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Laramie is produced and directed by Norman McDonald 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 Les Crutchfield, with sound patterns by Bill
James and ray Kemper musical supervision by Amarigo Marino. Featured
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in the cast were Harry Bartel, Jack Moyles, Joseph Cranston,
and John.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Dayner Company Tencent.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
Dismiss next Week, another transcribed story of the Northwest Frontier
and the troopers who fought under lee Quin's Captain of Cavalry.
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Throughout the months ahead, w
At the Gallery Bow Fort Loamie.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
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 1 (01:24):
Well, I still don't understand it, Captain. I don't imagine
the War Department worries itself about what you and I think.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Course, what I mean is it only makes plain sense
that a troop of men ought to be called a troop,
not a company.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
What's wrong in company, Sergeant?
Speaker 3 (01:41):
I don't know, Captain, but it kind of makes us
out to be an infantry outfit.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
Don't it that bothers you.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
I joined the cavalry, not a bunch of road builders
and day laborers.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
I'm sure Captain Lawson and his men would like to
hear themselves call that.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Didn't exactly mean any disrespect to him, sir. I know
any frontier post ought to have some infantrytation on it,
and I just think somebody ought to get around are
changing the designation company.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
It's a good enough name. During the Civil War, I guess, soir, uh,
cheer up. Course may take them ten years, but sooner
or later they'll change it, and I'll be commanding a
troop instead of a company.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Yes, sir, I'll be a whole heap older by eighty five,
and I sure feel better by.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
All right, Sergeant, have Corporal Mercer make out some copies
of this, then post one at the side of the shop,
another at the AQM stores. Yes, sir, captain, what is it?
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Looks like Lieutenant Siberts and the men coming through the
main gate.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Now, sir, they're about seven hours late. Come on, I'll
go meet them.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
Platoon.
Speaker 6 (03:02):
Oh mam, this, ma'am.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
That's pretty ragged, Yes, sir, Sergeant Glasses take over.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
Dismissed the plataugans.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Have Lieutenant Sabas report to the orderly room as soon
as he's free. Yes, sir, well, captain, what is it?
Gorse set out?
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Lieutenant Cyberts is awful young, and he'd come here straight
from the point.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
I know that, Sergeant you uh you want me to
be patient with him? That is something like that, Sir.
This is Indian country, Gorse. There's not time for a
man to be young. I've been patient with him for
three months.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Now, Yes, sir, but there's something else this time. What's
that his call him out? There's one man short.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
I can see the empty saddle too, Sergeant. Just have
the lieutenant report to me.
Speaker 7 (03:59):
Yes, sir, Lieutenant Cybert reporting the Captain's order.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Standard these, mister Sabots, You've just completed the fairly routine mission.
Mister Sabats, that correct, Yes, sir, if I recall, your
orders were simply to take a platoon from Bee Company,
proceed along the wagon road to Fort Collins, except delivery
of sixty remounts from Garrison Quartermaster, and return to Fort Laramie.
Speaker 7 (04:39):
Yes, sir, that's correct.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
You were to hold strictly to the root of sign
to avoid all contact with Indian irregulars or any action
which might provoke hostilities or reprisals. Were those your orders
or not?
Speaker 7 (04:51):
Yes, sir, they were.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Were they clear? Did you understand them? Yes, sir, Just
ride to Fort Collins and bring back sixty horses. Those
were your orders? Why didn't you carry them out?
Speaker 7 (05:04):
I did, sir, until circumstances changed things.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Circumstances never changed an order. The most it can do
is alter the way you carry it out. All right,
let's take a look at the way you carried out
your orders, Sir. Up until last night when you bivouacked,
everything had been normal. Then during the night a band
of Indians jumped you and got away with thirty five
head of horses. Why because you'd already violated one order,
(05:28):
a standing order applying to all night camps in Indian
country to use four sentries on the picket line and
four more out in the points. You had only posted
three altogether.
Speaker 7 (05:37):
We were only four hours from the fort, Sir, I thought.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Then you violated three more orders. You sent a detail
into the fort with the horses you had left, and
you led the rest of the column in pursuit of
the Indians. But Sir, and doing so, you left your
assigned roots. You made deliberate contact with the Indians, and
you committed an act you knew with provoke hostilities. In fact,
you did everything but tear up your orders and feed
them to your mount.
Speaker 7 (05:57):
But they'd stolen the horses, Sir, and those horses have
been placed in my charge. I couldn't let him get
away with them.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Why couldn't you? You're an officer of the United States Cavalry.
Mister Sibitz, you're not permitted the privilege of getting mad
and hitting back. We've got a job to do out here,
a tough one, to keep order over an area ten
thousand square miles, and to do it without men or
the guns we need.
Speaker 7 (06:18):
I know that, sir.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
We're sitting on a powder keg Lieutenant, every minute of
the day and night. And don't you ever forget it
just because some Indians strikes a match that gives you
no excuse to like one in return. That clear?
Speaker 7 (06:32):
Yes, sir, you.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
Brought back an empty saddle? How did it happen?
Speaker 7 (06:39):
We were ambushed, sir. Private Linley was killed in the
first volley. Corporal Dean and Private Wagoner were wounded. We
killed two of the hostels before withdrawing.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
Did you bring in Linley's body?
Speaker 7 (06:51):
I'm sorry, sir, we were unable to recover.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
All right, that's all, Lieutenant.
Speaker 7 (06:55):
Yes, Sir, Captain quince shall I expect a board of inquiry.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
That's up to the major, Sir.
Speaker 7 (07:12):
Won't he go by your recommendation?
Speaker 1 (07:14):
I can't be expected to cover up for every green
lieutenant who comes off the point. I'll give him the.
Speaker 7 (07:18):
Facts without recommendation.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
That'll be all mister Seberts.
Speaker 8 (07:25):
Yes, sir, just a minute, Captain.
Speaker 9 (07:45):
You can't expect to cover up for every green lieutenant
who comes off.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
The point, and I wouldn't attempt at Major, But I
still accept full responsibility for mister Sebert's.
Speaker 10 (07:53):
Actions actions the way I hear it.
Speaker 9 (07:56):
Unofficially, of course, he simply lost his head, violated his order.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Maybe I didn't make the orders clear to him, Sir,
clear to him.
Speaker 9 (08:03):
How could he possibly misunderstand a simple mission like that?
Speaker 1 (08:05):
He's young, Major, We do things different out here in
the frontier. It takes the wild ease into it.
Speaker 10 (08:11):
We haven't got a while.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
You'll realize that Sir.
Speaker 9 (08:15):
Left his root, attacked a band of Indians, and lord
knows what else.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Major Daggett. You asking me for a detailed report, Yes,
of course I'm asking for Oh no, no, by heaven,
you've already accepted responsibility. I don't want to know the details,
at least not officially. Whatever you want, sir, You mean
whatever you want, confounded Lee, You mother that troop of
yours like an old hen with a flock of chicks. Yes, sir,
(08:41):
you'll take him out in the woods shed and wail
the daylights out of them yourself, but you'll be hanged
if you'll ever let the neighbors find it. Yes, sir,
all right, you've accepted responsibility, so I let it go
with that good, provided you also accept the responsibility for
pulling us out of the fire. A band of renegades,
whoever they were the cavalry column, stolen thirty five horses
(09:02):
and killed a trooper. If they get away with it,
more Indians will jump reservation and join up with them.
I think we can prevent that, Major, with your permission, I'd.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
Like to have a try at it.
Speaker 10 (09:13):
What'll you need?
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Forty pick men from B Company, a second in command,
and half a dozen of the best Indian scouts at
the Fort Kwanto for one dancing fox and maybe will
grandb and Pete Hazen. All right, who will you take
as your second?
Speaker 8 (09:26):
Peterson?
Speaker 1 (09:27):
No, sir, Lieutenant Cyberts.
Speaker 10 (09:30):
You're handicapping yourself.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
I'd like to move out at one o'clock. That way,
a forrest marsh will put us at the side of
the ambush before dark.
Speaker 10 (09:40):
All right, Captain Quinch, make your arrangements.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Thank you, sir, Oh and Captain yes, sir, good luck,
Thank you, sir, Sergeant gore us. Yes, sir, just what
(10:03):
do you find so funny? But nothing, Captain, nothing at all.
Speaker 5 (10:19):
M A Love.
Speaker 6 (10:47):
Prepared to this mob, this mob.
Speaker 7 (11:03):
Lieutenant Cybert's reporting, Sir, we're ready.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
To move out on order, good, Sergeant gorse Yes, sir,
what other scouts say?
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Quanto talked with the scouts that were with the lieutenant
at the ambush. Sir, he's pretty sure there are a
bunch of Cheyenne bison plan with squaw dog leading squad dog.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
How many braves round? Thirty? Sir? And Quanto thinks they
won't be very far away. I agree with him. This
time of year, they're not likely to go north of
the Laramie Mountains or west of the Sweetwater Ridge. Ten
to one, they'll hold up somewhere in the Butte country,
this side of the Laramie Foothills. Well, that's what Quanta
thinks too, sir. All right, Sergeant, tell Quanta and the
(11:45):
other scouts to move out. They can cut the sign
of the side of the ambush before the column arrives.
We'll be there at five, Yes.
Speaker 7 (11:50):
Sir, Why don't you and will Brandy move out?
Speaker 1 (11:54):
All right? Mister Saberts post.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
Column prepare to move well. The god has left.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Soldier scouts have moved out, sir. All right, doesn't you
good coffee this morning? Goreze Yes, sir, I'm glad. I
have a feeling that might be a spell before you
get any more, mister Hybrid. Yes, you will move out
(12:38):
with a point. Once we clear the fort, you will
deploy the man as skirmishers by the column too is
left on the guard on.
Speaker 5 (12:49):
Ford.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Captain, what is it, gurs, I sure do like getting out.
Hope for there now and then. I just hope you
feel that way.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
Two days from now, I think I will, Sir, I
think I will.
Speaker 7 (13:43):
Lieutenant Cybert reporting, sir, Yes, Lieutenant, I've checked over the monster.
They're standing it well, all in good shape. Private Harrison's
mount has a stone, bro it's not serious.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Fine, you gotta match sybits, Yes, sir, they are, thanks.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
So yeah, rest your feet, thank you, sir. Captain.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
May I ask what the plans are. We'll let the
men rest here till midnight, then push on north following
the river unless Quanto or one of the other scouts
makes contact before then.
Speaker 7 (14:28):
And after that, sir, when we find squad Dog in
his man.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
No plans at least no detailed plans as a matter
of information, Lieutenant or instruction, as you might say, I'm
operating under one general order to get the horses back,
punish the Indians responsible for stealing them and for killing
(14:53):
private linely, and do it without starting a blood feud.
Speaker 7 (14:57):
Your pardon my saying it, sir, sounds like difficult mission.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Most of the jobs the cavalry does out here are difficult.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
Lieutenant.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Time you'll realize that I'm beginning to sir, hope, so.
Speaker 5 (15:11):
We'll go there are about to be recognized.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Yet the quaints. It's quato, sir over here?
Speaker 4 (15:26):
Any luck?
Speaker 11 (15:27):
Quanto much luck? Fine squad dog where up river at
one a week? O fork one mile west, camp in
Butte on a.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Week go fork and the forced march. We can make
it before dawn. Corporal Mercer, get my horse. Yes, mister Seyberts,
I'm going to ride out with Quanto and get a
look at them. You'll take command of the column, Yes, sir,
and the men tie down their bridle chains, muffle all equipment,
stay by the river, but keep moving. Wait at the fork.
If I haven't rejoined you, Gorse knows where it is?
(16:01):
That clear now, Yes, sir, all right, Quanta lead out,
carry on, Lieutenant, Yes.
Speaker 7 (16:07):
Sir, yuggler, some butts and saddles, Sergeant Gorse, yes, sir,
we'll move out in ten minutes.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
That's sam all right, Lieutenant. If was anybody else appoint
flanker would have stopped him. I wonder what he plans
to do. I just wouldn't know, Sir. I never tried
to out guess the captain.
Speaker 7 (16:50):
It's a good officer, Sergeant Gorse.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
You couldn't find any better, Sir. When we got a
little time, I want to tell you something else about him.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Made good time, mister Siberts, Thank you, sir. Be full
down about half an hour. Things are working out fine.
There are about thirty of them camped in a narrow
ravine between those two buttes there to the west. Luxury
is with us, Captain. The ravine's about one hundred and
fifty yards long, only way outs at either end. Sides
(17:24):
are too steep to climb. So here's what we'll do.
Sergeant Gorse will send four men to each of those
two buttes. They'll climb on foot, take positions on the
rim of the ravine looking down on squad Dog's camp. Understood. Yes, sir, Lieutenant,
you'll take twelve men circle south to come up on
the far side of the buttes. You'll approach on foot
(17:45):
to establish a skirmish line to command the mouth of
the ravine. It's all broken ground, there's plenty of cover.
You'll have twenty minutes to get in position that Claire. Yes, sir,
I'll move in cover this end of the ravine. You'll
fire at will on your own discretion as soon as
you hear my guns open up, And with this point
in mind, don't kill a single end in unless you
(18:06):
have to to keep from being overrun. But that's an order, Lieutenant.
This whole operation is just one purpose. I want squad
Dog to realize one thing fast, that he's trapped and
that we can kill him and every one of his
braves if we so choose. After that, we'll we'll just
see what happens. I clear to both of you. Yes, yes, sir,
(18:29):
all right, move out. It's twenty minutes now, Captain. Then
we'll assume cybrids is in place. All right, Sergeant, let's
wake them up, Yes, sir, prepare the fire.
Speaker 12 (18:57):
Ready far hit him again, Sagen ready, fire.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Ant already ho.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
All that I'll show him, and it will be a
little rough trying to come out this end. Ain't even
gonna try it, sir. Not one brave has shown up
at the end of that ravine. There you go, the
boys up on the rim. That'll give him something else
to think about. Well, you ought to run into sabots
down there at the far end any second.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Now, there he goes, Now we stopped firing. We've turned
him back.
Speaker 4 (19:52):
Now goes.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
I guess we can settle back now. And wait, what
do you figure squad dogs are going to do, sir?
Speaker 4 (19:59):
I know what I do.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
I'd high tailor out here and talk things over.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
You got a match, sergeant, No, not do we know.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
If squaw Dog wishes to say something to the captain,
let him get off his horse and speak the English
he learned in mission school, and let him hand me
his rifle.
Speaker 13 (20:44):
Squad Dog as why it is white man's soldier at
that piece for hunting party.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Is it possible squad Dog thinks I'm a fool or shy?
Speaker 13 (21:00):
No captain is wiser of all men.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Then is it possible that squaw Dog has lost his
eyesight and gone blind?
Speaker 4 (21:10):
What dog? She like? The ego? Then?
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Why can't he see thirty five horses in there in
that ravine with the mark of the white men's government
on their flanks? Or is it possible that some of
the chief's braves have made a fool of him a fool?
Could it be that some of them have stolen horses
and killed a soldier of the white man's army, and
(21:34):
squaw Dog knows nothing about it. Could it be that
they've lied to you, told you they traded for the horses.
Are you a chief, squad Dog or a fool whose
men laugh at him behind his back?
Speaker 9 (21:48):
I am?
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Then? Why are you not able to control your men?
Why are they able to fool you so easily? Have
you lost your authority? I? If you were chief, you
would itentify the guilty men and punish them yourself. Why
is it necessary for the white Man's army to do
your job for you?
Speaker 4 (22:08):
I do not know who does this thing?
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Well, I'll give you five minutes to find out, and
if you can't, then we'll look for the guilty men
with bullets. And a bullet has no eye, squad Dog,
it can't tell the guilty from the innocent.
Speaker 4 (22:29):
How many brave you say do this thing?
Speaker 1 (22:33):
I don't know, but one trooper was killed. I'd say
it would take about four braves to kill a trooper.
Squad Dog go now, just five minutes, and when you
come out, leave the government horses in the ravine and
leave your rifles there too.
Speaker 13 (22:55):
We do not keep rifle.
Speaker 5 (22:57):
You do not.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
May help remind you to supervise your braves more closely
in the future. I'll get going for five minutes or
(23:21):
just about up.
Speaker 8 (23:22):
Captain.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
He decide to fight, but I was hoping he'd take
the bait.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
He took the bait.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
Captain m hm. Well, it's rough justice, but it's better
than the blood feud and the punitive campaign by.
Speaker 4 (23:45):
A full regiment.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Yeah, they come, sir, they're riding out all right. Let
mister Siberts know he can follow him through. Yes, sir, Hugler, sarycall.
We we shot the four rules. Probably, I have squad
Dog and his braves stand by till Lieutenant Siberts gets here.
(24:08):
He took a part in the action, he's the right
to share the surrendered.
Speaker 13 (24:12):
Yes, sir, guilty, brave are punish.
Speaker 4 (24:30):
Squad Dog is free to go now, Yes, you.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Have my permission. Oh, just one more thing, Squad Dog
every chief should have a rifle, but you have none. No,
I will permit you to have a rifle. Squad dog
here take this one, now go in peace. Peace boy, y'all.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
They have bloody old reprobate.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Revenge is the luxury out here on the frontier. Sergeant,
better this way in the long.
Speaker 7 (25:20):
Run, Captain, why'd you give him back his gun?
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Because that gun will break his back? Lieutenant, he took
that rifle off of Trooper Linley's dead body. I saw
the serial number that made him a big man with
the clans. Then weyd foxed and forced him into a
spot where he had to execute his own braves to
save his skin. And as a final gesture of contempt,
(25:47):
I gave him back the gun.
Speaker 4 (25:50):
That'll break him.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
It'll save lives in the long run, they'll laugh him
off the reservation before the month's out.
Speaker 4 (25:58):
And that's wrong, Lieutenant, I.
Speaker 7 (26:04):
Caught a bullet, sir, one of the Indians the other
end of the ravine. It's not serious.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Why didn't you get attended to?
Speaker 4 (26:10):
All right?
Speaker 7 (26:12):
Well, I had direct orders to report to you at once.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
A bullet wounds an exceptional lieutenant. Go find Corporald Greyley
and get him to dress that. Yes, sir, all lieutenant, Yes, sir,
about that board of inquiry, I heard.
Speaker 7 (26:25):
About it, Sir who from Sergeant gor Sir.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Gorge, Captain.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
He's going to do all right. He'll make a good soldier.
He'll do better than that, sergeant. He'll make a good cavalryman.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Laramie is produced and directed by Norman McDonald 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 Les Crutchfield, with sound patterns by Bill
James and ray Kemper musical supervision by Amarigo Marino. Featured
(27:21):
in the cast were Harry Bartel, Jack Moyles, Joseph Cranston,
and John.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
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Speaker 2 (27:48):
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