August 15, 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 Galla.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Fort Laramie. Fort Laramie, starring Raymond Burr as Captain lee
Quins especially transcribed tales of the dark and tragic ground
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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 3 (01:20):
Looks like they're about ready to pull out.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
Captain.
Speaker 5 (01:23):
Yeah, walk back with me, sergeant. I never did see
such a mangy collection of stock.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
It's not a cavalry. I'm fit gorse. It sure ain't.
Most of these wagon trains heading west get through one
way or another. But I sure don't know how.
Speaker 5 (01:41):
I talked with mister Brown a couple of times. He
seems like a good man.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
He is, But I wonder how much luck a Missouri
farmer is going to have taken a couple of hundred
women and children through Indian country.
Speaker 5 (01:52):
You make out, Captain, I hope, so, hello, sergeant, course.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
I beg your pardon, miss.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
I was afraid we'd leave without seeing you again.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Oh well, and I wanted to thank you for last night.
Speaker 6 (02:06):
Yeah sure, miss, goodbye, sergeant, and thank you.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Still water runs deep? Course, how's that? Captain?
Speaker 7 (02:20):
Never mind.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
All I did was give her a little old knife.
I bought it at the Suttlers.
Speaker 5 (02:27):
Never mind, it's all it was, Captain, I just give
her a little old present.
Speaker 8 (02:31):
Sure, sergeant, keep them wagons in line and two abreast
into the river.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
You're late getting started, mister Brown. Hell, Captain Quinch, only
about an hour wasting daylight and we're pulling out now, Captain,
any of your men go to ride along with us? No,
but you won't have any trouble.
Speaker 9 (02:55):
I like they say, Captain, are they gonna bust you?
Guarantee no trouble?
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Captain out here? We don't guarantee anything, mister Brown. But
you should at least get through the salt lake without trouble.
Speaker 6 (03:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
I hope you're right.
Speaker 9 (03:09):
It's mighty lonely out there once you're out of side
of the port.
Speaker 10 (03:11):
Yeah, I know.
Speaker 9 (03:13):
Well, thanks the major for his hospitality, will you?
Speaker 3 (03:16):
No thanks necessary?
Speaker 11 (03:18):
Oh?
Speaker 10 (03:18):
Good luck?
Speaker 9 (03:19):
Thanks? She and oregans that captain?
Speaker 8 (03:22):
All right?
Speaker 7 (03:23):
Job?
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Well yours? What are you staring at?
Speaker 4 (03:45):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Nothing, Captain, just the train head and out. You've seen
a few hundred of them before, Sergeant, Yes, sir m
what's her name? Who the girl? Emily? Emily mccut You
going to Oregon with her? Paul? She was put up
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real good. You're all cavalry gorse, Yes, sir, long way
to Oregon. I hope they make it so here.
Speaker 5 (04:24):
Come on, I miss coffee this morning. Let's find something.
There's a rider coming in. Yeah, looks like a white
man dressed in buckskin.
Speaker 7 (04:39):
Hunter.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Maybe it's Will Granby. He's a squaw man. Yeah, lives
with the rappa hole. Captain Awi your horse cable. Oh,
it's good to see you. You haven't been in and
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two or three years. You come for supplies, come to parley.
Got a proposition? Uh, all right, come on in, will bludge,
Sergeant Gosse. Will you have mister Granby's horse tabled? Yes, sir,
come on, come on and will bludge.
Speaker 7 (05:31):
And now what is it?
Speaker 3 (05:32):
What's your proposition?
Speaker 7 (05:34):
I figured maybe to hire out to you.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
You want a job.
Speaker 7 (05:39):
Cavalry always needs couch.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Maybe you saying you want the job?
Speaker 7 (05:45):
And why not? I know this country better than the hair,
than my head, better than any man. Recept old gay Bridger.
There's some few places I've been even gabing.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Your mountain man, Will you lived wild and free all
your life? Why do you want to tie yourself down? Now?
Speaker 7 (06:03):
Yeah, he'd like the old times. No more, Captain, ain't pleasurable.
Now it's hard. Maybe it's doing you cavalry fellers, or
maybe it's our own fault. Maybe we trapped too much,
took too much buffalo. I don't know, but I got
the young squaw pretty you've ever seen. I figured if
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I was to work, hearn me eat regular.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
At least right now we have peace. We don't need
any more scouts.
Speaker 7 (06:33):
I figured you do, Captain, tell me, will am I haired.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
I haven't got the authority to hire you. They don't
have to come from the Major.
Speaker 7 (06:43):
No, I'd rather deal with you.
Speaker 6 (06:45):
I know you.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
I can't hire you, but if you've got information, I'll
make you a promise. Least I feed you and send
you back with meat.
Speaker 7 (06:52):
Meat I could carry, wouldn't last long, and we'll go
see the Major.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
Wait.
Speaker 7 (06:57):
I'd rather tell you, But you got to promise me
one thing. What's that? It'll be settled, peaceful. They're my people.
Speaker 10 (07:06):
Well, I'll do all I can.
Speaker 7 (07:08):
All right, there's going to be troubled. Tribes are getting restless,
all of them. You're rapp a hole. Even government promised
them if they'd go to the agencies, they'd get food meat,
and that promise ain't been kept.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
The supply chain comes through now and then, but it's
not enough.
Speaker 7 (07:28):
I know that rap a hole or starving Captain eating
bark and roots game on agencies played out. If they
can't get food from the government or from the land,
and they got to go looking for it wherever they can.
They got to eat.
Speaker 10 (07:43):
Will have they.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Left the agency.
Speaker 7 (07:50):
Or camped at Silver Spring that's on the Oregon Trail
and they got to eat Captain? They went looking for buffalo,
but there ain't no buffalo. So they'll get food where
they can from the wagon trains.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Will We got to talk to the Major. I said
I'd do all I could, and I will. There's not
much time for talking. There's a wagon train headed for
Silver Springs right now. Yeah, I know I saw it,
all right, come on, we'll see the major.
Speaker 5 (08:24):
How do we know this man's telling the truth.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
I've known him for a long time. Major, he doesn't lie.
Speaker 5 (08:29):
Could be a trap.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
If it is a trap, then there's trouble for sure.
Speaker 5 (08:34):
I don't trust a man lives with Indians marries him.
Speaker 7 (08:37):
No, No, look curious Major.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
There's a wagon train on the trail the Silver Springs
right now. They got to be warned. I can still
ride out with the detachment to turn him back.
Speaker 5 (08:45):
Captain Quin's. Our orders are to keep the trail open
to Oregon and to keep the Indians on the agencies.
If anything, we'll send a company to escort the train
through and run those of Rappa Hole back where they belong.
Couldn't do that without fighting, Major. That's one of the
functions of the cavalry. In this case, there's no cause
for it.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
The Arapa Hole have broken their treaty, Captain. The way
they see it, we're the ones who broke the treaty
by not keeping our promise about food. All I know
is they're off the agency and they'll have to go back.
If we go out and force, there's bound to be trouble.
If I take a small detachment, maybe I can talk
to him. This is a hostile action, Captain. It's got
to be metas Sutton Major.
Speaker 7 (09:17):
The Arapa Hole or starving. They gotta eat, mister Granby.
Speaker 5 (09:20):
I'm sorry that they're starving, but I can't do anything
about it, at least not until the supplies come through
to me. My orders are to keep the Arapa Hole
on the agency, and I can do something about that.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Those are people out there, major and they're hungry.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
They only want food.
Speaker 5 (09:32):
Captain Quince, you'll take Company B and escort the wagon
train until you meet the Arapa Hole. You'll send the
wagon train on and escort the Indians to the agency
and use whatever measures are necessary. That's all Captain you sir.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
One thing's there?
Speaker 7 (09:53):
What is it?
Speaker 3 (09:55):
If I your permission to hire Will grand Be is
a scout. I don't see why it it's necessary, But
if you want him, take him? Thank you, sir.
Speaker 7 (10:11):
What kind of a man is that?
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Uh? He's all right, Will, He's an officer, he's got
his orders, He goes by the book. He understands the
situation all right, but he can't admit it. Listen, can
you be ready to move out in an hour?
Speaker 7 (10:25):
I can't ride with you, Captain or my people.
Speaker 10 (10:27):
Will.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
I said I'd do what I could. I need your
help ride with me.
Speaker 7 (10:35):
You know what you're asking. You know what it might
mean for me. If there's trouble, there won't be trouble
if I can prevent it. I'm afraid you can't, Captain
but i'll go with you.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
We should see him just over this hill, Captain. Every
rapper hole didn't see him first.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
You figured they'd attacked.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
I don't know, Sergeant, but I'll feel easier when we
spot that wagon train.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
I was right, Captain. Here they are all right, Sergeant.
Let's ride out.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
Company at the guard. They've seen us.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
Let's pulling up.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Sergeant's blind man went on, knowing we were here company.
Speaker 9 (12:13):
What's the matter, Captain.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
I want you to stop here, mister Brown, for the night.
Speaker 9 (12:17):
Why we figured the camp at Silver Springs just over
the pass there, not more than two or three miles.
We can make it easy before dark.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
This will make an all right campus, water and wood.
Speaker 9 (12:26):
If there's trouble, Captain, I want to know.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
It may be nothing, mister Brown, but I want to
find out. You're to camp here and stay here till
I give you the.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
Word to go on.
Speaker 9 (12:35):
It's Indians seen it.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
There is trouble, maybe maybe not, but there's no use
worrying all your folks. You'll be safe here. I'm leaving
most of my men to guard you.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
Well.
Speaker 9 (12:44):
Why can't you escort us over the past to Silver Spring?
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Because if there were to be trouble. It would happen
there in the past with the wagon trains all strung
out and hard to defend. All right, Captain, whatever you say,
I'll come back or send word back to Lieutenant Cybert
as soon as I know it's safe for you to cross.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
Sergeant Gorse.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Yes, sir, you and two men a company, mister Granby
and myself pick them and fall out, mister Brown. Lieutenant
Cybrids is in charge here till I get back. I
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don't see a talk on, thank Captain, and I'll keep
it sharp eye. Hope the troopers further out the flank.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
Yes, sir, thank you.
Speaker 10 (13:34):
I don't like.
Speaker 7 (13:39):
You here somewhere I can feel it.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
They must have seen the train, will you the half,
But they.
Speaker 7 (13:44):
Also saw the soldiers might be making tracks already, and
you disappear pretty fast.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
I don't think they've had that much time. They'll probably
stand for a fight.
Speaker 7 (13:54):
And Captain, what are you gonna do?
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Will a few miles back? Did you do you notice anything.
Speaker 7 (14:00):
On the trail? Sure?
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Buffalo sign right, the first I've seen this close to
Laramie in a year.
Speaker 7 (14:06):
Big herd too across the trail going south.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
It'd make a lot of a rapper home meet.
Speaker 7 (14:12):
Yeah, it might work worth a try.
Speaker 10 (14:15):
Wait you see anything, will Yeah?
Speaker 7 (14:24):
One of the scouts leave it to me, and you
know you haven't seen her now, honey, da ain't no, no,
m all right, he'll take us in.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
This is the first Indian village I ever been in
and wasn't full of barking dogs.
Speaker 7 (15:05):
They had to eat him. You notice how the ears captain? Yeh,
I see, I'd say they're not very happy to see us.
I'm I'm sorry, will to turn them against you can't
be helped.
Speaker 10 (15:23):
This is it.
Speaker 7 (15:27):
I don't you too.
Speaker 6 (15:29):
Why do you bring white soldiers to fight your people?
Speaker 7 (15:32):
They don't come to fight, Gray Feather. This Captain Quinn,
he comes as a friend.
Speaker 11 (15:36):
White soldier is not a friend of Arapahole. White soldiers
break promise. They do not give meat.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
I think I can get you meat, Gray Feather. I
think I can take your hunters to Buffalo.
Speaker 7 (15:49):
A big hurr.
Speaker 11 (15:50):
You think you do not know Arapahole have rived from
agency in north hunt Buffalo all through White Valley nor.
Speaker 6 (15:58):
Buffalo, Great Feather.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
On my way here from Fort Laramie, I saw much
buffalo sign you hunted only the north side of the river.
You haven't been south of the Platte I have. There
are buffalo there to hunt.
Speaker 6 (16:13):
Take many days. Wagon train is here now.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
If you attacked that wagon train, it'll mean much fighting,
many dead among the Arapaho, great mourning among the Arapaho.
Speaker 6 (16:29):
There will be mourning for the white soldiers too.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
The army will keep on sending soldiers rifles until the
Arapaho is no more.
Speaker 10 (16:41):
You know I speak the truth.
Speaker 6 (16:44):
My people are hungry.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Then ride back towards the fort with me. I'll show
you buffalo sign and you can track from there.
Speaker 6 (16:50):
Take many days.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
It's the only way you can be sure to find
buffalo and food.
Speaker 11 (16:56):
If you find buffalo in two days, Pray Feather does
not tech wagon train.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Two days isn't very long.
Speaker 6 (17:04):
Two days.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
If we do find buffalo, I want your promise to
go peacefully back to the agency. If you find all right,
your hunters will.
Speaker 7 (17:16):
Come with me.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
But meantime you must let the wagon train.
Speaker 10 (17:20):
Go through in peace.
Speaker 6 (17:22):
This one maybe not next one.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
It is agreed, then, Gray Feather.
Speaker 6 (17:29):
Are you not.
Speaker 7 (17:37):
Yep? Two days ain't very long. We got to be
awful lucky.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
We don't have much choice.
Speaker 7 (17:42):
You know what will happen if we don't find buffalo. Yeah,
and we just the five of us out there with
the gray feathers hundred.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Like I say, we don't have much choice. We got
to guess where the buffalo will be. We don't have
time to backtrack them. Sergeant Gorse, Yes, sir, I'm sending
you back to the wagon train with a message from.
Speaker 5 (18:00):
Tots Private Jenkins, Horses Fresher. Captain, I ain't been on
no buffalo hunt in a long time. All right, Tagine
Jenkins Jenkins. You'll go back to the wagon train.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Tell mister Seyberts to escort the train past Silver Springs,
then return here in Bevuac. If I should not return,
he used to get clear if he can and report
to the fort for reinforcements.
Speaker 7 (18:27):
Move out.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Well, we got forty eight hours. Will let's find those buffalo.
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You see anything? Will nothing, Captain? On that side and
in this way either you can see a long way.
I don't like to look up them back there, gray
feathers getting anxious. You know, I just don't understand it.
Will It's not a sign.
Speaker 7 (19:14):
I've been thinking, Captain, we're too far south. Buffalo headed south,
maybe not as fast as far as we thought.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
Maybe they ved east.
Speaker 7 (19:23):
No, I've been thinking it's been hot and dry for
these last few days. No wind. Buffalo don't travel much
in the heat that you stand and graze and suffer
with thirst. But there's wind now, Yeah, some from the southwest.
But if there's up north here to bring them the
smell of water from the Laramie River. Yeah, yeah, river's
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still high, and they'd probably be craving for water about now,
and they'd stick their noses into the wind, make a
run for it like they do.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
It might be right.
Speaker 7 (19:50):
Well, so if we cut back northeast of the Laramie,
we'll find them.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
They might be there. There's only one trouble. What look,
who's coming?
Speaker 10 (20:14):
Captain?
Speaker 11 (20:14):
It is as great Feather spoke. You promise buffalo two
days now, two days are gone. There is no buffalo.
Yeah promises, like all promises of white soldiers.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
We've been looking a long time, Gray Feather, But now
we know where the buffalo arep.
Speaker 6 (20:29):
Didn't you much talk? We want buffalo, not talk.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
Gray Feather. My soldiers are at Silver Springs. If we
do not return there, it will mean war for the Arapahole.
Speaker 6 (20:43):
Maybe you return, but he not.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
It is not yet evening of the second day. There
is little time maybe, but enough. We're going to the
waters of the Laramie and find your.
Speaker 7 (20:57):
Buffalo on this next ride. We ought to be able
to see and ride.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
Will what if they ain't there, captain? If not, maybe
we can get to the river, find some cover, So
stay close watch for my signal.
Speaker 9 (21:25):
Yes, sir, you uh, you should have.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
Gone back to that wagon trains, Sergeant, I guess I'm
much of a garrison soldier.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
All right, look shop, captain.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
Ain't at the river. There's nothing.
Speaker 7 (21:55):
Wait, look there coming over the hills beyond running for
the river.
Speaker 5 (21:58):
And look at him, thousands of noses in the wind
and running bellyvant for breakfast.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
There go your buffalo, grape feather all you can eat?
Speaker 4 (22:07):
Well, go on get them.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
He sure was mighty hungry.
Speaker 7 (22:23):
Captain. Yeah, well, I guess her luck held.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
I guess it did.
Speaker 4 (22:31):
Well.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
Let's let's ride on down to the river. I could
do with a drink.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Comany talking, gorse just missed the company, Yes, sir, howdy
prepared this match?
Speaker 10 (23:12):
Yeah, well you're back, Yes, sir.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
Does you have any trouble, No, sir, no casualties either side.
Speaker 7 (23:30):
It took long enough.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
The Oregon trails still open. Major, You Rappahole are back
on the agency. What took the time?
Speaker 7 (23:39):
Why?
Speaker 8 (23:40):
Uh?
Speaker 7 (23:42):
We we found some.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
Buffalo stopped the hunt. The Indians took enough meat back
to the agency to keep them quiet all summer.
Speaker 5 (23:52):
And I see well that that was fortunate.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
It was mostly Will Granby's doing. He found the buffalo.
Speaker 5 (24:03):
Oh, maybe I was wrong about him, Lee, Maybe he
can be useful to us.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
I think he can. I brought him back with his
his wife too. You you like to meet her and
a rapper ho? She's sure not? Saint louis.
Speaker 4 (24:27):
Sure?
Speaker 7 (24:27):
All right?
Speaker 6 (24:27):
Captain?
Speaker 7 (24:30):
H h Scramby, How do you major?
Speaker 3 (24:43):
This is Will's wife, major lark woman?
Speaker 10 (24:47):
How do you do?
Speaker 4 (24:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (24:49):
Loyah uh, mister Granby, Yes, sir. If she's to stay
around the post, she'll she'll have to wear something more
than that.
Speaker 7 (25:00):
Huh oh. Yeah, she's got a shirt somewhere in the
baggage she wrappa Hole. Women aren't like Cheyenne or the
shoe or crow. They don't wear much. That one's right cold.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
There are a lot of men on the post, Will huh.
Speaker 7 (25:16):
Oh, yes, sir, Captain. Now I'll see to it.
Speaker 5 (25:19):
Oh and mister Gramby. Yes, sir, my compliments on your
work with Captain Quince. As if now you may consider
yourself on the army payroll as a scout. It'll be
in tomorrow's special order. Yes, sir, the quartermaster will house
you large.
Speaker 7 (25:33):
Major.
Speaker 5 (25:34):
Come on, child, she's a jennet, pretty, isn't she?
Speaker 7 (25:40):
Lee? Eh?
Speaker 3 (25:43):
The nature pretty good wives, too clean, quiet, hard working,
nice people.
Speaker 5 (25:51):
You wouldn't be trying to soften me up? Would you leave?
Win me over to your way of thinking?
Speaker 3 (25:56):
I figure a man's got to make up his own
mind about things.
Speaker 5 (25:59):
Major, Captain Quench is here. Don't get too smart, just
be thankful. I don't ask how you happen to run
into Buffalo and turn a serious police duty into a
pleasure trip hunting.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
My strikers, cooconips and buffalo steaks made you dagg it?
You like to come over to my quarters and tries him?
Speaker 5 (26:23):
Sure, let's go lead.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
Fort Laramie is produced and directed by Norma McDonald and
stars Raymond Burr as Lee Quince, Captain of Cavalry, with
Vic Perrin as Sergeant Gorse. The script was specially written
for Fort Laramie by John Duncle with son patterns by
Bill Jay James and Ray Kemper, musical supervision by Amarigo Marino.
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Featured in the cast were Jack Moyles, Ralph Moody, Edgar Barrier,
Frank Katie and Eleanor Tannan.
Speaker 4 (27:27):
Company. Ten cents.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
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At the Galla.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Fort Laramie. Fort Laramie, starring Raymond Burr as Captain lee
Quins especially transcribed tales of the dark and tragic ground
(00:57):
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 3 (01:20):
Looks like they're about ready to pull out.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
Captain.
Speaker 5 (01:23):
Yeah, walk back with me, sergeant. I never did see
such a mangy collection of stock.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
It's not a cavalry. I'm fit gorse. It sure ain't.
Most of these wagon trains heading west get through one
way or another. But I sure don't know how.
Speaker 5 (01:41):
I talked with mister Brown a couple of times. He
seems like a good man.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
He is, But I wonder how much luck a Missouri
farmer is going to have taken a couple of hundred
women and children through Indian country.
Speaker 5 (01:52):
You make out, Captain, I hope, so, hello, sergeant, course.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
I beg your pardon, miss.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
I was afraid we'd leave without seeing you again.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Oh well, and I wanted to thank you for last night.
Speaker 6 (02:06):
Yeah sure, miss, goodbye, sergeant, and thank you.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Still water runs deep? Course, how's that? Captain?
Speaker 7 (02:20):
Never mind.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
All I did was give her a little old knife.
I bought it at the Suttlers.
Speaker 5 (02:27):
Never mind, it's all it was, Captain, I just give
her a little old present.
Speaker 8 (02:31):
Sure, sergeant, keep them wagons in line and two abreast
into the river.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
You're late getting started, mister Brown. Hell, Captain Quinch, only
about an hour wasting daylight and we're pulling out now, Captain,
any of your men go to ride along with us? No,
but you won't have any trouble.
Speaker 9 (02:55):
I like they say, Captain, are they gonna bust you?
Guarantee no trouble?
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Captain out here? We don't guarantee anything, mister Brown. But
you should at least get through the salt lake without trouble.
Speaker 6 (03:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
I hope you're right.
Speaker 9 (03:09):
It's mighty lonely out there once you're out of side
of the port.
Speaker 10 (03:11):
Yeah, I know.
Speaker 9 (03:13):
Well, thanks the major for his hospitality, will you?
Speaker 3 (03:16):
No thanks necessary?
Speaker 11 (03:18):
Oh?
Speaker 10 (03:18):
Good luck?
Speaker 9 (03:19):
Thanks? She and oregans that captain?
Speaker 8 (03:22):
All right?
Speaker 7 (03:23):
Job?
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Well yours? What are you staring at?
Speaker 4 (03:45):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Nothing, Captain, just the train head and out. You've seen
a few hundred of them before, Sergeant, Yes, sir m
what's her name? Who the girl? Emily? Emily mccut You
going to Oregon with her? Paul? She was put up
(04:10):
real good. You're all cavalry gorse, Yes, sir, long way
to Oregon. I hope they make it so here.
Speaker 5 (04:24):
Come on, I miss coffee this morning. Let's find something.
There's a rider coming in. Yeah, looks like a white
man dressed in buckskin.
Speaker 7 (04:39):
Hunter.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Maybe it's Will Granby. He's a squaw man. Yeah, lives
with the rappa hole. Captain Awi your horse cable. Oh,
it's good to see you. You haven't been in and
(05:00):
two or three years. You come for supplies, come to parley.
Got a proposition? Uh, all right, come on in, will bludge,
Sergeant Gosse. Will you have mister Granby's horse tabled? Yes, sir,
come on, come on and will bludge.
Speaker 7 (05:31):
And now what is it?
Speaker 3 (05:32):
What's your proposition?
Speaker 7 (05:34):
I figured maybe to hire out to you.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
You want a job.
Speaker 7 (05:39):
Cavalry always needs couch.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Maybe you saying you want the job?
Speaker 7 (05:45):
And why not? I know this country better than the hair,
than my head, better than any man. Recept old gay Bridger.
There's some few places I've been even gabing.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Your mountain man, Will you lived wild and free all
your life? Why do you want to tie yourself down? Now?
Speaker 7 (06:03):
Yeah, he'd like the old times. No more, Captain, ain't pleasurable.
Now it's hard. Maybe it's doing you cavalry fellers, or
maybe it's our own fault. Maybe we trapped too much,
took too much buffalo. I don't know, but I got
the young squaw pretty you've ever seen. I figured if
(06:24):
I was to work, hearn me eat regular.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
At least right now we have peace. We don't need
any more scouts.
Speaker 7 (06:33):
I figured you do, Captain, tell me, will am I haired.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
I haven't got the authority to hire you. They don't
have to come from the Major.
Speaker 7 (06:43):
No, I'd rather deal with you.
Speaker 6 (06:45):
I know you.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
I can't hire you, but if you've got information, I'll
make you a promise. Least I feed you and send
you back with meat.
Speaker 7 (06:52):
Meat I could carry, wouldn't last long, and we'll go
see the Major.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
Wait.
Speaker 7 (06:57):
I'd rather tell you, But you got to promise me
one thing. What's that? It'll be settled, peaceful. They're my people.
Speaker 10 (07:06):
Well, I'll do all I can.
Speaker 7 (07:08):
All right, there's going to be troubled. Tribes are getting restless,
all of them. You're rapp a hole. Even government promised
them if they'd go to the agencies, they'd get food meat,
and that promise ain't been kept.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
The supply chain comes through now and then, but it's
not enough.
Speaker 7 (07:28):
I know that rap a hole or starving Captain eating
bark and roots game on agencies played out. If they
can't get food from the government or from the land,
and they got to go looking for it wherever they can.
They got to eat.
Speaker 10 (07:43):
Will have they.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Left the agency.
Speaker 7 (07:50):
Or camped at Silver Spring that's on the Oregon Trail
and they got to eat Captain? They went looking for buffalo,
but there ain't no buffalo. So they'll get food where
they can from the wagon trains.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Will We got to talk to the Major. I said
I'd do all I could, and I will. There's not
much time for talking. There's a wagon train headed for
Silver Springs right now. Yeah, I know I saw it,
all right, come on, we'll see the major.
Speaker 5 (08:24):
How do we know this man's telling the truth.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
I've known him for a long time. Major, he doesn't lie.
Speaker 5 (08:29):
Could be a trap.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
If it is a trap, then there's trouble for sure.
Speaker 5 (08:34):
I don't trust a man lives with Indians marries him.
Speaker 7 (08:37):
No, No, look curious Major.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
There's a wagon train on the trail the Silver Springs
right now. They got to be warned. I can still
ride out with the detachment to turn him back.
Speaker 5 (08:45):
Captain Quin's. Our orders are to keep the trail open
to Oregon and to keep the Indians on the agencies.
If anything, we'll send a company to escort the train
through and run those of Rappa Hole back where they belong.
Couldn't do that without fighting, Major. That's one of the
functions of the cavalry. In this case, there's no cause
for it.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
The Arapa Hole have broken their treaty, Captain. The way
they see it, we're the ones who broke the treaty
by not keeping our promise about food. All I know
is they're off the agency and they'll have to go back.
If we go out and force, there's bound to be trouble.
If I take a small detachment, maybe I can talk
to him. This is a hostile action, Captain. It's got
to be metas Sutton Major.
Speaker 7 (09:17):
The Arapa Hole or starving. They gotta eat, mister Granby.
Speaker 5 (09:20):
I'm sorry that they're starving, but I can't do anything
about it, at least not until the supplies come through
to me. My orders are to keep the Arapa Hole
on the agency, and I can do something about that.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Those are people out there, major and they're hungry.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
They only want food.
Speaker 5 (09:32):
Captain Quince, you'll take Company B and escort the wagon
train until you meet the Arapa Hole. You'll send the
wagon train on and escort the Indians to the agency
and use whatever measures are necessary. That's all Captain you sir.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
One thing's there?
Speaker 7 (09:53):
What is it?
Speaker 3 (09:55):
If I your permission to hire Will grand Be is
a scout. I don't see why it it's necessary, But
if you want him, take him? Thank you, sir.
Speaker 7 (10:11):
What kind of a man is that?
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Uh? He's all right, Will, He's an officer, he's got
his orders, He goes by the book. He understands the
situation all right, but he can't admit it. Listen, can
you be ready to move out in an hour?
Speaker 7 (10:25):
I can't ride with you, Captain or my people.
Speaker 10 (10:27):
Will.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
I said I'd do what I could. I need your
help ride with me.
Speaker 7 (10:35):
You know what you're asking. You know what it might
mean for me. If there's trouble, there won't be trouble
if I can prevent it. I'm afraid you can't, Captain
but i'll go with you.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
We should see him just over this hill, Captain. Every
rapper hole didn't see him first.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
You figured they'd attacked.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
I don't know, Sergeant, but I'll feel easier when we
spot that wagon train.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
I was right, Captain. Here they are all right, Sergeant.
Let's ride out.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
Company at the guard. They've seen us.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
Let's pulling up.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Sergeant's blind man went on, knowing we were here company.
Speaker 9 (12:13):
What's the matter, Captain.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
I want you to stop here, mister Brown, for the night.
Speaker 9 (12:17):
Why we figured the camp at Silver Springs just over
the pass there, not more than two or three miles.
We can make it easy before dark.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
This will make an all right campus, water and wood.
Speaker 9 (12:26):
If there's trouble, Captain, I want to know.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
It may be nothing, mister Brown, but I want to
find out. You're to camp here and stay here till
I give you the.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
Word to go on.
Speaker 9 (12:35):
It's Indians seen it.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
There is trouble, maybe maybe not, but there's no use
worrying all your folks. You'll be safe here. I'm leaving
most of my men to guard you.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
Well.
Speaker 9 (12:44):
Why can't you escort us over the past to Silver Spring?
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Because if there were to be trouble. It would happen
there in the past with the wagon trains all strung
out and hard to defend. All right, Captain, whatever you say,
I'll come back or send word back to Lieutenant Cybert
as soon as I know it's safe for you to cross.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
Sergeant Gorse.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Yes, sir, you and two men a company, mister Granby
and myself pick them and fall out, mister Brown. Lieutenant
Cybrids is in charge here till I get back. I
(13:26):
don't see a talk on, thank Captain, and I'll keep
it sharp eye. Hope the troopers further out the flank.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
Yes, sir, thank you.
Speaker 10 (13:34):
I don't like.
Speaker 7 (13:39):
You here somewhere I can feel it.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
They must have seen the train, will you the half,
But they.
Speaker 7 (13:44):
Also saw the soldiers might be making tracks already, and
you disappear pretty fast.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
I don't think they've had that much time. They'll probably
stand for a fight.
Speaker 7 (13:54):
And Captain, what are you gonna do?
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Will a few miles back? Did you do you notice anything.
Speaker 7 (14:00):
On the trail? Sure?
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Buffalo sign right, the first I've seen this close to
Laramie in a year.
Speaker 7 (14:06):
Big herd too across the trail going south.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
It'd make a lot of a rapper home meet.
Speaker 7 (14:12):
Yeah, it might work worth a try.
Speaker 10 (14:15):
Wait you see anything, will Yeah?
Speaker 7 (14:24):
One of the scouts leave it to me, and you
know you haven't seen her now, honey, da ain't no, no,
m all right, he'll take us in.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
This is the first Indian village I ever been in
and wasn't full of barking dogs.
Speaker 7 (15:05):
They had to eat him. You notice how the ears captain? Yeh,
I see, I'd say they're not very happy to see us.
I'm I'm sorry, will to turn them against you can't
be helped.
Speaker 10 (15:23):
This is it.
Speaker 7 (15:27):
I don't you too.
Speaker 6 (15:29):
Why do you bring white soldiers to fight your people?
Speaker 7 (15:32):
They don't come to fight, Gray Feather. This Captain Quinn,
he comes as a friend.
Speaker 11 (15:36):
White soldier is not a friend of Arapahole. White soldiers
break promise. They do not give meat.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
I think I can get you meat, Gray Feather. I
think I can take your hunters to Buffalo.
Speaker 7 (15:49):
A big hurr.
Speaker 11 (15:50):
You think you do not know Arapahole have rived from
agency in north hunt Buffalo all through White Valley nor.
Speaker 6 (15:58):
Buffalo, Great Feather.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
On my way here from Fort Laramie, I saw much
buffalo sign you hunted only the north side of the river.
You haven't been south of the Platte I have. There
are buffalo there to hunt.
Speaker 6 (16:13):
Take many days. Wagon train is here now.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
If you attacked that wagon train, it'll mean much fighting,
many dead among the Arapaho, great mourning among the Arapaho.
Speaker 6 (16:29):
There will be mourning for the white soldiers too.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
The army will keep on sending soldiers rifles until the
Arapaho is no more.
Speaker 10 (16:41):
You know I speak the truth.
Speaker 6 (16:44):
My people are hungry.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Then ride back towards the fort with me. I'll show
you buffalo sign and you can track from there.
Speaker 6 (16:50):
Take many days.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
It's the only way you can be sure to find
buffalo and food.
Speaker 11 (16:56):
If you find buffalo in two days, Pray Feather does
not tech wagon train.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Two days isn't very long.
Speaker 6 (17:04):
Two days.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
If we do find buffalo, I want your promise to
go peacefully back to the agency. If you find all right,
your hunters will.
Speaker 7 (17:16):
Come with me.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
But meantime you must let the wagon train.
Speaker 10 (17:20):
Go through in peace.
Speaker 6 (17:22):
This one maybe not next one.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
It is agreed, then, Gray Feather.
Speaker 6 (17:29):
Are you not.
Speaker 7 (17:37):
Yep? Two days ain't very long. We got to be
awful lucky.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
We don't have much choice.
Speaker 7 (17:42):
You know what will happen if we don't find buffalo. Yeah,
and we just the five of us out there with
the gray feathers hundred.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Like I say, we don't have much choice. We got
to guess where the buffalo will be. We don't have
time to backtrack them. Sergeant Gorse, Yes, sir, I'm sending
you back to the wagon train with a message from.
Speaker 5 (18:00):
Tots Private Jenkins, Horses Fresher. Captain, I ain't been on
no buffalo hunt in a long time. All right, Tagine
Jenkins Jenkins. You'll go back to the wagon train.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Tell mister Seyberts to escort the train past Silver Springs,
then return here in Bevuac. If I should not return,
he used to get clear if he can and report
to the fort for reinforcements.
Speaker 7 (18:27):
Move out.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Well, we got forty eight hours. Will let's find those buffalo.
(18:57):
You see anything? Will nothing, Captain? On that side and
in this way either you can see a long way.
I don't like to look up them back there, gray
feathers getting anxious. You know, I just don't understand it.
Will It's not a sign.
Speaker 7 (19:14):
I've been thinking, Captain, we're too far south. Buffalo headed south,
maybe not as fast as far as we thought.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
Maybe they ved east.
Speaker 7 (19:23):
No, I've been thinking it's been hot and dry for
these last few days. No wind. Buffalo don't travel much
in the heat that you stand and graze and suffer
with thirst. But there's wind now, Yeah, some from the southwest.
But if there's up north here to bring them the
smell of water from the Laramie River. Yeah, yeah, river's
(19:43):
still high, and they'd probably be craving for water about now,
and they'd stick their noses into the wind, make a
run for it like they do.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
It might be right.
Speaker 7 (19:50):
Well, so if we cut back northeast of the Laramie,
we'll find them.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
They might be there. There's only one trouble. What look,
who's coming?
Speaker 10 (20:14):
Captain?
Speaker 11 (20:14):
It is as great Feather spoke. You promise buffalo two
days now, two days are gone. There is no buffalo.
Yeah promises, like all promises of white soldiers.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
We've been looking a long time, Gray Feather, But now
we know where the buffalo arep.
Speaker 6 (20:29):
Didn't you much talk? We want buffalo, not talk.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
Gray Feather. My soldiers are at Silver Springs. If we
do not return there, it will mean war for the Arapahole.
Speaker 6 (20:43):
Maybe you return, but he not.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
It is not yet evening of the second day. There
is little time maybe, but enough. We're going to the
waters of the Laramie and find your.
Speaker 7 (20:57):
Buffalo on this next ride. We ought to be able
to see and ride.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
Will what if they ain't there, captain? If not, maybe
we can get to the river, find some cover, So
stay close watch for my signal.
Speaker 9 (21:25):
Yes, sir, you uh, you should have.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
Gone back to that wagon trains, Sergeant, I guess I'm
much of a garrison soldier.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
All right, look shop, captain.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
Ain't at the river. There's nothing.
Speaker 7 (21:55):
Wait, look there coming over the hills beyond running for
the river.
Speaker 5 (21:58):
And look at him, thousands of noses in the wind
and running bellyvant for breakfast.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
There go your buffalo, grape feather all you can eat?
Speaker 4 (22:07):
Well, go on get them.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
He sure was mighty hungry.
Speaker 7 (22:23):
Captain. Yeah, well, I guess her luck held.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
I guess it did.
Speaker 4 (22:31):
Well.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
Let's let's ride on down to the river. I could
do with a drink.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Comany talking, gorse just missed the company, Yes, sir, howdy
prepared this match?
Speaker 10 (23:12):
Yeah, well you're back, Yes, sir.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
Does you have any trouble, No, sir, no casualties either side.
Speaker 7 (23:30):
It took long enough.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
The Oregon trails still open. Major, You Rappahole are back
on the agency. What took the time?
Speaker 7 (23:39):
Why?
Speaker 8 (23:40):
Uh?
Speaker 7 (23:42):
We we found some.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
Buffalo stopped the hunt. The Indians took enough meat back
to the agency to keep them quiet all summer.
Speaker 5 (23:52):
And I see well that that was fortunate.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
It was mostly Will Granby's doing. He found the buffalo.
Speaker 5 (24:03):
Oh, maybe I was wrong about him, Lee, Maybe he
can be useful to us.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
I think he can. I brought him back with his
his wife too. You you like to meet her and
a rapper ho? She's sure not? Saint louis.
Speaker 4 (24:27):
Sure?
Speaker 7 (24:27):
All right?
Speaker 6 (24:27):
Captain?
Speaker 7 (24:30):
H h Scramby, How do you major?
Speaker 3 (24:43):
This is Will's wife, major lark woman?
Speaker 10 (24:47):
How do you do?
Speaker 4 (24:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (24:49):
Loyah uh, mister Granby, Yes, sir. If she's to stay
around the post, she'll she'll have to wear something more
than that.
Speaker 7 (25:00):
Huh oh. Yeah, she's got a shirt somewhere in the
baggage she wrappa Hole. Women aren't like Cheyenne or the
shoe or crow. They don't wear much. That one's right cold.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
There are a lot of men on the post, Will huh.
Speaker 7 (25:16):
Oh, yes, sir, Captain. Now I'll see to it.
Speaker 5 (25:19):
Oh and mister Gramby. Yes, sir, my compliments on your
work with Captain Quince. As if now you may consider
yourself on the army payroll as a scout. It'll be
in tomorrow's special order. Yes, sir, the quartermaster will house
you large.
Speaker 7 (25:33):
Major.
Speaker 5 (25:34):
Come on, child, she's a jennet, pretty, isn't she?
Speaker 7 (25:40):
Lee? Eh?
Speaker 3 (25:43):
The nature pretty good wives, too clean, quiet, hard working,
nice people.
Speaker 5 (25:51):
You wouldn't be trying to soften me up? Would you leave?
Win me over to your way of thinking?
Speaker 3 (25:56):
I figure a man's got to make up his own
mind about things.
Speaker 5 (25:59):
Major, Captain Quench is here. Don't get too smart, just
be thankful. I don't ask how you happen to run
into Buffalo and turn a serious police duty into a
pleasure trip hunting.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
My strikers, cooconips and buffalo steaks made you dagg it?
You like to come over to my quarters and tries him?
Speaker 5 (26:23):
Sure, let's go lead.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
Fort Laramie is produced and directed by Norma McDonald and
stars Raymond Burr as Lee Quince, Captain of Cavalry, with
Vic Perrin as Sergeant Gorse. The script was specially written
for Fort Laramie by John Duncle with son patterns by
Bill Jay James and Ray Kemper, musical supervision by Amarigo Marino.
(27:04):
Featured in the cast were Jack Moyles, Ralph Moody, Edgar Barrier,
Frank Katie and Eleanor Tannan.
Speaker 4 (27:27):
Company. Ten cents.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Dismiss next week another transcribed story of the Northwest Frontier
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