July 11, 2025 • 24 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 gallup Fort Laramie.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Fort Laramie, starring Raymond Burr as Captain lee Quin's specially
transcribed tales of the dark and tragic ground of the
Wild Frontier, The Saga of Fighting Men Who the Rim
of Empire, and the dramatic story of lee Quin's Captain
of Cavalry.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Captain.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
Oh, mister Saberts. Men looked fine, I thought.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Well, yes, sir, they looked all right, good drill, good parid, Yes, sir.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
But actually I was.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
More concerned with, well, weren't you listening, sir?
Speaker 4 (01:36):
I was watching Lieutenant. I almost never listened to a
dress parade.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
I mean the band.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
The band seemed to march real good, Captain.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
The music, frankly, I thought it was terrible. Uh, usually
it just sounds bad.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
Today it was awful. What didn't it sound strange to you,
Timmy off Key, I was watching b company. Mister Saberts
march just fine. I don't know. Maybe it's my ears,
more likely my ears. I don't pay much mind to
the music. When I was a boy, my mother thought
I had a promising voice, so i'd sing for her
(02:12):
and the hogs had come running. Then the neighbors got
so they'd come running too. I got a lot of
encouragement to quit singing.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
But just because you couldn't sing well, Captain, doesn't mean
you don't have an appreciation for music.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
I think it does, mister Savage. You see, I wasn't
just obliging my mother. I thought I sounded fine too.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
Well.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
You were considerably younger, sir. I'm sure you've about grown
all by now. After all, with your mother to encourage you,
you couldn't be blamed for.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Thinking around her neck.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
She wore a river, captain.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
She warred in the winter, and the merriment of me.
And when they.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Ask her, really, captain, it was more about the regimental
band than anything else.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
And if you didn't notice the band, away ah away,
wish your word for her lover who was far far away.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Yes, I'm beginning to think I was very mistaken.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
If you like.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Far happy question.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
You, diet, what are you doing? I was singing, sir?
You call that singing? Yes I do, and I suppose
it's a minority opinion. Are you drunk? Captain knows I
can account for the singing if you're interested, major, I'm.
Speaker 6 (03:32):
Only interested in stopping it. We've got enough bad music
around here for one day.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
I thought dress parade came off fine, sir. I was
very proud of the company.
Speaker 6 (03:39):
Captain, I don't want to hear another reference to dress
parade today.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
Yes, it's over. That's the only good thing about it.
It's over.
Speaker 6 (03:45):
I don't want to discuss it. I don't want to
hear it discussed. That's an order, Captain. Yes, sir, I
won't even ask if you heard the band? Did you
hear the man?
Speaker 4 (03:54):
Must have? I saw it. Seemed to me they marched
real good.
Speaker 6 (03:59):
No matter if you heard it or if that fellow
and you call singing's a sample of your ear for music.
March real good? I thought, so, sir, if I want march,
and I'll get a company of infantry from a band, Captain,
I expect just one thing music.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
You think I'm being unreasonable? Kind of hard to get
music out of busted instruments, I imagine.
Speaker 6 (04:20):
I realize some of the pieces are quite old. Shultz
tells me in the field they have problems with rust
sand fowl on the cornet pistons, but busted instruments.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
The reboard said the band was brawling over something Saturday night,
someone put his foot through a field drums. Some of
the blowhorns got smashed. You read a report on a
band brawl mmm on your desk Sunday morning. Major, Oh, well, I.
Speaker 6 (04:49):
Want to talk to the band master, and if you'll
stop delaying me, I will sorry to hold you up.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Major h Lee, I'm.
Speaker 6 (04:58):
I'm sorry for what. Tell them mad as the devil,
and didn't mean to take it out on you. I
was handy and you were singing, don't forget, and they
set me off.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
Set mister Zabotz off too.
Speaker 6 (05:13):
The fact of the matter is we have guests on
the post. I wanted to be especially proud of our band.
Oh and what they did the boots and saddles. I
think it was boots and sounds. I gotta see shoots.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
Tell him I thought the band marched real good. Yeah,
oh me you Aileen Harrison, not me.
Speaker 7 (05:50):
Sergeant.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
We'd like to get that lumberloaded, says you could run
the wagon up the old bedlam unloaded and come back
here and start all over.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
I'm doing what a can I swear I am.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
You ain't ailing you shake a leg.
Speaker 7 (06:05):
Both of them are shaken now, Sergeant, all.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
Right, Harrison, come out with it. I got about half
a minute's patients. Let you know I'm a reasonable man.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
You know that right off.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
Well, if I'm not reasonable, maybe.
Speaker 5 (06:20):
There's a call.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
I ain't got long await like this contrary weather. It
ought to be cooling off. Give a man a field
for hard work. It's got no right to be blazing.
Speaker 7 (06:30):
Hot this time of year.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
You're asking for a change of weather.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
I'd be obliged if you could.
Speaker 7 (06:36):
Arrange it, Sergeant, anything, just any small thing of being improvement.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Well, now you just come to the right man, Harrison,
just for you, I'm gonna change the weather. You mind?
Speaker 4 (06:49):
Now you asked me to do it?
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Oh I asked, I sure?
Speaker 4 (06:51):
Ask all right, Troop Harrison.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Yes, sergeant, report to the guide house guard house on
what charge? On the charge that you ask for. It
takes you right out of the blazing sun. Of course,
how you're gonna get a breath of air or something else?
Speaker 4 (07:05):
Again? But seeing any small change of being.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Improved, Sergeant, I'll be getting back to maloadin now. I
thought you wanted to change your weather. One day, I'm
gonna learn to keep my mouth shut around here.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
That day comes, you write me a letter.
Speaker 7 (07:20):
So I'll know you know I can't write. I tell
you one good thing, Harrison, I just ain't rising to
any more bait.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Sergeant Fatig's over in half hour, and after supping there's.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
A band concert.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
I know we ain't gonna cool the off. None not
a sense worth only they ain't gonna be no band concert.
In fact, if band Master Shorts can't explain itself any
better to major Dagger than he has, maybe we heard
the last two it ever from our regimental.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Band planey Plany you around, Plany?
Speaker 4 (08:33):
No? What are you doing behind the pickle barrel? You
drop a penny? Are you alone?
Speaker 5 (08:44):
Captain?
Speaker 4 (08:45):
Sure?
Speaker 5 (08:46):
I'm not exactly opening it. It's almost four thirty.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
You'd open at midnight to sell a two penny cigar
and now come on out from behind that barrel?
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Well, oh my a, no, that's what it is.
Speaker 5 (09:04):
Eh, What did you want? Captain?
Speaker 4 (09:08):
What are you whispering about?
Speaker 5 (09:10):
Will you never know who's listening these days?
Speaker 4 (09:13):
I'm listening. I'm hard put to hear you. Are you
going to sell me a glass of beer? Do I
have to draw it myself?
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Ah?
Speaker 4 (09:20):
Hah uh huh?
Speaker 5 (09:23):
Who sent you?
Speaker 4 (09:25):
Pliny? It's a hot day?
Speaker 5 (09:27):
Oh no, you don't, sir, I know an investigation when
I see one. Well, you may tell that committee and
Major Daggett and all the powers that be that I
am living up to the letter of my agreement with
the United States Army.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
Maybe you ought to have a glass of beer too.
Speaker 5 (09:43):
It's not my concern. If the regimental band can't play without.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Instruments, what about the band?
Speaker 7 (09:51):
No beer, no band?
Speaker 4 (09:54):
Oh well, miss the drums, won't you planey? What time
of day do you start making?
Speaker 5 (10:01):
Captain?
Speaker 4 (10:01):
I believe you don't know.
Speaker 5 (10:03):
You came here in innocence, but these are dark days
and the seeds of distrust are on the wind.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
This time I'm going into the canteen and get that beer.
Speaker 5 (10:12):
There is no beer. There will be no beer. Beer
is a closed issue. Poor Shoots, Poor poor Sholtz.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
You keep going from beard to band.
Speaker 5 (10:24):
From no beer to no bend. And you can thank
missus Fiemester and her committee for that.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
Missus Fimester is not doing anything. She's just visiting Fort Laramie.
Speaker 5 (10:36):
Her visit was ill timed, just when Shultz needed new
instruments the worst way. But her lass five percent of
nothing will not buy French horns and trumpets. And eh, eh,
I will miss the drums. I'm still not reaching you,
(10:59):
am I, Captain?
Speaker 4 (11:00):
I am, I know, no you're not.
Speaker 5 (11:05):
Then let me put it simply. A B C A
is for the agreement. Now, then five percent of all
proceeds from the sale of beer I give to B
which is the band. From these monies shoots buys new instruments.
That is he did until ah, yes, until C C
(11:28):
is for committee headed by missus fiemestay, the Committee for
moral improvement, if you will, and that means no beer.
It follows then no beer, no proceeds, no band.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
Yeah, I put that well, if you did, you better
climb in that pickle barrel. Pliny a settler that doesn't
sell beer and needs a real hiding place. But the
brine exalting.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
A.
Speaker 6 (12:17):
Oh, captain, I was just about to send for you.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
Just came from the settlers. Major, you got any idea?
What's going on around here? Hold your voice down here.
Blaney was whispering too. For a while.
Speaker 6 (12:30):
I listened to me, Lee, I get a better idea
than anyone. What's going on around here? Missus Fibster's in
my office. Now, what's going here?
Speaker 1 (12:39):
The army run by a woman.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
Now, Major, that's not funnily. I don't mean it funny.
I can't get a glass of beer. Flanney says that
woman's why.
Speaker 6 (12:49):
I've just learned from Washington that there's several thousand Missus
Fimester's captain, and their ranks seem to be growing daily.
Not only that, but they're also mister Fimester's and their
voices getting louder every day.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
Missus fimes To doesn't like beer on moral grounds. Do
you like whiskey better?
Speaker 6 (13:06):
Whiskey isn't the issue beer light wine, such as her
soul at the settler's canteen, then she likes whiskey better.
She wouldn't see her that way. Besides, it isn't just
the beer. That's just part of their plan for moral improvement.
They want to see that all posts have libraries, more
recreational facilities, concerts from.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
The regimental band playing on no instruments. Miss Semester realizes
the problem there. I got nothing against libraries, recreation, We
need him. But do you think we got any kind
of a drinking problem at Fort Laramie. I've never been
aware of one. If we had one, you'd be aware
of it. We all would, and if we had one,
it wouldn't be on account of beer served as the settlers.
(13:46):
I know that, Lee. You act like this was up
to me. Let me assure you it isn't. MS Semester
Post Commander.
Speaker 6 (13:53):
I'm still in command here, and that means I still
follow orders from Washington. That's where the real pressure is
coming from. The ban the sale of beer at Fort Sully,
Fort McPherson, and Fort Totten. And I can't keep him
from banning it here.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
And that brings us back to whiskey again. If a
man can't get a glass of beer on the post,
he'll go off the post. You think missus Fimester knows
what a hog ranch is a whiskey ranch, I doubt it.
Well they got him now all around Fort Sully and
Fort Totten, and men that used to drink beer at
those posts are stealing off and rotting their insides on
(14:25):
hog ranch whiskey. You seem pretty sure you're factually ask
major trucks. You got the information at the post surgeon's
meeting last month at Fort Randall Post surgeons are recommending
that they reopen the canteens. I wonder, just wonder. Nah, No,
(14:45):
it did never work. Oh, what wouldn't work.
Speaker 6 (14:48):
I don't think even major trucks could convince Missus Spiemester
she was short sighted.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
I was thinking more of letting Missus Fimester make her
own decision about being short sighted. Matter have you, No,
I'm kind of looking forward to it. Alli, I'd like
to volunteer to show Missus Fiemester round the post tomorrow.
Major volunteer, you might just tell her. I'll call for
her tomorrow right after guard Mount afternoon to your major.
(15:27):
Of course, in time, we'd want to build a library
building separate, but that takes time. Right now, there's only
one building not being put to use.
Speaker 8 (15:36):
I'm sure I don't know where that is, Captain, but
the snows we've covered most of.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
The posts except the Suttlers, ma'am, is just a head.
Speaker 8 (15:42):
But surely the Suttlers store isn't vacant.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
Not the store, just the canteen. It's part of the
same building. Is that where they keep here when they
had it?
Speaker 8 (15:54):
Ma'am, My dear young man, I have never set foot
in a saloon, and I don't tend.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
To go now the zoons where they sell liquor. Man,
This canteens an empty room and a counter but if
you don't want to look at it, you are.
Speaker 8 (16:08):
Certain certain there's nothing in the nature of spirits in there.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
I give you my word, Missus Fimesu, there isn't a
sign of spirit in there.
Speaker 8 (16:20):
Now very well, then I suppose I should take the
long view. After all, the library is the important thing.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
But in a saloon, no canteen.
Speaker 8 (16:33):
I'll take your word. There's a difference, Captain.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
After you, ma'am, thank you, Captain. Canteen straight ahead, Missus
meemes do.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Now then, Planty, I got a long order here, best
you write it down. Just a moment, Sergeant Y, Just the.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
Moment, Captain, there's plany. Oh have you met Missus fimes
do this is Pliny Burgess the settles, Madam.
Speaker 5 (17:03):
Now Captain you know very well the canteen is uh, well.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
It's we know planning. We come to see how the
rumor do for a library? A library you mean books.
Speaker 5 (17:16):
And books in there.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
We'll just look it over you mind your customer over there?
Oh well, I.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Don't know, I got cash money planning coming, Yes, I
need in fact that I'm here.
Speaker 4 (17:30):
Wellams do well.
Speaker 8 (17:32):
Yes, I think perhaps you may be right, Captain Lemon.
Speaker 6 (17:35):
Extra room would make.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
I want all the lemon extract. You got all the vanilla, peppermint, ginger,
all ever drop? Then I want everything in stock in
the way of cinnamon, red pepper, sauces bay rum. You
got any smelly water planning smelly?
Speaker 4 (17:55):
Oh no, I don't believe. Oh no, no, you're not
paying much mind the ma'am.
Speaker 8 (18:00):
Hey, oh why oh yes, it's it's first rate splendid o.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
D something plinny oh d smelly. Excuse me, ma'am.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
Uh, you know what I'm trying to say. You know
you women folks uses It sometimes smells right nice.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
Ol d ol D colog That's it, ma'am. Thank you, Kylie.
I'll take all you got planning all uh I've got
it seems to me we could get several hundred books
in here. Ms Zeemster. Now along that wall there.
Speaker 8 (18:36):
Just a minute, Captain young man.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
You talking to me, ma'am.
Speaker 8 (18:41):
I am indeed your order to mister Burgess, all the
lemon extract, all the coloone yes, ma'am. May I ask
what you're planning to do with it?
Speaker 4 (18:51):
Why drink it, ma'am.
Speaker 8 (18:53):
Drink it?
Speaker 4 (18:54):
Well, maybe not all of it. I'll sell some chances.
I maybe give some now and again to my friend.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Drink it.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
Well, ma'am, you strain extractor, that old stuff through some
coarse bread. You gotta find about your alcohol now. Myself,
i'd rather have glass of beer, but we can't get
that no more here. So well, man's left to his
own devices. You might say, thank you, guys, I just
(19:22):
hope it did the trick all right.
Speaker 5 (19:24):
Now we almost have this set it up so that
let me see what that that comes to? Fifty seven
dollars and forty three cents.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
Hogan plenty. I've been thinking this over. Eh huh.
Speaker 5 (19:39):
Well, I tell you what I'm gonna do. I sent
you such a good customer. I'm gonna let you have
a whole thing for fifty seven dollars and thirty three cents.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
You drink it, pliny. I'm going to lay me a
village for beer.
Speaker 8 (20:08):
Why, Captain, you've come to say goodbye.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
I wasn't sure i'd be welcome. Missus semes To Major
tells me you were a while settling down.
Speaker 8 (20:17):
I very nearly faded.
Speaker 4 (20:20):
You may as well know that, if it make you
feel any better, it was all made up for your benefit.
Speaker 8 (20:25):
Man, So Major Daggett assured me. Oh, my captain, I'm
going back to Washington with a brand new outlook. I
think our Committee on Moral Improvement may just revise its
thinking of it.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
You talked to the Post surgeon.
Speaker 8 (20:39):
Indeed I did. I'm taking the entire matter up with
all of official Washington. Yes, and I want to thank
you for opening my eyes, Captain, and that nice orderly
of yours. Yes, Trooper Harrison, he's the one who makes
those nice outdoor stones. He was booking last evening down
(21:01):
by the Laramie River. I was out from my evening, Constitutional,
and he explained it all to me about his stove,
a retort, a condenser and a receiver.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Harrison.
Speaker 4 (21:14):
He called it the stove.
Speaker 8 (21:16):
Oh, he had some other name for it, a foolish name.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
To foolish name, like like a still.
Speaker 8 (21:22):
Yes, but I could see it was a stove. He's
promised to send me the plans, show me just how to.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
Make it, Missus Fimes, do that Stove's just oh.
Speaker 8 (21:32):
My goodness, the stage is very Goodbye, Captain.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Bye, Missus Fimester.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Fort Laramie is produced and directed by Norman McDonald and
stars Raymond Burr as Lee Quince, Captain of Cavalry with
Vic Perron 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 Howard mcneer, Jeanette Nolan and
(22:20):
Sam Edwards. Jack Moyles is Major Diggett and Harry Bartel
is Lieutenant Seyberts.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Company.
Speaker 4 (22:44):
Tencent dismiss.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
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At the gallup Fort Laramie.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Fort Laramie, starring Raymond Burr as Captain lee Quin's specially
transcribed tales of the dark and tragic ground of the
Wild Frontier, The Saga of Fighting Men Who the Rim
of Empire, and the dramatic story of lee Quin's Captain
of Cavalry.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Captain.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
Oh, mister Saberts. Men looked fine, I thought.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Well, yes, sir, they looked all right, good drill, good parid, Yes, sir.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
But actually I was.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
More concerned with, well, weren't you listening, sir?
Speaker 4 (01:36):
I was watching Lieutenant. I almost never listened to a
dress parade.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
I mean the band.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
The band seemed to march real good, Captain.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
The music, frankly, I thought it was terrible. Uh, usually
it just sounds bad.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
Today it was awful. What didn't it sound strange to you,
Timmy off Key, I was watching b company. Mister Saberts
march just fine. I don't know. Maybe it's my ears,
more likely my ears. I don't pay much mind to
the music. When I was a boy, my mother thought
I had a promising voice, so i'd sing for her
(02:12):
and the hogs had come running. Then the neighbors got
so they'd come running too. I got a lot of
encouragement to quit singing.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
But just because you couldn't sing well, Captain, doesn't mean
you don't have an appreciation for music.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
I think it does, mister Savage. You see, I wasn't
just obliging my mother. I thought I sounded fine too.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
Well.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
You were considerably younger, sir. I'm sure you've about grown
all by now. After all, with your mother to encourage you,
you couldn't be blamed for.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Thinking around her neck.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
She wore a river, captain.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
She warred in the winter, and the merriment of me.
And when they.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Ask her, really, captain, it was more about the regimental
band than anything else.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
And if you didn't notice the band, away ah away,
wish your word for her lover who was far far away.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Yes, I'm beginning to think I was very mistaken.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
If you like.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Far happy question.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
You, diet, what are you doing? I was singing, sir?
You call that singing? Yes I do, and I suppose
it's a minority opinion. Are you drunk? Captain knows I
can account for the singing if you're interested, major, I'm.
Speaker 6 (03:32):
Only interested in stopping it. We've got enough bad music
around here for one day.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
I thought dress parade came off fine, sir. I was
very proud of the company.
Speaker 6 (03:39):
Captain, I don't want to hear another reference to dress
parade today.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
Yes, it's over. That's the only good thing about it.
It's over.
Speaker 6 (03:45):
I don't want to discuss it. I don't want to
hear it discussed. That's an order, Captain. Yes, sir, I
won't even ask if you heard the band? Did you
hear the man?
Speaker 4 (03:54):
Must have? I saw it. Seemed to me they marched
real good.
Speaker 6 (03:59):
No matter if you heard it or if that fellow
and you call singing's a sample of your ear for music.
March real good? I thought, so, sir, if I want march,
and I'll get a company of infantry from a band, Captain,
I expect just one thing music.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
You think I'm being unreasonable? Kind of hard to get
music out of busted instruments, I imagine.
Speaker 6 (04:20):
I realize some of the pieces are quite old. Shultz
tells me in the field they have problems with rust
sand fowl on the cornet pistons, but busted instruments.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
The reboard said the band was brawling over something Saturday night,
someone put his foot through a field drums. Some of
the blowhorns got smashed. You read a report on a
band brawl mmm on your desk Sunday morning. Major, Oh, well, I.
Speaker 6 (04:49):
Want to talk to the band master, and if you'll
stop delaying me, I will sorry to hold you up.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Major h Lee, I'm.
Speaker 6 (04:58):
I'm sorry for what. Tell them mad as the devil,
and didn't mean to take it out on you. I
was handy and you were singing, don't forget, and they
set me off.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
Set mister Zabotz off too.
Speaker 6 (05:13):
The fact of the matter is we have guests on
the post. I wanted to be especially proud of our band.
Oh and what they did the boots and saddles. I
think it was boots and sounds. I gotta see shoots.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
Tell him I thought the band marched real good. Yeah,
oh me you Aileen Harrison, not me.
Speaker 7 (05:50):
Sergeant.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
We'd like to get that lumberloaded, says you could run
the wagon up the old bedlam unloaded and come back
here and start all over.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
I'm doing what a can I swear I am.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
You ain't ailing you shake a leg.
Speaker 7 (06:05):
Both of them are shaken now, Sergeant, all.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
Right, Harrison, come out with it. I got about half
a minute's patients. Let you know I'm a reasonable man.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
You know that right off.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
Well, if I'm not reasonable, maybe.
Speaker 5 (06:20):
There's a call.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
I ain't got long await like this contrary weather. It
ought to be cooling off. Give a man a field
for hard work. It's got no right to be blazing.
Speaker 7 (06:30):
Hot this time of year.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
You're asking for a change of weather.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
I'd be obliged if you could.
Speaker 7 (06:36):
Arrange it, Sergeant, anything, just any small thing of being improvement.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Well, now you just come to the right man, Harrison,
just for you, I'm gonna change the weather. You mind?
Speaker 4 (06:49):
Now you asked me to do it?
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Oh I asked, I sure?
Speaker 4 (06:51):
Ask all right, Troop Harrison.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Yes, sergeant, report to the guide house guard house on
what charge? On the charge that you ask for. It
takes you right out of the blazing sun. Of course,
how you're gonna get a breath of air or something else?
Speaker 4 (07:05):
Again? But seeing any small change of being.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Improved, Sergeant, I'll be getting back to maloadin now. I
thought you wanted to change your weather. One day, I'm
gonna learn to keep my mouth shut around here.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
That day comes, you write me a letter.
Speaker 7 (07:20):
So I'll know you know I can't write. I tell
you one good thing, Harrison, I just ain't rising to
any more bait.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Sergeant Fatig's over in half hour, and after supping there's.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
A band concert.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
I know we ain't gonna cool the off. None not
a sense worth only they ain't gonna be no band concert.
In fact, if band Master Shorts can't explain itself any
better to major Dagger than he has, maybe we heard
the last two it ever from our regimental.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Band planey Plany you around, Plany?
Speaker 4 (08:33):
No? What are you doing behind the pickle barrel? You
drop a penny? Are you alone?
Speaker 5 (08:44):
Captain?
Speaker 4 (08:45):
Sure?
Speaker 5 (08:46):
I'm not exactly opening it. It's almost four thirty.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
You'd open at midnight to sell a two penny cigar
and now come on out from behind that barrel?
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Well, oh my a, no, that's what it is.
Speaker 5 (09:04):
Eh, What did you want? Captain?
Speaker 4 (09:08):
What are you whispering about?
Speaker 5 (09:10):
Will you never know who's listening these days?
Speaker 4 (09:13):
I'm listening. I'm hard put to hear you. Are you
going to sell me a glass of beer? Do I
have to draw it myself?
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Ah?
Speaker 4 (09:20):
Hah uh huh?
Speaker 5 (09:23):
Who sent you?
Speaker 4 (09:25):
Pliny? It's a hot day?
Speaker 5 (09:27):
Oh no, you don't, sir, I know an investigation when
I see one. Well, you may tell that committee and
Major Daggett and all the powers that be that I
am living up to the letter of my agreement with
the United States Army.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
Maybe you ought to have a glass of beer too.
Speaker 5 (09:43):
It's not my concern. If the regimental band can't play without.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Instruments, what about the band?
Speaker 7 (09:51):
No beer, no band?
Speaker 4 (09:54):
Oh well, miss the drums, won't you planey? What time
of day do you start making?
Speaker 5 (10:01):
Captain?
Speaker 4 (10:01):
I believe you don't know.
Speaker 5 (10:03):
You came here in innocence, but these are dark days
and the seeds of distrust are on the wind.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
This time I'm going into the canteen and get that beer.
Speaker 5 (10:12):
There is no beer. There will be no beer. Beer
is a closed issue. Poor Shoots, Poor poor Sholtz.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
You keep going from beard to band.
Speaker 5 (10:24):
From no beer to no bend. And you can thank
missus Fiemester and her committee for that.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
Missus Fimester is not doing anything. She's just visiting Fort Laramie.
Speaker 5 (10:36):
Her visit was ill timed, just when Shultz needed new
instruments the worst way. But her lass five percent of
nothing will not buy French horns and trumpets. And eh, eh,
I will miss the drums. I'm still not reaching you,
(10:59):
am I, Captain?
Speaker 4 (11:00):
I am, I know, no you're not.
Speaker 5 (11:05):
Then let me put it simply. A B C A
is for the agreement. Now, then five percent of all
proceeds from the sale of beer I give to B
which is the band. From these monies shoots buys new instruments.
That is he did until ah, yes, until C C
(11:28):
is for committee headed by missus fiemestay, the Committee for
moral improvement, if you will, and that means no beer.
It follows then no beer, no proceeds, no band.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
Yeah, I put that well, if you did, you better
climb in that pickle barrel. Pliny a settler that doesn't
sell beer and needs a real hiding place. But the
brine exalting.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
A.
Speaker 6 (12:17):
Oh, captain, I was just about to send for you.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
Just came from the settlers. Major, you got any idea?
What's going on around here? Hold your voice down here.
Blaney was whispering too. For a while.
Speaker 6 (12:30):
I listened to me, Lee, I get a better idea
than anyone. What's going on around here? Missus Fibster's in
my office. Now, what's going here?
Speaker 1 (12:39):
The army run by a woman.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
Now, Major, that's not funnily. I don't mean it funny.
I can't get a glass of beer. Flanney says that
woman's why.
Speaker 6 (12:49):
I've just learned from Washington that there's several thousand Missus
Fimester's captain, and their ranks seem to be growing daily.
Not only that, but they're also mister Fimester's and their
voices getting louder every day.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
Missus fimes To doesn't like beer on moral grounds. Do
you like whiskey better?
Speaker 6 (13:06):
Whiskey isn't the issue beer light wine, such as her
soul at the settler's canteen, then she likes whiskey better.
She wouldn't see her that way. Besides, it isn't just
the beer. That's just part of their plan for moral improvement.
They want to see that all posts have libraries, more
recreational facilities, concerts from.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
The regimental band playing on no instruments. Miss Semester realizes
the problem there. I got nothing against libraries, recreation, We
need him. But do you think we got any kind
of a drinking problem at Fort Laramie. I've never been
aware of one. If we had one, you'd be aware
of it. We all would, and if we had one,
it wouldn't be on account of beer served as the settlers.
(13:46):
I know that, Lee. You act like this was up
to me. Let me assure you it isn't. MS Semester
Post Commander.
Speaker 6 (13:53):
I'm still in command here, and that means I still
follow orders from Washington. That's where the real pressure is
coming from. The ban the sale of beer at Fort Sully,
Fort McPherson, and Fort Totten. And I can't keep him
from banning it here.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
And that brings us back to whiskey again. If a
man can't get a glass of beer on the post,
he'll go off the post. You think missus Fimester knows
what a hog ranch is a whiskey ranch, I doubt it.
Well they got him now all around Fort Sully and
Fort Totten, and men that used to drink beer at
those posts are stealing off and rotting their insides on
(14:25):
hog ranch whiskey. You seem pretty sure you're factually ask
major trucks. You got the information at the post surgeon's
meeting last month at Fort Randall Post surgeons are recommending
that they reopen the canteens. I wonder, just wonder. Nah, No,
(14:45):
it did never work. Oh, what wouldn't work.
Speaker 6 (14:48):
I don't think even major trucks could convince Missus Spiemester
she was short sighted.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
I was thinking more of letting Missus Fimester make her
own decision about being short sighted. Matter have you, No,
I'm kind of looking forward to it. Alli, I'd like
to volunteer to show Missus Fiemester round the post tomorrow.
Major volunteer, you might just tell her. I'll call for
her tomorrow right after guard Mount afternoon to your major.
(15:27):
Of course, in time, we'd want to build a library
building separate, but that takes time. Right now, there's only
one building not being put to use.
Speaker 8 (15:36):
I'm sure I don't know where that is, Captain, but
the snows we've covered most of.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
The posts except the Suttlers, ma'am, is just a head.
Speaker 8 (15:42):
But surely the Suttlers store isn't vacant.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
Not the store, just the canteen. It's part of the
same building. Is that where they keep here when they
had it?
Speaker 8 (15:54):
Ma'am, My dear young man, I have never set foot
in a saloon, and I don't tend.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
To go now the zoons where they sell liquor. Man,
This canteens an empty room and a counter but if
you don't want to look at it, you are.
Speaker 8 (16:08):
Certain certain there's nothing in the nature of spirits in there.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
I give you my word, Missus Fimesu, there isn't a
sign of spirit in there.
Speaker 8 (16:20):
Now very well, then I suppose I should take the
long view. After all, the library is the important thing.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
But in a saloon, no canteen.
Speaker 8 (16:33):
I'll take your word. There's a difference, Captain.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
After you, ma'am, thank you, Captain. Canteen straight ahead, Missus
meemes do.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Now then, Planty, I got a long order here, best
you write it down. Just a moment, Sergeant Y, Just the.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
Moment, Captain, there's plany. Oh have you met Missus fimes
do this is Pliny Burgess the settles, Madam.
Speaker 5 (17:03):
Now Captain you know very well the canteen is uh, well.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
It's we know planning. We come to see how the
rumor do for a library? A library you mean books.
Speaker 5 (17:16):
And books in there.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
We'll just look it over you mind your customer over there?
Oh well, I.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Don't know, I got cash money planning coming, Yes, I
need in fact that I'm here.
Speaker 4 (17:30):
Wellams do well.
Speaker 8 (17:32):
Yes, I think perhaps you may be right, Captain Lemon.
Speaker 6 (17:35):
Extra room would make.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
I want all the lemon extract. You got all the vanilla, peppermint, ginger,
all ever drop? Then I want everything in stock in
the way of cinnamon, red pepper, sauces bay rum. You
got any smelly water planning smelly?
Speaker 4 (17:55):
Oh no, I don't believe. Oh no, no, you're not
paying much mind the ma'am.
Speaker 8 (18:00):
Hey, oh why oh yes, it's it's first rate splendid o.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
D something plinny oh d smelly. Excuse me, ma'am.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
Uh, you know what I'm trying to say. You know
you women folks uses It sometimes smells right nice.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
Ol d ol D colog That's it, ma'am. Thank you, Kylie.
I'll take all you got planning all uh I've got
it seems to me we could get several hundred books
in here. Ms Zeemster. Now along that wall there.
Speaker 8 (18:36):
Just a minute, Captain young man.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
You talking to me, ma'am.
Speaker 8 (18:41):
I am indeed your order to mister Burgess, all the
lemon extract, all the coloone yes, ma'am. May I ask
what you're planning to do with it?
Speaker 4 (18:51):
Why drink it, ma'am.
Speaker 8 (18:53):
Drink it?
Speaker 4 (18:54):
Well, maybe not all of it. I'll sell some chances.
I maybe give some now and again to my friend.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Drink it.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
Well, ma'am, you strain extractor, that old stuff through some
coarse bread. You gotta find about your alcohol now. Myself,
i'd rather have glass of beer, but we can't get
that no more here. So well, man's left to his
own devices. You might say, thank you, guys, I just
(19:22):
hope it did the trick all right.
Speaker 5 (19:24):
Now we almost have this set it up so that
let me see what that that comes to? Fifty seven
dollars and forty three cents.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
Hogan plenty. I've been thinking this over. Eh huh.
Speaker 5 (19:39):
Well, I tell you what I'm gonna do. I sent
you such a good customer. I'm gonna let you have
a whole thing for fifty seven dollars and thirty three cents.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
You drink it, pliny. I'm going to lay me a
village for beer.
Speaker 8 (20:08):
Why, Captain, you've come to say goodbye.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
I wasn't sure i'd be welcome. Missus semes To Major
tells me you were a while settling down.
Speaker 8 (20:17):
I very nearly faded.
Speaker 4 (20:20):
You may as well know that, if it make you
feel any better, it was all made up for your benefit.
Speaker 8 (20:25):
Man, So Major Daggett assured me. Oh, my captain, I'm
going back to Washington with a brand new outlook. I
think our Committee on Moral Improvement may just revise its
thinking of it.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
You talked to the Post surgeon.
Speaker 8 (20:39):
Indeed I did. I'm taking the entire matter up with
all of official Washington. Yes, and I want to thank
you for opening my eyes, Captain, and that nice orderly
of yours. Yes, Trooper Harrison, he's the one who makes
those nice outdoor stones. He was booking last evening down
(21:01):
by the Laramie River. I was out from my evening, Constitutional,
and he explained it all to me about his stove,
a retort, a condenser and a receiver.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Harrison.
Speaker 4 (21:14):
He called it the stove.
Speaker 8 (21:16):
Oh, he had some other name for it, a foolish name.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
To foolish name, like like a still.
Speaker 8 (21:22):
Yes, but I could see it was a stove. He's
promised to send me the plans, show me just how to.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
Make it, Missus Fimes, do that Stove's just oh.
Speaker 8 (21:32):
My goodness, the stage is very Goodbye, Captain.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Bye, Missus Fimester.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Fort Laramie is produced and directed by Norman McDonald and
stars Raymond Burr as Lee Quince, Captain of Cavalry with
Vic Perron 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 Howard mcneer, Jeanette Nolan and
(22:20):
Sam Edwards. Jack Moyles is Major Diggett and Harry Bartel
is Lieutenant Seyberts.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Company.
Speaker 4 (22:44):
Tencent dismiss.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Next week on the Transcribe story of the Northwest Frontier
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