June 6, 2025 • 30 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 Galla Wow Fort Laramie, Fort Laramie, starring Raymond
(00:52):
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 2 (01:25):
Captain. Oh, sergeant, these men are answering surgeon's call Atkin, Chapman, Furnace, Harrison, Holt, Hook, Horner, Madison, Miller, Shaw. Right,
hold it, sergeant, it's reading like a roll call of
Bee Company. It's close to that, sir. How many total?
(01:45):
Twenty six? Yesterday it was eighteen. That's right, sir. This
keeps up. We won't have a man answering fatigue call
or guard Mountain another couple of days. What's the matter
with Bee Company, Sergeant? I don't know, sir. You ask
the man. I figured that's a job for the post surgeon. Yeah,
I'll be interested in the hospital reports. All right, that's all, sergeant, Yes, sir,
(02:12):
sergeant guards, Yes, sir, is your name on that list
by any chance? No, sir, are you ailing? No, sir?
You sure, yes, sir, I'm sure, all right? Sergeant, that's
(02:33):
all yes, sir.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
F Company fourteen men on surgeon's call. D Company nineteen,
B Company twenty six. At this rate, we can hold
tomorrow morning's drill on the hospital ground.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
So he's got most of the garrison over there, all right.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
B Company seems to be suffering the most, Captain, any explanations,
not till.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
I see the surgeons report. I went over to the
hospital right after fatigue call. Major Trucks was too busy
to talk, he said, in a couple hours he'd know something.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Fifty nine men, it's begin to look like an epidemic.
M Maybe you have some reservation about it.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Well, depends on what you call an epidemic, an epidemic
of real sickness. Anyway, real sickness. I'm saying, maybe they're
just bored, And I'm saying, if they are, it's a
hard sickness to cure.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Your cure boredom with activity, Captain, lots of.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
It, different activity. Major Daggett, what do you mean, Well,
I'll take B Company. We haven't been off the garrison
for nearly two months. The days are all alike. The
men do the same things the same way, day after day.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Army life depends on routine KEPN.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Because it's the most efficient way to organize men. That's right,
when that efficiency begins to break down, to stick to
the routine just because it's the army way, of course,
not well, that's what I mean by different activity.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Well, let's look at our routine. Captain, first call for
Rebelly's at five point twenty, revelley five point thirty, breakfast
call five forty, first call for drill six', ten drill
six fifteen to seven, fifteen recall from drill and surgeons
call fatigue, call and he changes so far it.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Might make some in fatigue. Call they don't clean up the,
post then when would they do? It they clean the
post for four hours before dinner and three hours before.
Supper that's a lot of redding.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Up, yeah it, Is but we'relieving some of the.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Men isn't the. Answer they could change Off bendel can
always use some help of the, sawmill and the chaplain's
an awful busy man tending the post garden by himself
most of the. Time it's something to think.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
About of, course we don't know yet if we're battling
an epidemic of.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Boredom no, no we don't you going over to the.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Hospital, YEAH i THOUGHT i would Tell Major. TRUCKS i
know he's been, busy but he hasn't fired his receipts
of canned good shipments from The east for a.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Month.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Now he's holding up our, paperwork can, goods, fruit some, vegetables.
Saltfish you've been getting any fruit or vegetables? Tea, no
but we're being billed for. It apparently it's been sent.
Here That's Major trucks. Department you just tell HIM i need,
receipts all.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Right, major, morning chaplain, Morning Captain, quince looks like you
(06:06):
need to pick more in a. Shovel we need rayin,
WORSE i don't think The lord means for me to
have a. Garden sometimes, garden chaplain, well and potatoes, anyway
and hardy as they, are they don't grow well in hard.
Pain The major was talking about putting garden detail and. Fatigue.
(06:26):
CALL i guess you could use some. Help he spoke
of it just this, morning just a few minutes. AGO
i thought you could use a, hand a, hand just
a few minutes.
Speaker 5 (06:39):
AGO i put my shovel, aside looked up and said, aloud.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Let thine hand help, me FOR i have chosen thy.
Speaker 5 (06:45):
PRECEPTS i don't know your, Belief, captain but mine rests
strongly on the power of.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Prayer, well, no this, Helped. Chaplain it wouldn't be altogether. Unselfish, oh,
no help is all. Together and so we were thinking
the men might spark a little to garden. DETAIL a
lot of them come from. Farms i've watched them come
over here to the hospital from.
Speaker 5 (07:10):
Drill some of them just boys and their, teens shuffling
along like sick old. MEN i wonder if gardening is the.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Answer. Man i'm Hoping Major trucks is finding that out right.
Now have have any of them complained to, You? Chaplain? Complained,
well if they're not, sick if they're just, tired if
they got a belly full of the, army they'd be
likely to tell. You some of them. Would, well it
(07:42):
would help if we, Knew.
Speaker 5 (07:44):
Captain the men who seek me out know that their
conversations are held in highest.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Confidence, Well i'm not asking you to break faith with, Them.
Chaplain but this, sickness whatever it, is is. Growing you'd
think it's a morale. Problem i've seen it. Happen it's
as effective as typhoid for making men. Useless if it
gets a, HOLD i can promise you, This.
Speaker 5 (08:07):
KEPTAIN i won't give you any, names but IF i
get more than my share of men telling me they've
got a ballet, full as you, Say i'll see The
major hears about.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
It you'll be seeing the sick later and pray. Informed
well luck with your potato. Patch thank, You. Katin that's, right.
Speaker 6 (08:51):
Man put them as close together as you. Can we
need as many cots as we can get in the.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Cordor you got an. Emerge you can see on your,
hands major.
Speaker 6 (09:01):
Trucks i've got a twelve bed ward and fifty nine.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Patients, captain you had time to figure what it is
that's laying so many men.
Speaker 6 (09:08):
Low i'm not through examining them all so. Far it
could be fifty nine separate ailments.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Or two or. One ANYTHING i can, do you can
get me a bigger.
Speaker 6 (09:18):
Hospital the ward's. Full i'm using the dining, room the isolation,
rooms in the orderly.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Rooms NOW i can set up. Cots you got plenty so.
Far The major knows about, this does? He he knows
there's fifty nine men on surgeons? Call what does he?
Say he's waiting for your.
Speaker 6 (09:33):
Report he's got a long wait coming.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Mention some other. Paperwork receipts for can goods just got
here this.
Speaker 6 (09:39):
Morning for shipments we've had in five weeks through, vegetables
salt fish not unpacked.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
Yet hasn't been.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Time there must have been some shipments that didn't get.
Through major, says he's been billed for over a month.
Now that's happened. Before trains and. Stages sometimes they're way. Laid,
captain you've got some, time lots of. Time let's go
over to the storage. Room unpack that can good SO
i can handle. It no, need you're leaving the.
Speaker 6 (10:02):
Men it might be nothing more important for me to
do right now than unpack that.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Food we need, help, though all, Right i'll round up
WHAT i. Can i'll meet you at the storage. Room,
(10:28):
well no label on this? Batch what carton did these
cans come? From? Sergeant SERGEANT i don't, know, sir not
any way of finding. Out i'm just on a loading, Grate.
SIR i ain't paying any mind the. Labels open this
can for, Me, Sergeant you tired, too kep open. It
(10:57):
i'll get. It goes couldn't seem to hold it fast.
Here i'll try it again, Here, Gors wait a, Minute,
gours are you? Sick i'm? Tired maybe sick and. TIRED
i don't. Know i'm going back to my. Quarters, CAPTAIN
(11:19):
i just Can't. Gours why, Not.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
Major Dr.
Speaker 7 (11:25):
What go to?
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Him you got to tremble and said he was going
back to his, quarters and he walked right into a
stack of. Crates let's have a, Look Major. Major he,
Breathing his pulse is very.
Speaker 6 (11:44):
Slow you you talked to him just before this, happened
and he said he was.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
TIRED i knew that he's been dragging for the past.
Week yours don't drag major. Trucks let's there's something real
wrong with.
Speaker 6 (11:59):
Him men just like him upstairs in the, ward played, out,
Exhausted he couldn't lift a tin can.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Besides being so. Tired did he seem changed act? Different you,
MEAN i like he didn't?
Speaker 6 (12:13):
Care, yes so, insolent insubordinate even oh for, Him, yeah
we Were. Nelson, yes take the sergeant up to the isolation.
Room tell my order to se he's. Comfortable captain might
outside a?
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Minute, now what About?
Speaker 6 (12:28):
Gorse IF i told you that whole shipment of canned food.
Spoiled would that seem like an answer.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
About Gors, no it. Wouldn't you you can't be talking
about food. Poisoning no one's eating any of that canned,
food not food. Poisoning we can handle, That.
Speaker 6 (12:46):
Captain the man up there in the, hospital sixty of
them now With Sergeant. Gorse some of them got, pain some,
haven't some are, bleeding some. AREN'T a few of them
are complaining of their, teeth and some of, them Like,
gorse aren't. Complaining they're just sitting or laying and staring straight.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
AHEAD i was willing to call it bored and made
a big speech To Major daggett about changing their, routine
lifting their, morale maybe helping the chaplain with his.
Speaker 6 (13:20):
GARDEN i wish they were. Bored i'd give anything if they, Were,
Captain i'm scared of.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Death oh you'll find out what it, is you always.
DO i know what it, is all those men with different,
complaints that they all have the same thing in different.
Stages it's. Scurvy, Yeah i've been afraid of. It that's
(13:51):
WHY i requisitioned the can fruit and. Vegetables they'd have
helped if we could use. Them scurvy being what it
is a deficiency. Disease it's just about the easiest thing
in the world to.
Speaker 6 (14:01):
Cure all you gotta do is feed the patients plenty
of fresh fruit and.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Vegetables now look at The chaplin's garden, potatoes and not
many of. Them that's the trouble with the high.
Speaker 6 (14:09):
Planes short, seasons too much, rain too, little too cold in,
winter too hot in.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Summer my, me In, major if we can't get them
the right, food they'll. Die.
Speaker 6 (14:22):
Captain there won't be a thing we can do but let.
Speaker 8 (14:26):
Them reply From Fort, Fataman captain regret no fresh vegetables
(14:46):
or fruit. Here sending patrol to ranches in area not.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Hopeful fetterment's too. Close we can't raise. Vegetables they. Can't
who else you, Telegraph Lieutenant Fort sanders Can't, Brown Fort,
bridger And brown's over in the Wind river rains bridges
at least one hundred miles.
Speaker 9 (15:05):
Further, Well, Sir Major daggetts, said to try them.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
All they're too far. AWAY i know that's, sure you,
do Mister. Sebitts But i'll keep. TRYING i, will, Sir
and any words you, get no matter where it's, from
don't turn any of it, down, yes, Sir, Captain, yeah.
Speaker 9 (15:29):
Sir i've read a lot about, scurvy what causes, it
what cures.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
It it can be cured with the right.
Speaker 9 (15:35):
Food The British navy practically wiped it out as long
ago as seventeen ninety, five so there is Hope.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Captain wiped it. Out how misters lime? Juice, yeah lime, juice, yes.
Sir they made it a.
Speaker 9 (15:52):
Regulation each man was served a specific quantity of lime
juice each, day and the threat of scurvy the ship
cruise just.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Vanished Mister cybert's lines are kind of hard to come
by in the High.
Speaker 9 (16:03):
Plains, WELL i just thought if you knew there was,
hope you'd feel better.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
About Thanks. Captain i'm not the one to worry ABOUT i, know.
Sir but but but thanks. Lutan and if you hear
about any, lines even as far away As Fort, bridger
and don't turn him.
Speaker 10 (16:28):
Down the last two settlers have spoken of a.
Speaker 5 (16:45):
Huckster captain of the man who's been through here selling
eggs and fresh vegetable five.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Days, ago, chaplain he could be anywhere by.
Speaker 5 (16:52):
Now the last settler said five. Days the one before said.
Six we're getting closer to.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Him you still, praying. Chapleen of course you're long on,
hope aren't you? Say you call it, Hope, Captain my
word is. Faith but the word doesn't. Matter i'm long on.
Speaker 10 (17:15):
It, Yes i've built my life on.
Speaker 11 (17:17):
It another settler d and a fortunate settler. Too that
stream is life to him Lodge Fold.
Speaker 12 (17:27):
Creek it's a better, day, Captain.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
And i'll take your word for.
Speaker 5 (17:33):
That, no, no even for a, realist it's a better.
Day we sent two sacks of onions back To Port
laramie this. Morning we didn't do that, yesterday all.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Right, chaplain it's a better day. Patrol oh, afternoon, mister
afternoon to you. Soldiers we're down From Fort laramie looking
for fresh fruit.
Speaker 13 (18:00):
Vegetables, oh you got a good bit of looking ahead
of your, soldier got.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Potatoes we got potatoes.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
TOO i had some.
Speaker 13 (18:08):
Corn but then you, know my woman took, sick and
caring for, her the corn went, bad dried.
Speaker 12 (18:14):
Out it makes a good, fire, though the dry. Corn
i've been using it to.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Cook with saving the LOGS i am oh for.
Speaker 13 (18:21):
Winter you know what cold is sin up here in the.
WINTERS i don't lay in dry logs.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
Now my woman will just freeze this.
Speaker 5 (18:28):
Winter she's in the, cabin your.
Speaker 12 (18:31):
Wife she ain't moved out of that cabin there in
more than a.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Month or would you mind IF i went in see?
Speaker 12 (18:37):
Her see you some kind of.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Doctor this is our chaplain post chaplain At Fort. Laramie.
Speaker 12 (18:43):
Chaplain that's like a, parson like a.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
Parson, well she's a god feared.
Speaker 13 (18:50):
Woman you know you'll find that book there's right beside the,
bed and it just might ease her some talking to a.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Parson there's, time, captain you know what you have to,
Do chapman Carbl. Jenkins throw the patrol down to the.
Stream well one of the horses while we.
Speaker 13 (19:10):
Stopped you, know it's just a pity you didn't come
through here a couple of days, ago, soldier because a
huckster come. THROUGH i don't know as he had any,
fruit but he had himself a big load of.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Vegetables, yeah we've been hearing about.
Speaker 13 (19:22):
Him i'd had the, Price i'd have stocked up for
the woman and. Me but, you, oh they come, high
they come too, high head and south They, yeah he
said he was bound For. Cheyenne maybe they can meet
his price in. Town that the, Way but it's too
steep for a.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
Nester.
Speaker 13 (19:37):
SEE i had my eye and some old stalks he
had was going to see the, oars AND i figured for,
planting you. Know but he just wasn't the mine to trade.
Nothing he said he'd let him spoil before.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
He cut his. Price, oh you're trying to trade. Potatoes
he wouldn't hear to.
Speaker 12 (19:53):
That, no, SIR i was willing to trade. Him say so,
older you got, THIRST i mean the real. Thirst. Eh,
yeah that, parson he's going to be a. While you
come along with.
Speaker 13 (20:09):
Me keep it in the, cellar you know now that
my woman don't use it for storing what she puts.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Up what are you talking, about, Mister oh you'll.
Speaker 12 (20:19):
See you'll see here, NOW i just keep it right back.
Speaker 13 (20:25):
Here, now mind your. Feet there's a sad step or,
two and it's pitch. Dark whereas once we get, there
dark sure don't.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Matter, yeah damp down here kind of. Musty, oh it's all.
Speaker 12 (20:44):
Right you ain't got a complaint in the, world no.
Where see what we're looking.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
For you don't have to.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
See help, yourself soldier and the corn, whiskey corn.
Speaker 13 (21:01):
WHISKY i don't have the patience for. THAT i told you,
ANYWAYS i had to burn my. Corn, oh sur this
is hard sighter?
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Here, yeah, no, no you drink.
Speaker 12 (21:14):
IT i mean. To it's just more neighborly if you
take a swig first and get on with. It i'm
dry as a.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Bone i'm not too keen on hearts at.
Speaker 12 (21:24):
Him oh you're thinking about the other. Man WELL i
sold this, here little. Jug this wouldn't make the rounds
a hot day like.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
This oh all, right.
Speaker 12 (21:45):
That hits a, spot don't. It?
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Eh that's pure. Vinegar?
Speaker 4 (21:53):
Really OH i call that.
Speaker 12 (21:55):
Right pick you in my way of. Thinking, here give
me that. JUG i got a better feeling for.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
It mm.
Speaker 4 (22:05):
Hmmm oh that's. Smooth yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
That's.
Speaker 13 (22:16):
Smooth swigging that now and again just make a man
forget his lot in.
Speaker 14 (22:23):
Life wait a, minute how much of that you, got?
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Mister?
Speaker 12 (22:37):
Yeah that kind of grows on your.
Speaker 13 (22:40):
Donus you know, What that's gonna make you feel better
once you come out of the.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
Coffin, NO i want to know how much Of?
Speaker 4 (22:47):
God, OH i got a good bit of.
Speaker 12 (22:49):
IT i make this up every, year whether there's need or.
NOT i. Do my woman, now she just can't understand
how there's.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
No crops around.
Speaker 12 (23:01):
Praise.
Speaker 13 (23:01):
BE i got it put up in pickle barrels and all,
sizes jugs up and.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Down i'll buy it from, you all of it at
a fair.
Speaker 13 (23:10):
Price, well now we could use the, money all of.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
It, Yeah i'll buy it all and give you back two.
Jugs fair praise Be.
Speaker 13 (23:25):
Soldier i'd done the sight of, praying BUT i never
figured are you down?
Speaker 2 (23:28):
There i'm coming right, up. Chaplin, well, mister, WELL i.
Speaker 12 (23:33):
Don't see HOW i can rightly. Refuse you'll pay for
what you give me.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Back uh you said a. Price i'll talk to you.
LATER i was looking for you down at the. Stream.
Speaker 5 (23:48):
Captain our prayer has been answered.
Speaker 10 (23:50):
All along the, stream both.
Speaker 5 (23:52):
Sides your wild, berries, raspberries, currants, blackberries all, kinds of,
course the man are picking.
Speaker 10 (23:58):
Them.
Speaker 5 (23:58):
Now we'll take back all we can, carry And i'm
selecting some strong young bushes to transplant along the North.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
Platte you're very, pleased don't. You i'm more hysterical than.
Speaker 5 (24:10):
Anything and that good woman in the cabin, says The
indians on The shy And agency grow asparagus and rhubarb
like it was buffalo.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Grass, captain have you been? DRINKING i, SURE i have
chaplain vinegar? Vinegar, well the settler calls it, hardsider and
maybe it was, once but it's sure pure, vinegar now?
Speaker 5 (24:35):
Vinegar Why Major truck said vinegar could be a help
in arresting the tide of.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
SCURVY i. Did i'm buying all the settler's. Got you're.
Speaker 5 (24:46):
Certain it's, vinegar because if it, Isn't i'd have to
search my.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
Soul, chaplains take my word it's, vinegar and look on.
It this, Way god moves in a mysterious way his
wonders to. Perform, yes, yes, CAPTAIN i BELIEVE i will.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
That, You.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Captain what does it look like a stack of? Crates?
Yeah you still playing at being a sick? Man goers
eats a good life beats being a first. Sergeant i'll
be a, company can still use one. Anytime you want
to give up your act here and come. Back, OH
i ain't coming back as a first sergeant this, Time.
(25:50):
Captain i've been doing a lot of dreaming about. That
oh we might break down a stripe or, two seeing
you probably couldn't handle the work. Anyway you just keep to,
Captain i'll keep. Dreaming you'll See i'm coming back at
least a, major maybe even a, colonel going to take
over the. Post, now, no, no just b, company just
(26:12):
for a day or, two long enough to get a
captain busted. OUT i never counted on your. Gratitude now
we got to get a captain For bee. Company who
don't go around foisting vinegar on a sick man in
the name of hard. Cider you're talking out of a.
Fever i'm gonna Tell Major trucks to keep you here
if it isn't too hard in the rest of the.
Ward OH i am go back to your, dream. Captain, yeah,
(26:41):
thanks you get. Well one day we'll we'll go back
and thank that.
Speaker 7 (26:50):
Settler Fort laramie is produced and directed By norman MacDonell
(27:12):
and Stars Raymond burr As Lee, Quints captain Of, cavalry
With Vic perrin As Sergeant. Gorse the script was specially
written For Fort laramie By kathleen hit With son patterns
By Bill james And Tom, henley musical supervision By Amerigo.
Marino featured in the cast Were Parley, Bear Paul duboff
And Lawrence. Dubkin Jack moyles Is Major, daggett And Harry
(27:35):
bartel Is Lieutenant.
Speaker 4 (27:37):
Seyberts company tensent.
Speaker 7 (28:00):
Dismiss next week another transcribed story of The Northwest frontiers
and the troopers who fought under Lee, Quins captain Of.
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(28:30):
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Speaker 10 (28:55):
Message
At the Galla Wow Fort Laramie, Fort Laramie, starring Raymond
(00:52):
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 2 (01:25):
Captain. Oh, sergeant, these men are answering surgeon's call Atkin, Chapman, Furnace, Harrison, Holt, Hook, Horner, Madison, Miller, Shaw. Right,
hold it, sergeant, it's reading like a roll call of
Bee Company. It's close to that, sir. How many total?
(01:45):
Twenty six? Yesterday it was eighteen. That's right, sir. This
keeps up. We won't have a man answering fatigue call
or guard Mountain another couple of days. What's the matter
with Bee Company, Sergeant? I don't know, sir. You ask
the man. I figured that's a job for the post surgeon. Yeah,
I'll be interested in the hospital reports. All right, that's all, sergeant, Yes, sir,
(02:12):
sergeant guards, Yes, sir, is your name on that list
by any chance? No, sir, are you ailing? No, sir?
You sure, yes, sir, I'm sure, all right? Sergeant, that's
(02:33):
all yes, sir.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
F Company fourteen men on surgeon's call. D Company nineteen,
B Company twenty six. At this rate, we can hold
tomorrow morning's drill on the hospital ground.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
So he's got most of the garrison over there, all right.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
B Company seems to be suffering the most, Captain, any explanations,
not till.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
I see the surgeons report. I went over to the
hospital right after fatigue call. Major Trucks was too busy
to talk, he said, in a couple hours he'd know something.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Fifty nine men, it's begin to look like an epidemic.
M Maybe you have some reservation about it.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Well, depends on what you call an epidemic, an epidemic
of real sickness. Anyway, real sickness. I'm saying, maybe they're
just bored, And I'm saying, if they are, it's a
hard sickness to cure.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Your cure boredom with activity, Captain, lots of.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
It, different activity. Major Daggett, what do you mean, Well,
I'll take B Company. We haven't been off the garrison
for nearly two months. The days are all alike. The
men do the same things the same way, day after day.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Army life depends on routine KEPN.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Because it's the most efficient way to organize men. That's right,
when that efficiency begins to break down, to stick to
the routine just because it's the army way, of course,
not well, that's what I mean by different activity.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Well, let's look at our routine. Captain, first call for
Rebelly's at five point twenty, revelley five point thirty, breakfast
call five forty, first call for drill six', ten drill
six fifteen to seven, fifteen recall from drill and surgeons
call fatigue, call and he changes so far it.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Might make some in fatigue. Call they don't clean up the,
post then when would they do? It they clean the
post for four hours before dinner and three hours before.
Supper that's a lot of redding.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Up, yeah it, Is but we'relieving some of the.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Men isn't the. Answer they could change Off bendel can
always use some help of the, sawmill and the chaplain's
an awful busy man tending the post garden by himself
most of the. Time it's something to think.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
About of, course we don't know yet if we're battling
an epidemic of.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Boredom no, no we don't you going over to the.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Hospital, YEAH i THOUGHT i would Tell Major. TRUCKS i
know he's been, busy but he hasn't fired his receipts
of canned good shipments from The east for a.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Month.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Now he's holding up our, paperwork can, goods, fruit some, vegetables.
Saltfish you've been getting any fruit or vegetables? Tea, no
but we're being billed for. It apparently it's been sent.
Here That's Major trucks. Department you just tell HIM i need,
receipts all.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Right, major, morning chaplain, Morning Captain, quince looks like you
(06:06):
need to pick more in a. Shovel we need rayin,
WORSE i don't think The lord means for me to
have a. Garden sometimes, garden chaplain, well and potatoes, anyway
and hardy as they, are they don't grow well in hard.
Pain The major was talking about putting garden detail and. Fatigue.
(06:26):
CALL i guess you could use some. Help he spoke
of it just this, morning just a few minutes. AGO
i thought you could use a, hand a, hand just
a few minutes.
Speaker 5 (06:39):
AGO i put my shovel, aside looked up and said, aloud.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Let thine hand help, me FOR i have chosen thy.
Speaker 5 (06:45):
PRECEPTS i don't know your, Belief, captain but mine rests
strongly on the power of.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Prayer, well, no this, Helped. Chaplain it wouldn't be altogether. Unselfish, oh,
no help is all. Together and so we were thinking
the men might spark a little to garden. DETAIL a
lot of them come from. Farms i've watched them come
over here to the hospital from.
Speaker 5 (07:10):
Drill some of them just boys and their, teens shuffling
along like sick old. MEN i wonder if gardening is the.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Answer. Man i'm Hoping Major trucks is finding that out right.
Now have have any of them complained to, You? Chaplain? Complained,
well if they're not, sick if they're just, tired if
they got a belly full of the, army they'd be
likely to tell. You some of them. Would, well it
(07:42):
would help if we, Knew.
Speaker 5 (07:44):
Captain the men who seek me out know that their
conversations are held in highest.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Confidence, Well i'm not asking you to break faith with, Them.
Chaplain but this, sickness whatever it, is is. Growing you'd
think it's a morale. Problem i've seen it. Happen it's
as effective as typhoid for making men. Useless if it
gets a, HOLD i can promise you, This.
Speaker 5 (08:07):
KEPTAIN i won't give you any, names but IF i
get more than my share of men telling me they've
got a ballet, full as you, Say i'll see The
major hears about.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
It you'll be seeing the sick later and pray. Informed
well luck with your potato. Patch thank, You. Katin that's, right.
Speaker 6 (08:51):
Man put them as close together as you. Can we
need as many cots as we can get in the.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Cordor you got an. Emerge you can see on your,
hands major.
Speaker 6 (09:01):
Trucks i've got a twelve bed ward and fifty nine.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Patients, captain you had time to figure what it is
that's laying so many men.
Speaker 6 (09:08):
Low i'm not through examining them all so. Far it
could be fifty nine separate ailments.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Or two or. One ANYTHING i can, do you can
get me a bigger.
Speaker 6 (09:18):
Hospital the ward's. Full i'm using the dining, room the isolation,
rooms in the orderly.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Rooms NOW i can set up. Cots you got plenty so.
Far The major knows about, this does? He he knows
there's fifty nine men on surgeons? Call what does he?
Say he's waiting for your.
Speaker 6 (09:33):
Report he's got a long wait coming.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Mention some other. Paperwork receipts for can goods just got
here this.
Speaker 6 (09:39):
Morning for shipments we've had in five weeks through, vegetables
salt fish not unpacked.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
Yet hasn't been.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Time there must have been some shipments that didn't get.
Through major, says he's been billed for over a month.
Now that's happened. Before trains and. Stages sometimes they're way. Laid,
captain you've got some, time lots of. Time let's go
over to the storage. Room unpack that can good SO
i can handle. It no, need you're leaving the.
Speaker 6 (10:02):
Men it might be nothing more important for me to
do right now than unpack that.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Food we need, help, though all, Right i'll round up
WHAT i. Can i'll meet you at the storage. Room,
(10:28):
well no label on this? Batch what carton did these
cans come? From? Sergeant SERGEANT i don't, know, sir not
any way of finding. Out i'm just on a loading, Grate.
SIR i ain't paying any mind the. Labels open this
can for, Me, Sergeant you tired, too kep open. It
(10:57):
i'll get. It goes couldn't seem to hold it fast.
Here i'll try it again, Here, Gors wait a, Minute,
gours are you? Sick i'm? Tired maybe sick and. TIRED
i don't. Know i'm going back to my. Quarters, CAPTAIN
(11:19):
i just Can't. Gours why, Not.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
Major Dr.
Speaker 7 (11:25):
What go to?
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Him you got to tremble and said he was going
back to his, quarters and he walked right into a
stack of. Crates let's have a, Look Major. Major he,
Breathing his pulse is very.
Speaker 6 (11:44):
Slow you you talked to him just before this, happened
and he said he was.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
TIRED i knew that he's been dragging for the past.
Week yours don't drag major. Trucks let's there's something real
wrong with.
Speaker 6 (11:59):
Him men just like him upstairs in the, ward played, out,
Exhausted he couldn't lift a tin can.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Besides being so. Tired did he seem changed act? Different you,
MEAN i like he didn't?
Speaker 6 (12:13):
Care, yes so, insolent insubordinate even oh for, Him, yeah
we Were. Nelson, yes take the sergeant up to the isolation.
Room tell my order to se he's. Comfortable captain might
outside a?
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Minute, now what About?
Speaker 6 (12:28):
Gorse IF i told you that whole shipment of canned food.
Spoiled would that seem like an answer.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
About Gors, no it. Wouldn't you you can't be talking
about food. Poisoning no one's eating any of that canned,
food not food. Poisoning we can handle, That.
Speaker 6 (12:46):
Captain the man up there in the, hospital sixty of
them now With Sergeant. Gorse some of them got, pain some,
haven't some are, bleeding some. AREN'T a few of them
are complaining of their, teeth and some of, them Like,
gorse aren't. Complaining they're just sitting or laying and staring straight.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
AHEAD i was willing to call it bored and made
a big speech To Major daggett about changing their, routine
lifting their, morale maybe helping the chaplain with his.
Speaker 6 (13:20):
GARDEN i wish they were. Bored i'd give anything if they, Were,
Captain i'm scared of.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Death oh you'll find out what it, is you always.
DO i know what it, is all those men with different,
complaints that they all have the same thing in different.
Stages it's. Scurvy, Yeah i've been afraid of. It that's
(13:51):
WHY i requisitioned the can fruit and. Vegetables they'd have
helped if we could use. Them scurvy being what it
is a deficiency. Disease it's just about the easiest thing
in the world to.
Speaker 6 (14:01):
Cure all you gotta do is feed the patients plenty
of fresh fruit and.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Vegetables now look at The chaplin's garden, potatoes and not
many of. Them that's the trouble with the high.
Speaker 6 (14:09):
Planes short, seasons too much, rain too, little too cold in,
winter too hot in.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Summer my, me In, major if we can't get them
the right, food they'll. Die.
Speaker 6 (14:22):
Captain there won't be a thing we can do but let.
Speaker 8 (14:26):
Them reply From Fort, Fataman captain regret no fresh vegetables
(14:46):
or fruit. Here sending patrol to ranches in area not.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Hopeful fetterment's too. Close we can't raise. Vegetables they. Can't
who else you, Telegraph Lieutenant Fort sanders Can't, Brown Fort,
bridger And brown's over in the Wind river rains bridges
at least one hundred miles.
Speaker 9 (15:05):
Further, Well, Sir Major daggetts, said to try them.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
All they're too far. AWAY i know that's, sure you,
do Mister. Sebitts But i'll keep. TRYING i, will, Sir
and any words you, get no matter where it's, from
don't turn any of it, down, yes, Sir, Captain, yeah.
Speaker 9 (15:29):
Sir i've read a lot about, scurvy what causes, it
what cures.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
It it can be cured with the right.
Speaker 9 (15:35):
Food The British navy practically wiped it out as long
ago as seventeen ninety, five so there is Hope.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Captain wiped it. Out how misters lime? Juice, yeah lime, juice, yes.
Sir they made it a.
Speaker 9 (15:52):
Regulation each man was served a specific quantity of lime
juice each, day and the threat of scurvy the ship
cruise just.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Vanished Mister cybert's lines are kind of hard to come
by in the High.
Speaker 9 (16:03):
Plains, WELL i just thought if you knew there was,
hope you'd feel better.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
About Thanks. Captain i'm not the one to worry ABOUT i, know.
Sir but but but thanks. Lutan and if you hear
about any, lines even as far away As Fort, bridger
and don't turn him.
Speaker 10 (16:28):
Down the last two settlers have spoken of a.
Speaker 5 (16:45):
Huckster captain of the man who's been through here selling
eggs and fresh vegetable five.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Days, ago, chaplain he could be anywhere by.
Speaker 5 (16:52):
Now the last settler said five. Days the one before said.
Six we're getting closer to.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Him you still, praying. Chapleen of course you're long on,
hope aren't you? Say you call it, Hope, Captain my
word is. Faith but the word doesn't. Matter i'm long on.
Speaker 10 (17:15):
It, Yes i've built my life on.
Speaker 11 (17:17):
It another settler d and a fortunate settler. Too that
stream is life to him Lodge Fold.
Speaker 12 (17:27):
Creek it's a better, day, Captain.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
And i'll take your word for.
Speaker 5 (17:33):
That, no, no even for a, realist it's a better.
Day we sent two sacks of onions back To Port
laramie this. Morning we didn't do that, yesterday all.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Right, chaplain it's a better day. Patrol oh, afternoon, mister
afternoon to you. Soldiers we're down From Fort laramie looking
for fresh fruit.
Speaker 13 (18:00):
Vegetables, oh you got a good bit of looking ahead
of your, soldier got.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Potatoes we got potatoes.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
TOO i had some.
Speaker 13 (18:08):
Corn but then you, know my woman took, sick and
caring for, her the corn went, bad dried.
Speaker 12 (18:14):
Out it makes a good, fire, though the dry. Corn
i've been using it to.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Cook with saving the LOGS i am oh for.
Speaker 13 (18:21):
Winter you know what cold is sin up here in the.
WINTERS i don't lay in dry logs.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
Now my woman will just freeze this.
Speaker 5 (18:28):
Winter she's in the, cabin your.
Speaker 12 (18:31):
Wife she ain't moved out of that cabin there in
more than a.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Month or would you mind IF i went in see?
Speaker 12 (18:37):
Her see you some kind of.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Doctor this is our chaplain post chaplain At Fort. Laramie.
Speaker 12 (18:43):
Chaplain that's like a, parson like a.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
Parson, well she's a god feared.
Speaker 13 (18:50):
Woman you know you'll find that book there's right beside the,
bed and it just might ease her some talking to a.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Parson there's, time, captain you know what you have to,
Do chapman Carbl. Jenkins throw the patrol down to the.
Stream well one of the horses while we.
Speaker 13 (19:10):
Stopped you, know it's just a pity you didn't come
through here a couple of days, ago, soldier because a
huckster come. THROUGH i don't know as he had any,
fruit but he had himself a big load of.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Vegetables, yeah we've been hearing about.
Speaker 13 (19:22):
Him i'd had the, Price i'd have stocked up for
the woman and. Me but, you, oh they come, high
they come too, high head and south They, yeah he
said he was bound For. Cheyenne maybe they can meet
his price in. Town that the, Way but it's too
steep for a.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
Nester.
Speaker 13 (19:37):
SEE i had my eye and some old stalks he
had was going to see the, oars AND i figured for,
planting you. Know but he just wasn't the mine to trade.
Nothing he said he'd let him spoil before.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
He cut his. Price, oh you're trying to trade. Potatoes
he wouldn't hear to.
Speaker 12 (19:53):
That, no, SIR i was willing to trade. Him say so,
older you got, THIRST i mean the real. Thirst. Eh,
yeah that, parson he's going to be a. While you
come along with.
Speaker 13 (20:09):
Me keep it in the, cellar you know now that
my woman don't use it for storing what she puts.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Up what are you talking, about, Mister oh you'll.
Speaker 12 (20:19):
See you'll see here, NOW i just keep it right back.
Speaker 13 (20:25):
Here, now mind your. Feet there's a sad step or,
two and it's pitch. Dark whereas once we get, there
dark sure don't.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Matter, yeah damp down here kind of. Musty, oh it's all.
Speaker 12 (20:44):
Right you ain't got a complaint in the, world no.
Where see what we're looking.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
For you don't have to.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
See help, yourself soldier and the corn, whiskey corn.
Speaker 13 (21:01):
WHISKY i don't have the patience for. THAT i told you,
ANYWAYS i had to burn my. Corn, oh sur this
is hard sighter?
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Here, yeah, no, no you drink.
Speaker 12 (21:14):
IT i mean. To it's just more neighborly if you
take a swig first and get on with. It i'm
dry as a.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Bone i'm not too keen on hearts at.
Speaker 12 (21:24):
Him oh you're thinking about the other. Man WELL i
sold this, here little. Jug this wouldn't make the rounds
a hot day like.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
This oh all, right.
Speaker 12 (21:45):
That hits a, spot don't. It?
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Eh that's pure. Vinegar?
Speaker 4 (21:53):
Really OH i call that.
Speaker 12 (21:55):
Right pick you in my way of. Thinking, here give
me that. JUG i got a better feeling for.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
It mm.
Speaker 4 (22:05):
Hmmm oh that's. Smooth yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
That's.
Speaker 13 (22:16):
Smooth swigging that now and again just make a man
forget his lot in.
Speaker 14 (22:23):
Life wait a, minute how much of that you, got?
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Mister?
Speaker 12 (22:37):
Yeah that kind of grows on your.
Speaker 13 (22:40):
Donus you know, What that's gonna make you feel better
once you come out of the.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
Coffin, NO i want to know how much Of?
Speaker 4 (22:47):
God, OH i got a good bit of.
Speaker 12 (22:49):
IT i make this up every, year whether there's need or.
NOT i. Do my woman, now she just can't understand
how there's.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
No crops around.
Speaker 12 (23:01):
Praise.
Speaker 13 (23:01):
BE i got it put up in pickle barrels and all,
sizes jugs up and.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Down i'll buy it from, you all of it at
a fair.
Speaker 13 (23:10):
Price, well now we could use the, money all of.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
It, Yeah i'll buy it all and give you back two.
Jugs fair praise Be.
Speaker 13 (23:25):
Soldier i'd done the sight of, praying BUT i never
figured are you down?
Speaker 2 (23:28):
There i'm coming right, up. Chaplin, well, mister, WELL i.
Speaker 12 (23:33):
Don't see HOW i can rightly. Refuse you'll pay for
what you give me.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Back uh you said a. Price i'll talk to you.
LATER i was looking for you down at the. Stream.
Speaker 5 (23:48):
Captain our prayer has been answered.
Speaker 10 (23:50):
All along the, stream both.
Speaker 5 (23:52):
Sides your wild, berries, raspberries, currants, blackberries all, kinds of,
course the man are picking.
Speaker 10 (23:58):
Them.
Speaker 5 (23:58):
Now we'll take back all we can, carry And i'm
selecting some strong young bushes to transplant along the North.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
Platte you're very, pleased don't. You i'm more hysterical than.
Speaker 5 (24:10):
Anything and that good woman in the cabin, says The
indians on The shy And agency grow asparagus and rhubarb
like it was buffalo.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Grass, captain have you been? DRINKING i, SURE i have
chaplain vinegar? Vinegar, well the settler calls it, hardsider and
maybe it was, once but it's sure pure, vinegar now?
Speaker 5 (24:35):
Vinegar Why Major truck said vinegar could be a help
in arresting the tide of.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
SCURVY i. Did i'm buying all the settler's. Got you're.
Speaker 5 (24:46):
Certain it's, vinegar because if it, Isn't i'd have to
search my.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
Soul, chaplains take my word it's, vinegar and look on.
It this, Way god moves in a mysterious way his
wonders to. Perform, yes, yes, CAPTAIN i BELIEVE i will.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
That, You.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Captain what does it look like a stack of? Crates?
Yeah you still playing at being a sick? Man goers
eats a good life beats being a first. Sergeant i'll
be a, company can still use one. Anytime you want
to give up your act here and come. Back, OH
i ain't coming back as a first sergeant this, Time.
(25:50):
Captain i've been doing a lot of dreaming about. That
oh we might break down a stripe or, two seeing
you probably couldn't handle the work. Anyway you just keep to,
Captain i'll keep. Dreaming you'll See i'm coming back at
least a, major maybe even a, colonel going to take
over the. Post, now, no, no just b, company just
(26:12):
for a day or, two long enough to get a
captain busted. OUT i never counted on your. Gratitude now
we got to get a captain For bee. Company who
don't go around foisting vinegar on a sick man in
the name of hard. Cider you're talking out of a.
Fever i'm gonna Tell Major trucks to keep you here
if it isn't too hard in the rest of the.
Ward OH i am go back to your, dream. Captain, yeah,
(26:41):
thanks you get. Well one day we'll we'll go back
and thank that.
Speaker 7 (26:50):
Settler Fort laramie is produced and directed By norman MacDonell
(27:12):
and Stars Raymond burr As Lee, Quints captain Of, cavalry
With Vic perrin As Sergeant. Gorse the script was specially
written For Fort laramie By kathleen hit With son patterns
By Bill james And Tom, henley musical supervision By Amerigo.
Marino featured in the cast Were Parley, Bear Paul duboff
And Lawrence. Dubkin Jack moyles Is Major, daggett And Harry
(27:35):
bartel Is Lieutenant.
Speaker 4 (27:37):
Seyberts company tensent.
Speaker 7 (28:00):
Dismiss next week another transcribed story of The Northwest frontiers
and the troopers who fought under Lee, Quins captain Of.
Cavalry handicap workers are good workers with proper. Retraining their
(28:30):
job records compare favorably on the average with able bodied
men and women on the same. Jobs the government is
currently retraining increasing numbers of handicap. Workers an industry must
be ready to absorb. Them for information on the, program
right The Veterans, Administration, washington twenty FIVE. Dc that's The Veterans, Administration,
washington twenty FIVE. Dc this has been A Cbs radio
(28:54):
public service.
Speaker 10 (28:55):
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