August 4, 2025 • 30 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
At the Gatherer.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Fort loam Mee.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Fort Laramie, starring Raymond Burr as Captain lee Quins, especially
transcribed tales of the dark and tragic ground of the
wild Frontier, the fighting men who rode the rim of Empire,
and the dramatic story of lee Quin's Captain of Cavalry.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Is it white Dog's capcer, it's Shoshone that'll make it
White Dogs unless there's more of a Shoshone migration than
we know about.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
You can tell from here at Shoshone.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Look at their huts down there, mister Sebitts made of
grass and brush woven together, not skins like the Sioux
and Cheyenne.
Speaker 5 (01:39):
Doesn't look like there are any lodge poles.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
There aren't.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
They don't have any roofs, any lodge poles, just a
half circle of woven grass. Harrison, Yes, sir, bring on
the white flag, Harrison, you and I are riding in. Yes,
you'll keep the patrol up here, mister Siberts, keep your
eye on Harrison's flag as long as he flies it.
There's no trouble, Yes, sir.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
White Dog will understand that you've just come to power.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
With him going in this way, he'll understand ready, Harrison, Yes, sir,
let's go. Good luck, sir, Thank you, mister Seberts. Watch
it down through here, Harrison.
Speaker 6 (02:17):
I'm watching it.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Major said, a couple of hundred shows. Shony looks smaller
than that to me, Harrison.
Speaker 6 (02:29):
I'll eat everyone over a hundred with fine.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Captain, I don't have your appetite, but the hundred's nearer right. Ah,
they're beginning to notice this. I'll lose all feeling in
my arm.
Speaker 6 (02:46):
I the holeless flag any higher.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Sooner they feeling than the arm Harrison, Yes, sir, Funny,
they wouldn't have no lookouts posted. Either they're not expecting
any trouble or they don't care. You lead me to
white Dog.
Speaker 7 (03:07):
White Dog and council in his hut. Why a white
army come?
Speaker 2 (03:12):
We come in peace to power with white Dog.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
Our flags say that.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Will you lead me to your chief?
Speaker 7 (03:20):
We talk with nina Ba. Why not talk to white
Dog when he talk with ninam Bia.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Just show me where he is, you know Shoshoni legend?
Speaker 7 (03:29):
Yes, I know there in small canyon out by stream.
Follow it you'll find white dog.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
You going up into that canyon, Captain Quince yeap you
stay here, and keep that flag in plain sight, feeling
in your arm or not. Yes, sir, you shouldn't have
any trouble unless it bothers you to be outnumbered by
squaws and kids lungs. They're not mine. They don't fret me, Captain.
Speaker 8 (03:57):
Who's white dog.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Talking to ninam b Yeah? Little people the Shoshone believe
they live in mountain canyons. Their medicine men council with them.
They you see him, They believe they can you see
any of them. You tell me, Captain, I see any
It might be something I'd want to keep to myself.
Stand past Harrison.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Yes, sir, h.
Speaker 9 (04:46):
You need counsel to Captain.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
I need your counsel. My dog.
Speaker 9 (04:55):
Sit mysel. You ride from Fort Laramie to day yesterday.
You and your people must be tired, as my people
are tired.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Your journey has been longer than ours, White Dog, and harder.
Speaker 9 (05:11):
A journey is hard when a heart is heavy. Captain,
we go to our home. This lightens are loaded.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
You are moving your people without permission.
Speaker 9 (05:22):
White Dog Skoshawnee cannot live in countrymen for Ute, hope
Apache Paiute.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
We are not road eaters. We know that I think
my people made a mistake putting Shoshone so far to
the south in desert country. But you have left the reservation,
White Dog.
Speaker 9 (05:45):
You come to take us back.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Now we have come in peace, and you find us
in preece. Captain, you have told me your people are tired,
White Dog. Tired people hungry people sometimes break the piece.
Speaker 9 (06:03):
Then you come to make us less tired, to feed us.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
We have come to find out your needs and to
arrange for your safe passage to your home in the
Wind River Mountains.
Speaker 9 (06:14):
Well and Ninambia told me of your coming. It was
too much to believe. There is no trick.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Who have always believed me before? Right down you, Yes,
how long have you made your camp here?
Speaker 9 (06:35):
Two sons have risen since my people put their hut
by the stream?
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Is it a good camp? You have? Water? Is the
hunting good?
Speaker 9 (06:42):
My braves find game, not buffalo, on which my people
grow strong. They find bear, antelope, deer in our camp, Captain,
our many squaw, many papoos, and not many braves. Our
number was more when we left Apachia Reservation, but our
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journey was hot dry. Now our burial ground is the
length of these great mountains.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
You have traveled too fast, wh God.
Speaker 9 (07:15):
Two enemies have pursued us, the blazing sun and the
fear that when the White army came, it would not
come in peace.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
When your people reach the valleys of the Wind River,
when they are home, they will continue to live in peace.
You have my word, my son, and I give you mine.
Speaker 10 (07:36):
Well.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
We will grant you a safe passage to your home.
You will travel with us. We will camp with you
to night. Tomorrow we will journey together to fort Lyon.
There will be orders waiting for us.
Speaker 11 (07:49):
There you're turning in, Captain.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
M beautiful night. Mister Sibits, you ride about nights like
this in your journal. How can you put the rocky
mountains into a journalist? It's kind of hard even to
set them good in your mind and believe them. I
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never see him. I don't feel small trifling the sky
that clearing. The star's up right.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
I'm sure it must all have a meeting.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
There's meaning and tonight, all right down there by the
stream and white dogs camp. The old man's telling his
people that we've come to take him home, that the
need them be told him of our coming. There's peace
in their hearts tonight that has meaning and I think
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it does. I think the men feel it too, sir,
White men, red men bedding down into the same stars.
Nobody reaching for a rifle, nobody's stealing up with an arrow.
That's the way it ought to be, and every time
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it isn't, I get blazoned mad inside.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
You're a religious man, Captain.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
I got I have things I believe, misters. This tonight,
challenge of the mountains, pieces of the stars, men living
under them without fear. I guess that's pretty close to
what I believe in. It's a lot to believe, sir,
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I believe something else, mister, Yes, sir, working my jar
like an old woman must have used up a couple
of years words for me. I was thinking I'll be
able to put some of this night into my journal,
after all, mister Simons, nicer, not just a coyote, just
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to coyote.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
You act like it meant something again.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Not to me, but the white dog and the Shoshone.
Coyote is a trickster. You can count on it, mister Symons.
It'll mean something to the Shoshone.
Speaker 9 (10:59):
We made onsol through the night, my son, My people
will not follow white soldier. I heard the coyote white Dog.
My people heard, and I heard. In the legend of
the Shoshone, it was Coyote the trickster who changed the
color of our skin. Shoshone's skin once was white. Captain,
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you have told me in the story of creation, when
the Creator first breathed life into tufts of grass, the
people called Shoshoni were born with skin white as snow.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Until one day Coyote the trickster gave fruit to the
white Shoshone woman. And since that day the color of
your skin has been brown.
Speaker 9 (11:47):
And since that day, Captain Shoshoni has known fear of
Coyote the trickster and men whose skin is white.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Yesterday, White Dog, we spoke words of peace. You and I,
we spoke of believing each other.
Speaker 9 (12:06):
Yesterday Coyote was silent.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
But the Ninomber, you said, they told you of our coming.
You doubt the prophecy of the Ninambia.
Speaker 9 (12:15):
My son, you find me here, I seek their counsel.
Yesterday they told of white leaders friendship. Yesterday you came
in peace. Last night, Coyote warned the day ninum b
are silent.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
My dog, My dog, You're a long way from home.
I have orders to see you safely. To your wind
River hunting grounds. I have orders too from my people.
We camped together last night. If we had come to
harm you, we could have made quick work last.
Speaker 9 (12:53):
Night, Coyote warned my people.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Listen, you better counsel again with your people, White Dog.
In one hour, we're moving on to fort Lyon all
of us, My.
Speaker 9 (13:08):
Son, you will take us by force.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
I don't want to.
Speaker 9 (13:23):
Let us move our own way. Our belief is not
your belief.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
And yet we both believe in peace.
Speaker 9 (13:29):
You will keep peace if you go leave us alone.
My people will look on that as a mark of trust,
my son, believe.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Me a sign that we have your respect.
Speaker 9 (13:42):
This will bring much good will, much peace.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
I'll I'll do this much, White Dog, my patrol and
I will report to fort Lyon as ordered. I will
power there with white chiefs. Tell them your wishes. If
we do not return in two sons, you will know
you are free to move in your own way.
Speaker 9 (14:04):
Thank you, my son.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
You'll need some sign that says you travel with the
army's permission. I will leave you with two flags, a
white flag and an American flag. When you march, see
your braves, hold them high. When you make camp, fly
them in full view above your huts.
Speaker 9 (14:23):
You will accept the flags a totem of trust between men.
You will not be sorry, my son.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
I hope neither of us will have cause to be sorry.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
White Dog, same worry, Captain.
Speaker 5 (14:58):
Is it White Dog the Major's orders to return to
Fort Laramie.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
I'm thinking, mister Sebitts always look worried when I think.
Speaker 5 (15:07):
You know, Sir, I thought the commander at Fort Lyon
was very cooperative. He seemed to agree with everything you
told him.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
About White Dog.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
I'm not worried about him, or White Dog or Major Daggett.
But it's a long way to wind River from here.
Speaker 5 (15:22):
White Dog and his people are a long way from home.
You figure him to be about two days behind us, Sir.
About that, that'll be Harrison riding. Then Captain must have
come on to something, must have But.
Speaker 10 (15:38):
All all, Captain, quincer, what is it?
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Harrison up ahead, sir? In the basin?
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Cavalry must be a.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Full company of them. They camped, more likely just stopped for.
Speaker 6 (15:56):
A while, no real camp sor no pickets out.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
I wonder what company it is.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Well, that's not from Fort Laramie or Fort Lyon. We
know about them might be someone from Kansas and Nebraska.
I'll ride on ahead with Harrison for a check. Move
the patrol up after us, right, so let's go Harrison.
Speaker 6 (16:14):
Yes, sir, he's still talking, Captain talking Harrison like he
was when I come on him. The tall one and
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the rest listening must.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Have a lot on his mind. We'll leave our hearses here,
walk on in.
Speaker 10 (16:42):
Yes, sir, the boy said.
Speaker 12 (16:48):
God old man, tell you as he tells me.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
This is the glory of r.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
I called you brothers.
Speaker 12 (17:00):
You are my brothers, amen, And we travel this road together,
not as a company of cavil, not as a commanding
officer and group, but as brothers soldiers in the army
of God Almighty.
Speaker 13 (17:14):
He's just one supreme commander.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
It with brothers to be it.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
And in the.
Speaker 14 (17:21):
Battles that are to come, we shall hear the Voice together,
you and I. We shall follow his orders to the death,
and whosoever shall come between.
Speaker 9 (17:31):
Us and the Voice shall perish world without end. Amen, Amen, brothers.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Capy is he a parson? That major might be Harrison,
or maybe it's just like you said, he's got a
lot on his mind.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
You Captain, you pray I might.
Speaker 14 (17:52):
And pray now, brother, for the salvation of your soul
and for those of your brothers.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
You in command here, Major God is in command here. Brother.
I'm Captain Quince B Company out of Fort Laramie. My
respects Major Major Petrie A Company, Fort Pierre. You're a
long way from Dakota Country, Sir. I hope you're not
questioning my right to be here. Captain, I'm not questioning anything,
but I'm interested in your being here. I take it
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you're not going on to Fort Lyon.
Speaker 14 (18:22):
We shall go where our mission takes us.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
At Fort Lyon, they think my patrol is the only
cavalry between there and Fort Laramie.
Speaker 14 (18:29):
You God, your territory. Jealously, Captain a base emotion, jealousy
as base, as suspicion. I shall pray for your deliverance.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
I don't want your praying for me. Major Ignorance is sin, Brother, ignorant,
jealous that may be, but suspicious. I am of any
man who talks about God, and where is half a
dozen scalps hanging from his belt?
Speaker 14 (18:55):
I make a practice of reporting men who have no
respect for rank.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Captain my command and an officer is Major Dagget at
Fort Laramie. I'd appreciate your reporting this incident, Major Petrie,
including the six scalps.
Speaker 14 (19:07):
I'll welcome you in Dakota Territory anytime. Captain, I'd say,
you have a lot to learn.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
I was thinking the same about you. Major. We're at
peace with the Indians in this part of the west,
are you. There's a band of Shoshone a couple of
days behind us. They have the armies leave to move
to their home along the Wind River.
Speaker 14 (19:26):
Our paths may not cross at all.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
If they do, you'll find them flying two flags, a
white one and the American flag. We've told them the
flags will guarantee their protection.
Speaker 14 (19:37):
We look differently on the American flag in Dakota Territory, Captain.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
That's all Major out here. It means liberty and justice
for everyone. Come on, Harrison, what kind of man is that, Captain?
The kind of man that scalps Indian women?
Speaker 8 (19:57):
Harrison, Well, here's all the answer we can get out
of Fort Pier, Captain, Colonel says Major Petries on a reconnaissance.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Mission, Scalping Indian women's called reconnaissance nowadays.
Speaker 8 (20:22):
Major, I don't want to read the telegram for yourself, Lee,
I don't need to.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
I know what I saw. I know you feel, Lee.
Speaker 8 (20:31):
We've got troubles enough without the army fighting itself.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Major, if you'd have seen his man, wild eyed, frenzied,
he was whipping them with his words? What words they were?
Speaker 8 (20:42):
Every officer has his way stirring up his men.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Stirring them up for what. That's all I want to know.
From the north Platt, as far south as a Cimarron,
the Indians are at peace.
Speaker 8 (20:51):
I don't know what his aim was.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
When you telegraphed Fort Pierre, did you you asked the
colonel if Major petries a minister?
Speaker 8 (20:59):
Answers there, Captain, he's a self ordained minister.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Six scalps, Major, all right, all right.
Speaker 8 (21:07):
What do you want me to do?
Speaker 2 (21:08):
I had to call you back here.
Speaker 8 (21:10):
Captain Matheson's got two companies detained in the Black Hills.
We've got a garrison to secure.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Captain white dogs two days late. If he was moving
at all, he'd have been through here two days ago.
Maybe they're traveling a different route to get to wind River.
Speaker 8 (21:28):
I don't know, Lee, I don't know, except I can't
spare a patrol right now.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
You can spare me for what what would you do?
Start back, look for White Dog.
Speaker 9 (21:38):
Not lonely?
Speaker 2 (21:39):
All right, gimme Harrison.
Speaker 8 (21:40):
Then I suppose you find White Dog and these people,
they're not likely to feel any different. You offer them
the protection of a patrol before, they're not gonna fear
two men.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Maybe they're not.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
You.
Speaker 8 (21:54):
You feel responsible for him, don't you.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
I gave him the flags, Major, and.
Speaker 8 (22:01):
We don't know that they had need for any other protection.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
They're two days late, all right, Lee, you and Harrison,
Thank you. Major. I'm not finished. When you find White Dog.
I want you to make this clear to him.
Speaker 8 (22:17):
When he's off the reservation, he's entitled army protection, and
by Heaven, next time he'd accept an army patrol, whether
a coyote howls or not.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
I'll tell him, Sir, I want to be justly.
Speaker 8 (22:27):
I want to treat Indians fairly civilly, but when the
superstitions get in the way, I lose patience with him.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
I feel the same way, Major. I'm glad to hear
that about an Indian superstition and a white man's fanaticism.
Blind spots don't have a color. Major.
Speaker 15 (22:58):
You know I don't mind telling you, Captain gave me
a turn at first, seeing them come straggling up and
make the camp.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Right there on our creek.
Speaker 15 (23:06):
They didn't bother in, No no bother tall, excepting just
as they was there and they was injured.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
It don't make a man feel real comfortable.
Speaker 15 (23:17):
My woman, now, she just let out one long war
whoop and made for the fruit seller.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
Mike never got rid of there.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
See, feeling better about it now, Yeah, it's fine.
Speaker 15 (23:28):
Hey, we got so. We just sat by and watched him.
He was cooking, cleaning their young. The Craik never made
a move toward us, nor us toward them. Well, now,
I got to be honest about one thing.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
What's that I said?
Speaker 15 (23:44):
We just sat by and watched.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
It ain't the whole truth.
Speaker 15 (23:49):
My woman turned her head more than one time. Them
braves don't wear much more than.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
They're born with, do they.
Speaker 16 (23:56):
Not much?
Speaker 15 (23:57):
Mister well, sir, well, the sight to end them all
for me was when they first come in. Now, right away,
they run up them flags as high as they could.
I tell you, Captain, that flag looks mighty good, no
matter who's flying it.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
You say, they left here day before yesterday.
Speaker 15 (24:16):
And let's see, yes, sir, I'm sure of it, heading
north north along the creek.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Well, thanks very much, mister. We must have passed their
camp during the night, Harrison. Don't seem like we could
a captain, it doesn't.
Speaker 15 (24:32):
He just two of you after him this time, this time, mister,
h Now, yesterday there were lots more troopers and the
major who talked to me think you said it was
a major. Well, anyways, he asked the same kind of questions,
only only what only When I told him about the Indians,
he didn't smile the way you did. Kind like this major,
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he didn't smile at all.
Speaker 16 (24:57):
Let's go, Harrison, and we saw.
Speaker 17 (25:15):
And well, oh your way, oh your way.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
What kind of a lunatic are you?
Speaker 1 (25:30):
You're still in need of prayer?
Speaker 16 (25:32):
Brother, You're rotten, foul evil.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
You came upon the show shown he came. I never
saw such a slaughter, old men, old women, babies. Why why?
Speaker 14 (25:43):
My report will say that we were attacked.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
How many men did you lose? Major? We were very
lucky and all the attackers were killed.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Do you like it?
Speaker 16 (25:52):
Major?
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Killing women and children?
Speaker 9 (25:55):
You'll get court martials for this.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
An investigating party should be at al Creek by now.
We'll see who gets the court martial for killing Indians.
They'll find the flags waving high over one hundred cut
up bodies. They'll find the rifles that were never fired.
And there's no mistake in the fresh scalps around here.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
You call yourself a.
Speaker 13 (26:17):
White man Indian lover, Well, I have no time for
your kind, women and children. Yes, knits make lice. An
engine that never grows up is a good engine because
because he's a dead engine, and a dead squaw can't
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bear any more. Papoosters not a solitary one.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
The killings just begun. Indians you haven't killed, will massacre
innocent whites because of you. Savage is answering savages, but
your killin's the worst kind killin the name of God.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
Fort Laramie is produced and directed by Norman MacDonell and
stars Raymond Burr as Lee Quince, Captain of Cavalry. The
script was specially written for Fort Laramie by Kathleen Hit,
with sound patterns by Bill James and Tom Henley, musical
supervision by Amarigo Marino. Featured in the cast were John Dayner,
Lawrence Dobkin, Sam Edwards, Lou Krugman, and Tim Graham, Jack
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Moyles is Major Diggett, and Harry Bartel is Lieutenant.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Sibert's company ten cent dismiss.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
Next week another transcribed story of the Northwest Frontier and
the troopers who fought under Lee Quince, Captain of Cavalry.
You there, don't let that newspaper blow into the street.
It costs US millions of dollars each year to hire
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people who go around picking up after you. That US
includes you for trash collecting and rubbish disposal, come right
out of your pockets and taxes. CBS Radio urges you
to help keep our streets and countryside neat and clean
and less expensive to maintain
Speaker 16 (29:01):
Them.
At the Gatherer.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Fort loam Mee.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Fort Laramie, starring Raymond Burr as Captain lee Quins, especially
transcribed tales of the dark and tragic ground of the
wild Frontier, the fighting men who rode the rim of Empire,
and the dramatic story of lee Quin's Captain of Cavalry.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Is it white Dog's capcer, it's Shoshone that'll make it
White Dogs unless there's more of a Shoshone migration than
we know about.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
You can tell from here at Shoshone.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Look at their huts down there, mister Sebitts made of
grass and brush woven together, not skins like the Sioux
and Cheyenne.
Speaker 5 (01:39):
Doesn't look like there are any lodge poles.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
There aren't.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
They don't have any roofs, any lodge poles, just a
half circle of woven grass. Harrison, Yes, sir, bring on
the white flag, Harrison, you and I are riding in. Yes,
you'll keep the patrol up here, mister Siberts, keep your
eye on Harrison's flag as long as he flies it.
There's no trouble, Yes, sir.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
White Dog will understand that you've just come to power.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
With him going in this way, he'll understand ready, Harrison, Yes, sir,
let's go. Good luck, sir, Thank you, mister Seberts. Watch
it down through here, Harrison.
Speaker 6 (02:17):
I'm watching it.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Major said, a couple of hundred shows. Shony looks smaller
than that to me, Harrison.
Speaker 6 (02:29):
I'll eat everyone over a hundred with fine.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Captain, I don't have your appetite, but the hundred's nearer right. Ah,
they're beginning to notice this. I'll lose all feeling in
my arm.
Speaker 6 (02:46):
I the holeless flag any higher.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Sooner they feeling than the arm Harrison, Yes, sir, Funny,
they wouldn't have no lookouts posted. Either they're not expecting
any trouble or they don't care. You lead me to
white Dog.
Speaker 7 (03:07):
White Dog and council in his hut. Why a white
army come?
Speaker 2 (03:12):
We come in peace to power with white Dog.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
Our flags say that.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Will you lead me to your chief?
Speaker 7 (03:20):
We talk with nina Ba. Why not talk to white
Dog when he talk with ninam Bia.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Just show me where he is, you know Shoshoni legend?
Speaker 7 (03:29):
Yes, I know there in small canyon out by stream.
Follow it you'll find white dog.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
You going up into that canyon, Captain Quince yeap you
stay here, and keep that flag in plain sight, feeling
in your arm or not. Yes, sir, you shouldn't have
any trouble unless it bothers you to be outnumbered by
squaws and kids lungs. They're not mine. They don't fret me, Captain.
Speaker 8 (03:57):
Who's white dog.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Talking to ninam b Yeah? Little people the Shoshone believe
they live in mountain canyons. Their medicine men council with them.
They you see him, They believe they can you see
any of them. You tell me, Captain, I see any
It might be something I'd want to keep to myself.
Stand past Harrison.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Yes, sir, h.
Speaker 9 (04:46):
You need counsel to Captain.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
I need your counsel. My dog.
Speaker 9 (04:55):
Sit mysel. You ride from Fort Laramie to day yesterday.
You and your people must be tired, as my people
are tired.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Your journey has been longer than ours, White Dog, and harder.
Speaker 9 (05:11):
A journey is hard when a heart is heavy. Captain,
we go to our home. This lightens are loaded.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
You are moving your people without permission.
Speaker 9 (05:22):
White Dog Skoshawnee cannot live in countrymen for Ute, hope
Apache Paiute.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
We are not road eaters. We know that I think
my people made a mistake putting Shoshone so far to
the south in desert country. But you have left the reservation,
White Dog.
Speaker 9 (05:45):
You come to take us back.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Now we have come in peace, and you find us
in preece. Captain, you have told me your people are tired,
White Dog. Tired people hungry people sometimes break the piece.
Speaker 9 (06:03):
Then you come to make us less tired, to feed us.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
We have come to find out your needs and to
arrange for your safe passage to your home in the
Wind River Mountains.
Speaker 9 (06:14):
Well and Ninambia told me of your coming. It was
too much to believe. There is no trick.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Who have always believed me before? Right down you, Yes,
how long have you made your camp here?
Speaker 9 (06:35):
Two sons have risen since my people put their hut
by the stream?
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Is it a good camp? You have? Water? Is the
hunting good?
Speaker 9 (06:42):
My braves find game, not buffalo, on which my people
grow strong. They find bear, antelope, deer in our camp, Captain,
our many squaw, many papoos, and not many braves. Our
number was more when we left Apachia Reservation, but our
(07:04):
journey was hot dry. Now our burial ground is the
length of these great mountains.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
You have traveled too fast, wh God.
Speaker 9 (07:15):
Two enemies have pursued us, the blazing sun and the
fear that when the White army came, it would not
come in peace.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
When your people reach the valleys of the Wind River,
when they are home, they will continue to live in peace.
You have my word, my son, and I give you mine.
Speaker 10 (07:36):
Well.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
We will grant you a safe passage to your home.
You will travel with us. We will camp with you
to night. Tomorrow we will journey together to fort Lyon.
There will be orders waiting for us.
Speaker 11 (07:49):
There you're turning in, Captain.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
M beautiful night. Mister Sibits, you ride about nights like
this in your journal. How can you put the rocky
mountains into a journalist? It's kind of hard even to
set them good in your mind and believe them. I
(08:28):
never see him. I don't feel small trifling the sky
that clearing. The star's up right.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
I'm sure it must all have a meeting.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
There's meaning and tonight, all right down there by the
stream and white dogs camp. The old man's telling his
people that we've come to take him home, that the
need them be told him of our coming. There's peace
in their hearts tonight that has meaning and I think
(09:04):
it does. I think the men feel it too, sir,
White men, red men bedding down into the same stars.
Nobody reaching for a rifle, nobody's stealing up with an arrow.
That's the way it ought to be, and every time
(09:25):
it isn't, I get blazoned mad inside.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
You're a religious man, Captain.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
I got I have things I believe, misters. This tonight,
challenge of the mountains, pieces of the stars, men living
under them without fear. I guess that's pretty close to
what I believe in. It's a lot to believe, sir,
(09:57):
I believe something else, mister, Yes, sir, working my jar
like an old woman must have used up a couple
of years words for me. I was thinking I'll be
able to put some of this night into my journal,
after all, mister Simons, nicer, not just a coyote, just
(10:21):
to coyote.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
You act like it meant something again.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Not to me, but the white dog and the Shoshone.
Coyote is a trickster. You can count on it, mister Symons.
It'll mean something to the Shoshone.
Speaker 9 (10:59):
We made onsol through the night, my son, My people
will not follow white soldier. I heard the coyote white Dog.
My people heard, and I heard. In the legend of
the Shoshone, it was Coyote the trickster who changed the
color of our skin. Shoshone's skin once was white. Captain,
(11:23):
you have told me in the story of creation, when
the Creator first breathed life into tufts of grass, the
people called Shoshoni were born with skin white as snow.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Until one day Coyote the trickster gave fruit to the
white Shoshone woman. And since that day the color of
your skin has been brown.
Speaker 9 (11:47):
And since that day, Captain Shoshoni has known fear of
Coyote the trickster and men whose skin is white.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Yesterday, White Dog, we spoke words of peace. You and I,
we spoke of believing each other.
Speaker 9 (12:06):
Yesterday Coyote was silent.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
But the Ninomber, you said, they told you of our coming.
You doubt the prophecy of the Ninambia.
Speaker 9 (12:15):
My son, you find me here, I seek their counsel.
Yesterday they told of white leaders friendship. Yesterday you came
in peace. Last night, Coyote warned the day ninum b
are silent.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
My dog, My dog, You're a long way from home.
I have orders to see you safely. To your wind
River hunting grounds. I have orders too from my people.
We camped together last night. If we had come to
harm you, we could have made quick work last.
Speaker 9 (12:53):
Night, Coyote warned my people.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Listen, you better counsel again with your people, White Dog.
In one hour, we're moving on to fort Lyon all
of us, My.
Speaker 9 (13:08):
Son, you will take us by force.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
I don't want to.
Speaker 9 (13:23):
Let us move our own way. Our belief is not
your belief.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
And yet we both believe in peace.
Speaker 9 (13:29):
You will keep peace if you go leave us alone.
My people will look on that as a mark of trust,
my son, believe.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Me a sign that we have your respect.
Speaker 9 (13:42):
This will bring much good will, much peace.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
I'll I'll do this much, White Dog, my patrol and
I will report to fort Lyon as ordered. I will
power there with white chiefs. Tell them your wishes. If
we do not return in two sons, you will know
you are free to move in your own way.
Speaker 9 (14:04):
Thank you, my son.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
You'll need some sign that says you travel with the
army's permission. I will leave you with two flags, a
white flag and an American flag. When you march, see
your braves, hold them high. When you make camp, fly
them in full view above your huts.
Speaker 9 (14:23):
You will accept the flags a totem of trust between men.
You will not be sorry, my son.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
I hope neither of us will have cause to be sorry.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
White Dog, same worry, Captain.
Speaker 5 (14:58):
Is it White Dog the Major's orders to return to
Fort Laramie.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
I'm thinking, mister Sebitts always look worried when I think.
Speaker 5 (15:07):
You know, Sir, I thought the commander at Fort Lyon
was very cooperative. He seemed to agree with everything you
told him.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
About White Dog.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
I'm not worried about him, or White Dog or Major Daggett.
But it's a long way to wind River from here.
Speaker 5 (15:22):
White Dog and his people are a long way from home.
You figure him to be about two days behind us, Sir.
About that, that'll be Harrison riding. Then Captain must have
come on to something, must have But.
Speaker 10 (15:38):
All all, Captain, quincer, what is it?
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Harrison up ahead, sir? In the basin?
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Cavalry must be a.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Full company of them. They camped, more likely just stopped for.
Speaker 6 (15:56):
A while, no real camp sor no pickets out.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
I wonder what company it is.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Well, that's not from Fort Laramie or Fort Lyon. We
know about them might be someone from Kansas and Nebraska.
I'll ride on ahead with Harrison for a check. Move
the patrol up after us, right, so let's go Harrison.
Speaker 6 (16:14):
Yes, sir, he's still talking, Captain talking Harrison like he
was when I come on him. The tall one and
(16:37):
the rest listening must.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Have a lot on his mind. We'll leave our hearses here,
walk on in.
Speaker 10 (16:42):
Yes, sir, the boy said.
Speaker 12 (16:48):
God old man, tell you as he tells me.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
This is the glory of r.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
I called you brothers.
Speaker 12 (17:00):
You are my brothers, amen, And we travel this road together,
not as a company of cavil, not as a commanding
officer and group, but as brothers soldiers in the army
of God Almighty.
Speaker 13 (17:14):
He's just one supreme commander.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
It with brothers to be it.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
And in the.
Speaker 14 (17:21):
Battles that are to come, we shall hear the Voice together,
you and I. We shall follow his orders to the death,
and whosoever shall come between.
Speaker 9 (17:31):
Us and the Voice shall perish world without end. Amen, Amen, brothers.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Capy is he a parson? That major might be Harrison,
or maybe it's just like you said, he's got a
lot on his mind.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
You Captain, you pray I might.
Speaker 14 (17:52):
And pray now, brother, for the salvation of your soul
and for those of your brothers.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
You in command here, Major God is in command here. Brother.
I'm Captain Quince B Company out of Fort Laramie. My
respects Major Major Petrie A Company, Fort Pierre. You're a
long way from Dakota Country, Sir. I hope you're not
questioning my right to be here. Captain, I'm not questioning anything,
but I'm interested in your being here. I take it
(18:20):
you're not going on to Fort Lyon.
Speaker 14 (18:22):
We shall go where our mission takes us.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
At Fort Lyon, they think my patrol is the only
cavalry between there and Fort Laramie.
Speaker 14 (18:29):
You God, your territory. Jealously, Captain a base emotion, jealousy
as base, as suspicion. I shall pray for your deliverance.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
I don't want your praying for me. Major Ignorance is sin, Brother, ignorant,
jealous that may be, but suspicious. I am of any
man who talks about God, and where is half a
dozen scalps hanging from his belt?
Speaker 14 (18:55):
I make a practice of reporting men who have no
respect for rank.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Captain my command and an officer is Major Dagget at
Fort Laramie. I'd appreciate your reporting this incident, Major Petrie,
including the six scalps.
Speaker 14 (19:07):
I'll welcome you in Dakota Territory anytime. Captain, I'd say,
you have a lot to learn.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
I was thinking the same about you. Major. We're at
peace with the Indians in this part of the west,
are you. There's a band of Shoshone a couple of
days behind us. They have the armies leave to move
to their home along the Wind River.
Speaker 14 (19:26):
Our paths may not cross at all.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
If they do, you'll find them flying two flags, a
white one and the American flag. We've told them the
flags will guarantee their protection.
Speaker 14 (19:37):
We look differently on the American flag in Dakota Territory, Captain.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
That's all Major out here. It means liberty and justice
for everyone. Come on, Harrison, what kind of man is that, Captain?
The kind of man that scalps Indian women?
Speaker 8 (19:57):
Harrison, Well, here's all the answer we can get out
of Fort Pier, Captain, Colonel says Major Petries on a reconnaissance.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Mission, Scalping Indian women's called reconnaissance nowadays.
Speaker 8 (20:22):
Major, I don't want to read the telegram for yourself, Lee,
I don't need to.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
I know what I saw. I know you feel, Lee.
Speaker 8 (20:31):
We've got troubles enough without the army fighting itself.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Major, if you'd have seen his man, wild eyed, frenzied,
he was whipping them with his words? What words they were?
Speaker 8 (20:42):
Every officer has his way stirring up his men.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Stirring them up for what. That's all I want to know.
From the north Platt, as far south as a Cimarron,
the Indians are at peace.
Speaker 8 (20:51):
I don't know what his aim was.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
When you telegraphed Fort Pierre, did you you asked the
colonel if Major petries a minister?
Speaker 8 (20:59):
Answers there, Captain, he's a self ordained minister.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Six scalps, Major, all right, all right.
Speaker 8 (21:07):
What do you want me to do?
Speaker 2 (21:08):
I had to call you back here.
Speaker 8 (21:10):
Captain Matheson's got two companies detained in the Black Hills.
We've got a garrison to secure.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Captain white dogs two days late. If he was moving
at all, he'd have been through here two days ago.
Maybe they're traveling a different route to get to wind River.
Speaker 8 (21:28):
I don't know, Lee, I don't know, except I can't
spare a patrol right now.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
You can spare me for what what would you do?
Start back, look for White Dog.
Speaker 9 (21:38):
Not lonely?
Speaker 2 (21:39):
All right, gimme Harrison.
Speaker 8 (21:40):
Then I suppose you find White Dog and these people,
they're not likely to feel any different. You offer them
the protection of a patrol before, they're not gonna fear
two men.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Maybe they're not.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
You.
Speaker 8 (21:54):
You feel responsible for him, don't you.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
I gave him the flags, Major, and.
Speaker 8 (22:01):
We don't know that they had need for any other protection.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
They're two days late, all right, Lee, you and Harrison,
Thank you. Major. I'm not finished. When you find White Dog.
I want you to make this clear to him.
Speaker 8 (22:17):
When he's off the reservation, he's entitled army protection, and
by Heaven, next time he'd accept an army patrol, whether
a coyote howls or not.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
I'll tell him, Sir, I want to be justly.
Speaker 8 (22:27):
I want to treat Indians fairly civilly, but when the
superstitions get in the way, I lose patience with him.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
I feel the same way, Major. I'm glad to hear
that about an Indian superstition and a white man's fanaticism.
Blind spots don't have a color. Major.
Speaker 15 (22:58):
You know I don't mind telling you, Captain gave me
a turn at first, seeing them come straggling up and
make the camp.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Right there on our creek.
Speaker 15 (23:06):
They didn't bother in, No no bother tall, excepting just
as they was there and they was injured.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
It don't make a man feel real comfortable.
Speaker 15 (23:17):
My woman, now, she just let out one long war
whoop and made for the fruit seller.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
Mike never got rid of there.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
See, feeling better about it now, Yeah, it's fine.
Speaker 15 (23:28):
Hey, we got so. We just sat by and watched him.
He was cooking, cleaning their young. The Craik never made
a move toward us, nor us toward them. Well, now,
I got to be honest about one thing.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
What's that I said?
Speaker 15 (23:44):
We just sat by and watched.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
It ain't the whole truth.
Speaker 15 (23:49):
My woman turned her head more than one time. Them
braves don't wear much more than.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
They're born with, do they.
Speaker 16 (23:56):
Not much?
Speaker 15 (23:57):
Mister well, sir, well, the sight to end them all
for me was when they first come in. Now, right away,
they run up them flags as high as they could.
I tell you, Captain, that flag looks mighty good, no
matter who's flying it.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
You say, they left here day before yesterday.
Speaker 15 (24:16):
And let's see, yes, sir, I'm sure of it, heading
north north along the creek.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Well, thanks very much, mister. We must have passed their
camp during the night, Harrison. Don't seem like we could
a captain, it doesn't.
Speaker 15 (24:32):
He just two of you after him this time, this time, mister,
h Now, yesterday there were lots more troopers and the
major who talked to me think you said it was
a major. Well, anyways, he asked the same kind of questions,
only only what only When I told him about the Indians,
he didn't smile the way you did. Kind like this major,
(24:55):
he didn't smile at all.
Speaker 16 (24:57):
Let's go, Harrison, and we saw.
Speaker 17 (25:15):
And well, oh your way, oh your way.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
What kind of a lunatic are you?
Speaker 1 (25:30):
You're still in need of prayer?
Speaker 16 (25:32):
Brother, You're rotten, foul evil.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
You came upon the show shown he came. I never
saw such a slaughter, old men, old women, babies. Why why?
Speaker 14 (25:43):
My report will say that we were attacked.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
How many men did you lose? Major? We were very
lucky and all the attackers were killed.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Do you like it?
Speaker 16 (25:52):
Major?
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Killing women and children?
Speaker 9 (25:55):
You'll get court martials for this.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
An investigating party should be at al Creek by now.
We'll see who gets the court martial for killing Indians.
They'll find the flags waving high over one hundred cut
up bodies. They'll find the rifles that were never fired.
And there's no mistake in the fresh scalps around here.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
You call yourself a.
Speaker 13 (26:17):
White man Indian lover, Well, I have no time for
your kind, women and children. Yes, knits make lice. An
engine that never grows up is a good engine because
because he's a dead engine, and a dead squaw can't
(26:40):
bear any more. Papoosters not a solitary one.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
The killings just begun. Indians you haven't killed, will massacre
innocent whites because of you. Savage is answering savages, but
your killin's the worst kind killin the name of God.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
Fort Laramie is produced and directed by Norman MacDonell and
stars Raymond Burr as Lee Quince, Captain of Cavalry. The
script was specially written for Fort Laramie by Kathleen Hit,
with sound patterns by Bill James and Tom Henley, musical
supervision by Amarigo Marino. Featured in the cast were John Dayner,
Lawrence Dobkin, Sam Edwards, Lou Krugman, and Tim Graham, Jack
(27:45):
Moyles is Major Diggett, and Harry Bartel is Lieutenant.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Sibert's company ten cent dismiss.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
Next week another transcribed story of the Northwest Frontier and
the troopers who fought under Lee Quince, Captain of Cavalry.
You there, don't let that newspaper blow into the street.
It costs US millions of dollars each year to hire
(28:45):
people who go around picking up after you. That US
includes you for trash collecting and rubbish disposal, come right
out of your pockets and taxes. CBS Radio urges you
to help keep our streets and countryside neat and clean
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