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Speaker 1 (00:08):
At the Gatherer Wow.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Fort Laramie.
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 saga of fight men who rode the
rim of Empire, and the dramatic story of lee Quin's
captain of cavalry.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
Alive, Harrison, no sahed moving back with the others.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
In the name of.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Heaven, Captain, how could he be alive?
Speaker 5 (01:35):
Look at him moving back, Harrison. Lieutenant Cybrids is directing
the grave detail. Now give him a hand.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
We're gonna bury him all It's the least we can do.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
I can't do it, Captain Quince. I can't. I'm all hot,
cold in my belly. I just keep looking anymore.
Speaker 5 (01:52):
Listen, you get a firm grip on that belly yours, Harrison.
This kind of cleanup's gotta be done. I don't look,
don't think, just do your work, Yes, sir, I guess.
Speaker 6 (02:00):
I'll do that.
Speaker 7 (02:11):
I'm I'm a fifth captain, all right, hook who was old?
Speaker 8 (02:16):
Ladies? I figured there was too old for travel anyways.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
See those graves are canned.
Speaker 9 (02:21):
Lieutenantcy into that camp for all I gotta do is dig.
Speaker 10 (02:25):
Them count twelve wagons, bunning them engines.
Speaker 8 (02:31):
Don't leave nothing to chance, not much.
Speaker 7 (02:35):
They shoot him flyers full of lead, then hack him
up for good measure.
Speaker 8 (02:40):
They sit fire to him.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Better get back to work.
Speaker 7 (02:42):
Hook your sight safer from the army than in one
of them wagon trains.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
Ain't chip, captain, sometimes hook sometimes the captain queen's Yeah,
maybe you ought to speak to the little ten.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
How's that.
Speaker 9 (03:02):
He's fair carried away with all his burying stuff. I
declare he'll be laying the dead stock to arrest next
so as he can speak words over them?
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Is that all?
Speaker 11 (03:14):
Hook?
Speaker 8 (03:14):
But you ought to take a look, captain.
Speaker 12 (03:16):
I think it's real touching.
Speaker 5 (03:18):
Thinking's not any party you hook any more than feeling is.
I don't want to see that spade of yours stop
the next two hours, Yes, sir.
Speaker 12 (03:26):
Happened Quinn over here, this one's still alive.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
You conscious?
Speaker 12 (03:37):
I just come on him.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
I heard him, mister.
Speaker 7 (03:43):
Sue.
Speaker 8 (03:44):
Hundreds hundreds of.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
Mister ridden from the south has if it was so.
Speaker 12 (03:52):
I gave the major to that report. They've been building
up to something for months.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Now, mister. How many people in your train? Mister? We
counted twelve wagons.
Speaker 12 (04:02):
Oh hit fifty two, fifty two, and it took ooh,
only fifty bodies, Captain Lieutenant Cyberst and I just took
Come you sure, Hazen, Yes, sir, forty nine dead in
this one, Beasley.
Speaker 8 (04:23):
It took the Beasley Beasley girls, it.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
Took make that fifty dead, Hazen.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
Yeah, you're going after him with twenty men. We'll be
another couple of hours here, and it'll still take us
three more to get back to the fort.
Speaker 12 (04:47):
Them girls, that's well, dying's easier.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
You're telling me something I don't know, Hazen.
Speaker 5 (04:55):
Yeah, I'll go after him when I stand a chance
of getting them meantime.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
You pick up the trail, Yes, sir, I.
Speaker 12 (05:01):
Ought to come on the suit camp before night. If
I do, I'll make it back to the fourth by daylight.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
I'm going after him at sen up, whether you're back
or not.
Speaker 8 (05:20):
Suppose I had the company with you, then what.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
We'd have finished a burying a little earlier. Major, that's all.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
That's all, Captain.
Speaker 8 (05:29):
I have to make a report to Washington. I'd like
to make it look as if the Army meant something
out here. So far I can tell him that a
patrol of twenty men arrived in time to bury the
members of an entire wagon train.
Speaker 5 (05:39):
Would it make your report read any better if you
told them a whole company arrived in time to bury
a major.
Speaker 8 (05:43):
I'm not interested in your impertinence, Captain.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
I'm not interested in your report, sir.
Speaker 8 (05:47):
All right, all right, Look, I know you don't think
much of paperwork, lead reports to Washington all this, but
the point is it all has to be done, whether
you like it or not.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
My point is we'd have been just as late with
eighty men as we were with twenty. You'd still have
to report fifty dead and two missing.
Speaker 8 (06:08):
I don't like to think about those young women.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Somebody better think about him.
Speaker 8 (06:13):
You've seen what you know, the savagery they're bound to endure.
How soon can you leave.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
Captain at dawn? Whether Raisin's back or not.
Speaker 8 (06:24):
You sent him on ahead.
Speaker 5 (06:25):
He's been scouting the suit territory for the last few months.
If they've gone back south, we'll find him.
Speaker 8 (06:31):
I suppose you'll want the company this time.
Speaker 5 (06:33):
I'd want more than one company if I intended to
go after him.
Speaker 8 (06:36):
There's only one company available, Captain Major.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
I'd like to bargain with them.
Speaker 8 (06:42):
Bargain after a massacre like this.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Yes, sir, if we don't have the men to fight
it out with.
Speaker 8 (06:47):
Him, what kind of bargain big Elk?
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Big Elk for the young women.
Speaker 11 (06:55):
I don't know.
Speaker 8 (06:56):
He wasn't easily captured, Quinch.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
I know I brought him in.
Speaker 8 (07:00):
He's not doing this much good lying around the stockade.
I suppose the Sioux consider him valuable enough to trade
for him.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
He's a chief.
Speaker 8 (07:10):
What if Hazen isn't back by morning? You expect to
find those young women alive? You can't wait much longer.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
We may pick Hazen up on the trail.
Speaker 5 (07:17):
But big Elk can lead us to the camp. Yeah,
but Willie to get out of the stockade.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
Yeah, he'll lead us.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
You'll understand. He's not free till he does.
Speaker 8 (07:27):
You better talk to him, Quinch, report back to me tonight.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
I'd like to leave its sune up, Sir.
Speaker 8 (07:32):
If we're satisfied that big Elk's are best chance, you
will pass the ahead of your columns for the main
gates half an hour before revelly tomorrow morning, right, sir.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
No, no kill me, no hook, He's nothing to you.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
I just give him an all right, he asked for.
Speaker 6 (08:06):
Some firewater.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
Hide, you men be better off in your bunks.
Speaker 8 (08:19):
Try to kill me, I will I get the chair.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Jumping on your mind, Hook, he's just tormenting him. Captain
big Elk asked for a drink. Hook here, gave him
some bill's war.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
But it wouldn't have killed him.
Speaker 7 (08:30):
He just made him good and sick like he makes me.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
You are to leave him alone.
Speaker 7 (08:34):
Hook, Hey, let them white women alone, Captain, not one
of them mentions is leaving them.
Speaker 11 (08:37):
Bet.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
You're all hard, aren't you.
Speaker 11 (08:39):
Hook.
Speaker 5 (08:40):
I'll get back to your quarters, all of you. We're
going after the women before Revere.
Speaker 7 (08:45):
That two ach sounded yet, Captain?
Speaker 11 (08:49):
What did you say, Trooper.
Speaker 8 (08:53):
Nothing, sir?
Speaker 13 (08:54):
Come on, yeah, here you can drink this big Elk.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
White man, no friend. If I kill me, I could
have killed you two months ago. I brought you here instead.
And now go on drink it. It's from my own canteen.
Speaker 14 (09:22):
Oh ah, good good water, good water, put up fire
and belly.
Speaker 5 (09:30):
Your people still hold big camp on lodge Pole Creek.
Speaker 14 (09:34):
Big Elk, no sea people, many moons. Oh brother, white
man only white man, No brother, big Elk.
Speaker 5 (09:45):
Hunting's still good along lodge pole, good grass, good water.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Why would they move camp?
Speaker 15 (09:52):
Not?
Speaker 5 (09:52):
No, If we let you go, big Elk, you could
find your people.
Speaker 11 (10:01):
Uh, big help be cool for white men. White men
will let big Elk.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Go well if you couldn't find your way back.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
No sense talking to him.
Speaker 11 (10:15):
Hey, why.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
You don't know where your people are?
Speaker 11 (10:23):
Why you let big Out go?
Speaker 2 (10:32):
A fair trade?
Speaker 5 (10:34):
You lead us to the Sioux camp, We'll trade you
to your tribe for the white women.
Speaker 11 (10:41):
They have no trade.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
Your people don't think much of you, do they.
Speaker 14 (10:47):
Big hel called high honoring tribe all sue prowled, warrior,
hunter leader, big Out?
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Then why won't they trade?
Speaker 11 (10:59):
What man? No trade big Elk for a white woman.
Speaker 5 (11:04):
It's just where you're wrong. White men go pretty high
on their women.
Speaker 11 (11:09):
Folks.
Speaker 5 (11:11):
H Captain, you'll play trick, No trick. You have my word,
no trick, and big Elk give word will lead to sue.
Speaker 7 (11:25):
Cap You still put a lot of storm at Dashley yours, Harrison.
(11:46):
You still think he knows all is?
Speaker 2 (11:48):
That's right, Captain Quince knows what he's about.
Speaker 7 (11:52):
Uc does and nos at you're inners though, don't it him?
Play eating out of that engine's hand you're just trying
to row me, Hook, and I ain't giving you the satisfaction.
Look at Emarrason. The engine pokes his head to the right.
We move to the right, same with the left. He
poke his head straight up. Your old Captain, Quince, he'd
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have us climbing the air.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
You'd best keep your face shut.
Speaker 11 (12:15):
Hook.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
I swear you keep me no telling what I'll do.
Speaker 6 (12:18):
You'll do like your tool.
Speaker 7 (12:21):
No more that capt'n to tell do anything at all.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
You bust yourself doing it.
Speaker 7 (12:27):
You're gonna grow up licking boots all the way.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
I ain't snapping at your bait no more.
Speaker 6 (12:33):
You can talk all you like.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
I just need't listening.
Speaker 15 (12:35):
I'm just riding along here, and I don't even know
no dumb trooper named Hook.
Speaker 12 (12:40):
Ain't just me talking boot liquor.
Speaker 8 (12:42):
They don't sit.
Speaker 7 (12:43):
Well with a single white man riding in this column,
being led around by no engine. You giving any thought
to them white women? Harrison, give us see one once
a bunch joint engines got through with her.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Well, we're doing a decent thing, ain't we.
Speaker 7 (12:58):
We're going after No, we're just out riding around. Harrison
following injured wherever he needs to take.
Speaker 6 (13:06):
Us like as not.
Speaker 12 (13:07):
He's leading us into an ambush right this minute.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
I ain't listening to you again. Hook died. Hear a
word you say. I tell you one thing. Booting there.
Speaker 7 (13:16):
That's a dead engine up there. He don't know it yet,
but he's just as dead as he can be.
Speaker 16 (13:23):
Wright Man, we're about an hour from Pear Creek.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
There's still daylight enough to see us there. We'll fivoac
there for the night. I know, I think it's Hazen
word on the suit camp. I meaning to make a
camp here. Captain, Oh, we're heading to Pear Creek for
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the night.
Speaker 12 (14:01):
M's more like it with water the grasp natural camp.
You just a day out of for Laramie.
Speaker 5 (14:08):
Left the post just at sun up. Made good time well,
big elks picking the trail.
Speaker 12 (14:13):
Good job. Right on the line of the Sioux camp.
We'll leave baar crickets sun up. You will make it
a large full creek by mid morning. Fair enough, you
got reinforcements coming.
Speaker 5 (14:27):
I'm riding in under a white flag. I plan to
trade big elk for the white women.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Might work.
Speaker 12 (14:35):
I got in awful clothes. I don't even think they
got scouts out at leastwise, I didn't.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
See any any sign of the women.
Speaker 12 (14:43):
Not likely there would be no captain is who were
looking awful, peaceful. For your sakes, I hope.
Speaker 6 (14:50):
They are.
Speaker 5 (15:04):
Used informa sor Yeah, sit down, mister Saberts Frank you, sir, what's.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
The what's the talk among the men?
Speaker 17 (15:14):
You know, the men captain just camp talk.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
Just camp tone.
Speaker 8 (15:17):
That's awesome.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
Well, that's good.
Speaker 5 (15:21):
I had an idea maybe feeling was running a little
high against big Elk.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
Well it is.
Speaker 17 (15:29):
You know, the men feeling the way they do about
the Sioux capturing the white women. They're taking on with
him a little what do you mean, oh, Josh, and
him making threats little things. Well, for example, he's half starving,
I guess, and thirsty chords. So well, they keep putting
food and water just out of his reach.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
And you stood there and let it happen, mister Cybrits. Well, sir,
just camp talk, mister Cybers. It's more my fault. You
can't blame the men. I can blame the man, and
I can blame you. I gave my word.
Speaker 7 (16:01):
You're not free.
Speaker 15 (16:04):
Just long hold the wires, don't show any of you.
Speaker 6 (16:08):
Hold your fire what I mean.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
He's coming you away, all right, go white.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
Man, that dry kill me.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
No, nobody's going to kill you. Listen to me. I
won't let anyone harm you.
Speaker 7 (16:26):
Your word, no mean much, white man, no honor?
Speaker 5 (16:33):
Quiet, quiet, quiet, Now listen to me and understand me.
I don't know what's behind all this, but for your sakes,
I'm going to put it down to your feeling for
the captured white women.
Speaker 6 (16:48):
All right, all right, quiet, relate.
Speaker 5 (16:51):
It to that for now, But I'm not forgetting what
happened here. Now use your heads. Big Elk's our best
chance to get the those women out of the suit
camp safely, maybe our only chance.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
I gave him my.
Speaker 5 (17:03):
Word, there'd be no tricks the stockades waiting for the
next man who abuses him. Any questions, Harrison, Yes, sir,
see that there's water and warm food for big Elk
right away. Oh, any of you get any ideas, I'll
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be waiting for you.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
That's all, just miss, all.
Speaker 11 (17:37):
Right, big Elk.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
Captain Quinch, I'm sorry, sir.
Speaker 12 (17:41):
I should have stopped, though.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
Any man could have stopped at misters, but being an
officer and no I should.
Speaker 5 (17:47):
The army saw fit to make you an officer. Misters.
Being a man's entirely up to you.
Speaker 10 (17:55):
That's all, Oh, camp of my people in valley below,
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big Elk, keep word.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
Big Elk. If if I had a home like that,
I'd never leave it.
Speaker 14 (18:29):
Red men first here, then white men come with gone.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
Yeah, yeah, I know.
Speaker 5 (18:40):
I'll take the flag. Mister Sabots, you have your orders. Yes, sir,
we'll ride in under your cover. There's to be no
firing unless there's trouble. If I drop the white flag,
that'll be your signal to open fire. Any questions, no, sir,
then pass the word big Elk and I are riding in.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
Good luck, Captain, you lead.
Speaker 11 (18:58):
Big Elk.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
No sign of your scouts yet. My people expect no trouble.
There will be no trouble.
Speaker 14 (19:26):
Big Outs turned back on white men.
Speaker 11 (19:30):
Not safe, no trust.
Speaker 4 (19:32):
I've kept my word, big Alc. The rest is up
to your.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Chief, big Out. No spears. Oh you're safe with me,
big Out, No trust.
Speaker 6 (19:45):
He's straight.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
You crazy, full.
Speaker 18 (19:49):
Stop it, stupid murdering swine.
Speaker 6 (20:09):
Move out, Move out to save your filthy hide.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
It was hook shotting, sir before anyone could stop him.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
He'll rotten the stockade for this.
Speaker 6 (20:17):
Stand a horse.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Horse. Dennis Seibert's a company back immediately.
Speaker 8 (20:40):
I know how you feel, Captain, but it's done. The
man will be dealt with fully.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Major.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
It was the coldest kind of murder.
Speaker 8 (20:49):
You're lucky you get out of there alive, especially you.
Right now, I'm thinking about those white women.
Speaker 5 (20:55):
I don't think there's a chance they're alive now. Sue
will take this out on somebody, and they're handiest.
Speaker 8 (21:02):
We can't think about that. We're going after those women
this time, with every man in our command.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
But at least a thousand sous at lodge Pole Creek.
Speaker 8 (21:09):
We'll do our best.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
Captain uh Gorse had been with me, i'd have seen
this since.
Speaker 8 (21:14):
Sergeant Gorse was accompanying the first wagon train through.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
I know that it's my own stupidity.
Speaker 8 (21:18):
Stupidity. Surely you're not blaming yourself for.
Speaker 5 (21:22):
Taking hook on that patrol, you bet, I am. I'm
long enough in the army to spot a trouble maker.
Speaker 8 (21:29):
You're not thinking straightly. I count on your judgment because
it's cool and straight. You're no good to me in
this turn of mine.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Major, My guts are crawling. Now, what do you want?
Speaker 8 (21:38):
I want an officer with head enough to command company
be to engage the Sioux.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
All right, Sue, you got one. I'm all right.
Speaker 8 (21:50):
Captain Matheson moved into the post yesterday with Sea Company,
with meats, infantry, and Howartzer's. We should give you the
cover you need.
Speaker 5 (21:57):
I'm not used to this much support. Major might get
lost in that crowd.
Speaker 8 (22:03):
Your job is to get those women and get out.
After your initial charge. The main fightings up to Sea
Company and the infantry.
Speaker 4 (22:10):
Get the women, bring them here.
Speaker 8 (22:11):
And you'll stand by his reinforcements for Matthews and Meat. Right, yes, Major,
come in, Captain Hasen, We're gonna need your help. Hasan.
Speaker 12 (22:24):
Well, there's a chance you can surprise him. They're on
the move.
Speaker 4 (22:28):
Which way north and to the west.
Speaker 12 (22:30):
Where's your map?
Speaker 11 (22:31):
All right? Here?
Speaker 12 (22:33):
Yeah? This was their main camp at Lodge fall U.
Now they moved along the valley where you were, Captain,
along the stream and then up the Horse Creek there,
then branched up the Bear Creek near Iron Mountain.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
Right there.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
We bivouacked there.
Speaker 8 (22:50):
You were a little to.
Speaker 12 (22:51):
The east, but no matter. They moved across the chug
Water along here is he and followed along the Larmie
range there.
Speaker 5 (23:00):
Lodge pole camp on the move, all of them.
Speaker 12 (23:04):
But this is where I think you can get him.
If it's still the Beasley girls you're after.
Speaker 8 (23:08):
They are our first objective, all right.
Speaker 12 (23:11):
The warriors, the main force of the tribe. They're well
up front, moving ahead, not expecting any trouble from the rear.
And so that's why they got their squaws and old
folks and youngs.
Speaker 11 (23:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
Likely the Beasley women are back there with them.
Speaker 8 (23:25):
It's a near cinch. Where are they now?
Speaker 12 (23:28):
In your judgment, the natural camp spots about there on
the Laramie River, moving slow like they got to along
that range. They should make camp there tonight. If it
was me, I wouldn't wait for sun up to move in.
Speaker 8 (23:44):
He's right, Major, Can you be company ready to move
out by dusk? I can pass the word Captain report
back in half an hour. Matthewson and Mead will be here.
Will lay out a full plan.
Speaker 5 (23:54):
Right, sir, mister sabits right here, Captain, men filed out
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in position, Yes, sir as ordered Harrison move up, Yes, sir, Harrison.
You'll thank me on the charge. We're gonna bring those
women out, you understand, I sure do so.
Speaker 19 (24:28):
God proud to company up at the try o.
Speaker 6 (25:09):
We surprise him, Captain.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
Their brother's the coversor we.
Speaker 6 (25:12):
Stampeded their horses.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
They gotta take cover these infantry.
Speaker 6 (25:17):
Where covers here?
Speaker 15 (25:19):
Yeah, mister Saberg, keep at them. Harrison over here, this way,
the lodgers over here. There's a squawk here, I'll get her.
Speaker 12 (25:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
No no kids walk, No white women? Where are they?
Speaker 6 (25:43):
No white woman? No kids?
Speaker 2 (25:45):
Squat now? Where are they.
Speaker 6 (25:48):
There?
Speaker 13 (25:49):
We'll sick No kids this.
Speaker 6 (25:51):
Way, Harrison, Well, Harrison, Captain Quince.
Speaker 12 (26:10):
It's in women then Beasley girls.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Why they can't be over five six years old? Either
one of them?
Speaker 13 (26:20):
I know.
Speaker 4 (26:23):
Come on, Harrison, let's get these women out of here.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
Fort Laramie is produced and directed by Norman McDonald and
stars Raymond Burr as Lee Quince, captain of Cavalry. The
script was specially written for Fort Laramie by Kathleen Height,
with son patterns by Bill James and Ray Kemper musical
super vision by Amerigo Marino. Featured in the cast were
Jack Moyles, Harry Bartel, Sam Edwards, Lawrence Dobkin, Lou Krugman,
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James Nusser, and Lillian Baya.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
Company tension.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
Dismiss Next week another transcribed story of the Northwest Frontier
and the troopers who fought under Lee Quince, Captain of Cavalry.
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