August 12, 2025 • 29 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
At the cover Wow.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Fort Laramie. Fort Laramie, starring Raymond Burr as Captain lee Quins,
especially transcribed tales of the dark and tragic ground of
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the wild frontiers, the saga of fighting men who rode
the rim of Empire, and the dramatic story of lee
Quin's captain of cavalry.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Pulling your wrist back like he'll watch me again. Then
I see this. If you just squeeze the trick and
hold steady on your target, your wrist won't fly around.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
So but I'm not a cavalry lieutenant.
Speaker 5 (01:40):
I'm just as wild.
Speaker 6 (01:42):
I know.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
I didn't know anyone else was watching.
Speaker 7 (01:47):
Captain Quince as you were. Lieutenant. It's my wife Hester,
it's Captain Quince, ma'am.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
How do you do Captain? Hees?
Speaker 7 (01:57):
Don't you don't take to a pistol? But I'm all
I can. It's slow going.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
Teaching Blade teaching not learning.
Speaker 8 (02:05):
I was a schoolmar I'm back home, Captain, and I
must say, Blade doesn't take to words any better than
I take to a pistol.
Speaker 7 (02:12):
Well, then you're both teaching, not learning.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
But that's just it, just it.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
I try to tell maybe she's got more need for
pistol out here for when words don't matter.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Well, I just don't see the need, captain.
Speaker 7 (02:25):
It's too bad seeing it or not, there's need.
Speaker 8 (02:29):
Now you mean to tell me that your wife knows
about pistols and rifles and riding horses and all kinds
of men poke cans on.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
I should have warned your captain my hash, she riles.
Speaker 7 (02:40):
Easy, Well, I'm not.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
Rile blade stock. I'm asking, that's all.
Speaker 9 (02:43):
If I had a wife, ma'am, she'd know all I
know about living out here and pistols and rifles and riding.
Speaker 7 (02:50):
Part of the living.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
And I try to tell a captain, I do.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
Try, I declare, I am not stupid. But everything you
say it's not womanly.
Speaker 7 (02:58):
It's not womanly country.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
Meaning women folk don't belong out here.
Speaker 9 (03:03):
Depends on the women folks, ma'am. I'd say, you have
to want to belong afternoon to.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
You afternoon, captain.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Well, I'm like that, ma'am.
Speaker 10 (03:30):
You just can't get nowhere from horse.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Hanging on with me.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
I got to hang on to something.
Speaker 10 (03:36):
Well, but you.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Just don't ride side saddle sergeants.
Speaker 7 (03:39):
Now that's a fact.
Speaker 11 (03:41):
Oh you're looking for me, captain.
Speaker 7 (03:44):
Oh just passing by a sergeant afternoon, is me?
Speaker 4 (03:47):
Good afternoon, Captain. I guess I'm quite a spectacle that I.
Speaker 7 (03:51):
Oh you look fine, ma'am.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
I'd like to believe that. I don't know who's getting
the worst of it, the horse or me or Sergeant Gorse.
Speaker 7 (03:57):
Seems to me you're all bearing up well.
Speaker 12 (04:00):
The captain's a site better teaching women folk to ride
than I am. Missus Mead, I tell you the truth,
I'm no hand at this side saddle business.
Speaker 7 (04:08):
I got business with the Major myself, or I'd sure.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
You'd sure think of some other reason to be moving out,
wouldn't you.
Speaker 7 (04:14):
Cat Yes, ma'am, I guess it would.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
I don't blame you, either of you and sergeant. If
you can find some.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Unsuspecting trooper and pass this duty onto him, you have
my leave and I won't be the least bit offended.
Speaker 12 (04:27):
Oh no, ma'am, thanks just the same. You understand it,
ain't you, missus me. You're just as willing as can be.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
It's just my petticoats, that's what it is.
Speaker 9 (04:39):
Well now, ma'am, I guess the Major will wonder what's become.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
Of me now I've embarrassed you.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Help me down, Captain before I break the post morale completely.
Speaker 7 (04:49):
Yes, ma'am, thank.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
You, captain.
Speaker 7 (04:54):
Don't mention it.
Speaker 12 (04:55):
You dropped something there, man.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
Not a petticoat.
Speaker 7 (04:58):
I hope this uh this pistol, Miss Meade?
Speaker 4 (05:03):
Oh, thank you captain.
Speaker 7 (05:06):
You always carry.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
It, oh Jim and scalp me if I didn't, he should,
I know, and I'm a good shot too, Miss Meade.
Speaker 7 (05:15):
Have you met up with missus Stocker yet, Missus Stocker?
Speaker 8 (05:19):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Blade Stocker's why as you know her? Well, just to
speak to it the Sutlers. I don't really know her.
She and the lieutenant moved onto the post just last week.
Speaker 9 (05:28):
If you ever do get to know her, you might
show her you carry a pistol and tell her why.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
She doesn't know why.
Speaker 7 (05:39):
And Blade's doing his best, but she don't see the need.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
I'll make it a point, Captain, But I can't understand Blade.
He was at Fort pill Corney.
Speaker 7 (05:48):
With us undefetterment.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
I thought she was there too, but maybe not though,
because the women at Corney saw the need fast.
Speaker 5 (06:12):
You want any of these boxes open, missus stockersh Now, don't.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
You bother with that Lieutenant Cyberts just moving them in
for me is a big help.
Speaker 5 (06:19):
Glad to do it, I declare you think.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
They give a body time to move into their quarters
here it is.
Speaker 8 (06:23):
Less than a week, and Blade's already drawn Officer of
the day.
Speaker 5 (06:27):
That's the army for you, missus Stocker.
Speaker 7 (06:29):
You draw the duty, you do it, that's all.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
Now you're not going to start letting me to Lieutenant Cyberts.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
Sorry, ma'am. I didn't mean it to sound that way.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Oh, don't mind me, Blade says, I rile easy, and
I guess I do.
Speaker 8 (06:42):
But he's all so new to me, and folks from
Captain Quinn's up and down have been mighty free with
their advice.
Speaker 5 (06:48):
Well, I am just trying to help.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
Well, I'm sure that, but there's help and help if
you know what I mean.
Speaker 5 (06:56):
Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 8 (06:57):
Now you, Lieutenant Cyberts helping me move my book and
belongings in.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
I can appreciate that more works.
Speaker 13 (07:03):
Huh.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
So one of those boxes is so happy my school books.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
I taught the grades back home before I married Blade.
Teaching was my whole life till him. I tell you
I couldn't leave my books behind me. I just couldn't.
Speaker 5 (07:17):
And understand that you can't yes, ma'am, I brought a
lot of books out myself from West Point. I attended
the military car.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
My goodness, a real west Point.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
I declare, missus Stock. Are there any more boxes of
yours out there on the wagon?
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Well, not exactly, I mean not on the wagon.
Speaker 5 (07:38):
But there are more boxes somewhere.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
Can you forgive me, Lieutenant Sibots? They're clear down at
the post office. Now, I know you don't have the
time to go all out.
Speaker 7 (07:47):
I'll be glad to ma'am.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
Well, I'll be more than grateful. I make the nicest
cherry toots, Lieutenant. I'll see you get some soon.
Speaker 7 (07:55):
I like that, ma'am.
Speaker 5 (07:56):
I won't be long.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
Anybody home? Oh why, yes, Oh, come in, won't you?
I'm Liz Mead two doors down. I've seen you at
the Suttlers, haven't I? Yes, Oh, I'm Hess Stocker.
Speaker 14 (08:22):
I know.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
Is it all right to sit on one of these boxes? Well,
I'm afraid they're all I have to offer right now.
I feel like I know you. Weren't you at Fort
Corney with Blade? No, we've just been married a month.
I've never been anywhere with Blade but here.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Oh well, my husband knew Blade better than I did,
but there's sort of a link between anyone who served
there Fort Connie.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
It's up on the old Bozeman Trail. It's closed now,
that's all Indian territory since the treaty. But I must
be mistaken about Blade, missus Meade. He's never mentioned Fort
Connie to me, but I'm sure he was there. There
were five I have companies of infantry or your husband's
an infantry officer. Uh huh, oh, well that explains it.
Then you must be wrong about Blade. He's in the cavalry.
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There was a company of cavalry too, under Captain Fetterman.
And it's not important, of course, but I know Blade
would have told me. Of course, I'm sure he would.
And as you say it, it's not important. Well can
I help you with anything? No, thanks kindly, my goodness,
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I almost forgot. I brought you a little present. Well,
aren't you nice?
Speaker 1 (09:40):
I have a practical turn of mind. It's something no
army wife should be without.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
What, well, these are cartridges. I just assumed yours was
a thirty eight like mine. Well, I don't know. You
know about Fox. The woman has to out here. I
don't understand a big post like Fort Laramie, with all
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these men here to protect us. But the men aren't
always here, Missus Stalker. My husband and most of the
infantry are out now. These are the facts of the West.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Many of the Indians are hostile and the fate of
white women in their hands. Well, it's best to know
how to defend yourself. You've had to defend yourself many times.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
At Carney.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
The women held the fort in one Indian raid with
less than a dozen men to help.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
Where any of the women killed.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Some some carried off by the Sioux dyings easier.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
I'm a school teacher, Missus Meade. I want to make
my way out here, teaching the young that you don't
have to kill to get along. I think schools are
more important than guns.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
We can use the schools, Missus Stoker. And there's not
a woman out here who won't want.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
To help you get them. But till you do, you
have to live. No, I guess I can defend myself
if I have to. It isn't always a case of
defending yourself. Sometimes a woman has to make a choice,
a quick choice of living or dying, of.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Living or enduring, Missus Starker, don't you know what happens
to a woman if a hostile carries her off.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
I think maybe that would be something for Blade to
tell me. Missus meed, yes, yes, you're right.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
And when he tells you that, maybe he'll tell you
what the pistol is for.
Speaker 10 (11:41):
Really, I talked to you meta assure.
Speaker 7 (12:10):
What's on your mind?
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Well, uh, Captain, maybe maybe just off the side here,
it's kind of personal, sir.
Speaker 9 (12:16):
All right, good, yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
Would you be willing to do some talking for me?
Kept I just can't seem to get that job done
with Hess using firearms and.
Speaker 6 (12:30):
All of me.
Speaker 7 (12:31):
You sure you're trying hard at it.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
I don't know what that means. I'm trying. I've been trying, Captain.
There's a lot I told her.
Speaker 15 (12:39):
And a lot of times a lot you haven't told her.
Really looks like a big Fort Laramie. I to swear
I wouldn't know anyone here from the old days. Sure
I didn't reckon the run in them as meat. Again,
she told you, huh.
Speaker 7 (12:54):
It's a secret you were at Fort Kearney.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
No, not that is well, they're just hard words to
say to Hess.
Speaker 7 (13:01):
Captain.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
It all hadn't kind of quick, like I'm marrying and
moving out here. I know miss Me didn't name too,
but she sure didn't do me no good bringing up
Carney to hiss.
Speaker 9 (13:13):
Me didn't get very far with your wife, and I
can't talk to her about Fort Carney.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
I wasn't there, but we only been married a month.
We don't even know.
Speaker 7 (13:20):
Each other right good yet?
Speaker 10 (13:21):
Nah?
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Well, how are you gonna say to brand newbride that
she ain't the first? I mean, you was married before.
Speaker 9 (13:29):
I don't know that, but you're the one to tell
him if she's told Blade, what's the matter with you?
Speaker 7 (13:38):
There's a lot, I guess.
Speaker 9 (13:40):
First you say, will I talk to your wife about
her need for a pistol? Then you drag Fort Carney
into it. Now you're talking about you were married.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Well, don't you see, Captain, they're all the same thing
in a way. It don't come easy to give hesse
a pistol and tell her to use it on herself
if it looks like she's gonna get took by Indians. Captain,
I've done it before at Carne, and that why had
to use that pistol on myself.
Speaker 7 (14:05):
I didn't know that, Blade. I don't think missus mead
knew it either. I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
No, no, captain, No, sorry is no matter.
Speaker 7 (14:16):
It's not your fault.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
Captain.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
Can't you see I've done it once and it don't
set well for second time? It just might could go
hard with him?
Speaker 7 (14:31):
Ma'am you ever said it all out this way before? Blade?
Speaker 3 (14:38):
No, sir, not out aloud.
Speaker 7 (14:40):
You might feel some better now it's said you reckon.
Speaker 14 (14:47):
I might.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
Obliged to you a listener anyways, Captain.
Speaker 9 (14:53):
Blade, sir, you'll want to say something to her tonight.
Tonight we're moving out tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Still you no, why can't I do that?
Speaker 4 (15:23):
Oh? Missus Mead, do what mount like that? I'll bet
you were a fewer petticoats that I do?
Speaker 8 (15:31):
Might be I do?
Speaker 4 (15:33):
Sergeant Gorse says, you ride beautifully. I know some about horses.
Well I'm learning. Mind if I ride with you this morning?
Speaker 8 (15:41):
Oh well, I'm going quite away, that is, I have
some business to tend to, all right.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
I just thought would Blade gone a week now? You
might be wanting some company. I hope you're carrying your pistol.
Speaker 4 (15:53):
I'm carrying. That's good. Well, have a nice.
Speaker 8 (15:57):
Ride, I expect to missus Mead.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
I'm going over to the Indian Agency talk to the
agent about setting up a school. You're not riding to
the agency alone.
Speaker 8 (16:07):
Now, don't start telling me the Agency Indians are hostiles.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
Blade told me different.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
But it's ten miles from Fort Laramine, and you don't
know what you're running into between here and there.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
I reckon, I can take.
Speaker 8 (16:19):
Care of myself, after all, missus meade, I'm carrying the pistol,
not that i'll have a minute need for it.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
I guess you could do with the water more of
a ride than I thought.
Speaker 16 (17:05):
Huh oh, no, miss Docer, Miss doctor, you all right.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
I'm fine, but for you coming on me this way?
Do you know Harmnia I came to pining on you.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
I've been trying to get with an earshot of you
all the way from the fort. It's a very stupid
thing riding off alone this way.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
I might have shot you.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
Seems to me you're the stupid one.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
I suppose I am, But but you've got to realize
the dangers out here, Miss Doccer, at least with the
two of us were protection to wait.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
Huh waits over there that brush near the trees? Something big?
How can you tell I don't see anything? It moves
bick timberwolf. Maybe a welcot. I hope not. I hope
that's all it is. You're just trying to frighten me.
Hold your pistol, steady toward that big tree and be quiet. Wow,
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it's in India. You're not afraid here. Pick up your
pistol and show him you're not afraid. I don't let
it stop. Stop where you are. We're not afraid of you.
If you have something to say, say it and go away.
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You understand this pistol.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Go on, go away, leave us alone or our fire?
You understand one more step and out fire?
Speaker 6 (19:17):
Is he dead? Did you?
Speaker 4 (19:22):
Did you kill him? He's dead?
Speaker 11 (19:28):
You don't kill him?
Speaker 4 (19:35):
No, it wouldn't hiss, not for a long time. Let's
go home.
Speaker 7 (19:56):
You reckon.
Speaker 12 (19:56):
She's hurt somehow, Captain.
Speaker 7 (19:58):
All, I don't see how.
Speaker 5 (20:01):
You want.
Speaker 7 (20:01):
I should go with you. I'd be proud to. Oh uh,
I don't do it, Gorse, it's my place.
Speaker 12 (20:10):
Yes, sir, I'm sure feel mighty bad for her. Yeah,
they're being so new here and not taking to the
life easy. I might just look in on her tomorrow.
Lad a hand maybe.
Speaker 7 (20:25):
Yeah, now you do that, Gorse will not Captain not
Gouse let's stop her.
Speaker 14 (21:00):
Oh why Captain Queen's you're about the last person I
expected to see.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
I's Blade with you.
Speaker 7 (21:07):
Can I come in, ma'am?
Speaker 4 (21:10):
Of course you can't. Please come in. I don't know
where my manners are. I guess it was seeing you,
when if it was anyone, I thought it would be Blade.
Speaker 7 (21:21):
You want to sit down, missus Tucker.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
You've come about Blade, haven't you. Something's happened to Blade.
Speaker 7 (21:33):
He's dead.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
He's dead.
Speaker 9 (21:39):
Sometimes it's better hearing it right out. You want to
sit down now, ma'am?
Speaker 4 (21:47):
Yes, yes, I think I do.
Speaker 7 (21:53):
Would you like a drink of something? Or do you
want to hear about it? I want to hear it
happened quickly. It's doctor, and if it's gotta happen, it's
best quick.
Speaker 4 (22:05):
He didn't know he didn't suffer.
Speaker 7 (22:07):
Oh man, one shot clean, That did it. I don't
know what it means, but Blade wanted just that way.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
I guess he would. Captain.
Speaker 14 (22:21):
We didn't even know each other yet.
Speaker 4 (22:25):
It hasn't been time.
Speaker 7 (22:26):
Yeah, he said that too.
Speaker 14 (22:29):
That night before he left, he kept trying to tell
me something. He'd try and then eat fred awhile, and
then he'd try again. Finally he just threw that blame
pistol on the dresser and he said to me, take
it has honey, know how much I love you. That's
the last words he said to me. I think he
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was trying to tell me something, Captain.
Speaker 7 (22:56):
I think he told you something.
Speaker 13 (22:58):
Man.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
Now how much I love you? Oh blade play honey.
Speaker 7 (23:06):
Miss Tucker. If I can do anything, you can go.
Speaker 4 (23:10):
Leave me be now. I wanted that way for now.
Speaker 7 (23:14):
You'll be all right alone.
Speaker 4 (23:16):
I gotta find that out for myself.
Speaker 6 (23:18):
Captain, Yes, ma'am, I'm I'm right sorry, Miss Stockholm. A captain.
Speaker 4 (23:31):
Yes, you brought him back? Did you back to the ford?
Speaker 7 (23:36):
We brought him back.
Speaker 13 (23:39):
I'm glad night, Miss Stockham.
Speaker 7 (24:03):
Captain, Captain Quince on morning, sergeant.
Speaker 11 (24:09):
You heard about her, Captain, missus Stockery.
Speaker 7 (24:11):
What about her? She's gone gone where?
Speaker 1 (24:13):
How?
Speaker 11 (24:14):
I went over there right after Raveley I got played
last night. I couldn't raise her, so I figured she
was sleeping heavy on her way back. The corporal of
the guard told me some woman rode through the main
gate not ten minutes ago.
Speaker 7 (24:26):
Why didn't he stop him?
Speaker 11 (24:27):
Well, he didn't know her, or what's happened to her
or anything. Captain Quincy knew one thing. She was carrying
a pistol like she knew what to do with him.
Speaker 17 (24:34):
You said ten minutes, Yes, sir, you're gonna find a captain, ma'am.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
I was too scared to fire.
Speaker 7 (25:33):
Before you're all right, man, I'm all right.
Speaker 4 (25:39):
I aim to use it, Captain, turn it on myself.
I was too scared to do that too. No needing
for that, no matter, I couldn't do it. That's a
pretty morning. It got no right to be, but it's pretty.
Speaker 7 (25:56):
It's new. It's a beginning. That's always pretty.
Speaker 4 (26:03):
We were beginnin blading me and I was beginning on
my own to get a feel like I belonged out here.
But you're right, captain, it's not womanly country.
Speaker 7 (26:17):
It still depends on the woman.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
I'm a school, ma'am. Teaching was my life till blade
I reckon. It's my life again.
Speaker 7 (26:27):
Now you've still got a life. Or don't you see
the need need schools? We can use em out here
on the post on the agency. Someone has to start him,
some one has to want.
Speaker 4 (26:40):
To someone who could do some learning while they were teaching.
I might fit the bill, Captain. I got a lot
of learning ahead of Mere.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
Fort Laramie is produced and directed by Norman MacDonald and
stars Raymond Burr as lee Quin's Captain of Cavalry, with
Vic Perrin as Sergeant Gorse. The script was specially written
for Fort Laramie by Kathleen Hit, with sound patterns by
Bill James and ray Kemper musical supervision by Amerigo Marino.
Featured in the cast were Harry Bartel as Lieutenant Siberts
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with Gene Bates, Lynn Allen and Laurence Dobkin.
Speaker 7 (27:47):
Company Tensent.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
Dismiss next week, another transcribed story of the Northwest Frontier
and the troopers who fought under lee Quinn's Captain of Cavalry.
Speaker 7 (28:19):
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Speaker 2 (28:20):
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At the cover Wow.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Fort Laramie. Fort Laramie, starring Raymond Burr as Captain lee Quins,
especially transcribed tales of the dark and tragic ground of
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the wild frontiers, the saga of fighting men who rode
the rim of Empire, and the dramatic story of lee
Quin's captain of cavalry.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Pulling your wrist back like he'll watch me again. Then
I see this. If you just squeeze the trick and
hold steady on your target, your wrist won't fly around.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
So but I'm not a cavalry lieutenant.
Speaker 5 (01:40):
I'm just as wild.
Speaker 6 (01:42):
I know.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
I didn't know anyone else was watching.
Speaker 7 (01:47):
Captain Quince as you were. Lieutenant. It's my wife Hester,
it's Captain Quince, ma'am.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
How do you do Captain? Hees?
Speaker 7 (01:57):
Don't you don't take to a pistol? But I'm all
I can. It's slow going.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
Teaching Blade teaching not learning.
Speaker 8 (02:05):
I was a schoolmar I'm back home, Captain, and I
must say, Blade doesn't take to words any better than
I take to a pistol.
Speaker 7 (02:12):
Well, then you're both teaching, not learning.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
But that's just it, just it.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
I try to tell maybe she's got more need for
pistol out here for when words don't matter.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Well, I just don't see the need, captain.
Speaker 7 (02:25):
It's too bad seeing it or not, there's need.
Speaker 8 (02:29):
Now you mean to tell me that your wife knows
about pistols and rifles and riding horses and all kinds
of men poke cans on.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
I should have warned your captain my hash, she riles.
Speaker 7 (02:40):
Easy, Well, I'm not.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
Rile blade stock. I'm asking, that's all.
Speaker 9 (02:43):
If I had a wife, ma'am, she'd know all I
know about living out here and pistols and rifles and riding.
Speaker 7 (02:50):
Part of the living.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
And I try to tell a captain, I do.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
Try, I declare, I am not stupid. But everything you
say it's not womanly.
Speaker 7 (02:58):
It's not womanly country.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
Meaning women folk don't belong out here.
Speaker 9 (03:03):
Depends on the women folks, ma'am. I'd say, you have
to want to belong afternoon to.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
You afternoon, captain.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Well, I'm like that, ma'am.
Speaker 10 (03:30):
You just can't get nowhere from horse.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Hanging on with me.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
I got to hang on to something.
Speaker 10 (03:36):
Well, but you.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Just don't ride side saddle sergeants.
Speaker 7 (03:39):
Now that's a fact.
Speaker 11 (03:41):
Oh you're looking for me, captain.
Speaker 7 (03:44):
Oh just passing by a sergeant afternoon, is me?
Speaker 4 (03:47):
Good afternoon, Captain. I guess I'm quite a spectacle that I.
Speaker 7 (03:51):
Oh you look fine, ma'am.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
I'd like to believe that. I don't know who's getting
the worst of it, the horse or me or Sergeant Gorse.
Speaker 7 (03:57):
Seems to me you're all bearing up well.
Speaker 12 (04:00):
The captain's a site better teaching women folk to ride
than I am. Missus Mead, I tell you the truth,
I'm no hand at this side saddle business.
Speaker 7 (04:08):
I got business with the Major myself, or I'd sure.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
You'd sure think of some other reason to be moving out,
wouldn't you.
Speaker 7 (04:14):
Cat Yes, ma'am, I guess it would.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
I don't blame you, either of you and sergeant. If
you can find some.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Unsuspecting trooper and pass this duty onto him, you have
my leave and I won't be the least bit offended.
Speaker 12 (04:27):
Oh no, ma'am, thanks just the same. You understand it,
ain't you, missus me. You're just as willing as can be.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
It's just my petticoats, that's what it is.
Speaker 9 (04:39):
Well now, ma'am, I guess the Major will wonder what's become.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
Of me now I've embarrassed you.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Help me down, Captain before I break the post morale completely.
Speaker 7 (04:49):
Yes, ma'am, thank.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
You, captain.
Speaker 7 (04:54):
Don't mention it.
Speaker 12 (04:55):
You dropped something there, man.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
Not a petticoat.
Speaker 7 (04:58):
I hope this uh this pistol, Miss Meade?
Speaker 4 (05:03):
Oh, thank you captain.
Speaker 7 (05:06):
You always carry.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
It, oh Jim and scalp me if I didn't, he should,
I know, and I'm a good shot too, Miss Meade.
Speaker 7 (05:15):
Have you met up with missus Stocker yet, Missus Stocker?
Speaker 8 (05:19):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Blade Stocker's why as you know her? Well, just to
speak to it the Sutlers. I don't really know her.
She and the lieutenant moved onto the post just last week.
Speaker 9 (05:28):
If you ever do get to know her, you might
show her you carry a pistol and tell her why.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
She doesn't know why.
Speaker 7 (05:39):
And Blade's doing his best, but she don't see the need.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
I'll make it a point, Captain, But I can't understand Blade.
He was at Fort pill Corney.
Speaker 7 (05:48):
With us undefetterment.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
I thought she was there too, but maybe not though,
because the women at Corney saw the need fast.
Speaker 5 (06:12):
You want any of these boxes open, missus stockersh Now, don't.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
You bother with that Lieutenant Cyberts just moving them in
for me is a big help.
Speaker 5 (06:19):
Glad to do it, I declare you think.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
They give a body time to move into their quarters
here it is.
Speaker 8 (06:23):
Less than a week, and Blade's already drawn Officer of
the day.
Speaker 5 (06:27):
That's the army for you, missus Stocker.
Speaker 7 (06:29):
You draw the duty, you do it, that's all.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
Now you're not going to start letting me to Lieutenant Cyberts.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
Sorry, ma'am. I didn't mean it to sound that way.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Oh, don't mind me, Blade says, I rile easy, and
I guess I do.
Speaker 8 (06:42):
But he's all so new to me, and folks from
Captain Quinn's up and down have been mighty free with
their advice.
Speaker 5 (06:48):
Well, I am just trying to help.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
Well, I'm sure that, but there's help and help if
you know what I mean.
Speaker 5 (06:56):
Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 8 (06:57):
Now you, Lieutenant Cyberts helping me move my book and
belongings in.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
I can appreciate that more works.
Speaker 13 (07:03):
Huh.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
So one of those boxes is so happy my school books.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
I taught the grades back home before I married Blade.
Teaching was my whole life till him. I tell you
I couldn't leave my books behind me. I just couldn't.
Speaker 5 (07:17):
And understand that you can't yes, ma'am, I brought a
lot of books out myself from West Point. I attended
the military car.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
My goodness, a real west Point.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
I declare, missus Stock. Are there any more boxes of
yours out there on the wagon?
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Well, not exactly, I mean not on the wagon.
Speaker 5 (07:38):
But there are more boxes somewhere.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
Can you forgive me, Lieutenant Sibots? They're clear down at
the post office. Now, I know you don't have the
time to go all out.
Speaker 7 (07:47):
I'll be glad to ma'am.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
Well, I'll be more than grateful. I make the nicest
cherry toots, Lieutenant. I'll see you get some soon.
Speaker 7 (07:55):
I like that, ma'am.
Speaker 5 (07:56):
I won't be long.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
Anybody home? Oh why, yes, Oh, come in, won't you?
I'm Liz Mead two doors down. I've seen you at
the Suttlers, haven't I? Yes, Oh, I'm Hess Stocker.
Speaker 14 (08:22):
I know.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
Is it all right to sit on one of these boxes? Well,
I'm afraid they're all I have to offer right now.
I feel like I know you. Weren't you at Fort
Corney with Blade? No, we've just been married a month.
I've never been anywhere with Blade but here.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Oh well, my husband knew Blade better than I did,
but there's sort of a link between anyone who served
there Fort Connie.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
It's up on the old Bozeman Trail. It's closed now,
that's all Indian territory since the treaty. But I must
be mistaken about Blade, missus Meade. He's never mentioned Fort
Connie to me, but I'm sure he was there. There
were five I have companies of infantry or your husband's
an infantry officer. Uh huh, oh, well that explains it.
Then you must be wrong about Blade. He's in the cavalry.
(09:12):
There was a company of cavalry too, under Captain Fetterman.
And it's not important, of course, but I know Blade
would have told me. Of course, I'm sure he would.
And as you say it, it's not important. Well can
I help you with anything? No, thanks kindly, my goodness,
(09:34):
I almost forgot. I brought you a little present. Well,
aren't you nice?
Speaker 1 (09:40):
I have a practical turn of mind. It's something no
army wife should be without.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
What, well, these are cartridges. I just assumed yours was
a thirty eight like mine. Well, I don't know. You
know about Fox. The woman has to out here. I
don't understand a big post like Fort Laramie, with all
(10:06):
these men here to protect us. But the men aren't
always here, Missus Stalker. My husband and most of the
infantry are out now. These are the facts of the West.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Many of the Indians are hostile and the fate of
white women in their hands. Well, it's best to know
how to defend yourself. You've had to defend yourself many times.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
At Carney.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
The women held the fort in one Indian raid with
less than a dozen men to help.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
Where any of the women killed.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Some some carried off by the Sioux dyings easier.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
I'm a school teacher, Missus Meade. I want to make
my way out here, teaching the young that you don't
have to kill to get along. I think schools are
more important than guns.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
We can use the schools, Missus Stoker. And there's not
a woman out here who won't want.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
To help you get them. But till you do, you
have to live. No, I guess I can defend myself
if I have to. It isn't always a case of
defending yourself. Sometimes a woman has to make a choice,
a quick choice of living or dying, of.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Living or enduring, Missus Starker, don't you know what happens
to a woman if a hostile carries her off.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
I think maybe that would be something for Blade to
tell me. Missus meed, yes, yes, you're right.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
And when he tells you that, maybe he'll tell you
what the pistol is for.
Speaker 10 (11:41):
Really, I talked to you meta assure.
Speaker 7 (12:10):
What's on your mind?
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Well, uh, Captain, maybe maybe just off the side here,
it's kind of personal, sir.
Speaker 9 (12:16):
All right, good, yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
Would you be willing to do some talking for me?
Kept I just can't seem to get that job done
with Hess using firearms and.
Speaker 6 (12:30):
All of me.
Speaker 7 (12:31):
You sure you're trying hard at it.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
I don't know what that means. I'm trying. I've been trying, Captain.
There's a lot I told her.
Speaker 15 (12:39):
And a lot of times a lot you haven't told her.
Really looks like a big Fort Laramie. I to swear
I wouldn't know anyone here from the old days. Sure
I didn't reckon the run in them as meat. Again,
she told you, huh.
Speaker 7 (12:54):
It's a secret you were at Fort Kearney.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
No, not that is well, they're just hard words to
say to Hess.
Speaker 7 (13:01):
Captain.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
It all hadn't kind of quick, like I'm marrying and
moving out here. I know miss Me didn't name too,
but she sure didn't do me no good bringing up
Carney to hiss.
Speaker 9 (13:13):
Me didn't get very far with your wife, and I
can't talk to her about Fort Carney.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
I wasn't there, but we only been married a month.
We don't even know.
Speaker 7 (13:20):
Each other right good yet?
Speaker 10 (13:21):
Nah?
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Well, how are you gonna say to brand newbride that
she ain't the first? I mean, you was married before.
Speaker 9 (13:29):
I don't know that, but you're the one to tell
him if she's told Blade, what's the matter with you?
Speaker 7 (13:38):
There's a lot, I guess.
Speaker 9 (13:40):
First you say, will I talk to your wife about
her need for a pistol? Then you drag Fort Carney
into it. Now you're talking about you were married.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Well, don't you see, Captain, they're all the same thing
in a way. It don't come easy to give hesse
a pistol and tell her to use it on herself
if it looks like she's gonna get took by Indians. Captain,
I've done it before at Carne, and that why had
to use that pistol on myself.
Speaker 7 (14:05):
I didn't know that, Blade. I don't think missus mead
knew it either. I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
No, no, captain, No, sorry is no matter.
Speaker 7 (14:16):
It's not your fault.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
Captain.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
Can't you see I've done it once and it don't
set well for second time? It just might could go
hard with him?
Speaker 7 (14:31):
Ma'am you ever said it all out this way before? Blade?
Speaker 3 (14:38):
No, sir, not out aloud.
Speaker 7 (14:40):
You might feel some better now it's said you reckon.
Speaker 14 (14:47):
I might.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
Obliged to you a listener anyways, Captain.
Speaker 9 (14:53):
Blade, sir, you'll want to say something to her tonight.
Tonight we're moving out tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Still you no, why can't I do that?
Speaker 4 (15:23):
Oh? Missus Mead, do what mount like that? I'll bet
you were a fewer petticoats that I do?
Speaker 8 (15:31):
Might be I do?
Speaker 4 (15:33):
Sergeant Gorse says, you ride beautifully. I know some about horses.
Well I'm learning. Mind if I ride with you this morning?
Speaker 8 (15:41):
Oh well, I'm going quite away, that is, I have
some business to tend to, all right.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
I just thought would Blade gone a week now? You
might be wanting some company. I hope you're carrying your pistol.
Speaker 4 (15:53):
I'm carrying. That's good. Well, have a nice.
Speaker 8 (15:57):
Ride, I expect to missus Mead.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
I'm going over to the Indian Agency talk to the
agent about setting up a school. You're not riding to
the agency alone.
Speaker 8 (16:07):
Now, don't start telling me the Agency Indians are hostiles.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
Blade told me different.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
But it's ten miles from Fort Laramine, and you don't
know what you're running into between here and there.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
I reckon, I can take.
Speaker 8 (16:19):
Care of myself, after all, missus meade, I'm carrying the pistol,
not that i'll have a minute need for it.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
I guess you could do with the water more of
a ride than I thought.
Speaker 16 (17:05):
Huh oh, no, miss Docer, Miss doctor, you all right.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
I'm fine, but for you coming on me this way?
Do you know Harmnia I came to pining on you.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
I've been trying to get with an earshot of you
all the way from the fort. It's a very stupid
thing riding off alone this way.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
I might have shot you.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
Seems to me you're the stupid one.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
I suppose I am, But but you've got to realize
the dangers out here, Miss Doccer, at least with the
two of us were protection to wait.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
Huh waits over there that brush near the trees? Something big?
How can you tell I don't see anything? It moves
bick timberwolf. Maybe a welcot. I hope not. I hope
that's all it is. You're just trying to frighten me.
Hold your pistol, steady toward that big tree and be quiet. Wow,
(18:16):
it's in India. You're not afraid here. Pick up your
pistol and show him you're not afraid. I don't let
it stop. Stop where you are. We're not afraid of you.
If you have something to say, say it and go away.
(18:40):
You understand this pistol.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Go on, go away, leave us alone or our fire?
You understand one more step and out fire?
Speaker 6 (19:17):
Is he dead? Did you?
Speaker 4 (19:22):
Did you kill him? He's dead?
Speaker 11 (19:28):
You don't kill him?
Speaker 4 (19:35):
No, it wouldn't hiss, not for a long time. Let's
go home.
Speaker 7 (19:56):
You reckon.
Speaker 12 (19:56):
She's hurt somehow, Captain.
Speaker 7 (19:58):
All, I don't see how.
Speaker 5 (20:01):
You want.
Speaker 7 (20:01):
I should go with you. I'd be proud to. Oh uh,
I don't do it, Gorse, it's my place.
Speaker 12 (20:10):
Yes, sir, I'm sure feel mighty bad for her. Yeah,
they're being so new here and not taking to the
life easy. I might just look in on her tomorrow.
Lad a hand maybe.
Speaker 7 (20:25):
Yeah, now you do that, Gorse will not Captain not
Gouse let's stop her.
Speaker 14 (21:00):
Oh why Captain Queen's you're about the last person I
expected to see.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
I's Blade with you.
Speaker 7 (21:07):
Can I come in, ma'am?
Speaker 4 (21:10):
Of course you can't. Please come in. I don't know
where my manners are. I guess it was seeing you,
when if it was anyone, I thought it would be Blade.
Speaker 7 (21:21):
You want to sit down, missus Tucker.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
You've come about Blade, haven't you. Something's happened to Blade.
Speaker 7 (21:33):
He's dead.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
He's dead.
Speaker 9 (21:39):
Sometimes it's better hearing it right out. You want to
sit down now, ma'am?
Speaker 4 (21:47):
Yes, yes, I think I do.
Speaker 7 (21:53):
Would you like a drink of something? Or do you
want to hear about it? I want to hear it
happened quickly. It's doctor, and if it's gotta happen, it's
best quick.
Speaker 4 (22:05):
He didn't know he didn't suffer.
Speaker 7 (22:07):
Oh man, one shot clean, That did it. I don't
know what it means, but Blade wanted just that way.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
I guess he would. Captain.
Speaker 14 (22:21):
We didn't even know each other yet.
Speaker 4 (22:25):
It hasn't been time.
Speaker 7 (22:26):
Yeah, he said that too.
Speaker 14 (22:29):
That night before he left, he kept trying to tell
me something. He'd try and then eat fred awhile, and
then he'd try again. Finally he just threw that blame
pistol on the dresser and he said to me, take
it has honey, know how much I love you. That's
the last words he said to me. I think he
(22:53):
was trying to tell me something, Captain.
Speaker 7 (22:56):
I think he told you something.
Speaker 13 (22:58):
Man.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
Now how much I love you? Oh blade play honey.
Speaker 7 (23:06):
Miss Tucker. If I can do anything, you can go.
Speaker 4 (23:10):
Leave me be now. I wanted that way for now.
Speaker 7 (23:14):
You'll be all right alone.
Speaker 4 (23:16):
I gotta find that out for myself.
Speaker 6 (23:18):
Captain, Yes, ma'am, I'm I'm right sorry, Miss Stockholm. A captain.
Speaker 4 (23:31):
Yes, you brought him back? Did you back to the ford?
Speaker 7 (23:36):
We brought him back.
Speaker 13 (23:39):
I'm glad night, Miss Stockham.
Speaker 7 (24:03):
Captain, Captain Quince on morning, sergeant.
Speaker 11 (24:09):
You heard about her, Captain, missus Stockery.
Speaker 7 (24:11):
What about her? She's gone gone where?
Speaker 1 (24:13):
How?
Speaker 11 (24:14):
I went over there right after Raveley I got played
last night. I couldn't raise her, so I figured she
was sleeping heavy on her way back. The corporal of
the guard told me some woman rode through the main
gate not ten minutes ago.
Speaker 7 (24:26):
Why didn't he stop him?
Speaker 11 (24:27):
Well, he didn't know her, or what's happened to her
or anything. Captain Quincy knew one thing. She was carrying
a pistol like she knew what to do with him.
Speaker 17 (24:34):
You said ten minutes, Yes, sir, you're gonna find a captain, ma'am.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
I was too scared to fire.
Speaker 7 (25:33):
Before you're all right, man, I'm all right.
Speaker 4 (25:39):
I aim to use it, Captain, turn it on myself.
I was too scared to do that too. No needing
for that, no matter, I couldn't do it. That's a
pretty morning. It got no right to be, but it's pretty.
Speaker 7 (25:56):
It's new. It's a beginning. That's always pretty.
Speaker 4 (26:03):
We were beginnin blading me and I was beginning on
my own to get a feel like I belonged out here.
But you're right, captain, it's not womanly country.
Speaker 7 (26:17):
It still depends on the woman.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
I'm a school, ma'am. Teaching was my life till blade
I reckon. It's my life again.
Speaker 7 (26:27):
Now you've still got a life. Or don't you see
the need need schools? We can use em out here
on the post on the agency. Someone has to start him,
some one has to want.
Speaker 4 (26:40):
To someone who could do some learning while they were teaching.
I might fit the bill, Captain. I got a lot
of learning ahead of Mere.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
Fort Laramie is produced and directed by Norman MacDonald and
stars Raymond Burr as lee Quin's Captain of Cavalry, with
Vic Perrin as Sergeant Gorse. The script was specially written
for Fort Laramie by Kathleen Hit, with sound patterns by
Bill James and ray Kemper musical supervision by Amerigo Marino.
Featured in the cast were Harry Bartel as Lieutenant Siberts
(27:27):
with Gene Bates, Lynn Allen and Laurence Dobkin.
Speaker 7 (27:47):
Company Tensent.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
Dismiss next week, another transcribed story of the Northwest Frontier
and the troopers who fought under lee Quinn's Captain of Cavalry.
Speaker 7 (28:19):
Each of us has.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
An important part to play in defending our own locality
as well as our country as a whole. If Los Angeles, Chicago,
or Cincinnati is bombed, it will directly affect every farmer
in North Dakota or miner in Kentucky. Won't you give
a few hours of each week as a Grand observer
or a worker in a filter center to help your country?
Become a Grand observer, Corps volunteer in your community, rite
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I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!