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Speaker 1 (00:08):
At the Galla Wow.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Fort Laramie. Fort Laramie, starring Raymond Burr as Captain lee Quins,
especially transcribed tales of the dark and tragic ground of
(00:57):
the wild Frontier, the saga of fighting men who rode
the rim of Empire, and the dramatic story of lee
Quin's captain of Cavalry.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
It looks like the frets at the fire into the
train gorse.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
I expect it is, Captain, because I took care to
see the wagons. Was up front here to make the
load an easy Now, don't see they're moved to the bag.
Speaker 5 (01:32):
Yes, you got the list, captain.
Speaker 6 (01:35):
Yeah, two men unloaded ont to be enough?
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Nothing real heavy. They are.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
Rifles, car beams, revolvers, sabers, which says infantry equipments here. Well,
you don't suppose they tucked in a few howitzers.
Speaker 5 (01:52):
We only brought the two wagons, and.
Speaker 6 (01:55):
Then we can't haul back. We'll leave let ordnance do
its own work.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
It looks like.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Ours, bridles, haulders and straps, saddles, nosed bags.
Speaker 5 (02:07):
I'll see to the unloading, captain.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Right, guys do there?
Speaker 7 (02:11):
Tell me?
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Yes, you from Fort Laramie. That's right.
Speaker 8 (02:18):
I'm glad to hear that. I'm station master here. You
better come into my office and get this business.
Speaker 7 (02:23):
Cheer it up.
Speaker 6 (02:23):
Well, the sergeant's got the billing on the army equipment
we are unloading.
Speaker 8 (02:27):
That's not what I'm talking about. Now you're here. I
just want you to get him out of my station.
I'm running a guard house, you know.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
I'd give a little to know what you are talking about, mister.
Speaker 8 (02:37):
Them two soldiers chained together in there in the guard
with them, they say they're bound for Fort Laramie.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Private Medford and Private Stringer. Is that right?
Speaker 9 (02:55):
That's right, sir. The little one Springer, he doesn't say much,
tall blonde one.
Speaker 6 (02:59):
He's Metford and your corporal Benjamin, Yes, sir, and their
orders say Fort Laramie, Clarinet.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
You got orders, corporal, Yes, sir.
Speaker 9 (03:09):
Fort Bridger is serving Fort Lavenmworth transfer, Sir, I was
escort Metford and the spring of this far Sir, in
contact Fort Laramie to secure him from here.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Well, you made contact, corporal, will take over.
Speaker 9 (03:20):
I don't understand, sir. Fort Laramie's forty miles from here.
I only telegraphed ten minutes ago, Sir.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
We had a good wind behind us on the way down.
Speaker 9 (03:29):
Beg your pardon, sir.
Speaker 6 (03:31):
We came to pick up a consignment of equipment left
Fort Laramie yesterday.
Speaker 9 (03:36):
Oh well, then what you said about the wind behind
me was.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
A bold face fly, Corporal.
Speaker 9 (03:41):
Yes, sir, the captain displays a fine touch of humor.
Speaker 6 (03:45):
He mustn't encourage me. Corporal, you better arrange for your
transportation to Fort Bridger.
Speaker 9 (03:50):
Good luck, Thank you, sir. Good luck to you, sir.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
All right on your feet?
Speaker 6 (04:03):
Yes, Private Stringer, Yeah, how's that?
Speaker 3 (04:10):
That's me Stringer? You stationed at Fort Leavenworth. I was
tuck there.
Speaker 10 (04:18):
They give me this uniform is tall and next to
me a length of chain, and they put me on
the railroad. You're a recruit then if that means did
I join up of my own free will?
Speaker 4 (04:28):
No?
Speaker 3 (04:29):
You've been in the army before. Mostly I've been in jail.
Don't it say on them papers about me? If it did,
I wouldn't be asking. I've been in the army six days.
I heard talk.
Speaker 10 (04:40):
You could make the arrangement on account enlistments being slow.
I could get out of jail if I signed, I'd
join the army.
Speaker 6 (04:46):
Stand up straight, now, you get this stringer. There's not
the time to tell you how much learning you got
ahead of you, but you learn starting now, understand, Yeah, yes, sir, yes, sir,
all right, I guess we can take those chains off now.
Speaker 7 (05:09):
Is any reason you ain't asking questions of me, sir?
Speaker 3 (05:13):
I don't have to, Medford says about you in your papers.
Speaker 7 (05:18):
Or maybe it don't say at all in them papers.
Speaker 6 (05:22):
Captain says, enough, there, you ride back to Fort lairamain
the wagons with the equipment.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
We don't have horses for you.
Speaker 7 (05:33):
We ride free of these chains, Captain.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Free of the chains.
Speaker 11 (05:38):
Man alone might jump off of one of them wagons might,
but that ain't your worry, sir, that's.
Speaker 6 (05:45):
Your worry, Medford. Jumping the wagon is desertion. If you
walk away, you'll be caught.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
If you run, you'll be shot.
Speaker 6 (05:58):
Uh all right, Sergeant dismiss him, Yes, sir, but you won't, yes, miss.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Uh Captain, Yes, egean.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
I'll see the wagons is unloaded and pick what men
you need. Then take the wagons to the wheel ride.
Tell him if he can't fix them proper, to burn him. Right, Captain,
about the new man, what about them? Are they assigned?
To b company.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Sir, they're not assigned anywhere yet, Gorse.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
We could sure use them, Captain, starting right now with
the unloading of the equipment.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
They don't have to be assigned first.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
Well, that'll take most of the rest of the day, Captain,
there ain't more than hours work.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Get someone else to do it, Gorse.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
Yes, sir, there's a reason, Captain, you don't want Stringer
in Medford to help.
Speaker 6 (07:05):
Yeah, reasons like you'll be unloading rifles and car beings
and fifty thousand rounds of ammunition.
Speaker 5 (07:12):
I guess when you want to tell me the rest
of that story, you.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Will, and it'll be a right time. Guys.
Speaker 6 (07:17):
Yes, sir, all right, you too, fall in behind me.
You'll report the headquarters company for assignment.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
All right. If I ask a question, mister the captain,
what is it? Well, now, I'm brand new to this life.
Speaker 10 (07:42):
I told you that I don't even know where this
headquarters company's at, and all like.
Speaker 6 (07:47):
That, I'll see you get their stringer. Any more questions,
I got one, sir, well, Medford.
Speaker 7 (07:55):
When do the outfit us proper proper Medford?
Speaker 11 (08:00):
I mean, I got this brand new blue uniform. When
they're going to give me and they're going to give
me my rifle and side arms. When you were assigned,
they mean I should have them firearms, just like anyone.
Speaker 6 (08:14):
Else, just like anyone else. Medford, Captain Quince, Yes, Lieutenant.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
He's the transfers or mmmm, Private Stringer and Medford.
Speaker 9 (08:27):
The major sent me to see they're assigned in Quartern.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
He's anxious to see you, Captain. Yeah, thank you, mister Sabitz.
Speaker 6 (08:43):
Corporal Benjamin's telegram wasn't quite clear, Captain, something about respectfully
urging that we pick up two prisoners from forty Levenworth.
You get my telegram, all right, yeah, saying you were
bringing two transfers from Fort Levenworth.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Which are they? Prisoners? Are transfers, a little of both.
I guess if.
Speaker 12 (09:00):
Fort Larami used to become a military prison, I'd like
to hear it from someone other than a corporal.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
And these men aren't prisoners anymore. Major.
Speaker 6 (09:06):
For some reason, they sent him as far as Cheyenne
under Corporal Benjamin's guard.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
He got their papers.
Speaker 6 (09:12):
They're at headquarters company, but I read him Stringer. They
let him out of a civilian jail if he'd promised
he'd join the army.
Speaker 12 (09:21):
Under that plan to make up for slow enlistments. I
read about it when the order came through a couple
of months ago. Decided to face that problem when it
came up.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
It's come up, majorm Any idea what he was serving
time for.
Speaker 6 (09:32):
Oh, he gave me the ideas, made a career for
himself being in prison.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
I didn't ask about specific crimes. I know this.
Speaker 12 (09:40):
He's never been in the army, and we can fix
that part. The other one he from prison.
Speaker 6 (09:45):
Too, Yeah, Camp Butler first, then Camp Douglas. You're talking
about military prisons. Captain Union Army prisons for Confederate captives,
Private Lacy Midford.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
He's our first galvan Yankee, Major galvanized Yankee. Never heard
that term has.
Speaker 6 (10:05):
Something to do with iron. When it's galvanized, it turns
color men like Medford. They were captured in gray, sent
west in blue. Well, like you say, Lee, this is
a new problem for us.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Might not be a problem.
Speaker 12 (10:17):
Oh, but it seems likely enough. Most of your men
fought in the Union Army. That war is long over,
not in men's minds. Lead For some men on both sides,
it'll never be over.
Speaker 6 (10:28):
Major in B Company alone, we've got Irish and English
bunking side by side, Same with Germans and French. If
we can't put a Yankee and a rebel side by side,
we got more trouble than just Indians.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
I'm glad you don't consider it a problem.
Speaker 6 (10:41):
I said it might not be one when it is.
If it is, I'll treat it as a problem. Fair enough,
fair enough where you're talking. You've made up your mind
to give me Stringer in Medford.
Speaker 12 (10:54):
B company's got fewer men than the rest. Any objections, No,
not from me. You like challenges, don't you leave? You
keep telling me I do. And I hope Medford won't
be a problem. But if he is, I'll feel better
knowing he's your problem.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Thanks. What's your impression of him? Right off? Right off?
Speaker 6 (11:12):
I'd say he's awful, anxious to get his own rifle
in side arms. Till I know better, I'm going to
figure he's itching to get himself an Indian. I tell you, Stringer,
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these private riding lessons ain't going on forever.
Speaker 10 (11:42):
Well I got nighty, I could ride just fine if
I ever once got on.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
When you're no young, and how you been getting around
without learning the first thing about Mountain?
Speaker 3 (11:51):
I ain't been getting around, sergeant, there's been no call
for it.
Speaker 5 (11:54):
Will you just sit where you come from?
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Sit or laid down. You don't know nothing about me,
I mean before.
Speaker 5 (12:03):
I don't know and don't care. But you're sure looking
more like infantry to me every minute.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
You mean that Captain ain't told you about me.
Speaker 5 (12:12):
Captain Quin's got important things to think about.
Speaker 10 (12:15):
Yeah, he sure has. That Medford I was captain, I'd
think about him alone.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
Never mind about Medford. He can mount and ride and
dismount with the best of them.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
He gotta. He was in the dirty yellow rebel cavalry.
Speaker 5 (12:30):
Stand a horse.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
You don't care about that. You want a stinking rebel
in your army?
Speaker 5 (12:37):
Now you listen good to me, Stringer.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
I got a guard house with a fine view of
the Laramie River down there.
Speaker 5 (12:43):
Anymore talk out of you, send you right there.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
I feel a sight safer in the guard house. I
ain't been a month out of jail since I was ten.
Speaker 5 (12:51):
Well, you just talked yourself right back in again, Stringer.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
All right, fine, Can I talk free about Medford?
Speaker 5 (12:59):
Now you got anything and to say? You say it
to me and nobody else.
Speaker 10 (13:01):
You understand, well, you ain't thinking this is no secret
about him being a lousy rebel?
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Why he tells everybody in earshot. You know he's proud
of it, right, proud.
Speaker 5 (13:12):
That's his business.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
You fought in that war, sergeant? How can you stand
the thought of him being one of you? Now?
Speaker 4 (13:19):
Maybe because I fought in that war? Stringer, what jail
was you sitting it out in there?
Speaker 3 (13:25):
You think more of him than me?
Speaker 4 (13:26):
You're in for a lot of things you won't understand, Stringer.
You can think him over in the guard house.
Speaker 10 (13:32):
I ain't gonna think nothing over. But here's something you
can think over, a sergeant, that yellow rebels got himself
a lot of guns, all kinds of rifles, to pistols
and back again.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Think it over, see if you rest easy on it.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
Medford's outside, Captain, you want I should send him in now?
Speaker 3 (14:05):
In a minute? Gorse, how far is all this gone?
Can you tell?
Speaker 5 (14:10):
It's all over?
Speaker 4 (14:11):
About him being in the Confederate Cavalry, About how he
was took prisoner sent out here?
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Now?
Speaker 5 (14:18):
His sing about the guns? I hear that all through
the quarters too.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
You seen the gun?
Speaker 6 (14:22):
No, Sir, I checked ordnance and stores. Everything's accounted for, ammunition, rifles, carbines, revolvers.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
Well, he claims he brought them all in with him.
The men say that in a haversack and saddle bag.
I'm just telling you what the men say. Captain, you
said we was going out in a few days. You
figuring to take him along. That'll be up to him gorse.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
Yes, sir, you can send him in now, right, Captain.
Speaker 13 (14:51):
Medford.
Speaker 5 (14:52):
Captain Quince will see you.
Speaker 6 (14:53):
No, sit down, Medford, I prefer to stand, sir, sit down.
You've got any complaints in your treatment here? I want
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to hear about them.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Now. I got a complaint. I'm here, and I can't
do much about that matter.
Speaker 7 (15:21):
Neither can I. I want free to choose.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
If you were free, what would you do? Go back home?
Speaker 7 (15:32):
They ain't no home, The ain't nobody men like you?
Speaker 3 (15:36):
Sall of that.
Speaker 6 (15:38):
Suppose you could get out, maybe stake a claim, maybe
get a little farm in store.
Speaker 11 (15:43):
It's all took out of me. I don't want none
of that. I don't want anything safe to be let be.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Oh, it's not all out of you. The hate's still there.
Speaker 7 (15:51):
You bet it is. I get all the strength I
got from hating.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Sure, you're feeding it all the time.
Speaker 11 (15:56):
Well, there's a lot to hate. It's here, blue uniform.
You can start there. That's Spencer rifle you issued and
meet it. You're gonna let me talk free.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
You're talking right free, Go ahead.
Speaker 7 (16:10):
Well that's Spencer. I never seen one.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
I just heard a man Abouttom.
Speaker 11 (16:15):
We used to figure you, yank Is spent one day
a week just loading up and the rest of the
week fired no matterus.
Speaker 6 (16:20):
We didn't have that, like, no, you didn't. So now
you got one. It'll fire eight shots only. There aren't
any Yankees left to kill.
Speaker 7 (16:29):
Ain't nothing but Yankees.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
You better get over that feeling. Midford.
Speaker 7 (16:33):
I'm gonna die with it.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
You don't want to die, you know that, dude. You
had a lot of chances to die. You could have
died in prison if you'd made up your mind to it.
You could have died any day out here, starting from
the first day you rode in on the wagon.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Oh you figure that you could have jumped the wagon.
I'd have killed you. I told you that.
Speaker 6 (16:51):
And since you're here, you're on the rifle range real regular.
The way you've been talking, you could go to man
into killing you.
Speaker 7 (16:59):
And man, I've been reporting to you right along.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
You've been talking your hate right free.
Speaker 7 (17:06):
Let tell you about my guns.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Did they got a lot of guns, have your Medford?
Speaker 7 (17:11):
You ain't searched, real good, Captain.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
I haven't searched at all. I'm not going to.
Speaker 7 (17:17):
If I got guns, you'd have cause to be fearful.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
Maybe got any more complaints?
Speaker 7 (17:25):
Kind of a man are you?
Speaker 11 (17:28):
I told you I hate your uniform, everything about you,
what you stand for.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
I'm this kind of man, Medford.
Speaker 6 (17:33):
I got a cavalry company that short of men were
moving out in a couple of days.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
Now.
Speaker 6 (17:37):
Maybe we don't like the same things or hate the
same things, but we're stuck with each other.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Medford.
Speaker 7 (17:47):
You're taking me on an engagement, taking me to fight
engines under your flag.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
You scared of Indians? Medford.
Speaker 6 (17:54):
It's not that I'm taking you. You got something you're
living for. I want to find out what it is.
Speaker 9 (18:08):
They're strung out about us, then as we can.
Speaker 10 (18:09):
Be, Captain.
Speaker 6 (18:10):
You know, the longer they think we can hold them
down there, the better. I don't think we'll be able
to fool them long get us out numbered two to one, anyway,
Sure have mister Sabrits.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Our horse is.
Speaker 9 (18:21):
Still secure behind the top of the rise.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
Yes, sir, those Indians are smart. They'll circle us. There's
enough of them to do it.
Speaker 9 (18:28):
Have you thought about retreat, Captain, I.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
Thought of nothing else since we got boxed in. We'll
retreat when we can, mister Sabrits if we can, Captain,
Sir Medford.
Speaker 7 (18:40):
Kevin, can you see their horses from here? There must
be a couple hundred.
Speaker 6 (18:43):
Of them ones they stole caught in the ravine down there, Yes,
what about them?
Speaker 7 (18:47):
We stampeded those horses. Them engines are clear out of here.
No time.
Speaker 6 (18:51):
We'd have to ride a charge down there to stampede
and met suicide.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Midford. They'd pick us off one by one as we rode.
Speaker 6 (18:57):
That our only chance, Captain getting killed, not the chance
we're looking for.
Speaker 7 (19:01):
But Captain, it's not back.
Speaker 14 (19:03):
Of your position metric now, Yes, sir, ulder fire man,
ulder fire.
Speaker 9 (19:24):
I brought your mouth, Captain. You you saw what he did?
Speaker 6 (19:29):
Yeah, yeah, I'm going down there. Mister Sammons, you might
still be alive.
Speaker 15 (19:40):
Mh mm hmmmmm hm.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
That was a fool thing you did. Medford.
Speaker 16 (20:05):
I told you stampede run them.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
Off, and I told you it was suicide.
Speaker 16 (20:12):
We was both right, Captain, you're gonna court martial meat
for breaking orders.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Saving our lives.
Speaker 16 (20:25):
My rifle, he's a close by.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
You wanna use it, Medford, Just you look at it, Captain,
brass mailings, your old enfielding.
Speaker 16 (20:47):
I carried that at Brandy Station, along with the old
flint lock and a German musket.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Good rifle Enfield. I got shot with one at bull Run.
Speaker 16 (21:01):
I had to kill something with it. Captain, you said
I had something I was living for. You remember I
remember one decent thing. I was captured after Brandy Station, Captain.
They caught me running away deserted. I had to do
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one decent thing.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
Yeah, well, yeah, you're dying decent Midfield. That's something.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Fort Laramie is produced and directed by Norman McDonald 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 Tom Henley musical supervision by Amarigo Marino.
Featured in the cast were Lawrence doubkn Parley Bear, Frank Katy,
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and Paul Dubov. Jack Moyles is Major Diggett and Harry
Bartel is Lieutenant.
Speaker 13 (22:25):
Siberts Company tencent dismiss.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Next week another transcribed story of the Northwest Frontier and
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At the Galla Wow.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
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 Frontier, the saga of fighting men who rode
the rim of Empire, and the dramatic story of lee
Quin's captain of Cavalry.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
It looks like the frets at the fire into the
train gorse.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
I expect it is, Captain, because I took care to
see the wagons. Was up front here to make the
load an easy Now, don't see they're moved to the bag.
Speaker 5 (01:32):
Yes, you got the list, captain.
Speaker 6 (01:35):
Yeah, two men unloaded ont to be enough?
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Nothing real heavy. They are.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
Rifles, car beams, revolvers, sabers, which says infantry equipments here. Well,
you don't suppose they tucked in a few howitzers.
Speaker 5 (01:52):
We only brought the two wagons, and.
Speaker 6 (01:55):
Then we can't haul back. We'll leave let ordnance do
its own work.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
It looks like.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Ours, bridles, haulders and straps, saddles, nosed bags.
Speaker 5 (02:07):
I'll see to the unloading, captain.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Right, guys do there?
Speaker 7 (02:11):
Tell me?
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Yes, you from Fort Laramie. That's right.
Speaker 8 (02:18):
I'm glad to hear that. I'm station master here. You
better come into my office and get this business.
Speaker 7 (02:23):
Cheer it up.
Speaker 6 (02:23):
Well, the sergeant's got the billing on the army equipment
we are unloading.
Speaker 8 (02:27):
That's not what I'm talking about. Now you're here. I
just want you to get him out of my station.
I'm running a guard house, you know.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
I'd give a little to know what you are talking about, mister.
Speaker 8 (02:37):
Them two soldiers chained together in there in the guard
with them, they say they're bound for Fort Laramie.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Private Medford and Private Stringer. Is that right?
Speaker 9 (02:55):
That's right, sir. The little one Springer, he doesn't say much,
tall blonde one.
Speaker 6 (02:59):
He's Metford and your corporal Benjamin, Yes, sir, and their
orders say Fort Laramie, Clarinet.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
You got orders, corporal, Yes, sir.
Speaker 9 (03:09):
Fort Bridger is serving Fort Lavenmworth transfer, Sir, I was
escort Metford and the spring of this far Sir, in
contact Fort Laramie to secure him from here.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Well, you made contact, corporal, will take over.
Speaker 9 (03:20):
I don't understand, sir. Fort Laramie's forty miles from here.
I only telegraphed ten minutes ago, Sir.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
We had a good wind behind us on the way down.
Speaker 9 (03:29):
Beg your pardon, sir.
Speaker 6 (03:31):
We came to pick up a consignment of equipment left
Fort Laramie yesterday.
Speaker 9 (03:36):
Oh well, then what you said about the wind behind
me was.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
A bold face fly, Corporal.
Speaker 9 (03:41):
Yes, sir, the captain displays a fine touch of humor.
Speaker 6 (03:45):
He mustn't encourage me. Corporal, you better arrange for your
transportation to Fort Bridger.
Speaker 9 (03:50):
Good luck, Thank you, sir. Good luck to you, sir.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
All right on your feet?
Speaker 6 (04:03):
Yes, Private Stringer, Yeah, how's that?
Speaker 3 (04:10):
That's me Stringer? You stationed at Fort Leavenworth. I was
tuck there.
Speaker 10 (04:18):
They give me this uniform is tall and next to
me a length of chain, and they put me on
the railroad. You're a recruit then if that means did
I join up of my own free will?
Speaker 4 (04:28):
No?
Speaker 3 (04:29):
You've been in the army before. Mostly I've been in jail.
Don't it say on them papers about me? If it did,
I wouldn't be asking. I've been in the army six days.
I heard talk.
Speaker 10 (04:40):
You could make the arrangement on account enlistments being slow.
I could get out of jail if I signed, I'd
join the army.
Speaker 6 (04:46):
Stand up straight, now, you get this stringer. There's not
the time to tell you how much learning you got
ahead of you, but you learn starting now, understand, Yeah, yes, sir, yes, sir,
all right, I guess we can take those chains off now.
Speaker 7 (05:09):
Is any reason you ain't asking questions of me, sir?
Speaker 3 (05:13):
I don't have to, Medford says about you in your papers.
Speaker 7 (05:18):
Or maybe it don't say at all in them papers.
Speaker 6 (05:22):
Captain says, enough, there, you ride back to Fort lairamain
the wagons with the equipment.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
We don't have horses for you.
Speaker 7 (05:33):
We ride free of these chains, Captain.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Free of the chains.
Speaker 11 (05:38):
Man alone might jump off of one of them wagons might,
but that ain't your worry, sir, that's.
Speaker 6 (05:45):
Your worry, Medford. Jumping the wagon is desertion. If you
walk away, you'll be caught.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
If you run, you'll be shot.
Speaker 6 (05:58):
Uh all right, Sergeant dismiss him, Yes, sir, but you won't, yes, miss.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Uh Captain, Yes, egean.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
I'll see the wagons is unloaded and pick what men
you need. Then take the wagons to the wheel ride.
Tell him if he can't fix them proper, to burn him. Right, Captain,
about the new man, what about them? Are they assigned?
To b company.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Sir, they're not assigned anywhere yet, Gorse.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
We could sure use them, Captain, starting right now with
the unloading of the equipment.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
They don't have to be assigned first.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
Well, that'll take most of the rest of the day, Captain,
there ain't more than hours work.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Get someone else to do it, Gorse.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
Yes, sir, there's a reason, Captain, you don't want Stringer
in Medford to help.
Speaker 6 (07:05):
Yeah, reasons like you'll be unloading rifles and car beings
and fifty thousand rounds of ammunition.
Speaker 5 (07:12):
I guess when you want to tell me the rest
of that story, you.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Will, and it'll be a right time. Guys.
Speaker 6 (07:17):
Yes, sir, all right, you too, fall in behind me.
You'll report the headquarters company for assignment.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
All right. If I ask a question, mister the captain,
what is it? Well, now, I'm brand new to this life.
Speaker 10 (07:42):
I told you that I don't even know where this
headquarters company's at, and all like.
Speaker 6 (07:47):
That, I'll see you get their stringer. Any more questions,
I got one, sir, well, Medford.
Speaker 7 (07:55):
When do the outfit us proper proper Medford?
Speaker 11 (08:00):
I mean, I got this brand new blue uniform. When
they're going to give me and they're going to give
me my rifle and side arms. When you were assigned,
they mean I should have them firearms, just like anyone.
Speaker 6 (08:14):
Else, just like anyone else. Medford, Captain Quince, Yes, Lieutenant.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
He's the transfers or mmmm, Private Stringer and Medford.
Speaker 9 (08:27):
The major sent me to see they're assigned in Quartern.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
He's anxious to see you, Captain. Yeah, thank you, mister Sabitz.
Speaker 6 (08:43):
Corporal Benjamin's telegram wasn't quite clear, Captain, something about respectfully
urging that we pick up two prisoners from forty Levenworth.
You get my telegram, all right, yeah, saying you were
bringing two transfers from Fort Levenworth.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Which are they? Prisoners? Are transfers, a little of both.
I guess if.
Speaker 12 (09:00):
Fort Larami used to become a military prison, I'd like
to hear it from someone other than a corporal.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
And these men aren't prisoners anymore. Major.
Speaker 6 (09:06):
For some reason, they sent him as far as Cheyenne
under Corporal Benjamin's guard.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
He got their papers.
Speaker 6 (09:12):
They're at headquarters company, but I read him Stringer. They
let him out of a civilian jail if he'd promised
he'd join the army.
Speaker 12 (09:21):
Under that plan to make up for slow enlistments. I
read about it when the order came through a couple
of months ago. Decided to face that problem when it
came up.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
It's come up, majorm Any idea what he was serving
time for.
Speaker 6 (09:32):
Oh, he gave me the ideas, made a career for
himself being in prison.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
I didn't ask about specific crimes. I know this.
Speaker 12 (09:40):
He's never been in the army, and we can fix
that part. The other one he from prison.
Speaker 6 (09:45):
Too, Yeah, Camp Butler first, then Camp Douglas. You're talking
about military prisons. Captain Union Army prisons for Confederate captives,
Private Lacy Midford.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
He's our first galvan Yankee, Major galvanized Yankee. Never heard
that term has.
Speaker 6 (10:05):
Something to do with iron. When it's galvanized, it turns
color men like Medford. They were captured in gray, sent
west in blue. Well, like you say, Lee, this is
a new problem for us.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Might not be a problem.
Speaker 12 (10:17):
Oh, but it seems likely enough. Most of your men
fought in the Union Army. That war is long over,
not in men's minds. Lead For some men on both sides,
it'll never be over.
Speaker 6 (10:28):
Major in B Company alone, we've got Irish and English
bunking side by side, Same with Germans and French. If
we can't put a Yankee and a rebel side by side,
we got more trouble than just Indians.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
I'm glad you don't consider it a problem.
Speaker 6 (10:41):
I said it might not be one when it is.
If it is, I'll treat it as a problem. Fair enough,
fair enough where you're talking. You've made up your mind
to give me Stringer in Medford.
Speaker 12 (10:54):
B company's got fewer men than the rest. Any objections, No,
not from me. You like challenges, don't you leave? You
keep telling me I do. And I hope Medford won't
be a problem. But if he is, I'll feel better
knowing he's your problem.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Thanks. What's your impression of him? Right off? Right off?
Speaker 6 (11:12):
I'd say he's awful, anxious to get his own rifle
in side arms. Till I know better, I'm going to
figure he's itching to get himself an Indian. I tell you, Stringer,
(11:38):
these private riding lessons ain't going on forever.
Speaker 10 (11:42):
Well I got nighty, I could ride just fine if
I ever once got on.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
When you're no young, and how you been getting around
without learning the first thing about Mountain?
Speaker 3 (11:51):
I ain't been getting around, sergeant, there's been no call
for it.
Speaker 5 (11:54):
Will you just sit where you come from?
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Sit or laid down. You don't know nothing about me,
I mean before.
Speaker 5 (12:03):
I don't know and don't care. But you're sure looking
more like infantry to me every minute.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
You mean that Captain ain't told you about me.
Speaker 5 (12:12):
Captain Quin's got important things to think about.
Speaker 10 (12:15):
Yeah, he sure has. That Medford I was captain, I'd
think about him alone.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
Never mind about Medford. He can mount and ride and
dismount with the best of them.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
He gotta. He was in the dirty yellow rebel cavalry.
Speaker 5 (12:30):
Stand a horse.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
You don't care about that. You want a stinking rebel
in your army?
Speaker 5 (12:37):
Now you listen good to me, Stringer.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
I got a guard house with a fine view of
the Laramie River down there.
Speaker 5 (12:43):
Anymore talk out of you, send you right there.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
I feel a sight safer in the guard house. I
ain't been a month out of jail since I was ten.
Speaker 5 (12:51):
Well, you just talked yourself right back in again, Stringer.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
All right, fine, Can I talk free about Medford?
Speaker 5 (12:59):
Now you got anything and to say? You say it
to me and nobody else.
Speaker 10 (13:01):
You understand, well, you ain't thinking this is no secret
about him being a lousy rebel?
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Why he tells everybody in earshot. You know he's proud
of it, right, proud.
Speaker 5 (13:12):
That's his business.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
You fought in that war, sergeant? How can you stand
the thought of him being one of you? Now?
Speaker 4 (13:19):
Maybe because I fought in that war? Stringer, what jail
was you sitting it out in there?
Speaker 3 (13:25):
You think more of him than me?
Speaker 4 (13:26):
You're in for a lot of things you won't understand, Stringer.
You can think him over in the guard house.
Speaker 10 (13:32):
I ain't gonna think nothing over. But here's something you
can think over, a sergeant, that yellow rebels got himself
a lot of guns, all kinds of rifles, to pistols
and back again.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Think it over, see if you rest easy on it.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
Medford's outside, Captain, you want I should send him in now?
Speaker 3 (14:05):
In a minute? Gorse, how far is all this gone?
Can you tell?
Speaker 5 (14:10):
It's all over?
Speaker 4 (14:11):
About him being in the Confederate Cavalry, About how he
was took prisoner sent out here?
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Now?
Speaker 5 (14:18):
His sing about the guns? I hear that all through
the quarters too.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
You seen the gun?
Speaker 6 (14:22):
No, Sir, I checked ordnance and stores. Everything's accounted for, ammunition, rifles, carbines, revolvers.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
Well, he claims he brought them all in with him.
The men say that in a haversack and saddle bag.
I'm just telling you what the men say. Captain, you
said we was going out in a few days. You
figuring to take him along. That'll be up to him gorse.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
Yes, sir, you can send him in now, right, Captain.
Speaker 13 (14:51):
Medford.
Speaker 5 (14:52):
Captain Quince will see you.
Speaker 6 (14:53):
No, sit down, Medford, I prefer to stand, sir, sit down.
You've got any complaints in your treatment here? I want
(15:14):
to hear about them.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Now. I got a complaint. I'm here, and I can't
do much about that matter.
Speaker 7 (15:21):
Neither can I. I want free to choose.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
If you were free, what would you do? Go back home?
Speaker 7 (15:32):
They ain't no home, The ain't nobody men like you?
Speaker 3 (15:36):
Sall of that.
Speaker 6 (15:38):
Suppose you could get out, maybe stake a claim, maybe
get a little farm in store.
Speaker 11 (15:43):
It's all took out of me. I don't want none
of that. I don't want anything safe to be let be.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Oh, it's not all out of you. The hate's still there.
Speaker 7 (15:51):
You bet it is. I get all the strength I
got from hating.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Sure, you're feeding it all the time.
Speaker 11 (15:56):
Well, there's a lot to hate. It's here, blue uniform.
You can start there. That's Spencer rifle you issued and
meet it. You're gonna let me talk free.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
You're talking right free, Go ahead.
Speaker 7 (16:10):
Well that's Spencer. I never seen one.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
I just heard a man Abouttom.
Speaker 11 (16:15):
We used to figure you, yank Is spent one day
a week just loading up and the rest of the
week fired no matterus.
Speaker 6 (16:20):
We didn't have that, like, no, you didn't. So now
you got one. It'll fire eight shots only. There aren't
any Yankees left to kill.
Speaker 7 (16:29):
Ain't nothing but Yankees.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
You better get over that feeling. Midford.
Speaker 7 (16:33):
I'm gonna die with it.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
You don't want to die, you know that, dude. You
had a lot of chances to die. You could have
died in prison if you'd made up your mind to it.
You could have died any day out here, starting from
the first day you rode in on the wagon.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Oh you figure that you could have jumped the wagon.
I'd have killed you. I told you that.
Speaker 6 (16:51):
And since you're here, you're on the rifle range real regular.
The way you've been talking, you could go to man
into killing you.
Speaker 7 (16:59):
And man, I've been reporting to you right along.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
You've been talking your hate right free.
Speaker 7 (17:06):
Let tell you about my guns.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Did they got a lot of guns, have your Medford?
Speaker 7 (17:11):
You ain't searched, real good, Captain.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
I haven't searched at all. I'm not going to.
Speaker 7 (17:17):
If I got guns, you'd have cause to be fearful.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
Maybe got any more complaints?
Speaker 7 (17:25):
Kind of a man are you?
Speaker 11 (17:28):
I told you I hate your uniform, everything about you,
what you stand for.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
I'm this kind of man, Medford.
Speaker 6 (17:33):
I got a cavalry company that short of men were
moving out in a couple of days.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
Now.
Speaker 6 (17:37):
Maybe we don't like the same things or hate the
same things, but we're stuck with each other.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Medford.
Speaker 7 (17:47):
You're taking me on an engagement, taking me to fight
engines under your flag.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
You scared of Indians? Medford.
Speaker 6 (17:54):
It's not that I'm taking you. You got something you're
living for. I want to find out what it is.
Speaker 9 (18:08):
They're strung out about us, then as we can.
Speaker 10 (18:09):
Be, Captain.
Speaker 6 (18:10):
You know, the longer they think we can hold them
down there, the better. I don't think we'll be able
to fool them long get us out numbered two to one, anyway,
Sure have mister Sabrits.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Our horse is.
Speaker 9 (18:21):
Still secure behind the top of the rise.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
Yes, sir, those Indians are smart. They'll circle us. There's
enough of them to do it.
Speaker 9 (18:28):
Have you thought about retreat, Captain, I.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
Thought of nothing else since we got boxed in. We'll
retreat when we can, mister Sabrits if we can, Captain,
Sir Medford.
Speaker 7 (18:40):
Kevin, can you see their horses from here? There must
be a couple hundred.
Speaker 6 (18:43):
Of them ones they stole caught in the ravine down there, Yes,
what about them?
Speaker 7 (18:47):
We stampeded those horses. Them engines are clear out of here.
No time.
Speaker 6 (18:51):
We'd have to ride a charge down there to stampede
and met suicide.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Midford. They'd pick us off one by one as we rode.
Speaker 6 (18:57):
That our only chance, Captain getting killed, not the chance
we're looking for.
Speaker 7 (19:01):
But Captain, it's not back.
Speaker 14 (19:03):
Of your position metric now, Yes, sir, ulder fire man,
ulder fire.
Speaker 9 (19:24):
I brought your mouth, Captain. You you saw what he did?
Speaker 6 (19:29):
Yeah, yeah, I'm going down there. Mister Sammons, you might
still be alive.
Speaker 15 (19:40):
Mh mm hmmmmm hm.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
That was a fool thing you did. Medford.
Speaker 16 (20:05):
I told you stampede run them.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
Off, and I told you it was suicide.
Speaker 16 (20:12):
We was both right, Captain, you're gonna court martial meat
for breaking orders.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Saving our lives.
Speaker 16 (20:25):
My rifle, he's a close by.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
You wanna use it, Medford, Just you look at it, Captain,
brass mailings, your old enfielding.
Speaker 16 (20:47):
I carried that at Brandy Station, along with the old
flint lock and a German musket.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Good rifle Enfield. I got shot with one at bull Run.
Speaker 16 (21:01):
I had to kill something with it. Captain, you said
I had something I was living for. You remember I
remember one decent thing. I was captured after Brandy Station, Captain.
They caught me running away deserted. I had to do
(21:27):
one decent thing.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
Yeah, well, yeah, you're dying decent Midfield. That's something.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Fort Laramie is produced and directed by Norman McDonald 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 Tom Henley musical supervision by Amarigo Marino.
Featured in the cast were Lawrence doubkn Parley Bear, Frank Katy,
(22:21):
and Paul Dubov. Jack Moyles is Major Diggett and Harry
Bartel is Lieutenant.
Speaker 13 (22:25):
Siberts Company tencent dismiss.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Next week another transcribed story of the Northwest Frontier and
the troopers who fought under lee Quin's Captain of Cavalry.
The thought of approaching footsteps in the darkened room, the
high pitched creak of a door being opened stealthily, the
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tick of a clock that marks time running out for
a doomed man. These are sounds that keep you in suspense.
Connoisseurs of crime stories, listen to Suspense Tuesday Nights on
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