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Speaker 1 (00:00):
At the Gatherer whow.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Fort Laramie, Fort Laramie, starring Raymond Burr as Captain lee
Quin's specially transcribed tales of the dark and tragic ground
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of the wild Frontier, the Saga of Fighting Men Who
the Rim of Empire, and the dramatic story of lee
Quinn's Captain of Cavalry.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Patrol fall.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
That, in course dismissed the patrol. Yes, Sir, prepared to.
Speaker 5 (01:36):
This map, this math.
Speaker 6 (01:43):
Welcome back, Captain Angus.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
Sargeant Jenkins mad you dag it in.
Speaker 6 (01:47):
He's been expecting you.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
I mean, oh, glad you're back.
Speaker 7 (02:01):
It makes both of us. Major I find anything no trouble.
Some of the Dog soldiers are restless, but so far
no SIU have left treaty territory. That's good, yep, except
I've had a ten day ride for nothing.
Speaker 8 (02:14):
There's no matter. We have to investigate every report. You
know that I know well. Like I said, I'm glad
you're back.
Speaker 9 (02:21):
But I'm not sure you'll be Why you're in time
to welcome an old friend of yours.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Huh who his orders read?
Speaker 8 (02:28):
Lieutenant R. C.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
Went Robbie.
Speaker 8 (02:32):
That's right, Major Went.
Speaker 9 (02:34):
He is signed here on the post already arrived an
hour ago.
Speaker 8 (02:38):
He'd be reporting any minute. I want to stay and see.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
Him, you want me to.
Speaker 8 (02:44):
It's up to you. You'll have to face them sooner
or later.
Speaker 7 (02:47):
Anyway, I suppose Major he's an old friend. Nothing can
change that.
Speaker 8 (02:54):
You still feel that way?
Speaker 4 (02:55):
Yep? Where will he be assigned?
Speaker 8 (02:59):
C company? Shortened officer?
Speaker 4 (03:01):
Can I have him?
Speaker 7 (03:02):
You can transfer Hancock to see why? Maybe I can
ease things a little.
Speaker 9 (03:09):
What about yourself? You think he likes serving under you?
An officer who once served under.
Speaker 7 (03:13):
Him, you'll do all right, he's a good officer.
Speaker 8 (03:17):
Well, I can't say much for him now.
Speaker 9 (03:19):
Five posts in two years, and he couldn't face it
out at any of them. Now we're stuck with him.
A drunkard, a troublemaker, and a coward, coward of Antelope Meadows.
Speaker 7 (03:29):
And I'm not sure he deserves that reputation.
Speaker 8 (03:32):
Court of Inquiry that demoted him thought so.
Speaker 7 (03:34):
They demoted him for poor judgment, not cowardice.
Speaker 9 (03:37):
What would you call a man who ran away from
a fight leftist commander and two hundred men to be
wiped out?
Speaker 4 (03:41):
He was under attack himself.
Speaker 8 (03:42):
He could have fought through the partlet and saved.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
Them, maybe and maybe not.
Speaker 7 (03:46):
He might only have added one hundred more men to
the list of dead. Instead, he tried to save his
own command, and he succeeded. It was a difficult decision,
but not necessarily a bad judgment, the Court of Inquiry said, So.
The Court of Inquiry was in Washington.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
They went by the book.
Speaker 7 (04:01):
You know how different it can be out here, How
hard a decision can be when you're under attack. Hindsight's
always easy. Why are we arguing to sign him to me?
Speaker 6 (04:13):
All right?
Speaker 8 (04:14):
Be he a good samaritan? If you have to.
Speaker 6 (04:18):
There he is.
Speaker 10 (04:19):
Come in, Lieutenant Went, reporting the Major Dicket as directed.
Speaker 8 (04:31):
Yes, it's been expecting you, Went.
Speaker 9 (04:33):
I believe you know Captain Quinch.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
Hello, Robbie. Captain, it's been a long time since Virginia.
Speaker 6 (04:44):
Yes, sorry, I didn't see you.
Speaker 10 (04:47):
I've developed a habit of speaking when i'm spoken to.
You're looking, well, Major, have you figured out a place
for me?
Speaker 9 (04:57):
I didn't try to figure a place for you, Went,
You're just another officer here. You'll be put where you're needed.
I've assigned you to B company. That's Captain Quince here right. Well,
you can report to the officer of the day at
your convenience. You'll be placed an active duty as a
five am tomorrow you'll take morning call. Yes, sir, we
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hope you'll have a pleasant tour. Larmie, do you Major went?
I said, you're just another officer here. That's the way
you'll be treated. But I expect a cooperative attitude from you,
like any other officer. A chip on that shoulder won't help.
Speaker 6 (05:32):
Very good, Major, am I dismissed.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
Yes, uh, I'll come along if I may.
Speaker 7 (05:37):
Robbie show you the place, all right, Captain.
Speaker 8 (05:42):
Oh e yes, sir, one moment.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
I'll be right with you.
Speaker 9 (05:46):
Robbie, all right, you see what I mean, liquored up
middle of the day.
Speaker 8 (05:54):
He's going to be trouble.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
He's gone through a lot.
Speaker 8 (05:56):
Major, sometimes I think you're a soft fool.
Speaker 9 (06:00):
I'm warning your lee. Don't try to fight his battles
for him. Keep a tight hold on him.
Speaker 7 (06:04):
Don't worry. I'll take you over by the quarters, Robbie.
They are a little better than the ones we had
in Virginia. You might like, Lara me.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
It's a good post.
Speaker 6 (06:22):
I've noticed a lot of women more than I expected
out of here.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
A lot of the men are married.
Speaker 7 (06:27):
It's safe enough heres.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
Good to see you, Robbie.
Speaker 6 (06:32):
It is.
Speaker 7 (06:34):
We had some good days in Virginia.
Speaker 10 (06:37):
I was your commanding officer of that if you were
a good one.
Speaker 7 (06:41):
Now, Robbie, there are plenty of gray haired lieutenants in
this army for one reason or another, but not many
of them cry in their beer.
Speaker 6 (06:55):
Thank you Captain for reminding me.
Speaker 7 (06:57):
Oh, you've got to give people a chance. What about
them getting chan You got to meet him halfway, Robbie.
Speaker 11 (07:02):
Half way.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Good morning, Captain quiz.
Speaker 7 (07:05):
Ah, Hello, Miss Saint Cloud. May I present Lieutenant Went.
Speaker 12 (07:10):
We don't need an introduction, Captain.
Speaker 6 (07:12):
Hello Robbie, mis St Cloud.
Speaker 12 (07:13):
It's good to see you.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
Thank you.
Speaker 12 (07:15):
I saw you earlier crossing the garade ground. What brings
you to Laramie.
Speaker 11 (07:20):
I'm to be stationed here.
Speaker 6 (07:21):
I'm very glad, are you?
Speaker 12 (07:23):
Of course? Captain Robbie and I are old friends. You
must come and visit me the first chance.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
You get, Robbie, thank you.
Speaker 12 (07:32):
Oh here's Philip. You never met my husband, did you, Philip?
Speaker 6 (07:36):
This is Robbie Went, Lieutenant Saint Cloud.
Speaker 12 (07:39):
How do you do He's to be stationed here?
Speaker 13 (07:43):
That's too bad, phil You remember Lieutenant Dieger, don't you went?
He was my best friend, my roommate at the point.
I'm sure you must remember him because he died with
Bartlet that day at Antelope Meadows.
Speaker 8 (07:54):
Philip, don't come along, Marden.
Speaker 6 (07:55):
But what were you saying about a chance?
Speaker 11 (08:04):
Captain?
Speaker 7 (08:05):
I'm sorry, Robbie, there's bound to be some feeling at first,
but in time.
Speaker 6 (08:08):
What optimist, Captain? If you'll excuse me, I'll stop by
the sutlers. They can still sell liquor on this post,
can't they.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
You think that will help?
Speaker 6 (08:18):
It's the only help I need.
Speaker 11 (08:19):
Captain, good day, count for.
Speaker 14 (08:42):
All, Presider counterfor sir, Yeah, no.
Speaker 6 (08:48):
Where where the order is.
Speaker 14 (08:50):
In your pockets? U uh, Lieutenant, do anything wrong?
Speaker 11 (08:58):
Do you mean? Sergeant?
Speaker 14 (08:59):
I mean, are you all right? You feel all right?
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Of course?
Speaker 15 (09:02):
I know?
Speaker 11 (09:04):
Swherez here, Sir?
Speaker 14 (09:08):
Shall I read him?
Speaker 4 (09:09):
You?
Speaker 14 (09:10):
Captain Quint sometimes has me read him?
Speaker 6 (09:12):
Sir?
Speaker 14 (09:13):
I just thought you stop thinking, sergeant, Lieutenant.
Speaker 7 (09:16):
I'm perfectly Lieutenant went, sergeant gus, Sir, what.
Speaker 11 (09:20):
Are you doing here? Quinch?
Speaker 6 (09:22):
Don't you think I can take morning calls by myself?
Speaker 7 (09:25):
Of course, Lieutenant, I'm perfectly all right, absolutely all right.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
I'm not so sure, I think you'd better go back
to your quarters. I will leave you here.
Speaker 6 (09:33):
Is that an order, Captain.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
That's a suggestion?
Speaker 11 (09:38):
All right?
Speaker 7 (09:39):
Straighten up, man, you're in front of one hundred enlisted men.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
All right, I'll go with you.
Speaker 7 (09:45):
It's a long walk across the parade ground. The men
are watching. Just keep your shoulder into mind, sergeant, you'll
read the orders of the day, Yes, sir, come on, Robbie, Yeah,
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keeps this cold compress in your head. Thanks, Robbie, this
is no good. You can't keep this up. What running away?
Hiding in a bottle?
Speaker 6 (10:23):
You're gonna report me?
Speaker 7 (10:26):
Did you report me that time in Virginia? But it
can't happen too often, you understand that.
Speaker 6 (10:32):
I know?
Speaker 10 (10:33):
Well, Lee, Thanks, you're the only one in two years
that's been decent.
Speaker 6 (10:42):
I'm sorry if I can't come halfway.
Speaker 7 (10:46):
Maybe if you're trying to face it and not run away,
other men have been busted.
Speaker 11 (10:50):
Oh it's not that, no.
Speaker 16 (10:52):
Do you know what my second in command said after
Adelope Meadows? He said we should all be dead, and
we would have been if we hadn't been led by
a coward.
Speaker 7 (11:03):
You weren't a coward in Virginia. When that Court of
Inquiry demoted you. You didn't have to stay in the army.
You could have resigned. Yes, it took guts to stay.
That wasn't the act of a coward.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
I loved the army.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
It's my life, and I was mad.
Speaker 11 (11:17):
I thought I was right.
Speaker 6 (11:19):
I had the guts.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
Then then what's happened?
Speaker 16 (11:21):
Do you know what it's like to be sneered at,
hated wherever you go, to be blamed for other men's
deaths like that Saint Cloud yesterday.
Speaker 11 (11:30):
I've had two years of that. Leave.
Speaker 6 (11:34):
Maybe now I am a coward.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
Not unless you're willing to be come in.
Speaker 12 (11:41):
Oh, miss Saint Cloud, Robbie, I heard you were ill.
Speaker 6 (11:45):
Word gets around, isn't it.
Speaker 12 (11:47):
Are you all right?
Speaker 11 (11:50):
All right?
Speaker 4 (11:50):
It'll be fine, man.
Speaker 12 (11:52):
Is there anything I can do for you, Robbie?
Speaker 11 (11:53):
Oh no, thanks?
Speaker 12 (11:56):
Stopping again this afternoon.
Speaker 6 (11:58):
I'm not so sure your husband and would approve missus
Saint Cloud Robbie.
Speaker 12 (12:04):
If you won't or can't come to visit me, I'll
come to visit you. Good day, Captain ma'am.
Speaker 7 (12:14):
It seems you do have friends, Lieutenant you maud.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Uh Lee?
Speaker 6 (12:29):
Was I wrong about what Antelope meadows.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
I don't know. It tortures me. Lee.
Speaker 7 (12:37):
You did what you thought was right. Now right or wrong?
You better forget it.
Speaker 6 (12:42):
How could a man forget a thing like that?
Speaker 4 (12:45):
I don't know, Robbie.
Speaker 9 (13:03):
We need just a small detachment to patrol the line.
We've had no further reports, but I want to keep watch.
What about Cyberts and ate menally?
Speaker 4 (13:10):
Why not? Why not? Went?
Speaker 8 (13:13):
What's the matter? I want to get him away from
the post.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
It's not that it might be what he needs.
Speaker 8 (13:18):
I'm not sure I trust him with a patrol. You
think you fooled me with that?
Speaker 9 (13:22):
Relieved of duty because of illness, he's just about drunk.
The Sutler's dry. He's getting better lately, That's not what
I hear. Maybe he's not drinking quite so much. But
what I've heard reports about him and missus Saint Cloud,
they've been seeing each other entirely too much. She's been
seen going into his quarters.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
He tended him when he was ill.
Speaker 9 (13:41):
He's been at her rooms when Saint Cloud was away.
They're old friends, maybe, but I always did think that
woman was too pretty major.
Speaker 7 (13:51):
I don't think there's anything wrong, But if there is,
all the more reason to send went out in that patrol.
Speaker 8 (13:57):
You trust him, he's a good officer.
Speaker 4 (13:59):
I'll send us with it.
Speaker 8 (14:00):
All right, Lee, I just hope you're right. Sen went
to me.
Speaker 15 (14:04):
For orders right away, Sir, captain.
Speaker 7 (14:21):
Captain, what's the matter?
Speaker 17 (14:22):
Sergeant?
Speaker 14 (14:23):
Over the old bedlin. It's gonna be trouble.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
What trouble?
Speaker 14 (14:25):
The two lieutenants. Saint Cloud's going looking for win?
Speaker 4 (14:28):
Thanks?
Speaker 17 (14:43):
Think Cloud?
Speaker 7 (14:53):
Ah do you think you were doing?
Speaker 4 (14:58):
Think Cloud?
Speaker 6 (15:00):
I heard what's been going on behind my back.
Speaker 17 (15:03):
It's all over the post.
Speaker 6 (15:04):
He can't get by fooling out with my wife out enough.
Speaker 7 (15:09):
That's a court martial offense you're charging. You want to
make it official and subject your wife to the embarrassment
of it.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
No, all right?
Speaker 7 (15:20):
When you want to prefer charges against him, then the
two of you remember your officers in the US Cavalry
and act accordingly. He better stay away from my wife.
You won't have to worry about that for a while.
He's going out in patrol tonight. No, get out of here,
Saint Cloud.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
Please. I don't want to hear about it. It's none
of my business. You got a job to do.
Speaker 7 (15:52):
As soon as you clean up, report to the major
for your orders, all right, Captain.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Captain, yes, Captain.
Speaker 7 (16:14):
I know I'm done, Miss Saint Cloud, except to the
dignity with a couple offices.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
That's my fault.
Speaker 12 (16:21):
I should have known Philip wouldn't understand. But I want
you to understand, Captain, Why me, because you're his friend too,
all right, I was only trying to help him. We're
old friends, yes, but once it was more than that.
Once before I met Philip, it was going to be Robbie.
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I couldn't just stand by and see this happening to him.
I see, Did I do wrong?
Speaker 4 (16:52):
Captain noose to say that, Miss Saint Cloud, I don't know.
Speaker 18 (16:57):
I wish I were wiser, So do I Man, So
do I Lee.
Speaker 9 (17:21):
This report just came in from the telegraph at Cheyenne
Trouble Major. A sue raiding party attacked the railroad. If
they're not still in the vicinity, they'll be heading north.
Wentz moving to intersect them. Hey, he stopped at Pine
Bluff and got the news. But in need reinforcements. Might
be a big party.
Speaker 8 (17:37):
We don't know. Besides, with went.
Speaker 7 (17:39):
In chickens Bee Company ready in an hour.
Speaker 8 (17:42):
That be enough. Bee's under manned. You've only got sixty
three men.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
It will be enough, all right.
Speaker 8 (17:48):
Rendezvous with Went at the forks on Little Bear.
Speaker 9 (17:50):
Creek and lee. Don't take any chances. Carry two hundred
rounds per man. This could be a fight.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
Captain, single rider approject.
Speaker 7 (18:13):
I see him, looks like Gorse. Keep them going, mister
cybers Hop, swing out and meet him. That's it, Sargeant.
Speaker 8 (18:34):
Captain.
Speaker 7 (18:35):
Lieutenant Went sent me to intercept you. He's moving towards
Horse Craik wants you to cut across and meet him.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
Ah, good, sure, glad you're here.
Speaker 5 (18:43):
Captain.
Speaker 7 (18:44):
Why well, we had him cornered.
Speaker 8 (18:47):
Last night, but they got away. We could have taken him.
Speaker 7 (18:50):
How many round thirty nine men against thirty We.
Speaker 8 (18:55):
Could have surprised him.
Speaker 14 (18:56):
The man are kind of talking.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
So what are you trying to tell me?
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Gorse?
Speaker 7 (19:01):
The lieutenant wouldn't attack, or couldn't had he been drinking?
Speaker 4 (19:05):
Yes? Was he drunk? Sergeant?
Speaker 14 (19:08):
Well no, sir, I couldn't say that.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
Then think about this, sergeant. You men might not be
alive today if he had attacked. Yes, Sir, I've heard
that before. It's still proved, sergeant.
Speaker 5 (19:20):
All right, let's join him.
Speaker 13 (19:35):
Their signal, Captain, he's got Tolu caned to meet it
company for that.
Speaker 17 (19:41):
Oh you can't.
Speaker 6 (19:52):
They're down in the valley about a mile ahead.
Speaker 11 (19:54):
Captain.
Speaker 6 (19:54):
You can surround them by splitting your force in free.
Speaker 7 (19:57):
Good all right, simon you take twenty men and the
right flank, Yes, sir. Sergeant Gorse, you'll take twelve more
men and join with Lieutenant Wentz patrol on the left flank.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
Yes, sir, The rest will stay with me in the center.
Speaker 10 (20:09):
I'd like the center, Captain, if I may, why it's closer,
it'll leave the attack.
Speaker 7 (20:15):
I found them all right, I'll take the left.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
Sergeant Jenkins takeover. I'll join you in a minute.
Speaker 7 (20:21):
Now move out, Yes, sir, good work, lieutenant, and you
use good judgment not attacking last night?
Speaker 6 (20:32):
Did I your captain have a drink?
Speaker 4 (20:35):
Thanks?
Speaker 11 (20:38):
Why'd you do that?
Speaker 4 (20:39):
You don't need it.
Speaker 7 (20:40):
You've gotten your courage out of a bottle for so
long you think.
Speaker 15 (20:43):
You have to have it, don't I?
Speaker 4 (20:44):
No, you don't.
Speaker 7 (20:45):
Robbie, all right, Lieutenant went move out.
Speaker 6 (21:02):
It doesn't look like we'll get much fighting.
Speaker 7 (21:03):
Sure now, Jenkins, we're pretty far away, but we'll block
this end of the valley for um.
Speaker 15 (21:08):
Yeah, sure, there they go.
Speaker 7 (21:12):
Sure, all right, copy copy at the trot at the trot.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
Him privates. We got him round to that captain.
Speaker 12 (22:04):
It wasn't much of a fight when they saw us
coming in from three sides.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
The just dropped everything and ran good.
Speaker 7 (22:08):
Any casualty, no, sir, I don't think so. Not a
one h o here.
Speaker 14 (22:18):
Casualty, sir, Lieutenant went.
Speaker 4 (22:27):
Robbie.
Speaker 10 (22:29):
Uh ree, I am sorry. Smash that bottle now.
Speaker 4 (22:36):
God holders bringing the first eight.
Speaker 8 (22:38):
Sir, No, no use, leeve, no use.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
You know that, Robbie, I'm sorry.
Speaker 11 (22:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 12 (22:52):
So my.
Speaker 6 (22:54):
Got a lot of things, Martin Saint.
Speaker 10 (22:58):
Claud A lot of things. Really, there's one thing I'm
not sorry about.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
Antelope Meadows.
Speaker 11 (23:10):
Yeah, I was rightly.
Speaker 10 (23:15):
I couldn't have saved Butler, but I could save my
hundred men, and I didn't.
Speaker 4 (23:24):
That's right.
Speaker 6 (23:26):
Only one thing nobody understands. It wasn't my own life
I was thinking about.
Speaker 7 (23:36):
I understand that, Robbie, do you lee?
Speaker 11 (23:43):
Thanks? Oh? I wish, I wish.
Speaker 4 (24:03):
Yep.
Speaker 11 (24:05):
What is it?
Speaker 4 (24:05):
Sergeant, I saw it, sir.
Speaker 7 (24:09):
He deliberately cut in front of Holder and took the
only bullet engines fired. He saved hold of his life.
I guess I was wrong, sir.
Speaker 4 (24:19):
Were you the sergeant?
Speaker 14 (24:21):
Yes, sir, he was no card.
Speaker 4 (24:25):
No, no, he.
Speaker 7 (24:29):
Wasn't come in. Oh you Saint Cloud.
Speaker 12 (24:57):
Captain, I've just I've been over to see I won't
be attending the services.
Speaker 4 (25:04):
I understand, Captain. Yes, Captain.
Speaker 12 (25:10):
Did he did he say anything about me?
Speaker 4 (25:16):
Yes? He did. In the Saint Cloud he said he
was sorry.
Speaker 12 (25:24):
Not half as sorry as I am.
Speaker 11 (25:25):
Keptain.
Speaker 12 (25:28):
I wanted to help him, but I was afraid to
say the one thing that might have helped him most.
Speaker 4 (25:35):
Sometimes it's kind of hard.
Speaker 12 (25:36):
I wanted to tell him that he was the only
man I ever really loved, but I was afraid of
the consequences. I should have told him, Captain, I should
have told him a long time ago. Well, Philip will
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be wondering where I am.
Speaker 4 (26:05):
Good day, Captain, Good day, Miss Sint Clin.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
Fort Laramie is produced and directed by Norman MacDonald and
stars Raymond Burr as Lee Quince, Captain of Cavalry, with
Vic Perron as Sergeant Gorse. The script was specially written
for Fort Laramie by John Duncle, with sound patterns by
Bill James and Ray Kemper musical supervision by Amerigo Marino.
Featured in the cast were John Dayner, Jack Moyles, Harry Bartel,
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Lynn Allen, Paul Duboff, and Clayton.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
Post Company Tension.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
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