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Fort Laramie starring Raymond Burr as Captain Lee Quince

specially transcribed tales of the dark and tragic ground of the wild frontier the saga of fighting men who rode the rim of Empire and the dramatic story of

Lee Quince captain of cavalry

You see that month I blew the top of his head clean off

Beginning were right at the eyebrows sliced him just as clean you figure that killed him

Oh sure he's dead

Yeah, I declare that makes a fair morning shooting Harrison

Yes, let me see now you you killed crazy horse black leg and American horse just since I've been watching

You ain't forgetting Roman nose you shoot him too. Oh, yeah the last one. He was Roman nose

Well, I ain't that peculiar. I'd a swore he was killed at the rickory a year too bad. No, I just now killed

Hey, you think maybe they'll give me a stripe for that month. Oh, I don't know boys. He and he's been dead that long

They might not figure it's worth no strife. Yeah

You ain't practicing much monk. Oh, didn't you know I was killed while back cross. I took the time to reload my springfield

Now get me another

Who'd you get boy? I missed the target

I guess I've been lying on my belly too long

Hey

It happens known at the monk what happened

Men get themselves killed

Don't count of having to stop and reload after every single shot sure it happened

My daddy used to springfield just like this man in the war between the states

Your daddy used one in the civil war boy now. Don't you start that up again? We both used him Yankees and rebels like

Now if you're saying it's time we had a better firearm again the Indian you're just right here, and you are just right

You tried them Spencer's monk sure we had him in war

The load right behind the board their shapes are all right shorter

Make better carrying for a trooper

But they ain't the answer I'd sure might try one

Captain quince

Him and them other officers they got the answer boy

Henry rifles. Yeah, then repeaters

You ever ask yourself any questions boy there'd be a good one for you

How's that? How come the only ones that's got them new Henry rifles is some of the officers and most of the Indian

I don't ask myself questions like that

Make mighty interesting answers questions like them monk you better hold your tongue. We ain't exactly alone

Boy you ain't never alone an army

So I'll stop talking in my account man. I'm very interested in what you're saying must be seeing you's right and most of it now

Just making a few notes

Go on about the rifles. What's he talking about you supposed?

You got some business here mister

I have papers from major diet giving me permission to move freely about the post

We're not ain't that nice of the major sending us a movement target to practice on

You some kind of spy coming around here in mufti

Sneaking around a rifle butch writing down everything we say I'm a correspondent for the New York star

That's a newspaper. You want to buy a paper heritage? Who'd I get to read it to me?

All right, man

Maybe you can point out Captain Quince to me then

You're facing that way Harris new point I'm off

He was a perfect head of the line now. I ain't saying he's that now. I think I can find him

He would be the one carrying the Henry rifle wouldn't he

Harris and I think I'm going to pass that suggestion on to the major

I think we'd do a site better shooting at a live-in target, especially if he carried a notebook with him.

Haha!

Yes?

Captain Quince?

That's right.

You're sure you are Captain Quince.

Something on your mind, Mr.

I'll just take your word for it. I don't think I can walk anymore.

Oh, my name is Harkness, David Harkness.

I'm a correspondent from the New York Star. That is a newspaper.

Yes, I know. Did you walk out from New York, Mr. Harkness?

It feels like it.

I think I have just been initiated into the Army, Captain.

Initiated?

The Major told me I would find you on the firing range.

I walked there.

A sergeant said you might be at the cavalry stable, so I walked there.

From there, I walked to the saddlery on someone's advice, then to the corral and to the post office.

And finally, here to old, old what is it?

Old Bedlam.

Old Bedlam.

I think maybe your men wanted to be sure I had a long walk.

The men wanted to know who was listening in on private conversations, writing down what they said.

I told them who I was.

After you made your notes.

That's right.

The Major gave me a free hand on the post.

Guess I used it a little too freely.

I didn't mean any harm, Captain.

Men will talk for you once they know you and trust you.

Well, then you don't have any objection to my talking with the men.

No, not if they don't.

Captain Quinn's one thing I heard, overheard, bothers me. Can I ask you about it?

Go ahead.

At target practice on the firing range, those men are still using single-shot springfields.

Them and a few Spencer carbines.

Now the men say they're outmoded.

They are.

The men are not issued Henry rifles?

We don't have them to issue them.

What some of the officers have them, am I right?

Some of them is.

I have one.

You have one, but your men have it.

Mr. Harkness.

My men make $13 a month.

They can't afford to buy Henry rifles.

You mean to say you bought yours, Captain?

Like the rest of the officers who have them at the surplus store.

Oh, shouldn't the army equip itself with the best possible arms?

Of course it should, but guns cost money, Mr. Harkness.

So far we can't afford the kind of guns we need.

Well, in Washington, they talk of nothing but appropriations for the army in the West.

Talk doesn't send us any guns.

Well, these Henry rifles, they are to be had.

I mean, providing the army gets the money to pay for them. They're not in short supply.

A lot of the Indians have them, Mr. Harkness.

I heard that, too.

I couldn't believe it.

I've seen it.

How do the Indians get them?

Who in the world would sell guns the army needs to the Indians?

Renegade whites, traitors, kind of men who get rich and other men's blood?

I am a long way from home.

Captain Quince, it's another world.

I've got an awful lot to learn.

You never stop learning out here, Mr. Harkness.

Well, Captain, I'm here for a month.

Can I learn enough in that time to give me a fair picture?

Well, you got a good start.

You admit you got a lot to learn.

He's in for me, sir.

Sit down, Captain.

Yeah, read this.

Well, I'm just assuming that the anonymous captain and Mr. Harkness

story is you.

I talked to him of that, what you mean?

I'd say he did quite a good job at talking, Captain.

The men have outmoded equipment.

The officers buy their own repeatin' rifles.

The Indians have little trouble coming by Henry rifles.

You want that printed in a large New York newspaper?

Do you?

I am fatically do not.

It's the truth.

Of course, it's the truth.

That's not my point.

I'd like to know your point.

Ali.

I don't want our tempers involved in this.

I'm questioning your judgment.

I want some answers.

That's good.

So do I.

You sent this Harkness looking for me, right?

Yes, I sent him.

You know he was a correspondent for a newspaper.

You gave him the run of the post.

That means he can ask questions and get answers, right?

Yes, that's right.

He asked me some questions.

I answered him.

I see you did.

It's an army secret that we're short of equipment.

I've sent the same information onto Washington for months now.

You know that, Captain?

I've requested.

I've pleaded.

I've paid.

And nothing's happened.

A long way from the problem, Lee.

The need diminishes with the miles between.

This kind of newspaper article can stir a public opinion.

Just wonder if it's wise.

If plain facts stirs him into action, I don't see it's unwise.

The army moves its own way.

I know you don't always agree with it, Captain.

But if this article causes trouble, it's my trouble, not yours.

Then I'd say you'd better make up your mind, Major.

How's that?

Harkness.

If he's got your leave to be here and take a square look at things,

ask questions, get answers.

You're going to get articles like that one.

If you don't want them, why kick them off the post?

Hmm.

Did Mr. Harkness tell you how the people in the East feel about the Indians?

We talked about guns.

As I understand him, we're the villains, Captain.

The army.

And the red men are all peace-loving hunters who never kill or plunder or raid.

Is that all, Major?

No.

That's not all, Captain.

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What are you doing?

Don't you think this is the right way to stop this?

Just make it the right way to stop this?

Hey.

You know what the real thing is, right?

Whatever.

I'm trying to be a better person.

I'm a pro-erranger.

I'm trying to be a better person, right?

I'm not trying to be a good person.

But you may not be a good person.

I'm going to help you.

I'm trying to be a good person.

Stop talking about these things.

I'm trying to be a good person.

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Settlers along Fish Canyon have reported a rash of small raids.

Take a patrol out tomorrow morning, bring me a full report.

Right. I want you to take Mr. Harkness along, Captain.

It's not my job to mind what he sees, who he talks to, what words he sets down.

I want him to see all he can see and write, all he can write.

So long as it's true. You'll tell him that?

I'll tell him. Any questions, Captain?

No, sir. Then move out.

Well, how are you riding, Mr. Harkness?

If I join the Army, Captain, I put in for the infantry.

The other day, when you were walking, you wanted a horse.

I'm hard to please.

You're a human.

How long will we be out, Captain?

Well, it depends on what we find and who we find.

Major said we were going to talk to some settlers.

About Indian raids.

And we might find Indians too.

Yeah. Or they might find us.

I guess you never know, do you?

You never know.

Captain, will you let me know when we're in Indian Country?

You're in it.

Oh.

Well, the settlers, I should think they'd want to live near a Fort Laramy for protection.

Well, we'll be coming on us and settling soon. Ask them.

That was a deserted cabin along the creek, Captain. No Indian signs are on.

What about the calendar place, Mr. Sibitz?

Straight ahead, sir. Fish canyon.

Bit ahead. How far, Mr. Sibitz?

I'd say about two miles, sir.

Fine.

Mr. Calender's the one I was telling you about.

I remember, Mr. Sibitz.

Oh, you know, Mr. Harkness?

The mat last night.

Lieutenant Sibitz was a big help, Captain.

That's so...

I didn't do much really.

Hey, Lieutenant, those diaries of yours gave me a lot of valuable background.

Diaries, Mr. Sibitz?

They're not much, sir.

Well, it just gives me something to do sometimes.

I'd like to read yours sometimes, Captain.

I'd have to write it first.

You don't keep any written record of your experiences out here?

No. Well, I think that'd be a lot you'd want to remember, Captain.

There's more I want to forget.

Two miles, Mr. Sibitz. Two miles, sir.

Patrol!

Up!

Do you want to meet a settler, Mr. Harkness?

I sure do.

Now, climb down then.

All right.

Ooh.

It looks quiet enough here, Mr. Sibitz, but keep an eye alert.

Yes, sir.

Sergeant?

Yo!

Sergeant, take Harrison and Monk Circle back by the barn, those sheds near the wash.

Check the area for Indian signs, report back.

Yes, sir.

Harrison, you, Monk, come on, follow me.

Oh, this would be Mr. Calender's place.

That's right.

Can't blame him for choosing this spot.

Beautiful, Commander.

Access far as you go.

No need for the rifle, Mr. Calender.

I'll be the judge of that.

I have no use for the Army.

Since all the last time, say it again.

I'll get off my land.

Guess you haven't been raided along here.

Reports that you had.

That's always your excuse, say it.

Come snooping around a man's property.

Claim it a look for Indians.

Seen any Indians, Mr. Calender?

Seen nothing.

Now, you don't frighten me.

Riding up the numbers.

I got my rights in your trespassing.

You don't have any trouble with the Indians?

Don't have no trouble with anyone.

Save the Army.

That one out there, young one.

Sit in his horse, a proud.

Lieutenant Cybert?

Well, the aim is no matter.

Caught him here a week or so back.

Fired on him for snooping.

Sneaking up on a man's own land.

Hold him not to come back.

I know that.

That one more bar you wear.

Don't make you any more welcome.

You're still the Army.

You had enough, Mr. Harkness.

No, no, I haven't.

The Army is out here to protect people like you, Mr. Calender.

But what have you got against that?

I'll tell you.

If you're too dumb or too greenhorned to know,

there was no trouble out here till Army came.

Red men are all right.

You know how to deal with them.

You better stop them. Where is?

That's far enough, Sergeant.

You all right, Captain?

You find anything, Sergeant?

No damage, Captain.

But a lot of horses was here, back by the corral.

They're fresh marks, sir.

Got a lot of neighbors. Have you, Mr. Calender?

All I need.

Well, we didn't come on any settlers on our way here, Captain.

You heard him say it, Mr. Harkness.

Red men are all right.

You know how to deal with them?

Guess maybe Mr. Calender knows how.

Getting off my property now?

Thanks for the help, Settler.

You better eat something, Mr. Harkness.

Oh, Captain, I can't.

There's too much that just doesn't set well in my stomach.

Yeah, coffee then.

It goes down when nothing else will.

Thank you.

Where are we camped? Still in Fish Canyon?

North end of it.

We did a good job of covering the canyon today.

And tomorrow?

No, we'll head back to Fort Laramie and report to Major Daggett.

Five families slaughtered.

And that's your report, isn't it?

It's about it.

How do I do it, Captain?

How do I show what I saw today to the people back east?

I don't know your job, Mr. Harkness.

If I can write it just as I've found it,

maybe it'd jar the amount of their complacency.

Persecuted Redmond, peaceful 100-0.

There's nothing but savages.

These Indians, yes.

What do you mean?

And I'll tell you, I saw a slaughter once.

The remains of one.

80 men, women and children,

beneath the flag that was supposed to give them immunity.

But they were killed anyway.

Ridden down, slaughtered, hacked, shot.

Indians don't put much value on human life, do they?

This was White Men's worth, Mr. Harkness.

White Men's?

White Army Men.

You saw this happen?

Some of us were sent out after it happened to move the dead to burial ground.

Savage is a savage, Mr. Harkness.

Color of his skin's no matter.

I'll try to remember that, Captain.

Once you see it, you don't forget.

What about a man like Calendar?

Indians have been at his place, too.

We think so.

But he wasn't killed.

His cabin still stands.

Could be, he trades with him.

Horses, grain.

Henry rifles.

Might be.

Well, if you thought he did...

I have to know, he did, Mr. Harkness.

Yeah, you would, wouldn't you?

They're riding ahead.

You better get some sleep.

Captain Quincy.

Indians, help on the block.

Mount Make for the rocks.

Sergeant, Sergeant, pass the word.

Yes, sir.

Mount Make for the rocks.

Mount Make for the rocks.

Mount Make for the rocks.

Mr. Harkness.

Mr. Harkness.

Here, Captain.

Harkness in your tent.

No, sir.

You better mount, sir.

Harkness.

Harkness.

Mount Make for the rocks.

He's here, Mr. Simon.

No, sir, but he's armed, Captain.

Yeah, he'd better be.

Now, let's go.

Dig in.

Dig in, and higher.

Get him.

Give him a steady load of it.

They're firing the camp, sir.

They can have a camp.

Any sign of Harkness, Captain?

In the Indians right now, Mr. Harkness.

Hold your fire, man. They're out of rain.

Hold your fire.

Now, let's see how we stood up, Mr. Harkness.

Right, Captain.

You all right, Harrison?

All right, Captain.

I'd like to wake up this way every morning.

That's the prettiest sight in the world.

Indians riding away from you.

Ain't that right, Captain?

Yeah, just right, monk.

I'll look on ahead, Mr. Simon, so you check the other way.

Yes, sir.

Captain, over here.

It's a matter.

You ain't never seen a little blood before, Mr. Harkness.

Captain, this man is Harkness.

They get your guns.

They're Nick. That's all.

Little Nick and his shoulder.

Like we had a thousand times, Captain.

And let's have a look.

Oh.

He's lost a lot of blood.

He's going to make somebody a wonderful mother, Captain.

I think you'll live, of course.

I don't know.

It's sure all to get me a couple of days in the hospital, don't you think?

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Well, Captain.

What do you think of it, Captain?

What's it supposed to be?

Oh, the account of the raid.

On our camp at Fish Canyon.

Yeah.

Reads like the Battle of Bull Run with Indians.

Well, I colored it a little.

You counted 100 Indians, Mr. Harkness, I saw maybe 20.

Well, I did that on purpose, Captain.

And Sergeant Gorse got a flesh wound in the shoulder.

He didn't die a hero's death like this.

And then he died.

And then he died.

And then Gorse got a flesh wound in the shoulder.

He didn't die a hero's death like this sergeant in your story here.

Don't you see, Captain, the people back east.

The people in New York and Washington.

They've got to be blasted out of their beliefs.

If lies about a pitch battle that never happened.

Well, you think they'll pay attention to the story as it really happened?

You think that'll get you the guns and the equipment you need?

I don't know, Mr. Harkness.

I don't know your business.

When you came here, you said you wanted a fair picture of the West.

I still do. You're getting it.

We got settlers who get massacred.

Well, like the five families you saw in Fish Canyon.

We get settlers like Mr. Calender who don't.

We got red men who slaughter innocent whites.

We got red men who sit down at treaty tables and try to make peace.

Well, that doesn't make exciting reading, Captain.

It makes life and death out here.

You're quite a realist, aren't you?

I live here, Mr. Harkness.

The army is always right.

Army is not always anything. Not always right.

Not always wrong.

You tore up the story. I didn't.

Well, I'm right back where I started, Captain.

How are you?

I've still got a lot to learn.

And it's still a good sign, if you want it.

Fort Laramie is produced and directed by Norman McDonnell

and stars Raymond Burr as Lee Quince, Captain of Cavalry,

with Vic Perran as Sergeant Gors.

The script was specially written for Fort Laramie by Kathleen Height,

with sound patterns by Bill James and Ray Kemper,

musical supervision by Amarigo Moreno.

Featured in the cast were Lauren Stubborn, Harry Bartell, Jack Moils,

Sam Edwards, Parley Bear, and Lou Krugman.

Company Tencent.

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Next week, another transcribed story of the Northwest Frontier,

and the troopers who fought under Lee Quince, Captain of Cavalry.

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