WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:07.000 At the gallop, ho! 00:30.000 --> 00:37.000 Fort Laramie 00:49.000 --> 00:53.000 Fort Laramie, starring Raymond Burr as Captain Lee Quince. 00:54.000 --> 00:58.000 Specially transcribed tales of the dark and tragic ground of the wild frontier, 00:58.000 --> 01:01.000 the saga of fighting men who rode the rim of empire, 01:02.000 --> 01:06.000 and the dramatic story of Lee Quince, Captain of Cavalry. 01:23.000 --> 01:24.000 Sergeant! 01:24.000 --> 01:25.000 Yo! 01:27.000 --> 01:28.000 This one's fresh killed. 01:28.000 --> 01:30.000 And fresh skinned, sir. 01:30.000 --> 01:32.000 How many buffalo we found this way? 01:32.000 --> 01:34.000 We come on ten with this one. 01:34.000 --> 01:36.000 The men are fanning out looking for more. 01:36.000 --> 01:38.000 They wouldn't be far away if there are more. 01:39.000 --> 01:41.000 They're right dumb, aren't they, Captain? 01:41.000 --> 01:43.000 Buffalo must be the dumbest critters they is. 01:43.000 --> 01:46.000 Well, couldn't call them crafty, but they're half blind. 01:47.000 --> 01:49.000 Can't see trouble when they're heading right into it. 01:50.000 --> 01:52.000 The Lieutenant Cybert's back from the agency yet? 01:52.000 --> 01:55.000 Yes, sir. He brought the wagon. They're loading carcasses in it back by the wall. 01:55.000 --> 01:58.000 They better get a move on. That meat'll cook in this heat. 01:59.000 --> 02:02.000 Captain, you got the feeling there's something wrong? 02:02.000 --> 02:03.000 Wrong? 02:03.000 --> 02:06.000 Well, I've seen engines kill buffalo before, lots of them. 02:06.000 --> 02:08.000 But I never seen them leave this much meat on them. 02:08.000 --> 02:11.000 Maybe agency life is making them lazy, Gorse. 02:12.000 --> 02:14.000 Maybe their bellies are too full. 02:14.000 --> 02:16.000 Now, you don't think that, Captain? 02:16.000 --> 02:17.000 I sure don't. 02:17.000 --> 02:19.000 I'm going to talk to Mr. Cybert. 02:19.000 --> 02:23.000 Oh, are all of them cut this way? 02:23.000 --> 02:25.000 I think so. I didn't rightly study them, though. 02:25.000 --> 02:27.000 Then study them. All of them. 02:27.000 --> 02:29.000 Let me know what you find. 02:36.000 --> 02:39.000 Have any trouble getting the wagon, Mr. Cybert? 02:39.000 --> 02:43.000 Oh, no, sir. The agency didn't know we were bringing meat in. 02:43.000 --> 02:45.000 That seem odd to you? 02:45.000 --> 02:48.000 No, sir. I never saw an Indian agency that couldn't use food. 02:48.000 --> 02:49.000 Neither did I. 02:49.000 --> 02:50.000 Excuse me, sir. 02:50.000 --> 02:53.000 All right, man, you can move the wagon. I'll pick up the rest of the carcasses. 02:53.000 --> 02:54.000 Just a minute. 02:54.000 --> 02:55.000 Yes, sir. 02:55.000 --> 02:56.000 I'm going to take a look at these. 02:56.000 --> 02:58.000 Hold it a minute. 03:09.000 --> 03:11.000 All right, men, carry on. 03:11.000 --> 03:18.000 Yes, sir. 03:21.000 --> 03:23.000 A lot of waste there, sir. 03:23.000 --> 03:26.000 Yes. Yeah, a lot of waste. 03:26.000 --> 03:29.000 How far to the agency? About five miles? 03:29.000 --> 03:30.000 That's right. 03:30.000 --> 03:33.000 You went there, you got the wagon from the agent. 03:33.000 --> 03:35.000 He said they'd be glad to get the meat. 03:35.000 --> 03:37.000 That all he said, Mr. Cybert? 03:37.000 --> 03:39.000 I think so, sir. 03:39.000 --> 03:42.000 Oh, one thing he said when we first rode up. 03:42.000 --> 03:43.000 Yes? 03:43.000 --> 03:45.000 He asked us if we'd been engaged to battle. 03:45.000 --> 03:46.000 Uh-huh. 03:46.000 --> 03:48.000 Said that early this morning, you heard a lot of gunfire. 03:48.000 --> 03:49.000 Yeah, I'll bet they did. 03:49.000 --> 03:50.000 Captain Quake, sir? 03:50.000 --> 03:51.000 Yes, Sergeant. 03:53.000 --> 03:56.000 I studied them carcasses, all of them, like you said. 03:56.000 --> 03:58.000 They're all cut the same way. 03:58.000 --> 04:00.000 Skinned, with the hump ribs cut away? 04:00.000 --> 04:01.000 And that's all. 04:01.000 --> 04:03.000 The men locate any more? 04:03.000 --> 04:04.000 No, sir, just the tent. 04:04.000 --> 04:09.000 According to Mr. Cybert, the Indian agent claims he heard a lot of gunfire this morning. 04:09.000 --> 04:12.000 It was a clear morning, the sound of carry all right. 04:12.000 --> 04:14.000 You saw the wagon tracks, Captain? 04:14.000 --> 04:15.000 Yeah, I saw them. 04:15.000 --> 04:18.000 Tell the men to get a move on with their loading, Sergeant. 04:18.000 --> 04:20.000 Form a detail to haul the carcasses to the agency. 04:20.000 --> 04:21.000 Yes, sir. 04:21.000 --> 04:24.000 We'll rendezvous at the fork of the rawhide and proceed back to Fort Laramie. 04:24.000 --> 04:25.000 Yes, sir. 04:25.000 --> 04:28.000 Captain Quince, what about the wagon tracks? 04:28.000 --> 04:31.000 You see these tracks here, the fresh ones? 04:31.000 --> 04:33.000 From the wagon that was just here. 04:33.000 --> 04:34.000 That's right. 04:35.000 --> 04:36.000 Now, over here. 04:38.000 --> 04:39.000 There. 04:40.000 --> 04:41.000 You see those? 04:41.000 --> 04:42.000 Yes, sir. 04:42.000 --> 04:45.000 They're not as fresh, but you can sure see them. 04:45.000 --> 04:47.000 Our wagon wasn't over here, Captain. 04:47.000 --> 04:50.000 And it wasn't down there where they're loading now. 04:50.000 --> 04:53.000 Or over yonder where the last carcasses were found. 04:53.000 --> 04:54.000 Well, that's right, sir, but... 04:54.000 --> 04:58.000 Indians don't hunt buffalo with wagons, Mr. Cybert. 04:58.000 --> 05:02.000 And when they kill buffalo with guns or arrows, they don't just skin them. 05:02.000 --> 05:06.000 Cut the hump ribs free and leave the rest to rot in the prairie. 05:06.000 --> 05:10.000 From its horns to its chips, Indians use all the buffalo. 05:10.000 --> 05:12.000 You think white men did this, Captain? 05:12.000 --> 05:15.000 I'm thinking white men. 05:15.000 --> 05:19.000 And if buffalo hunters are moving up to the high plains, 05:19.000 --> 05:32.000 we got trouble, Mr. Cybert. 05:34.000 --> 05:36.000 That's reservation land, Captain. 05:36.000 --> 05:38.000 That didn't make much matter to them, Major. 05:38.000 --> 05:42.000 You seem very sure this is the work of buffalo hunters, not Indians. 05:42.000 --> 05:47.000 If it's Indians, they'd change their whole tradition of hunting buffalo and killing them. 05:47.000 --> 05:49.000 I tell you, these were fresh killed. 05:49.000 --> 05:52.000 And the only meat gone was the hump ribs. 05:52.000 --> 05:54.000 Well, that's the best meat. 05:54.000 --> 05:56.000 Yeah, for you and me, yeah. 05:56.000 --> 05:59.000 But the Indians eat everything in a buffalo, including... 05:59.000 --> 06:00.000 I know, Lee, I know. 06:00.000 --> 06:03.000 What they don't eat on the spot, they take with them, even the horns. 06:03.000 --> 06:06.000 Always use the horns for tools, implements, don't they? 06:06.000 --> 06:08.000 Well, always. 06:08.000 --> 06:10.000 I still hope you're wrong, Lee. 06:10.000 --> 06:12.000 It's a small hope, but it's there. 06:12.000 --> 06:16.000 I'd like to be dead wrong, but I saw too much. 06:16.000 --> 06:18.000 And the Indian agent heard too much. 06:18.000 --> 06:20.000 The battle? 06:20.000 --> 06:22.000 Remember Texas? 06:22.000 --> 06:27.000 You get a clear morning, you could hear those buffalo guns roaring for miles. 06:27.000 --> 06:30.000 Enough of them, sound like a pitch battle. 06:30.000 --> 06:33.000 Wonder if they're still packing those old Sharps 50s. 06:33.000 --> 06:34.000 They're awful heavy. 06:34.000 --> 06:40.000 Gotta be. They shoot out slugs, 125 grains of powder, 600 grains of lead, sometimes more. 06:40.000 --> 06:43.000 And the Army struggles along with 450 grain slugs. 06:43.000 --> 06:45.000 Well, we're not killing buffalo. 06:45.000 --> 06:47.000 No, we're not. 06:47.000 --> 06:50.000 You know the position the Army's in as well as I do. 06:50.000 --> 06:54.000 White men aren't allowed on reservations to hunt, to mine, to anything. 06:54.000 --> 06:58.000 We can warn them if we see them before they move into Indian territory. 06:58.000 --> 07:01.000 If we catch them there, we can run them off, bring them back to the guardhouse. 07:01.000 --> 07:03.000 But we gotta see them first. 07:03.000 --> 07:05.000 We may not see them, Major. 07:05.000 --> 07:08.000 Until it's too late, we may not ever see them. 07:08.000 --> 07:11.000 And then the Army will be in another position. 07:11.000 --> 07:13.000 What other position? 07:13.000 --> 07:15.000 Fighting a war? 07:38.000 --> 07:41.000 Don't you go roaming off now, Goofy. 07:41.000 --> 07:43.000 I want the wagon here so we can load it. 07:43.000 --> 07:45.000 Awful hot just sitting here. 07:45.000 --> 07:47.000 Well, you set, you hear? 07:47.000 --> 07:49.000 I hear. 07:49.000 --> 07:52.000 Hey, soldier, you hear the subtlest storm? 07:52.000 --> 07:53.000 That's it, mister. 07:53.000 --> 08:11.000 Much obliged. 08:11.000 --> 08:15.000 Well, now, you got yourself some life there, ain't you? 08:15.000 --> 08:19.000 Sharp as your eyes, soldier. 08:19.000 --> 08:20.000 Straight blade, huh? 08:20.000 --> 08:23.000 This and this. Got them curved, too. 08:23.000 --> 08:25.000 They're nice. 08:25.000 --> 08:27.000 You like curved knives better, do you? 08:27.000 --> 08:29.000 I like what I need. 08:29.000 --> 08:31.000 Sometimes I need a straight blade. 08:31.000 --> 08:33.000 Sometimes I need them curved. 08:33.000 --> 08:39.000 What kind of man's got a need for knives, straight blade or curved? 08:39.000 --> 08:42.000 You goldenly soldier. 08:42.000 --> 08:46.000 I'd be a fool to go to man sharpening a fine knife. 08:46.000 --> 08:49.000 Yeah. You would. 08:49.000 --> 08:52.000 You'd be a plain fool. 08:52.000 --> 08:54.000 There's a fine edge coming. 08:54.000 --> 08:57.000 Fine edge. 08:57.000 --> 08:59.000 It's your business, cutting things? 08:59.000 --> 09:05.000 Let me show you that curved blade, soldier. 09:05.000 --> 09:07.000 Now, look at that. 09:07.000 --> 09:09.000 Ain't that pretty the way it half circles? 09:09.000 --> 09:13.000 You think it's pretty? 09:13.000 --> 09:15.000 It fits your neck, soldier. 09:15.000 --> 09:18.000 Right close and neat like. 09:18.000 --> 09:20.000 Now, that's what I call pretty. 09:20.000 --> 09:22.000 The fit of it. 09:22.000 --> 09:24.000 Pretty enough. 09:24.000 --> 09:26.000 Looks dull to me. 09:26.000 --> 09:29.000 It gets dull. Cutting. 09:29.000 --> 09:35.000 Before I cut a man's throat with it, I'd see it was razor sharp. 09:35.000 --> 09:39.000 I will. I'll tend to that right now. 09:39.000 --> 09:41.000 But I'll keep that straight blade handy. 09:41.000 --> 09:45.000 In case I run into a soldier who wants to go to body. 09:45.000 --> 09:47.000 I knew a man like you once. 09:47.000 --> 09:50.000 He looked the same, acted the same, talked the same. 09:50.000 --> 09:53.000 He was from Texas. This man I knew. 09:53.000 --> 09:55.000 A lot of good men from Texas. 09:55.000 --> 09:58.000 This man, he was a skinner. 09:58.000 --> 10:01.000 A lot of good men to skin it. 10:01.000 --> 10:05.000 This man, though, he got himself killed. 10:05.000 --> 10:10.000 How is a man going to get himself killed, skin him, buffalo? 10:10.000 --> 10:14.000 He made the mistake, this Texas man, going into Indian territory. 10:14.000 --> 10:18.000 Went up into the Indian nation, got himself killed. 10:18.000 --> 10:21.000 You don't know nothing about skinning. 10:21.000 --> 10:23.000 I heard about this, man. 10:23.000 --> 10:27.000 You're a dumb soldier. Dumb as can be. 10:27.000 --> 10:32.000 I ain't dumb enough to skin buffalo in Indian country. 10:32.000 --> 10:35.000 I make $50 a month in my keep. 10:35.000 --> 10:39.000 With that, I get 50 cents a hit on every buffalo I skin. 10:39.000 --> 10:42.000 You do it fast, mister? 10:42.000 --> 10:44.000 The faster I do it, the more money I make. 10:44.000 --> 10:47.000 I'd sure admire to see you at your work. 10:47.000 --> 10:49.000 Yeah, you would. 10:49.000 --> 10:54.000 I would. I never seen a real good skinner at work. 10:54.000 --> 10:56.000 You ain't? 10:56.000 --> 10:58.000 You wanted to please a body. 10:58.000 --> 11:01.000 You could tell him how you said about your work. 11:01.000 --> 11:03.000 You thinking about turning skinner? 11:03.000 --> 11:07.000 Oh, I don't think I got the gift for it. 11:07.000 --> 11:11.000 Of course, I'm a willing hand and all that. 11:11.000 --> 11:13.000 How are you on thinking? 11:13.000 --> 11:16.000 I'm not too good to tell the truth. 11:16.000 --> 11:19.000 You might make a skinner at that. 11:19.000 --> 11:22.000 The thinking part, what's done of it, that's the hunter's job. 11:22.000 --> 11:24.000 Old Jake Cuppy there. 11:24.000 --> 11:26.000 He's got to find the herd, do the shooting. 11:26.000 --> 11:27.000 Jake Cuppy? 11:27.000 --> 11:30.000 He's in the settlers. He's buying lead now and powder. 11:30.000 --> 11:32.000 He's got a line on a big herd. 11:32.000 --> 11:33.000 Where? 11:33.000 --> 11:35.000 What do I care? 11:35.000 --> 11:38.000 Big herd soldier. He'll get me there and do the killing. 11:38.000 --> 11:41.000 All I got to do is traipse after him and skin him. 11:41.000 --> 11:44.000 You was going to tell me how you manage that. 11:44.000 --> 11:47.000 You see, you work with a good hunter. 11:47.000 --> 11:48.000 That comes first. 11:48.000 --> 11:50.000 Old Jake Cuppy, he's good. 11:50.000 --> 11:52.000 He shoots them right in the lights. 11:52.000 --> 11:53.000 Lights? 11:53.000 --> 11:56.000 The lights, the lungs. 11:56.000 --> 11:59.000 Now here I thought a good hunter'd take aim on his heart. 11:59.000 --> 12:02.000 The heart? No. 12:02.000 --> 12:06.000 You hit one in the heart, even square in the heart. 12:06.000 --> 12:08.000 He's going to run all over on you before he dies. 12:08.000 --> 12:12.000 Charging around, pawing the earth, carrying on. 12:12.000 --> 12:14.000 No need a skinner wasting his self moving all over. 12:14.000 --> 12:16.000 I can see that. 12:16.000 --> 12:18.000 You hit one in the light, soldier. 12:18.000 --> 12:21.000 He may take a step or two on you, but no more than that. 12:21.000 --> 12:23.000 He drops right on the spot. 12:23.000 --> 12:24.000 Know how I mean? 12:24.000 --> 12:28.000 Skinner don't go to first one spot, then another. 12:28.000 --> 12:31.000 He don't waste his self, I understand. 12:31.000 --> 12:34.000 The gift you talk about. 12:34.000 --> 12:36.000 I got it for fair. 12:36.000 --> 12:38.000 I come on him. 12:38.000 --> 12:42.000 At first I rip him down the belly from the throat to the tail. 12:42.000 --> 12:43.000 With a straight blade? 12:43.000 --> 12:45.000 More than likely, yeah, yeah. 12:45.000 --> 12:48.000 Then I cut down each of his legs. 12:48.000 --> 12:52.000 Go around his head, clean up to his ears. 12:52.000 --> 12:54.000 Listen here. 12:54.000 --> 12:56.000 I figured the curved blade there. 12:56.000 --> 12:59.000 Now myself, I don't bother with the rest of the head. 12:59.000 --> 13:02.000 I right away set to roll the skin back. 13:02.000 --> 13:04.000 This is where it started. 13:04.000 --> 13:08.000 Then I draw a rope tight on the little flap of his neck that's free, see? 13:08.000 --> 13:10.000 Uh-huh. 13:10.000 --> 13:15.000 And I make the other end fast to the team and I kick them up. 13:15.000 --> 13:19.000 Then pulling that away, shucks that high right off in that animal. 13:19.000 --> 13:21.000 And that's a sight. 13:21.000 --> 13:23.000 I tell you, that's a sight. 13:23.000 --> 13:25.000 I just bet it is. 13:25.000 --> 13:26.000 50 cents. 13:26.000 --> 13:28.000 Every time I do it. 13:28.000 --> 13:30.000 I skin as high as 50 buffalo a day. 13:30.000 --> 13:33.000 Now that amounts to... 13:33.000 --> 13:37.000 Why old J. Cuppy usually does that counting up for me? 13:37.000 --> 13:41.000 I guess you think a lot of Mr. Cuppy, huh? 13:41.000 --> 13:43.000 What I got to think of him? 13:43.000 --> 13:45.000 I like skinner soldier. 13:45.000 --> 13:47.000 That's what I like. 13:50.000 --> 13:53.000 You putting up here at Fort Laramie a spell? 13:53.000 --> 13:55.000 Tonight anyway. 13:55.000 --> 13:57.000 Maybe longer, what do you care? 13:57.000 --> 14:01.000 I just want to learn all I can from you, that's all. 14:01.000 --> 14:03.000 It's a good life. 14:03.000 --> 14:06.000 A lot of good men are skinners. 14:06.000 --> 14:08.800 The 14:25.000 --> 14:27.000 Your name? J. Cuppy, mister? 14:27.000 --> 14:29.000 How's that? 14:29.000 --> 14:31.000 Your name? It's J. Cuppy? 14:31.000 --> 14:35.000 You don't want to steal up on a man that is eating, Captain. 14:35.000 --> 14:37.000 Might make him edgy. 14:37.000 --> 14:39.000 I make you edgy, mister. 14:39.000 --> 14:41.000 I'm getting over it. 14:41.000 --> 14:44.000 Sit down as long as you're here. 14:44.000 --> 14:47.000 Oh, here, I'll move my rifle aside. 14:49.000 --> 14:51.000 You got your eye on it too. 14:51.000 --> 14:53.000 I seen big 50s before. 14:54.000 --> 14:56.000 I declare it opens a man's eyes, 14:56.000 --> 14:59.000 stopping off at an army post. 14:59.000 --> 15:03.000 First you tell me I'm welcome to put up with the enlisted men here, 15:03.000 --> 15:06.000 and then the only ones that come poking around are officers. 15:06.000 --> 15:08.000 That so? 15:08.000 --> 15:11.000 How come you know about big 50s? 15:11.000 --> 15:14.000 Lieutenant claimed he never seen one before. 15:14.000 --> 15:17.000 Mr. Cybutts never saw a buffalo hunter before. 15:17.000 --> 15:20.000 Well, he's seen one now. 15:20.000 --> 15:22.000 Where do you find them? 15:22.000 --> 15:24.000 Like here, so full of book learning. 15:24.000 --> 15:26.000 We find all kinds, mister. 15:26.000 --> 15:29.000 Yeah, well, you found one there. 15:29.000 --> 15:33.000 Now, he's up on all the law in these parts. 15:33.000 --> 15:35.000 I'm not talking about your army law now. 15:35.000 --> 15:37.000 I'm talking territory law. 15:37.000 --> 15:39.000 I think that's how you said it. 15:39.000 --> 15:42.000 Something about there's a time of year you can't shoot 15:42.000 --> 15:45.000 what Lieutenant calls wildlife. 15:46.000 --> 15:47.000 There's a law. 15:47.000 --> 15:49.000 About hunting? 15:49.000 --> 15:51.000 First Territorial Assembly passed it. 15:51.000 --> 15:53.000 It's called Wildlife Conservation. 15:53.000 --> 15:56.000 Well, I declare. 15:56.000 --> 15:59.000 In here, I thought the army was a shooting outfit. 15:59.000 --> 16:01.000 It is, mister. 16:01.000 --> 16:05.000 Now, I'm going to tell you what I told the lieutenant. 16:05.000 --> 16:07.000 You're going to make laws out of here. 16:07.000 --> 16:10.000 You make them about the engines. 16:10.000 --> 16:13.000 But you leave a white man to his work. You hear? 16:13.000 --> 16:16.000 Must be you've shot up all the herds in the South Plains. 16:16.000 --> 16:19.000 Oh, I wouldn't take all the credit for that. 16:19.000 --> 16:22.000 Others got their due coming. 16:22.000 --> 16:25.000 I'm gnawing at you, Captain. 16:25.000 --> 16:28.000 Same way you're gnawing at me. 16:28.000 --> 16:30.000 You spoke your piece. 16:30.000 --> 16:31.000 Now, why don't you... 16:31.000 --> 16:33.000 You're wrong, mister. 16:33.000 --> 16:35.000 That's another thing. 16:35.000 --> 16:37.000 I'm almost never wrong. 16:37.000 --> 16:41.000 There's treaty law that says you can't go into Indian territory. 16:41.000 --> 16:44.000 That means all the land north of Fort Laramie. 16:44.000 --> 16:48.000 I'm getting the might worried about the army. 16:48.000 --> 16:51.000 Ain't they doing any killing no more? 16:51.000 --> 16:53.000 We're obliged to warn you. 16:53.000 --> 16:56.000 If you do go in, we can't protect you. 16:56.000 --> 17:01.000 I just don't recollect asking for any protection. 17:01.000 --> 17:04.000 You ought to come along, Captain. 17:04.000 --> 17:07.000 His hunting's for a real sporting man. 17:07.000 --> 17:10.000 I saw some of your slaughter the other day. 17:10.000 --> 17:12.000 That's real sporting. 17:12.000 --> 17:15.000 Now you hear me what I say. 17:15.000 --> 17:19.000 I get paid on how many buffalo hides I ship. 17:19.000 --> 17:21.000 That's fine. 17:21.000 --> 17:26.000 Now then, folks in the East, they're developing a taste for buffalo meat. 17:26.000 --> 17:29.000 All I gotta do is get it to the railroad. 17:29.000 --> 17:31.000 And that's fine. 17:31.000 --> 17:34.000 I get paid for that, too. 17:38.000 --> 17:44.000 I'd hate to have to fight a war on your account, mister. 17:44.000 --> 17:48.000 Maybe I'd be on your side. 17:48.000 --> 17:51.000 I'm good at shooting. 17:51.000 --> 17:53.000 I tell you what. 17:53.000 --> 17:58.000 You figure a price on engine hides, engine meat. 17:58.000 --> 18:22.000 Maybe I will be on your side, Captain. 18:22.000 --> 18:25.000 This is Kitt Carson country, isn't it, Captain, along the Powder River? 18:25.000 --> 18:27.000 He was up here, sure. 18:27.000 --> 18:29.000 He went along the bottoms of the Powder. 18:29.000 --> 18:32.000 It was black with buffalo then. 18:32.000 --> 18:35.000 Well, the big herds are still up this way, aren't they? 18:35.000 --> 18:38.000 The Indians think so. That's good enough for me. 18:38.000 --> 18:41.000 And for Jake Cuppy, apparently. 18:41.000 --> 18:44.000 You take men like Kitt Carson. Now, he was a trapper, a hunter. 18:44.000 --> 18:47.000 But you hear good things about him. The Indians liked him. 18:47.000 --> 18:51.000 You're not comparing Carson to Cuppy, are you, Mr. Seibert? 18:51.000 --> 18:54.000 No, sir. I'm trying to figure out the difference. 18:54.000 --> 18:56.000 Both seem to be after the same things. 18:56.000 --> 18:58.000 They seem to be, maybe. 18:58.000 --> 19:01.000 The early trappers, the hunters, the mountain men, 19:01.000 --> 19:04.000 they learned a lot from the Indians. 19:04.000 --> 19:06.000 Made friends with them, like you say. 19:06.000 --> 19:09.000 But more, they came to hunt like Indians hunt. 19:09.000 --> 19:11.000 You mean they hunted as they had need? 19:11.000 --> 19:15.000 More that, they knew what conservation meant even then. 19:15.000 --> 19:19.000 But if you kill more than the herd can bear young, you'll run out of quarry. 19:19.000 --> 19:24.000 A man like Cuppy now, he likes the slaughter. 19:24.000 --> 19:27.000 I hope we find him, Captain. I hope we find him. 19:27.000 --> 19:29.000 In time, Mr. Seibert. 19:29.000 --> 19:32.000 The wagon tracks we're following, Captain. 19:32.000 --> 19:33.000 What about them? 19:33.000 --> 19:36.000 Looks like they stopped just ahead, sir, right at that line of trees. 19:36.000 --> 19:39.000 Patrol! Halt! 19:42.000 --> 19:45.000 They could be in there, Captain. Cuppy and Gophie. 19:45.000 --> 19:48.000 They could, Mr. Seibert. Come on, Gorse. 19:48.000 --> 19:50.000 Yes, sir. 19:50.000 --> 19:54.000 Sergeant Gorse and I are going to move flat into the trees, Mr. Seibert. 19:54.000 --> 19:56.000 Have the patrols stand to cover us. 19:56.000 --> 19:57.000 Yes, sir. 19:57.000 --> 19:59.000 One shot out of those trees and you move in. 19:59.000 --> 20:00.000 Right, Captain. 20:00.000 --> 20:03.000 All right, Sergeant. Run crouched down to the brush. 20:03.000 --> 20:05.000 Then we move flat in their bellies. 20:05.000 --> 20:06.000 Yes, sir. 20:06.000 --> 20:07.000 Let's go. 20:07.000 --> 20:11.000 Oh, the police service has prepared the charge. 20:11.000 --> 20:13.000 They're coming. 20:19.000 --> 20:22.000 Them high bed wagons like Gophie had, 20:22.000 --> 20:25.000 they move through here better than we do, Captain. 20:25.000 --> 20:28.000 I can't see Cuppy making a camp here. 20:28.000 --> 20:30.000 I can't see him coming in here. 20:30.000 --> 20:32.000 Over the army's warning. 20:34.000 --> 20:36.000 Just about to the trees, Gorse. 20:36.000 --> 20:38.000 Now, don't straighten until we're in them. 20:38.000 --> 20:41.000 Yes, sir. 20:44.000 --> 20:46.000 All right, now. 20:48.000 --> 20:50.000 They're not as thick as they look, Captain. 20:50.000 --> 20:52.000 Well, they're ahead there, Gorse. 20:52.000 --> 20:54.000 The wagon. 20:59.000 --> 21:02.000 It's Gophie's wagon, all right. 21:02.000 --> 21:04.000 Some hides here in the bed. 21:04.000 --> 21:06.000 His team's gone. 21:06.000 --> 21:09.000 Must be thinking to drag the hides back here. 21:09.000 --> 21:10.000 From how far away, I wonder. 21:10.000 --> 21:12.000 I don't know. 21:12.000 --> 21:14.000 I'm trying to figure them, Captain. 21:14.000 --> 21:16.000 I can see they might hide the wagon 21:16.000 --> 21:18.000 so that we couldn't follow its tracks, 21:18.000 --> 21:21.000 but we can track horses' hooves just as well. 21:21.000 --> 21:24.000 Not this way, Gorse. 21:28.000 --> 21:30.000 Hmm, grain sacks. 21:30.000 --> 21:31.000 Why, sure. 21:31.000 --> 21:32.000 Yeah. 21:32.000 --> 21:34.000 You fix grain sacks to their hooves, 21:34.000 --> 21:36.000 it muffles the sound, 21:36.000 --> 21:38.000 leaves almost no hoof prints. 21:38.000 --> 21:41.000 They're smarter than they act, Captain. 21:46.000 --> 21:48.000 Are they, Gorse? 21:48.000 --> 21:49.000 Huh? 21:49.000 --> 21:51.000 Buffalo guns. 21:51.000 --> 21:53.000 It's one sound they can't muffle. 21:53.000 --> 22:05.000 Come on, Sergeant. 22:15.000 --> 22:17.000 We've ridden five miles at least, Captain, 22:17.000 --> 22:19.000 and no sound to guide us for the last three. 22:19.000 --> 22:20.000 Don't need sound. 22:20.000 --> 22:23.000 With a sign like that ahead, Mr. Cybert. 22:23.000 --> 22:25.000 That brown haze like dust? 22:25.000 --> 22:26.000 It is dust. 22:26.000 --> 22:28.000 It means a big herd. 22:28.000 --> 22:31.000 Probably been stampeded. 22:31.000 --> 22:33.000 There's bottom land just after that rise 22:33.000 --> 22:35.000 where a clear creek feeds into the powder. 22:35.000 --> 22:36.000 We'll make for that. 22:36.000 --> 22:37.000 Yes, sir. 22:37.000 --> 22:38.000 At the gallop. 22:38.000 --> 22:54.000 Ho! 22:54.000 --> 22:56.000 Stroll! 22:56.000 --> 23:02.000 Halt! 23:02.000 --> 23:04.000 Ride out with me, Mr. Cybert. 23:04.000 --> 23:25.000 Yes, sir. 23:25.000 --> 23:28.000 Captain, look. 23:28.000 --> 23:31.000 I'm looking, Mr. Cybert. 23:31.000 --> 23:34.000 I said it was a big herd. 23:34.000 --> 23:36.000 But it's like a massacre. 23:36.000 --> 23:38.000 Must be a thousand buffalo. 23:38.000 --> 23:39.000 It is a massacre. 23:39.000 --> 23:42.000 That much killing of anything without cause, 23:42.000 --> 23:46.000 it is a massacre. 23:46.000 --> 23:49.000 Well, Jake Cuppey, he couldn't have shot them all. 23:49.000 --> 23:52.000 He could shoot enough with Goefe helping. 23:52.000 --> 23:56.000 Likely the rest were stampeded to death. 23:56.000 --> 23:59.000 Slaughter, that's all you can call it. 23:59.000 --> 24:02.000 I don't see how it could happen so much of it. 24:02.000 --> 24:05.000 Buffalo don't have much eyesight. 24:05.000 --> 24:08.000 They count on smelling signs of danger. 24:08.000 --> 24:10.000 Cuppey's trick is to shoot from far enough away 24:10.000 --> 24:15.000 so they can't smell him. 24:15.000 --> 24:17.000 We better... 24:17.000 --> 24:35.000 We better go down there, Mr. Cybert. 24:35.000 --> 24:38.000 Cuppey, would he cause all this and then hide out, Captain? 24:38.000 --> 24:40.000 He might. 24:40.000 --> 24:42.000 Knowing we'd be coming after him. 24:42.000 --> 24:44.000 Knowing he and Goefe couldn't hope to haul them all out 24:44.000 --> 24:46.000 before we got here. 24:46.000 --> 24:48.000 You seen any that's been skinned? 24:48.000 --> 24:49.000 No, sir, not a one. 24:49.000 --> 25:03.000 Captain Quince, over here. 25:03.000 --> 25:08.000 Well, now, that explains a lot of things. 25:08.000 --> 25:12.000 I come on their horses first, down further. 25:12.000 --> 25:16.000 Their shot full of arrows, too. 25:16.000 --> 25:17.000 Both of them are still warm, Captain. 25:17.000 --> 25:21.000 They haven't been dead long. 25:21.000 --> 25:24.000 A thousand dead buffalo. 25:24.000 --> 25:27.000 Two dead men. 25:27.000 --> 25:31.000 That's a lot of death. 25:31.000 --> 25:33.000 A lot of waste. 25:33.000 --> 25:35.000 The engines must still be around, Captain. 25:35.000 --> 25:37.000 Yeah, they'd still be around. 25:37.000 --> 25:39.000 Up in the hills, likely. 25:39.000 --> 25:42.000 Those arrows, sir, they're in Cuppey and Goefe and the horses, 25:42.000 --> 25:44.000 but not the buffalo. 25:44.000 --> 25:49.000 The Indians weren't after buffalo, Mr. Cybert. 25:49.000 --> 25:50.000 Come on, let's move out. 25:50.000 --> 25:56.000 Captain, we'll have to fight the Indians for this? 25:56.000 --> 25:58.000 Not today. 25:58.000 --> 26:01.000 Not this patrol. 26:01.000 --> 26:05.000 But this isn't the last of the buffalo hunters. 26:05.000 --> 26:11.000 More will come all the time, and we'll fight wars over it. 26:11.000 --> 26:14.000 We've got to just leave things this way? 26:14.000 --> 26:17.000 The sooner we go, Mr. Cybert, the sooner the Indians will move down 26:17.000 --> 26:20.000 and get the meat and the hides. 26:20.000 --> 26:36.000 Sometimes all a man can do is turn, walk away. 26:50.000 --> 26:53.000 Fort Laramie is produced and directed by Norman MacDonald 26:53.000 --> 26:57.000 and stars Raymond Burr as Lee Quince, Captain of Cavalry, 26:57.000 --> 27:00.000 with Vic Perrin as Sergeant Gorse. 27:00.000 --> 27:04.000 The script was specially written for Fort Laramie by Kathleen Height, 27:04.000 --> 27:07.000 with sound patterns by Bill James and Ray Kemper, 27:07.000 --> 27:10.000 musical supervision by Amarico Marino. 27:10.000 --> 27:13.000 Featured in the cast were James Nusser and Barney Phillips. 27:13.000 --> 27:16.000 The script was written by the director, 27:16.000 --> 27:20.000 Jack Moyles as Major Daggett, and Harry Bartell as Lieutenant Cybert. 27:20.000 --> 27:24.000 Company, attention! 27:24.000 --> 27:47.000 Dismissed. 27:54.000 --> 27:59.000 Next week, another transcribed story of the Northwest Frontier 27:59.000 --> 28:07.000 and the troopers who fought under Lee Quince, Captain of Cavalry. 28:07.000 --> 28:09.000 Have you a youngster of school age? 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