Fort Laramie · May 6, 1956 · 29 min · 3,294 words
The transcript of “Never the Twain”, an episode of Fort Laramie first broadcast May 6, 1956. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Fort Laramie plays Fort Laramie free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.
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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.
Lieutenant Sybrits reporting his ordered captain. Oh, yes, Mr. Sybrits. I have a special detail for you. Yes, sir. We've received a report that's abandoned by Broule Sue, Captain of the North Fork near Whiteview, that I want you to ride out and see what they're up to.
Yes, sir. Yes, sir. There are too close to the Bozeman Trail. Better take a scout with you. I suggest Dan Tolliver. I prefer Pete Hazenser. Oh, why? I don't care for Tolliver. He's the best scout on the post.
He's a squal man. You still got a lot to learn about the West, Mr. Sybrits. I suggest you might find old Dan Tolliver a very valuable teacher. Yes, sir. Yes, sir, sir.
I come out to these parts for now. a lot younger than you, mighty lot younger. Nothing on my cheek but peach fuzz. Must have been rugged in those days. Rugged? Why, son, there weren't a town or village, Strix St. Joe on the Missouri and Monterey on the Pacific.
Man had room to breathe. Now look at it. Immigrants pushing west every year, filling the plains with dust and damnation. I can't say I blamed the Indians for being a might put out about it.
I'd expect you to look at it that way. What are you signifying by that, son? Well, I understand you've been closer to the Indians than some of us. Well, so I have in the manner of speaking lived amongst them off and on for many a year.
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