Fort Laramie · June 10, 1956 · 30 min · 3,397 words
The transcript of “Young Trooper”, an episode of Fort Laramie first broadcast June 10, 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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Laramie, starring Raymond Burr as Captain Lequins, 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 Lequins, Captain of Cavalry.
Those bikes in this side of the rail at all, I'm not over there, Mr. Sibits. I haven't run into one and twenty yards, Captain. They sure weren't taking any chances, were they? Or telegraph pulls across the track, all the spikes removed from the rails and the track yanked off the roadbed. I'd say they weren't taking much chance, Mr.
Sybrits. You think it was shy answer? Well, it's shy and country. Why'd they do it? The rail of train kill all those innocent people. No fear. That's why most men kill. The fear of why? The trainmen were, I'm sure, but 20 of those dead back there are women and children. The iron horse makes a lot of noise, Mr.
Siberts, and puffs a lot of steam. If you saw it cutting through your country, you might not stop to think it was carrying women and children. You must think it'll discourage folks from coming west on the railroads. If I was standing in the Omaha station waiting to board a train, it might discourage me. Not you, Captain.
Things don't seem to bother you. What things? 20 women and children dead you didn't bat an eye. It's a lot of death all piled together. Any death is a lot of death, Mr. Sybrits. You've seen more than I have. Maybe you've gotten used to it.
We have a job of burying to do back there. Sir, I can't go back just yet. It doesn't get any better waiting nor any easier. People die or they get killed. Either way they got to be buried. Yes, sir.
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