A Small Beginning

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.

I'd rather take these orders than give them Captain. Black Hills, the black hills, the powder, the big horn, the Yellowstone, Montana territory. There was a lot of ground. Yeah. You want these orders, you say?

I sure do. Well, they're your orders. Why don't you take them? You might be gone two weeks. You might be gone two months. Now, I'm gonna stay here, set up the parley. These are your orders, Lee.

Well, see in their mind, maybe, maybe you'll tell me what they are. Sitting bull. Sitting bull. I mean it. You're giving me the army from the Department of the Platte Go after him. I'm giving you a patrol and a slip of paper.

This isn't an engagement captain. I want you to deliver an invitation to sitting bull to parley with us. Give me a lot of territory to find him in, made you? And I can give you about six scout reports.

Each one definitely establishing sitting bull's camp at six different locations from the Black Hills to the Yellowstone. Now I saw Pete Hazen's last report on him. I'm on a bell force here in the Black Hills.

That was six months ago. That's the latest report we have. Well, I can start there. Might pick up some fresh word in the way. When you want me to leave, as soon as you can pick up a troll and outfit it, I remember you're heading north, planning anything from heat to snow.