Galvanized Yankee: Fort Laramie (October 7, 1956)

“Galvanized Yankee” is an episode of Fort Laramie, the old-time radio show, first broadcast October 7, 1956. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Two prisoners from Union Army camps, Private Stringer and Private Medford, arrive at Fort Laramie as transfers. Captain Clance must decide whether to trust these men with military duties, including access to weapons and ammunition being unloaded at the fort.

Fort Laramie and surrounding military installations, 1956

Characters: Captain Clance, Private Stringer, Private Medford, Corporal Benjamin, Sergeant, Lieutenant, Major, Station Master

Listen for: The captain's concerns about assigning prisoners to duties involving weapons and ammunition, and questions about Medford's background in Confederate military prisons.

Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.