Spotted Tails Return: Fort Laramie (July 22, 1956)

“Spotted Tails Return” is an episode of Fort Laramie, the old-time radio show, first broadcast July 22, 1956. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Army scouts discover that Spotted Tail, a respected Sioux leader, has moved his tribe off the reservation, and Captain Quince prepares to track him down to learn the reason for this unexpected departure.

Fort Laramie and the surrounding Black Hills region in the 1880s

Characters: Captain Quince, Mr. Sybitz, Sergeant Gorse, Major Daggett, Spotted Tail, Fleet Bear

Listen for: The tension between military duty and respect for the aging Spotted Tail, and the mystery of why he has abandoned the reservation.

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.