Squaw Man: Fort Laramie (February 5, 1956)

“Squaw Man” is an episode of Fort Laramie, the old-time radio show, first broadcast February 5, 1956. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Captain Lee Quince learns from Will Granby, a white man living among the Arapaho, that the tribe is starving because the government has failed to deliver promised food supplies to the agency. Granby warns that desperate Indians will be forced to seek food from wagon trains on the Oregon Trail. Quince must now escort a civilian wagon train through dangerous territory while trying to prevent a violent confrontation.

Fort Laramie and the surrounding frontier, with action moving toward the Oregon Trail and Arapaho territory

Characters: Captain Lee Quince, Sergeant Gossie, Will Granby, Mr. Brown, Emily, Major

Listen for: A tense negotiation between military duty and human compassion as Quince grapples with the moral implications of starving Indians and his orders to use whatever measures necessary to maintain order.

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.