The Buffalo Hunters: Fort Laramie (September 9, 1956)

“The Buffalo Hunters” is an episode of Fort Laramie, the old-time radio show, first broadcast September 9, 1956. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Buffalo carcasses are found on reservation land with only the hump ribs removed, puzzling Captain Quince and his men. Investigation of wagon tracks and the method of killing suggests white buffalo hunters may be illegally operating on Indian territory, threatening to provoke conflict between the army and the tribes.

Fort Laramie outpost and the surrounding high plains reservation land near a buffalo hunting ground, five miles from an Indian agency

Characters: Captain Quince, Sergeant, Mr. Seibitz, Major, Jenkins, Soldier

Listen for: A tense investigation of mysterious buffalo kills that reveals evidence of professional white hunters operating illegally on reservation land, with hints of potential violence and troublemaking among the soldiers.

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.