The Return of Hattie Pelfrey: Fort Laramie (September 2, 1956)

“The Return of Hattie Pelfrey” is an episode of Fort Laramie, the old-time radio show, first broadcast September 2, 1956. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Captain Leekwind travels with Sergeant Harrison to deliver earrings he promised long ago to Hattie Pelfrey, a cantankerous old woman who once saved their lives in her remote cabin in Rapahoe country. As they approach her isolated homestead, they find the door open and call out for her, but receive no response.

Fort Laramie and the surrounding frontier territory, including Hattie Pelfrey's cabin five miles east of the fort in Rapahoe country

Characters: Captain Leekwind, Sergeant Harrison, Mr. Saibitz, Hattie Pelfrey

Listen for: The mysterious absence of Hattie Pelfrey and what the Captain and Sergeant discover at her cabin

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.