The Woman at Horse Creek: Fort Laramie (September 23, 1956)

“The Woman at Horse Creek” is an episode of Fort Laramie, the old-time radio show, first broadcast September 23, 1956. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

A cavalry patrol discovers a woman at Horse Creek who has been nursing her dying husband through gangrene and a broken leg. When the soldiers offer to bury him and take her to the safety of Fort Laramie, she refuses to leave, determined to stay on the homestead despite her desperate circumstances.

Horse Creek in the frontier territory near Fort Laramie, at a remote homestead where a cavalry patrol stops during their march.

Characters: Captain, Sergeant, Mrs. Dennis, Luther (her husband), Flint, Dorsen, Gors, Polaney

Listen for: The tragic story of Mrs. Dennis's hardship on the frontier and the soldiers' attempt to persuade her to abandon her claim and seek safety at the fort.

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.