Fort Laramie Fort Laramie starred Raymond Burr as cavalry captain Lee Quince, and aspired to be a realistic chronicle of military life on the frontier at Fort Laramie, Wyoming Territory, circa 1875. The show was directed by Norman Mcdonnell, who brought his sound crew with him from Gunsmoke. Most of the excellent scripts were written by the versatile Kathleen Hite, who also wrote for Escape and other popular shows. Fort Laramie was short-lived, airing only from January through October of 1956. CBS decided not to renew it after Raymond Burr began his TV role as Perry Mason. Fort Laramie was located at the Crossroads of a Nation Moving West. In 1834, where the Cheyenne and Arapaho traveled, traded and hunted, a fur trading post was created. Though it was not a military fort at first, it was called Fort William and soon became known as a place of safety, as settlers moved across the continent. By the 1840s, wagon trains rested and re-supplied here, bound for Oregon, California, and Utah. In 1841, Fort John was constructed, replacing the original wooden stockade of Fort William. Constructed of adobe brick, Fort John stood on a bluff overlooking the Laramie River. It was named for John Sarpy, a partner in the American Fur Company, but was more commonly called Fort Laramie by employees and travelers. Fort Laramie, the military post, was founded in 1849 when the army purchased the old Fort John for $4000, and began to build a military outpost along the Oregon Trail. For many years, the Plains Indians and the travelers along the Oregon Trail had coexisted peacefully. As the numbers of emigrants increased, however, tensions between the two cultures began to develop. A Small Beginning - 09/30/1956 Army Wife - 10/28/1956 Assemlby Line - 08/12/1956 Audition - 07/25/1955 Beasley Girls - 03/18/1956 Boredom - 02/19/1956 Buffalo Hunters - 09/09/1956 Captains Widow - 02/26/1956 Capture - 04/29/1956 Coward - 03/25/1956 Don't kick My Horse - 06/03/1956 Galvanized Yankee - 06/03/1956 Gold - 05/20/1956 Gooodbye Willa - 08/19/1956 Hattie Pelfrey - 03/11/1956 Indian Scout - 10/21/1956 Lost Child - 04/01/1956 Loving Cup - 06/24/1956 Massacre - 08/05/1956 Nature Boy - 07/29/1956 Never the Twain - 05/06/1956 New Recruit - 04/22/1956 Old Enemy - 07/15/1956 Payroll - 09/16/1956 Playing Indian - 01/22/1956 Return of Hattie Pelfrey - 09/02/1956 Sergeants Baby - 05/27/1956 Spotted Tails Return - 07/22/1956 Squaw Man - 02/05/1956 Stage Coach Stop - 04/15/1956 Still Waters - 10/14/1956 The Chaplain - 08/26/1956 Talented Recruits - 07/08/1956 Troopers Widow - 07/01/1956 The Shavetail - 03/04/1956 War Correspondents - 05/13/1956 Winter Soldier - 06/17/1956 Woman at Horse Creek - 02/12/1956 Young Trooper - 06/10/1956 Copy and paste link into Itunes, Juice or other podcast aggregator. RSS feed - http://www.botar.us/fortlaramie.xml or, if you are new to podcasting goto ipodder. In 1868 Cheyenne and Sioux chiefs (left to right: Spotted Tail,Roman Nose, Old-Man-Afraid-of-His-Horses, Lone Horn,Whistling Elk, Pipe, and Slow Bull) met at Fort Laramie with peace commissioners to negotiate closing the Bozeman Trail and creating the great Sioux Reservation. To explore and or download more Old Time Radio shows click on the banner below Click on the banner below, if you desire to subcribe to our main Old Time Radio RSS feed containing thousands of hours of listening pleasure. Copy and paste link into Itunes, Juice or other podcast aggregator. RSS feed - http://www.botar.us/botr.xml or, if you are new to podcasting goto ipodder. Matchmaking Services