Fort Laramie — 1956
40 episodes broadcast in 1956.
White outlaws slaughter a homestead family and dress the killings up as an Arapaho raid, so Quince sets a trap to expose the horse thieves behind it.
Quince rides to the reservation and presses an old ally, Chief Wild Dog, to name the white gunrunner supplying Yellow Knife with repeating rifles.
With the Arapaho starving off the reservation after broken government promises, a squaw man warns Quince they may strike a wagon train bound for Silver Springs.
A newly widowed homesteader refuses to abandon her husband's prairie grave, though the cavalry knows a woman alone out there is easy prey.
Bored stiff by garrison routine, Private Soothey cooks up a plan to stir up the Cheyenne -- and gets more trouble than he bargained for.
The widow of an officer killed by the Cheyenne years before comes west to reclaim his body and nearly ignites a fresh Indian war.
Back late and short both men and horses after an ambush, young Lieutenant Seiberts is drawn into a battle of wits with the raider Squaw Dog.
Wounded and pursued by the Arapaho, Quince takes shelter with a cantankerous old woman, Hattie Pelfrey, who once saved his life.
Quince gambles on swapping a captured Sioux chief to free two white women seized in a wagon-train massacre, and nearly pulls it off.
Lieutenant Wendt arrives at Fort Laramie under an unjust charge of cowardice and has to live it down.
The uncompromising Major Barlow, who would handle the Indians as harshly as Custer, brings his hard line to the post.
During the fort's ball a stranded mother and her giggling daughter arrive by crippled stagecoach, just as the prisoner Yellow Horse threatens to break out of the stockade.
A drifter who once wore the uniform but was never really a soldier signs up again for a peculiar reason, unsettling a veteran sergeant enough to request a transfer.
A dying Red Horse asks for his son, but the young brave Snowfoot will not be brought in to live on the reservation.
On patrol, Lieutenant Seiberts saves a snakebitten Indian girl -- Spotted Tail's daughter -- and confronts how far apart the two worlds still stand.
A New York newspaperman comes west set on reporting the "truth" about the frontier and seeing the "real" West for himself.
Gold-seekers push along the Bozeman Trail deep into tribal land, trampling the treaty as they go. (Also logged as "Black Hills Gold.")
With the post in his hands, Quince finds himself midwife to Stella Merchant's early baby, Sergeant Gorse pressed into service alongside him.
A trooper's stubborn devotion to his old, lame horse puts the whole troop in danger when the Indians attack.
A boy named Jed survives the massacre at a sabotaged train wreck and later takes up the uniform himself.
A soldier turns "snowbird," deserting the post once the spring thaw sets in.
Quince devises an odd scheme to steady the diffident young Lieutenant Seiberts into a real officer.
A trooper's new bride -- a schoolteacher convinced that books matter more than guns -- learns the frontier's hard lessons firsthand.
A medicine-show hawker and a Shakespearean actor enlist to keep from starving, and find out what soldiering really costs.
A trooper named Patchen, a figure out of Quince's past, joins the troop and brings his old trouble with him.
Spotted Tail -- the Sioux chief who signed away his people's land for peace -- prepares at last to leave the reservation behind.
Quince is ordered to escort the eccentric Quirings -- bird-watchers Horace and Winifred -- across dangerous country.
A fanatical army major turns his guns on the peaceable Shoshone.
Indian agent Jim Lack braces for an uprising, and he has a very good reason to expect one.
Quince finally works up the nerve to propose to Miss Willa.
Fifty-nine men are laid low by scurvy with no fresh food to be had for miles, and the post's chaplain must find an answer.
The irascible old Hattie Pelfrey, feeling poorly, turns up at Fort Laramie to visit the man she calls her son -- Captain Quince.
Quince crosses paths with Jake Cuppy, a buffalo hunter, in a tale that spares no detail of the skinning trade.
The paymaster is four months overdue, and trouble rides in with him when he finally arrives.
The widowed Mrs. Dennis clings to her prairie homestead while the garrison takes up a collection to send her home. (A repeat of the February 12 broadcast.)
Sent into the Black Hills to bring Sitting Bull to a parley, Quince discovers a white man is stirring up the Sioux.
An unrepentant ex-Confederate -- taken prisoner in his grey and shipped west in a blue Union uniform -- carries his open hatred of Yankees into Company B.
Mrs. Feemster and her "Committee on Moral Improvement" descend on the fort and get the beer abolished.
Charlie, a horse-thieving Crow scout still carrying four slugs in one leg, throws in with the troop.
Widowed after thirty years of following the flag, Major Hale's wife Jessie stays on at the post to steady a young newlywed, Mrs. Winton.
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Other seasons: 1955 ·