Boxcars711 Overnight Western "Fort Laramie" - Boredom (02-09-56)

Boxcars711 Overnight Western "Fort Laramie" - Boredom (Aired February 19, 1956)

Gunsmoke had been running for almost four years when Norman Macdonnell brought Fort Laramie to CBS. The latter had the same gritty realism, attention to detail, and integrity that audiences admired in GUNSMOKE. Both Dodge City, Kansas and Fort Laramie, Wyoming were real, and significant, locations in our history of the Western Expansion. The original Fort Laramie, located on the eastern Wyoming prairie (about 100 miles from where the city of Laramie is now located) was an important fur trading post from 1834 to 1849. For the next forty years, it was a U.S. Army post. Located near the confluence of the North Platte and Laramie Rivers, this military post was in the heart of the homeland of the Sioux, Cheyenne, and Arapaho. From 1841 to 1849 the fur trade in that area continued to decline, but the fort was a major stop-over for wagon trains of settlers heading west, enroute to Oregon.

THIS EPISODE:

February 19, 1956. CBS network origination, AFRTS rebroadcast. "Boredom". Private Soothey is bored with garrison duty. He has a plan for getting a little action out of the Indians. The Cheyenne oblige. The program was recorded February 16, 1956 and is also known as, "Unknown Disease At Fort." Vivi Janis, Raymond Burr, Joe Cranston, Les Crutchfield (writer), Parley Baer, Sam Edwards, Jack Kruschen, Howard Culver. 30:16.  Episode Notes From The Radio Gold Index.