The run
- Network
- CBS
- Years active
- 1955–1956
- Surviving broadcasts
- 71
- Genre
- western
Fort Laramie opened with "Specially transcribed tales of the dark and tragic ground of the wild frontier. The saga of fighting men who rode the rim of empire and the dramatic story of Lee Quince, Captain of Cavalry". When Norman Macdonnell created Fort Laramie in late 1955, he made it clear to his writers that historical accuracy was esse
Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files
Source collection
Old Time Radio Researchers Group
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
8 dated broadcasts across 2 years on the air. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1955, in original transmission order.
- 1. Untitled Broadcast · 25 Jul 1955
- 2. Squaw Man · 5 Feb 1956
- 3. Frt L 1956-02-19 #005 Boredom · 19 Feb 1956
- 01
Untitled Broadcast
25 Jul 1955 · 30 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 25 July 1955. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
- 02
Squaw Man
5 Feb 1956 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 5 February 1956. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
- 03
Frt L 1956-02-19 #005 Boredom
19 Feb 1956 · 28 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 19 February 1956. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 04
Hattie Pelfrey
11 Mar 1956 · 29 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 11 March 1956. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
- 05
Frt L 1956-03-25 #010 The Coward
25 Mar 1956 · 27 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 25 March 1956. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 06
Quince's Capture
29 Apr 1956 · 30 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 29 April 1956. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
- 07
Black Hills Gold
20 May 1956 · 30 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 20 May 1956. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
- 08
Frt L 1956-06-03 #019 Don't Kick My Horse 1
3 Jun 1956 · 27 min
Originally broadcast on CBS, 3 June 1956. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Also on CBS
CBS in 1955–1956
Other series the network carried while Fort Laramie was on the air.
Same seasons
western on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
The adult western
Gunsmoke was sold as the first adult western: moral ambiguity, weather, silence. Serialised folk horror and long-form fiction inherited its patience.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
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Modern series carrying this form forward.
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