Western Drama (1956)
 Producer Norman Macdonnell saw Fort Laramie
as "a monument to ordinary men who lived in extraordinary
times": their enemies were "the rugged,
uncharted country, the heat, the cold, disease, boredom,
and perhaps last of all, hostile Indians." Men
died at Fort Laramie: some died of drowning, some
of freezing, some of typhoid and smallpox. "But
it's a matter of record," Macdonnell said on the
opening, "that in all the years the cavalry was
stationed at Fort Laramie, only four troopers died
of gunshot wounds." This series was far less
intense, and far less known, than Macdonnell's major
western, Gunsmoke:
the stories focused as much on atmosphere and mood
as on violence and action. The star, Raymond Burr,
went from obscurity to national prominence a year
later, taking on the title role in TV's Perry Mason.
SOURCE:
The Encyclopedia of Old Time Radio, John Dunning
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