Raymond Burr stars as the commanding officer of a rugged cavalry outpost in this first volume of Fort Laramie, a subtle and realistic dramatic series created, written, and produced by many of the same people who made the groundbreaking adult western Gunsmoke. Producer Norman Macdonnell said the series as a monument to ordinary men who lived in extraordinary times; their enemies "the rugged, uncharted country, the heat, the cold, disease, boredom, and, perhaps last of all, hostile Indians.