Hunter Doohan

            On Wednesday after midnight I put some fresh carpet tape at the foot of my mattress because that area loses its stickiness sooner maybe due to fabric fibres coming off onto the tape. I lint-rolled the curtain between my bedroom and the living room, the bed, and my pillow. There were quite a few bedbugs on the curtains as usual. I shook out my sheet and my comforter on the deck and went to bed around 1:48. I got up to pee at 3:03 and slept until 5:00. 

            I definitely have my first cold in three years now. I’m sniffling, sneezing, and coughing. The furnace still hasn’t been turned on. It’s probably just a matter of switching the breaker and I’d do that myself if I had access to the basement. 

            I think I found the missing page of the piece I wrote 25 years ago about the night my open stage got kicked out of the Gladstone Hotel and moved to the Drake and the bizarre night of anger at me that unfolded during the readings. On Thursday I’ll begin transcribing it into digital format and then begin making it more poetic. 

            I looked for more chords for “Elle voulait toucher du pognon” (She Wanted a Little Money) by Boris Vian but there are no more than the set I found. I worked them out for the instrumental intro and tomorrow I’ll find out if the chords I transcribed for the verses fit. 

            I memorized the second verse of “L’île enchanteresses” (The Enchanted Isle) by Serge Gainsbourg and revised my translation of the first verse. 

            I weighed 90.8 kilos before breakfast. 

            I played my Martin during song practice for the last of two sessions and it went out of tune all the time. 

            I weighed 91.95 kilos before lunch. I had peanut butter and five-year-old cheddar on saltines with a glass of lemonade. 

            I weighed 91.45 kilos at 18:30. I was still two days behind in my journal and worked on catching up. 

            I made pizza on a slice of multigrain sandwich bread with marinara, tomato pesto, Montreal smoked meat, and five-year-old cheddar. I had it with a glass of Creemore lager while watching the second season finale of Wednesday on Discord with my daughter Astrid. 

            Pugsley has been taken by Isaac Night. Wednesday’s spirit guide, the late Principal Weems suggests that the three Ravens in the Addams family must pool their psychic abilities to locate Pugsley. Morticia asks her mother to join them. Wednesday and Grandmama reluctantly join hands with Morticia. Wednesday has a vision of her young parents Morticia and Gomez burying the dead body of Isaac under the skull tree. She confronts her mother, who tells her that Gomez used to have electrical powers like Uncle Fester and Pugsley. Isaac convinced him to be hooked up to Isaac’s power extracting machine to give some of his spark to Francoise to cure her of being a Hyde monster and dying because of that affliction. But once strapped in the machine Gomez was drained all of his power and it would have also killed him if Morticia not sabotaged the machine. The machine exploded and Isaac died. So as not to be charged with murder they buried Isaac’s body. 

           Wednesday now realizes that Isaac plans to try again this time with Pugsley. 

           Isaac forces Eugene to deliver Wednesday a snow globe with a model of the skull tree inside and a message on the bottom of “midnight”. 

           Wednesday sets up Thing with a crossbow to shoot Isaac but he catches to bolt with his right hand. Tyler captures Thing in a clear box. Isaac removes his glove to reveal that he has no right hand. Wednesday realizes that “Thing” is an anagram for “Night”. It is revealed that on the night Isaac died, Morticia caused the explosion by cutting off Isaac’s right hand with an axe. Isaac removes Thing from the box and on contact regains his telekinetic abilities, which he uses to stitch Thing back onto his arm to once again become his right hand. 

            Isaac levitates Wednesday into a grave at the foot of the Skull Tree, manipulates roots to bind her and then buries her. Isaac, Francoise, and Tyler leave for Iago Tower, while Agnes, who has been watching the whole thing becomes visible. She goes to tell Enid, who has locked herself in a Lupin cell so she does not permanently transform into an Alpha werewolf. Enid comes to Wednesday’s grave with Agnes but the two don’t have the strength to dig Wednesday out before she suffocates. Enid has no choice but to transform into an Alpha and digs Wednesday out. After a few tense moments Wednesday finally opens her eyes and says she enjoyed being buried alive. Enid runs away and Wednesday tells Agnes to track her. Gomez and Morticia arrive. They head for Iago Tower but Morticia sends Gomez to get the police. 

            Isaac and his family return to Iago Tower and Isaac uses his power to restore the lab. Pugley is strapped to the machine and sinister headpiece is placed over him. At Francoise’ request Isaac straps Tyler down against his will instead of her. She explains to her son that it’s too late for her but he can still be cured even though he doesn’t want to be. The machine is started to extract Pugsley’s power. Wednesday arrives with an axe and cuts Tyler free, then she frees Pugsley. Tyler transforms into a Hyde and attacks Isaac. Francoise also changes and the two monsters fight. Wednesday tries to sever Thing from Isaac’s arm with the axe but the machine explodes. Francoise is knocked from the tower but hangs onto a ledge. As Tyler tries to save her she deliberately lets go and falls to be impaled on the statue of a werewolf. 

            Isaac recovers and begins choking Wednesday but Thing begins to resist and then attack Isaac. He reaches for Isaac’s clockwork heart and pulls it out of his chest, killing him. Then Thing breaks free of Isaac’s arm to become independent again. 

            Later Agnes tells Wednesday that she’s tracked Enid north to near the Canadian border. 

            Tyler visits his parents’ graves and is approached by Professor Capri, who reveals that her father was a Hyde. She says she is forming a support group for Hydes. Male Hydes without masters die but she thinks that creating a pack relationship for Hydes will circumvent the need for a master. 

            The Addamses are leaving Nevermore for home but Wednesday says she’s not going with them. Morticia gives Wednesday her Aunt Ophelia’s journal. Fester arrives on a motorbike with a side car, which Wednesday and Thing enter. She tells Fester they are going after Enid. 

            We see Enid in her Alpha werewolf form trembling alone in the woods. 

            Grandmama returns home to find her daughter Ophelia there, writing on the wall with her own blood, “Wednesday must die”. 

            Tyler is played by Hunter Doohan, who became interested in acting in high school. After graduating he moved to LA to study acting and audition. He made his film debut in Hot Pursuit in 2012. He made his TV debut in The Other Client List in 2015. He co-starred in the TV series Your Honour. He starred in the film The Wilderness. He co-starred in Evil Dead Burn.

October 9, 1996: I did some writing and later performed

Thirty years ago today 

            On Wednesday I did some writing. In the early evening I performed on the Fat Albert’s open stage and later went to the Art Bar reading series to perform there.

Robert Loggia

            On Tuesday after midnight I added fresh carpet tape to the areas around my mattress where it had become less sticky. I lint rolled the curtains between the bedroom and the living room, the top of my bed, and the pillow. There were quite a few on the curtains as they love the top. There were a couple on the bed. I shook out my sheet and my comforter on the deck and went to bed around 1:38 with the temperature outside at 7 degrees and still no heat. I was okay under my comforter. I got up to pee around 3:00 and again at around 4:00. 

            When I got up it was 4 degrees outside and it went down to 3 degrees. It might be just a matter of switching the breaker on the furnace but I don’t have access to the basement. Years ago when Coffeetime was downstairs one could go behind the counter and enter the basement but now there’s a separate locked small commercial space that’s been waiting to be rented for the last few years with no takers. I’m getting the sniffles from the cold. 

            After yoga there were quite a few bedbugs caught on the carpet tape and a couple crawling free on the walls. 

            I searched again for the missing first page of a piece I wrote 25 years ago and I think I found the handwritten first page but there’s still text missing between that and the typewritten second page of the document. I’ll keep looking on Wednesday. 

            I found two very slightly different sets of chords for “Elle voulait toucher du pognon” (She Wanted a Little Money) by Boris Vian. I transcribed those and tomorrow I’ll keep looking. 

            I weighed 91.65 kilos before breakfast. 

            I played my Martin during song practice for the first of two sessions and it went out of tune all the time. 

            I scrubbed some disassembled parts of the drawer of my daughter’s old desk in the grooves where the bottom slips in. It’s clear that there have been bedbug nests there but I think the black spots are from the first infestation 25 years ago. I scrubbed them with hot water just in case. 

            I weighed 92 kilos before lunch. 

            In the afternoon I took a bike ride downtown and back. 

            I weighed 91.4 kilos at 18:00. 

            I was still two days behind in my journal and worked on catching up. 

            I grilled three chicken legs and had one with a potato and gravy while watching episode 7 of the TV series Custer. 

            Custer and the 7th Cavalry are on their way to meet with the Arapaho to possibly make peace when they are ambushed by Sioux who don’t want that to happen. The Sioux would lose an important ally if the Arapaho withdraw from the plains war. They fight them off but the question is how did the Sioux know he was heading for Arapaho country unless someone betrayed that information to them? Their scout California Joe has enlisted the help of another scout named Auguste Grulé who knows this area better than him. Grulé says he rides with the cavalry because the Sioux murdered his family.

            A young Lieutenant Cox confesses to Custer that he finds it difficult to be commanded by Lieutenant Moreno because he’s unfriendly, solitary, and foreign. Custer reminds him that he’s a junior officer and shouldn’t be questioning the orders of a superior. 

           When they make camp, a lone arrow is shot at Custer but misses. How the archer got past the sentry raises suspicions of there being a spy among them. Cox starts to raise Moreno’s name as a possibility amongst the men. He says Moreno wasn’t there when the Sioux attacked earlier and said he was out looking for signs. Cox goes through Moreno’s saddle bag and discovers that he’s Kiowa.

            Suddenly there is an attack by a small pack of Sioux warriors who penetrated their position. Cox says they got through while Moreno was checking the guard. Cox tells Custer that Moreno is Kiowa, who are allied with the Sioux. Custer tells Cox, “Now you’ve just accused me of incompetence!” He says it’s his business to know the background and record of every officer in his command. He tells Cox that he knows he was 38th in his class at West Point while Moreno was 4th in his. Cox has served less than six months while Moreno has served ten years with high competence. Cox has seen no action while Moreno has been twice decorated for bravery beyond the call of duty. The fact that Moreno is Kiowa and the skills he has brought from that background have been an asset to the cavalry. Custer tells Cox that unless he has evidence to present against Moreno he should refrain from making insinuations. 

            The next day Grulé tells Custer that someone is dropping things as they travel to make a trail for the Sioux to follow. One of those items was Moreno’s canteen. Later when they stop for a rest Cox approaches Moreno and asks if he’s looking for signs or making them. Moreno has had enough and throws the first punch. Custer breaks it up and Moreno admits to striking the first blow then apologizes.

            A large war party of Sioux appears and Crazy Horse rides forward to talk with Custer. He warns Custer to turn back or die but Custer says he’s going through to make peace with the Arapaho. 

            Cox sees Moreno go out into the trees and follows him. A knife is thrown and Cox is killed. Sergeant Bustard tells Custer that Cox followed Moreno when he saw him sneak out in the dark. Custer reminds Bustard that he’s guilty of mutiny if he accuses an officer of a crime without cause. He says Moreno was scouting on his orders. 

            Joe tells Custer he thinks he’s making a mistake to trust Moreno. He thinks as a Kiowa he was born with a reason to betray them. Custer argues that the uniform means something to both him and Moreno that is thicker than blood. Moreno says when he first put the uniform on he thought it would bring him justice, equality, and honour. “But I’m still an Indian and not quite human. Maybe I should go out and join them. Perhaps theirs is the just cause after all.” 

            There is a buzzing sound coming from Moreno’s saddlebag and in it they find Lieutenant Cox’s watch. Bustard punches Moreno. 

            Custer takes from his dispatch case the Arapaho treaty. He shows it to the men and says he’s placing it in plain sight. 

            They are surrounded by Sioux. After exchanging fire for a while Custer sees that the dispatch case is gone. Grulé is seen walking away. Custer calls to him, Grulé spins and draws his gun but Custer shoots him. Before he dies he tells Custer that it wasn’t the Sioux that killed his wife and children, but white men. 

            Moreno says the best way to escape is to fight like Kiowa. He tells Custer that a Kiowa usually steals his first horse from the Sioux. He suggests that Bustard takes seven men to slowly make their way through the pass while he and Custer play a Kiowa game. The seven soldiers form a skirmish line and charge forward as Crazy Horse calls to attack. As the two sides charge towards each other, suddenly Custer and Moreno pop up beside the Sioux and begin firing. Custer is wounded and Moreno is out of ammunition. Crazy Horse charges and Moreno stands to protect Custer but is fatally wounded by Crazy Horse’s lance. Custer wounds Crazy Horse but his men carry him safely away. 

            They bury Moreno. Bustard wishes he’d had a chance to apologize. Custer tells him to just make things right with the other Morenos he encounters. 

            Moreno was played by Robert Loggia, who earned a Bachelors degree in Journalism before turning to acting. He trained under Stella Adler at the Actors Studio while doing stage work. He made his Broadway debut in The Man with the Golden Arm in 1955. He made his film debut in Somebody Up There Likes Me in 1956. He made his TV debut on Studio One in 1956. He co-starred in Cattle King, Che, Trail of the Pink Panther, Psycho II, Curse of the Pink Panther, Armed and Dangerous, Hot Pursuit, The Believers, Gaby, Relentless, Gladiator, Lifepod, The Last Tattoo, The Proposition, Holy Man, Flypaper, American Virgin, The Shipment, The Deal, Rain, Forget About It, The Diary of Preston Plummer, An Evergreen Christmas, No Deposit, Sicilian Vampire, The Red Maple Leaf, Jagged Edge (for which he was Oscar nominated), Big, Prizzi’s Honour, Over the Top, Necessary Roughness, Oliver and Company, Innocent Blood, Independence Day, The Don’s Analyst, He starred in Cop Hater, The Lost Missile, The Apostle Peter, He starred in the series T.H.E. Cat, Mancuso F.B.I. (for which he was Emmy nominated), He co-starred in the mini-series Wild Palms, He directed episodes of Quincy, Magnum, and Hart to Hart.

October 8, 1996: Bomb Shelter Light with poetry by Mike Bakker was our feature

Thirty years ago today

           On Tuesday at 13:00 I had an appointment with the dentist and he did some fillings. That night I hosted as always my Orgasmic Alphabet Orgy writers open stage and the feature that night was the three man band Bomb Shelter Light featuring the poetry of Mike Bakker or Mikey B. The guitarist’s name was Maurice.

Grant Woods

            On Monday after midnight I lint rolled the curtains between the bedroom and the living room and a few bedbugs got grabbed. I also picked some up from my bed and my pillow. I shook out my sheet and comforter on the deck and went to bed at 1:32. I woke up at 4:40 and went to pee then I went back to bed and half slept until 5:00. After yoga I found quite a few baby bedbugs stuck to the carpet tape around my mattress and on the floor. 

            I didn’t do my usual work on Boris Vian and Serge Gainsbourg songs because I was trying to find the missing page or pages of a prose piece I wrote more than 25 years ago about the night my open stage got kicked out of the Gladstone Hotel and we got a temporary home in the basement of the Drake Hotel where Brian Haddon physically attacked me for reasons I’m still not sure of and my co-host Raven walked out and never returned to the Orgasmic Alphabet Orgy. I have two pages of text and I assume the first page is the only one missing. I went through an old document that talks about the event in question but it’s not the piece I’m looking for. I assume that it had been a file on one of my computers but maybe it got lost in a crash years ago. I went through my hard copies of texts over the last couple of days and found the second page I’ll check on my SSD tomorrow to see if there are any documents I moved there that aren’t on my current hard drive. If there’s nothing there then I’ll just copy out the two pages that I have and try to make something out of those. 

            I weighed 90.8 kilos before breakfast. 

            I played my Kramer during song practice for the last of two sessions and it stayed in tune most of the time. 

            Last week they put plywood over the windows of the closed Dollarama and almost immediately it was covered in graffiti. Today the graffiti was painted over but I wonder why. The building is going to be torn down and the graffiti looked better than the plywood anyway. 

            I lint rolled the curtains between the bedroom and the living room, the top of my bed and the pillow. There are always some bedbugs on the curtains. 

            I weighed 91.7 kilos before lunch. 

            I emailed the landlord again about the heat not working but there was still no response. Later I added that the temperature was forecast to go to zero over night and the landlady responded “The heat is on, regards”. She’s in Burlington for fuck sake! Why would she think she knows better? 

            In the afternoon I took a bike ride downtown and back. 

            I weighed 91.5 kilos at 18:10. 

            I was still two days behind in my journal and worked on catching up. 

            I had a potato with gravy and the last half of the salmon fillet while watching episode 6 of the TV series Custer. 

            While hunting a grizzly in the mountains with California Joe and Lieutenant Keogh, Custer shot sets off an avalanche. He takes shelter under an overhang. Joe and Keogh go to dig him out but they are in Blackfoot country and they see some Blackfoot warriors. Joe calls them "Blackfeet" but that’s incorrect because the plural of Blackfoot is "Blackfoot". However it’s quite common in the United States just as they still use the word “Eskimo” for the Inuit. The US is often developmentally challenged as far as names are concerned.

            Joe and Keogh have to leave because it’s too dangerous to stay. They head back to Fort Hays but we see that the Blackfoot have a prisoner and it’s the Sioux Chief Crazy Horse. They ride past the place where Custer is hiding and he sees who their prisoner is. He follows them to their camp and sees Crazy Horse standing and tied up. He tries to free him but he is captured and tied up beside Crazy Horse. Custer tells him he tried to free him so he could use him as a passport through Sioux country back to Fort Hays. Two young Sioux are guarding them and Custer taunts one of them into freeing him to prove they can fight. But Custer disarms him, frees Crazy Horse and they escape. With the Blackfoot in pursuit they take shelter in a cave. 

            Back at Fort Hays, Custer is presumed dead. 

            Meanwhile in the cave Custer and Crazy Horse each consider the other their prisoner. They fight to a draw and Custer offers a truce until they cross the Rosebud River and are out of Blackfoot country. Crazy Horse accepts that. 

            At Fort Hays Keogh tells Joe they are going on patrol tomorrow and could arrange to get lost in Blackfoot country so they can search for Custer’s body. 

            Meanwhile Crazy Horse is not used to walking so much because a Sioux warrior now rides. He stole his first horse from a fur trader when he was 10 years old. Custer says he’s hungry and so Crazy Horse turns over a log to catch some worms. Crazy Horse has no problem eating them but when Custer tries he spits them out. Crazy Horse argues that white men eat raw oysters and frogs so he doesn’t understand his squeamishness about worms. 

            They stop to drink from a river but are captured by two renegade prospectors who aim to kill them. Crazy Horse and Custer overpower them, kill them and take their guns. Crazy Horse dumps their gold in the river. 

            As they make their way over a cliff Crazy Horse loses his footing and is hanging by a rock on the cliff face. Custer pulls him up by taking off his belt for Crazy Horse to grab. 

           They find some water dripping from a cliff but Custer stops Crazy Horse from drinking it. He smells it and says it’s got arsenic in it. Crazy Horse drinks it and says that his people have become immune to bitter water. This isn’t true. The Sioux are not resistant to arsenic. The only people in the world immune to arsenic are the Atacameño people of the Andes mountains. Crazy Horse says what he can’t get used to is being enslaved by the white man. Custer argues that they don’t want to enslave his people. He says they can live in peace. Crazy Horse points out that the white man continuously fights wars and takes the lands of the Sioux. Custer says the Sioux came west from Minnesota and drove out the Crow, the Cree, the Cheyenne, and other nations. Custer claims the white man is just doing now what the Sioux did to others. But the Sioux moved west because of their war with the Ojibway which was influenced by the fur trade with white people. 

           They arrive at the Rosebud River and swim across. But Crazy Horse gets to the other side first and has already united with his warriors who surround Custer. Custer dives back into the river and Crazy Horse follows. But Custer uses a reed to breathe underwater and Crazy Horse can’t find him.

            Meanwhile Keogh’s patrol has made camp. Custer sneaks up on a guard and reprimands him for sleeping. The men are ordered to move out as they go after Crazy Horse. Crazy Horse’s men are waiting and the two groups fight. Crazy Horse knocks Custer from his horse and they engage in hand to hand combat. Then they are separated when a Sioux attacks Custer and a soldier attacks Crazy Horse. They each kill their adversaries but when Custer stands up Crazy Horse is gone. Custer mounts up and as they are riding out he sees Crazy Horse on a hill. They wave to each other. 

            Miles Keogh was played by Grant Woods who went to Hollywood after serving in the US Navy. He worked as a stuntman. He played Lieutenant Kelowitz in three episodes of Star Trek: This Side of Paradise, Arena, and The Galileo Seven. He died in a motorcycle accident a year after this episode aired.

October 7, 1996: Contact lenses felt like broken glass in my eyes

Thirty years ago today

            On Monday I had an appointment with the optometrist and got a new prescription for glasses. My eyesight still hadn’t changed much over the years. I was still slightly near sighted and needed glasses to get a driver’s license or to focus my camera. I was considering getting contacts and so the eye doctor put some in my eyes to see how it felt but it was horrible, like having broken glass in my eyes. I went to Hakim Optical and ordered a pair of round wire rimmed lenses.

Arthur Franz

            On Sunday after midnight I added fresh carpet tape to the edges of my mattress where it had gotten less sticky. I lint rolled the curtain between the bedroom and the living room and picked up quite a few bedbugs. I lint-rolled the top of my bed and found one but there were none on the pillow. I shook out my sheet and my comforter on the deck and went to bed around 1:30. 

            I got up at 5:00 and after yoga I finished revising my translation of “Elle voulait toucher du pognon” (She Wanted a Little Money) by Boris Vian. On Monday I’ll start working out the chords. 

            I weighed 90.4 kilos before breakfast, which is the lightest I’ve been in the morning since September 19. 

            I played my Kramer during song practice for the first of two sessions and it stayed in tune most of the time. 

            I cleared some more stuff out of the storage shelf in the bedroom. My biggest Rubbermaid storage container has a lot of stuff in it that I can probably get rid of and then use it for other things I want to keep. 

            I weighed 91.95 kilos before lunch. I had peanut butter and five-year-old cheddar on saltines with a glass of lemonade. 

            I sent an email to the landlord that the thermostat says the heat is on but it isn’t. 

            In the afternoon I took a bike ride downtown and back. 

            I weighed 90.85 kilos at 18:45. September 5 was the last evening when I was so kind to the scale. 

            I was still two days behind in my journal and worked on catching up. 

            I made pizza on a slice of 7 grain sandwich bread with marinara, tomato pesto, the last of the ham, and five-year-old cheddar. I had it with a glass of Creemore lager while watching episode 5 of the TV series Custer. 

            Custer arrives at a telegraph station and picks up his orders from General Terry. Washington has put their man Benton Conant in charge of operation 763. The telegraph operator asks Custer if his long hair is a bother. Custer says he’s waiting for Crazy Horse to cut it since he promised to do it for nothing.

            A train arrives with Conant on board and several large crates, which Custer’s men have to unload from the train and put on wagons. Conant sends a telegram that reads, “Taking overland trail to medicine creek and western end of track”. 

            After the soldiers and Conant head for the trail, a Sioux warrior named Grey Fox who has been spying at the station enters the telegraph office, kills the operator, and reads Conant’s telegram indicating the route. 

            At the first rest, Custer clashes with Conant. He’d told his men not to light fires so as not to draw attention from the Sioux in their territory, but Conant tried to make coffee. Custer kicks out the fire. Custer tells Conant that although he is in command of the mission he doesn’t have the right to put his men in danger. 

            Grey Fox arrives at Crazy Horse’s camp to inform him that the soldiers have changed their route and that they should attack now. Crazy Horse does not want to lose warriors in such a battle. Grey Fox tells him that what’s in those crates is worth the sacrifice. Crazy Horse points out that Grey Fox is a white man and only Sioux by marriage so he asks why he should trust him. Grey Fox reminds Crazy Horse that he’s proved his right to be trusted 100 times over the last 10 years. Crazy Horse says they will attack but not yet. 

            The wagon carrying the boxes gets stuck in rough terrain and so Custer orders it unloaded. One of the crates gets dropped and breaks open, revealing that they are not carrying ammunition but $2 million in gold. Conant wants to keep it a secret but Custer informs his men that they are guarding gold and that it’s part of the money the US is paying Russia for the purchase of Alaska. 

            Custer informs Conant that he’s taking full command of the mission and he can complain about that to General Terry after the mission has been completed. 

            They see a man on horseback being pursued by Crazy Horse. Custer and his men come to his defence and drive Crazy Horse away. The man they rescued is Grey Fox, now in white man’s clothing and saying his name is Bludsoe. Custer invites him to travel with them. He warns Custer that the Overland Trail they plan on taking is too dangerous because of Crazy Horse and about 100 warriors. So Custer changes the route north through Lost Canyon. 

            On the way, Grey Fox uses a mirror to flash a signal to Crazy Horse, indicating the change of route. 

            That night Grey Fox has a secret meeting with Conant as it turns out they are in league. 

            They make it through the canyon but then Crazy Horse kills one of the soldiers with an arrow and then disappears. They don’t see any Sioux but according to Bludsoe they are outnumbered. Custer decides to hold up and send somebody back to Fort Hays for help. Bludsoe volunteers and asks California Joe to join him. They head out but Grey Fox knocks Joe out and the Sioux take him prisoner. Grey Fox comes back to Custer to say they got ambushed by the Sioux. 

            Crazy Horse has Joe tied up and tells Custer to surrender himself and the wagons or Joe will die. He gives Custer until the moon goes down to decide. 

            Custer tells Trooper Cassidy he’s going to ask him to risk his neck by sneaking out of camp.

            Custer takes Bludsoe with him to try to rescue Joe. As they crawl, Grey Fox tries to knife Custer from behind but he detects him, they struggle and then Grey Fox falls on his own knife. 

            From the distance Crazy Horse hears a cavalry bugle call the charge and the sound of gunfire. Crazy Horse and his men head in the direction of the bugle except for three guarding Joe. California kicks one of them as Custer takes on the others and then unties Joe. 

            Crazy Horse realizes he’s been tricked and says he’ll attack at sunrise. 

            Custer tells Bustard to break out the powder. The men pour out trails of gunpowder and plant the kegs in various positions. Conant tries to set off one of the kegs to warn Crazy Horse but Custer stops him. They fight but Custer wins. Conant admits he was in league with Grey Fox and Crazy Horse. The Sioux would get half the gold and Conant the other half. 

            They are surrounded by Sioux, who attack. Custer sets off the fuses and the powder kegs blow up just as the Sioux are on top of them. That plus firing their guns causes Crazy Horse to retreat. During the battle Conant took an arrow in the heart. 

            Custer delivers the gold. 

            Grey Fox was played by Arthur Franz, who during WWII served in the US Army Air Forces as a navigator. He was shot down over Romania and captured to be placed in a POW camp. He escaped. He retired with the rank of major. he made his screen debut in Jungle Patrol in 1948. He co-starred in Tarnished, Eight Iron Men, Invaders From Mars, Sands of Iwo Jima, Flight to Mars, The Steel Cage, Battle Taxi, Bobby Ware is Missing, Beyond a Reasonable Doubt, Running Target, The Wild Party, Back From the Dead, and Hellcats of the Navy. He starred in Red Stallion in the Rockies, Monster On the Campus, The Sniper, New Orleans Uncensored, The Flame Barrier, The Atomic Submarine, and Sisters of Death.