The Old West

Resources

Here is where you will find useful information, maps, and the like here. If you find anything useful, feel free to post it here!

Member Introductions

Here is where members can introduce themselves. Add as much or as little information as you would like!

Character Bios

Here is where you should introduce your characters! This should include basic information, and an image would be nice as well. You can put all of your characters in one post or multiple at your discretion. It is recomended that related characters stay in a topic together (i.e. Your cowboy and his horse should stay together on a topic, but your cowboy and your minor that have nothing to do with each other should be seperate)

Plotting and Searching

Have some ideas, or are looking for someone to partner up with? Come post here!

Herdlands

Herds of feral horses, large and small, roam across the vast prairieland. Here is where you can RP your wild horses or gather up a posse to round up some new mounts.

Canyon Diablo

Located in Arizona, Canyon Diablo has been aptly named. In 1890 a railroad bridge was built across the cast canyon, but before that one had to travel miles out of their way to cross safely. With the closest law enforcement 100 miles away, the town of Canyon Diablo is home to a mean lot. One street in particular, Hell Street, is home to fourteen saloons, ten gambling dens, and four brothels, and this place never closes.

Fort Smith

Located in western Arkansas, Fort Smith governs a good deal of western Arkansas and the Oklahoma Indian Tribe Lands. Originally built to keep peace between Native American tribes, as the tribelands were moved, Fort Smith was repurposed for the American-Mexico war and the Civil War. Now in times of peace, the fort has been repurposed yet again for civilian use and residence. The barracks became a courthouse and the basement became the infamous "hell-on-the-border: prison. Resources are spread thin and outlaws are getting away with all sorts of thieving and murder. Word is that some 200 federal marshals are coming to sweep the wilderness, though, joined by the "Hanging Judge," Issac C. Parker... Will justice prevail?

Calico Mountains

They say there's silver in those California hills, and borax not too far south. Life is going good for the miners and silver is selling for $500 per ton. Opportunities abound in the mines. The town is growing, boasting of a public school, dance halls, gambling mines, two dozen saloons, churches, and plenty of merchants peddling their goods.

Leadville, Colorado

The Cloud City, as it has been nicknamed, is quite the unique place. Boasting of being the highest settlement above sea level, Leadville has quite the sophisticated airs amidst the wilds of the west. Victorian architecture abounds the heart of the city, along with an Opera Theater, and on the outskirts lie cabins for the more quaint. Gold, silver, and lead mines dot the mountainside. Local's don't take well to violence. Two hanged men swing outside the jail, a warning to all prospective no-gooders.

Dodge City

Dodge City, Kansas, has quite the ill reputation. Known as the most wicked settlement in the West, Dodge City is still in such a location it is almost necessary to stop there on your way westward along the Santa Fe trail. Dodge City is called home by merchants, railroad workers, gunslingers, ex-soldiers, buffalo hunters, and drifters down on their luck, one is sure to never be bored and always be on their toes here.

Deadwood

A small metropolis located in the Black Hills of South Dakota, the Deadwood area was once home to the Cheyenne, Kiowa, Pawee, Sioux, and Lakota tribes. A treaty had forever set aside the lands as a sacred site to the Lakota, but when settlers decided they wanted the land and rumors of gold in the hills spread, the tribes were sent to reservations and their lands taken over. Deadwood was first founded as a mining camp, but quickly grew as the Homestead Mine brought in $100 million worth of gold ore. Saloons, gambling, and brothels popped up along the bustling, paved streets. Home to legends such as Wild Bill Hikock, Calamity Jane, and Jack "Broken Nose" McCall, Deadwood is home to the best of the best and the best of the worst.

Amarillo

Located in the Texas Panhandle, Amarillo was once settled by buffalo hunters, but the area was quickly taken over by ranchers with their herds of longhorns and sheep. Railroads were built to make travel easier on the ranchers, and Amarillo started out as a camp for the railway workers, though it quickly grew, boasting of post office, a general store, hotel, newspaper, and courthouse within months. In the spring he grounds turn yellow with all the wildflowers, and the burbling creeks running through the spectacular pastureland make this quite the picturesque area.

The Wild, Wild West

The west is a vast expanse, so you shouldn't feel limited to the areas listed above. Explore the Great Plains, Monument Valley, Canada, Mexico, or the Gulf, anything West of the Mississippi River is fair game!