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1519

Wird & Wild West

Timeline

Hernan Cortez lands on the Gulf Coast of Mexico and founds the city of Veracruz. The Aztecs
think he is a god. Big mistake...
After a long and bloody conflict, Cortez is invited to enter the Aztec capital, the island city
of Tenochtitlan, and is received peacefully by their ruler Moctezuma II. Moctezuma was hoping to
find a weakness in the Spaniards, lavishing Cortez gifts of gold. But, rather than placating him,
this only excited Cortez's ambitions for plunder. The ruthless Cortez decides to take Moctezuma
as a hostage inside his own palace, indirectly ruling Tenochtitlan through him

1519

However, shortly before Cortez is supposed to sail back Spain with his wealth, Cortez is
kidnapped and taken into the forest by a secret cult of Aztecs. The Spanish Conquistadores
slaughter several Aztec villages looking for Cortez, but his body is never found...
Secretly, the Aztecs use Cortez as a blood sacrifice to Mictlantecuhtli , their god of the
Underworld. His body is entombed with several casts of gold, viewed as too sinful a temptation to
their Spanish conquerors.

1539

After hearing the Secret Tale of Cortez's lost Tomb, Francisco Vasquez de Coronado searches
Southern Mexico to find it.

1540

Coronado leaves Mexico to hunt for gold and Cortez's tome in the Southwest. He sends a
messenger back to Mexico with a declaration of success in a city called El Derado. However,
when more Spaniards search for him, he and the city have disappeared without a trace.

1587

Second attempt at settling Roanoke Island led by John White and 120 colonists. Food is short so
White returns to England for food.

1590

August John White finally returns to Roanoke Island and finds no settlers. No one knows what
happened to this Lost Colony. The only clue was the word "Croatoan" carved into a post of the
fence around the village.

1660

Earliest well-keep records of the on Society are publicly filed in England, a group of Explorers
that made it their mission to explore the new world.
Shortly after, the on Society opens up a small private gentleman's club; invite only.

1680

1692-94

Northern New Mexico Pueblo Indians, outraged by atrocities committed by Spanish explorers and
colonists, resist in the Pueblo Revolt. Many settlers are killed and the rest are driven south.
Diego de Vargas re-conquers New Mexico.

1735

According to a lost document, Ms. Leeds of Burlington, New Jersey, gives birth to a baby boy but
he transforms into a monster with the head of a horse, feet of a pig and the body of a bat. The
first Jersey Devil kills his nurse and escapes through an open window.

1769

The Spanish build Mission Basilica San Diego de Alcala, the first California mission.

1775-1783

1794

1812

The American Revolution.

Christmas Eve The St. Louis Cathedral is rebuilt in New Orleans after a fire destroys the first.
Bricks from abandoned vaults in a nearby cemetery were used in the construction of the walls of
the sanctuary.
A boat of wealthy Russian settelers build Fort Ross, fifty miles north of what will one day be Fort
Alkatraz, California. Mistiriously, one by one , the settelers are killed off through the winter; untill
only one settler remains, Alexei Dragonove. Local indians clam he turned into a Windago and
disapeared into the mountains.
According to Ukrainian Folklore, Alexie was said to be an Upire, the bloodthirsty spawn of a witch
mating with a demon.

1813

After city-wide fire, The ruins of the St. Louis Cathedral in New Orleans is rebuilt is rebuilt again,
this time into the Blackwater Courthouse.

1820

Daniel Boone dies at a relatives home on the Missouri frontier at the age of eighty-five.
May: The on Society builds a mansion in upstate New York as their American base of
operations in.

1820

September: The on Society opens its doors to anyone, foreign or domestic, as a gentlemen's
explorers club. Offering membership to anyone willing to investigate the hidden reaches and
unexplained happenings of the world.

1821

Led by Stephen Austin, the first Americans settle in Texas.

1822

Missouri Lieutenant Governor William Ashley places an ad for fur traders for the new Rocky
Mountain Trading Company.

1823

On June 2, Arikara people attacked William Ashley and his band of fur traders at the present-day
border between North and South Dakota. This event would be the most important of the early
19th century battles between natives and mountain men.
August, 1823 - A force of 500 Sioux and 200 American soldiers led by Colonel Henry
Leavenworth retaliated by attacking the Arikara.

1824

Congress creates the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

1826

On December 16, Benjamin Edwards rode into Mexican-controlled Nacogdoches, Texas, and
proclaimed himself the ruler of the Republic of Fredonia. Edwards negotiated an agreement with
the Cherokee people offering to share Texas in exchange for their help in defense against the
Mexican soldiers. Six weeks later, Edwards' ill-planned revolution disintegrated and he fled to the
United States for sanctuary.

1830

Fear of the new religion, voodoo, causes the city of New Orleans to ban its practice in public
forums, even Congo Square.

1830

The on Society accepts the membership of its first female explorer; Annabelle Lee Newfield, a
talented circus acrobat and knife thrower.
On February 24, the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek, the first removal treaty in accordance with
the Indian Removal Act, was proclaimed. The Choctaw in Mississippi ceded land east of the river
in exchange for payment and land in the West.

1831

On May 27, trapper-explorer Jedediah Smith was killed by Comanche Indians on the Santa Fe
Trail.
The First Missouri steamboat reaches Pierre, South Dakota
James Bowie invents the Bowie knife.

1833

Samuel Colt invents and begins producing the revolver.

1834

Fort Laramie becomes the first trading post in Wyoming

On October 2, the first battle of the Texas Revolution took place as U.S. settlers defeated a
Mexican cavalry near the Guadalupe River.

1835
On November 13, Texans officially proclaimed independence from Mexico, calling itself the Lone
Star Republic

On February 24, the Alamo is attacked by Mexican forces and all of its more than 180 defenders
are slain, including William Travis, Jim Bowie, and Davy Crockett.
1836

Texans under Sam Houston defeat the Mexican army and capture General Santa Anna at the
battle of San Jacinto
Texas becomes a Republic.

1837

1838

An economic depression caused the collapse of many banks in the East. People lost their savings,
wages fell and unemployment rose.

On June 17, the Cherokee begin the Trail of Tears, a 1,200 mile forced march from the East to
present-day Oklahoma.
A smallpox epidemic north of San Francisco killed over 60,000 natives.

1840s

Late The Potato Blight forces many Irish to immigrate to America.

On March 19, Republic of Texas soldiers killed some thirty Penateka Comanche leaders and
warriors and five women and children in the Council House Fight in San Antonio.

1840

August 11, 1840 - After the Council House Fight in San Antonio, Texas, the Comanche retaliated
by raiding villages throughout the Guadelupe Valley. When the Texas army and Rangers went
after them, the Battle of Plum Creek was fought on August 11 resulting in a decisive defeat of
the Comanche.

1841

Calcutta is plagued by a man-eating tiger. Famous on Society Hunter, Allan Quatermain,

discovers it is a shapechanger and kills the half man half beast.

1842

August 14, 1842 - The Second Seminole War ended; natives were removed from Florida to
Oklahoma.

1842

New on Society member Archibald Hoyle, renowned gambler and card shark, travels to Europe
in a quest to learn "every dirty trick in the book"
on members Doctor Ziegfeld Von Zorbo and rich philanthropist Maxwell Mercer, found A.I.D. or
the Agency for Intellectual Study.

1843
Their first project and the reason for creating the Agency; to build a ther battery for collecting
and storing ther, the mysterious energy of the universe.

The Great Westward Migration (The Origen Trail)

1843

Jim Bridger, a former mountain man, built Fort Bridger on the Oregon Trail. Fort Bridger
contained a store where travelers could purchase supplies as well as a workshop and forge where
wagons could be repaired.

1843

British explorer, Sir Calvin White, reads a book on Native American tribes in America. In it, he
discovers reference to a special spirit magic called Soul Forging.

1844

Sir Calvin White departs for America to learn more of Soul Forging from the Indian Tribes.

1844

After meeting some Romanian Gypsies, on Society member Archibald Hoyle creates his own
deck of cards and begins to keep a journal on his travels

1845

John L. O'Sullivan, a newspaper editor, claimed that it was the "manifest destiny" of the U.S. to
take Texas and spread to the Pacific Ocean.

1845

The A.I.D. main libratory explodes, after the ther battery has an unexplained failure. Maxwell
Mercer is caught in the explosion, which literally disintegrates the entire building.
ther energy radiation is spread throughout the world in a series of violent lightning storms.

1846

Allan Pinkerton, carries out his own investigation of a counterfeiting ring, alerts the law and has
them arrested. The Treasury department hires him and appoints him Deputy Sheriff of Kane
county, Illinois.
The Donner Party is trapped in the Sierra Nevada when winter descends

1846

Archibald Hoyle's unique deck of cards is stolen in Italy, by a street vagrant. Hoyle tracks down
the thief who uses Witchcraft to predict his future and untimely death in five years time. Angry
and shaken at the strange occurrence, Hoyle leaves for the new on Society chapter in located
in London England.

1846

Undocumented as a whole, many Native American Indian Shamans begin to "tap" into spirit
powers. Moral in Indian tribes increases, making them more hostile.

1846

On May 13, the U.S. Congress declared war on Mexico. US sneaks Santa Anna back into Mexico
so he can negotiate a peace treaty on US terms. Santa Anna agrees but breaks his promise soon
after arriving. He raises a 200,000-man army and is elected president. The United States
actually acts surprised.

1847

On January 13, the Treaty of Cahuenga ended the Mexican-American War in California.

Samuel Colt, with Texas Ranger Captain Sam Walker, develops the revolver.
1847

In the Whitman Massacre of November 29th, Cayuse and Umatilla Indians murdered missionaries
Dr. Marcus Whitman and his wife, Narcissa as well as 12 others near the present-day town of
Walla Walla, Washington. The incident began the Cayuse War.

1847

on Society member Archibald Hoyle discovers more Witchcraft in Ireland. Convinced that this
is what he has been searching for, he takes up residence with a local Pagan and begins the
arduous task of rewriting his journal.

1848

The Cayuse & Umatilla Indians mysteriously vanish. Rumors spread that they performed a
strange Ghost Dance ritual, allowing them to slip into the spirit world. Cavalry Troops continue to
search the Washington/Oregon area, but find nothing.
On May 19 the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ends the Mexican War; the United States gets more
than one-half million square miles, including what will become the states
of California, Nevada,Utah, most of New Mexico and Arizona, and parts
of Wyoming and Colorado. Texas is also ceded to the United States.

1848
James Marshall discovers gold at Sutter's Mill in California starting the Gold Rush
Thomas Garrett, a Quaker, was apprehended after leading 2700 slaves to freedom on the
Underground Railroad.

1848

After spending 3 years living with the Paiute Indians in Nevada, Sir Calvin White takes up
residence in New Orleans and discovers an underground VooDoo culture.
80,000 forty-niners make their way to California in search of gold
In January, the town of Old Dry Diggings, California was unofficially renamed Hangtown when a
mob ran down William Campbell, David Davis and Matthew Freer, who reportedly tried to rob a
local gambler. The men were flogged and hanged on Main Street.

1849

At Chinese Camp, California the first outbreak of anti-Chinese violence erupted as a result of a
depression in the mining industry when white miners attempted to rid the Chinese miners from
the community.
When outlaw Joaquin Murrieta and his brother were arrested in Murphys, California for robbery,
Joaquin was tied to a tree and brutally beaten, his brother was hanged, and his wife was raped.
Afterwards, when he tried to file charges, he was told that it was not illegal for whites to rape
Mexican women or for whites to kill Mexicans. Murrieta would retaliate by beginning a series of
raids and criminal activities throughout the state.

1850

On November 29, the San Francisco Grand Jury condemned gambling as "a crying evil," and
urged that something must be done about prize fighting as well as numerous houses of illrepute.
In the 1850's the San Francisco Committee of Vigilance executed 10 people for murder, 12 for
conspiracy to commit murder, and 9 for kidnapping.
April 7th, on Society member Archibald Hoyle returns to America with a new deck of cards
(inscribed with Celtic Runes). He immediately begins a promotional "Gambling Tour" traveling
from New York to California, claiming he can out bet any man alive.

1850

September 15th, Denver Colorado, Archibald Hoyle gets accused of cheating in a high stakes
poker game. When the loser tries to shoot, Hoyle sets him on fire with a glowing poker card.
Onlookers are shocked to see Hoyle vanish into thin air moments later.
Now a wanted for manslaughter, Archibald Hoyle flees to Portland Oregon to escape prosecution.

1850

The Vatican convenes a special council to discuss the strange happenings and sightings since
1846. This eventually leads to the foundation of the Order of Saint George. A group of modern
day Catholic knights, these Templar's are tasked with smiting the Devil's minions.

1851

February, After living in Portland Oregon for 4 months, Archibald Hoyle is captured by an angry
mob. He is accused of using Witchcraft to seduce a young woman and stealing a farm. He is
publicly burned at the stake without trial.

1852

Archibald Hoyle's unique personal journal is discovered in an Oregon Farmhouse. The farm owner
has it published as a dime store novel under the name "Hoyle's Book of Games."

1852

On March 18 the Wells Fargo Company was founded to provide express and banking services to
California.
On July 25, in a macabre instance of rough frontier justice, California Rangers claimed a $6000
reward by bringing in the severed head of outlaw Joaquin Murrieta, preserved in whiskey.

1853

On December 30th, the Gadsden Purchase from Mexico adds 29,640 square miles the territory
that becomes Arizona and New Mexico.
Import broker Joshua A. Norton loses a fortune after rice importing prices crash. He disappears
and returns years later, crazy, calling himself Emperor Norton the first.

1853

On October 25, The first official documented case of Indian Spirit Powers. Paiute Indians, lead by
a Spirit Shumen, attacked U.S. Army Captain John W. Gunnison and his party of 37 soldiers and
railroad surveyors near Sevier Lake, Utah. The Indians warriors were said to shapeshift into giant
bears and beasts. Gunnison and seven other men were killed.

White settlers in Del Norte County, California whiteness a strange spirit ritual, performed by an
Indian Shumen. Lead by a Mormon Priest named Brother Jacob, the settlers ambush and kill 30
Tolowa people at the Etculet village on Lake Earl. The bodies are burned out of superstition.
1854
On a summer afternoon in 1854 a young lieutenant, belligerently seeking to arrest
a Sioux Indian for a trivial offense, forced a fight. By sundown, all the troops but one was dead.
This was known as the Grattan Massacre, it occurred near Fort Laramie, Wyoming.

1855

1855

On September 3, General William Harney and 700 soldiers went to take revenge for the Grattan
Massacre. But when they arrive at a Sioux village in Nabraska, what they find is the massive
village of the "Coyote Tribes." General William Harney and his 700 soldiers are never seen or
heard from again. There is a rumor started that the Coyote Tribe Shamans transformed the army
into their cattle and ate them.
On October 4 in Nabraska, Headed by Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull, Chiefs of the Sioux Indians,
they officially combine the 6 "Coyote Tribes" of the Sioux, Pueblo, Arikara, Cherokee,
Comanche, and Yakama. The Great Coyote Tribe is born.
On November 10th, The Great Coyote Tribe attacks forces under Major Haller in the first
engagement of a five-year Coyote Indian War.

1856

on Society Hunter, Allan Quatermain, hears the stories of the shapeshifting Indian Tribes in
America and makes arrangements to join the on chapter in New York.

1856

After many small conflicts, the Great Coyote Tribe is driven South by Cavalry Troops into Kansas,
in a effort to remove them from civilized lands.

1857

The Great Coyote Tribe attacks Fort Riley and kills 100 men. Spirit Shamans set the fort on fire
with Blue Flames, before disappearing into the mist.

1857

Three months after he arrives, on Society Hunter Allan Quatermain successfully tracks and kills
a shape shifting Indian brave in Northern Kansas.

1858

Gold is discovered in Colorado

1858

The Gatling Machinegun is invented. The Cavalry Troops fighting in the Coyote Indian War start
using the weapon to great effect. The six barrel siege weapon helps turn the tide and Troops
start winning conflicts.

1859

Gold is discovered in Boulder Canyon, Colorado, sparking the Pikes Peak gold rush which brings
an estimated 100,000 fortune-hunters to the Rockies under the banner "Pikes Peak or Bust."

1859

Cavalry Troops succeed in driving The Great Coyote Tribe further south, into what is modern-day
Oklahoma (still mainly unpopulated Indian lands).
Cavalry Troops withdraw to hold and protect the Kansas border.

1860

The Government signs "The Treaty of Sovran Lands" granting The Great Coyote Tribe ownership
and control over half of modern-day Oklahoma and ending the Coyote Indian War.
A Heavy Militarized Border is set up to control access to the area.
Gold is discovered in Idaho.

1860

November 6, Abraham Lincoln is elected President, with Hannibal Hamlin as his Vice President.
As a consequence of Lincolns election, a special convention of the South Carolina legislature
votes to secede from the Union.

1861-1865

the United States was torn apart by the Civil War that resulted, primarily, by the issue of slavery.
Though many of the disagreements between the North and South had been brewing since
the American Revolution ended in 1782, the crisis began to come to a head in the 1850s. It was
at this time that northern factions feared that those supporting slavery had too much control in
government and the South feared losing that control to anti-slavery forces. Other issues at hand
included states rights vs. federal power, the economic merits of free labor vs. slave labor,
expansionism, modernization, and taxes.

1861

After he prevents an attempt on Lincolns life, Allan Pinkerton is summoned to Washington to

provide espionage and counter-espionage services for the Union.

1861

A plot to assassinate Lincoln by Maryland pro-secessionists is foiled by the newly appointed Allan
Pinkerton and his men.
Henry Griffin discovers gold near the Powder River in Oregon.
22nd October, The first telegraph message was sent across America

1861

1861

President Lincoln issues a public declaration that an insurrection exists and calls for 75,000
militia to stop the rebellion. As a result of this call for volunteers, four additional southern states
secede from the Union in the following weeks. Lincoln will respond on May 3 with an additional
call for 43,000+ volunteers to serve for three years, expanding the size of the Regular Army.
Most of the Cavalry Troops are called away, abandoning most of the Kansas/Coyote Tribe border,
to help fight in the Civil War. As a result many small factions of the Great Coyote Tribe spread
unchecked into the West.

1862

Doctor Ziegfeld Von Zorbo invents the Death Balloon . Powered on ther energy, it is the
fearsome airborne weapon. Doctor Zorbo gifts the new invention to Union Troops, in an effort to
help win the war.
Gold is discovered in Montana near the present day town of Dillon.

1862

1862

Congress passes the Homestead Act. Under this law any man or woman twenty-one years old or
the head of a family could have 160 acres of undeveloped land by living on it five years and
paying eighteen dollars in fees.
Little Crow, a Chief from the Great Coyote Tribe, stages a uprising with in New Mexico. Working
with the Navajo, he establishes a hold on Northern New Mexico.
Civil War action is seen in Arkansas, Texas, and New Mexico.
The Battle at Picacho Pass in Arizona, the western most battle of the Civil War, takes place on
April 15.

1862
Jefferson Davis is inaugurated as President of the Confederate States of America.
The naval battle between the USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia (the old USS "Merrimack"), the
first "ironclads", is fought in Hampton Roads, Virginia.

1862

June 25, 1862: The Battle of Oak Grove, Virginia . After six days of warfare, Doctor Zorbo's
Death Balloons finally arrive for their first battlefield test. The aerial weapons destroy and kill
most of the Confederate troops, quickly forcing General Lee to retreat from the slow flying
weapons.
Sir Calvin White re-emerges in New Orleans, under a new name of Mister Saturday. He uses his
Mystic powers to mind control the entire Confederate Army inside the city.

1863

Mister Saturday forces a meeting with General "Stonewall" Jackson in the Blackwater
Courthouse. He offers him the ability to bring his troops back from the dead.
General "Stonewall" Jackson accepts Mister Saturday's offer and together they perform an arcane
Ritual at the Blackwater Courthouse that creates a large vortex in the sky.
Throughout the South, reports of southern born dead coming back to life are documented.
Confederate Troops double overnight.

1863

From this point on, anyone born in the south that dies and is not buried with their religious
ceremony, resurrects within 6 days as a Undead. This has no affect on Indian Tribes, who are
somehow protected from the arcane magic.

1863

A detachment of Union cavalry retreating from Vicksburg, enter the Montevallo field hospital and
slaughter the patients and student nurses. They quickly realize their mistake as the hospital is
quickly filled with the newly risen Undead. Trapped inside, the Union Troops screams of horror
can be heard up to 10 miles away.
More than 250 Shoshone Indians are killed by the U.S. Army near Logan, Utah in the Bear River
Massacre.
January, Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation, which declares that slaves in the seceded
states are now free.

1863

July, Draft Riots begin in New York City and elsewhere as disgruntled workers and laborers,
seething over the draft system that seemingly favors the rich, attack the draft office and African
American churches. The riots continue through July 16.
November, Lincoln delivers his Gettysburg Address, in which he reiterates the nations
fundamental principle that all men are created equal.
First Successful Submarine Attack of the Civil War.

1864

Colorado cavalry volunteers slay 133 Cheyenne and Arapaho at Sand Creek
Kit Carson accepts the surrender of 8,000 Navajo.

1864

April 9th General Grant increases the responsibilities of the Pinkerton Detective agency on orders
from Lincoln to investigate the Infernal creatures that had begun to show up and endanger
public welfare.

1864

October: A.I.D. Corporation begins successfully manufacturing horseless war carriages, bullet
proof armor, and weapons capable of spewing great gouts of flame or torrents of bullets (all
powered by ther energy). A.I.D. quickly becomes a major million dollar corporation, holding a
Monopoly on the Super Science market.
The Wells Fargo Company contracts A.I.D. to build them a Horseless War Carriage, in order to
protect their transport of gold. The resulting Weapon heavy vehicle is a complete success.

1865

1865

Union troops order a War Carriage, but only manage to get it mired if a muddy field outside of
Charlottesville. Virginia. The heavy armor is too heavy to drag free and it is striped of weapons
and abandoned.
March 3rd, Union troops under Ulysses S. Grant, invade Richmond Virginia in Death Balloons.
The bombardment catches the south unaware and Confederate President Jefferson Davis is killed
in the attack.
Undead Jefferson Davis is never found and is rumored to still be hidden somewhere in the South.

April, John Wilkes Booth shoots President Lincoln at Fords Theater; Secretary of State William H.
Seward is stabbed and wounded in an assassination attempt inside his Washington home.
1865
The last land engagement of the Civil War is fought in May, at the Battle of Palmito Ranch in
South Texas, more than a month after General Lee's surrender at Appomattox, Virginia.
June, President Lincoln is revived as a half Mechana-Android fueled by ther. He reassumes
control of the Union; his first act of his new presidency is to strangle Andrew Johnson to death.
Undead Andrew Johnson escapes into the south.

1865

Mecha-Lincoln declares a state of emergency in the southern states, forcing them into martial
law with armed Union troops.
December: Reconstruction is a complete failure before it even starts, the destroyed and mainly
undead southern states continue to crumble into a war-torn Badland, ravaged by pockets of
confederate bandits and other supernatural monstrosities.
Survivors of Reconstruction flock West for a chance at a new life.
Mecha-Lincoln "convinces" Congress to pass the Emergency Protection Act, which entitles the
president to remain in office until "every state of the union is at peace."

1866

Heavy Northern Border Patrols are established to ensure that the dangers from the Southern
Badland don't spread. As a second function, the government begins identifying and tracking
Southern Born people; to insure that undead don't become a threat.
The Texas Rangers are given "Lawful Dominion" over the southern Badland by President MechaLincoln, in a effort to capture confederate criminals.

1866

The Texas Rangers start an elite police academy, training 200 cadets for the dangers in the
southern Badland.
The Richmond and Virginia Beach area are Rebuilt in the Southern Badland by Union Troops.
Mecha-Lincoln officially labels those areas "reclaimed from the savage south". Fort Zorbo and
Fort Eternity are established to maintain the area.

1866

on Society Hunter Allan Quatermain searches for a Cannibalistic Worm-Worshiping Cult in the
heart of the Southern Badland.

1866

Undead Andrew Johnson is elected Governor of Louisiana. He passes a motion to change the
state capitol to New Orleans, away from the crippled Baton Roush (still largely destroyed from
the Death Balloons in the war)

1866

Three Incredibly rich and powerful gentlemen emerge in Louisiana. They claim to be Hernan
Cortez, Francisco Coronado, and Alexei Dragonove. Proving their Undead prowess in a number of
local duals, these Vampires begin to rise to power.

1866

February 13th Jesse and Frank James launch their criminal career. The first ever daylight bank
robbery in American history occurs when the James Gang steals over $60,000 from the Clay
County Savings Bank in Liberty, Missouri.

1866

The first America armed train robbery is pulled off by the Reno brothers who nab $15,000 from
the Union Blue in Ohio.
In a effort to arrest Undead Andrew Johnson, 43 Texas Rangers are killed in the what is now
called the New Orleans Massacre, when a giant Undead crafted by Mister Saturday is unleashed
on the city. Mister Saturday escapes; he is rumored to have abandoned New Orleans for
prospects in the West. Undead Andrew Johnson is killed (again) in the battle.

1867

A week later, the three Vampire kings win elections to local government. They use their massive
wealth to begin to rebuild the south.
Many Texas Rangers start to exercise their powers of "Lawful Dominion" in the far West,
searching for criminals. This is only permitted in Veteran Rangers, that have spent some time in
the Southern Badland.
The first cattle drive from Texas up the Chisholm Trail arrives at the rail yards
of Abilene, Kansas.
Joseph McCoy, a Chicago cattle dealer, founded the 'cow town' of Abilene.

1867

August 1, 1867 - The Hayfield Fight occurs three miles from Fort C.F. Smith, Montana. Pitting a
determined stand of 31 soldiers and civilians against more than 700 Sioux and Cheyenne
warriors, the combined soldier/civilian force withstood six hours of attacks before relief finally
arrived to disperse the warriors.
August 2, 1867 - The Wagon Box Fight between the Sioux and the U.S. Army occurs near Fort
Phil Kearny, Wyoming.
The Great Earthquake and fire level San Francisco and devastate an area from Mexicali to
Oregon. The disaster kills some 700 people and leaving 225,000 homeless.
This region was quickly dubbed the Great Maze. The ruins revealed wonders unseen previously,
such as the California Maze Dragons, immense reptilian creatures that trolled the rough channels
of the Maze.

1868

Soon there was the discovery of what some believed to be simple coal, but was soon determined
to be a new mineral that contained concentrated ther energy. This new oar burned a hundred
times hotter and longer than coal. When consumed, it gave off a ghostly white vapor and howled
like the Devil himself. The first survivors who discovered it dubbed it ghost rock, and the name
stuck.
Immediately after this discovery, many hopeful inventors flocked to the Maze. In months, they
had perfected devices powered by steam and fueled by ghost rock. This new element allowed
everyone, not just the A.I.D. Corporation, to create Super Science inventions.

1869

The Wells Fargo Company switches gears and begins transporting shipments of Ghost Rock out
of California.

1869

The Central Pacific and Union Pacific join at Promontory Point, Utah, creating the first
transcontinental railroad. This promotes more "City Clikers" to make the journey west.

1869

Convinced that the Great Earthquake and the Southern Undead are sings of the End of Days, The
Order of Saint George arrives in Texas and begins construction on a new church. By the end of
the year; The Saint George Church is a fortress that is home to 50 Chaotic Templers.

1869

The A.I.D. Corporation secures the government rights to mine the entire Great Maze. MechaLincoln disperses the military to "purchase" all previous claimed Mining Rights. After some small
skirmishes, the remaining prospectors surrender to the military.
The A.I.D. Corporation creates the Hammerstein Mining Company to handle the mining dangers
of the Great Maze.

Present Day
Prospectors find rich veins of "Ghost Rock" near present-day Leadville Colorado, The Big Bonanza
in Nevada, and the Black Hills of Dakota.
After a lengthy Supreme Court battle with A.I.D., the states of Colorado, Nevada, and Dakota
retain rights to mine Ghost Rock privately, free from government control. This is the first
instance of federal government supporting public rights sense the war.
Private inventers flock to Colorado, Nevada, and Dakota. Deadwood, South Dakota is soon to be
one of the wildest towns in the West, founded by Black Hills miners near Deadwood Creek.

1870

The U.S. Government orders all Indians in the Black Hills and Wyoming to report to reservations
or face military action.
Wild Bill Hickok is appointed as a honorary Texas Rangers after successfully arresting a
necromancer in Abilene, Kansas.
Ghost Dance movement appears among the Paiute on reservations in Nevada. Participants
believed in the imminent return of the dead and the buffalo, the disappearance of the white man,
and the return of the land to the natives. This led to the Paiute Massacre of 1870, in which over
half of the tribe were killed by settlers paranoid of the results.

Historical Events of The Future

Buffalo Bill Cody awarded Congressional Medal of Honor. Later that year, he appears on stage for
the first time portraying himself in "Scouts of the Prairie".

1872

The Sioux War begins, which disperses the Sioux and Northern Cheyenne. General Custer is
continually outwitted by the native leaders Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull, but it is a draining effort
on their tribes. Native attacks become less and less frequent as Sitting Bull and others retreat
into Canada.
The Modoc War rages in southern Oregon and northern California. The conflict, also known as the
Lava Beds War, was the last of the Indian Wars to occur in these two states.
The Big Bonanza, the Comstock's richest ore body, is discovered in Nevada.

1873

The James Gang pulls its first train robbery at Adair, Iowa

1874

F Glidden invented barbed wire. This invention meant that large areas of land could be fenced
relatively cheaply.

1875

On January 26, a posse, representing the Pinkerton Detective Agency, bombed the home
belonging to Jesse James mother in Clay County, Missouri. The bomb blew Zereldas hand off
and killed Jesse's nine-year-old half-brother Archie Peyton Samuel. "Hanging Judge" Isaac
Parker arrives in Fort Smith, Arkansas he shortly begins his 21 year stint as Judge, he handed
out 88 death sentences, 79 swung.
Crazy Horse is captured, then assassinated while in custody at Fort Robinson, Nebraska.
John Wesley Hardin, a Texas gunfighter who claims to have killed more than 40 men, is
sentenced to 25 years in the Texas State Prison for the murder of a deputy sheriff. "I take no
sass but sasparilla," he once said, explaining his deadly disposition.

1877-1880

The Battle of the Big Hole occurs in Montana.

Bat Masterson is Sheriff of Dodge City, Kansas.
August 17, 1877 - At 17 years old, Billy the Kid shoots his first man, Frank "Windy" Cahill, in
self-defense, after Cahill wrestled him to the ground at a saloon in Fort Grant, Arizona. Cahill
died the next day.

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1883

Billy the Kid makes a name for himself as a killer in the Lincoln County War in New Mexico.
The Northern Pacific Railroad, connecting the northwestern states to points east, is finally
completed, after a 19-year struggle against treacherous terrain and intermittent financing. Along
the line, crews blast a 3,850-foot tunnel through solid granite and construct a 1,800-foot trestle.
As a result, the round trip to the Columbia River that took Lewis and Clark two-and-a-half years
in 1803 it took just nine days.
Buffalo Bill Cody starts his Wild West Show

1896

Butch Cassidy formed the "Wild Bunch which consisted of 15 men and 4 women